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The New York herald., 1922-08-17
The Way to Get Coal.
To Protect Miners in Their Right 10
Work Is the First Step.

To THE New YORK HERALD: A lot OF
people seem to approve the idea to have
commission investigate the entire coal
industry. Let me state supposed case.
The commission investigates the whole
affair. taking, say. two years in the
meantime we pay the present high price
for coal and the miners get the present
high wages. At the end of the two
years the commission decides that wages
shall be reduced per cent. and 100 Of
the unnecessary 100000 miners be dis
charged The miners all strike.
How would we be any better off then
than we are now? Is there not a strike
on now? How IL an investigating COM
mission to do any good when, IL II de-
cides against the miners, they strike?
There is only one thing to do. The
unions must be shown that they cannot
stop the mining of coal by anybody who
will work at mining. After that let u
commission decide what is right and
just and II II decides against the unions
the unions will not strike. A. Il.
ROCKVILLE CENTER, August 16.
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
Apple Sauce.

In former times. the tale so runs,
A woman lived who had three sons.
Shem, Han. and Japhet we're the bro o1,
And In the days before the food
They terrorized the neighborhood.
rhey even sought that garden out
Which Eve and Adam told about,
And robbed indeed that very tree
With which aforetime Eve made free,
But took two apples stead Of three.
Two among three Hard fell the blows
Their mother spake whose name none
knows:
NAY. children. let mo have the fruit,
And will settle the dispute
Soon in a way none may confute.'
She pared. corcd, cut the rosy twain
And popped them In the pot amain,
And soon n golden treasure poured.
Three portions In three bowls were
stored
Each lad licked his in sweet accord.
Thus genius turned to gain a loss.
Enriched the world with apple sauce,
The evil fame of Eden checked
And makes US more than just suspec.
Why lucky Noah wasn't wrecked
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
The American Heart.

Less than two weeks ago was pub
lished letter from MAXIM GoRKY
praising Americas aid to the starv-
ing people of Russia as the greatest
humane accomplishment in history.
Your help" wrote the Russian
author, will long remain in the
memory of millions of Russian chill
dren saved from death by YOU"
Fine! The American, reading
GoRKY's tribute, must have felt a
thrill Of gladness that this country
had been so generous; might have
imagined the Russians picturing us
as people who, measured by the
bounty they send to strangers abroad.
must be even kinder to their own.
The American people toss half a
billion dollars into the Red Cross
Golfers to relieve the agonies Of war.
They give five or ten millions to the
starving Chinese as if they were part
ing with chicken feed. They spend
twenty or thirty millions in the volga
region without thought of receiv-
ing anything in return.
And then, in the supposedly civil
lized State of Illinois, crowd Of
Americans with jeers and laughter
butcher dozens Of unarmed men
whose crime was that they wanted
to go to work.
And then, out on the burning sands
of the desert, a train crew OF men
who call themselves Americans aban-
don the passengers who intrusted
themselves to their care in the
journey across the great arid waste;
leave old women and old men to the
torture of an internal heat leave
mothers without ice or milk to fight
for the lives OF their babies; leave
women to go through the agonies Of
childbirth without medical attention
and with the mercury at 1870!
Let's hope that MAxIM GoRKY and
his grateful Russian children do not
hear about such things. Let's hope
that the Chinese the Americans saved
from starvation never hear OF them.
Let's hope that the French and the
Belgians and the other European re-
cipients Of American bounty, when
they hear about these happenings,
will understand them.
For Americans are not such wild
beasts as the mine massacre or the
desert outrages would suggest. Most
Of the hundred million are the kind
OF people that give to save the sick
and the hungry. Most OF the hun
dred million look upon the mine
murderers and the train deserters
with horror.
And most OF the hundred million
realize that the men who committed
these brutal crimes were slyly led to
the commission OF them by so-called
leaders who keep their power through
the ignorance OF their followers and
the fear of the weak.
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
Clash Over Way to Aid Europe
Houston Submits Program to Institute Crosby Picks 1t
to Pieces-League Ridiculed.

Special Dispatch to TIE NEW YoHK HERALD.
Wn.LIAMsTowN, Mass. Aug. 16.-
Marked disagreement between David F.
Houston. former Secretary of the Treas
ury, and Oscar T. Crosby, former AS
sistant Secretary, as to a program for
the rehabilitation of Europe developed
In round table discussions to-day at the
Institute of Politics.
Mr.. Houston said in part:
The United States should Indicate it's
willingness to sit around the council
table in frank and free discussion Of
Europe's situation. with a view to giving
her maximum possible aid, provided
the European Governments concerned
give satisfactory assurances that they
will adopt and execute a program OF
drastic reform
THE United States ought not to be
afraid to sit around the table and TO
discuss with Europe all present economic
problems. She ought to be able to Sc
lect delegates who could hold their own
with those of other nations and safe
guard their country's vital interests.
Discussion could not bind this nation.
The delegates could only deliberate, ad-
wise and report. This nation cannot af-
ford to stand by placidly and watch the
confiagration spread. This nations aid
might be rendered in the following
fashion:
by joining the League of Nations
as at present constituted, or with such
notifications as experience may have
dictated f
Eff necessary, by joining Great
Britain and other leading nations in
giving assurance that Frances territory
VIII be protected against Germany.
providing we are satisfied that aggres-
sion is unprovoked
"3.-By evidencing willingness to con-
slider dealing with the debts due the
United States by the Allies in the light
OF all the pledges and performances.
t"4.-By encouraging the participation
OF private American financial and in
dustrial interests in loans and invest
ments in Europe when ii is reasonably
clear that Europe has become good
business risk
THE program to be adopted and ex-
cuted by Europe might include:
'1.-Mental disarmament - profound
peace in Europe.
"2,-Sincere and effective participa-
tion in the League of Nations.
'3.-Physical disarmament, with cor
responding reduction of expenditures.
"4.-Large reduction in reparations.
"5.--Increased taxation.
"6.-Balanced budgets.
1.-Shutting down of money printing
presses.
"s.-Remcval Of trade and traHsporta-
ton restrictions.
America went into the war primarily
to yindicate her rights. She also went
IN to save civilization, to safeguard the
world against the menace of an arrogant
Power, and to prevent a recurrence Of
such calamity as that through which
the world has passed; in short. to bring
a permanent and just peace. Peace has
not yet been secured.
America can afford. in her own in
terest and the interest OF the world, to
do much more for Europe than she has
done. But she cannot do 1t unless Eu-
rope recognizes that her salvation is
largely in her own hands, and that If
she wishes aid she must give the req
uisite pledges and take a course re-
CURED by her own interest"
The New York herald., 1922-08-17

Mr.. Crosby at conference later In
the day declared the League of Nations
was not strong enough to help anybody.
He said one of the secretaries at Geneva
told him the League of Nations was
only "a great telephone exchange"
That's what's the matter with It,"
said Mr.. Crosby. "Of course 1t is not
superstate, as this secretary said he
always was careful to tell Americans.
1t is not substantial or powerful enough
TO help anybody in the world
| Mr.. Crosby reiterated his belief that
France could never get from the United
States or Great Britain an assurance
to come to her aid in case of unpro-
voked aggression by Germany that
would be worth the paper 1t was written
on.
Perhaps" he added, some sort of
an agreement could be reached, but it
would be couched in such vague and
uncertain language that every one of the
guaranteeing Powers could, when the
emergencies arose. decide whether to
live up to the undertaking or not
Mr.. Crosby said that with internal
troubles threatening in the United
States 1t would be sheer folly for us
to assume foreign undertaking of the
Kind Mr.. Houston proposed.
He thought the part of the program
suggested for execution by Europe was
impracticable. Mental disarmament
and profound peace" he said. "are
mere terms think mental disarma-
ment' Is entirely illusory and as far
as profound peace is concerned, 1t
never has been in my time and never
Will be In my time. Upper Silesia and
Danzg are Alsace-Lorraine, and l can
understand how the Germans feel"
In nj At 4
Mr.. Houston seem in entire accord That
was that the money printing presses be
shut down.
Mr.. Crosby said we had no right to
jump to the conclusion that European
nations were acting in bad faith with
reference to their taxation.
The taxes, at least on paper" he
added, "are more than the people can
bear, and they simply don't balance
their budgets because they can't collect
the taxes"
The reparation figures. Mr.. Crosby re-
minded. should not be blamed on France.
1T is unfair to turn the opinion OF the
United States against France" he said.
You forget that Lloyd George won a
campaign on the basis of making the
Germans pay and hanging the Kaiser
You forget that the figures for repara- :
tions are the figures of the Preparations
Commission, and there is an English
man and an American on that commits
sion."
There was no way, Mr.. Crosby de-
clared, In which the United States could
now enter into an economic conference
with the nations of Europe without in
volving the American delegates, whether
p.enipotentiary or not, in an untenable
situation. They would have to take some
position, and they never could be sure,
and they ought not to be~allowed to be
sure, that the American people would
back them up. This would not only be
unfair to our own people but would prob
ably lead Europe to complain Of still
rother unhappy disillusionment as to
American aid.
In the conference on interallied debts
one of the committees recommended the
calling of a world conference on eco
nomic subjects at Washington similar
to the disarmament conference last fall.
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insane. Yet he had never been placed
in a hospital

insane. Yet he had never been placed
in hospital
Presumably he escaped detention
because he had never given any
trouble" His malady is described
as slowly progressing form OF in
sanity, in which there may be long
periods of harmlessness. suddenly
broken by hysterical outbreaks. Ac-
cording to the police his father died
in an asylum.
In certain forms of insanity it is
impossible to tell when the harm
less lunatic will become the danger
Gus lunatic. A person afflicted as
this man was may not give any
trouble" for years, and then may
break forth in homicidal mania. 1t
is accordingly unjust to other MEM
bers of society to take any chances
with persons whose mental infrmi-
ties may at any time make them
dangerous to others.
Mawkish sentimentality often pre-
vents the locking up Of persons
known to be demented. They are
tolerated at large, although It is
known to everybody that they are
likely to run amuck at any time.
They constitute a menace to sane
citizens which should be eliminated.
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
Publicity the Remedy.
The American People Capable OF
Dealing With the Strike Situation.

To THE New YORK HERALD: 1t is with
great pleasure that I send you my hear
tiest congratulations for the splendid
editorial articles / have read in your
paper on the subject of the two great
strikes. My sentiments are shared by
many men with whom ! have talked but
who may not take the trouble to tell
you how they feel
/ never wrote to newspaper editor
before in my ffty-two years OF life, bur
this sinister reptile that Is crawling
venomously beneath our economic life
needs the searchlght of honest publicity
played most vigorously upon 1t that the
people may know where they are at.
No more is necessary. / have great
faith in the people of this United States
OF America. All they need is a few
more newspapers with the fearessness
and patriotism of THE NEW YORK
HERALD to inform them of the facts.
A. Ii. PArTou.
New YORK, August 16.
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
Fand has BEEN aroused. at the ,latest

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manifestation, one which it considers
i'll advised. 1t has sent telegram
to the Montana State Sportsmen's
Association protesting against the
proposed killing of the great white
pelicans that visit Montana each
summer. The pelicans are charged
with eating fish, and have also been
accused of causing diseased condi-
tion among the trout of Yellowstone
Lake and other waters.
In Alaska at the present time birds
and hair seals are being slaughtered,
partly by authority of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture, because salmon
fishermen complain that these crea-
lures are destroying the salmon. 1t
is an absurd contention on the part
of the cannery men that birds and
seals are devouring to the point of
destruction the fish resources of
Alaska. Natures balance is never as
carelessly adjusted as that. The
truth of the matter is that the sal
mon canning industry is probably the
most wastefully conducted industry
of the United States. 1t was sug-
gested in an investigation by Con-
gress last winter that two year alb
solute closed season on salmon catch
ing be established in order that the
Alaskan fisheries might recuperate.
The unthinking slaughter of ami
NAL life is vicious for two reasons.
1t is destructive of mans natural
interest in the world which was cre-
ated with him, and it carries with it
the danger of unwise interference
with the balances carefully main
tanned by nature.
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
EVENTS TO-DAY.

National Retail Dry Goods Association.
Merchandise Fair, Grand Central Palace, II
A. M.
Brooklyn Chamber OF Commerce, special
meeting OF directors, IL 80 r. NJ.
CIvitan Club. luncheon, Hotel Astor. IL 80
+. NJ.
Auction sale of city real estate, Richmond
County Court House, st. George, Staten
Island.
DIR. G. o. Appleman. University of Mary
land, lecture on physiological Aspects OF
Food Storage" HORACE Mann Auditorium,
Broadway and 10th street, 2:30 =. NJ.
Board of Aldermen, special meeting to
consider coal shortage, City Hall. +. NJ.
Conference between executive and brother
hood leaders In an endeavor to settle rail-
road shop strike, 61 Broadway, r. NJ
Churchmen's Club. tea. crypt of st. Paul's
Chapel. Columbia University. tD q 7. NJ.
Public band concerts, Bedford Paf,- and
Bensonhurst Park, Brooklyn, evening
Bowling Green Neighborhood Association.
beginning OF series of free weekly motion
picture shows, 45 West street, $3.50 7. NJ.
Prof John Roscoe Turner, lecture on
america and the Future Peace OF TIM
World" Gould Memorial Library. New York
University, p. NJ.
National Garment Retailers Association.
Style Show, Seventy-first Regiment Armorys
evening,
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
Why the Rail Strike Lasts.
Union Labor Hopes to Bring About
Government Ownership.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The rail-
road strike drags along for the reason
that every railroad brotherhood, from
the highest to the lowest, hopes and
expects by it's continuance to bring about
Government ownership. Why do they
seek it? In the words of one of their
leaders, "Under Government ownership
the work was easier and the discipline
less sharp" That tells the story. That
statement should be burned into the
memory of every person--"Easier work
and less responsibility" Discipline less
ened on a railroad means more acci-
dents-greater hazard to the users of
railroads No one should have a keener
interest in good discipline on railroads
than those who trust their lives AMI
property to them.
Coincident with the railroad brother
hoods desire for Government ownership
comes the voluntary support Of other ia
Dor unions on the we'll known principle
that all labor unions should stand to-
gether.
1t will take steady, determined resis-
tance on the part OF the public to keep
the railroads from Government owner
ship and the conduct of all business
from union labor domination. The CAM
paign for Government ownership of all
public utilities Is constant, unscrupulous
and intelligent. Against II there Is no
organized effort. It's advocates begin In
the Congress of the United States and
end with the man in the street. Many
desire Government ownership for selfish
purposcs-many from mistaken ideas
others because 1t follows the lire OF
least resistance.
The public In this part of the country
may remember that three times In one
twelvemonth the harbor of New YORK
was almost completely tied up through
strikes OF the harbor boatmen. They
attempted and nearly succeeded In cut
ting or the food supplies. including
milk. from Manhattan Island Such was
their clearly spoken intention--to make
the food and fuel conditions so unbcar-
able that the public would demand a
settlement OF the strike on any terms
Looking backward. shutting up the port
of New York seems small compared
with the present attempt to freeze AMI
starvc the people of the whole United
states until they must have relief re-
gardless OF cost. The concerted action
of coal and rail strikes. the season ~
year. show q we'll defined conspiracy
against the public. We are actually be-
ing held for ransom When shall we
wake up?
The strike of the railroad shop crafts
Ia lost. They. cannot win by fair means.
They now resort to sabotage. The ef-
feet Of sabotage Is to bring the so-called
big Four" into the controversy, and to
The New York herald., 1922-08-17

prevent, 50 far as is possible, the public
from using the railroads. The strikers
have no bowels of compassion. They
have not hestated to stop trains regard
less Of their contents or the attendant
scnsequences. They care nothing about
putting their defenseless fellow citizens
into all kinds of personal hardshipS, be-
sides destroying the products Of fruit
growers and farmers.
:. II is proved fact that railway shop
crafts have been for several years. and
are now. better paid than like crafts
men who are not employed by railroads.
and in addition they have certain lawful
pcrquisites that do not accrue to crafts
men employed by other corporations
Notwithstanding these facts they have
bludgeoned the railroads--and the pub
lie as well--and now seek to bludgeon
the Administration and its authorized
agents into forced decision. Whether
they can succeed remains to be seen.
The serious question is: Does organ
lied railroad labor treat the public
who pays it-fairly?" How long is the
public-who always pays the score-go-
ing to stand it? We should now and
loudly call to our State and Federal
officials and to the owners and man
ayers of railways to deliver us from the
hands of all unions who recognize no
law. who are willing to sacrifice any
thing to gain their unmerted, selfish de-
sires and who are arrogant with past
successes, both political and physical.
If there be good unions" 1t is time
they should stand up and be counted
put themselves fairly on the side of law
and order and fairness to the public.
Let them submit their differences TO
arbitration.
In the meantime the rest of us should
form our own union. rise up as we can
rise up and drive these arrogants from
the positions they have disgraced. 1t
ean be done, and must be done, If we
are to live and to be as well served By
the railroads as the price we pay for
the service warrants. CITIZEN.
NEW YORK, August 16.
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
Democrats Won for Reed.
His Victory In Missouri Not Due to
Republican Votes.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Much has
been said concerning the Republican
votes cast in Missouri for James A.
Reed. and the charge has been freely
made. particularly in the st. Louis news
papers. that Mr.. Reed was nominated by
the aid of the Republicans Threats
have been made by Democrats to bolt
the nomination on this account.
The fact is that probably more Re-
publican votes were cast for Breckin-
ridge Long by Wilsonian Republicans
than We're given for Mr.. Reed. The ST.
Louis newspapers, with the exception Of
one evening journal, are Democratic and
not only Democratic but poisoned by the
Wilsonian doctrine that the League of
Nations is a panacea for all the woes
Of the world. Mr.. Longs campaign was
made on the claim that he had always
been follower of the great and good
Woodrow Wilson and that he would De
true to the ideas and principles of his
mentor.
We have in Missouri great many
ministers. teachers and college profess
sors who are socialistic In their views
and, in spite of the immense vote two
years ago against wisconsin, still con-
slider it possible that the verdict Of the
people might be reconsidered. Conse-
qucntly these idealistic people. although
most Of them are Republicans. voted for
Long.
A judge of elections said that in his
precinct five Republicans whom he
knew asked for Democratic ballots and
scratched Reed. Another judge of cleo
tions says that in his precinct several
families of Republicans, to his knowl-
edge. did the same thing. Thousands Of
Republicans joined the anti-Reed forces,
and if Mr.. Long had been nominated he
would have been nominated because Of
the support of these mugwump Will
sonian dreamers.
Knowing the facts desire to correct
the view that IL it had not been for Re-
publican support Mr.. Reed would have
been defeated. Mr.. Reed. in his vigor-
Gus campaign, regained, to a much
greater extent than was anticipated, the
confidence of the Democrats of Missouri.
Owing to the bitterness of this fight be-
tween Reed and Long it is probableNhat
Missouri will have two Republican Sem
ators instead Of one, but the blame must
be borne by the Democrats themselves
and Mr.. Wilson. +. II. BACON.
ST. LOUIS, Angus. IA.
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
Attacks on Wild Life.

The determination Of animal pests
is not always the one sided matter
that 1t IS in the case of the mosquito.
Nobody has yet discovered that the
mosquito serves any purpose beyond
the plaguing Of other creatures. But
there are pests which II is better not
to exterminate because of their use
fulness in the destruction Of pests
worse than themselves, and there are
animals known as pests which are
really harmless.
Recently there has been increased
activity In pest determination. The
Permanent Wild Life Protection
The New York herald., 1922-08-17
Twins for Twins.
The Late E. II. Harriman's Grands0ns
Figure in q Saratoga Incident.

To THE New YORK HERALD That one
touch Of nature makes the world kin
was illustrated in striking fashion at
the~yearling thoroughbred sales at Sara
toga Springs the other day when pair
Of twin colts were brought into the
arena.
The youngsters were almost exact du-
plicates in size and color, and as they
stood side by side. noslng each ether,
their chestnut coats glistening under the
electric light, the bond of affection be-
tween them was apparent. They were
O picture of dumb devotion, and the APP
who would not separate them aroused
the susceptibilities Of the throng.
In the front row of the seats with
their parents were the 10-year-old twin
sons of Robert L. Gerry Of New York.
Edward and Henry--they were named
after their maternal grandfather. the
late Z. II. Harriman--are very much
alike, they are inseparable, and on this
evening they were dressed alike.
Their attention was riyeted on the
pair of handsome colts. The crowd in
stantly sensed the situation and when
Mrs Gerry bid $500 for a choice with
the privilege Of taking both there was
no higher bid. When she announced
that both the colts would be taken there
was more applause than at any other
time during the two weeks session. Men
and women stood up and paid the twins,
human and equine, tribute remarkable
for its warmth and spontaneity 1t was
learned later that the colts would not be
raced but would be trained for polo and
saddle use for the boys. OsTADE.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, August IS.