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New-York tribune., 1922-08-14

Hearst's money, even If some Of the
upstate sentiment for the editor is
home brewed.
To understand Mr.. Murphy's posi-
tion 1t must be remembered that ne
needs--or thinks he needs--Mr.
Hearst's newspapers and Mr..
Hearst's generosity in the matter
OF campaign funds in order to elect
state ticket. Furthermore, he
needs the continued loyalty of Mr..
Hylan, and Mr.. Hylan shows signs
of rebelling against Tammany and
putting Tammany men out Of office
If Mr.. Hearst is turned down.
The respectable Democrats who
think they can rest assured Of a
good candidate merely because Mr..
Murphy has not yet indorsed Mr..
Hearst had best not be too easily
lulled into sense of security. Until
the nominations are made no one can
be sure that Mr.. Murphy will not
again put Mr.. Hearst into the race.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
Children and DAYLIGHT

The psychology of the opposition
to daylight saving is in many wavs
curious. A correspondent wrote us
the other day of a mother who com.
planned that under the new regime
her children didn't get enough sleep,
They couldn't, she insisted, go to
sleep while there was still light in
the sky, but she mentioned in the
next breath the two-hour midday
nap which those same children had
just been taking, as usual, on their
sunny southern porch.
DO most mothers of children ,h-
ject to daylight saving? It is open
to doubt. Their annoyance. so far
as it goes, can best be explained by
reference to the general rule that
new troubles are more vexatious
than those one has grown used to,
With daylight saving in effect
mothers have difficulty, for month
or two in midsummer, n putting
their children to sleep in the early
evening, but the fact that thew have
correspondingly less difficulty in
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
The Prohibition Poll
To the Editor of The Tribune,

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The proponents Of prohibition
may close their eyes to the significance
of the poll being taken by "The Liter
ary Digest" if they choose, but it is ex-
pressive, nevertheless, of a feeling of
the Eighteenth Amendment and the
Volstead act.
In referring to that poll Mr.. Ander-
son, state superintendent Of the Anti
Saloon League of New York, made this
declaration: "In the first place, there
is a clear and fundamental distinction
between taking a poll on a question
which is yet to be decided and taking a
poll on question which has been de-
cided." That begs the question. 1t is
we'll to remind those who hold that
view that nothing is settled until it is
settled right. That is fundamental.
The people now rise to consider
whether, in their haste, they have not
trodden upon rights and principles of
government Of the very greatest ma
tional concern. That explains the vote
in "The Digest" the prevailing feeling
Of resentment and the demand for a
rehearing of the subject.
In my judgment, the Eighteenth
Amendment cannot stand. 1t transcends
and annuls fixed principles of consti-
tutional liberty. 1t, in effect, repeals
the Fourth Amendment to the Consti-
tuition, which guarantees the right Of
domicile and the sanctity of the home.
1t degrades the Constitution to the low
level of a law-making instead Of a
principles stating instrument
Very few people wish to return to
the condition Of the saloon. For my
self, 1 speak not as wet man or as
saloon man, but as a freeman. 1t Is
not that hate the saloon less but that
I love freedom more.
]. R. M'LAUGHLIN.
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 8, 1922.
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Some Anthracite Figures

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In to-day's issue L. T. Reed
wants some coal facts. Here are some
"cold facts" on coal:
Not many years ago anthracite was
being put down at tidewater, New
York, at 81 per gross ton (2,24o
pounds). This charge was made up Of
70 cents as royalty to the land owner,
$1.55 as the rail share in the shape of
freight rate. and $1.75 for the mine
operator. In January, 1920, coal was
selling at $12 per net ton $4,000
pounds). The royalty remained the
same, the freight had been raised but
10 cents per gross ton, which made the
operators and the retailers share
1855, an increase of $3.50.
How much Of this increase went to
the men who got the coal out of the
ground? A ton of coal delivered here
at the rate Of s5.75, or, to make a round
figure, say $6 as base, made the
operators get an increase of 276 per
cent per ton in gross revenue. The
freight rate to this point was $1.9S
before the 10 cent increase. How
would Mr. Reed like to analyze the in
crease of 276 per cent to see where it
went? The coal barons say it went to
the miners.
One of the Reading coal companies
reported for 1916 net income for
dividend purposes of 20 cents per ton
and the next year it reported 45 cents
per ton. Twenty cents was considered
normal and good profit.
What The public doesn't know is
what is making the strikes possible.
S. G.
Yong Branch, N. j., Aug. Q, 1922.
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William Sloane

William Sloane, who died last
week, honorably upheld the tradi-
tions of all-around citizenship which
have come down from the New York
of an older generation. His COM
munity spirit was highly developed
and he gave his time and aid gen
orally to many undertakings.
He was the head of long estab-
lished business which had migrated
northward more than once with the
growth of the city and is associated
with memories of the days when
Twenty-third Street was the ex-
treme limit of the retail district. He
found opportunity, nevertheless, to
interest himself in hospital and re-
lief work, being president of the
Presbyterian Hospital and one of
the promoters of the fusion with
Columbia University for the crea-
tion of a great medical center on
Washington Heights. This will be
one Of his monuments.
During the war he acted as chair
man Of the National War Council of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
zion, handling the millions of dollars
contributed to that organization for
work in France. He was also a
trustee and secretary Of the Public
Library.
In these many fields he labored
modestly and ungrudgingly for the
good Of others, shouldering more
than his share of the burdens of al
truistic endeavor. He never adver-
tised himself. But he did work
which could not be hidden under
bushel. New York loses by his death
high-minded and simultaneously
useful citizen.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
An Emergency Cable Route

The plea to the President to open
the Miami Barbados cable, which
had been sealed pending the SETTLE
ment by the State Department of
negotiations in behalf of American
cable interests competing in South
America with British interests, was
framed on the theory that the OPEN
ing Of this line would expedite cable
messages to Europe. The President
has accepted this view and author
lied use of the cable for European
business only.
A message sent by,this route would
go from New York to Miami, and
thence to Barbados There it would
be transferred to the wires of the
British Western Telegraph Company
and sent to Para and thence to Per-
nambuco. From Pernambuco it would
go to the Cape Verde Islands and
thence to Europe.
Such route offers great ad-
vantages for European messages.
At the present time it is paralleled
by the all-American line, which re-
ports slight increase Of traffic to
Europe via South America. Only if
sacrifice rates are made will the
opening of this cable be of material
benefit to American business inter
ests in the present emergency.
The State Department has con-
sistently opposed the opening of this
cable until satisfactory terms are
reached safeguarding American in
terests in South America. Ever
since the time of Grant it has been
the American policy to support
American cable interests when thew
have been threatened by all-power-
ful foreign monopolies. In the
present instance the department op-
posed the landing of the cable at
Miami, despite the fact that it be-
longed to the Western Union, an
American concern. The reason for
TINS action appears to have been
that, inasmuch as the Barbados end
CT the cable connected with British
company under terms favorable to
the latter and that this British COM
pany had a virtual monopoly in
Brazil to the prejudice of American
cable interests, no landing could be
permitted until the monopolistic
features were abandoned and Amer
lean interests enjoyed equal oppor
tunities with the British.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
Scientific Tariffs

Having struggled for a year to
frame frankly unscientific tariff,
the Senate reached the point on Fri
day of giving pat and a promise to
the theory of scientific revision. 1t
rejected the Frelinghuysen and
Jones amendments, but it adopted
some mild provisions, offered by the
Finance Committee, granting the
Tariff Commission little freer hand
In tariff making. Some uneasy con-
sciences may have been salved by
this belated recognition of the fact
that a commission looking at prob
lens from national standpoint is
likely to construct economically
sounder schedules than Congress
committees, influenced by politics and
the special interests of sections and
states.
General Hancock was laughed at
when he wrote to a Democratic poll
tician in 1880 that the tariff was "a
local ISSUE" Yet he merely blurted
out truth with soldierly bluntness.
To politicians the tariff is nearly al
ways a "local issue" Louisiana
wants high protection on cane sugar
under either Republican-made or a
Democratic-made tariff. Utah wants
high protection on beet sugar and
wool. North Dakota wants high pro-
lection on wheat. And the Senators
from these states generally pool their
wants with the wants of Senators
from other states, so that a tariff
bill eventually loses all scientific
| character except in so far as it is a
product of scientific log-rolling.
The country has tired of log-rolled
tariffs, just as it tired some years
ago of logrolled river and harbor
bills. What is needed is a tariff pol
icy looking to national needs, not
local needs, and balancing the effects
Of duties on foreign trade as we'll as
on domestic production. The first
tariff act, passed by the 1st Con-
gress, was broadly national in pur-
pose. 1t considered solely the good
of the nation as whole. 1t was not
promoted by any group or bloc.
The McCumber bill is q horrible
example Of what may happen when
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
The Finder $ Reward
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: feel that your correspo spondent
D. P. has been altogether too mild in
his condemnation of little Helen for
accepting gratuity of 25 cents for
returning packet containing $500 to
the owner.
Strict honesty is so fashionable now
adays that cannot see what occasion
there was to publish the story at all
were it not to emphasize the mag
nanimity of the owner of the recovered
wealth, but even at that one must feel
how wrong 1t was for little twelve
year-old Helen to accept such an ex-
orbitant sum for returning packet OF
money.
Ye gods! The next thing will find us
men expecting a word of thanks as we
rise with one accord in trolley car
to offer seat to woman passenger.
And as for chivalry, mark how we doff
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
Riverside Comfort

To the Editor Of The Tripuhs II.
Sir: I have been thinkihg'
rounded as l am by this wsnoefaS
Lawrence, cooled with the nioss Ii
derful south wind (for the sou'a Sc.
is cool up here), Aow hot ana wv x.s
Portable the little children ~ s
York must be, especially ta0,s ~
live near the Hudson River ans
near the East River. h.
In the lower park on .s,rt
Drive there could be placed ,.,s
benches, pergolas and summer - ia
If the city cannot do TINS ~ ia
children who are at home, wa, ,sa
PEOPLE living on the West ~ "a
the East Side provide more ss an
more summer houses ann ii
benches? I will be one 10 So Il; II
toward fund If hundred mo''
do the same. axs
|MRs. CHARLES APPLETON TEsss
Grenell, N. Y, Aug. 10, I'VE
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who are entitled 70 IL, but stoksss.
deck hands and other forecastls pss-
pie, the cook Of that mess sgeiis hh
income appreciably and the wa!stline
Of his paying guests enormously.
Now If the nickel-in-the-slot suls.
mat be taken TO sea under the Amer
can flag there is q likely possibiliH
that Yankee ships could compets With
the merchant marines Of other nssisas
asking no subsidizing favors bscssss
of the superior. rate Of pay e1actsd m
ships. Of American registry By the L.
Toilette seamen's act.
The sun had Just popped over tas
horizon IN Manila Bay a few years ss
when an unfulflled obligation Of the
black pan was settled on the forecasts
head Of the United States army trsss-
port Thomas, tied up at her dock after
the twenty-eight days run from san
Francisco.
The corbatants were q negrn, sa IS.
sistant cook in the frat cabin gsllt7
and the ships fourth baker, There b
no fifth baker. The negro, naked b
the waist, was a hard-museisd bls;k
man with an elongated head shsssAa
in tightly coiled wool. The scrna
baker, barefooted, In blue and whit
striped denim overalls, stepped ias
his opponents left fist, and sitting issf
hard on the freshly washed deck ssss
out one of his few remaining snssss
teeth. None sought to interfere y
sea the pride Of race does osisaphs
bounds that divide the stewstds Il
partment from the deck, and ~.
sailors saw this fight.
The fourth baker got Up, rsa.sA
feeble pretense OF renewing z ThGs
and was knocked down sgs.m.Irs
time, swearing fouling, he isFur
there, reclining on one elbow. I'D.
ing back to the galley the sssissss
cook uttered a warning and 81 st
planation in q single line:
Next voyage yor eats sta'> s''
boy, you pay black pan"
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
Black Pan
By -Boyden Sporkes

who obviously does not belong in q
glory hole bunk and may be expected
to have some money in an oilcloth belt
against his skin, the steward will in
quire mpathetically about the chow.
The outburst Of profanity which is his
reply is also his cue. It seems he
knows second cook in the first cabin
galley. For a few dollars, say five,
he might be able to arrange matters.
The amazing part Of it is that he can
and sometimes does.
On some ships there can be found n
few men in every mess who spurn their
allotted rations because a little after
regular meal times they are stuffing
themselves with delicacies from the
black pan. 1t matters not to them that
the Illicit calories are cold and some
times really no better than the food
they have rejected. 1t is first cabin chow,
and they hope, probably, to acquire
social merit in this way as an aborigine
hopes to possess the strength, agility
and bravery Of the enemy whose heart
he eats.
On an army transport ferrying SOL
diers and sailors between San Fran
cisco and Manila there must be at
least dozen messes. At the top of
the list Is the first cabin, where dine
army and navy officers, members of
their families, civil employees Of the
insular government and the deck Of
fcers Of the ship. When they are fed
the cooks who prepare that food and
the walters who serve it have their
chance. Second cabin stewards are
supposed to eat second cabin food, de-
signed for the non-commissioned Of
fcers Of both services and their
families. But he Is a green second
cabin steward who does not devise
some scheme for sharing the dishes
that whet the appetites Of the sea-sick
folks Of the first cabin.
The engineer officers usually have a
separate mess, and by preparing
enough food to feed not only those
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14

There are lying on the desk of
the Tribune Fresh Air Fund invita-
tions from five hundred homes in
the country-in the Catskills, the
Green Mountains, in every sur
rounding region of fresh air and
beauty-addressed to a thousand
children of the New York tene-
ments. They are for two weeks of
sun and play and country food and
friendship. Whether they can be
accepted depends upon readers of
The Tribune who read these lines.
We shall try not to be too en-
thusiastic about this business of ar
ranging visits from tenement to
farm. But the idea is hard to be
calm about. Fresh air is a fine
thing, but friendship is better, and
the two combined are a perfect
team. The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
began with its camps and still does
good work with them. 1t is doing
an even finer work, we feel, in seek
ing out country folk with good
homes and full barns and warm
hearts who are glad to share their
good fortune with city children.
Fresh air committees in various CEN
ters inspect the homes and make
sure Of the kindness of the welcome
and the wholesomeness of the sur
roundings. There are no expenses
for the two weeks-the invitation
IS genuine invitation. All that
the Fresh Air Fund does is to pay
the railroad fare from and to New
York.
Hence these lines. The Fund has
had it's most prosperous year, and
has already given 1900 children
two weeks in the country. But it
cannot send these 1000 more little
visitors to the homes waiting and
anxious to receive them unless the
Tribune readers will help to send
them. The time is short and it is
ready money that is needed-$13,-
900 more than the expected funds.
This will send 1000 more children
into the country, 1000 as visitors
and 1000 to the camps.
AS we say, friendship is offered
as we'll as fresh air. The families
that give these invitations form
friendships with their visitors that
endure. The children go back year
after year, there are letters and
there are presents. There is a
warmth Of friendship that helps tie
city and country together, that
makes Of a simple gift a living,
glowing flame. Will you help make
these friendships possible by sitting
down forthwith and sending the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund, The Trib-
une, New York City, whatever sum
you feel you can afford?
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14

Writers Of sea fiction almost In
variably create a woman character to
supply the motive for the struggle that
Is necessary to any tale, but food
causes hundred fights among sailor
men to every ono that Is inspired on
blue water by sex.
Women are creatures Of another
world to deckhand slapping fresh
coat Of paint on a lifeboat that does
not need 1t. The dorsal muscles that
writhe as snake beneath the skin of
a sweating stoker develop q hunger
for sweets and the forecastles at night
are vibrant with unuttered thoughts Of
thick red steaks, yellow custards, fresh
cream and greasy pies. They talk
much about women, but when they 60
ashore they look first for a restaurant
and then for feminine society.
On the big liners and the transports
It is somewhat different. Good food is
aVAllAple CneTo IOT CHOSe VINO I&Co IL.
"First cabin chow" ON transatlantic
liner to the man below decks Is :he
superlative In caste. Give him that
end he becomes another Alexander,
sighing for more dishes to conquer.
Lowest in the scale Of human society,
as measured by table fare, on trans
Atlantic boats is the cattle tender.
Whatever his diet Is supposed to be by
those shore gods who own the ships,
what he regularly, monotonously gets
Is a gray and Shiny mess Of -four, meat
and potatoes called scouse. It Is a
double cousin to army slum. but
sometimes the human derel!ct or the
college youth working his passage
abroad by serving as maid Of all work
for a company Of American steers,
which are never anything but cows at
sea-sometimes he eats frst cabin
chow, and the system whereby he does
is called black pan.
Frequently a third cabin steward Is
the go-between. Selecting a cattleman
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Still a Menace

The report that Mr.. Murphy has
consigned Mr.. Hearst to the political
ashcan requires more foundation
than it has thus far received. Mr..
Murphy, it will be remembered,
caused Mr.. Hearst's nomination for
Governor just twelve months after
Mr.. Hearst's newspaper had been
picturing Mr.. Murphy in a costume
with stripes that ran around and
around
The Tammany boss is not senti-
mentalist. He is quite practical.
And in a year when the candidacy
of Governor Miller is formidable he
will not be too precipitate about re-
fusing to name a man with all Mr..
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
Glad of the Extra Daylight
, the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Daylight saving, like every
progressive step that was ever taken,
continues to receive opposition from
the prejudiced and the standpatters.
The point of view Of the latter is In
dicated in the letter from Mrs. Marie
l.. Patterson, which appeared in your
Issue Of the Sd, while the logical and
sensible attitude is refreshingly ex-
pressed in the letter from r. E. NJ,
published on the 9th.
have six children, four Of whom are
still young enough to go to school.
Ever since daylight saving was put
into effect. they have usually gone to
bed by the clock and got up likewise,
and we have never had any complaint
from the teachers that any of them
came to school tired out. AZ Mrs. R,
f. M. says: "They may not get to
sleep at once, but they get all the rest
they need"
They have never had any afternoon
maps since they were babies, and the
result is that they are prepared to go
to bed at regular hour, irrespective
Of the daylight. Anyway, their
mother has never found fault with the
daylight saving. On the contrary, she
is mighty glad of the extra hour.
Mrs. Patterson says that children.
like the chickens and the birds, can't
be expected to go to sleep until sun
down. How about the chickens in
Alaska and Norway, where, during at
least three months, daylight lasts
until 10 o'clock and later3 Surely
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
Not So Bad as 1t Might Be
Europe ruined by imitation; finan

Europe ruined by imitation; finan-
ciers in CONSERVATION; no
one sees an indication of a
better, brighter day.
Germans worried; marks have
tumbled, British Hurried,
credits crumbled, De Valera
licked and humbled-just
the very deuce to pay.
Congress seeks to duck the onus
for the passage of the bonus;
all the banks refuse to loan
US money for our income
tax.
Warning couples seek divorce
ment, government denies in
dorsement to high-sea dry
law enforcement; everything
is slack and lax.
Coal is going daily higher; only
wealthy may aspire to
cheerful winter fire; strikers
won't return to work.
Railroad magnates sadly harried,
not a pound of freight is
carried, every dream Of joy
is buried in cloud of gloom
and murk.
Yet the world rolls round Sc
renely and the sea winds
blow as keenly and the moon
is just as queenly as she was
in days of yore.
So we venture the prediction,
without fear Of contradict
ton, that we'll weather this
affliction; we have been
through worse before
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What Readers Are Thinking

our hats as we enter the prsssnss y
womanhood in the public elsssss''
even though we omit the simple ess..
tesy, perhaps, Of uncovering our ~. y.
should we chance to meet friend sa'
alone in the street.
Too bad little Helen was not bFeas.'
up in that spirit of abnegation vns'ss
she might have said "Take back "
precious quarter; you must ssp Z
more than l."
ERNEST c. WRlGas
Montclair, N. j., Aug. 10. 1922
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the rule of the Fathers Is recklessly
departed from. Politically and eco
nomically it is more out Of line with
the times than the Payne-Aldrich
bill was in 1909. Scientific revision
would have saved both these meas
ures from opprobrium.
There is one thing that Mr.. Nc
cumber and his associates forgot. A
tariff or-revenue-only measure does
not need to be scientific. 1t may be
hodge-podge and yet do its work.
But protective tariff, unintelli-
gently constructed, defeats itself.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-14

they don't wait for sundown to roost.
Neither do the children in these coun-
tries and others where the summer
days are much longer than ours.
The trouble is not with the system,
but with the parents who are too lazy
or indifferent to train their children
to 60 to bed at fairly regular hour.
What those who consider their
own convenience need is to take such @
course as that given by professor in
Ohio University, called eliminating
Prejudice"
J. r. WEMLINGER.
New York, Aug. 12, 1922.