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New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Economy In Excelsis

That is fine scheme of a JAP
anese professor Of political economy
to rescue the nation FROM financial
stringency by reducing the size of
kimono sleeves. And he proves his
case conclusively by mathematical
process. So many people in Japan,
so many kimonos apiece; so many
yards of superfiuous material in the
long, flowing sleeves; SO many yen q
yard. Multiply these ascertained
factors and the irrefutable product
is 160,00o,0oo yen, Or $SO,oo0,0oO,
which might be saved every year by
merely changing the style of clothes.
AS Euclid remarked, @. E. D.
Pursuing like train Of calcula-
tion, it would be interesting to know
how much a year this nation is saw
ing by the abbreviation of skirts. So
many million fappers, so many
dresses apiece; so many yards of
6SSAb oNNSaf oO iIl1kly UT QOI-
lars a yard. How much? Genera
Dawes, having pruned down the gov
ernmental budget, must look to his
laurels. Here may have been a
greater saving than was his.
Whether it was done for the pur-
pose Of national economy, however.
is quite another question.
Somehow or other the learned jap
anese professors ingenious computa-
tion reminds US of Colonel Sellers's
scheme for making uncounted mil.
lions by supplying ophthaln,ic Egyp-
tlans with eye lotion: So nnany
Egyptians, so many eyes apiece;
SO many of 'em suffering from oph-
thalmia, so many bottles of lotion to
effect cure, so much profit on each
bottle. "There's millions in it."
And they stayed in, too.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Bohemians l Haze Knoun

"Goodby, Bohemia" recent article
in The Tribune by that clever raeon-
teur James L, Ford, has brought to
mind food Of memories lacking
which. my past would be poor indeed.
For have rambled in Bohemia and
made friends with some of the nobility
Of the country.
There be many who try to be Bohe-
mians, but l never knew one to sue
ceed. They are like the professional
Southerners who raise the "rehel yelr'
at banquets even yet, thereby adver-
tising themselves as earpet-baggers.
Neither Mr.. Ford nor / knew Pfaff's.
We are not old enough. He repeats
what others have written about the
Pfaff group, but he seems not to know
Maria's, where Mickey Finn was part
of the furniture, for he locates her
jolly resort In Macdougal Street, and
makes no mention of the other res
taurants to which the real Bohemians
went when the pretenders crowded
them out of the Twelfth Street place.
Such places as Jauss's I mean. Who
knows, to-day, where Jauss's was?
But whatever people think, the res
taurant of the Greenwich Village type
is not and never was the best place to
find Bohemians. They have resorts to
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Smiths Biggest Job

Unless new subways are built inn
mediately traffic congestion in New
York City will continue and increase.
1t is already interfering with the
dispatch of business. Could the cost
of time lost in rush hours be esti-
mated 1t would reach many millions
OF dollars annually. That cost, un-
der present conditions, is certain to
rise with the growing population.
Unless the entire transit system
is unified and put under a single
control the fve-cent fare will soon
become only memory. Lean"
routes, lacking help from "fat"
routes. will be forced into bank
ruptcy. Two and three fares will
be substituted for ono on many q
wage earner's daily ride from home
to work.
The Transit Commission has
worked out and is putting into exc
cution plan for building new sub
ways and unifying the system. In
the opinion of competent engineers,
it i~ the only possible plan for this
gigantic task.
The biggest job which will con-
front Mr.. Smith when he takes Office
on January / will be to see that the
city gets new subways and that the
system is so centrally controlled that
the five-cent fare can be maintained.
Mr.. Smith says he is for home
rule. But he knows Mayor Hylan and
the Board of Estimate as we'll as.
If not better than, any other citizen
OF this state. He has seen the effect
OF their policy of hampering the
Transit Commission. He knows how
utterly incompetent they are, either
to plan or administer a system of
transit.
Surely he will not commit the big
gest problem of the metropolis into
hands he knows to be the hands of
bunglers. He will not permit the
present subways to be crowded to the
point OF stagnation while he wran-
giles with the Republican Assembly
over the policy of removing the
Transit Commissioners.
he has proved in the past a man
OF expedience and resourcefulness.
he cans if he will, find way to
carry out the present plan and re-
iieve an intolerable situation. The
voters elected him because they be-
lleved in him. They will not con-
tlnue to believe in him if he deprives
them of the transit that is vital to
their comfort and their prosperity.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
A $4,000 "Favor',

Governor-elect Smith reads the
newspapers. He must know what
is going on in the bus business in
New York. He must know that the
best way to start his administration
right is to clean up this mess and
get rid of the vultures who are bat
tening ON it. No friendship for any
man in Tammany, no obligation to
any party leader can exempt him
from this duty.
On Wednesday Thomas III. O'Neil,
Under Sheriff and Tammany leader
in the Bronx, frankly admitted that
he and the late Arthur Murphy re-
ceived $500 month each from
Ferdinand Frankenberg because
O'Neil got for Frankenberg per-
NIT to operate municipal bus line.
This permit was granted by
Grover Whalen, Commissioner of
Plant and Structures. O'Neil saw
Whalen three or four times before
the permit was given. On one oc-
casion he brought Frankenberg
along, but left him outside the room
during his conference with the
Commissioner.
Neither O'Neil nor Murphy put a
cent into the busses operated by
Frankenberg. The only service they
performed was that of recommend
ing him for the permit. Yet they
profited for that little favor at the
rate of $4,000 a year.
Commissioner Whalen has told the
commission that any person who
could produce good buses could So
cure permit to do business for the
city. O'Neil contradicted this fatty
by the statement that Frankenberg
had failed to obtain bus route un-
til ne had made the arrangement to
let O'Neil and Murphy in on the
profits.
Here is evidence that points to the
hrazen sale of political pull. O'Neil
IS the present 7ammany leader in
the Bronx. Murphy was the Tam
many leader there up to the time of
his death. Why Whalen should have
needed their recommendation be-
fore granting a permit Whalen him
self could best answer. Evidently
he did require it.
The citizens Of New York can ex-
pect no explanation of this business
from, Whalen, whose only defense
thus far has been abuse of the
Transit Commissions counsel, Clar-
ence J. Shearn. they can expect
nothing from the Mayor but repe.
tition of the silly charge that he Ia
being prosecuted by the traction
interests.
But they can and do expect
Alfred E. Smith to protect then,
from this sort of thing. He has the
power to stop it. 1t is devoutly to
be trusted that he begins to exercise
it on the day his term of office
begins.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10

which curiosity seekers find no en-
trance, The first of these that l re-
call was the delightful home of Mrs.
Marion Fortescue, who afterward be-
came Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt. There
once year, Mr.. Roosevelt gave a
"potiuck picnic@ to the elect.
The uncle of the famous President
was an ariatocrat of the aristocrats,
though Democrat politically and the
recipient of high honors from his
party, but he was also Harry Clapp's
successor as titular prince i'm Bohemia.
Clapp was the leader Of the pfaff
group. My last meeting with him was
in Cobweb Hall, in Duane Street, some
time in the '70s, when he had already.
been forgotten. Even a Bohemisn's
fame Is sometimes fleeting. He passed
away soon after. Among the few but
sincere mourners I recall Mortimer
Thompson ("Philander @. K. Doesticks,
F. B.~, Amos Cummings, Sam Mckee
yer, Tody Hamilton, Kenward Philip
and Henry Hercules Hadley, Bohemians
ell at that time, though Hadley ''came
back" and afterward became the official
aimoner Of st. Bartholomew's Church.
Each of the hundred or so guests at
the potluck was expected to prepare
and bring some contribution to the
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10

travagances Of revolt their leaders
may utter. A fair and far-seeing
ieaiership at Washington would
seek to work with the farm bloc, not
against it, and see to it that no
Fordneys and McCumbers were left
IN charge to make fair-n,inded prog
ress impossible.
Where can such leadership be
found TO head the Republican party
IL the next two years? That, in The
Tribune's view, is the great question
put to Republicans, great and small,
by the election of 1922. Leadership
can come from either end of Penn
sylvar,ia Avenue. But come it must
or 1924 will hold all the threat which
eliminated In the disaster of 1912.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Some Women Candidates

There will be two women in the
House of Representatives for the
period of the extra session of Con-
gress as result of Tuesdays cleo
tion. Mrs, Winifred Mason Huck.
OF Illinois, Republican, who was
elected to complete the untitled
term OF her father, the late William
E. Mason, will hold her seat only
until next March, but that will be
long enough to afford the country
the pleasant spectacle of two women
IN Congress together. Unfortu-
nately, they will make their exit to-
gether in March, likewise, as Miss
Alice Robertson, "Aunt Alice, of Ok
iahoma," was unable to hold the ma
lority which she polled two years
ago in the Harding Republican
sweep, and Oklahoma returned to
the Democratic column.
The new Congress will be entirely
without women members, although
nine women throughout the Middle
West made the campaign for seats,
some of them so vigorously that in
the early returns, they were reported
elected. Victorious or not, nine is a
surprisingly large number, consider
ing the fact that this is the first
national election since women had
the vote the country over, and that
the ambition Of women to hold high
public office seems to be in inverse
proportion to the distance from
home. Where hundreds Of women
viii run for Office in their home
towns, or their own states, it is rare
to find one who is desirous of going
to Washington. There may be a
direct connection between this ten
dency and the fact that the first two
women elected to Congress were un-
married. Mrs. Huck is the first
mother to sit in the House.
In addition to the candidates for
Congress, there were women seekers
after almost every office on the bal
lot, and the results show a goodly
number of winners. Two women
were elected to the Massachusetts
Legislature for the first time. and
three come back to the New JERSEY
Assembly. Women in high public
Office are increasing slowly but in
evitably. This is the normal and
Desirable degree Of progress. The
desire of women to hold public Office
themselves was the least among the
reasons actuating the millions who
demanded the right to vote, but in
individual cases whore the desire on
the wonan's part is coupled with a
desire on the part of her constitu-
ents, it is gratifying that the people
OF this country are already 30 will
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Coodby YoIstead

In all the queer capers of the elec~
fIon, Is there one more diverting than
the retirement of Representative
Andrew ]. Volstead, of Minnesota I?
Drys and vets joined in defeating
the legislator whose statutory name
sake put the teeth in prohibition.
The former painted the lily bv vot.
ing for the Rev. O. j. Kyale who
boasted ne was "drier than Vol
stead.' The latter also supported
Mr. Kvale. from motives probably
associated with their notion Of poetic
justice. If there is a martyrolopv
connected with the saying that poll
tics makes strange bedfellows Mr.
eolstead must take rank among the
shining victims.
II may solace him to feel that If
VIII be q long time before his name
IS forgotten. Volsteadism is already
embedded IN American speech TO ax-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
A Sentimental Landslide
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

~ tnu l0Ator OF Inc Ir1bune,
Sir: Reading the results Of the elec-
tions, am reminded Of statement
made by Julian Street some time ago
to the effect that 1--WE Americans in-
dulge in too much sloppy sentimental
ISM" That's the explanation Of this
landslide.
Because likable fellow who talks
well and knows how to smile tells
them things they like to hear large
number of unthinking voters give him
their ballot, They are almost frantic
in their exhilaration at his election.
Yet what do they expect to get from
him? Certainly not light wines and
beer or repeal Of che tariff, since it is
beyond his power to provide either.
Do they expect TO get better transit
facilities? Surely there is no promise
In that direction. But home rule
sounds good.
1t esems as though any one could see
that the election Of Smith must mean
two more years Of little accomplish
ment, no matter how good his inten-
tions may be. The reason is, of course,
the lack Of likely cooperation between
the executive and the legislative body.
Still, Smith is fine fellow. let's give
him another chance. says the average
man, and here we are. No thought is
given to the effective and conscien-
tious work Of the other man. They
don't like his looks and dislike the
way he says things. The French have
proverb which says that it is only
the truth that hurts.
]. r. wEMLINGER.
New York, Nov. 8, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10

press new phase OF repression for
which there is no convenient syno-
nym. Mr.. yolBtead is likely to find
himself In the next edition of the
dictionary along with DR.. Guillotin,
DR.. Bowdlar, Mr.. Pinchbeck, Cap
tain Boycott and other worthless who
sre everlastingly symbolic.
The political reverse of a gentle
man who, has inspired millionfold
grudges Is perhaps not a national
calamity. Very likely Andrew j.
Volstead is royal good fellow per-
sonally, and we gladly give him hail
and farewell---Auc Gtque Kvale.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
A Gloomy Homecoming

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sirs After eight months of travel
abroad the return to New York gives
US greater surprise than anything
we have seen In Europe, Asia or Africa,
When we left home the cloud at
smoke which hung over the city was
not much larger than mans hand,
while i,ow. il envelops everything like
q glove Of gigantic proportions. Lon
don is sunshine city compared with
gloomy New York. When we went away
the ash carts wed with the smoke dis.
trtbutors in pelluting the air. while
now cvon more ashes would hardly ba
noticed IN the blacknsss of soft coal
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10

ing to give the woman the vote OF
confidence that they would have
given a man Of equal caliber. Miss
Ruth Taylor, who was defeated for
the position OF Judge OF the Chill
dren's Court Of Westchester County,
seems to have lost out not because
she was woman but because she
was not q lawyer. So once again
the great "sex war" refuses to start.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
What Readers Sau

smoke. Why must we have either nui-
sance?
II all Of us who are lazy and indif-
ferent would only be different 60 the
point of being willing to make real
sacrifices, conditions might be i'm
proved. However, if women are accept
ing the return to leng skirts on the
street there is NO help nor health in US.
BETH BALLET.
New York, Nov. s, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Likely to Succeed

fFrom Chs Toronto Giobe)
De Valera declares that the Irish
republicans seek victory or exter-
mination. Victory is impossible, but
they are trying hard to merit ths
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Tariff Rebels
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t looks very decidedly As
though the Tariff Rebelss had found
opportunity for Expression" and have
exercised it In numhers sufficient to
constitute reckoning by ssYmy units"
as ! sorstold. And 80 did you and
"The New York Herald. when the
foratelling was worth while, but your
advice was not needed. One of cur
worst situations is a dominant partv
with too great majority In Congress
behind II. EDWARD 8 EIErn
New York. Nov. 8, 1899.
10 the Editor of The Tribune.
sts: Every Republican defeated in
sne recent election will present his
views OF the proper alibs, and many
o1 those who are not defeated viii be
equally Eeaioua in setting forth their
views OF how and why it happened
sew viii have the courage to admit
thas for their defeat they havs only
themselves 70 blame,
II any Republican in Congress
thought the tariff bill as whipped into
shape for final passage would meet
with popular approval he thereby
showed himself unfit for his ios-and
there must have been q lot of him.
else the bill would not have become
Q law. ANY person with two good
ears could have got the drift ef public
opinion weeks in advance Of the fatal
momsat Of passage.
However zagssttable the late evil
aenes OF ths peopla's might may have
BEEN Y 10 not so mucl, 40 as i claar-
sut Endorsement Of the work Of the
last Congress would have been. The
saddest feature Of the slaughter Of
Tuesday was tho defeat Of Governor
Miaser--she one great tragic figure
of thu dag. a. M. ADAMS
plainfsld, N. j.. Nov. q, leas.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
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published herein.
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New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James ]. Montague
The Point of View

The Point of View
T
Ed Judson lived in Littleyille;
Bill Bascom UP the crick;
Ed Judson never spoke Of Bill
Excepting as a hick.
Bill Bascom moved to Middle
town
Where frequently he said:
Il know it's wrong, but look
down
On hicks like poor old Ed.o
Ed Judson went to Syracuse
To study baking brick,
And there remarked, at amt no
use;
Bill Bascom is HEX"
w
To Cleveland, O., eftsoons went
TO learn the railroad bizz,
Remarking, eds warm hearted,
still
A hick he surely is."
v
To old New York Ed Judson sped
Where folks are very thick,
And there he almost daily said
"Bill Bascom's one big hick!'
vi
Bill Bascom is in Heaven now
And probably looks down.
And murmurs with plying
''There's Ed, in that hick
townp
Quicker Than Dredging
Mr.. Daugherty's ruling that foreign
ships cannot serve liquor inside the
three-mile limit is merely getting
rid of the harbor bars.
Customs Change
The reason no one wears campaipn
hats any more is because every one
is so busy passing them around.
Transformed
Most OF the former bar flies are
now well-known drinkers out.
Nopyright by James j. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Customs Change

The reason no one wears campaign
hats any more is because every one
is so busy passing them around.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Transformed

Most Of the former bar flies are
now well-known drinkers out.
Copyright by James j. Montague,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1882

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Gcspwsssnn- psiSssaei daily. oxoan Rsse. presi-
aeas. Htlsn neseu Retd. Rscretasy. r. r. Aaxfsesd.
Treasurer. Address. Tst,una nai.dsns ia Nsssas
8trsss. New Tek CITY. Tslsphaas. Bsrkmas seso
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Quicker Than Dredo;no

Mr.. Daugherty's ruling that foreign
ships cannot serve liquor inside the
three-mile limit is merely getting
rid of the harbor bars.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10

So the Dueling Barge is being
heightened, in order that no persnn ,
may take advantage of the Cantain
agaan N That low and tricky way
ana escape a duel.--It is very hard
20 put anything over on the Can
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
What did you do?" we asked.

Il took him by the scruff of the
neck" said the Captain, .'and pro-
PEELED him to the rail Of the little
vessel; Damn you,' I said, you
soatt SANDER the Plantagenets. will
you" And with that I cuffed hin,
slr, and kicked him overheard"
The Captain paused.-"Well.o we
said, go ON with the story"
"There is no more of the story.
ST." said the Captain, placidly.-.,.
But, good heavensp' said we
What became of the fellow?"
Really, sir" said the Captain. ..T
old not look to see."- -"But how far
out We're you?"-"Ten or fifteen
nautical miles, | should saw 70.
plled the Captain.-"But could
the fellow swim" ?"-The CAPTAIN
yawned.-I know nothing Of his
personal accomplishments. sir.n he
replied. II do not know whether he
could swim, or whether he couId
pay the violin. / lost interest in
ship" - - /. aiy
So the Dueling Barge il heinc
iengthened, in order that no persnn ,
NAV fako aI,,,,,4o = y, 80 kSSt sCAa
New-York tribune., 1922-11-10

He doesn't fight them in this coun-
try at all.---He patronizes the At
lantic Ocean.--He fights them be-
yond the three-mile limit, on his
Dueling Barge, the Jolly Pete, which
flies the flag of the Siamese Navy
The Captain tells us that among
the other titles that he might wear
if he wished is that of Admiral in
the Siamese Navy.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-17
LEAD PENCILS AND POLITICAL SPEECHES

President Harding is not in favor of paying
adjusted compensation out of the proceeds of our
foreign oans dsapproves of the eight special taxes
suggested for that purposes by the chairman of the
house committee; is unfavorable to re-imposng any
of the excess profits taxes which have recently been
removed.
We know now where the president wants not to
levy the payment of bonus. Perhaps he will soon
tell us where he wants it levied. That would be
more to the point with the boys.
With our other debts, we determined the
size of the debt and paid It, regardless of the incon
venience Of doing so. Congress found way with
out much parleying. The way in which the means
to be used to pay is being banded about, would
seem to indicate the likelihood OF the means being
used to defeat the end sought. diplomat OF the
long ago said that language crested to conceal
thought Perhaps systems of taxation were created
to defeat bonus
When politics grabs economic problem,
almost any kind of a fool decision may be expected
The soldier in the late is entitled to have
his compensation so adjusted to put him an
economic equality with the man who stayed at
home and worked for high wages. His patriotism
should not be penalized. He should get no more
and no less than will fairly restore his economic
equilibrium That is a mathematical, instead Of a
political problem 1t should be determined by
experts with a lead pencil and not by politicians
with campaign speech. When the amount and
method Of payment is impartally decided the bill
should be paid. The money should be raised by A
tax which will distribute justly his burden with the
least jar to our economic recovery. Jockeying to
shift it the other fellow should not be tolerated
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-17

it could not retreat without the appearance of dis
honor" AS TO domestic legislation our president
not only frequently initiates laws, but has power
Of veto that only theoretically belongs to European
constitutional monarchs. We like to think that our
system of government is thoroughly democratic, but
the powers of our president are really those that
were exercised by kings many years ago before
monarchies were struck by the of reform.
1t will come shock to some of our citizens
that the new European nations regard our form
of government as too autocratic and non-represen-
tative to suit them. Our system works well when
the right kind of man is in office. Admittedly it
has its dangers, but it is significant that yet
serious proposal has been made for any radical
reform in the scheme which has been in operation
for a century and third Americans regard expe-
rience the real test. Public sentiment keeps the
balance even.