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Uninformed C?aumor
The thing to be amazed at in the
clamor for American intervention to
restrain the Turk and keep him out
of Europe is not its prevalence but
its unabashed indifference to the
,-ealities of the Near Eastern situ?
ation. The average American wall
say cheerfully: "The Turk ought to
be kept out of Europe; our govern?
ment should help to keep him out."
But at the same time he has only
the faintest idea of the circum?
stances under which the Turk is re?
luming to Europe and of the forces
which aro driving him back.
It is a misconception that Amer?
ica has an opportunity at present to
co-operate with the European pow?
ers in confining the Turkish state to
Asia. The only European power we
could join in that effort would be
Greece, and Greece doesn't count for
much nowadays. We haven't recog
nized any government in Athens
since Constantine was recalled and
Venizeloa was deposed.
Who are bringing the Turk back
to Constantinople and Thrace? Great
Britain, France and Italy, the major
powers which defeated Turkey in the
World War and thereby won the
right to write the conditions of
peace. The British and French gov?
ernments back in 1920 also took the
stand that the Turk's tenure in Eu?
rope ought to be ended. In the orig?
inal S?vres Treaty, never fully exe?
cuted, they excluded him from the
Continent, giving the Sultan as
Caliph a vatieanized status in Con?
stantinople.
But they found presently that the
destruction of Turkish sovereignty
over Constantinople was an Asian
and African as well as a European
question. Their Islamic subjects
were resentful and agitated for the
restoration of the Caliph's temporal
power. France yielded quickly. The
British government held out until
last spring. Now Great Britain,
France and Italy are pledged to
make Constantinople and most of
Thrace Turkish once more.
We have no justification for inter?
fering. President Wilson kept us
out of war with Turkey and thus de?
prived us of any legitimate voice in
the Turkish peace settlement. If we
wanted to expel the Turk from Eu?
rope we should have qualified at that
time to take a hand in his ejection.
If we failed to strike a blow against
the infamous Young Turk govern?
ment of 1917 and 1918 what excuse
could we have now for making war
on Kemal Pasha?
It adds to the airy unreasonable?
ness of the present clamor that most
of the elements engaged in it op?
posed war on Turkey when we were
fighting Turkey's allies. They also
have been strong for disarmament,
for reduction of the personnel of the
army and the navy and for a re?
lapse into unpreparedness. But now
they want to send the army and the
navy forthwith to halt an adjust?
ment to which we declined to be a
party, nul to embroil us, on the
I ground that we are a Christian na
' non, with three other Chrjstian na?
tions which have decided to allow
Turkey to remain a partly European
state.
Hearst in 1924
The complete subjugation of Wil?
liam Randolph Hearst by Charle?
Francia Murphy surprises no one
who has been observing the Hearst
political activities for the last two
years. Hearst has no love for Al
Smith, from whom he vainly sought
to wrest the nomination for Gov?
ernor. He has, however, a whole
pome respect for the power over
the state Democratic party, of which
Murphy's nbsolut? domination of tha
Syracuse convention is proof. And
Hearst, as The Tribune has repeat
t-dly pointe.' out, hopes and expects
to be the choice of the New York
Democrats for the Presidential nom?
ination two years from now.
Thi^re is no evidence that he se?
cured any promise of the Tammany
delegation to the next national con?
vention from Murphy as the price
of his surrender at Syracuse. The
fact is that he did not surrender
until he was conquered. It was
many hours after word went out
that Smith was to be nominated be
?'orr? th? He?rt-t leaders at the cor.
vention received word from their
chief that they must not present his
name.
It has always been the Hearst
strategy to impress Murphy by dem?
onstration rather than by persua?
sion. This he attempted in the re?
cent primary campaign. He will at?
tempt it two years from now. He
has bought two up-state papers al?
ready and rumors are abroad that he
hopes to acquire others. He has a sup?
porter in William J. Conners, who
owns two papers at Buffalo, and in
Martin Glynn, who recently denied
a story that Hearst had bought his
Albany "Times-Union."
From the lonely mountain top in
California where he means to go to
witness the result in New York he
will plan his last attempt to impress
Murphy with his desirability as a
candidate for the Presidency.. He
will in all probability keep his prom?
ise to be "regular," at least to the
extent of not denouncing Smith in
the campaign-. This is a sop to tin
Tammany men who insist that he al?
ways "runs out" ort the party.
But it must not be forgotten that
he is still a Presidential aspirant
and means to continue as one, and
that whatever may happen this fall
he will bob up with his old demand
for Murphy's support when the Boss
is picking the contingent that is to
help choose the next Democratic
nominee.
Courage and Honesty
Governor Miller has supported
the prohibition law vigorously sinco !
he has been in office, as he has sup-1
ported all other laws which his duty
required him to support. Only
when the Prohibition party sought
to make him its candidate in rec?
ognition of what he has done to un?
hold the national and state dry
measures did it develop that he is
not a Prohibitionist.
It would have been easy for him
to accept the tender. It would have
gained him votes. Many another
exeevitive in his place would have
accepted the nomination grate?
fully. But the Governor did nothing
of the sort. He declined it promptly
on the ground that he is not a
Prohibitionist, does not believe in
the principles of the party and could
not, as a consequence, run on it3
ticket.
"I could no: afford," he said in
his letter of declination, "to be put
in the position of seeking votes un?
der false colors."
Governor Miller may lose the
votes of the Prohibitionists because
of this attitude, but if they are fair
minded he will not suffer the loss of
their respect, and he will gain the
respect of all citizens who admire
honesty and courage, two qualities
for which he has been conspicuous
since the beginning of his career.
The Port Straddle
The port development plank in the
Democratic state platform is a
straddle between the views of the
Hylan administration and those of
the Democratic candidate for Gov?
ernor. Two years ago, when Mr.
Smith was running for re-election,
the Democratic platform said:
"We owe it to the nation to or?
ganize and develop the Port of New
York, To that end wc favor a com?
pact or agreement with our sister
state, New Jersey, which shall pro?
vide for the creation of a port dis?
trict and a port authority, with ade?
quate powers to develop the port
comprehensively, and with proper
protection for New York City over
the public ownership and develop?
ment of its water front and com?
mercial facilities."
Thi3 plank explicitly recognized
the state, interstate and national
scope of the port problem. It favored
the creation of a port district, in?
cluding parts of New Jersey, and
of a bi-state port authority to di?
rect the enterprise.
Mayor Hylan and Comptroller
Craig repudiated this program and
reverted to the idea of dog-in-the
manger, go-it-alone development
undertaken by and limited to New
York City. They have fought the
Port Authority all along the line.
They want to build a Narrows
freight tunnel of their own, paral?
leling and rivaling the Port Au?
thority's proposed tunnel from
Greenville to Bay Ridge. Fortu?
nately, the refusal of all the trunk
railroads with terminals in New
Jersey to use such a tunnel has
squelched this separatist undertak?
ing.
If the Mayor and the Comptroller
had had their way at Syracuse the
platform would have demanded the
abolition of the Port Authority. But
Mr. Smith, a member of the board
and a stanch supporter of the com?
prehensive plan for the port, was
to head the state ticket. What could
the resolution writers do? They
favored "the most comprehensive
and judicious development of the
Port of New York"?not of 'hat part
of the port only which lies within
this city's boundaries. But as a sop
to the Hylan administration they
insisted that "the elected officials of
the City of New York . . . shall
by statute have the right to desig?
nate two of the three representatives
of New York State's delegation to
control the undertaking and direct
the scope of the improvement."
The undertaking is national, bi
state and state, not municipal. The
Governor and the Legislature have
complete jurisdiction over it, so far
as New York is concerned. There
is every reason why no statut? ced
?ng control to city officials should
pass? Mr. Smith would be about
the last man in the world to wish
to see port development intrusted to
Mr. Hylan and Mr. Craig.
The plank is there, however, for
the candidate to stand on or to leap
across. It is a foolish and danger?
ous plank. Its adoption was one of
the ironies of a convention in which
Mr. Murphy's statesmanship was
kept busy operating simultaneously
in two opposite directions.
A Diamond in the Sky
When Mr. Grantland Rice opens
his mouth to-morrow afternoon and
utters the magic words "Play ball!"
into a microphone at the Polo
Grounds there will commence the
strangest game of ball yet recorded.
It will take place not only on a dia?
mond before the eyes> of some 35,000
yelling fans there present in the
flesh, but before the ears of some
! million or more other fans scattered
around New York within a radius
of o00 miles.
This jaded modern world has be?
come fairly well accustomed to the
miracles of the wireless. To take
the family off into the hills for a
picnic and to pull a mixture of
grand opera, jazz and bedtime
stories out of the sky while the
sandwiches are being munched is
one of those many things which the
generation now growing up will take
for granted along with automobiles
and airplanes. Instead of gaping
with wonder at the marvels wrought
by the noble imagination of man,
Betty and Johnny will be peevish
and the day will be ruined because
the wrong Blues are jazzed or the
wave lengths are a little choppy.
But to-morrow's filling of the
welkin with a baseball game will be
a genuine premi?re. Mr. Kelly and
Mr. Casey have had their glory on
the bases and at the bat, but it was
a3 nothing to this stretching a
single across 600 miles and into a
million pairs of cars. If there
should by any remote chance be a
home run, it will be as if first base
was Boston, second Buffalo, third
Washington; and the whole metro?
politan area will cheer the hero as
he slides for home. Anybody who
can be blas? before so magnificent
a spectacle had best go back to stage?
coaches and rounders.
Enter the Essenines
America has long had the habit o?
putting her worst foot forward at
that particular moment when an
alien or a citizen reaches her shores,
and Isadora Duncan, as an old
American, should have expected the
worst. Washington knew not why she
and her robust Slavic husband were
detained at Ellis Island. Neither did
the immigration authorities, appar?
ently. Somebody simply acted, with
that rich surliness which is the
badge of such authority, and, having
searched and questioned, yawned
and called it a day's work.
It is too bad that our prospective
citizens should gain this unfavor?
able notion of American hospitality.
It is equally too bad that returning
Americans should be greeted upon
the same plane of suspicion. But
the custom has become ingrained;
it ranks now as one of our cherished
American institutions, and there is
no use getting excited about it.
Painful as the experience was to
Miss Duncan, or rather Mrs. Esse
nine, personally, it can hardly have
brought tears to the eyes of her
press agent. In that statement of
greeting which, standing in her Rus?
sian boots, she was ready to give to
an awaiting America, she pictured
Russia as surrounded by a Chinese
wall. It will amaze her, we are sure,
to learn how much of Russia has es?
caped through that wall to spread
the glad tidings of sovietism. The
"Chauve Souris" was but an advance
guard. The Moscow Art Theater is
bringing up the rear.
The point is that, glad as Ameri?
cans are to see Mr. and Mrs. Serge
Essenine, they are seeing many
other Russians on the stage
and off, messengers pro and
messengers con,, and but for
these untoward events which put
these latest samovarians on the
middle of the front page, goodness
knows whether the importance of
their appearance would have been
noticed at all.
The Bankers' Convention
In welcoming the members of the
American Bankers' Association and
extending to them the hospitality of
the city New York becomes the
scene of what promises to be one
of the most important gatherings in
the history of the country's finances.
The growth of the American Bank?
ers' Association in itself has given
to the annual meetings of this insti?
tution ever increasing importance.
But the fact that this year, accord?
ing to the association's program,
the members expect to give much
attention to the financial and eco?
nomic problems of Europe and
America's relation thereto adds un?
usual significance to the gathering.
It was only natural that after the
armistice and the collapse of the
peace program there was an anti
European reaction in this country.
During the last year or more, how?
ever, it has become increasingly
evident in this country that, what?
ever may be our political relations
with the European nations, our
financial relations can no longer be
ignored. The nation* of Europe owe
us $11,000,000,000. This in itself
makes their fate of concern to our
people.
Can they pay us; and, If so, how?
And if they do, what will be the
effect upon the buslnew of the
world? These and other questions,
at first quietly ignored or thrust
aside, are now coming up for con?
sideration, and before the assembled
bankers of the nation are to be the
subject of discussion by some of the
ablest financiers in this country and
Great Britain.
That Sir Reginald McKenna will
present the British point of view is
naturally expected. That Messrs.
Lamont, Kent and others will dis?
cuss certain aspects of the question
j from America's point of view is also
{expected. But perhaps even more
important than the views of any
men or groups is the fact that repre?
sentatives of the banks from all sec?
tions of the country will thus for
the first time have the opportunity
of giving their earnest attention to
this serious international financial
problem and be able to judge of the
relative merits of proposals which
j are the outcome of careful delibera?
tion by experts in international
finance.
The seeds here sown may bear
! fruit that will be of great value in
i the economic rehabilitation of the
i world.
More Truth Than Poetry,
By James J. Montague
The Continuous Performance
Whenever the nations of Europe
Sit down for an era of peace ;
When the war flags are furled in
that neck of the world,
And the battles and butchery
cease;
When every one's weary of fight?
ing
And of riot and discord and
roar,
And thinks in his heart that he's
played his last part
In the turbulent drama of war, .
The Continent's certain to waken,
Some evil-starred morn, with a
jerk,
And hurriedly run for the sword
and the gun
To put down the troublesome
Turk.
Then all the old feuds are forgot?
ten,
The statesmen who only last
week,
With a clenching of fists or a
slapping of wrists,
Were yielding to spasms of
pique,
Shake hands and declare they are
brothers,
Retract the hard words they
have said
And mutually plan to go after
the man
With the red little fez on his
head.
And soon all the armies of Europe
Hav*e joined in the popular
work
Of making a hash of the reckless
and rash
And basely belligerent Turk.
They get him?they're certain to
get him;
They quiet him down for a
while,
But a decade or two gets him
going anew
In the same old provocative
style.
Once more does he bluster and
threaten,
With a scowl on his battle
scarred face;
Once more must a war be arranged
for before
They can batter him back in
hi3 place.
He always seems thoroughly wal?
loped,
As home to the harem he
creeps,
But he's out by and by with the
same warlike cry,
For they never quite lick him
for keeps]
Strictly Business
The man who, after passing you
by for ten years, suddenly greets you
by your name hasn't been reading an
editorial on courtesy. He has just
been nominated for something.
Nature Note
In Maine and the Adirondacks
mother deer are teaching their fawn3
to look as. little like guides as pos?
sible. _
In the Air .
The eclipse of the sun was a few
hours late, the delay being doubtless
due to a sidereal shopman's strike.
(Copyright by Jamos J. Montasue)
Keep Up the Libraries
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial "Down With
Education" in to-day's issue goes close
to the heart of things. If the stream
of intelligence is to be dammed at its
source it is high time the political
beavers were trapped or investigated.
The devotion of Tilden, Lenox,
Carnegie and others to the cause of
education must not be ignored. They
kn?w the light of truth and beauty was
not meant to shine only in high places,
but is or should be th? property of
those in sequestered and dark plates.
The Public Libraries should be faith?
fully upheld by public opinion and
the power of the press.
JOSEPH BENNETT.
New York, Sept. 29,1922,
The Right Atmosphere
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial headed "Art in
Trade" is in a very worthy cause. A
sanitary, roomy, eomfortable and
artistic home 1b one of the major aids
to the pursuit of happiness.
The atmosphere of & house and its
rooms is wholly produced by the use
of right proportion and harmony of
color. If a house is to be restful the
atmosphere must be right. Can it ba
if there ia any pretense in it or its
equipment? Any diffusion, therefore,
of knowledge that will aid the public
in detecting pretense by showing them
what ?re the true things is to be com?
mended, i,
Wngimmf? MWw*ep-v*<v-*82*
The Tower
Copr., Naw York Tribuna Ina., 1*83
The League of Nations is banding
out good advice as to cutting down
armaments.?Cutting down Turks seams
to appeal mot? to some persons just
now.?We are inventing a system of
mnemonics , '. . if that's how you
spell it . . ? we seldom can re*
member.
* e ?
It works this way: Suppose you wish
to remember the telephone number of
a friend, and his number is Stuyveaant
5445. The thing you do is say to your
flolf, whenever you wish to remember
his telephone number: "Oaorge Wash
ington Irving, George Washington Irv
ing." . . .
* ? ?
You say ft over and over again. The
Washington part of it will remind you
of the George part of it at once, and
the George part wili remind you of
the Washington part, so there Is no
chance of going wrong there.
* ' ?. *
And the Irving part will remind you
of Peter Stuyvenant . . . and there
you are.?You have now remembered
the exchange: Stuyveeant.
* * *
The thing you want to do next is
to remember the number. Very well.
The first step toward getting tho num?
ber is to remembor that George Wash?
ington was born in 1782, on February
22. Add all these figures together?
one plus seven, plus three, plus two,
plus two, plus two?and the result is
seventeen.
* * *
Seventeen is one more than eighteen
. . . that is a thing that will come
to anybody with a little thought . . .
seventeen is one more than eighteen.
And the thing you must fix in your
mind from the start is that you are
remembering a number that is one more
than the number obtained by adding
together tho figures one, seven, three,
two, two and two. Therefore, the num?
ber that you are trying to remember
is a number containing figures that
will add up to eighteen.
* * ?
And, sure enough, the number 5445
does add up to eighteen!?Try it your?
self and see if it doesn't.?Five plus
four, plus four, plus five . . . that
makes eighteen. There are, of course,
different sets of figures which, if added
together, will add up to eighteen . . .
the figures In the number 9009 if added
together will add up to eighteen.?But
as soon as the figures 9-0-0-9 flash be?
fore youT mental eye something will
tell you that is not your friend's tele?
phone number. Keep experimenting
till you get the right figures in the
right sequence.
* ? *
The telephone operator will probably
be very glad to make helpful sugges?
tions.?Our system is infallible; we
have never known It to fail yet, when
given a thorough trial; it is simpler
than most methoda.
* a) *
The autumn murder crop in New
Jersey seems to be about as usual
this year.?No man who was sober
would consent to walking a crack to
prove that he was sober.?The Old Soak
says it was our system of nmemonics
that made him what he is to-day.?
Aunt Prudence Hecklebury is laying in
a supply of red silk to-day for the
Mottoos for Dr. Crane's Dressing Gown.
* ? ?
Some Prohibitionists are so Pure
that wo suppose we couldn't get them
into a Hippodrome where there is a
Tank.?The new skirts leave more to
the imagination and less to the ele?
ments.?Carpentier seems to have made
the mistake of butting his colored
friend everywhere except in the shins.
?The last five years seem to be the
worst, in pugilism.
* ? ?
Probably they call it the manly art
to distinguish it from the moving pic
tare business.?Heywood Broun says he
is going to write a play In which, when
a man says: "I am going!" he really
goes.
* * ?
You'd better not try any innovations,
HeywoodI?What you want in a play is
Tears and Sunshine and the Little
Woman.
* -' *?- ?
Take Alccetie, for instance, to go on
further back.?All built around the
Little Woman 1
* ? ?
Says we to Aristotle:
"Hand us a theme for a playl"
Says he: "There's Home, and the
Bottle!"
So we built the thing that way.
* * ?
The high C's of literature: Coin,
Crime and Conjugal Relations.?A new
Social Era Is upon us.?We have had
the Gold Millionaire, the Cattle King
and tho Oil Millionaire, the War Profi?
teer and the Movie Millionaire, and now
we are face to face with the Bootleg
Millionaire.?We think we will grab
him off for ourself and start him going
in this very column.?How about The
Rise and Social Adventures of Mr,
Lemuel Hotchkins, the Bootleg Million?
aire??We see a gorgeous opportunity
in Mr. Hotchkins.
* ? *
And it will feive us something to play
with during the long winter evenings
ahead of us.?We've always written
this column stuff, anyhow, just for a
Fad, and to keep us out of the open
air, as some men take up Bridge.?-Our
real interests are literary.
The United States Government
8hovld charge a large entrance fee
to immigrants and use the money
for the enforcement of the prohib?,
tion laws.
A REVIEWER
This daniel weekly judges nine
or ten
Young Lions flung into this DANIEL'S
den.
DEDICATED TO THE CENSOR
Sail on! Sail on! O Union strong
and great?
Sail on! Sail op! O Censorship of
State!
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DANGER! NO SMOKING
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Air rower at the Dardanelles Rear Admirai u. s. n.
(Retired)
Air power, if employed at the Dar?
danelles, will dominate the situation
and dictate the result if the Turks and
the English como to blows in the
existing emergency.
The French and Italians have
evacuated Asia Minor, leaving a small
British army at Chanak on the eastern
bank of the Dardanelles. The Turks
have seizod Ez Ine, near by, and
threaten Kum Kalessl, which com?
mands the entrance to the Straits. If
they seize this latter point of vantage,
mount heavy guns and plant mines
they can bar the Straits against the
British fleet or hold it captive in the
Sea of Marmora should it enter with?
out first securing possession of th.e
eastern shores and driving Turkish
batteries back out of range, In other
words, the British fleet unaided cannot
protect the small English force at
Chanak, nor can it hold the Straits
against heavy field guns. Time and
again history has proved that ships
cannot reduce forts nor silence heavy
guns mounted and screened on shore.
Ships cannot endure the plunging
fire of big guns. Their decks are not
armored to keep out shells falling at a
big angle. The Queen Mary was de
stroyed at Jutland at a range of 19,500
yr^ds?eleven statute miles?by a
purging salvo. In the same manner
heavy field guns mounted on high
bluffs, even if they did not actually
sink a battleship, would drive it from
an anchorage or bar it from a nar?
row channel.
A little reflection will demonstrate
that air power?heavy bombing planes,
torpedo planes and mine-laying planes
?will dominate sea power, smash forts
and drive field guns from positions of
vantage. This is the situation at the
Dardanelles. English admirals have
admitted that the Allied fleets and
armies could never have attacked the
Dardanelles in the World War nor
landed a man at GallipoH if the Turks
had commanded the air with a big force
of planes. This fact will be clear to
any layman.
Moreover, if the Allies had possessed
an air force with modern bombs they
would unquestionably have sunk the
Goben and Breslau, reduced the Turk?
ish forts, penetrated to Constantinople,
succored Russia, and won the war.
Their air forces were weak, their
bombs were improvised. They failed
for this reason. But to-day the case
is diff?rent. Bombs and bombing have
been developed. The army and navy
- i. :.
air forces of the United State?, is tlnjj
exist to-day, could drive a fieitcutdj
the Dardanelles, smash the defendar
forts and drive the Turkish arnybwl
far into Asia Minor! Tho recent boni- j
ing teats against the German ski?!
justify this declaration.
Reports are conflicting is to th!
strength of the English air fore?.*.
bates in Parliament have statuait
the force is pitiably weak anifct?v
quate. This has been declared O
exaggeration. We know, howrrer.ft?
the English government recrardi ?
situation as unsatisfactory and k*
recently moved to greatly augmtat1*
air forces. Mesopotamia 13 beinfjHJ
ly policed by squadrons of airpIiM
and it is reported to-day that BritM
air squadrons are now being sentfc
Gallipoli. if this is true Er.g-Iandbl
taken the one and the only step t'a
will enable the British fieet and I
small army at Chanak to hold the 1
uation against the Turks if the IsW
decide to advance. It is assumed tlui
tho Turks have an i r; s i ?n i ft eant ?
force, if any. In th?3 event the Britiil
flyers can prevent the establish??*?
Turkish guns at Kum Kalessi or ?1?
where, and the fleet will control ?i
Straits and prevent the Turki ft?
crossing to Constantinople.
What Readers Are Thinking
A Call for Flying Recruits
To *he Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Among your readers there are
perhaps a number who are interested
in the practical problems of aviation
who would welcome an opportunity to
become identified with an operating
flying unit, organized in preparation
for national defense. The J02d Squad?
ron of the 27th Division, now in
process of recruiting to authorized
strength, offers such an opportunity.
Squadron headquarters and airdrome
are located at Miller Field, near New
Dorp, S. f. The squadron equipment
furnishod by the Federal government,
is on hand. ,
The flying personnel of the squad?
ron consists of a commissioned in?
structor competent to supervisa all the
tactical and technical phases of the
work. Ha has been detailed from the
army service and is stationed perma?
nently or? the. airdrome. Sixteen fly?
ing officers?pilots end observers?
commissioned in the National Guard,
and a staff of commissioned adminis?
trators are active. All the commis?
sioned personnel of the squadron are
men with war records, many of them
of exceptional distinction.
Active flying operation? began on
Staten Island on the 12th of Septem?
ber, and will continue throughout fair
weather. The squadron meets at the
airdrome for flying, drill and technical
instruction in rigging, motors, arma?
ment, radio, photographic and aero?
dynamic branches each Saturday at 2
p. m. The members arc dismissed at
5:30 p. m. Enlisted men are assigned
to airplane crews and are detailed for
flights a? observers from 2 p. m. to 4
p. m. A safety first rule is rigidly
maintained.
The organisation has fifty vacancies
in the enlisted grades and should be
recruited to full strength at the
earliest date. This is the first attempt
to maintain flying as a part of the Na?
tional Guard and the organisation
must necessarily be built up from the
ground.
Recruits-should apply for enlistment
to the squadron adjatant at Miller1
Field, Staten Island, between 2 and 4
p. m. Saturdays. Recruits with engi?
neering or mechanical experience are
roost desired. A high standard qf
character and Intelligence is required,
inasmuch as it is hoped that our
future flying officers will come from
our own ranks.
LAURENCE L, DRIOGS,
Lieutenant Colonel N. Y. G. A. S.
New York, Sept. 28, 1922.
A Good Word for Millwood
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: During several visits to the
I.orse aid and rest farm at Millwood,
N. Y., I found the horses, goats, cats
and dogs very well treated. These
visits were entirely unannounced.
I am not a member of this society
and in no way connected with. it. I
am writing as a resident of West
chester who appreciates the kind treat?
ment and excellent care my three dogs
received all last winter at the horse
aid farm. They were returned to me
very much better looking than when I
left them.
Kindly print this letter that it may,
in a small way, correct mlsimpressions
that may have been caused by recently
published criticisms.
MARY D. DALY.
Briarcliff, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1922.
What Happens to Them?
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Chauffeurs concerned in fatal
automobile accidents are frequently
held on a charge of homicide. What
happens to such chauffeurs? Do their
cases ever come up for trial? If so,
what disposition is made of them? Why
don't the papers give as much publicity
to the trials of such men as they do
to the accident? Would not publicity
serve as a deterrent to other drivers
inclined to recklessness? Is there any
record of any chauffeur? having been
convicted in New York County?
WILLIAM SULLIVAN.
New York, Sept. 87,1833. ?
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Musical Horrors ?
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Were my pen a? Uoent ?9 ?
of Mr. Fairfax Downey in his "SootV
ing the Savage Breast," I should lit?
to tell the world, or that portion **
it who enjoyed his article with *
much joyful retrospection as I M
of one other device with which w?, tw
sets of brothers, set out to do a lit*
soothing on our own account
I was at tho time employed is
musical instrument store, and, b?laf?I
a musical turn of mind, I h?i *[
reptitiously blcwn, twanged, ssrir* |
and beaten about every known laits
ment, from an Irish harp ta *
ocarina. Ah! there was an instroJ*
the world had never been sufBei?*
acquainted with. ^^^^^^
The ocarina, that small black oW?*
resembling a sweet potato. I b?*^ I
quite proficient on the smallest i?
proficiency consisting in emittial*
ihrillest possible sound that cool? "I
got out of the thing. I th*B^?
listed the services of the "i**\?
fitted them out with suitably w" '
accompanying instrument?, ***"
deavored to get together such narB*?
as the world had never bet?re H**1** j
to. Were we encouraged by ett* *r j
miring families? We were not!
In despair we repaired eartf ^
morning to an old graveyard, MK
disuse, and there we started Pra .*??
Started, and that was all. A *?*?
in a nearby house was hastily final(
and a raucous Voice shouted t0 Jj*^
unless w? desisted and di68^ .
immediately the owner would col*?
there and do us bodily inJo^T" .
Nob long after that w? ha? ,|
temerity to render a selection ? ^
the door) at a sociable held * ?
little vestry of the ehureb *??1*??<
had been wont to cast "sheep s ?^
at the blushing damsels. Bat ttt?
ception accorded our ?arnest effc
please was not such as to ene?
us to continue along that line ? _,
deavor in soothing th? savag? ?*??
wise breast. H. W. NU**
N?w York, Sept. 80, 198?.