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New-York tribune., 1922-05-05

to his faithful followers. ... 4 60
lossal failure"
Ditto: "'The First Fifty Years
grows toward the end a Bit synthetic.
Ditto: THE dialogue of Eugsr,
O'Neill's The Hairy Ape is clumsy
redundant and painfully rhetoncal"
Edward E Paramore jr.: 'H. [
Mencken is a hardened Germ anophts
His GODS are Bach, Beethoven, Brahn,
Frederick the Great, Nietzscbe, Goett.
Ludendorf, Wagner, Plato, Shakespar.
and George Washington"
Ditto: George Jean Nathan's crita
estimates are much like Mencken's. !.
is a man bored, skeptical and bl,a
about almost everybody but Ba,
Beethoven, Shakespeare. Goethe. Fret.
erick the Great and Sappho. and b.
hates good deed shining in a naugh'Y
world
Ditto: Haywood Broun reveals
meagerness of cultural equipment il;
credible"
Ditto: Colbert Seldes of the Dial
s the victim of an acute occupation,
disease. A terrific strain has been Pot
upon his sanity by prolonged contst'
with the cuckoo manuscripts in ts:
Dial Offices"
Burton Rascoe: an Claude Vast
burn, the author of The Lonely WN.
rior, l cannot discover the slightest
gift for writing
Ditto: The charm of Fitzgerslds
This Side of Paradise was precise ID
its puerilities The Beautiful ana
Damned is blubberingly sentimental
Thus in the May issue of "Ths Book
man. armor on armor shines ano
trumpet to trumpet speaks, IN no
obbligato to back-scratching. The III
terati are shown here to loathe 'hs
caressing gestures of the courtier ana
to be good at welding the brulsins
irons in the strife and carnage Of New
York's feuilleton, essay and hctio'
circles
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
Prohibition and Politics

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When the Eighteenth Amend
ment was being jammed through with
out a popular mandate eX-President
Taft spoke a word of warning. He
said if it passed "prohibtion' would
be perpetual issue in our politics.
The present country-wide reaction
against the Volstead act brings to
mind his prophetic words.
Congress stepped outside the
language of the Eighteenth Amend,
ment when it passed the Volstead act
banned non-intoxicating beer, regu
lated industrial and medicinal alcoho
not covered by it's terms, nay, ever
attacked the Bill of Rights.
We are bound to submit to the
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
Has Murphy a Heart

1t is contendcd by the friends of
Charles Francis Murphy that wealth
and position have changed him for
the better. He is not, they assev-
crate, the sodden spokesman that the
newspapers picture him. He has ac-
qulred ethics along with table man
ners, and ideals with nicer taste in
clothes to be worn on state occa-
sions.
If Mr.. Murphy really has a heart
his opportunity to prove that it beats
for his fellow citizens is at hand. 1t
is within his power, as the controller
Of the Democratic organization of
New York City. to make William
Randolph Hearst a candidate for the
Governorship.
Mr.. Murphy has in the past done
many things for which The Tribune
could not commend him. But he has
never, excepting once, done anything
so unklnd as this.
If Mr.. Murphy is truly desirous to
climb as All Smith has climbed his
chance is here. He need only refuse
Mr. Hearst the nomination. That
will be fruit meet for repentance.
Let him but keep the Democratic
party out of the clutches of Hearst
and many Democrats now gravely
perturbed will rise and acclaim him
a farsighted leader.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05

utters it into the fold. Not until then
Will he be convinced that
Great souls by instinct to each other turn
Demand alliance and in friendship burn.
But what ! intended to prove quite
while ago was that this suspected
conspiracy Of literary masseurs may be
more or less, superstition. Frank may
jolly Alec, in print, about the rainbow
dreams in his brilliant scarf Mr. Far
rar of The Bookman," and Mr. Weaver
Of "The Brooklyn Eagle" may watt
their infant kisses to such lips as are
commendable. John Peter Toohey may
whisper loudly TO the world that Mr.
Broun, like the Thousand and One
Nights, is sole and unparalleled. and
+. P A. may acclaim with enthusiasm
the qualities of Christopher Morley
Alan Dale may dofF his plumed hat to
J. Ranken Towse. and Miss Laurette
Taylor (who is literary as we'll as his
trionic) may in her published thoughts
express such alteration for Robert
Benchley, of Life as Mr.. Benchley
has expressed for her. But none OF
them does these nice things with the
expectation of subsequent emolum ent
In the current "Bookman,' for in
stance, you can get an idea of how
honestly the writer's speak of one an
other, and of how little they care for
the fable of the bread that was cast
upon the waters. The May Book
mans" contributors at least are not
addicted to the oily embrocations OF
mutual advertising. Here, for example
are few of the things they say about
their fellow artists:
Hugh Walpole: II. L. Mencken is
set tight in his own opinions, like a
toad in its hole"
An anonymous critic: "Joseph Her
gesheimer is a most frightful liar. He
bathes and basks in iattery. He has
designations with adjectives, love
affairs with nouns and capricious
liaisons with adverbs and propositions.
Kenneth Andrews: "Shaw's Back to
Methuselah' is a preposterous affront
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
From Missouri

The nomination of Nat Goldstein
to be Collector Of Internal Revenue
for the St. Louis district Of Missouri
seems inexplicable. Apparently the
President was influenced in making
the selection primarily by Senator
Spencer, who spoke of Goldstein as
"a man Of absolute integrity and Of
conspicuous courtesy and efficiency
in public office
But what the public knows about
Mr.. Goldstein is not his courtesy but
his relations TO l920's prt~conven-
tion campaign. 1t has not forgotten
that the part played by Goldstoin
and certain Of the other gentlemen
from Missouri was generally under
stood TO have been one of the princi-
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05

drawn up which he will sign? Or
Senator Walsh. of Massachusetts
Or the Democrats who followed Mr.
Underwood?
The Wilson Democracy, however
has been blessed and fortified for it,
mission Everybody will wish Nh
Holt well in his efforts to secure =
national party conference which will
tell the world exactly what Demo
cratic reactions are TO the fade-away
of 1920 Mr.. Hull usually avoids
that unpleasant subject. Yet 1920
was the last full year of the golden
era"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
To Float the Bonus

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The only practical way to float
the ship, "$4 900 900 900 Bonus:
Let American Legion commanders IN
each state undertake the sale OF
bonds by committees of A. Z. +. men,
they to be paid in proportion to the
sale of bonds, the same as in any invest
ment house. Bonds to be distributed
to service men in each state and ar
rangements made for the men to handle
the money, thus avoiding any political
graft by turning over the work te
any department which would have tc
increase employees and pay additiona
salaries. f. ). ROblNSON.
Peekskill, n. Y, May 2, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
The Photo-Engraving Hold-Up

Last February the Appellate Dvi-
sion of the Supreme Court, First De
partment, unanimously sustained
/ the injunction restraining the New
York Photo Engravers' Union from
striking for the purpose Of uphold
ing scale of selling prices for
photo-engravings, fixed by it and not
by the heads of the engraving
houses. The decision in the case by
Justice Greenbaum, concurred in bv
all the other justices, has now been
printed in full in "The New York
Law Journal" 1t completely demol-
ishes the claim that body of work
ers may say at what price their en-
ployers must sell the product of
their labor and may compel acqui-
escence by strikes and intimidation.
The photo-engravers here have en-
forced the closed shop in the trade
and succeeded in debating their own
wages and working conditions, But
( they were not satisfied with this.
They set out to dictate market prices
| for photo-cngraving work and estab-
/ llShed minimum selling base. They
wanted to corner trade prices as well
as wages. Such campaign conflict
ed with the Donnelly antitrust law.
But a court had held in February,
1918, that the Donnelly law applied
only to restraint of trade and mo
/ nopollzatlon with respect to articles
"of common use" and that a photo
engraving was not such an article.
10 meet this decision the Legislature
in 1921 amended the Donnelly law so
as to make it apply to ANY article
or product of trade, commerce or
manufacture. This brought photo
| engravings in.
On May II, 1921, the Standard
Engraving Company, Inc, informed
the union that it's minimum selling
base was illegal and would no longer
be regarded. The union, neverthe-
less, persisted in threatening
strike if the old selling rules were
not observed The anti-strike iniunc-
ton. now confirmed, was then sought
and granted in the Supreme Court.
The main argument used to sus-
tain +he 1piOn'S action, uoc tl,ot tho
Donnelly law had been voided in it's
entirety by the passage of an amend
ment in 1918 exempting agricultural
associations from its provisions
This contention has been unani-
mously rejected. The Appellate Di-
vision holds that the exemption, if
unconstitutional, could not annul
the whole act. The act as amend
ed does apply to attempted monop-
oily in the photo engraving industry
regardless of its effect on monop-
oily in agricultural industry. Price
fixing such as the photo-engravers
union sought to enforce is usurpa-
tion at the expense of employers and
the public It is violation Of the
antitrust law A strike to enforce
an illegal price scale is, similarly. an
/ unlawful conspiracy. II might be
added that 1t is a conspiracy against
sound economics and common sense.
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the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In my letter IN The Tribune
this morning l used inadvertently -he
word "later" for earlier" 1t should
have read: Although June 81 Cor 22)
us the longest day elapsed time be-
tween sunrise and sunset), the sun
sets the latest during the first week
Of June, yet continues to rise earle,
until the first week of July. Kindly
publish this, to avoid an epistolary
avalanche. G. A.
Hartford, Conn, May !, 1922.
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On Dealing a New Hand
o the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I believe it will be shown
the frst opportunity that the Amerl'n
people have little use for the poli'l"
sorehead In these reconstruction tlh"
there is no place for the protess0''
obstructionist. 1t would seem tn"
restore international commerce "
resemblance Of normally se''''
things must be done, and one O. Wv,
is to deal 4 new hand To insist ups'
payments OF old scores now vou'' =.
like the old law Of imprisonment ~
debt, one as hopeless as the otns'' :, !
few years OF real, live business WV,
put new face on the situation :"
, We need it as much as they.
II is dangerous to impede the ns'',. =,
now of trade. Wishing for an' :. !,
manding the open door in Chiha -,
must not be blind to the pa''@,
closed door Of our own country ~
| blind to the cause.
Gold, to be useful and not n''. :.
must be active. Could not Ah :.
supply in the United States BE- ". -,
portioned upon the basis 81
sonable rate until 1t c'u'. al;
absorbed by trade balances! "h' al
it do to US if other nations ~
agree upon another metal ~ /. AZ
ard, 1t is quite conceivable ta's u.,l
will, because of their acute neea' !. II
y. not be more isolated than !,
now. and would we not deser AZ
Kenbridre. Va, May 2, lssz.
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What Readers Are Thinking

Eighteenth Amendment until repealed,
but the prohibitionists themselves
have no moral or legal sanction to ask
US to violate the language of their own
amendment
Naturally the Senators and Repre-
sentatives who stood for this "usurpa-
ton" will have to give an account of
their stewardship at the approaching
primaries and general election.
MARY B. MORTON.
Brooklyn, May 2, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
WhY Be Itappv?
The man who does not smoke or
chew

chew,
Or tamper with the ticker;
Who does not in the dusk pursue
The habitats of liquor,
Can live in placid peace of
For though few joys elate him,
Reforming folks can never find
A way t. irritate him.
The man who never swings a club
'TwiXt Saturday and Monday,
Nor seeks his moral toes to stub
BY playing golf on Sunday,
Well knows, although the fond
delights
Of Sabbath breakers fail him,
That no reformers sit up nights
Devsing ways to Jail him.
The man who would not put a bet
Upon q prancing pony
Who's never made a journey yet
To see the sights at Concy,
A-wcary Of his life may be
But it is no ones mission
To say, reproachfully, that he
Is headed for pcrdition.
The man who lives within the
laws
Has reason for thanksgiving;
Stern Visaged persons have no
cause
To mend his way of living.
But though serene should be his
lot,
It's usually a sad one
They cant abate a JOY he's got
Because he never had one.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
French Loans to America

France to pay her debt to the
United States forthwith are not CON
trolled by the spirit of ieniency
which that country showed the
United States when France was
America creditor.
During the period from 177S to
1882 the French King loaned total
of 100000 livres to the United
States. In the original convention
1t was agreed that this money should
be repaid with 5 per cent interest by
January /. 1888. In subsequent
treaty made by Benjamin Franklin
in 1852, however, it was provided
considering that the payment Of
so large capital at the one stipu-
lated period may greatly injure the
finances of the Congress of the
United States, and it may perhaps
be even impracticabe on that foot
ing that the King of France should
defer payment until three years
after the signing of peace, and that
it should then be made in twelve
yearly instalments.
Furthermore, His majesty, being
willing to give the said United
States a new proof Of his affection
and friendship" WAS pleased to
make present of and to forgive
the whole arrears of interest to this
day, and from thence to the date Of
the treaty Of peace
The French King also agreed to
defer the payment on loan of TO-
100000 liVres from the Dutch which
he had underwritten. and which
he agreed to repay Holland and not
require the United States to repay
him for five years. A new loan in
1888 contained the stipulation that
the principal should be paid, COM
mencing in 1897
The financial affairs of the United
States, however, went from bad to
worse under the Congress of the
confederation, and soon interest and
principal alike went unpaid. Not
until Hamilton reorganized the
finances under the new Constitution
was payment resumed. Then in
1898 Jefferson was able to write to
the American Minister in France
that "in the course Of two years, by
unceaslng eXertlons, we paid up
seven years arrearage and install
ments of our debt Part of this
was done in cash, part in kind and
part in assistance to the French in
I Santo Domingo. "In the year 1875, :"
wrote the Secretary of State. "the
whole of our debt was discharged" ="
although the last instalments were
| not due until 1901, or twenty three
years after the first advances on the
loan We're made.
Instead of pressing the United
States, therefore, France spread the
payments of the principal over a
period of many years and volun-
tarily RENTED the interest for the
first five years. Recognizing frankly
the inability of the United States to
comply with the original terms, she
generously changed them and adapted
her policy to the financial capabili-
ties of her creditor.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
France s Case

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: France has been misjudged by
many in Europe and in America the
past two years, because, remembering
her millions of heroes fallen on the
battlefield. she has insisted on an
army of the proper size to protect her
from an unrepentant Germany who
has already entered into close icla-
tions with Russia.
France cannot forget the devastation
as yet unpaid Cor by rich, undev-
astated Germany.
WILLIAM X. PALMER.
Chicopee, Mass, May 3. 1929,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One of the speakers at
Carnegie Hall attributed the Eight
eenth Amendment to the Prohibition
party. but, of course, this is nonsense
as the movement was not and is not
political but moral and entirely un.
partisan.
A DRY.
Brooklyn, May 2, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
Political Economy for Wome,

Political Economy for Women
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Your editorial on "Defated
Propaganda is very much to the point.
IT women have been judged intelligent
enough to be voters they ought to be
able to see that "a government which
is similar to that of the piratical beys
and pashas of Tripoli and Algiers" has
10 claim to recognition by the govern
ment of the United States
No question is more important at the
present moment than this: What can
be done to make the women voters (and
their husbands, too) more intelligent ?
AS partial answer to this question it
may be pointed out that nothing is so
effective for the training of the neg
lected intellect of an adult as thor
ough study Of political economy.
Women who have any leisure at all
ought to form at once clubs for the
study of this most Illuminating sub
ject-not clubs for the desultory read
ing Of popular book or two, but
clubs for serious work under trained
instructor "a university man or woman
and with thoroughly scientific text
books on the subject, to be carefully
read and fully discussed.
They cannot imagine until they have
tried it how much pleasure as we'll as
profit is to be derived from real work
of this kind. And husbands, too, al
ways gain when wives become more
intelligent
CHRISTINE DD-FRANKLIN.
New York, May 3, 1922
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Note to Investors

About the only bone-dry spots in
the United States are some Of the
oil wells.
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MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tae Associated Press is etciusively entitled 20
'ae asa for republication u all news dispatches
fred4lsd 70 u or not otherwise credited IN This
pghls>hod herein
Al rishis * capitalization Of al other matter
nereln Also are reserved
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The Best lime

Ships that pass in the night"
very often get safely inside the three
mile limit.
Copyright. James J. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05

luton for the Dovecotes lies in the
cold attitude of the feminist or mas
Culinist who refuses either to buy
or give habitual personal service of
this sort and upholds the dignity of
self f-help. She is not to be guardian
Of the shirt studs. nor is he to he
a picker-up of handlerchicfs. But
alas, human conduct is seldom sue
cessfully standardized Each Of us
reserves the privilege Of being in
consistent, A batting average of 80
per cent chivalry and so per cent
wifely duty is a golden mean.
1t is well to do. but it is i'll to
overdo. Blessed are they who leave
something to be expected "My
dear said Mrs. Lirripcr, the most
famous of lodging house keepers, IN
somewhat similar quandary, Il do
assure you it's a harassing thing to
know what kind Of girl to give
the preference to, for if they are
lively they Get bell'd off their legs,
and if they are sluggish you suffer
from it yourself in complaints"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05

You can purchsse merchandise advertised In IhE
IFisuhe with absolute safety--tor " dissatisfac.
ton results IN any THE TRIBUNE suaran-
tees 10 pay yeuf money back upon request. No red
'ere NO auibblino. We refund promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
A Transit Solution

NFrom The Philadelphia Rccordj
Governor Miller threatens Mayor
Hylan with rapid transit out of the
City Hall
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
BOORS By Percy Hammond


Umbrage has been taken by nu-
merous commentators because of the
habits of back scratching" and log
rolling said to be practiced in certain
circles Of Americas literary life
Evil confederacies are alleged to ex-
ist, friendly members Of which not
only bear one another's intirmities, bu,
e>tol them in their writings as virtues
with fattery or Anacreon pronounces
Sapphos anthems to be meritorious
reciprocity is at hand with compen-
satng encOmiums. AS the souls
Riato hath its merchandise. so has
that of the minor penmen; and they
chatter it is charged in published
compliment and panegyric. This
rotarian scheme of mutual advertise
ment is believed (by those who are on
the outside) to be a knavish vice. and
one inmcal to the best interests OF
composition. 1t is, they infer, a
menace to honest art in that it con
fines publicity to self-interest and TO
prejudice. and thus promotes among
the gullible an appetite for the un-
worthy.
One of these wrathy protestants cites
the case of Mr.. Chappell's The Cruz sc
of the Kawa.' "Here,' says he, "was
perhaps the f1attest burlesque that was
ever written | admire labor, but this
fellows labor to be funny was toe
laborious even for glutton like me
There wasn't gleam in any of its
mill hand pages-nothing but dull
sycophantic strivings to curry favor
with his influential acquaintances. Yet
the local Hanseatic League of puff
hucksters pushed it into circulation
Of 10000 copies, and made some Of
those who bought it think it was good.
Among the sorriest of the sounds is
that of a "yelp from the pack The
annoyed outcry of the envious maver-
ick. whether he be literary, bovine, or
both, is a sad noise, and the only way
it can be stilled is to let him who
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
The 70wer
TIME EXPOSURE

TIME EXPOSURE
IVES, keep the pose, that | may
I'll think of you
When tranquil shadows play
about your face
And dcftly lend it sweetness Light
breaks through
Your chestnut hair so softly;
gives it grace
To crown your head. What marvel
that your brow
SO lifts itself above your candid
eyes
With elegance! | can but
wonder how
Your lips arc framed for bcauty's
fablod sighs
There is a mystic sadness makes
your smile
Seem strangely scornful and UNI
scemly wan.
Perhaps you know; arc sensible the
while
Of majesty that one day will be
o
However, beauty is youthful
tricl,
SO keep the posc--now watch the
birdie. Cljck'
VI tNC.
ThCrc IS n stU bcttcr trnV TO start
ihe dan iryop0 than IN come ,,pon n mis-
print IN the pc'Y first lime Of the uerse
Icod'no The Totocy, and that is for your
nife TO d'scorcr it,
After due thought, there seems to
be only one way to avoid such humilia-
ton Hereafter we'll nave to read as
wen as write It,
Wa ooa,t .D;n1. 80 ...
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He kept us out of Genoa
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',0 .., ~ S"0% Z "''S A''"F'''% 'o-
@'' s',.',, "',' '' ''"" ''S"' ~ '' "eoo0 II
to pan for the ncrt rnr."
'' nr,n 'F'',1 Wr[',S SLOWLY
will no longer be annoyed and hoy. INV
property destroyed by COWS whose owners
permit th''n t" run AT large, but Will KIN
anG"'%s n5 T', no, 'a|' my yard lawn"
stroyed ts ,h.s warning cnoueh?~MTs I
II. Mddiohrook--AIpi"c. Tc5.. Auoanchc.
Al this pre-camDoion talk has ~
lcast 9ipen His Honor and his rneutor
the qiorp of dcclininq TO be Gorernor
NS''N ''"''e 'S TIC
- '''' "''""' no" couIa II DC
,,.'0 ''"P'''',e guy I'Nc me-
w, ''' ''''@e' '"e '"N'eSS' cannot stahd
nc U'''',''''0'y perfect "ru
''''eS'9 '"e pe"A Oh symmetry
Love is not blind. Clear-cyed see
My Chloes mouth misery
With missing teeth. a gap unspanned
!
". ''''' wal i'h'!'
va ''"N"' - prove "'S "'4"iorS'
'''t '''F' ere yo" We my logic panned'
anu ''e"l ne 'u, my NnIoe canned
! u 'oNeiS l nSI'Is " f. ~
fN-> ir' ~. lh'ooN'
On a dav like vos+ordav ;f wa
weren't welded to our lob with Reno
as far away as Sentomher wo,d taxa
y long bamboo nole-not rod 1.-Two
hook sinker cork and worn, cap and
placing them and us in . fat-bottomod
boat. row ont and anchor whore tbo
"eeoS run up TO the edge OF the
o'a"',e'
ana 'nere we q stay all day long,
"''''e '"e CORK f0oe up ana down over
side Of the hOa+ All that ue pood 70
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05

Returns from Indiana, A. d. points
out, indicate that Beveridge has been
victorious by at least 275 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05
You Might Look Around, Anyhow

Sir: When the Only Girl reads a
contribution by Lou on the passing Of
a Great SEX and threatens to return
all your letters just because your name
happens to be the same, I've got to
get into the column or else look around
for another girl. LOUIS.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-05

Indicating that the proposed Rus
sian treaty is caviar to the generals.
+. +. V.