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New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
Let 'Em Walk!

The Board Of Estimate, energized d
by the plain speaking of Governor
Miller, has gone through the mo-
tons Of acting on the Fourteenth
Street tie and spike contracts,
But only through motions. The
contracts are sent back for read
vertisement, At least two months
more are required to comply with
legal formalities. Then the actual
work Of installation must be done.
Thanks to the Board Of Estimate,
even though there Is no more delay.
the folks who travel to and rr,r
Brooklyn's Eastern District must
continue to walk all summer.
The only excuse given for COM
pelling advertisement is thet
prices are lower now than year
ago. Bids now being received by
the Transit Commission are down
about 10 per cent. Nevertheless.
there is loss to the city. The con-
tracts in controversy total about
s150,00o. But the city pays in in
terest on the unused subway prop
erty $1,000 a day. If the line is
opened some time in the autumn
eighteen months later than was cas-
lily feasible-the city will be out
$5O0,000. against q possible saving
of $4,000.
The Transit Commission. con-
cerned about results and not about
politics. yesterday ordered readver-
tisement. The City Hall DELAYED
action for eleven months; the COM
mission found eleven minutes ample.
If there is further pigeonholing
when the new contracts reach the
City Hall-well, in that case it will
be but another item added to the
already abundant evidence that the
city administrations interest in the
subway question is to preserve it as
an issue to reach office with.
AS to the people Of New York.
the administrations motto is "Let
'em walk"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

Sufficient data are not yet avaiIa6ls
to make calculation Of the 1921 ratio
practicable. 1t is obvious that it ran
well above the 1920 dgure-probsOly
almost doubled II.
These figures hold much OF vita. IN
portance for those who wish to cor
rectly snalyze our foreign trade Of re
cent years and to form correct I'M
preston of what may be expected II
the future.
The Federal Reserve Banks caretu.
calculation Of the ratio obtaining be
tween our total production and our e1'
portation completely skaters the Oh
repeated statement that slump IN eA'
port trade was responsible Tor the &c.
preston here. for our export trade he''
up much better than domestic bus-
ness. It skaters also the belief ths'
before the war we were dependent upon
foreign markets as an outlet for ll,''
10 per cent Of our production. lA'
five-year l9O9-'2l average ratio WIS
5.26 per cent. In no year PRIOR 10 49,
did we ship 10 per cent Of our pF0au''
abroad, yet 1921 is the year most ~
quently referred TO as bad year ''
foreign trade
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
France Not Overarmed

There is still talk in Washington
of putting American pressure on
Europe to bring about land disarm-
ament. This talk proceeds on the
theory, announced some time ago by
Senator Mccormick, that the Amer
lean taxpayer has become conscious
that he is paying for Europe's mill
tary establishments. As always,
there is the intimation that France
is holding up settlement Of Eu-
ropes debts by maintaining an ab-
normally big and costly army.
The French army is not now un-
reasonably large. Moreover, it is
being reduced. Under the new mill
tary law, which shortened the con-
scription period to eighteen months,
the army in France and on the Rhine
will consist Of 100000 men, 370,O0O
French and $4,000 coIonials. The
troops in the French possessions
will number 100000, 10000 French
and 100000 natives. The grand to-
tai is $4,000 men. In the wears
before the war the grand total WAS
957 900
After 1925, when the one-year con-
scription term goes into effect. the
army IN France and on the Rhine
Will be cut to 100000 and the over
seas forces to 10000, giving a grand
total of 100000.
This is moderate-sized army
considering Frances exposed posi-
ton and her almost undivided re-
sponsibllity for the enforcement of
the Versailles Treaty. Her Rhine
divisions are the only real sanction
left behind that instrument. Ger
many would smash it to pieces in
a minute if France didn't stand
guard at the gateway to the Ruhr.
Germany owes US more than
S25o,o00,o00 for occupation expenses.
She has engaged to pay this sum to
US through the Reparation Commits
sion, whose right arm for collection
is the French army. France owes
us $4,000 100000 for war advances.
But Germany owes France much
more than that. Pressure on our part
to reduce the French army to i'm
potence therefore could not benefit
the American taxpayer.
The French army's maintenance
cost is low. 1t is at present 1885,
o00, ,000-much less than our own
army budget, After 1925 the annual
cost will be only S11O,00O,OOo. 1t is
absurd to say that this modest mill
tary expenditure is an injury to the
United States. 1t is an expenditure
really made in our interest. for
france possesses the one depend
able agency through which Ger
many's arnistice debt to US can be
collected, to say nothing of her rep
aratlon debts due to our friendlv
European debtors.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
Clock Time and Sun Time

(loCk lime ana DUN line
10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Re daylight saving" I would
refer Annie Kilburn Kimer, also J. B
Green, both writing in to-day's Trib.
une, to that line, "A little learning is
dangerous thing" Mrs. Kline,
speaks of Every one who prefers the
suns time And Mr.. Green asks how
by altering our clocks, which are man.
made, can we really change the time
which Is regulated by the SUM-"
When the many objectors to DAYLIGHT
saving realize that clock time is not
sun time-that the sun is fifteen
minutes behind clock time at one
time OF the year and fifteen minutes
ahead Of clock time at another
time Of the year, or total difference
or thirty minutes-they will need to
change their line of argument.
Recently n correspondent wrote that
Gods time was good enough for him
and yet | wager he never changed his
clock from one years end to the newt
while, to live up to his declaration bo
should have changed it every day.
GRIDLEY ADAMS.
Hartford, Conn, April %, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
Serving Germany

In an article which is reminiscent
of The New Republic" when that
publication was speciously defending
Germanys course The World" de-
nics to France any right to move her
armies should Germany, on Nay 81,
as is predicted she will, again break
her word and default on her repara-
ton payments.
This IS, of course, absurd. Both
by the Treaty of Versailles and by
the law Of nations France may exact
her due. Germany has time and
again formally acknowledged the
justice Of the claims against her.
The fourteen points explicitly de-
clared that Germany must repair
the actual damage she had done to
the nations she overran. She asked
Tor the opening of peace negotia-
tons on this express understanding.
If she had not so agreed the Allied
armies would have advanced to Ber-
lin.
Not only did Germany concede
payment in principle, but when the
Reparation Commission named q
sum less than was required to repair
the damage done Germany agreed to
pay this sum. The Reichstag ap-
proved the settlement. There was
every possible attestation by which
Il nation can bind itself The repa-
ration agreement, thus ratified, be-
came part Of the Treaty Of Yer
sailles.
Now leading American news
paper says not only that Germany
can rcpudiate but that her chief
debtor may Of right do nothing to
compel payment. In what school Of
international Law was this doctrine
learned? Who are its sponsors? Is
not an anarchic world inevitable if
10 treaty or agreement is binding
either in law or morality?
What IS the meaning of advising
Germany not to pay and forbidding
France to collect? A vast majority
of Americans, when the camoufages
are removed. arc not likely to doubt.
They may be expected to reach the
conclusion that Germany, and she
alone, is served, and that the motive
i to serve her; that this purpose is
pursued without thought Of the in
torests Of this country or of man
KIND generally. Very bold indeed is
the present German propaganda
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

eign commerce for a given year is that
the operation eliminates the necessity
for any undue amount Of mental exer-
ton, and that it conseryes the leads
and erasers on a good many pencils.
The years during which our foreign
buying and selling. e.. the war and
postwar years-have made anything
approaching a striking record have
been highly Observation-Disclosures by
too many variables to make year-by-
year comparison signify highly
In the ratio existing between our
volume Of production and our volume
of export for any given year may be
found an index of much more vital i'm
port. Fortunately, such an index is
available through study made by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
some results of which were recentlv
presented in the publication of which /
am editor This index gives US a
true line on our national business in
the aggregate, al absolute measure of
the relative position of our foreign
business to our domestic business. It
shows precisely to what degree the
prosperity enjoyed during any year was
dependent upon sales abroad. Il is
clear that such a method Of measure
ment is much more illuminating one
than the detached comparison Of for
elgn sales or foreign purchases year hv
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
No American Valuation

| the Editor Of The Tribune
H'r: 1t is unfortunate that the +.rn,.
AoFe'gh valuation" and "Aua,;,.u
valuation" have ever been ussd -
connection with tariff matters ~.
cause the word foreign" arouses =
'oF' OF animosity in the mind. -,
masses of people and the word
A"er'can arouses what is called
strictly speaking, there !. ro sr.h
'n'ng as foreign valuation Of m.r
enandise. The proper words to u,a ~
'nis connection are the "sworn ;nvo,..
valuation" 'o''o
on the other hand, there is no ,uch
ming as American valuation ri,
"0u'd simply be an appraisers crss,
On every entry appraised. New W.
would guess one price and New or
'e""S would guess another price. ate
EDWIN A. ROGERS q co
boston, Mass. April 20, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
Trade Wifh Europe

It is impossible to state wna' L'''
tion of each years export ratio ws"'
to Europe, but all the evidence aS''
able indicates that not more thah Wv
half was so disposed of. Roughly Nv
much more than per cent OF OUT f'''
perity is dependent upon Europe :.
l have no wish to argue that Arne'"'
can get along just as well with0u. :
large volume of export trade as " y!
with it. The point to be emphSS''.
is merely that this phase OF oui :,
ticnal business enterprise IS conH'',
being both over-stressed and "io's.
stressed During the five years r.
ceding the war We were sh'Pp's'
abroad, say, one-twentieth OF onf y !;
uct. No individual manufacturer WV
necessarily be unprosperous II hs ~
to reduce his output by one-tweH'''
for few years. -,
Prosperity is coming no matter ~.
may happen to our export trade :,
the outlook for that trade Is .: \,
means as gleeny as it is popu''''
supposed to be.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
APRIL MORNING


! ope,ed on eyo-tAe clock struck seyen.
Big anowfakes Wcre driving ccross
the pGne.
"Lke ghosts Of stars blopn out Of
heoven,"
J thought, ord tvent to sleep again.
opened on eye-tAe srcp ,pos tur7,fno
10 sleet; tho sleet ,pus changed to
rain,
thought: This IS no doy for burning
The feapes," and trent to sleep aoa,n.
1 opened an eye: "The ,rind IS runn;ro
Amuok" shrisked out the ,oeother
"Oh, Ap1ri,' said T, gust your tunnino q, !"
And turned and toent to sleep ogotr,
opened al eye-the sun aoos sh;,1ino.
It's gold c'1ss crossing tAe counter
"Notc, icoulGn't that make a loy.lu
Anfng"
thought, and Went 10 sleep aaoin.
Bat soon begged the weotAe.'s purdon.
And hurried ont in joyous vein
10 dig all morning in the garden.
hatlstorn drove me in again.
"Outdoors IS aOet and growino uettey. -
The ro'ce Of conscience sounded pio,n.
"Don't hug thot fire; 90 start a. letter -
And then nent to steep oouin.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
All-Wool Is ALL Wool

The Supreme Courts decision
that woolen underwear brands must
mean what they say will seem like
fundamental common sense to the
n-manufacturing layman. Not SO
70 the minds of all manufacturers.
After sophisticating the goods the
makers think 1t logical to sophisti-
cate the labels Justice Brandc:s
SAID IN his opinion that of under
wear produced by the defendant, the
Wlnsted Hosiery Company, as "nat-
ural merino,' gray WOOL" natural
wool natural worsted" or "Austra
lian WOOL none of it was all wool.
and much of it contained a small
percentage Of wool, as little as 10
per cent.
The word natural" was used in
an unnatural sense, for it is not the
nature of wool to grow on cotton
plants Here is the sort of abuse
which long afflicted ADVERTISING
the attribution to an article of COM
ponents and qualities which are
strangers 10 It. 1t is the lust as
good heresy, which is the parent
of shoddy and which took the place
OF honest workmanship and honest
description.
The Tribune has for many years
fought for truth in advertising. II
guarantees satisfaction with all
merchandise which it advertises.
1T is glad TO see this principle recor-
nized in the laws, in the courts and
oy administrative bodies like the
Federal Trade Commission.
The commission has shown great
zeal against unfair practices in
trade. 1t is trying to carry out the
theory Of the pure food, pure drug
and similar laws and the principles
laid down in the antitrust and ar+'-
trade combination acts. 1t has suf-
fered many set-backs. But here is
e power to protect the community
which is indorsed by all except the
crooked.
Labels must tell the truth instead
OF dodging it. The excuse that
others do it, and therefore we must,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

means a race in adulteration, sophis-
tication. substitution and all manner
of fraudulent doctoring Of foods,
clothing and the common necessaries
II for cheapness' sake purchaser
wants to buy unnatural wool or un-
natural worsted. let him know what
he Is buying. He doesn't get anywear
out Of the label, and he can at
least respect the truth-telling maker.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
From Brest-Litovsk to Rapallo
"A Sequence

10 the Editor Of The Tribun.
Sir: I have been waiting in eyro,4o
ZION OF some able historian Of the war
ana postwar situation in Europe to
draw the deduction which nv HEADING
indicates. Has the world 80 short .
memory that it does not recall TINT tho
present Soviet government has Ger
many to thank for it's existence .
For 1t was Germany who afforded the
opportunity of that shameful nact
called the Brest-Litovsk Treatv W.
same that withdrew Russia from her
Western Allies.
AS a Russian correspondent of Tho
present writer declared late in 1q9o.
Inc theories of our Danilevski as
early as 1850 touched on the fall of
western culture but he could not
have dreamed of the possibility Of q
RUSSIA under the dominion of Messrs.
Apfeibaum, Cederblum and Braunstein.
Tor these are the real names OF tho
bolshevlk rulers" Germany afforded
ny giving these per
sons passage and safeguard through
her territory to promote that betrayinp
peace of Brest-Litovsk. Whv should
1t be mine days wonder" to any one
that Russia Cor the Soviet) and Ger
many should have extended the line Of
that beginning to the little transaction
at Rapallo? Perhaps France does re-
member when She insists that the
ALLIES examine quickly the new fact
OF the Russo-German treaty as it
touches the future of Europe and the
conservation Of peace"
EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
New York, April "a, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
Of Location

When first the moving-picture
His great campaign began to plan,
Said he: "We've got
To pick a spot
Where plots Of plays are handy.
A nice location in the West,
Where people in rough clothes
are dressed,
And stab and shoot,
And rob or loot,
Would suit us fine and dandy"
But when to Hollywood he came
He found the place extremely
tame;
There were no guns
The native sons
Were far from malcfactors.
The only people he could get
To do a murder on a bet,
Or cut up rough,
Or bold enough,
We're his own movie actors.
Meanwhile throughout the cul-
tured East,
All sorts and kinds of crime in
creased.
Men broke the laws,
With little pause.
And not gleam Of pity.
ana as the movie magnate
needs
10 dwell among exciting deeds.
He'll load his stars
Aboard the cars
That run to New York City.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
What Readers Sau

A'conoilc beverage be standardized b,
one-half of l per cent alcoho, ia lilo,
wise untrue. This amount was set &c
determine the taxability Of a BEVERAGE
ana not necessarily its intoxicat;no
propensities.
MIR. Day states that tho u;+hs,
od spirits fell to 3,5Oo,ooo gallons n
l9Zl' and that arrests for drunlennoss
decreased oo per cent. Now. if the
output decreased in the ratio Of oho,,.
oO TO l. why did not drunkenness dc.
crease in the same ratio?
FREDERICK SCHWARz
New York, April 25, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

has the right to employ only non
union miners. but he has not the
right, though he may have the
power, to deny his non-union en-
ployees their inherent right to meet
and discuss the question Of whether
their interests would best be served
by consolidation of interests, a
union.
1t was the purpose Of the leaders
of the Mingo marchers to organize
Logan and Mingo counties by force,
but the coal operators of those two
counties had previously, and since
then have, resisted by force even a
discussion Of unionization It was
and is the contention Of the insur-
rectionists that SOME of their COM
rades were held in Mingo jai's lille
ga}ly. If the miners were wrong to
take up arms against the State Of
West Virgina--and they were
wrong-at least they had an exam
pie set them by the illegal acts Of
mine-hired gunner.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

The wish to protect the city's open
spaces has inspired the National Sculn-
ture Society to abandon it's contem-
plated exhibition in Central Park We
are sorry for this. We had hoped that
lot more statues in the park would
keep some Of those that are there al
ready from haunting us so. A couple
OF cubist groups might serve to exor-
clso our mental picture of Robert
Burns, sitting beside the Mall and en-
during an attack Of cramps with dour
Scottish self-control.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
Foreign Business in 1921

Measured in this way, it is certain
that' despite the tremendous drop in
both the value and the volume Of our
exports during 1921, the ratio Of the
goods we shipped abroad to our total
production for that year was actually
greater not only than the notoriouslv
boom" year previous but also greater
than any other year during the Ias+
generatlon In other words. on the
basis Of total output we did better
1orelgn business In 1921 "a calamity
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
Canada s Arnv
From The Toronto Clob,)

From The Toronto Globe)
Were the nations generally to dis
arm as effectively as Canada there
would be little need for disarmament
conferences. An army" of less than
four thousand men for country Of
almost nine million people must be a
record.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
Quite Mistaken

a british novelist says no ltera.
ture is produced under prohibition
he ought to read some Of the pri-
Vately circulated letters sent out NV
the bootieggers.
copyright by James J. Mon.,~,.A
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
Stlh, 1t Is Sometimes Done

1t is always considered an honor
70 'hroW the first bali Of the base
ball season. Throwing the first game
ls something else again.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
irritating DELAY

"hen the Bolshevik delegates dis
covered tbat the Genoa conference
was 'lKeiY to last more than a week.
they had to send home for two or
three more carloads of rubles
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
Alcohol Statistics
Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Day, prohibition director
states that the consumption of Ameri
can-made whisky alone, in the years
Immediately preceding prohibition ws 9
loo,ooo'ooo gallons. Only in one wear
1917 was that amount produced The
statement Of Mr.. Anderson that the
liquor interests insisted that an
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
The Towcr
STUDY HOUR

CEVEN times sercn is forty nine--
~ The sunlight lies on the floor like
paint,
II onve James three apples Of mine
hear robin far of an faint.
II this WAS Saddady~but it amt
Or even Sunday, 'twould be JUS fine
Greece ts bounded upon tho 1Uest-
Tho pear tree shines like heap OF
snow.
Where is the city Of Bucharssts
Lookut the ph9be birds come and go:
Betcha anything that l know
Where they're tryin' to build their nest
Careful chewino prepo~es tho food
There's n bumblebce on tho window
glass;
Arteries carry tho pure, red blood.
The hills look nice as the shadows
pass;
Bet there's a wallopin' big black bass
Down in the hole whore the grist mill
"Stdnd your ground" ,oas his bottle
Where do bumblebees keep thcis
sting?
Washington 1isucr told liz.
Amt the closin' bell gonna ring?
When they made him set in school
in spring
Didn't Washington even try?
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

Ysu car earch0e rnerehaneae ao,erti,sd In Ths
TRIBUNE with sbsoluts ssfety-fc< II elsatsfao'
t,oa result. In any cas-. THE TRiBukE suspn.
tees 10 pay your money back upen request. Ne rsd
tsoe. No ouiobiins. Wa refund promptly " the
Advertiser oece not
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
ME,fRER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Assoc sted Press Is exclusively entitled to
- fE repubhcatioa @. all news dispatches
'rri!ted 70 e uot Otherwise credited IN this
,sp<r md tho local ncss of spontaneous origin
pub isted hsrcin
Al rights q r-reibucauca Of all Other matter
herein E-so reserved
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26
The Exchange Comes Up Like Thunder

Clipped from ths ticker bD c. e. g.
EAR EASTERN EXCHANGES UN-
CHANGED
HONG KONG CABOLGsSR6sossD-L
G6SR6a0J6 SHANGHAI TAEI, CABOI,Gs-
AR6aoSeD-LD G6ARssoJ6 MEX-DLRs
At SHANGHAI BOLO6SS6sos6D-LD
G6 WERE b6 IA PEKIN0 CABQLOSSA6-
96J JAe90s6D-LD G6JAse0Js BOMBAY
CABQLG6SE6D-LD G6sA6FoJsHPK9OPS-
DP&0 LES - l2 CHECKS 49, stNGA-
PORE CABQLG6SS6 CHECKS so u
II the rate war between tho Lamport
& Holt and the Munson lines continues
Americans may learn at last what
freedom Of the seas" means.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

Perhaps New York will not figure
quite as we'll in the census returns
when District Attorney Banton hae
completed his campaign against
criminals.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

WEAKNESS, in these days of so-called
balmy weather, sits continually upon
our shoulders, already overtaxed bv
the weight of The Tower. Yet shall n
member Of the nation now celebrating
the Grant anniversary wilt beneath tho
load? No, and again No!
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

OF course the new Irish constitu-
ton will guarantee all citizens the
right to fight.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

We suggest that the members Of
the Board of Estimate get out their
dictionaries and look up the meaning
of the word drastic.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-26

Why should the administration
continue to neglect the schools? They
are not under the management of
the Transit Commission.