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New-York tribune., 1920-07-09
Beauty Unob.erxed

Just how dulling habit tends to
drop tho eyes Of every one below the
beauty round about is very interest
ingly suggested by Mr.. Arnold Ben
nett. Having nothing to do between
his annual novels and his monthly
essays and his weekly occasionals,
Mr.. Bennett is daslaing off a letter to
taThc New Statesman" on neglected
architecture. Says he:
"Our attitude toward architecture
is far too much dominated by the
esthetin canons Of the past. We get
into groove Of taste and so miss
innumerable beauties. wonder how
many Of the millions of admirers Of
tho Mcdici tombs at Florence have
: noticed that the Church of San
Lorcnso visibly exists In extreme
loveliness. ! imagine that not one
person IN a, hundred thousand who
passes the Junior United Service
Club, at the corner Of Regent Street
and Charles Street. ever notices that
it is a masterpiece. But who am to
animadvert? After thirty-two years
Of London noticed last week for the
first time the singular charm of
Stagg & Mantle's. in Leicester
Square! When it has raised all it's
school teachers from the starvation
level the L. G. C. might usefully
spend tritie in attaching plaques to
q few thousand buildings in London
with the name Of the architect and
the date of construction displayed
thereon"
We hate to think how many New
Workers have never noticed the
beauty Of SO obvious jewel as their
City Hall--or passed by the loveliest
Of houses on Fifth Avenue, designed
BY Stanford White, without a thrill
--or for a lifetime regarded the
Brooklyn Bridge solely as high
way. Yet, rs Mr.. Bennett makes
clear. every one is blind to most Of
the beauty about him, and especially
blind toward that which is nearest
and which he sees oftenest. Such is
the deadly effect Of habit upon the
best Of us
And the question is how We can
keep our reinas fresh and at the
sal'as time maintain their genuine
ness OF reaction. The case ef the
Medici tornbs is IN point. We have
not our Baedeker before US, but it is
ssa3e bat that tasso SdrntrahIa era.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09
Wherein We Are Passed Up
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The effort of The Tribune to mis-.
represent Mr.. Wilson has amused his
triends for many years. On Monday,
just about the time this great, free
Democratic gathering was preparing to
nominate Mr.. Cox, we read your puny
editorial in which you say: "Mr. Wilson
can have tho nomination himself if he
gives the sign. He can nominate sub
stitute II he prefers to do So" While
this is q great tribute to the man, the
absolute confidence of his party, he did
not give the sign. But The Tribune
will 60 right on risrepresenting his at
tttude on this as well as other questions.
OF course, had he given the sign, tbs
dollar sign, up to few millions, as
pour fayorite did, it would not have
affected the delegates. But the Repub-
hcans must find something to say; 40
we will pass it all up. II merely shows
what strong man can do. Whatever hc
does the Republicans fear, and they
haven't chance with Harding.
SAMUEL SMILEY.
Gastonia, n. q, July s, 1890.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

Usually we steer clear Of verso on
which we are supposed too express
publicly an opinion. 1t seems to US as
hard to tell why you like or don't like
poems as it is to explain your fond
ness for or antipathy toward pie.
But we recently picked up Country
Sentiment" (Knopf), not because the
fame of its author, Robert Graves, had
reached our cars, or because of the
stirring things Louis Untermeyer says
about the book on its paper cover, but
because it looked like a small book
that could be read quickly and pleas
antly. It still looks to us like a small
book.
This is more the nature Of confession
! than criticism. We found Mr.. Graves
verse obvious for the most part, silly
in spots and sounding much like a COM
bination of Tennyson at his worst and
Mother Goose.
There is little facility, it seems to
US, and less music in County Senti-
ment's" contents. There are lines like:
"A fourpence on cakes, two pennies
away
ITO beggar l gave"
This and others sound more to US
like schoolboy translation Of Ger
man lyric than anything else.
We also cherish the conviction that
Mr.. Tennyson, after penning .Airy
Fairy Lillian" or "As through the land
at eve we went" might have confessed
reluctantly that Mr.. Graves had beaten
him at his own worst, if he could have
read Loving Henry This sounds
like jazz song, but is supposed to be
= lyric.
Probably there are depths OF feeling
and heights Of beauty in Mr.. Graves'
work hid from one SO material Of mind
IS we. Probably also, person with our
benighted convictions has no business
foisting them on the world.
We are SO sunk in ignorance. now
that we are in mood for confession.
that we think Rudyard Kiplinr far
greater than Joseph Conrad ever was
or ever will be. For the benefit Of
those who are about to rush forth
and cancel subscriptions: Haywood
broun will be back next week.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09
Books
Frederic F. Fan de Water

Mildred Cram Lotus Salad" (Dodd
Mead & Coz is improbable, rather fam
tastic and extremely good reading, if
you are content to ask neither "Why 2"
nor "How?" but will follow unquestion-
lngly the elamourous pathway of her
romance.
Soldiers Of Fortune" might have
been "Lotus Salad had Richard Hard
ing Davis been woman and chosen
Douglas Fairbanks for his hero.
All the way through her rather pre-
cariously linked stories Of revolution
in banana republic Miss Cram seems
to have asked herself whenever
|crisis approached: "What would Doug
have done" and then made a pretty
good guess.
The following account Of not the
most vigorous of her hero's adventures
might have been lifted bodily, it
seems to US, from Fairbanks scenario:
Pug ran along the polished marble
counter, kicking glasses and bottles
right and left, caught at an elaborate
chandelier which hung. from the low
ceiling, swung there above the heads
of the struggling crowd, then dropped.
He fell ON the shoulders of two gigan-
tic vaqueros and knocked them down.
But he rose again, laughing, and kicked
his way to the platform with the whole
room in pursuit. He tripped the two
guitar players, sending them sprawling
headlong, and spun the pianist right
about face with one violent twist. Then
he vaulted the piano and pushed it
forward off the edge of the platform
on top of squirming heap of dazed
Nationalists.
IKE picked up one of the guitar play
ers' chairs and smashed his way back to
the bar. Then, reaching behind him to
the loaded shelves, he seized bottles,
glasses, bottles and more glasses, and
used the enraged faces below him as
targets"
There is, as you probably have gath
cred, much action in Miss Grams story
There is also not little drama, and
through all of the twenty-five chapters,
most of which are really separate short
stories, you are filled with the pleas
ant consciousness that the author had
almost as good time in writing them
as you are having in reading.
We don't think Miss Cram would
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09
Another Check to Rent Gouging

"A decision in the 4th District
Municipal Court Of Brooklyn may
help to break the force Of the pres
ent drive to 1lullify Che emergency
rent laws. Landlords have been
growing bolder since the Legislature
adjourned. They have been trying
to stampede tenants into signing
new leases at large increases by call
ing attention to the fact that new
tenants are willing to pay still
higher rates. "If you stay on and are
dispossessed," the landlords argu-
ment runs, "you will be much worse
off than if you had accepted another
lease at the market rate"
Under the situation created by
the anti-dispossess legislation it was
to the landlords interest to get
rid Of his tenants by persuasion or.
Intimidation. He had in his hands
tho weapon M an extortionate rate
submitted to by new homesoekers
and held over the heads Of those
whom the courts might permit to ba
dispossessed. Justice Jacob S. Strahl
has tried to equalize conditions and
make che enforcement Of the new
rent laws easier by ruling that dur
ing this existing emergency land
lords are obliged to charge reason
able rental-in general, one repre-
senting no greater advance than 25
per cent on the rate for the previous
year-to new tenants as well as to
old ones.
The rent laws were passed in the
exercise Of The states police power.
Their purpose is to safeguard pub
lie health and to maintain public
order. In Justice Strahl's view, if
their enforcement is hindered by the
power Of a landlord to charge ex-
tortionate rates to new tenants, that
power must be restrained. II it
isn't restrained an anomalous stu
alton arises in which it becomes
difficult for the courts to establish a
standard Of reasonable increase in
attempted dispossession cases.
A minority Of the landlords
haven't been cured Of the profiteer-
ing habit. They sneer at the new
laws and are confident that they can
find way to cvade them. The
season Of annual rent renewals is at
hand. Many tenants are being brow
beaten and harassed. They ought
to have a clearer assurance that
their leases will hold good if they
offer to pay reasonable increase.
Justice Strahl's decision now offers
an assurance that the general level
Of rents will not be boosted in one
year SO, rs or 100 per cent. If this
decision doesn't curb the extortion-
ers an extra session Of the Legisla-
ture and more stringent rent regula-
tion will probably be unavoidable.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09
Saoing Brothefs
An Altuist's Plea for sPtahikk|
and the Voice Of Dun

An Altuist's Plea for sPtahibk
and the Voiee Of Duly
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Il was with gres. interest III
read Mr.. fuckers letter, "A yuh,ys
"wet's" last protest, in ysssadS
Tribune, as he no Soubt voices IL Il
timents Of large number Of his fsh
citizens.
Apparently Mr. Tucker Il ensis
selfish. No? Well. maybe not. Thss !
certainly nothing in his letter, hosss
to lead one to believe otherw;se. !
states that because he entered tAIs N
without his say-so he should there3x
have the right to live his own life q
crafty his own desires. Certainly. M
not? If he desires to hinder his adf
Dor from acquiring that which il III
fully his neighbor's why shouldn't NJ
Evidently Mr.. Tucker has not hesri 4
1rishman's clever definition Of perns
rights. According to the story, ~YM
rights end where my nose begins.n ~
so with Mr.. Tucker. His personal ry
cease when they begin to interfere "
those of his fellow men; those rishh
make the most Of their lives that q
the heritage Of all.
Does it not come down to the qu61
tion Of "Am my brothers fesyu
If Mr.. Tucker has any sense Of
play he must admit that he is y
very large degree. For did not the -
munity. Mr.. fuckers brother ~
practically bring him up from sAl
hood? Did it aot educate him. p
tect him and offer him advantages z
his older brothers nc.sr had! ~
it not now protect Mr.. Tucker g
harm, both bodily and property p'a
| it not now educate and protect "
children. of Mr.. Tucker and
friends? Did not millions recently
aside all personal objectives y ~
that he and his friends might ea
to the fullest those things for wy
countless others sacrificed Ia ~
to create for the benefit Of Mr.. Iaf
and his fellows, and which hs
accepts as matter of course
think Mr.. Tucker would b. wiiu
to sacrifice in order that his ~
brother might have chance g =
good. Aud is he not willing g
up his glass Of beer" in order
his weaker brother men may nos
additional obstacles to eurmoppW
think ne will not question sas
that alcoholic liquors are hsruazst
hat there are men, many mens = 4
tat they cannot be temperste
Mr.. Tucker believe with GerutAn
the weak must serve the stsenh
with his own country that the e
shall help the wesk? Is 1t Nj. 1as
creed to take sll be can ana eN
little as possible, or to use nls 8 &
lies. trained by his fellows, % 81
fellows? IN
believe and sincerely trust t.'
Tucker and his friends viii sem ~
the right. At present it sppssn
he and others have listened f0
to the Voice Of personal desire sss
little to the voice Of duty e
nifty, that body of brother
whom Mr.. Tucker owes eYsry
AS for danger from sths b 4
carbonic acid gas concoctiors
Tucker really believes whss
here is his, chance to become ~
Of his fellows. B. 7. Thas
New, York. July s, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09
In the Distant Future
lVron The Eut.sna Gin, Ser,

EVTo'n The Husasas City stor)
As nearly as we can figure II out.
9 rival candidate will beat Sam Gompers
about the same year that the Rspubli-
cans write . platform that will break
ths Solid South.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09
.rxMprn q rzr AssocrArrp rxxss

MS Associated Press i exclusively entitled 10 the
ses tes yspunliefasn - an nsws dispatcnA credited
70 e or not ctherIsss credited IN this capes and
chs local nsw of spcutanscus origin pubrshsd
HersEh.
Al rights ef specialization Of I'll other mAttss
tsestu also afe reserved
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

have written "Lotus Salad" had she
not first read "Cabbages and Kings"
and Soldiers Of Fortune" but we're
glad she did.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09
Nothinp III i Name

tFYona The Charleston Nsws-Co1rier]
Asia Minor IL rapidly becoming j nss.
Ijor issua
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

p'o,tsrER

P01t1tER
After 3xsrss meeting ones, ! ~ Of uss
Discussed tha Germans, and ia Pond.
spoke up.
aWell, sir,'. 10 said, y kusw German
That was als white. Ivsd With ,mx folks
for years,
And nsvsr said cr did - ugly thing, &@ &@
Nor acted msAniiks; had no uppish
Az Ill about him, Shrinking, too, il
was:
Liked to get - corner and Just stay
Right there Ia silence. Always ~ our
food
And relished it; never heard him ssk
For any funny things that Germans
love.
Kept his own counsel, always was politel
TO strangers who might call, and never
talked
About soul Of us behind our backs.
] own felt cut up, the time hs died. 4
"Who was this wonder, Ed?n scmebody
asked.
I'd said: "a full-blood spitz used to
have" "a. S. B.
GarEantuan as our veneration for
Governor Cox and Senator Harding is,
ours is the belief that fifty years from
now this will be known as the year in
which Ring Lardner and Irwin Cobb.
received votes for The Democrats nomi-
nation.
Doubt will be felt, If not expressed,
by some Of our little readers as to
whether anybody fifty years from now
viii have heard Of Cobb or Lardner. In
deed they will, and on July 9, 1870,
we are going to reprint this paragraph,
with ths headline eve Told You So,
Didn't We?"
There IS no limit 10 tho boldness OF
some gamblers, Tho man who wsgers
that the Cubs Of 1903 could easily beat
the Yanks Of 1920 is now plunging on
the bet that McAdoo would make q bet
ter President than Hoover.
Speaking Of wagsrs, we should ike
to collect FIVE francs from Mr.. Wade 81.
Hayes and Ave from Mr.. George White,
who, when they were majors at Chau-
mont, Haute-Marne, FIR, bet us, in
August, 1918, that the next President
would be a military man.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

The porch campaign is too simple,
It will u at least verandah or =
piszsa campaign.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

Always the congratulations sent BY
the defestad, to the victoriops candi.
dates are warm.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

It isn't 30 much, we suspect, the
heat - the humidity.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

There IS no limit 70 tho boldnsss Of
some gamblers, Tho man who wsgers
that the Cubs Of 1908 could easily beat
the Yanks Of 1920 is now plunging on
the bet that McAdoo would make bet
ter President than Hoover.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

Nine-tenths Of the ballades, rondeaus,
and villanelles submitted to this Pillar
Of -Prosody do not conform to the rigid
rules that govern these restricted
forms. That is Why they fail Of pub
lication. If you must write a ballade,
write ballade, not merely three
octets with an envoy.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

Mr.. McAdoo, if he had been nomi-
mated, could havs made bid for the
Early-toBed vote. While the conven-
tion was At whet Mr.. F. Scott Fits-
gerald would call its high point, MIR,
McAdoo was reported as being in bed
by $3.50. And on ordinary evenings he
probably leaps into the FAX by s:45.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-09

Il Is : sweetly solemn thought that,
although Nicky Arnstein gave himself
up. Bergdoll still is uncaptured and
nobody knows who killed Elwell, the
police eye never closes. II you carry
= lighted cigarette in the subway, you
are almost certain Of arrest.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-05
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY. JUNE S. 1920

nermanentIy rout and overthrow the
forces of obstruction and destruction
of oppression, Pharisaical hypocrisy
and sham.
The church has been asleep on its
job, apparently, and the cause has sur
fered as consequence. 1t has dealt
too much i'm negative religion and not
enough i'm positive Christianity.
If the civilized world is to be saved
from terrible and terrifying calamity
and catastrophe, If the race prejudice,
antipathy, antagonism and discrimina-
ton are to be suppressed and obliter-
ated If truth is ever to ascend the
throne and justice care naught for the
color of the skin or texture of the hair :;
if swords are to be beaten into plough
shares and the reign of Mars cut short !;
If mans humanity to man is to cause
countless thousands to rejoice and he
exceedingly glad-the church of Christ
must get on the job now and contend
for the faith once delivered unto the
saints" realizing that God is no re-
specter of persons.
Unless the church becomes and re-
mains militant, it can never hope to be
triumphant.-The Monitor
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-05
MOSELY WINS PRIZE IN
NEW HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL

New Haven, Conn.-H. w. Mosely,
Jr. n sophomore student in the high
school. was the only colored contestant
in the annual oratorical contest of the
Theta Sigma fraternity held recently
in the high school auditorium. He was
awarded second prize. 50, his declama-
tion being Frederick Douglass Free
Speech in Boston" an address deilN-
cred by Douglass in 1871 at Boston.
Besides AIosley there were two jun
iors and two seniors, ii senior winning
first prize. Young Mosely is the first
Ncrro to enter this contest and so he
has the distinction of being the first
member of the race to win one of the
prizes.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-05
HOLDS jim CROW CAR LEGAL.

Baltimore Md, May 2I.-Judge Am
bier in the City Court decided last
week that the provisions of the Wash
ington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric
Railway Company for the segregation
of white and colored passengers was
legal. The decision was handed down
in the case of Lewis III. Davenport, II
colored man, who sued the railway
company for $1,000 damages for al
legged assault by preventing him from
riding in car that the company had
set aside for the use Of white passen-
gers. The judge declared that the Su-
preme Court had recognized the law
fulness of segregation of the races on
railways.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-05
DECISION OF EXECUTIVE
ON ANTI LYNCHING BILL

The National Association for the
nounced today the decision of its eN-
ecutiye committee at headquarters, 40
Fifth avenue, New York, to support
energetically the anti-lynching bill
which was reported favorably by the
House judiciary committee on May End
and placed on the House calendar for
early consideration. The association
has requested its branches in states
where colored people have vote and
can affect the political situation to let
our congressman know ut once that
they wish to have this bill passed.
The association further stated that
this favorable report of the House ju-
didiary committee is the first direct
result of the efforts of the association
to secure federal action against lynch
| ing. Last fall and winter the associa-
| tion carried on an active campaign in
the press and before Congress to Sc
cure an Investigation of race riots ana
| lynching and the passage of an act
making lynching ii federal offense, ana
on January 20, 1920, the national as
| sociation and other organizations APP
peared at hearing of the House jul
dietary committee in Washington on
this natter ut which time the associ-
alton was represented by james Wei
don Johnson, field secretary; Arthur
Il Spingarn, chairman of the legal
committee Archibald H. Grimke, pres
ident of the associations District of
Columbia branch; Neval III. Thomas,
and George William Cook, members of
the board of directors.
The proposed bill entities any resi-
dent of state to appeal to federal
courts for protection if he has reason
able cause to believe that the equal
protection of the laws will be denied
him in the state courts and provides
that members of mobs will be subject
to fine and Imprisonment and that
counties in which lynchings occur will
be subject to forfeiture of $4,000.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-05
LARGE SHIPMENTS FOR AFRICAN
COMPANY.

That the Kpakpa Quartey Company,
2O2-204 Broadway, West Brighton,
Staten Island, New York, is really do
ing things was evidenced last week
when they announced that a large ship
ment of African mahogany, the most
extensive wood on the market, and a
quantity of cocoa beans would shortly
he on its way to this country. The A
H. Bull Steamship Company of II Bat
tery place have instructed one of their
steamers to call at Accra. West Africa.
TO pick up the valuable cargo for trans
portation to the Quartey company here.
1t can be reliably said that this con-
cern. whose president and founder is
S. Kpakpa Quartey. young native or
a royal family from the African gold
coast, is the only genuine business firm
operated by our people in this country
that have real tangible African con
nections. The company's bankers are
the West Brighton Bank, Staten Island,
New York. The Harlem office, recent
ly opened in charge of Mrs. Sharper
son-Young at 222 West 135th street,
has been very busy answering the
many inquirers directed there as to
what the company is and what it is
doing. Prosperous days are predicted
for the Quartey company.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-05
PASTORS DEATH REVEALS
THREE WIVES.
Widows Battle for clergyman's Wealth
Who Believed in Polygamy

New Bedford Mass. May 2S.-The
term. marrying parson." has been ap-
piled to Rev w. H. +. Heath. formerly
of this city. but recently pastor of HIo-
sannah \. NJ. f. Church of East Cam
den. \. j., following his death here a
few weeks ago. 1t has been learned
that Rev. Heath, although II stanch be-
lever i'm the Bible, leaned slightly to-
ward polygamy. in that he had three
wives. The marrying parsons nuptial
adventures came To light when a will
was filed here shortly after his death
Rev. Heath married Miss Annie II.
Vassals at East Camden in 1871. Ac-
cording TO her story, they lived to-
gether for twenty years, until she left
him on account of cruelty and bad
treatment. After the separation. Rev.
Heath wrote his wife asking her To
return. but she refused He was then
paStOring church in New Jersey ana
married wife No. .. The second wife
remained with the minister only II few
weeks and left him when she learned
he had not gotten n divorce from his
first wife.
Mrs. Annie Vassals- Heath. the min
ister's first wife, had heard nothing
from her husband in recent years, I'M
til several weeks ago. when she saw
notice of his death and burial in the
Christian Recorder. She left here for
East Camden and there met her hus-
bands third wife, whose maiden name
was Miss Bertha Guy. Wife No. l i'm
mediately employed lawyer TO pro
tect her rights and secured possession
of several houses, money and pensions
left by the minister. She also laid
-.
bishop placed the claim before the
church conference and was advised to
give wife No. 2 clergyman's pension.
hut wife No. l declares she will take
the matter to court. While the ques-
tion was pending the bishop gave meal
tickets and obtained lodging places for
both widows alike.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-05
BEATS jim CROW LAW; GETS 1887
VERDICT.

savannah. Ga, May 2S.--Claiming
that she had been "humiliated, embar-
rassed and mortified last July when
the conductor of an f. & w. car in
structed her to take seat toward the
rear of the car, in the compartment al
lotted for her race, Miss Genevieve
Lowe. a teacher in the Cuyler school,
brought suit for damages against the
Savannah Electric Company and was
awarded S537.
Miss Lowe states that when she
failed to obey the conductors orders
he stopped the car, called policeman
and had her arrested. The case was
heard in Judge Davis Freeman's court.