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New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Future Criminals

Crime is an individual disease ir
part, springing from social causes
and not merely tough problem in
legal administration, and Justice
Cropsey's recent reminder of this
fact is a useful one at the present
time, when most Of the activity
against crime is, not unnaturally
concerned with the machinery of
criminal procedure.
The justice pointed out that the
bulk of the crimes Of violence in this
city are committed by men under
twenty-five, one-t third Of them being
boys, under twenty-one. The ma
jority of these young criminals,
moreover. are native born, so that
II becomes logical to regard the
boys. of the city, between twelve and
eighteen, as the proper material
with which to work in stopping not
only the present crime wave, but,
what is equally important, future
outbursts of erininality.
This ia not = new d;scovery, b',t it
i worthy o4xrs,emphasizlng as =
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
American Mandate Rights

Recognition of American rights
in territory put under mandate by
the Allied Supreme Council has been
obstructed by the fact that the
League of Nations covenant dis
eliminates, so far as these rights
are concerned, against non-men1-
bers. The writer's of the instrument
assumed that all invited would Join.
The United States has held that
as one of the principal Allied and
associated powers to which the
German overseas possessions were
ceded it is entitled to be consulted
in the disposition made of those ces-
sions. This view has been accepted
by the other pr;Dcipal powers. In
the zap treaty with Japan Amer1-
can rights on that isiet and on the
North Pacific island groups Of which
| Japan was made the mandatarv
| were conceded. even to the point of
requiring Japan to report on her
stewardship to Washington as we'll
as to the Council of the League Of
Nations.
Great Britain now has agreed to
allow Americans in Palestine the
same privileges as are enjoyed by
nationals of league member states.
We did not so to war with Turkey.
But our State Department has in
sisted that as co-belligerent
against Germany and Austria Hun
gary we held an equal position
with regard to the settlements made
in the Turkish treaty. We were in
vited to take part in the peace ne
gotiations with Turkey and did sign
q treaty of peace with Bulgaria, al
though never at war with her.
1t would be an absurdity to try to
put Americans on a basis of In
feriority in inundated countries to
nationals of the neutral states or
even Of Austria and Bulgaria, now
members Of the league. The man.
uatofy powers recognize this, al
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
John Cotter of the Erie

Baby girl on the track ahead ;
emergency brakes; engineer clam
bers from cab to cowcatcher,
snatches up the child in out
stretched arm ahead of the grinding
wheels, restores her to her mother
and--only a moment lost--takes his
train right on to Jersey City.
A scenario rescue. But John j.
Cotter is not Of Hollywood. He's
Just locomotive engineer with a
forty-year record of service on the
Greenwood Lake branch Of the Erie.
A clear head, trigger-quick decision,
strong muscles, native bravery-not
q bad equipment for man who has
hundreds of lives in his daily keep
ing. A "movie stunt" that COM
mands fancy price as daredevil
feat of the film John Cotter per-
forms without rehearsal as part of
the days work. Whatever may be
wrong with the railroads, all's well
in the engine cab.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Geese and Swans By 4. H.

From a glance at the advertisements
and reviews in any literary supple
mcnt one of average intelligence
would deduce one Of two things
either that success in the production
Of books is a matter of quantity rath-
er than quality. or. that the industry
is in the hands OF number of gam
blers 1T Come seven! Come
eleven! - plunging on the chance that
one at least of their myriad geese
may turn out swan
One is the more inclined to the lat
ter belief from study of "jackets, )"
each one Of which endeavors to outdo
the other in the elementary psychol-
cgy of catching the eye, and immedi-
ately stultfes itself by an abuse of
superatives. By a simple logical step,
therefore, it will be found that books
are akin to sausages or cigarettes in
that in order successfully to sell them
a merchant must sing their praises
louder. and in larger type. than his
rival, always buoyed up by the hope
that one day he may coin a catch
phrase that will ttillate the jaded pub
lie into making his sausage or book a
best seller.
Consider the luck element that con-
sttuted 80 per cent Of the success Of
three such geese as "The Sheik,"
"Three Soldiers" and "If Winter
Comes Of the first it is scarcely
an exaggeration to say that the pub
Usher just about expected to clear ex-
penses, at most to make the narrow
est margin Of profit. Rumor has it
that the second, "Three Soldiers" !"
went the rounds and was accepted
finally only on condition that the pub
Usher should be given volume of
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Chicago's Serious Youth

A recent dispatch from CHICAGO
would have us believe that the youth
of 1922 steals to the attic on rainv
afternoon bearing the biographies of
Lincoln, Roosevelt and Edison. leav-
ing the works of Oliver Optic to his
elders. \
1t may be that they order such
matters differently in Chicago, but
the average Fastener, like the man
from Missouri, finds it hard to ac-
cept this report at it's face value.
That Oliver Optic has been relegated
to top shelf in the spare room, is
quite possible. His days were num-
bered at the end of the last century.
lie flnds himself in the company of
j. Fenimore Cooper, Mayne Reid.
Horatio Alger and other creators of
the heroes of past generations of
boys. The same is probably true Of
Paul du Chaillu.
But tom Sawyer" and "Huckle-
berry Finn" still live, as do "The Jun
gle Books and "Treasure Island"
and Twenty Thousand Leagues Un-
der the sea-" The demand for them
remains perennial and they are de-
Voured and relived by hundreds of
thousands of boys each year. Toms
adventures have aroused deep envy
in the hearts of every one, and Huck
Flnn has been the hero of most
young rebels. The lengthy cruise of
Captain Memo in the Nautilus has
stirred many youngster to ambi
tlons of becoming a scientific travel
er, and every one who has read
Treasure Island appreciates all the
glorles of a pirates life and knows
just what he will do when he him
self finally becomes a pirate.
Works on science, more especially
on aeroplanes and wireless, natu-
rally come in for increased attention.
1t is easy, for example, to imagine
certain hesitation in choosing be-
tween Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea" and the latest book
on homemade radio outfits, or in
making choice between "The Three
Musketeers" and "The Boys Book
of Mounted Police"
But with all respect to our great
statesmen and inventors, it is diff
cult to believe that even in CHICAGO
the real boy confronted with the al
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17

essays and a volume of verse by the
same author. Neither can one learn
that any particular enthusiasm was
evinced when the Ms. of "If Winter
Comes reached these shores. Indeed.
it was thought, and by many still is,
introduction in the opening chapters
seriously marred what was merely
"the new Hutchinson book" And the
results? The man in the street prob
ably thinks that "The Sheik" sold a
billion, Three Soldiers" million, and
"lf Winter Comes" trillion. Com
paratively speaking, he is right.
What, then, is the business Of book
publishing? If it is merely q crap
shooting game, why. God speed you
merry gentlemen. But if it is, or pre-
tends to be, a science. could not this
shooting in the dark be eliminated by
the introduction of hitherto neglected
factor-psychology? Let US imagine a
publisher who keeps g tame psycholo-
gist, sort of William McDougal.
chained beneath the Office table. His
mental pabulum would consist of moth
ing but the daily press. In the spring
and fall, when the young publisher
lightly turns to thoughts OF books, the
psych ologist would be called upon for
biennial functioning. He would
have read all the war reports, the
divorce evidence, the labor strikes, the
exchange conditions, the incoming
lecturers, the depressed theatrical
season, the international and local
boxing returns, the possibilities Of
AngloAmerican peace and all the
daily 'colyumists."
From this rich diet he would have
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Discouraged by Taxes

Tc the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Regarding surtaxes, etc, and
why the small business man is losing
initiative and ambition, would men
tion small corporation in which I am
interested with a capital of 5000 and
which in the last year was fortunate
in making net about $500, tho cor
poration practically being q family af-
fair.
When the tax return was made II
was allowed an exemption of $4,000
leaving the amount to tax $4,000, and
upon this amount total tax was
placed of SITS. would ask is it any
wonder that the small business man
and corporation are utterly disguised
at the disparity In taxes between them
and larger business and capital?
A DAILY READER.
Port Richmond, S. l., May 12, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Shortage of Brains
The Oldest Horse

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l was unable to get to Madi-
son Square Garden and see the alleged
"oldest horse in the world" Glover
but | am interested to know if the age
Of this horse is fully authenticated
Ny reason is this: that in June, 1877.
visited with my father Alden Gold
smiths stock farm at Washingtonville
Orange County, N. Y, and saw his old
stallion (sired by Rysdyk's Hambleton-
1an) Volunteer, then in his forty
third year and said to be the oldest
living horse. 1t is easy to verify this
statement, as Volunteer was famous
sire of trotting horses.
Mr.. Goldsmith was the owner OF
Goldsmith Maid, who held the trot.
ting record for six or seven years. II
may be Of interest to horsemen tc
know that Goldsmith Maid was not q
thoroughbred trotter, but was picked
up by Mr.. Goldsmith at the age OF
six or seven years from a truckster
WIN was uSlHS HeT TO QcllVC1
vegetables, etc, to his patrons in and
about Washingtonville.
| do not know when Volunteer died
but it will be easy to ascertain the date
of his birth and death, as these arc
matters Of record. When | saw ole
Volunteer in 1877 he was the oldes,
looking horse I had ever seen, his
back had followed in and it did moi
seem that he could live more than 8
year or two, at the most
have seen other horses over thirty
but all we're decrepit and nearing
their end. If Clover's age can BIZ
proved it will establish record that
60 not think can be equaled.
IRVING TOWNSEND.
New York, May Is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Nick Carter s Originator

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I have just noted, in the Trib-
une Magazine of May T, the interest
ing account of the late Frederick Van
Rensselaer, Dey. Only one statement
in it calls for at least mild protest.
In justice to the living, the real
author of mick Carter" is entitled to
more respectful treatment than to be
dismissed as quoting Mr.. Deyl ga fell
low named Coryell." Assuming single
authorship of the numberless "sequels'
to "The Count of Monte Cristo,'
which flooded the bookstands genera
tion ago, we should scarcely be salts
fed with an acknowledgment Of the
source of the inspiration. which took
the words: "a fellow named Dumas
had written book around character
whom he called the Count of Monte
Cristo; and the idea seemed worth de-
veloping.'
John Russell Coryell, having origi-
mated the character of Nick Carter
passed on to other work without con-
tinuing in that particular vein; but
the credit for the name and the con.
ception none the less belong to him
Nor did he write himself out, even in
the specific department of detective
story fiction, with his early Nick Car.
ter stories. He has been and remains
to-day one of the most voluminous OF
our story writers. Readers familia,
with his work, much of which has ap.
peared under various pseudonyms, ap.
preciate it as of high quality in its
own field. He has written many ad.
mirable boys stories, including sew,
eral books, and numerous treatiscs or
mora sober themes. He is also of nc
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
School Propagandists

The Tribune is opposed to dis
elimination for or against public
school teachers because of their pol
itics, religious beliefs or private
opinions. 1t believes that teachers
should be accorded the same liberty
Of thought that is accorded to every
citizen.
1t can, however, see no reason
why teachers should feel aggrieved
because they are not permitted to
carry propaganda into the class
room.
The government is founded on
the principles laid down by the Dec
laration of Independence and ap-
piled in the Constitution. 1t is the
kind of government in which Ameri-
cans believe and which they want
continued. One Of its salient prin-
eiples is opposition to forciblc
change. It's perpetUation depends
almost wholly upon the training
given successive generations in the
schools.
1t long has been agreed that no
religious creed shall be taught in the
public schools. Nor would any
Board Of Education in the country
tolerate for one instant the advo-
cacy of any political party by the
teachers.
Yet there is a certain element
among instructors who insist that
they have a perfect right not only
to criticize the government but to
attack the form Of government and
in effect advocate its overthrow by
force.
This is decidedly more mis-
chievous than soap-box oratory, for
the teacher speaks to uniformed
minds and with the authority of his
superior age and his position behind
him.
Most Of the teachers who COM
plain that they are unjustly discrim-
mated against because of their DO
lltlcal beliefs are advocates either
of syndicalism or Bolshevism, both
of which systems are directly op-
posed to the. principles of this
government.
AS matter of fact, they have no
grievance at all AS we'll might
Democratic teacher complain be-
cause he was not allowed to beseech
his charges to vote when they grow
up for William j. Bryan, or a Bap-
tist teacher to denounce in the
schools every religious faith which
differed from his own.
This being America, it is the busi-
ness of the schools to make Ameri-
cans of the pupils who attend them,
no matter from what countries their
parents may come. The schools are
supported by the taxpayers and the
taxpayers have the right to insist
that their children be kept abso-
lutely free from propaganda of any
sort.
1t is no use for the complainants
to contend they keep their opinions
to themselves. They don't, and they
know they don't.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17

though, they were for a long time
disposed to stand fast on the cove
nant technicality Great Britain's
action in Palestine, following
Japan's in the Pacific, practically
will end controversy which
ought never to have started. Amer
ica's services in the war unquestion-
ably entitled her to equality of con-
sidefation with respect to any ter
ritory taken under trusteeship from
common enemies.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Reversing Justice Chase

The decision of the Supreme Court
invalidating the revised edition of
the Federal child labor law, even as
the first was invalidated, is pro-
foundly discouraging.
1t says in effect that little heed
can be paid in this country to the
bitter cry of the children who are
denied their birthright by being
caught early in the wheels of indus
try. For it is obvious that forty
eight states cannot be brought to
enact parallel legislation and that
factories will tend to be located
where regulations are the most lax.
Inexorable economic law will exert
it's steady pressure to make all
states standardize at the lowest
level.
Scarcely less discouraging is the
evidence given that the Supreme
Court. after period Of liberalism
with respect to social legislation, is
seemingly on the back tracks, re-
treating to the caverns Of states
rights, with their frigid and dog
matte legalism. 1t was hoped that
we had arrived at condition of rea-
sonable centralization and that the
Federal government could do what
other civilized nations do, and which
no political power except the nation
al one can handle effectively.
Finally there will be discourage
ment because the Supreme Court ap-
parently has reverted to the practice
Of legislating and has it in mind to
use its assumed legislative power to
protect social ideas that are archaic.
The voided law levied an excise
tax Of 10 per cent on goods entering
interstate commerce from factories
which employ child labor. With re-
spect to oleomargarne and phos-
phorous matches and other commodi-
ties the taxing power has been enl-
ployed to prohibit. Even an excise
tax on the income of corporations,
enacted during the period wherein
general income taxes were illegal
was upheld. Most striking prece-
ot of all was the law enacted in
g. avs when the coun ry was af.
tfed win rhe wildcat currency oil
state bani1s sp1 i, sustained by the
Supreme Court. constitutional ir
the famous case of ahe Veazie Bank
vs Feano. Said Chief Justice Chase
- 1896 when The law was assailed
at is insisted, however, that tn.
TAX in the case before us is exces
siye, and so excessive as TO indicate
a purpose on the part of Congress tt
destroy the franchise of the bank
and is. therefore, beyond the consti
tutional power of Congress.
THE first answer to this is tha,
the judicial cannot prescribe to the
crnment limitations upon the cxer-
else of its acknowledged powers. The
power to tax may be exercised op.
pressiyely upon persons, but the re.
sponsihility of the legislature is moi
to the courts but to the people By
whom its members are elected
Now we hear that the judicial de.
partment may prescribe to the legis-
!ative department and that when the
latter acts, or says that it acts, with
in the scope of its acknowledged
powers the responsibility is to the
courts. We learn that the right OF
Congress to regulate interstate com.
merce is not plenary and that the
courts are to decide what limitations
are to be applied
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
If the Name Matters

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Daylight saving" is a fright.
full effort. IFS change is to be made
why not copy our English cousins
who call it summer time" and "win-
ter time"? Could anything he nicer
or simpler? E. r. LITCHEIELD.
New York, May Is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
Desperate Straits

Desperate Straits
| used to think that men were
| placed profound reliance
On commerce and on enterprise
And politics and science.
| used to think that love and law
Were things that really mat
tered;
And then along came Bernard
And these beliefs were shat
tered.
l used to think that by and by
The nations would be willing
The ways Of peace a while to try
And leave off war and killing.
| fondly fancied | foresaw
Old hatreds all forsaken;
And then along came Bernard
Shaw
And proved me quite mistaken.
I used to think the Golden Rule
Was practiced by it's preachers.
| loved to go to Sunday-school
And reverenced my teach hers.
TO own a soul without flaw
Had been my one ambition,
And then along came Bernard
Shaw
And said "D---ned supersti-.
tionn
| have no hopes and no beliefs;
My life, once glad and CHEEKY,
Is burdened now with bitter
griefs,
And cold and sad and drcary.
In days to come, as in the past,
The widest doubts will fret me,
Nor can l hope for Heaven at
last,
For Bernard Shaw won't let
1t Had To Be an Author
Probably MIR. Beveridge was made
Indiana's Republican candidate for
the Senate because George AIDE is a
Democrat and Booth Harrington was
busy.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Hight riced Economy
The Board of Estimate hv f,


ing the readvcrtising and reletting
of some of the contracts for the
long idle Fourteenth Street subway
made an actual saving Of $4,000.
] Bat economy is not always wealth.
Since the contracts submitted by
the Transit Commission were re-
jected interest charges on the rust
ing subway at $4,000 a day have
amounted to $4,000
Since the contracts were submit
ted last August 500 days have
elapsed, with an interest charge at
the same rate Of 100000. And
that isn't all.
Because the Fourteenth Street
Subway was kept from completion
by the refusal of the Board of Esti-
mate to act on the contracts CON
gestion at Canal Street, which the
new subway would have relieved,
has delayed perhaps 100000 per-
sons an hour a day each. One hun
dred thousand hours of time, at the
conservative valuation of so cents
an hour, amounts to S50,0OO or
Sl5,000,00o in 800 days.
Thus the Board of Estimate, in
submitting its case to the people.
can offer in evidence a balance sheet
as follows:
DEBIT CREDIT
interest charges Money saved 10 city
on lde subway by rcadyerisiug
$1,000 day. $500 900 tracts s'''''"' wa. 81 900
Loss Of time Of
citizens By
reas o Of
needless delay
In completing
subway 49,. Is, 900 900
Total ~ SIS 500 900 -,--
Total loss 20 city because OF Board Of
fStimate's unerpained delay in
Ing on contracts. cs.,,.,....,..........tl SIS 596 900
1t may be conservatively assumed
that the Canal Street subway is as
much as a tenth of the entire extern
sions planned by the Transit Com
mission. 1t may be assumed, fur
thermore, that the Board of Esti-
mate will, if permitted to do so, de-
lay the extensions during the re-
mainder of the members term Of
Office, which is three and a half
years.
The cost of interest and the time
of citizens, at the rate imposed by
the board in the case of the Four
teenth Street subway, will therefore
be ten times S15,596,O00, OF $751;
! 100000 year. For the three. and
-halfyear period he is to serve
the cost Of the obstinacy of Mr. Hy-
Ian and his associates may be estl-
mated at half a billion. Against
this, by readvertising and reletting
all the contracts submitted, $780,
600 might be saved. Just to be on
the safe side we are willing to re-
duce the net cost to an even four
hundred million. 1t is quite large
sum. Are the services Of the Board
Of Estimate worth it?
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
What Readers Sau

mean reputation as lecturer on
ethical and social topics.
| trust that you will find space for
this meager expression of honor to
whom honor is due, since it seems
called for by considerations Of fair
play and historic accuracy.
JAMES F. MORTON JR.
New York, May Is, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
MEsrsEn OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled 70
ths for republication az all dispatches
eresiitsd 20 I, nH otherwise crtdi,sd IN this
pap. Ard also the locai o. spontaneous origin
published herein.
All rights Of republication oi all other matter
hsFesn Also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17

Mr.. Hearst is going to England,
probably to stand outside Buclling-
ham Palace and hiss.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17

jim Watson was never man to
shirk party duty, however burden
some it might be. He is going out to
indianapolis to say something pleas
ant about Albert jeremiah Bev-
eridgc.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17
Without Equal
fFronl The Boston !

fFrom The Boston Herald
New York claims more outstanding
set OF subway passengers than any
other two cities in the Union.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-17

tentative of an afternoon with Tom
Sawyer or Tom Edison would hesi-
tate long when deciding.