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a Blow at Extortion

Governor Miller strained a con-
stitutional point to sign the anti
theater ticket specializing bill be-
cause he was convinced of the mag
nitude of the abuse.
That the Theatrical Producers
Association, represented by John
Golden and Augustus Thomas, asked
the Governor to sign the bill indi
Gates that the managers are as much
annoyed by ticket speculation as are
the public. Two or three ordinances
have been aimed at the speculators.
None of them was effective. The
new law, which provides for Jail
sentences for men who charge more
than so cents over box Office prices,
promises to work better. Governor
Miller is in doubt about the constitu-
tlonality of the price-fxing clause;
but he decided to leave this to the
courts.
Most of the producers in New
York, despite common belief to the
contrary, have long been opposed to
the extortlon practiced at their doors.
They know from experience that peo
pie who are victimized not only
b.ame the managers but become dis
gusted with the theater in general.
For long time this has been hurt
ing the business of the theater.
Ticket spectators are purely para
sites. Unlike the agencies which
maintain convenient Offices, they do
nothing whatever for the playgoer.
They do not maintain sales places,
nor do they sell tickets to any at
traction in town. They are to be
found only close by the box office and
they sell tickets only to plays which
are highly successful-.and always at
as much as the customer will stand.
For signing this bill the Governor
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deserves the gratitude Of visitors to
the city as we'll as that of all resi-
dent theatergoers.
A "Don't" That Failed

Simon Stern, a Brooklyn shoe mer-
chant, trusted to Mr.. Enright's list
of crime "Dont's" not wisely but too
well. He is short $1,000 and his
safe is in the cellar of his store,
bruised and broken
At a o'clock Sunday morning,
when Mr.. Stern was finishing work
on his books, he remembered that he
had money in the safe and that the
Commissioner had warned people
against keeping money in safes over
night. He went to the police station
near by and asked the officer in
charge to warehouse his 1900. But
the officer, well informed as to cur
rent events, refused to take chances.
A bandit might walk right into the
station at any time
Back to the store with his burden
went Mr. Stern, with a policeman as
a bodyguard. Then he remembered
that Mr.. Enright had said: Don't
leave your safe in dark corner of
the store. Keep it by the window,
where passing officers can see it,"
The safe was moved up to the
window where passing officers could
see 1t. But that night came passing
burglars, not passing policemen.
One saw it, ran it back to a trap
door and dropped it into the cellar,
robbing it leisurely.
The facts about Mr.. Stern are set
forth not so much to excite sympathy
for him as TO show that more than
list Of "Dont's" is needed to end the
crime wave. Mr.. Enright has not
found substitute for going to work
himself. Perhaps after he has tried
out few more experiments this
idea will occur to him.
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Bricks Without Straw

With pretense Of candor Lenine
has said Eve have been beaten on
the economic front. Capitalism has
been too strong for U.S. We are
ready. for a time at least, to allow
private ownership and privately con-
trolled industry
What these fair words mean in
practice Thomas H. Dickinson tells
with eyewitness accuracy.
A Soviet official approaches the
former manager of factory for the
making of felt boots and tells him
the terms on which he is to be per-
,nitted to re-enter business, saying;
You are to give up your job, re-
linquish your salary and ration and
take over your old factory that is
waiting for you. We will put your
factory in order. but you must pay
the wages and obtain the rations of
your labor. We will take half of
your output for the state The Labor
Council will control the number and
hours of the workmen"
One can imagine why there is no
rush to go into business in Moscow.
Only mocking image of business
self~determination is allowed, The
f,.ctory, in all vital matters, is more
than ever in government control By
decree the government, which keeps
in its warehouses the only consider
able store of food, can strangle the
undertaking. 1t is plain that the
Sovieteers, having gained dictatorial
power, do not intend to give up
shred Of it. The new scheme, of
course, won't work-may be worse
than undiluted communism. Then
Lenine will say: ut has been shown
that capitalism is practically worse
than communism.
Yet men presumptively sane and
of good judgment are proceeding at
Genoa on the assumption that it is
possible to restore Russia without an
essential change in Russia's govern
ment. Men like Keynes are diligent
in spreading the delusion, and the
boobish guilelessly believe.
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A Boomerang

From the stump, from the ban
quet board, from the City Hall the
Mayor of New York has shouted
the battle cry of "Home rule!"
Home rule" he held was to the
citizen Of New York what the flag
was to the American patriot. 1t
was a thing to be held sacred, to be
fought for whenever sinister in
terests threatened it, to be defended
at any cost against it's bitter and
lmplacable enemies intrenched at AL
bany.
However, a change came over Mr..
Hylan's spirit when the Legislature
voted to give him $4,000 year
more. That was a different matter.
1t brought home rule nearer home.
OF course, the Legislature had no
right to raise the pay of policemen
and firemen, but as to the Mayor
we'll, who would deny the Legisla-
ture the privilege Of doing an act
of simple justice?
So he took his pen in hand and
affixed his signature to the law rails
ing his own salary. But the Gov
ernor had evidently been reading
Nh Hylan's speeches and was con-
verted. When the bill reached him
ne vetoed it, which is too bad, for
at Palm Beach the cost of living is
extremely high. The moral of this
sad tale is that it is not always
wise to be too CONVINCING
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More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague

The Song Sparrow
Half an ounce Of feathers,
Half an ounce Of bird,
A fluffy mite of brown and white
And just touch of gray,
In all sorts Of wea theirs
Passing round the word
At dusk and dawn that Winters
gone
And Spring is on the way.
Wee prophetic wizard,
Buffeting the blast
The while he shakes the lacv
flakes
Off tiny -whirring wings,
Well he knows the blizzard
Soon must blow its last;
And In the lee Of yonder tree
He sings and sings and sings,
Ere the sun has risen,
Or its earliest ray
Beams on high across the skv.
re pipes his pure delight.
Nothing can imprison
That ecstatic Nay
That bids all men be glad again
For everything's all right.
April showers scorning,
On tossing limb,
FROM his throut pours note on
Ringing all day long:
Always there III morning
In the heart of him,
And tor me there'll always be
A sermon in his song
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Plucking at Phi Beta Kama

In filling out the customary an
nual questionable this year the
senior class at Yale has frankly
voted that the varsity "Y," symbol
OF athletic prowess, is preferred to
the key of Phi Beta Kappa.
Whereupon those who despair Of
culture have become vocal and
hasten to chorus that Phi Beta
Kappa is but whited sepulcher of
scholastic merit-that so manv of
postgraduate eminence were never
chosen to it that its membership is
not the intellectual "elite" that it
processes to be; that it is obvious
that the most promising members
OF a class cannot be screened out
and identified by the hard-and-fast
standard of college marks.
Poor Phi Beta Kappa! 1t suffers
from the gibes that in all ages have
been hurled at societies presump-
lively intellectual In Plato's dav
not all who later became distin-
gulshed sophists came to the Athe-
nlan academy. Those left out bv the
French Academy constitute a roll
of glory; indeed, so impossible is it
to discern capacity that all ribbon
Wearers are objects of suspicion.
Did not Lord Melbourne cynically
boast that what he liked about the
order OF the Garter was that "there
was no id merit about it,?
But the criticism is beside the
point. Phi Beta Kappa's key signi-
hes nothing more, nor ever has, nor
could, than that it's possessor did
we'll in ths classroom. 1t is not
prophetic. If his later career is
drab his failure does not wipe out
the $.ct that in his college davs he
showed mental alertness or bookish
industry and was able to conform
to the measuring stick which col
reyes employ, Tor want of better,
in determining intellectual achieve
ment.
But the society necessarily re-
lates to nascent gifts, not to frui
ton. Many fair-looking seeds do
not sprout. Scores of qualities other
than classroom proficiency are i'm
portant, and opportunity, which no
organization can guarantee, counts
for much.
But though admitting the desir
ability of an honor college body the
critics do not suggest better
method of assessing candidates than
by the same obsolete standard of
day-byday rating. Indeed, it is not
vital what form this standard takes,
and the marking system is probably
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Senators as Dummies

There are blocs and blocs in the
Senate. Within the farm bloc,
which has figured SO largely in the
proceedings of the present Congress,
a self-called "All-American tariff
bloc" has now been formed. 1t
includes some Senators not as
sociated with the agricultural COM
bination.
Senator Gooding. Of Idaho, the
chairman of this tariff voting trust,
is extremely frank about the pur-
poses and methods Of these Con-
gressional parties within parties. In
a recent statement he said:
The following is q list Of Sena-
tors who have expressed a willing
ness to accept the schedules in the
new tariff bill proposed by the ma
tional farm organizations, including
the National Grange, the National
Farm Bureau, the National Dairy As
sociation, the National Poultry As
sociation, the National Wool Grow
ers' Association, the American Live
stock Association and the Southern
Tariff Association
Then comes a list of twenty-five
Senators-twenty-four Republicans
and one Democrat-who are said to
have thus delegated the function of
legislation to outside associations
which avowedly pursue selfish inter
ests. These Senators are under oath
to serve the welfare Of the nation as
a whole. Yet they confess, so far as
the agricultural schedules of the
tariff bill are concerned, that they
are not free agents. They promise to
obey the orders of officers of group
interest organizations.
Here the working of the bloc sys-
TEN in Congress is ngenuously barred.
The bloc comes first, the party sec
ond, the nation last, if at all A
protective tariff is an instrument of
nationalism, designed to promote
national ends. The schedules all
hang together. 1t defeats the true
purposes of a protective tariff if a
balance is struck on the basis Of let
ting any one group say what it
wants and then impose it's will on
powerful bloc in Congress.
AS The Tribune has often said,
many of the specific ideas advanced
by the farm bloc deserve considera-
lion on their merits The agricultural
rates in the Senate bill may be capa-
bic of justification. But the method
by which it is proposed to impose
them is all wrong. Senators may not
surrender the right to judge tariff
rates in the light of their effect on
the country generally. They become
mere dummies when they sign away
their liberty of action. Not long
ago the Assembly of New York held
it was an eXpellable ofense for
members to give to outsiders au-
thority to dictate their votes. Even
Socialists acknowledged that such
agreements We're indefenSiblo.
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trademark on the commodity wbi,. !.
vended in 1920 as Mr.. Wilson's st
door man. Rating his own co,ss
ency as virtue, he invites otb,u
practice intellectual humility. i, :
pent their errors and to remember II
consistency is a besetting vice d r
ferior minds. He sneers at the M
900 plurality verdict given againsn
as the madness of 1920.'
Mr.. Cox has a penchant forsr
popular in Germany during the VII
but not so popular since-@The ns
enemies, the more honor" His visyi'
are challenge even to the large body 4
Democrats who do not believe tia. t4
worlds progress stopped short WIZ
the original League of Nations et'
enant was rejected. Senator Under.
wood and the other Democrats F1i
supported the four-power treaty an
willing to face political realities OK
approach to international co-opsraiii.
having been barricaded, they are read
to try another approach. They vssi
along with the Administration Z
creating a concert for peace in III
Pacific and the Far East. But IL
Wilson Senators, with Mr.. Cox's d
proval. tried to stab the Washingtr
conference treaties in the back, s
cause, though going one mile towsH
world concord, they didn't go twain
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Cox and the Run Again Habit William Z B. upu

They all want to run again 1t is d
malady to which our Presidential can
didates, successful or unsuccessful, are
inexorably subject. There is the necee-
sary percentage of exceptions to prove
the rule. Chief Judge Alton b. Par
ker of our State Court of Appeals.
defeated in 1904, showed no desire to
throw his hat into the ring in 1903 or
at any other four-year interval there
after Associate Justice Charles E.
Hughes, of the Federal Supreme Court,
beaten in 1916 was not even receptive
candidate for denomination in 1920
The judicial temperament, with it's
deep-rooted respect for decisions rem
dered by competent authority, may
help to account for these two excep-
tions. President Hayes counted him
self out. He made a one-term pledge
and stuck to it, Winfield S. Hancock
was satisfied with a single candidacy.
But he was an illustrious soldier. and
no politician.
To go no further back into history than
1875 all the other major party candidates
have had the itch to make another try.
Samuel j. Tilden fully intended to re-
peat IN 1880, with "the crime of 1876"
as his platform. But on the eve of the
Democratic National Convention he
condoned that crime to the extent OF
pleading poor health as d bar to a
second nomination. James G. Blaine
failed in the Republican National Con-
ventions of 1875 and 1880, was success
full in 1884 and failed once more in
1892
Grant sought third nomination in
1880. Harrison, Mckinley and Taft
ran twice. William J. Bryan ran three
times. Grover Cleveland announced
his adhesion to the one-term princi
pie. Yet he was the Democratic candi
date in 1883 and 1892, as well as in
1884. Theodore Roosevelt was Presi-
dent for what he considered two full
terms in succession, and in 1908 re-
fused "a third cup of tea" But he
was a candidate once more in 1919
The Democratic platform of that wear
limited Mr.. Wilson to single term
he refused to be bound by the partv's
declaration and ran again in 1916 Two
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Death for Bandits
To the Editor of the Tribune

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: | read in your columns about
the steps taken by Governor Miller to
put down the crime wave in this city.
My belief is that it would be a rood
idea to have the State Legislature fol-
low the suggestion recently made by
judge and pass a law making first de-
gree burglary, robbery and kidnapping
punishable by death. When situa-
tion gets so bad that the authorities
are unable to cope with it, it is about
time to take drastic measures. While
they are about it the senselcss Sulli-
van law should be repealed.
w. H. BURK
New York, April 12, 1922.
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years ago, because of illness, he ran
once more-by proxy.

years ago, because of illness, he ran
once more-by proxy.
Mr. Cox-the Wilson proxy in 1920
is heavily backed by precedent in lay
ing claim to a denomination He has
another argument to support this claim
In 1920 he was unavoidably the inher-
itor of the Wilson mantle. But he also
inherited the Administrations ex-
traordinary unpopularity-a public i'll
will which had been accommodating for
seven years and of whose explosive
force neither he nor Mr.. Wilson had
any suspicion. There is a scarcely
veiled intimation in Mr. Cox's recent
activities and addresses that the anhaz-
ing shortage in Democratic votes two
years ago was due rot to any deficiency
Of strategy on his part or to any mis-
Judgment as to issues but solely to pub
llc disesteem Of President Wilson's
personality, and methods.
otherwise what plausible explanation
can be given of his blunt insistence
that he was wholly right two wears
ago and the country was wholly
wrong? Or of his recent labors in or
ganlzlng opposition in the Senate to
the ratification of the Washington
conference treaties? Mr.. Cox fought
the fourpower Pacific treaty on the
ground, mainly, that it was inimical to
the fortunes of the League of Nations.
Acceptance of the covenant without
material reservations is still his
panacea for all ills, national or inter
national. And he is "irreconcilahIe"
enough to be unwilling to bring about
an accord in the Pacific, or even liml-
tation of naval armament. except
through the agency of the League. No
half loaves, no substitute methods of
international association for the Ohio
statesman my way-the former
Wilson way-or no way" is his pro-
gram for 1922 and 1924.
1T is a curious case of mental nom
reslllency and arrogance of opinion.
When Mr.. Bryan ran in 1900, he tried
to shift issues. He put "anti-im
perlalism" ahead of "the crime of
1872 and the heaven bonn ratio of
gold to silver. But Mr.. Cox will have
none Of that. He merely puts his own
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is. to postpone the day Of very
burdensome settlement.
The bonus myth is not likely to
terrorize any longer. The Senate is
not likely 30 act on the House bill at
this session. After the primaries
and the election are over Congress
can deal with bonus legislation with
out the hysteria and selfish wire
pulling attendant upon an election
eering gamble
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Spring Weather

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | wonder if others are having
their plans upset by the weather man,
as are some people whom I know.
If you will refer to predictions back
to, say, March "a, Friday, you will note
from what the weather turned out to
be that he was right about three
times, if that many
The next time | make plans to go
away over the week end, and shove RS
are predicted, | will know that it
means the opposite kind of weather.
Forecasts seem to 60 by .ontraries. as
in the case of dreams, which they
probably are. H. C. DOYLE
New York, April II, 1922.
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Check Payment Drawbacks

NHeCh dyfnent Drawbacks
10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SIT: In to-day's Tribune we find
Mayor Hylan advises check payments
TO thwart pay roll bandits" Let us
try to work that out For example
have a factory, employ 1900 hands
ana pay every week. The banks open
for business at 10 a. m. and close at 3
p m' My factory working hours are
from 8 a. m. to p. m. How can nv
hands have their checks cashed bv the
bank? And, mind you, the rule of all
banks is that Che party presenting a
check for payment must be identified.
Finally, what bank would be willing
to have thousands of hands drop in
upon 1t every week, or even everv
month, to have their pay checks cashed ?
AN OLD AUDITOR.
Brooklyn April 12, 1922.
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Passing 1t Along

(From The Boston Hero'o' :,
If Mayor Hylan should eVe' !
measures against the Ne" .,
thieves and thugs, Boston anu :.
delphia should make arrans
for plainclothes men to mees W
York trains.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Merely Human

Even President Harding, frank as
he usually is, inuists on his constitu-
tional right to keep his golf scores
to himself.
copyright by James j. Montague)
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Old Stuff

we are momnntarily expecting to
near that the Patagonian plesiosau-
rus got away from a man who had
hooked it and that it was two miles
and half long.
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You eaa purchase merchandise advertised IN rhE
TRIBUNE With absolute sateS-foF II dissa;Isfso-
lion results IN any case the TRIBUNE ruaran-
tees to pay your money back aPoa eopsesi No red
taso No uuibblins. We refund promptly II tbs
advertiser does rot.
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as effective as any. Purely un-
guided selection would likely dis
play the weaknesses incident to fall
lible human Judgment
AS for the apparent reputation
of the venerable institution by Yale's
senior class, it is In one respect in
dicative of a healthy moral attitude.
The young men aro at least honest.
They do not, with deathbed re-
pentance, declare for an institution
to which a great many Of them
have been Indifferent. The time is
notoriously an egocentric one-the
youth of both sexes don't hesitate to
avow their likes and dislikes, and
since the invention Of letters much
learning has been wearisome to aver
age adolescent flesh. To leap high
over bar or to carry ball amid
the shouts Of screaming thousands
seems more soul satisfying.
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Governor Miller has done a good
deal Of expense cutting, but his hack
at Mr.. Hylan's salary is the most un-
kindest cut of all.
Apparently the way to gain the
adulation of San Francisco jury is
TO take part in saturnalia in one of
the city's leading hotels.
Owners Of Liberty bonds had their
cake, and now they can eat it.
1t is now possible under the law to
send theater ticket SPECTATORS to
jail. Perhaps in the fullness of time
the same thing may be true of
burglars and hold-up men.
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NERO.

broker has accused an actress Of
abducting him and keeping him pris-
oner in her apartment for three days.
he forays that feminists are making
into hitherto purely masculine fields
OF endeavor are beginning to worry u.s.
We wonder if there isn't some re-
spectacle, middle-aged married man
who wants job as chaperon.
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Naturally

a prevalent game is called Rus,
sian Bank" It is rather an empty
pastime.
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FRIDAY, APRIL Ia, 1922

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cofpSrsuen- Published daily. ogden Rid. Presi-
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Such a position is logical enough fo'
isolationists like Senator Borah, wh'
don't want TO travel even sn inca y
that direction. But for those VIE
say that they want to go the wn'H
route it is childishly obstructive. Ihes
obstructionists put the means apoH
the end. They won't journey tows'f
the destination which they reeon]
mend to the country except IN tas-|
own make of limousine.
In the Senate Mr.. Glass, Of sirginh
mildly apologized for voting agair
the four power treaty. He saio'
believe in force behind treaty 70 p
sure peace. What | am objeetlns /
is that there is not force enough 0'1
hind this treaty" Mr.. Cox is oineiso]
He seems to exult in his opposias
to an instrument which he Fegsi'l
primarily as faint-hearted Spp.0N
nation to the Wilsonian ideal u
alliance of force, and secondsfn' I
dangerous and vicious in ITSELF.
The Ohio Ex-Governor intsn0s
keep public attention focused % 49,
madness of 1920" just as MI in.. a.s
intended to keep it focused Oh
crime of 1876" Tilden lost tne iis
dency by one electoral vote ana l'S
popular plurality of 25o,eS0. ~, "a.
PIT votes behind in the Eiectois' !,
lege and 7,oo4,S47 votes oeninu !.
the popular count. The forne, -,
cided not to run again. The i's +,
may decide to give the voters ah'' a.
chance, rubbing in on them mean .;.
the saying of another unlucSs !.
Dental candidate: 81 would issDs i.
right than be President" bus N
recalls Thomas B. Reeds rev. ,.asr
William NJ. Springer when TINS ,as.
tried to apply Clay's epigrsm
self: !.
Don't worry; you'll new
either
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Maybe He Lives In n Flat

Sir: F. T. HIS ideas of conserva-
ton in the matter of pencil leads and
razor blades are good, but his ideas of
science are rotten.
The lead in lead pencils is not lead
and therefore will not make lead sui
phate. The lead is graphite, carbon,
same as coal Let him add the leads
to the kitchen range.
Prussian blue is made of potassium
ferro-cyande, not ferrous sulphate. He
can top his backyard fence with the
blades as a encouragement to stray
cats. NED.