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The Public Pays
The Interstate Commerce Commis?
sion, by granting a rate increase on
the present volume of traffic, passes
on to be paid by the public the wage
increases granted during the Mc
Adoo r?gime and since, a tax of
$1,500,000,000 a year.
The railroads still labor from
other increased costs of operation,
but are allowed 6 per cent on a valu?
ation of $18,900,000,000. It would
cost much more than this to replace
the railroads, and railroad property
is discriminated against by being de?
nied any dollar benefit from the
fifty-cent dollar; but further confis?
cation is halted, and over this the
great and anxious army of owners
of railway securities may greatly
rejoice.
It is now possible to do something
to build up the railroads and to stop
the recurrent congestions which in?
timately affect the prosperity of
every man, woman and child. Other
money now brings more than (3 per
cent, but tho interest rate will not
forever keep at its present level.
Confidence is the chief thing, and if
investors can be persuaded that their
principal will be respected and that
the era of confiscation ia over rail?
road betterments can be financed.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-:
sion has been largely responsible for
the practical railway bankruptcy
which for some time has prevailed.
It is to be congratulated, and the
country is to be congratulated, on
reversing its policy. If only it sticks
to its new course with the stubborn?
ness with which it adhered to its old
course, then railway rehabilitation
will doubtless be achieved within two
or thufee years.
The new rates are not agreeable
to pay. They drive another nail in
the coffin of the hope that the cost of
living is to fall. Taking the coun?
try as a whole, there is to be an ad?
dition of $15 per head, or $00 to $75
per family. But there was no other
way to keep the railways function
ing if present railway wages are to
continue and other enhanced operat?
ing costs are to be met.
The public pays. It always pays.
Yet some deluded themselves by run?
ning after the phantom that only the
owners of railway property would
pay.
Running Away
Eccentricity is the explanation
given by the widow of a prosperous
physician who abandoned his prac?
tice, disappeared from his usual
haunts and died while serving as a
dishwasher in a New York res?
taurant. It is an obviously compre?
hensive explanation, and yet it
leaves the heart of the mystery un?
touched.
There is no difficulty in under?
standing how even a successful man
may find his occupation pall upon
him. The enthusiasm that is un?
affected by minor irritations is rare.
Nor is nature always easily subdued
to what it works in, like the dyer's
hand. The restless spirit of ad?
venture persists long r.fter youth
has vanished.
The desire to sink into a kind of
oblivion is but the obverse of the ro?
mantic spirit. The boy runs away
because the atmosphere of home is
hostile to his imagination. The man
disappears because he is surfeited
with his circumstances. In both
cases it is a revolt against a too fixed
order. Most of us are conscious of
other potential lives than the one we
are forced to lead. The1 doctor who
turned dishwasher is said to have
liad ideas and tastes his family did
not share. Home offered no alterna?
tive to the deadly round of profes?
sional visits. Is it altogether sur?
prising that ho ran away and accept?
ed a menial task when nothing else
offered?
If "dull mechanic exercise" be an
antidote for grief, it may as easily
be a support and encouragement for
tflie philosophic mind. Who knows
in what world of deep speculation
the self-exiled man of science dwelt
while plates and forks rattled around
him! A feeling of distaste for tho
job may only have thrown him the
more completely upon his mental re?
sources. There is great solace in
contrast. From the ills that flesh
is heir to, from fever patients and
nervous invalids to solid earthen?
ware and unresponsive kettles, was
conceivably the way to tho peace of
tho spirit. Eccentric? Are not
they who pursue life's dull round
after it has become inexpressibly
weary to them more eccentric?
Once there'was a man who after an
active business found happiness in
polishing a cocoanut, and did not the
Emperor Charles V devote his time,
after he voluntarily abdicated, to
trying to make a score of clocks tick
together?
Editing
"Tho Boston Transcript" has sad
experience with one part of the Wil?
son plan of campaign. In its com?
ment on the Harding acceptance pro- !
ceedings it remarked that "a two?
fold sentence of death" was "pro?
nounced at Marion to-day upon the
Wilson covenant."
"Tho New York Times," after
hailing "The Transcript" as the
chief newspaper supporter of Sen?
ator Lodge, and thus acquainted
with his mind, altered the foregoing
into the following :
"Exultingly it ["The Transcript"]
declares that Senator Lodge and Mr.
Harding united in pronouncing 'a
twofold sentence of death' upon
tho League of Nations,"
The Wilson plan of campaign is
to try to make it appear that the
Wilson covenant, is the only possible
or conceivable league of Nations,
hence to oppose its flat ratification is
to oppose any League of Nations.
"The Times" is enlflted in behalf of
the plan.
So far as the Wilson covenant is
concerned, and the place and time it
received its death sentence, "The j
Transcript" is not strictly accurate, j
The place was Washington, not
Marion, and the time was when it, \
clearly appeared that the Wilson j
covenant could, would and should
not be ratified as written. This was
nearly a year ago, when the Senate
majority adopted the Lodge reserva?
tions and public opinion sustained
the action. During the winter and l
spring the way was open for the !
ratification of the Wilson-Lodge |
covenant. But the President would \
not have this, and the Wilson cove?
nant died. i
The final encoffinment occurred
not at Chicago or at Marion but at |
San Francisco, when Senator Walsh, ;
of Massachusfctts, secured in the \
Democratic platform language which |
acknowledges the validity of the res?
ervation principle. This was notice I
that the Wilson covenant as brought !
from Paris not only was dead but
dead beyond hope of resurrection.
The Wilson-Lodge covenant is at j
present in a state of suspended ani-1
mation. Neither the Chicago plat?
form nor the Harding speech makes j
promise?, in regard to it, either for or
against. It may be revived or it
may not be. Nobody can now say.
If two-thirds of the Senate can be
induced to ratify it, if revived, its re?
vival is probable. If there is no
hope of this, then to waste time and
effort in campaigning for it would
show little friendship for the League
of Nations principle, and the prac?
tical thing is to work for a satis- !
factory substitute.
A Fictitious Bulwark
Count Paul Teleki, the new Hun- j
garian Premier, declares that Hun?
gary regards herself the bulwark of
the West against Russian Bolshe?
vism. At the same time the Hun?
garian politicians and propagandists
shout themselves hoarse with com?
plaints that Hungary as constituted
by the Treaty of Neuilly cannot live.
It is difficult to see how a country
which cannot offer subsistence to
nine million people (this is at least
what the Magyar spokesmen assert)
I can be a bulwark against much.
The two pleas appear mutually ex?
clusive. It takes a peculiar blend of
I hypocrisy and self-deception to
argue that the poor little Magyar
nation of eight or nine millions (a
people that abhors war and de?
sires nothing but being left in peace)
is doomed to death by the peace
treaty, and also that the same Mag?
yar people (a race of indomitable
! warriors) is going to fight 120,000,
; 000 Russians.
As between the two varieties of
: Magyar propagandist, the wailing
| and the swashbuckling?the former
has more reality to base his case
| upon. Hungary, terribly weakened
j by six years of war and revolution,
; is bled white by the Treaty of
| Neuilly. That the Magyars, who
j were the ruthless oppressors of
j Slavs and Rumanians and whose
? bullying of Serbia started the World
i War, are getting merely what they
| deserve is another question. But the
, greater the truth in the Magyar
complaints against the treaty the
more ludicrous their high-sounding
language about defending the West?
ern nations against Russian Bol?
shevism.
Of course, when the Magyars say
that they want to fight Russia they
do not mean it at all. They simply
hope that perhaps they will succeed
in bamboozling the Allies into a re?
vision of the territorial settlement
and into allowing Hungary to main?
tain a large army. Count Teleki
himself assumes a revision of the
boundaries as the premise of anti
Bolshevik cooperation. But this re?
vision can take place only at the ex?
pense of Czech?-Slovakia and Ruma?
nia; and even if the Entente would
consent to it nothing practical would
be gained, because Hungary's assist
nnce would be more than balanced
by the enmity of the Czecho-Slovaks
and Rumanians. Neither by her
past nor by her present has Hun?
gary earned a title to exceptional
treatment, and the frantic attempts
of her rulers to evade the conse?
quences of their own crimes and mis?
takes will not increase sympathy for
her in the outside world.
Light in Darkness
As part of tho '.'Books for Every?
body" movement the American Li?
brary Association is seeking to pro?
vide books for tho 75,000 blinded
Americans, soldiers and civilians,
men, women and children. The as?
sociation, in short, intends to live up
to its motto. Through the Immi?
grant Publication Society it is reach?
ing the folk of many tongues who
aro necessarily in tho dark as to
much of America, its customs and its
ideals, until the printed pago can in?
struct them. "Books for Every?
body."
The fund sought is $2,000,000 in
the nation, of which New York City
is expected to raise $200,000 We
hope every reader of The Tribune
will contribute to this cause. Checks
should be made payable to James I.
Clarke, treasurer, 24 West Thirty
ninth Street, New York City, or a
pledge may be given for payment at
a future date. The headquarters of
tho "Books for Everybody" move?
ment are at the above address, and,
if you prefer, contributions can be
made directly there.
To let light in upon every dark?
ened corner of our country is the
aim of this great national undertak?
ing. It deserves the earnest sup?
port of every one who believes in
America and in the clarifying power
of truth.
The Riv?er Promenade
Tucked away in Commissioner
Hulbert's plan for improving the
city's ocean shipping facilities is the
fascinating suggestion of a river
promenade. He says: "It would
afford opportunity for what I con?
sider the feasible and economical
and commercially advantageous
scheme on the North River?namely,
constructing warehouses in conjunc?
tion with the modernizing of the
North River waterfront, with a
promenade between the piers and
warehouses ultimately connecting
Battery Park and Riverside Drive."
Surely an attractive picture!
With the present system of wharf?
age New York might just as well be
inclosed by high stone walls instead
of three rivers and a bay. A walker
from Seventy-second Street to Bat?
tery Park scarcely knows there is a
beautiful river just beyond that
solid wall of buildings. The masts
that project skyward only tantalize.
Along the East River from Bat?
tery Park north an even worse con?
dition exists. The romance of the sea
is at the foot of nearly every street.
The huge commerce of the world
passes by, but the people know little
of it. They might as well live in an
inland town. The life of the Port
of New York is a closed book to the
average New Yorker.
Then, too, the beauty of the oppo?
site shores and the water sunsets and
sunrisings arc shut off as surely as
though not there. Only at Battery
Park and Riverside Drive does New
York avail itself of its natural ad?
vantages. The other miles and miles
of waterfront seem to have made a
cult of ugliness.
Now that it is necessary to re?
model the waterfront the adopted
plan should give us the beauty of
an island city as well as the com?
mercial facilities that are so much
needed. As a start the Mitchel proj?
ect, which Dylan, Craig et al. igno
rantly wrecked, might well be re?
vamped.
The Mysterious Ways of Art
Is there any real relation between
literary "Movements" and Art?the
actual production of great art by
geniiis, that is? The question is sug?
gested by Miss Rebecca West's re?
cent extermination of "the Yellow
'90s" in the following gentle yet
(litter reduction to absurdity of the
Art for Art'.s Sake practitioners:
"It is a chastening thing to turn
! up 'The Yellow Hook' and note that
at least 73 per cent of tho work of
those people who believed that they
were bringing style to England was
Btyleless balderdash; that the short
stories of Ernest Dowson and Arthur
Symons and their followers are the
saddest illustrations of the truth
that the last thing Art thinks about
is rewarding her devotees. They
loved writing; they thought and
talked of nothing else; they
stretched themselves on the rack of
conscientiously irregular habits be?
cause they believed it was good for
their work; heroically they trod the
Mystic Way to the dogs; an?! yet
they could do nothing better than
this stilted fiddling with words, this
laborious manufacture of vast paper
frills to decorate the minutest pos?
sible outlet of an idea."
The literary critic of "The New
Statesman" refuses to be daunted by
these observations and brings for?
ward the undoubted successes of the
period. He claims the later Henry
James?which will strike most read?
ers as rather far-fetched; and he
with more propriety puts on the
credit side George Moore and Max
Beerbohm. Wo have ? notion that
he might have also with justification
included a different but very real
talent?that of Kenneth Grahame.
This is truly a good showing for
any period. But what occurs to us
is tho striking fact that the largest
two figures in current English
literature, by general agreement,
belong to no movement whatsoever.
Wo mean Thomas Hardy and Joseph
Conrad. The latter was writing
"Almaycr's Folly" and "The Nigger
of the Narcissus" in the 'DO? when
literary England was ngog over the
Beardsley excitements and "Tho
Yellow Book" was on every up-to
date center table. Hardy has lived
through how many Movements and
remained himself! Conrad, begin?
ning in the midst of Art for Art's
Sake, has passed through the era of
propaganda and into the present of
futurism?and is still Conrad.
It is wholesome to recall that
George Meredith was a literary con?
temporary of Alfred Lord Tennyson,
that "Richard Fcverel" saw print
along with the first "Idylls of the
King." The most un-Victorian of
novelists lived and worked in the
heart of tho Victorian era.
Going back to George Moore, it
can bo argued that his merit is in
his individual Celticism and that
every "Yellow Book" tendency
counts against his immortality. Max
Beerbohm is, perhaps, a clear prod?
uct of the '90s, probably its one
successful offspring. The remoter
influence of the '90s is another
thing. Every devoted artist?from
Joseph Conrad to Rebecca West?
must own loyalty to that scrupulous
love of form which was too large a
part of "The Yellow Book" creed,
but which must be an elemental
part of every great artist's in
I stinctive equipment. Therein is the
best that can be said for Move?
ments, we imagine. They do keep
old truths alive by rehashing them
in new phrases and applying them
to new forms. Their atmosphere,
however, is mostly bad for the de?
velopment of genius, which usually
flowers independently and afar from
the little groups.
A Market Closed and a Door
Opened
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: An item in the news of the ?lay
: in The Tribune gives an account of the
| protest over the closing of Catharine
Market. Another, from a ?1 if!'? 'rent.
! source, gives the details of the opening
of a form of public welfare service
I which has hitherto been carried on un?
der the name of charity. These events
bear out the, Spanish proverb which
says that "no door is ever closed but
?what another is opened in its place."
"The members of my parish," said
Falber .Tanennuzzi, speaking of the clos?
ing of Catharine Market, aare working
[people. For severity years they have
I been accustomed to get their food in
Catharine Market, and since the market
[ was closed, eight months ago, they have
been sorely pressed."
The other event which is said to
, merit the attention of all those who nrc
interested in New York's hospital sery
i ice, whether ?is official?, taxpayers oi?
ns prospective patients, relates to the
case of the polo player who was cured
of a serious and often fatal affliction
in what he calls tho best institution
i in the world. "All I could spend there,"
i he says, "was $13.50 for a week's room
'rent, which beats any hotel in town."
| All this highly organized and eflicient
; hospital service is to be had for the
asking by anybody afflieted with disease
at Bellevue or other city hospitals.
This fact, it is said, is worth at least
? the momentary consideration of chronic
I fault finders with New York's municipal
institutions.
No one has ever justly found fault
with New York's charitable municipal
medical institutions. There is reason
to find fault with the change that has
made them under the name of welfare
institutions serve a purpose for which
they were never intended by the tax?
payers. Like the Catharine Market
which has been closed, they were In?
tended for the benefit of those who
'would otherwise suffer if they were
! not maintained. Such is not the caso
in the instance above given.
There is more need to-day for niu
. nicipal markets than there is for med
! ical hotels. The price of medical serv
j ice has not soared in proportion to the
; price of food either to the rich or the
! poor. JOHN P. DAVIN, M. 1).
New York, July 27, 1920.
?The Kaiser as a ""Movie" Hero
| To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May I call your attention to a re?
newal of insidious Gentian propaganda?
On the 28th I attended a "movie" in
Point Pleasant, N. J., entitled "Tar?
nished Reputations." The name-of the
author was not thrown on the screen,
nor was that of the director?inten?
tional omissions, so it seemed to me
after having seen the picture. There
was nothing unusual in the story, as
stonjes go. The objectionable feature to
me was that "Dc Wenebourg," with a
face like the Kaiser'.s, was the disinter
I ested friend and protector of the un?
fortunate heroine. He takes her when
released from a reformatory, makes a
famous actress of her, and unselfishly
arranges a reconciliation with the man
(artist) she loves.
I could hardly sit through it. Disgust?
ing! The people ought to be put on
their guard against such propaganda.
JOHN MITCHELL HARPER.
Gladstone, N. J., July 150, 1920.
A Straw Vote
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A straw vote taken to-day by
1,632 people in my factory as to
whether the surface cars of New York
should have an increased fare resulted
as follows:
Yes.1,502
No. 130
None of us own any of the com?
panies' stocks or bonds, but we do be?
lieve in a square, deal and no blackmail
to be paid to politicians.
A T.AX PAYER.
New York, July 28, 1920.
?
The Girl at College
What Smith Gives Her Students in\
Return for Their Four Years
To tho Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: Once upon a time there were
seven thousand women who differed on
most things under the sun, but agreed
unanimously on one point: that the boat
use a girl can make of tho four years
of her. youth that center about twenty
? is to pass them in a certain elm-shuded
i town on tho shores of the Connecticut
River in other words, to go to Smith
; College. They were bo sure of their
! statement that with "infinito resource
and sagacity," not to mention labor, they
gathered together $4,000,000 that the
college by the Connecticut might con?
tinue to grow in strength and useful?
ness. In the course of the gathering it
occurred to them to find out just why
present and future generations for
whom they were working wanted to go
to college, to discover what; they got out
of thos. four years which made them
worth while, to see why a college edu?
cation is, anyway. So they sent a ques?
tionnaire to the undergraduates, of
whom there are some two thousand, nnd
one of the questions they asked was:
I "What is the biggest thing Smith Col
lego has done for you?" Kot all of the
two thousand found time to answer, but
enough of them did to make it. possible
to generalize, and particularize, effec?
tively.
The answers have, on the whole, a
properly feminine variety, but four gifts
; ?>f the college stand out preeminently: a
broader outlook, friends, self-reliance
? and a knowledge of how to think. The
juniors and seniors, those who aro near
ing the end of their college courses, are
particularly grateful for that widening
of their horizons which is surely one of
the chief purposes of a liberal education.
It seems to be not only a menial broad?
ening, but a spiritual and social ,one,
springing from contact with many wom?
en of many minds, from all parts of the
country and till ranks of society.
Friends, of course, are among the
great gifts of life of whose value there
is no need to speak. If four years gave
; one nothing else than the friends of a
lifetime they would be well spent.
The self-reliance, which takes various
forms, independent thinking, poise, abil?
ity to act on one's own initiative, self
confidence, is particularly marked in the
I sophomore class, lately emerged from
the repressions of a freshman year. As
tho student advances, apparently, her
self-reliance, though it does not fail her,
slips into a secondary place.
The thinking takes a variety of forms.
In many cases the "biggest thing Smith
College has done fur me" is stated, sim?
ply and without apologies for the past,
as "taught me how to think." There are
girls who have learned to think inde?
pendently, to think clearly, to think crit?
ically, to think constructively, to use
.better methods of study and thought.
"A sense of responsibility" is another
favorite answer which seems to mean in
most cases a sense of responsibility to
society. "Has made me an interested
and active citizen of the world," writes
one senior. "Has made me realize the
importance of group action," says an
cther. "Made nie realize wha1 opportu?
nities there are for work after college,
also that I ought to make use of them,"
is a junior's summing up of the case.
"Shown me how much there is to be
doiie in the world," says a sophomore,
while another answers the question,
, What are you going to do after you
'graduate? with "Something useful."
Then there is tho vastly imporUint,
i especially to an American, question of
time. Smith seems to have given some
highly appreciated lessons on that sub
| ject. "Taught me to use spare mo?
ments," "taught me to plan my time to
the best advantage," "taught me i?)
eliminate," "taught me tho value of
? time," "taught me that time goes so fast
i 1 can't afford to waste it."
Taking them all in all, it looks as if
Smith College might fairly claim to be
i all things to all women.
MARGARET L. FARRAXD.
South Orange, N. J., July 80, 1920.
Murder in Ireland
Tc the Editor of The Tribuna.
Sir: In to-day's issue ?3 a letter from
Mr. Seumas MacManus in reference to
the recent Belfast riots.
After reciting numerous outrages by
i he Orangemen, he says that "no man
living can recall a party riot, shooting
ami beating in any city or town where
[ the 'intol?rants' hold sway."
Has your correspondent forgotten the
j Easter rebellion of 1916? Does he re
j member the riots and bloodshed which
I accompanied it? True, this was a re-!
j volt, against the "invaders," but any
i loyal Irishman who refused to join
: the republican army was promptly
? shot.
Sinn Fein has always played the bully.
When a murder is committed by a Sinn
| Feiner it is termed l'an act of war."
; But when Carson's followers pursue the
same tactics it is different. Then the
offender are "murderers" and "brig
. amis." Xo case is on record where Sinn
: F?iners have been brave enough to at
? tack the Orangemen when those Orange?
men were armed. It requires no courage
to ambush a man and then murder him,
nor for a hundred men to att;rek a po?
lice barracks of eight and imagine them?
selves heroes.
I am not attempting a defense of the
recent disorder in Belfast. I will say
this, though, that Sir Edward Carson
has repudiated all those taking part in
these outrages and ha:; mobilized his
volunteer:; to prevent further trouble.
The "invaders" also have not been
standing idle. According to Sinn Fein
these men should, its is the case when
'people rebel, do all in their power to
crush the rebels? But what happened?
Carsonite ajid F?inian alike were ar?
rested and the troops made no distinc?
tion between loyalists and rebels.
The Belfast riots are the outcome of
Sinn Fein's policy. I deplore extreme
action on either side. A murderer is a
murderer whether he be Protestant or
Catholic. But the Catholic party has
been hunting for trouble and now when
it comes they throw up their hands in
mock indignation. Truly their motto is
excellent. "Ourselves alone" can do
what they wish, but when Ulster plays
the same game - murder!
F. R. RASTRICK.
Brooklyn, N. Y., July 30, 1920.
AREN'T WE IN DANGER OF OVERPRODUCTION WITH ALL
THIS INCREASE IN LABOR?
rv.pyrlprht. 1120. N??i- Tork Tribun? Inc.
? That Philippine War
Absurd Reports Growing Out of Shipping Law Protests
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The New York papers have pub
lished some ? correspondence from
Manila, under the responsibility of Mr.
Prazier Hunt, in which the following
paragraphs occur:
"For the first time in years there
is a possibility of real trouble in the
Philippine' Islands. The Filipinos are
vibrating with excitement over passage :
of the bill by Congress which, at the
discretion of the President of the
United States, places the Philippines
under the new coastwise shipping law.
"Great popular meetings of thou?
sands of natives are being whipped into
fnry against the Americans. Heading
a movement for war on the United
States is .Manuel Quezon, president of
the Philippine Senate."
This is so ridiculous and absurd that
under ordinary circumstances it would
not be necessary to expose it to the
public as a fake of the worst kind. Un?
fortunately, however, there is a part of
the American reading public who are
not conversant with conditions exist?
ing in the islands and who might be
easily misled by such fantastic
"stories." It is for the benefit of this
portion of the, American population
that this letter ij written.
It is true that both the Philippine
government and the Filipino people are
strongly opposed to the extension of
the coaswise laws of the United
States to the islands. Their attitude
is prompted by the consciousness
that the operation of these laws in
the islands would be a terrible blow
not only to the material interest of
the Filipinos, but also to their po?
litical ideals. These points of view
do not in any way mean hostility to
tho American government and the
American people. It is a protest
based on the sound American prin?
ciple that no law should be enacted
without the consent of the governed
and that it -is the fundamental right
of a citizen to protest respectfully
: and strongly against any measure that
? he deems detrimental to his or the
commonwealth's interest. In this re
! spect it would be enough to say that
a portion of the American community
in the Philippine Islands is also an?
tagonistic to the extension of the
United ?States coastwise laws to the
Philippines. Furthermore, even in
this country there are many pe?ople
who are convinced of the unwisdom
and unfairness of this measure.
There is no mere possibility of the
! Filipinos waging war against the
United States than the citizens of
New York going to Washington to
overthrow by force of arms the pres?
ent Administration, Facts have amply
demonstrated that the- Filipinos are as
loyal to the American government as
the most loyal American citizen. The
pre ?dent of the Philippine ?senate,
the Hon. Manuel Quezon, whom Mr
Hunt boldly states is heading "s
movement for war on the United
States," was the first Filipino to
i raise his voice during the war in?
viting all i : people to offor every?
thing they had, their lives an,i prop,
orties, to Uncle Sam. It was main?
ly flue to his activities that tin
rib] inos rose like a m?n and offeree
their all to the United States.
When I left the Philippines a montl
ago meetings <if popular protes'
against the extension of the coast
:
wise laws of the United States to the
islands were being held everywhere.
I know that similar meetings have
since then be<-<n and are being held
now in Manila and the provinces.
The sentiment expressed in these
meetings, both by President Quezon
and other leaders of my people, is
one of frank and energetic but dis?
passionate protest against this meas?
ure.
In closing, I am going to quote- the ?
following statement to the press made
by President Quezon in answer to
some silly charges of certain ele
ments against his attitude:
"I still oppose the- measure, but it
is silly for people to bruit the un?
truth about Manila that I favor, or
have said 1 would favor, using force
to resist its application. We have
constitutional means which we can
invoke to procure the repeal of the
law and I will avail myself of these
and titele only. I have great hope
that the law will be repealed before
tho date set for it to become effec?
tive." FIDEL A. REYES,
Director Bureau of Commerce and
Industry, Philippine Government.
New York, July 30, 1920.
The Naughtiness of Apparel j
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Hibbens rage and imagine j
a vain thing. Were there not the bustle :
and the eelskin skirt, the Grecian bend
and the crinoline? Have not mine eyes
beheld the bang and the rat. the cork- \
screw curl and the waterfall and tho !
chignon? Yea, I have seen them, for 1
be old; the grave yawneth.
They had their pestilences, their
Hibbens, yea, each unto its kind, false
prophets of evil. They said the
naughtiness of the apparel shall bring;
th? people unto destruction. The peo- j
pie live, and they are naught.
They said the woman shall find a
husband, she shall not order her rai- ,
ment that she lind favor in his sight,
nay, :-he shall find favor by the aus?
terity of her garments, by the sobriety
of her goings an.l comings, so may sha
find a mate of the tribe of Hibben.
And I say unto her that powdereth
her nose, that bobbeth her hair, tb^at
shorteneth her skirt, that she may be j
refreshing unto the eye, to her I say,
thou hast the blessing of an old man;
go to it. But unto the Hibbens I say
go to?go to?go to, thou naughty var
let. F. W. T.
Brooklyn, July 29, 1920.
The Uproarious Motorcycle
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why are motorcycles permitted
to use the streets without mufflers (and
who ever saw one run any other way ?
Our hospitals are filled with nervous
wrecks, and no wonder, when we must
suffer from the unnecessary and un?
lawful noises of our city's streets.
Are the police asleep?
GEORGE BOSTWICK.
New York, July 30, 1920.
A Cox Slogan: Cured
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "The Evening World" has or is
trying to get a twelve-word slogan. How
about this, that I have printed on my
j stationery: "I voted for Wilson; I'm
cured"? R. W. ANDERSON.
Pittsburgh, Pa., July 30, 1920.
What the Jobber Does
Enables Whole Public to Buy
Econ
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "Ultima te C? : in a com?
plaint in Friday's Tr . "Why
the jobb: r?"
If "Ultimate Consumer" be at ail
acquainted with the metl
here ail
of us wo :hi b > were it not
1 der ;i grocery s :. re chere every?
thing comes fr; ?:
In the first place, ? : we go
to find compl ite il i .ghbor
hood retailer has on 1 - about
four hundred .i ff da of ?roods
made by about one hundred different
manufacturers. Tho^e are supplied by
less than halt" a dozen jobbers. How
cculd the customer be ?.ven pr?s?:
service a all of ,; came iirect
from ''i:7H:ier
would .". .'.1 a !..:- c'iorica!
force, .
[ a pui . irtment
to see mon
tomers. The *e salesm be work?
ing for the furl ' '.her own
product, while the f n of the
various jobbers help I 1er to a
sensible and varied selection of goods to
meet the customers' v.
The large number ci competing man?
ufacturers could never have the interest
for the retailer's good will and success
that the jobber has. He can supply the
retailer with stocks not too l irge for bis
customers' neeils, being perfectly satis?
fied with the small orders for individual
commoditie i that r would
'auch al Without thi ? would
he fort HI ??
'
op?rai ing ou
. mall v ':..\^r wo to raise
As it
i... now ? i for
the whole public to buj illy. "e
increases retail efficiency and encour?
ages retail competition and thereby
reduces the cost to us.
I cannot justify your correspondent!
treatment in being charged 60 cunts for
a piece of won,!, but I do want her to
know, "Why the jobber?" The argu?
ments in favor of a grocery jobbers
service are just as pertinent *.n the jo0*
her of household utensils, who certain?
ly handles scores of other articles.
DONALD E. MA?FARLANE. I
Waterbury, Conn., July 30. 1920. !
In Summer
' From The Nai to? I
? THINK these stars that draw *>
strangely near,
That lean and listen for the turning
Earth,
Are never wholly careiess when they
hear
The murmur of her hushed and quie'
mirth?
But looking out upon a world in bloom.
They half-remember, and they be?
and hark:
A reminiscent sweetness in the gloom,
A music older than this singir.? ?H***
? Their summers gone, so many aeons P*5"**
Bird-song and bloom and swu?io
from the sky,
?These dead, desi reles? world* find h*?1*?:
at last, fc ?
Something remembered when --
Earth turns by,
Sweet with these blowing odors they h*
known, . i
This happy music that was once the?,
own.
DAVID MORTON.