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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
Sid Hatch, Marathoner,
Honored for Bravery

@HICAGO. Fob 22.-Admirers of
Sidney Hatch of Chicago,
noted marathon runner
learned to-day that he had received
the Distinguished Service Cross for
extraordinary bravery in action near
Breiulles, France. October IL, when
he carried messages after being
wounded by a shell. Hatch then
brought up ammunition until officers
discovered his wounds Hatch on
listed when America first entered the
war.
Hatch Is the daddy" of tho star
marathon runners. He has been
capturing the gruelling twenty-five
mile races since 1904, when he fin
,shed we'll up in the ST. Louis Olympic
marathon. One Of the greatest and
most recent athletic feats was In Oc-
tober. 1916, when he ran from MIL
waukee to Chicago, 1914 miles. In IL
hours so minutes 30 seconds. The
grit, stamina and endurance Hatch
displayed In marathons came in
handy on the field of battle.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
PENN FIVE heats CORNELL.

rHILADSLpiIIA! F~|, pennsyl-
vania defeated cornell. S"-ei, ~ m
iHtere..ss.2,. n.s"r-. ~ saa.9 re % T.
night.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23

Egan 2, Elkin 7. staht I. BlumenthaI 2.
Goals from foul-Elln 6. Marin L. ERan
. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for Kram,
Holman for Steinberg, Hsuser for De-
laney. Referee-Mr Roth, Yonkers Y. NJ
{. \. Time of halves--2o minutes
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23

J IaIU SOuIs-i HIe! van SIycK y Strh-
della 3. Hamill. Goodell; Princeton; Wood
2. Opie, Gray. Margetts. Zabriskie. Foul
Eoals-van Slyck out OF 0. opie out OF
II. Gray out OF 2. Observation-Disclosures
ton: Schmidt for Davis, Zabriskis for
Wood Hunt for Schmidt. Reteree-E.
Cartwright.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
SYRACUSE ALMOST
LOSES TO C. N. Y.
InuincibIe Fiue Has Point to
Spare at End.

The invincible Syracuse University
basketball team, which has suffered only
one defeat in the last ten years. last
night had a close call with the College
OF the City OF New York quintet on
the local collegians' court. One point
decided the issue, the final score being
IL to IL in favor of the visitors.
The local colleglans gave the visiting
team the hardest battle 1t has had In
years. During the first half City Col
lege held Syracuse SIS. In the second
half It was a nip and tuck affair, with
both teams alternating in the lead. 1t
was not unth the final minute that
Dclley was able to bag a field goal
which gave Syracuse the game.
1t was the visiting teams second VIC
tory since It's arrival in New York.
Polles Etnrred for Syracuse, while Below
played best for City College, The lineup !:
syracuse Ga. city College an. .
Dolley. 49,. Right forward 49,. Below
Herman. Left forward ...... Krinsky
Marcus. ......... Centre ......... Murray
Bsrsha...... Right guard .... Fliegel
Martin. ...... Left guard ..... .McNulty
Field goals-Syracuse: Dolley 4. BarshA;
City College: Below. Krinsky 2, Goals
from fCul-MArtin 2, Below 5. Substitutes
Syracuse: Conlln for Barsha: City Col
lcge: Rothstein for Murray Lebofsky for
Fliegel Referee-Tom Thorp. Columbia
University. Umpire-Ed Thorpe, De La
sallo Institute. Time Of halves--so min
utes each.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23

oBrien :. Lynch 2. Herlihy 2, Ditmar
Wright Z, Burke. Finchier, Catharth. Goals
from foul-McMahon 2. Ditmar 8. Referee
Mr.. Cantweli. Rutgers College. Time OF
halves-20 minutes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
The lie Prince Patents
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In justice to Augustin LIE
Princes claim to priority in the con-
ception and construction of a one-lens
moving picture machine it should be
stated that his French, English and
other foreign patents describe and
claim the use of one-lens machines.
He sailed for Europe to take out the
foreign patents simultaneously with
the American. His New York agents
cabled patent granted" and only later,
by letter, informed him that the Wash
ingtoA Patent Office had taken excep-
ton to his use Of the term lone lens
and insisted on a change of phraseol-
ogy.
The original wording of his foreign
patents proves his claim to priority
and fullness Of conception and realiza-
ton Of the practical value Of the one
lens receiver and deliverer Of his origi-
nal machines. This ruling Of the Pat
ent Office cost him months of further
experiment and labor on a sixteen-lens
machine that focused to one point
s. E. LIE PRINCE.
New York, Dec. 3. 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Fifth Avenue Rescued

When enlightened self-interest is
directed by men Of imagination and
courage there is no end to the public
benefit which may accrue, for in
long view of any problem the indi-
viduals welfare is inextricably in
volved in the community's welfare.
One cannot flout the latter without
inevitably injuring the former.
1t is precisely upon this principle
that the present completed success
Of the "Save New York" movement
rests. The removal of manufacture
ing from the Fifth Avenue district,
now assured, will mean much to the
general public as we'll as to the own
ers Of real estate and to the shop
keepers of this particular district
Our coming laws cannot, unfortu-
nately, be retroactive. The damage
to Fifth Avenue as one of the most
splendid shopping districts in the
world had been done when Mr.. John
H. Burton and his "Save New York"
committee went to work. The side
walks were congested morning, noon
and night by shop workers.
1t is splendid job of cooperation
and public service that has now been
worked out to successful end. Con-
struction on the largest scale was
needed as we'll as mere destruction.
1t was not sufficient to secure the re-
moval Of lofts from the Fifth Ave
nue. section; provision had to be
made for their housing elsewhere.
That is what is now announced as
arranged through the prospective
erection of cooperative factories west
Of Seventh Avenue and south of the
Pennsylvania Station.
The city owes large debt to Mr..
Burton and his many public spirited
associates who have accomplished
this seemingly impossible task. The
moral for the rest Of New York and
for every other community is in
structive. 1ndividualism has run
riot in the development of our Amer
lean cities and towns. The time for
cooperation has been reached. City
planning must control in the future.
For repairing errors of the past and
for producing architectural SYM
metry and betterment in the future
there is always open the very prac-
tical method of cooperation and mu-
tual concession which has so sig
nally served Fifth Avenue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
The Subway Ans.uer
Why the Suburban Commute.
ton Rate Is No Fair Parallel

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In a letter to the editor Of The
Tribune to-day, entitled "A Query Tor
the 1nterborough," the question is asked
by Seeker After Knowledge:
"1f the Lackawsnna Railroad can
profitably carry me thirty-fve miles
every morning and evening at a charge
of 10 cents trip, why is 1t necessary
for the Interborough to ask more than
half that sum to carry the average pas
senger perhaps 25 per cent Of the same
distance?"
The following points may be noted:
I. The writer assumes that the 49,
cent fare "a Communication rate) by itself
is profitable. No railroad could exist on
communication rates alone. Communication
business furnishes very small part Of
the railroads income. Back Of it are the
freight business (about four-Afths o,
the totaD and great passenger bust
ness at tho government rate Of three
cents a mile. Even the three-cents-a
mile business alone would not support
the railroads. Their major dependence
is freight.
But the Interborough has neithe,
three-cents- mile passenger traffic nor
any freight traffic to bring up the
average.
2. The property investment in the In
terborough is nearly twenty times as
much to the mile as on the Lackawanna.
The Interborough cost about $5,eO0,OOO
mile to build and equip. Reports to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
state that the Lackawanna has 955 miles
Of track and property investment of
212,033,14 or an investment of
$222,024 mile. The carrying charge
for capital is therefore vastly less on
the Lackawanna.
These two items are cited-they are
not all-merely to show that the factors
in the two cases differ greatly. Suppose
the question were made in a form to
compare two steam railroads, like this
IF the Lackawanna can make a profit
on such and such q commodity at such
and such rate, why cannot the x. Y. z.
Railroad7"
The cases are much more nearly
parallel. Yet nothing about railroading
is better known than that given rate
on one road may pay it, while the same
rate would involve heavy losses to an
other operating under different condi-
tions. AS matter Of fact, rate of fare
on trolley car in one city may pay
while the same fare in another city
might cause heavy loss, as operating
conditions differ greatly in different
cities. FRANK HEDLEY.
President and General Manager, Inter-
borough Rapid Transit Company
New York, Dec. S, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

THEY are writing poems to yous
Il White devils who have not
Smeared the distant yellow OF your life
Upon their skins.
Faces where snob and harle ouin
Ogle each other In two cold colors,
White and red;
Faces where middle egs
Sits, tearing q last gardeniA;
Faces continually cracked
BY the brittle larceny Of age,
Faces where emotions
Stand disarmed within q calm mirage,
These faces bend over paper
And steal from you little silver and
So that their lives may seem to bleed
Under the prick Of flashing need.
The old and tired smile
OF one who spies too much within
himself
To spare the effort Of hating frown,
Brushed its scepter over your face.
You gave kind eyes to your hope,
Desiring 1t to grope unfearing
Underneath the topping mountainous.
The wine you drank was lake
In which you splashed and found .
vigor;
The wine you drank was void Of taste.
Your yellow skin resembled
A balanced docility
Smiling at all things-even at itself
Ii Tai Pc.
MAXWELL BODENHEIM.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Lincoln Also Pygmy-Minded

That Abraham Lincoln was also
among the pygmy-minded who hold
that President should not have ex-
elusive control over foreign rela-
tons appears in the following from
speech by him in 1916:
"The provision Of the Constitution
giving the war-making power to Con-
gress was dictated, as I understand 1t,
by the following reasons: Kings had
always been involving and impoverish-
ing their peoples in wars, pretending
generally that the good of the people
was the object. This our convention
understood was the most oppressive OF
all kingly expressions, and they pro-
posed so to frame the Constitution
that no one should hold the power
of bringing this oppression upon u.s..
Polk was President when Line DIN
thus spoke. He had begun a war
without the consent Of Congress
and sought to write the peace with
out consulting the Senate, except in
perfunctory way. He did this, as
Woodrow Wilson remarks in his
"History of the United States" not
because he was unpatriotic. but be-
cause he had a natural love of Sc
crecy and an aversion to consulting
other persons.
Lincoln, then at the beginning of
his public career, was among those
who held that the Constitution
should rule and that no man should
be allowed to put the nation into
war and out of war at his pleasure.
So, if living to-day, doubtless Lin
coin would be subject to the same
sort of abuse that Henry Cabot
Lodge has been called on to endure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

The salary which will support a
bachelor comfortably will not sup
port a family. One by-product Of
this economic difficulty, of course, is
the great increase in the number of
self-supporting women; and these,
too, are reluctant to marry if it
means a reduction in income.
The problems Of labor, meaning
industrial labor, occupy a large
space in the public mind. But the
problems of the salaried people and
the people with small fixed incomes
are more pressing. The slow elimi-
nation of what may be called, with
out offense, the middle class home
would remove stabilizing element
from the social structure and be
productive of consequences more
serious than we can easily imagine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
The Plight of the Professions

Some figures given in The London
Times suggest an alarming decline
in the middle classes-the class with
incomes ranging from $500 to
$1,000 a year. The birth rate in
England has been steadily falling
for a generation-it is little more
than half now what it was in 1881
but the decrease Of the death rate
has in part compensated for this,
especially among the poor. That
rate was never 50 high, of course,
among those comfortably off, so that
in their case fewer marriages and
births mean a serious diminution of
their numbers. England, walls The
Times, is witnessing "the death of
the middle classes"
The war alone is not to blame,
though it brought great sacrifices to
these classes. In England, as in this
country, the professions suffered
more, comparatively, than the indus
tries. But in England, more than in
this country, there has been what
may be called tradition of service
medical, legal, clerical or what not !;
son has followed father in the same
occupation. The extinction or the
diminution of such families involves
breach in the tradition. Nor is this
all. With stationary incomes and in
creasing expenditures, the profess
sions are attracting less and less the
young men. That is true in America,
and it must have been even more
true in England.
Those who remain true to their
professional traditions, moreover,
who are content with small incomes
for the sake of the work, are neces-
sarily restrained from early mar
riages or from raising large fami-
lies. 1t is the fact that the middle
classes in England can no longer
live upon incomes once adequate and
bring up children as they were
brought up. We are witnessing, as
has been said, something of the same
thing here, though the situation is
less acute. The rapid reduction in
the purchasing power of money has
made incomes meager that once were
ADEQUATE. The older generation
pinches and pares to keep the family
going; the younger does not marry
until late In life, or often not at all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

most expensive bits Of Swiss cheese,
chocolate creams, white meat of chicken
and remains Of breakfast cream between
meals-a goldfish asks nothing more of
the pantry than a spoonful OF oatmeal.
Experts who take the feeding Of
their goldfish seriously, weighing and
measuring them with a scientific eye
toward the next prize contest, vary their
diet in summer with substance known
as daphnia, which appears to be gold
least, it Is a minute waterfowl, Of q
crimson color, which must be taken alive.
To procure this delicacy the dietitian
stands at dawn up to his knees in the
swamp, and with net catches the tiny
red creatures when they come up to see
the sun rise. We should think 1t COM
pared favorably with duck hunting,
which is done at temperature so de-
grees colder.
However, for common or parlor pur-
poses, the goldfish gets along swimming
~ on steamed oatmeal.
Again. The upkeep Of dog, in any
thing that can be really called style,
requires the service Of footman, or, If
one considers not style, but mere n.y.
giene, rs cents worth Of elevator boys
time twice day. The upkeep Of cat
requires maid service for brushing, OF
cuts fearfully into her mistress's time
for writing poetry. And even a canary
has to have his cage gilded from time
to time.
And so, when we add up all these
blessings, we need not be surprised tina,
"Old Black Joe,' the finest goldfish In
America, is worth $3.50. We would
trade him gladly for the poodle who
yelps at dawn in the fat overhead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
When Labor and CAPITAL Join

DR.. Alonzo A. Taylor, Of the
American Food Commission, para
phrases conversation he held with
a prominent Russian Bolshevik con-
corning profit-sharing. The Bolshe-
vik did not think much of profit
sharing, even though wage-workers
absorbed all concerns income and
became the owners of the tools Of
their industry. He said this would
merely substitute small capitalists
for large ones, and the former would
be as eager as their predecessors to
exploit the consumer.
The MARKHAM socialist for half a
century has tom-tomed that the
worker must own his tools-that the
factory system introduced a condi-
ton under which he was a slave.
And now comes the super socialist
Of the Bolshevik school to reject the
MARKHAM dogma as one that would
defeat the ends of socialism by max
ing workmen small capitalists.
So around and around, like squir-
rels in cage, social theorists re-
volve. In the vacuum world in
which they are there is little resist
ance to their whirling. They are
forever in movement, yet they never
arrive. and they lose all sense of
reality.
Yet the Bolshevik friend of DIR.
Taylor suggests. something common
ly ignored by those who present
protit-sharng as panacea. The So
called warfare between capital and
labor, bad in immediate effects, has
the merit of protecting the consum-
ing public against extortion. When
capital and labor strike hands in
friendship and begin to stalk the
buyer together they are likely to get
his pelt.
Already there are signs of joint
effort. Mayor Hylan says the Inter
! borough and the marlborough broth
erhood conspired together, and the
coal operators are understood to be
willing to give the miners every
thing asked provided they are al
lowed to loft prices to the consumer.
Every person, Of course, is both
producer and consumer. But a per-
son is more active and selfishly con-
scious as a producer than as a con-
sumer. Producers year by year be-
come better organized and better
able to get what they want. Con-
sumers have no organization and
few means of self-defense. But it is
not improbable that the economic
conflicts of the future will not be be-
tween capitalists and wage-workers,
but between producers and con-
sumers-the weapon of one the
strike, and of the other the boycott
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
Europe Taking Notice
(From The Tribune's Paris Bureau

PARIS, Nov. 15.-What are the i'm
pressions Of an American business man
who travels about Europe these days
Every boat brings to Europe eager
figures from the busting cities of the
United States, and no sooner have
these men set their foot upon the dock,
whether in England or France, than
they go briskly about their missionary
labors, the selling of American goods
to the Old World.
Over a luncheon which was as nearly
as possible what he would have had at
home-a steak and potatoes, with coffee
and milk as the beverage-one of the
number told Tribune man something
of his experiences. He had spent two
months in Europe, and in that time
had been ten days in England, and
then had come to France via Sweden
Norway, Denmark, Holland, Germany
and Belgium. incidentally quite
incidentally-he had sold more than
50 100000 worth Of goods, and he ate
his luncheon with a good appetite and
an easy conscience.
"The first thing that struck me-" he
said, was the cheerful welcome got
everywhere l went. just as soon as
told them that was an American"
"In Germany, too?" he was asked.
"No," he admitted. 81 can't say they
seemed glad to see Americans there;
but then, they didn't seem sorry
either"
He smiled refectively and went on;
81 guess l ought to say, as possible
explanation of this warmth Of welcome
that the men I met everywhere ir
Scandinavia and Holland told me the
United States was the only country II
the world having anything to sell that
they wanted to buy"
Are they taking much from Ger
many?" asked The Tribune man.
"They were, but they're not doing 1t
any more" he answered. "ln Holland
and Scandinavia during the war, anc
for many months following the arms
tice, tremendous quantity OF German
machinery had been bought, and they
are unhappy about it to-day. They
told me, particularly in Denmark anc
Holland, that this German machinery
was made Of such poor materials that
they wouldn't buy any more, even at
the low prices the Germans were ask
ing and with the advantage that the
nresent rate of German exchange
would give them"
He dropped a hint that should be OF
advantage to others following IN his
footsteps. He had carried with HIM
set of photographs showing the meth
DDS of manufacture-"pr as
sembly" was the phrase he used-em'
ployed by his firm, and everywhere
these photographs had been studied oS
round-eyed Europeans, who declared
that they had not dreamed anything Of
the sort was possible.
methods that are an old story with
US" ne declared, Seemed to be as won
derful to them as an aeroplane woulc
have been to our great-grandfather
They helped, those photographs; they
just had to buy the things turned out
that way"
He had been struck by the quantity
of American goods to be seen In Scan
dinavian countries. In Norway he hao
found the shop windows full OF Ameri-
can soaps, toilet articles, underwear
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

suffices. If the works are aboard
ship and the plant retreats beyond
smelling distance, serious handicap
may be overcome.
The city has choice between ere
duction" and Incarceration" of garb-
age. Reduction yields valuable by
products which incarceration DESTROYS,
Hence there is a possibility Of in
come from reduction.
The Board of Estimate has de-
layed action on the garbage disposal
problem for nearly two years. 1t is
well some progress is promised.