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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24

Iness}. On the higher percentage the
royalty is considerably over SO per
ton on the prepared sizes, and fair
average for these leases probably
would be between s1.40 and $3.50 per
ton.
"S. c." is further mistaken in his
statement that 20 cents would be con-
sidered good profit. The average in
yestment in an anthracite property is
from So to So per ton of annual out
put. In an industry of so hazardous a
character as coal mining net earnings
should certainly be not less than 10
per cent on the capital invested. or
from 80 cents to 90 cents per ton.
The United States Federal Trade
Commission in it's report ON anthracite
published in June. 1919, showed that the
average margin of the anthracite op-
orators over period of six years was
A2.S cents per ton, and from this
margin had to be deducted selling ex-
penses and Federal taxes and re.
serves set UP for non-insurable risks
before any surplus is available for
profits or dividends.
E. w. PARKER,
Director Anthracite Bureau Of In
formation.
Philadelphia, Pa. Aug. 81. 1929.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
Drafting Primary Voters

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Is II not evident that we shall
have Indifferent elected representa-
tives in city, state and nation so long
as the policy persists of delegating to
selflah political leaders the selection
Of candidates Tor public ofice?
The primary nominating system is
adequate as an expression OF the
choice Of the people only ii it we're
made obligatory that all voters should
participate IN it, but it is farce ii
practice when voters restrain patriotic
impulses and submit to apathy simply
because attending the primaries in
wolves some personal discomfort. Vet
Ing at the primaries should be made
compulsory and a severe penalty fixed
for every one neglecting to vote in the
absence of good excuse.
HENRY q. BUCKHouT.
Brooklyn Aug. az, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
Two Days Work

Nine months out of twelve "The
World" is as calm and reasonable
q neighbor as can be expected in a
universe of storm and sin. All winter
long it lies beneath white mantle
Of n-partisanship. AS the spring
comes it breathes love for everybody
according to his due. But let the
first ballots of autumn begin to fall,
and what a change! The mere
thought of an election makes "The
World" as partisan and reckless as
a country weekly Of the Copperhead
days.
In it's present mood "The World
refuses to be satisfied with the gen
uine issues available. The tariff, for
instance. AS The Tribune has re-
peatedly pointed out, the Republi-
cans of the House and Senate are
doing their best to revive and pre-
sent to their opponents this buried
issue. They have brought forth a
bill that is a lnonstrosity-to quote
from Tribune editorial. You might
think that this would be enough for
a Democratic appetite. But "The
World" in it's prediction mood, is
not easily satisfied. Like the fee-fi-
fo-fum giant in the fairy tale, it
must have blood-the blood of a Re-
publican.
So it lashes out wildly at Mr..
Hughes for his defense of Senator
Newberry. Here at last is a chance
for real stuff, the old-fashioned
hokum of politics. Never mind about
the facts. Forget that there was a
war and patriotic issue. Ignore
the cost of a campaign in a direct
primary. Multiply The money proved
to have been spent by any figure
handy. Bring out from the attic all
the old bugaboos and claptrap-
henchmen, slush funds, a dirtiest
days work and the late Senator
Grady. Hurrah for bunk!
To round off it's days work in be-
half of good old two-bottle partisan
ship, "The World" discovers that the
lawyers of New York are all wrong
and that Mr.. Charles F. Murphy did
a clean days work when he refused
to renominate Surrogate Cohalan. 1t
is not SO voluble in explaining why
this is so. But it is quite as positive.
"The World" is very proud of its
independence in politics, and it GER
tainly works at being independent
very hard--at those seasons of the
year when independence doesn't
matter much.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
From Mary Wollstonecraf'

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In these days of puritanical
restrictions, when legislation is en-
ployed to enforce virtue, it is refresh
ing to listen to voice which spoke
more than 100 years ago in favor of
liberty of action.
The voice is that of woman much
maligned during her life and after, but
some of whose ideals are now being
realized-Mary Wollstonecraft, the
first woman suffragist, author of "a
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
G792).
The following is from her "Letters
written during short residence in
Sweden, Norway and Denmark" pub
lished in 1895. the year before her
death:
"The sunday evenings in Norway,
as in Catholic countries, are spent
in exercises which exhiIarate the
spirits, WITHOUT vitiating the heart.
The rest of labour ought to be gay;
and the gladness I have felt in
France on sunday, or decadi,
which caught from the faces around
ME, was sentiment more truly
religious than all the stupid stiffness
which The streets of London ever in.
spired where the sabbath is sc
decorously observed. I recollect, in
the country parts Of England, the
church wardens used to go out dur
ing the service, to see if they could
catch any luckless wight playing at
bowls or skittles; yet what could be
more harmless? 1t would even. ]
think, be great advantage to the
English, if feats. of activity, / do not
include boxing matches, were en-
couraged on sunday, as it might
stop the progress of methodism, and
of that fanatical spirit which ap-
| pears to be gaining ground
W. CLARK DURANT.
New York. Aug. FL. 1922.
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Britain's Death Causes and Ours

Vital statistics in America and in
England are so differently compiled
that exact comparisons between them,
are impossible to make. In some
general details, however, it is pos
sible to draw them, with interesting
results.
1t is to be observed, according to
reports just published. that in Eng
land, as in America, diseases of the
heart stand first among the causes
OF death, by considerable margin.
But IN the second place, there is q.
difference. In England it is held by
diseases Of the nervous system.
which here are relegated to the fifth
place; while pneumonia which here
stands second, is in England in the
fourth place. Cancer stands third IN
England, while in America, although
steadily increasing, it is still much
lower, perhaps in ninth or tenth
place Third place here is held by
q. y
tuberculosis, which, in England is
tied with bronchitis in fifth Mace.
Diseases Of the digestive system are
here fourth on the list, almost equal
ing tuberculosis, while in England
they are away down among the "also
rams"
IN England, it will be seen, the
most prolific causes of death by far
are diseases which may be regarded
as products Of high pressure and
perhaps oversophisticated civiliza-
tion--rush of business, social and
gustatory indulgence and the like,
while diseases due to climatic and
other natural conditions gre far less
destructive. How great a contrast
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
Michael Collins

The fact that Michael Collins was
{ known in south Ireland as mick"
j is indicative Of the appreciation the
& mass OF the people had for their
4 leader. His short but eventful career
+ has just been ended by bullet from
/ one of his own countrymen. Collins's
4 death, following closely that of Ar
& thur Griffith, the father of the Sim
Fem movement, leaves the Irish Free
State in difficult position.
No man played so important a
part in Irish history during the last
1 year as did Collins. Having signed
the Anglo-Irish treaty, the chief re-
sponsibility of getting the Dali
Eireann to ratify it rested on his
shoulders.
Collins was idolized by the ma
jority of the young Irish soldiers,
and almost to man those who had
votes in Dali Eireann followed his
lead in the treaty debate. 1t was the
personality of Michael Collins which
carried the victory in the long and
memorable fight in Dublin. That
fight put Griffith and Collins at the
head of the forces in south Ireland,
and automatically De Valera and
the irregulars were ranged against
them.
Collins patterned his tactics after
those of Lloyd George, with whom
he was thrown in close contact dur
ling the negotiations preceding the
signing of the treaty. His emotional
1 appeal his sweeping gestures were
mot unlike those Of the British Pre-
Nmier, but the resemblance was still
greater when he sat down in con-
Hference trying to bring peace through
0compromise.
Collins made friends easily. His
smile, his keen sense of humor, his
quick wit and his boyish appear
aance were disarming. The Collins
Griffith combination was an ideal
sunion, and small wonder that when
they appealed to the electorate early
sthis summer they carried everything
before them. The soldiers who said,
during the De Valera debate, eff it's
good enough for Mick it's good
enough for US, were simply voicing
THE sentiment of the country
When RED Rory" O'Connor and
This irregulars, stationed at the Four
Courts in Dublin, were attacked in
June by the Free State army, be-
Ehind the movement was Collins, who
agreed with the British government
that the time had come to settle the
Issue with the De Valera repub-
I1icans. A few days previously Field
IafarshaleSir Henry Wilson had BEEN
murdered on the doorstep Of his
London residence by two republicans,
Either Collins had TO put down this
|Jawlessness or permit the British
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24

Mr.. Lewis has held up a settle
ment of the anthracite coal strike on
question of theory He is an anti
arbitrationist and would rather
have the country go without hard
coal all winter and the anthracite
miners go without wages than
abate anything of his hostility to
the principle that when men and
operators bring big industry to a
standstill it is the public's right to
insist on breaking the deadlock by
arbitration.
MIR. Lewis wants to keep the pub
lie, with its interests, it's claims and
its demands for economic efficiency,
out Of the coal business. He wants
to go on settling all questions of
wages and working conditions with
the operators without outside inter-
ference. He travels along with the
most old-fashioned operator in de-
nying consumers any look-in and
in roughly reminding them that the
coal industry will continue to be
conducted to suit the pleasure of it's
beneficiaries and friends.
In the Cleveland agreement for
fact-finding commission within the
industry the door was shut tight
against anything like decision in
f1uenced by the government or the
public. Mr.. Lewis said with salts
faction after the agreement was
signed: "The miners have likewise
won their fight for retention of the
principle of collective bargaining, as
against substitution of arbitration
for this principle. The agreement
contains no commitment for arbi-
tration, but, on the other hand, has
been written on broad premise,
which gives reasonable assurance
that the machinery of collective bar
gaining will be strengthened and
improved"
Collective bargaining is, in Mr..
Lewis's view, valuable chiefly as a
barrier against arbitration. He has
taken no new stand in blocking
the resumption of hard coal
mining. eve are on the inside
and you are on the outside" he
says to consumers. "No settlement
can be a good settlement unless it
keeps you where you are"
Here, at least, is a frank confess
sion of purpose. 1t will help the
country to understand just what
President Harding meant when he
told Congress last week that users
OF coal were virtually at the mercy
OF Mr.. Lewis's coal miners union.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24

Grown. forces to intervene. Collins
decided quickly. In the Dublin bat
he Cathal Brugha, his former col
league In the De Valera cabinet, was
killed. A few weeks later Harry Bo-
land, another intimate friend who
opposed him politically. was shot.
Then Arthur Griffith, who had felt
the terrific physical and mental
strain, died after brief illness.
That Collins should assume The &C
tive leadership OF the movement to
suppress the republicans was ex-
actly what every one acquainted with
this fearless and intensely patriotic
Irishman expected. Having fought
with small minority, he appreciated
fully the task of suppressing the
small band of irregulars; but Collins
was not one to turn back.
Anything is possible in Ireland,
but it was queer twist Of fate
NiiiSil DluuEhbs sst0eSGt tiiS fHuAuSA VI
Collins on the outskirts Of Cork, his
native town, by one of his coun-
trymen, who, only year ago, was
fighting with him against the British.
Murders fRve become commonplace
in Ireland, but the assassination of
Collins is ascruel blow to country
which has had more than its share of
tragedy.
Dali Eireann is scheduled to meet
this week. The murder of Collins
is bound to cripple the already weak
ened provisional government, but,
on the other hand, it is certain to
react so strongly against the re-
publicans that they will have no fur
Their politics! standing in Ireland.
The Free State movement will be
stronger than ever.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24

| 1t was Sunday morning. The
second to last automobile in pro-
cession Of dusty cars jounced over the
crossing of the Cumberland Valley
Railroad, on the outskirts of Cham
bersburg, Pa. An unshaven workman
in greasy overalls, who stood in the
weeds at the roadside, flung q hostile
gaze at the trio of newspaper CORE
spondents in the automobile and ex-
pEoded contemptuously:
erich people!"
His guess was the least correct of
all the attempts to classify us that
were made that day. Within the limits
OF this thriving small factory town the
curbings were lined with natives. who
would have been in church pews, as
their carefully worn raiment testified,
but for the heralded passage Of Mr.
and Mrs. Harding.
BY the time the three automobiles
containing the historians of this expe-
dition back to Ohio had passed given
point the faces Of the spectators were
relaxed from the fixed grins which had
been presented to the President, Mrs.
Harding, General Pershing, Charles G.
Dawes and DR.. Sawyer. With the
passing of greatness they sought to
establish the identity of the unim-
portant members of the party.
Secret Service men" was heard
most frequently from the lips of those
omnipresent beings who always en-
| tighten the people they elbow on the
curbstone.s. Once hatterer voiced
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
Sky Sailing

In Mr.. Glenn H. Curtiss's discus
sion of the German sail planes there
was large item Of caution which
every commentator will wish to
share. These ingenious Germans.
driven thereto by the Versailles
Treaty. have taken the old glider in
which all the pioneer work with the
heavler-than-air machine was done
: and achieved 9 progress that puts
them in class by themselves. Until
more is known respecting their ap-
paratus, the secrets of which are
still carefully guarded, there is nc
room for bold assertion.
Undoubtedly Mr.. Curtiss was
right in stressing the question of
rising air currents. The case of the
buzzard has been long observed and
carefully described. BY picking out
q circllng and rising air current he
can soar slowly skyWard in a spiral
night without moving wing. A
rare sensitiveness of instinct is re-
CURED for discovering such a move
fnent OF the air and adjusting wings
thereto. That instinct man lacks
Mechanically there is no possible
reason why he could not build him
self wings and do as the buzzard
ne whole question Of air currents
Y stu little understood in detail.
Inc German sailing has all been
done in billy country, and the oues-
ton is whether its success is not due
quite az much to g new study Of ris-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
More Anthracite Figures
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If your correspondent who signs
himself IS. c. who writes from Long
Branch, N. j., will disclose his identity
the Anthracite Bureau of Information
will be glad to furnish him with some
information regarding anthracite
figures" which may cause him to to re-
consider his "cold facts" The follow
ing may be of some interest to him:
In 1918, with a total commercial pro-
duction Of 71,o4s,s1e gross tons of
fresh-mined anthracite, the labor cost
was $113,32OOoo. In 1921, with a
total commercial production of 70,191,-
o96 gross tons (slightly less than
1919, the labor cost was s2S3, 1861 900,
an Increase in labor cost per ton of 1854
per cent.
The freight rate of s1.55 to New
York tidewater, which IS. c. quotes,
was after an advance of Is cents per
ton was made effective on April 10,
1918. Prior to that date the rate had
been $l.40 on prepared coal. Other in
oreases in freight rates granted during
and Just subsequent to the war brought
the rate to tidewater New York up to
s2,61, an. increase Of so per cent over
the rates in effect prior to April 10,
1918. The decrease effective July / al
this year makes the present rate 1924.
The rate to Long Branch, N. j., al
the present time is $3.i5 a gross ton,
and before the decrease effective July
] last it was $3.50 per gross ton an
increase of Si.55--not 1915 cents, as
given by IS. c. as the increase over
the former rate Of S195 per Ton.
IS. c. is also much mistaken in re.
gard to there having been no change
In the royalty rates. All of the new
leases of the Girard estate, Of Phil
adelphia, the largest land owner in
the region (except some Of the larger
operating companies who own their
land In fee), are made upon the basis
Of 3 certain percentage Of the price
per ton at the breaker and not "a
many cents per ton. These percent.
ages range from, 16 to as high as 2s5s
the lower rates being fog the thinner
bsda thozs aot over xous feet ID thick-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
The Law He Flouts
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: By ratification of the
Eighteenth Amendment. 1t has been
maintained, the states surrendersa
their exclusive powers over domestic
affairs. to the. national government. i
this be true the question arises 70
what extent they have sold their birth
right for mess of pottage.
Prohibition has dulled the sense of
obligation to law more than any Sosies
propaganda insidiously set TO work.
ing in the United States could pos
sibly have done. One has but TO read
the daily papers to appreciate how the
Voistead law has widened the field for
blackmail, graft and disrespeet for
law
While contributory to increased uss
of drugs and production of connections
ruinous to the stomach, prohihitioa
has brought about the shifting q
moonshine manufacture from tas
mountains TO apartments in big cities
"a change which. according to sons
critics. has improved the quality.
Kipling's description Of the Amer's
can has peculiar applications to sha
volstead law:
''The cynic devil in his Mood.
That makes him make he law he noauss
That makes him f1out the law ne msAssss
In republic obnoxious Laws sfs
better repealed than laws added Ie1
their enforcement. c. g. y.
New York. Aug. 1s, 1922.
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Expensive Medicine
TO the Editor of The Tr;hnna

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: was glad to read the letter
signed Norman" regarding whisky
Tor invalids- The law puts tax on
medicine as we'll. For instance. a
cough medicine containing a small
amount Of opium Gas cough medicines
usually dol cannot be renewed without a
second prescription from the physician,
costing IN my case, So, which with the
druggist,s charges brings the bottle Of
cough medicine up to about SIS.
why should our government frame
laws discriminating against the poor
and sick, but allowing liquor to we'll
.o-do passengers on the American
liners? NJ q ~
New York, Aug. 81, 1922.
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The EQUITY PLAYERS. Theatsr.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; just. now when the AFlsfl'ss,,
Federation of Labor is the caass s.
so much trouble in our country a7
Equity Players all Of whom are me'3,
bers Of the American Federation s =.
Labor and striving for the closed - Z,
in our theaters, announce they Egg Is
have a theater "of The people, ps 's ~
people and for the people. : atad are S..
do American plays. Our theafeF M 81.
at times make mistakes. but whs1 ss'.
happen il the American Federation 81
Labor is to control our plays arg ss1
sectors z BORN IN NE'W Il
New York Aug. ia 1aa2a
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Copyright. 1882. New York Tribune. Inc

shout of cabinet members" We
bowed to him, but moment later whe I
townsman possessed of discernment
announced that we were just reporters
the sensation was akin to the unmask-
ing Of Haroun-al- Raschid, with reverse
english.
For the Secret Service men and
others who see him often and know the
President to be a very human soul
who works and eats and sleeps and
laughs, the rush of people over the
country to see him, and touch his hand
If possible, becomes natural
phenomenon akin to the movement of
the tide. But even so these people
who see the President day by day are
susceptible to an influence like that
which affects tired and blase salesfolks
in the department stores at Christmas
time, when they watch the amending
procession of children bashfully ap-
preaching one whom they believe is
Santa Claus, but whom the store clerks
know to be a man dressed up in red
coat, top boots and long. white
whiskers.
A cat can look at queen, but in
the United States any man, woman or
child may exercise the privilege of
shaking hands and exchanging word
or two with the President. At least,
that is true of this President. 1t may
not always be permitted at the White
House, where there are certain hedges
of etiquette to be overcome, but on
the road. whether he travels by train
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
An Awful "Tho,,pbt

1Fron' The Philadslphia wewsJ
/. 'ust mink what would happen i
acre was Housewives Union, and i,
vent sp ssEiksl 80 I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
Decisive

"The Literary Digest's" pcll seems
to show that people can take it or
leave it alone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
The Sure Sign

The Sure Sign
When man who barely knew
you, and who spoke but little
to you, starts abruptly to pur-
sue you. and to shake you by
the hand,
When he talks about the nation
and the tariff situation with
fervid agitation that you cam
not understand
When he says it's most surprising
how the cost of food is rising
and is constantly surmising
that the wheels have slipped
their cogs.
And he really wouldn't wonder If
by some colossal blunder soon
the country will 60 under-if
it don't go to the dogs
When more eagerly he greets you
each occasion that he meets
you and excitedly entreats you
to become the nations savior,
Telling you you mustn't fail him
when his enemies assail him,
till you wonder what can all
him, SO astounding his be-
havior--
Do not let the man alarm you; he
has no intent to harm you; all
he wants to do is charm you
into eager admiration.
For. the autumn time is coming,
and big politics are humming,
and your new made friend is
drumming up some sort OF
nomination.
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Poor Substitute for Coal

Even with eggs at 20 cents dozen
we can hardly afford to burn them
this winter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-24

The current lack Of faith in ne,os-
paper veraoity may be due to the fact
taat the toeather probabilities are
printed daily on the first page.