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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Arthur Griffith

Leadership like Arthur Grifith's
gave the Sim Fein cause in Ireland
stability and balance which preyi-
Gus movements of the same sort had
lacked. Griffith was hard-headed
and practical, and though extremely
militant when Sim Fein was an in
novation and its conceptions and
methods We're strange to Irishmen
accustomed to the more purely politi-
cal activities of the old Irish Ma
tionalist party, he grew moderate
when southern Ireland accepted his
ideas and he became responsible for
the guidance of nearly united Irish
peopie--Ulster, of course, excluded.
HIS aim was to give Ireland free
dom. Unlike De Valera, he was more
concerned with the substance of free
dom than with its form. He signed
the treaty creating the Irish Free
State, believing that it was of minor
consequence whether Ireland should
function as an independent republic
or as self-governing dominion
within the British Empire. The
Free State was attainable. The in
dependent republic was not attain
able. Griffith's common sense there
fore rejected De Valera's fantastic
contention that freedom was value
less except under an Irish flag.
De Valera is a fanatic and bitter
ender. He will accept no scheme Of
freedom but his own scheme. and
would rather see Ireland revert to
her old status as coerced partner
IN the United Kingdom than eniov
self-rule under a Free State Parlia-
ment. He is now shedding Irish
blood in futile guerrilla warfare to
destroy the Dali Eireann and bring
back British garrisons to Cork and
Dublin.
Griffith and Collins defeated him
IN argument and at the polls. He
forced them also to crush his vindic-
tive rebellion against the state of
winch he was once the head. De
Falera's career as an Irish liberator
is over. Grifith's was far from
finished. 1t is misfortune for Ire
land that fate has stricken him down
at moment when his leadership
could have been of the greatest serv-
Ice in shaping the destinies of the
much-tried Free State.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13

In America. The process must be
gradual one. The changes must
grow out Of our own American wav
OF doing things. 1t is hard to see
how these qualifications can be bet
ter maintained than by the precise
plan supported by Mr.. Taft, the
grant to the courts of power to re-
form our procedure.
The specific proposal is that Con-
gress provide for commission to be
appointed by the President. of two
Supreme Court justices, two circuit
Judges, two district judges and three
lawyers Of prominence, to prepare
and recommend to Congress amend
ments to the present codes of Fed
eral practice. Mr.. Taft would have
such commission continued perma-
nently. with power to amend from
time to time, subject only to the
right of Congress to overru,e. Such
elasticity of procedure is of the es-
sence of the change. Congress
would, of course, always retain full
power to destroy or revoke anv
power it might give. We hope that
MIR. Taft will be needed and that the
iong-needed reform of American
procedure will be begun in this slow
moving but thorough fashion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
MIR. Taft's Remedy

The layman may not have much
ability to analyze the detailed pro-
posals of Mr.. Taft for the speeding
of justice, but he should have no
difficulty in understanding their
central thought. That is to increase
the power of our courts, enabling
them to simplify procedure out Of
their own experience and in num-
Der of important matters to take a
short cut to justice.
MIR. Taft expects opposition on
this very ground, and it is impor-
tant that the public mind should be
informed upon the reasons for the
change. The fact is that in our fear
of favoritism and political influence
we have bound our judges in such
network of rules and limitations
that the whole progress Of justice is
hampered and delayed and made the
victim of chicanery and legalistic
Sl1lQl IltCSS. <1llC1lCdHS Have OGCIl
brought up on the fine truth that
ours is government of laws, not
men. Holding thereto, we have
sometimes forgotten that all laws
must be administered by men and
that legal system which ignores
the human equation in justice de-
feats it's own ends.
The great speed and directness Of
British justice were admired by Mr..
Taft, as by every one who has ever
sat in British court of law. The
details of its processes-in particu-
lar, it's division of lawyers into the
two classes of solicitors and barris-
ters-cannot be applied to American
customs. It's spirit, according to
every judge the discretion and
power properly commensurate with
his responsibility and the needs of
the situation, can we'll be introduced
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
The Helpful Hen

iRe man who remembers when
ssss were % cents a dozen is so old
44s people regard his assertion as
mere senile "Reminiscences, and lit
e mark nor long remember it. For
e last ten years at least it has
sssn customary to denounce the hen
80 thoroughly unionized that she
united production to a dangerous
gsent.
:, therefore, people will rejoice to
sssa that shipment of eggs, safely
,t.0seeted against the ravages of age
soid storage cars, are on the way
! ! new York, where they will be re-
sued at rs cents a dozen.
aus will insure reasonably priced
.'saSfasts, rich in Galleries and vita
'es' for the population of the
Ssropolis, even if they do have to
9 without coal.
Eggs have long constituted a
'aard OF living. Upon the num-
mat are baked into cake de-
ss''as the status of a housewife In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
The Prohibition Poll
the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t Is difficult to understand
how some of the religious editors can
extract any comfort from the mere
figures of the poll "The Literary Digest"
is taking on the question of enforce
ment, modification or repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment and the VOL
stead law; and it is equally hard to
find any encouragement for the opposi-
tion when all the conditions of the
voting are considered.
The figures Of the poll, like all
straw votes, merely tell the preferences
Of those who actually vote, nothing
more. 1t is admitted by the editor that
the women have not had fair chance
to express their opinion, and it is also
admitted that their vote will favor pro-
hibition or enforcement. If one care
fully reads the comments of the tabu-
lator and studies the tables he will
note that g large majority of these
votes comes from the large centers and
from the industrial states, where wet
sentiment is strongest, and he can
hardly miss noting that the vote from
the agricultural states is SO small as
to be negligible, and it is in those
states where the dry sentiment is very
strong. "The Literary Digest" does
not get these votes, but the ballot box
will get all Of them in November.
In the coming election modification
will be the issue, for there are very
few Congressional districts and no
state where the wet sentiment is so
strong that candidate would dare to
run on a repeal platform.
Politicians will blunder to defeat IL
they rely too much upon this poll
as indicating veering to wetness. A
candidate for Congress or Assembly
in greater New York or some other
city districts might win more votes on
wet platform, but woe to that state
candidate who tries It, for the upstate
dry voters will defeat him. It Is con-
ceded that the workingmen in the In
dustrial centers are in favor of modi-
fication and even repeal, as "The
Digest" finds, but the farmers and vii :.
layers Of the state outnumber them sew
eral times and they are in favor Of
enforcement. C. B. STODDARD.
North Cohocton, N. Y. Aug. Z, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Citizens Union Interviews
Their Purport as Understood by
Former Assemblyman Smith

Their Purport as Understood by
Former Assemblyman Smith
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Replying to the communication
of Walter T. Arndt, secretary Of the
Citizens Union, in your issue Of
the 18th:
Mr.. Arndt refers to "the standards
Of fitness for public Office which the
Citizens Union has maintained for q
quarter Of century" While this may
cause smile, it also raises the ques-
ton: SHOULD Senator'S and Assembly
men act according to the dictates of
their own consciences, and their own
ideas Of right and wrong, and of what
may be best for their respective con-
stituents. or should they act accord
ing to the dictates or standards of the
Citizens Union or any other small body
of self-constituted regulators
It is true that / was defeated for re-
election in 1920. but it is also true that
I am the only Republican who has ever
been elected to the Assembly from the
22d Assembly District as the district is
now constituted.
The fact that I voted for tho jerks
bills in the Assembly Of 1920 (the fore
runners of the present Transit Com
mission laws) was the only thing
urged against me in the campaign of
1920, and it is generally admitted, I
think, that my defeat was due to my
stand On those bills. l was right, and
have no apologies and no regrets.
However, the causes which led to my
defeat are immaterial. The question
in issue between the Citizens. Union
| and myself is not whether l was a good
Assemblyman or a bad one, but wheth-
err or not I was "giyen to understand
that l would receive the Citizens
Unions Endorsement and that its criti-
cism Of me would be altered if prom
ised to be guided by the Citizens
Unions rec concentrations"
Mr.. Arndt says: "For years we have
invited legislators to call at our office
and talk over their records. We have
believed that in giving them this OPP
portunity to explain their votes or
answer our criticisms we were acting
in fairness to them" So the only dis
pute is as to what has been said at
those interviews, and 1t is unfortunate
for Mr.. Arndt that others, In personal
interviews, have understood him to
mean exactly what understood him to
mean when he talked with me over the
telephone.
Again I suggest that you have one Of
your clever reporters interview the
Senators and Assemblyren who have
been criticized by the Citizens Union,
and If the canvass shows that I am
the only one to whom such suggestions
have been made 1 will frankly apollo
gize and admit that I do not under
stand English as she is spoke"
OSCAR J. SMITH.
New York, Aug. II, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Broadway and Asheville

Asheville, N. c., has greater fame
as winter resort than as a music
center. And yet from Asheville
comes strident attack upon jazz.
While the rest Of America has con-
tentedly listened to few whom they
were pleased to consider musical
"highbrows" hold forth upon the
iniquity of jazz, no community as a
unit heretofore has risen to advocate
Jazz prohibition. Critics have at
tackled the barbarity Of jazz and
moralists have blamed it for the
state Of our wild young people, but
it has remained for Asheville to take
practical steps and to pledge mu-
sicians to oppose "catcalls, squawks
of the clarinet and wheezes from the
saxophone, especially in connection
with dance music"
This is no blue law prohibition,
nor does it even suggest an anti-jazz
car as censor of American dance
music. The members of Musicians
Local 1913, of Asheville, in meet
ing duly assembled, have, Of their
own solemn volition, highly re-
solved "that orchestra musicians
playing any engagement must con-
duct themselves as if they were on a
professional engagement and refrain
from making any unnecessary or
unusual noises not indicated in the
music, or making movements con-
spicuously noticeable that would tend
to detract from the dignity of their
profession"
Gone, in Asheville at least, are the
hectic cries of the jazz hounds.
Ignominy awaits saxophonist who
sways or drummer who loses his
decorum. The cornetist who rolls
his eyes does so at his own peril, and
the pianist who initiates Paderewski
faces perdition.
Perhaps this reform will lure more
New Workers. to Asheville. But
think of the number of Ashevillians
it will induce to come to New York !!
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spondents assured us that If there were
no golf links there would be no day.
light saving. have never played q
round Of golf in my life, and num-
Ter many non-golfers among my
friends, unanimous in their praise of
daylight saving. If the links are re-
sponsible for our changed time, more
power to the links, say /.
OLIVE G. RIPLEY.
New York, Aug. 8, 1922.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
A Week of Verse
Song Of Ophelia the Survivor
from The Measayst


from The MsassYsj
THERE is no smirch of sin in yeu---
only its fires.
You are a man burned white with sn,rst.
nal desires;
A restless heat consumes Won: vouy
brain.
Tortured to torturing, Graves for ugly
pain.
Beauty still lives In you and from hsr
Controls your glances and directs Your
feet;
One look from you taught me go much
Of Love
| have all pleasure Just to watch you
That look was like a wet blue mist OF
flowers
Which held compelling loneliness and
sleepy powers,
dreamed Of calling pipes down
warm glade.
By the transposed music Of your soul am
/ betrayed
Pipe FOR me, my dear loveri I will
come,
And your sick soul shall find in me a
home;
I will be your house, clean, high and
strong,
And You shall live in me, all winter long.
AS you are fevsred will be pool
Full Of green shadows, level, silent.
cool.
You shall battle In me. in my being
move.
I will put out your fires with my strong
A thousand changes shall my love reveal
And all it's changes shall have power to
heal;
And in the end, we'll be as we began:
will be simple woman, you my man.
ANNA WICKHAM.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13

was surprised to learn from. one
of the best informed men in the trade
that the sale Of books is larger now
than it has ever been in the history
Of the country, in spite Of the high
cost of printing and the disappearance
Of the dollar and half novel from
the market. In the opinion of the same
authority, the present high prices have
come to stay, at least for an indefinite
number Of years.
To find the genesis of this unprece-
denied demand for reading matter on
the part Of nation declared by its
critics to be given over to dollar-hunt-
ing we must go back nearly a third
of century, when the library move
ment began to make itself felt in all
parts Of the country. Prior to this
there had been Libraries in the larger
cities and also in the smaller towns of
New England, where the reading habit
had been fostercd for generations, but
there were few free libraries of the
sort now found in every corner of the
land. The pay Libraries, though useful
in limited way, served to keep litera-
ture largely in the hands of the
wealthy and we'll to do classes.
Far-Seeing Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper, perhaps the most far
seeing man Of his time. was keenly
alive to the need Of books for those
too poor to pay for them, and his chief
concern in giving Cooper Union to the
city in 1859 was to provide it with a
free library and reading room contain
ing collection of books and magazines
chosen with rare discrimination and
ranging from the daily newspapers in
which opportunities for employment
were advertised to volumes of history,
biography and philosophy. In defiance
Of the prejudice of an illiberal genera
ton he opened his reading room on
Sundays for the benefit of those who
had no other time for reading. 1t is
related of Mr.. Cooper that once when
his librarian showed him a volume torn
from much usage, commenting at the
same time on the criminal carelessness
of readers, the philanthropist replied:
There must be q great many people
anxious to read that book, so you may
order ten new copies"
1t is impossible to say how many
libraries have been established in the
United States since the pressing need
for better educational facilities began
to claim the attention Of enlightened
and benevolent men. There are GER
tainly more than two thousand of them
exclusive of the three or four thousand,
including branches, of the Carnegie
Foundation, and the number is con-
stantly increasing as men of wealth
provide endowments for new ones. Still
more difficult is it to estimate the
cultural benefit derived from these in
stitutions by the communities in which
they are established. Nearly all the
buildings in which the libraries are
housed are Of excellent architecture,
ard for that reason, apart from what
they contain, exercise a refining in
fluence of no small Importance. More
over, in some of the larger cities, not
ably in Pittsburgh, the libraries have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Song for Puritans

(Fron1 The Didl)
"Ods life, must one swear to the truth
Of song?"-Matt. Prior.
4 mike that aged Teian bosster
And those who ape his senile lies,
I cannot show monstrous roster
OF ladies captive 20 my eyes.
Yet five or six I might discover
did grateful prudence not restrain
Who felt a pleasure-giving lover
Should not be cut, but come again.
If this were Ill. may they forgive me;
They never seemed to take alarm;
Whate'er John Wesley says, believe me.
Women know best what does them
harm.
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E. E. CUMMINGS.
These Are But Words

(Frou, Postry)
7 HAVE been happy: let the falcon hy,
And follow swiftly where the light
wings whir--
Let him bring down the reckless wan
derer,
Snatch back that eager rapture from the
sky!
And have been contented: LET me cry
Ny discomfort, until, like reeds astIr
Before the swift, the tragic whisperer.
Broken are these fraiI dreams that
satisfys
I have known laughter: make ma blind
with tears.
I have loved silence: make me deaf with
sound.
For every JOY set vengefuf grief above.
viii net shrink before the threatening
years;
will not falter. will not give ground;
And will love as you would have ma
love!
MuNA LEE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
England's Opportunity

Never was there a greater OPP
,ortunity for a British Prime Min
ister than at London to-day. The
time is plainly ripe for settlement
Of the reparations problem. French
op;nion has grown steadily clearer
mon the practical problem of fore
inr Germany to pay. There is good
reason to believe that the French
government stands prepared to &C
cent radical revision of the repara-
tons total in exchange for certain
praetical gains. One gain would be
an end Of the present strained rela-
tons between France and Great
Britain and clear re-establishment
Of the entente cordiale, upon which
the future peace of Europe largely
rests. Another would be the elimina-
ton of pension claims from the rep
srations total, thus largely reduc-
ing British war claims. Another
would doubtless be the cancellation
Of the French debt to England.
Lastly, there would be guarantees
that German evasion would cease.
The possibility of agreement upon
such basis is clear. Who will make
the first move toward it? The exact
amount of PREPARATIONS can surely be
sxed once the principle of reduction
Is accepted On the one hand, there
can be no abatement of the verdict
that Germany must be made to pay
to the utmost limit that it is prac-
tieable to collect for the damage she
has done. On the other, there must be
realization of just what the prac-
teal difficulties of collection are and
revision of the total sum with due
regard to those difficulties. Complete
Justice being impossible, the Allies
must unite upon a judgment repre-
seating the utmost that it is humanity
possible to enforce. Thus united,
they must stand behind their judg-
ment to the end.
The opportunity we speak Of is
larger than any merely parliament
tary victory, or temporary applause,
Or pride Of tactics. 1t is the chance,
the greatest chance since the armis-
tlce, to win that just peace upon
which alone a secure and restored
europe can go forward. The for
tunes of the entire world are in
VOWED in the issue. Once the de-
eision is made, and made rightly, the
contribution Of America to the gen.
erai welfare of Europe cannot be
~ng delayed.
mere is justice in asking Mr..
1Lloyd George to take the lead in
'hls effort. His was the voice which
at Versailles was largely responsible
ior the inclusion of pension claims
~ 1he Dill for separations. Now the
po"er Is his country's and his to
repair that error upon basis which
Will yield France a maximum of
'essoratlon. There is, concededly,
10 living politician to compare with
ar. Lloyd George in the tactics of
diplomacy. What better crown could
aefe be to his long career than that
. the last he should surrender all
aought of personal maneuvers and
wing his great ability to bear upon
NC single problem of saving Europe?
~s---~~-s->--As~aa---
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More Power to the LinksI''
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: On the subject of daylight
saving echo the sentiments Of r. E.
Ms letter to The Tribune. never
have been able to understand the men
tai processes of the mothers who
lamented that the long twilight de-
prived their children Of their sleep, al
though said children were able to take
midday maps.
As to the adults who are still losing
an hours sleep, if they would stop as
surfing themselves that when the clock
strikes eleven it is ''really only ten"
and go to bed, they would have no
trouble.
A few weeks ago one OF your CORE
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her community. The family that
can indulge in custards and me-
ringues Is always held to be of the
better sort.
Eggs at 25 cents dozen will in
deed be return to normalcy--the
first absolute return since the war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Good Omen

fFrons The Boston Evemim0 Transcriptj
Selection Of place in Norway where
Amundsen may alight if he succeeds in
flying across the pole tends to the idea
that there are many optinaists in that
country.