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otlahl published hereln.
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l..'rt?in alH> are reserred.
The Accounting
Mayor Hylan, a mandarin of mum,
may pitifully "prdclaim "Hush!
Hush! Don't expose mc!" in all tbe]
languages and dialects spoken in tbe
city his administration afTlicts. But
it does no good. The Legislature
has voted an investigation.
His Honor must reconcile himself
to the incvitable. The investigation
is ordered and it is time for him to
get busy on bis alibi.
But to the citizenship as a whole
congratulations may well go. Pros
pects for better government during
the next four years improve. When
the voters at large know the facts
they may be tvusted to bring Hylan
ism to a speedy end. Tbe Mayor is
plainly aware of what's coming. His
squirming attempts to avoid an in?
vestigation have shown how much be
fears the light.
The French Answer
The French answer to Secretary
Hughes's mandate note foreshadows
jj;cnerous cooperation from Europe in
the working out of President Har?
ding's peace policy. That policy
ccrtempiates tbe preservation of
America's rights as a belligerent and
American participation in the en
foicement of the substantive por?
tions of the peace settlement. It in
sists, on the other hand, on a release
from commitments, grafted on the
traaty by Mr. Wilson, which the
United States considers objection
aole and which France and some of
the other European powers con
sented to with indifference or re
luctance.
The European nations let Mr. Wil?
son have hrs way with the League of
Nations, thinking that they were
yielding something on which Amer?
ica's heart was set. They see now
that they were led far astray. They
?*ere always more interested in
having the United States as a co
guarantor of the treaty than as an
ausociate in a regulative world
league. Hence, the Harding policy is
more welcome to them than the Wil?
son policy. It responds better to
their convictions and interests, just
as it does to the convictions and in
tvrests of the United States.
in the period of deadlock following
the breakdown of tbe Wilson policy
the Allied Council assigned a man?
date over Yap to whicb the United
States had entered exceptions. This
looked like notice to the Unitet
States that it was no longer a uart
ner in the peace settlement. Pre?
mier Briand now testifies that Japan
as well as the other powers, wa?
fully aware of the American res
ervations, which necessarily invali
dated the issue of the mandate, since
the latter on its face purported tc
be given in the name of the five prin?
cipal Allied and associated powers.
M. Briand also promises thal
France will take an active part al
the next meeting of the Allied Coun?
cil in correcting the Yap attribution
Such a reconsideration would b<
natural. France, Italy and Great
Britain could ask nothing better thar
' j to see the United States functioninj;
again as an agent of treaty enforce
ment. If we sit in the Allied Coun
cil it will make little difference tt
them that we do not sit in thc
League Council. Power resides witl
the former and only the shadow ot
it with the latter. France and th<
others v want concert and are full>
^prepared to bid for it outside the
league.
"With Due Regard"
A departure from the method oi
valuing traction property urged b>
Governor Miller,in his special mes
. sage appears in the amendment car?
ried in the amended act.
The point the Governor empha
sized was that the valuation should
be based on the prospective earn?
ings of the companies at the rates
provided for in their franchises and
r contracts. He argued that the com
| panies were not entitled, either in
law or equity, tp a greater valuation
j than is supported by their present
? rights. He implied that the valuing
| method he recommended should be
I) mandatory.
Instead of a mandate the amend
? ment seems to be merely an author
ization v/hich the comrnission may
follow or not. lt aayt: "Suchval
uation shall bo mado with rftfo re
gard to tho estimated prospoclive
earning capacity pf the pvopevty
. . . at the rate or rates of fare
that thc company, prior to the tak
ing effect of this act. was entitled to
charge in view of tho provisions of
the contract or franchise under j
which the property is operated
. . and vith due rcgard to all
othrr perthwnt facts and conditions.'
Tlie words italieizcd are signifi
cant. They confor diseretion on the
commission. There is robust advice
to apply the valuation rule outlincd,
but the commission, it would appear,
may in its judgment give modifying
weight to other considerations.
The Governor will, of course, have
command ing influence with tho com?
mission. It may be expected to con
sult with him and take his advice.
Such being the case, perhaps the
Legislature thought it went as far
as is necessary when it granted per
missive power, and that it was un
wise to restrict the commission too
stiffly?that the real danger was that
the companies would not accept a
valuation automatically arrived at,
and that a way should be left to
sweeten the dose to be administered.
The public will be as well served by
a valuation that will be made as a
matter of policy as by the same one
made as a matter of law.
Cutting Loose the Millstone
Opinions differ as to the probable
effect on operation costs of the
Railroad Labor Board's decision
abrogating the so-called national
agreement?. Mr. Gompers assails
the decision, but Mr. Jewell, reprc
senting the workers' organizations
before the board, praises it. Most
railroad managers are pleased. To
the public the most satisfying thing
is the discovery that the board
was able to come to a broad-gauge
conclusion so promptly.
Thc main accomplishment is thc
rescinding of the Wilson railroad
administration's ill-advised experi
ment in nationalizing working
rules and conditions. The admin?
istration worked in a vacuum, as
it were. It had no sense of eco?
nomic responsibility. It had a draw?
ing account with the Federal Treas?
ury, and it drew on it and passed on
the deficits.
Accepting tacitly the theory that
the roads ought to be government
owned ancl operated, it in effect,
set up nation-wide standards of op?
eration which were practicable only
if profit and loss were to be dis
regarded. Congress and the Presi?
dent, frightcned by the extrava
[gance of its policy, hastily tui-ned
the roads back to private operation.
But the millstone of the national
agreements, infiating costs of serv
i ice, was left hanging about the
neck of private management.
Nationalization of working rules
| for all the minor branches of rail
j road labor is an economic vagary,
| especially when the rules are in
j geniously devised to limit the re
j turn in service for which a given
dollar will pay. The Labor Board
has at least done away with this
fallacious system of super-compen
sation, political in its genesis and an
economic absurdity.
The roads are to establish new
working rules in egnference with
their employees. But the principal one
of the sixteen to guide these con
ferences says: "An obligation rests
upon management, upon each
organization of employees and
upon each employee to render
honest, effieient and economical
service." It is also provided thal
eight hour-s' work shall be per
[ formed for eight hours' pay. Ii
theso directions are lived up to thc
roads may presently be able to re
habilitate themselves.
The Devil and the Censors
Upon a world threatened, watched,
guarded, chaperoned, protected, in
sulted and punished by we forget
just how many censors, this dialogue,
contributed by Mr. Montague Glass
to the Authors' League dinner, Im
pinges wlttfa large, fat ping and
brings forth a loud sigh of satisfac
tion:
Abe?I see where the police would
not let bank robberies get pulled of!
in moving pictures.
Mawruss?But the police let banlt
robberies get, pulled off in banks
don't they?
Abe?Sure, I know; but the mov?
ing picture censors has got the police
so busy 'watching moving picture
shows that they ain't got no time
f to watch the banks.
Mawruss?But don't moving pic?
ture audiencea object to it?
Abe?Yes; and the banks also.
Mawruss?Tljen who is in favor
of having moving picture censor?
ship?
Abe?Bank robbers.
This heartfelt exposition of gen?
eral truth does a grave injustice to
certain estimable persons like Mr.
John S. Suraner, of the Society for
'the Prevention of Vice. Mr. Sum
i ner, a stern believer in the principle
of censorship, is not only not a
bank robber?he is a pure, noble
soul, having as his aim in life noth?
ing less than the uplift of everybody
else to his own pure, noble altitude.
But the essential truth of Abe and
Mawruss is unquestionable. Espe?
cially if we pass beyond the ex
ternal representatives of evil spirits
to the spirits themselves, there can
be no question where they stand.
? Their every vote is for censorship,
the more the merricr.
Thc devil would far rather sug
gest corruption than portray it
boldly. He has never had any
quarrel with censors. Just as Mr.
John S. Sumner by his campaign
against Jurgen has given that fair
te-middling book a secret circula
tion and fame which it would never
have won on its merits. so all cen?
sorship in one way or another aids
tho corruptcrs?the robbers of vari?
ous breeds. Get the natural guardi
ans of public order and decency
busy about enough subtle questions
of morality and prohibiting this and
that, and the road is open to the
tempters. It was Adam's effort at
censorship that gave the serpent
his chance with Eve!
Labor's Victory
The decision of the British railroad
and transportation workers^ not to
support the British miners in their
strike is a great victory for labor?
not only in Great Britain, but
throughout the world. It is a- vic?
tory for unorganized workers and
British citizcnship, but especially is
a victory for organized labor.
Organized labor has been in great
peril. It has becn assailed from
within by disintegrating propagan
dists who have prctended to have
at heart the wclfai'e of the laboring
masses. They sought the establish?
ment of a political tyranny and a
reorganization of industry which
meant lower wages and longer work
hours. But many were deceived,
particularly in Great Britain. From
time. to time a chaos has seemed
about to burst that would nccessarily
profoundly affect the whole world.
Bolshevism has once more been
beaten back to its cave?not by
either the aristocracy or the middle
classes but by wage-earners. The
issue was between those shouters for
what they called the solidarity of the
working classes and those for the
solidarity of the human race. And
the latter won because the British
Avorkingman is intelligent enough to
see that equal citizenship is of more
value to him than class privilcge.
Thoughts on Reconciliation
What can the intellectuals of all
countries contribute toward the
reconciliation of the nations who op
posed each other in the recent war
and lead the world to a lasting
brotherhood of mankind?
The foregoing question is asked by
an organization whose publication
committee consists of one Friedrich
Michel, one Dr. Otto Glogau and the
Rev. Dr. Wilhelm Popcke.
The question is not difficult to
answer. The intellectuals can con?
tribute?can best contribute?to the
desired reconciliation by convincing
their friends that there was a right
and a wrong in the recent war and
that the Central powers upheld the
wrong.
Reconciliation will be slow, if not
impossible, as long as there is scut
tling away from a Supreme issue and
a confusion of the innocent and the
guilty. The innocent object to the
company in which they are put and
the guilty are encouraged to commit
new crimes.
If the intellectuals want to help
let them support these simple propo
sitions: That Germany deliberately
brought on the war; that it is her
duty to repair up to her full ability
the consequences of her wrong; that
the s'pectacle of her repentance and
punishment is the most effective way
to discourage imitators of her, and
thus to prevent future v/ars.
Are the intellectuals of the world
doing this? If they are not, brother
intellectuals of clearer vision can be
of service by opening the eyes of the
blinded.
Specialists' Language
"A bank statement that any man
or woman can understand" is the
attractive preface to an advertise?
ment of a prominent New York
bank.
This is judicious advei-tising. It
reaches the average person, it is
equally informing to the big busi?
ness man, the accountant and finan
cier, though it may be tedious to
them. The point is that the state?
ment is intelligible to all. John
Brown, with $500 to deposit, a sum
that is like $5,000 to him, needs no
Rosetta Stone to discover for him
whether this bank's method of doing
business and its volume make it
safe for savings.
Only a few have an understand
ing of the nomenclature of bank?
ing and accountancy, but all are
mentally equipped to understand
th# most intricate phase of banking
and accountancy when expressed in
the unabridged language of unpro
fessional intercourse. Technical
jargon conceals the simplicities of
truth. All perhaps could under?
stand the theory of relativity if
Professor Einstein, in a patient
mood, would deecend to common
speech.
There is need of specialists' lan?
guage among specialists. Profes?
sor Erastein's few equations on the
blackboard of the College of the
City of New York quickly tell their
story to the initiated and it would
be absurd not to reduce formulae
to equations and condensed form
for laboratory use! But where the
public's interest is expected how
equally absurd not to utilize ado
quate universal language. There is
no other way to engage the atten*
tion of the public.
Old Ed Howe, the philosopher of
the grass-roots, once wrote that in
all his studies he never found great?
er truths than those inelosed in the
cabinet of common ^Jasewith which
each ordinary man is endowcd.
The advertising manager of tho
bank seems a disciple of Howe. Hc
realizes he has two publics to deal
with, the financial and the lay, and
to the latter he addresses himself in
translations of the terminology of
experts.
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Federal Aid for Highways
President's Suggestions as to Roacl
Maintenance Approved
To tho Editor of Thc Tribune.
Sir: When President Harding said
in his firat nddrcss to Congress thnt
ho knew of "nothing more shocking
thnn the miliions of public fiind:<
waatcd in improved highwnys, wa'sted
because thero is no policy of main?
tenance," ho laid before the nation
tho truth about our highway problem.
When ho placed highway transporta?
tion socond in importance to railroad
transportation he gavo it its proper
plaee, and when he suggested govern?
ment aid and limited supervision in
the constructlon and maintenance of
our highways he offered what many
will consider a liappy solution of the
problem.
The business of road building is es
scntially the same in every state,
though, of course, construction details
will be governed largely by the char?
acter of the soil, the materials avail?
able and the conditions of traffic.
Why, then, should this business be
intrusted to forty-eight different eom
missions, each elected to hold office
for a limited term of years and all
working independently of one another
without a semblanco of cooperation?
Would any experienced business man
invest money in an enterpri'so operated
on this basis? The answer is obvious.
Miliions have been wastcd in im?
proved highways because of a lack of
maintenance policy, but what of thc
miliions spent by ineffieient and inex
perienced highway commissions, whose
short term of office discourages any
ambition to spend the public funds
wisely or to build for permanency?
During the last year practically
every state Legislature in the country
has debated this highway question and
passed laws designed to increase
revonuo for highway construction and
maintenance. And where has the
burden been placed? On tbe owners
of trucks and passenger cars, who are
the pioneers of highway transporta?
tion and who are the direct suffcrcrs
from this wholesale inefficienty.
Congress should be urged to con?
sider President Harding's suggestion
of Federal aid and counsel and to
submit some working plan through
which this most important business
will have a permanent, efficient and
centralized organization.
L. H. EARLE.
New York, April 14, 1921.
Motion Picture Censorship
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Censorship of motion picturcs
is unnecessary. It smacks of medieval
days.
Censorship is a blow at free institu?
tions. It is autocratic. It kills the
creative impulse.
If motion pictures are to be shackled
the newspaper and thc pulpit will be
the next for the "Main Street" mind
to blue pencil.
Blue notes will be thc rule in music.
Imagery and fire will be gone from
poetry. Life will be doled out by the
shears and yard stick.
The sensible censor is public opinion.
It has worked. It is a dynamic force.
Here is democracy speaking. Here is
the voice;that springs from the hearts
of free people. ?
Why the need of high-priced purists,
who would judge others with a "paint
the lily" attitude?
If the photoplay is to reveal life, to
probe the heart, to exalt the feelings,
to lift the inoral sense, to kindle the
imagination, to vivify the spirit, then
the cinema must be unfettered.
VICTOR M. SHAPIRO.
New York, April 14, 1621.
All in the Days Work
(From The Los Angeles Express)
A citlzen of Los Angeles was dis
covered the other day standing in front
of his home in a somewhat dazed con?
dition, his head dripping with blood.
He was able to-explain that his wife
had beaten him up for endeavoring to
get back into the house after having
been ejected and locked out. The
punishment had been administered
with a poker. He later went to the
hospital.
The textbooks on law used to pro
ceed on the theory that a man's
dwelling place was his castle. He
could defend it against all comers, and
on being ejected from it he could get
damages. That's what the Los Angeles
man. got without resorting to''*the
courts. He got exemplary nnd punitive
damages. His wife attended to that.
When a man thus stands with bloody
head, "defeated but not diseouraged,"
as it were, beaten but unconquered,
there ought to be some satisfaction in
eontemplation of the fact that it is all
in the family. A man might even be
touched with a sense of pride that
wifey had beaten him up and sent him
to the hospital for repairs she herself
was loath to give o/ at least f?lt some
embarrassment in tendering.
Times have changed. A man's dwell?
ing is his wife's castle. If he is
ejected from it all the presumptions of
fact nnd intendments of law are
against him. The only litting policy
for hfrn to pursue is to remain outside
until lil' wifey finishes her postscript
comments and gets ready to open "con
versations," as the diplomats say.
A man who finds himself on the
outside of his own dwelling with poker
welts distributed over his head and
blood flowing adown his countenance
owes an explanation to his neighbors.
The presumption is that he is some?
thing less than a dutiful husband.
Too Expensive
(From The Taeoma Ledger)
The best peace propaganda is taxa
tion. Anybody who tries to get the
American people into another war be?
fore they"ve got the last one paid for
has a job ahead of him.
JOURNALI3TIC JINGLES
9. ITelp Wanted!
When 1 got out of public school,
My father said: "Young man, get busy;
Go hunt ? job and do not fool
Away the moment* like a Lizzie."
And so, lo toothe the old man's rage,
Each day I scanned thc want ad page:
BOT.15, brleht, nmbttlous;
t>> B\veep in lunchroom; 8 to B;
chance for aclvuncenmnt Washlng dlithcs;
call ? Canal st. Mr. Clivo.
But when I grew to man'i estate
And shaved my hirsute hedges daily,
1 had a night key, slaycd out late,
And played upon the ukulele.
And like the other smart young men,
These were the ads that I read thent
YOUNG MAN, liKlunlrtous and wllllns;
BHHlatant manager tn ntore;
must help tn typini,\ IMng, IiiJltnsr;
rIvo references; Ttox 64'.
? ? ?
And now at thirty, rich and hale,
I look at REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
Chicot.
Well, even if there had been a strike
in England it would havo occasioned
no inconvenience to the American au
thors now lecturing in London.
It?the labor strike?was Off, Averted,
and Halted by yestevday's hcadline
writers. Yet the effect of headlines
upon current speech, as we liave
either meditated or printcd before, is
good. Headlines make for brevity, a
fault most writers and speakers have
too little of.
Still, this great (142,384) newspaper
spilled Probe twice on yesterday's
front page.
Bard Lauds Famed Season
[Louis Leslte Jcrome ln Tho Martha's
Vlneyard Herald]
Beautified and most lovely spring
will soon be showing the radiance of
lier young, winsome captivating face,
for Burely lovely springtide is near at
hand, when nature's own doth charm
ingly extol so beauteously grand o'er
the happy land. When sweet little
crocuaes and tulips dear lift their
heads so bewitchingly above their
fresh green mossy beds. Then with
happy strollings whero the moss is
growing in the wildwood, while thc
sweet fragrancc of the lovely trailing
arbutus so entrancingly odoriferous
comes floating through the air. Then
again to fondly listen to the sweet
Aeolian tones of the sea breeze harps
floating so happily along the rippling
deep blue sea; while the mind in fond
reverie dwells in happy thought
agleam, like a midsummer night's
dream; while longing with happiness
sublime for the again coming good
old summertime.
Gazing back at what Dr. Charles W.
Eliot calls tho good old days, it seems
to us that they were older than they
wero good. Human progress is made
in inverse ratio to the quantity of bunk
ia the world; and while there is
enough of it still with us, our convic
tion is that there is less than when
Dr. Eliot was young-and-twenty.
"The first which came to his
[Caruso's" hand was Hein's setting of
Kipling's "Invictus."?The Daily News.
"He meant Henley's 'Regatta,'"
writes A. R. C. "He meant Henley's
'Danny Deever,'" writes W. W. C.
"The Daily News's head," offers Glori
ana, "is not only bloody, but also
bowed."
Compared with our copy reading,
proofreading contribs, Old Man Argus
was an astigmatic.
GOOD FELLOWS
//. Benvcnuto Cettini
Sirs, Lords, and Signors, Cardinals and
Pope,
I do but tell the truth, and as I hope
For God, detest a boaster and his boast.
So I shall nothing say of that great
host
I slew with cannon from the castle hill,
Tell you no word of valour, strength, or
skill,
But merely say my vases, medals, rings,
Have found no rlvals in such fash
ioned things.
I will admit that women loved me
much,
And I have been most generous with
such.
In music I was wondrous, though I feel
The flute a feeble thing compared with
steel.
I routed Salamanca, fought the Eight,
Devised rare circlets, cups and beaten
plate,
Doomed those who fronted me with
word and sword,
And with the frankest courage slew
a horde,
I proved myself a man as all men tell;
Not one in all the world did half so
well.
On this my silence; let Cellini toast
If in one word of his he seems to boast!
PAUL HERVEY FOX.
If we were a school teacher and
feared the militant and forceful dis
pleasure of Senator Lusk, we -should
chide tho minute-men at Lexington
for having opposed the government;
and as for Patrick Henry, that fiery
nnarchist, we should show our little
pupils that those who gave him Liberty
made a seditious choice.
It occurs to us that the Andrews
triangle is conspicuously scalene.
Home, according to the investigators,
is where the brew is.
"To be an editor was* one of my am
bitions," wrote Andrew Carnegie in his
autobiography. "Horace Greeley and
The Tribune was my ideal of human
triumph." A lofty ambition, too.
What we should like to know is what
actually deflected his bark from its
course. For our picture of Mr. Car?
negie is that of a dominating man, who
got everything he had any ambition
tc get.
" 'Eureka!'" I cried. "Mr. Carnegie's
autobiography says, '"Here's'the goose
that laid the golden eggs.'" A free
translation, we'll asseverate.
F. P. A.
THOSE MYSTERIOUS EARTH TREMORS
Copyrlght, 1021, New York Tribune Inc.
, wash iNC,*r oft1 "j THeRt'jj'A- B1C, EARTHQCAKE
Books
He.ya>ood Broun
William McFee's Letters of an'
Ocean Tramp will be published by
Doubleday, Page & Co. within two
weeks, and McFee has already made the
reviewer's task absurdly simple by
providing a summary in a single sen
tence. "Here in one short sentence,"
he writes, "is the gist of the book, that
the sea is a way of cscape from the
intolerable burden of life."
However, Mr. McFee has not been
willing to let it go at that. "A cynic
once described it," he continues, "as
having all the advantage3 of suicide
without any of its inconveniences. To
thc author it was more than that. It
was the means of finding himself in
the world, a medium in which he could
work out the dreams which beset him
and which were the basis of future
writings. But ever at the back of the
mind will there be the craving to get
out beyond the bar, to see the hard,
bright glitter of impersonal land lights
die suddenly in the fresh gusta and
to leave behind the. importunate de
mands of business, of friendship and
of love."
Casey Jones propounds a perplexing
question in the following letter:
"Let's take Hermione and Dulcinea
and Stella and Mrs. Ttinehart's flapper
and the one who couldn't understand'
why she was lectured at a boy's prepar
atory school dance by thc headmaster
for shimmying?thought it was all
right, because her mother shimmied,
though not so well?let's take them all
at once without splitting hairs about
the niceties of their several, 'personali
ties.' And then tell me where to find
even enough of them to prove a type
(which is usually based on caricafure).
They all amuse me no end as I see
them recorded and japed, and the Lit?
tle Woman and I always squcal and
ejaculate, "Gosh! Isn't that like'em!'?
but I am not so sure that it is. My
ears are fair stretched for trying to
eavesdrop one of them; I go out o5
my way to get introduced to a shell
rimmer with a Purpose (which usually
turns out to be bridge); I inquire en
thusiastically into the projects of their
societies for serious what-not. What
do I find, I ask you?and yon know
I get around, too. I find at the end of
the rainbew not thc crystal but the
norm?the gray, inarticulate norm. Even
in this city, which admits that it
started this whole culture thing, they
r.ttend current events lectures, and
then don't talk about them afterward.
Old Ethan H. Doubt has come upon
me; and I rise to inquire of you, the
ni. who u. w., whether we are enjoying
in Hermione and Dulcinea and the rest
an authentic type (not that I must
have a type, but I want corroboration
for further laughter) or are we kid
ding ourselves? Are those girls on
the level, or are they not?"
Somebody else will have to answer
the question raised by Mr. Jones. We
have never seen the flapper, and when
we first read of her in the works of
Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald we viewed her
with alarm. She cursed too cutely for
our taste, but of late we find our
prejudices waning. Probably it is bet?
ter that she should curse cutely than
not at all. The flapper may be exces
sive, but at least she is a bulwark
against the manners of the past which
sound quite dreadful.
"In my time," we find President EMot
quoted as saying in the morning
papers, "it w?uld have been extreme
rudeness for a man to take a girl to
drive and smoke a cigar on the way.
In fact, in my time I never saw such
a thing done or attempted except by
downright rowdics. My father, v.-ho
smoked three cigars every day with
the utmost regularity, thought it was
impossible for a gentleman to smoke
in the streets?-absolutely impossible,
not to bc thought of for a moment.
As to smoking in a vehicle with a
lady beside him, the proposal, if made
to him, would have been received ;s
an insult."
Then, too, we learn from Dr. Eliot
that: "Young men and young women
nowadays talk chiefly slang to each
other. Their address to each other
and the conversations they have to?
gether have a rough form and relate
to things, events, processes and sub
jects , which the young men and women
of my day never referred to at all,
never mentioned and did not propose
to mention."
But for tho> flapper we might all
have to become downright rowdies or
suffocate.
"I noticed in The Tribune this morh
ing," writes Yale, 1913, Sheff, "that it
wasn't 1907 Sheff who bawled you out
after all, but one of your own tribe
spoofing a bit,
"What is more to the point is. that
time the Harvard captain said what
you said he said to the Yale captain,
and the Yale captain said what you
said he said to the Harvard captain
who won the race.
"When that is all cleared up, then
we can tell whether a college educa?
tion pays."
As we remember, Harvard finished
first, but Yale won a moral victory.
Debs's Point of View
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "It is good to know that the
new Administration is considering the
release of Debs with an open mind
and a generous spirit," you say. Also
that "his crime was committed through
wrong-mindedness rather than through
any evilness of heart," and that "if
Debs would acknowledge his error the
task would not be difficult, but pride
often governs human conduct when it
should not, and it requires no great
knowledge of psychology to see why
this old man refuses to strike his
colors."
It seems to me you fail to see Mr.
Debs's point of view. It is not "pride"
that holds him back. He has been put
in jail for a principle that he believes
in. Whether we agree with him or
not is beside the question. In his
mind there is no "error" to acknowl?
edge. Not only in America but in Eng?
land also men went to prison during
the late war for the same reason.
England, however, has long since re?
leased her political prisoners, and I
hope ultimately we shall. Thousands
of people voted for Mr. Debs at the
last election. Why? Not because they
believed that Mr. Debs would be
elected, but to show their sympathy.
It was a "vote of protest"?a vote of
protest against what his f ollowers con
sidered an autocratic persecution.
JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD.
New York, April 14, 1921.
The Aftermath
(From The Omaha Bee)
It takes as much patriotism to pay
taxea without kicking as it doc3 to
fight a war.
Chiropractic .
Argument in Favor of licensfflg
This System of Healing
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Yale chiroprtetic bil',
which your editorial of April 7 says
should be defeated "in the interest ?f
public welfare," I believe should be
passed in the interest of public wtl
fare. Proper licensing would insur.
the public against the malpnctice o?
superficially educated chiropracton.
In New York at present anybodyc?n
pretend to practice chiropractic
Under the law proposed a State Bosfd
of Regents would be the judge of
qualifications. Cold logic suggeststhit
we either have this law for public
protection, as we now have in Cwenty
eight states, or else deny the chiro
practor any right to practice.
Your article states further tilt
"the chiropractor*s sole method *f
treatment is the mar.ipulation of tk?
spine, and in certain cases, witaoit
question, this sort of manual adjusi
ment is beneficial and exactly wht:
any physician would prescribe." Ma
nipulation of the spine is not the
modern chiropractor's sole method '?
treatment, nor would any medifJ'
physician be likely to prescribe ?
treatment opposed to his own theorsi*
and about which he knows next to
nothing.
Manual adjustment of the spine v
the basic chiropractic treatment, bfr
cause successful experience with thou?
sands of difficult cases has shown th?^
the spine is the primary source ?'
most metabolic disturbances. When
chiropractic fails, as it often does, ti^
practitioner, not the science, is i!
i'ault.
Your article continues: "As ? ?'"
tural consequtT.ee of his theory th*
chiropractor disdains usual diagn?,;"
and casts aside ar. unimportant W"
teriology and chemistry." The pre**'1'
day chiropractor is converssnt *?**
essentially the same method*
diagnosis as those of a medical pr*f
titioner, is instrucied in bacterioloT
aml chemistry. and adds the furth''
method of radio-photograpay, tf?
palpation and nerve tracing.
Chiropractic recognizes and r'****
the splendid work aeeomplished is * '
field of medicine and draws from ??
same sources of information. A t*
scientious chiropractor will ??*?'
consultation with a doctor of rnedic^
in specific cases, where proloBf
disease has so wrecked bodily
sistance that nature cannot rep?? "
without artificial assistance in tinr? ?
prevent disastrous consequences.
chiropractor also recopnizes and re
mends surgery as the only P**1""
remedy for certain conditions. ^
There appears to be a belief *
medical circles that chiroprsetie
based on superficial training oi oB'
a few weeks. If this were true, I *?u
be among ihe first to vote apiw*^
legitimacy. The facts are, howe?^
that the modern chiropractic M*jf
requires three years of seven rtiot ?
each, of harder and mcre di?e^
study and clinical work than most ?
its critics would care to ?nderUBb.
And the curriculum covers every
ject the medical student eovers e***r'
pharmacology, surgery and ob?w "
none of which the chiroprsctor b??
for in his field. j
Is it fair to outlaw ? ***Ua J.
healing that has fought it? *?v %
cessfully for twenty-five y?r?'
spite of the stubborn prejudwy
other systems against teachings jj |
accord. with their own pet theon; j
EDWARD H. AC#
A Student of Chirrf |
Port Richmond, S. I, A?ril 4 ' J