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The Washington times., 1922-12-24

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AHEAD or the rest.
AND I'D pare the apple.
AND FIND It msaly.
AND BY that time.
THE Coffee and toast.
WOULD BE quite cold
BUT I wouldn't care.
FOR I'D know quite we'll.
If I complained.
THE CAPTAIN would oom..
TO FIND out about it.
AND WOULD roast tn. w.itsr.
AND THEN rd 70 up
AND RACK to my room.
AND MY typewriter desk.
TO START my work.
AND THE ohamberma.d.
WOULD BH IN the room.
WITH WINDOWS wide open.
AND SHE'D bs cheerful.
AND TALE 70 me,
ABOUT sus couple
The Washington times., 1922-12-24

EVERYWHERE.
FOR TWO or three months.
THEY'VE HAD Safety Days"
AND DON'T Get Hurt Days."
AND ET'S quite all right.
AND MAYBE it helps.
AND ] hope It does.
BUT WHAT rd iiE'
Is TO have a day.
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AND WARN me.
IF I didn't stop smoking.
I'D KILL myssif.
AND I'D be pleasant.
AND SMILE at her.
AND SHE'D 20 again.
AND I'D start to work.
AND THE phone would ring.
AND A new arrival.
THAT I may have known.
AWAY OUT on the coast.
WOULD WANT :. /: know.
If I had . bootissger.
I COULD recommend.
AND I'D start to set mad. ,
AND THEN remember.
Ir WAS "Don't Hurt Day"
AND ANYWAY.
I'D GET through my work.
AND GO downstairs.
AND INro III. lobby.
AND THIN very same guy.
WHO HAS saiA v nA
The Washington times., 1922-12-24
BETWEEN THE LINES

A DON'T Hurt" Day.
WHEN EVERYONE.
SHOULD SAY to himself.
AND SAY to herself.
THAT THROUGH the day.
HE WOULDN'T say.
OR SHE wouldn't say.
AN uNK1ND word.
TO ANYONE.
AND JUST for myself.
ON DON'T Hurt" Day.
WHEN THE telephone rang.
BEFORE I got up.
o.
AS TT always does.
I'd RISE out Of bed,
AND ANSWER IT.
AND I ~ou,dn't bark.
AT wHonvER it was.
AND IF he asked.
If HE'D walked me up.
I'D SAY 70 him.
-
OH. NO indeed.
THAT I haA hsan N.
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WHOM I didn't know.
AND NEWER had sean.
AND NEVER would sss.
AND I'D got . chair.
AND DRAG IT over.
TO BE out Of her way.
AND LISTEN to her.
AND BIZ surprised.
OR HOWEVER It was. 80.
SHE WOULD have me Be-.
AND THEN she'd get through.
AND GO on out.
AND I'D close the window.
AND START 10 work.
AND SHE'D come back.
AND SAY to me.
SHE'D FORGOTTEN tn. towels.
AND PUT them away.
ON THB bathroom rack.
AND THEN oom. back.
AND WANT !. know.
NOW I could writ. .om..A,.s.
80
a. UvunE a..
The Washington times., 1922-12-24
WITH K. c. B

WITH K. G. B. !:
ON EVERY day. =. :"
FOR El0HT weeks past. +.
"BLUB LINE tours. ~
TO wAsHLNGr0N's hsma =.
"AND ARLINGTON. {,
TEAvING EVERY three hsura- '-
WOULD SAY 1t again. *.
AND rD smile at him.
AND SAY I ~ss sorry.
BUT I .eulanr -. a
AND THnN I'd 70 out. =
10 ROCK crssi Park.
AND YELL and yell. IA
AND GET rid Of it.
AND COME back home. q
ron THE rest Of the day. lr
I fHANY ysu. ,',r
IN
Button, Button
DEAcoN's WIFE: what mads !.
you think the collection was b,
made 70 get the minister . new -
suit!"
Deacon: Because 10 many Of
Ne eonsrssatiea put N buttonA"
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
The Coal Terrorists

President Harding truly told Con-
grees last month that coal coMsun,-
ers We're st the mercy of the strik-
ing United Mine Workers. The
strikers won their fight against the
soft coal and hard coal operators
and prevented any change in the in
flated war wage scale. They sacr,-
feed millions of dollars to do this.
But they felt that '.ley were build.
ing up taeir power as a privileged
wage class and clinching the;.'
chagce 10. profit at the expenac oe
he r2st o. the community
Victory has gone to the heads OF
NJ. LOWS and his associates. VIII
lam Green, secretary tree surer of
the miners union, now announces
that it will make an alliance with
the British miners union for tne
purpose Of closing the American
market to Bwit;sh coal and the Brit.
lah market TO American coal unde.
certain contingencies.
Mr. Green thinks that the public
..2le was not squeezed hard enough
III the recent strike. The Inter
borough company, for example
tracted for British coal with
Gh.th 10 operate the subway. 7.
thas fol lestalled the possibility Of a
shutdown. 1t did its duty to 1t.
Patrons and TO the city. But the
strike leaders consider this pur-
haSe of British coal an infringe
ment on their right to say who shall
have coal and what price he shall
ray for it. They Will try to tighten
the next blockade by pledging the
British miners union not to allow
any British coal to be shipped 70
America.
This step is d natural one for
labor n'onopoists who believe thew
have the public by the throat. .Tf
we VIII not dig coal nobody else
shall dig it." is their motto. It was
trag.cally Illustrated at Herrin, III.
But they fail to reckon with the
hostility which their arrogance has
aroused. Coal is a necessity. The
country must have it. People will
lnsist on having it, no matter who
digs it. The government, if need
be, will intervene to see that Goa,
is dug, stored and sold.
An international alliance to mare
coal fanlines more pinching would
be the last word of the Lewis school
OF leadership. But the country is
through with that school. IT will
see to 1t before the British alliance
Is consumrated that the conditions
Nhlca have given Mr.. Lewis and his
'IE power to withhold coal from the
consumer are put an end to.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19

been 80 successful that he coald de-
vote his entire time to writing with
out fearing the wolf, prefers to con-
tinue his profession of engineer on
the steamship Garlic.
III these times the returns Of sue
cassful fiction writer's are SO great
that they rarely need wofry about
their daily bread. In this respect,
of course, conditions have greatly
improved III the last century, and
more especially in the last two
decades. But even were this not SO,
it Is difficult to escape the belief that
those who write only as side issue
and make q genuine success of it
have been and still are exceptions.
The famous French author M.
Brieux claims that while writer is
not necessarily obliged to exercise
some other profession it is possible
for him to do so, Ii not the truth,
in reality, merely a development of
this thought, and should il not be
said that while a writer may prac-
tice some other profession he should
not?
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
English as a World Tongue

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; read short item ~ seas
paper saying tila'. according %
French professor. the English iehguass
in Il modified form viii ultsmsteiY hs-
come the universal tongue. Wbs ~
that French professor
Tive years ago in Brasil ara %
Argentina I found French w5ne'F
spoken, The director Of education -
Ruenos Ayfes told ms scarcely pss
cent cf their business nisn could spesA
Engiish IN Spain, although TIE osseh
is English, person speaking Sng'fs >
Is rarity IN poftugss S~g''ss y
not spoken, eer ss Il IL -SeFeseo' a''
geris, Tun!s snd gripo" r. Rass'A
enc heaTa more Frrnch AeFs'ea
chan English The English lssgaa !
Ia we'll known there is 40 depei ''ea'
fhat--phus as univrrssI lsng@ sss e :
aands Vf yesrs will pass bet~.
world will see ii.
CONSTANT KEADks'
New YORK. sept. SC. feas,
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19

They have exerted greater infiu-
ence IN politics than male politi-
clans believed they would or could.
And along with the privileges they
have gained they have accepted
nailosophically tho less Of privileges
they enjoyed as persons entitled
only to the protection of the law in-
stead of equality under it.
By continuing to fight as enef-
aetically for absolute equality as
they did for equal rights at the polls
they will III the fullness of timc
complete their work, and if they
then continue in cx;stence as a
party It will be only as a party fog
Sic excrtion Of moral force in po-
litieal campaigns.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
Bushwhacking Our Marine

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir I read with great interest your
editorial "Bushwhacking Our Marine
In a praiseworthy patriotic vein you
set forth the bushwhacking tactics If
our foreign competitors, but you over
looked the fact that the greatest
bushwhacker of all is our own Uncle
Sam.
"Asde from certain economic diff
ficulties" which you say arc in the
form of "higher wages, higher capital
costs, higher subsistence for crews and
our over-restrictivc legislation do you
realize that Congress is at the present
writing taking the final action to kill
our merchant marine?
The destructive course is none other
than the high tariff 1t is a funda-
mental law of economies that when
nation erects a barrier to cut oil
imports it automatically checks the
Acw of exports. Without imports ard
exports what will our much loneed
Iot HleIcHahC marine carry!
american steamship men and gov
ernment officials" arc undaunted, for
it is their. purpose to transport one
half of our commerce in American
vessels" Their courage is great, but
it springs from hope born of fulfil
ity, because one-half of zero is still,
supfortunPtely, zero.
Congress is trying TO cat its cake in
The form of high tariff, and have it..
too, in the hopod-for merchant marine.
We 81 know such feat is impossible.
Turning TO constructive criticism, I
would suggest that it is up to the
American people and Congress 70
choose whether we shall have high
tariff and no merchant marine, low
tariff and q large merchant marine, or
moderate tariff and merchant mar
inc OF sise proper 10 insure health.
full international intercourse and at
the same time be a safeguard in the
e,cnt of future war.
LEE GRIswoLp.
New York, Sept Is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
What Readers Are Thinking

but the flexible one can be made SO
with proper administration.
II the importers and retailers coerce
Congress into delaying the bill Or
making 1t an obsolete weapon of de-
tense by duress or fear of the opposi-
t1en OF the press in She coming eleo-
uons it will be necessary for the
producers to elect Congress to save
them from themselves.
H. r. Eben's job will not be safe,
even in the innermost Office of a de-
partment store, If the wage carners are
deprived of thair jobs so that they
cannot buy the imported articles he
offers for sale.
oTTo W HElNIGKE.
New York, Sept. is, 1se2
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
The Victory on the Sound

Tho victory Of the American s.x-
meter YACHTS owe" tho British bg the
close sccrc Of Ill to l0d in the in-
tcrnational regatta at Oyster Bay
was not unexpected, Great skill
was shown by the shippers of both
sides, but just as the British ships
were more at home in the heavier
weather of the Solent so the Ameri-
cans found the gentle Sound breezes
more TO their liking.
In a sport such as sailing the
members of the visiting team arc
always at some disadvantage. They
are accustomed to ether seas and
winds, and they rarely know the
tricks of tide and breeze which IN
yacht race often lead to victory.
Some of the American shippers had
sailed in the waters of the Sound
since carly childhood and knew IN
tinaately the vagaries Of Septembo~
sailing weather Off Lloyd's Neck
and Center Island.
That this was a great advantage
for them cannot be denied. 1t does
not, OF courGe. detract from the Skill
Of the individual yachtsman. The
point, speak for themselves and
show the undoubted superiority oe
two boats in particular, one Amer;-
can and one British The Lea
(Ameriean), owned by j. +. Ber-
minsham and sailed by Sherman
Hoyt, had a total of thirty-fve
points, having won two races. The
Cola III (British) scored thirty
four points and also won two races.
These records undoubtedly were
due largely to skillful yachtgman-
ship.
AS a matter of fact the British
team scored the larger number Of
points IN three out of the five races.
Ii the Americans had not doveloped
such an unusual lead in the frs
race, being sixteen points ahead
OF the British, they probably would
have lost the series. But as the
Americans did this year in American
wRters the British may do again in
bsltlSh waters Rarely hes serie,
OF such closely matched races been
sal'ed III any international regatta
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
By Fairfax Donnev

The musical stock in trade NJ
Troubsdours of Provence consisted a.
only lutte, fair voice and 10 ~
toire Of ballads. Yet that new c5.sbi.
nation enabled them % lead q lis. =
ease and idlsness as guests a. eha.e.-t
After dinner the baron Of the e.s
at which the TroubadCur hsd h-
week ending for the last aye OF 81
years would push back his chair g.sm
the banquet board, throw a xell.psskse
bore st the toothless ola hound AZ
his feet and suggest TO the man .,
music; well. how about s H.i's
music?"
The Troubadour would sag he would
be glad to oblige but he hadn't learned
anything new lately, but the baron
would sgreeably remark that after al
the old songs were the best. There
upon the Troubadour would tune up
his lutte fer half an hour and then
sing q ballad passionStciy at she bar
oness. It was quite q system.
Skipping down through the history
OF musical noyelties-masic box. pias
ola and SO on~-one encounters that
first playing of music during meals.
How the strains Of the orchestra did
arrest those present IN all The various
acts of dining! But soon we we's
used 80 it. Now we can eat Just a.
we'll to music as without t. Perhsps
better.
IS the latest thing we hare shs'
wonderful scientific device whsrsey
ono clamps rsdio hezepiece orr
tho ears. and actually hears musi'
being played In places where ore
would never in tho world so 70 bsaS y
Such new musical wrinkles most esT'
ta;nly do have power fer While tS
soothe the savage breast. But sttsr
just so long, IL they arc not sncas tss
fittost that survive. that's what nsss
1t wild.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
Soothing the Savage Breast

Mercifully extinct is the parlor-
tricky guest with the atrocious table
manners who in the midst of dinner
assembled before him all the water
glasses within reach, varied their con-
tent and played tune on them by
rubbing q moistened finger around
their rims. In his day he was voted
quite too clever for words After
all, reasoned the majority Of his suffer
ing auditors, he used only water
glasses, and he was welcome to any
amusement he might derive from
them.
But the minority, to whom the merry
little artiice of the volunteer enter
tainer was first offense, was genuine
ly spellbound. And why, in the name
of music? Because the trickster un-
willingly had satisfied that human
craving which delights to hear music,
or notes to that effect, produced by
some novel means.
We also cheerfully endured while in
their first blush acts by persons in
vaudeville who provided by other than
the conventional means what purported
to be music. Once, and possibly twice
in our weakness, we heard the smithies
smite their musical anvils and the
woodmen bend their musical saws,
without wishing those pioneers of
melody any particular i'll. Nor at first
did we harbor the wicked hopes of
backfire that stole into our con-
sciousness the third time we listened
to the marksman, accompanied by the
orchestra, ring with the shots of his
trusty rifle series of sharp and fat
musical bullseycs.
For while-why attempt 10 conceal
or make excuses ?--,nr strangely con-
stituted temperamcnts countenanccd
Swiss bell ringers, and even condoned
yodelers of that nationality
And let us confess, we who have the
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19

courage required for pitiless intro
spection, that once we hearkened with
emotions akin to tolerance rather than
violence TO the Vaccinations of an
orchestra Of trained seals.
This love Of ours for the novel
in musical instruments has come down
to US from dim antiquity. The en-
trancing music of orpheus proceeded
from Tyre, said to be strung with
poets sinews. Of course, such string
ing is impossible to-day, owing to the
shortage of raw material. It was Pan
wae was the first TO bind together a
Sc. les of pipes and t'sus summon
nymphs who TO the somewhat thin
notes of single pipes had become sin
gularly unresponsive. The Emperor
Nero seems to have won a great deal
of attention, although the nature of
the instrument on which he performed
while Rome burned is as unde-
termined as whether his audience
walked, not ran, to the nearest exit.
When Adolph Sax first invented the
instrument which is named after him
and phone it is believed that tenn
porafy vogue was all he planned. And
one can but hope that his plans be
realized before so very long now. So
with the old clockmaker in the Black
Forest who turned from the manufac-
ture of timepieces to the devising Of
harmonicas. But there is a saving
grace cbout harmonious. After blown
into for some time they arc apt to
give one last despeiring squeak and
refuse to function further. Such
probably was the case on that occasion
when BENJAMIN Franklin played har-
monica at court before Queen Marie
Antoinette, After an cndurablc nun
ber of selections it is likely that the
instruments previdentially went out of
commission. And France remained our
ally.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
A Conscience in Tammanv

ne attempt Of bosses Murphy and
AoenIg to make a political annex of
'he Surrogates' Office has awakened
'he disgust of member of the Tam
many law committee, Professor
Leslie j, Tompkins, who occupies 2
chair Of law in New York Univer-
sity.
IN announcing that this raid of
the judiciary is more than anv
self-respecting lawyer can stomach
rfofessor Tompkins calls attention
10 the Importance of the office of
surrogate to the people of New York
SoRnty' Incidentally in showing
80" much money is in the keeping
OF the office he without doubt nuts
MS hnger on one of the reasons whv
Ii'e bosses turned down judge
Cohalan for denomination. desn;ta
niS excellent record and his admitted
, fitness.
Says Professor Tompkins:
The Surrcgstes' Office is Of far
greater Importance than the Supreme
court. Not only does it protect tho
nights Of the living, but it reanoct
! inc wishes of the dead
10 the Surrogates Court in This
county which bosses Murphy and
hocNie are trying TO control thronch
the removal of Surrogate Coha,an
| estates aggreeating more than five
hundred m lion dollars annually
come for admiaistro tion.
Every man or woman who dies
ieaVlng an estate amounting to 6ftv
dollars or more has his estate ad.
ministeFed by this court, SO that in
popular psrIaace it has become >
known as the widows and orphans
court
Ike feeling of all the Lawyers in
Iammany who are not purely politi.
cal lawyers is reflected in this opin-
ion by the most distinguished men,
Der Of the Tammany law COMMITTEES.
1t has long been known tlsst Muir
/ ply acted without advice in refusing 9.
'eage Coaalan a denomination ard
that very large number Of men in
tic organization viii express at the
polls their opinion Of his attempt to
raid the Judiciary
4
/ lan'nfany men are rot usually SO
! o'ifspoten IN regard to the act.oag a.
me boss as Is Professor Tonplsins.
It is evident that be has lately be-
come enlightened as IA tho sort Of
organization he has been connected
with, and will not be much disturbed
II his stand against bossism on +hs
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
An Ulster Prison Ship

to tho Editor OF The Trtbune.
SIR: J have noticed that tho Asse-
eia'ed Press dispatches Of September
- state that the Ulster government re-
ports a plot to blow up the pgiaon
sh'p AFsensa. on which 500 alleged
SIM feiners arc interned. at Lame
Tough County Antrim From the dc.
'ai'ed reports tisat have appeared in
''e irish presS concerning The condi.
ssons lnat prevail on board the Ar.
sen'a9 cohdi ons thai reeall she tales
'osd g tae horror ship Jersey ii our
own revolutionary dava enc can we,l
sfes'' th'a reports of the htenasd
blowing up.
me prisoners Of tie Argsnts rep
resent the Catholic business and pre-.
fsssional life Of the six counties: with
shrinking OF What Sir Dawson hates
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
Still Much to Accomplish

The maxim that woinan's work 10
never done appcafs to apply as
forcibly to the modern woman in
politics as to the woman Of yestet-
day whose place was in the home.
The legal research department of
the Woman's party has discovered
that the laws of the State of New
York, despite the suffraga amend
nIent. still discriminate against wom-
en- III many respects, Among the IN
eoualities noted in the report are
Mothers do not have equal con.
troll and custody of children. Moth
ers do not have equal control over
the services, earnings or real prop.
etfy of their children. Women are
oiscriminated against in the admin
istrasion of estates. Mothers are
discriminated against in inheritance
laws. Married women may not
choose their legal residence.
These inequalitie3 beyond doubt
viii DC eliminated through tll@ hard
Tsork Of women who fully realize
iaaf fhey : tili have much To do after
re pssasec Of the saifrage amend
ino-it We're this not the case the
need Of q woman's party would De
not nearly so great as It is to-day.
The new voters have exercise
the franchise il, this state at least
&ith Independence and courage.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19

IN his latest weekly renon,ination
OF William Randolph Hearst for
Governor Mayor Hylan again at
tacks Governor Miller as "a servitor
OF the corporations and intimates
that 1T Mr., Hearst were elected
Governor the corporations might as
well fold their tents and silently
steal away.
Mr.. Hearst, in an earlier atten,nt
10 gam the governorship, made the
same sort of attack on the cor-
porations-for time. Then his
opponent, who happened TO be the
ale1t minded Charles E. HUGHES
brought into evidence the fact that
NY Hearst was not only a corpora
lon man but a man Of many cor
poratlons, including a holding COM
pany-a form of parent corporation
winch he had been particularly de-
nouncing.
Since that time Mr.. Hearst has
acquired other corporations, in vari-
oas lines of industry, including the
moving picture business and the
business of publishing magazines.
Either Mr.. Hylan was not reading
the newspapers at that time or his
memory is at fault. If he insists
on his candidate battling the cor
poratlons after election-provided
Ina is elected-he is going to place
MI Hearst in an extremely embar-
RAISING position.
lnasmuch, however, as it has
been decided by the Democrats that
Mr, Hearst is not going to be
nominated, the editor is perfectly
safe in posing as an anti-corpora-
ton man, if by so doing he can
please his grateful beneficiary in
the City Hall.
There is no likelihood whatever
that he will have to destroy any
corporations of any sort, to say
nothing of retiring from those
through which he promotes his
manifold enterprises.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
An Imposition

The ra,s in the United States
cost the citizens man, woman and
child---a dollar each, annually.
We seldom grouse about expense
In words of futile Indignation;
There seems to us but little sense
In wholly idle protestation.
We help support the government
And, though its cost each sea-
son wakes,
We don't hold out single cent
That's due upon our income
taxes.
Butnone the less, Oh reading that
Each year we have to give q
dollar
To pay the uplleep of a rat
We feel that we must raise a
holler.
We do not care for rats at all;
They seem to us disgusting
creatures,
Black, gray or white, or large or
small,
Possessing no attractive feat
ures.
We would not share a crust of
bread
With any rat in all creation,
Although we knew that he'd fall
dead,
If we withheld it, of starvation.
We'd give as much as we could
spare
To rid of rats the town and
county,
And yet we find some rat some
where
Is living freely on our bounty
Such burdens as have come to US
From Congress or the Legis-
lature
We've borne with very little fuss,
For such has been our easy
nature.
We've tried to do the best we
could,
Though we might we'll have
done without them,
And, anyway, it did no good,
AS we'll we knew, to kick about
them.
But forcing us to give a rat
His board and shelter seems
more cheeky
Than all the worst exactions that
Are practiced by the Bolshe-
wiki