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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-08-18

Of the Dagmar country and he arrived
there in the spring of 1908 and filed
on a 100 acre homestead. He had $40
when he arrived, and during the sum-
mer he worked out and in the winter
Sc went to Minnesota to school. He
went through the big pioneer fight
for a home, and from small and
humble beginning he has developed a
good farm, built fine home and has
surrounded himself with some classy
purebred stock. He is a tireless work
er and always reaches out for the very
best in life. In time he married and
now has fine family of sturdy boys
and girls. He is well known in the
Dagmar country and has always pro-
NOTED everything that promised bet
ter life and prosperity on the farm
and when there is anthing to be done,
Aage Larsen is always there to do his
share and at the same time he is not
one of those who measure every Ell
fort by the possibility of profit or
honor for himself. He is very public
spirited and unselfsh. When the
League was organized he joined and
has reioined and helped to organize
his neighbors for political action at
eyery reorganization time, and when
called upon to do his bit, he has al
WAYS been there. Aage Larsen is a
man that will make good in the legls-
1atute and a man whom the farmers
have right to be proud of; During
The past few years he has met reverses
financially like most every other farm
or. but his northman courage has not
been broken, and he is a living eX,
! '1eeii IL nlnman. HWa'U
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
Virtue Sill Survives

Those who, in the love of Calam-
ity, hold vociferous communion with
her invisible forms are invited to
consider the fact that the national
horseshoe pitchers tournament will
be held at the Iowa state fair at
Des Moines, beginning August 20.
1t is sweet and comforting morsel
Of information.
Golf, tennis, rowing--these sports
do not thrill those Americans whose
hands are toughened by the plow
handle and the yellow soap on the
woodshed's wash bench. Hence the
newspaper space now so generously
given to these sports is no barouet-
ric indication of the interests Of
the people who form the steel
framework upon which the rest of
lis are the terra Gotta trimming.
But to learn that the embattled
horseshoe pitchers of the hation will
soon meet to decide the world cham
r'ionship is to learn that all is well.
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stances is not cause for quarrel.
But it must offend her to see 1t i'm
piled that those who buy will be-
come initiated into the doings of
''the' smart world" The world
which Mrs. Wharton describes is not
smart. 1t is merely vicious ana
parasitical. Her characters would
be shown the door by any self-re-
speeding family.
The floating foreign population
of European capitals which seeks
to have it's names printed under the
Society notes" of the fashionable
papers contains many specimens as
worthless as the characters in "The
Glimpses of the Moon" But Mrs.
Wharton, picking out the worst,
then makes it appear that they are
typical. In this she is untrue as a
great novelist.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
10000 Disappointed Men By Ha5.saas Hawthorne

The Plattsburg idea is once again in
operation. 1t has not been greatly
advertised this year. There has been
no drive" But it is said that the va
rious army corps areas have been
"swamped by applications from young
men who are eager for the military
training promised" They have easily
filled the quota allowed by tho Con-
gressional appropriation. And some
twenty to thirty thousand young men
have been disappointed in the hoped
for work Of making themselves fit for
a second line of defense in case the
country were in danger, fit to become
in short order ready for first-line de-
Tense.
But the training got at these camps
is not merely military training. 1t is
not confined to the making Of soldiers.
1t has far greater and better result.
This training is splendid physical
experience for the young men who take
it.. 1t teaches them to use their bodies
properly, it gives them the best kind
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
The Lusitania Claims

In letter concerning the Under
wood bill for the appointment of an
American commission to consider
claims against Germany arising out
of the war Secretary Hughes states
that treaty is now in negotiat ton
providing for settlement by a mixed
commission.
The Secretary sees no reason for
departing from the usual practice.
which is to give both sides repre-
sentation. But many, particularly
in regard to the Lusitania claims,
will disagree with him. Germany
wantonly committed gross act of
war against us. In her treaty with
us she is pledged to pay. When war
damages are assessed it is custom
ary for the injured party, if vic
torious in arms, to fix the amount.
1t seems most inappropriate to have
on the board Of assessing judges to
determine what compensation is due
men who presumptively greatly re-
joiced when the news came that
helpless American men and women
had been slaughtered. The debt is
no ordinary one. If the lesson is
to be of value in checking future
barbarities it is we'll to retain some
factor that suggests that there was
right and wrong in the matter
and that more is involved than arises
in case of ordinary arbitration.
There is nothing gained by pro-
longing the wars bitterness. The
sooner the German property now in
our governments hands can be re-
stored the better. But why give
priority to German claims, whether
large or small? Until the Lusitania
claims have been paid in full and
other legitimate American demands
have been settled there is no cause
for needing the cries of "repay the
poor Germans"
Seven years have passed since the
Lusitania was sent to the seas bot
tom. Already too long the claimants
have been compelled to wait. Should
we return the German property or
the greater part of it at once, and
then assign to a mixed commission
the business Of fixing the amount of
our counter claims, the German
members of the commission may be
expected to do what they can to de-
lay settlement. The scandal of post
ponement is another reason why we
should make out cur own bill and
present it as a finality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
The Granite State

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The papers this morning state
that the hulk of the old United States
frigate Granite State while being
towed to Eastport, Me-, to be broken
up was on fire in Massachusetts Bay.
Much romance has been published
about the old ship. 1t has been stated
that she was once the pride of the
navy, a contemporary Of the Constitu-
ton, etc.
The real facts are as follows: She
was built in the Boston Navy Yard,
and was one of the frigates authorized
by Congress at the time of the war
with England in 1912, and named the
Virginia, but the war was over before
she was launched.
She remained on the stocks where
she was built until 1863, when she was
launched as the New Hampshire, was
fitted out and sent to Port Royal, S.
c., where she was used as station and
store ship. When the modern battle
ship New Hampshire was built the
name Of the old wooden ship was
changed to Granite State. She subse-
quently came to New York and for
many years, until she was burned to
the waters edge, couple of years ago
was used as the training ship of the
New York State Militia, but was never
sent to sea. Her sea service was
limited, from Boston to Port Royal and
Port Royal to New York. She is the
one ship of the navy which had three
names: Virginia, New Hampshire and
Granite State.
GEORGE DE FOREST BARTON,
Late Lieutenant Commander P. G., U.
s. Navy. Octogenarian, Vintage
of 1841.
New York, July IS, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
Mrs. Wharton's Latest

The publishers of Mrs. Wharton s
new novel, "The Glimpses of the
Moon," advertise it as picture of
the "smartest world society,""
Mrs. Wharton knows the people
OF whom she writes. In "The Age
OF Innocence" she described the
small group of wealthy New York
ers whom she had known personally
and by hearsay in her youth. Her
many years of residence in Paris
have given her knowledge of the
backgrounds of the "high society"
of Europe. And yet in both books she
too much paints only the tinsel and
outward form. Her people are true
to the conventional type of "high
society" folk-probably as different
from real life as are the actors on
the stage from the people whom
they seek to represent.
In "The Age of Innocence. it is
u oe', MIS-. w marion embodied spirit
Of the old days. She wrote the Main
Street" Of wealthy New York. In
her new book she pictures parasites
and wastrels of the well-known "in-
ternational society" kind that fig
ure in SO many commonplace novels.
They lack the dramatic mystery of
T.. Phillips Oppenheim's adventurous
and adventuresses, and they have
not compromising vividness or
trueness. The life she describes. is;
utterly sordid, without a single in
cident Of decent humanness.
That Mrs. Wharton chooses to
write Of such people in such circun-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01

of exercise and a sound conception of
personal hygiene. They learn to walk
miles without fatigue, to camp in the
open, to eat properly, to sleep on the
ground if necessary. They learn how
to take the best physical care Of them
selves. Special work is given to COR
recting slight errors, and the exam
nations draw attention to the neces-
sity for such corrections. Fresh air
night and day is preached and prac-
ticed. Swimming is taught. The
young man who takes the course has
had a month of the finest kind of liv.
ing so far as his bodily health and
development go. t'+
But this is only a small part of the
achievement Of this Piattsbure idea in
force. ;" ~a.
The men who take it learn true pa
triotism~-the giving of something OF
themselves for the sake of their ceun.
try. Every one is quick enough to think
that the country owes him something
and good deal at that. But the no.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
Dog Days and the Dog Star

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When August and sultry
weather have come again we speak of
"dog days" This is the period when
Canicula is supposed to reign, very
brilliant star. also known as Sirius.
During the winter Sirius scintillates
gloriously in the evening sky, but dur
ing August he sparkles amid the morn.
ing armament. Brilliant Sirius is the
most conspicuous sun of the constel.
lation CAMS Major-the "Great Dog
so that he is sometimes called the
DOG STAR" Accordingly, the days
when Sirius reigns--July 25 till Sep.
TENDER 5--when this brightest of ali
suns of night rises about the same
time as our sun, have become known as
the "dog days" But Sirius, notwith-
standing that he is veritable ''fery
furnace" is far too remote to influence
in the slightest degree, the tempera-
ture. Sirius is, approximately. nine
light years away from our earth. That
is to say, the DOG Star" is distant
some fifty trillions OF. miles from the
City of New York during it's dog day
weather.
CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES.
Newton, Mass, July 20, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
Slavery or Murder?

Samuel Gompers was quite right
in the abstract in saying the other
evening that "a country may suffer
hardships and privations and sur
vlve, but country in which slavery
has been reinstituted-then freedom
is gone and the Republic is doomed"
The truism is not germane to any
condition in this country. Mr.. Com
pers knows as we'll as any one else
that there has been no reinstitu-
ton Of slavery here. Never was
the wage worker as powerful in this
country as he is to-day. The ques-
ton that should concern is not lack
of power, but the light of wisdom
in the use of power. "a
1t would have been far more to
the point had Mr.. Gompers ex-
pressed his opinion of a country in
which the Sixth Commandment is
abrogated and murder is publicly
committed with impunity. More
than month has elapsed since the
Herrin massacre. Not single
earnest step has been taken toward
Furnishing the criminals; nor do we
recall hearing from Mr.. Gompers a
word of stern condemnation and
detestation Of the crime.
Mr.. Gompers is interested, and
most properly, in maintaining the
freedom Of "organized" working
men. But does their freedom cover
the right to kill the unorganized?
Why is Mr., Gompers so Indifferent
to promIscuous slaughter while so
solicitou;,, for freedom?
Mr.. Campers, when he did not
speak az linst the Herrin massacre,
neglected a shining opportunity to
remove the prejudice which to some
degree exists against unionism. He
still has open to him chance to
place himself at the head of a posse
to round up the murderers. One
may be sure should he offer to do
so that the good people of Illinois
would not cavil over the fact that
he is not a citizen of their state.
Mr.. Gompers, by his strange silence
and inactivity, has done organized
labor a disservice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
Tamnany Sits Up

The rough estimate of the cost
of new bridge across the East
River, land included, is $50, 900 900.
Actual cost Of great public works
commonly exceed the rough esti-
mates. No wonder Tammany takes
notice.
1t is more than probable that by
the time the new bridge were COM
pleted the cost would be 100000
perhaps even more. No wonder
Tammany sits up.
Grover Whalen, Commissioner of
Plant and Structures, recommends
the building of a new bridge. He
says that the Brooklyn Bridge is
now able to carry only light loads,
although Washington Roebling, who
built the bridge, asserts that it is as
strong as it ever was and ought to
be good for two hundred years.
Mr.. Whalen's recommendation has
naturally awakened enthusiasm in
Tammany Hall. Even his supplement
tary recommendation for new loca-
cation-from Twenty-third Street in
Manhattan to Greenpoint in Brook
iyn--is not disliked. Much time will
elapse before the bridge is built
provided it must be built. Mean
while enterprising real estate OPP
orators can obtain options on land
needed for approaches. Tammany
Hall is filled with enterprising real
estate operators.
1t may be a new bridge is neces-
sary. But the necessity can be de-
termined only after thorough sur
vey by the counry's ablest en-
gineers. Commissioner Whalen is
not an able engineer, nor is John F.
Hylan or Charles F. Murphy.
Tammany is the same old Tam.
many that 1t has been for more than
hundred years, and when Tam
many controls the city is a bad time
to plan new bridges or any other
great public works, unless the pub
lie is assured Of their necessity and
is specially safeguarded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
Wetter

An interesting development in
"The Literary Digest's" prohibition
poll is the return from the first big
factory vote. Out of total Of 2,037
ballots there were only SO, or less
than S per cent, in favor of strict
enforcement. The remaining split
almost evenly between the light wine
and beer advocates and the o,1t-and-
out repealers.
This vote was taken in New Jer-
sey, never partial to prohibition, in
the Edison works. But there is no
reason for deeming it exceptional.
Rather it suggests the contention
that there is sharp difference of
opinion between different groups
and sections in the country. The
rural districts of the Middle West
show a strong dry sentiment. The
manufacturing districts are wet.
Excepting this Edison poll, 1.-THE
Literary Digest" vote has come for
the most part from it's own readers
and from names chosen from direc-
tories and telephone books. These,
as has already been shown, may be
said to represent the drier elements
of the country.
The natural conclusion so far is
that the sentiment Of the country is
wet or moist, although there is over
whelming opposition to the saloon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01

Congress may seem a doubtful boon,
the outlook for next winters coal
may be black as the fuel itself,
railroads may show static tenden-
cies, grasshoppers, boil weevils and
candidates for Senatorial nomina-
tions may infest the land, but the
great agricultural belt is polishing
up it's favorite sport tools and turn
ing it's eyes upon Des Moines.
Let lis rejoice, then, as we listen
to thousands of practice horseshoes
clinking against their pegs through
out the land. They make a music
that browns out the jazz of eco
nomic discord. The annual horse
shoe pitchers tournament is horse
shoe of good luck nailed, with the
heels up, over the national doorway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
A Friend in Need

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: AS steady" reader of your
news columns suggest that Police
Commissioner Enright, who is a
wealthy man, just returned from
Europe, is morally, if not legally,
bound to come to the. rescue of his
generous ex-Special Deputy Commits
sioncr, now with but SIG in his inside
pocket and a long array of unpaid per-
sonal and family bills. Surely, "Dick,"
who saves SO much from his salary.
who testified SO cheerfully to his
friends generosity before the Never
committee, will at least return the
$4,000. more or less, or one
gift automobile, to the generous giyer.
now in such desperate financial need.
-, HENRY WRIGHT.
New York T,Il,- 10 inoo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
The Razorback as a Neighbor


To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Being an ardent admirer of
The Tribune long before I came to
Florida two years ago, felt deep
chagrin that my beloved Journal should
find room to eulogize the razorback
hog.
If the razorback is to become ex-
tinct soon we have seen no signs of
it here, but if that is the case all
fruit growers and farmers will rejoice
for that same razorback-the free
range hog-causes more damage to
fences and property, not to mention
ones religion, than any other four.
| legged animal in Florida.
| These razorbacks tear up fences
without a thought except that the barb
wire scratches their backs nicely; eat
the choicest fruits from the low hang.
ing branches, root up young fruit trees
and crops and shed their feas
wherever they go. And if it were no,
for all these crimes one could not
help but loathe them for their bodily
hideousness and responsiveness.
If one must eulogize mere hog lei
it be the good old Yankee hog which
lives quietly from day to day in 6
pen and stays where it is put.
A WOMAN FRUIT GROWER.
Barton, Fla, July &c, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
Pot and Kettle

The denunciation of the Russian
Reds by General Ludendorff will
doubtless be followed by a denun-
citation Of General Ludendorff by the
Russian Reds. Both, probably for
the first time in their careers, will
be right.
What Ludendorff did on oattle-
fields the Reds are doing in the
offices to which they have elected
themselves. Terrorism was Luden-
dorff's creed, as it is the creed of
the Bolsheviki. Ludendorff was
autocratic and a believer in ruth
lessness, just as are Lcnine and
Trotzky.
The killings that are committed in
Russia by the men in power are the
same sort of killings that are COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
We Are Perfectly Safe

How thankless the lot Of the
statesman!
How little the populace cares
If he burns midnight oil in hard,
painstaking toll
On soul-racking public affairs.
Small honor accompanies Office;
The salary almost is nil.
Won't they soon quit the race for
such profitlcss place?
Well, no! it's not likely they
will.
Give thought to our members
of Congress:
At the imminent risk of their
health
They gladly forsake golden
chances to make
Uncounted and limitless wealth.
Can such be expected forever
To labor like Trojans to plan
Always misunderstood - their
constituents good?
They can, gentle reader, they
can!
Republics are always ungrateful?
They groan and complain and
protest,
And. armed with their votes,
often leap at the threats
Of the men who are serving
them best.
Some time will there be a re-
bellion
Of those who are, sick of their
lot?
Will they quit in disgust every
Office of trust?
Well, no-very probably not!
How dreadful the fate of the
country
If statesmen could never be
found
To pilot the ship on her perilous
trip
When civilians might run her
aground!
How awful an absolute shortage
Of our high-minded governing
class!
But it doesn't appear that the era
is near
When this horror is coming to
pass!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01
Individualisn
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When l.. r. Anderson asserts
that "the prohibitionist's view ignores
the normal individualism which is the
genius Of the Anglo-Saxon race" the
query arises: Where has he been all
this time?
For if there is anything the OPP
ponents of the liquor traffic were care
full to do it was to take into con-
sideration" this normal individual
ISM" For hundreds Of years they ex-
rerimented with every plan of regula-
ton which promised to protect society
from the admitted evils Of strong
drink which would at the same
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-01

niteed in Germany by monarchist
assassins. Ludendorff is confesscdly
a monarchist.
Were it possible for the nations
of the earth to pit the German mon
archists against the Bolshevissi and
let them fight it out the coming Of
peace would be greatly FASTENED.
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What Readers Sau

time leave the drinker his drink-his
"individualism." All failed, and the
makers and users of drink helped them
to fail.
They never took into consideration
anybody else's individualism There
has been nothing that has paid so little
attention to the rights Of others as
this liquor business. which has i'm
pudently arrogated to itself the cham
pioning of personal liberty.
ORRIN H. GRAHAM.
Franklin, Pa. July Is, 1922.
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The Tower
AUTUMN SONG

AUTUMN SONG
W7ELL, my heart, is the sum-
w. mer over;
The summer Of suns and the CLEAN
ing bees
In the fields of marjoram, thyme
and clover?
Nay. shall we grieve for the loss
Of these?
Why, my heart, if we be together,
What need we care for the winters
weather?
We've sung some songs that were
worth the singing
Few and slight, but the voice rang
And once or twice with the power
of bringing
The songs full message clearly
through.
So, my heart, if we be together,
We need not care for the winters
weather.
We've had our seasons of love and
laughter,
Our days Of labor and nights of
rest.
Shall we not dream that the great
hereafter
May crown the labor and end the
quest?
Good. my heart, SO we be together,
We shall not fear for the graves
cold weather.
PERLEY A. CHILD.
The appointment Of car Of the
films and an overload Of the stage,
coupled Nth the imminent coronation
Of supreme ruler of the restaurant,
should give the one-time Kaiser his first
opportunity In gears to feel fattered.
On or after September / considerable
pressure might prevail upon US to &C
cept the arduous post Of satrap of the
column conductors. Among the pitt
fully few qualifications for this Office
that we can advance is the modest, to
the lay mind, salary we should demand.
We'd be entirely content to receive
only the stamps sent in by incurable
optimists with each contribution.
Our rule, for the most part, would
be amazingly lenient. But we wish to
warn those who may consider support
ing our candidacy that the punishment
to be visited upon the first vassal to
reprint the hoary laundry joke about
Don't kill your wife; let us do your
dirty work" would be little short of
capital.