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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

wv OUTLOOK, Ernest damlln
Abbott observes
"My American training will not al
low me to spend two hours in the mid
die Of the day and another hour or two
in the evening merely eating. So when
go to the sign Of the Two White
Tables carry with mo pocketful Of
French newspapers. call them news
papers, though they have very little
news. Tho Frenchman doesn't want a
newspaper such as we want; he wants
what he gets-a journal.
"The Paris journal is q little thing
Of = couple Of pages, or at most four.
These journals are not newspapers;
they arc opinion papers. A letter from
America tells me that the papers an
nounce in the front headlines that
President Wilson had four olives with
his tea, and inside announce that the
peace conference is in existence and
taking nourishment.' French journals
omit reference to the olives, and, in
stead Of making announcements as to
what nourishment the peace conference
10 taking, devote column or two to a
discussion Of what kind of nourishment
the conference ought to take.
"The French choose their journals as
they select their food-chacun 4 sor
govt. And there is journal for every
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
Superchild
An article by Edward Sapir in 1.-THE Pagan"

with a buzzing swarm Of questions,
counter questions, tests of your We
racity. I have tried it, to my sorrow.
Only those who live much with chill
dren and are fated to be in some sort
their mentors can know the torture of
an enforced rectitude Of thought and
habit, the torture Of surveillance bv
eyes and ears and wits that have no
childish respect for authority. 1t is
only when we pass into university life
and allow our minds to be bombarded
by Gvelter of professional opinions
that we completely lose our critical
acumen. We escape from the result
ing confusion by adopting the tire
some pose Of catholicity Of taste, toll
erance. Now, children are never toler
ant. They persecute you relentlessly
for every lapse from orthodoxy. They
are bent on wedding out heresies with
the remorselessness of an inquisition.
That is why find it we'll, in these cir
cumstances, to retire sometimes to the
recesses of the woods or the SUBMITS
OF mountains to rest my nerves and
mind with prayer and solitude and
breathing
There are still other aspects of su-
perman Psychology that children share.
They are, for one thing, completely
lacking in sentiment. They know that
they are loved; they frequently take
the most cynical advantage of this
love that parents and aunts squander
on them; they may even pretend, for
quite utilitarian purposes, to recipro-
cate 1t, but have yet to find a child,
normal child, that would waste q
moment on the mere etfusion of emo
ton. Vast is the physical and mental
energy of the child Ga typical twenty
four hours worth would carry me
through week of strenuous TOLD, so
wanton an infringement upon the
economy Of effort would seem to him
nothing less than betrayal of the
fundamental principles of conduct.
Hence to love children is the most
excellent schooling in the true art of
love- Here you must be content to
give all and receive nothing in return.
And should you venture to chide an
urchin for not paying you back what
you have so lavishly expended on him,
you would be-and deservedly-stared
at with wide open eyes of amazement,
or despised with smirk. or even
scowled at with frank dislike. Beware
of sentimentalizing with children. 1t
is suicidal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
Yes, Cruelty

But l have as yet omitted to men,
ton perhaps the most striking quality
OF childhood, 1t takes various forms.
1t appears as ruthlessness, pugnaeity.
cruelty, Yes, cruelty, Every child is
helpless Nero A little boy will,
with the utmost sangfroid, suggest
that his baby aster be thrown into
the fufnaee-think of the Carthagini-
ans Offering up their babes as a burnt
Offering to Meleeh, and amiie with
fieadish (fond mothers say inneeent
glee, Now he kaews we'll enough what
such maftyfdom would mean. for he
himself screams with the bloodcurd-
ling animus of forty warning Indians
should you but hold his finger within
an inch of the gently flaming fire.
place. And often have observed such
boy sticking safety pins-unclasped
ones-into various exposed or unex-
posed portions of his sisters BODY.
But, lest you wrongly infer that we
deal here with some british instinct
Of the male, I must add that have
caught little girls slyly tweaking their
elder brothers ears and legs, acts
which were most brazenly denied when
the resulting shrieks led to the hum
ing UP of evidence. This cruelty. +
feel convinced, is the most fundamen-
tai of all the child's admirable traits.
Perhaps it is an anticipatory self
defence, a girding Of the loins for
future combat.
There are other interesting and in
structive things that l might say
about children, but the anatomy of
childhood is too vast an undertaking
for our scanty time and space. The
child Is clearly but sort Of unre-
deemed promise of the superman-
mysterious, scornful, critical, unsenti-
mental, cruel. Hence he is so fasci-
mating. But he is also helpless, being
very little. He is like danger safely
locked up. And that Is why we love
him and find him so entrancingly beau
tiful
have often been told by graybeard-
ed scientists that the child repeats in
himself the history Of the race. I
know nothing about that, but I do
know that the race would do very we'll
to unroll itself back into the child.
If we could unite the splendid un-
spoiled personality of the child with
the mere knowledge Of ripper years we
would indeed have the ideal superman
that poets and philosophers have
dreamed of.
And now we may better understand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

ME possibility Of art in the air
is no dream of the theorist, but
- proved reality by the adven-
turous accomplishment of En-
sign Adolph 0. Goodwin, U. S. N. r. F..
who has succeeded thoroughly in finish
ing to completion twelve separate pen
and ink drawings while in flight. In the
course of the great war the scope Of
the aeroplane has increased manv
hundredfold. Scarcely more than an
experiment in 1914, its possibilities as
weapon Of warfare were not fullv
recognized until versatile Frenchmen.
courageous Britishers and daredevil
fanks began inventing marvellous
acrobatics, which they have perform ed
with ease and safety With the advent
OF Liberty motors so perfect has be-
come the planes operation that it
was thought to have reached it's zenith
OF uses and efficiency. There were
passenger machines, freight machines
and mail cars. They converscd with
the ground by wireless telegraph and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

the meaning Of that enigmatical child
likeness that the greatest men so often
manifest. Such men have simply not
lost their childish strength as they
matured. But as for US men of base
metal, we have allowed the rugged
man in us-the child-to be swathed
and contorted by the tightly wrapped
bands OF social convention, expedient
law and religious hypocrisy. If you
would look at the unspoiled man in
you, observe child. 1t is fascinat-
ing game.
All scientific hypothesis are subject
to serious revision. More often than
not they are devourcd by the Meme 81 8
Of other hypothesis. Hence do not
feel unduly apologetic about this ex-
cursus into the obscure realms Of child
psychology. Should patient research
ever reveal the existence in the child
Of qualities that belle his affinity to
the superman--and there are those
who claim to have discovered such
qualities--I shall without further ado,
as benefits tho temper of patient
researcher, cancel my unsentimental
analysis. Should it really appear that
there Is nothing strange and uncanny
about tho child, that his scornfulness
and hypercritical tendency are but the
misinterpretations Of an unworthy OBJ
server. and that. IL the child seema
unsentimental and cruel. dt Is only In
order to chnsten another's egotism
should gladly recant. / should re.
cant to the extent Of preparing n SEN
timental analysis Of "rhc Child as
| pfavfhinvU
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

editorials to news; that they want their
food not raw, but cooked; and that they
expect their favorite editorial out
ragged by the censorship; and they ex-
press their establishment that the
French press should be allowed to make
some Of the statements that appear on
their pages"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

rs THERE anything on earth quite
40 entrancingly beautiful as lit
tie ch.ld-a wee child Of three or
four-one such human miniature
as ha. just learned ths use Of words
INT not as yet the use Of silence?
There are other things Of more pas
s;ona.e loveliness. Of more transcend
ing beauty, but nothing, I fancy, ap-
breaches the child in its own peculiar
-here Of beauty; a beauty at once
quaint and cool and wild, and Of alarm
ing mystery.
II is, above all. the mysteriousness
If children that makes them SO fasci-
mating What disquieting thing it is
20 realize that parents know unknown
elders more intimately, with pro-
founder mutual understanding, than
thew know their own children, the
little creatures they daily jounce on
their knees or lift to ceiling. 1t would
seem that life invests US all alike with
the regalia and secret signs of a
subtle freemasonry binding soul to
soul. and that this aerial fabric has
not had time to weave itself in the
psychic spaces separating child from
parent. Children are like islets clus-
iering about the mainland. The sands
II experience gradually choke up the
channel. leaving the islets accreted to
he shore. By that time-saddest and
I most wistful of life's tricks-children
are too old, too worldly wise, to re-
member their earlier babblinc selves.
There is only snowy continuity be-
tween early child life and the later
span Of elf-consciousness. What
bridging memories persist are vague
thu AuseeliAg uHcoorOlnated gIlmmerS
that are flung out from an opaque
darkness. 1t does no violence to this
claim of the mysteriousnes Of child
hood to admit that you may make a
child's acquaintance in a few mo-
ments, provided, be it understood,
there cling not to you some diabolical
quality that the child has sensed.
This amiable accessibility of children
proves nothing, for even cats, most
sphinx-like of beings, may permit
courteous advances. 1t is different
with babies, who belong to another
species altogether, They are more
mysterious than eats or children,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
They Condescend

Yen must not misjudge the readi-
aess with which children take You into
their confidence, There il here no
question Of hail-fellew-well-met de-
aiesssey, You, In your eeneeit. may
Interpret 1t an aueh. but thu ehila's
altitude resembles rather the con.
/ ascending aifahility with which eeg.
ala democratic moaarehs have been
Known to endear themselves to the
hearts of their subjects. The distance
I u beth cases is too great for any real
understandings on the score of
status. Have you ever noticed the
subtle scorn, half thankful and half
hcredulous, with which the little
sFrant accepts your proffered infor-
BATON? You do we'll to give him what
ne requires, he seems to say,~but how
much to him is all your wisdom but
the merest matter of counsel Age gives
Jon q surface advantage, and that is
fA No need for you to swell your
eaest. So might one regard the learn
Ing Of dictionary, profting from its
admirable erudition with ill-concealed
Contempt, extracting such sustenance
IS one may wish from so vast q noun
: AIN OF pedantry. How like a king
mat, having summoned his ministers
Of state and mulcted them for law and
gossip and statistics wherewith to rule
DE realm, dismisses them with q grand
gesture compounded Of thankfulnes IS
! AUG raillery! (But let me say, in truth,
ny understanding of the ways Of roy
81! may be far from just; yet, had
! X pleased Fate to seat me on a throne,
'0cn gesture would I have used.)
10 not for a moment imagine that
children accept your facts, morality
s''ne'ic Judgments, without the most
vigorous, the most searching criticism.
ioa must prove your case, or you are
a''a suspect. Your contributions to
no*isdge must fit in most tightly
'''a their theory of things that they
ave builded themselves. Each new
wa Is eagerly grasped by the ten
>esss Of their minds, turned over and
"ef so that from no possible angle
al light fail to be thrown thereon
@asined and finally accepted or re-
'sc'ed- Try to make even mildly con-
''<oictory statements to child. be
sg nours-days-removed, and be-
1''o the little Socrates have at you
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

"But \ have no speaking part"
"Ehl I"
"In the play have nothing to say"
"What Of that7 Many men have won
fame by not saying anything Louis
Vile Courier-Journal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

why don't you give your wife an,
allowance7" IL did once. but she spent
it before I could borrow it back
Boston Transcript.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
Smiles

Dora-Agnes married self-made
man. didn't she?
Ethel-Yes, but she has compelled
him to make extensive alterations
Tit Bits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

"Even when q man realizes his
hopes" said Uncle Eben, che generally
wishes he had hoped foh sumpin' else"
Washington Star.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

7R1TlNG from Paris to "The
I Outlook" Ernest Hamlin
Abbott obeor,,o,.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-26
Y. N. C.. A. MeWS

In order that men in service and
those recently discharged from the
army and navy might be assisted in
securing new employment or procur-
ing their old positions. the Y. NJ G.
A. War Work Council has assigned
to this city James E. Larcombe, who
has had a great experience in work
men. He has an Office at
and also one here in the Y. NJ.
C. A. and all men who are without
employment or have any trouble re-
garding their government or similar
matters are requested to drop around
and see Mr.. Larcombe. who will rem
der every possible aid. Besides ON
Quoting this .so-called returned SOL
diers bureau Mr.. Larcombe is work
ing in cooperation with Frank w.
Henson, city Americanization secre-
tary, relative to the naturalization
and citizenship work among the for
eigners here.
"A joint meeting of the board of
and the trustees of the 'Y"
will be held tonight at 6:45 O'Clock
commencing with a banquet prepared
and served by Mrs. Ivar Larson. Sew
eral men prominent. in Y. NJ. c. A.
work will speak at the meeting and
problems concerning state activities
will be discussed. Following the joint
meeting the regular board session
will be held.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-26
Installation and Banquet
Of Bnei Zion Camp Here

The installation Of the newly elect
ed officers of Bnei Zion Camp No. 20.
Order Bnei Zion, yesterday afternoon
at the Bnei Zion Institute in Fayette
street, was followed by the annual
banquet for the members Of the or
der and invited guests. Counselor
Fast, of Newark, a member of the
executive committee OF the grand
lodge, was the installing officer. Three
candidates were initiated and six APP
plications for membership were re-
ceived at this time.
The officers as installed are: Pres
ident, Philip Siskind; vice president,
Philip Levine: treasurer, Abram Sis
kind; financial secretary, Max Sosin:
recording secretary, Max Goldfob,
and inner guard, M. Plane.
Following the banquet the presen-
tatlon of the Biblical scroll by Mr..
and Mrs. Abram Medinets to Bnei
Zion Institute was made. The pre-
,sentation was made by Philip Sislxind
in behalf of the donors. After the
scroll had been received the sum of
s15S was realized from the selling of
the unfinished blocks of letters on
the scroll. This money will be equal
ly divided among the Relief Society
and the Hebrew school. Rabbi Rab-
inowitz, of Sharri Tfloh, was present
and took part.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-26
HID IN PIC PEN
To ESCAPE COP
Keasbey Man Arrested for AS
sauIt and Battery, Held for
Grand Jury

Hiding in the far corner OF a pig
stye completely shielded from view
by a barracuda Of planks, was the
name in which Peter Geiga, OF
Keasbey, endeavored TO escape the
clutches of the law. when Detective
Sergeant HUFF, assisted by a Keasbey
officer. attempted to arrest him yester-
day on charges of atrocious assault
and battery on the person of Charles
Uzengi.
Hun went to the house where Geiga
was supposed to live and was told
tina no such man was there. Then
he went in the back yard and search
ed some outbuildings. thinking that
Geiga might be hid somewhere. Huff
was just about to leave the pig pen
when he noticed what looked like the
toe of a boot protruding from beneath
a pile of boards and Green's. He pull
ed away the lumber and there, crouch
ing as If scared out of his wits, was
Geiga.
1t is alleged that on Saturday af-
ternoon, when Geiga, his brother and
Uzengi after receiving their wages
were proceeding homeward, a quarrel
arose concerning some trivial matter
and without any further p~rovocation.
Geiga hurled a rock at Uzengi, strik-
ing him in the head. Then, whipping
out a knife, he closed in OF Uzengi and
before he stopped had given tie man
a severe cash in the chin. Uzingf
was taken to DIR. Tyrrell's Office. where
some stitches were made in the knife
wound.
When arraigned this morning be-
fore Recorder Pickersgill, Geiga
would not say whether he was guilty
of the deed or not and he was released
under $500 bonds, pending trial by the
grand Jury.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-26
Ned K. Miller Leaves DitmaS;
Marvin Interests Lease Il

The Ditmas theatre in State street
has been leased to X. It. Marvin, who
controls several other theatres in New
York and New Jersey. Mr.. Marvin
took possession of the theatre today.
Ned K. Miller, who has been man
.ager of the house since the first few
months 1t was open, is leaving the
Ditmas to become associated with
the Filmolas Corporation with offices
at 1893 Broadway. New York. The
remainder of the staff at the theatre
will be retained by the Marvin inter-
ests, who have not announced any
change in the policy of the house.
At the conclusion of the show on
Saturday night Mr.. Miller entertain
ed the staff at a luncheon. The staff
presented him with a diamond scarf
pin.
Mrs. Miller left today for n months
visit at Sturgis, Mich, Elkhart, Ind,
and Chicago. Mr.. Miller will retain
his residence in this city until the
fall.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-26
CITY BRIEFS

Mr.. p. F. Desmond of Broad street
journeyed to Camp Merritt yesterday
and visited his son. Corporal ]. p. Des-
mond, who returned to this country
after several months overseas service,
on the transport Mexican.
Miss Frances johnson, formerly
assistant secretary of the War Saw
ing Stamp Committee, has taken a
position as secretary to Frank w.
Henson, industrial secretary OF the
Y. NJ. c. A.
IT. A, Mundaca, who for the last
eighteen months has been superin-
tendent of the United Dyes Corpora
ton of this city, has resigned from
the company and will leave shortly
for Mexico, where he has been as
signed a diplomatic Office in the serv-
ice of his native country, Chile.
Charles T. Allen. employment
manager of the Roessler & Hasslach-
er Chemical Company; Paul Fulton,
employment OF the Standard
Underground Cable Company; l..
Chase, employment manager of the
U. S. Metals Refining Company, and
f.. Haywood, employment manager
of the s. S. White Dental Company of
Staten Island, returned yesterday
from the National Association of EN-
ployment Managers convention at
Cleveland last week. TneSe men
went as members of the New York
Executive Club. Over 1000 men and
employment managers
throughout the United States. attend
ed the convention. The convention
held at the Chamber of Com
merce rooms.
A fire drill was held In the high
school this morning at about 11:10
Westminster Cadets with their
fife, drum and bugle corps went over
to South Amboy yesterday afternoon
where they decorated the grave of
Cadet Dayton. a departed comrade,
which has been their custom ever
since the death of the young man.
They were accompanied by members
of Major james H. Dandy Post No.
43, G.. A. r.
Corporal Frank Sheath. of the
SIND Division, who has been fifteen
months overseas, spent the weekend
at the home of his mother, Mrs.
Frank Sheath, at $50 Laurie street.
Corporal Sheath has not been dis
charged as yet.
"A meeting of the Labor and We'll
fare Committee of the Board of Trade
of which Charles IT. Allen and e. L.
GridIey are the joint chairmen, will
be held In the Board of Trade rooms
Wednesday at $3.50 o'clock.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-26
Several Auto Law viOIatOrs
Arrested Owed Week End

Numerous vioiators of the motor
vehicle law were apprehended over
the week end by the traffic officers.
Motorcycle Officer Frank Seiboth
served summons on the following: u.
Lewis Bennett, of Prospect avenue,
Asbury Park. for disregarding a stop
signal, and Lewis Schwartz, of Milford
avenue, Newark. for speeding on New
Brunswick avenue. Patrolman Peter
son served a summons on Charles Sar-
kinis. of South Amboy. o violating
the automobile law.
Seiboth also took into custody .-es-
terday Max Richenbach, of Deans, for
speeding on Amboy avenue, who gave
a SIS cash bond for his appearance
in court Thursday night; s. L. Win
field of New York, for having no
drivers license, and Harvey Dey, OF
Laurie street for driving without the
necessary license card. Dey was pa
rolled till Thursday night, while Win
field was compelled to deposit a cash
bond to insure his appearance.
John F. Murray, traffic officer at the
five corners, arrested Nicholas Toolc
of Plainield, for not having a mirror
attached to his car. Toole was lined
Is In court this morning.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-26
Abuses Traffic Cop After
Collision; Taken to Lookup

For refusing to accompany Traffic
Officer Murray to police h~eadquar-
tiers when requested to do so and then
calling the officer all the abusive
names he could conceive, John Morit-
ko, of 726 State street, was placed
under arrest about 1:15 o'clock this
afternoon. When being conveyed to
the Jail in the patrol wagon Moritko
started on a TRADE and declared that
the law had nothing on him and that
he would act be arrested and became
.gy violent hat he had to be
by Murray. On arriving at the sta
ton he said to Murray. Now L sup
pose you are going to lock me up"
He received an affirmative reply n
then shouted, You are not" But ne
was under charges of disorderly con-
duct.
The trouble started this morning
when about IL o'clock Moritko hit
william VanPelt with the fender of
his car, nearly knocking the man
over. VanPelt made a complaint TO
Murray and consequently when the
officer saw Moritko approaching the
corner of Smith n State streets he
halted the car and told him hat he
would have to go to the police t
ton. This Moritko would not do and
SO he was taken from his a and
arrested. His cries and yells attract
ed a considerable crowd at the hve
corners.