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GUARANTY i
Ven ?an ?utp*i?i? meretiandlia adftrtllftd la THE '
TRIBUNE with abeoluto lajtty?fer I? dlsa*il<tao~
t'eo result? In alW :xsa rHE TRIBUNE guaran-:
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in? ?dv?rt!>;.- doe* I ct.
UEMTFIt : ?"?? ?" ASSOCIATED T*TlRK?t
IS? Asocia . ; Preea La ei,;..,:." ly entitled to
tha u?? for r? .. ?atioi ?' ? news Llapatchea
<radlt?d to It cr not ted ! UiLa
paper, and the ... -? ..: spontaneous
ortfln mibUshed ;
AU rlghU <?: Q Ol a'; Other matte?
haraln also ara reserred.
The Strike Veto
The railroad 1 ich have
ordered a nati ? ? > id : trike are try?
ing to impose a veto nie re?
adjustment. They believe that they
hold a club ovei the rest of the con
munity through their power to tie
up transportation, wholly or par?
tially. In support ' f their own nar?
row gToup interest they ".re going to
declare war on all ether groups of
workers, un farmers and other pro?
ducers, on manufacturers and ship?
pers, and on the great ma 3 of con?
sumers.
The ?trike is a piecr of selfish
class aggression. War wage scales
have bien abandoned in practically i
every other industry. The railroad
unions are bent on maintaining
wage inflation at the war peak. In
1916, before President Wilson forced
through the Adamson law, the an?
nual labor bill of the carriers was
$1,468,000,000. The Adams -n law
increased it to $1,739,000,000. The
Fev'?^al railsoad administration
pushed it up in 1918 to $2,633,000,
000 and in 3919 to $2,843,000,000.
The Railroad Lahor Board raised it
again in 1920 to $3,698,000,000. If
the increased scale of 1920 had been
in effect durii g the whole of that
year the 1920 wage account would
have totaled .$3,980,0',0,000. Since
1916 the labor cos? I ratfroad oper?
ation has i1. 153 per cent.
Since 1017 it: hi s il crea ed 115 per
cent, or, if the tas1 - 'ale . . 1 covered
the full year in 1920, 128 per cent.
The unions are striking against
the recent cut in wages authorized
by the Railroad Labor Board. They
are thus challen] ;' I E ch-Cum
mins law, whLh rave them a special
protection as t( w-, tatus by pro?
viding that .11 c itroversies over
wages or voi luid be re?
ferred to a Fe I " il tribun; 1 re] re?
starting the : ads, tht ,'orkers and
the public The Cui imin ad as the
Senate passed i1 contained anti
strike provisi ns. e el n i
nated in the conference with t1:'
IIou.-..
A strike agair t a dt cisi n by the
Labor Board, tl 1 not prol ibil d
by the statutt amo .. ' 1 a declara?
tion by the union: I hey re?
nounce ; 11 '.. ?..;'
they will ? it
menta v.-1-;: li . ?. ??!?:? unfavor?
able.
The pul lie ha. ,-? ' ?
in the opt rs. Tlial
interest has ; ain
and agai n in F '? ral le
Contini ity of Fen ce i? e - ??
inder the scl erne of governi
??gulai. :. whii ii has been 1
: jjgjj j. . . . ... aran1 ?
'.'?' ?rw ise one of the ma ,n ol jed 3 of
r ?gelation :' d
The uni In dy to defy
tl 0 law and Lo inil ei lous
losses on the ?The power they
have to put a ? rgo on traffic is
thus a mem rder and
welfare. ' ers say thai
employee :-- v, '. ms arc- figl
for life. T ?;. ir b I
sense Lia*, they ; re fighting n be
half of a 1 ty's cl'aii
pconon-1 ?
to est?
c?t at the e cp \ of the unrj
nityV va-" ly greater i
Obregon's Difficulties
That conditions are bettering in
Mexico is an ii
from Mexico's n ????. abs< n e I
the Dews. 1
can Suprci! 0 1 !ourt about tbi 1
retroactivit.y of A 1 ' lele >' X V ! I o?
thr; Mexican Co titution ii now
eppted as ??? step.
It docs nol
question, but it ; as gri atly helped.
Adequate evidei thai American
and foreign life . : ? ? arc
safe in Me cico yet fui
but there Is cl ... it in
Mexico.
That the change ]
i? natura!. !'? .' al 1 for?
bid any a<
eensitive prl f
at the T>r-"''"?? '
the pub
that T'- *? iii > .a
the pow< f ''? '''''?? ? ;?? ' '
The existing <
reasonable cl ? ?
much In '..?? '?'?
certain powerful nu n v ho arc 1
to c? pitalize r.';;- seeming fr
ti ward Ame ri< a on the part of
?un.
It i;, 1 rue that ' here n many
? ' i f loj alty to Obregi n.
long as ho i-' in power he ?.-. ?
:t'.?. But c .. id! to
that Uicre arc none besidt ? I
who aspire to the McLean Pre -
di ' ?>'. Some of th< se a 'pirants at"
in Obregon's own Cabinet, and they
have freely lent ti eir stn ngth to
him. It is no : et tl at Elias Ca?-?
les, at present Minister of the In-1
terior, hopes, to succeed Obregon. I
And De la Huerta, foncer Pro?
visional President and now Secre?
tary of the Treasury, and Villareal
have ambiti. as of their own. What
more natura'?
Is it surprising, then, that Obre?
gon moves cautiously? So long as
the direction of his policy if ri? ' "
this country may well > ? charita-1
bly its lach of
Under the Surface
city's reg? itration for i '23 is
1,268,364, oi ly 105,51 0 . : rt < the
reg? tration of .'
municipal c impai I i year h
lieen dull <
paign of 1917, 1913 or 1909. "
has been little surface < it<
But the unusual re . total
indicates that the vo rs are tal i tg
sei -? usly the is; Lie bet sv en lea it r
bhip o?' the ' ' irran ' ? ack r
? hi;> of the Hylan type.
Are we becoming :
oi les - interest! d in the bent :
good local govei'
voters of to-day more pride in a
oufrR ard aspects < * cil y life and
more concern for clean* r streets, be t
ter city planning, better police and
fire protectioi . more adequ ite
facilities and the reduction of living
cr sts which wo ild follow an im?
provement of railroad and port '? t
minal facilities than t In . had I on
>r ' - - nty years ago?
They arc more iiitt. a: ely
than they were, a cording I .> mai ,.
signs of the time in politics. This
sharpened sense of civic d ity i.; m )re
appreciable to-day, when
vote, for women lack the pari
traditions which used to control so
la, - ly eve:; in municipal ?amp;
They have little love for Tam
or for any organiza! : n as s .
They know that wherever the ci y
government tou : in Lay are
far from getting out ,L I h
what they ought to get.
Thi.. year 572,306 mo/n ?
are registered than were i
in 1917. That is one of the m ) a
i ncouraging as] . uati ?n
The 1917 election tuned on pers ial
frictions an l anta;
the city is calmlj p ing to < lo i
a Mayor, not to puni: h anyl ody but
to carry out policies whi? h a i iaji r
ity believes to be to the common i -
terest.
O?r With the irons!
VYht n the La Fol stt
act was addi J to the loi list oi
laws in which -tare recorded the
nation's futile efforts during the
past s;xty-o:!d years to regaii oui
estate in the deep sea it was 'a ? . :
its i. 'pause:-:- ? d the strange s
' :' economics to which they be!;
a- the last word. The country was
informe i that L, and throurj
marvolous li islal ve product o
combin ;d brain pt er of ! a F ?1
?i tte Vi illiam B. V, dsoi . - im
Secretary of 1 abor, ara! Andrew
f urusc th, leader of shir, li
i ;m, .he trick had been I asar,;.
Without low erinj t ol 'Lmeri
can ship operation ? indi
it i fee M at" as
< at ion of the treat; It men.;. n
ute was to be to rai a the rest i
? ? rjie p ,i..( )-; < , o; r plane and
' andards of li\ n !
The fallacy ol ;: it alleged rea: on
. a ' ,a I] ? , ?
the differences - itting to-da
tween the * o? t ol .
that i c tor?
differences which increa: e .
?....: period rei etl fur
fUl Lai. j .
ead of frankly adm
? I lealing with it as one of the
? tai ding
! nited St at es and a : ?,.) izai. i E
L? ambition t re- mer
. ? bei
need , : he iead pi
bli "Give u
stal aid! Give u u -: .? i ? \, ?
I ? ? I. . .
La
t ry, i n keepi ng w it h t ? :
on Mondaj ?
Senat , embrace a can ' ': rii
inatory dut i s and r ?? at ? ?
career , h?i h cu ..
iess than t disaster!
[ft ??.:.:??? u!d let
o think '? - . ?
I] ?
it I Igii t , ;. r|U ...
fcrential tl a exi ' a a i Ameri
!
cart i
the trades ovJ I :
a ? ? . ? ?m i
as In
:
holdii t ecoi
to use I , but i
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we Am
the cost or American operation can j
and must be brought down.
To expect a merchant marine to |
!h and thrive under the handicaps;
which, for various political but un?
jo tifiable reasons, v/e have imposed i
on Yankee deep-water ships is as i
reasonable as to expect a handcuffed
man to swim. I3 it not t'.me to be
gin unlocking the handcuffs?
Off with the irons!
Coast Defense Weapons
A mammoth 16-inch coast defense
pun has just been tested at the army
proving grounds. The total cost of
this gun, with its mount and con?
crete emplacement, will be approxi
mately $500,000. With a powder
charge of eight hundred pounds it
ill throw a shell weighing 2,200
pounds to a maximum distance of
thirty-five miles.
Admitting the great power of this
; a., .1 is important to consider its
limitations as a factor in coast de?
fense?the only use to which it can
1 " put.
The gun can at most protect the
coa: t to a distance of but thirty-five
miles. Even at that ran?e and at
shorter range it could not hit a tar-!
! '. t at night, and in the daytime sel
tl mi, unless aided by airplanes or air
hips to note and signal the fall of
the ' hell. The chi aces of hitting a 1
ship or Heel: would he very small, j
And how many of these $500,000:
guns would be needed to give half- j
time "111a.; action" to the coasts, of the j
I nited States, from Eastport, Me.,'
to Galveston, Tex., and from Puget
Sound to San Diego? The number
be large and the cost would be
ill as.
At the same proving ground the |
a nay tested another coast defense ?
.veapon An airplane, from a height, j
oi i I 10 feet, ihopped a 4,000-pound!
bomb containing 2,100 pounds oiL
high explosive. It dug a cellar 25 1
a- ' deep and 75 feet in diameter. It
wouh! have destroyed the great 16
inch gun with its emplacement and
crew. A few such bomba will
any fort on our coast.
consider Lue military and eco-1
advantages of the airplane :
and its bomb in comparison with the j
gun. Ten or twelve bombing planes j
be built for the price of one;
$500,000 gun. All of these planes
- and as many more as we may wish j
to build?can be concentrated at a
few hoar.-.' notice at any threatened ?
point on the Atlantic or Pacific coast.
in other words, the movable planes!
with their bombs can utilize the vital I
ry principle of concentration
up a . a ( nei ly at any point ou our !
via usands of miles of coast, while |
th( immovable gun is restricted toi
thirty-five macs.
i L' Iowa experiment showed that
a few planes can discover a hostile,
(le i ?vithin an area of 20,000 square ?
. in two hours. The Ostfries
land experiment showed that bombs
if 1,000 and 2,000 pound?, can sink.
any ship in existence. The joint
.- rid Navy Board has officially
ted that a 4,000-pound bomb
c: a nk any future ship that con-'
struccors can build. The Alabama
experiment showed that airplanes
attack ana destroy the ships of!
a fleet at night as well as by day.
And the airplane can easily attack a I
ship di: taut one hundred miles from 1
the cc; t!
V ' must choose which of these
weapon; we shall chiefly rely on?
immi vaille guns costing hundreds of
millions, giving little protection, or
;mo\ able air forces costing much less,
which protect the whole coast and
in ' a nd the sea to a distance of
one I tmdred miles from the coast
11 is the duty of army and naval
; promptly to recognize the
' a ?ii ... of old weapons and the ad?
vent of ai w ones. They must mod?
ernize Lair minds! The intelligent
layman ?the taxpayer?is very much
: a ?" ted. He believes in proteo. -
ion, but he a ;o believes in the max
proteefion in return for the
invest? d.
The "Babe" and the Judge
Despite the banishment of "Babe"'
from organized baseball in
solemn pronun ?amento spoken by
Kent saw Mountain Landis,
conui ?ner extraordinary of 1 he
? - ! gan e, it : - si hi possibl ; that
h ? "ta' .'" will be trying to heat his
rtl '?-?>' hi rua- next
>";? decree of the commis
io "Babe'' i an outlaw, all
?'a; v. a h ! am arc outlaws, aal
ven the ft nces o\ 1 r w hieb he may
1? al ai ?! reprt la nsible
; re out! iw and taboo.
.'. h . ;a ; he law <>\ oi ganized base
least f ?'? tL' time being.
"Babe,' >%ith in elemental mind,
. '.? ;; at it is elementally an unfair
law; then fore, one to I e "busted"
a : rai: hi one ovc r I he plate is
a ted." The judge, reserving ch -
a to the nu ; its of the law,
Ihn it i the law and must
1 cd even by the "Babe."
Hi? ? 1 ? ' ' In ?wing it might
!' " Hire a d udiock, w ith the judge,
; -.-. tl the decree of organized
: 11, ! irrii - f: e outlawed bat
pioi froi ball parks,
it i a long I ?mo before the
? ? ni .'? south, und bj
??' : i me :. - tern law 1 f organized
1 ? disposed to loo1
arc 1 nt einou off< n ?
.lifting an il!? ?n
?ver an i!l? aal fein e ii
th illi -a- . , all pL\
1 1 .'. lib gal In re . used in the purob
Pickwickian or organized baseball j
sense, for the civil courts may de- i
cide that a Ruthian homo run is as ?
legal in the winter as it ia in mid?
summer.
According to persons who know, j
the presence of "Babe" Ruth in base- |
ball during the season just past j
has meant something ever a million ,
in increased attendance at the or
rnnize,'. baseball parka. Of course,;
baseball magnates never could be
swayed by mercenary considerations j
?yet there is some hope of tho stern
law being tempered to the shorn
"Babe" a little before the Polo)
Grounds are open for tho season of i
1922. It ia quite likely that the!
"Babo" will be trying to lift the lit- j
tie pill beyond the horizon and that j
the magnates will be ready to pro- j
nounce it legal.
Closing a Factory
Manufacturer Waits for Tariff Based j
on American Values
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Washington asks: "Why this i
unemployment?"
First?Undervaluation that costs tho
united .states $100,000,000 each year.;
What is the cause? We are importers.
We do not have to swear to the invoice j
price of tho goods we import. If wo
buy a dozen clove:; for 180 franca we!
can invoice at 120 francs and pay the
duty on the 120, and the government
loses. It ia simple. Pay cash in Eu?
rope, have an agent ship tho goods at
any price. The dishonest, importer
knows that the appraisers cannot keen
informed, from day to day, as to the
wholesale prices in 110 countries, and
it has always been absolutely impos-1
sible for them so to do.
Roth Democratic and Republican an-,
praisera uro In favor of American j
valuation, because it is so much easier |
to administer a tarn? founded on |
wholesale prices of commodities in the
United States. Tin's means to the ap?
praiser that the present difficulties
arising from the fluctuation in foreign
exchange will be eliminated. It also j
means doing away with the. discrimi?
nations and securing an equal amount j
of duty on the san e commodities, from
whatever country imported.
It will put Japan, which Pays 15
cents a day for general labor, on an i
equal basis with Canada at $.'* a ?lay i
and Germany at $5 a week. For ex? i
ample, if Japan makes a ton of steel,
costing ?10, Canada $18 and Germany ?
$12, they would all pay the samo duty i
on an American valuation of $20, what- i
ever +he rato on the ta?iff bill; say 10 ;
p3r cent: each country would pay $2
duty a ton.
American valuation is only adminis?
trative, has nothing to do with rates ?
and doe3 not make things cost more.
but mal?es all ray their honest duty.
It will mean Si less in taxes to everj
man and woman in the United States.
One hundred and eight million pairs
of gloves have, been imported in the
last year. The c ?Teet is that we, foi
the first time in twenty years, have to
close our factory within the next fif?
teen days for an indefinite time. The
emergency tariff put a duty on hair on
Spanish raw skins of 15 cents a pound,
or about $3 a dozen, but charges the
German leather dresser only $1,35 a
dozen on finished leather. We pay
$1.65 more. duty. German wages are
$5 a week. We nay $25 for less work.
Germany pays ??0 cents to GO cents for
anilines, we $1 to $1.45. Do you see
way our factory must close?
Under this ta rill" we are helpless. At
the recent (" hicaj^o convention of manu?
facturers, which i attended, tho manu?
facturers from every state were
unanimous in the opinion that we can?
not go on or start, up our factories
until an adequate tariff bill,founded on
American values, is passed. With it.--. .
passage a million and a liaif men will
i be put to work in our factories alone, i
and this will furnish employment toi
railroad men, miners, clerks -'.nd arti
sailfl of c^rry trade
JOSEPH E. WOOD,
Gloversville, N. V., Oct. 13, 1921.
An t!yc on the. Tally Sheet
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The returns from the election
i districts in the Borough of Manhattan
| last November are said to have been
' tho worst in the memory of the oldei I
member of the Board of County Can
vassers and tho returns in other bor
?? i ugha were no better.
The law explicitly declares that each
voter as announced shall be tallied in
1 lack ink upon the official tally sheer,
i The courts have declared the official
tally sheet to be primary evidence of
the count. Yet preliminary tallies ire
fi ? quently, if not generally, made with
lead pencils on loose paper and later
copied upon the official tally sheets.
1 I e stal ul ory method is m . only the
! roper, but the ea? ?est method. '1 o
? adopt any other is an abuse against
which uuy citizen present -it the can
?' ba loi may prol ist. If the
protest be disregarded tin policeman
on duty may be requested ( i arrest the
offenders; if he refuse, the citizen pro
tei ting : lay make tho arrest and de?
mand that tho policeman take the
rri oner before a magistrate; If he re -
fusi to do so, application for a warrant,
i ? arrest n .v, be made to a magistrate
on the following day. D.
New Brighton, S, I.. Oct. 14, 1921
Why ?
; To the Editor of The Trib ine.
Fir: Can any one tell me why '. -, ? b< v
?' and laundi ii s .-till keep up the ir
1 igh pi at. v. rj r fi ici s '
: "i EWART BROWNE.
New York, Oct. 11, 1921.
Ke-pir.g Out of Mischief
(From rhh Um t/ord i 'ourant)
Mayor Hylan of New York spends
) much timo writing letters to the
nowi papers accu i rig them of t roat injj
him unfairly, lying about him and in
her ways unrighti .-?!;,? discrediting
his adminisl ral ?on I liai one wonders
. how ho has timo to lo anything else.
I Probably it's a good thing.
The Conning 1 ower
KOOLT 3 THE8AURTJH
Being the second of a series oj popular songs
founded on books
An author he was looking out the win?
dow,
For naught to him to wn(? had yet
occurred;
His little wife was starving at his ?Ibow,
For neither of them could think of a
word,
last, in (rrim dispair, he sought a
volume?
.4. volume that feas written by Roget?
As he that tattered tome so softly
fondled,
His wife so brave these words did
hear him say :
CHORUS
I've found (he word I wanted, so riches
now are owe?,
And life again will be quite grand and
gay,
What wonders if s done for ts, that
splendid old Thesaurus!
That sweet, replete Thesaurus of
RogcU
It is, as has been said in this de?
partment, not easy to answer simply
simple questions. Rather the rarity
ort simplicity in questions makes it
hard to give simple answers. Evidently
this has occurred also to Mr. A. P.
Herbert, who, with Mr. J. (J. Squire
and Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith, id about
to sail for the United States. To Ques?
tion 13 oi' the forro departing English?
men have to make out?Final Destina?
tion (Intended Future Residence)?Pro
ressor Scruby [Mr, Herbert writes it
in Punch] answered:
"This la a question to which T can
scarcely give an adequate reply within
ti-.a present limits and without soma
further d?finition of the terms em?
ployed.
"The term 'Final,' for example, Is
ambiguous, and attributes to human
purpose a degree of certainty which I
for one am not prepared to claim. Do
you mean my final destination in Eng?
land, or in America, or on earth, or
elsewhere? Again, the word3 'Perma?
nent' and 'Intended raise a number o?
interesting problems. 'Permanence' Is,
of course, a purely relative term, and
ene which I should not care to apply
to any action of mino. Again, 'Inten?
tion' signifies a knowledge of foresight
of as act coupled with a desiro for
that act. That being so, you will ap?
preciate that I can only say that, as?
suming I reach America, my inclina?
tion would be to return to Oxford quite
George, the Professor's nephew, adds
Mr. Herbert, also answered, "Heaven
knows! "
On Sixth Avenue, Mount Vemon:
"Say it to your wife with a beautiful
white sink, it will last longer."
Guarded as tho forecasts of sport
writers arc and cautious as the usual
baccalaureate sermon is, for utter earc
fulnes3 the cup hereby is chunked at
the writer of the following letter. It
was written in answer to an advertise?
ment for a canvasser and was inserted i
by The Nation's Business in "The Phil
adelphia Public Ledger," thcur/h the
writ r's meticulousness keeps him from
admitting the identity of the paper an
well as the date 01 "?sue. The letter:
Washington D. C.
"Gentlemen: I have noted with some
interest your announcement appearing
in a recent issue of a Philadelphia
:.'?'.'. ? paper.
"Speaking in the broader sense, the
subject is quite interesting, but at the
rrlomcnt I will not co into detail in
tho discussion of that point.
"Should the busness . abasements of
your representative bring him to Phila
delphia concerning the matter now be?
fore us, it would be a pleasure to meet
and know him personally for a thorough
understanding of the Bubject, in which
event it might bo quite within my
power to make a suggestion here and
there of more or less interest and, per?
haps, valu.." .'. N. FITZGERALD.
a-.'? < ?i-T'-L't? r?^F^S^-?SSSSa?M-S??
? $_'
I Gotham Gleanings |;
? -Well, most of us registered.
Lote for Curran ? whs. from to?
rn? ?rrow.
?Nate Salsbury has moved to
Caldwcll, N. J.
.-?Frank Frisch ig 'pending a few
days up IL ralliant way.
-?Art ? unuels has been missing
again for more 'hau a wk.
Art Byron of Montclair ball
. ' led Thurs. and Wedncs.
? -Mrs. Maty Pickens of Scranton
v. a: in tow n for the ball game
Thurs.
Eddie House called on Mr. and
Mrs. !', W. Wilson in Washington
i hu? i.
Miss Abby Morrison is going
to give a Hallowe'en party on Oct.
31, Hallowe'en.
Anybody we had a bet with on
tho wi iri.i's series we haven't settled
with pie a; c remind us.
?Gil Miller of here and London
? ,r- to sen the Tarkington show
rues, a a. ?it.
?Li loks like a i old winter and
Aleck Woollcott's fur-collared coat
i : ? nit of dea i storage.
Quite a crowd of Chicagoans
arc going down t i sec the U. of C.
team play the Princetons next Sat.
Prices ara going down, and the tele
pi,one service ?3 a;j;:'iri pretty good. If
this continues a paragrapher will be
among ..ho unemployed.
| Young Japanese boy want position as
schoolboy. Phone 1108.?Fresno, Cab,
' lit puiilican.
Wallace Irwin please write.
To hear the I'M Soaks talk, you'd
a Sarsaparilla Rebellion was im
i . inunt.
If Hit 6,G08, as drafted, becomes a
law, there will bo trouble, it would
ilar from the matJa any publication
containing informaci?n a my . .
contest in speed, strength, or skill.'
which might serve as tho basis for
I bcttir - i nis department would be
I cer.tnbless, for tho daily contest of
speed, strength, and skill that is oa
among contribs would stop. Obviously
'a ihe basis fer belting.
In the mean time, 10 to :J it never be?
comes a law. F. P. A.
"A SEAT FOR EVERY CHILD"
Copyright. 19C1, Now Tori: Tribune, Ina
Books
Percy Hammond
"Panem et circenses"?Bread and a
Big Show?wa3 the ancient formula
adopted by young Mr. Banneker to
realize his aspirations to be useful,
though prosperous, in metropolitan
journalism. So, indeed, is it Samuel
Hopkins Adams's recipo for similar re?
sults in "Success," a good and exciting
book about Mr. Banneker and his ex?
periences with woman and the news?
papers.
Mr. Banneker, as editor of "The New
York Patriot," sought to beguile the
restless and unthinking multitude with
a combination of nourishing editorials
and spicy news sensations. He lured
thfj boneheads to his columns with such
spectacular bait as "Murderer Dabbles
Name in Bloody Print," or "Finan?
cier Resigns After Sprightly Scene at
Long Beach," and, getting them there,
he improved them with pre-digested
double column essays entitled: "Why
Has the Ornithorhyncus Got a Beak'.'"
or "The Sardino Is Dead; Therefore
Mora Comfortable Than You, Mr.
Strap-Hanger."
?;: A *
Mr. Adams's way with fiction is as
efficacious, if not so obvious, and he
beckons you to perusal of "Success"
with attractive gestures of romance
and adventure. Arriving in its pages
you find yourself joining him in a
spirited study of one kind of modern
journalism. He shows it to you ex?
plicitly from the rococo parapets of
its ideals, through devious passage?
ways to its unwholesome cellars. For
so passionate a crusader in behalf of
absolute perfection in journalism; for
one so impatient with the least infrac?
tion of its holiest ethics, .Mr.
Adams in "Success'' is gratify
?ngly forbearing. A few mouths
ago I beard him in argument with
one of the most successful and most.
expedient of tho current newspaper
makers. In his earlier days this jour?
nalist had written a play in which, the
hero thereof, a managing editor, had
sent the father of the woman ho loved
to jail for grafting. Tho journalist
! regretted having composed this drama,
i and said that if he liad it to do over
i again he would cause his hero to dis?
regard his duty to the public and to
? make his sweetheart happy by suppress?
ing the news of her parent's im?
probity. Mr. Adams in the ensuing
controversy argued with great heat
: that no possible circumstances couaJ
justify an editor irr keeping the fathei
I of his ladylove out of jail if he be
I longed there.
But in "Success" Mr. Adams seem;
I to recognize and appreciate the fact
i that it is as difficult to be faultles!
in journalism as it is in banking, mer
i
chandizing, or in tilling the soil. Ever
? Ho who made tho earth in six day.
\ erred, it is said, to the extent that II:
repented; and Mr. Adams ar-pears ti
! huvo discovered that newspaper men
as well as others, arc up against tin
j inevitable weakness of their fellows. S<
| Banneker in "Success,'' while possess
' ing most of tho attribut"! of nobility
: succumbed at times to life's irresistibl
irregularities, and his journal bccaim
at once a benison and a menace.
* --s *
All of that, however, is (he bread o
1 "Success." Tho circus of it is in Bar
? neker as a super-human being, th
I desert boy who emigrated to New Yorl
became a reporter und tho best drcssci
first-nighter en Broadway, the lover i
the patrician Io Weiland and ever;
v
tuallj the maker and breaker of Judges,
mayors and governors. Though his
stipend was meager, he dined on his
night off at Sherry's, and ho was ap
pareled on those occasions in a fur
lined topcoat and a tall hat. Tho
head waiters were, obsequious as they
discussed with him the menu. He had
suppers with Bettina Raleigh, the reg
nant star of the theater; and once,
when beset by footpads on the water
| front, ho killed some of them, routing
others, and relentlessly exposed, there?
after, the complacent police.
Assigned to interview Io Welland's
brother on the tonic of her separation
1 from her- husband, he went to an ex?
clusive pido club and, after being
threatened with physical violence foi
his reluctant impertinence in the mat
ter, was invited to become a member
and did so. He entered New York Citj
in clothes made by Sears-Roebuck, redo
h nt of the desert's cacti, but in a fev
weeks he grew urban in dress and so
phisticated in demeanor. The trans
i formation, as described by Mr. Adam?
i is credible, though picturesque. Whil
: it may be doubted by old newspape
: men, it will be believed by the younj
! r::es, because it is so true, accordin,
j to their yearnings.
Banneker's story in "Success" is toi
with all of Mr. Adams's persuasive eld
quenco and sincerity, and T think that i
may be said of it that it is his ben
work and the best of the season's no\
? is about the newspapers. As a state
' ment and investigation of condition
its hopelessness is mitigated by a cor:
passionate tolerance, and as a romane
its episodes are agitating and belie
able. A perfect example of realist
picturing, I think, are the first pages c
"Success," wherein Banneker, tl
? ms. m y desert station agent, is inte
lilted in his exploration of the mai
order catalogue by a railway collisic
which, as described by Mr. Adams, tra
scends photography. It is, at time3,
; bit difficult to identify tho Bannek
: of the plains with the Banneker
Fark Row, so wide are their diff?rence
but Mr. Adams manages to convin
; ou. I believed nearly all of it, ev
to that point where Banneker, heari:
rl ?.tant music, said to his companic
the lovory Io, "Hark!" For a mome
, I suspected that Banneker would ha
said, "Listen!"' having never heard t
i word "hark'' employed in so real
| i e'".ersat ion. Which goes to show h
( finicky one may be in searching i
flaws among the better things.
The Athenian's Oath
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Are not the sentiments i
pressed in the "Oath of the Atheni
Youth" suitable for publication pr
I to our city election? The "oath" v
as follows:
"We will never bring disgrace
thi :, our city, by any act of dishone
j or cowardice, nor ever desert our e
fering comrades in the ranks. We v
. fight for tho ideals and sacred thn
of the city, both alone and with me.1
we will revere and obey tiie city's la
and do our bes', to incite a like rest.
and reverence in those above us \
are prone to annul or set them
naught; wo will strive unceaiingly
quicken the public's sense of civic di
Thus in all these ways wo will trt
i mit tliis city not only not less,
as it was transmitted to ns."
[ A. R. FULLERTO;
New York, Oct. 15, lf*21.
(
Felliana
I A Few Last Words in the Discussion
of the Unloved Doctor
i To the- Editor, of The Tribune.
Sir: "If Caryl Coleman, to whose
i note in to-day's Tribune i an referring,
! had careful cad i
! of the ?Ot
I W33 the late ' Canon ' ?
ley Perry, and not I, who call 1 att r.
; tion to the fact that Thomas Bn
: his famous retort on Dr. Fell, borrowed
! from Thomas Forde's "Virtus R ?? .v&
1 rather than translated Martial's epi
1 gram "Ad Sabidium."
1 Inasmuch as Dr. Perry
who was Canon of Li : ? md sub
? sequcntly, until his a . anco;.
? of Stow, must have been, to | idge'from
bis splendid "History of the tlhurch
of England," a man of wide "eadinr,
, he evidently knew where? t he w??
speaking when lie made tl it gratui?
tous supposition."
As regards Thomas Ford* of whom
Mr. Coleman confesses hi ignorance,
there is some interesting information
ebout him from the pen oi 5ii Sidney
i Lee, in "The Dictionary oi National
' Biography." Ho seems '. ? be best
known by his collection of moral es
says entitled "Lusus 1 - Condor,
; 1649).
Referring to W. F. I ? Interest?
ing note in your issue of IStb, t1"
: eiuotes Cl?ment, Marot's version of Mar?
tial's epigram with perf ' re tnest,
but makes the curiou ' *"pe?I*
! :ng of him as "escrivaii ? " I c'
Brittany nnd onetii tary to
Francis I, while, in re? ras his
father, the poet Jean " 1463
1523), who held the ? ',?I"r
to Anne de Bretagne ai
that of valet de chan I mcis I.
(Cf. "La Grande i aeS3,
page 283.)
Mr. Tisn? is doubtless c< e t In h '
opinion that Cb U96
1544) rendition gram
?is the prototype .." I isey
i Rabutin, Forde and Bn
Ac ? KL
New York, Oct. 15, :
?
To tho Editor of The d
Sir: I have n
discussion of Dr. I If '??'?
care to hear the answer 1 en
The reasons that ! d ' '"??
1 >r. Fell, are two:
(a) I do not know you ? '? ?"
i !" I do. I
New York, Oct. 15, I
Jewels and Radium
, From The S ????' v / ?
W hat are the ultim *'"
lof radium no one can say.
i terious metal thei e is a di
: of the atoms which O] i
; science to which, al pi - ' ':'"
can be seen. There seem
?any substance which is a
i the bombardment of the liberated
particles, and tho lal
apply it to gems who causeo
by impurities in the Btone.
It is believed that b : ? ?? t?o? ('f
: radium the impurities can bo evenly
diffused so that a rich depth of color
is given to a naturally a :? rior jewel.
Experiments which have already l,o?n
carried out suggest that there i- a
very material alteration in (he g^m*
, treated. If the radium do? s all that Is
hoped for from ?1 the effect on the
market of such st< ncs ns depend l?r
their value upon the depth and rich"
nosa of their coloring is bound it? l>e
disturbing. . ?