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New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
By Rear Admiral W. F. Fullam, u S. N. (Rstred)

naval mind. The battleship holiday is
not merely an economical blessing. It
frees the navy from what Sims calls
"the superstition of the battleship"
1nasmuch as we can build no more bat
tleships for ten years the navy will now
turn to the development of the sub
marine and the air force. We will
round out a "three-plane navy"
The Bureau of Naval Aviation has
been alive for many months. But it
was throttled by the previous Adj
ministration. The Navy Department
has now very wisely set it free. Con-
servatism has given way to common
sense. Recently it was announced that
the torpedo plane would be immedi-
ately perfected. This is vital. A
catapult has already been designed to
shoot planes from a ships deck, and
a plan has been outlined to put about
800 planes into the feet No doubt the
bureau will next experiment in laying
submarine mines by means of air
planes.
Imagine an enemy feet approach
ing our coast. Our planes will run a
barrage of floating mines around it.
They will bomb it with 2,ooo-pound
bombs from above. They will swoop
down five miles distant and fire tor
pedoes into it. Will it dare to cross
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
Where Does England Stand?

The special pleaders for Germany
are hard at work again. We expect to
find Mr. Oswald Garrison Willard
among them, but it is a little dis
concerting to see Mr.. Philip Kerr,
late secretary to Mr.. Lloyd George,
stand up to be counted in this COM
pany. At the Williamstown confer
ence Mr.. Kerr devoted considerable
time to clearing the Kaiser Of re-
sponsibility for the war, and while
he admitted that some blame at
tached to the German people for
their choice of leadership the pic
ture he painted was of Europe that
stumbled blindly into a war THAI
no individual deliberately invited" !"
Mr.. Kerr cited no new evidence
He simply expressed personal
opinion. The intended effect upon
readers is obvious. If poor Ger
many stumbled blindly into Belgium
and later, to her great surprise
woke up to find herself rudely at
tackled in France, it is obvious that
all talk of German reparations is
grossly unfair. The most we car
expect is that the German people
will some day forgive US for ou1
incivility. Apologies, not indemni-
ties, are in order.
We do not imagine that a great
many Americans are Influenced by
such talk. The alarming feature OF
it is the known fact that Mr.. Ker,
was Mr.. Lloyd Georges secretary
for years through the thick of the
war and stood at his elbow at Yer
sailles. He does not come to Amer
lea as spokesman for his forme,
chief, but one cannot help wonder.
ing how Mr.. Lloyd George regards
such a plea. - Has Mr.. Kerr always
held these interesting views? If so
what did he think of Mr.. Lloyd
Georges "Hang-the-Kaiser" period
of eloquence? The puzzled OBJ
server cannot but go further anl
wonder what Mr.. Lloyd George
thinks about his own words and acts
Does England really wish to make
the Germans pay or not? 1t seems
about time that Mr.. Lloyd George
stopped sparring for position and
gave solid proof of where he stands
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15

stance they know they are not.
They know that this coming term
there will still be shortage of
buildings Sand thousands of chill
dren on part time, despite the fer
vent prediction pledges Of Mr..
Hylan.
They know that many of the
present buildings are insanitary
and unfit for school purposes. They
know that politics is being more and
more injected into the schools and
doing more and more to demoralize
the teaching staff. New York City
ought to have the best schools in
the world. 1t can afford to pay for
them. It's people would be perfectly
willing to pay for them If they could
get them. But they cannot even
get enough school buildings, to say
nothing of the best equipped and
the best taught schools obtainable
The hundred million dollars soon
to be added to the budget will go
exactly the same way school ap-
preparations have been going since
the present city administration
came into Office. 1t will not secure
adequate schools and it will not be
paid cheerfully by the taxpayers,
for what it buys will not be nearly
worth the outlay.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
them. Why let the imaginary rights
of tiny minority swallow up the
real rights of the great majority?
If Not Graft---Whas? ?

Perhaps the money collected from
pushcart peddlers as license fees is
not stolen. Perhaps its collection is
perfectly legal. But il needs a great
deal of explaining.
According to Commissioner of
Markets O'Malley only 10 per cent
of the $52 a year taken from each
peddler as the price of license
goes into the city treasury. Where
does the rest of it go? Most of it
goes to pay the collectors, thereby
providing jobs for host of city
employees who do little real serv-
ice and who are, in fact, merely po-
litical parasites.
Before Mr.. O'Malley took charge of
the department, as The Tribune has
shown in its news columns, pushcart
peddlers paid 81 a year each for
their licenses. 1t was not q high
fee, but the pushcart business is not
a highly profitable business. Ped
dlers sell exclusively to people of
small means. Their margin is small
and the S4 license fee was for long
time considered adequate. But it
was not sufficient to pay an army
of off1ceholders, which is probably
the reason that it was increased not
100 per cent but 1900 per cent. To-
day there is plenty of money and
there are plenty Of collectors. Few
of them, as far as can be learned,
keep accurate accounts. In an in
vestigation covering two weeks The
Tribune has failed to discover ex-
actly where the money goes. 1t is
clear, however, that much of it is
spent in hiring the persons who col
lect it and who continually hsrass
the distressed peddlers with new
rules and exactions.
1t is not charged that Mr.. O'Mal-
ley is a party to the prosecutions
Of which the peddlers complain.
No one accuses him of any knowl-
edge Of where the unaccounted-f for
money goes. Indeed it would be
more to his credit if he did know
where it goes, for then he would be
able to make some accounting.
But he is the responsible head of
the Market Department. The de-
partment is employing a large num-
Der Of men to collect very large
sum of money. 1t amounted to more
than half million dollars in six
months.
If these men are not needed by
the city-as they obviously are not
they are leeches; they are taking
money which they do not earn. If
that is not graft The Tribune would
be glad to learn Mr.. O'Malley's in
depreciation of the word.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15

| thanks to science, from ancient saw
age and barbarian days.
But Captain David thought differ
emily. Without naming the hidden
rulers of the universe too definitely
he thought of "a beneficent Provi-
dence." SO would any seafarer
knowing his job. The truth is that
in our worship of science we have
vastly overestimated her achieve
ments. The sea is not wholly safe
and never can be made wholly safe.
| Neither is railroad train or an
airplane or an automobile, as the
appalling figures of accidents in all
three prove. The difference is that
the man of the sea touches his perils
night and day. No matter how vast
the hull beneath him, he feels hour
ly that fog and ice can overwhelm
it. He cannot delude himself as
to the power Of the machine he
commands.
1t would be good thing if we
could all share the seaman's point
of view. 1t would not necessarily
be religious in any strict sense of
the word. 1t might be called ia
talistic. But at least it would rep
resent the truth; it would destroy
our FOOLS paradise of pretended
safety that keeps US utterly un-
prepared for the shocks Of life when
they come. If religion were our
need we would be in the mood for re-
discovering it.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
Straw Vote Repeaters

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; l have been very much inter
esteo IN the straw vote being taken by
The Literary Digest" on the question
OF prohibition and also in your edi-
torial comments on the same. bu+ hop,
much dependence can we put on a vote
taken like this. when a man can obtain
Is many blanks as he chooses and then
MI them in as he likes?
For instance, two weeks ago. while
on an outing, l overheard two mon
discussing the above question, and one
remarked to the other that he had AL
ready put in fifteen votes against pro-
hioition under an assumed name. and
intended to put in more later on. He.
no doubt, is one of the MANY who feel
that they have been deprived of so.
called personal liberty, which to NV
way of thinking is nothing but pure
selhshness. He doesn't take into CON
sideration for one moment tho mum
Der OF men and women, and especially
chlldren, who were deprived of their
personal liberty before the volstead
act was passed.
l myself am for prohibition first,
last and all the time, as the sub
s.itutes we have had for law against
the selling Of liquor have all nroved
dismal failure. If every one wopld
obey the law as it has been passed il
wouio be one Of the best things for
the country that ever happened.
LEMUEL ROBERTS. ,
New York, Aug. 12, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
Not Worth the Money

New York City is never niggard-
ly. For parks, bridges, subways
and public buildings it spends
money prodigally and without stint.
Even when the taxpayers suspect
as they frequently do suspect-that
all this money is not going wnere it
ought to go they make little COM
plant. 1t is an easy town.
The s1oo,ooo,ooo which will be
asked for by the school board this
year will be paid. But this is one
amount that will be paid grudging-
ly, although the people would gladly
pay twice as much for schools If
they thought they were going to get
theiT moneys worth. In This in
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
What Readers Sau
Dairy Dietetics

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the graphic section of your
Sunday paper saw the picture Of a
prize Holstein cow at Beltsville, Md,
which gave $4,000 pounds of milk and
consumed approximately $3.50 worth
of food-at present prices--a year.
The question is, Does this kind of
feeding pay the average dairyman? Is
not improper digestion of the food the
cause of nearly all the ailments the
diaryman has to contend with?
For number of years / tried to in
crease milk production by heavy feed
ing and was somewhat successful, but
| lost fully % per cent Of the herd
each year from various ailments
Many cows will injure themselves if
allowed to Craze too long where the
grass is abundant They will often
give milk which is poisonous to
calves.
A number of years ago I was grazing
my cows day and night where grass
and water were abundant, Several OF
them started giving stringy milk. !
put this stringy milk in a trough for
the hens and cats. The cats all got
sick and their fur came out. My chill.
dren sympathized with them and de.
veloped scarlet fever; there were nc
other cases in the town.
AT present never allow a cow more
than from four to six hours on grass
| never milk. cow until she has had al
least four hours without feed OF
water in which to clear the milk of all
food flavors. keep the herd for Q
third less and make more milk tbs
herd over, although do not make the
individual records / did before. My
herd is in much better condition, the
milk is 100 per cent better, and where
as used to keep medicine on hand ir
case OF emergency | have had no neec
of it for years and do not keep il
now. | simply state what feeding has
done for my cows; others can take my
experience for what it is worth.
DAIRYMAN.
Nyack, N. Y, Aug. 10, 1899.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
Lord NorthcliHe

There is a glitter of American ro-
nance in the career Of Viscount
Northcliffe, the self-trained lad who
broke into London's cheap magazine
world with new ideas, became Great
Britain's leading newspaper and
magazine publisher, acquired "The
Times" reached the peerage, was an
important factor in politics and, be-
fore he died, had built up an unpar-
alleled machine for the control of
British opinion-owning two great
dailies, Sunday newspaper and
more than eighty weeklies and other
periodicals. He was a colossus in
the English press and he used his
power much less fer money-making
than for the exploitation. of ideas
which bore the stamp Of his eager
and restless mind and his vigorous
personality.
Northcliffe was Irish-born by &C
cident but genuinely Irish in his
combativeness. AS his lifelong asso-
ciate, Sir George Sutton, says, he
also kindled to the free and easy
democratic spirit of America. He
was therefore unawed by precedent
and authority. He tried out his
newspaper innovations confidently,
and he always fought for his own
hand in politics. He had a conspicu-
Gus part in overthrowing the Asquith
ministry and bringing Lloyd George
to the front. But he attacked the
latter with equal ruthlessness when
differences arose between them. He
was not a politician influenced by
expediency, but essentially leader
of opinion, championing definite
principles.
His role in the World War was
highly important. In 1915 he did
more than any one else to compel
much needed change in the British
munitions program. He started the
criticism which broke down the AS
quith ministry and broadened Eng
lish participation in the war. He
did great service as head of the
British commission to the United
States in 1917. His work later as
/ director of propaganda in enemy
i countries has been eulogized by Gen.
eral Ludendorff and the former Ger
man Kaiser, who both admit that it
made similar German efforts seem
almost childish.
After the armistice Lord North
cliffe stood out for generous support
of France in the peace terms. He
stoutly opposed the Lloyd George
policy of wearing down Allied soli-
darity and arraying British interests
against French in such way as to
mitigate German penalties. Since
1919 he had been an acrid critic of
Lloyd Georges maneuvers with re-
gard to reparations and his flirta-
tions with Soviet Russia.
This attitude was unpopular and
Northcliffe's warfare on the Coali-
tion ministry made little headway.
But it again emphasized the SINGER
ity and consistency of his views and
the boldness with which he adhered
to his notions of public policy.
A man Of unflinching independence
and extraordinary range of activi-
ties, it will be hard to fill the place
he leaves in British journalism.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague

The Plant Of Rent Payer
Time was when / thought that a
castle in Spain,
With a tgoubadour band on the
lawn,
And the nightingale singing his
cloying refrain,
Till the break Of the glorious
dawn,
Would be swell place for
person like me
To pass idle hours away,
And therefore 1 hastened to price
two or three,
Intending to buy one some
day.
afterward fancied a Newport
abode
Where the breakers dashed up
to the wall,
With a varied assortment of
drinkables slowed
In great oaken chest in the
hall,
Would be fine home for the
happy old age
Of chap caring nothing for
fame,
And therefore I turned to the
real estate page
10 learn at what figure they
came.
Years passed, and I said that a.
shack on the beach
With bath. and a bedroom or
two
And the grocer and movies within
easy reach
For man of my income would
do.
I'm any great castle or mansion"
I said,
Il know I'd feel utterly lost;
l will get me a lowly matched
cottage instead"-
And then l found out what
they cost!
! never procured any castle in
Spain
Nor an elegant Newport abode.
AND I'm perfectly sure l shall
never attain
A@shack by an ocean-washed
road.
have tolied and I've saved as a
thrifty man should,
have We'd with the sedulous
bee,
But my dreams Of these houses
~, have done me no good
though my landlord has pur-
chased all three,
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
The Pushcart Facts

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have been very much in
terested in your articles on pushcart
floaters, by M. Jay Racusin. In fact
while reading the first one I was SC
much interested that I rode past my
subway station.
It seems to me that you show enter
prise and desire to get st the truth
of the market situation, and ] am sure
that the statements made in these
articles are a revelation to all of US
R. W. BRISTOL.
Hollis, N. Y, Aug. IL, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15

the ocean in the face Of such a threat.
1t will not venture to do 80. All,
power is an agent of complete protse.
ton from attack from overseas Il
d3scourages, if it does not absolutsIv
prevent, the carrying Of aggressive
war across an ocean. The best narsI
minds in the world are agreed on CHS
point.
Thus, air power is a godsend. h
protects the weak nation. It
weapon OF peace in that It eressE
strengthens the defence and balss trs
Offense from attack overseas. 1t i
strange that fact so clear is not n.
plain to many "strategists." We migsi
excuse the parIor warriors. perhsu
but not those who formulate our nil.
tary and naval policies. The lstg
must think and act wisely. Congress
should push the construction Of IN
alrpiane carriers. They are the bam
II sea power
Supremacy in the air will dscia
the next war. Admiral Sims is PEI
rectly right in saying that "comnssi
OF the air spells command of the ~
face on land and sea" II an ensnJ
secures controls of the air above taa
country We are lost. If our ssnir
possessions-Guam, the Philivuisa,
oamoa, Hawaii, Porto Rico. tie Csnsl
Zone and the Virgin Islands-sn not
protected against attack from the sir
'hey must surrender. If our srny or I
our fleet fail to command tie air sbosss
themselves night and day in the ns1N
war humiliating disaster is inevifsba !
And is it not clear that no mershsa;
marine can exist if our enemy ses-
mands the air? 1t will se bombed Of
the sea. We must wake up.
How can the United States prosA
itself with an air force for the nsr
war? There is but one way. We MS
develop and utilize air power for basl-
ness and commercial purposes ii iin'
OF peace. Then, when war comes, sa'
trained civilian flyer takes the nsl.
passengers and merchandise cut Of aa
plane, replaces them with hona
mines and torpedoes and sails out
attack the enemy feet 100 miles oh an
coast. Can there be any doubt thA
the gallant young American avisai
will put his bomb on board the ses
tile ship? Not the slightest 10
flying gun" will protect our eosa
our foreign possessions and our me-
chant marine. Nothing else can as Z
The coast fort, like the battleshiF,h
built to resist shells fired horizons
ly. 1t has no protection whais'
against attack from the skies Ss
forts nothing, TO sp'-
money on them is to shovel SO msss
gold into the Atlantic Ocean. Mia's
torpedoes submarines and AR P's1
will keep a hostile feet 100 miles ~
our shores-So miles beyona
range of forts guns. OF whas -
then, are the latter?
Congress and the people 2 s.
country never have provided ana as
will provide an adequate army
navy in time of peace 20 mes'
emergency of war. No more WIZ y
provide an adequate standihk 81
force. Taxes, pensions and the "a
billions for bonus" will leass s
country burdened with debt anu ) r,,A
defenceless against strong
air force. A commercial force - e
fore vital necessity as u.
For this reason the plan OF sns
tional Aeronautical Associati0a ..s 4,
be approved and applaudea- go,
league is rs necessary as navy 49,
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication o, all news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local OF spontaneous origin
published, herein.
All rights Of republication Of all Other matter
ha-ein also are reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15

II the blue lao advocates continue
their campaign for d revival of the Puri-
tan Sabbath the United States Shipping
Board may find it profitable to run week-
end excursions
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
G A AN rY

You can purchase mseehandlse advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with ahsoiuts satets--fer II dissatsfae-
tion results In any case THE TRIBUNE suaran-
tess to pay your money back upon request. No red
tape No uuibbiina. We refund promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
Endorsement

From The Boston TransoriptJ
New York State always has a first
rate chance to have Republican
Iovernos while New York City has a
Tammany Mayor to denounce him.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15

Our own experience with several
thousand Sundays convinces US that
the more activity you cram into the
Sabbath the less time you have to sit
around and try to fit what you think
of the day into single sentence.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
Elegy on Almost Any Long Distance
Airpiane Flight
Hop
Flop
Stop.

Small indeed is our understanding of
the inner secrets of politics, but even
this early in the campaign it does seem
that Mr.. Hearst's recollection as Menace
should be conceded
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
TUESDAY, AUGUST Is, 1922

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Cooperation Published daily. Ogden Reid. Prssi-
dent G. yersm Rogers. Vice President: Helen
Rogers Raid. Secretary; r.. f. Maxfseld rressarer
Address. Tribune Butiains isi Nassau Street Now
xork. Telephone geeknsp sooc
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Twin Peaks of Optimism

"Out of the trenches by Christmas"
Ford.
Into the mines in a week."-Lewis.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
Bad Business Outlook

Apparently nobody offered enough
for the movie rights of the Chile
Peru war, so it was called off.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
They Can't Be Evervthino

while mosquitoes make good sub
stitutes Tor alarm clocks, they are
OF very little use as sedatives.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
B A L L A D

B A L L A D
A Basque king Was d-basking
In fisher moiden's smile;
She wos Basque girl pretty,
But her basque 1Uus not our style.
Said the Basque king to the angler:
when shall 10e wed, my dear?"
When bass king for my basket
BY good fortune doth appear"
Just then she caught bass king
she enttced him from his perch.
And so the baskino Basque king
Took the Basquette of, to church.
NURBLIEH.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15

We are beginning TO feel a little
more kindly toward the rail strikers
since they began throwing bombs at
trains and dynamiting bridges. Their
demand that all armed guards be with
drawn was probably inspired by the
fear that some Of the poor guys would
be hurt.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
Working Beautifully

Unable after 700 years to lick Ire
land, the English are now wisely let
ting the Irish do it.
copyright by James ]. Montague>
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15

Entered at the Poetof1cs at New York Second
Class Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15
The Tower
Ar A s,rRwAy EXIT

AT A SUBWAY EXIT
TyEET, feet, feet,
IL The endless tread and beat
OF clicking heel or shutting sole,
Pouring out from the subway hole.
Pretty feet, trim and neat,
Trip the steps to gain the street;
Feather-light and blithely gay,
Eager to be on their way
Life is young, brimful Of joys.
Naught they know Of what annoys.
Lead feet, dead feet,
Bearing corpses to the street;
Crawling up with hopeless drag,
Wander aimlessly, and lag
Az though they had left life behind
While they keep on their treadmill
grind,
High heels, low heels,
Worn heels, no heels,
Hurry up and scurry out,
Twist and turn and dart about
Squeaking newness, worn-out toe,
Whence do you come, where do you 60 ?
Where do you carry these human
bubbles
To beckoning joys or frowning troubles
My eyes are lost in the endless stream,
And my senses numbed in lotus dream
BY the pounding thud and dull repeat
OF the thump, thump, thump on the
pavement street.
Will they ever end their upward toll,
And the human caldron cease to boil? d?
A moments ebb, then the trains loud
roar,
And the lava belches forth once more
From the subway crater, and thousands
of feet
Jostle their loads up into the street,
And scatter them on every hand
AS they were so much wind blown
sand.
Heigh-ho for the Joy and, alas, for
the care,
The myriad mingle of life is there!
J. M. B.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15

There really seems little use in try
ing to go on any further. They're
curing snake bitec these days with
serum. +. ".
New-York tribune., 1922-08-15

And now it's Mrs. Harding who is
sending a sl00 check to the fifty-year-
old horse. If You can only manage to
continue existing until you become a
freak the rest of life is comparatively
simple.