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New-York tribune., 1922-05-10

The Finance Committee RcpuDllcans
are doing their utmost to hold back
such motion until the committee has
had chance to work out clear and
specific plan for raising revenue TO
meet the bonus.
In tho opinion of many, things are
moving steadily to the point whore
Congress Will pass the bonus bill, re
gardless of the wishes Of Prcsidert
Harding, and speculation Is rife AZ to
what viii happen If the president
vetoes the measure. Opponents of the
bill insist that it cannot be passed j0
the Senate over veto.
Senator Smoot intends to press his
plan for paid insurance to vote
IN the Senate If it is not adopted, and
there is no present indication it VIII
be, he will offer another proposition.
This viii provide for cash bonus pay
able at the end Of three years by pro
ceeds Of sales tax.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-10

any headway With II at this conference
Ne believes that another conference
must be held at some future time to
take up this problem separately, and on
this belief is founded the report that
al action on such peace agreement
may be deferred until fall
All OF the delegation. are keen to
get home. They have domestic problems
N their respective countries on their
minds, and the delegates from coun-
tries that are suffering from adverse
exchange rates also have to keen sight
O, the enormous expense bills that are
mounting up fer their maintenance
here.
GENOA. May Q (By The Associated
Press co., The Reuter- correspondent
here is informed by the Russian dele
cation that the Russian reply to the
Allied memorandum IS concliatory and
gees 70 the utmost lengths in the mat
ter OF concessions 1t deals with the
principles OF the TWO economic sys-
tens IL vogue in Russia and capital
site countries. and suggests that mat
ters Of detail should be settled by
speclal commission.
ine reply proposes the exclusion Of
the political features introduced in the
pressed tha. this viii present no dtf-
fcuity as the Russians have tried 10
build bridge between the two social
and economic systems.
The Russian delegates. the reply
sd. are animated b. the utmost de-
sire 20 prevent rupture of the neeocia-
t'ons and by the wish to arrive al a
common understanding SO far a pos
s'a,o, and leave it 70 evolution nad
co'nron sense 70 bring about rap
prochement IN the course of tina
Cling to Soviet System
Witn respect to clause seven. the
Russians hold tnat the world VIII
have to accustom itself to the lac, Of
the existence IN Europe o. stat,
whose l.ec - basrd essentially OF q
system @ state property Ia Russia.
,hey arCd'. two conceptions Of life
tx St lro.vIdua,istic and coliectivjst
md these social and economic tender
cles have Doth their own sphere. This
goes TO prove that the dual system can
exist IN international relations also and
still leave plenty o. room ioY private
enterprise.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-10

ASHlNGTON, May 8 by The Assoc.
a'ed Press>.-The agreement under
stood TO have been reached regarding
the mandatory power in Palestine is
expected TO be embodied eoon in q for
ma treaty by which the United States
VII! recognize the mandate Of Great
Britain and the latter will guaranty
'ull protection to American rights.
The treaty ie understood to make
sspec'hc reference to the various capitu.
latory rights Of this government in Pal
estine and TO provide In detail that
none Of them can be interfered with
hroueh operation Of the mandate
New-York tribune., 1922-05-10
L. 5. and Britain Agree
On Palestine Program,

LONDON. May 9 (Ry The Associated
Press. - An agreement has been
reached between the British govern
ment, as the mandatory power IN
Palestine, and the United States, con-
cerning the rights and protection Of
Americans in the Holy Land, avs the
Central News to-day.
The agreement. it Is stated, provides
that the rights of Americans and pro
lection accorded them shall be the
same as those Of nationals Of member
countries Of the League Of Nations.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-10
Craig Appears in London.
Confers With Churchill

LONDON, May 9 { By The Associated
Press Sir James Craig, tho Ulster
Premier. arrived in London unexpect-
edly to-day and had conferences with
Winston Churchill. Secretary for the
Colonies. and Sir Hamar Greenwood.
Secretary for Ireland. The object of
his visit was not revealed.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-10
Brifish-Ifalian Pact to
Guard Mediterranean

GENOA, May "a general
political and economic agreement
is being elaborated between Italy
and Great Britain, according to
the Havas correspondent. The
chi< object Of this agreement is
the guaranteeing of Italy's posi-
tion in the Mediterranean.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
Still the First Defense.

THE dangers of allowing navy to lapse be-
meath the strength provided in the fve-power
pact many. Perhaps the principal is that
the public, particularly the youth of our country,
will get away from the navy idea" The agree
ment is not yet ratified nor does it apply to any
thing more than a Io-year period: 1t is our duty
to maintain the force stipulated, and, i'm
portant, maintain it in frstclass seagoing order.
Thoughts of our obligations 10 ourselves in
this matter aroused in the editorial mind of
the New York Tribune by what is happening in
Congress. Several days ago, Representative Fess
told the House that the naval subcommittee of the
Appropriations Committee proposed to chop the
naval estimates from $35o,oooooo TO $I7o,ooo,ooo-
perhaps $4,000 ooo-and to provide for enlisted
personnel of only $4,000.
Such cuts, the Tribune goes on, would leave
the treaty navy shadow. Secretary DENLY has
said that 10000 seamen and 5000 apprentices are
needed to operate and for the feet which the
naval limitation agreement allows Ships laid
up at piers or sent to sea undermined soon cease
to be navy. The vessels deterorate and the
lose their training edge. The efficiency of a
navy lies in the preparedness of its units and their
capacity to work together and to respond to a
delicate system of control
at is bad policy to set up international
capital ship ratio and international standard Of
strength and then live deliberately far under the
standard Inc United States is one OF the two
greatest naval powers and has spent billions Of
dollars to attain that ranking. We have assumed
responsibilities based the maintenance of a
treSsy feet Why should Congress set about under
miniIg the new status before the naval inita-
ton agreement is ratified?
e "If this agreement is not ratified, building
rivalry will begin again. If it is ratifed-and its
fate depends upon the fate of the four-power
Pacific treaty-we shall still have to pursue naval
policy which takes ipto account conditions at the
end of the naval Construction holiday. In case
should become involved in before that time
the holiday provisions would automatically lapse.
"a well-manned well-trained navy is stiff
national necessity. Gripping the feet is surrender
to the purblind pacihsm which forgets nothing and
learns nothing"
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15

sible service. There has been a sad
home wreckage none the less real
because it is borne in comparative
silence.
Most of the former service boys
are enjoying the advantage Of pay
Ing employment right at home
among their relatives and friends
with the added opportunities ever
open to the young, able-bodied, and
energetic.
vast army OF their elders who
sacrificed their all during and since
the war are soon to relinquish the
stage TO these fortunate young
men. Generous gifts of potential
value are open to their acceptance
but to still further cripple what was
left from the war and open an era
OF loot on our Treasury by shovel
ing out billions of cash, for the
want OF which our farmers and
other deserving citizens are going
broke, either directly or Indirectly
for vote purchasing purposes is un-
thinkable; and woe to him through
whom the offence cometh."
Is draft plunder much more COM
mendable than draft evasion
JONAS Y. SILVERTON.
Sheridan, Montana
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
FINANCIER RELATES
CAUSE OF DIVORCES

Pierce Van Week. Baltimore
finaQcier. said at dinner party:
Keeping a husband in hot water
will, never make him tender. Ig-
norance of this primary truth
causes a lot of divorces.
"A Baltimore man got on a street
car the other day in anything but
tender mood. His wife. because
he could not afford an $500 set of
Siberian furs for her, had snatched
the morning paper out of his hand,
called him a shiftless, knock-kneed
failure and thrown his freshly
opened package of cigarettes into
the stove.
so this man, his mood not at all
tender, got on the car and took a
seat beside a gaunt, raw-boned
woman of so or SO. This woman
started an alteration with the
conductor when he came to get her
fare. The. afte,sation got hotter
and hotter. and finally the woman
looked around the car and shrieked:
Is there gentleman on this
car who will stand by and see a
lady insulted?'
The nontender chap was on his
feet at once.
Yes. ma'am' he said grimly. 4
will. Los Angeles Times.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
Sounding Youths Mind.

SOME OF these days the psychologists and
- metaphysieians may be able to reconcile their
differences; and in that day shall commence
to grasp some true understanding of what self is.
Meanwhile, the brain-probers of the material per-
suason have temporarily overshadowed the far
older but less precise school which works in terms
of the soul. We have psychologist tests in hospital
factory and army. Now having them in the
schools.
What will be the results of this coldly analytic
cataloguing of the budding mind? The subject
is interestingly discussed in the current issue of
the Independent and the Weekly Review, which
while granting that there has been "a fine develop
ment beth of the theory and the practice Of the
psychological test" and gain in the true efficiency
of living, remarks:
But efficiency is not the whole of life, and it
is time that serious thought were given, to some
tiing that goes far beyond the question of the
Gustworthiness of the tests, the. immediate ad-
Vantage gained by their II We are entering
upon regime in which children are going to be
labeled and graded, not according to what they
know, but according to what, by the inexorable
pronouncement of a sef-regstering machine they
inherently are, what is going to be the effect of
all this upon those chldrens outlook on life? 1t is
true that, things are, every sensible child
has a pretty sure consciousness of his own in
feriorty his gifted comrades; but it is one
another to have that knowledge burned into his
consciousness as scientific and incontestable fact,
to say nothing of its being stamped upon him as
a fatal brand to be carried through life Whatever
precautions taken to disguise or conceal the
verdict, we may be quite sure that if, as now
promises be the case, the scheme of psychological
tests is to be made fundamental part of our
educational system, its results will be secret to
the individual child most concerned, nor to those
with whom he is most closely associated.
Whether the gain to be looked for, either in
collective efficiency in the efficiency and per-
sonal comfort of the individual outweighs the loss
is question upon which it is hopeless to look for
general agreement; and this not so much because
Of differences Of opinion concerning facts as because
of differences Of Judgment concerning values. How
are you going to measure the injury inflicted upon
an individual by lessening his courage his self
esteem, his ambition, his beef-ilIusory, perhaps,
but none the less vital and efective-that some
time, somehow, he will show that there is more in
him than people think, in him than he has
yet been able to prove even to himself? These
qualities these thoughts, in themselves precious;
and millions of plain people cling to them through
ie,-in spite of all the blows Of destiny How much
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
They are now Aappers indeed.
$241, 900, ,000-on Demand.

TT MAY be confidently expected that expressions
i of regret and large sums of money will shortly
be forthcoming from the governments that shared
in the I,oooooo,ooo gold mark payment by Ger
many cover costs of sustaining allied forces on
the Rhine. The American claim is for $24I 600 900,
and disregard of this just debt would be the
of poor business.
The United States refuses to mix in European
affairs only so far they are saturated with
politics and natonastic aims. During the period
of its participation in the world war it did, as
afterwards it has done, everything in its power
to make things easy for those very states who
prohting through the distribution of the
thousand millions of marks by the reparations
commission. When the amount of interest
time loans by this country, already overdue, is
sidered, it seems more than strange that directly
irritating an expedient should have been adopted
or for moment considered as depriving OF our
share in the big payment.
The administration is fully determined to secure
what is due Our not being signatory to the treaty
of Versailles is reason its face, and it be-
comes simply a piece of nonsense when it is re-
called that the treaty of Berlin which the United
States and the Republic of Germany sgnatory
contains all provisions set forth in the prior in
strument which could possibly affect the nation this
side of the Atlantic.
There is little doubt that so fragrant mistake
in diplomacy will be corrected forthwith.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
Reiterates Faith in Zone Plan,

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
During the past two years the
writer has talked to a large number
OF railroad officials in connection
with their government settlements
and their financial condition gen.
orally.
The railroads are slowly conval-
escing from their financial sickness
caused by war conditions and gov
ernment management with its ex-
cessive allowances for wages of en-
ploves.
The steam railroads are receiving
three and siX-tenths cents a mile
for passenger tickets.
This seems to be a lower rate
than is allowed in the District of
Columbia for street car passengers
for each mile.
Our Public Utilities Commission
could lower street car fares to five
cents by adopting the zone plan.
believe that a majority Of the
people would prefer the zone plan
and this WIS shown by a petition
which / filed about ten years ago;
hut the opponents of the zone plan
'ave had their way without being
able TO prove that they are right.
THOMAS W. GILMER.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
Dismissals Peremptory.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
The great L. s. government can
AFFORD TO consider remitting the
debts of the allies TO it. and San
take S20.0OO,OOO OF the peopIe's
money, without their consent to
send to Russia. but when IL comes
TO old and faithful employees and
eX-service men, il is seized with
most appalling poverty. Secre-
tary DENLY says the DISCHARGES at
the navy yard were necessary. but
done in cruel way: rather a
fendish way, I should say. No one
IN the L. 5. would have been any
poorer il a reasonable notice had
been given. with pay to end Of
notice. Words cannot express m >
opinion Of those who would turn
off old employees Of rich gov
ernment in mid-winter. without no.
tice. The national watchword now
seems to Millions for foreigners,
but not one cent for our own"
READER
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15

nERHAPS The dire urgencies the compelling
necessities of life in Russia, operate to bring
= out and intensity any quality of leadership,
any executive ability a possesses. Jail some
times functions in this way to put felon on his
feet. ,
But when Nicolai Lenin grants Big Bill Hay
wood and some associates a concession to operate
great iron and coal development in the Ural
Mountain region and Tomsk district it seems that
he is reposng trust which quantity of Russian
air or Russian existence could marshal such char
acteristcs of strength to vindicate.
d, Haywood, according to reports, is to have
under his charge 4Soo fully qualified American
workers, and part of such group is said in fact,
to be marshalling in New York. These are
teehnicians and engineers. 1t is pathetically i'm
probable that any of them know Russia as
she is than. boys who recently "joined out with
the Spanish troops to Africa knew Morocco or An
dslusan officers.
At any rate, unless Big Bill is simply a tool
about which the hand of Lenin will remain tightly
closed, there would seem to be trouble ahead for
any battalion Of sappers, miners, pudders and their
bosses who operate under him. Big Bills major
activities in this country trouble-making and
obstructionist tactics, at a time when the poorest
and the lowest felt thrill of building and forward
moving perhaps many of them will never sense
again.
BE- That Hayward rests under a sentence to a long
prison term in this country is, and has been, a
distinction in his relations with the Bolsheviki
Yet, essentially, he was found guilty of mere OBJ
struetonism, of criminal cantankerousness. The
very qualities that got him into trouble with our
courts would appear certain to work him woe
under the present Russian regime, for back of the
talk Of complete freedom from industrial tyranny,
lies aetuslty of iron-handed despotism. Thus,
il Big Bill still remains anarchistic in his soul he
will disrupt whatever organization is ntrusted to
him to perfect and maintain and if not he has been
entirely tanned and untitled for post of leadership
Altogether, Lenin doesn't seem to have shown
himself an astute character judge.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
MOntanan Decries Bonus.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
In view of the prevalent interest
in the soldiers bonus It may be
appropriate to voice the view of the
other army of taxpayers especially
in the West. This class includes the
women, the farmers. the adherents
of labor unions, the mining classes.
merchants. professionals, educa-
tors, in short practically everyone,
outside the bonus chasers. who is
not actively in politics.
+ The recent transparent blum put
up by pie counter leaders in pa
rading the ubiquitous crowds Of the
unemployed" of certain cities urg-
ing the immediate passage of the
bonus bill (cash. of course). cannot
mislead Intelligent people; astute
politicians know that few of those
fellows stay sufficiently long in a
place to be entitled to vote.
This bonus is so evidently a bid
for former-service votes that IL
brands politics as dirty mess.
Even that mistaken class who con-
slider it beneath them to mingle in
politics, and who alphabetically re-
frain from doing so, feel that, as
heavily overloaded taxpayers, this
bonus matter deeply concerns them
and, partisanship having lost so
much of its pre-war adherence,
they. with the responsible others
above enumerated, will be obliged
in desperation to hold responsible
those in Washington and elsewhere
who So shamelessly offe- to guy the
soldier vote. Many former service
men. to their credit, are ashamed
to see price put upon patriotism.
Practically every real American
favors the utmost liberality toward
the actual sufferers from the war
and refrains from exploiting the
vast army of impoverished citizens
who stayed at home. doing their
Bit and thereby making it possible
to win the. war"
Aside from certain militarists.
profiteers. ETC.. that always have and
ever will whoop-it-sp for war there
is an unmistakable feeling that we
stay-at-homes suffered more than
the able-bodied young men, our
sons, nephews. and all, who were
reauis.tioned for training and pos
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
Bonus "GOOd Politics."

To the Edito.. The Washington Herald:
The more l read about the bonus
the less complicated does the theory
OF relativity appear. So many fac
tiOns have arisen pro and con that
one is at a loss to understand why
people should favor it or oppose 1t.
But when the opponents of the
measure persist in using the argu-
ment that IL is unfair that 100. 000.-
900 American citizens should be
made to support 100000 veterans
oc the late war then it is high time
to remind them that il is no more
fair for the 5000. 900 to fight for the
interests of the 100 200, 900.
! have read the letters in the
Open Court against the bonus and
feel convinced that those who op-
pose it are either persons who prof
tied by the war by enjoying the
high salaries at home or il they
served. held gold-brick assignments
which did them more good than
harm. Why they should begrudge
our boys the little mite which the
bonus will afford them is beyond
me.
They are now insisting that IL 4
Representative votes for the bonus
he is doing II for political reasons.
l concur in this claim because
firmly believe IL is good politics IL
stand behind the pledges made TO
our boys when they were sent away
to France.
After agitating against the bonus
the opponents always invara ol y
conclude with the gentle. hurani.
tartan remark that they don't mean
any harm against the wounded.
wonder II they ever stop to consider
that the wounded veteran isn't the
only sufferer after all. These men
are being we'll cared for in worthy
cases and improvements are being
made right along for their comfort
and welfare. But how about the
veteran who now finds no assistance
afforded him because he managed to
rCme through uninjured though he
is destitute and out OF work. To
add insult to injury. some profiteer-
| ing citizen has the nerve to come
along and kindly ask him to do a
days work for less than he was
even receiving in the trenches. and
! il he refuses like a. man he is
branded as good d-for-nothing.
A new sales tax is advocated
What has been done with the pro-
ceeds of the nuisance tax we paid
the last few years? why not col
lcct wee bit Of the interest due
us on foreign loans and pay the
bonus in that manner? Those
countries whose debts we cancelled
managed to pay their men.
HARRY KABAT.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
Dimming the Lights.

DECENTLY the Washington traffic police an
N nounced renewed automobsts who
persistently violate traffic laws in the District In
cuded in the list of offenses which predominant
was that of driving within city limits with glaring
headlights. This is indeed proper for COM
plant, for stated heretofore in these columns,
mortality statistics applied to automobile acc-
dents show large percentage attributed to the
binding of driver by the brilliant lights of an
approaching machine Every thinking or
woman who drives machine needs only be re-
minded of the fate that turks behind binding
headlight to be more careful.
There is another factor, however, which the po-
lice to have overlooked and which is just as
potential Of death injury: We refer to the
headlights used street cars which penetrate into
the suburbs. These lights are much brighter and
dazzling than any automobile headlight and
make it impossible for persons on the roads to see
more than foot or two ahead for, several moments
after the offending street car has passed.
By all means let the police push their enforce
ment of headlight regulation but let them extend
their scope to cover this equally vicious offender.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
Many Former Vets Suffer.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
I am willing to wager that every
man, Senator or Representative
Democrat or Republican. who votes
against the soldiers bonus bill will
BE- defeated this fall.
1t has been said that the soldier
vote is negligible. but / venture 70
say that the soldiers family will
stick with him and vote for those
men who are committed to the COM
pensation bill. The average soldiers
family has four voters. (there are
eight in mine) and there were e..
100000 soldiers in the army, so
guess these votes do amount to
some little consideration after all.
Every member Of the Chamber OF