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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
What Can the Public Doa
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: "An Old Tribune Reader" wants
to know. in reference to the strikes
and the conferences at Washington,
whether or not the public knows what
is going on, and if it does know, does
it care.
The public Is not Indifferent to the
treatment 1t as we'll as its President is
receiving at the hands of the labor
unions.
Whether or not the labor leaders are
more powerful than the government is
silly question and needs no answer.
The public understands at least 90
per cent Of what is being done---en ough
to let 1t form It's own individual opin-
ion, and sit cares lot! The public Is
prepared to let any one settle the coal
strike who can--Lewis, "oid Tribune
Reader" or any one else. OF course, It
doesn't want to pay SIS or SIS ton
for coal, but If 1t can't get coal any
cheaper 1t will pay IT. Under these
conditions, naturally, the poor will suf-
fer, but what is the public going to
do about iii Rise In rebellion and re-
fuse to buy coal7 Then who would
suffer? NOT the miners individually,
nor the mine operators individually,
but the public.
Once every four years the public has
q chancs to say who shall lead 1t and
rule. It puts IL up TO its Presiden,
and it's Congress to see that It gets .
square deal. II 1t, the public, feel:
that it is not getting a square deal
what is It going to dot
The public is very henpecked par.
son. He takes what you give him and
seldom offers complaint. II he does
complain 1t Is In 3 very meek and
gentle manner.
So, "old Tribune Reader" ask you
II the public dees feel that the strike
leaders are walkigg over the govern,
ment what is II 80 do about it?
JAMES A. BLAINE,
A Young Tribune Reader.
Jamaica, N. X, Aug. 80, 1899.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
The Fine Art of Dressrnaking

Those American inquirers who ex-
peesed to find Paul Poiret carefree
dealer in friyoities were properly
disappointed. Dressmaling is no
Light affair Ia Paris. The great
cortnrtefs have a standing befitting
not only their rank rs great mer-
chants 5as, cyen more, what the
French mind regards as their artis-
tic Importance. M wonder NJ. poiret
tales himself md his work seriously.
So do his city ard lis nation.
Is there, pefhaps, trace Of
ancient Paritanis,, IN our Western
attitude toward mare clothes? Ger
tainiy, If we regard their conspicu-
business in the scheme of things, no
work OF art or architecture COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
Brothers--Strong and Weak

Brothers--Strong and Weak
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: see by a headline "New
York Poison Liquor Death Toll Ia
Increasing" 1t seems to me that this
and only this condition has been the
reward Of those whom one Of your
correspondents calls eve stronger
brothers who must sacrifice some of
our so-called freedom for our weaker
brothers" Our weaker brothers.,
seem to be able to console them
selves.
Light wines and beer will run the
bootlegger out of business, in nv
humble opinion. I may add don't
like beer; it tastes like medicine. but
workingmen need it.
am reader of The Tribune when
ever it reaches this city or wherever
happen to be engaged. read it
cover to cover before picking up "my
part" for next weeks bill. I am one
OF the stages most humble and In.
significant workers. so please do not
print my name, else some one might
offer me Broadway engagement. !
should hate that n
Wheeling, W. Va, Aug. 81, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
To a Mosquito

To Mosquito
It's not the sting that you i'm
plant
Upon my nose or ear;
It's not the droning song you
chant
While you are lowering near,
That rouses hatred in my breast
As I lie here in bed
And vow that shall take no rest
Till you are cold and dead.
I do not hate the cohblestone
On which l stub " toe;
Dyspepsia, though 1T makes me
I do not hold foe;
Nor could a human enemy
Thus make my WRATH arise,
And long to shed his blood, if he
Were something like my size.
But you, whose brain is but
speck,
From out the darkness leap
On whining wings to make a
wreck
Of hours Of needed sleep.
A thing devoid of mind or sense,
You poster me, in spite
Of ali my high intelligence,
Throughout the dreary night.
You cannot speak, you cannot
read,
You cannot do a sum,
Yet on my veins you freely feed
The while you shrilly hum.
And ] am helpless in defense
AS on my blood you sup!
What makes my hatred so intense
Is that you show me up!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
Hope Springs Eternal

That the rolling waves of ocean
are a waste of power as well as a
waste of waters has plagued in
ventors since the days Of Archi-
medes. The shelves of the patent
offices are crowded with drawings of
devices to put the dashing breakers
to some practical use, yet never
have they been made to do the work
that one who watches them from
cliff on the Maine or Oregon coast
may we'll believe them capable of
doing.
Possibly the imrninence of coal
shortage has set men once more to
thinking that the ocean ought to be
doing its bit. At all events a com
pany has been formed in West
chester County which purposes to
build machine which will force the
fluctuations of the sea to compress
air, which in turn may be made to
run motors without fuel.
This is not a scheme for harness
ing the tides, which in some situa-
tons, such as the Bay of Fundy, have
force almost equal to Niagara,
save that their flow is not continu-
Gus.
The plan is to make each little
billow step up and stow it's noiety
of compressed air in a cylinder, the
process being repeated until at the
end of twenty four hours valuable
reservoir of power may be tapped
at convenience.
Wave motors have been built from
time to time, and some of them
have performed small but practical
services. One now operates in Mon
terey Bay, California, pumping up
salt water, with which the roads are
sprinkled. Smaller ones do other
trifling work in various localities.
But SO caprieious are the waves,
SO prone to be torrential in the
morning and placid in the after
noon, that the problem Of forcing
them to work continuously presents
very great difficulties. Many a de-
vice believed to have solved the
problem has been shattered to bits
in a storm. Many another, located
where wavelets instead Of waves
stirred the surface Of the deep, has
functioned SO languidly that it was
worthless.
However, it Is no longer safe to
say Of any scientific undertaking
that it cannot be done. Forty years
ago j. T. Trowbridge in his poem
DARIUS Green" voiced the general
opinion regarding the possibility of
human fight.
A little more than hundred
years ago people watched the
launching of the Clermont with
boots Of derision.
So with the wave motor. The
waves, like the poor, are with us
always. Because they have never
yet done anything but fret their
banks is not absolute proof that
they may not some day cause coal
strikes to cease from troubling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
The Iowey
THE HIGHROAD

T MADE a highroad fe the king,
Il When he should pass my way,
And wrought q wordless song to sing
That he might think of no sad thing,
But live in joy that day.
/ planted hedgerows of wild plum
And pinned its blossoms white
With shining notes, that he might
come
And find in them countless sum
To give his heart delight.
Alas! These many years I stand
And wait for him to ride
In triumph through this lovely~land,
With purple robe and lilied hand,
In royal might and pride.
All weedy has the highway grown,
And from the hedge the white plum
flown.
MABEL WIbEs SIMPSON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
Sergeant Fiaschetti' . Case

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: ] was surprised to read that
Commissioners Enright had reduced De-
tective Sergeant Fiaschesti to tho rank
OF patroiman "fcr the good Of the sery-
ice"
Up to the time of Sergeant Fias-
chettis demotion the newspapers had
nothing but praise for the good work
that he had been doing. and if these
reports were true (and believe they
wese) how can the action OF the Com
missioner have any good effect on the
morale Of our Police Department.
A. C. BERKBECK,
Astoria, 1. l.. Aug. 90, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
An Exhaustive Treatment
from The Washington STAR

sfrom The Washington starr
conferences continue in various
parts OF the world in spite of the fact
.hat by this tipe there would seem to
0e notning new to be said on any side
of any subject.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
Innovation

One evidence Of an approaching
millennium is the. fact that theatrical
managers are now asking advice
from playwright.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
MABEL WILEs SIMPSON.

Oar chief regret, aohen Ue read the
serial aftermath of movis actor MUIR
der, is that it aoasn't general sussacre.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

Not only ere these post-murder
glimpses into the home life of film
workers shocking in themselves, but
you can't help feeling additional dis
may when you realize how the poor
trusting movie press agents are being
deceived daily.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
The Grand Old Game

Ire Grand Old Game
Sir: The mosquito urge is more than
game. 1T has become an obsession
One looks forward to the retiring hour
with gleeful vengeance. But I boast
Of no extensive course and proud scores
such as H. H. G. possesses, and then
again return matches would be difficult
Modestly, confess to the ownership
Of only one club-albeit new one
each day-a neatly folded, we'll read
Tribune.
At the CONCLUSION of the game the
perfect swats may be added at the
bottom of the page on the frayed side
OF the paper. Misses are recorded by
the number Of "Damns!" uttered dur
ing the contest and are double checked
by my wife's "Oh, Chef, plsaser"
/ ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
Futile

1t doesn't do German any good
to make his mark nowadays, because
the mark isn't worth the trouble.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
Not So Safe. Noy

Congress forgets thatIt can't in
sist that the tariff law is a war
measure.
Copyright by James ]. Montague,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

South Carolina Is nominating Cole
Blease for Governor again. Thus leav-
ing only forty-seven states, qualified to
laugh at the electorate Of New York
City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

There is this much to say IN favor Of
the projected heatless day. per Deek this
winter. 1t soiu reduce dumbwaitsr shaft
arguments with the janitor one ssvemth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

Ik.stBEK " TIE AbSUEIAfED TEtFs,S
TIE Assosia,es i5wss 4 exclusively vHtiuef 10
credited 70 1; g nea otherwise ereai.tz8 IN ths
psp+r an slso tie local uess or sDcnssseous origin
pabsissled hessin
All rights n capitalization Of al other matter
tsresa also are reserved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

The Irish Free State is making fran
TIC efforts to obtain funds tied up
mere. Probably the undertaken has
sent In his bill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

Away with worryl Likewise. avaunt
gloom' Sweden, once dry, has voted
itself wet again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

Congress isn't going to permit Presi-
dent Harding to seize the mines and
the railways, and the Chief Executive
is probably looking forward to nights
OF untroubled slumber once more,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

skoal! by the Norssmen. F.F.y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

After all, crime isn't what it used to
be. Newspapers and county detectives
and district attorneys have robbed
murder Of its glamour. The drama of
the act has been quite smothered by
the heart-interest stories of the sur.
vivors.
In the good old days when anybody
got slain that was all there was to il
until some one came along with we'll
tuned Tyre and fashioned a deathless
epic CIR an immortal drama around the
incident.
| The average husband killer of to-day
has, we suppose, quite as much reason
for her deed as had Mrs. Agamemnon--
whose first name we have forgotten.
But Aschylus, confronted by a head
line reading
Husbands Neglect Csuscd Deed
Says Confessed Slayer. Wccpins
would, we feel sure, have slung his
Tyre into the Egean aaa taken to writ
ing pastorals for living.
Resignation
So dear, you ,o claim y2sr pettins days
You crave platonic friendship from
now on;
A mask of chill reserve each youth
must don
If he expects to fit about with you.
1t really seems too funny to be true
That you -Hnuld play the shy, re-
firing -wn.
The thought Of all your winsome
wiles in pawn
Is quite enough to make fellow blue.
Your plan might work quite smoothly
Tor while;
But will platonic youths know what
to say
When summer moons spill silver on
the bay?
Might not precise remarks be spt to
rile?
Oh, we'll, go seek your iceberg, cold
and bleak.
You'll come home, open armed, with
in a week.
j. PHILIP STACK.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
THE NoNoscIrANr yuRrsr

fFound bu O. w. T. IN The Jey,su c..,,
jersey Reuieto)
Judge Doherty is a lucent example Of the
Jufist who knows the law. He is also a
man with human touch.
ihere never was en- atmosphere of os-
citahcS IN Judge Dohen,-'s court. The Judge
N'ew when ana now to engage in badiDage.
The ioquacious counselor could resorf- -
argot to drive home point to tha jurors
put Judge Dohersys clear exegesis of the
point at issue was the ons the jurors nc.
cepted and acted upon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

After three days Of adherence to the
physacaams prescription Of heaOy break
fasts for brain Workers. oil aye haus
realized is several entirely ,nprimtable
paragraphs Oh the subject Of indi-
gestion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

uARANFf
Yea san preshass wessasndsse ADVERTISED 70 IAE
sssa sssuits 10 aay case TIE TRIBUNE aaafKn-
tsss 10 say sesS Wesss k2eS gpoR request. 40 red
ssst Ne ssjbbilss Nc reipad pss@9tiy " the
ssyasftss Coca nss.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31

It Is the rising currents Of warm al,
that keep these new-fangled gliders
abort. A new worlds record nigh,
easily be established by the airman who
would hop off from the dome Of the
Capitol while Congress Is in session.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-02-22
ANOTHER BID FOR
MUSCLE SHOALS
ALABAMA COMPANY SEEKS PRO
JEcT IN ADDITION TO HENRY
FORD; BID IS SUBMITTED
Completion Of Wilson Dam wls"o"'
Advance From Government u
Proposed In Offer BY
New Bidders

Observation-Disclosures offer for pur'
chase and lease Of the governments
properties at Muscle Shoals, Ala, was
completed Wednesday and arrange
..nents made by It's sponsors. the Ala
ban,a Power company, for immediate
filing with Secretary Weeks.
The Alabama Power company pro
poses completion of the Wilson dam
without further advance Of expendl'
lures by the United States" and the
outright purchase Of the Warrior pow
er plant, on the Gorgas river, situated
on ground already owned by the power
company. The properties would be
leased by the power company for q
period Of 90 years, after which they
would be subject to recapture by the
government
The offer, outlined in a letter to
Secretary Weeks, stated 1t to be the
company's purpose to install ut the
start a plant of 10000 horse power
subsequent installation to be made
In accordance with the federal water
power act as may be necessary tc
meet the market demands"
The Alabama company offered fur.
Their ITO furnish free to the govern.
ment or anyone 1t may designate, from
the hydro power plant, 100000 horse
power as required for the production
Of fertilizers and munitions of wal
and for research in connection there.
with"
Whenever the safety of the United
States demands, the letter said, 1.-THE
United States shall have the right as
more fully provided in the federal
water power act, to take over and
operate the project for manufactur.
ing nitrates, explosives, or munitions
Of war, or for any other purposes"
The offer differed from those re-
ceived from Frederick G. Engstrum
Of Wilmington, N. c., or so far as
is known from that proposed by c.
G. Tinker, head of the construc-
ton company of North America, with
headquarters at San Francisco in that
none of these agreed to function un-
der the provisions Of the federal wa
ter power act.
The Alabama Power company claims
an option to purchase the Warrior
plant on as favorable terms as those
given to other private concerns. Wit.
nesses before the house military com.
mittee testified that before Congress
accepted the Ford plan, involving de.
livery of the Warrior plant with 0
clear title, it would be faced with Q
long fight in the courts.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-02-22
SM00T PROPOSES
BONDS FOR BONUS
UTAH SENATOR TELLS PREsi.
DENT COUNTRY WILL NOT :.
STAND FOR TAKES
Pond Issue 10 Only Proposition That
Will Meet With Favor Of Public
says Utah Senator In Talk
With President

WashingtOn.-The idea of financ-
Ing the soldier bonus through short
time bond flotation Is gaining con.
verts in congress.
Senator Smoot, who Saturday night
told President Harding the country
would not stand for the tax method
declared his beief that the house bonus
conferees had swung to his advocacy
Of the bond plan. Harding was under.
stood to be planning an early confer
ence with Secretary Of the Treasury
Mellon as to bonds. ...
Business, Smoot declared, could not
stand more taxes.
SmoOt ventured the opinion that the
proposed tax method would be sheived
and bond issue substituted. This
is despite administration objection.
Republicans Of the senate finance com.
mittee and the house ways and means
committee continued their delibera-
lions over the ways and means com.
mittee's tax scheme had provoked q
tremendous wave of op; osition from
all over the country. Big business
agriculture, the average man We're all
represented in the "howl'-a protest
so mighty that some senators believed
the bonus would die in transit if con
gress persisted in trying to pay the
bonus through taxes on business and
Individuals.
SmOot minced no words in his talk
with President Harding. He told the
executive in substance that the cOun
try was opposed to more taxes to pay
bonus.
Smoot wants short time bonds ia
sued subject to call when they coult
be paid off. Such financing, he be
lieved, would not interfere with Lib
erty bond funding.
SmOOt declared that the financial
burdens his bonus payment will in
volve are merely a Flea bite" con-
pared to what is ahead.
"Just wait and see what the future
holds" he warned, indicating his firm
belief that the bonus is merely the
fOrerunner of pension system which
will dwarf the Civil war pensions.
While SmOot and some followers ar,
pounding in the idea of bond issue
to care for the first bonus payments
the house and senate cOnferees ar,
still bordering the ways and means
tax proposals. Chairman McCumbel
of the senate finance committee favor
Scent postage, and that has caused {
rumpus. The big issue. however, a
this time. with Wall street protesting
loudly, are the taxes on stock and bono
transactions ana the 2h per cent tai
ON undivided profits,
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-02-22
.DESTR0YERS ARE
LYING IDLE NOW
I MANY SHIPS ARE NOW IN VARi.
Gus PORTS WITH GREATLY
Depleted COMPLIMENTS
More Than Two Hundred Of Ameri.
cas- 0estroyers Are Reported to
Have Depleted Crews; DENLY
Does Not Favor Reduction

Washington-Moret than 200 destroy
ers Of the United States navy are now
lying in various ports with depleted
crews, barely sufficient in number to
keep up their intricate mechanism, Ad-
miral Robert Il. Coontz, chief of naval
operations, testified before the house
naval committee. Only sixty-five ships
OF this class are in operating commits
sion," the admiral said, and the crews
of these are being maintained at so
per cent normal strength.
Supporting Secretary Denby's rec
ommendation that the enlisted strength
Of the navy be not reduced below 3d.
%, the witness said that the 100 de-
stroyers which would be placed wholly
out Of commission to make possible
the reduction of 10000 men in the
navy suggested by Secretary DENLY,
twill deteriorate to a greater or less
extent" while laid up.
AS to the effect of the naval limita-
ton treaty, Admiral Coontz said:
"The result of the limitations of
armament conference will be to place
upon each signatOry power the onus
of keeping its tonnage allotments up
to the razor edge of efficiency. Should
We reduce below the minimum stated
by the secretary of the navy, it will be
reduction by example and not by
agreement.
"The measure Of the ratio of sos
will be the efficiency and sufficiency
Of the personnel of the fleet. No other
ward reducing its personnel.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-02-22
French Claim Big Overcharoe

Wasllington-The French govern.
ment filed with the interstate com.
merce commission a series of com.
plants against various railroads and
the director general of the railroad
administration asking a return of al.
legged overcharges on shipments of wal
munitions during the war, aggregatine
more than 100000. Most of the diff.
hculty, according to ,:.e complaint
arose after the al'mistice when mater.
lals purchased in the United States b,
France were held for long periods al
ports and the French agents and the
government and the railroad disagreed
as to tie basis on which penalties WERE
to be assessed.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-02-22
RATE REDUCTION is DEFENDED
Railroad Man Tells Of Proposed Freigh
Rate Cut to Coast

Neutrality-suspicious. reductions of
freight rates on traffic from MISSISSIPPI
pi river valley points to the Pacific
coast via Southern ports were defended
Tuseday before hearing of the inter-
state railroad commission by represen-
tatlves of Mid Western railroads.
w. NJ. Rhott. foreign freight man.
ager of the Illinois Central, said the
roads proposed to make the reduction
"because business is not moving from
the Middle West at the present
charges"
First class freight rates from Chi
cago to New Orleans are now S2.26 per
hundred pounds, he explained, while
from Chicago to New York they are
S1.57h.
"Thus nobody will ship first class
freight destined for the Pacific coast
via New Orleans" he said, "when he
can get into New York cheaper and
get better and more frequent boat
service via the canal"
The lower water rates from New
Orleans would not eQualize this, the
witness insisted.
SIS there anything unlawful then in
thesereductions?" A. p. Humbursh,
counsel for the Illinois Central, asked.
Nothing at ALL" the witness re-
piled, land something very desirable
from the standpoint of public policy in
increasing the use OF Panama canal
facilities and of competitive service to
consumers" e.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-02-22
GLASS MODELS ARE BEING MADE
Grasses and Sedoes Are Being Pro-
duced for Eastern Museum

c.. rhridge, Mass.-Rudolph Blasch-
ka, tie artist who with his father
modelled the glass flowers in the notable
Ware collection in the Bontical museum
of Harvard university, has begun work
on a supplementary collection of glass
models of grasses and sedges for the
museum.
Walter Deane, former president of
the New England Botanical club, Is
providing him with American material
for their contraction.
The Ware collection Will be prac-
tically complete when twenty models
and fifty magnified details now in the
artists studio In Germany have been
transported to this country. 1t now H.
illustrates 100 families Of Towering
plants, $40 genera and 500 species in
every minute detail of structure.