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The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-03
Disarmament Question
Bobs up Again

Genoa, May 3.--Ihe disarmament
question hcbhrd up at today's plenary
session Of Tho >c'Homir conference.
Walter Rathcnau, the German for
eign minister, said the worlds trade
must be doubled before the condition
could be bettcrcd, but this could not
b" done while the nations were jump.
ing at each others throats.
Foreign Minister Tchitcherin of
Russia pleaded for a general disarma
ment.
The financial commissions report,
containing 10 resolutions, was adopt
ed
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-03

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oZonized air.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-03

The calendar year 1921 eclipsed any
preceding year in volume and value Of
building operations in China.
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The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-03

1t costs more than S1O,OO0,0O0 a
day to run the government of the
United States.
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New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

AS nearly as We can fatiiom the
wisdom of Senator Calder and his
fellow advocates Of the policy that
American ships, sink or sail, must
be repaired in American yards, they
have SO fixed their eyes upon their
glorious goal that they have forget
ten one small but important detail.
That is, that shipyards without ships
have very little merit.
With that blissful misunderstand-
ing Of the Republican theory of pro-
lection that characterizes much of
this years tariff debate and most Of
this years schedules, these eager
Senators would protect American
shipyards by the expedient of maxi
ing it at once dangerous and costly
for ship to fly the American flag.
Protection has seldom wandered as
far out of its course as this. One
almost begins to wonder if some
system of protection has not been
established about these Senators
brains to prevent the Importation
of common sense.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
The BELGIAN PLAN

What is this Belgian plan that q
unanimous Reparatibn Commission
says Germany must accept?
1t is that Germany shall place In
the hands of Belgium, to which the
reparation payments for the remain.
der Of the year are due, treasury
notes for 2bD,ooo,oo0 gold marks
payable In six months, while to Sc.
cure their retirement Germany is to
deposit 27o,oo0,0oo gold marks in a
neutral bank.
In the mean time The moratorium
question is deferred pending German
action with respect to prescribed
financial reforms, such as balanc-
ing of the German budget by the i'm
position of taxation and a stoppage
Of the printing of vast sums in un-
covered paper marks.
If Belgium is satisfied to accent
secured notes in lieu Of cash no one
else has call to forbid her. And as
Germany agrees to tax herself to
cover future obligation, France has
reason to rejoice.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

ploring instinct, which Ia the dyna-
mo Of literature May we condemn
in advance? The history Of the hu-
man mind attests the consequences
Of such mortmain. Austere theology
itself suggests the proper rule----the
theology that teaches that on man
was conferred free will, while at the
same time he was held to account
ability for the abuse Of his freedom.
Mr. Sumner, instead of shooting
wide Of the mark, might we'll devote
himself to riddling this ancient doc
trine, and he will find when he gets
it out of theology he must also
get 1t out Of democratic political
philosophy.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
The Bonus Honor Roll

Individual states as well as indi-
vidual Senators are entitled to gen-
crous recognition for their showing
on the bonus bill roll call. New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Maryland were solidly
against the fraudulent McCumber
measure. So were Vermont, New
Hampshire, Virginia and Utah.
States which contributed one mega
tive vote were Idaho, Wyoming,
Montana, Colorado, South Dakota,
Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Ken
tucky, Oklahoma, Maine, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and
South Carolina. These states form
an honor roll. Public opinion in
them has steadied one or both of
their Representatives in resenting
an insincere and obnoxious election
eering maneuver.
The McCumber bonus bill, like
the Fordney bonus bill, pretends TO
do thing without doing it. It COM
mits the Treasury to an expenditure
Of from $4,000, 900, 900 to S5,ooo,-
100000 without providing means to
raise the money. The President told
Congress that he would sign a bill
which imposed a sales tax to meet
the cost of the bonus. But Con-
gress, though parading a surface de-
votion to the soldier, refused to lay
any taxes for his benefit. ~
1t wanted to pose as doing some
thing for him, while shifting the
burden of fulfilling its promises to
some other Congress. The bonus
bills of 1922 were framed primarily
to influence the 1922 elections. They
are bid for votes--or, rather, an
expedient to placate threatened op-
position. A law laying an impos
slbie obligation on an empty Treas
ury was expected to do the work
OF political campaign fund.
Would Congress have passed a
pay-as-you-go bonus act? 1t would
not. That measures the depth Of
the fervor for the soldier shown by
Representatives and Senators who
supported the Fordney and McCum-
Der bills. Congress has fallen low
when such pitiful exhibition or
subordination of national interests
to the personal needs of its own
membership can be given.
Twenty-Five Republicans and niue
Democrats We're unwilling to Join IN
the dishonest effort to pass bonus
act merely for the purpose of pass
ing it. Their votes will sustain a
veto. And many of the supporters
OF the measure will receive veto
with equaninity. All they want is
a record to point to on the stumn
this fall. They have that. 1t is of
minor consequence to them that the
soldier cannot either cash that rec
ord or borrow money on it.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
The New Gas Prices

The reduction in gas prices, which
the Public Service Commission has
ordered after prolonged and SEEM
ingly impartial investigation, is an
agreeable innovation.
1t demonstrates that the war
prices of necessaries of life are not
inherently sacred and may be re-
vised without blasphemy. 1t revives
an almost extinct hope. Perhaps in
other cases it will be possible for the
public to lift itself out Of it's goat
like state and get out of the vicious
Pcircle in which it has been confined.
The cynical may sneer that if the
labor forces and greedy sellers OF
raw material had not been otherwise
actively engaged they would have
grabbed for themselves the extra gas
profits which are now to be distrib-
uted to consumers. However this
may be, perhaps as to other COM
modities and services it may be feas-
ible to catch the wage and material
profteers mapping.
In another respect the example is
good. Heretofore it has been too
much the preoccupation Of price
fixing bodies to restrict their activi-
ties to agencies such as the railroads,
which notoriously have made little or
no money in recent years. There is
a definite gain when the hand of reg
ulation is placed not on these but on
overprosperous concerns.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
A Great Pair

In an hour and fifty minutes of
vivid play at Forest Hills yesterday
the plucky Australasians' hopes of
lifting the Davis Cup this year went
glimmering. 1t was no humiliation
to Mr.. Patterson and Mr.. Anderson
to be defeated by the two aces of
both American and international
lawn tennis.
Patterson, the Wimbledon cham
pion, gave glorious battle to Tilden
for two sets before he faded from
the picture. Johnston was quite too
curt with Anderson. 1t was almost
a violation of hospitality to allow
but six games in three sets to a
friendly rival who mad come twenty
thousand miles to volley with him.
If the visitors, exchanging oppo-
nents, should reverse the tables on
Monday-providing the doubles do
not complete the American victory
to-day-it can only be said that
shocking upsets in sport will hap
pen. But the fact seems to be Amer
lea has the fortune to be represent
ed by miracle team. Not the Do
hertys, nor Brookes and Wilding,
nor any of the great Americans,
were superior to Tilden and John
ston. So, at least, say most of the
tennis followers who have seen all
these masters in their prime.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Censorship at the Source

In his latest communication to the
press, as in former ones, John S.
Sumner, friend of censorships, care
fully avoids discussing what his
critics regard as the matter in dis
pute. Mr.. Sumner would talk about
something else, procedure always
suspicious in polemics.
The issue is not whether obscene
books should be suppressed. Our
laws already adequately provide for
this. True, there is no exact defini-
ton of decency. There can't be.
Manners constantly change. What
gave no offense in Shakespeare's
day may be properly deemed obiec-
tionable now. Taste alters, and the
motive presumptively behind similar
utterances varies with the years.
1t may thus be conceded to Mr.
Sumner that it does not TODAY es-
tablish a good intent to point out
that Shakespeare used a criticized
expression. But he must in turn
concede that what he does not like
may have become clean In practice,
though no exact definition can be
written, it is not difficult for a Jury
to tell when the invisible line of per-
missibility is crossed.
Ihe controversy is not over what
Is per Sc good or bad, but over the
limitation Of the creative and ex-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Starving the Library

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: in a news item in your paper
of Augustt22, concerning library mat
ters and also in an editorial of the
same issue, entitled, STARVING the
Library" there is an effort to make it
appear that the city does not or will
not appropriate enough money to pro-
vide books for the reading public of
the city.
l am a librarian of thirteen years
standing and would like to present the
following facts which may be verified:
First--During the war the book pub
fishers advanced their book prices
nearly 100 per cent. Under the cir
cumstances no intelligent citizen
could ask the city to appropriate
enough money to buy the same num-
Der of books yearly as before the war
and SO fewer books were purchased.
The book publishers have not re-
duced their rates to pre-war figures,
1t would seem as If the effort of the
library trustees should be directed
toward these publishers, instead of
every year raising the cry of Starving
the Library" in order to obtain money
from the city. Until the publishers re-
duce their price it is anti-social to ex-
pect the city treasury to supply nearly
double funds to buy desired books.
The great majority of these books. I
would add, are popular fiction, not "for
actual education" of the foreign popu-
lation, as is so pathetically stated by
Miss Esther Johnston, in charge of
the Seward Park branch of the New
York Public Library.
Second--It is the custom of the New
York Public Library to allow it's read
ers to draw six books and one mapa-
zine on one card, all of which books
may be fiction. One family at this
rate may take out twelve or eighteen
books at one time. would advise that
four books, only two of which would
be fiction, should be taken at one time.
With these two changes, forcing the
publishers to reduce prices and reduc-
ing the number of books taken to four
to a person, the present situation of
Starving the library" could be met
in rational manner and citizens
would not have to read that our
municipal authorities were failing to
forward the interests of our readers.
MAUD MALONE.
New York, Aug. 27, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
The Steel Car

The collision of two Hudson tube
trains on the Jersey meadows
Thursday would have been hideous
tragedy had the cars been of wood
instead of steel
Two heavily loaded trains were
involved in a rear-end smash. The
responsibility for the accident has
not yet been fixed, but it would have
done little. good to fix the, respon-
sibility if three or four cars had
been splintered and hundreds of
people killed and injured. :
The fact that the force of the
collision was sufficient to injure
fifty people, though only a few of
them seriously, shows how dreadful
would have been the disaster if the
cars had not been of steel.
Preventive measures in railroad
ing are as effective as they are in
medicine. No matter how efficient
a signal system is Or how carefully
operated railroad, human falli-
bility must always be taken into
consideration
The safest thing to do is to build
cars strongly enough to withstand
the shock of an overturn. The
cars on the Hudson tube line suf-
fered little injury, being of steel
construction throughout, Longitude
nally braced underneath, and with
firm, we'll riveted superstructures.
Steel cars cost far more per mile
to haul than wooden cars, and their
first cost is much higher. But they
have demonstrated that they go far
toward insuring the lives of those
who ride in them, and this should
be sufficient to warrant their in
Stallation on all railroads as rapidly
as possible, no matter at how great
an expense.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

troubles, wars ana ruin, France still
retains sufficient moral force, gem
erosity and courage to accept, in the
common interest, immense sacrifices,
especially if her sacrifice is TO insure
the welfare of her loyal allies Of 1914.
But alasl The English, who imagine
that in relieving Germany of ali her
engagements the political and economic
restoration of Europe will be hss-
tened, are the dupes of fatal illusion
Let them review the immemorial his.
tory of Germany, to which war and
conquest in all their forms have always
been the great national indusi "; let
them read the tracts, pamphlets, the
innumerable speeches spread all over
Germany from those Of the former
| marshal down to the humble village
school teacher; let them reflect upon
the savage heroism of those young men,
| who, at the age Of twenty, gsyly offer
ing their lives as a sacrifice, go to kill
as dogs all the chiefs of German
democracy whom they do not regard as
sufficiently chauvinistic. They will
then understand that Germany, pred
atory nation, seeks to get herself ab-
solved from the French claims only to
prepare her own campaign of revenge.
IF France Should Yield
On military as on financial grounds
the yielding of France would have
| hut ore RESULT would hasten the hour
| of that revenge which the German
youth, quivering with murderous fury.
| is eagerly awaiting.
If we were tomorrow to forego our
right TO reparations. all the financial
power of Germany would be employed
in preparation for the war in which
| France, crushed amid her ruins and
left to- her fates would have to accept
the most dangerous chances. If we
tomorrow evacuated the left bank OF
the Rhine, our last regiments would
not yet have crossed the frontier be.
fore they would hear resound behind
them the insolent call of the German
trumpets and the reschoing Of tns
proud "0n to Parisi"
MOI If France does not want to die
there is left but one course--to substitute
| conqueror's peace for the mercantile
peace imposed upon her by her Allies,
In this way our dead will not have
| died in vain, and for their blood and
our ruins we shall have received q
Just ransom.
That is what France expects Of NJ.
Poincare's lucid mind. II IL is to be
SO, then great good will come for Us
from the very excess Of our past
errors. It is SO in the existence Of
peoples, even as it is often in the life
| of men.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Wards Willing Sacrifice

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir. From memory thought it was
Artemus Ward rather than Petroleum
v. Nasty who offered the services Of
his wife's relatives to the government,
but the only thing ear find Is the
following from "Artemus Ward to she
Prince of Wales:
II have alreddy given two cousins
TO the war, 6 stand reddy so sae-
rifiss my wife's brother ruther'n mos
see the rebelyin krusht. And if wuss
Gums to wuss TIL shed ev'ry drop OF
blud my able-bodied relations has gos
to prosekoot the war. think sum-
body oughter be prosekooteds & 10
may as we'll be the war as any body
else. when / git goakin fit onha
me It's no use to try ter stop me"
j. A. sToWFA (
Arlington, NJ. j., Aug. 81, ssss.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

Sweden in referendum of men
and women voters has gone wet bv a
small majority The vote is not
binding, but was taken in order to
ascertain public sentiment so that
the Swedish parliament might be
guided in framing new legislation.
The prohibition movement in Swe-
den has followed more moderate
course than in this country. In the
old days the per capita consumption
OF alcohol was high. Seven years
ago, however, q rationing system
was introduced into Stockholm. and
IN 1919 it was extended to the whole
of Sweden. The purchase of LIQUOR
is controlled by the use of pass
books and by card index at the
place of sale. AS rule only one
r,assbook is given to one family.
though if number of adults live to-
gether more may be issued. This
passbook grants four hters month.
For fragrant violation of the laws
1 Aor for habitual drunkenness or other
causes the allowance of liquor may
be cut down or abolished.
The results of this law have been
excellent. The per capita consurnp-
tion OF alcohol has been cut in two
and arrests for drunkenness have
declined SO per cent. Treatments
for chronic alcoholism have declined
so per cent. There are no saloons,
and in public restaurants only linn
tied quantities of liquor may be
sold.
To overthrow this system is the
objective Of the Swedish drys. AS
in America, they were well organ
lied and brought every kind Of
pressure TO bear for complete prohi-
bition. The fruit of their efforts is
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Breaking With Bolshevism

Lenine is retreating more and
more from his doctrines of state alb
solutism, in commerce as we'll as in
government. He has just issued a
decree terminating state monopoly in
foreign trade. Hitherto the Soviet
dictator, though lifting the ban on
individual exchanges and private in
dustry, has clung fast to the theory
that foreign commerce must be con-
ducted only through the government.
The Soviet's chief weapon in diplo-
macy was an insistence that foreign
ers seeking to sell to Russia, to buy
from her or exploit her resources
must deal with the Communist autoc-
racy and also compel their own gov
ernments to deal with it. Red Russia
wanted to sell trade opportunities
for political recognition. The re-
suits of the Genoa and Hague con-
ferences failed to vindicate this
theory. Now Moscow is quietly
abandoning it.
This is an important shift, since it
comedies that foreign nationals may
do business with Russian citizens OH
the old economic basis. Private in
terests are to be licensed to trade
abroad, paying tax of per cent on
their profits. This freedom to do
business with foreigners may not be
as broad freedom as is enjoyed by
citizens and subjects of Western ma
tions. But it is notice to the world
that the Communist scheme of econ
omy has fattened out and that Rus
sia is drifting back toward individu-
alistic and capitalistic standards.
If buyers and sellers in other
countries can trade directly with
Russian buyers and sellers one of the
evil spells of Bolshevism will be
broken. The Bolshevists tried at
Genoa to get the rest of Europe to
admit that private property and in
dividual obligations meant nothing
any longer so far as Russia was con-
cerned. The Soviet government
stood for reputation of private
debts and non-restitution of confis-
Gated private property. III it will
abandon this heresy and its political
fanaticism no longer poisons inter-
course with the outside world politi-
cal recognition may become more
feasible.
| AS Americans we do not object to
the form of government which Rus
sia chooses to live under so long as
that government acknowledges the
validity OF treaties, the sacredness of
debts to Individual foreigners and TO
foreign nations and the right of for
eigners to make binding contracts
with Russians. We could have noss-
ing to do with an outlaw nation suen
as Soviet Russia has been. But we
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

holds that the essential condition OF
England's welfare is the rapid reastab-
lishment at any price of the pre-
war economic life, Of the system of in
| ternational exchanges, in which the
British commercial marine played the
part of broker and of carrier. And
the English people are surprised and ir-
ritated because France, who, according
to their view, could hold out and gain
the victory in the war only through
England's support, avails herself to-day
of this victory to oppose the reastab-
lishment of an economic life. the imme-
diate return of which is necessary to
the very life of Great Britain.
Such Is the English point Of view.
The difficulties of every kind that over
whelm a government charged by na-
tion Of shopkeepers with letting q
dearly bought victory result in the ruin
of the empire explain and to certain
degree excuse it. The Englishman
judges from the viewpoint of his own
interest, which is quite natural and
very just. But he is wrong in not
wanting to consider the equally legiti-
mate interest of his former allies, and
it may be that he commits great
error in believing that tie economic
ante-war regime can be reastablishel
overnight and by the simple will of
men.
Allied Loyalty
If France in fact could win the VIC
tory over her terrible adversaries only
through the loyal collaboration of her
Allies, and notably of her English
friends, it is not less indisputable that
without the support of France England
could never have prevailed against Ger
many, which for twenty years had
menaced her everywhere.
This peace, to organize which is the
question of the day, is, according to
M Raoul Peret's just expression, due
equally to the heroism of the two ma
tions. France does not wish to sacri-
flee the interests of her allies to her
own. But she does expect, on the other
hand, that the terms of the treaty, the
execution of which is necessary for her
very existence, shall not be sacrificed
to the often illusory interests of Eng
land Now, if France were to accept
the least abatement of her claim for
the restoration of her devastated re-
gions, she would be the great victim
Of the war. She would remain with
her 100000 of killed, her devastated
departments, her ruined industries, her
bankrupt finances.
But if, as many Englishmen main
tain, no other way is open before us to
spare Europe an era Of revolutions.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

shown In the cloaeness Of the vote.
On the ether hand, reports from
Sweden indicate that their oppo-
nenss were unorganized.
Whether or not Che referendum
will change the Swedish liquor laws
remains to be seen. The present in
dications are that in the eyes of the
Swedish law-makers the rationing
system is an advantageous compro-
mise.