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New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Our Role al Lausanne

The State Department has named
as unofficial observersn at Lausanne
Ambassador Child, Minister Grew
and Rear Admiral Bristol. Some
critics are displeased because Of the
title given them. Why, it is asked,
were they not made full plenipoten-
tiaries?
The term unofficial observer" is a
legacy from Wilsonian diplomacy.
IL axcites an ironical smile because
of its awkwardness and ambiguity.
The observers" do not go to Lau-
same uncfiicially. They are diplo-
matte agents of the United States,
functioning according to instruc-
tions. Why not call them diplomatic
agents. title well understood in in
tsrnational dealings?
The observers should be judged,
however, by the work they do, not by
the lnfelicitous titles they have been
saddled with. They will go to Lau-
same TO look after American inter.
ests there, The United States was
not at war with Turkey and was not
signatory of the Sevres treaty,
which is now to be revised for the
third time. 1t is not our affair to
sign the final revision, with its COM
plieated territorial arrangements.
These concern the powers which car
ried as the Turkish war and are
parties to the 1918 armistice.
But it is important that represent
atives of the United States should
re at Lausanne to guard some spe-
cial American interests. Our gov
ernment wants to see the Straits
neltraIized and the racial and re-
hgious minorities in Turkey pro-
teeted. All the powers represented
in the conference have accepted neu-
tTalization and minority guarantees
sin principle" We also were hene-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17

stead Of filling mp hope chest VIE
doilias and hand-crocheted washrasss
we are bemoaned as q generation fsF
which love and marriage have ~
charms; all of which is quite untrue
We will not marry fer home, fos
We can provide that for ourselves; we
will not marry to escape the fats g
spinsterhood, for that is no longsr
disgrace; but we will marry with epsa
eyes and without illusions. Love WY
figure as much as in the ola-fsshsoae@
days, for which SO many people yeasa'
but infatuation will be reiegated 70 shs
background--its proper place y.
will make better managers beeauss y
our business experience; patsss
mothers. because of toleration saa
understanding Of youths foiliss ps's
of our own capers on thin ice.
We should at least be given ehanss
to prove our merits or dennerlts e
fore we are so harshiy judged, ana Y
are duly grateful to the editor fef q
pressing suck an optinistie view 2
our future. A REALEs'
New York, Nov. IA, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Still Prosecuting the PcddIers

Because a number of pushcart
peddlers in the Manhattan Avenue
public market refused to pay their
dollar q week license fee, pending
the disposition of case in the
courts, a hundred patrolmen and
twenty market supervisors descended
on them and dragged them to jail.
Revocation Of the licenses was not
enough to satisfy the supervisors,
who for more than year have been
making life burdensome for the
poorest class Of merchants In the
city.
Knowing that the fee of a dollar
is far more than necessary to main
tain the costs of the markets, the
peddlers hoped by test case to get
the matter into the courts. They
got themselves into Jail instead,
much to the satisfaction of Deputy
Commissioner of Markets Hubbard.
The peddlsrs insist that the police
took the law into their own hands
and will make an effort to secure
the punishment of their tormentors,
an effort In which they will have the
sympathy of the public.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Friendship and Compensation

Perhaps the gentlemen who have
been seeking to secure bus permits
for friends in the business. from
other friends connected with the ad-
ministration are not readers Of
Emerson and do not know that he
wrote practically all there was to
write about Friendship and Compen-
sation, though not in the same essay.
The two objects, however, appear to
be connected in the minds OF these
worthless, the first being, in their
view, the promoter of the second.
Not very long ago Under Sheriff
O'Neil Of the Bronx introduced his
friend Mr.. Frankenberg to his
friend Mr.. Whalen, who is in charge
Of the bus lines, and Mr.. Franken-
berg got permit. Also MIR. O'NeiI
got $500 q month of the profits of
Mr.. Frankenberg's bus lire,
Now comes Mr.. Charles Turner, a
friend of Mr.. Hylan, who was coun-
sci for the Black Diamond Automo-
bile Company, of which Mr.. Turner
was director, and asks that another
friend, Mr.. Conklin, be given a per-
NIT. It would appear that MT,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17

vlronments he touches, breathes in tho
new atmosphere and makes it part Os
himself.
The middle-aged especially sAsta
be walkers. AS an exercise thersA
nothing that compares with wallih
unless it be swimming, and swinmias
requires climate, preparation, and, vita,
the silly and vulgar restrictions sbI
tanning at so many OF the Eastsnl
bathing places, too many clotba
But walking needs only easy garmenh
comfortable shoes, and a stretch It
sod or earth before you. Even a psFE
ment is possible, though far fra
ideal.
You can walk in every season o.,
cept the hottest part of the year, bai
then in the morning or the s7snilt
or what is called the coolth of sbs Sst
now that we have resurrected that fnt
word You can walk in rain or sus
shine or when the snow blows, you siu
Walk aione or In company. And eFerg
step You take is benediction on ya,i
head, feet and all that lies between
There would be fewer of the fat
II there We're more walkers. A gued
walker is rarely constrained to diet
In order to hold his or. perhaps more
important, her figure. Not 9 toddlsr
IN high-heeled shoes and sonstrsir-
ing skirt, who goes six block and calls
1t a day, of course. But wslker. who
moves freely and rhythmieally. does ss
least three to three and half milas
an hour, and keeps it up for from two
to six hours or longer.
How about that Walk Week. thenF
Isn't there any way to advertise walk
ing, to press it upon the attention Of
the citizens of cur land, TO nske \
popular, even Inevitable?
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Bonay Laws Victory

The Parliamentary elections in
Crest Britain ran true to form. The
Conservative, or Unionist, party is
the majority party in the United
Kingdom. 1t carried majority of
TIE seats in the Commons at the
khaki election of 1919, If the three
Unienist groups of that period--the
Coalition Unionists, the Ulster
Enionists and the Independent
Ilnionists--be considered as one
body. There were 346 Coalition
unionists, % Ulster unionists and
8 Independent Unionists in the last
house--a7s out of 707 members, a
majority of 45.
The new House is smaller, con-
tanning only 615 members. The
Irish Sim F6iners and Free Staters
have disappeared and listers rep
resentation has been cut down to 13.
The Conservatives have elected 346
members, with twelve constituencies
still to be heard FROM and will prob
ably have q clear majority of be-
tween 90 and 100.
This is the outstanding feature of
the eiection--a strong drift toward
the Conservatives as the only party
capable of making headway against
rapidly-growing and militant La
ber party.
The second outstanding feature is
the displacement of the Liberals as
the Opposition party. The Labor
group in the new House will num-
Der from 130 to 140. The two Lib
eral groups-Wee Frees and Geor-
gians together-will hold 105 seats
or more. In the last House there
were 120 Coalition, or Georgian,
Liberals. Now there are about
forty-fve. The Asquithian Wee
Frees have become the major Lib
oral wing, their strength increasing
from thirty-three to more than
sixty.
Lloyd George has suffered dis
astrous setback. His criticism of
Bonar Law as an anamic statesman
with good bedside manners made no
appeal to country tired Of dynamic
oxplosiveness and acrobatic fiphaps
in foreign and domestic policy.
Great Britain wants a period of rest
and wants to contribute to appease-
nient in Continental Europe. She
mas given Bonar Law the mandate
he asked for and has fully yindi-
Gated his judgment in walking into
the Carlton Club a couple of weeks
ago and asking for it.
The Liberal party playing third
eddie will be q queer spectacle in
British politics. But that was one
Of the inevitable consequences of
Icyd Georges too personal and too
disruptiye leadership.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
The Flapper' Outlook
To the Editor of the Trihpne

io the editor of the Tribune.
Sir: Thanks for your editorial
"kldes, Reels and Rum.' What a re-
lief It is to discover that there is one
person alive who does not believe that
the fiapper is doomed to utter dessruc-
tion' The writer is forced to class
herself as q Aapper because she has
oobbed hair, wears earrings, dances
and INDUCES In various other pastines
and pleasures peculiar to fapperdona.
The tact that girl has short hair
and long earrings does not necessarily
mean that she is short ON morals and
brains and long on cigarettes and
Booze. One may be unduly fond Of
dancing and at the same time strongly
opposed to "petting partiess-a modern
Institution invented by and for the
magazine writer's.
Because we choose to make ourselves
useful In business or profession in-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17

Turner was not SO fortunate In capi-
tulizing his friendship. There is no
record that Mr.. Conklin got the per-
init; but II was nevertheless an act
Of friendship, even though no conn
pensation accompanied 1t.
Friendship, as Mr.. Emerson OBJ
served, is a fine and beautiful thing;
but sometimes 1t can be overworked,
especially when IL links people who
want bus permits and people who
have them to bestow.
A bus line between friends can be-
como pretty expensive for the public,
especially il It's owner charges 20
cents ride on 1t, as happened in the
case Of Mr.. Frankenberg's line.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
BY Hildcgarde Hawthorne

able paths and trails, TO wander along
canals, and meet no one who is en-
loying the same simple yet. profound
pleasure. There will be an occasional
person evidently bent solely on the
business of getting from one place to
another, an occasional group of Boy
Scouts picnicking with gusto, once in
a while some fisher sitting on a bank.
But almost never a real hiker, out
with his little knapsack On real walk.
Yet there is kingdom spread at
our feet for the taking.
Even our literature shares this Iaz;-
ness. If you pick up novel and find
In 1t some careless reference TO
tramp, some remark about walking
into town or out of town or whereso-
ever, You don't need to turn TO author
or title, you will know at once that
the book is English. English people do
walk, naturally, easily, without think
Ing much about it. They have legs
and they use them. English people,
incidentally, keep much younger than
soiSA SofhplsSloHS, Detter
nerves and wider range in conyersa-
ton. This latter may appear irrele-
want, but it isn't!
Walking gives time for thought. for
meditation. It supplies the mind as
well as the body. 1t brings the walker
into personal contact with a vast
variety Of interesting matter. He
knows nature and his fellow man as
the non-walker never can. He de-
ynelops leisure. and without leisure.
shs napit OF leisure, a people cheapens.
hardens, narrows. He gets outside his
community, 30 and really outside It. not
as some one in motor car gets from
II, but in such wise that he under
stands and appreciates the new en-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
4 Walk Week

| We are getting more and more in
the habit of dedicating weeks to
certain admirable activities. Apple
Week, for instance, has just swept by,
and probably the average of apple
eaters has heen measurably increased
Every one but the doctors have bene-
fitted. Before that there were Safety
Week, and Fire Prevention Week and
80 on. And now we are in the midst
of Children's Book Week.
Why then not have a Walk Week7
10 be sure, walking isn't a COM
modify. You can't buy a walk as you
buy fine red apple or picture book.
But Safety Week doesn't hold out
something for sale, and yet it meets
with enthusiastic support. Now, Walk
Week might be made equally popular
Walking is safety measure. There
isn't any act that will more surely i'm
prove the health. eniiven che spirits
and tone you up generally than fine,
long walk-than the habit of walking.
And this is the best season for it.
These golden, bracing days, when the
country still holds the color of pass
ing autumn, are the best days of the
year for taking up walking.
Taking it up seriously, mean.
Learning to love it. Learning to
walk twenty miles with pleasure.
Planning weekend trips afoot. And
there are wonderful opportunities in
the country within reach of New York
eity for such trips A short railway
journey will take you Go parts of Con
nectlfut and New Jersey that are real
paradises for the walker. You can get
on trolley car to country that is
ideal for starting point.
It Is amazing to one who loves walk.
shg TO SO ON for miles along deleet-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
What Readers Are 7hinkino

players now settling the worlds cham
pionshlp is a lefty -Horemans. of Bel
gum And do not forget the 700
ieIs-handed children of Benjamin,
mentioned me in the Book of Judges:
1Very one could fling stones at a
hair breadth and not miss
But | should like to know which OF
the intellectual and moral leaders of
history were left-handed, for i am
conndent meny of them were. If any
OF The Tribune's sinister following
have looked that up wish they would
seii us what they found; who were
the ieft-handed champions aof all
times" to use what / take to be a net
AeMspaper phrase. BENJAMIN.
New York, Nov. Ia. 1899. &
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
The Wirth-Stisaraes Crisis

The Wirth government came into
power in May, 1921, pledged to pay
Germany's reparation debt. It
yielded to an Allied ultimatum re-
quiring acceptance of the terms of
payment fixed by the Reparation
Commission. It accepted ostensibly
the Rathenau theory that German
honor compelled Germany to live
up to her signature to the Versailles
treaty.
Wirth and Rathenau seemed to
represent at that time the modicum
OF conscience left in Germany
conscience which could not ignore
the fundamental fact that Germany
had brought on the war and had
hrutally devastated France and
Belgium. If Germany had won she
would have ruthlessly penalized the
losers, Having lost, it was up to
her to admit the consequences of
defeat and pay the piper
Wirth and Rathenau may have
tried for while to adhere to this
program of honorable penance.
But apparently they found them
selves In a lonely minority. The
Berlin government artfully sold
billions of paper marks abroad and
then squeezed all the value out of
| the paper mark. Wirth failed to
balance the German budget or to
impose normal postwar taxation.
lie soon began clsmoring for
moratorium and cancellation
Finally he invented the watchword
bread first and reparation after
ward"
The Wirth coalition-centrists.
Socialists and Democrats-coI-
iapsed because the Socialists on
posed the inclusion in it of Stinnes,s
Peoples party, SHINES has been
an obstacle to reparation. He is
willing to let Germany pay If he
can eontsel the process and make
profit out of it. Otherwise his i'm
nlense financial and economic ,n-
fuence will be thrown against liuui-
dation.
Can Germany pay? Up to now
most OF her energy has been ex.
erted to escape payment. She has
destroyed the exchange value Of her
currency, But her material wealth
IS intact to a large degree and her
productive capacity has not been
greatly lowered. Germany will re-
cover. She does not want to re-
cover and pay. She wants to re-
cover without paying.
Gerhart Hauptmann, whose six
tieth birthday has just been eele-
bratsd in Berlin and other cities. is
perhaps the greatest living German.
he is true democrat as well as a
man OF letters, spiritual leader of
the new Germany. He believes
firmly in national rehabilitation. He
said the other day:
THE paper mark catastrophe is
not identical with and does net spelI
Germany's ruin. A nation has other
resources than paper. A nation has
almost undreamed-of, unfathomable
resources Of ability to endure and
suffer and survive. Do ! despair of
the future? That would mean
doubting the forces of nature.a
Hauptmann is right. What he
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
From a Southpaw
To the Editor of The Tr;hnno


Sir; As southpaw by preference /
hose with interest that the school
teachers of Elizabeth, N. J., arc tak.
Ing credit for compelling pupils to
write with the right hand. was
torced to do so myself in grammar
schooi and thus the world lost lovelv
penman and gained a wretched ono
All the left~handed quill drivers 7
know write a good legible backhand
much better than the usual dexterous
scrawl.
Some psychologists, believe, say it
is dangerous to try to cure children
OF left-handedness, which is due to
the fact that the right hemisphase Of
she brain Is dominant instead Of the
left.
why. is there such prejudice against
ieft-handedness? It seems to he an
instance Of the tyranny of the ma
Jority or Of their swelled headedness
Somebody-was it Lombroso sin
vented the notion that sinister soll,
are mentally deficient or degenerate
and that left-handedness is an ex-
ample Of atavism, commonly foun.,
among criminals, the insane and
geniuses. Right-handed researchers
sry to prove it by figures. You can
get statistics to prove anything,
Inc gentlemen of the right eannot
MAINTAIN, however, that the south
paws are at q disadvantage in
athletics. It is q fact that there has
never been first class left-handed
soifar, hut there have been some good
ones in tennis. and in baseball they
are the brightest facets Of the
diamond. One Of six great billiard
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Discouraged About Voters

To the Editos of The Tribune,
Sir: liked your editorial iss
Farmer and Shipping" It states ~.
that are almost never put In aexs
papers around this section q y
country. The American yetef ~.
not seem TO realize what Is fe1 As
best interests. You generalls 81 3,
him lined up with the forces s.. a
are hurtSul to his own interests : s''s
those Of his friends, osD'
New York, Nov. 10. 1879
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
lnvessigating--In Time


tWhy rot do 1t by psycho-analysis and
modern apparatus, and save the people q
lot Of mohey?1
We've Investigated Bilksns, who
In nineteen twenty-eight
May be holding some high Office
In the service Of the state.
We have probed his cerebellum
with the newest kind of rays,
We have bent on his brain tissues
our most penetrating gaze,
And we find that he's scoundrel,
who will take the peoples pay,
Loot the funds with which they
trust him and dig out for
Baffin's Bay.
We've Investigated Sharpley, who
in nineteen thirty-six
May be looking for a contract to
supply the state with bricks.
We've observed the convolutions
of his shrewd and crafty brain
And the only thing we find there
is excessive greed for gain.
Ii he ever gets that contract every
house in every town
That the rogue supplies the bricks
for will come shortly tumbling
down.
We've investigated Dodger, who
in nineteen forty-nine
May apply to get franchise for
city trolley line.
Crookedness in all it's phases
shows itself in every fold
Of the stuff his brain is built of,
though he's only five years old.
BE assured that if he gets it he
will water all the shares,
Give the city rotten service and
charge more than double fares!
We've investigated Sneaker,
who's already looking toward
His election some years later to
the aldermanic board.
We've examined the construction
of his brain mass, and we find
That without the least compunc-
tion he would pilfer from the
blind.
If the rascal is elected there is
not the slightest doubt
That the day that he was seated
he would sell the city out!
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17

says Is of more value in judging
Gerrnany's ability to pay than the
calculated debasement Of the mark
or the present sordid struggle be-
tween the Socialists and SHINES for
the control Of the government and
it's reparation policy.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Oil and EARTHQUAKES

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; What about the drawing off
of the oil, in vast quantities, which
are never renewed, as cause Of
swrinkling" Of the earth's surface and
tho quakes, eruptions, ETC., which oc-
cury AN OBSERVER.
Rhinebecks n. X, Nov. Is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Fifty-Fifty

American lacks have been widely
introduced into Mexico. which seems
to explain why Pancho Villa has re-
formed.
Copyright by James j. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Worth While

The only reason why Uncle Sam
should want to get into the League
of Nations, SO far as we can see, is
SO he could drop black ball when
Germany comes up for membership.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
THAT ATTlTUDE

What's all this puzzle about the
Sphinx
That has troubled so many illus
trious men?
Mo doubt the very same thoughts
she thinks
Are thunk every day by some OBJ
scure hen.
With regard to that notorious
New Jersey murder case, the only
thing that seems sure at the mo-
| ment we write is that the rector
and his friend are still dead.
After all, the only person really
entitled to interpret" the results Of
an election are the persons who have
been elected.
The world does not altogether OBJ
leet to reformers. 1t only objects to
seformers who try to reform the
world instead Of reforming them
selves. ~
Every time some high5ro7u critic
lays doa17, the law some loac-broan
artist steps on it.
AN EPITAPH
He dauelt his hour aathin the house
Of life,
PerpIesed amid its tears and
laughter. ~
Lspsng, he had SO nany cares that
n0ag
He little earss for aohat comes
after. ss
DON MARQUIS.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
One at q Time

0bregon seems to have declared
war on the State Of New York. His
theory of the way to lick the United
States is to divide and conquer.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
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