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Home Manufacture
The new Stanley amendment as \
agreed to in conference seems to
provide that in liquor proceedings no
search warrant against a dwelling
shall be issued "unless there is rea?
son to believe such dwelling is used
as a place in which liquor is manu?
factured for sale or sold.'"
The new regulation is stated nega?
tively; there is no express authoriza?
tion of domestic manufacture, but it
does not strain interpretation to seo
in this provision recognition of a
right to produce and consume at
home beverages with more than one
half of 1 per cent of alcohol.
Under this regulation a founda?
tion seems laid for a revival of a
once widely practiced domestic art.
No one need suffer from lack of
potable liquor who has energy
enough to assemble a few easily ob?
tainable ingredients and the patience
to wait as nature gets to work.
Mr. Volstead, who voted for the
provision, says it was never intended
to interfere with home manufacture.
Perhaps he is right. Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel of the
Anti-Saloon League, a gentleman
who seems a sort of Supreme Court
to determine what is the law, recent?
ly encouraged the grape growers of
Ohio to make wine as they pleased
provided they did not sell. The rea?
son for this tolerance, it would seem,
is the number, of home brewers and
the difficulty of subduing them.
Is national prohibition in the end
to be merely prohibition of the saloon
and it3 adjuncts? To the strict tee?
totaler this, of course, would not be
an ideal result, but it would have
many practical advantages. The pub?
lic's attitude toward the bootlegger
probably would quickly change?with
acute pressure off and John Barley?
corn bubbling in private cellars the
bootlegger would find juries less
friendly and would be more vigorous?
ly attacked as a vender of poison.
Perhaps the elimination of the saloon
is about all the prohibition achieve?
ment of which a single generation is
capable. Many prohibitionists will
be angered at what they deem is an
unspeakable betrayal, but those who
look at. matters with an eye to defi?
nite results will not be certain that
prohibition has lost anything.
No Water-Hauls
Coincident with the news that
Grover Bergdoll, the fugitive draft
dodger, has departed out of Ger?
many in anticipation of the United
States signing a treaty with that
country the special House commit?
tee which has been investigating his
scandalous escape files a report.
Primary responsibility, without im?
puting dishonorable motives, is laid
at the door of Adjutant General
Harris, who granted the application
which permitted Bergdoll to leave
his place of confinement to search
for "a pot of gold."
"While there are many who par?
ticipated in the conspiracy leading to
Bergdoll's escape and the acquittal
of those who brought it about, there
are three who arc infinitely more
culpable than the rest. Those three
pre General Ansell, Colonel Hunt
and Colonel G. G. Cresson."
So runs the majority opinion of
the Congressional investigators. A
minority of two members absolves
the army of blame, but holds Colonel
Hunt, Bergdoll's keeper, and Ser?
geants O'Hare and York, his guards,
all of whom have been tried and ac?
quitted in courts martial, to have
been guilty of dereliction of duty.
The majority of the committee rec?
ommends the disbarment of Samuel
T. Ansell, who, in the capacity of
attorney for Bergdoll, obtained his
release; the dismissal of Colonel
Hunt from the retired list of the
army and the removal of an em?
ploye? of the Department of Justice
who is alleged to have withheld from
the government information that
Bergdoll was planning an escape.
Enough of thi? sort of thing,
There has been too much of thin kind
of tomfoolery?too much investiga
1ion that gets nowhere in thi? case.
Trie Tribune recommends that the
Attorney Genera] busy himself. Let
Mr. Daugherty male? a cart of hi:.
net and go to the bottom for hin fish,
be they large or be they ?mal!. IT?e
Ame?ata peupla will not be satisfied
until they have the whole truth and
see responsibility fixed. The men
who stood up to the Hurt and took
the gai?, while' ?ergdoll stayed home
c id defied authority to put him in ;
khak:. wi 1 not be satisfied, e;,ho:-,
until then.
Lei. us have no water-hauls, Mr. ?
Daugherty.
McAneny and La Guardia
In the exchanges between Messrs.
La Gufcrdia and McAnepy in regard
to the traction situation Mr. Mc
Aneny has the great advantage of
superior information; he also has
the advantage of having done some?
thing to relieve the public and to
keep fares down, while, so far as the
public is aware, Mr. La Guardia has
done nothing but talk, and not al?
ways intelligently, about the subject, j
Imagine what would be subway I
conditions to-day if, when the sub-^j
way extensions were,under consid- |
eration, Mr. McAneny had leaned on j
Hearst for advice and guidance, as i
Mr. La Guardia apparently now j
does ! The congestion would be in- j
tolerable. Hearst said he would po- ?
litically extinguish Mr. McAneny if !
he dared to link the new subways to '
the old and foster contracts essential ;
if there were to be integrated services j
with single fares. Hearst demanded
a discontinuance of negotiations? i
that is to say. an indefinite post- ;
ponement of action that came none ;
too soon. If Hearst had had his
way there would not now exist the
Lexington and Seventh Avenue sub-.
ways, the B. R. T. Broadway line, ?
nor extensions in the Bronx, Queens ?
and Brooklyn.
Happily, Mr. McAneny preferred ''
to be true to his oath of office and to ;
his sense of duty rather than to obey \
Hearst. So those who otherwise
could not ride at all are able to ride i
in a fashion. To Mr. McAneny
probably more than any other per-1
son the great mass of our citizens
owe their present ability to go to and
fro more rapidly and cheaply than :
can the people of any other city in '
the world. Mr. McAneny added
vision to his courage. He planned,
and planned intelligently. What ;
equal record can Mr. La Guardia j
point to as basis of public confi?
dence?
Mr. La Guardia should be ashamed
of his attack on Mr. McAneny. He
should be equally ashamed of the |
fact that Hearst praises him, and
thus indicates his belief that he can j
use him. Mr. La Guardia has lived i
in this community long enough to !
know the fate of Hearst favorites.
They are thrown aside as squeezed j
lemons when no longer serviceable to !
him. We don't want to see a head- !
stone to La Guardia in the Hearst ,
cemetery. It will be there if Mr. j
La Guardia altogether confides him- J
self to the ministrations of our most !
active grave-digger of reputations, j
Ingenious Bargaining j
It is said that on various occasions
the American commissioners to ne- \
gotiate peace were approached at j
Paris with disingenuous schemes to I
adjust the cost of the war which on j
analysis were found to place it on '
the shoulders of the United States. !
The idea has since been resurrected )
in various disguises. Its latest ap?
pearance is in the proposal of the !
French paper La Libert? that Amer
ica may be willing to cancel France's j
debt in return for French support
in the Pacific.
To assume that this idea repre?
sents the view of the. French govern?
ment is, of course, unwarranted. But j
; that it should even be advanced by j
; such a paper as La Libert? is an j
interesting example of a French j
trait. There is a tradition of real
ism in France that sometimes
astonishes tho;;e Americans who
know only French idealism. It is a
realism tinged with logic, and this
logic accepts the best interest of
Prance as the beginning and end of
all negotiations. The point of view
is candid and in many respects
logical. Alexander Hamilton ex?
pressed the same thing when he
wrote: "It is not meant to recom?
mend a policy absolutely selfish or
; interested for a nation, but to show
that a policy regulated by their own
interest, as far as justice and good
faith permit, is, and ought to be,
the prevailing one."
Carried to its strict conclusion,
this implies that when interests con?
flict there must be bargaining, in
! which the guiding motive of each
party is to concede the minimum
and obtain the maximum. Such is
the philosophy of European diplo?
macy.
It would be entertaining to know
the multitudinous demands and con?
cession? that are being dressed in
robes of innocuous innocence ready
| to be paraded at the conference in
Washington.
The Endurance of "Lightnin'"
"Lightnin'," the homely comedy
which will have survived three years
I and a night of Broadway when it
closes Saturday night, should throw
some illumination on the eternal
! query of the managers, "What kind
' of ?tuff do they want?" Bear in
nind that the show is not being
cosed even at this late dato because
the interest in Frank Bacon as
Lightnin' Bill Jones is flagging.
It leaves Broadway because it was
contracted for In Chicago more than
i two yearn ago. Actually this run
i will have totaled 1,291 performances.
Flays of record runs in New York
are ot varied types. JEdwin Booth
in "Hamlet" achieved a record of a
hundred nights. "The Black Crook,"
one of th-1 first of the alleviatives of
the tired business men, lasted 475
performances. Denman Thompson's j
tearful "The Old Homestead" sobbed
through .'?72 nights. "The Two
Orphans," with Kate Claxton,
thrilled for 218 nights. The record
for consecutive performances until
March 17, 1920, was held by Hoyt's
"A Trip to Chinatown."
Tho play "Lightnin' " is devoid of
all the appeals that most experts
maintain are demanded for a suc?
cess. There is no sex appeal, there
is no blood-curdling melodrama,
there is no display of draperies.
The actor folk say that it is merely i
Frank Bacon, who, like Vincent i
Crummies, came out of the prov- j
inces playing himself. Yet this play
has endured on the most sophisti?
cated street in the most sophisticated
city in the world, while the girl
Shows, the boudoir farces and the i
crook plays languished and died.
On its record "Lightnin' " can
come cIosq to making the claim that ?
it is the sort of play that the present j
generation of playgoers want. One
might deduce, then, that the popular '
taste is wholesome and that it is not j
hard to please.
More Than a Sam Browne
One of the most significant feat-j
ures of the Pershing General Staff j
plan is the division of that body
into five sections. The fifth sec?
tion, which during peace is to func?
tion as the war plans division of the ;
War College, becomes in war the J
G. H. Q. in the field. All the ma?
chinery connected with mobilizing,
training, equipping and transport?
ing the troops to the field ;<v to be
handled by the four War Depart?
ment sections of the General Staff j
under the executive assistant to the I
Chief of Staff.
So far as this goes it is excellent. !
But there is no information as to '
what arranrrements have been made ;
to recruit civilian experts?railroad ;
men, engineers, foresters and the !
host of technical men whose serv
ices the World War proved to be
indispensable for staff work. There
is no indication as to how the re- ?
serve personnel will be chosen or
trained. Is the staff limited only to
West Point graduates? Must the
reserves come only from the regu?
lar establishment? If not, will there
be staff schools for reserve officers?
What plftns have been made to i
detail to the General Staff men who ?
can see staff work from the point
of view of the line? It is true that i
this is especially important for di- \
vision and corps personnel, but the ?
principle also applies to G. H. Q. ?
One of the best of the younger staff i
officers in the war used to hammer
into the heads of his assistants the
importance of seeing things from j
the point of view of the soldier in
the trenches. Napoleon's maxim >
(hat an army marches on its stom- i
ach was one of his* favorites, but
he carried it further and declared
that everything that could be done '
to improve the comfort and morale
of the soldiers deserved the con?
stant attention of staff officers.
Candid critics among our allies
and the Germans have made the i
same criticisms of our army in the !
war as have many thoughtful Amer i
icans. They have said that our ?
compar?y officers and non-commis- !
sioned officers were admirable In
??very respect, but that our higher
officers, and particularly our staff. |
suffered greatly from inexperience. !
The blame belongs to our old sys-|
tern rather than to any individuals.
I The regular army men naturally !
felt that they were best qualified to ;
do staff work, but they failed to
realize that to jump a first lieuten?
ant or captain who had never com
i manded more than a handful of
men to the rank of major or colo?
nel, handling staff work for thou
: sands of men, placed many officers
. in positions far beyond their ca-1
; pacities.
If the new General Staff plan can '
' remedy some of these defects it will !
: be a notable achievement. To be j
effective a general staff must be
, more than a Sam Browne belt !
A Mean Accusation
?* Is it cruel and inhuman, warrant?
ing a breach in marital relations and
providing basis for suit for separate
maintenance, for one party to a do?
mestic contract to call another a
"highbrow"? Is the term one of con
? tumely and repi-oach, and, as the
! lawyers say, libellous per ee?
Tho question has arisen in the
! case of Roberts agt. Roberts, wherein
; the wife avers, as one of the justifi
i cations of her separation suit, that
: her husband thus characterized her.
Declining to submit tarrely to the
i imputation, she asks for $250 a week.
I it is seemingly the duty of Justice
i Wasservogel to resolve the issue.
Though aware of the impropriety
of expressing an opinion concerning
: a matter before the courts, we ven
j ture, with due apologies, to say that
I our sympathies are with the lady.
; To call any person a highbrow is a
i mean thing. The word paints a pic
I ture of strutting, self-conscious, prig?
gish superiority. Applied to a wom
; an it is especially objectionable.
The sneering Byron wrote:
Oh ye lords of ludir? intellectual,
Tell me truly?hnve they not heu
pecksd you all?
It is thus implied that possession
of menta! superiority means that an
ugly spirit of domination is present.
Learning should be taught its place
?should be duly humble. As our
clergymen more and more avoid
black coats and white ties, so
scholarship should garb itself in
tweeds and informal dress.
Adolph S. Ochs
Twenty-five years ago The New j
York Times passed to the manage- i
ment of Adolph S. Ochs and ha3 |
since remained under his unrestrict- j
ed control. In view of the relations i
sustained by an important news?
paper to the public it is fitting for
Mr. Ochs, as he has done, to give an
account of his stewardship. The
narration is one any man might be !
proud to make.
A quarter of a century ago the
press of this country was in great ;
danger. The competition of the
''yellows" threatened to sweep it
from its honorable traditions. It is ?
to the credit of Mr. Ochs, something \
entitling him to the grateful regard
of the public and particularly of j
journalists to whom their profession
is more than a money-making trade,
that he enlisted on the side of de?
cency and has had the strength to
he steadfast. ?
The Tribune is glad to testify that ;
it has found in The Times a most
worthy and stimulating competitor.
May Mr. Ochs long continue to di?
rect its destinies and gain comfort
from the fact that he has done a j
great work well. ?
Judging from the Berlin reports,
the only thing delaying a separate j
peace with Germany is the obstinate ?
refusal of the Americans to admit ]
that Belgium started the war by i
ruthlessly invading Germany. ?
Settle!
American's Friendly Advice to the
Irish to Accept "a Good Thing"
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In speaking of the English pro?
posals of settlement with the Irish and
the latter's reply, I speak upon a basis
of lifelong sympathy with the Irish
a sympathy sometimes sorely strained
by what looks like unreason and exac?
tion?but to an American mind it now ?
seems that the Irish du not know a !
good thing when they see it.
Lloyd George'.i proposal? evidently
stand upon the basis of no English ex
action which is merely for English ad?
vantage as against Irish advantage. To
the contrary, the effort seems to have \
been to give Ireland every advantage
which would not be an English disad?
vantage fatal in essentials. Sooner or
later the horse sense of this percep?
tion will permeate the Irish under?
standing, as it will the world's, and it
will appear that the rejection of such
a settlement is not based on loss of
anything essential to Ireland but the
loss of Irish pride in the foreshorten?
ing of Irish independence. The only
rational answer to that is to say to
Irish patriots as to any one else: "if
you want independence take it from
him who withholds it." I
And right here is where American in?
terest comes in. America wants no |
"recruiting" against a friendly nation j
on American soil. And it will have
none. America does not intend to be j
embroiled with England through pea- ;
tiferous intrusion of Irish interests.
'Anything friendly to Ireland America
: ands ready, willing and anxious to
offer Ireland, but if Ireland would !
rather light than not fight, on general j
principles, all she needs to learn from !
America is that America ha3 another ?
mind.
If Irish statesmen cannot grasp the
sine qua non of the situation ? -thnt
England never will permit Ireland a
status enabling Ireland to make a treaty
with another country to the effect that
the latter may land hostile forces on
Irish soil, just off England's weather
shore-- then those statesmen are not ]
equal to their job.
And if Irish statesmen do not grasp j
the American mind better than to be- i
lleve that American friends are not !
Americans but are Sinn Fein, then '
these same statesmen have yet to learn
that that is not the kind of friends I
that Ireland has in America, and if
they cannot see it, again they are not
up to the job.
ALFRED C. COURSEN.
Huntington, L. I., Aug. 1(5, 1921.
"Cut Out Spending'*
To the Editor oft The Tribune.
Sir: I resent your statement that,
more taxes can be raised later if wc ?
do not have enough. One of the great?
est of present evils has been the way '
money was spent over appropriations
and the loss calmly handed to Con?
gress to be made up.
I also resent your statement that
the present planned reductions of a
round half-billion will "redeem Repub?
lican promises." Republican promises
can be truly redeemed only by reduc?
ing as much as can be reduced, wheth?
er that is a dollar or a couple of bU
lions. Personally, I think a half bil?
lion is not as much as can be done.
Cut out spending. Fire half of the
700,000 Federal employees and stop
work on tha old type battleships till
after the peace conference. I do not
say stop permanently, nor cut the army
to 100,000, as 1 am no pacifist. Kill
the bonus for good and all, but pay any
amount for the crippled men. Do any?
thing with the merchant marine to get
rid of the waste and futility therein
and stop paying railroad labor about
i twice what it is worth. Why should I,
ns a taxpayer, pay for our railroads
or our ships? J. C. A.
New York, Aug. In, 1921.
Another Grammar Puzzle
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The lively correspondence in
The Tribune on the "some one rise's"
topic leads me to ? ?;1 archer question
to your BTftmir.?rlans. Should one say
"They went at each other's throut" or
"They went at each other's throats"?
Singular or r.lural? The first form Is
correct, In my opinion,
? IGNORAMUS.
N?w York, Aog. 17, 1921.
Pre-Vacation Lines
When I was a blushing, budding
bard,
There was nothing, I thought, that
was half so hard
To write as the Colm of Cachinna
tion
Done on the day before vacation.
I thought that seventeen years ago
And nothing can convince me that
isn't so.
As to Mile. Lenglen's plans, a cynical
young woman was heard to remark, on
the porch of tho West Side Tennis
Club yesterday afternoon, that Suzanne
already had played one exhibition
match.
Tho Complete Characterizer
[From A Case in Camera, by Oliver Onions)
I dare say you know the kind of man.
If the house had a billiard room up?
stairs, he had his private cue in it, as
well as his private shaving pot at tho
barber's round the corner. For all his
freshness and plumpness there was
nothing of the jovial about him. Either
ho had no humor or he did not intend
that humor should stand in his way
through the world. His convex blue
eyes were hard and bullying, and his
rosebud of a mouth never blossomed
ir'to p :"i;'^. Probably his wife had'a
thin time of it. But she would have
as good a fur coat as any of her
neighbors.
The Mother
Edward shall go far,
And Harold will be still
Keeping the gates ajar
Upon this hill.
Light seeds take wing
When the high winds come,
But from sown ones spring
Harvests kept at home.
Drifting seeds are known
Planted to repine . . .
Edward was his own
From birth, and Harold mine.
What though blown seeds be
Lifted as a star,
It is not meet, of three,
More than one go far.
Adul Tima.
Wc agree with Mr. James P. Sin
nott, one of The Evening Mail's writers
on lawn tennis, that in the 1917
matches for the benefit of the Amer?
ican Red Cross Miss Mary Browne
demonstrated her superiority to Miss
I\lolla Bjurstedt. Miss Browne, if m.
s., won sixteen matches to Miss Bjur
stedt's eleven. But we do not agree
with Mr. Sinnott that the matches
were played in California. Some of
them were played at Forest Hills.
To a Sometime Sweetheart
Oh, would that I were in my Western
town
To see familiar faces laugh,
To catch a glimpse of the wedding
gown.
The cake to eat, and the wine to quaff.
>r.r!, oh, for a lively slide and glide
An 1 a hop and a skip with the charm?
ing bride!
A tune, you fiddlers?a jolly old tune?
i And fiddle it for them forevermore).
Let their life be eternal honeymoon;
May their hearts be as merry as my
heart is sore
That I cannot be there to blush in
pride
While I kiss and kiss and kiss the
bride. ... A. R.
The I-Knew-Her-When Club
Sir: In 1912 Eleanor Gosa and 1 I
tried out for the same basketball team, i
The coach scolded her. Eleanor re- i
torted, "Why don't you give me a sup
pi rting side center''" as she glared at j
me mercilessly.
The coach acquiesced. Eleanor made I
the team and won her V. C. letters.
MINNA.
Society Gossip
John Knight and wife, of London, Eng.,
Think New York City's quite the thing.
Roberts Walker, Scarsdale's Squire,
This morning took the 8:03 flyer.
Tom Burgess couldn't read his papers
'Coz Roddy Fountain cut such capers.
P. W.
BLOOMIN' LATE
r?oomin' lute my rambleru ??
June's the time they do their biz,
But this year thsy're dretful shy;
Here it i* way past July.
An' their head.j iy hardly riz.
Kinder make me think o' Liz?
Don't know scurcely what it 'tia.
She's jcruwn sort o' sweet an' shy?
Bloomin' late.
She ain't any girl to quiz?
Gue33 a feller would rr:-t friz
If hi.i feelings trot too high.
She might look him in the ^ye.
And say, "Zekc, : lu'ro too"?Gea vhiz
"liloomin' late!"
ETHEL M. KELLEY.
For sale, reasonable, little pigs.?
riainfield Courier News.
And yet porcine ratiocination leads
but to the sausage grinder.
On Its 23th Anniversary
Congrats to The Times!
It made its hit
Without a Rafter of Rhymes
Or a Welkin of Wit.
Idle Words
I had to work like a w. k. dog
To discover the meaning of sinologue.
ZOE.
From to-morrow until about Septem?
ber 19, or whenever the natNnal lawn
tennis singles championship tourna?
ment ends?and we prophesy another
victory for Mr. William T. Tilden?this
column will change hands.
Until that dnte, then, The Conning
Tower will he edited by Mr. Frederic.
F. Van Ue Water.
AND
Snid F. P. A. to F. F. V.:
"Here is The Tower and here's the
key."
"Don't stay too goldarned long away,"
.Said F. F. V. to
F. P. ?.
OF COURSE, OUR NEIGHBOR WONT MIND OUR BORROW,
ING A FEW THINGS FOR OUR PARTY
Copyright. 1521. Ntw York Tribune Inc.
"Just a 'Prince'"
To the Editor of The Tribune. !
Sir: I should like to say to the!
writer of the Tribune editorial "Just
a 'Prince' ":
I am a brother of yours and have
been, if you are nearly my age, for
nigh on to sixty years!
When I was a lad of ten I had a
Prince?a little mongrel, black as coal,
having a white shield on his breast.
He had assured me many a time that
'"Whither thou goest I will go." Prince
had a way of peering into your face
with his head first on one side, then
on the other, his effort to anticipate
your wishes causing three lines of
wrinkle in his forehead.
Prince and I had a younger brother,
or my younger brother and Prince had
an older brother?either way. But we
were inseparable. ' My younger brother
and I couldn't remember when we
didn't have Brince. So that when I
was old enough to be trusted with a
gi:n Prince had become an old, old man.
All his life he bad had a horror of
gun3 and pistols. He was ever ready
to join in our sports except Fourth of
July celebrations, when, unless he was
urgently invited to "Come out!" he re?
mained in the big dark place under my
father's shop, or buried under shav?
ings at the front end of his work bench.
Arrived at the gun ace I was when
Prince had become so infirm that his
days were full of sorrow and pain. In
winter he lay well under the kitchen
j stove and in summer under father's
shop?not for comfort in respect to
heat and cold, but to be sure that nc
one would touch him?-so old, decrepit
| and rheumatic he was.
For a year, I think, we said dailj
that the greatest kindness we could d<
"dear old Prince" would be to put hin
out of his misery. So one evening
near sunset, my brother induced Princ?
to follow him up the garden walk, whil<
I, with my gun carried down my side
walked up Jameson's garden walk.
When near the end of the garden m-?
brother said to Prince: "Now you sta;
here." Prince had an intuition of wha
1 was coming, or else, despite my great
care, he had caught sight of the gun.
But because he had been told to "stay
there" he stayed, and, looking at me
piteously, he obeyed even while I was
taking a seat on the fence.
My brother was several years younger
than I, and it wasn't to be expected
that he would refrain from raising his
voice in lamentation. And he did.
And so did his older brother, and
mother, while she was trying to con?
sole the younger by caressingly pat?
ting his head, which was deep in his
mother's lap.
And then mother told us we must
take comfort in the thought that Prince
was out of his misery and that maybe
in time he would become the happy lit?
tle fellow he was when he came to us
years ago. I am seventy-three. And
because I owned a Prince and he owned
me it is inconceivable that there is no
place in eternity for my Prince, who
surely loved me past understanding?
even unto death.
This is why you who wrote "Just a
'Prince' " are my brother and I am
yours. Once I had a friend. He was
walking beside me with his little lad't
hand in his, when a half-grown puppy
in puppy trustfulness, came up behinc
the child and licked his disengagec
hand. And who doesn't love to kiss fi
Laby hand? Of course it startled th<
child on the instant. And that man
instead of patting the pup on the heac
and assuring him of a kindly spirit
turned about and kicked him! '.
couldn't be a brother to such a man.
And just see what a long letter !
have written, when I_ started out to as!
if it would be possible to get a f?lle:
account of Prince and bis pod.
J. A. DEMUTH.
Oberlin, Ohio, Aug. 16, 1921.
[The facts of Prince's journey tc
the trenches, from Hammersmith t<
Armenti?res, were verified by th?
Royal Society for the Protection o:
Animals, London, which has thi
record. Prince died at Stafford
England, during July.?Ed.]
Poison Ivy Riddance
j To the Editor of The Tribune.
| Sir: Replying to the question of G.
! Robinson as to what will kill the poi
I son ivy plant?assuming th?3 to be
| Riius toxicodendron ? the scentists'
| remedy is sodium arsenate, two pounds
to ten gallons of soft water; a small
? quantity to be poured at the root of
! each vine. The farmers' remedy is to
! keep the leaves cut off; as the plant
I cannot live without leaves the stem
! und the root soon die.
i As a remedy for poisoning from this
j "ivy" nothing is better than good,
; strong laundry soap in very hot water.
: The solution should be rich in dissolved
? soap and the temperature as hot as can
bo borne by the patient, and the wash?
ing repeated as often as the itching
returns. Relief is immediate and the
spread of the eruption definitely
checked. RICHARD FERRIS.
Norwalk, Conn., Aug. 14, 1921.
To th,e Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The inquiries regarding mean3
of destroying poison ivy impel me to
call attention to the frequent occurrence
of ivy poisoning among those who visit
Central Park and the grassy spots along
Riverside Drive. Many cases come to
the Bloominjrdale Clinic of St. Michael's
Church, in West Ninety-ninth Street.
Many come to my office. The preva?
lence of this poisoning must entail
considerable eoonomlc loss and per?
sonal discomfort. That poison ivy
I should be permitted to live In these
parks is a reflection upon the park
management or custodians. To elimi?
nate the poisonous vines is no great
; problem.
Many people are very susceptible to
! ivy and poison oak toxication, while
others seem to handle the vines and
; shrubs with perfect immunity. As in
so many problems of toxicology, the
individual element is most important.
HARRY A. MARCH, M. D.
New York, Aug. 17, 1921.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As a cure for ivy poisoning
! permanganate of potash is infallible.
? Get ten cents worth in crystal form.
In one-quarter teaspoonful of water
| drop a pinch, dissolve and rub on and
| around the itching spot. Repeat when?
ever it itches much. Later the color
(black) can be removed with 10 per
cent solution of oxalic acid. The so?
lution is harmless except near the
eyes. It must be mixed fresh.
1DLEMERE.
j East Orange, N. J., Aug. 16, 1921.
Worn Out
(From The Profittrv.ee Journal)
Postmaster General Hays announces
that he will be glad to have construc
\ tive criticism of his department. Be
< patient, Mr. Hays; the public has hard?
ly recovered from the exhaustion of
criticizing tha Burleaon administration
of the Postofflce.
South American Trade
Europe's Major Share?"Meet Our
Latin-American Friends Hail Way"
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I cannot agree with some of the
statements of William C. Wells, chlei
statistician of the Pan-American Union,
in his letter on "Our South American
Trade" in to-day's Tribune.
There never has been such a volume
of imports from "the ten republics of
South America" that a falling off of 43
per cent represented a total of $374,
921,876. I cannot find any statistics
showing that our total imports from
South America ever reached < i1.'.*, ?gure.
When Mr. Wells says that the South
American countrir-s are "not shifting
their trade to England or Germany
away from the United ' I ? >" he is
not in agreement with Dr. sin,
chief of the Latin-American division
of the Bureau of Foreign and Doirn stlo
Commerce. He is not in ag
with many business mi n ? ave
spent six months or more in \.i
and V.rv.y.il from Novembi t . to
May, 1921.
Why quote Uruguay, perl aj i sr
best friend in South Amerii
tira's 'mports are v. I I m "-'er
than those of Brazil and six times
greater than Uruguay's.
"The strength of European fcn
South America lies in the six ? nth
American countries of Argentina ??'>.
Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia.
This was true before the war
true now. For the remaining E
Latin-American countries (ir
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru
dor) in South America, etc.," i ''">
Mr. We'ls. But, of course,
mean that. There are only ten Latin
American countries in Soul
and he has named them all.
strength of European trade I es in the
six he names?and I will not e
him?it is surely enough.
Before the war ('and Mr. W Us ^nys
it is the same to-day) the fix coun?
tries named imported $1 14 ??
of goods, of which $139,5
from the United States. The other
four countries of Soul
ported $84,276,000, of <
came from the United Stati The
imports of Argentina alone
times greater than th
Venezuela, Peru and K r '
the United States Argentina '??"'
$20,000,000 more than the other f??*
countries named.
Why seek to dodge the facts? ft !l
quite true that Germany, for '?
cannot make very gr";:t sti
us yet from this trndo. but wl * neve!
Germany has control of raw * aterial
she is cutting in on us h?? ?'? y wiw|
the manufactured produc! of that r?"?
material. 1 have r eat faitl
can enterprise and i:i the ab oi
the America:; business mi ?
Heve that eventually the Ui t
will be the great purveyor of manu?
factured goods to South America ?*
well as the great buyer.
The average American salesman 1?
a clever man, a pleasant chap to meet
and has moro brains by a great deal
than the average German salesman. But
the German patiently grinds until l:e
gets an understanding of the foreign
buyer; an ! finding out what he wants,
gives it to him.
Of cpurse "it will all come our w?J
one of these days." We all know 'v ?'
but "if eventually, why not ron?" It
can be dono if we meet our Latin?
American friends half-way, and tint i*
just what we have not been doing.
FRANCIS B. PURD1K,
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1921. ?1