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New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Tenant Farmers

According to special bulletin Of
the Department of Agriculture, ten
ant farming has materially in
creased in the decade of 1910-'2O.
IT to farms rented in entirety be
added those rented in part, it will
be found that there arc $4,000, 900
acres of tenant farms within the ter
ritory Of the United States. This
is equivalent to the combined areas
of Texas, Illinois, iowa, Arkansas,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida,
and represents 81 per cent of the
farm lands Of the country. If i'm
proved land alone be considered, AZ
per cent is rented.
These lands are, of course, un-
evenly distributed. In several states
more than half the farms are rented
Georgia, for example, shows 1913
per cent of it's improved acreage
held by tenants. Illinois shows 6O.3
per cent of the total estimated value
Of farm lands rented. In some sec
tions the development of truck farm
ing has increased the number of ten
ants. In others, as in the South,
previous conditions resulting in the
existence of large estates have tend
ed to increase the number of rented
farms in proportion to the general
increase of prosperity of the section.
How much the lure of the city has
drawn farm owners into other occu-
pations and thereby made them into
absentee landlords it is difficult to
estimate.
Whatever the causes, the sylnp-
toms are not encouraging. America
is only beginning to enter the era Of
intensive agricultural production.
That this should be accompanied by
an ever-increasing number of rented
farms is unfortunate. 1t would be
far better for the country if the
reverse were true.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Aue de Hamburg No More

wa names are best, but it is easy
= understand how good Parisians
.ss about living on the Rue de Ham
'sis Tor years after Big Bertha
0 oombarded the neighborhood.
~ NV the street is to be called the
ac oe bucarest. 1t will be pleas
~, rA,er Tor the householders to be
.sn .auAea with the Rumanian city, the
ans OF the East" than with the
sslalan seaport, third largest in the
world though it be.
.ne city fathers of the French
ra.' p.'ai have lcisurely way in these
a''ers. There is one little street
's The Seine that hasn't any name
-. ak Its residents arc growing
ass: s'se; 1t is awkward to get letters
ss,,, snsered to an anonymous rue. But
4 - Tue officials take no action. Per-
:. = eney will at length decide to
:. up street sign, Rue Anonyme. e
!, : rs improbable that the Rue de
i sllanOourg was so named to honor
: ~ ieutonic burg. Rather it had
=. - exultant note. comnemorating
II, ~" 10 pr'dn - aewel
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
The Telephone Cut

The cut in telephone rates of r ner
cent for New York subscribers and
Z per cent for subscribers UP state
was expected. This is the third cut
ordered by the Public Service Com.
mission since its appointment bv
Governor Miller last April. The com
mission announces that its action fol-
lows statewide investigation of
the New York Telephone Company
1t means saving to telephone users
OF about $3,000,0O0 year.
The fact that the condition of the
telephone company, as revealed to
the commission, appeared to justify
the cut is significant indication of
q return to normal conditions. The
telephone company, like all other
concerns taken over by the govern
inent during the war, suffered hcav-
lily from Incompetent outside man.
agement. Rates were immediately
forced upward, while the service was
badly demoralized.
Had government control continued
there is no doubt that rates would
have climbed steadily. On it's return
to the control of its property, how
ever, the telephone company was
able to restore efficient service, to
extend its plant, and at the same
time to establish heavy reserve.
Reduction Of telephone charges is,
OF course, merely phase Of general
price reduction, which results from
the growing value of the dollar
Unhanpered by government inter
ference, the New York Telephone
Company has steadily increased it's
usefulness to it's patrons, adding
new and better equipment and intro
ducing every Improvement as soon
as its practicability was proved.
1t has been a shining example of
what private enterprise can do when
subject only to intelligent govern
ment regulation, as, during the war
time, it was q shining example of
how little can be accomplished by a
public utility when under absolute
government control.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05

flowers that florists sell. Tulips,
jonquils, hyacinths and violets suffer
the same detachment from the
miracle Of spring.
SO spring poets are advised to
think twice about the lowy skunk
cabbage, and moralists will do we'll
to ponder its lesson. For it's ugly
odor, the very thing which in time
past prevented it from attracting
any attention, is the thing which
has saved it from commercialisna.
Florists will never sell it, nor will
blase hostesses demand that it be
forced for tablo decorations. If
you see skunk cabbage you know
that it grew responsive to a
real breath Of spring, Mother Ma
ture's own.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
The People Say No
Bonus Characterized as Political
Moyement--'Bett Let 1t Go"

Movement Better Let 1t 20
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The young man who volunteered
to fight for this country was patriot
and he can point with pride to his rec
ord and his children will honor him
for his patriotism. The young man
who was drafted also did his duty.
If both now ask the government for
Il bonus for doing their duty and obey
ing the law, will not their children
hang their heads in shame when the
knowledge comes to them, as it will in
time, that their fathers had to be paid
for their patriotism and for doing their
duty?
If the bonus asked for were paid to
Ill the able-bodied men the sum total
would be enormous, but the amount
received by each individual would be
relatively small and in many cases
quickly dissipated. This would accom-
plish nothing in the long run for the
men, but in order to pay this bonus
the country would be saddled with a
debt which it would take more than a
century to pay.
To pay the bonus the country will
lave to devise some means to secure
the necessary funds by some form of
tax, or the issuance of bonds, but as
yet no method capable OF accomplish
ing this end has been discovered.
So opposed are the people to the
bonus that if the bonds are issued it is
extremely doubtful if the public will
buy them. If additional taxes are re-
sorted to, our Congressman and Sena-
tors who voted affirmatively would
stand poor chance of reelection.
They would dig their political graves,
as we'll as sound the death knell of the
Republican party for many years to
come. If they have any doubt on this
subject, let them ask conservative men
and their constituents what their opin-
ions are in this respect.
The American people arc against the
bonus in a very large majority, and
look upon it entirely as q political
movement. 1t is with extreme regret
that they see the A. E. F. men lend
themselves to political movement of
this character.
1t would be much better to let the
bonus go! LOUIS C. TETARD.
New York, March 2, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
A Statewide Menace

Under the present agricultural
law the state cannot test herd for
tuberculosis without the owners con-
sent. This consent is usually with
held. In the past the dairymen have
had difficulty in getting pay from
the state for cattle that were de-
stroycd. Many Of them prefer ex-
posing the public to the risks en-
tailed in consuming milk and butter
from tubercular cows TO losing the
investment they have made in their
herds.
The report of the Senate Commit
tee on Farms and Markets, written
by Mr.. Nathan Straus jr., estimates
that from 20 to 30 per cent Of the
dairy herds in New York State are
tubercular. This is a larger per-
centage than is to be found in any
other state in the Union. Under
present conditions il is certain to in
crease.
Mr.. Strauss bill to remedy this
menace to the public health provides,
among other things, for the prompt
indemnitication of farmers for cattle
destroyed by the state. 1t provides,
also, for compulsory submission of
the cattle to tuberculin tests. A
milk arbitration board employed to
make a complete investigation is cre-
ated by the measure. Mr.. Straus
proceeds on the sound theory that
individual dairynen must not be the
judges Of the condition Of their cat
tie and of the purity Of the products
derived from them.
1t has been found by tests that
tubercules live for forty-nine days
in butter and for an equal period in
other milk products. Milk which is
marketed almost Immediately natu-
rally transfers them to the digestive
tracts Of all who use it as food.
Thus infected cattle az cor-
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
No Truce With the MOSQUITO

The summer suf'erings Of New
Workers will be considerably cased
by the resumption Of the war on the
Jersey mosquito. which was decided
on lately by The Mosquito Extermi-
nation Society, in session at Atlantic
City.
Already the pest has been driven
out of many of it's strongholds in
the Hackensack marshes by the re-
moval of the element in which their
offspring thrive-which is to-day
salt water.
Mosquitoes cannot support ex-
istence when dry laws are enforced
against them. When their enemies
succeed in making marsh drainage
mandatory they will disappear. The
jersey mosquito is not always q
malaria carrier, but he is, as every
one knows, an accomplished pest.
Swept by westerly breezes ever the
Hudson, he frequently has made life
we'll nigh uncomfortable for Man
haitian.
New Workers are particularly
fortunate that the work of externli-
nation is being carried on by citizens
of New Jersey. They are being
freed from a nuisance with no cost
to themselves.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
tate, whether they are mich or bcef

herds.
This is a situation which requires
correction Immediately. New York
should lead all other states in pro.
tecting the health of It's citizens and
III guaranteeing the food products
manufactured within its borders.
Senator Straus, whose father hes
done a magnificent service in sup
plying the poor Of New York CITY
with pure milk, has done excellen,
work in the same line since he has
been in the Legislature. His report
ought to be studied by every person
concerned in milk production or con,
sumption. His bill deserves the SUP.
port Of every member of the Legis.
lature, including The members of the
so-called farm bloc. Its passage viii
benefit rather than injure the dair,
business.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Molds

From The Nedsurej
one takes up something for lipol-
hood c7id dreams hc'N leave it later."-
Domesday Book.
RUT the years creak on and on
And the metal warps to the mold; ;
Dulled is the white hot fire
That ran through the smelling gold.
Rigid the vessel grows,
Cracked by cold at the crust;
Tarnish films the shine
And the mouth is choked with dust.
Fire in the furnace leaps
And new ores hotly run.
But the old lies twisted, fixed
And rots in the rusty sun.
MILDRED PLEW MERRYMAN.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
The Venture

lsrons The Atlantic Nowthlv)
NEVER see map but I'm away
On all the errands that I long to do,
Up all the rivers that are painted blue.
And all the ranges that are painted
gray,
And into those pale spaces where they
say:
Unknown" Oh, what they never knew
l would be knowing--were it not for you
l would be of tomorrow with the day,
Then, since l am at anchor at your door.
Befriend the wistful stranger; make me
free
Of all your little country and its store
OF unknown things and wonders-spread
for me
The chart and let me venture, till I find
The secrets of your beauty and your
mind.
JEAN KENYON MACKENZIE.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Mother Natures Own

City dwcllers who are looking for
100 per cent, unadulteratcd signs
Of spring are advised that the real
thing is to be found in a swamp be-
side the Boston Post Road. 1t is
only the humble skunk cabbage,
poor, plebeian weed, patiently thrust
ing its evil smelling stalks above the
icy waters in obedience to some un-
known need of Mother Nature, but
it is the one bona tide sign of spring
in these parts.
Time was when only the insa-
table botanist took pleasure in de-
tecting it's pointed leaves in some
sunny corner of The swamp.
Country children who love all
growing things learn early in life
that the shiny red and green stalks,
handsomely marked though they be,
are not material for spring rap
lures, certainly not for teachers
bouquet.
But such is the deterioration Of
the times, as regards other and love-
lier harbingers of spring, that the
despised skunk cabbage is coming
into new glory. 1t is the only
spring blossom whose antecedents
are beyond suspicion. Pussy will
lows, once plucked amid the Febru-
airy SHOWS beside the brook, are now
to be found in any florist shop any
time from November to May. They
have lost all value as symbols Of
sunshine and spring sap, derived as
they arc from stocks left over from
last year, or forced into early
blooming in warm water, or even
imported by carloads from the
South.
The same is true of apple and
cherry blossoms, which smile from
the florist windows during January
in shameless Indifference to the fact
that they were meant to blossom in
sun-swept orchards no earlier than
May. Trailing arbutus, frailest and
most beloved of spring flowers, can
be bought on Fifth Avenue weeks
before it is due in the Long Island
woods.
There never was a thrill like that
which comes to Village children on
their way to Sunday school the first
warm Sunday in April, when they
turn the corner around Deacon
Jones's garden and find there shin
ing in a golden circle in the still
dead grass the first crocuses.
If this Sunday happened also to
be Easter the crocuses confirmed the
minister's statement that God made
the spring, in way that chung to
the children's minds long after the
sermon was forgotten. But city
children, If they pay any attention to
c~ocuses at all, know them acadern
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
What of the Tariff
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Now that we are in fair way
to improve international relations and
incidentally to effect needed economy
by keeping down armament to the mini
mum, what about considering the ques-
ton of adding to the welfare work by
calling for showdown on tariffs?
What is the use Of building protec-
tive tariff walls and bringing ON a
tariff war, with all its artificial infia-
ton Of values? Set the example here,
too, and let US see whether the newly
born brotherhood Of man can stand the
strain. CARITAS.
New York. March 2, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
False Economies

President Harding has again
warned the House Appropriations
rommittee against too sweeping cuts
IN army and navy personnel. The
sub. committee dealing with army ap-
u-opriations wants to reduce the en-
listed strength to 115,0o0. Appro-
priations for the current year pro-
yided pay for 100000 men. But
since the army was beyond that
strength in the first months of the
rear, due to Secretary Bakers quar-
rels with Congress, it had to be cut
below 10000 in the later months,
its strength now being about 137, 600.
This is only about half the strength
authorized by law.
When the army was reorganized
in 1920 new and permanent mill
tary program WAS worked out. The
regular army was to serve as a gar
rison and training agency, and also
as a nucleus about which a reserve
force should be built. Continental
United States was divided into nine
departments, in each Of which the
principle Of localized coordination of
the regulars, the state guards and
the second reserve was to- be applied.
General pershing was selected to put
this territorial scheme into opera
ton. It is his belief that much of
his work will go for nothing If the
regular force is cut SO low that, with
the overseas garrisons deducted,
there will be too few men left at
hcnle to maintain proper organiza-
ton in the nine departments.
Our need Of an immediately avail
able expeditonary force may not be
50 pronounced to-day as it was in
1920. But we still have garrisons
to maintain in the Philippines,
Hawaii and the Canal zone and the
development OF our homeland mill
tary program-a rational and mod
crate one-ought not TO be blocked.
The President asks for regular
strength in l922-'23 Of 10000
Men. That is the minimum Of
sound military economy and of ma
tlonal requirements.
With the navy similar case pre-
scnts Itself. We have agreed to
capital ship construction holiday
and contracted to scrap many old
war vessels. This fleets size is
liked in the main by international
agreement. 1t was the deliberate
Judgment of the Washington con-
ference that our navy should equal
1reat Britain's and stand in q 5-3
'a1'o 70 Japans. If we are TO main
alh the treaty fleet and get full
saiue out of it we must have q
personnel large enough to care for
II and operate it. For this purpose
$4,000 to 100000 men are needed.
IL is short-sighted policy to cripple
'ne navy's efficiency by underman-
mns 1t and destroying it's value as
machine. The little money saved
y such parsimony would be many
.laes = offset through the deteriora-
u0n OF both ships and personnel.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
The AIchcni.t

The AIchcmist
fFyoas The Eew RcpubNcI
/ BURNED my life that might find
A passion wholly Of the mind,
Thought divorced from eye and bone
Ecstasy come to breath alone.
broke my life TO seek relief
From the fawed tight Of love and grief.
With mounting beat, the utter fre
Charred existence and desire,
1t died low, ceased its sudden thre.h.
had found unmssterious flesh
Not the minds avid substance, still
Passionate beyond the will.
LOUISE BOCAN.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05

keep within the bounds of reason? The
conference cut our navy in half-it
did not abolish or wreck it. Why
should Congress seek to reduce US to
third-rate naval power? Do the pco-
pie approve of suchsa scuttling policy
Do they wish to see our flag disappear
from the sea? Shall we haul it down :
Politics InterUenes
The great navy of great nation
should not be the football of politics.
But this condition threatens to rule
Congressional action toward our navy
to-day. 1t has been boldly proposed d
IN the House, for instance, that money
for the soldiers bonus may be OBJ
tanned by sIashing the appropriations
for the personnel of the army and
navy. The reason for this astounding
proposition, which has been voiced in
the press, is perfectly plain. 1t is a
case of votes at the next election.
Stated with the "bluntness of a sail
or" this is "the truth, the, whole truth
and nothing but the truth" There are
few votes in the army and navy!
There are many for the bonus and for
other personal and political interests.
The politician has everything to gain
and nothing to lose by. cutting the
army and navy. to the bone. When
economy is under discussion the. men
of the army and navy are the general
receivers" of all cutting. Other depart
ments of the government are compare
lively safe. They are protected by
votes!
The bonus is not the only case in
point just now. Consider the navy
yards, shore stations and other items
in the naval appropriation bill. The
people must know perfectly we'll that
these shore establishments exist, or
should exist. only for the proper and
efficient maintenance of the navy as q
fighting force. The feet is the navy.
The feet does not exist simply to keep
I'D the navy yards. The navy is the
part of the establishment that floats
and fights. And the feet cannot float
or fight without men. Lacking per-
sonnel there is no navy. The fleet,
unnamed, is as powerless as SO many
canal boats.
Notwithstanding these cold facts,
what happens when the Navy Depart
ment proposes to cconomize by the
closing of or the reduction of expenses
at navy yards and shore stations and
in other direction, thus saving money
to keep the navy and its men ready for
war? Does Congress accept? Not at
all. Localities object. Labor objects.
Votes object. The beach demands the
money. The lighting navy gets the
"lcavings" if it gets anything
Navy Crippled To-day
The navy is crippled to-day. 1t is
completely unprepared for war. The
ships vouchsafed to US by the Wash
ington conference are not fully
manned; but, worse still, they cannot
move or mobilize for evolutions and
drill because Congress has failed to
supply the necessary funds for fuel.
II is safe to say that such condition
Of things was never known before in
our navy Or in that Of any other hrst
class power. Tho joint maneuycrs OF
the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. which
are absolutely necessary to the proper
instruction Of officers and men. have
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
A Week of Verse
February Thaw
(Eror, 1he n-A...,.~,

fFron, The HeAsursI
NOW these ephemerai glaciers move.
And. racked apart by rain and sun,
Disintegrate; and with strange cries
A thousand crying rivers run.
Not yet the spring and singing frogs,
But these bright rainbows Of the ground
Are promises, and they are words,
And occult ecstasies Of sound.
KENNETH SLADE ALLING.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
frightened Face

From Poetry)
CHlLD of the frightened face.
Trying to understand
The little bit of love
Under your hand,
Holding the little love
Under fingers that crush
That which is soft rs the
Throat Of thrush,
Holding your hand upon
The wonder of the thing,
Crushing out the song that
Wanted to sing:
Child of the frightened face,
Why do your fingers try
To kill the little love?
Soon it would die.
MARION STRoBEL.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
The Indecent Moon .
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: So, Mr.. Wells said that's good
when Mr.. Chaplin exclaimed "'the in
decent moon!" And Charlie was mod
est enough to admit that it wasn't his
One wonders if Mr.. Knoblock, too, ad-
mits that it isn't his. When Byron said
'Tis all the fault of that indecent
sun" we all thought it was good. But
suppose no one reads "Don Juan
nowadays. In addition to the above line
on the sun, Byron certainly said a bit
about the indecency- of the moon ir
~ ~e-~n roem, A. De c
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Sea Slant

Sea Slant
fFYon, The New Republic
AN UP the sea slant,
= On up the horizon,
This ship iimps.
The bone Of her noss fog-gray,
The heart Of her sea-strong,
She came long way.
She goes long way.
On up the horizon,
On up the sea slant.
She iinaps sea-strong, og-sray.
She is . sreen-lit night gray.
She coules and goes in sea fog.
Up the horizon slant she Nmps.
CARL SANDBU10.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05

Ct Napoleon after. Jena. 1t was no
more pro-German in it's implication
than the Arc de Triomphe. Even so.
1t savored of chopped steak and was
unpalatable.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05

=. s.s ,u.chsss mareasndlse sdvertssse In rHE
S1scasE W. vj;h assoiuts safety--tcr " dissatisfsc-
1Msvri., tn ANY cass The TRIBUNE susrar .
~ : IN ysur measy sask upon REQUEST No red
" V. "a svitbl,ns. We refund promptly II the
1ss,.sss, do.s ROT.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
The Law s DELAYS

fFrom The Louisville CoArier-JoursalJ
Ii more Of the laws delays were in
the making OF laws, and less Of 1t in
enforcing 'em, this would be better
world for every one save lawmakers and
lawyers.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Last Wishes

fFrom Byoons)
RURY me not too deep,
- But dig for me shallow grave,
That may hear men say: "The cid
plum tree BY the wall
Has started blooming"
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
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