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New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
Fruits Of Fosterisn

The cowardly murder in Chicago
Of two brave policemen and the sud
den casting OF a net big enough to
enmesh 200 labor radicals may be
regarded as legitimate fruits of
Fosterism
Since his return from Russia,
where he was anointed by Lenine,
Foster has assiduously preached his
Red doctrines. He has campaigned
for One Big Union and proclaimed
that the time is ripe for Soviet.
Judge Lands, sympathetic toward
organized labor, had acted as umpire
in labor arbitration. He gave a
decision on the whole friendly to
labor and asked for its acceptance
according to the submitting agree
ment. But what's an agreement to
Foster? He melted unionists. dis
satisfied because they had not gained
everything, to resist.
Samuel Gompers iourneyed to
Chicago and in the name Of the
American Federation of Labor
urged moderation and the keeping Of
explicit pledges. Foster tried to
drive him out Of town Chicago
unionists who did not embrace Eos
terism were threatened with club
bing. So the controversy has dragged
on until the tragedy came.
1t is probable that in the peremp-
tory processes the police have adopt
ed Chicago's authorities have been
hasty and proof Of completely in
thug hiring is lacking. But Chicago
has had one Haymarket and does not
purpose to have another. Fosterism
will go down even as anarchism did
The result of Fosterism will be to
injure labor's cause. Two things
organized labor cannot afford to dc
to break agreements and to abet
crime.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
Tariff Rates and Housing

The appeal of the Lockwood COM
mittee for tariff legislation allowing
building materials to enter the couA-
Try on reasonable terms illustrates
one Of the Weaknesses Of the tariff
making methods followed in the
Fordney and McCumber bills. Il
domestic prices. often artiticially
maintained, are taken as a basis to
work on excessive protection may
easily result.
Housing construction, which is a
nationwide need, is being held
up by overhigh building material
costs. Mr.. Untermyer says that the
price of brick is now from SPA to
$25 thousand, whereas the cost Of
manufacture is only ST. Whether
these figures arc accurate or not,
building material prices are abnor-
NAL enough to check the desired re-
vival Of home building A tariff
which would assist this hold up
would injure nearly everybody for
the benefit of a tiny group OF manu-
facturers who have shown them
selves more than able to protect
themselves.
Nh McCumber in his curious
apology on reporting out the Senate
tariff bill sad that it's rates were
high, tie ingenuous!y asked Amer
lean producers not TO take full adj
vantage OF them. He appealed to
the manufacturer TO be self deny
ing, to accept marrow margins Of
profit and to increase production so
that the consumer should not feel
the weight OF increased duties.
The chairman Of the Finance
Committee has the patriotic citi-
J zen's point Of view. He believes in
protection as an Instrument Of gei-
eral benefit. He deplores it's use for
private benefit, But is 1t safe to
subject the domestic producer and
manufacturer to overtemptation
The greedy spirit shown by the
building materials industry cha,-
lcnges Mr.. McCumbcr's touching
faith. He breaches altruism. But
Why write into ? tariff bill rates
which may be an aid to profiteering
Oh the part Of The non-altruistic?
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12

If mare were discharged than the
labor market could absorb it would
have cost almost az much to supply
food for relief as it did through Il
commissary department. Naturally
the governments temporized.
The first thing to be done in Europe
is not to demobilize soldiers, but
to mobilize industry. This is lmpeded
by the continual issue of fiat money.
Germany, for example, has a deficit
of 100 ,000. 100000 marks. Before the
German treasury gets returns from
a tax levy the cost of what it buys Is
doubled and there is new deficit.
Business finds it impossible to go
ahead
1t is not so much the burdens of
armament rs the burdens Of tiatisnl
that weigh ON Europe. As an cx-
pert. Senator Mccormick scarcely
needs information on this point. \ ct
he seems to stress it little.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
Eiatism and Disarmament

Senator Mccormick, of Illinois, who
has devoted much time to the study
of Europe's economic condition,
has published in The Congressional
Record report, bearing the names
Of number of we'll known CHICAGO
gentlemen, which seems to meet his
approval.
The first thing says the Scna-
tor, "is for the European countries
to do away with their wasteful ex-
travagance in their military and civil
establishments" He has evidently
acquired the notion, which for some
reason has been widely promoted,
that Europe is greatly wasting her
substance on armaments.
Stephane Lauzanne recently fur
nished The Tribune with figures
showing to what extent France,
which it is now the fashion to assail
as most militaristic, has hquidated
her military establishment. The Con-
tinental French army budget for
1922, he points out. is a little more
than two billion francs, only one
twelfth Of the total French budget.
Counting dollar as worth twclve
francs, France is thus spending
Sl76,o00,O0O a year on war prepara-
ton. This year the similar American
total is S30000O.0OO. How absurd
for US, then, to throw stones. More
over, the French army, now 45O.-
900, will be down to $4,000 bv
1925. AS to liquidating the French
civil establishment. Senator McCor-
mick is doubtless aware that the dis
charge of an additional 100000 civil
employees has been voted, and that
the first 10000 batch was retired
last week
The source Of the persistent cam
paign to misrepresent France is not
yet revealed Nevertheless there is
steady publication of statements
mainly not true. 1t seems part OF \
plan to serve another by breaking
down the good repute of France in
this country.
The reasons for any slowness IN
European decentralization that has
occurred are obvious. For the greater
part they do not suggest militarisln.
Governments faced the problem of
getting the soldiery back into indus
try. Unemployment was general.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
Forcing a Showdown

he Transit Commission properly
IS taking legal measures to enforce
It's orders forbidding the New York
and Queens County Railway Com
pany from operating its lines indie
pendently and eXacting dual fare.
Until the authority Of the commits
sion IS clearly understood and thor
oughly respected the improvement of
The traction system Of New York
viii be impossible.
The fashion of resisting the or
ders of the commission was set by
Mayor Hylan. 1t is not surprising,
when the Mayor Of the city, employ
ing the city's legal department, op-
poses the orders OF the commission,
that transit companies, fired by his
example, should also refuse to obey
them.
Had MIR. Hylan in the beginning
CO operated with the commission in
stead Of continually obstructing its
work. the plan for the unitication
and extension of all the city lines
would doubtless now be under way.
jealousy, mingled with stupidity and
subservience to Hearst, prevented
him from taking this course, with
the result that he has inspired the
same sort of obstruction among the
men who control certain of the
transit lines and who for reasons
of their own do not care to accept
the control Of the commission.
The Mayor and at least part of
the interests" he denounces are
now united against the Transit Com
mission, and consequently it has be-
come necessary to invoke the assist
aAce of the courts to uphold the com
missions authority.
The tactics Of the New York and
Q aeens County Railway Company
axe modelled closely on those of the
city administration. Instead Of TAX
ing advantage Of its right to appeal
to the commission, the company
throws tbs whole situation into con-
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
a f1alf Century of Aid

Fifty years ago yesterday Miss
Louisa Lee Schuyler, great-erand-
daughter OF Alexander Hamilton.
moved by the shocking conditions
which she had found among the
poor and the insane of New York.
called some of her friends together
IN her fathers house and discussed
with them her plan for the relief or
ganization which now bears the name
OF the State Charities Aid Associa.
tion
To-day Miss Schuyler still lives to
see the organization which she
founded grown into an association
with 10000 members throughout
the state and having magnificent
record Of achievement. Founded
originally to improve the conditions
in the orphan and insane asylums
and in the almshouses. the orpani-
zation by ceaseless campaigning
revolutionized the laws relating to
public health and the care of the
sick in the State Of New York. 1t
succeeded in having the insane re-
moved from the allnshouses to state
hospitals. 1t established the first
training school for nurses in Amer.
lea. 1t did much to improve the care
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
A Chance for Composers

lOpera, fitted with phonosraph scores
is soon to be pct on the finn
When movies are given to music.
And opera 'S sung on the screen,
" hen the harytones Groom an ap-
pr0prlate tune
AS they work in hair-raising
scene,
Therell be need Of more modern
composers
To harmoniZe pictures and
score
A good, lively bunch that will
furnish the punch
For the thrills that the people
The dear little child. for example,
When he's thrown from a pas
Senger train.
Should fold his frail hands o er
his heart when ne lands
And Warble plaintiyc re-
frain---
A piteous song but forgiving.
TO prove that, though shocked
by the fall
And dented a bit by the rock
that he hit.
His feelings aren't wounded
at all.
The villain who poisons the hero
Should fade from The film with
song,
With deep organ notes TO show
how he gloats
Over deeds that are dreadfully
wrong.
The hero would be more heroic
And knock 'em all dead if he
sang
A red blooded lay while he stood
there at bay
And shot up the Mexican gang.
Not even the late Richard Wag-
ner
Could write, in his noisiest
time,
y score that would fit in the wild
Western kit
That is one savage carnage Of
crime.
He writes pretty rough-housing
music,
But it isn't half poppy enough.
For the opera -screon-if you
know what mean
We have got to have livelicr
stuff!
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12

of the sick in hospitals. 1t was IN
strumental in the revision of the
State Department Of Health. 1t or
wanized and directed the movement
which led to the reduction by one
third in the death rate in tubercu
losis in New York State outside of
the city proper
The association Is still doing I'M
portant work in connection with the
supervision of the inmates Of state
institutions and has opened the way
(or more adequate care and training
of mental detectives. 1t also ron
Gers extensive service in the placing
OF orphans and has had particularly
satisfactory results in the handling
Of children.
TO those who founded, supported
and directed the association there is
no small satisfaction in the rcaliza-
ton that during the fifty years Of
its existence the association has
been responsible for hundreds of
thousands Of lives made happier, of
sick people better cared for and
children receiving better treatment.
For this work. as we'll as for the
campaigns for better health condi-
tons throughout the state, the pub
lie is duly grateful.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
EARNED Out" Railroad Work

The Railroad Labor Boards de
cision as to EARNED out railroad
work imposes an added restriction
ON railway liberty Of action
Collusiye contracts made with
favored outside concerns, Of course.
are wrong to stockholders as we'll
as to the public. Eut ordinarily if a
railroad has work done outside i is
because it is cheaper TO go outside.
Such situation calls for an adjust
ment Of excess inside wages and op-
pressive working conditions rather
than for further prohibitions against
contracts.
Has it not been demonstrated that
railway control has been already
carried so far as to deprive railway
managers of the spirit Of enterprise
and initiative?
How are we to get lower rates il
railway operating costs are to be IN
creased? How is money for inn
provements to bc secured if rail
roads may not economize?
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
Your New New York

There are two views Of New York
which will remold any one with a
grain of imagination into potential
city planner. One is from the side
walk of the average main artery, with
its strangled street congestion, its
shouldering crowds and its scarcity
Of noble vista. The other is from
the sky in an airplane. The first
downward glance reveals q site for
a city Of angels - sliced into the
rigid angles of q checkerboard.
Planning is to the city what eelu-
cation is to the youth. Without edu-
cation the soul shrivels, the body
sprawls. Without planning the city
backs up on itself, chokes in its vital
areas and straggles through its out
skirts.
New York is still trying to de-
velop upon plan laid down in 1911
a kind of gridiron. as Elihu Root
describes it, upon which the city has
sizzled ever since. The inevitable re-
suit is population beyond the
power of the city to assimjlate or
distribute.
And yet the federation OF condi-
tions which no community should be
called or 10 accept has become a
habit. Half hearted efforts at bet
termcnt are lost in the roar and
lush of our local life, in the strange
nyways of politics. 1t is only by the
magnificent conception, the vision of
Burnham or a Naussmann. that
the mind and heart Of the average
man can be fired into q demand for
what he has q right to--a decent
place in which to live and work
Something of this vision shines
in the plan of tie Sage Foundation
10 weave the whole community
within a radius Of fifty miles into
one comprehensively treated zone
TO build after extended study and
thought upon q logical permanence
and TO direct the stupendous growth
OF the clustered cities which com
pose this port INTO channels which
= viii yield beauty and comfort, in
stead Of construction and misery, tc
cur children's children.
Teach these plans to the children
who will grow up with them, herald
them to our elf dwellers, tell them
TO the subway sufferers in words OF
one syllable For by making them
. The plans of the man in the street
lies the way of fruitage through
the creation Of q new New York
~ a city .thinheth. so it is.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
A Worker Likes Daylight Saving

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: am one OF the workers" to
whom Isabel Thorn refers and for
whose opinion she calls in her letter
on daylight saving.
AS / am due at my Office at $3.50, I
am obliged to take a train at 1884,
which think you will allow to be
fairly early. Yet l like daylight saw
ing, especially under the Ave month
ruling. 1t is not SO hot going to work,
while 1T certainly is on returning from
1t, But then there is the long eve
ming in the beautiful country to make
Up for any discomfort in reaching it
and the opportunity to really get some
benefit from the summer. Long life
to daylight saving"-and may it again
be country wide! A COMMUTER.
New York, May 8. 1899.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
bOORS By Percy Hammond


Further evidence is at hand absolv-
ing our young writers and artists from
the charge that they practice the vo-
luptuous habit of back scratching.
Here, FOR instance, is the case of the
Algonquin coterie, considered by many
persons to be the most pernicious of
the addcts languishing, more than
others, ii is said, in the enervating
amours of mutual admiration.
Alarmed observers Of less wanton
minds have regarded the Algonquin
ound as constituting a bourse wherein
there is daily traffic and exchange in
published putYs. notices. compliments
and calculations. Both suspicious are
calumnious Responsive perhaps,
each to others note while manger-
ing at noon time, they may be depended
upon to be avowed and erect in COM
posing for publication, and to sacri-
tice the feelings of their brethren to
their honest sense of Duty. Franklin
T. Adams would shcathe. forever bis
smiling stylus ere he would permit it
to pen a venal fattery; and no printed
page can brag that it has been sullied
By lying words from David Wallace or
John Peter Toohey, the Algonquin
press agents de luxe. The Pember-
tons, Brock and Murdock the Kauff-
manns, Beatrice and George; Kelcey
Allen. Burton Rascoe, Donald Og-
den Stuart, Carl Van Vcchten, New
ton Fuessle and others in this friendly
syndicate worship intimately. But
when at a distance from the shrine
they grow agnostic and sincere
Miss Laurette Taylor belongs by
right Of friendship and her brilliant
genius to the Ladies' Auxiiary of the
Algonquin fraternity. She eats with it.
So, when the boys produced, a fort
night ago, modest exposition of their
talents entitled whimsically "No-
Stree" it was meet, in an old manner
of saying, that she should criticize it
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
Legislators as Rubber Stamps

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l also am shocked by the Pres
idcnt's declaration that tho movement
for the bonus was largely political"
Here, figure it out. II Congress-
man or Senator or the President
himself can, by passing the bonus, or
anything else for that matter get more
votes than he loses it stands to reason
that more people favor what he has
done than are against it. If the leg
isiator does not follow the desires Of
tha majority he is fool and trail
tor. He is fool for killing himself
politically. He is traitor because he
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
Avcnging Genoa

France. after cncOuntering many
difficulties in her diplomatic combats
at Genoa, suddenly shifted her fight
ing quarters to England and scored
a decisive victory.
Sergeant Georges Carpenter, poilu
fighter and hero Of the World War.
once more redeemed his country, this
time by knocking out kid" Lewis,
Britain's last dstic hope.
For about thirty years. since the
reign Of Jem Mace, Of Birmingham,
England, then the recognized heavy
weight champion Of the world, Eng
land has striven to develop a fighter
who would regain the boxing Iaurels
for her. But time and again her
representatives have been defeated.
Inspired by a passionate desire to
see his country restored to her for
mer glory III pugilism, "Kid' Lewis,
although greatly Handicapped in
height and weight, made a game and
courageous attempt to accomplish
the almost impossible in ring history
"a good little man to beat good
bigger man. But he failed, even as
Carpenter himself failed when he
made a similar effort against one
Dempsey, When skill is evenly
matched Hercules smiles on superior
Nllerlp OONay
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
A Blot on America

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is it not time for every decent
outspoken man and woman in this
country to make a determined stand
End voice protest, backed by the vii!
to "act," if that unspeakable horror
and cruelty of burning negroes at the
stake is not brought to stop?
With right the whole world is point
ing scornful finger at US for q
hunn'sm which rivals anything of that
sort IN history. A WOMAN.
New York, May s, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12

fusion by peremptory action. 1t re
sists before it has reason to resist,
This not only puts it in the same
category with Mr.. Hylan and the
Board of Estimate, but will give the
courts chance to rule that it cannot
raise the point Of confscation until
it has exhausted other means of
relief.
How does Mr.. Hylan welcome his
partner in obstructlon2 Is he SO
eager to injure the commission that
he will gladly accept any ally to aid
him?
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
A rolonged Start
(From The Kansas ctty Time,

TTT0UV 1"c hdH6d5 CWV TtDlesJ
The New York "wets" announce that
they are "just beginning" to fight pro
hibition.
Then who was it fighting prohibition
last year and the year before? We re
ccived tho impression, some way or
other, that the "wets" have been fight
ing prohibition ever since the cam
raign of 1880, whom Kansas went "dry."
Maybe it wasn't the "wcts." Possibly
it was the Sons and Daughters of
Temperance.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
Tie SMy the Limit

Attorney General Daugherty's
opinion that It is unnecessary for "a
candidate for United States Senator
TO file any atatement whatever jn
connection with bis nomination or
election viii not be received with
favor throughout the country. If his
opinion. so far expressed only in a
letter, becomes an actual ruling. its
effect will be unfortunate.
The methods employed in cam
paigns forVomination as we'll as fox
election are Of public concern and
the voters are entitled to know how
money is spent in behalf Of candi-
Gates. Particularly OF public concern
are the purposes for which money is
spent Big sums, ii is true, merely
by their size, open the way to charges
of corruption. But though such
charges are generally loosely made,
the public is entitled to know ali the
facts-both those relating to totals
Us well as to details.
Every candidate for Office, high or
low, must submit an account of the
expenses incurred in his behalf dur
ing the campaign. 1t makes no diff
ference whether the Office sought is
that Of President, Senator or Con-
gresham or what not. If the law
does not now require this then an
amendment to the corrupt practices
act is needed.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
What Readers SQu

was elected ont to follow his own
whims but to do what the majority OF
the people want
| must admit that as l was not q
sidewalk patriot I would have about
@9oo coming to me. SO / am biased
the same as two million others.
J. ?. WALKER,
New York, May 9, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-12

you refer 30 is beine rather orerdar.
1t savors much Of sour grapes. Isr
pen to enjoy casual pereni ~
quaintance with most Of those v.a
.names yea mention. Aboas yes.r'
l happened to be talking 70 !si
Adams-F. P. A-and remarked III
! was on my way to keep q lunch u.
with II. L. Mencken. I asked him Gh
knew Mencken. He said no-As h,i
never met him. Il WAS upon anshr
occasion-a little earlier, thint-:a
| mentioned to Adams that ChYis.sps.
Morley and l formerly worked tcgs!ke
On the staff Of "The Ladies Home j0u.
nal" and asked him Il he knew Morlss
who had a short time before jcns:
The Evening Post" in New fc'I
Adams again said he was not persons
~ acquainted with the subject Of II
remarks. When We get behind tie
scenes, so to speak, we And jus: srs
things all along the line among .h's
writer's who are accused Of such t.'i'
friendships and associations tha: 'is
are spending most Of their time shisi'
ing up nice things TO say about ss'a
ROSCOE PEACOCK
Something tells me that 's'as!
am falling into the most prosperous .
the bad habits of iournalism-'aa o
writing for writers rather thsn !"
readers. He who addresses his II
ports to his fellow (or stsp'iel'''
craftsmen, reaches the most iihi'"
and the most audible OF the paO''-
the chaps who talk about him IN 90
+ lie talks about them. one way OF 81
other. He may bore MS journais s'..'
day subscribers to the point o. "
continuance, but ne gains by ths' ~
sihce, personal and selfish csle''a,
How many among The Trlsn.'
l37 900. care whether or not 1t h"
policy OF the affiliated younger VII
ers to slap, il occasion offers 0as
other viciously upon the wrist ons'
/ few; and to the others | peg p'.'
for this mornings trade-iOuFna'lsD
While on the topic OF log F0in4
am reminded Of a letter written
by Booth Harrington in which NJ y
Dear Hammond: You may be g.
critic. / thought you were when
wrote about the Russian dSas' n.
have said. while writing a plaE, y, p,
is what Percy Hammond wants. ~
have found you to be as piss"'s
/ guide disgusting failure. Pieas' "A,
| influence me hereafter to Nv
things in the theater.'
In honest payment for Mr.. ia'' =.
tons above back.stratching az ar..
90 recommend his latest vo!uH'e'
tie julia" as perfect imgress'
humorous life, romance and "'s ~
as they sre experienced BY the w -,
ful among the quiet lawns Saa aue.,ta
nues of an inland small city. ,.,.r
Julia" is one Of those sss''.a "a :.
things in which there is rep0'" ~
detail that disturbs you as Oe''s a.
fetal. You know Julia even i.
have never thought OF heF-'o's.;os. ..;os.
r;na.. great Of heart and . sss ..sr
female. bestowing in innocent a;
the fragrant symbols OF her ~ t.r..
Florence, the eluctable ehiSA A,;ey
bic. Gentle Julia" is s..,ou 4
reaction from the solemn sex .. Nv. y
the day, and, to me. muea w.
d,rs tandins and sndsrsssSas''"