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berr?n aleo are resorre?.
? One Issue?Hylanism
As a lawyer and a jurist, County
Judge Reuben L. Haskell, of Brook?
lyn, is familiar with the le.cal proc?
esses through which the Eighteenth
Amendment had to pass before it be?
came a part of tbo Constitution of
the United States. As a lawyer and
a jurist he must be aware that if the
Eighteenth Amendment is to be re?
pealed the same processes must be
invoked anew.
Were it otherwise, were it possible
for the President or tbe Governor
*j*f the state or the cbief magistrate
Of this municipality to say, "Suspend
this law or that, for I do not ap
j4*rove it," this would be a govern?
ment of men and not of laws. It
"Would be an intolerable thing. The
?yery thought of such a condition, we
are certain, is as abhorrent to Judge
'Haskell as it is to The Tribune.
' So it is that we find it impossible
to follow the reasoning which leads
him to proclaim his entrance as a
candidate for Mayor in the Repub?
lican primary of September 13 on
an anti-prohibition platform. As?
suming by the wildest reach of the
imagination and for the sake of ar?
gument his election as chief execu?
tive of the municipality, he would be
compelled to enforce the prohibition
law. Failure to do so would be fol?
lowed by impeachment just as cer?
tainly as a misfeasance or malfeas?
ance committed by him in his pres?
ent office. f
.., The judge was elected to the bench
on this false issue of prohibition.
How many voted for him believing
that through him in some mysterious
Va7 repeal would be achieved? He
?has not repealed it nor, we are sure,
"held back his hand in its enforce?
ment.
?; To lead people to believe prohibi?
tion to be the issue or an issue of the
campaign now forming to put an end
\o the misgovernment of Tammany
Hall is to delude them. Tammany
laughs in its sleeve as it looks on
"from Fourteenth Street and Good
Ground. It knows that the issue is
not prohibition. It knows that the
issue is Hylanism. More than that,
it knows the tactical advantage to be
had out of a divided opposition.
-Thus has it returned to rule and to
rain time after time.
With Jud?ro Haskell arrayed
against his own party's candidate,;
and with Mr. Fiorella La Guardia ;
'and Mr. William M. Bennett sniping |
at him from the woods, has not Tam?
many, for the moment, occasion to
snaile?
. Let it ?smile while it may, for we
are of the opinion that the intelli?
gent Republican voters and the in?
dependent Democrats enrolled with
them will do their duty on Primary
Day.
, . "The enrolled Republican voters
will not be stampeded or bam?
boozled," says Senator Charles C.
Lockwood, the candidate for Comp?
troller. "They know perfectly well
"that the is?uc of the campaign is the
?displacement of the Hylan admin?
istration. Prohibition cannot be
dragged in by Judge Haskell or any
one ebe."
We share Mr. Lockwood's faith.
Pour years of Hylanism and Hearst
ism and Hettrickism and hyphenism
forbid their being led astray.
Back in Wall Street
*" There is a typr* of investor that
Wall Street regards B3 a financial
f weather vane. He is the "infrequent,
investor." Perhaps he might mere
accurately be called the "unemo?
tional speculator," for he never is
aroused by the mere spectacle of ris?
ing or falling prie*11?. His practice is
to buy when buying is unpopular?
???hen, as the saying goes, nobody
"5'ants stocks. He sells when nearly
J?yerybody else ia b'jying.
** His last appearance in force was
& the early fall of 1919, just before
the great post-war boom collapsed.
Then he brought neat bundles of
previously accumulated securities to
his broker, sold them and went into
retreat with the proceeds. There he
has remained ever since-?that is,
? until the last week or two. Now,
the brokers ?ay, he is back in the
Street again. But this time he is
busy exchanging his hoarded funds
4'>t stock certificates, When he has
bought all ha wants he will go Into
retirement again, to wait in his un?
emotional way for what he thinks Is
M, good time to sell, That is what is
meant whan the financial page? re
port that stocks are going "out of
the Street."
All of which may or may not be
very significant. Usually the "in?
frequent investor" is right. It looks
as if he were.
Our South American Trade
That which was feared and
against which innumerable warnings
were uttered, in our South American
trade is apparently coming to pass.
We are again yielding ground to our
oldtime rivals.
It is true that business conditions
in those countries are generally bad.
But this is not surprising. South
America is simply suffering from in?
fluences which are unfavorably felt
throughout the world.
The feature of the case which
should give us concern is that in
these untoward circumstances United
States trade seems to be suffering
more than that of other countries,
and to be displaced by European and
particularly by German trade. Thus
in Argentina few American salesmen
are now to be found, and some Amer?
ican branch houses have gone into
liquidation. Incidentally, German
goods are being sold at from 20 to 75
per cent less than American goods.
In Brazil German trade representa?
tives are active, while important
American concerns are closing their
offices. In Peru our trade commis?
sioner advises suspension of all ef?
forts to sell goods.
During the war there was an enor?
mous increase of American trade
with those countries, the major part
of Germany's coming into our hands.
Numerous warnings were then pub-1
lished of the extraordinary efforts
which Germany and other European
countries would make to regain their
trade after the war, and of the im?
perative need of special efforts on
our part to hold what we had gained.
The opportunity befor? us was the
greatest that we had enjoyed in that
quarter since that which wc flung
away in 1824. To what extent those
warnings were heeded cannot be
said, but it is obvious that whatever
action was taken upon them was in?
efficient.
It is no small thing that we are
losing. Men have been giving far
more thought and attention to the
rehabilitation of German and even
of Russian trade than to South
America. Yet our Russian trade at
best was a picayune affair compared
with that with South America, and
even that which we had with Ger?
many before the war was much less
than that which we have since had
j with South America. In 1913, the
last year before the war, our exports
to Argentina were more than twice
as great as those to Russia, and
those- to Brazil were 60 per cent
larger than to Russia. Our exports
to South America were scarcely half
as great as those to Germany, but
our imports from the former were
much greater than from the latter.
In 1918 we imported from Argentina
i much more than we ever did from
i Germany, while our imports from all
I South America wero nearly three
1 times as great as they ever were
from Germany, and our exports to
those countries were, very nearly as
\ (?treat as those to Germany when at
I their peak.
There is no part of the world the j
markets of which are better worth j
our cultivating than those of South !
America. To permit ourselves to bo
forced down into second or third
place would be strangely discredit?
able to American enterprise.
Not So Musty
The law is not so musty in prac?
tice these days as the scoffers would j
have us believe. A Circuit Court j
judge in Oregon ruled out as a rea?
son for divorce a woman's charge
that she was obliged to go to work
because her husband did not earn
enough for them both. Said he:
? "There is nothing in the theory that
a woman should not work if she
isn't raising a family and is physi
1 cally able. That old belief doesn't
I go any more."
There is real feminism, the more
i remarkable because it proceeds out
of the mouth of a judge. Hitherto
: the courts have been inclined to up?
hold the weak sisterhood in its de?
mand that husbands must support
; them, irrespective of children. This
? smashing of sacred precedent, should
; it become general, may put marriage
1 on that independent basis that fem?
inists have long been preaching,
where each party to the contract
; will contribute to the financial sup?
port of the home. It may even
presage a new economic standing for
. the wife while her time and talents
; are occupied in bringing up the chil
; dren.
Certainly it should aid in the
equality of women and men in busi
j nesa and industry. A married
i woman, for instance, could not be
paid less for the same work on the
theory that her husband helped to
support her. Carrying the theory
. still further, the daughters of a fam?
ily of the new era would be expected
to be as entirely self supporting as
. the sons, thus demolishing one of
the pet arguments against equal pay
i<>r equal work that still persists in
some quarters as regards women.
For instance, the Pritish House of
Commons has passed a resolution
that after a period of three years
women shall be admitted to the civil
service. The rosolution is quite
clear that the same conditions and
regulations shall apply to the women
as to the men, except in the matter j
of remuneration. During the tran?
sitional period before tho law goes
into effect the question of equal pay
will be reviewed and a decision ?
reached.
And so it goes. There may be ;
some who will not like the inevitable
future status of women. With old j
prejudices will also go the privileges j
that belong to dependence. Idleness
among women will one day be con?
sidered as deplorable as it is now
among men.
Settling the Unsettled
With rather studied innocence,
Premier Hara of Japan remarks i
that he does not believe that such
"settled" questions as Shantung and
Yap will be included in the sub?
jects to be discussed at the coming
conference. Thus summarily dispos- j
ing of two long-disputed subjects, he
is in apparent contradiction with the
report from Japan that the Japanese
are most anxious to settle questions I
at issue between this country and
Japan.
But the contradiction is encourag- i
ing. It enables us to think that j
Premier Hara does not really think !
Yap and Shantung are settled mat?
ters, and thus is willing to go to
work to transfer them from the "un?
settled" to the "settled" group be?
fore November 11. This will smooth
tho way for the main purpose of the
conference and at the same time de?
prive the trouble-makers in the press
of both countries of the opportunity
to incite hostility. Some American
papers have so far outdone the Jap?
anese jingoists in stirring up hatred
and distrust. For them unsettled !
issues are renewed opportunities for
making trouble. Their purpose is j
to make war in the Pacific. The !
object of the coming conference is to i
insure peace.
Dover Straits Memorial
A correspondent suggests that a
more appropriate site might be found
for the Dover Straits Patrol memo?
rial than the one the city has allot?
ted at the North River end of West
Eighty-sixth Street. There is merit
in his objection that "the foot of
West Eighty-sixth Street, which is
backed by modern apartment houses
and fronted by the high ground of
Jersey, lacks the environment suit?
able to this obelisk."
Is there not some place on one of
the shores of the Narrows, or, better
still, perhaps, on the highlands of
Staten Island, where the shaft could
be mounted to be seen of all sailor
men as they come and go on the sea's
occasions? It is not a landsman's
nor a riverman's memorial. It is to
commemorate the work of men who
belonged to the deep sea and who
were true to it, and who, that others
might live, lay them down in its
bosom gladly and valiantly when the
summons came.
So the place for it to stand is in
the sight of ships, in tho very pres?
ence of the sea, a range mark of in?
spiration for the restless salt-water
childran.
We feel it would seem lost and
lonely elsewhere.
Washburn Arrives
Our fellow-townsman Watson M.
Washburn on the Casino courts at
Newport badly dislocated the olTicial
tenni3 ranking. To have taken the
measure of William M. Johnston and
Richard Norris Wiibams, who arc
pegged as second and third best, is a
capital feat for a player not rated in
the very first flight, it is the more l
remarkable since Washburn has j
plodded along for years with a I
steady,' stodgy game just good |
enough to make it interesting for the
brilliant masters of the racquet. And
now when it's time, according to ten?
nis precedents, for him to fade out he
begins to strike sparks. A brave
model for all classed as middling
good !
What of the approaching cham?
pionship at Germantown? The recent
surprising upsets make prediction
futile. Vincent Richards has bca?en
the title holder, Tilden, with ease,
and defeated Williams, who, on a
second meeting, demolished Rich
? ards. And then Washburn had his
, field day with Johnston and Wil
; liams. There should bo a merry tus
? ?Die between these five men. And no
j body knows how many dark horsm
I may be grooming.
Living to. Wear
A hat a month is an essential for
the woman who claims to be well
dressed, according to an announce?
ment from milliners in convention at
Chicago. Pe her clothes of the latest
style, be her hair dressed according
to the last shriek of fashion, her ef
j forts will be futile if nullified by
! July's hat worn when the calendar
; decrees it to be August.
The reason? The swift change of
I style, the fickleness of popular taste,
j or of what milliners decree shall be
\ the popular taste. "Nothing changes
so rapidly as a hat," remarks one of
! them, according to The Poston Globe.
"A hat is not in style more than a
month." The hat of yesterday is out
of date to-day, and will be prehis?
toric to-morrow, but with a hat for
each month she can manage to avoid
being hopelessly behind the times.
What an awful struggle for ex?
istence face. the would-be well
dressed family! A man may be al
; lowed to get through the summer on
j two straw hats, but the merchant
tailors of Chicago han; set $1,000 aa
the minimum figure for his ward-'
mbe, while shoe manufacturers as?
sembled in Boston have discovered
that such excellence must be based
on at least fourteen pairs of shoes. I
For men or women the prospect I
would seem hopeless. The old dis- j
pute was over whether the species ;
should eat to live or live to eat; the ?
new one relates to whether we live I
to wear things. Was Beau Brum- ;
mell the greatest man?
"Below the Belt"
Reader's Reaction to The World's
Comment on a Tribune Editorial
To the Editor'of The Tribune.
Sir: In this morning's *World I read
an editorial entitled "Stick to the Is?
sues." It quotes an excerpt from an
editorial of your paper of the day be?
fore as follows:
"What The Tribune particularly
likes about Major Curran is the way
he reacted when the smoke from the
battlefields of the World War began
to send its acrid fumes across the At?
lantic?The Tribune."
Tho World's editorial comment on
this is:
"What The World particularly likes
about Major Curran is the way in
which he sticks to the issues of the
campaign and refuses to exploit his
military career. . . . Our advice to
The Tribune is to keep to the issues of
the campaign."
I remember this editorial -whicb The
Work! takes occasion to comment on.
I have it before me. I notice that
The World has been very careful to
leave out an essential paragraph,
which brings out the entire spirit of
The Tribune editorial. Tho exact quo?
tation is:
"Henry Curran is too sound and too
modest to seek to capitalize his patri?
otic record to his personal advantage.
But for itself The Tribune believes
that New York shares with It a liking
for real men?men who have proved
their manhood on test."
I believe that The Tribune is "keep?
ing to the issues of the campaign" and
that it doesn't need advice from & next ,
door neighbor. You distinctly brought
out the thought that you believed j
"Henry Curran is too sound and too ?
modest to seek to capitalize bis patri- j
otic record to his personal advantage."
It is significant to note that The World ?
says that this is what it "particularly
likes about Curran."
I think little of a New York news?
paper that strikes a "blow below the
belt" in a mean and contemptible at?
tack such as this, made only in an
effort to belittle a worthy contempo?
rary.
Yours for fair play,
ARTHUR II. SAUN.
Woodhaven, L. I., Aug. 4, 1921.
Primeval Maxims
To tho Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Of course, it was to be expectei
that some one would point out that
George Washington was not the author
of the maxim that a way to keep out
of war was to bo prepared for it, but
your correspondent Giovanni Immer
BO exposes himself to the same risk iri
assuming that the precept originated
with the Roman who wrote "Si vis
pacem, para helium." Whoever the
R iman was ho probably lifted it from
some Greek paragrapher. Old Mentor,
tutoring young Telemachus in polit
cal science, gave him the same ad
vice.
It is quite likely that the same idea j
occurred to .lohn .1. Neanderthal when ,
hi; fashioned his club or stone hatchet.
Maxima ore born of instinct and reflec
tion. So we may assumo that precepts j
an* as old P3 human wisdom.
Thomas ? Kempis uttered a wise
maxim when he said "Inquiro not who
spoke this or that, but attend to what'
is ;poken." L. C.
Glen Ridge, N. J., Au?. 5, 1921.
Public Golf Links Shortage
To the Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: A word In behi'li of public
golfers who have to wait some tim??s
live hours to play on the iinks at Van
Cortlandt and Mosholu, and no shelter
provided.
Golfers pay ?5 a season to use these
\ links, which are only second class at
j that. The crowds that seek to pluy
art? crowing larger each season, yet
nothing is being dono by the city to
utilize the waste land and provide more
courses.
Chicago has eight courses open to
the public, and charges nothing.
Players ore wondering why tho
money they pay for use of the public,
parka can't be put into opening new
links. In New York and Brooklyn this
now amounts to ab^ut $50,000 annually.
New York, Aug. 6, 1921. J. S. W.
Nature Faking
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Returning from a trip to Ore?
gon, I was greeted this morning with
the news, printed in your paper, undei
a Lenox date line, that I, in company
with somebody I don't know, had been
watching two albino deer on the Mount
Everett reservation. I am surprised
that you permit so inaccurate a re
1 porter to cover for you such important
: matters. Inaccurate here, it may very
i well be that some day he will misspell
, tho name of some guest at a Lenox tea
party. There were not two deer, but
? three, and they were not white, but
pink. Moreover, one of them had a
green tail.
WALTER PRICHARD EATON.
New York, Aug. 5, 1921.
A Need for Watching
(From The Indianapolis Nam)
If America is to feed Russia?and
the ground work for such a program
scema to have been laid?we ought at
least to stipulate that L?nine and Trot?
sky be put in a stockade and fed the
same rations, and no mor.-;, that every
other Russian is to receive. Otherwise
it may be expected that they will "ab?
sorb" most of the relief food and
funds that may be Bent to Russin.
They have allowed thousands of their
people to h<> murdered or stnrved, and
there la no reason to believo that, they
would permit relief to reach its desti?
nation without e. heavy rake-off.
The Conning Tower
The Groaning Board
A buttery, sugary, syrupy
waffle?
Gee, but I love it somep'n awful.
Ginger cakes dripping with
chocolate goo,
Oo! How I love 'em! Co!
Oo! OO! Pink.
"Dancing," reports our favorite
Lynbrook paper, The New Era, "was
again resumed after the repast, in
which paper confetti and rolls of paper
ribbon held a prominent place." Still,
with sugar and cream, or maple syrup,
these dainties possess as high a degree
ci edibility as, say, English muffins.
The Gentler Sex
[From The Atlanta Journal]
The bride entered with her brother, O.
O. Clark, who grave her In marriage, and
was lovely in a blue traveling suit of blue
trlcoline with new fall hat to match and
carried white roses Khowered with valley
lilies. -
The Liberty Theater program credits
us with the authorship of the Carl
Sandburg version of "Frankie and
Johnny." Tho credit Bhould go to
John V. A. Weaver and The Tribune.
Society News
Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison?
We've been assured of that?
Are not going to spend next week at
Medicine
Hat.
The athaletic young man should
dine at the Biltmore, where be may
get, take it from the card of the day,
perculator coffee.
LYRIC OF LICENSE NUMBERS
(Air: "Maryland, My Maryland")
64240,
32023,
68186,
32023,
95259,
93639,
96460,
32023.
PALINDROME.
In order to save readers the diffi?
culty of decoding the preceding, which
>t took us three, minutes to surmount,
it should be said that the pronuncia?
tion is Sixty Four Two Forty Six, etc.
^MMMMMMS^^k
I Gotham Gleanings
?The theaters are opening
again this week.
?Janet Kirby and mother are
up in the Adirondack Mts.
? Bernard J. Flynn was to Wil?
mington, Del., Wednes. on business.
? Heywood Broun entertained the
Thanatopsis Pleasure Club Tuesday
eve.
? Mrs. Ring Lardner of Great
\Teck is visiting home folks in In?
diana.
?Mrs. Alice Duer Miller left for
Edgartown, Mass., for a month's
sojourn.
?Art Brown and Harold Porter
had their pictures taken in Paris
the other day.
??The many friends of John Cas?
tr?e Wins, will be glad to know he
is all well again.
?Johnny Murphy the automobile
man is getting his name in the
papers these days.
?Geo. Kaufman's house is being
decorated. Gco. says the Messers.
somebody are d"ing it.
?W. G. Harding is up in New
Hampshire having a vacation. Yc
scribe's will begin in about 2 wks.
?Walter Lippmann of The New
Republic has accepted a position
with the N. Y. World beginning
Jan. 1.
?-Frank Case of Sag Harbor made
a trip to Gotham Tuesday to ask ye
j cd out to his place, not without con
I siderable success,
?Mr. and Mrs. Levi Noble who
arc visiting home folks in Auburn,
N. Y., will return to their farm near
(93 mil.) Los Angeles, Cal., tomor?
row.
_
\ Probably, aft-.*r all, the salo of
Runnymede will not be accomplished.
1 Runnymede, as .Mr. Henry Ford may
recall, is the field whereon Eii/.abeth
Queen of Scots pawned her jewels in
order that Copernicus might discover
the law of gravitation.
Hymns of Hate
I hate Miss Evans
Beyond all saying!
She always hums
What tho phonograph's playing.
M. S. C.
But worse I hate
Anne Updegraff?
?When I sing she plays
The phonograph.
Some jolly fellow who compiles the
! St. Catherine Park concert program
; credits Strauss's waltz "Jolly Fellows"
i to Vollstead.
A Serpent's Tooth Strops Itself
Sir: After leaving Wide Waters, by
i New York Central, out of Auburn, I
deeply deplored Many Misplays, by the
Undersigned, out of Practice, and suf?
fered considerably from pain in my
Elbow, by Ovcrexertion, out of Joint.
Then I dozed off, only to be awakened
at Utica, by Conductor, out of Sound
Sleep.
Don't feel called upon to print this
Cheap Stuff, by Gosh, out of Courtesy.
And please brush up a bit on your
tennis before you choose me for a part
| ner again. G. M. WEAVER JR.
"The associations of The Tower are
! so endless," she rend to us from yes
| terday's Times, "are so endless that
I one may begin anywhere and absorb
| the interest of the reader." "Thanks,"
I we grnmercied bluBhingly, "for the
j ad." "I was reading" she harpooned,
"from a review of Walter George Bell's
I Tho Tower of London." F. P. A.
NOT MUCH USE OF FEEDING HIM WHILE HE STILL THINKS
THAT SIGNBOARD IS HIS MOTHER
Copyright, 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
Boofys
By
Heywood Droun
Anon writes that to her E. M. Hull's
desert novel was not entirely satisfac?
tory because the character of the hero?
ine was too vague. "It seems to me,"
she writes, "that the girl falls between
two sheiks."
Charlotte Nlcoll Geer rejects our
guess both as to the sex and character?
istics of the author of The Sheik and
submits her own theory. "You're wrong
about the author," ?he writes. "E. M.
Hull isn't a live-foot four-inch male
with a Bloomsbnry address and hay
fever- he's a she! The 'E' stands for
Esther or Emily or Ellen. She lives in
a two-family house in Yonkers and her
husband is short and fat with .1 shiny
face and a bald spot. Esther, Emily,
Ellen has never seen an Arab, but she
remembers them in the geography les?
son book. She knows that they are
wild and she is absolutely positive they
are not like Henry. One warm day last
summer Henry was ten minutes late
for breakfast. lie was very angry with
her about it. He ate a bowl of oat?
meal and four rolls and all the bacon.
When he finished Henry said, 'Oh, did
you want bacon this morning? I'm
sorry,' and he tore out. As he rushed
down tho cement path he called back,
'To-night's budget night and I hope
? the ' ills won't Le as large as they were
j hist month.' And she called back,
j'You've got egg on your chin!'
"And then she slammed the screen
I door and went, to her desk and took
I Henry's pen and a pad of paper and
' began a story about a tall, tall man
; and an independent minx who lived in
a country where Borden's and the A.
1 & P, and trains and wedding rings
weren't even in the language. And she
wrote and wrote and before it was time
to get Henry's favorite dinner ready
(mutton stew) the book was done.
"A month later when the publishers
asked her to come in and 'talk it over'
she wouldn't go because she didn't
know whether to pronounce it 'Shceck'
or 'Sheck.' So she wrote them in
1 stead.
"Henry says it's a very silly bad
book, and he's ashamed, but <very
married woman is reading it, and edi?
tion after edition comes reeling off tho
press. Some night when you've wilted
your collar or spilled the soup or have
a cold in the head or have forgotten
her half day, ask your wife why she
liked The Sheik. If you've picked the
right tie she may tell you the reason.
If not, ring Mr. Freud."
Having finished Henry Kitchell Web?
ster's Real Life we are ready to
affirm our preliminary recommendation
of the book. We suggest it particu?
larly an a pleasant antidote to The
j Sheik. Leda Swan, the heroine, who
j is described as the second most famo-.'s
! moving picture actress in America,
j runs completely all the men with
whom she comes in contact. Her
mother handles the rest. However,
! there, are other touches which animate
the novel. There is, for instance, the
moment in which Leda Swan discovers
the weekly syndicate letter writter
under her name and becomes one ol
its most enthusiastic readers. He!
favorite is the letter, which appears al
least once a year, answering the in?
quiry as to whether or not she is mar?
ried. Mr. Webster thinks that Mis;
Swan's press agent answers as follow?;
"No, my dear, not yet. I am stil
? uniting for the absolutely right man t*
j come along. I think I know a littb
what he will be like. I am not sun
j that he will be handsome?not in th*
ordinary sense of the word?though
of course, h<4 will look handsome to mc. :
But he will be brave and true and ut- i
terly sincere. Ho will be a 100 per j
cent. American. I think he will have
fought for his country, at least in his i
heart. And then he must be the one
who was meant for me. i think it is
a frightful mistake not to wait until j
you are absolutely sure of that, don't
you? Or to be so impatient just to:
get married that one takes the first :
man who cornea along. I have to say ?
'No' a great many times, of course, and
it has often been very hard to do. Of
course, waiting isn't so hard for me be?
cause I am blessed with such a wonder- |
ful mother. We are?-well?everything I
tc each other. Just pals, you know; !
the best pair of pals that ever lived,
I think, though I hope there are lote
of other girls who think that
their mothers, too. Some people have
said that the reason I cannot fall in
love with anybody in particular is be?
cause I love all the world so much.
Well, I do love it and everybody in it.
All tho millions and millions of people
who go to see my pictures and come
away loving me just a little. But some
day I believe the right man will come
along, and then you will know all
about it."
We also recommend the scene in
; which Leda Swan for the first time in
her life has love made to her without
the presence of a camera rr.a-n or a di?
rector shouting, according to Mr. Web
ster, "Now look into her eyes . . .
Now she is beginning to crack up;
reach for her. Easy there! Wait till
I say. Now! Kiss her! Hold it! That's
good."
The Trick Book
(From The VUlaw ri
Books like this rccesit volume called
The Mirrors of Washington, which aim
to dissect "the minds, hearts and souls"
of outstanding political personalities,
are, in a large sense, trick books. They
are successful not at all because of any
very high qualities in themselves but
because of an odd habit of mind in our?
selves. They exploit a failing which
ia common to ua all but of which wo
are seldom conscious. The opportunity
of these books lies in this, that the
moment a man comes into high p!ac<-,
we straightway think of him as being
automatically recreated into a being
different from what he was and vastly
greater. We roll into one the individ?
ual and the office, we pour into the per?
sonal qualities all the advantages and
authorities of the. person's position,
I thus describing to ourselves a states?
man truly enough but forgetting of
what parts statesmen are compounded,
forgetting that they are merely human
beings.
The trick of the Mirror books is nb
! surdly easy. It consists simply in
| cracking the end of the egg; in show
| ing forth the journalist, the lawyer, the
! engineer, the banker, each one as he is
still, as we used to know him before
| we endowed him so strangely with
| larger talents and stouter character
| than he actually possesses. The writer
| not only holds this Mirror of his up to
j men in their nature, he puts beside
; them the great towering throne on
. which we have accustomed ourselves to
; see them seated, and the contrast over
1 powers us. Montaigne was not merely
playing paradoxes of exercising his
delicate cynicism when he sahl he al?
ways took it for ?granted that n man
in high placo was a mediocrity; this
fashion of inverting the popular super?
stition gave him tho pleasant surprises.
Restore the Mail Tubes
Next Step Toward Putting New York
Again on the Postal Map
To the Editor of The Trib .
Sir: Will H. Hays displays a long
head, a practical head, in a way to con?
found those who looked upon him asa
politician only. Building up political
patronage is evidently not to interfere
with genuinely constnjctive work.
What a relief after Burlesonism, ??? ':-,ich
meant the imposition of the standards
of Waco upon New York and other big
cities with a czar-like ri
What a relief to have a PoBtmaster
General who appoints a committee of
five eminently able New Yorkers
Michael Friedsam, Clarence H. Kelsey,
Darwin P. Kingsley, William Fellowea
Morgan and Alfred E. Smith?to make
recommendations for the good of the
How hope inspiring it is, a >, to
have such a practical step taken us the
restoral ion 03 mail bo ; This
one sneasure will advance hundreds of
thousands of let! .'vanee
them many hours, son ays, ia
delivery not only to itao
points ' ?rest untry.
Equally grat fyi ig is
restort* pneumatic tub? service, but It
is too bad that this has ? t actually
, !is the ? ? of the
mail boats has actua .iccom
ed.
There has been eno ssand
ling ?bout the tubes, ??? d a busl
i ness man with offices in the city could
well wish that a decisive acti n would
h?rt r. debata that never should
have been started. The big point in
the tube case is the same a - the case
of the boats?namely, tho saving of
hours in delivery wil ty, and
sometimes of days in forwarding to
I distant points. Eut there iJ this big
difference: the pneumatic tubes expe*
the dispatch and of oil
? ? ers daily.
I recall that the las' ' j?-nt
?? (pi ?or to ? '??>' hold?
ing ht -rings ) cil that the
tubes in six cities forwarded twenty
five million letters a d>.y, of wl ich they
greatly expedited the prog - of sev?
eral millions. Thus tl ??"?'e ls
more important even - boat
service, which expedite- only mail com?
ing in from abroad.
Now that the preses ? rr.rr.is
rion has reported ur .'?" in '*"
vor of tube service, ' ?nn?U
! sions uniformly have I
twenty years, our bril " l'0!t"
?master General Bhould act a? n*f
to restore them as Burleson did to de*1
; stroy them. JOHN H. CLOSE.
Scabright, N. J., Aug. 4, 1921.
The Timid Male
(From The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Many a man must have wi?b*?
during this hot weal custom
] permitted him to go coatless in the
street. For years the suggestion that
men break wi*h tradition in this ft
i spect has been made without result.
? Yet to discard the coat would be ?
j logical consequence of discarding -
waistcoat. That innovation was re?
garded askance by the conservative iB
its early days. Many felt such m
i formality impaired one's profes^09*?
; or business standing.
It must be borne in mind that the
coatless man would be expected t0
present an appearance gratifying
; the aesthetic se3ise. He could '
' close suspend, rs; he t/ould have to
wear a belt. If wo look for an ex?
ample of neat and appropriate attir?
for a scorching day we can find ?
, in the per.-.-n of the letter-carrU*
; Why must man be a hopeless sartorial
renctlonary?