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New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

Figuring out what customer will do
under given set OF circumstances is
the most difficult problem in the retail
trade to-day, according 10 leading mer-
chants and department store execu-
tives here. Gauging public demand is
difficult. but few have been able to
do il, even under the adverse circum-
stances now prevailing.
With Easter but a week away, the
high tide of spring buying naturally
is expected to be reached during the
current week. But few are the retail
ers who are willing to prophesy that
this week will see the peak Of spring
buying. There are many among them
who believe that the most active buy
ing period will come a little later.
Most of the merchants admit that
spring business so far has been dis
appointing. BY this they do not mean
that consumers are abstaining from
buying. On the contrary, il is clearly
proved by statistics that a greater
volume Of merchandise is moving
through retail channels now than was
the case year ago. or even two years
ago. The disappointment comes when
the merchant looks at his sales totals,
in dollars. and compares them with
his total expense, in dollars, of doing
business.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

OF small capital who strictly tends to
her business than to the apparently
more hourishinx woman Of worldly
proclivities."
Another thing for tho business
woman to rem ember is to work while
you work and play whom you play"
but she cannot combine tha two. In
short. there is no different rule for a
woman merchant than for man. The
methods of any high grade merchant
banker, manufacturer or professional
man who respects his calling and him
self can be relied on as good exam
Piles to follow, as sure road to both
financial success and tho respect due
your efforts.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Must Have Courage

There is no need Of coddling t.vors
because one is a woman, or whining
because of drawbacks; that is the
weakness of the weak Of both sexes.
But if the business woman has n
stanch faith in her intelligence, her
merchandise, and sustaining cour-
age, she can, if possessed OF sufficient
physical reserve, stand shoulder to
shoulder with any merchant. But if
she wishes to have advantages, aims
and final success on an equal basis
with man she must take the disap-
pointments humiliations and losses
with the same fortitude. If she wishes
to share with his advancement she
must bear her end of the burden also
She must show that she can stand on
her own feet, if she persists in claim
ing the right to do SO. She cannot be
clinging "Vere de We're" type and
acclaim her own independence at the
same time. She should bear in mind
that emancipation does not mean mas
culinity, but what its name implies
freedom, freedom from the narrow con-
ventionalities which have hitherto by
an unwritten law restrained womans
mental capabilities. This means en-
sarily her manners. This is what
mean in saying there is no such thing
as woman in business. A business
woman, oh, yes, the same as one says
business man.
And above all things, during bust
ness hours she should think Of every
man in the role of his business rela-
tion with her. She should forget the
man and think only of the role.
Whether he is attractive or not, or
given to fattering attentions. has moth
ing to do with business relationship
and never helps in the long run, al
though it may appear to help for tho
time being. The only association the
business woman should think about
during business hours should be that
of one merchant to another, irrespec-
tive of sex. This will be found a great
help and wonderful safeguard to the
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

not by useless Dragging nor by mis-
representation in any form, but by Civ
ing. at all times, value as represented
by samples or prospectus and by al
ways keeping this standard-will gain
the confidence of the buyer or prospec
tive buyer. And when this confidence is
once gained, if it is held by the same
rule, it will prove the strongest foun-
dation for future business increase.
Now, if prompt payment gains the
confidence Of the man from whom the
business woman buys it should be at
tanned, I believe. by the payment Of
bills on certain day each month. This
may seem at times difficult. but if
made q habit, and if lived up to, it
will, in con- junction with that feel
ing OF reliance which the customer
shows in ones wares, advice and strict
adherence to truth. make the best COM
binaton for a successful business
future. 1t is positive fact that the
reputation thus gained and the credit
earned will make success. 1t is like
an assured dividend on good principal
and principle. That is the success Of
merchant princes and any business
woman can make it hers. 1t is known
fact that business built on clean prin-
ciples, clean merchandise and clean
metho DDS is the only one with lasting
success.
Reverting again to the fact Of
prompt payment, it must be realized
that to discount bills adds materially
to profits at reckoning time. When
merchant has attained the right to
ask for time extension most houses
give from 5 to Z per cent-ten days,
sixty days extra, which means seventy
days to pay accounts s-but it means
seventy days, not more. Now, if the
merchant is able to anticipate this
he or she adds percentage to profit, as
we'll as gaining enlarged credit, re
spect and confidence from the house;
and if this same house has a limited
amount Of any particular novelty the
quick payer can be assured Of getting
it in advance of the slow payer All
this helps to add to the reputation in
both respects. whether in buying or
selling. Every rule has its exception,
but it is doubtful if this rule has.
Trickery and subterfuge may appear
to succeed, but if one looks deeply
into the matter it will be seen that
they who are usually at the end fall
into the pitfalls Of their own digging.
Honesty is not only the best policy;
it is the only one that wins.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22

Those polls of the Senate which
were reported to show enough votes
for the bonus to pass the measure
over the Presidents veto are already
dissolving. AS The Tribune hoped
and expected, the ranks of the op-
tponents are not only standing fast
but are gaining recruits.
The appeal of the United States
: Chamber of Commerce lays proper
} stress upon the financial unsound-
? ness of the pending bill. No pro-
vision is made for taxation to meet
1.-The eventual liability involved. Those
members of Congress who support
/. the bill are supporting policy of
&inflation which cannot but derange
ethe postwar processes of liquidation
and postpone the return of SOUND
financial conditions. Every consider.
alton of business prudence demands
: that the cash bonus be dropped.
The situation in the Senate is most
encouraging for the leaders of the
fight against the bill and for Mr.
Harding in his consistent anc
courageous resolve to save the coun
try from this blunder.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22

chasing power of the farmland who
works for wages was A per cent less
In 1921 than In 1913, while the pur-
chasing power Of the farmer himself
in 1921 was, on the average, from Is
to DIS per cent less than in 1913.
Here is an explanation of the
widespread resentment which the
miners and shipments strikes have
caused. The American sense Of fair
play has been offended by selfish
group claims to preferences and ex-
ernptions. The coal miners and shop
men are standing in the way Of other
workers.
If coal prices and transportation
prices come down the benefit will be
almost universal. Even the miners
and railroad men will profit indi-
rectly by the cfeapening of commodi-
ties into whose cost coal and freights
enter. These two strikes have. been
against the general good and against
economic reason. Knowing this, the
public has looked at them with crit
ical and hostile eyes.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
Weakening the Russian Church

The attempts by the Bolshevists
to weaken the power of the Russian
Church have evidently been success
full. Following the trial of the
Patriarch Tikhon and the death sem
tence upon the Metropolitan Ben
jamin, which crippled the conserva-
tive wing of the Church, the Boil
shevist authorities have supported
the formation of new group in the
Church, which in turn supports the
Bolshevists.
Without going into the details of
the ritual and organization of the
new group, it is obvious that this
big split within the ranks of the
/ Church itself is of great comfort to
the Bolshevists. 1t has been clear
for several years that the Bolshevists
feared the Church. They feared it's
power as a rival, and they feared
to harm it lest by so doing thew
fshould harm themselves. In the
Church they saw the one great power
remaining within Russia which could
effectively thwart their plans. But
the early experiments, in attacking
it directly proved too dangerous.
Not until the Patriarch Tikhon gave
orders to the clergy to resist the
confiscation of Church property
by the Bolshevist government - a
confiscation ostensibly made for the
relief of the famine sufferers-did
they take the final step and arrest
him and his fellow leaders. AS
Tlkhon had great personal prestige,
his arrest was a serious blow to the
fold Church party.
The new group, openly hostile to
Tikhcn's followers, therefore is help
full to the Bolshevists in their plans
OF weakening the entire Church
organization. By prohibiting the
teaching of all religious matters in
the schools The hold Of the Church
on the people has been- still further
weakened. e
If the Bolshevists can turn the
Church to their own purposes it will
be Of great help to them. But the
tradition of the old Church is strong,
and there is plenty of evidence in
history to show that while religious
traditions may be temporarily thrust
aside they persist with surprising
vigor. Part of the great strength
of the Gar lay in his position as
head of the Russian Church. His
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
What France Demands

Those critics of France who pro-
fess to hear the saber rafting in
every word and act of her public
men will have difficulty in turning
M. Poincare's calm and generous
words TO their account. He stands
resolutely upon his demand for
guarantees, if there is to be mora
torium. He disavows again for his
nation any slightest inperialistic
aim, and his course of action bears
out his utterances.
In the event of independent action
las last resort-he solennly de-
clares that the guarantees taken will
be retained only until Germany con-
sents to meet her just obligations.
Action is to be begun only to enforce
justice, and whatever is seized will
be guarded "in the interest of all"
There is no expectation of direct
money return from this policy; it's
aim is simply to press Germany
toward course of candor and honest
effort to meet her obligations.
There has been no better state
ment of the consistent policy of
France than in these words spoken
by M. Poincare:
"We are greatly disposed to aid
other nations in the effort to restore
the world. We know the world does
not end at our frontiers. We well
come broad and generous European
policy. We fervently desire to re-
main allies of our allies and friends
of our friends. We ask nothing bet
Z ter than to resume with our enemies
of yesterday pleasant and courteous
relations. But we wish to have our
I ruins repaired they will be-"
That is the spirit of the French
people as well as of their representa-
tives. 1t is unyielding upon only one
point-the demand for justice. To-
ward the solution of every problem
touching the future peace and well
fare of Europe it offers cooperation
/. and good will.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
Unpopular Strikes

+ The coal and rail shop craft strik-
3 ,ers were surprised to find how
strongly public opinion ran against
them. The two strikes have been
unpopular. The strikers have been
from the start on the defensive.
The reason for this is plain. The
coal miners and shopmen were fight
ing to maintain inequalities in wages.
They were resisting an economic ad-
justment accomplished in ether great
industries. Take the largest class of
American producers-the farmers.
They have seen crop values fall back
to the pre-war level. They could not
understand why wage increases
which led to abnormal coal and
transportation charges should stand
in period CT general dehation. Was
. il fair for the workers in the more
highly organized industries to hold
themselves exempt from the general
srule--to demand special economic
privilege at the expense of the rest
of the community
Secretary Wallace recently pre-
sented some figures showing the in
Justice from the farmers point of
view of the rail and coal workers
demands. He showed that the pur-
chasing power of the wages Of the
railway employee in 1921 was 81 per
cent greater than in 1918. The pur-
chasing power of the wages Of the
coal miner in 1921 was 80 per cent
greater than in 1913. But the pur-
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22

Later I talked with popular artist,
and he told me the same story. Some
one created-quite unintelIigentiy-his
characters for him. Some one else
furnished him with a complete set Of
ideas from remote fling system
Now he doesn't even draw his pictures.
One man turns out the ideas, sacther
draws, and my friend makes from sixtJ
to one hundred thousand dollars q
year. It is all quite simple.
We therefore arrive by perfect
natural formula in itself at the
answer to the question why We have
the greatest literature In the world,
1t is because we have learned the art
Of assembling, In itself ons Of ths
greatest arts in the world. Il It Is
ever lost, then human beings viii ouce
more have to resort to their brains
But that will be so tar away ssai ve
have no cause for worry. It has tsEeH
the brain a long time TO SO oui nus
now that the thing finally nss ben
accomplished we are fairly happy Va
can spend our time, no matter vsn
kind Of literature we want IN rsas
sembling it from the four quarters
of history. The Queen Of Shsbs DIS
come back again and is living q
Mamaroneck, waiting orders from MI
Griffith. Cleopatra is awsy temporarily
on a vacation, taking 8 much nssfed
rest. Micawber is living just Oh MAZE
Street. Tartuffe is sojouning IN ehi-
cago.
1t does seem, however, 80 u vs
ought to do something for those pser
devils Of literary artists Of the rais
to show them cur gratitude for ne
great sacrifices they made for Us q
the field of art. Unless there is sons
objection, and before we adjourn sef
the day, viii some one kindly pass
resolution to arrange, through Consn
Doyle, to provide them all wisa :
spiritual bonus?
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
It's All in the Formula By 7h,ma, [. Mason

say In East Orange, another guess COM
ing. Nothing indeed is further from
my alleged thought. On the contrary,
I envy him. The only reason why I
do not do likewise is because my own
stock Of creative uninteiligence does
not happen to take that particular
form. For that is not the only form.
But no matter what the point of
view Is one must always have for
mula.
Some time ago I was taken into a
huge department store by friend of
mine who owned a large part Of it..
To my astonishment / discovered him
to be gentleman Of culture and
leisure. He had large, tranquil SOUL
He spoke in the most familiar, but by
no means vulgar, manner of Walter
Pater. He was familiar also with the
English cathedrals. He agreed with
me that the library of the worlds
worst literature was unfit for any
gentleman's home. He knew the diff
ference between neoplatonism and
Shavianism. I therefore had a reason
able measure of confidence in his
judgment. And as I looked about the
vast aggregation OF silks and satins,
of jewelry and letter paper and
chromos and dress goods and mission
furniture and cosmetics, remarked
that the mind that could manage such
a vast establishment was even greater
than the one I once thought I
possessed when succeeded in putting
together a portable garage that had
been sent on from Grand Rapids by
slow freight.
"Not at ALL" he replied, almost
reluctant to give his secret. att
is SO easy as to be quite ridiculous.
There is really nothing to it. 1t is
only matter of assembling. 1t al
most runs itself. You see, the whole
thing Is arranged and classified. I do
nothing"
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
What Readers Are Thinking

sitizens, they being citizens oy n''s'
OF their birth in Hawaii. They nA''
not been taught the Japanese iAa
guage. :, -s.s
Mr.. ozawa came to Hawaii whsa
young man, speaks excellent Ans..s !,,s.
and holds position of respenssD.nv
with one of the territory's isaa.,e
firms. He has been denied ci'i'ens-'s =.
on the ground that he is neither : ~ q.
white person nor person OF 8,
descent or nationality, as requires
our naturalization laws. In ansVs.
this MIR. Ozawa has set up sne s~'s
claim that the japanese wess IT
nally of the white race. He hss - -.
his ancestry back thousanas :, !. Al
to the Ainu tribe and contsnos 4
James NJ. Beck. Solicitor 1sas's 4,
the United States, has expresses 4.
belief that that particular par'
Japanese race has the distinct ma'r !
the Caucasian.
New York. Aug. 90, 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
The Disappearing Turk

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial ON Enver pasb,
49, think, an unusually able and thor.
ough exposition of the makeup and
career of Enver. In May, 1918, | met
Enyer twice, just few days before his
expedition which resulted in his blood
less "reconquest" of Adrianople. He
impressed me as a boorish and imnu-
dent egoist, with an immature mind
and half-baked theories on political
matters. He preferred to be compared
to Napoleon and Kaiser wilhelm whose
photographs looked down over his RIGHT
and left shoulders in his Office at the
Ministry of War.
But your concluding sentence. that
1he harm he did his own people will
plague them for generations to come
does not go far enough.
The path that Enver and his hand
marked out for Turkey will lead
through the natural operation of nhvs.
lcal and moral laws, to the obliteration
OF the Turkish state and the progress
sive disintegration of the Turkish
race. Turkish history shows that the
Turk, without the rivalry of the now
ers and the productive efforts of non
Turkish races. cannot stand on his
own feet.
IN 1873 Turkey had an area of more
than 100000 square miles and non-
ulation of about 45,ooo,OOo, of which
about 100000 were Turks. In 1914
turkey had an area of 691 $50 square
miles and population of about 10
ooo,ooo, of which about 10000 were
Turks. Under the Sevres Treaty Tnr-
key mas an area of less than 200, 900
square miles and population Of abont
o,ooO,oOO, of which possibly 5000 OOO
may be Turks.
1t has been stated by several Gov
man observers. and not contradicted bv
the Turks, that the Turks lost not less
than 100000 lives from the beginning
OF the war to the conclusion of the
armistice. Mustapha Kemal is the an
thority for the statement that 4s6 900
turkish soldiers died from typhus dur
ing the war. Under normal conditions
the Turks decrease at the rate Of
about III per cent a year. Sir Ed
wan Fears states, on the authority
OF a German scientist, that at the
present rate of decrease (1914) the
turkish race will disappear within the
present century.
VAHAN CARDAsHIAN.
New York, Aug. 10, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
A Republican Precedent

| October IL, 1906, at the Murray
Hill Lyceum. the New York County
Republican Committee unanimously
| nominated for Surrogate of the
county Frank 7. Fitzgerald, a Tam
many Democrat, whose term was
! about to expire.
Mr.. Fitzgerald was renominated
by the Republicans because he had
| given excellent service on the bench.
In that day the leaders were more
concerned about keeping the judici-
ary, and especially the office of
Surrogate. above politics thar
about making political capital of the
bench.
Among The addresses in favor of
the nomination of Mr.. Fitzgerald
was speech by Senator Nathaniel
A. Elsberg, who said:
Partisan activity has no place in
court of law, and the judge on the
bench should be as blind to sect or
creed as the classic figure of JUS
tice."
To-day John P. Cohalan, whose
services as Surrogate have been con-
spicuously able, has been refused a
nomination by the Republican
County Committee, which in this in
stance took the same action as the
Democratic committee.
1t is idle to say that the office of
the Surrogate is not subject to the
rule that the bench should be kept
out of politics-that those who have
filled judicial positions acceptably
should not be asked to appeal to the
electorate at political election for
continuance in Office. The duties
of the Surrogate touch the personal
affairs of thousands of people.
The safety of every inheritance
is in his hands. 1t is to him that
bereaved widows and children must
turn for justice. And, what is
highly significant, it is he who de-
termines finally the amount of in
heritance taxes that are to be COL
lected.
One needs little imagination to
understand how useful Surrogate
would be to important men of his
party were he subject to any po-
litical influences whatsoever.
This the Republican committee of
1905 fully understood That was six
teen years ago, Obviously it is not
as keenly alive to it's responsibility
to the people to-day.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
A Williamstown Impression
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Reading your splendid articles
Tor justice to France, can stranger
passing through Williamstown cali
your attention to the atmosphere of
lenlency toward Germany "for the eoo1
of the world" regardless of France
shown in the Institute of Politics?
The many teachers, who came hars
thinking to gain knowledge from more
aDie minas' VIII return to their sur
,ouhaings to disseminate what they
nave learned and quote the bankers'
views of clemency, with no tolerance
for wiping out the debt Of France I,
somewhat balance it. Unknowinplv
may it not be propaganda against our
ally? T. mr.
Wliiiamstown, Mass, Aug. 10. 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-22

1t is fortunate that country
which is known to have and has beer
diagn osed as having soul by the most
respectable thinkers does not require
genuine lNeyature. All it requires is
enough creative unintelligence to sc
around. Thus popular author, in ordez
to become popular, has only first tc
adopt formula and then to apply II
to the public.
The fownula is a simple one. You
take the most popular magazine there
is and study it's contents for, say, 8
year. during which period you are
confidently supported by secretly
grasping relatives, who know that
later they will reap their reward
For in case the author doesn't pay
them a reward for their care of him
they are sure to scrape enough ducats
eventually out of the connection.
After the author has thus studied
his model carefully, has learned all Of
the short STORY plots, all of the human
bbeuiS 4idHIeWONh, HS LueH pEOCSeQS III
his process Of reassembling. He i'm
mediately succeeds. His next step Is
to hire q trained psychologist to keep
tabs on the dear old public. One day the
trained psychologist rushes into his
bungalow exclaiming "There she blows!'
The rising author then writes book
that "hits off" the particular wave OF
idiocy that is passing over us at thai
rcment. With the proceeds of the
book he then goes on popular lecture
tour. Later he appears in England;
his book is reproduced in the movies
he joins numerous clubs, drops in at
the Algonquin occasionally in order to
keep the boys in good humor, moves
up from flivver to an eight-cylinder
sedan and during the summer months
lives on the Maine coast.
Now anybody who hints, or even
dreams, that / am blaming the popular
author in this instance has, as they