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An Inability Ltxyr
Bepresentative Fess, who proposes
in amendment to the* Constitution
inder which Congress, by concurrent
?solution, may refer to the Supreme
Jourt for decision the question of a
'resident's inability to perform the
luties of his office, dares not explain
vhy it is necessary to consult the
?upreme Court concerning a non?
udicial matter.
The Constitution says that in case
rf the inability of a President the
jower and duties of his office "shall"
?evolve on the Vice-President. .In?
to?, ity is a question of fact. When
President dies, another question of
act, the Supreme Court is not asked
or a death certificate. Then why
ak it for an inability certificate?
Should a Vice-President, on the
round that inability existed, assume
he Presidency and the President
hould resist, a justiciable issue
vould arise, but courts do not com- :
nonly decide moot questions. The ?
udicial function relates to contro
trsies, and although the Supreme
Jourt has sometimes undertaken the
erformance of administrative duties j
? is averse to them.
The so-called b ahket clause of the ,
institution, under which Congress;
s authorized to pass laws needed to
arry a constitutional provision into
ffejt, seems to make a const.tutional
men Irnent supererogatory, if Con?
reas can define what interstate com?
ae rce is, or what an intoxicating
?verage is, it ought to be able to de?
ne inabi ity and to provide how the
act of inability is to be ascertaii.e ?
The argument that Congress might
ot be impartial has no weight.
Vould a court several of whose
?lembers oved their appointment to
President be more impartial? It
* not wise to have a condition under
/hich the independence of the Su- \
reme Court is impaired by making
t the arbiter of delicate matters out
ide cf its proper sphere.
It is now admitted that the Presi
ent has suffered from inability for
everal months. The President him
elf practically so acknowledge:!
\'hen he wrote to Secretary Lansing
?:. hat no one could do his work. But
'ice-President Marshall, who was
he only one who had a clear right to
H*?- the initiative, did not act. It is
oubtful if any Vice-Ptesident would
e willing to act under similar cir
umstance*. Si> if ?the inability clause
i s not in the future to be a nullity,
? bl.gation rests on Congress to pass
n inability law. Grave injury' may
e done to the country if ther?- are
nterregnums during which it is
'residentless.
Canada as a Nation
There is talk in Ottawa of keep
ng a permanent Canadian diplo
latic representative in Washington
nd giving him broader functions,
t would greatly strengthen the ar
unient for recognition of Canada's
ndependent national status in the
?ague of nations if ti , Dominion
hould maintain such a repr?senta?
is in Washington and deal through
? im with us in matters affecting the
? wo countries.
The people and the politicians of
Janada have entirely misunderstood
imerican feeling if they think that
here is any desire here to keep Can
da out of the league assembly, or
i ven out of the league council, if
r> wants to enter either on a na
*0 al basis. Our people would be
, ad to have a neighbor like Canada
?in ua in any international enter
rise in which we are engaged. We
loth have New World views and
emocratic standards. We under
tan d each other easily. Our int?r?
?ts aro parallel.
The Lenroot reservation to the
?venant is intended only as a pro?
motion to the United States in case
anada, Australia, New Zealand and
he Union of South Africa enter the
?ague and expect ? operate in it
?ot as individual nations but as
ubordinate parts of the British Em
ire. It will be easy for them to
emonstrate the equal stature which
?rest Britain has granted them in
he league. If they do dem?nstrate
i?and they probably wflJ be scrupu
?fjsly enxiooa to do me?the United
t?^wiliWaMu?4ataayi?aaed,aa4
no trouble with us over the Lenroot j
reservation need be anticipated.
Canada and her ?inters?Austra- ?
lia, New Zealand and South Africa !
?say that they are now nations
within the British Empire. If that
is their real status, it is sensible on
their part to begin to assume, with
Great Britain's cooperation, the out?
ward marks and functions of nation?
ality.
Voices From the Past
Readers of the planks and letters
contributed to The Tribune's plat?
form contest cannot fail to be struck
by the similarity of spirit, which is
revealed. There are d?ferences as
to the specific app'ication of princi?
ples, and as to what principles should
now be emphasized the most, hut as
to the princip'es themselves there is
remarkable agreement.
This interesting circumstance is
respectfully referred to those who
seek, in a desperate partisan way,
to serve a practically bankrupt par?
tisan organization by saying that
divergencies between the parties have
disappeared and that it is not of
much concern which one is in power,
provided there is a President per?
sonally acceptable.
But clear and straight comes the
! message from the past. Present
day Republican dec'arations for the
greater part imply a reiteration of
issues associated with the party and
its predecessors. Essential Repub?
licanism to-day departs little from
what it was when our party system
took form in the debates which oc?
curred when the Constitution was
adopted and the national government,
organized. If Hamilton. Marshall,
Webster, Clay, Lincoln. McKinley
and Roosevelt were alive to-day no
one may doubt to what party they
would belong.
The nation was born in spirit dur?
ing the War of Independence, but it
had no body. The Federalists of the
Constitutional Convention, the Re?
publicans of their day, created one.
Hamilton, aided by the mighty arm
of Washington, made the new system
an actuality.
Marshall developed on the legal
side the nationalism which Hamilton
had established administratively.
Cotnc'denta'ly, in states of Repub?
lican tradition came a broadening of
the democratic base of our institu?
tions through the abolition of s'avery
end the extension of suffrage. Unity
t:nd order made enlarged freedom
possible, as they always tend to do.
Webster then led the f.rrent move?
ment which made the nation not
mere'y an administrative and legal
unity but a living organism with a
se'f-conscious soul, and thus set up
a bulwark against secession.
Clay from a section whr.se eco?
nomic interests were not comnlex.
had vision to see that the nation, tc
be self-sustaining, needed to be di?
versified in industry and united by
arteries of commerce. So protection,
the Ameri??n doctrine, as Clay like:!
to call it, became an obstacle to
separatism and so also did integrat?
ing internal improvements.
A dark pericd of reaction followed
r.nd disunity and anti-democracj
raised their heads. But with Li,ncolr
as the great captain Republicanism
again pressed forward to r. -cement
the nation and to make the land a.
nearly equal in opportunity a?
human frai'ty permits.
In the days of McKinley trium
phant nationa'ism, no longer men
aced, loosed th<' bonds of prudentia
aloofness and became knight-errant
It enlarged the boidsrs of free self
government and remov d the r ni
nants of feudalism which survivei
near our coasts.
Finally, Roosevelt, another grea
prophet of Republicanism, respond
ing to its call, spent, himself ii
the great labor of shackling cunninj
as our forefathers shack'ed force
As did the men from whom he drev
inspiration, he saw that a nation wa
E. cooperative machine whose prod
ucts must be social justice and th
enhancement of average human life
In minor matters there have bee
many mistakes and blunders, bu
concerning the big matters the rec
ord of the Republican party is on
of consistency. Seldom have th
party's bugles been compel'ed t
sound retreat. What it has strive
for has been hot'y opposed, but, one
done, its work has been accepted. Th
party is not required to avoid mer
tioning such things as n j'.ificatior
secession, slavery, greenb ickery, fre
silverism and the like. In the prei
ent day, showing how old tendencit
persist, it is an instructive circun
stance, another great change havin
cime, in votes fcr women, that th
historic Democratic states ha\
aolid'y voted against ratification.
The letters to The Tribune atte;
not only that there are difference
between the parties but show to U.
discerning what thev are.
Is Cavalry Obsolete?
It ta a commonplace of militar
science that the development <
modem warfare, as exhibited in tr
World War, has rend red cavalr
practically useless. The lesson wi
demonstrated most effectually i
France, where British and Frene
cavalry units fought dismountc
for almost the entire period of ho:
tllities. Instructed by Allied e:
nerience, the American commar
did not send a single cavalry un
overseas; the old'mounted units <
the regular army and the Nation!
Guard war? utilized a? artillery.
New ?em?? the report that ??
British War Office is adopting this
American scheme in the reorgani?
zation of the . yeomanry, the
mounted volunteers enlisted in
county regiments. In the first
place, the number of regiments is
to be reduced; in the second, those
remaining will be transformed into
horse artillery brigades of the terri
tor.al army.
Against this reform a military
critic protests in the London
Pout. He asserts that, far from
demonstrating the uselessness of
cavalry, the late war has proved its
indispensability in all theaters of
fighting save the French; indeed,!
in Asia and Africa "superiority in
mounted troops is as essential ao
that of artillery in siege warfare"
He argues that "in countries wher.*
mobile operations are possible,
whero flanks are in the air and con?
sequent strategical movements and
precautions are required," and
where communications are long,
and roads and railways absent
cavalry is indispensable. Moreover,
It must consist of well trained, sea?
soned troops, "prepared to supply
themselves and their horses from
the country in which they art
quartered." Herein lies one of the
advantages of cavalry over the
more modern instruments of fight?
ing, for "even the latest form of
tank cannot be turned out to graze
on an oil fie'd."
Primary-Shy Candidacies
There is a curious note of aloof?
ness and unreality in Mr. McAdoo's
letter declining to have his name
used on any Presidential primary
ballot. Many states have passed
laws compelling the direct choice of
delegates to national party conven?
tions and forcing candidates to sub?
mit their names to the voters. But |
Mr. McAdoo turns away solemnly
from the modern experiment of
bringing the great mystery of the |
nomination of a Presidential candi- j
date down to the people.
Evidently he thinks the myr.tery
of selection is profaned in that man?
ner. He says: "I cannot consist?
ently enter the primary in any
state, when it is my earnest convic?
tion that the delegates from every
state should go to the convention
without instruction, save to use their
power and opportunity for the best
service of the country."
The ex-Secretary of the Treasury ;
advocates the abolition of the unit '
rule in Democratic national conven?
tions. But he seems to fall short of
the full possibilities of regeneration
in n t suggesting the abolition cf the
two-th.r.ls rule also and the exclu?
sion of office-holders from member?
ship. But, even with these improve?
ments, wou'd the McAdoo unin
structed, primary-free national con?
vention commend itself to the judg?
ment of the voters, who only within
fie last ten years have bpsn able to
break into control in national con?
ventions?
Mr. McAdoo probably didn't real
'ze how completely he was look ng
backward when he eulogized the old
national convention system, which so
long stood between the voters arid
Presidential nominations. He writes
poetically of a great, un trammeled
Democratic conference, such as
never was in the past, and therefore
couldn't possibly be reconstructed.
Fut why "untramnieled" delegates?
If they are to represent the voters
properly why shouldn't they carry
instructions from the voters? Where
is the ultimate depository of p iwe.r
and judgment? If you don't tram?
mel the delegates you trammel the
voters.
Cosnrc Pacifism
Our English contemporary. The
Manchester Guardian, seems greatly
exercised over the suggestion of an
American inventor to dispatch a
super-efficient rocket, loaded with '
scientific recording instruments, to
our celestial next-door neighbor, the
moon. It objects with particular
emphasis to one detail of the scheme
--to wit, the equipment of the rocket
'with a sufficient cargo of "brilliant
flash powder," whose explosion on i
the moon's surface would signal the I
safe arrival of the projectile.
The Guardian'fea.ru that the blast i
would make "a nasty mi?ss of quite j
a large patch of a decent body that
up to now has always proved a
friendly enough alien." Hadn't we
better, we are asked, "fire a prelim?
inary shot across Selene's bows and
give the poor thing a chance to
surrender without actual damage to
her complexion?" This habit of
"bombarding other members of the
solar system without notice does not
go well with a league of nations. It
is a little too like cosmic frightful
ness." i
With due respect to the motives of !
The Guardian, it may be rem-. -ked
that according to tlte best scientific
authority the moon has been a dead
body for several hundred million ?
years, or thereabouts, and conse
quently a little explosion or two!
would make to her mighty? little dif
ference. But even if one accepts
The Guardian's regard for the moon
as an unoffending and sensitive lady,
is it not possible that the arrival of a
shipment of nice, brilliant powder!
vould be welcomed by her as a most
convenient aid to brighten up her I
somewhat withered complexion? I he !
Guardian speaks of "cosmic fright-]
fulness." We are tempted to infer?
that its sentimental appeal signifies
merely an extension of its well
known attitude toward affairs of (bis 1
little world of ours, and that in some
way it has gained the notion that
the moon is a Herman.
International Peats
Our old friend from Illinois, Sen?
ator Sherman, who is never so happy
as when he is whittling out aphor?
isms of the Civil War period, has ap?
plied his cosmic philosophy to the
flivver, with the resultant character?
ization of it as "an international
pest."
So it la undoubtedly of a Sunday
afternoon on the Boston Post Road,
and so it is generally if your ideal
j of a world is a stationary, stay-at
I home and stay-put universe, with
! everybody sitting around calmly and
patiently, expecting nothing to turn
I up, and therefore not being disap
j pointed when nothing does turn up.
I There was such a universe once, but
it was before the word "democacv"
was invented, and since that explo?
sive day nobody's lot has been of
quite the comfortable, assured, help
your8elf-to-the-right-of-way variety.
In the long line of engines which
have made democracy possible the
flivver deserves an honorable place.
Movahle types were one of the iirbt
inventions that started the up?
heaval; and we can imagine the ?Sen?
ator Shermans of Johannes Guten
berg's day being intensely peeved
over this wretched, pestiferous In?
vention that was taking books out of
the scholar's shelves and printing
them cheaply for every Tom, Dick
?nd Harry to clutter up his house
and mind with. To be accurate, here
was the basic invention that mado
?everything else possible from looms
i to talk:-'<r m-ichines an-! penny post?
age n ?'? i?enny newspapers.
By a coincidence the flivver of the
I skies is announced coinc:d?ntally
! with S nator Sherman's speech. Not
even the sky is sacred! We fear
that if the Senator wants a nice,
quiet community that will stand with?
out hitching he wiR have to hunt up
a brand new planer and start i*?sh
back. in the Stone Age, without
wheels or anything to disturb or
progress.
The Wadsworth Issue
Easier to Forgive Than lo Elect Him,
it Would Appear
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I um a Republican, and ? wish
to see this state elect a Republican
to the Unite') States Senate, where
more Republicans are so cloarly
needed. I am. therefore, opposed to
the party's renominating Senator
Wadsworth, who, in my opinion, can- i
no ?. be re?lected.
Whether we agree or disagree with;
the Senator's -stand, we must admit
that us a candidate he has the fol,?tw?
in g serious disadvantages : First, he
ii uga^nst prohibition, und ihe slate .
(outside of the City of New York,
which is normally D.-m >cratic any?
how) is strongly in favor of prohibi?
tion. Second, he is opposed to woman
suri'rage, and the favorab e majority
ol' 1UJ7 has been immensely increased
since then by the vote of the women.
Third, he is identified in the public
mind with Barnes, and it is quito
clear that the love und admiration of
t) a voters ure turning more and more
toward the memory of Theolore
Roosevelt and los- and less toward hU
determined opponent.
Why should the party weight itself
in a critical year with such a ditli
cult candidate? The only answer I,
ever receive is that "Jimtnic is such
a good fellow." Very pissibly he is,
tut are there not other fellows in
the party equally gwod und somewhat
easier to elect?
MARIE P. BOOTH.
(Mrs. John H. Booth.)
Member of Clinton County Republi?
can Advisory Committee.
Plattsburg, N. Y., Feb 16. 1920.
A Plea for Forgiveness
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Inasmuch as Senator Wads
worth was not the only man in office
who opposed female sulfrage, it seems
to me rather unfortunate that all the
attacks of the upholder^ of women's
political rights should have been cen- i
tered upon this one man. now that he is
a candidate for renominntion and re?
election. I would suggest to forgive I
this offense on the Senator'? part and
not to be ao vindictive and think merely
of ourselves any longer, now that the
vote is B3suted us.
We must at present and in the fu
ture look, above all, for the interest !
of our country, and therefore we must :
try to ke.-p Mr. Wadsworth in thu Sen- I
ate because of the good and patriotic '
service he has rendeved there. He hns
had the experience and he has the
ability. In this reconstruction period,
when the whole world ia more or Icsb
upset, it 1b essential to retain Mr.
Wadsworth's services and to place as
many men of his type as we can in
positions of influence, in order lo re- i
More our country to its normal, peace-!
ful condition.
Sflnator Wadsworth has made a mis?
take in his position on female suffrage,
?uch aa everybody else is likely to
make, but now he has changed his
opinion and fully convinced himself
that women _?? fully as ?h!* as men
In political matters. . !
SADfE S?S7
Republican nominee for 'on,.*.it,
22d Congressional Dlstric* N?r<
York, ir. 1918.
New York, Feb. if, 1920.
Americans Slain in Armenia I
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Do the American people know
that four American Red Cross workers
have been killed in Arm la and noth- j
ing has been done about it? Do they'
realize the conditions in Armenia and i
calmly ?ay, "The war is ovpr for?
mat Ifl DEEPLY INTERESTED.
iMt Or-*?*, M. J?, JfaK XI, 1M0.
The Conning Tower
A ROADSIDE ANECDOTE
Say, ye knew Ben Weed, didn't ye-~
"Cliick" Weed we called him at school 7
Well, Ben's gone. Guess prohibition
.list sort o* preyed on Hip mind.
TV last year er so he'd ben chorin
To th' Yorker's up on th' Hill.
Gueas they kep' ol' Ben a-movin .
I went up by there one day,
An* there was ol' Ben a-diggin*
Dandylinea ao?t o' th' l?wn;
Three sheets in th' wind he was, too.
An' there he set in th' grass,
A-jnbbin' wild with a traowel,
Titlkin' away to himself
(He didn't see me ner hear me).
'?Oh, gosh," he says?-jist like thatr?
"ff?ah,
Haow fast them damn things do grow!
Gid-dapl G. S. B.
"There are two ways," confides P.
W.. "to tell a theatrical failure with?
out going to see it: When y? u '-ee hd
: nounced that the entire cast is going
?to play it in London; and when they
| advertise that Senator McGuff or Rep
: resentatlve BHnckum says it's the best
; play in twenty-five years and should
' appeal to all loyal Americans." An
i even better way, to oar notion, Is this:
j When the management, the morning
I following the opening, in an advertise?
ment written the afternoon before, an
? nounces "Triumphal Success."
The death of R chard Harlow recalls
a song he used to sing in "1492." The
words were R. A. Barnet's, and'' were
somewhat as follows: '
I ?m the Queen who in fourteen and ninety
two
I Can rul? this land and Ferdinand und inuybe
you :
! To dote on war I have a corps of soldier?
bra vs.
Th? pomp and show of peace also I like?
wise crave.
In confld nee we would say,
i For all this we have to pay.
Ofidios
Isabella. Isabella Is a sovereign of notoriety.
Isabella, I ulells is the leader of Kay society,
(?tabella. In' ella Is a lady of ?real propriety
None excel her, Isabella, I'm the daisy Queen
of Spain.
Bowing to none in indecisiveness, our
admiration goes to Mr. Hoover, who
doesn't know what party, if any, he
! belongs to. We vacillators must stick
together.
The Chase, Not the Quarry
The scrubwoman
Who want? "clean" work,
And the concert sinner
Who nan's manual work
Are both unhappy.
I am happy :
I a" an invalid.
Perhaps in a year or tw?
I will be well,
And then I will do
Whatever work I want most.
But I am happy now.
It. L. S. has the right idea:
It ibn't urrivtng that counts.
Scrubwoman ami concert singer.
It'a juit to be --rmii'i %urnewhcle. B.
"The young woman who wants the
so-called extravagunces." said Mr. W ;
B. Simmons, of Chicago,- "gets the i
savings habit, and after her wardrobe |
is complete .-he keeps on saving and I
the money goes into the saving? bank ;
The most extravagantly dressed girls
in our factory have the most motic> j
in the bank." Sound economics, to j
our notion Take the men who have I
!he costly motor cars and the r./yal i
raiment. Their bank accounts are
generally larger than the mere pedes- j
trians' and the wearers' of cheap
clothing. I
OR i
When as in silks my Ju'la gies.
Her bank account just grows and
grows.
Senator Sherman's characterize!! n
of Mr. Henry Ford as "one of those
persons who knew everything instan- ,
taneourly from birth" is inept. One
of the things Mr Ford was born with?
out, it m iy be recalled, was the knowl- :
edge of who Benedict Arnold was.
"And I may say," Senator Sherman I
said, "that 1 regard the Ford auto-1
mub'le a* an international pest. It
destroys more useful material than ?
any other sinkhole in the world." The
gentleman from Illinois may say that;
but if he were a newspaper editor it j
would cost him at least tic.
"I am de-td as the proverbial
doorknob," Edward K. wites to .
Beatrice Fa;rfax. Dear Miss Fairfax:
We are a young man and we wunt to ',
know what the proverb is. F. P. A.
One record is achieved in "The Won?
derful Thing." So far as we know, in I
no other play is the name of 8 char- ;
acter announced without somebody say- ;
ing, "Show him in." !
RONDEAU
I never saw the woman yet.
If rigid spinster or coquette,
Who'd ev?r pnss a mirror by
Without appraising on the sly
Her dress, from slipper to ro.iette.
At nicht she'd scan the silhouetta
Her form's reflection would beget;
The woman who won't even try
I never saw. ?
However. I must not foriret
That mirrors have me In their debt
For aiding me Ui fix my tie,
And set the hauteur in my eye.
The man as modest violet,
I never saw.
- Tracks.
If the newspapers should be govern?
ment controrf?.!, the coiyumists would
operate we a^ume, under civil serv?
ice. In that event, we should work
until, say. 10:30 p. m. If the colyum
were not fil ed by that time, we
should be forced to stop. No; we have '
g:ven the matter the ripest kind of!
deliberation, and our vote is all for'
capital'sm. private ownership, and
class consciousness.
"It does not require a factory,"?
says the Spur, "to make trouble." No, |
but the New Jersey factori.. xake ;
enough trouble for the render??; *.
Riverside Drive to *'r.ow the sp?-I.ua- '
ness of the epigram. !
"Phone Companies' Earnings Grow."1
Most of the companies ha?-,, earned I
more wrath during the last fiscal year '
than In any year previous.
Count that day lost whose sun de?
scending low
See? not the official forecast: Rain
?t enow.
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At first we were inclined to look at
prohibition with tolerance, because it
meant a release from all the books
which described what would happen to
u puinea pit? if he were inoculated w.th
Bronx cocktails. The relief was tempo
raiy, for we find ihat it takes just as
much time to read the heartrending
accounts of the effect of one drop of
nicotine placed on the tongue of a dog.
? "In Habits That Handicap," by
Charles B. Towns (Funk & Wagnalls),
we find the following ailments at?
tributed directly or indirectly to the
usi? of tobacco: Brigit's disease, apo
plexy. chronic catarrh headache, heart
di ease, lassitude, dizziness, low schol?
arship, small lung capacity, predispo?
sition to ulcoholic excesses, hardening
of the arteries, paralysis of the jptic
nerve, blindness, acid dyspepsia, in
omnia, epilepsy, muscular paralysis,
career, lack of appetite, insanity and
.os? of moral tone. Mumps, measles
and beri-beri are slighted in the pres?
ent edition.
"There is nothing to be said in its
favor." writes Mr. Towns, "save that
it gives pleasure."
"It ?eeras," he adds in another por?
tion of the book, "to give one com?
panionship when one has none?sume
'hing to do when one is bored?keep?
one from feeling hungry when one is
hui'rry and blunts the edge of hard?
ship and worry."
Suppose, then, that every ailment
which Mr. Towns has traced to tobacco
actually lies at its door-even then Is
the- case for tie prohibition of smok?
ing persuasive? Of course, low schol?
arship is a fearful and ?humiliating
thing, but we wonder whether it is
mere devastating than lone iness. It
is better, we think, to have a little las?
situde now and then, or even a touch
of acid dyspepsia, than to be without
th? weed which gives "one companion
?h p when one has none." And con?
sider the tremendous testimonial in
favor of tobacco which Mr Towns haa
written when he says that it g've!
"something to do when one is bored '
Although we haven't the statistics foi
lust year yet. we venture the guess that
about t>3 per cent of all the people
who die in any one year cease living
because they are bored. Boredom it
the cause of 86 per cent of all act on.?
for divorce. It fills our jails. Nation!
make war becuuse of it. Social unr?.-at
bedroom arces, tardiness, rudeness
blasphimy, crime, lies and yawning ir
the presence of company all rise be
cause of it.
And so we are disposed to sit de
fiantly shoulder to shoulder with othe
?.okers and to cry out against the fo<
who creeps ever closer through th<
haze, "Bring on your Mack of ap
petite.' "
It may be tru? as Mr. Towns. *ays
that smokir.g cau?w-i * loss of mora
tone, bu if the sr? ?aer wl.ll save hi
coupon .?ligiously at th? end of i
few montna he will b i-ble to exchang
them for a book on character building
Such a book Is "The New Sciene
of Analyzing Character," by Harry H
Ba'kin (Four Seas Company). Mi
Ba kin tells how .? . may d scover thi
lack of some card nal ' irtue merel,
by examining th ?nap of the hea"
and th?- na ur? c- V. complexior
Then he explain?? how the defect m<v
be remedied. Thus, firmness is "si?u
?ted at th? top of the head betwe?
??naratioa ?ad t?li-?st??m, and wh?
large g.ves height to this part of the
head. It is in d rect line with the
opening of the ear." Of course, it
may not be there, b.?t then all that
cne has to do is to glance at the bDt
tom of the page,,, whpre Mr. Ba.kin
v.rites: "To cu uvate this faculty it
is important that you complete every
one of your undertakings."
Per onally. we were much interested
ir. the section on acqu suivene. s. It
is situated at the anterior inferior
ongle of the parietal bone backward
of constructiveness. We are not cer?
ta n just what part of the ' e d this
is, but we need look no further than
our bar.kb )ok to realize that we lack
the quality. Fortunately, f.he remedy
is easy. "Those who are ba-hful in
asking for money that is rightly due
;hcm are weak in acquisitiveness,"
writes Mr BUkin "They shou'd studv
the value of things ?nd cultivate the
pride of ownership."
"Start a bank account," he says later
in this section, but makes no sugges
tion as to what may be u?ed in plac?
of money. However, perhaps all that
will be disclosed if one follows th
final piece of advice, "Study biopr&
phiea of financiers like J. P. Morir?n.
J. D. Rockefeller, Baron Rothschild for
inspiration."
"Self-esteem or dignity" also inter
estiii us. and we intend to go in foi
this, as it seems even easier to acquire
than the others. "Assume the Iva 1er
ship of difficult enterprises." "Place
yourself amidst pleasant surroundings ?
and act the'pirt of a gentleman or!
lady at a'l time3." '
"Adhesiveness" would not have in ,
terested is at a'l, except for the fact1
that we did not know just which virtue'
it was. However, we discovered on" i
interesting point in reading Mr. B .1
kin's remarks on the subject. In his
advice to those who are seeking to at
tain it he says. "Go into society Shake
hands heartily." Whenever we have;
met anybody in society who used th;>t
firm grip at the moment he rem irked
"Excuse my glove," we invariably re?
sented it. We felt that he was show?
ing off. Now we shall mer.-ly smile
and say in a low voice. "You'll get it.
yet. Only remember to 'smile when |
you meet one you have met before.'"!
Cautiousness Is situated "near the I
middle of each parietal bone, un the
upper side head outward from the I
crown, a little further back thin the ?
ears. It is generally the widest part of ;
the back head and frequently inter- j
feres with tiie fitting of a hat."
Sam.icl Butler must have been a sore1
trial to the haberdasher?, because I
Henry Fcsting Jones in his two-vol- ?
ume memoir about the author of "Ere
v\hon," details the fac: that h? had an
affair of m my years stai ding with a
woman named Lucie Dim s. and the
biographer records. "After he had
known her some fifteen years he dis
closed his name and address, and she
occasionally came to tea In his rooms."
The Drinking Man Still Drinks
To the Editor of Th? Tribune.
S r: The editorial in The Tribune of
F?b.\j?,ry 17 entitled "Tuo Scum to
Tell " ig:.ores the fact that prohibition
fails as yet to prohibit. Certainly the
rich have all the '.quor they want; as
for the rest 1 venture the statement,
borne out by personal observation that
the drinking man still gets his drink,
though he pays denr'y for it.
ARTHUR J. LAMB,
Naw York, Fab. 17, ma.
Snow and Teachers
Does the Mayor Understand
the Labor Shortage?
To the Editor of The Tr.bune.
Sir: Mayor Hylan, in d ending Ms
administration ug.inst char-res of in ft1,
ciency in coping with the snow, is queue,!
as saying. "The principal diffi.u.ty [?
the shortage of labor. We cannot jet
the men."
i All thinking and fair-mind-d citii-ne
\ will heartily agree th.;t the C ty of K??
! York never seriously prepares for th'
r?al^anowfall th it comes but once h ?
decade. They will not dispute th it th<
prevailing wages pad to unskilled I; bor
are such th t even $,' a d ly v-ill not at
1 tract the r ?ssary men. Time vas.
and not so eng ago, when >2 or $3 a -l-ij
brought willing h: nds <-v<n from he ar
birns. That times have chingcd is no
; the M yor's fault, and we m iy say \ it!
( His Honor, "Any one who criticizes th<
administration is obviojsl ? unf.iir mi
acting with an ulterior motive."
But when our Mayor tell-- us. on tht
very sime diy. th ? t there is no teacher
shortage while the whole United Stute!
knows there is. we m ?y right!;, ulr
whether the M iyor knows, after ail, loa?
the times have changed.
T^e tendier s ho rut p.- is jur-t as rea'
as the snow hills that dot our streit!
only the teacher shortage is lots nore
serious th:in the shortage of snow shovel?
lers. "Old Sol" may be counted on, it.
a few days, to come to our worthy
Mayor's rescue. With his tiery brent
he will prove much more effective that!
ten timei? 10.000 shovels or the new
"??now melter." The\ snow labor shi-rV
age is but a matter of days. Not so
the teacher shortage Each rising iUC
sees the situation growing rapid y worse.
Tea-hers are leaving in larger numbers
th-m they ure com.ng in. and the num?
ber preparing for teaching is neg'igijle
Teachers cannot be trained ovi;rn;;h'.
any more than nurses, lawyers ind
phy icians can be so trained. Let d'WF.
the bars as the Mayor proposes, re?
move them altogether, if you will; eco?
nomic laws will still limit the ??pnj
Men and women will not spend fonrtif*
or fifteen years at school to prepare
themselves for a job that will pity ?I?1
$400 a year less to start with tlur Is
paid to street cleaners We are con?
fronted by a basic hum.in instinct?th'
desire to exist.
jAroB th:;obali>.
New York. F b II. 192;)
Only 250.000 Em gran*??
To the i ditor of The Tn uno.
Sir: Without going ;ntu me ??*?>
tion of the need of ,.n.. great in.int*f
of immigrants a-, outline?, in ?????' -?*-?'
torial of even .late. I ca.?>iut oui H??*"
ti n your state.ucnt inn? over l.ih'?ow
workers have em .?rated aince the ?*"
mis'ice.
When the ?nom n*? flo^d was at >-?
height we received onl;- a' put **
and one-fourih mil ions, anil this ?'
practically the pick of passenger^*
rying sh';-s of ihe w r'<( cngajwl
I may be mistaken, t judj'WJ *"
what 1 h ve seen .-?rid 1 h; l n '
the transport servie? o' h? *-''.
States o?ei wo ears ih -?? P* *Yi
able to <arrj back ??nii.i?" ? ' " nt
have carried mur? than 1.00,00t *'
the armistice.
j Just think over this oroblen. ?
I remember the difficult le? we h???
getting over tr- ops, and I think /
will admt the In'er RaC.al Cauf'--1
statement is ?rossly cxaj'gers'ea
AN XOOB.
Crestwood. N Y , FeS. 13, 1920.
An O'd S'ory
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