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New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
g Jurgcno Returns From Exile

Among all the childish perform
ances Of Mr.. John s. Sumner, his
prosecution Of aJurgens was the most
preposterous. Whether the book is
great and permanent literature, as
gone Of it's admirers assert, is inn1a-
terial. It was plainly written by a
sincere and able artist, and in a vein
Of such delicate and romantic SYM
bolism that it could not conceivably
corrupt any one. Judge Mott now
finds it brilliant piece Of writing
unusually meritorious" and not
disgusting" thing in it--and very
properly disnisses the indictment
against it.
Thus, after two years ban, Mr.
Cabell's admirable book returns 70
general circulation. During ali that
time il has been easily accessible
through literary bootleggers to any
one really wanting to read tit has
been freely circulated in England
and has enjoyed an enormous amount
of advertising.
How much longer must such comic
perversions Of justice be endured2
There is Mr.. Sumner, who could
learn that the literary quality of q
book has a bearing upon it's pro-
priety. There is the Society for the
Suppression Of Vice, that could send
Mr.. Sumner off on long vacation
to peruse the classics. There is the
State Of New York, that could take
away from that society its selni-pub-
lie character, BY one of these
methods such absurdities must be
ended.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
Building the Nations Youth

Secretary Weeks's call for con-
ference to discuss the means Of build
ing up the youth of the country
physically is a further manifestation
of the public interest in improving
individual health. Recently the pro-
longation Of life as practical mat
ter has received wide discussion. and
now there is talk Of a personal
hygiene week to encourage the prac-
tice Of healthful habits Of living.
In the old days, before America
had such large urban population,
there was not as great need for
artificial development Of the youth
of the nation as there is now. De-
spite the fact that most Of the rules
Of hygiene were ignored, the rural
training developed good physical
specimens. Now, however, with
enormous cities, it is different. The
draft examinations showed that
nearly so per cent of the country's
youth were physically subnormal.
AS q means of remedying these def
ciencies more than half the states
have already passed laws making
physical training compulsory in the
schools. At the same time the exten-
sion Of the Boy Scout work has also
done much to improve conditions and
to stimulate an interest in healthy
outdoor activities.
But a national conference to con-
slider the question, such as Secretary
Weeks proposes, will give a nation-
wide impetus to the movement. By
coordination and cooperation much
can be achieved, especially in those
regions which are at present back.
ward.
There can be no question that
sound physical training makes for
better citizenship and at the same
time insures greater happiness and
efficiency for the individual. It is
fully as important TO train and de-
velop the bodies as the minds Of the
youth Of the country.
+ a.-ss. 4 X
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
Four Miles and More 4 Minute


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your Issue of this morning,
commenting upon the establishment OF
a new air record Of 24S miles an hour,
you ask several pertinent questions
about the future Of aviation. The
most important Of these ia whether the
human body can stand the strain Of
such terrific speed.
In THIS connection IT seems to bs
overlooked that aeroplanes have fire.
quently travelled at a speed Of more
than $50 miles an hour, but never be-
fore, Of course, on level path. If the
ordinary machine capable Of 125 miles
an hour on straightaway is pointed
slightly downward, thus adding the
pull of gravity to that Of the engine.
the limit Of speed Il restricted only hv
the strength Of the wings.
II happens that during the war ~
frequently few at a speed registered
by wind gauges at more than 200 miles
al, hour at an altitude of aronnd
10000 feet-a common Occurrences III
the squadrons then at the front and
maintained for periods Of one to two
hours. We had ordinary open cock
pits, without oxygen tanks 81 heaters,
and incidentally without parachutes.
Aside from i feeling of fatigue, In
dnced by rarity Of oxygen in tho air,
there we're 40 Ill effects. We did not
become unconscious, ouf helmets
were not split BY the force of the Wind,
cur arms were not broken when No
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21

attack upon itself when none ex-
listed. III shouts sLiarl'' And BY In
nuendo II suggests that Mr.. Cohalan
has been guilty Of wrongdoing.
II "The World has any evidence
It should produce It instantly. BY
printing such slurs as It has It is
not iniuring Surrogate Cohalan. 1t
is only getting itself In deeper and
deeper. AS tho case stands, having
regard to the whole record, every
fair4ninded citizen will unquestion-
ably agree that the presumption of
truth-telling is with Mr.. Cchalan
hnd against Charles F. Murphy and
"The New York World"
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
Cohalan Versus Murphy and
"The World"

Surrogate Cohalan has made no
charge against "The New York
World.' None can fairly be i'm
piled from his attack upon Mr..
Murphy. If "The World" had main
tanned silence its position in the
present campaign, first dainning,
then half-heartedly supporting Mr..
Cohalan, would have been its own
affair.
But It has insisted upon seeing
an implication where none existed.
1t mas accused Mr.. Cohalan OF false
mood. And it has attacked him by in
nuendo, limiting at unnamed mis-
deeds. Thus the motives of "The
"oria become matter of public
concern directly involving the honor
OF the bench and the continuance
upon u. the bench Of a faithful judge.
ihey can be no longer ignored.
The record of "The World'' is as
follows; Late in 1912 Surrogate
oonalan refused to accept the first
appraisal Of the Joseph Pulitzer
estate and sent it back for revision,
AS a result it was raised $4,000 900.
a lew months later, entirely through
she efforts of 'The World,s charges
We're brought against Justice Daniel
=. Conalan, the brother Of the Sur.
rogate. The charges were dismissed
Dy the state Legislature. It is but
1alr to add that to the best of The
/ Irinune's belief The general opinion
of the bench and bar then rated
and To-day rates Justice Daniel F
eehaian as an able and impartial
Judge. In August of this year. when
Murphy and Koenig refused a re-.
nomination to Surrogate Cohalan
the sole comment of aTne World,
was brief editorial sneering a,
! the name of Cohalan and the nof;or
2 aioAai ISSUE could be raiseC
I under it.
| Later, when the overwhalm;ns
voice Of the Bar Association and d
/, every decent element of the com
naunity made itself heard in behal,
! Of Surrogate Cohalan .sThe World
published an editorial giving grudg
ing support to him. Now eth,
World" brands him as obviousl,
lying in his charge against Mr.
Murphy and challenges him TO Civ.
the real reason for the refusal t.
renonlinate him.
aThe World" produces no SCRAP
of evidence to support its sneers
and hints. It inagines an implied
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
fIicIs Midshiprnites

Another brutal hazing case has
come to light at Annapolis. Super
intendents Of the Naval Academy
have labored to root out this perni-
cious survival from the institutions
laxer and more boisterous days. Con-
gress has passed laws prohibiting
any and all forms of hazing. A mid
shipman caught at it faces expulsion.
Yet so strong is academic tradition
and SO perverted is the midship-
mans loyalty to it that years Of re-
preston have failed to stamp out
this sort of Ku-Kluxing.
Hazing Is cowardly II violates
sporting ethics, because it involves
collective intimidation and denies
fair play and a fair fight. The boy
who indulges in it is not thereby
qualifying himself to be an officer
and a gentleman. The hazer is es-
sentially a bully and sneak--not
the material out Of which to build an
officers corps for either the navy or
the army. Moreover, he is q poor
sample of the modern American col
lege boy. In nearly all the colleges
and universities hazing has been un-
tremendously dropped. 1t is as effete
as the burnsides which college ath-
letes used to wear in the long ago.
Annapolis is out of touch with the
world of 1922-of co-education and
democratic college manners.
Does the Annapolis student body
want to lose caste and class by
bounding freshmen? Poor old stuff |
Even the movies would not fall for
it. Must an upper class man at the
Naval Academy, to be a real upper
class man, also be college l1ick?
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
Danger From Subway Smoker
TO tha Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Trihnnss
Sir: have noticed lately the yess
considerable farore and the many fea
placards In regard to frs preyens.'a.,
70 me this appears more Of less fareass1 :.
when l see the absolute indinersnss
displayed by numerous smokers oa y
platforms OF the subways.
! have given tho matter q LITTLE rhois s
attention cf late. and have obsssvsa y.
in many instances smokers on sacv1,
platforms light pipea. cigars snu
cigarettes, and without giving any go
TO the extingafshafsent Of the nisssn' 3
throw II carelsssly into the foadvAss
Ia my opinion this Is the worst k'aa
OF FIRE Jeopardy, considering tAe -
sibility o. ignitiOn Of the hiehly ,hs
Aamnsbls Oil and grease-soaksd nss
and thu loose papers always lying ~
Tying abcut the platforms sna reas !.
Ssy III casc Of IRE tho property ies. J.
Ronia perhaps asrount 10 but litsies e, !,
III case sosne hysterical person ssosss
taiss the cry Of nrs Oh . crcxded ~
ilon StGsfofm. the rcrsonal inluf'
uosld wibhous doubt be hsAAfeuA
Any ono smoking d lighting u'ass as
III ths sutway, of sven the suers
entrances fof III thess latter vsssinss
apf,steI III endangered sIsaad be 81
sasted, sad oa roavittion. bs shsd s.
tie n,sxir.m allowed VI isw
Il law onsSRvsNt SMOKES
New York. Oct. l6l 192a.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21

Paris with plan for peace with Gtr
many. He would have made Germsa5
pay her reparation bill, In full and a
spot values. He would have done aw1y
with all the nightmare of gota msfhl
reparations, which seeks to put the entss|
German people in bondage for 4 MosalssiI
forty pears. To hfs realistic mind \
seemed that Germany could pay ii Oh
form of wealth as we'll as in another
in soil, IL necessary. For rstus
which makes war and loses ssfss tie
risk of parting with her tsrtitefy 10
we'll as with her gold coli and sst.
reney. IL q man despoiis yea, OF Dc.
frauds yous yea may receiver on bis
goods and real property as well as upon
his ready cash and banking balance.
Foch's plan was superior to all The
delayed gold mark payment plans whicA
the Big Four wrote into the treaty.
The Germans have run away from thS
gold mark. 1t exists only in fancy. aaa
reparation payments in German gold
havs also become more or less q fg
ment of the Imagination. Foeh xsi
right. But he was only a military MIA
and the civilian super-minds at shs
peace table turned away from him sud
his suggestions with a smile Of pity.
The world has had three yenrs' u.
perience with the Versailles Treaty.
1t likes it even less now than it did
when Germany went through the pres
tence Of asserting to 1t. The sfoubis
with it goes beyond what the Big Fons
put into it. It's greatest sin is that IT.
trainers left it without the power to
march, to command respect, to ehforcs
punishment-even to act as bond Of
union among the powers which framed
it in their hour of common exaltation
and triumph.
At Paris the eyes OF the psaee
bringefs were mmed-uoyd Georges
by cupidity and an oyer-dsve.opmsnt q
the horse-trader's instinct; Wilson'S b.
vain ideology; Clemenceau's BY sec.
ond-childhoodish confidence thns sns
bird In the hand vas not worth Is htsa
as two in the bush. They theasht g"
they were laying anew the fssndssleu.
Of Europe. But they we're snly bsae.
Ing the bridge eyer which tAey raw
now passed, one after the Other, in'0
the political twilight.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
Wasting the Taxpayers Money

Only the fear that Tammanv ex.
traVagance in the state govern n,ant
would be emphasized by Tammanv
extravagance in the city government
deferred the Board of Estimate from
carrying out its plan of advancing
she salaries of thirteen Tanamany
commissioners $4,000 each. The ac-
tion, it may be taken for granted.
was deferred, not abandoned. After
election, even though the budget is
made up, it will come up again.
probably IN an effort to put q bill
Through the Legislature to make the
advances mandatory.
Tammany was only in partial con-
troi OF the state when it's present
nominee, Alfred E. Smith. was Gov
erfaor. II could not spend as much
OF the citizens money as it wanted
to. But it did increase expenditures
$40, COG, 900 in Governor Smiths sec
ond year and reached the unprece-
dented total of STAG, 100000.
iamnany extravaganza has been
so ably and effectively disclosed BIZ
Governor Miller that the New York
City boss of the state Democratic
party has been seized with a fit of
n "a ~ va.s ~. n-,&s.~.
Had the advance been suggested
at asay other time it would have
gone through without question.
Thirtest Tansnany men would have
raeeived q collective bonus OF about
ICE ffEese coo in the next three wears,
the money to Come out OF the peo-
pies pockets, the source of revenue
sf Taanmany Hall for the last Etin-
srea years ard more
Jhis grab has been postponed.
Bus Tanrnany is as hungry as ever,
snd Il It should succeed in captur~
ng the Soyssnorship 1t would easily
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James ]. Montague

Something Must Have Happened to
Him
Time was when a Persian who
wanted a fight
Had no weary distance to seek;
He sailed to the west'ar and
turned to the right
And picked On the slumbering
Greek.
A number Of armies from points
to the south
At this tough little land took a
crack,
And returned badly beaten and
down in the mouth
If indeed they could ever get
back.
The centuries passed, and the
countries around, s
Whenever they wearied of
peace,
Conspired with each other until
they had found
An excuse for a raid upon
Greece.
They wildly swooped down on
the little domain
With savage and horrid ac-
claim,
But they presently hied them
selves homeward again
Exceedingly sorry they came.
And even the Turk, when he
crossed the divide,
Announced he would soon
. name the date
When he'd lightly run over and
humble the pride
That had puffed Alexander the
Great. -
He started this project with
several wars,
But as soon as the battle was
done
What Turks there were left on
the enemies shores
Were headed for home on the
run.
But now when the Turk, or when
any one else,
Throws a couple Of bellicose
fits
And lands on the Greek a few
wailops and belts
The Greek puts his hands up
~ and quits.
The poets proclaim that the
Greek still can fight
With his old-tifne belligerent
jazz,
And for all we can tell they may
have the dope right,
But we do not observe that he
hasi ~
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
Twilight Of the Big -Four 3, wussm / Mcpherson

With the obscuration Of Lloyd
George the great gods Of the peace
conference pass deeper inte the
shadows.
The Big Fourl How swollen and
portentous they seemed to dazzled
world back in 1918! How shrunken
and shriveled they are to-day! The
perspective of 1929 has dwarfed the
vast imaginings and confounded the
hollow improvisations Of the crowded
and feverish hours in which they
played Jove and Wotan to the stricken
continents.
A literature has grown up apons
these departed supermen. But it 10 not
the sort Of literature that burns i'm
cense to legendary heroes and creates
f,attering myths about them. On the
contrary, 1t is critical in temper, skep-
teal and destructive. The inner his
tory Of the conference has been writ
ten mainly by men who were appalled,
at the incongruity between the task set
the peacemakers and their inadequate
comprehension of it,
Therein lay the tragedy Of the peace.
That the hopes Of the future were
wrecked by wicked old men" was the
p'aift OF the disappointed idealists.
They were wrecked by incompetent old
men, whose aims were confused and
whose methods were Impractical, said
the clearer-eyed realists. Robert Lam
sing and John Maynard Keynes are At
one in lamenting the lack Of objective
thinking and colnmon-sense concep-
tions in the inner circle Of the Su=
preme Peace Council. Apologize books,
like those Of Andre Tardieu, Colonel
House and his collaborators and Ray
Stannard Baker, only confirm this iin-
preston Of the intellectual shortconls
ings Of the Paris Olympians,
Were they only wicked old men"7
Not at all. Their worst limitations
were hot on the side Of hard hearted
ness or superselfishness. They were,
in d way, victims Of the sense Of H.
limitable opportunity spread before
them. They had the illusions of
grandeur and ,of ultimate power. They
induIged toe freely in visions. They
tried to do too much. They became
entanglcd In the vastness Of their own
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
Changed Foreign Population

The fact that the mystical "cen-
ter" of alien population in the
United States has moved westward
during the decade 10000 in
stead Of to the east or southeast, as
it did during the three previous dec
AIDES, has been hailed as il it were
something remarkable.
AS matter Of fact, however. the
bare statement is misleading unit.
analysed. The Increase in foreign.
born population responsible for the
westward movement of the "center''
is primarily in the four border
states Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
and California. 1t consists almost
entirely of Mexicans.
This population is notoriouslv
transient. 1t is of different char
acter from the European migration
While much of The European-born
population is not PERMANENT, it rep
resents an element that leaves a
deeper impress on the national life
and has greater stability than has a
temporary influx Of Mexican labor
ers along the border.
More interesting than this west
era increase, however, is The small,
amount OF change since 1910 n 4ba
Eastern states, which have long held
such a large percentage Of the for
elgn born. Massachusetts shows an
increase of only 2.5 per cent and
New York of FL per cent, whereas
Rhode Island and Pennsylvania show
q decrease Of 2.5 per cent and Is
per cent respectively. Connecticut
alone shows large increase. Due
probably TO the wartime deveIon.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21

schemes and lost all touch with ini-
mediate realities.
The world had the right to expect q
settlement which would at least def
nitely impose the will Of the victors
on the vanquished and leave Europe
tranquil for decads or generation.
Foch won the war and dictated the
arniistice. But the Big Four lost the
peace. They did not impose their coll
lective will on Germany, the arch
enemy. Germany has contested the
Treaty Of Versailles ever since the
otninous day On which Brockdorff-
Rantsau refused to sign it. she has
annulled many Of its articles. She In
tends to annul many more for the SIM
pie reason that the Big Four, or more
exactly, perhaps, the Big Three,
drafted a compact with no compelling
moral and physical force Behind it-a
compact destined to destroy Allied
unity, instead Of cementing it fur
ther.
Wilson brought home treaty which
the people of the United States would
not accept, in the form In which he
submitted it, and from which he stub
bornly refused to bulge by the width
Of single substantive reservation.
Lloyd George took back to England 8
treaty which he perhaps never in
tended to see enforced at Germany,s ex-
pense, and whose provisions he con.
tinually sought 60 weaken. Clemen-
ceau presented France with what tina
French people soon found to be eold
bricks docurnent which gave them
little military security and only the
vaguest assurances Of financial repara-
tion
Wicked old mem? No, only old
men pursuing phantasms aud swaopine
deceptions with one another. Four
plain country lawyers wouid probablv
have done . much better Job. They
could not have done d worse one. Thsv
would, at least. have recognized the
necessity Of restoring equilibrium In
Europe between the conquerors ana
the conquered before launching out on
q reconstruction of The world. Thsp
would have talked peace first and 4hs
League OF Nations afterward.
Marshal Foch, q military renius AMI
9 sober and modest thinker, was in
New-York tribune., 1922-10-21
A Change for the Better

Lloyd George has departed and
Bcnar Law enters upon the scene.
The reaction 10 this sudden shift Ii,
British politics ss one of profound
relief. The British press in general
has no tears TO shed over thc passing
of the Coalition. The verdict OF Brit
ish opinion is fairly summed up In
this sentence from the aDaiIy News
editorial: Whatever government
saeceeas the Coalition, ii could not
but be an improvement
French opinion is more cautiously
expressed. Yet there can be no doubt
that France will find her relations
with Great Britain improved by
Lloyd Georges retirement. The
Bonar Law government, It is an
nonnced, viii make a better under-
standing with Britain's Continental
allies a leading feature oil it's pro-
gram. In the recent Near Eastern
crisis it was noticeable that Lloyd
Georges speeches and n,anifestoes
did not run on all fours with Lord
Curzon's activities in Paris. The Cab
met apparently backed Curzon's
realistic policy Of appeasement
against the Prime Minister'S Glad
stonian fulininations and intilna-
tions that he was going to keep the
Unspeakable Turk out of Europe.
For long time French interests and
guarantees under the peace treaties
have received a much scanter consid-
GRAFTON from the Lloyd George group
of Liberals and minority Conserva-
tives than they have from the anti
Lloyd George group Of majority
Conservatives.
Bonar Laws Near Eastern and
reparations policies will probably
be more conciliatofy than Lloyd
Georges. They will undoubtedly be
directed toward creating a better
Entente spirit. But even If they
were at bottom as uncompromising
as Lloyd Georges and as concerned
as his were with weakening or an
Ruling the Preparations sections Of
the Versailles Treaty, friction be-
tween Paris and London would,
nevertheless, be lessened by The
Coalition debacle.
The great trouble with Lloyd
George was that you could never
put your finger on him. France could
net deposit big enough premium
at Lloyds to insure herself effectu-
ally against the political gyrations
which Lloyd George might make
next week, next month or next year.
This painful uncertainty has been
the most disturbing element in the
racification of Europe. Any regime
Under which a European govern
nlent might be able to discount Lon
don's position on questions Of vital
Importance would be preferable to
the Lloyd George let-the-morrow-
take-care-of-itself diplomacy.
What Europe needs most is a
stabilization of Allied policy-a re-
Towering of the Entente. Bonar
Laws ministry will undoubtedly
contribute. positively as we'll as
negatively, to this result.