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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
The Bonsas Epiaosie

There can be no reasonable de-
Tense of the bonus bill Oh finally
amended TO death, and no reasonable
defense was offered by the Senators
who voted for it. The original prof
eet was unsound financially and the
measure for which fifty-seven Sena-
tors, without regard to party, fell
over themselves to vote is even more
ugsound.
Whatever happens to the bill in
conference, there can scarcely be
question of the Presidents treat
ment of it. 1t will deserve clean
cut veto, and every sign indicates
that it will receive one.
The disheartening feature is that
the Senate Of the United States, in
an hour when the nation is confront
ing the most serious internal prob
lens, should waste it's time and en-
ergy upon such election clap-trap.
The voters have shown themselves
restless and dissatisfied in the pri-
maries. Is not large part of the
public's resentment due to just such
small politics as the bonus episode?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01

For five months the hard coal
miners and operators have been
basking in the sunshine, with no
thought of empty coal bins this fall
and winter. Agreement to resume
work is not barred by differences
over wages. Mr.. Lewis, the car of
the industry, has turned down arbi-
tration as means Of attaining a
fair future wage scale. He wants
no profane outside hand laid on the
war wage scale. The only remain
ing difference has been over the
length of time the 1922 contract, car
ried over into 1923, should run.
The public would like to see that
contract terminated as soon as pos
sible-that is, on March 81, 1923.
The chief hope of constructive set
Element which will Danish fear Of
coal famines and put mining back on
an economic basis, with reasonable
wages and reasonable prices, lies in
the activities of the Federal fact
finding commission, soon to be ere
ated. This commission will lay be.
fore Congress and the country the
shortcomings of the industry as now
conducted. 1t will be able to suggest
changes in operating methods and to
indicate what ought to be the cost of
coal to the consumer, the compensa-
ton to the worker and the profit to
the operators. After it's report is
made the public will be able to judge
the industry impartially and enforce
it's judgment through arbitration
machinery or legislative restriction.
Coal consumers are to be asked by
the miners and operators to pay the
costs of the long lay-off, in addition
to carrying the old burden of war
wages and profits. Such q hold-up
should be resisted and will be re-
sisted through Federal and state
agencies. May resistance be eff
fective! But the main thing is to
get the coal industry modernized.
Mr.. Lewis is stubbornly fighting
modernization.
He has admitted, however, the de-
STABILITY of fact-fnding inquiry
conducted by the bituminous miners
and operators, the report to be SUBJ
mitted before March 81 next. To
prolong the hard coal wage con-
tracts beyond that date would there
fore hamper general settlement
and subject Eastern anthracite users
to special hardships.. The coal in
dustry should be dealt with as
unit and it's economic regeneration
should date from April, 1923.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01

and perhaps still counts himself "a a
possible candidate for President.
Mr.. Johnson's associations with
Mr. Hearst also cost him Republican
strength. Al large percentage OF the
former Progressive's strength In Cali
fornia has evidently turned against
him. He ROW enjoys the support Of
the Old Guard element which used
to fight him. but he has alienated
thousands Of average Republicans,
once eager to follow him because
they believed his leadership to be
courageous and public spirited. Mr..
Johnson seems to have nisjpdged the
party temper. He thought that this
was a time for q decided swing to
the right But In California, as in
many other primary states, this year
has been marked By a powerful drift
within the Republican party toward
the progressiyisnl which Mr., John
son seems to be leaving behind him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
Vinelicatissg MFR. Barnu1s,

Throughout the West and South
there is q very general conviction
that New Workers are .hard-boiled. .
Wide circulation has been given to
the story of the stranger who was
confronted BY a hold-up man
in Manhattan, who demanded his
money or his life. o.as
''Take my life, them said the
stranger; II would far rather be
dead than be in New York without
money"
Yet this great, cold, heartless city,
which is populated, according to song
and story, by the "wisest" and most
self-centered people in all the world,
has for number of years been con-
tributing heavily TO the gasoline
bills and chauffeur hire of a gentle
man whose only claim on them con-
sisted in the fact that he was lack
ing in legs.
Sitting on little plank with roll
ers under it, he parked himself in
various sections of the buster streets
and held out hat, into which the
soulless denizens of the metropolis
showered nickels and dimes, quar-
tiers and bills.
At the end of eacn perfect day he
rolled himself along to an expensive
hotel, attired himself in gay array,
put on nice pair of artificial legs
and took dinner with his wife and
two children. After dinner he called
up his chauffeur, who brought his
car from a nearby garage, and the
whole family took a drive through
the park.
This man toiled not, neither did
he spin. Yet he never required to
get his meals at bread line, and
he found in the most VIGOROUSLY
cold-blooded city in the world a
handsome livelihood merely for the
asking.
The apparent moral of this story
is that New York's well-insulated
heart can be reached and that the
city, after all, isn't 50 hard-boiled as
is generally supposed outside its
boundaries. ,A.,s.1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01

California is firing of Hiram
johnson, long her idol as political
leader. he sought denomination
this week as Senator, and was op-
posed by man hitherto almost UNI
known in state politics. But this
outsider, Mr.. Moore, kept the John
son majority down to quite UNI
Johnsonian proportions. What Mr..
Hoover could not do in 1920 a far
less conspicuous rival has done this
year. He has demonstrated that
MIR. Johnson's prestige, so great for
a decade or more, is rapidly waning.
The reason for this is to be found
In the Senator's recent public record.
He has followed a confusing course
at Washington. His opposition to
the ratification of the four-power
Pacific treaty created bad impress
sion, because it seemed capricious
and frivolous. 1t lacked MIR. Borah's
utter irreconcilability. II had the
appearance of representing no very
genuine conviction.
On the tariff Mr.. johnson joined
the most rabid farm bloc exclusion
lists. No rate was too high for him.
He became a log-roller and aban-
doned broad national view of leg
isiation to seek extreme protection
Tor local interests. Such an attitude
may not hurt the average Senator,
whose glance doesn't reach very far
beyond state lines. But it does hurt
ofas who poses as national leader
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
Oddments and Remainders By Percy Hammond

%DIToRIAL movements are afoot,
1t seems, to keep lawn tennis
among the gentler games where
In the spectators, as we'll as the partici-
pants, shall be civil and polite. The rude
demeanors of the grandstands in foot
ball, baseball, pole vaulting and the
broad jump are not, 1t appears, ap-
propriate to the tennis amphitheaters
If an onlooker desires the defeat of
Rutgers by Bowdoin upon the gridiron,
it is permissible for him to jubilate
when q Rutgers halfback falters in a
tragic fumbling. In Philadelphia and
elsewhere it is not regarded an abra-
sion of good form for Philadelphia
audibly to rejoice when New York
or Washington oatfelder muffs an
important fly. Even in polo, the most
azure of the pastimes, the partisans of
Meade Brook are allowed, without
criticism, to be glad in case Orange
County does not play so we'll. How many
VI 10 hetfS ohO2tSQ III GAukIdtf1h WBSn
one of Yale's young scholars has
dropped an influential punt in a con
test with Harvard; and have been in
different to that poor lads heart
break. For personal reasons / omit
reference to the myriad cruelties of
golf.
Yet in lawn tennis a specious I'll
quette is prescribed for us, and we are
scolded when we fail to observe it. If
we desire Miss Helen Wills to win her
points, we must no. applaud when
Mrs, Molla Mallory loses them. On
penalty of being indicted by the ed-
tor as poor sports, we are enjoined to
the hypocrisy of an insincere silence
Pleased though we may be by Miss
Wills's winning game, we are shushed
by our monitors if we venture to ex-
press our refreshment thereat in can
did cheers for her and in Kisses for
her adversary. Columns have been
written in protest against the uncouth
department of the recent gallery at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is hard to convince the
American Legion, the veteran wounded
or anybody else Of the necessity Of
another committee to supplement- the
work of the Legion and Veterans of
the World War.
The Legion has the direct means and
does Investigate its own needy and has
done so far all that has been done 70
help its buddics.
Get busy and hold up the hands Of
the Legion itself. What greater au.
thority" can you need or have than
the actual people who are interestedg
Let this Citizens Committee build a
hospital with the money to be used in
investigations and the Legion win send
the boys to II who are deserving and
suffering.
When the people Of this country
wake up and realize the Importance
and value of the American Legion they
will not form committees to investigate
the soldier, but accept the Legion's own
resources OF investigation.
A LEGIoNNAIRES MOTHER.
New York, Aug. 80, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
Vers I.ihre Cnhism eft AL

Vers Libre, Cubism ct AL.
There is something the matter
with uplift:'
1t is seldom, if ever, we find,
In these practical days, the rag
gedy lays
Produced by the modernized
mind.
One sees in the magazine poems
No hint of the weirdly sub
lime;
have read quite few, in a fort
night or two,
And six out of ten Of them
rhyme!
The drama has suffered set
back,
The plays are becoming too
rough;
They leave you in doubt as to
what they're about,
Like the earlier mystical stuff.
They picture, unblusiling and
plainly,
The regular course of events;
| have seen two or three, and it's
startling to me aas
To find that they always make
sense!
And even the painters are slip
ping
Their pictures are lucid affairs;
No more do they paint with de-
hghtful restraint
Those cute little punches of
squares.
I've recently seen quite num-
Der,
And noticed, with terrified awe,
That the artists don't seek to be
new and unique,
But seem to be learning to
draw!
We thought, in our untutored
past,
That the work of the misty old
fashion
With brush and with pen might
revive once again,
And when it came back it
would last.
This vi ew our impressionist
brethren
Afflicted with Mortified fright;
That old stuff. they said, was eter-
nally dead;
But now, it would seem, we
were right.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
Modelling With Justice

Following the return of the first
Indictment for murder in connec
ton with the killings at the Herrin
coal mines, Frank Harrington, a
union leader, made this statement:
ssWc have a proper appreciation of
the magnitude of the forces that have
combined to convict our members
and we shall leave nothing undene
that will enable us to combat these
forces. The very magnitude of the
agitation, which is nation wide, for
conviction in connection with this
trouble jeopardizes the lives and
freedom of innocent men and makes
it necessary that the state organiza-
ton furnish every possible means of
defence for our members"
Statements of this kind irjure
the cause of unionism far more than
does any "open shop" agitation. At
Herrin peaceful men were killed in
cold blood. The law is proceeding
against these suspected of killing
them not because they belong to any
union but because of evidence that
they are murderers.
The question is not of unionism
at all, but of justice. The fact that
an indictment was obtained in three
days indicates that local sentiment
is net colored by any dispute as to
the rights and wrongs Of tina strike.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01

a point and she laughed when she
lost one. The infreausnt decisions ~
the referees, inaceuratoly IN hcr favor.
were always anobtrusively set right
as she defaalted the next point. She
Understood and was not in the least
disturbed by the gallery's natural cor.
diality toward the comedy ingcnue who
was her challenger. IL is tree tho
between acts she sat on the clubhouse
portieo and smoked cigarettes, an IN
fraction Of the rules OF maIa, II not
female athletics; and thereby she NAY
have accumulated como disfavor wish
those who regard the weed az mini,
cal. While the pretty, unsmiiing Miss
Wills went gravely about the business
of the day, seeming to regard Il a.
sober job, Mrs. Mallory played ten
Mis- as If she liked 20 play il, as IL
she found an artists joy in ali its
aspects, from the gold OF good over.
head smash 60 the gray Of double
fault She was 80 pleasing figure
at Forest Bills that / became proud
that as the former Miss Bjnrsseds
she Is an American, os nearly so;
sharing nay star-spangied admirations
between her and the next best player
of the tournament, Mrs. Jessup, whose
maiden name was Zinderstein.
The editors are right in depioring
the bad manners Of the iil-bred Long.
wood outfit. whieh, by it's offensive
demonstrations the other day, hurt
Mrs. Mallory's feelings and those Of
the mild and weIl-meaning umpires and
linesmen. 1t should be remembered
that these lawn tennis referees, though
lowly, are sensitive and they have.
as the announcer explains, their uses.
/, for one, propose to continue to be
good in the tennis grandstands, Though
it may be a little difficult for me 10
stifie Joyous outery when the i'm.
reccant Tilden nets. outs or double
faults 20 my faverite athlete, Mr..
Johnston.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
A BIG CAR


the Longwood Cricket Club, which was
'oarse in it's hostility TO Mrs. Mallory
and in its warmth to the wonder-child
ftesn the Pacific Slope. Even the UNI
pires, who in tennis seem to me to DO
the meekest and most propitiatory Of
the adjudicators, were beeed, though il
had been explained that they were re-
ceiving no remuneration whatsoever
for their services.
Having read in the newspapers about
Mrs. Mallory's Scandinavian arrogance
and disregard of the niceties Of lawn
tennis, went to Forest Hills not long
ago, hoping to add another item to a
pleasing and considerable list OF aver
sions. Mrs. MalIory's cold practices
upon the courts, had read, were OBJ
noxious to the pretty game, molesting
its suavities. En- route by rail 10 the
tournament between her and Miss
Wills, ! learned further from "The
Sun" that Mrs. Mallory was impoItic.
eS'"'"S 80 1i@1iitgt NiSS1NIsCpNS 10
Mile. Lenglen and the sporting writer's,
and for those and other causes re-
sponsible for the pitiable lack Of at
tendance at the women's championship
games. | pictured Mrs. Mallory from
photographs in the Sunday rotoes as a
grim, merciless, male@olent Morse
woman, with bristling hair, bobbed and
banged in a mean bandeau, serving
hard balls, and not averse to Sinking
placements. An unsympathctic bar
barian, leering at her helpless on
ponents, her racket an assegai, her in
tention bloodthirsty.
My disappointment, therefore, was
severe when I discovered Mrs. Mallory
to be altogether otherwise. A woman
of striking, not unhandsome appear
anee, she was graciously sophisticated
in her manner and most admirably
behaved before, between, during and
after her contests with the infant
Californian. She smiled when she won
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01

gives control of the Bagdad- Con-
stantinople railroad in western Asia
Minor. Constantine tried for them
again later in the year. His rein
forced armies drove far beyond the
railroad. They advanced about half
way from Eskishehir to Angora. But
they were halted about the end OF
August and fell back to the railroad
line. Now they are retreating TO
the position---further west--which
they occupied when Constantine
came into power.
His restoration to the Greek
throne warped the Near Eastern
situation. 1t threw Greece into the
hands Of ruler whom the Allied
powers could not afford to trust. 1t
altered completely Greece's role I'M
der the Treaty of Sevres. The
Allied powers revised the treaty
and abruptly cancelled most of the
Greek claims in Asia. Constantine
never submitted to these decisions,
and since Kemal also played fast
and loose with the executors Of the
treaty the later allowed the two to
fight it out, wishing neither success.
Up to this week there has been
a cessation Of active fighting in
AnatoEa for nearly year. The
powers have called meeting in
Venice to end the Turco- Greek War.
Kemaps victories have now altered
the balance, to Constantine.s
detriment. A few weeks ago
the latter was threatening to seize
Constantinople Now he is hustline
to save Smyrna.
The conflicting interests of Great
Britain, France and Italy make a
Near Eastern settlement difficult.
But at least one irritating obstacle
would be removed if Constantine's
second defeat should lead to a new
regime in Greece more creditable to
its people and more capable of con-
cert with formerly friendly Allied
governments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
d A. Few Words of Cheer

Amid the gloom which encircles
the railroad and coal situation E. II.
Gary, head of the United States
Steel Corporation, can still see the
light of prosperity. In an interview
given on his return from trip
through the West Mr.. Gary says:
wherever I have been, lcluding
particularly Illinois, Ka,< .as, Ne
braska and Colorado, there seems to
be general feeling that business
activities are increasing and that.
great prosperity will be witnessed
whenever conditions relating to pro-
duction and transportation will per-
nit.
'"The memorable law of supply and
demand will bring about adjustments
concerning prices and remuneration
which are just and equitable.
"There is nothing the matter with
this country. Opportunities here are
greater than ever before. The fault
is in individuals"
Judge Gary's vast business inter-
ests require that he be trained OBJ
server, as he is. His Investigation
and report on business conditions is
always accurate and valuable.
He is naturally optimistic, but this
is a time when optimism is quality
that is extremely helpful to the bust
ness situation.
What he says bears out the report
of other travellers through the West.
Crops are good. People everywhere
are eager to expand industry, feel
ing certain that a period of great
prosperity is at hand. When this
feeling becomes general it will force
the adjustment of prices and re-
Enumeration to which Judge Gary re-
fers. a4
Words tending to dispel gloom,
particularly when they come from
important men in industry, ought to
be posted up in public places where
all who whine may read.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
Tino Against the Wall

With the Greek army again
driven out of Eskishehir as weil
as Afium-Karahissar, Constantine's
go-it-alone program in Asia Minor
becomes a demonstrated failure. He
set out for Angora in 1921 in order
to prove to the Allied governments
that he could hold on to Smyrna and
western Anatolia in spite of their
decision to turn this region back to
Turkey. He intended to win title
to it by the sword-by debating a
peace in Angora to the Nationalist
Turkish government.
He garnbled about all that Greece
had on his success. He took Eskish-
ehir and Alum Karahissar in tina
spring Of 1921, but was soon thrown
out of them by Turkish counter
offensive. Possession of these towns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01

BIt indicates also that the trail of
the guilty Ii plain.
! Ii IL not the business of Mr.. Far
ringtan or any other labor leader 10
defend murderers. III should be his
business If he has the interests OF
his union at heart, to help fix the
guilt and to aid the law in. It's
punishment
Sentiment In the Harrin case Is,
as Mr., harrington says, nation wide.
It Ia nation wide because Of the hor-
ror that the American people have
for crimes Of violence, no matter by
whom committed. Mr.. Harrington ia
doing his union very i'll service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
Taken Seriously

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is it not pity that a writer
of H. L. Mencken's reputation should
come to London and give to the news
papers descriptions of imaginary evils
in American social and political life,
thoroughly misleading English public
opinion on things American?
We Americans know that, with all
his literary gifts, Mr.. Mencken is a
good deal of poseur, makes himself
appear as eccentric as possible, and will
any time sacrifice logic to phrase-mak-
ing--but the English don't know tina.
These advanced" thinkers weary
me, for one. Their egotism is gro
tesque. Mr.. Mencken is a poor mis-
sionary for America.
FELIX oRMAN.
London, Aug. 20, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-01
Governor Miller Way

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Governor Miller called the
State Legislature in special session
August rs. The following day abosh
houses voted unanimously for Cover
nor Miller's bills---srushed through in
record time"~-"all amendments killed"
il it not pertinent to ask why Presi-
dent Harding cannot get similar re-
suits from che national Congress in
Washington Governor Miller has
succeeded at all times In getting
prompt passage Of bills advocated by
him. The State Legislature has done
more efficient and expeditions work
under his administration than in all It's
previous history, due not only to his In.
itiative bus to his viRns and insistencss
New York State has "a tsuSvaKa-
whom she has every reason to be prv...s
Governor Miller unites clear intelli-
gence and unflinching courage. He
sseadfastly does hia daty 60 the state
without regard TO political scnaa-
quenees. No other Governor has
saved the taxpayers so much mensy.
He has won the confidence Of intssli-
gent men Of an parties. II would be
calamity to this state not 10 re-
efecs hism Governor. He ard Governor
Allen are the types from whom prcsi-
dents should be chosen. Cur Governor
has all the qualities necessary 70
ieadershina vision, sagaeity, sserage
and that construetiye type of mind
which enables him 10 formulate def
/ lite pleas. which he afterward puahas
TO completion. IDA II. CEpNEYs
Brooklyn, Aug. so. 1922.