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The America's Message
There is that which should stir
tht? heart of this great seapart, stir
the nation's heart, in the thought
that it was possible for the old
America to behold her birthplace
once more ere she lets go of her last
anchor in the Severn at Annapolis.
Fer aged timbers must have
thrilled as, entering that reach of
the East River between Williams
burg on the one hand and Twenty
tWrd Street on the ether, she re?
called the days of hex* jouth! What
?armories must have crowded upon
b?r! And if those who paused to
watch her go by, seeing in her only
tne relic of the most famous yacht
In all history, had been able to un?
derstand the language of ships as
did New Yorkers, and, for that mat?
ter, all Americans of the fifties,
what a tale she could have told them
?a tale to warm the blood and whip
their pride as with sparkling wine?
a tale of both shores lined with ship
?> yards whose products have never
been equalled in all the world?a
magical tale of dreamers whose
genius lifted the fabrication of ves?
sels from the level of ? journey?
man's trade it- the plane of an exact
science, and thereby made a starred
banner the talisman of the earth's
commerce and enthroned this nation
mistress of the seas!
We wish we might have been
aboard of the America as she
slipped downstream, alongside li?i"
sub-chaser consort, and . had her
point out just where old Jabez Wil?
liams and his sons had their yard in
Williamsburg?the yard that bore
the clippers Eclipso, Antelope, Tor?
nado and Simoon, the morst famous
of the cracks launched, from the
Kings County shore. Th.- America
would have known exactly, for in
'51, her own year, those four beau?
ties were being laid down and
launched for the California trade.
But being a ManhattanIte, we can
imagine that the America would not
have dwelt long on WiHiamrsburg or
the Williamses. For her, perhaps,
and naturally, the whole story lies
on the New York side, beginning
with Hathorne & Steers'? yard,
where she was born. More than a
yacht builder was George Steers.
Before he designed the America he
had given tho North Atlantic trade
the famous Collins liner Adriatic.
Creator of a marvelous steamship,
yet he is remembered only for a rac?
ing machine!
Just below the Steers y-nd to the
south Thomas and William Collier
and John Englis did their building.
Somewhere in there, too, were
tucked away Roosevelt and Joyce
and Jacob Westervelt. Adjoining
them, still further south, were the
yardsaof William Webb, stretching
from Fifth Street to Seventh Street,
where the Celestial. Gazelle, Sword
^ fish, Challenge, Invincible, Flying
? Dutchman and Young America were
r conceived. The winner of the Queen's
Cup would have remembered all of
them.
Still, we think that most of the
time the little old lady would have
had her eye on the spot where
Fourth Street tumbles overboard.
There in her day stood Smith and
Dimon's yards?the yards where
John Wiliis Griffiths, father and
founder of the modern science of
naval and marine architecture,
dreamed his Rainbow, the first clip?
per, and in launching her, on a
freezing January morning in 1845,
launched a new idea into the world's
destiny. Not so much as a tablet
marks this historic spot. In all the
city there is not a memorial to
Grifflths's genius nor yet a remem?
brance of the fact that it was New
York which contributed the Yankee
clipper to the needs of mankind. If
the winner of the Queen's Cup had
asked us how we were remembering
Griffiths and the Rainbow we should ;
have had to tell her that New York i
has forgotten?that the nation no ?
lon-?rer thinks of ships. j
To the south of the Rainbow's !
cradle, at just about Stanton Street, ;
wer?? the yards of Jacob Bell and
David Brown. It was here that were
built the flyers White Squall, Trade
Wind, North Wind, Jacob Bell and
Messenger, It was hero, also, that
Donald McKay, the Rambrandt of
American shipbuilders and disciple
of Griffiths, served bis apprentice?
ship und grew into the art which, in
his West Boston yards, was to pro
j duce the incomparable Staghound,
; Flying Cloud. Lightning, Sovereign
of the Seas, Romance of the Seas,
r James Baines and the Great Rtvub
j lie?such ships us had never been
j and never will bo again, but whose
memory challenges the United
I States to-day?, even as it has since
; the close of the Civil War. to rcas
| sert her heritage in th:' deep sea's
: estate.
To possess herself of a merchant
j marine sufficient untaJier needs and
j her position as a wmld power the
j United States, North. East, South
I and West, must begin'to think again
? in the terms of those days when
Steers's America was young and
Yankee keels rode the tides of the
uttermost ports of trade.
It is unlikely that the winner V?f
the Queen's Cup will ever visit New
York again. Let the little yacht not
have survived \n vain nor be per?
mitted to pass bearing no message,
showing no signals to this genera?
tion, even as a ship in the night.
The City's Extremity
Governor Miller's energy and
I courage have enabled the state gov?
ernment to cut down its inflated ex?
penditure. Appropriations for 1919
were about $97,000,000. They
?Jumped in 1920 to $145,000,000.
; When Governor Miller took office
j he was confronted with budget esti
j mates totaling $205,000,000. This
I was sheer prodigality. What could
| have happened between 1919 and
i 1921 to justify a doubling of the,
: cost of operating the state govern
! ment?
The state budget estimates were
! cut by $70,000,000. Appropriations
| for 1921 are $10,000,000 less than
?those for 1920. The spending
! mania has been halted. Every in
i telligent citizen gives the Governor
credit for a great achievement.
New York City needs to be pro?
tected from the spenders as much as
New York State did. Unfortunate?
ly there has been no one here in
power to duplicate Mr. Miller's bril
J liant work. The city's budget, as ox
' Senator Brown points out. Was
I $240,000,000 in 1919, $2(34,000,000
j in 1920 and $335,000,000 in 1921.
! It promises to co to $400,000,000 in
19.22. The 1921 budget was jug
! gled. The city authorities sliced eff
! arbitrarily $27,000,000 of the
! school appropriation without taking
! any steps to reduce school or other
' expenditure. The next budget will
i have to take care of this $27.0Q0,~
000 deficit and, if it is honest, to
add $27,000,000 more to the 1922
school appropriation.
A $400,000,000 budget, for 1922
would mean increased taxation on
I real estate ;?nd increased rents. In?
creased rents and living costs would
then be made the basis of demands
for increased salaries for all city
employees. The vicious circle of in
I flation would be in operation again,
J and the budget for 1923 would show
| another increase, unler-s new budget
; makers here were willing to do what
j has been done so successfully at
Albany.
The Hylan administration has
; shown no disposition to retrench. It
j abandoned the "pay-as-you-go" plan
| and has diverted to current uses, as
; the Meyer committee has disclosed,
1 $342,000,000 which should have
j
! been applied to debt reduction. Inef
I ficiency in administration, putting
: new burdens on the public, has gone
I hand in hand with ovcrexpenditure.
? as was demonstrated in the com
i mittee's probe into the pier lease
| system and municipal control of the
j food, markets.
"There must bo universal econ-'
j oniy or universal disaster," says the
| committee's chief counsel. When
will universal economy begin?
, The city government is overcompli?
cated and lumbering, just as the
I state government was. Who will
: clear out the jungle here? Hylan
: has manifested no inclination to do
! so. Major Cumin's record and
i training indicate his fitness to
| tackle this job. He is the only re
j constructor in sight?the only hope
j of those who want to see the pras
? ent deplorable era of municipal
I wastefulness ended.
i Insulting Mr. Hughes
The curious idea that President '
Harding's non-recognition of the1
communications from the League of!
Nations constitutes a "studied dis?
courtesy" to each of the member!
! nations has again been advanced by !
; one of The Tribune's readers.
"You miyht tell us where in the
results of the election it was decreed
that in Its international relations
; the United Staters should net like a
boor. You might also tell us how :
it is possibly goips to help the pres
? ent Administration in effect:!?'- a
new association of nations ta ?!ap
in the fa?re the fifty and more na?
tions now members of the leajf.ie."
The answer is so obvious that it
seems trite to make it. There has j
been no statement or act of the de-1
partment that can be construed as !
an intentional or unintentional!
"slap in the face" of the nations '
which have joined thi> league. Thru ?
a local consular officer went to the
secretariat of the league with a I
verbal explanation that the United '
States not being a member of the
league could not formally answer ita
communications is proof of tho par?
ticular desire of the department to
'give no offense and to allow no
?cause for misinterpretation. No of
j fense was taken by the member na?
tions, who, being wiser in matters
of international law and diplomatic
procedure than some of the Admin?
istration critics, saw no impropri?
ety in the department's action.
How the cause of peace and high
idealism is promoted by small-mind
' ed censoriousness and a steady
j stream of abuse are question? we
leave for our correspondent to an
| swer. Displays of this spirit do not
I seem calculated to promote that
'union of opinion which must exist
i if a broad national policy is to be
established.
_
Thoreson vs. Soreson
Utah is divided on the issue of
? Thoreson vs. Soreson. The Secre?
tary of the Interior some time ago
asked Mr. Thoreson to resign his
I position as Surveyor General of Utah
I in favor of Mr. Soreson. But Mr.
Thoreson did not relish tho idea.
' Whereupon President Harding wrote
i him a kindly note. "1 take you to be
; a practical man," he said. "I would
j very much like to have a new ap
I pointment in the office which you oc?
cupy. In all courtesy I would in?
i
, finitely prefer to have you recognize
the situation and make your resig
j nation available."
But Mr. Thoreson failed to take
! the hint. "I cannot understand," he
wrote the President, "how the plans
? and policies of the Administration
can in any way change or modify
the formal duties of a Surveyor Gen?
eral." He explained that the term
for which he was appointed had not
yet ended and that he was "the first
\ and only person" who has been re
?' quested to resign without being ac
; cu-red of any definite failure, or
; neglect of duty.
It is.difficult to see in what respect
j the duties of a Surveyor General
can be affected by a change of Ad?
ministration in Washington. Land
remains land, and measures and
records remain measures .and rec?
ords. On this ground, there is no
reason why Mr. Thoreson, whose
\ conduct of his office has apparently
i been above reproach, should make
: way for Mr. Soreson. In fact, if
! the appointment were in the civil
| service, there would be many valid
| reasons to oppose a change.
As a matter of politics, however,
i there is a difference, and despite Mr.
' Thoreson's courteous reply to the
! President's courteous letter, his
I failure to resign is contrary to a
i political practice which he did not
| object to when be displaced'his prede
| cessor. He then apparently regarded
j it as permissible for a chief to rc
| move a subordinate.
Nevertheless, the Thoreson argu
; ment is stronrr. A time will come
i
1 when some President will respect the
i rule that offices administrative in
? fact are not spoils. We wish Presi
| dent Harding would sei-'? the oppor
I tunity to distinguish himself. Unless
1 Soreson is obviously the better man,
! or there are other reasons not yet
i divulged, it locks as if some of the
President's advisers on political ap
? pointments had shown unnecessary
| zeal in their search for positions for
! deserving Republicans.
\ A Doil's House Worth While
In acknowledgment of the Queen
i of England's great interest in hous?
ing, a group of England's most
celebrated architects, painters,
scu'ptors and decorators is en
i
I gaged in making a model dwelling.
: "The house is to be eight feet in
height. The ceilings will be
: painted, the furniture and decora
i tions will be the work of experts:
portraits of the royal family will
; adorn the panels, and statues will
| have a place." Electric lighting, a
beating apparatus, ideal plumbing,
? books, linen, a garage and motor
: car, a garden?nothing will be1
omitted from this model house.
How can such a home be repro?
duced for ordinary people? Can it ?
be afforded? It can..
In time, yes. The main point is to
produce a model that is as nearly j
right as it can be made, and then to |
have it adopted for the use of the |
many. Standardization is cheaper ',
than helter-skelter. Nevertheless it is
doubtful whether the human species
will ever be content to live in boxes,
be they ever so well equipped, that
are alike. Animals have standard- !
ized dwellings, and so in large de- ?
gree did primitive man,, but with
progress came disversification. The !
human has developed special traits. ;
One is c?n unwillingness to live on!
bread alone and to be regimented.
Our Socialist friends war with this
tendency, often putting forth most ?
excellent economic arguments. ;'
But the individual man kicks I
economics in the face. He will be ;
different, though he knows it costs j
more. Nothing is more dismal to
him than rows and rows of model ;
dwellings, the serried ranks being
deadening to the spirit.
There are in New York City .
probably more architectural mon
strosities than anywhere else in the j
world, and along with them, often i
side by side, stand buildings of I
great beauty. Common sense de-i
mands more uniform architectural j
results. The only impediment is j
that common sense does not always I
rule?that liberty to be guilty of
folly and excels is a deeper demand
of the human heart than schemes of
practical benefit.
"Siege Gun" and Putter
.lesse Guilford, the "siege gun,"
who has added a sixteenth name to
the list of our amateur golf cham?
pions, is an example for all gojfera
who plume themselves on their abil?
ity to drive a terrific ball.
So long as Guilford, "a broth of a
hoy" from the New Hampshire hills,
devoted himself to his specialty of
? flogging the ball to unheard-of dis
' tances in or out of bounds, he was
! not a dangerous contender in select
?company; but when after moving to
j Boston he learned that a match is
not won fron, the tee and had a
chance to study the short, game with
such a master as Francis Ouimet.
he came to the fore.
In England last spring the con?
noisseurs of style pointed out that
! Guilford's delicacy of touch on the
putting green was more remarkable
in a ny^n of his powerful physique
than his inordinate driving power.
At St. Louis he combined these two
excellences as did no other player in
the field and won, as he deserved. A
game of such superlative force a net
I finish interjoined is a rarity in ama?
teur golf. Edward Ray, of England,
has it among; the professionals.
It is pleasing to htivo the cham?
pionship trophy come East once
more after seven years of domicile
in ?he Middle West., The tourna?
ment showed that golfing skill is well
distributed throughout the country.
But the metropolitan district is not
doing itself justice. Where is the
next Travers?
Although defeated in the final by
Guilford, congratulations are due to
Robert Gardner for putting out both
British representatives, the dashing
Scotsman, Armour, and the plucky
British champion. Hunter. The in?
ternational flavor gives half the zest
to the games on both sides of the
water.
The Father of the Navy
Hopkins, Barry or Jones? -Glory
Enough for All
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: in your issue of to-day you
publish the letter of an inquirer who
seeks, to know who was the "Father of
the American Navy." In an editorial
noto you state that Esek Hopkins has
perhaps the best claim to the title, al?
though he was no such ligure as John
Paul Jones.
The question is an important one,
and has been raised in the preparation
\ for America's Making, the exposition
| to be held under the auspices of tue
! state and city departments of educa?
tion. There are three claimants to the
title. The Irish declare that Commo?
dore John Barry is the "Father of the
Navy."' You will recall that a statue
to him was recently erected and he
> was featured as the "Father of the
American Navy."'
The English naturally claim Esek
j Hopkins, commander of the navy dur
i ing the Revolution.
The Scotch declare that John Paul
Jones alone is the legitimate claimant
to th*-* title. Although Barry is cred
?tecr^vith the first sea tight of the Rev?
olution, Jones's heroic battle on the
i Bonhomme Richard against the Sera
! pis is far better known and perhaps
| had a more stimulating effect upon the
?morale of America's sea fighters.
It is significant that after a year and
?a half of research into the part played
?by all races in America, America's
I Making takes no stand in the matter.
I There is glory enough for all,
MILTON WRIGHT.
New York, Sept. 23, 1921.
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Conversational Irritants
't To tho Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There are three seeming trifles
! that insidiously creen into our talk and
I mar what would otherwise be good con
; versation. They are "see," "listen"
? and "you know."
Why not leave out the "see," and
| thereby presume that the hearer com?
prehends what is being said? It is
i distinctly uncomplimentary to his in
: teliigence to ask a listener whether he
; understands you.
Why ask cue to whom you are speak?
ing to "listen" to vou? Give him at
least half the time for talking, then as?
sume that he will hear you. Why say
"listen" when talking over a tele?
phone? Do you not know thnt the
hearer at the other end -is there for
that very purpose?
When-relating circumstances or giv?
ing information, why say "you know"?'
If the hearer knows, why tell him? If
you know he does not know, why say
"you know"? .Thc-!-e expressions imply
discourtesy and should b?^' banished.
The art of inform::,;;, entertaining
and elevating discourse seems in some
measure to be lost. Can we not help
to find it by cot reeling these faults if
we have them? CRITICUS.
Brooklyn. Sept, 24, L921.
"Youthful Instabilities"
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sii : Referring to your editorial of
September 20 entitled "Youthful In?
stabilities" 1 beg to say that you have
my approval, and especially of the last
paragraph.
It is surely a lack of religious be?
be:" and training which is causing the
trouble. I hope you will continue to
bear on this line of argument, for
there is too little re peet for holy :
things. JOSEPH s. OSBORNE.
New York, Sept. 24, 1921.
A Civilized Battle
(From The Kansas O'?-y Sinn
The Irish and Lio^d George aie get- ?
ting to be a:-, habitual note writers as j
the last Administration at Washmgton.l
But as note writing in this case seems i
to take the place of fighting, there is j
little complaint. '
The Conning Tower
Autumn In Greenwich
, Thank God the leaves are falling:,
j Tiicr'ro no more hollyhocks
And the Indien 'Il return to Greenwich
To enjoy the equinox. J. Q.
In the days of alleged prosperity,
denleri? were in the habit of explaining
to customers that tlw shortage of labor
1 caused delay;! in servie??. Hut now,
I when there arc said to bo many unem
? ployed, it still takes weeks to have
?a watch repaired. And a wee!; to ad
! just a fountain pen.
' Rut the strangest interpr?tation of
! the law of supply and demand wq
ever heard was vouchsafed the other
j day by a book salesman. A purchaser,
protesting at a charge of $10.50 for ft
! book he had always paid about. $'l.f?0
i for, was told that there was so little
demand for the book they had to
charge a stiff price for it,
WOULD YOU BELIEVE ME?
; 01 would you believe me if I were to
say:
I Despite all these years we've been
parted,
II still think as highly of you as the
; ilny
: When our brief friendship was started?
And would you give credence to claims
1 now make
That lime never weakened nor altered
My feelings toward you? and that just
for your sake
My loyalty never has faltered?
And if I sjiould tell you I -'.till care
for you
Or if I should say, -(though I ought
not) ?
I've fallen in love with you, what
I would you do?
j Say, would you believe me ? ... I
thought not. FRITZ.
In spite of the repeatedly made ob
; servation that most newspaper readers
j read nothing but headlines, the effect
! of headlines on daily conversation is
[negligible. Suppose a couple of tennis
I players talked thus:
"How about a Net Tilt?"
"All right. I'll Clash with you."
Or two motorists:
"Why didn't you Laud that motor
trip?"
"I didn't go. Rain halted it."
m
Stn.l, Headlinese makes for conver?
sational brevity; and anything that
j docs that gets our vote. We'd rather
i Go to Parley than Attend a Conference.
FLOWERS
Oil I love all gardens, but I chiefly love
I Xot the wide estates th?t stretch o'er
hill and moor,
! But the little, humble, struggling gar
dcnSjpf
! The very poor!
Ot beautiful arc acres s?..r with hedge,
And arbors where the rosevinn clam?
bering comes,
i Rut dearer flowers grow on Dome win?
dow-ledge
In the slums!
And children arc God's flowers, heaven
j sen?.
j But oh my heart sacs all unreconciled
Pale-blooming in some airless tenement
:A little child. ANCHUSA.
--Mrs. Viola Shore has returned
from Italy, etc.
?F. F. Van de Water has returned
t?? newspaper work.
?Vote for turran before claying
golf on Election Day.
? The days arc growing too short, j
i is how this dep't feels.
--Broadway is a blar-r'c of lights;
these lively fall evenings.
? Peter Street of here and Norfolk ?
Conn has entered the freshman class j
: at Princeton Univ. i
Herb Hoover, Max Eastman
and Charlie Chaplin were written up:
in a Chicago paper recently.
?Bill Johnston and Bill Tibien the
well known insurance agts are tak-i
ing a few clays off to play tennis.
?-Mrs. Frank Case came all the
way from Sag Harbor Thursday to |
go to Irv Berlin's show that cve'g. '
? Mme. Antoinette Lenglen and
daughter whoJiave been in this coun?
try five weeks sailed for France
Wdnes.
? Looks like all the world series j
would be played right lure in town.
Does that look like knocking our
burg Mr. Mayor?
? Ray Ives the popular C, P. A. i
was a pleasant caller Wednesday
laying a fine segar on our desk.'
Ray is sailing for Cuba day after to-1
morrow.
? The West 112th Street Thana
topsis Club met at ye scribe's Sat-1'
urday eve. Dainty refreshments
were served and a pleasant time was j
had by three out oi seven.
?Eddie Conlin who said when he
had a new suit three year- ago ;i'\d !
Gotham Gleanings scored a beat by
printing the news everybody said i
Hello Eddie is that the suit? has got!
another suit.
Enter now tire melancholy days,
When, unless you begin shortly after \
noon, you have to stop on account of j
darkness in the middle of the fifth set.
This district i.i back on standard !
time; and those v.ho prepare dinners !
fc" golf and tennis players are m -ly !
?gain. F. P. A. '
NOT THAT ANY ONE THINKS THEY NEED A CHAPERON
BUT FOR FEAR THEY MIGHT GET LONESOME
Copyright., 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
Boot\i
Percy Hammond
'Tis a weakness of youth to believe
' travelers' tales (as George Moore said
j to Edmund Gosse), and it is rumored
I that we young folks have been listen?
ing with too much credulity to the vo?
luptuous recitals of numerous expedi?
tionists to the South Seas.
?Sophisticated argonauts who visit
Polynesia under the auspices of the
Messrs. Cook and other knowing ex?
plor?is return with souvenirs only of
! their cynicism. They limp into the
I home ports laden with glum recollec?
tions. Tahiti is as everyday as Long
j Island, and Papeete and its suburbs
I are as exotic as Great Neck. Fleas and
I mosquitoes annoy them in the Marque
| sas instead of snakes and scorpions,
I and they find that the natives, when in
I a care-free mood, prefer to shimmy
i rather than to hula-hula.
The British Consul, instead of being
i a brandy fiend in white linen, is a
; jaunty, businesslike fellow; and the
I old, mysterious American trader, with
I the silent, worshipful brown wife, de
j velops into the snappy manager of
? the local Woolworth, with a sweetheart
| in Altoona. The music hoard at even
I tide acros3 the lagoons is not that of
i ancient island troubadours, but the com
I positions of 'Gene Schwartz and Irving
! Berlin. The majestic old Polynesian
I chief wears srats, lights his Lucky
! Strike with a patent lighter and asks
! you. as you sit with him on the veranda
| of the- local Ritz, if you know anything
good about Morton Pete or National
Cable and Conduit. "Is Dolores still
with Ziegfeid?" ho inquires; "and does
Al Heiman still tell that smutty one
about another man's wife in the Green?
wich Village Follies?"
?',: :','? *
Tourists allured thither by South Sea
literature naively ask the inhabitants,
"Have you no leprosy here?" and the
islanders answer. "No; but we have
some interesting cases of prickly heat."
"Where." they persist, "will we find
some Polynesian ingenues who un?
ashamed will swim with us in some
. placid bayou, saving us. if necessary,
? from the man-eating oysters, the while
! we resist their dusky charms?" And
? then is told that the ladies are all down
j at the wharf, receiving a cargo of lip
i sticks, chewing gum, corsets ?and back
? numbers of "Women's Wear." Non
i plussed, the traveler returns to the
' caf? of hi-; hotel. "Frederick O'Brien,''
he says to the clerk, "has warned mo
that this archipelago is a paradise of
adventure, that there are amusing can?
nibals in the hills and that a dusky
and shapely girlhood is eager to offer
itself to slim and moral excursionists."
The clerk replies that Baibee is in
Deauv^He and that Luboba-Tilaana is
at French Lick, intending to go on
from there to Mount Clemens and Hot
Springs. "Hojyever, Miss Jones is in,"
he says. "She taught Delsarte in
Youngstown and played the second
witch durin?; the Shakespearian festi?
val in Xenia." A returned tourist
writes that when he asked for bread?
fruit they gave him hot-dogs.
* * *
Mr. Walter Traprock, amused by the
travelogs of the South?'Sea explorers,
has undertaken in "The Cruise of the
Kawa" to laifgh a little at their ad?
ventures. He doubts, good-naturedly,
the truthfulness of their diaries and
he invests his own imaginary expedi?
tion to the Antipodes with a broad and
salutary burlesqueing. Accompanying
Mr. Traprock to the remote and distant
Filbert Isles are Mr. Heywood Broun
as Captain Trippett., the skipper of the
Kawa; Mr. Frank Crowninshield, a?
Herman Swank, a distinguished Amer?
ican artist; Mr. Charles Hanson Towne
as Reginald K. Swinney, an acute sci?
entist, and Mr. George Putnam jr., a:
orderly and publisher. In the event
that you believe that Mr. O'Brien anc
the other ocean fabulists are a bit en?
thusiastic, if not. hysteric, in their ac
counts of life in and around the Sever
Seas, you will be amused by this acic
buffoonry. Tirere is a grin in ever;,
line of it.
"Sowing Dragons' Teeth"
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The judicial section, composed
entirely of judges, of the American
Bar Association, at the convention at
Cincinati, August 81,unanimously dop- '
ted the following "warning to the:
American people," v.-hich ? have just |
succeeded in obtaining in correct of- !
iicial form, as follows:
"The Judicial Section of the Ameri?
can Bar Association, venturing to speak
for all the judges, wishes to express
this warning to the American people.
Reverence for law and enforcement
of law depend mainly upon the ideals
and customs of those who occupy the
vantage ground of life in business and
society. The people of the United States,
by solemn constitutional and statutory
enactment, have undertaken to sup?
press the age-long evi! of the liquor
traffic. When, for the gratification of
their appetite- or the ?wemotion of
their interests, lawyers, bankers, great
merchants and manufacturers and so?
cial leaders, both men and women, dis?
obey and scoff' at this law^or any other
law, they arc aiding the cause of an?
archy and promoting mob violence,
robber." and homicide: they are sowing
dragon*' teeth, and they need not be
surprised when they find that no judi?
cial or police authority can save our
country or humanity from reaping the
harvest."
The growth of sentiment in America
in favor of enforcement of prohibition
in order to unhold respect for law is
most significantly indicated by con
trasting that statement with the fact
that, when, a little less than a year ago,
I said repeatedly in public utterances
in this city thut the leaders of business
who participated in or winked at vio?
lation of the prohibition law were
promoting anarchy I was severely
criticized for intolerant, unwarranted
and fanatical abuse of leaders in the
city's life.
WILLIAM H. ANDERSON.
State Superintendent Anti - Saloon
Leagu-e of New York.
New York, Sept. 24, 1921.
Field Artillery Personnel
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Please convey rrry apologies to
the 66th Field Artillery Brigade and
my thanks to ^Villiam P.. Wright for
having set me right -no "excusable
jrony" intended) in the matter of the
155 mm. G. P. F. long?.
However, th*e fact remains that at
least two brigades armed with that
weapon were manned by Coast Artil- ,
lery men. And they were trained nj* ?
French and American officers. We were
too busy in France to concern our?
selves with an officer's antecedents
regular. National Guard or national
army?his attainments were the thing ?
of importance. But I must say that
if the 66th Brigade was selected to
train Coast Artille*..- men it must have
been good.
ROBERT P. GLASSBURN,
Major, C. A. C.
Fort H. G. "Wright, N. Y., Sept. 25, !
1921. I
Mr. Zero's Motive
Ledoux as "a Paul Revere Awaken?
ing a Land o? Plenty"
| To the Kiiitor of The Tribune.
Sir: May I be allowed to takr- excep?
tion to your recent editorial 0:1 Urbain
: Ledoux- "Mr. Zero" in which you de
: r-cribed him as a "sensationalist"' and
; notoriety seeker? (I have not your ex?
act words before me, but the purport of
'your description was that he was a
; sensational agitator. 1
Mr. Ledoux's great aim is not tha
i giving away of meal tickets or of "auc?
tioning"' off a lew "slaves." That il
! but a means to an end. The end he ha?
' in view is to awake the public to a
1 realization of the unemployment situ
! ation. His sensational methods ere but
' the means to attract the attention ?if
' the nation at large to the direful un
; employment situation. And he has f-uc
;cecded. and is succeeding.
On Boston Common two weeks afo
he auctioned off in slave fashion a f?W
.jobless. Immediately the novel affair
was telegraphed to every r:r portant
newspaper in the United States. ThW
something was doing. Municipal gov?
ernments all over the country bsgao
seriously to look into the facts.
You? accuse Mr. Ledoux a? an "ig*!
, tator." What is that against him?Al
! he himself has stated, and a", friend?
I who know him well, like George Gray
? Barnard, the great sculptor, have re?
peated, he wants nothing for himse'/
I "I want to eliminate myself," he say-i.
'"I want to set tilings going under com?
petent direction. Then I am going on
to Buffalo and Detroit and do the same
I thing over again." Agitator - yes, ytn
I are rigtit, but an agitator for good.
1 In keeping out a few unemployed in?
sensational way he has helped out mil?
lions.
To the thousand:- of jobless whole
("food" has been soup and vit?se bed
I the hard ground of a city park, Urbain
Ledoux has been a Paul Revere, awak
'ening "a 'and of plenty" to a realiza
?tion of destitution and starvation rare?
ly known in America.
HUGH RUSSELL FRASER Jr.
New York, Sept. 24, 1021.
Women and Unemployment
To the Editor of The Tribun?.
Sir: With respect to the presen! un?
employment, and inore particularly re?
garding Neu- York ami vicinity, the
situation might perhaps be sornewha*.
relieved if the women who were *?
patriotic duiing the war as to fill men'?
positions would be just as patriots
in these times as to step avde a*-1**
allow the men to re-enter tie no*?
tions which the women then rnte.'ed.
It is obvious that there are "?<*rT
many more men out of work thai
wemen, and the void whict would '!l8
created by women stepping aside cei'l-"'
be filled at once by male who are out
of work, ?"his refers, for instance, li
women running elevators, won.**
clerks in bonks and elsewhere, etc.
Many domestic workers Have changt-a
their vocations and gone into vanoua
other linea of employment, whi " *
great scarcity of female domestic*
still continues in the household. ?'
the wome ? who arc out of empioyn?*-*?
would enter or re-en.ter domestic serv?
ice, the gap could be filled in thst in?
stance, and at the same time leaf*
openings in vocations in vshrci men
eou'd well be employed.
Will the women help the situation?
HARRY NATHAN.
New York. Sept. 24, 1022
The Universal Dest.nation
?From The Wichita Bt
n reply to "What ?s the
ing to?" we say "America."
(From The. Wichita Beacon/
In reply to "What ?s the world no**?*