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Collapse
The Kenyon investigation so far
teems to have established?
That Governor Cox is out some?
where in the grass looking for a
lest ball.
That Chairman White of the
Pemocratic National Committee,
knows nothing?that the candidate
has told him nothing, though he
saw him on Sunday.
That Treasurer Marsh of* the
democratic National Committee sees
nothing objectionable in the Republi?
can fund and its raising?is scrupu?
lously careful not to criticize, much
less condemn, the methods or pur?
poses of Messrs. Hays and Upham.
That Bill Barnes is still Bill
Barnes and enjoys seeing his name
on the title page of a book.
The collapse of the Cox sensation
is noiseless?there was not enough
pressure in the balloon to make its
bursting attract attention. In fact,
there was no bursting at all?the
gas merely oozed out.
The friends of Governor Cox deny
he is a politician of a cheap ward
type who succeeded by an accident of
politics in foisting himself on his
party as a Presidential candidate.
But so far he has furnished little
evidence to refute the charge.
Withering Our Export Trade
For the first time since the Civil
War period this country now stands
forth as a great and powerful mari?
time nation. As recently as 1914
there were only enough American
ships to carry 9.7 per cent of
America's foreign commerce. In the
shost space of six years our mer?
chant fleet has grown from 1,066,000
tons to 10.680,000 tons, and to-day
it is carrying 42 per cent of our
goods in commerce with other lands.
Those experienced in the shipping
business seem united in believing
that under the provisions of the La
Follette act American vessels cannot
carry cargoes as cheaply as can ves?
sels flying foreign flags. We have
the ships and in course of time
should be able to obtain crews to
man them. But how can we keep the
ships busy; how can we make Ameri?
can shipping a profitable business,
thereby assuring its permanence, if
ships flying foreign flags?the Japa?
nese flag, for example?undersell
our transportation rate??
How? SenAor Harding has ex?
pressed his judgment. "The coun?
try," he says, "should pay its ship?
ping for carrying the mails as other
countries pay. About all that would
have to be done would be for us to
pay as subsidies what other nations
are willing to pay us for carrying
their mail3." And he makes no
bones about adding: "You might
call this a subsidy."
Senator Harding told of two sister i
ships which met and parsed each
other in the Pacific. One was an ?
American ship, the other British, i
Senator Harding was aboard the j
American vessel. ? Captains of the ;
two vessels?who happened to be |
father and'son?talked by wireless. |
Each had much mail. Asked about
the price for carrying American !
mail, the captain of the American
ship said:
"I am ashamed to tell you, but the
British government is paying my ?on
thirty times what the United State? :
would pay me for taking the same ,
mail to Australia."
Great Britain knows, from long i
experience, the vital necessity of i
maintaining and constantly enlarg?
ing her merchant marine. Under ?
Modern conditions steady work, with
uninterrupted wages, depends to ?
great extent on the ability of an in- i
du?trial people to send its surplus >
goods abroad in its own ships and
to Mil them in foreign markets. Yet
there is political fear of the word
"subsidy."
Through a protective tariff system
American industry ha? developed. In I
establishing a tariff the Federal gov-1
crament aided the American people j
to manufacture goods. It does not
feem illoglepl that the government;
1 kew?se should aid them to sell1
; broad the surplus goods they pro?
duce and cannot consume at home.
Will- the idea that the American
people are fool? and dolts never dis
eppea?? Will it be forever assumed
that they so lack intelligence that j
they e?n bo scared Taj bogey cries? :
Whe ?mm ? right to ?ay that ws so
UastsmSi M? te ?fee thai vrtXh
out aid our merchant marine Is cer?
tain to wither, and that if it withers
a large part of our export trade will
wither with it??
Budenny's Downfall
Warsaw now reports the annihila?
tion of General Budenny's Red army.?
It is a capstone to the recent mili?
tary achievements of the Poles. Bu
denny gave them more trouble than
any other Russian commander. It
was he who loosened their hold on
Kiev after they thought they had
planted themselves firmly in the
Ukrainian capital.
Budenny had a sound idea. The
Polish infantry was more than a
match for the Soviet infantry. But
the Poles had very few horses and
hardly any efficient cavalry. Russia
had an abundance of horses and
! many trained riders. Budenny con?
ceived the plan of harassing the
Poles by breaking through their thin
I line at exposed points and raiding
their communications. He first
swept up into their rear to the south?
west of Kiev and cut their transport.
His force was highly mobile, and Pil
sudski's infantry couldn't cope With
it. Kiev had to be abandoned. The
Poles retired slowly, but they were
kept on the go on the southern front
for weeks, and finally abandoned Po
dolia and Volhynia and brought up
to the east of Lemberg.
The Russian commander in the
north imitated Budenny's tactics.
The rapidity of the Red advance into
Poland and then to the Vistula was
due largely to the employment of
! mounted troops. The Poles were
! compelled by constant raids on their
I rear lines to shorten their front, and
? the shortening process continued
? until they had concentrated their
j armies about Warsaw for a counter
' offensive. When close infantry
fighting was resumed the Reds were
j routed.
Budenny had been threatening
i Lemberg while the mass of the Pol?
ish army was fighting further north
tf, relieve Warsaw. Pilsudski has
now turned on the Re*d cavalry chief,'
surrounded him and wiped out hi*
command. With Budenny's prestige
gone and his prize divisions de?
stroyed, the, Russian collapse on the
west front is complete. The most
important Red factor for offense or
defense has been eliminated. The
[ Polish left wing is again cleared.
There seems to be no military ob?
stacle in sight to such a Polish ad
I vanee as will reap the full strategic
advantage of Poland's sweeping vic?
tories.
In Days of Old
In days of old, men?because they
were oppressed, because they suf?
fered from injustice, and because
they lived near the line of starva?
tion?came together for self-protec?
tion and to obtain the necessaries
of life.
As they grew in strength and pros?
pered their dependence on society
became greater and greater. Then
curtain robber bands arose who vir?
tually controlled many of the high?
ways of commerce and exacted trib?
ute from all who used these high?
ways.
The demands of these at last became
so outrageous that they threatened
the very life of all society and all
commerce. Then society, aroused at
last, put an end to these organized
highwaymen by reformation or ex?
termination, according to the choice
of the highwaymen.
So to-day we have organized bands,
brought together originally to pro?
cure the justice they could not ob?
tain in other ways, and some of them
have waxed so fat and become so
prosperous that they see no limit to
the toll they can exact from a long
suffering and patient public.
. But already society is grumbling,
and soon its patience will be ex-,
hausted. When that happens, the
striker? who strikes without just
cause, who strikes for pleasure or
merely because he believes he can
prey on the rest of society, will i
surely see history repeat itself.
A Myth Unmade
Though there was never any g.Tiod '
reason to doubt the murder of the
Czar and Czarina, with all their
children, the legend that they were
still alive has persisted, and it is
well to have all possible doubt as to
the fact removed. This has been
very effectually done by two writers, i
who, carrying on their investiga- |
tions independently, agree on the
essential facts.
The Dowager Czarina, the mother
of Nicholas, who has hitherto clung
to her hope, is said at last to be
convinced. The theory that faithful
servants helped to conceal the sur?
vivor or survivors is effectually dis?
credited by the statement that the
only persons with them, their physi?
cian and three attendants, were mur?
dered at the same time and in the
same manner. It was one Yurovski,
their jailer, who ordered them to be
shot. The testimony on this point
comes from residents of Ekaterin?
burg and soldiers who witnessed the
event. Characteristically enough,
Lcnine rewarded Yurovski with a
well-paid government post.
The continued reporta that the im?
perial unfortunates were alive arose
rather from that curious love of the
fabulous which has made more than
one historical mystery, from Sroerdis
tho Persian to the Four False Dmi?
tris of Russia? one at whom reigned
M Cms. On? of the ?most famous of
these, as every one knows, is con-'
cerned with the son of Louis XVI,
the young Dauphin, who died from
neglect and abuse at the hands of a
shoemaker to whose custody he was
committed, but who survived dually
in the persons of Naundorff and
Eleazar Williams. The Naundorff
'legend gained great credence, and
his descendants sought to enforce
their claims. Williams wrote a book
to assert his identity with the Bour?
bon prince, but no competent in?
vestigator ever took it seriously. In
our own time we have heard the
story that Parnell was still alive
in Ireland, and the other story that
Lord Kitchener was not drowned
when the Hampshire went down, but
was taken prisoner by the Germans.
None of the supposed revivals in
the flesh of those reported dead can
exceed in interest the case of Perkin
Warbeck, the pretended Duke of
York, the younger son of Edward
IV, traditionally murdered- in the
Tower by order of Richard III.
There are features in this case which
distinguish it from vulgar impos?
tures. In the first place, there is
nothing proving that the princes
were murdered in the Tower, least of
all by Richard III; there is good
reason to believe that both were
alive after Henry Tudor came to
! the throne. Perkin won great faith
j from those who should best have
! known the circumstances. His con
j fession under duress counts less than
! the fact that he bore himself
| throughout as one of high birth;
j that the Plantagenet relatives of the
i Duke of York supported his claims,
I and that the Earl of Warwick, his
i '
i fellow prisoner in the Tower, be
j came his intimate companion. His
| tory is forced to give the Scottish
| verdict, "Not proven."
There seemed at one time a like
? lihood that the little Czarevitch
I might some day reappear in some
j fashion. But there is now no ground
? left for any historical dispute over
the claims of a pretender.
The Campaign's Meanest
Senator Ledge at last unbends to
: mention the misrepresentation of
i him carried in the De?nocratic plat- j
form. He is therein charged with :
urging the making of a separate |
j peace?those preferring the accusa-j
; tion fully understanding what the '
'? phrase means. No wonder his blood
j comes as near to boiling as the blood ?
of any one within the influence of
i the ?Sacred Cod is able to.
To say a man urged a separate
I peace is, ef course, to accuse him of
i having advocated abandoning our
allies in war time?not technical
! war, but real war. Russia taught
the world what the words imply.
They are lplack and ugly?as black
and ugly as the thing they refer to.
During the war Senator Lodge
: unwaveringly held that the way to
end it was to go straight through
with it. He did not insist that our
partners should not be called allies,
but coldly styled associates. He did
not suggest it was wicked to demand
unconditional surrender.
Even during the peace negotia?
tions it is not recorded that he or-;
dered the engineers to get up steam
on his; Martha Washington. He did
not counsel a boycott of Italy be- !
cause Italy was not willing to disin?
terest herself in the fate of the j
Adriatic Italians, who saw that those
who wore the Austrian uniform one
day ami another the next proposed
to continue their rule. He did not
argue that it was cruel and oppres?
sive to ask the Germans to pay for
a little of the damage they had done.
?Surely, the Massachusetts Senator
was a queer sort of separate peace
champion.
Governor Cox, instead of apolo?
gizing for the misrepresentation, put
it into his speeches just after a visit
to the White House, even as Chair?
man Cummings inserted it in his
speech after a visit to the White
House. Charity, of course, demands
that the concurrence be regarded as
purely accidental, but, looking at the
accident and others like it, a species
of explanation is furnished as to the
ill luck of the White House in gain?
ing and holding friends.
Was Always Perverse
There is one achievement of the
present Administration which has
largely passed out of notice. We
refer to the first guaranteed plan to
solve the high cost of living problem.
You, of .course, recall how this
was done. The process was simple:
tariff bars were let down so that
American robber barons could no
longer prey on us and foreign ones
could. The mere fact that the cost
of living perversely faileci to recog?
nize the beneficent work of the Ad?
ministration and failed to come
down makes the accomplishment
none the less notable, for it was not
wholly devoid of results. Something
else of eijual importance did even?
tuate?namely, depression'. Times
were had in the early part of 1?U4
and unemployment was increasing
alarmingly. Mr. Wilson, however,
with one of his fine phrases of emo?
tional economics, told us that it was
only "psychological d?pression," and
that settled that.
But when we recall 1914, Mr.
Ilarding's assertion that a protec?
tive tariff is a real issue doesn't
seem quite as absurd as our neigh?
bor The Time? would have us be?
lieve. When we look at tho record
of mounting imports it doesn't seem
absurd at all.
Anyway, it Is a suggestive fact
that the first thing that came in
with the-Administration was depres?
sion and that the same intruder is
knocking as the economic influence
of the war wanes._
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Harding s Newspaper
Creed
I mists on Accuracy, Fairness, Clean?
ness and Cenerositv
To |he Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following is aft authenti?
cated copy of Warren G. Hardlng's
newspaper creed:
Remember there are two sides to
every question. Get them both.
Be truthful. Get the facts.
Mistakes are inevitable, but strive
for accuracy. I would rather have one
story exactly right than a hundred half
wrong.
Be decent, be fair, be generous.
Boost?don't knock. -
There's good in everybody. Bring out
the good in everybody, and never need?
lessly hurt the feelings of anybody.
In reporting a political gathering,
! give the facts, tell the story as it is,
not as you would like to have it. Treat
! all parties alike.
j If there is any politics to be played
we will play it in our editorial columns.
Treat all religious matter reverently.
If it can possibly be avoided, never
bring ignominy to an innocent man or
? child in telling of the misdeeds or mis
! fortunes of a relative.
Don't wait to be asked, but do it
without the asking, and, above all, be
clean and never let a dirty word or sug
j gestive story get into type.
I want this paper so conducted that
it can go into any home without de
i stroying the innocence of any child.
The above instructions were given to
every reporter and writer .on The
Marion (Ohio) Star, have long been in
force and exemplify the character of the
Republican candidate?and next Presi?
dent of the United States.
HENRY IRVING NEWELL.
Brooklyn, Aug. 31, 1920.
Campaign Funds Hypocrisy
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Should the Republican party pre?
vail in the coming election, as we hopo
it will, the mud-slinging tactics of the
Democratic candidates' would insult a
majority of the citizens of the United
States through their insinuation of vote
buying. '
For the sake of argument, let us as- !
sume $15,000,000 will ba raised for the
needs of the party. This amount, owing
to the increased cost of supplies, trans?
portation and the other items necessary :
in legitimate campaign work, would be '
the equivalent of about $5,000,000 eight '
years ago, a figure that would call for
no comment. For one I sincerely hope a
fund of much over $15,000,000 will bo
raised. It could be used to great ad- '
vantage in honest propaganda, bearing
in mind how the Democratic party, for
some years past, has used government
agencies and government funds for the
exploitation of the party and some of
the prominent members of that party. j
? The days of vote buying are past. '
These are the days of the presentation
of policies, platforms and party aspira?
tions through proper channels of com- .
munication. This costs money and lots
of it.
Furthermore, is it not curious that a
Democratic candidato should 'insult a
Democratic voter by ihe insinuation
that his vote is purchasable with Repub
lican money!
Let candidsntes not forget that funda?
mentally . mankind is honest, and that
there is no party distinction among
the very small percentage of mankind
that is otherwise. REPUBLICAN.
New Canaan, Conn., Aug. 31, 1920.
The Baggage Express Settlement
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: You have doubtless observed that
the so-called strike of the expressmen
has ended in a way to encourage other
strikes. The employing companies made
no effort to continue operations, or to
replaco ihe strikers. Instead they
"passed tho buck" to the Public Service
Commission, which grants tho men sal?
ary increases estimated at $350,000 a
year. To the companies?-which hold a
monopoly at our terminals is granted
the right to tas-, travelers 25 cents addi?
tional on each piece of baggage.
It was estimated by The Tribuno dur?
ing the strike that 10,000 pieces of bag?
gage daily are handled in New York.
At 25 cents a piece this adds to the
company's revenue $902,500. Concession
in wages to the men, $350,000. Net
profit to companies for not contesting
the strike, $552,500.
The Public Service Commission is
said to have made this ordiT for three
months only. Perhaps in that time its
members may be made to see that in
congested Manhattan, with short hauls,
the public is already being charged more
for baggage trunsf<r than in any other
city of the United States. It costs ?nore
to get a trunk from the Pennsylvania
Terminal to the Grand Central than to
check it thence to destination hotel in
a Pacific Coast city.
WILLIS J. ABBOT.
New York, Aug. 30, 1920.
In the Dog Days
(From The Philadelphia Rcronli
The fact that an unlicensed man bit
a dog up in Kensington the other day
directs attention anew to u danger that
cannot be too frequently pointed out,
especially to tho parents of youthful
canines. Of course, not every vicious
man is mad, and such incidents may be
due to the irritation produced by this
sultry August weather; but it is well
to take every precaution, and when a
dog is bitten under such circumstances
it should promptly have the wound cau?
terized. The news report does not state
whether the man who bit the dog was
shot by the police, but if not he should
be placed under observation and segre?
gated from his kind. It is obvious thnt
in this kind of weather men should not
be allowed to ?run ut large, especially
in neighborhoods where young dogs nro
playing in the streets, without muzzles.
Yet They Rise
(Form The Baltimore Bun)
Air gets thinner m one goes higher,
and so do ?scales as prices go higher.
The Conning Tower
In Court
The clerk administers
The oath ; a word or two
I catch. Then "Swelpye God!"
He says. I say, "I do."
The paintiflf's lawyer calls
Me to the witness seat;
He tries to show I lie,
Dissimulate and cheat.
A pudgy fellow, he,
And very commonplace;
He roars to hide the fact
He does not know his case. !
I
He seems to think he can
Convict me with his eyes.
"Answer me?Yes or No?"
R?it?rant he cries.
Is it for sake of truth
You point and stare and roar?
For justice do you yowl
Like some strange carnivore?
Dear sir, in spite of rant
And histrionic look,
The affable old judge
Has read you like a book.
So has the jury, too,
United for the right
I Against right's enemy,
The legal blatherskite.
Agr?cola Strong.
Too slight is our knowledge of eco?
nomies to assert whether it is the Law
i of Diminishing Returns, or what it is;
j but it strikes us that the sums quoted
j in stories about liquor seizure are
menningless. When you read that $75,
000 worth of liquor has been seized, it
is hard?and increasingly harder with j
tho passing of the months?to know l
whether it means 75,000 bottles of rye
or about five cases of gin.
Sing the Giants:
Oh ho! for the T?rate team!
Oh ho! for the Pirate team!
It is, it is a horriblo dream
To play the Pirate team.
. The thing seems innocent, but there
are any number of men who have
signed their death warrants with one
hand, while looking into the eyes of a
beautiful woman with the other.?From
"A Turn of the Wrist," by William
Hamilton Osbornc, in the Satevepost,
Proving again that the hand is
quicker than the eye.
S-rlal ?No. 7598
[Mr. Newton Parker is visiting Mr. Parker
Newton, the well known landscape painter,
at his home on Terrace View, Norfolk.?
Winuted, Conn., Citizen.]
Said Parker Newton to Newton Parker,
"We'd rnti'h some trout it the day were
darker."
"I ?hink it's a better day for shcotin',"
Saiil Newton Parker to Parker Newton.
Literature holds its traditional own.'
During Tuesday's matches at Forest
Hills, P. W. noticed an u>her in Sec?
tion 3 reading?when not ushing??
"Monnu Vanna."
During the second set of tho Nilos
Johnston match on Wednesday, a
young Englishwoman in the stand re?
marked that there appeared to be
many in tho gallery who didn't un?
derstand tennis. "In England," she'
said, "everybody goes, and everybody
knows about it." The score reached
0.5. "Why do they go on?" she asked.->
"Aren't six games a set?"
In the case of Mayor MacSwinoy, the.
United Kingdom can't win. If the U. K. j
releases him, there'll be trouble; if the ;
U. K. doesn't, and he dies, there'll be !
trouble.
WILP ASTERS
Wild Asters blooming in the lone!
They Bet again my heart agio v.
The fairest (lowers in Autumn's tuiii.
They come 't*dxt Summer's shine and rain
And Winter's bleak with ice and snow,
Wild Asters blooming in the lane.
They bring oblivion of pain :
Their beauty leads to long airo.
The fairest flowers in Autumn's train!
Like Cana's wine, until the wane '
Nature hath kept this draught below,
Wild Asters blooming in the lane.
Amid the rocks that mosses stain
How sweet their swaying to and fro
The fairest flowers in Autumn's train.
O I shall smile at Winter's bane,
Their starry grace hath cheered me so, j
Wild A.ters blooming in the lane,
The fairest flowers in Autmn's train.
Sami'rl Mintl'Bn Puck.
As the contribs point out, the year's
best dramatic article is.Mr. Will Hays's
review of George White's Scandals of
1920.
The Complete Letter Writer
[Received by ai* A?llrondack boarding house] !
I have a card refering me to you? '
houso for board by request. I have
been disappointed in procuring board
this summer at Hague on Lake George
where I have spent many summers.
They are all full. So I apply to you for
Room comfortable Room and Bed with .
board for Aug. and part of Sept. I am
a widow lady and would like to como i
very SOON. Please kindly let me know I
very'soon all particulars, and your-very !
cheapest Rate for a long stayer. Want j
to come vary soon Right away, as early
as possible. Hoping to hear very soon
and Oblige Yours,
Very Respectfully.
As to tho quarry and the chase,
Gelett Burgess said it all moro than
twenty years ago:
Not tho quarry, but the chase;
Not the laurel, but the race;
Not tho hazard, but the play,
Make mo, Lord, enjoy alway.
Cheer up! If, owing to the van-driv?
ers' strike, you can't move out on Oc?
tober I, neither can the new tenant
move in. And that may nonplus even
a landlord.
If the towermen atrike, this Turret
will bolt the union.
F. P. A.
IF WE KEEP HARPING ON THE CURSE OF THE CAMPAIGN
FUNDS LONG ENOUGH.
>^>^>^>^>^>^>^>^>^>^.^.^H Copyrljfht, 1?20, N?w York Trlbuti? Inc.
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UOfc]? Hey wood Bronn
The second series of Books in Gen- .
eral, by Solomon Eagle, who is J. C. i
S-iuire, the English critic, is middling!
good. Sometimes he seeir.a to pick:
quarrels with inoffensive reputations
merely for the sake of creating a con-i
troversy on which to build an essay.
Thus, he devotes several pages to prov-j
ing that James Whitcornb Riley was
not a great poet. Even a critic should ,
have certain compunctions against ?
?bombarding unfortified places. We
wonder just whom Solomon Eagle
sought to enlighten. We had not sup- I
posed that there was any one who !
thought of the pleasant and amiable,
Hoosier versifier as among the sun- |
touched few or even as a craftsrhan !
in high standing. Certainly he made
no such claim himself and none has
been made for him. He should be left '
in peaco, safo from the raids of criti?
cal goblins.
There is, however, one piece of
shrewd and interesting comment in
Eagle's essay on Riley. Quoting two
stanzas of The Funny Little Fellow,
the English critic writes: "But the
stanzas illustrate very woll what was
really wrong with Riley; it was not
that he was too naive, but that he !
wasn't na?ve enough. He was sophis
ticatcd without being intelligent. He j
was always self-conscious, whether ho |
was attempting to write as he con
ceived that other poets had written
or whether he was setting out to in?
terpret tlie feelings of the strong and
simple folk of the prarie."
Somebody could take this as. an ex
c?*l!ent text for a discourse on Ameri- i
c;in literature. Not that American lit?
erature is without distinction, but
rather that little of the best which
has come out of our country is au?
thentically American. Our list of nn- j
tive authors who derive chiefly from ?
their own soil would include Walt!
Whitman, Mark Twain, Ring Lardner
and George Ado. At the moment we :
can think of no others. ?
There ?3 encouragement in reading ?
Eagle's essay, "Tobacco," because it l
recalls the fact that there is still hope
for the continued use of the dangerous
narcotic in spite of the growing move?
ment to include this, too, among the
prohibitions. After all, Dr. Pease was
never more violent than James the j
First, who wrote in his Counterblaste
to Tobacco: "A custome loathsome to I
the eye, hateful to the nose, harme- ;
full to the braine, dangerous to the
lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume '
thereof, neerest resembling the hor- [
rible Stigian smoke of the pit that is
bottomlesse."
Then there was Burton, in the
Anatomy of Melancholy, who described
tobacco as "a plague, a mischief, a
violent purger of goods, land, health,
hellish, devilish and damned tobacco,
the ruin and overthrow of body and
soul."
"I left a requisition in our Com?
pany's library for The Moon and Six?
pence," writes F. D. "When I called
for the book tho librarian asked mo
if it was for myself. Having told her
it was, sho refused to give me the
book, because it is not circulated. Do
yon know any reason why the book
should be barred to mai I am nine?
teen years of age. If you feel that
you are in a position to tell me, please
let me know in your column and also
let me know at what bookshop I can
buy the book. P. S.?I'm a girl."
We suppose the explanation lies in
the postscript. A number of moralists
have hold that The Moon and Sixpence
is not suitable reading for young girls.
Accordingly, Miss F. D. must buy the
hook, which only goes to support the
dramatic theory that it's the woman
who "pays and pays and pays."
Going through the upper right-hand
drawer, which contains letters which
ought to be answered and haven't been
just yet, wc came across one in particu?
lar which made us feel thoroughly
ashamed of our negligence. "I attend
the De Witt Clinton High School and
am in my senior year," wrote our cor?
respondent. "Early last week my Eng?
lish teacher gave the class the follow?
ing assignment, 'Write a description of
a heroine as though it were taken from
the middlo of some unwritten novel.'
I read your column and I remembered
that several week3 ago you had ad?
vised writers that it would not injure
their 'stories if their heroines used a
little rouge now and then. Although
not a professional writer, I followed
your advice. I, therefore, described
the heroine of that unwritten novel as
having her cheeks 'daubed with rouge.'
For this I was called 'stupid and in?
sincere' and was not given a passing
mark. On the other hand, the greater
part of the class, which depicted ideal
heroines resembling Greek goddesses,
received passing marks."
The writer goes on to ask that his
letter be answered privately and not
in the columns of The Tribune, as he
does not wish his complaint to come to
the attention of the teacher.
However, term-time is done now and
our correspondent has been graduated.
At this late date we offer sympathy.
This is the only time we can remem?
ber that any of our advice has been
followed closely enough to result in
tragedy. We have forgotten just what
we said about heroines and rouge, but
it does seem to us that "daubed with
rouge" is a little more than we recon;
mended. And yet there have been such
heroines, and we think our reader had
a perfect right to endow his heroine
with all tho rouge he pleased. Sight
unseen, we much prefer her to any
of the other heroines in the class.
Our Dead in France
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial "Our Dead in
France" is most excellent and timely.
They went to fight for justice, and
their martyrdom in its cause will be
most fittingly and impressively set forth
for an exemple to future generations
by their massed graves in France.
Their removal would be a belittlement
of them and the cause they died for.
THE FATHER OF ONE OF THEM.
Englewood, N. J., Aug. 31, 1920.
The Deadliest Weapon
iFrom The Cincinnati Enquirer)
The way tho Bolshevik! have been
routed leads us to believe the Poles
turned the water on thorn. That's the
only thing that could make tbrat run
Ilk? that.
Despoiling the Public
Minority) Labor Croups Which Play
Tyrant
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There's been much written and
more said about the downtrodden gen?
eral public and how long-suffering we
are, but to date nothing has been d;.r.e
about it.
Now, when it comes to a point where
any one man or group of men, be they
laboring men or capitalists, c;>n, ;ss in
the railroad strike of last spring or in
? tho present traction Btrike, cause such
I great monetary loss to the world, such
loss and slowing up of production, not
to mention tho momentary inconven?
ience attendant on the above, at a timo
j when all our efforts should be bent to
i ward increasing production efficiency per
I capita in a concerted effort to combat
old H. C. L., it's time to stop taikir.g
j and to act.
The strike as an economic weapon to
be wielded against hard-hearted, money?
grab?ing employers ?of whom there ssre
fewer now than formerly i has its uses
?and may still be an instrument for
?good; but when it comes to sin industry
! which is essentially for public service,
j one in which, as in the above-mentioned
cases, the employer ?3 struggling along
in debt, yet on account of the very
nature of his business is u::?Lk> to close
out his affairs and go into some business
morw lucrative, it should be made just
I as difficult for the employee to inter?
fere with the service rendered.
There's nothing to prevent an em
? ployee dissatisfied with working condi?
: tions from changing his job cr occupa
I tion, nor should that right ever be in?
terfered with; but it should be made
I illegal and criminal fur a group of men
(in this instance a few thousand1, for
?selfish purposes, literally t~> sV;?! the
j time and mono>\ and in some instances
? even the lives, of their fellows) suho in
this instance number hundreds of thou?
sands).
Is it not possible for The Tribune
to inaugurate a move and follow it
through to cause the peopl? 's represen?
tatives at Albany to enact sui'h legisla?
tion as shall make such a recurrence in
this state impossible?
ONE OF THE PUBLIC.
New York, Aug. 31, 1920.
Prices Outrun Earning Power
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial of to-day "I?
the Cost of Living Really High?" is
really open to criticism. In brief,
practically every article that Is to be
bought has advanced since 1914 IPO per
cent. That is n fair average, and sal?
aries have not kept pace. I will ven?
ture to say that not 30 per c-nt of the
latter have advanced to that extent
It would be a liberal estimate to place
the average at 50 per cent Now where
does your article come in off che propo?
sition T I have not noticed any great
drop in anything.
riease do not add insult to injury bf I
such statements..
WILLIAM A. TAYLOR.
Brooklyn, Aug. 81, 1920.
Inviting Danger
{From The Toledo Blade)
It is argued that tho victorious Polf?
must not ?o beyond the boundary. &*
they must sit on the fence and wait
for the disease to come back aud ???
danger them I A fine position! Jj