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New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
A Pat on the Back

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ! remember being an interested
ten-year-old hearer of somewhat
heated dispute between my father and
one of my uncles on hot day fifty
years ago. Subject: Grant Greeley.
That topic split more than one family
that summer. AS | saw it then, with
ten-year wisdom, and as ! see it now.
Grant would have been my choice. But
could never fail to admire Horace
Greeley, and feel sure that if he
could come back to The Tribune ana
read 1.-TWO Days Work" in yesterdays
issue he would give the writer hearty
pat on the back.
] value The Tribune of to-day be-
cause | believe it is as sincere and
honest as Horace Greeley was.
j. c. MCCORMICK Jr.
Edgewood Park, Pa, Aug. %, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
No Seniority for Strikers

The principle that a railroad
striker cannot retain seniority rights
or preserve his status as a rail en-
ployee before the Railroad Labor
Board was reaffirmed by Chairman
Hooper last Monday at the track
workers hearing. The board is
firmly committed to this opinion by
its decision of last October in the
Ann Arbor case and by later official
expressions of its spokesman.
The question was brought before
the board by an objection on the part
of various Eastern roads that main
tenance men for whom President
Cradle was asking an increase of
wages had gone on an outlaw strike.
AS strikers, it was pointed out, they
have ceased to have any claim on the
consideration of the Labor Board,
whose duty is to railroad workers
only.
Chairman Hooper, according to
The Tribune's dispatch from Chi
cago, sustained this protest, saying
to Mr.. Cradle: Employees who go
on strike can be considered only for
mer employees and have no standing
before this board"
1t has been the contention of Mr..
Jewell and the brotherhood chiefs
that the shopmen who walked out
lost no rights-that their rights were
merely suspended" pending adjust
ment. On that theory he too could
go before the Labor Board and ask
increased wages for non-working
shopmen.
The boards position is clear and
logical. 1t has the power to settle
the disputes over wages and working
conditions which give rise to strikes.
Its decision is final, except in so far
as 1t may be reviewed by the courts.
For any men to strike is therefore
to surrender their status before it..
They cam regain that status only by
seeking reinstatement, without pref
udlce to workers who have stayed on
their jobs or to new men who have
entered the service.
These rulings dispose of the claim
of hold-over seniority. There is no
such thing any longer in the railroad
industry. Those who leave leave.
They do not carry with them an
option to return automatically to
their old places.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
s'sWnliran,,

1t will not be charged that the
Landlords Of New y ork who are rep
resented BY the Real Estate Board
are laggard Ia willingness to dimin-
ish coal consumption in their
buildings.
In their enthusiasm for fuel hus-
banding they have forwarded "
Governor Miller twenty-two definite
suggestions looking to tightening
the labors of coal shovelers. The
landlords are aflame with zeal. Not
since Petroleum v. Nasty, with d
mighty burst of patriotism, offered
the services Of his wife's relatives to
the government has there been a
more impressive display of public
spirit.
In their office buildings the en-
thusiastic coal conservers would
furnish no heat, light or power after
z p. M. or on Sundays and holi-
days, would cut down elevator serv-
ice and hall lighting 25 per cen.
and would provide no heat before
October |, no matter how cold it.
became,
The regulations for apartments
are written with similar generosity,
though the period during which a
tenant may ask heat is heightened
to 10 p. m. But otherwise there
are ample safeguards. 1t is to be
unlawful to warm a room to more
than 6s degrees Fahrenheit; all
radiators are to be cold UP to Oc-
tober | and thereafter to continue
cold except when the outside tenn
perature is less than SO degrees.
The landlords may have their faults,
but don't accuse them of being heat
wastrels.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
The Official Whisewasher

Mr.. M. Jay Racusin has for some
time been conducting an investiga-
ton into the Department of Public
4 Markets for The Tribune. The pub
llshed results indicate that tn army
BOT olieeholders is maintained. at
|great expense, to collect large sums
from pushcart peddiers and that a
great deal of this money IS unac-
counted for. Mr.. Racusin's infor-
nation was obtained first hand from
the peddlers themselves and care
fully verified before publication.
The disclosures in The Tribune at
tracted the attention and aroused
the indignation Of David Hirshfield,
Commissioner Of Accounts, whose of
fetal duties require him to inycsti-
gate city departments which are not
fnnctioning efficiently and report
them to the Mayor.
In letter to The Tribune Mr..
sHifsnnelo hrst denied that Mr..
Racusin existed and then requested
that he appear at the City Hall and
testify to his knowledge of conditions
in the Department Of Markets.
NJ. Racusin yesterday appeared
at Mr.. Hirshfield's office, prepared to
tell all he had learned. He acted in
good faith, and the desire of the
newspaper he represented was to
give Mr.. Hirshfeld information upon
which he might act in his official
capacity.
Mr.. Racusin was not heard. He
was told by Mr.. Hirshfsld's deputy
that the Commissioner of Accounts
did not care to investigate while an
investigation into the same depart
snent was being conducted by Dis
trict Attorney Ruston Of Kings
County, who, like The Tribune, is
trying to discover just why horde
OF collectors has been loosed upon
the pushcart peddIers.
The deputy remarked that he did
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
The Public's : Right

The argument that in eases of
economic disputes which involve
basic industries there are three i'm.
terests TO be considered, and not
merely two, has seldom been more
strongly stated than by Governor
Miller in his coal message.
Not only are there three parties in
interest, but the concern of the third
the general publicis the supreme
concern. The public cannot submit
to being the victim Of warring minor
tiles which sooner or later tend to
adjust their quarrel by combining to
pass on the cost of their war.
Not only is the public interest par
amount, but, as the Governor makes
plain, the government, the only
agency which represents the major
ity, must be conceded commanding
influence either in preventing dis
putes or in bringing them to an end
when they become intolerable.
Here is no new doctrine Indeed
it lies at the very basis of demo-
cratic institutions. We hold cleo
tons ard choose public officers to
prevent the minority rule in which
always lurk tyranny and injustice.
A particular application of the doc
trine may be novel, but the principle
is ancient. Sooner than is now re-
allied we may expect legislation on
the Kansas model.
Public rule is no party question.
Men of the most DIVERGENT points of
view agree as to it, William J. Bryan
entertaining the same opinion as
Governor Miller, for Mr.. Bryan also
| denounces a system under which
100000 miners and 100000 coal
property owners, together represent
ing only 5 per cent of the popula-
ton, rifle the pockets of the other 95
per cent of the population.
But in the message to Albany one
looks in vain for one item---namely,
that the financial benefit of the coal
saving shall accrue to the chilled
tenants, thus equirping them to meet
supplementary heating bills. This
detail is Observation-Disclosures be-
cause of the haste with which the
conservation program was prepared.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Breakfast and Brains

Shattered is the superstition that
there is a causal relationship be-
tween the meager French breakfast
and Gallo sprightliness. At least
so 1T would seem if doctors assem-
oled from nearly every state in the
Union are correct.
These good medicine men have
come out strongly in favor of a
heavy breakfast. The human engine.
they hold, needs fuel in the morn
ing, Brain workers in particular
they say, should start the day with
fruit, cereal, eggs, bacon and toast
Inc stomach thus thoroughly stocked
VIII keep the brain untrcrb,ed in
hours that follow. For whoevsy l;los
one hight meal a day luncheon
IS recommended - bowl of milk
With few crackers, perhaps, and
an orange, with its vitanlines. In
the evening it is permitted to eat
more heartily to keep the engine
revolving through the long night
hours.
But the early morning is the
really Important moment to main
tam the good old American tradition
OF square meal. One doctor even
goes SO far as to sanction pie
but ne probably is of New England
ancestry, a suspicion not removed
by a recommendation Of beans and
goldfish balls.
5at It Is not so much, lack of size
as something else that is 5he matter
with she American breakfast. The
majority Of good Americans sat
nearly breakfasts, but nave still to
tram themselves to accept sais meal
IN a spl1st Of Christian cheefuaness.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
General Woods Work in the Phiippine,

They now turned eagerly to Wood, In
whom they felt they had enc who was
not only able to formulate policy Of
economy and reconstruction, but who
possessed will to put such a policy
through.
The report Of the Wood mission was
released at the end Of the year. It's
findings and recommendations were
treated as challenge by the more ir-
reconcilable propagandists Of immc-
diate independence. But though dis
mayed by the disclosures of extrava-
gance and mismanagement embodied
In the report, the more responsible
scparatist leaders were relieved by it's
sympathetic tone and the moderation Of
It's conclusions and recommendations.
Financial Reform
The most disastrous effect Of the
entry Of the government into business
during the Wilsonian Administration
was the collapse Of the financial sys-
tenn of the islands and the consequent
impairment Of credit and paralysis Of
business. Until 1916 the paper cur
rency had been backed by a gold re-
serve Of over s4o,0oo.ooo, which was
deposited In fifteen banks in the
United States. In that year was es-
tablished the Philippine National Bank,
in which all departments OF the gov
ernment were required to deposit their
funds. BY some mysterious manipula-
tion the gold reserve (s4i, 500, ,ooo) and
various trust funds were transferred
to the New York branch Of the new
bank.
AS a result. Of excessive loans made
on fiimsy security and Of general mis-
management the bank sustained losses
amounting to s22,5O0,ooo and by 1921
the gold reserve had dwindled to about
s2,ooo,ooo, 50 that the metallic basis Of
the currency was eliminated. Drastic
measures had already been taken TO
replace the bank on sane working
foundations. One Of General Woods
hrst steps was to prepare and put
through the Legislature a series of
measures calculated to rehahilitate the
currency system and reinstate the peso
to It's normal par value Of soc gold.
AS a result Of these timely measures
the credit OF the insular government
was redeemed. With the restoration
OF confdence new capital has been
imported, and many private enter
prises have beea given new lease
Of life.
Inc outstanding achievements of
General Woods administration up to
the present time have been the re-
haDilitation Of the currency system
and the downward revision of the
budget, whereby nearly 10000 900 pesos
was saved to the Treasury, and the
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30

Too many people breakfast on the
eat-and-rhn principle, and others
come to the table convinced they arc
going to be bad humored. II break
fast reformers are to be really USE
full they must prescribe preventives
for these ills. Otherwise they will be
dogged through life by breakfasters
who, when putting the hearty break
fast to test, have risen harassed and
late to miss an accustomed train.
Who eats lightly can eat speedily.
But speed is the enemy Of good
digestion.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Italy and Austria

Evidently too much Importance
was attached to the Verona confer
ence, at which Italy was said to
have been besought by Chancellor
Selpel to take over devitalized Aus
trla. Verona was one of Radetzky's
stamping grounds. How that mighty
Austrian Sfav, who kept northern
Italy SO long in chains, would choke
with rage at the suggestion of an
Italian protectorate over Styria.
Carinthia and upper and lower
Austria! How completely have the
Hapsburg glory and tyranny de-
parted!
German Austria is derelict,
seeking a tow. Italy might be will
ing to throw out rope. But there
are political obstacles. The Little
Entente states are as deeply con-
cerned as Italy in Austria's future.
They would like to share in anv
divisions of the feeble Austrian Re-
public. But fearing that Austria
would turn to Italy rather than to
them, they are more likely to act
jointly to uphold the Paris treaties.
III the partition Of Austria does not
stand, the partition of Hungary, by
| which they all benefited, NAV not
stand also.
Were Italy to desire a political
and economic protectorate over Aus
trla she would have to make terms
with France and the Little Entente
TO get it. That fact may have a
helpful bearing on her future policy.
she has pursued for the last couple
OF years q program of aloofness and
negatlon so far as the sterilization
OF Europe through the enforcement
OF the peace treaties is concerned
She has been friendly to Soviet Rus
sla and has favored remission of
Germany,s obligations. She has
acted as if she had no direct stake
IN the maintenance of the peace
treaty status and Of the Allied En-
tente, which alone can support the
new European order.
1 Italy has been free-lancing. The
Verona conference ought to bring
her back to an appreciation Of the
political difficulties of the European
situation and the need of Allied
unity to solve central Europe's
problems. # she tries to. whittle
down what the Poincare government
considers Frances treaty rights
against Germany, how could she
hope for any consideration for her
plans to exceed the treaties and be-
come the protector Of Austrian
Austrian annexation is. perhans.
dream. But the Verona confer
ence will have done some good Il it
makes italy a little more conscious
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Iohn G. O'KeeGe
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Trihuiae. .'
Sirs by the death Of thu isse s's.
G. o'Keeffe sae community he's los' z
of its most useful citizens.
Mr.. o'Keeffe was for maity yssas &
an active and successful businss. J.
the financial district. For so1as s'' Z,
prior 20 his death, which eccuffss 81.
August II, 1922, he had given up .s.., .,..s
business and devoted himself co.
to works OF religion aud henexo'sa,ss IS
He was always ready to lend a's s.s. ..,
able aid and counsel to sny u y.
cause; and he was indiferent 9 w
ing that concerned humanity J.
GEO. GORDON RAIsak
New York, Aug. 2ss 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Women Among the Clergy

Women Among the Clergy
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The editorial "Women Among
the Clergy in to-day's issue calls for
short comment.
The ministry Of the English Church.
1t must be said, Is a sacramental one
priestly ministry. This is also true
of the churches of the Roman and
Eastern communions. While in the
light of modern thought there seems
to be no complete reason why women
should not be admitted to the priest
hood, at the same time it appears to
be contrary TO the genius OF historic
Christendom.
AS your editorial states, women NAV
in the English Church make addresses
from the pulpit. This is generally
true in the other national churches In
communion with. the See of canter-
bury, including the Protestant Episco-
pal Church In this country. There is
besides, in these churches. q ",ninistry
OF women" Corresponding with the
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
The Elusive Moral

The Elusive Moral
Before there was Volstead law
The village gossips used to
nutter
In pitying accents when they saw
A friend and neighbor in the
gutter:
"How dreadful was the fellows
fall!
How terrible is his condition!
He wouldn't be that way at all
If only we had prohibition!"
They knew the drunkards all by
name,
And when they came around
with edges
Some elderly and kindly dame
Would get their signatures to
pledges.
And if they all appeared next
day
Still far too m erry and
seraphic,
The troubled townsfolk used to
Hard aay things about the liquor
traffic.
To-day, when some good man
goes wrong,
The villagers with whom he's
mingled
Observe his frequent bursts of
song, s
And thus discover he is jingled.
"Foo bad about that chap" they
cry,
"He might have kept his high
position
If Volstead hadn't made us dry
What ruined him is prohibi-
tion!"
There is some moral in this
tale
l fancied SO when / designed
But / have searched without avail
For nearly half an hour to find
~.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
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All rlgats q republication Of all ether msiter
hsrtin also are reserved.
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TRIBUNE ~tsh absoiuts ssse.s--for Il dissasisfat-
ttoa rssa.ss In aay ease TIE THiBuAE aasrsa-
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ssss Nc auibsiias. ws refund promptly u the
sdssrtisey doss nes.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
THE VILLAGE SPINSTER

The neat door children droDe 7xe mad
'7aoas phack and baaOl tho hvc,
long day;
And "Johnnie-e~ "Ernic-ep
oh, its giqd
! soas the hour they moved a,pay.
But motc all ,oeek is Sunday stiu;
Time reOer budges off q crawl,
Like some old buggy up hill.
Is it 1 miss them? Not at oil!
I. v.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
A Slight Deficiency

fFrous The DaIias Nesusl IS
As we understand ii, the xesse' q, 7,
Moscow government cant nors0p ~
money il because IL lacks shasas
conscience, credit and collatsfaa
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
1t Must be Done

If we don't lower the immigration
bars to Italy how are we going to
get our future golf champions
Copyright by James j. Montague,
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Needed Amendment

The pure food law ought to insist
that on every bootleg liquor label
the wood alcohol content be plainly
printed.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
And More to Follow

Nicholas Lenine doesn't share the
regret of Nathan Hale. He's already
given six or seven lives to his coun-
try.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
After the Fire


Here's prospect most distressing;
Trousers, stained and needing press
ing;
Woman's nightgown, black and tat
tered;
Legless tables, cracked and battered;
Mingled with old boots and shoes,
What was once case of booze;
All the things a bureau stores;
Half burned books and closet doors;
Broken chairs, student lamp;
Sofa cushions, torn and damp;
Baby's crib, a pewter mug:
Broken bed springs, soggy rug,
Jumbled in one mighty pile.
Scotfer. wipe away that smile,
All of this debris has come
From onetime happy home.
This the lesson we can learn:
Put no fire out. Let her burn.
A. A. w.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30

of the advantages Of Allied concert
Il, healing with Germany and Rus
sia, as we'll Id with Austria
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30

dispersal of strongly intrenchsd 30.
litieal oligarchy, whose alma wer. :se
often in conflict with the PhiIiprirs
policy favored by the Republican
authorities at Washington.
Other notable accomplishment have
been the cleansing Of the iudisisry
and a general speeding up d ths
courts; the establishment Of regime
of efficiency in the civil service. and
searching Investigations into the con-
duet of the San Lazaro Asylum saS ths
Culion ieper colony, resulting ID eon
prehensiYe measures for tao syentus
eradication Of ieprosy from ia klxai
and in the immediate bettsrnsas ii
both institutions.
Liberal and sympathetic suppsH has
been given to the advancemsas i:
science. particularly In those branches
bearing on sanitation and hygiene 1na
on agriculture. Experiments GA i
large scale have been made with 81
snti-rinderpest serum discovered By
DR.. Boynton, with successful result,
and an energetic campaign is at prss-
ent being conducted against ths lacasi
plague.
The establishment Of the Nssils
Port Area Commission hes giyen 81
impetus to harbcr improvements aad
has facilitated the docking Of ocean.
going steamers and the loading and IN
loading Of cargoes. and measures hare
been put through for extending and
co-ordinating the arteries Of commeres
on land and water with visw to af-
fording better service. With eheats'
rates.
A Rare Combination
Before his depsrture fran ~
United States as head Of tie Fhilippias
mission General Wood vas elected 20
the presidency OF the University o.
Pennsylvania, and recently the aniss1-
sity has urged him 70 ssks ovsr ms
presidential duties as soon ss possin's.
Americans in the Philippines sls
unanimous in their desire te resslh
this services of General Wood ana
few weeks sgo, through the Anfes'sAa
Chamber of Commerce, they pesiIl0nss
the President to make it possible y
the General to rensin at hif psss I
Manila until his reconstruetiys psa'
cies have been put in forse. y s
hardly be disputed that If there y 9.
available man who possesses IS
cc.nbinstion of courage and pss's''1'
experience and ability. fcreeaul u
suasiveness and untsrniskea plsS
required to unrayel the Phll'FPp'
ttangle and TO guide the Filipsao Fl
pie along the paths Of true progfe's y
eventual prosperity and pollt'eas
curity, that man is the Amesaesn q
dier-statesman General Leensro assT
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30

The King of Siam, whose father had
300 wives, has just married. The first
hundred, we have always been informed,
are the hardest.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30

The shutdown Of the Ford fiivver
factories leaves the Mccormick family
and its marriage reports supreme in
the field of quantity production.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30

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sospars,soa raafisaea et2sis oraen Rssd rrsst-
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xesg. 1elepasMe. 5essssnsa $3.50.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Faith, Ltd,

He has great faith in the human
race. He does not believe the movie
people are a bad lot because of the
actions of a few
When any one says politicians are
crooks, he Immediately rises to the de-
fense of said politicians.
He does not think that theatrical
managers are in cahoots with the ticket
SPECTATORS; nor is it his belief that
newspapers are controlled by the
moneyed interests or that they inten-
tiona1ly garble the truth.
Yet, when in restaurant, he al
ways rubs the knife, fork and spoon
with his napkin before eating. And
whenever he sees Fresh Paint" sign
he insists on touching the thing
painted. BILL NETCH.
The movie actors seem still intent
on getting into the newspapers what
the censors keep out of their films.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
The Tog0er

AS r I II A r i o N
IF MEN at threescore years and
ten
Can watch with steady heartbcats
when
The vagrant, fragrant southern
breeze
Plucks petals frcm the apple trees !;
II they small interest betray
In skies that hold the blue of May,
And feel no old resurgent pain,
But only yawn: Its spring again" !;
If men at seventy can see,
Unmoved, the moonlight's mystery;
If nothing in their bosoms thrills
To dusk and chanting whip-poor-
wills;
If they can watch the dawn god rise,
With bleak unreverential eyes,
Or mark the setting Of the sun
And think: Another day is done"; J;
If men at threescore years and ten
Have hearts that yearn not, now
and then,
To go and find what countries lie
Beyond where mountains rim the
sky;
If age from them the love divorces,
For fields and winds and water
courses;
If they are merely just alive,
| hope ! die at sixty-five.
Son'ehoio, gou cent help pitying tks
man Who has comnnted all summer on
thu Eric and retstrns to the citp, h;gh
Of heart and filed sVith relief to ride
on the subway IN its present condition.
If the Interborough can't make it's
periods Of collapse shorter, it might at
least make the stories carried in The
Subway Sun longer and more exciting.
1t might even drill the guards in
telling the stalled patrons Break Down
Stories.