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New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
Liquidating Communism

In Russia what Lenine thinks. or
what at particular times he wishes
the world to believe he thinks, is the
law, at least so far as brute force
can establish the law. The Russian
dictator. like others. does not need to
bother about parliament. He sim
ply writes a decree and signs it.
Communism being no longer in
good repute, he goes through the mo-
tions Of ending it by trumpeting the
rc-establishment of private property
rights. Thus, on paper at least, he
liquidates his great experiment. Rus
sia is bourgeois now or pretends to
be. There is capitulation to raven
Gus capitalism.
But there is one thing as to which
Lenine yields not an inch He hangs
on to his power He makes no CON
cessions to political democracy. He
has not reformed with respect to
free elections or speech or assem-
bly, or press. He will continue to
shoot into suhiection those who dis
agree with him. His government in
essentials is about such one as eX~
listed before the old cars began to
read French books.
How much is the recognition of
private property real and how much
nominal? The answer is found in
the provisos Of the decree rather than
in its general statements. Thus de-
naturalization is not to apply to
past seizures. Having is keeping.
Factories are still to be owned by
the state-that is to say, by Lenine.
He may lease them, but will pre-
scribe wage rates, fix the number of
employees and the prices Of products.
So there will be no reason to envy a
Russian 'owner' Retail traders will
have more liberty of action, but the
main structure of communism is to
stand. The Russian despot is merely
window dressing a little.
Thus Senator France has no rea-
son to be melancholy over Russia,
nor has Senator Borah The Boil
shevist leaders have failed to achieve
much by one species of propaganda.
Now they try another.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
Anti-L Lodge Forecasts

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS "Anything to beat Senator
Lodge has long been slogan in places
remote from Massachusetts, The New
York World" faithful advocate Of Mr.
Wilson'S policies and what now seems
to be the an@mic League of Nations,
has sent man to Boston to help in
the work. He reports that please
note the "if''-ex Governor Mccall, a
Republican, runs Independently ne Will,
according to Democratic foreca sts. poll
enough Republican votes to elect Sher-
man L. Whipple, the prospective Demo-
cratic candidate.
But, as IN many other good stories,
there are flaws in the plot. Mr. Mccall
is said to be in Europe, Cooking over
the chaos We hope he visited Genoa
If he did he must have witnessed
enough chaos to convince h I'm that if
Senator Lodge defeated our entering
the League of Nations it wastthe great
est achievement of long Rnd honor
able career. A.. F.F.
New York, May 90, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
Detroit's Street Railway Venture

Detroit has voted, under the lead
ership of Mayor James Couzens, un-
til recently multimillionaire partner
of Henry Ford, to pay sol 900, 900
for a decrepit traction system.
In 1920 Mr. Couzcns promised to
build an adequate street railway with
out equipment, for $4,000 a mile.
He also said he could buy the made
quate, privately-owned line for S4O,-
600 a mile. Later, having started
certain custer suits, he lowered his
estimate to $4,000. But acquisition
on these terms proved to be impos-
sible.
The city is to pay $4,000 a mile
for the lines and join them to lines
already owned by the city which
cost $l57,000 a mile. In all, De
troit soon will have $36,OOO,O0O of
borrowed money locked up in mu-
nicipal trolleys.
Detroit's experiment is launched
under favorable auspices. Mr..
Couzens is a business man Of wide
experience. 1t is to be assumed he
will not fake or try to conceal dis
agreeable facts by camouhage. He
is no Hyan or Whalen. playing with
busses and subservient to a news
paper overlord who would not invest
cent of his own money in public
service enterprises. He is out to
make success Of public ownership
and operation if he can and prob
ably will work harder to achieve if
than he did to amass his personal
| fortune.
SO the Detroit experiment NAV
yell be watched elsewhere with in
terest Will the new system work i?
Does 1t mean lower fares or better
service? The debate over rival
theories has been exhausted. 1t is
! time to have test Of actual trial
uiiucl IdNOid dDlc circumstances. 1t
may be hard on Detroit to plav the
role of guinea pig, but she has
chosen the part.
In other activities city operation
has brought no dividends to Detroit.
For twenty-six years she has been
lighted by a municipal plant, and has
invested nearly S6,00O0OO in it. Yet
the deficit last year was S203,OOO.
though no taxes were paid on the
plant and there was an Inadequate
allowance for depreciation. An ad.
ditional bond issue of s50O,OOO has
just been authorized.
From Seattle, which staggers un-
der municipal operation of railways,
the latest report was of deficit of
/ S2,0O0000 a year and of fares raised
to 10 cents. Now Seattle discusses
three-cent fares and an open throw
ing of losses on the city's budget.
The lines managers have not been
permitted to plan intelligently. On
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
On the Wane

There has been q marked change
of mood in Congress with regard 70
bonus legislation. A month or six
weeks ago both houses seemed in
famed with the idea that the passage
of bonus bill was a political neces-
sty. That necessity originated in
the apprehensions Of Congressman
seeking denomination and re-elec-
ton. The bonus bill was bill to
make votes in the primaries and to
mortgage the affections at the polls
next fall of vast block of interested
supporters.
Faith in this engaging method of
making reelection easy has been
damped by what has happened in
the Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,
Oregon and other primaries. 1t has
been demonstrated shat to oppose
the passage Of bonus bill at this
time does not mean to court political
destruction. Senator Pepper was
nominated in Pennsylvania by a
very large majority, although he has
courageously attacked the bonus bill
now in the Senate. His opponent
was an ardent bonus supporter. One
of the Oregon. Representatives who
voted against the House bonus bill
was renominated. On the other
hand, it has been shown that work
ing for bonus act is no sure title TO
the voters gratitude. Four Penn
syvania members who were counted
for the House bill lost their primary
fights. SO did two others in Illinois.
1t is apparent that the country is
unwilling to divide on this issue.
There is no tumultuous pressure for
immediate action, and the voters are
much more interested in other mat
ters. They resent the view that the
attitude heretofore shown by Con-
gressmen toward the bonus parallels
their attitude. They are discount
ing the failure Of bonus legislation
at this session.
congressman are also beginning
to discount this failure The time is
not ripe for reasonable adjustment
Of the soldiers claim for special com
pensation. Most of the soldiers
themselves have come to realize that
1T is better to wait until the time is
ripe for settlement which will be
at once fair to them and not iniuri-
Gus to the rest of the country.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
Edgar Nj. Cullen

Edgar NJ Cullen. who died yes
terday, was long an ornament of the
New York bench and bar. In his
career as a judge, which lasted for
more than thirty years, he exhibited
the highest qualities of balance and
tirmness and was universally re
spected for his great learning and
public spirit.
AS young man, Just out Of col
lege. he had won distinction as a SOL
dier in the Civil War. For a time
he practlced the profession of en-
glneerlng. The effect of this earlier
training showed, perhaps, in the
Vlgor and precision of his judgments
and in his sympathy with the broad
er aspects of community life. He
took leading part, when a Supreme
Court justice in Kings County, in
breaking up the John Y. McKane
ring in Gravesend. He was appoint
ed to the Court of Appeals bench by
Governor Roosevelt and was pro-
noted to be chief judge of that court
by Governor Odell, his eminent fit
ness for these posts being recognized
by his political opponents as well
as by his own party associates. He
presided at the mpeachment trial
Of Governor Sulzer. and his rigid
impartiality of mind was shown
again by his voting to acouit the
defendant
Judge Cullen served until the age
limit of retirement and died full
of years and honors. He was an in.
spring example Of the intellectual
and moral influence which a great
and wise jurist can exercise.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24

terra, subsequently, recalled him.
He is the only "king in exile" who
has come back.
Ferdinand. Gar of the Bulgars,
was one Of the guiltiest Of war plot
ters on the Teuton side. A mon
arch Of alien race, he drew the
Bulgarian people into the war on
Germany's side. more for his
own ACKNOWLEDGMENT than for theirs,
He made bargain in cold blood.
He willed war on Bulgaria. and
when the war ended in disaster he
fed his realm.
Boris, his son, was accepted as his
successor by the Bulgarians in de-
fault of any better choice. But the
Bulgarian peasantry. hating Ferdi
nand and the war, has come COM
pletely into power in the last two
or three years and the country has
been governed by Stamboulisky. the
Peasant party leader, rather than
by Ferdinand's heir.
The war democratzed Europe to
a remarkable extent. In Bulgaria,
as in the other remaining Kingdoms
Of the Continent, the royal power
has been diminished and popular
rule has been strengthened At Sofia
Boris has been little more than fig
urehead. If he, too, had passed into
oblivion no material alteration could
have been expected in Bulgarias s for
tunes or outlook as a minor Balkan
state.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
kingly Casualties

Had King Boris Of Bulgaria lost
his throne the list Of dynastical war
casualties would have been neatly
rounded out. The Quadruple Alliance
powers were the greatest sufferers
from political reconstruction. In
Germany the kings of Prussia. SAX
ony, Bavaria and Wurtemberc dis
appeared from the scene, together
with all the grand dukes and plain
dukes of the various minor states.
Charles of Austria lost his crown as
Emperor and as King of Hungary.
The Sultan Of Turkey was not de-
posed, but rival Turkish state was
set up in Anatolia and conducted un-
Ger an independent, semi parlia men,
tary form of government. Old
Nicholas Of Montenegro was crowd
ed out when his petty kingdom was
annexed to Jugo- Slavia. The Rus
sian Gar was forced to abdicate
and was then murdered by the Bol-
shevists. Constantine of Greece was
expelled by the Entente powers, but
the Greek people, in a fit of hys-
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
A Vinous QUESTIONABLE

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In reference TO the invcstga-
tion made among a thousand or more
of the country's foremost men of af-
fairs, business, industrial and profes-
sional, by the editor Of The Manufac
turers' Record" an account of which
was published yesterday in the maga
zine section Of The Tribune, may /
suggest that it be pushed a bit fur
ther and information gathered from
these same men on the following ques-
tions:
/. How many of you have stocks Of
wine and liquor?
2. How many of YOU have acquired
vine or liquor surrepttiously since
prohibition went into effect?
8. How many OF you still drink wine
or liquor when the opportunity offers
itself?
Theoretically. of course, in view of
their opinions as expressed in the in
vestigation so far conducted, we might
expect to receive answers that would
be 85.5 per cent "No" to all three
questions. Actually it is probable that
you would receive an S55 per cent
silence on question No. | and 9S5
per cent silence on questions Nos. =
and 3, | am inclined to believe that
the majority of these men prefer
| answering questions of this sort about
their fellow men rather than about
themselves. Certainly, however, while
they are furnishing data and statistics
about the rest of us with so much
gusto, it would be only fair that they
furnish a small amount about them
selves.
The answers or lack Of answers
might indicate whether our benevolent
friends prefer prohibition for moral
reasons, or because it pays them in
their business.
RAYMOND NJ HOOD.
New York, May %, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
By William L. Mcpherson

Of hard-hearted western European
creditors who are rude enough to want
TO get their money back.
That creditor should expect to re-
cover just debt is rated as q pitiabla
alteration in the Keynes Alice-in-
Wonderland system of economy. A
psychological inhibition against bill
collecting seems to haunt this marvel
GUS scrapper Of bonds, debentures.
notes of hand and all other instruments S
showing value received on one side
and withheld on the other. Keynes
is a never-wearied Titan at the
job of equalizng outstanding pluses
and minuses. He holds the worlds
record for giving away other peo-
ple's money. In his tight little
ledger he has practically Cancelled
Russia's pre-war debts and confsca-
tions, Germany's reparaton debt to
the Allies, the Continental Allies war
debts to Great Britain and Great Brit
aims debt as well as that of the Cont
mental Allies to the United States.
What is the root of this obsession
that the debtors interest must be con-
suited in preference to the creditors,
and that in Germany's case, those who
won the war should relieve those who
lost it of the burden OF paying for it,
The answer is to be found in the
Keynes theory of the economic balance
of Europe. Before the war, he holds
Europe was beautifully stabilized in the
economic sense, and Germany was the
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
The New England Conscience

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir; The letter by Robert STANLEY
Ross, which you published recently.
concerning "Thc New England Con.
science inspires ME to answer his
question with the following queries;
How 90 those who cxalt the New
England conscience" explains away the
tact that II drove the carly New Eng
anders to persecute those not in ac-
cord with their own religious beliefs >
IS their persecution Of the Quakers
at harmony with the statement that
the New England conscience restored
to the world the Masters teachings in
all tnelr puri-y and power?
If the New England conscience ;s
the manifestation in human affairs of
the Christ idea how could it have
Permitted the execution of women ike
Mary Dyer for religious beliefs con-
trary to those held by the possessors
of that "conscience"?
Historical facts scarcely bear ont
the truth Of the sentimental lines
They l.ft unstained what there they
found. -' y
Freedom to worship God
TO my mind "the Christ idea" can
scarcely be manifest" in "con-
science which drives men to intolcr.
ance and self-rig ighteousness
A DESCENDANT OF MARY DYER.
New York, May 19, 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
Protected Nicaragua

Three Latin american protec-
torates We're maintained by the
Wilson Administration in
Hayti, one in the Dominican Repub-
lie and one in Nicaragua. Amer
lean attention has been focused
more on the workings of the protec-
torate system In the two West In
dian republics. Unrest in Mica
ragua has been less vocal. Yet on
Sunday the marine company which
garrisons Managua was called on
to suppress an insurrection.
Our intervention in this Central
American state dates back to 1912,
| the las, year Of the Taft Administra-
ton l. has been prolonged in &C
: cordance with agreements subse-
quent.y entered into concerning
American preferential rights in the
old Nicaragua trans-i -isthmian route.
Il was held desirable to forestall an
attempt to utilize this canal route
under the auspices # any other ma
ton, Just as the United States has
also sought to establish preferential
rights to possible lines south Of
Panama, within Colombian territory.
Our treaty with Nicaragua
brought that country into conflict
with the now defunct Central Amer
lean tribunal, which made decision
supporting Costa Rica's claim that
Nicaragua was disposing of rights at
Che Pacific end of the canal line
srhirh tid not belong to her. Soon
after Nicaragua, supported by our
State Department, withdrew from
the courts jurisdiction and the
court itself fell TO pieces.
Apparently our stay in Nicaragua
Is conducive to tranquility there
It is based on diplomatic agreements
and IS not an autocratic violation of
native sovereignty, as the occupa-
ton Of the Dominican Republic is.
PERHAPS this government is only
pursuing its duty under the Monroe
Doctrine TO the backward states of
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
The Keynes Obsession

SO far rs the American public is CON
cerned John Maynard Keynes is an
economist who made his reputation
with a few timely political epigrams.
His first pook, The Economic Conse-
quences of the Peace" would have
fallen fiat here except for its acid study
of President Wilson's foibles as a
world regenerator. That famous chap
ter was a theatrical aside. But to
American readers it was the real meat
described Mr. Wilson as Presbyterian
elder, bamb boozled by Lloyd George into
thinking that the reparaton penalties
imposed on Germany were just, and as
incapable OF being debamboozled when
the agile Lloyd George changed his
mind, few people here would ever have
read Keyness philippe against the
Versailles treaty or hardened to his
mentations over poor Germany's'
economic fate. Keynes the malicious
literary artist got hearing for
Keynes the soft peace" advocate. His
hrst batch of prophecies, dealing too
imprudently with the imm ediate future,
came to grief. He has withdrawn some
of them in his second book, "A Revision
of the Treaty" published last winter
But his heart still bleeds for Deutsch-
land. Recently, at Genoa. it has also
been bleeding for Russia, which in his
facile imagination seems not to be
reaping the natural consequences Of
self-destructive political and economic
po1iciee hu n ba rathor tIa ~,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
The Crystal Palace Site

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Little Wall Street" article
in the Sunday Tribune contains many
interesting facts concerning the growth
and Importance of Forty-second Street
But one historical error should be cor
rected. 1t is stated that the Crystal
Palace was located on the site of
Bryant Park, because Forty second
Street was the terminal of the rail
road. This is manifestly incorrect
when we consider, as the writer states,
that Forty-second Street was known as
Shanty Town, with its hills and rocks
no sidewalks and roadway Of clay"
The Crystal Palace was opened by
President Franklin Pierce, July Ia. 1858,
and was destroyed by fire October 5,
1888.
At that time Os53) and for some
years after Thirty Street, where
the Vanderbilt Hotel now stands, was
the location of the roundhouse from
where cars were drawn by horses
uoWl I'll avenue " inc WenCy-
sixth and Twenty Street ter
minels of the Hudson River, Harlem
and New Haven railroads.
Later Forty second Street was made
the roundho1ec site and horses drew
the cars through the tunnel and down
Fourth Avenue to the same terminal
until 1871, when the Grand Central
Depot, as it was called, was opened to
the public.
The Crystal Palace site was chosen
without reference to railroad ter
minals, but because it was we'll out
Of town, although reached by the anti
quated transportation facilities of
Fourth and Sixth avenues
Old residents have often told of the
extended view from the neighboring
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
Match Me, Match My Dog
A Partisan Pastoral.

"A IdTlSlan PASTORAL.
If Fifi's morning frock is red,
W lth trimmings somewhat
dulcr,
The dog that amblcs on ahead
Must match each lovely color.
If Fiti's evening gown is blue,
With jet to make it snappy,
The dog must be the self-sam'
hue,
Or Fih cant be happy.
When Fiti S mamma goes to town,
A new spring suit to buy hor,
She also takes the puppy down
And parks him with the dyer.
Next day amid the traffic stream
They both are glad surprises;
For Eff IS suit is mauVc and cream
And Pom Pom harmonizcs.
In shade and tone they arc the
same,
But that's just half the story;
The puppy's head is bowed IN
shame
While fiii beams with glory.
The puppy cannot care for art
Or color schemes to save him,
For he is just a dog at heart
And likes the skin God gave
him.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
Time to Resign

Unless Attorney General Daugh-
crty has better defense Of his re-
lat.on to the unsayory Morse pardon
thun thus far has come from him
or his friends he should relieve
President Harding Of cmbarrass-
rcent by prompt resignation.
Il is not necessary to 20 into
offensive argument. Facts which are
TO far not effectively contradicted
speak for themselves. Il is surely
an amazing thing that when the
conspiracy II get Morse out of
prison was hatched it happened that
the conspirators went to Ohio and
hired a lawyer. without prior CON
nection with the case, who happened
to be d friend Of the pardoning
power,
Mr.. Daugherty should never have
been named as Attorney General.
The appointment was one Of TIE few
mistakes President Harding has
made. 1t was q personal selection,
and such for high Office arc seldom
happy. The only way to rectify
the blunder, if the documents pub
lished in the Congressional Record
are genuine and accurate, is to ask
for a speedy resignation if one is
not rendered. Granted that Mr.,
Daughe,ty was one of those who
were fooled, he is manifestiy in that
event too gullible to be at the head
Of to Department of Justice.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
Fast Time"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondents who ad-
vocate an Authorization Of the term
"daylight saving certainly have the
right idea. Why not say fast time
and "slow time" as they do in the
Middle West? w. H. ANDERSEN.
East Orange, N. j., Mayo 20, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24

the one hand high prices have been
paid for material and wages, and on
the other hand the system has been
starved because city administrations
have not dared to face the people
with demands for costly improve
ments though they meant an ultl-
mate saving
1t is the Inherent defects of public
operation that, it is to be feared, will
spell failure to doubtless we'll
meant enterprise of benevolent
Mayor Couzcns. He is likely to find
himself countenancng policies he
would not an instant tolerate in his
own business.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
What Readers SQu

aqueduct walls looking north over the
top of forest trees as far as the eve
could reach
FREDERICK A. HUBBARD
Greenwich, Conn, May %, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24

the Caribbean basin Yet there is
an unpleasant suggestion Of Ameri-
can overlordship in some Of these
enterprises which it takes good
deal of elucidation to clear away.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
>n2fprR or TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tia As4p-s,e3 f'-es. "a c1-lUSvey ertltlei
:1a '.'e for reIr.- oat!r- - a dispatches
c-oi,,n. - e. ~ ~ ofho-Nise ~-rii'e-: IN this
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VI1..s-~d he-c.-
a dr. ~ -clnoitcz,loa o, al other mater
c-ein 80 rcs'rvet
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No Other Explanation

Evidently Dc Valera thinks "He
kept us out Of peace will be popu-
lar rallying cry with the Irish.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24

fo1 e.n pU-ch.- ~.-cnsno,e advertised In The
tpiBUkE utth ABSOLUTE .afsty--fo- II oissatsfsc
ton -esuts ~ any cas-. TAs TRIBUNE euaran-
tees 70 pay Your ~oney back upon request. No red
tap. No aUibbtre. We refund promptly " the
acserfiser Goes not.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24

We understand that the Mayors
objections to the "Civic Nirtue'
statue were withdrawn when some
body told him it looked like him.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24

An attempt is being made to in
dict bakers for cutting the price of
bread to five cents loaf. If that
doesn't stick they will probably be
charged with insanity.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-24
Jealous

In order to keep up with the New
York crime wave Chicago has TO start
a riot.