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New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
The Broader Vision

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One short sentence in the LOFT
ter part of President Harding's able
address certainly hits the nail ON the
head: "In individual exchanges of opin-
ION not few in House or Senate have
expressed personal sympathy with the
purposes OF the bill and then uttered
discouraging doubt about the senti-
ment Of their constituencies
1t is on this vital point that onr
legislation Of recent years has hinge d
and is the main reason for the failure
Of proper legislation.
The men who are sent to Congress
to represent the people as whole
seem tc be unable to understand that
the interests Of the whole country are
far in excess of any interest of any
little particular group by whom thew
arc elected.
1t was never more NECESSARY that
we eject representatives with broader
vision and with less selfishness.
M. w. ROLLINS.
New York, Nov. 2a, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Another Job for the Police

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Your paper seems slwaye wisF
ing to lend its voice toward irnpresiHs
conditions and has shown inssssss =
the subway problem.
Crowding at the Gfand Central rssts
serm Of the Lexington Avepue suhsg
in the mornings has become iuselass
Bile. n is quite evident that 10 rsgs
late she crowds by keeping thea 3
line, as IL done at the Chambers ssysa'
station Of the B. Il. T. subway, soeN
bc disheults but there is one thing ses
can be done by the police. They 81
break up the selfish crowding ss
pushing.
Thss inoraing saw enc ysassaf' auls
Her escort had 70 help har from sN
station. Policemen in tho crowd WOW
soon stop the needless pushing. hsss
known of other instances % peafs
being hurt, and yet conditions ss
worse. The subway guards cafsss'
remedy this phase az the problem 3
il police duty and should be handiss''
by the poliee--s duty so obvious tAs
one asaryels at its not being persestas'
e. j. Rs
searsdsle. N. 4, Nov. 30. 1898.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
The Surprising MIR. A. 3. Sc
0 the Editor az Tha ,rrihnna

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In reference to the misguiSsd
letter Of Mr.. Alonzo B. See, in wyly
TO request that he contribute tsvs,a
the AdeIphi College endowment saas
want TO enter my protest. 1 am crls
surprised that as fine q business msE
as Mr.. See is should make such foolisI
statements.
! happen TO be one mother who's
three children all have college deersss
my eldest SON 8 Yale man. my vorr,.
est son Stevens man. nv danrhts
Nassar graduate. She is q Iovel, ,,iss
and mother and her college educat,at
heted her to take her place aIonss;d.
OF her brothers. She never uaIntsI
nor smoked nor awaggored. nor eva,
saw the type Mr.. See refers TO &
Ysssar or in any other college. al
she has visited many.
No, no, Mr.. See, we women Of sas
United States must rise in protest sHes
tell you We are not going TO tie asgs
We dc not need to do marusl iskas
to make as fit Rather we ara ready
and taking our places alongside oaresl,
iege fathers, brothers and sons. asny
OF us are doing magnificent work ens
we are aore respected to-day sax
ever before, all because We ara having
the advantages of our women's colleges
Most cf US started long sgo 60 persusds
our less fortunate, poorly educated sls
ters TO give up the foolish habit q
painting, staggering and smoking.
We laud our noble professors WIG
have nodded US into splendid thins
ing women and denounee any one wbs
aares say college professors hare aas,
thing but superior brains. which hsw
helped to form the highest and best
our beautiful world has achieved b
women. And psychology has dons ss@
will continue to do as much IS sns
other science. ]. Il. ~
New York, Nav. "a. 1913.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
A Maker of Mischief

1t may discourage Mr.. Hylan to
find that there is no demand in the
Middle West that William Randolph
Hearst lead third party in the
Presidential race in 1924. But it
win not discourage Mr.. Hearst.
That perpetual candidate for the
Presidency is encouragement proof.
No snub, however crushing it might
pe TO other politicians, will persuade
him that his aspiration to sis some
day in the White House is hopeless.
1T Mr.. Hearst were not propri-
etor Of many newspapers this ansbi-
tion of his, being wholly without
any chance Of fulfiIIment, would be
comparatively harmless. Many men,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Qen1enceau S y isit

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is not Clemenceau's visit in a
way as much our opportunity as it is
his or that of France2 AT heart we
all somewhat knew the real trouble
with the world to-day. OF course, 1t
is not unmixed. Few human things
are. Lord Bryce spoke almost hope
lessIy, and we in America largely
agree whether it is our affair or not,
about the Treaty of Versailles, it's be-
wildering indemnity and Its Peter the
C7ar-like fixing Of the boundaries of
Europe. And we may talk with trush
of the effect of war on all standards
1t breaks up civil regularity and re-
places it with military what you
please.
But war does something else, and
we are suffering from it. II raises
peoples to the height of saeritica,
raises them to ideals that, except
under strain and excitement and
danger, they cannot, and few individ-
uals can, maintain. We get on the
pendulum and swing back with it and
then worse, for we find in the hurly
burly and wreckage chance Cor COM
mercial advantage and salvage. Every
large nation is accused OF this--the
United States is as free as any from
it--but behold the tariff and the fear
OF European entanglements, The
large statesmen Of any Of the great
nations used to think in centuries: !:
now they hardly think in decades,
IN 1914 the cause Of France was
the cause of civilization. and SO was
the cause of Belgium They both
suffered and were torn terribly in the
fiend's attack.
clemenceau puss Frances loss ID
100000 naen--about one in ten Of her
population and 10000 factories. WE
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
What Readers Are Thinking

TO what he earns and saves, or whether
he must share 1t with those whose
chief constituent is envy.
Back Of 1t all Is that catering 60
two classes--the farmers and the labor
untonists.
The inhabitants Of some states like
California or idaho or Wisconsin or Iowa
or Nebraska may be we'll meaning and
just, but I do not believe SO. II it
were otherwise they would not send
to Congress such men as they do, whose
chief campaign cry is "Lct US bedevil
the railroads" They know that the
stocks are humble citizens who are
bravely trying TO bear up under the
assaults made on the railroads These
politicians know all this, but they
know that the owners OF railroad
stocks cannot help themselves, cannot
fight back. So the politicians yell
that "Wall Street" owns the roads and
that therefore they may be kicked
about with impunity and robbed to fili
the pockets OF farmers and labor
unionists.
Mr. Wells thinks that civilization is
riding TO fall. 1t may be SO, but it
it is SO then it will be men like Brock
hart and Howell and La Toilette and
Borah and Johnson who will pull the
props from under and lot the skies
saIl JAMES McKIRDy.
Pittsburgh, Ps., Nov. %, 1892.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
E.x Post Facto Prohibition

That is a strange demand of q
Christian Endeavor convention at
Reading, Penn, for the removal
from a public park of a monument
in honor of brewer, which was
placed there a generation or more
ago. 1t suggests some extraordinary
results which might come from
general application Of the same
principle.
For example, one Of the Oldest and
most noted colleges for women III
this country was founded by great
brewer, largely if not entirely with
the money which he made in the
brewing industry. Is that loved,
venerated and immeasurably useful
institution to be condemned and de-
stroyed because of that fact?
Some leading church organiza-
tions, now zealously committed to
prohibition, were founded or for
n,erly directed by men who habitu-
ally drank wine. Are they for that
reason to be disbanded? Many of
the best books in our literature were
written by wine-drinkers, and in
some of them wine-drinking is men
toned as an entirely permissible
custom. Are they to be destroyed?
1t will occur to thoughtful men
that the problem of suppressing
more or less poisonous "hooch" in
our own time is grave enough and
onerous enough to occupy all atten-
ton, without conducting campaign
against the perfectly legitimate
non-prohibitionists of generations
ago.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27

lost 100000 all told, or one in thou-
sand OF our population and no fac
tories. We csnnot measure her ma
tlonal sorrow or her national loss.
To-day with Russia officered from
Germany, and Germany arming. and
Iurkey with them and halting the
world Frances cause is still the cause
OF civilization, and unaided thus far in
any great degree to recuperate she
stili smarts from her wounds. and
sun Is blind from the blows she has
received, and still hits out sometimes
wildly. But she, more even than Erg-
Land, is the pivot of our civilization
We cannot hold ourselves immune. for.
Whi'e reluctant to share in the work
OF rehabilitation in Europe. wa Nave
ny poorly administered Immigration
laws let Europe in on us, and lie we
are attacked from outside eon-
1eoerates inside will unlock our gatcs.
90 long as the SORROWS of to-day are
'ne outcome Of that british betrayal
OF national honor in 1914 we muss moi
az our psril forget it; forgive IL per
hapa we may, but forget it never.
! think we need to recover our
aaealisn, or some Of it at least, for we
nave lost nearly all; and we need 50
re-rscognize France. Let us turn back
and re-rsad of the sacrifice and noble
courage Of France IN the hooks OF
James ". Beck, who weighed the evi-
dence SO we'll. and Of Mrs, Wharton
who SO finely expressed an under
standing sympathy with what France
was before the war, and in the war
and may be again. heaven willing
Surely France is too great an asset te
the world as we want II 10 be For us
safely 10 see lost,
IRA H. BRAINERp.
New York, Nov. Is, 1892.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27

that hat etiquette applies only i
hotels and apartment houses. In ofsa
buildings no msn considers removir
his hat in elevators shared By ladtes
the inference being that woman VII.
travels in an ONCE building is only /,
worker and therefore net in the sans
class with the women who enter eIers.
tors in a building which is lived in, d
one who visits fine shops.
With hats men have by far the wo-a
OF it; they have the etiquette to Il
member and very often feathers s
taste, particularly in congested elevs.
tors. HENRY EINLAY. &
New York, Nov. 25, 1922. e
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Our Voice at Lausanne

Ambassador Child exploded the
idea that because an American din
ioinat1c agent at a European confer
ence may bear the infelicitous title
OF official observer" he is thereby
deoarred from rendering any useful
service to his country. Mr.. Child
did not act the part of a superfuous
iooker-on when he presented to the
Lausanne gathering the American
yiew-the view of Secretary Colby
as well as Secretary Hugles---that
the United States, as a former bell
iigerent, ought not to be discrim-
mated against in any of the peace
settlements on the ground that r.
signed but did not ratify the
German. Austrian and Bulgarian
treaties.
Our Ambassador to Italy told the
conference that the United States
opposed an execution of secret
agreements made by others of the
Allied belligerents-Great Britain.
France and Italy, for example-for
a parceling out of zones of special
commercial and economic influence
IN former Turkish territory. This
country, while not in the war with
Turkey and therefore not in a po.
sltion to oppose the outright allo-
cation Of Turkish territory. feels
nevertheless, entitled to@ask for
equal economic opportunities in
inundated countries and in mere
spheres of influence. All that we
seek IS recognition in our interest of
the open door" policy.
In the case of Germany we have
undone most of the wrong commit
ted by the Allied Supreme Council,
when it sought to dispose of the
Island OF Yap and to lay down the
rule that the United States. NOT
having ratified the treaties and
joined the League of Nations, could
not enjoy commercial privileges in
former German overseas possessions
which were to be granted to leapue
members formerly neutral, and even
to league members formerly enemy
That battle was won In part at
the Washington conference a wear
ago, when our interest in the for
ner German islands of the Pacific
was admitted. 1t is still to be fought
out SO far as Mesopotamia and other
portions of the former Turkish FIN
pre- are concerned. We were never
consulted as TO the Turkish man
Gates or as TO the secret agreements
though one of the major Allied and
associated powers. We reserve the
right to insist on 8 square deal in
territory not actually annexed and
TO resist any attempt to put us for
commercial purposes in a category
inferior to that occupied by League
of Nationsscountries.
This is Fundamental conception
OF present-day American diplomacy
1t will have its weight at Lausanne
even though the agents who elabo-
rate 1t do not sit as full-fiedged
conference members.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
PAIRING Alien Ouotas

Ihe sponsors of immigration re-
strlction propose to cut still fur
taer the number of immigrants to
De admitted annually. Instead of
the per cent at present admitted
It is suggested to allow less than
per cent Of the various national
tiles here in 1910 to come in. At
the same time more rigid mental
and health tests also are conter,-
plated.
Reports from Washington indi-
cate an overwhelming sentiment in
favor of drastic restrictions. The
arguments of racial groups anxious
to have the bars lifted so that their
fellows may come to this country
IN large numbers have apparently
fallen on deaf ears, just ag have
the complaints of representatives
OF the big business interests that
immigration restriction means q
labor shortage and increased wapes
and higher costs Of production. The
supporters of restriction care little
Tor such arguments, and claim that
q halt in immigration is imperative
unless the country is to be swamped
by aliens.
Inc anti-alien cry is, of course.
an old one in American history. A
century ago it was voiced as loudly
as to-day. But there is more JUS
sifieation for this cry to-day than
then. In 1922 there were still vast
areas of undeveioped lands. There
were essential industries to be built
UP. The country was growing at q
rapid speed and needed and could
absorb large quantities of aliens.
To-day we suffer not from too much
but from too little land; not from
underdeveloped, but from, over
grown industries.
A century ago the aux of popu-
lation was such that amalramatio,,
was achieved with comparative
ease except in the few big centers
where aliens eolonized and formed
their own separate groups, trans
planting the ideas and traditions
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Stock Sale Publicity

Unremitting publicity is the one
force that can check the sale Of
fraudulent and other undesirable
securities, and Seymour l.. Crom-
well, president of the New York
Stock Exchange, does we'll in sug-
costing laws requiring sworn finan-
cial statements. He advocates en-
forced filing of such documents, in
cluding facts about operations and
earnings, before securities may be
offered to the public, and would
thereafter require statements semi
annually.
Mr.. Cromwell says that the Stock
Exchange would support such q law,
but is opposed to ordinary "blue
sky" laws, because, though they do
some good, they create red tape and
are easily evaded. The Tribune rec
ognizes that the so-called "blue sky"
laws are at best crude attempts to
prevent individuals from being fool
ish and from being fooled. Yet they
have the advantage Of creating a
special agency charged with watch
ing the details of new security Of
ferings.
In its quest for essential facts
about corporations whose securities
are being peddled our financial staff
is frequently able to get from conf
missions in other states information
which is unobtainable in New York.
In the case Of the alleged bankrupt
Manhattan Piggly Wiggly Corpora
tlon, whose operations centered in
this city, balance sheet and income
account were obtainable only through
the Public Utilities Department Of
the Commonwealth of Massachu-
sets, which requires basic financial
facts before securities of corpora
tion can legally be sold within the
state.
Mr.. Cromwell's proposal for
law making such publicity obligatory
would mark q step forward in this
state. A more distant objective
would be to induce or require state
ments of earnings, even from estab-
lished publicly owned corporations,
as often as is feasible. The Stock
Exchange requires of all companies
whose shares are listed under it's
Jurisdiction at least an annual finan-
cial statement. Many corporations
issue voluntarily quarterly, and even
monthly, reports.
Without waiting for legislation,
the Stock Exchange might we'll in
sist on at least semi-annual, instead
OF annual, reports from all corpora
tions on which it can impose rules.
Publicity not only helps to prevent
Misrepresentation when new securi-
ties are being vended, but also makes
possible an intelligent Judgment re-
garding the fiuctuating values of
shares of Older reputable, going con-
Germs. Frequent announcements re-
garding earnings tend to place all
shareholders on All equal footing re-
specting needful information with
officers and directors. The effect of
ruler and more frequent publicity
would be less mystery and less
hokum in finance.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Guilty or Not Guiltya"
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I would like to ask the writer
Of your editorial Guilty or Not
Guilty?' whether. in all Of his life, he
has done nothing for which he could
have or should have been put in Jail ?
Now I have never been in jail, nor
arrested, nor even summoned into
court-and I have driven motor cars
for years-but Pm afraid it's because
/ haven't had my deserts. Who among
Us can search his soul and then de-
clare he has never committed penal
offensef
However, I don't hold with the Rev.
DR., Stires. The great majority Of
men and women in jails ars habitual
criminals, shut up for the preservation
of society. G. r. SARGENT.
Boston. Mass, Nov. 25, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
10 James boys look like In ls lure

the James boys look like In d ds l,sre
edition.
A few months ago 1t seemed that
the wild West had moved to Man-
haitian. The outlaws were holding
carnival up and down Broadway and
in the side streets from Manhattan
to the Bronx, with excursions to
Queens and Brooklyn. Perhaps they
have grown homesick and returned
to their old stamping grounds. But
it will be well to look up the works
of the old robber masters in this
vicinity and take care that the new
crop Of Jameses adds no footnotes to
them,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Elevated Hats
a;tar OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: For long time have been
wondering at the unreasonable hat ETH
ouette as practiced in elevators. And
now you dilate editorialiy on the Cleve-
land Mayors manifesto to the effect
that men should keep their hats on as
they share the ups and downs of the
elevators with women-in order TO in
crease efficiency.
II seems, and / think we all know it,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Genuinely Antinue

The bones Of camel. said to be
million years old, have been dis
covered in Nebraska. This animal
was roaming the Platte quite time
before William j. Bryan began run
ming for the Presidency.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Q oAaAR MY

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TAtsesE sita absolute sasssy--fSr n eissstsstaa.
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advertiser sees net
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
A Lesson to Them

A method of killing flies by cleo
tricity has been adopted in New
York. ANY one familiar with flies
knows that hanging is too good
for them.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
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New-York tribune., 1922-11-27


There should be Chief Caliban
of the Ku-Klux Klan.
Klink! the Kuky-Kully Kan!
Hail to the Kaliban
OF the Ku-Klux Khan!
The society seems to be founded
on Assonance, Asininity and 'Alliter-
ation.--And we are sure that such
moral order as the Ku-Kluxers pre-
tend to be is set stubbornly against
I Alcohol.
Indeed, the Klan, in some Of it's
aspects, is merely an expression Of
Illegal Puritanism.-The Lawless
Uplifters.--If there isn't one, there
should also be Klan-Kuckoo.
Wasn't it's founder somebody by
! the name of Klark?-Probably the
gentleman's regalia was embroid-
cred with some such device as:
/ am the Klark of the Khan,
Kink, Kuckoo and Kalibanl
Captain Peter Fitzurse looks with
scorn on the Ku-Klux Khan. "Sir,"
he told us the other day, cit is merely
childish, disgusting imitation Of
the real thing.
II was one of the founders, sir, Of
the real Ku-Klux Klan, the original
Ku-Klux Klan. 1t had purpose to
serve, and it served it. A danger
threatened this fair land of ours,
and we removed it. We struck Il
blow, sir, for hearth and home, and |
the safety of our glorious woman
hood. I give YOU the ladies. |
God bless them!"
This latter exclamation was merely
automatic on the Captains part
When he gets little excited about
anything he says: "The ladies, God
bless them!" !"-Edom, his colored |
body servant, says that whenever
the Captain sits down by the fire in
the evening, with jorum of rum at
his elbow and the ghosts of the
past of all his pasts, for
the Captain has had more pasts than
any other man living cir
cling about him, the last thing he
says before his eyes become set in
his head and he falls out of his easy
chair ss always; "The ladies. God
bless 'em!"
But these various preachers that
are roofing for the Ku-Klux really
interest US more than Captain Fitz-
urse.--One would think that minis
ter, having dedicated himself to
church organization, would find his
hands SO full that he would not have
much time for other organizations.
Or perhaps these particular
preachers do not take their church
organizations very seriously.
We always had a hazy sort of
feeling, without knowing very much
about it, that one purpose of
church organization was to spread
general feeling of good will and
loving kindness throughout a com
munity.--It is difficult to see exactly
how the Ku-Klux Klan fits in with
that program. then we don't |
pretend to know much about such
things.
We are something like Captain
Fitzurse in that respect. He once re-
marked in our hearing: 81 don't know
anything about ethics, but / know
what / like"
We consider it candid and noble
deciaration-and one that it is DOS
slble to live up to.-Returning to the
preachers who are in favor Of the
Ran; We don't really worry about
them much.-They can be safely left
TO the other preachers who tbinl,
dlfferently.-Leave a preacher to a
preacher, and he will get his'n--
which you possibly understand,
though 1t may not be as grammatical
as some sentences you have seen.
There is feeling in France, we
read in the cable reports, that Gle
nenceau will not shake the policy Of
America. But perhaps he will find |
out what it is.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27

Nothing To Be Familiar With
$4,000 WORTH OF WHISKY
FORMALLY SEIZED - Headline.
The amount certainly justified all the
formality possible.
Copyright by James j. Montague,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-27

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