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The Washington herald., 1922-11-28

shopmen's strike
IN still effective
may be expect
ed 1t an early
date. unless the
government acts
Immediately to
prosecute roads
alleged to be viii
fully neglectfal.
This statement
was m de by
william II. John
ston. president
Of the Interna-
tional MAchin-
lists Union. who
with Bert NJ.
Jewell, head Of
the Railway En-.
The Washington herald., 1922-11-28
TONS OF CHEESE ARRIVE.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Enough
cheese to give 100000 Americans
one sandwich each arrived today on
the Red Star liner Kroonland. The
ship brought $4,000 pounds Of the
delicacy.
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rs Drowned in Wreck
of Excursion Steamer

BARCELONA. Nov. 27.-Twenty-
six persons were drowned and many
others injured when an excursion
steamer was wrecked here today.
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Prices realized on Swift a Company
sales Of carcass beef in Washington. ID.
c. for week ending Saturday. November
Is, lsa2. on shipments sold out ranged
from $50 cents to Is cents per pound.
and averaged l2.{s cents per peund--
Adv.
The Washington herald., 1922-11-28
OBJECTS Of LEGION
TOLD BY 0NSLEY
New Commander Of Veterans
Comes to City to See
President.

Adoption Of legislation favorable
to the disabled service man and the
elimination Of unemployment among
The Washington herald., 1922-11-28

DROFESSOR SEE tells the
L California Academy of Sci
ences that he has discovered the
cause of gravitation. Either
waves" longer than those of
light or heat, cause matter to
attract matter. His theory is
Interestingly presented.
But the actual existence Of
"ether' has yet to be proven.
Newton declared that ether or
something like il was necessary
to explain gravitation, mas
much as no force can act
through an absolute void. There
are no miracles in the world of
physics.
The Washington herald., 1922-11-28
MILDLY, OFFERS HIS
LIQUOR TO DENLY
Secretary Names Board t.
Probe Drunken Orgy" at
Navy Ball.
Continued from First PageJ

OF the parties and the noise from
the ballroom.
Secretary DENLY made It clear
that his board Of inquiry would not
concern itself with the source of
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TODAY.
Continued from First Page.)
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day long take very deep breaths
with your chin pointed upward
at least once in every minute.
This applies especially to young
ladies that bend over typewriters.
COME musician might write .
~ song about men, along the
lines of the famous Women As
Changeable As a Feather in the
Wind"
Professor Tiernan, of South
Bend, Ind, sued one gentle
man, saying his (Tiernan'sl
baby was really the other gen.
tleman's son. Then he left his
wife. Then, a few days ago.
"while mentally intoxicated"
he married Mrs. Blanche Brim-
mer Now his divorce is can
celed and he is at home with
wife No. ]. He says he will
consider "Billy," the baby in
dispute, hereafter as his own
loving son. This case is recon-
mended to those who say
"women never know their own
minds"
The Washington herald., 1922-11-28
~ CORNELIUS vANDERBILT. u.

tteation .of the condition OF equip
.ment Of the railroads on which rbe
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Ample opportunity was allowed
for discussion of changes proposed
In good faith, but at the first sign
% dilatory tactics, the majority
forced votes without talk.
The Republicans siding with the
Democrats are from the Middle
West largely. Representative
F'rear of Wisconsin. led this group.
Miss Alice Robertson, of Okla
homa. and Mrs. winnifred Mason
Huck. of Illinois. voted consistently
with friends of the bill.
Few Democrats stuck to the fight
AT times not more than twenty.
five were present to vote. Even
then many remained in their seats
and refused to be counted.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
Picking on the Jury

Post-trial squabbles between
judges and jurymen are not edify-
ing. Some members of the bench
whose patience no doubt has been
sorely tried have said caustic things
about surprising verdicts rendered in
their courts and about the impaneled
citizens who came to queer conclu-
sions on the facts presented. 1t is
quite natural for the jurylnen pill
loried as numskulls or worse to talk
back. They have done so with vigor.
They are mad. Lawyers say this is
bad manners; jurymen ought to take
scolding like good sports.
Judges are not inevitably right
themselves. In the law schools where
the case system is used it is a
favorite pastime of professors to
pick to pieces the decisions of the
great exemplars Of the law. Lord
Mansfield was prone to error. Chief
Justice Marshall was not 100 per
cent perfect. Some of the admired
justices of the state tribunals rarely
uttered a correct opinion, and then
by accident. Few judges have a
batting average higher than 800, it
seems to law student in the most
approved seats of learning.
So, considering their own falli-
bility, judges need not be too severe
on the stupidity and wrongheaded-
ness, as it appears to them, of the
men who are drafted for the jury
box and made to wrestle with a com
plicated set Of facts. If the jury
men don't use common sense, that is
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
England's Strongest Man

David Lloyd George, more than any
other British statesman of his time,
has appealed to the imagination Of
Americans. When he received the
newspaper men who accompanied
Mr. Wilson to London one of them
said to him:
Come to the United States, Mr..
Premier, and We'll amend the Con
stitution aud elect YOU President" )"
Just at that particular time the SEN
timent would have been shared by
many Americans.
How British sentiment could have
been turned against this man, who
served his country so greatly in her
hour of peril, is difficult for Ameri-
cans to understand. Few Of them
will believe that there can be a pos
sibility of his retirement.
Yet nations seldom estimate their
statesmen as they are estimated in
other countries. This has been true
since the earliest civilized govern
ment. 1t is impossible to please all
of the people all Of the time.
Lloyd George was called to su-
preme power when there was no
other man in the empire big enough
for the work that had to be done. The
war was won while he was Prime
Minister He represented his ma
ton ably at the peace conference
a thing which some of the represent
atives of other countries were con-
spicuously unable to do. for their
own countries.
Under his government was
brought about the closest approach
to reconciliation with Ireland that
had ever been effected. From this
distance it would seem that these
lservices would cause his countrymen
to continue him in power as long as
he would consent to serve. Yet he
seems to have become convinced
that his popularity is at an end
There may ; among British
statesmen men able enough, and
many sided enough, and magnetic
enough to take his place at the
helm. Yet, if there are such, their
quality is unknown on this side Of
the water.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
This Is Tyranny

Lenine exhibits his cruel nature
and gives the first hint of construc-
tive genius. He is setting big Bill"
Haywood to work! Mr.. Haywood
for long time has been one of the
champion lookers-on in Moscow
He has "deliberated" with the Third
Internatonale; he has stood at
Trotzky's elbow saluting the Soviet
army as it passed in review. He
has slept and eaten we'll Life in
the old Winter Palace could not
have been more otiosc. big Bill"
was happy.
But now Lenine has bethought
him that the Dig fellow describes
himself as an industrial worker and
that he has following in America.
Since the main difficulty of the
Soviet is to get anybody to produce
for it, the feat of sending the husky
bail jumper to the Ural coal mines
to crack the whip over 4,SO0 Ameri-
can |. W. ". who want to be bossed
py true comradc will be no mean
achievement.
Mr.. Haywood may be coy about
turning from a loafer into cap
tain of industry, but if that's the
role Lenine has assigned him there
are bayonets enough in the Red
army to prick him to the job. The
outline Of the iron works and coal
mine project in the Urals indicates
that the proceeds of the undertaking
are to go to the Soviet chest. All
work and no pay for big Bill"
Haywood! Nikolai Lenine, you're
| cleva1,
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
Ghost Writing
clever.

An important branch of medium
istic experiment that has been neg
lected thus far by the investigators
of the American Society for Psy-
chical Research is that source of
memoirs technically spoken of in
the inner sanctums Of magazines as
"ghost writing"
For example, "By Hiram De-
ronda" may be the signature over
an article dealing with the recol-
lections of a stage genius published
in one of our widely circulated
weeklies. Whether or no Hiram
could have written his stories more
vlvldly and more entertainingly
than the man to whom he re-
lated them and who actually did
write them is not the point. Fail
ure of the actual author to sign
them is literary misrepresentation
Just fancy the wild howl that
would be heard round the world if
it should be discovered that Prince
ton had persuaded "Babe" Ruth to
disguise himself and hit out an
overwhelming victory over Yale
under the nom de bat of Cecil Nc
Sheehan, popular student who
happened to be dub athlete.
Or think of the economic preju-
dice that would be developed if
Henry Ford had signed his name
to H. G. Wells's "Outline of
History" by special arrangement
with the author and his publishers
For that matter, is there any great
ethical difference between this sort
of ghost writing" and that of ar
untalented financier who might
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16

Of the welI-to-do classes Of tie pr.
ent moment" and 8 bound be Q;
value TO those VINO are concerned zita
the moral and intellectual training .;
the rising generation.
x
Miss Fannie Hurst in "The Vericsi
City" New York. claims tina. our SKY
scrapers "tamper with the stars Sh.
says they "shoot upward with In
beautiful rush CT Roman candle
and that against any Manhattan sunss'
there marches a silhouetted csrsn,
Of tower, dome and astonished crests 4
Office buildings" Though long a res
dent hereabouts. Miss Hurst still has !
crick in her neck from persistent ".
looking at the cornices. An elcqusa;
crick. however. causing her to sing
beautifully. Patchwork q
novel Of young England. by Beverl.T
Nichols, young Englishnan just dos'
from Oxford. offers many striking coH-
parisons, it Is said, with "This Side
Paradise" and The Beginning OF VIZ
dom" OF IT The London Observe
exclaims: AT asst! Here is not only &
novel which viii live but which has
been lived" Richard Wash
burn Child, author Of "The Hands q
Nara and the American Ambasssd'I
to Italy. resides, the Messrs DuT'aA
tell US, in the Orsini palace, which one
reaches by q driveway through a!i
sycamores, and then by sn imposing
marble stairway of seventy-three steps
Mr.. Child's novels are now writer
in a chamber surmounting the rum
of the Theater of Narcellus. begun D.
julius Caesar. and completed BY Angus
tus; and which, though perhaps no
vertical enough 10 agitate Miss hurst
retina. wss in its humble day one .
the arch itectural sights OF impeEN
Rome.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
Are the Wires Down?

Where is the voice of the Ameri-
can people? Are the wires to Wash
ington all down, that the voters do
not express to the Senate their al
most universal belief that the Sc
curity of their country depends upon
the ratification of the four-power
treaty? Are a knot of disgruntled
ex-Republicans and a handful Of
vengeance seeking Democrats to be
permitted to imperil the only con-
structive peace plan that has been
conceived since the war?
Victory for the treaty was fore
cast by the vote on the Robinson
amendment, but it was not by any
means assured. Already seven votes
against the treaty are certain. 1t is
possible that the few more necessary
to It's defeat will be found unless the
people speak up, and speak up at
once.
A malignant minority is always
dangerous. Such a minority is now
seeking to destroy the treaty. Com
mon hatred of the President, com
mon desire to undermine his efforts
toward peace, have united the bitter
enders and the Democrats. Their
capacity for mischief cannot be over
estimated. They are alert and un-
sleeping. They employ misrepresen-
tation and plain lying in their in
trigue. And the people, too easily
confident that the treaty, of such i'm
portance to the country, must pass,
ere letting them get away with it.
II is time the country woke up.
Wherever public sentiment has been
sounded it has been found to be over
~helmingly in favor of the treaty.
That sentiment ought to be commu-
nicated to the Senate in such fashion
that it cannot be mistaken.
The turning of three votes would
&ill the treaty. 1t is dangerously
inadequate factor Of safety. Why
doesn't every American who is con-
vinced that the only safety Of the
country lies in its ratification get or
the wire and tell his Senator his
opinion? Why hasn't it been done
long before? Are all the wires down:
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
bOO!7S By Percy Hammond

Poor Harriet Frean, Although her
Life and her Death are recorded By
no less a biographer than Miss May
Sinclair. they seem in spite or be
cause of that to be so small. Of
course, she never really lived. She
was born, she made god Of her re
pressions, she loved a little, suffered a
little moro and dicd at sixty-Hve or
thcreabouts of hereditary cancer. As
if to emphasize the pitiable futility Of
her long years, Miss Sinclair completes
the history of her in short pamphlet
Of 1873 pages. It is the story Of life as
a sort Of deathly dream, shallow, mean
ingless, empty and disturbed 1t has
been described as resembling the pic
ture Of a brace of dead pheasants
hanging from a nail or hare strung
up by its heels executed with deli
cate art, but with significance only
mortuary.
Every one in "Thc Life and Death of
Harriet Frean" is full of troubles.
Priscilla, for whom Harriet fatally
renounces her wel-bred passion for
Robin, becomes palsied, and at dinner
spills SOUP from her jerking lips down
the front of her gown. The hand
some Robin, after marrying for the sec
ond time, becomes invalid and is seen
unhappy, staring-eyed, with long
cheeks deep-grooved, and infirm mouth
sagging under limp mustache. Har-
rictt's father, ruined on the Bourse,
dies of heavy heart and her mother
is slowly consumed by cancer. The
friends of Harriett's grlhood all grow
fat or coarse or malicious. Her SER
wants illeeitimate baby dies, having
been cvicted because of her pcevish
splnster conventionality. She herself
lives on in a blind torpor until that
happy day when they take her to the
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16

hospital and she finishes in the ecstatc
visions OF an anasthetic 1t is all
something like the skillful dissection
Of a more than usually interesting
cadaver.
Ring ". Lardner. being Of the CON
scientious type, destroyed two acts Of
comedy the other day, after discov-
oring that they resembled Mr.. Mines
THE Dover Road" in general idea Mr.
Lardner was composing the play for
John ". Golden, the clean theatrical
entropreneur. Every one is pleased that
Mr. Milne was not similarly so super
sensitive when he wrote THE Dover
Road and "Thc Truth About Blayds. ."
Mr. Lardner's publishers boast of the
fact that it has been said OF him bv
ii. l.. Mencken that he is bound TO
find secure place in the literature of
the United States" and that his infiu-
ence can already be seen in such things
as Sinclair Lewis's MAIN Street -
Other good news about Mr. Lardner is
that midWestern journal took poll
recently to discover which Of its
humorous contributors, he or George
Ade, was the more popular.
Miss Dorothy Speare's novel about the
ruddy ingenues who drink and toddle
with our college youth, and who by
them are petted, will be out the day
after tomorrow. 1t is entitled "Danc-
ers IN the Dark" Miss Speare, who is
at present in New York having her
voice cultivated, is native OF Newton
Centre. and, according to Mr.. Doran.
was "one of the gayest of the gay in
the class of go at Smith. President
Nelson Of that college, commenting on
Miss Speares work, says that though
candid and sensational, it is ga vivid
picture of the life of young Americans
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16

doesn't need nerve in his business. In
tact, it would prove nothing but =
ounglesome encumbrance, which might
involve him in debates with a lot OF
nice people. A Congressman's needs
are limited largely to slogan and a
few workers to circulate petitions and
get the vote
Roosevelt had honest convictions.
God bless him, and nerve, but he had
10 have four inches of muscle over his
chest to be able to withstand the
troubles they brought down upon him.
Wilson had nerve, but he did NOT
take his daily dozen exercises regu-
larly enough to be able to withstand
the crushing recoil that is a seouence
to outspoken convictions boldly ex-
pressed.
Recently a United States Senator re-
signed from his seat in the face of
easy reelection to take job at less
money IN the peaceful and digniiied
atmosphere of a district judgeship. Ten
years ago he went to WASHINGTON a
young man full of enthusiasm and hon.
est OF purpose. He spoke his mind. He
eliminated the Turkish bath parlors
from the national Capitol building. He
was more than any one else personally
responsible for the cleaning out Of the
notorious Red Light District in the
city of Washington. He spoke out in
meetings, to be sure, when his brethren
were anxious to indulge in nothing
more violent than sessions of silent
prayer, but no one ever accused him
OF playing the demagogue. This Sen
ator had not only nerve. but charm
Ing personality, and yet he resigned
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
We Beg to Differ!

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Can it be possible that the
august Tribune editorial staff is in a
quandary over the loss of bcezum in
our public misrepresentatives? "Need
OF nerve" indeed! Need of nerve in
our public officials may be marked. but
where are the duodenum, the colon
and associated synonyms for virility
OF our great American public?
dangerous and swelling minority
threatens to hack to death q treaty
which means more to the world of
this generation and it's children than
all the bonus bills, tariff measures and
income tax reductions combined. It
means billions in money 1t means the
llves OF our young men who fight the
wars as n consequence of our pathetic
humble e-hcadedness. Meanwhile the
only letters that clutter up the desks
OF our national representatives con-
tain pleas for soft government jobs for
soft-headed idlers who have ALWAYS
voted the ticket straight.
Throughout our beneticent democ.
racy, of the people, for the people anc
by the people, Congressman are being
selected by default. The question i:
not who is the best-titted man in the
district to frame our legislation, but
who has energy enough to circulate ;
petition. Not whom do we want ir
Congress, but whom de we get? Where
is one average citizen who has bothered
MS head over the proper selection OF
MS representative until ten minute.
before he marks the ballot? Need O,
nerve in our Congressman, Bah. II,
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
Anti-Bucketing

The charges against the methods
used in the American Cotton En-
change, following closely upon
the bucketshop investigation. show
clearly the need of regulation that
wM at the same time provide pun
lshment for the evildoers and pro-
Eject honest brokers.
Il Is only too easy for the public,
In reading reports of these charges,
to infer similar imputations against
the New York Cotton Exchange. So,
also, the expose of the bucketeers
has inevitably cast a cloud over the
legitimate business of the New York
Stock Exchange. Thus freely to
condemn the good along with the
bad anu to revive the old demagogic
myth that all Wall Street is crooked
serves no constructive purpose, and
merely tends to bring about extreme
action that will throttle without rem
cdying.
Active prosecution Of the bucket
GERS, whether they deal in comnodi-
ties or securities, can go far toward
remedying the evil. Until recently
two of the agencies empowered to
deal with the situation--namely the
District Attorneys Office and the At
torney Generals ohice-have been
unable or disinclined to take up the
gloves The campaign once started
can be effective only if it has suf-
detent funds and an adequate per-
sonnel to carry it through. A per-
msnent bureau acting under the Dis
trict Attorneys direction will prob
ably have to be formed if the work
10 TO be properly pushed. So, also,
will The Attorney General, who,
under the new Martin law, is en-
powered to make Investigations on
his own initiative, have to be fur
nished with the wherewithal to carry
them out.
II this is done the effectiveness Of
the existing laws can be adequately
tested. One Of the difficulties here
tofore has been that in the case Of
many bueketshops that have been al
lowed to operate until they went into
bankruptcy the principal concern of
the authorities has been to endeavor
TO enable the creditors to receive as
much as possible on the dollar. AS
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16

rule little has been done to pre-
vent the offending bucketeers from
starting the milking process anew.
Before introducing new laws the
legislators would do we'll to provide
sufficient means for the proper en-
forcement OF existing laws. The ac-
complishment of District Attorney
Banton in a few weeks shows that
activity bears fruit. But such ac-
tivities must be more than spas
modic. The will to enforce existing
laws will not be effective unless the
means to enforce them are provided.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
More Truth Than Poetry
By James j. Montague
Before and After

Where is Bluff the congressman
Who boldly used to say:
"1'll stand and fight
For what is right.
! shall not tremble with alright,
But bravely battle on in spite
OF all who say me nay?'
In some remote committee room
He shudders all day long;
Immersed in shrouding clouds Of
gloom
For fear he's voted wrong.
What says Nerve the Senator,
Who bravcly used to shout:
"No voters threat
Has scared me yet;
My course for rectitude is set
And I'm determined not to let
EXpediencc turn me Out?"
This stern voiced statesman, you
will find.
Refuses to be quoted.
He's quite uneasy in his mind
About the way he voted.
It's easy in the fierce campaign
When people shout for you,
And loudly swear
That you're a bear.
And wildly toss their hats in air
Amid the torches lurid glare
10 Say what you will do.
But when the lights and shout
ing fade
And you're in Compensation
To keep the promises you've made
Is something else again.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
Portsmouth First
cai4or nf The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune i,
Sir: The First National Balm
Portsmouth, n. H., issued this sea' :.
tercentenary calendar. in when y Nv,
stated that the first settlement q
Hampshire was at Little Harbor' fO,. Wv.
mouth, in 1923. This has led 70 =. :,
cussion as to whether Porrsnl'''N
Dover was settled first.
The Manual of the Genera .os,
of New Hampshire, published :" go
by the Secretary of State, says Inv :,
settlement of New Hampshire ~'s ~,
Little Harbor, Portsmouth, ~
spring of 1928; the second se'.lel ~,
at Dover, in 1928; the third At INe" !,
in 1888, and the fourth at Haihpss'. !,
1889. On October 2l, ie''' -,
Colonial Danes of New hai.,ps So
dedicated monument at Little 10
to the memory of the first se''i.-
OLIVER L. FRISBEE, A. NJ
State Senator.
Portsmouth, n. H., March as' A'3
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write "John ID. Rockefeller in
the southeast corner Of check?
1t is all matter of getting unde-
served credit, and why should not
John d. Rockefeller, on the other
hand, hire jim Barnes to make a
golf record in his name?
One of the worst offenders In
this field Of ghost writing is n mag
azine that specializes in articles in
which the head of the bootblack
parlor trust is supposed to tell
"How | Made Million, Boot
Licking" The real author, possibly
as skilled craftsman with his
typewriter as Jack Dempsey is witt,
his fists, receives adequate pay
but none of the credit, and the
reading public is hoodwinked into
believing that the pseudo narrator,
while travelling the crowded road to
riches. has amassed culture in the
same ratio that he has acquired
gold.
On second thought, though, this
may be matter of conceit and
presents problem for psychia-
trists rather than psychic explorers.