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New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
Voc 10 the Xanquished

Lloyd George was forced out OF
Office because he lost his majority.
The Greek Cabinet was shot because
il lost a war. And now President
Archibald A. johnson Of Geneva Col
lege has resigned because his team
lost a whole series Of football games.
Plainly "woe 10 the vanquished" Is
still the rule. Yet, as striking ex-
ceptions. the president Of Yale clings
to his position despite results disas-
trous to the university on the grid
iron; and our own Nicholas Murray
Butler shows no indication Of abdi-
eating despite the fact that almost
every team with which the Columbia
eleven came into contact mopped It
up with ease.
Now, II colleges aEe TO be what
athletic councils and undergraduate
bodies and alumni mean them 10 be,
thero Is no sense In continuing In
office a president under whose ad-
ministration game after game goes
glimmering. What universities de-
mand and insist upon having is win
ming coaches and winning presidents.
The business Of education goes on
anyway. That is what the faculty is
hired for. But turning out a whole
class Of Phi Beta Kappas would not
get n place on the first page Of the
metropolitan newspapers or fill the
Harvard Stadium or the Yale Bowl
or the Polo Grounds with madding
crowds at 81 or SO a head.
Educators who want to hold their
places will do we'll hereafter to give
more time and thought TO the serious
business Of a college and to make
sure Of teams that can get results.
Otherwise they need expect no mercy.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
What Readers Are Thinking

ain Is due quite as much to her ship
ping facilities as to her excess Of man
ufactures above her homo market
Great Britain makes q profit not only
on her manufactures But also on Der
carving trade. The two factors o.
surplus manufactures and facilities for
placing them IN foreign markets ~orh
together absolutely. and It Is this fact
which has kept England ahead Of the
United States. Let her shipping de-
cline and Americas increase and Eng
land will enact q protective tariff snd
America will establish free trade.
Free trade for one country. the one
whose shipping facilities combined vita
excess manufactures are paramount
only reduces the percentages Of pro'se'
tlon other countries must msinl'n y
keep their share Of trade. u inc .
rlcultural interests could only grasp
this they would favor keeping oul
dag on the ocean nov that We n'''
a chance.
Tn, Republican party may be called
the American party and the Deh''
cratic the Euro can.
CHARLES S. HARTwELL
Brooklyn. Nov. 80, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02

wood Is talking legitimate short
session" talk. He knows that. every
body else knows II. Republican or
Democratic, the Senate has never
been willing to adopt the House sys-
TEN Of majority rule. Therein IL
shows profound self-interest; for
the consequence OF the Senate and Of
each individual Senator is vastly
magnifed so long as there exists a
veto OF near veto power in a minor
ity party or in a tiny group Of In
surgents.
Majority rule still operates 10
some extent at the long sessions.
Then the majority may at least say
what bills it prefers to put on pas
sage. But Ct the short session.
very grave anomaly In these days
majority control is virtually sus-
pended. There are no longer a ma
jority and a minority. Tho minority
becomes a co-majority, and its
wishes prevail both as TO what is to
be done and what is to be left un-
done.
II Is no use to denounee Mr..
Underwood. He Is only taking ad-
vantage Of a license deliberately
left In his hands. The responsible
authors Of all the short sessions
troubles are n Senate which clings
to the individual, or minority, veto
and a Congress which will not
amend an obsolete session calendar.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
Subsidy and Protection

To the Editor OF the Tribune.
Sir: The slxty-nine Republicans In
the House who voted against the sub
sidy bill failed to grasp the significance
Of the truth that only one great ma
tlon has free TRADE at any one time
This Is fact have not seen discussed
In Congress or the press, but Il has an
important bearing on the matter.
ship subsidy Is simply protection OF
the nations shipping. The arguments
for protection are arguments for sub
,idizlng the merchant marine to cover
the difference In standards Of living
and to maintain the American wage
scale.
Now, free trade for Great Britain
does not prove free trade Is best ioi
America. Il Is q fact. however that
as our surplus manufactures increase
free trade sentiment grows and the
nearer our volume Of commerce sp-
proaehes the British. protection sen'i-
ment grows in the British Isles.
Tho srado superiority Of Great Brit
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
Stealing Indian Land

The Bursum Indian bill, already
passed by the Senate, contains
numerous provisions which show
the legalized ruthlessness which
white men arc willing 70 use when
they covet the land Of their Indian
neiRhbors.
The Pueblo Indians long have
been a peaceful, agricultural people.
When the Spanish Conquistadores
first came upon them nearly four
hundred years ago they lived much
ns they do to-day. quietly tilling
the rich lands OF the river bottoms
near their villages. They naturally
took the best lands. There was none
10 dispute them in the old days.
Their title TO these lands has been
successfully confirmed by Spanish,
Mexican and American authorities.
But some Of the Indians during
the last generation allowed squat
ters 70 settle on their lands. One
section Of the Bursum bill reads
that all persons who for more than
ten years prior to June 20, 1910,
have had actual possession. with or
without color Of title" Of any lands
within the exterior boundary of the
Pueblo grants shall BE entitled 20
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
Polite. and the Schools
~. Fdltor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; Is Miss Margaret MeCooeys
strongest claim to a place In the
Board Of superintendents based on the
fact that her brother Is John Nc
Cooey? II not, what claim has she
for being q eandldatel What has she
ever done for the public schools to
have such q high honor thrust upon
her7 What's the use Of trying to be
an excellent teacher or even an ex-
cellent district superintendent II po-
utieal connections are what decide ad-
v.ncement in our school system !
Would not the selection Of Miss Nc
Cooey actually wreck the morale OF
the entire sys,emi Would not her
election practically compel every mem
Der OF the educational system to I'M
nediately begin TO spend more energy
outside the school obtaining political
prestige than inside the school con-
eentrating upon school dutiesT
Why has one Of our commissioners
suddenly become anxious about filling
this position at the next board meet
lnx7 Is Il not strange that only
short tine ago all other women In the
system except Miss Olive Jones we're
afraid TO enter the field against Miss
Mecooey, because. according to rumor.
she was "slated" for the position?
Perhaps VIC owe q vote Of thanks to
Miss Jones. Is Il possible that with
out her IN the feld the selection would
have been made long ago. Has Miss
Jones sacrificed herself 70 save the
school system from being branded as
polItiealf
Miss Jones has at least done thing
for tho schools and has long record
Of achievements. But are there nc
district superintendents who have done
things alsol viii the order Of meri.
be eonsidered7 Is It worth while to
work ones self up In the school sys-
tent Would Il be better for US &C
s,reuQthcn ourselves politically In
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
Adventure de Luxe

The Speejacks Is back in port.
She has completed the circumnaviga-
ton Of the globe after fourteen
months Of adventure on the high
seas.
It is doubtful If, as has been
claimed, she is the smallest vessel
ever to have performed this feat.
Among the early ships that sailed
around the world some may well
have been smaller. In modern times
the good ship Spray, Captain Slocum
in command, sailed upon the seven
seas, although Of only few tons
burden, until one day she sailed
away and was never heard from
again.
But the exact size Of the Spec
iacks-shc is 9S feet over all and
100 tons displacement-is only an
incident in her story. Under her
own motor power she left the Hud-
son River in August. 1921, and
cruised down the Atlantic coast to
Florida. Thence she crossed the
Caribbean 70 the Panama Canal, and
passed into the wide reaches Of the
Pacific Ocean.
II was then that her ordeal began.
Instead OF sailing for Hawaii, as SO
many ships now do, she eet her
course q little south Of west, bound
for the Marquesas. Thence cruising
through the South Seas. she stopped
al Tahiti, Samoa and the Fiji Isl
ands, and via the New Caledonia
group sailed TO Australia, and so
into the East Indies and back to'our
Western world by the Indian Ocean.
It is q voyage to delight the
imagination Of adventurers. A
small, well appointed motorboat with
a 3.OOO-mile cruising radius; liberty
TO touch at a thousand palm-clad
islands; brilliant days Oh the calm
southern Pacific; storms In the East
Indies; the ever present danger Of
typhoons in the Indian Ocean; tramp
steamers wallowing in the trough
Of the waves; strange sights and
strange castaways In the ports;
these and a thousand other things
fell to the lot Of tho cruisers on the
Speejacks.
This is adventure de luxe. 1t is
none the less real or appealing.
What would any chained deskman
not give for such a trip?
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02

THE other day visited q house
filled with books, a house such as
I had supposed could not exist In New
York, = house that went out Of style
With the New England conscience and
Greek grammar. Books lined rs walls.
not merely In the library but In the
parlor, tho front hail and the bed
rooms; not beautiful books, either,
decorating the walls with a mosaic Of
rich gold and red and blue, but Just
plain, old-fashioned, ugly brown and
green covered books, that collect dust
and prevent the family from over nov
ing, but that are somehow worth all
the trouble they cause.
Books arc never destroyed nor sold
20 the rag man In such a house. The
dullest essays. the most inane novels,
even the antiquated algebrss, here
acquire a certain dignity from their
nero bookshlp; once they end haven
in these shelves they arc sure Of a
peaceful ard respected old age. with
very good prospects Of some day
achieving the stote Of antiques.
It was such books as these that
ill.d the shelves IN tho FIRST library I
remember.
Do you remember them, too? The
homely dull green OF their cloth covers
with the dim gilt lettering7 ! do not
know why dark green was so popular
for the best sellers Of a generation
ago or why their print was so small
but I am sure they were the finest that
could be bought In those days, for they
were the Christmas presents that the
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
In the Spirit of Monroe

Chile has assented TO the Taena-
africa protocol act, thus bringing one
step nearer the arbitration through
which President Harding is TO set
tie the forty-yesr-old dispute be-
tween Chile and Peru over these two
provinces. Chile still occupies them,
although years ago the Treaty Of
Ancon provided that a plebiscite
should be held 10 determine whether
they should remain Chilean or re-
vert 10 Peru.
The Tacna-Arica controversy long
poisoned relations between these two
west coast nations. An effort was
made recently to carry it to Geneva.
Chile opposed this and offered to
hold the long delayed plebiscite, but
Peru felt that her chances In the
election had been prejudiced by post
ponement. Last summer delegates
Of the two nations. invited to meet
in Washington, agreed to ask Presi-
dent Harding to settle all outstand-
ing differences. Secretary Hughes
presented a protocol which both dis
putants gladly signed.
II Is an immense satisfaction to
have this ancient South American
DISPUTE ended through the good
Offices Of the United States. Chile
and Peru are members Of the Pan
American Union. They sit with US
in the Pan-American Congress. We
all belong TO the American society
Of nations. Obstacles to American
harmony and unity can best be re-
moved by action within that society.
The State Departments policy Of
American cooperation has, there
fore, triumphed again in the happy
solution Of the Tacna-Arica dead
lock. It has accomplished in this
difficult case what it accomplished
In the termination Of the Panama
Costa Rica boundary dispute and
what K expects 10 accomplish
through the conference Of Central
American states soon 70 be held in
Washington.
American diplomacy Is function
ing as it always has functioned
since Latin America was liberated
and the Monroe Doctrine was pro-
claimed. Arrogant Craftsmanship
and faulty tactics sept Us out Of
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
The DYER Bill Hold-Up

Mr.. Underwood Is not at ease IN
the role Of flibuster. He is TOO
broad minded and too sensible Of the
EQUITIES Of parliamentary life 70
throw himself into obstruction with
the bumptlous ardor Of a La Fol-
lette or q "Tom" Carter. He has no
ambition TO win fame, as did William
". Stewart, William V. Allen and
William A. PETER, by sheer feats OF
orstoricsl endurance.
These latter statesmen passion
atsly loved 10 hear themselves talk.
They flibustered with zest as well as
with 81 unruffied conscience. Dir.
Underwood drops all pretense Of dis
cussion for the sake Of discussion.
On the first day Of the hold-up Of
the Dyer anti-lynching bill he gave
notice brutally that his tactics we're
directed solely TO prevent majority
control Of the business Of the Senate.
Il is better, however, 70 be brutal
in cases like this. Mr.. Underwood
is doing now whs. he would have
condemned opposition Senator'S for
doing when there was a majority on
the Democratic side. How virtu-
ous!y President Wilson and the DEM
ocratic Senate leaders reproved the
"willfuI" group which fIibustered IN
March, 1917. against the Admin
;strstion's armed merchant ship bill!
When has q majority IN the Senate
not lamentei the iniquity Of filibus-
ter directed against one Of its pet
pieces Of legislation? And when has
the same majority, converted into a
minority, not turned about shame
lesslv and been equally arrogant and
perverse?
The Senate itself IS entirely 70
blame II a majority Ia that body ever
fnds its Lands tied. Mr.. Under
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02

a decree in their favor for the whole
lands so claimed. In return for
these the government shall have sur
veyed from the public lands tract
as near the Pueblos as possible
"equal In area and value or equal
in value" 10 the land 80 seized. In
case suitable substitute lands cannot
be found the government shall de-
post tho value Of the seized lands
in cash 60 the credit Of the Pueblos.
Il is well known that all the
public lands worth cuitivating by
the Pueblos have long since been
occupied by squatters. The sugges-
ton, therefore, 10 give the Indians
public lands equal in va.uo to the
seized lands Is manifestly hypo-
critical. If such lands actually did
exist there is no reason why they
could not be given 10 the squatters
instead Of TO the Indians who have
for centuries inhabited their present
sites.
II now they arc 10 be ousted In
order to satisfy tho greed Of white
sett ers it means, besides the mani
fest injustice. the end Of their civili-
zation. The Pueblo Indians once
scattered on the waste lands are
doomed 10 certain destruction.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02

order to bo read. for a grand slump"
at the psychological mOmenti
Some cay that Superintendent Man
del or Superintendent stltt should be
considered. Why? Superintendent
Grady refused to bc q candidate be-
cause he insisted that . woman should
be chosen. Surely be has earned the
respect Of the entire system by 90 act
ing. The teachers and parents, ss well
as all women throughout the city,
should demand that woman be Sc
lected. II Mr. asndel has as keen 4
sense Of justice as Mr.. Grady be will
not try TO improve bis chances By sd-
vocating a bill that would increase the
power Of an unfriendly Mayor over
our public schools.
CHARLES RoZELLE,
President Teaehers' Interests Or
ganIzatlon.
New York, Nov. 2s. 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
Books for Children
iua.. asa. :.er "--- ~-'h"'s no.

Young Man Who Was Our Father sent
years ago TO the Blue-Eyed School
Teacher in Boston.
She saved them all. the squat vol.
umes Of poetry, the biographies OF the
Wise Men Of Concord and the sc. Of
Macaulsy that almost llled . shelf.
Besides these gift books, that 20 Us
children we're always vaguely assOci-
ated with Christmases and birthdays,
they saved the school books, tho Latin
and Greek lexlcons. the geometrles and
algebras and the great thick Shake
spsare. bulky as Q dictionary. that the
Young Man had won as prize for some
schoolbOy oratory In a period that was
even then remote. There was another
Shakespeare, however, in separate VOL
umes, thin and Ir!stoerstic. that had
been 70 Shakespeare Club and had
papers written out Of them, not only
Hamlet" and "AS You Like It." but
"Coriolsnus" and "King Henry ""
They skipped nothing, those Boston
shakespearisns.
And they were all there Tor ehIl-
dren's hands to pull down or the
shelves q few years later. All7 Well,
maybe not every one, not the best,
gilt edged poems and the leather
bound encyclopedias that had been a
wedding present But all tho res.
were for the children. They made
wonderful trains Of cars on rainy Sun
day afternoons and, piled high, With
tho dictionaries on the bottom, they
made towers ever and ever 30 high.
There came guests TO the home fire.
quently who we're shocked at these
building games, guests who thought
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
The Greek Executions

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Greece has voluntarily and
faithfully executed the part Of tho
Versailles Treaty which the Germans
as set have succeeded In shirking, VIA,
the punishment Of war eulprits.
Greece is now going 70 be punished
for e, or, judging from the news items,
rather the wretehed victims Of the
convicted malefhetors. It Is suggested
TO stop the proposed reconstruction
loan which was going 70 be used for
settling in Macedonia the surviving
war victims from Asia Minor.
In other words, the Christian world
Is going TO have the moral satirfae-
tiOn Of seeing these miserable, hunted
beings berefs Of any possibility Of
getting out Of heir misery and made
TO atone for the fact that one country
has had tie moral courage 10 carry
out the part Of the Versailles pact that
deals With the punishment Of guilt.
l. Z. wrnvARK.
Newark, n. j., Nov. 30, 1872.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
Give the Teachers a Chance

There is 10 aspect Of Hylanism IN
education more deplorsble than the
gross injustice it works upon the
teachers, the principals and the
auperintendents Of the city's schools
The nirgsrdliness Of the city aa-
lninlstration in the matter Of sal
aries has been the most obvious ex-
ample Of Hylanism. II Mr.. Hylsn
had had his own way the teachers
Of New York would be still scraping
dong on their inadequate salaries.
Thanks 70 Governor Smith and Gov
ornor Miller and Republican Legis-
lature, they have received raises
rlehly earned and urgently needed
But there are other effects Of hy-
ianism upon the teaching force even
more unfair. The investigations OF
Nr Rseusin, Of the Tribune's stah,
in number Of the city's congestea
sehools have suggested what hard
ship. and handicaps the city's short
ago In schools forces upon teachers.
without making any pretense TO be-
ing q thorough study Of school condi-
lions, this rapid survey has pointed
20 certain unmistakable facts. n
denying to the teachers Of the city
suffcient buildings the city autRor'-
Ties have placed heavy burden
uuon the entire teaching force. II
there results a psrt-time class there
results an added problem and enor'
Cor the teacher. The double-session
class Is but lesser form Of part
time. The necessity Of promoting
puplls to make vacancies passes up
ward q continuing burden Of un-
learned fundamentals that weighs
heavily on every succeeding teacher
AS Mr.. Racusin's reports made
clear, the teachers Of New YORK
have risen splendidly to the emer-
reney before them. They have been
and arc giving freely Of their time
and energy and skill in an effort 70
minimize the damage worked by the
city's neglect. Their effort IS a
splendid promise for the future and
il deserves the warmest admiration
and applause for what it is accom-
pIlshing to-day in the face Of unprec-
edented congestion and confusion
But it Is the disgrace Of New York
that such handicaps should be I'M
posed upon body Of faithful public
workers.
Thanks in great part to the lead
ership Of Mr.. Ettinger and his fei-
low superintendents, the morale OF
the school system is still admirable
There can be no question that II pol
itics can be kept out Of the city's
educational system and adequate
schools be found or built the chill
dren Of New York Will receive an
education worthy Of the nations
greatest city. When will the teach
e,s Of New York get their chance?
New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
By Emma Bugbec

books were meant 20 be busted. not o.
be enjoyed. They tried to argue that
the children who had used Latin die
tionarles for freight cars would noYc
have the proper respect for them whai
they reached high school and that
four.year-old who had torn paga
from Tennyson would 60 on tearing
up books all her life. Bu, the Blue.
Eyed School Teacher bad not lived b.
Boston in vain. She quoted-was 3
Oliver Wendell Holmes7-to the wife.
acres, saying; "Let the children browse
among the books" She maintained
against all comers that the child Who
looked TO the library shelves Tor b.
pleasures early In life would alvey
loyo them. AS for the nero corporca'
existence OF these particular volume
she said, that was OF no eonsequencc
What II a page we're torn or a blnd
ing loosened. Mono Of tho books vsrl
really valuable, and II they we're hrs.
editions themselves she would saerihsD
them, II necessary, 70 the building Of 20
bookloyer.
And so Il came about (Insvitab.y
she belleved) that the children begsr
10 beg for books Of their own for
Christmas presents, and presently the
lower shelf had undergone q trans
formation. "Alieo IN Wonderland
crowded the stout, red-elothed Dickens.
"Andersen's Fairy Tales" stood side b.
side with Robinson Cruscs" and
"Lobo, Rag and Vixen"
But these were ehildren's books
very different thing, any true Boston
Ian will tell you, from "boOks for ekil-
dren."