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New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
Standards Once More

President Angel Of Yale Uni
versity in his first baccalaurcatc ad-
dress takes his stand with those
who believe that the new education
needs a revival Of some Of the fea-
lures Of the dcrided old education.
He is in favor, wonderful to re-
late. of standards Of scholarship, Of
character, conduct, standards in all
things. And in these standards he
would have some relation to ethics
and the morality which our self
salutcd young ecniuscs have sneered
at AS outworn and tircsome.
Yale was established TO create
men of character. Its curriculum
was disciplinary. II conceived OF
education as a strengthening process
not merely a thing Of the intellect
or Of taste, but Of the will. But
like other institutions in recent
decades it has been under the in
fuence, first of the scientific spirit
which, despite its beauties, is objec-
tive rather than subjective; next Of
the utilitarian spirit, with its ma
terialistic basis; and, finally. Of the
do-as-you-plcase school Of educa-
ton, which regarded 1t species Of
sin 10 have standards and akin 70
wickednoss to compel the adolcsccnt
TO work for the good there is in
working. The idea had long run
that the young human animal should
be allowed to grow with a minimum
Of pruning.
Yale, like other universities, was
caught in the wave Of celecticism
which swept over from Germany
and used il in a way, as the Ger
mans did not, TO stimulate all sorts
Of relaxations.
The baccalaurcate Of Yale's new
president gives signs that hereafter
there is 10 be more Of the old style
Of education and less softnoss and
superfciality. The pendulum swings.
It will scarcely return the whole dis
tance it came. but there is TO be
less countenance Of the shallow
cynicism which Of late has passed
for culture.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20

noble rage has been repressed py
chill pcnury in youth and who have
landed through mischance at Coney
instead Of in the halls Of Congress.
To saunter slowly through the
clamorous streets. listening now
here and now there 10 an cloquence
that scgrcgates itself from the gen
eral uproar, is an experience long
IN be remembered. Strike these
vibrant voices mute and the myriad
opportunities to risk ones life or
ruin ones apparel or imperil ones
digestion all for a dime-lO cents
would appeal in vain.
When the ringing Of church bells
is only observable because Of n felt
muhlcd clapper swinging TO and
fro. when the music Of a phono-
graph is expressed only by the un-
dulation Of n mutcd needle over the
record. Coney may be silcnced. But
not till then.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James J. Montague
The Moscow Opera

The Bolsheviki, so we learn
From recent press dispatches,
Have got a rather clever turn
For madrigals and snatches,
And while (at present. in their
land
There isn't any ruction.
They mean to try their common
hand
At opera production.
As all the folk have equal rights
In that unusual sector.
They all will sing with all their
nights,
Disdaining a director.
Each one will have a leading
part;
No Bolsheviki buddy
VIII find it in his naughty heart
To play an understudy.
Though harmony may not attend
This operate riot;
Though through the land, for
weeks on end,
There won't be any quiet,
And though real blood and
sharpened steel
May be the tragic sequel,
The music makers all will feel
That they are free and equal.
Al .rtor all from, what we've
heard
or Mr.. Wagner's pieces,
Where with each loudly warbled
word
The turbulence increases,
With braying brass and vocal
shricks
And obocs shrilly reeded.
We sort Of think these Bolshe-
viks
Won't make more noise than
he did.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20

Rome. a fellowship in the Amer
lean Academy providing a residence
in the Italian capital and $1,000 a
year expense money for three years
Of study.
Last week the same notification
came to Alfred Flocgcl. who would
have been put out Of his lodgings
had a sympathetic magistrate, TO
whom he confdcd his ambitions. not
ordered his landlord TO permit him
TO complete bis picture, The In
spiration Of Music
Schwartz had stuck 90 his art m
the very teeth Of the wolf. Floegel,
a triAe more practical. had painted
houses and ships and fences and
made plaster casts that his life
might be spared TO genius. Even
these devices, however, were not
sufficient to enable him to meet an
advance Of the rent. He was really
saved to fame by the Legislature
Of the State Of New York and the
Lockwood investigating committee.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
Genius Viii Out

So accustomed have become Amer
leans 10 regard theirs as the land
Of opportunity that it is difficult for
them to believe that genius can for
long blush unseen among them.
Had Chatterton been born on the
East Side, advertising agencies
would have sought him out in his at
tic with handsome offers 70 write
rhyming subway advertisements
long before he felt the pinch Of
hunger. Artists. as a rule, remain
poor in New York because their
painting remains poor.
Yet under the very eyes Of this
discerning metropolis two men
within a year have painted and
starved and fought dispossess pro
ceedings until at last came recogni-
ton Of their genius.
The first Of these was Frank H.
Schwartz, who was about to be
driven 10 the streets because Of his
lack Of rent money when he was
notified by the American Academy
in Ron.e that he had won the Prix de
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
Selling More Marks

The news from Berlin is that Ger
many is 70 initiate some more. She
met the June ID rcparation payment
partly out Of her own resources. The
international banking conference was
in session and she was as good as a
boy before Christmas.
But the July payment will be met
in the old way-by a further ennis
sion Of uncovered paper marks. II
IS agreed in the Reichstag by all
parties that additional taxation is
not 70 be thought Of. Nor is d loan
70 be subscribed in Germany more
popular. So Teparation funds are
10 be secured by a new printing and
sale Of paper promises 70 pay. Chan
cellor Wirth has conveniently for
gotten his pledge against further in
fation.
In what market will Germany sell
The new marks? Her effort will be
70 induce mark spectators through
out the world TO buy them. These
gamblers and semi-gamblers already
have bales Of marks which they see
constantly falling in price. But
maybe they can be persuaded 10 send
good money after bad money.
The mark spectators have infu-
ence. They use it 70 try to get a
scaling down Of Germany's repara-
ton debt. Genoa and The Hague
Take away those who have marks
for sale and there would not be 50
persistent an effort to hold foolish
conferences. Next 70 the appetite
for oil concessions in the Caspian
area, foreign owners Of deprecated
snd depreeiating German marks are
the chief YOmoters Of the Hague,
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
Post War Wages

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Labor claims that wages should
enable .t 20 live as we'll as If not better
than before the war. Why should labor
expect 20 20 through such cataclysm
as the World War and no; pay It's share
Of the evils following Why should it
not expect 70 have less till the coun-
Try gets on its feet again? All invest
ments have been cut as regards in
;crest. and this applies 20 the invest
ment Of the small man as we'll as the
muiti-mill.onaire. Why should labor de-.
mand the same scale OF living as be-
fore the war?
! admit. 10 be fair, that employers
also seem 20 take it for granted that
labor must not suffer az all, even
though the world has been through the
worst event Of its history. Why do
they 80 think? A.B.
Rockville Center. y. y. June IS. 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
a National Flower

A bill is before the House Of Rep
rcsentativcs for making the daisy
our botanical symbol; a little while
ago there was ono for thus adopting
the violet. and before that one in be-
half Of the mountain laurel.
The difficulty Of selecting a ma
tional flower acceptable to all rarts
Of the country is suggested by the
great variety Of state flowers thus
far adopted. OF the forty-eight
states forty-four have in some way
adopted state flowers. Four Of them
have chosen the violet, and two each
the apple, the magnolia, the golden
rod and the rhododendron, while the
thirty-two others have made separate
choices. There are thus thirty
seven state flowers among forty-four
states. It would be a hard job 20
get the states all 20 agree upon one
national flower.
Such a flower should meet at least
three obvious requirements. It
should grow freely in all parts Of the
Union. so as to be familiar TO all the
people; it should in form and man
ner Of growth lend itself well 10 ar
tistic and decorative purposes, and
II should be attractive 20 the senses
and void Of offensive qualities.
The last mentioned Of these re-
quirements has been an obstacle TO
the choice, even as a state flower,
Of some otherwise highly acceptable
plants. Thus the goldenrod is OF
universal distribution and is OF
singular beauty. artistic grace and
decorative effectiveness. But IL has
been ruled out as a state flower in
a number Of states for the reason
that it is a troublesome weed,
against which farmers are com
pelled 10 wage campaigns Of de-
struction-a fact certainly making
it undesirable as an emblem. The
same objection is Of course TO be
made 10 the daisy, which is one Of
the most pernicious Of weeds.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
ConeY Denatured

The ban on ballyhoo imposed at
Coney Island by Police Inspector
Byron r. Hackett cannot endure.
The breath Of Coney's life is vocal.
Silence the sound that cnvelops the
pleasure seeker as he steps of the
boat or the trolley and he will de-
part never 10 return.
The delight Of Coney ior the
young and the old is that it is a
perpetual circus. The visitor moves
in a maze through an Intoxicating
babel that is heard no place else
on earth. The tightest fsted are
talked out Of their dimes By Henry
Clsys and Daniel Websters, whose
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
An Excuseless Strike

The heads Of various railroad
unions affected by recent reduc-
tons Of wages have made public
letter attacking the Railroad Labor
Board and warning It's chairman
that they will sanction a strike II
the workers vote for It.
This letter charges the Railroad
Labor Board with having violated
the provisions Of the transportation
act. The board, which is the only
body having power TO fix wages or
change them, is accused Of misusing
its authority. Yet the union officials
do not seek a remedy against the
board. They turn aside and threaten
q strike against the users Of the
railroads. For something which the
board-a governmental agency
has done they want to punish inno-
cent third parties.
The union leaders say that they
have no remedy against the board.
In that they are wrong. II the
board has violated the law it can be
called TO account in the courts. Only
a few weeks ago the Pennsylvania
Railroad secured an order enjoining
the enforcement Of a board ruling
for which the courts found no war
rant in the transportation law. If
the wage reductions violate the law
they can be similarly suspended
through legal processes.
BY sanctioning a strike the union
officials would, in fact, aim at the
annulmont Of the law. not its vindi-
cation They would try to break
down tho form Of regulation Gre
ated in 1920 in the public interest.
And what would be the result if they
did break it down? Either govern
ment regulation would he strength
2ned by an amendment providing
for compulsory acceptance Of the
boards decisions Of they are within
the law or the fixing of wages
would be turned back to the rail-
road arrangements.
The claim that railroad pay is be-
ing unjustly or unequally reduced
should deceive nobody. Roughly
speaking. railroad wages in the lat
ter part Of 1920 were from 1876 20
$50 per cent higher than they were
in 1915. Wages had more than
overtaken mounting living costs.
The new scales proposed by the
Railroad Labor Board are still IN
some classifcations more than 100
per cent above the scales in opera
! tion in December, 1917, when the
y government took over the railroads.
Living costs have come down faster
than wages.
There IS no reason for a strike,
as the union officials well know or
they would state t. And a strike
would not only challenge the gov
ernment's authority but would unite
about nine-tenths Of the population
Of the country against the strikers.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
China's Pendulum

The pendulum in China seems 70
be swinging strongly away from
inertia and separatism and toward
nationalism and unity. DR.. Sun Vat
sens southern Chinese government
has crumbled and he is refugee on
a Canton River gunboat. This gov
ornment, which made considerable
noise abroad, was also a cardboard
house, resting on the foundation Of
an army controlled, not by Sun, but
by Chen Chiung-min, a local mill
tary satrap.
Sun was a liberal and progressist,
and had set up his seeded state as
protest against the forcible dis
solution of the all-China Parlia-
ment. But when he was invited to
help to restore unified republican
and parliamentary rule at Pekine
he baked at giving up personal
power. Chen, his Tuchun, was a
better patriot than he.
WI Pei-fu is the real organizer Of
the nationalistic restoration. Ma
tionalism had fallen into decadence
and the Chinese seemed 20 think that
they could get along without it in an
intensely nationalized world. Ap-
parently, they are beginning TO see
their mistake. The great province
Of Shantung-the cradle of Chinese
culture and the homo Of Confucius-
was drifting out Of China's hands
il has been recovered through in
tcrnational intervention, but on a
pledge from China to drop her old
habits Of political sloth and quietism
and to show herself competent to be
the mistress in her own household.
China's great gains at the Wash
ington conference will 20 for naught
if central government is not ere
ated, strong enough 70 assert SOW
ereignty over the loosely aggregated
provinces and able 10 keep engage
ments entered into with the confer
ence powers. Wa probably sees this.
Chang, the Manchurian exarch and
ex-bandit, pretended TO see it. Ii
Yuan-hung, the former President,
now recalled from retirement, is
fully aware Of it. Only Sun and the
remnants Of his army in Kiang-si
province are still resisting the new
urge for unifcation on a basis OF
real nationalism.
China is a country at once old and
young, ancient but not exhausted
conservative but still ripe for the
spread Of modern ideas. Pride in
culture may now be supplemented
with pride in nationality. The for
mer did not prevent China from fall
ing a prey to alien exploitation. The
latter alone can assure her protec-
ton at home and respect abroad.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20

gathering. A lively interest Is
shown in economics by persons who
care about as much for economics as
Jersey cow does for brambles.
The success Germany had last
year in selling marks abroad. thus
landing on the buyers her repara-
ton bill, has been called the Great
Mark Joke. Maybe the joke Is good
for another trial Green goods men
say they would have no trouble IN
disposing Of their stocks if officers
Of the law did not interfere with
them.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
Independence and Servicc"

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune's attitude Of inde-
pendence within is political party
preference reflects an honest principle
and an American patriotism. !, is the
anii,hesis Of hide-bound partisanship
that would submit to party dietation,
right or wrong. a newspaper, like the
individual, is not immune from mis-
taken judgment. but il is noble
Characteristic that error Of judgment
will be acknowledged ard corrected
whom found 90 exist
Il is the exercise or such principles
that invites public confidence and per-
sonal guidance for the individual who
is more interested in the progress and
maintenance OF representative Amer
lean government than in biased loyalty
20 the perpe;ust.on Of any political
party emblem.
HARRY c. BUCKHOUT.
Brooklyn. June l.. 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20

The cables have been telling about
the grca, state trial az Moscow. Some
forty-scycn leaders Of the Socialist
Revolutionary party are accused by the
Bolsheyists of treason and an assort-
mcnt OF other high crimes against the
Bolshevi,t dictatorship-including COM
plic,ty in thc attack that put the bullet
In Lorincs mock several years ago.
The Importance Of this trial which
promises to be- one of the most
momcntous ir history-is being over.
looked by the American public. Europe
is fully aware that 10 marks a new
crisis On the prolonged and bitter
struggle between the Bolshevists and
the European labor and Socialist move
ment.
The trial is political in every sense
Of the word. The Bolshevists' purpose
in staging and advertising II at the
present moment is political. The
prisoners are for the most part ac-
cuscd Of purely political ofFerscs. The
decision Of European labor TO appoint
defender, for the accused al the trial
was political Thes, defenders in
Guided some of the best known Social
lists OF Europe, such as Vandervclde.
the Belgian Socialist leader and ex-
minister. who was chairman Of the
Social intcrnationalc during the war,
and the brother Of Karl Liebknecht,
representing the independent or radical
Socialist party OF Germany.
The ground for Socialist and labor
interest in the trial is twofold. OD
The difficulty. even the impossibility.
Of securing any justice whatever from
the Bolshevists. and (2) the importance
OF the prisoners as the heads OF the
leading political party among the
peasants. who compose % per cent Of
the Russian population.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
The Neic Slogan

The Bolshcvist interest in the trial
is also twofold. First, TO incriminate
the rival political party before the
Socialist and kbor world, and, second,
70 make pretense Of living up 10 their
new slogan, "Thc United Proletarsn
Fror;." by inviting tho European
Socialists to send representatives.
The observant reader Of Soviet dis
patches or Of pro-Soyiet propaganda
emansting from pseudo-liberal sources
is aware that the Bolshevists have put
forth some new slogan corresponding
20 change OF tactics every few
months. or az times every few weeks
Two years ago, when they hoped 20
gain a rapid mastery Of the labor
union, as we'll as the political labor
movement Of the entire world, they put
forth their famous "twenty-one points"
demanding absolute submission OF all
such organizations TO Moscow. Their
attitude to the world labor movement
has since been modified several times,
until they now advocate a certain form
Of -operation'--to be defined ex-
elusiyely by themselves. OF course
which they call the United Prolctarian
Front
Such a claptrap phrase could have
very little effect on a democratic and
non-Marxist working people like those
Of America. But in every country Of
Europe, including Great Britain. the
very mention Of proletarian unity COM
pels every branch of the labor move
ment to take heed. The fact that the
phrase is put forth by the discredited
Bolshevis,s. who have been caught by
labor at a hundred such tricks, who
have refused TO submit themselves to
the discipline Of the international
Socialist movement whenever the ma.
jority was against them. who are en-
gagged in selling Russia to the capital
let enemy who have committed more
crimes against the Russian Socialists
In four years than were committed by
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
Bolsherisf Promises

When the conference OF the three
internationales met. modus vivendi
was quickly arrived at vandervelde
and Macdonald. OF England, freely ex-
pressed their bitter opposition TO the
Soviet regime and the Third Internal
tionale, but this was merely for effect.
Radek. speaking for the Sovie,s. made
a vicious and thoroughly falsihed
attack. in the typical Bolshevik man
ner. on the Socialists and labor unions
Of Europe. but he was easily persuaded
10 sign an agreement that the death
penalty should not be applied and that
the European movement should be al
lowed 10 send representatives to the
Socialist revolutionary trial at Moscow!
Within a few days Lenine in a speech
at Moscow rebuked RAdek for his mod
Grafton In making concessions 10
bourgeois" Socialists. But this was
also for effect, since the Bolsheyist
ezar conceded that the promise would
have to be kept
But what are Bolsheyist promises ,
No sooner was the trial opened last
week than Radek, in answer TO Lieb-
knecht, who had spoken for the defense,
declared that III the other interna-
tionales have broken the united pro-
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
Still Remote

One Of the subjects TO be taken
up at to-day's meeting Of the Ameri-
can Construction Council. Of which
Franklin d. Roosevelt Is the presi-
dent. is the necessity of a code of
ethics in the building industry. Tell
II 10 Hettrick and his friends Of the
City Hall.
Mr.. Roosevelt and his colleagues
are making an intelligent and ser-
Gus effort to study building condi-
tions and to suggest some remedy
for the present difficulties.
But IL is doubtful If with all their
effort they can establish a code Of
ethics which will prove satisfactory.
The trouble Of the world from the
beginning has been r shortage Of
ethics. 1t is responsible for all the
evils in life since Adams uuethical
acceptance Of Ewes offer Of the
apple.
II the American Construction
Council can supply the building in
dustry with a reliable and non
breakable code Of ethics it will end
all building troubles. 1t will. in
short, establish on earth the Golden
Rule.
But Il is 10 be feared that IN
stead Of a code of ethics the COM
munity will continue TO have codes
Of practice-at least until It is
ready 10 trust to real friends rather
than TO fraudulent ones.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
The Moscow Trial
Copyright ip27 New fofk .

the Cars In hall eertuy-all this
does not In the least weaken the effect
made by the mere utteranee 81 the
magic words, "a united proletarisn
'front.'" upon the entire organized
working class Of Europe.
40 matter how thoroughly the mod
crate Socialist and Labori;e leaders
may understand and hate Bolshevi'm
,hey are helpless the moment such =
phrase is launched The Bolsheyisi'
have succeeded In making the rank and
Gle o. European labor believe that they
are at least branch Of the prole'
tariat." that they have set up a GER
tain kind OF proletarian government.
however faulty and Objectionable. and
that they have carried out a prole-
tartan revolution, however imperfect.
They have convinced the European
wage earners by the very simple device
Of ceaselessly reiterating their claim
20 be proletarian and denounc,ng al
their proletarian enemies as "bour-
ecois." So that the moderatcs, every
where ard always on the defensive,
have never yet dared 20 repudiate the
Bolshcyis,s in the only way they can
be effectively repudiatcd under Euro
rcan conditions. namely, BY pointins
out that they are not even usurp-
ing proletarian minority. but a mere
sect largely dominated by non-prole-
tartan elements.
Right up 70 the time OF this Mos.
COW trial the moderates were still
being led around by the nose. No
sooner was the Genoa conference
called than the Soviets realized the
necessity Of securing the support Of
European labor. or az least OF allaying
the intensity Of It's antagonism; so they
engineered in Berlin Gin ApriD a con-
ference Of all three internationsles 20
establish the United Proletarian
Front. Now two Of these interna-
tionales have accused the Bolshovists Of
every conceivable crime against labor
and socialism. Yet they all accepted
the invitation with alaerity. The end
less millions spent by the Soviets among
the rank and file Of labor were still
bearing fruit. Moreover, had not capital.
ist governments and hnanciers repeat
edly expressed their confidence in the
growing moderation and good faith Of
Moscow? And how could q moderate
and Socialist labor movement repu.
date as too extreme for association a
regime that had thus been publicly
appreciated by the capitalistic system
itself.