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New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
Fighting Red WindrniIls

If one accepts the announcement
of the American Defense Society, the
Reds are upon US and only drastic
action can save us. But the time is
past to take such statements Sc
riously. For brief period after the
war there was danger from profess
sional agitators which threatened to
become widespread in the industrial
centers. At the height of the Boil
shevik success in Russia the leaders
Of revolution there and here had
hopes of America. But even then
these hopes were built on the illu-
sion that the agitators would find q
sufficiently fertile field in this coun-
try. Any one familiar with condi-
tions here saw clearly that the most
that they could expect was to play
upon the emotions of the unbalanced,
the cranks and the naturally irnpas-
stoned revolutionists who form an
insignificant part of our population.
The movement was foredoomed to
failure, even though It was directed
from Moscow, and what little i'm
pulse 1t had has long since died
away.
Americans are essentially conserv-
ative--in fact, we are probably the
most conservative people in the
world to-day. The kind of radical
ism that communists and Bolshevists
preach finds little sympathy in ma
ton Of farmers, small shop keepers
and professional men. Only in a
few regions, where social and eco-
nomic conditions are deplorable, is
there any genuine response TO the
Reds. In the cities there still are
small groups of vociferous parlor
Boisheviks, but if the circulation of
radical newspapers and magazines
and the tabulation of the Socialist
and Farmer-Labor votes is indica-
tive Of their numerical strength, they
are now even less numerous than
before. Having kcenly sensed the
| bitter inJustices Of the world we live
in, they pinned their hopes on the
application Of communist theories In
Russia. Their disappointment with
the failure of the experiment there
has produced a disillusion that is
healthy for the United States and
for themselves.
| In attacking the "Red menace" in
this country to-day the American
Defense Society is merely fighting
windmills.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
Helpless

Again a building strike which
may paralyze building operations in
New York City is threatened, and
again the public must look helplessly
on while employers and employees
fight over their differences.
The need of some sort of indus
trial tribunal such as was suggested
during the last session of the Legis-
lature becomes more and more ap-
parent. Too often the issues in
volved in q quarrel of this sort are
too intricate and of too technical q
nature for the public to understand.
One thing is certain: No strike
can be won without public sympa-
thy, and the public will never back
a strike which will tie up building
at time when the whole prosper
ity Of the city depends upon in
creased building activity.
Wages are still high, Hours are
still limited by union regulations. 1t
is the old question of union hatred
Of non-union labor that continually
stirs up trouble. Until some means
of establishing the rights or wrongs
Of this controversy is discovered In
dustrial conditions in New York
City, and in the country for that
matter, will never be secure.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
A Contrast In Death Rates

A suggestive and not altogether
creditable contrast in death rat.s
appears in current statistics of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com.
pany. The figures relate merely
to its policy holders, but these arc
so numerous and so widely distrib-
nted as to be representative of the
whole population.
The salient feature of the show
ing is that in the month of Septem-
Der last the death rate from diseases
of all kinds was the lowest ana
that from automobile accidents the
highest ever recorded in the his
tory OF the company.
That is to say, the medical pro
fession and sanitarians are doing
better work than the police and
criminal courts. We are gradu-
ally conquering tuberculosis and ty-
phoid and other plaques. but are
seemingly not able to control tho
foolish or criminal automobiIist. We
are gaining victory over the
scourges Of nature. but not ova-
those OF human perversity.
TO save lives frs5 ia the menace
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

for selling highly speculative securi-
ties for investment purposes to per-
sons inexperienced in financial anal
ysis the Business Builders system
was vulnerable to criticism.
Elliott's Business Builders set out
two years ago to expand going con-
Germs by furnishing men and money.
Successful stock venders were TO be
promoted into executive positions in
client corporations. The wisdom of
such a policy seemed clearly ques-
tionable. The enthusiasm Of the
salesman is not always an asset in
the executive, whose optimism must
be tempered by challenging ap-
proach to statements of prospects.
The successful seller Is not ncces-
sarily equally adapted to general
management Of q business Exhibit
A, James w. Elliott.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
The Fascist

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: It Is indeed astounding to find
so many Americans and my own coun-
trymen, the English, misunderstanding
and misrepresenting the aims of Pre-
mier Mussolini and his Fascist" an
organization that stands for law and
order, the saviors of Italy, who have
read civilization lesson in combating
Bolshevism-of which other nations are
taking note, my England included.
Such an organization might have
saved Holy Russia from her hideous
fate.
A series of inept governments, COM
parable to our own Coalition under
Lloyd George, failed to crush the an
archy to which Italy was reduced. I'm
omclai patriots were compelled to stem
in. Until the Fascist appeared on the
scene it looked as il Italy would 90
Boishevist. From that time ON the
situation in Italy steadily improved, and
in the end the revolutionists and Com
munists were on the run. How absurd
to associate the Fascist with revolu-
tlonists! Revolutionists never stand
loyalty by their king.
EMILY v. LORRAINE.
New York, Nov. 20, 1929,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
The New War trcphesied

On the same day that Ciemenceau
in New York issued his warning
against the dangers of the Russo
German alliance Mussolini, speak
ing in Switzerland, declared that
Germany was menace not only for
France but for Italy as we'll, and
that the next war would surely be
waged jointly by the Russians, Ger
mans and Turks against Western
civilization. German officers to-day
are preparing for it, he said. In O
similar vein Clemenceau declared
that German munitions plants we're
turning out machine guns and can
non against the appointed day.
Don't you see what is going on?"
said Clemenceau. Don't you read
the papers? Why, haven't you
heard of the treaty between the
Turks and the Germans and the
Russians?" Speaking with the sad
wisdom Of half century of partici-
patton in the European tangle, he
repeated his warning of a new war
for which Germany was preparing.
Americans are not the only people
prone to turn deaf ear to "ances-
trail voices prophesying war" Yet
in the present instance no open-
minded man can ignore these warn
ings. They are part Of the present
day scene that cannot be brushed
aside. Mussolini's experience in in
ternational politics is not compara-
BILE with that Of Clemenceau, but he
has good sources of information and
has access to men wise in the ways
OF European diplomacy. Besides, he
speaks for q nation in which the
fear OF Germany has never been as
keen as in France and in which
since the armistice there have been
signs Of a greater readiness to for
give and to forget than in France.
1t is certainly striking coinci-
dence, the young Italian and the
venerable Frenchman raising the
same warning in the same hour. 1t
would be pleasant to pretend that
no one has spoken, But can Amer
lea thus shut it's eays7
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
Eoppe's 'Y'wn Again,

Normally reigns again in billiards.
Willie Hoppe has come back. He has
defeated in succession the five other
leading players of the world. ending
with Jake Schaefer, who took the
championship title from him last
year. Hcppe's victory Is as popular
as Schaefer's was. It gives zest
to sport to see a newcomer topp!e
over a longtime winner, and then
to have the old hero full of grit
reassert himself.
The tournament showed no great
disparity of skill among the COM
petitors. Hagenlacher, the German
entrant, failed to win a game. Yet
he gave Hoppe fght--almost beat
him. Cont of France and Hore-
mans of Belgium finished in a tie on
games won and lost, just behind
Schsefer, and Cochran, the third
American. was always dangerous.
Nerves were much in evidence.
All the players seemed to suffer
from them. 1t was surprising to
detect something like stage fright in
these cue wizards. They would start
in by missing shots as though they
were Class D amateurs. The Coue
formula would have done them good.
Hoppe explains that he was troubled
by Slack of coordination. Just an
other name for nerves. None of
them played as good billiards as he
knew how; their grand averages
were not impressive.
The meeting was highly favored
with temperament and personality
and was much more interesting on
that account than il it had simply
furnished an exhibition of mechani-
cal perfection. 1t was Hopes back
bone as much as his cue that won.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
The Law or Ranges

Hunters near the Cheyenne Indian
Reservation in South Dakota report
that out of thirty-five coyotes and
two bobcats taken within two
months of hunting and trapping all
were old animals, and about two
thirds Of them showed signs of hav-
ing been previously wounded or
trapped.
These animals evidently had ac-
quired by experience wisdom be-
side which the learning Of Kaa,
Baloo and Bagheera seems out Of
date. They had no teachers to ex-
pound the law of the ranges in the
manner that these three taught the
law of the jungle They had no
Hath to warn against mans traps
and pitfalls nor Bagheera to tell Of
the cruel customs Of the man tribe.
Their younger brethren, too ignorant
and too trustful Of mankind, fell
prey to the bounty hunters. But the
survivors, profiting from bitter eX-
perience, learned even more than the
masters of the jungle could teach.
They learned not only to beware of
man but to outwit him, to kill his
livestock and to escape his traps, to
rob his poisoned bait without eating
it, and to keep out of range Of his
far-shooting rifle. They seem even
to have taken a malicious delight in
first despoiling and then foiling man.
But the fates are finally turned
against them and their days are
numbered. Classed as pests .(and
living up to their classification it
has been proposed that for the old
bounty system, whereby casual hunt
ers were paid so much head for the
death Of "varmint," a new system
be introduced whereby one man will
give all his attention to hunting
them down and driving them off for
ever. Not all the wisdom Of the jun
gle or the ranges can avail them un-
der such circumstances.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

find In him a good interpreter his
star had not risen and he was deemed
too unimportant to damn with faint
praise or exalt with friendly criticism.
The triumph is complete and reverence
and regard are centered in Bill Jones,
which was only the glass through
which we could see the true Frank
Bacon.
The power 20 infuse what we call
personality into our creation is not
given to every one. In Bacon's case
this was not the least of his successes,
He was not allowed to create further
masterpieces. Like tired child, he
wanted rest and sleep. We may say
OF him, as was said of greater actor.
that the gayety Of nations is eclipsed
by his final exit, Ave atquo vale,
w. E. ALLEN.
New Brunswick, N. j., Nov 2t, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

attack, roughly parallel to the FOUR
power pact, might answer the ques-
tion of guarantees. III an American
society of nations should be forth-
coming perhaps some close fedora
ton with the League of Nations
might be worked out, The possibili-
ties are many once the will to find
them is uncovered. All that is essen
tial is a spirit of generosity, turn
ing of our backs on old wars and a
facing Of the rising sun--a spirit of
youth, If you will. such SIS hlazea In
the eyes of our friend and coun-
selor, Georges Clemenceau.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

TO the old home. She narries hr
seducer and continues, presunstly, b
live happily ever after.
Naturally, with our upbringisg 70
cannot refrain from frowning upsr
such a Etate Of affairs and brssalnf
Mr.. Maxwelps book immoral. But tfat
is largely because we read 50 nsny Of
the Sunday school library bseEs in CIT
youth.
Leaving our inheritances and youth.
ful completes aside, we beiiers that the
state Of affairs set forth by NJ. Max
well is, IL not usual. al least raturd
and true to life TIE wages 81 Sin n
doubtedly aren't worth earning In ~
vast majority of cases, but We hsu
an idea that at times they build y
pretty good bank accounts. This .
deplorabIe. But We think its true, dF
spite the preponderant verdict q
literature to the contrary.
In literature, the man who tskes hs
firms money to gamble on tha ssess
market inevitably is ruined Mercy
by the law Of averages, there npst b'
times when he returns the theft to shs
safe after having made g elean-up q
the Street.
We don't believe thas the mar SIC
woman who elope from their respst.iss
and respectable helpraeets aEd 50 oas
into the world together are doomed
necessarily TO misery. In fsei, tAer
chances of happiness together oass 2
be more than usually bright, eonsless'
ing what they were willing to s.
through 20 get eseh other.
We're fairly certain, theush F'
never bet a nickel on horse race
that some straight tips from tas
stables reward the gullibis plunssF y
direct ratio to bis folly.
We're not condcning theft, inAdsiiN
or gambling. All we're trying TO g.
sist is chat things don't happen IN iNs
always the way they do in books, si'
that Mr.. Maxwell's volume is pronaoy
quito as faithful picture Of existsaa
as q lot more moral novels.
For the benefit of the fev who a'n
read this far and have become alsla'-
over the state of our sOul--we stlh 9
lieve in Santa Claus.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James ]. Montague
Education in Mexico

Where a child recenti5, took a couple o.
ehots at a school teaoherl
IN Mexico when teachers
OF country puohc schools
Inform a child who's acting wild
That he must heed the rules
The child whips out pistol,
A threatening pose he strikes
And, with sneer from ear to
ear,
Says he'll do what he likes!
In Mexico the teachers
Must masticate their pride
And swallow it. or else commit
A quick infanticide.
For there the little children,
Disdaining childish games,
With unconcern prefer to learn
To shoot like Jesse James.
In Mexico the teachers
Are very hard to get,
For there they find the childish
Is easily upset,
And being filed with bullets
When angry pupils feel
They do not need to learn to read
Is lacking In appeal.
If we were teaching children
In darkest Mexico
We'd buy a tank and we would
clank
And lumber to and fro.
AID Ill &ko 1{%flo ahj9A,...
Would follow every rule,
And If one whipped out gun
We'd promptly raze the school,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

resents the ultimate in art. Actually,
our automatic reaction is to say "Oh,
IS that so?"
Something must be the matter with
US, Maybe. after all, we aren't one of
the best critics.
We wondered at first why Mr.. Max
we'll had found 1t necessary to preface
his book with the announcement:
Neither the characters nor the incl
dents Of this story are in any way
drawn from persons or events in real
life" Later we thought we under
stood. The author has told his story
apparently more from the viewpoint Of
reporter than creator. His novel
has the air Of chronicle Of actual
happenings, rather than romance. Mr.
Maxwell might almost have written
with the libel law open on the desk be-
side him. His restraint Is amazing.
You may put this tale of a thirty
year-long Illicit affair into the hands
OF your grandmother without fear of
shocking her until she gets to the last
page Of the volume. It has q happy
ending.
If Galsworthy had written Mr. Max
Wells story, it would, we think, hare
been better. He would have recruited
your sympathies. He would have made
you feel the allurement Of Emmeline--
she must have had considerable to off.
set that name. The way Mr.. Maxwell
tells it, you wonder why Dyke came
back TO her after their frst separation.
You have sneaking idea that you,
heartless dog, would have cast her of
like an old glove.
We are grateful to Mr.. Maxwell for
breaking certain precedents; for re-
futing certain moral dogmas that have
been stamped. upon literature by the
influence of the old Sunday school
Libraries. In "Spinster OF This Parish"
the heroine lives life of shame for
thirty years and has pretty good
time of it on the whole. At the end
of the thirty years, she seeks neither
the river nor the narcotic ward Nor
does she stagger back. weak and dying,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
What Readers Are Thinking

A. /. C. P. Christmas StocSh8
10 the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: May We again snnounss
your readers the Christmas Esd sssss Z.
ing Campaign as planned ~
nurses and visitors of the New q
Association for Improving the ~
tion of the Poor?
Our plan, briefly, IS this: 1n'
C. P. will send to any one by msA I.
or more Of these red stockings sns :,
tached to each will be the frss - -
and age OF the boy or girl e Isl.
il ia eventually to go. Peopss 81 +,
ing for the stockings may sFs. q
either boys or girls. aud ai'O
When filled, these stockings ms !,
returned to the associations o'as', 81
marcel post or messenger, the e. I.
citation will send for them = -. s.,
sary, though we should Ike =
t&aS SAFCHsSs ~ ..s.+Ynft
The children to whom the onf'a'.i 81
stockings will go are the e0.s ..slsI
girls of widows and Of sick oF CT = s..
parents who are under the care z s s
A. /. G. p. nurses and vis'''i'
known to them individuslly. &, ssIs
Those who wish to help = ,,s.
special Christmas work shoa,s .s.ss,f.
to the A. /, C. P, los East lss .,s,ss
second Street, or telephone o1s 60 "a
7o4o to Miss Jessie H. Bari VIZ
have charge of the work. .,,vc
W. II. MATTHEW.
Director Family Welfare Deparan's
New York, Nov. 81. 1891.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
Preventable Tragedies

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The tragedy of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gallo has stirred a profound sympathy
in every breast. The arrogant Prus-
sianism of the average subway guard
has raised the blood-lust in most OF US
who come under his sway. But is
not this an opportune time to point out
again that people who come to this
country to win living and home,
and steadfastly refuse to learn our
language, are contributing cause OF
many Of the misfortunes with which
the daily news 10 filled?
HALE NoRcRoss.
New York, Nov. 81, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
"A Walk Week
To the Editor Of Tho Tribune.

TO tEe kdltor OF Ihe Iribune.
Sir: cannet refrain from sending
you word Of appreciation on the ad-
mirable article. "A Walk Week" by
Hildegarde Hawthorne, which appeared
in your issue Of November IT.
Miss Hawthorne has given express
ton TO sentiments which ] know are
shared by thousands of walking dew
otees, and I feel reasonably certain
that her splendid article has made
many converts.
BERTHA TEITELBAUsf.
New York, Nov. 81, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

of disease is q proud performance
of science. To permit lives to be
increasingly sacrificed to the mis-
use of our own inventions is dis
creditable confession of impotence
in administration.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

A Michigan grower has just paid
$4,000 for single strawberry
plant. If it yields the variety of
Strawberries which the fruiterers
sell in January he will soon get his
money back.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
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Mayor Eylan takes frequent vaca-
tions from his duties as Mayor, but
apparently Mr.. Hearst never allows
him as much as day off.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
MTafnrn OF THE AssocrArED pRrss

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the
zoe sos rtsubcetioH os Eh diSpstches credited
% 6; ar a0t otherwise credited To this pepsF sBl
s-o tie iScL ROWS Of spontaneous origin published
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Al rights Of republication Of ali ether matter
tGyein also are fessrTct
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Why He Was Beaten

Albert j. Is another Beveridge
which didn't have enough kick to be
interesting.
Copyright by Jamss j. MontaEus)
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
Perfectly Safe

One Of the great disappointments
of football game Is that the cheer
leaders never seem to get injured.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
Cause for THANKSGIVING

Now that airplanes can travel 249
miles an hour, pedestrians ought to
be glad that one cannot walk on air.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
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Books and So Forth By F'sd"if Ff F: Ke2 T3 de ~o'1

A NTHONY DYKE, explorer, knew
L a all about Andean heights and
Antarctic wastes and the deserts Of
Australia, but he apparently never be-
came aware that there were such
places in the world as Reno and Paris
We haven't been married long
enough ourself to take more than q
cursory and academic interest in
divorce laws, but it is our impression
that few months residence in either
of these cities would have enabled Mr.
Dyke to free himself from an encum-
berjng and insane helpmeet and marry
Emmeiine Verinder.
But then, If the great explorer had
been that resourceful, W. B. Maxwell
couldn't have written "Spinster Of This
Parish" which deals with the years
of ardent and Illicit devotion between
Anthony and Emmeline.
On the whole, we're rather glad that
Explorer Dyke never penetrated to the
fastnesses of Reno or Paris, but not
sufficiently grateful Tor his omission
to cheer about 1t.
We stayed awake whole night on
@ sleeping car reading "Spinster Of
This Parish" but this is not the high
tribute that 1t might appear. Even
Samuel Butler has failed to put rs 70
sleep in an upper berth. Mr.. Maxwell
made US stop thinking for whole half
hours together of the way we were
going to feel when we got off the
train in the morning, but he wasn't
able to engross US 80 deeply in his
tale that we were unaware when we
picked up the Albany sleeping car or
dropped the Watertown.
Possibly we were preiudiced by the
publishers blurb, which announces on
the book jacket: "The best critics re-
gard W. B. Maxwell as one of the
greatest living novelists.'
o
Undoubtedly we have mean dis
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

Undoubtedly we have mean dis
position. We're afraid we are an
iconoclast or something. superlatives
irritate us. Heralded perfection in
spires US to look around instinctively
for q brick. Properly, we should be
impressed and awestruck when in,
formed that this play or that book rep
New-York tribune., 1922-11-23

For the benefit of the few vho hsa
read this far and have become alss1'' :.
over the state of our soul--we sun :
lieve in Santa Claus.