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GUARANTY Tee can eurchat? merehendlie s?vertlsed In THE TRIBUNE with absolute lafety?for it dlssstlsfee. ?Ian result! In an) can THC TUtBUNE guaranties lo ea', ?our money ba:K upon request. No red tape. No quibbling. We make good promptly It the aflvertittr Oes not. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aaaixrlatol Preaa l? ex luslrely entitled to the m* for republlcatlon of ? news ?il<<pat.*r.es ersdlteil in It or not otherwise credited In till? paj>?r. and also 't.e local news e?us or'-?In pub? lished herein. A . rights of republlcatlon of all other mutter ftsrein also ar* reserrod. State Rights and Rates The Attorney General of New York is seeking a permanent injunc? tion to prevent the railroads operat? ing in the state from charging4the intrastate passenger rate.- author? ized by the Interstate Commerce Commission. He says that the state is acting "in its sovereign capacity" in trying to impose passenger rates of its own which the Federal board holds to be di?. criminatory. It is highly de irable that the case shall be fought out on the broad principle whether or not slate con? trol of the railroads may be exer? cised in a sense hostile to Federal control. The State Public Utilities commissions didn't raise as bald an issue as that. They accepted'with? out protest the Inter ?1 ite ( o nmerce Commission's increases in fr< . ht rates and allowed intrastate charges to be conformed to interstate charges. It' they had followed the Attorney Genei'al's theory to its logical com , would have insisted on a different schedule for intrastate freighl ? affic as well as for intrastate passengei traffic. Then every other state might have felt tempted to follow New York's exam? ple, thus setting up discriminations against all tr? flic originating within its own borders and against all tra?ic originating ai points just be? yond its border line. The commissions didn't care to push the state right ? doctrine as far as that. The framers of the Consti? tution'had noted the evil results of the restraints put on intercourse by the whirns and prejudices of the various colonies. They wanted to break down discriminations and bar? riers. In the United States to-day commerce, and tran ?on are nationalized interests. The carriers work as a unit m ,- r ! - 1? ral direc? tion. They are sustai ne : I hrough rates fixed by the Federal govern? ment. The Interstate Commerce Commission appr ?? ci rta ncl i for freight and pa: sei ger business, in order to produce revenue pledged to the railroad systems. I!' one state tries to cut 1 \ < --,?? rati down for its nun benefit the pi plo of other states mus? do the same thing or bear an unequal bui ' n If the courts should ? ?Id ;! i vi rj state may impos ? *\ hatever ?nt 'astate rates it pleases, ! Lh freight and passenger, then interstate rates must be again raised t<T make up the deficit. Interstate traffic would be universally discriminated against. Dual control, with clashing man? agement, thus means a return to colonial provincialism. It would de? feat the purpose of the Constitution to liberate and unify the instrumen? talities of commerce. It would also sacrifi?e the va benel 5 of nation? wide standardization in order to make a barren gesture of reverence to the faded im l it,- rights. Bolshevism in Holland. L?nine and Trotzky naturally se? lect Holland as the centre of their propaganda in western Europe. Besides the advi fl .--.? ;- f-,, n Holland's I cal positi m and her neutrality in the late war, Am? sterdam is the sea! of the Second In? ternational, the central organ of the Social Democratic parties opposed to Bolshevism, and Moscow would de? stroy this organization. A partj of Dutch Bolshevists, headed by D. J. Wijnkoop, the leader of the Communist movement in Hol? land, recently visited Soviet Russia and have reported their experiences to a conference held at Amsterdam. It would appear that the Dutch ex? plorers were more favorably im? pressed than their British, German, French and Italian colleagues. Nevertheless, Wijnkoop is not in complete agreement with the Ex? treme Left of his pajrty, whose lead? ers demand immediate break with all "constitutionalist" tactics and affiliations. It has been charged that Bolshe? vik money, realised from the sale of, the Czar's jewelry, backed the strike of the Amsterdam ami Rotter? dam dockers and transport workers lmst spring. The strike suspiciously broke out shortly after the Bolshe? vist conference at Amsterdam, or? ganized by the sub-bureau of the Moscow International. Not the least ?igniflcant Bolshevik activities arej in the Dutch East Indies, especially' Java, where a lively Communist and anti-European agitation cooperates with the promoters of the Islaniistic revival to incite the native popula? tion against the Dutch government. If Red Russia is not able to incite ? serious trouble throughout the world I it is not from lack of funds or lack { of trying. ? -:= Mother Goes to Court Jury duty for women, like the 1 "burden" of the suffrage, is much ' easier In the performance than in ' the anticipation, if one may judge I from the pleasant time had by all i in a recent session in the City Court j of Orange, New Jersey. The danger that threatened the | home if women were onpe made sub? ject to the stern demands of the law I ?calling wives from the sickbeds of ' the suffering and mothers from the j confidences of their children?was ; proved to be of the substance of soap bubbles. A judge could prick it I with a word, excusing any woman ? whose personal affairs made attend : anee inconvenient. Mrs. Thomas A. i Edison was excused because her hus ' band had a cold. Another woman was excused because invited to a ! wedding. But for those the sum? mons held the session was as inter? esting as a matinee. Nor did the children suffer. "My ? baby is fourteen years old. If she cannot get herself a bit of lunch, \ then I have long since failed in my | duty as a mother," said Mrs. Van Ness, the newly elected member of the Jersey Legislature. And for the women whose children were younger ?efery member of the jury was married?the day was still un? clouded by domestic tragedy. The , commuter's wife has long since solved the problem of a few hours' absence from home. Few and iso? lated, indeed, are the women who have no devices for securing a day off for shopping, a visit to a lonely mother, a college reunion, or mayhap a concert. The higher motherhood, as prac? ticed in the twentieth century, de? mands of every woman frequent glimpses of the richness of life out? side her walls, even though the chil? dren go without pudding. To sit for a day in a courtroom learning some? thing of the processes of the law is a sort of adult education that will contribute to keeping the boys and girls of the future out of court. The Bases of Prosperity With 6 per cent of the world's population and 7 per cent of its land, the Unitad States annually produces GO per cent of the world's cotton, 75 nor cent of its corn, 24 per cent of its wheat, 6G per ?.cut of its coal, GO | per cent of its copper, 85 per cent of its automobiles, and so down a i long list. "The richest country in the world," admiringly exclaim most Americans. "Not so," rejoins The New York Call, the Socialist, organ, "if the lest 'is diffused distribution, as it should be." It 3ays, truly enough, that the totality of a country's wealth pro? duction does not measure the aver? age prosperity of its people, and re? marks that, though the cotton gin's invention greatly swelled the cotton crop, this did not help the slaves who raised the'cotton. Let us, then, take as the true test the one of diffused distribution. What becomes of the enormous an? nual industrial harvest of this coun? try'.' Less than 10 per cent is ex? ported. Where goes the 90 per cent that remains at home'.' It is con? sumed here, By the very rich? Only to a small degree. It reaches the stomachs, is worn on the backs, or ! goes into the shelter of average ' Americans. The rank of our people . eat more, wear more and have more comforts and luxuries, amusements, books and the thousand and one things of human want than any othi r people, past or present. If The Tail's editor does not know this he is grossly ignorant. He knows it, well enough, but belongs to a sect whose interests, he thinks, will be advanced by concealment and mis education. And why is the production of America so vast and why is her dis? tribution so diffused? Our natural resources are great, but, per square mile, scarcely exceed those of Rus? sia, for example. Our people are in? dustrious, but expend less . muscle power per capita than many others. We are new and have skimmed the cream from a continent, but back? ward Brazil is even more new and has as much cream to skim. We must look further for explanation. The chief reason why our produc? tion is so great and our distribution so diffused is because we possess a political and economic system which releases human energy by putting a premium on superior efficiency and intelligence. The children of this system are inventive and have initia? tive. Our political institutions are designed to secure equality of oppor? tunity as nearly as human ingenuity can secure this, and then our eco? nomic system says to those who toe I a common mark: "Run as fast as you can. If your hand reaches a prize it is yours." And, lo! all run the faster because of the competi? tion. Destroy democracy and the capi? talistic system, as Russia has done, and the share Of production that the average American now enjoys would soon shrink and shrivel. The future will doubtless see many bettering laws and customs to perfect further! equality of opportunity, but, unless I the?human family would retrograde, the changes must not involve the de ! Btruction of an economic system ? which energizes men while at the ! same time it automatically secures a leadership which has shown itself the most competent. Marx ended his famous manifesto by telling the workmen of the world that they had nothing to lose through revolution except their chains. No greater falsehood was ever promulgated. Bulgaria's Poor Technique In his protest against the recog? nition of Bulgaria a3 one of the guardians of world peace by receiv | ing her into the League of Nations M. Spalekovitch, the head of the Serbian delegation at Geneva, in be? half of Serbia, Greece and Rumania, says : "The people of Sorbin, Greece and Rumania are unanimously opposed to Bulgaria's admission at this time. Bulgaria has not fulfilled any impor? tant terms of the peace treaty. The | only conditions under which the three countries will approve her ad? mission are, firSt, the restitution of all property, machinery, cattle, furni? ture and the like, stolen from them; second, the payment of a just indem? nity; and, third, punishment of the Bulgarians guilty of outrages com? mitted against the women and chil? dren of Serbia. We have not re? ceived one cent of indemnity; nor has a single Bulgar been tried for the crimes committed." Bulgaria does not possess the ! well organized press bureau pos | se ssed by Germany. So the heart I strings of the world have not been : tern by pitiful tales of Bulgarian ! misery. It has not been shown that she is the victim of cruel and re 1 ientless enemies?that it is abom? inable for any to suggest she should return the property she stole. She has not presented herself as a gentle and pacific nation surrounded by wolfish neighbors. Her methods , of disregarding the agreements she : made are crude. She merely de? faults, pleading no excuses and mak? ing no proclamation of her great | virtue. She does not even threaten to go Bolshevik. The next time Bulgaria appears as an applicant for league member? ship her ease will doubtless be more skillfully handled. She will weep [ and wring her hands, and then, ac? cording to their practice, elements ; which salute themselves as liberals will tearfully argue that Bulgaria ; has been most unjustly treated and ; that to enforce the treaty against her would be supremely wicked. As | things now are, Bulgaria is obvious? ly weak in the technique of propa ; ganda. She has great need to learn i from Berlin. Horseback Hall In "Heartbreak House" Shaw lets j one of his characters explain his title | and supplement it with the equally pungent phrase Horseback Hall. The < former is the middle-class home, the latter the aristocratic home of mod? ern England. One might have wished that Shaw had written a i companion piece under the second ; title, but Margot Asquith has saved him the bother. In her autobiog? raphy?judging at least by its serial . ized publication.!?she has all uncon? sciously and with the naivete of an ! unbelievably self-satisfied woman, drawn a full-length portrait of a conspicuous and typical inhabitant of Horseback Hall. As such a document it would be [ easy to justify the solemnity with [ which London has received this ' extraordinary publication. But the ? weeklies just arrived, from the dig | ni?ed Spectator down, give it the ! space and consideration due a great I masterpiece?instead of a self ] revelatory document. To an Ameri I can this can seem only silly. A ; witty and conceited woman who feels ! none of the ordinary obligations of i friendship to hold intimacy sacred can always write such a shocker. If she has associated with conspicuous people she can always make her : shocker of enough general interest to earn a wide reading and much money. But to call such vainglory and gossip literature or suggest that intimate love affairs rattier dully stated have some artistic value be causc the lover and his desired are real folk seems an extraordinary blindness. Typical of the absurd argument with which these English critics are defending the volume is the explana? tion given by the critic of The New Statesman as to why Mrs. Asquith, while presenting all the appearances of a vain woman, is not really vain. It is because she really believes in the doctrine of the poet: To thine own self be true: And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. "That is to say," applies this critic, "untrue in any serious sense; though the result may be wounded feelings and pain to many." This is not vanity "in the ordinary sense," the argument continues, because, while admiration pleases her, her self-respect is deeper and based upon "a peculiar detachment which funda? mentally takes herself for granted." j Margot Asquith wrote: "When any! one leaves the room I do not ask myself if they liked me, but if 1 liked them," and this the critic re? gards as proving his point. To the casual reader at this distance the remark?and especially the publica? tion of it?will only confirm what the rest of the book constantly dem? onstrates, that here was a vanity ! not so much grandly egoistical as ? childish and ridiculous. The echo | roused in one's mind is the voice not 1 of Napoleon but of the Duchess? the one who wrote such admirable : novels for servant girls, we mean. These English critics speak glow ingly of the "lovable candor" of the ? writer, and we would not contest their verdict in favor of the truth | fulness of the book. But the uncon ! scious revelation of the character of I the writer seems of far more value ! than any amount of ephemeral gos | sip, however accurate. The picture ! of Horseback Hall is of a life not j only "fast, furious and fashionable," but hard, selfish and shallow? ; wherein a woman of education and ' family can live without purpose or ? plan, fon the pursuit of sensation i after sensation?and at the end sell ! her sensations for cash. Perhaps ! Horseback Hall is only a Shaw night ? mare. Perhaps Margot Asquith is ? typical of nothing save the tribe of i enfanta terribles that belongs to no ! one era or nation. But these seem I the important points to discuss ? rather than the quality of gossip which would bring a blush to the 1 cheek of George Moore himself. The Queenstown F ignis - : Father Duffy Doubts the Official Report of Admiral Sims ' To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I first read Admiral Situs's re? marks on the Irish incidents in a copy of World's Worjf, which I bought on a train. Alongside me was a navy man, a r.on-cdm with eight years' service. "What did they have you doing in the : war?" I asked. "Destroyers. Base at : Queenstown most of the time." "Did .you see any rows with the Irish?*' ; "Sure, some of them used to raise a rumpus if they saw our fellows keep : ing company with the girls." "Was Ireland the only place you saw that ; kind of trouble?" "Why, no. 'Saw tights in Portsmouth, fights in Brest." In the smoking room a naval lieu : tenant was telling of experiences in ; England. "There's a disadvantage in ? some ways in talking the same lan I guage as your allies. You can swear ? at a Frenchman or pass remarks on his fighting qualities, and he won't \ know what you are saying. But try '? it on an Englishman and the road \ ': won't be wide enough for the size of j I the fight that will get started. I like - I them for it. And, of course, the thing ; works both ways, for the brags and ; insults were started by the Britishers i at. least half the time, and our fol- ; lows were just as ready for a row. I Often our authorities and the English had to make arrangements so that their men and ours wouldn't have shore l leave on the same days." This led to talk about army troubles i with the French, caused by soreness j about overcharging and, especially after ? the armistice, when French soldiers ; began to get home, by that eternal source of private war, sex-rivalry. The press has not chosen to say ? much of these incidents. One would think that no troubles of this sort , existed save in the Cove of Cork. Yet nobody in America, nor in Ca?ad?, nor Australia, need leave his own street to , bear first band tales of fights between overseas forces and English or French : people which are on all fours with the incidents about which Admiral Sims is so solemnly fussy. It is not, so very long ago that Kipling wrote "Tommy," the protest of the English fighting man against the treatment he got from his own people. And 1 remember hearing echoes while abroad of mutual recriminations ber tween sailors and civilians in som< of run* own home ports during the war. It does not make a thing right to : prove that it is universal under given conditions, but it does make it easier to understand and harder to get excited about. FRANCIS P. DUFFY, Chaplain, 69th Regiment, New York. [Father Duffy quotes the casual remarks of a person he happened to meet against the formal and de? tailed statement of Admiral Sims, who was in a position to know ,the whole truth. The offset does not seem sufficient.? Ed.] Anti-Neutral To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: The following excerpt was taken from the account in The Tribune of the Irish riot in front of the Union League Club: "Police Inspector Underhill, who went in while the riot was at its height and asked that the flag be taken down, was told that the club was standing on its rights in the matter. " 'Well, you see what has happened,' the police inspector is reported to have sa.d." Di.l not Von Bernstorff warn the Americans to keep off the Lusitania? Just where do we poor Americans "get erf"? Must we even think neutral again ? While the Hun was planting bombs and sneaking ground poisoning with anthrax, etc., we can at least applaud the Sinn Feinen for fighting in the open. Oh, Lord, how long.? AN AMERICAN. New York, Nov. 2(3, 1920. Cheers From Italy To the Editor of The Tribune.. Sir: The enthusiasm throughout Italy at the election of Senator Harding is worthy of note. The President is most unpopular, as he is blamed for the delay in the incorporation of Fiume with Italy ?an incorporation justly wished for by both. America is admired by Italy, but the extent of the admiration is limited by the extent of an interference that is regarded as officious, if not impertinent. WALTER PHELPS DODGE. Taormina, Sicily, Nov. 6, 1920. A Costly Performance ir"r-im The Toledo Blade) Had the late war lasted much longer this country would have been robbed down to ?ta? i-**-- fini liar. The Conning Tower SCRATCHES I found a ?car a?rons nijr wrist to-day. , I got it gathering apple blossoms for yon : One breathleM afternoon when Spring w?a new, '? And all the tree? were wearing whit?, for May. ' I had forgotten any scar was there? ? I hftd forgotten, too, the trifling pain , Quite paid for with a kiss . . . and then the rain | Scattering: transient diamond? in your hair. . . . I j You thought you loved me then, Ho you i remember 7 ! And I, for my part, poured out, I am ?nre, ' Bravo words like "grow" and "strengthen" and "endure" ! But that, of course, was May?this is November. ? Tim? will bedim that night . . . th* blooms . . . your face .... , Even the scar will heal to a faint trace. . . . John V. A. Wkatbi. Next month a meeting of reformers will be held in Washington for the purpose of amending the Constitution, stricter Sunday laws being the goal. The esteemed public, raising high a split of sarsaparilla, will now sing: "I , got ti ese blue law blues." freedom: [l?j W :., ?in of ilie Standard Dictionary] The state or condition of being free; liberty; independence; immunity. Next year may be, as the propa? ganda stories sent out by the tailors and clothing dealers say, a Harding year sartorially; which is to sny dark blue suit3 and black ones will be the only wear. But we refuse to wear a Harding vestette or a Harding scarf pin. One nundred Per Cent Puritan "It was the old Puritan Sabbath that hatched the Fourth of July. The Declaration of Independence wasn't born in a Chicago beer dive on a Sun? day afternoon. Not by a jugful."? The Rev. Dr. Harry L. Bowlby in The World. No? I have always understood that the old Puritan Sabbath, if not the i Declaration of Independence, was con- I nected with numerous jugfuls?Ja maica jugfuls. C. B. D. We don't mind bending the knee be? fore Stephen Leacock, author of "Sun? shine Sketches." But we stand erect before Stephen Leacock, author of the just published "Winsome Winnie." Pro? fessor Leacock's new nonsense novels are, to our notion, the thinnest of third- ? rate burlesques. B| Gotham Gleanings jgj ? News arc scarce this wk. ?Xmas shopping is the o. of the d. ?Dick Bennett entertained on Thanksgiving eve. ?Everly Davis is o. k. again after a slight indisposition. ?C. V. Van Anda enjoyed sonic kippered herring last wk. ? Hank Bristol enjoyed seeing Ro? land Young act Tuesday eve. ? Prof, Lou Strauss of Ann Arbor was a Gotham visitor Friday. ?Mrs. Sally Farnham celebrated her birthday quietly la*>t Friday. ?"Maj." "Art" Samuels Thurs* dayed in Hartford with home folks. ?Denning Miller of here is now one of the editors of the Harvard Lampoon. ? Boyd Sparkes has been down tc the Canal ??one with W. G. Harding i ?f Marion, ( >. ? New: Baker was in town Sat. fot the ft.ball game. Newt is going it: the law bus. in Cleveland Mar. 5 1921. ?Raymond B. Posdick the gifter piccolo-flute player was among the spectators at Saturday's footbal game. ? Hendrick William Van Loon'; new history book is as good reading for ki?!s as H. G. Wells's is for u< old folks; and pretty good for it! o. f., too. BABY'S SHOES Two copies of System Prone on an accounting text. An ugly alarm. Ink and many-columned paper. And to-day I flattened this nose Against a Chink's window 'I'n feee A wave-green incense burner Throned on a teakwood stool. Two copies oi System. Bah! F. T. T. "Mr, Gammack, as usual," says Th< New Haven Journal Courier, "gave ar | excellent account of himself and wai not devoid of his jocular vein." Ar 1 important artery. You All Yonder Quit That Dialect! j [Received by a Tooth Past? Manufacturer] Hoajton, Te.xaa. Dear Sirs: I am using tooth paste and ? am writing you all about a mouth wash a you all know that the mouth need tome kin ! of a wash. Well if you all don't make an j kind of a mouth wawh will you all be kindl enough to tell me what kind of a goo I mouth wa-ih 1 can use as you know tfc mouth need a wa*h once and a while an ' there are some parts of the mouth that i ' tooth brushed can rue reached, My Broth? my Sister and myself we three are usin , tooth past? and we find it very gi>od be< , using it for months so that why I wro ; you all about a good mouth wash so if yc j all do not make any mouth wash. Well wl j you all please be kindly enough and t? j me of a good mouth waah that I can u : hoping I will hear from you all real so? 1 telling me of a good mouth wash waitii ! for your all answer. Magistrate Mancuso's declaration th , the State Reformatory at Bedford " I not fit to send a dog to" has been denn i by officials of the institution. Which r ! calls what Lew Fields used to say ? Joe Weber. "Mike," he said, "I am yo | friend. I stick up for you. When ever | body said you wasn't fit to live with t 'pigs, didn't I say you wad?" F. P. A. NOTHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR (Copyright. 1?20. New York Tribun* I??? DOORS Heywood Broun "Showing how the fiction of yester? day may become the front-page news of to-day,'' writes Dave Wallace, -'you : will find in Main Street, at the bot : torn of page 4 47: 'She heard Mrs. | Bogart observe, "Now we've got pro - hibition, it seems to me that the next pr?)blem of the country isn't so much i abolishing cigarettes as it is to make ! folks observe the Sabbath and arrest : these lawbreakers that play baseball ; and go to the movies and all on the ? Lord's Day." ' " On the three hundred and forty j seventh page of Moon-Calf, Felix and ! Joyce fall into discussion of the fic [ tional treatment of love and lovers: " 'They don't tell the truth,' insisted i Joyce. 'They leave out things?impor ? tant things.' "'They have to,' said Felix. 'Reality ; is improper.' ! " 'But it's so much more interesting,' said Joyce. " 'Yes,' said Felix. 'When I was a boy and began to read books to try to find out something about life, i re? member that I was always impatient of the way they wrote sbeut love. Foi grown-up people, people who knew ali about it, what they said might mear i something; but it didn't tell me any ; thing. And the supposedly naught*, ! Looks were worse than the ethers; they gave a false idea of everything.'' i read on further through severa ' pa-agraphs in which the two character! - expressed similar opinions, but thet ! the author betrayed them by suddenly I lowering a curtain and beginning hii ! next sub-chapter with: "Nevertheless though the change in their relation ship had simplified the problem o their spiritual adjustment, it had ais? intensified it in a peculiar way, o which neither of them was consciousp ! aware. In a sense they seemed t? ? have exchanged spiritual attitudes wit] ea:h other. It was true, there was n i more debate about 'freedom.' She ha ? accepted his theories with a sudden neis and completeness that startle 1 him." Felix had a right to be 6tartlec I Even the reader was. Probably the reticence which assails Dell is of a pattern which Felix is i described as possessing. "To Felix," | writes the author, "sex was a mysteri i ous and rather sacred theme, to be discuss?;?! impersonally in scientific i terms, or solemnly and beautifully in ; po;tij paraphrase. He regarded jokes upon that theme as vulgar. He had to i learn from her lips that it was pos? sible to be frivolous or merry upon that subject, as upon any other; but it was a hard lesson. His intellectual convictions about women had not quite ' prepared him for her apocalyptic self." i However, it is a little unfair to bold | authors to blame for the use of im ? personal scientific terms ^ or solemn j poetic paraphrases when writing about ? sex. James Branch Cabell succeeded ? admirably in making the theme merry j ?s well as beautiful when he wrote ' J?rgen, but look what happened to him. Still from the point of view of the literary editor of Mr. Harding's Marion Star it is just as well that fic? tional customs are as they are. In the L'ty room of his newspaper hangs a list, of instructions from the Senator, one cf which is, "I want this newspaper so conducted that it can go into any home without destroying the innocence of any child." The dramatic critic of The Marion Star must have a hard time of it when _ I i ene of those bedroom farces of AI I Woods comes to t?j\vn. Now we know, at any rate, why Mr. I Harding never went into any details as to how a new league could be brought into the world. He wanted his listen? ers to assume that he could find one under a cabbage leaf. Careful as Edith Wharton is in al the detail which goes to make up the atmosphere of The Age of Innocenc? she makes one mistake twice. Durin; the course of the book some of he characters go upon two occasions * hear Joachim play. As a matter a fact, Joachim was deathly afraid of sea journey and never came to Americi "Hitherto I have believed in you, writes Morris Ryskind. "When Ev j Tanguay resigned from your cabinet, wrote you a letter of congratulatioi j When Ethel Barrymore denounced yc as a baseball writer, my faith in yc ? did not weaken. When George Cree Chairman of the Bureau of Publie 1\ manism < r Potterism or whatever it i nominated you for the Ananias Club, did not second the nomination. I ss the shows you raved about, bought tl books you recommended, and, like you self, voted for Debs and bought a Li erator bond. "But now, Heywood 2d, I know y '.or what you are. You are, maug your expressed admiration for W. Hudson, a nature faker. I rememt your story on the landing of the fi American forces in France; it was w written, and it rose to a stirring cliir m which you depicted the first game crap to be played on French soil. "My heart was touched, as w doubtless those of all your readers, the fact that America was again lightening the world. Here was great American game being ?aught the Latin races. American doughb were teaching French poilus to th naturals, to read 'em and weep, to i for'Big Dick and Li'l Phoebe. W English friends asked me who won war I pulled out the clipping of j story and showed them conclusi i as I thought) who had made the w "But now I find that crap is an old I game, a game the Latins played away : back in 122 B. C. I am, I hope, 100 per cent American, but my pride of ; country is not such that I would have : us claim honors we are not entitled to. ; That is not in accordance with the Fourteen Points; nor even, for that ? matter, with the Treaty of Versailles. "It was this passage from Caius Gracchus, by Odin Gregory, that re t vealed the bitter truth to me: '"Drusus?(Throws dice) A Jupiter! ', No good! Septimuleius- throw! " 'Sept.--(Throws dice) A dog! Stil I worse! Throw thou, Rutilius? throw ! "'Rut.? (Throws dice) A Venus There. I win. "Mr. Gregory explains in a footnot : that eve-fy throw of the dice had : : special name. The 'cania' was the low est throw, the 'Venus' the highest ? Clearly that is crap, albeit an ol form. The dice were thrown in thos days, instead of being shot. But tha ; is a mere technicality. Crap, sir, i not an American game. Admit it lik ! a man. "Perhaps, with a proper apology, yo could get Mr. Gregory to tell us moi about the old form of the game. Fc example, did they throw two die? Or five, poker fashion? "Of course, there are other forn of gambling; that I am interested i For example, that intrepid publishe A. A. Knopf, flinging caution to the winds, is bringing out my first volume of verse, Unaccustomed as I Am, this February. May I nor take this occ? sion to wish him goo?! fortune?" Anti-Lynching Laws To -he Fditor of The Tribune, Sir: Two days before Thanksgiv'm Day a Mississippi mob battered don the doors of a courtroom, seized a prit. . cner who was being tried at a snei? term of the court, and dragged himj the end of a rope tied to the rear? of an automobile, finally hanging ? lifeless body and riddling it witn be : lets. On Thanksgiving Day a New Ym newspaper published ".he followa* headline: "Lynch Negro by Mistake "Georgia Posse Shoots Mrother of Man Who K .; .i White" In Mississippi the sanctity of t ! courtroom was violated. In Georgii an innocent man was brutally mir ! dered. No one will be punished for \ participation in these or the fifty other atrocities which have disgraced the ? United States b< fo * the world in 1920. The A. leri -are now given opportunity t.> end * gi ice. Sen* lor Curtis and Representative Dj"**l have introduced mi Congress a Federal anti-lynching bill which provides: 1. For a $10,000 tine to be paid b" any county m which a lynching occori 2. For prosecution of negligent ?ta? and county officers in United Stitei I courts. S. For trial on charges of morder in a United States court of all partici? pants in lynchings May we through The New York Trib? une ask those citizens who want lynch? ings in the United States stopped to write their Senators or Representiti*** : urging enactment of Federa! f?tw lynching legislation? JAMES W. JOHNSON, Secretary of the Na'ional Association for the Advancement of Colored People. New York, Nov. 2-', IT'20. When We Forget To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: The c?mmuter and hi? t'e-wt have brought forth a host of comme"?? but apparently all have missed the , mark. Even so good a citizen ai P H. Woodward tries to argue from ?^ illogical standpoint. The same ?*"-1 exists in hundreds of instances, ij-' want to dodge their own reiponsibi.ft** and make somebody else accountab.? f?ir their own blunders. With "every little ?11 they msb ? Washington to gel it corrected. * I real red-blooded man, if he forgets ~ ; commutation ticket, is ashamed ? ' and he pays his fare meekly and fig?* rat vely k t all d?? bee*,'J*< of his forgetfuli When a man forgets his necktie * '? does not expec" some haberdas.-ier loan him one; when he forgets w tar i off the electric ?ht, of court? he expects the electric company to re? imburse him- but, of course, it doein JOHN JOM* New Yerk, Nov. 26, 1920. Wholesale Slaughter To the Editor of The TribuB?. ^ Sir: The correspondent who wrote .^ on the subject of stenography ?nd t , nunciation might also have **kt? so many persons mispronounce words "address" ar.il "inquiry" In * first case. the. accent should be ?" ?econd syllable, and in the MC"B ^ might as well say "inqueer" ?*"?* ? " "inq'-uery." The wholeeal? e1*0* of the English language in thi**'??' truly appalling. HARRY HOWA?? New York. Not. 26, 1920.