davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
When Can the Business Womar
Shop
o the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May not, through the columns
of your paper, enter plea for the
business woman shopper? AS the
present shopping hours, to 5, are
practically the same in all Offices, the
business woman finds it very difficult
to crowd her buying into the Satur-
day afternoon crush or the feversh
noon hour. Would it not be possible
for the shops, at least during the
Christmas rush, to open an hour
earlier and close an hour earlier?
This would give business people
chance to do more shopping in less
time, relieve the Saturday strain on
both salespeope and shoppers and
lessen the congestion of the morning
and evening crowds in the various
avenues of travel
A BUSINESS WOMAN.
New York, Nov 18, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
Thanksgiving at Fox Hills

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Through your paper l wish to
make an appeal to the public who still
remember our boys for donations of
turkeys and vegetables and cash con-
trlbutlons, to make possible a joyous,
real Thanksgiving Day for our boys
at Fox Hills Hospital, Staten Island,
n. y. Also volunteers to entertain.
Let not this day pass with the neglect
and forgetfulness of Armistice Day. A
prompt response will be appreciated.
Send all communications to:
MRS. R. DE MILE BROWN.
President, Veteran Association of
Women War Workers.
No. 6s Montague Street, Brooklyn,
Nov. 1S. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
The Whole Above the Parts
The Interstate Commerce Commits

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has denied the power of the
New York State Public Service Com
missions to maintain discriminatory
lntrastate passenger rates. When
the railroads operating in New Yoek
adjusted their freight rates to cor
respond with the new interstate
schedules our two commissions Of
fered no objection. They couldn't
we'll undertake to dissociate intra-
state charges from prevailing inter-
state charges, because of the vast
confusion in business and trans
portation which such dissertation
would have produced. But they held
out for separate, state-controlled
rates on passenger, milk, baggage
and Pullman car traffic
Congress and the Federal courts
have been wrestling for many years
with the problem of divided juris-
dlction over transportation. There
are forty-eight states. Are there to
be forty-eight different forms of
state control, all conflicting with Fed
eral control and, in the case of neigh
boring states, conflicting with one
another? Selfish interest led some
states to make rates hampering traf-
fic across state lines, thus defeating
in measure the freedom of inter-
course within the Union which the
trainers of the Constitution had in
view. The Shreveport and Min
nesota rate cases hinged on this sort
of interference. In those cases the
courts went a long way toward ac-
cepting the nationalistic theory that
no state should impose local rates
which in effect Disseminated against
Interstate commerce.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission now holds that the intra-
state passenger rates kept in force
here injuriously affect interstate op-
erations. 1t cites the fact that they
tend to defeat the purpose of Con-
gress to maintain the railroads on a
basis Of efficiency by depriving them
CT earnings amounting to between
$1l, 100000 and $12,000,0Oo annu-
ally. New York seeks, in effect. to
avoid paying her fair share of the
cost Of operating the railroad sys-
TENS as whole. The commission
also notes the fact that passengers
over the New York Central from
this city to Buffalo pay Sill less
fare than passengers who use a rail-
road running for part of the way
outside the states boundaries.
State rights and the spirit of par
ticularism are challenged because
they interfere with the fair regula-
ton Of the whole volume of traffic.
1t was undoubtedly the purpose Of
Congress in the Esch-C -Cummins law
to root out such interference, which
is usually obstructive, and, if at
tempted by all the forty-eight states,
would greatly retard the unihcation
Of railroad operations.
The public advantage is served by
intelligent, unified control, and the
Federal government is the only
agency through which such control
can bes exercised. State rights and
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20

Federal rights undoubtedly clash in
this controversy. But judging from
the Supreme Courts decision in the
prohibition amendment suits, Fed
eral rights are the more likely to be
sustained. Both in the matter of
sound regulation and of constitu-
tional policy the commission has
courageously accepted the implica-
tions of the broader nationalistic
doctrine.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
The French Recovery

The cold facts and figures fur
nished by the French commission
concerning the rehabilitation of
France since the invader left her
soil have the warmth and color of
romance.
Fifty years ago, following for
mer visit of the German horde,
France, the vitality of her people
breaking all the bonds of adverse
circumstance, achieved a miracle of
recovery. Paying a crushing in
demnity long before due instead of
squealing that she couldn't, her un-
conquerable people amazed the world
by their energy and thrift. Within
the last two years, burdened by the
consequences Of vastly greater
disaster, they have surpassed their
foreign record.
The story that is told is one of
reopened factories, of resumed agri-
culture, of new merchant marine,
of mines once again operated, of re-
established foreign trade and en-
larged revenue.
The Germans left 100000
French acres desert pitted and
SCARED with shell holes. All but
280,0 900 Of these acres will be in
.rops next spring. The textile in
iustry, dead two years ago, Is now
operating az nearly 30 per cent Of
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20

had 9 murders; Chicago, one-third
the size Of London, had 105, or nearly
| twelve times rs many as London in
the same year. Chicago, with It's e.
100000 people, had twenty more mur-
ders than the whole Of England and
Wales together, with their $4,000, ,oo0
New York City, in 1916, had six times
the number of homicides that London
had. In 1915 st. Louis had eleven time $
as many as Liverpool, which is about
the same size.
In burglaries New York had eight
times as many as aN England and
Wales in 1915. Chicago had 532 more
than London and in 1917 $3.50 more. The
prevailing burglary insurance rates are
from fifteen to twenty times higher
than In the principal cities Of Eng
land.
Even more startling are the statistics
Of robberies. New York, in 1918, re-
ported 1873, where London had 20,
and other American cities, like st.
Louis, Cleveland and Detroit, had
about the same proportion to popula-
tion.
Our Excessive Crime Rate
Thefts of automobiles are much more
prevalent in. America. In 1919 New
York had 5,527, London 290 and Liver
pool 10. These are only few samples
of statistics given.
Mr.. Fosdick discusses the relation of
our heterogeneous population to our
excessive crime rate and concludes that
in America it is greatly augmented by
the presence of unassimilated or poorly
assimilated races, although other causes
contribute. with all it's kindiness and
good nature there is a strong strain Of
violence in the temper of our communi-
ties and we lack sense of the dignity
Of obedience to restraint for the COM
mon good)
Biology has taught US the value of
heredity; Mendelian laws have given Us
variations of types; we know that tn.
lower the race the higher the birth rate,
and both history and experience prove
that immigration of lower races gradu-
ally develops restlessness, confusion,
lowering the standards, ideals and birth
rate Of the higher type, fewer men Of
genius and able leadership. This means
loss to the whole world 1t is quality
of race, not quantity, from which the
world is suffering.
There is no greater fallacy than the
shibboeth of the melting pot" True
amalga ma ton is not possible where race,
language and religion differ. The short
sighted idealsm which seeks to make
America refuge for the poor and op-
pressed of all lands is fatal to the
solidarity and development Of the higher
types OF races, those which can best aid
the whole world. Even to-day one-half
Of our population is of the old stock. and
we can still be great people if we
viii it so, bat immigration must at all
cost be stopped and opportunity given
to stabilize our ethnic being. If Amer
ica is not true to her own race-soul she
will inevitably lose it. A. D.
New York, Nov. IS, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
A Speedy Vindication

During the recent political cam
paign it was alleged on one side and
denied on the other that the League
OF Nations, without referring the
matter to the peoples of the several
nations, could recruit an internation-
al army and dispatch it on missions
which, though not directly warlike,
might easily lead to war.
Which contention was correct is
answered from Geneva. The league
is to dispatch an armed force to
Wilma to supervise the plebiscite or
dered to be held there by the league
council on the question of whether
the Wilma district is to be Lithuanian
Or Polish. If the plebiscite is regu-
larly conducted and it's result accept
ed the army will be one merely of
observation; otherwise it may be an
army of action.
The armed force is to be composed
OF contlngents furnished by Great
Britain, France, Belgium and Spain.
The authorization for the dispatch
of the several contingents. it would
seem, comes exclusively from the ex-
ecutive departments of the various
governments concerned. There is no
pretense Of going beyond secret
meetings of cabinets for authoriza-
ton.
What would our government do
we're 1t an unreseryed member Of
the league when a case similar to
that of Wilma arose? Would our OK
ecutive department assume the
power to join in the policing expedi-
ton or would it say that Congress
must first be consulted?
Little doubt exists as to the an
swer that must he returned. A Pres
ldent would act first and consult
aftcrward. This was the course
pursued when our troops helped
make up the international expedition
to Peking. 1t was the course pursued
when President Wilson landed forces
at Vera Cruz. Anything short of
express war President assumes the
right to do, and he judges when
there is formal war and when there
is not. He can put the country in
such a position that it cannot well
back out if war comes.
So conclusive evidence is present
ed that those who said President
could in effect put US into war did
not deceive. Those who asked for a
reservation limiting his power if
there was to be respect for the spirit
rs we'll as the letter Of the Constitu-
tion have been vindicated by the first
considerable act of the league.
If President Wilson were repre-
sented at Geneva, with the powers
conferred on him by an uncondition-
al ratification of the covenant, one
can easily imagine that he would
have decided that duty and manifest
destiny called on him to send our SOL
diers to Wilma and that he was the
sole judge Of the necessities of the
case. He would have pointed out,
not without force, that to wait to
consult Congress would effectively
prevent us from aiding in meeting a
crisis.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
The Diary of Our Own Samuel pepvs

November 18-Early up, and to the
Office in my petrolwaggon. it being a
fine fair day, and H. Candy to lunch
con, and SO to G. Tyler the theater-
manager, and drove him to his house,
he talking of books and how he liked
THE Age of Innocence,' which | have
finished reading, and think great
book, and he thought so, too. So
home, and wrote until dinner. very
fair, our new scandinavian handmaid
being out and my wife cooking the
dinner Al my desk all evening, save
for two tunes on the Believe
Me, If All Those Endearing Young
Charms" and 1.-TWO Little Girls in
Blue"
19-To the office, and thence to the
chyfurgeon's to take my wife home,
she weary and i'll with an operation
upon her nose, poor wretch, and dis
trait, nor can | blame her, forasmuch
as she hath had more ill-fortune than
any other person l know, yet bears all
more bravely than should do.
Stopped home for stew of oysters.
and SO to the Office again, where till
late at my stint
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
MEMRER Or THE A

MEMBER OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the
sss sos republication Of all news dispatches
srsdted to st not otherwise credited In this paper
and alse tho local news Of spontaneous origin pub
ushed herein.
AL rights Of republication Of all ether rnsstar
hsrsin aso are reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
A Needed Precaution

(From The Philadelphia Imqusrer)
The army will now take steps to ar
rest Grover Bsrgdoll. In the event it
gets him we hope it will turn him over
to some other body Tor ssfekesping.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20

Ven can pureha,e merchandise advsrtlssd In THE
tRteUNE With absolute safsty--fer II dissatIsfae.
tsa results In any case the TRIBUNE guarantees
to pU ysur money back upsn request. No red tape.
Ne suibhI!ns. Ws mako sosd premptly II the
advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
Is heMelting Pot a Fauacy9
True Amalgamation Held Impossible When Race Language
and RELIGION Differ

y
TO the Editor Of Tho Tribune.
Sir: The writer OF "A World in a
Fog" In The Tribune Of Saturday, No
vember 13, will find this inquiry most
convincingly answered In two recent
books, The Passing Of the Great Race,
by Madison Grant, and The Rising Tide
of Color, by Lothrop Stoddard, both
acknowledged authorities on race prob
lens.
Briefly, the Colonial stock in this
country was probably the finest which
nature has evolved since the classic
Greeks. 1t was tho pick Of the Nor
dies Of the British Isles and adjacent
regions Of the European continent, i'm
migrants who were largely exiles for
conscience sake, when immigration
was so difficult and hazardous that only
persons Of courage, initiative and
strong will power would voluntarily
face the long voyage overseas to life
of struggle in an untamed wilderness
haunted by savages. Only the racally
fit ordinarily came, while the few unfit
we're mostly weeded out by the exact
ing life.
Nature vouchsafed to America the
greatest opportunity In recorded his
tory to produce powerful and racial
ly homogeneous people, and had pro-
vided q pure race Of one of the most
gifted and vigorous stocks on earth,
free from physical and moral diseases
which have again and again sapped the
vigor of older lands. Our grandfathers
threw away this opportunity in the bliss
full ignorance Of national childhood and
inexperience. The number of great
names which America produced at the
beginning Of its national life shows the
high level Of ability possessed by this
relatively small people. With our hun
dred- odd millions we have no such out
put to-day. For nearly seventy years
after the Revolution immigration was
small and the Colonial stock began to
display the traits of q genuine new
type, harmonious and rich in racial
promise. Perhaps the best feature OF this
national American race was its strong
idcalism.
Modern immigration
In the late '4Os of the last century
modern immigration began. Famine in
Ireland drove thousands to our shores
and this cheap labor vas the first step
in degrading domestic service. Since
then over 100000 immigrants, many
of them the sweepings of southern and
eastern Europe, have deluged our
shores and are still coming, a menace
to the very existence of our race,
ideals and institutions. We are told
that they spurn domestic service and
seek high wages in factories, hotels
and restaurants. All our slowly ac-
ouired balance has been upset, physical,
mental and spiritual.
Raymond Fosdick has just published
q report from the Bureau of Social Hy
giene giving the results of exhaustive
studies of police conditions in America.
Startling figures compare crime in
America and Great Britain: London. in
1916, with population of 100000
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
Incapacity Supreme

When war comes it will come throusa
the air and it will come swiftly. II W.
are not prepared TO meet il and des'S'
it, ward off subsequent air attacks, W.
might as we'll quit If we cannot on
tain and hold control Of the air OWE
our territory and territorial ws'e"
our navy and our army will not nave
chance to mobilize. much less fight
We need no demonstration OF inc ~
solute incapacity of the Navy Depa''
ment to dictate our aviation policy "
yond the present lack of organlzstla'
Of naval aviation. The fact thar VIE
in year after the termination OF sa'
great war the Bureau Of Naval AVE-
ton was dismantled and that every D'.
ing officer of the navy was relieved '.
executive authority should be ana =
sufficient evidence Of the fact tnal =.
navy can not and will aot appfo'..
this subject in a manner permitting -
successful solution.
Let the War Department ana ".
Navy have all the aviation they wa
to work in conjunction with so'ais'.
and ships, the same as the army -.
ships (transports) and the navy
soldiers (marines). But for ss'su
sake, let's have an air force, orgsh'''.
and ready to fight an enemy air is's.
wherever they meet. Such an air '0's :
win account for the enemys aiFe's.
and, If necessary, his navy ana -
army. But let US have an air fcree,
AVIATION
New York, Nov. 10. 1890. =
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20

IN twenty-eieht cases out Of twenty
nine the proceedings were instituted
shortly after Cant you read paper
without separating it,"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
Vital Statistics

Sir: The Society for the Investigation of
the Causes OF Domestic lnfelicity Among the
Bourgeosie, in its preliminary report an
nounces that i'll 1888 cases out Of 1896 the
trouble started with this remark "May |
borro" your founta pen for few IN .riutes
dear p ToEcuoN BEu1E
Secretary, S. l. c. D. l. A. r.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20

9ntsfsd a he Postcfncs At New York 20 Second
Casa Mail Natter
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
Sea Power os. Air POM,
When War Comes II WIN c;|
Through The Al,
To the Editor of The Tr;bun.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: In Tho New York TIT
November there appeared a .irp,s..-.
discussion Of Future Naval w.rt.,..
While the identity Of your cor,.,,
ent is unknown to me, I. ia .rn.
that he. like many in the navy. h..
preached the truth. The die3cr,.u
the navy. as I see II, lies not on,, -,
the Secretary, whom "QuarterdscRn .-'.a
cizes by implication, but with III a.
omcers in the service who are up,n
or unwilling to perceive III. ;,ov,..,,
position Of dominion which aerial v.,
fare will assume within ths ,.
years.
And even "ouarterdeck," who sor.,...
tho eventual extinction of the .r;...-
s4o,ooo,oO0 superintendent, .r
short of the point when he stats. 80
the fleet must at all times con.,..
completely control-the air abov. !.
self And also where, after clearly j.
dicating his belief in the don;,..:.
of air power, he qualities his nos,.;'
to such an extent as to decla,. ~.
will be practically impossible far -.
nation to attack successfully the eo,,,
Of another nation" and, the-e.o,s 49,.
in our future plans we have o,,v =
think of offensive warfare.
Of the three elements-earth o....
air-the atmosphere is the oDlv on'
which can be navigated over land :.
sea in one kind or craft. A oombi,s :,
battle plane or dirigible is ss mr..
a "warship' over Chicago as it is ava.
the Atlantic. 1t can do more damsn.
over New York City than over a..
stationed in Pacific waters. To III. Al.
force of the future every city, sre,x
dreadnought, transport or tramp steam.
er is a point of possible attack: them
Ia no protected interior" to tbs Al,
force. 1t would be as impossible for,
navy, as such, to control the air ov.,
land as it would be for an armv a,
land to control the atmosphere over III.
sea.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20

Owned and published daily BY New York Tribune
ssa. Nsw York Corporation. Ogden Reid. ptesi-
dsnt: q. Vernon Rogers. yicc-President; Holen
xossfs Reid. Secretary: r r. Maxneld. Treasurer.
Addrsas. Tribune Building asa Nassau Street. New
xstk. Tslsphons. Bsekman 5000
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
The Coming Tower
TO ANNIE, CONE BUT NOT FoRcorrEN

TO ANNIE. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
It's weeks since you left our at
tractive abode
The reason you went I've for
.gotten.
/ recall that you couldn't cook beef
la mode;
I remember your pastry was
rotten.
Your bacon was soft and your
steaks overdone;
Your coffee was bitter and
muddy;
The mullins you baked averaged
ten to the ton,
And never cookbook you'd
study.
And yet you were gentle, dear
Annie, and kind.
I wept when you told as you'd
leave us,
For cooks from the country aren't
easy W tlItO--
(You came from Cohoes or
Schenevus).
That 1925 on my telephone bill
Was long distance call, and
you made it
To get your new job. I'm a
sport, but / will
Admit that I WINGED when I
paid it.
Readers who continue to ask us to
reprint A. A. Mines From Full
Heart" may be glad to know that they
may find it in "The Book of Humorous
Verse;" Miss Carolyn Wells's new
compilation. In it also they will find,
in the category Immortal Stanzas,"
the first Of the "To Be Continued I"
pieces, by Julian Street and James
Montgomery Flagg, published eight or
nine years ago in this Dragnet of
Delusciousness. It follows:
Said Opie Read to E. P. Roe:
How do you like Gaboriau?"
II like him very much indeed"
Said f. P. Roe to Opie Read.
Also there are Catherine M. Fam
shawe's "An Imitation Of Wordsworth" :"
many poems from Gelett Burgesss
out-of-print "a Gage of Youth" Ar
thur Macy's "The Rollicking Mastodon"
and, as the Society Reporter has it,
many others. Conspicuous omissions
are any selections from Edwin Meade
Robinson, Edmund Vance Cooke,
Thomas A. DAILY, Sir Arthur Quiller-
Couch, ]. C. Squire, and Ring w.
Lardner.
But even so careful an eye as Miss
Wels's-or is it the eye Of the Doran
proofrea ader ?-permtted Harry Par
sons Taber, John Dreydcn, and Strick-
land w. Gilman.
Vital Statistics
Sir The Society FOR the Investigation of
the Causes of Domestic lnfelicity Among the
Eourgooisie i'll its preliminary REPORT. an
nounces that i'll 1888 cases out of 3sG th.
trouble started with thic ,.,,o .,Nt,.,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
4 Department OF Ariation

1t is not fair to expect that the navy,
an organization that has been deve.
oped for the express purpose If wsging
war upon the sea, can accept the posi-
bility of this new force eventually driv
ing warships of the water, thus max.
ing it possible for an enemy to invade
any part of our country from the air.
An organization that necessarily
must deny this possibility in order to
justify its existence is not capable Of
developing the new arm. If we have DE-
partment of aviation, charged with the
sponsibility of developing an air force
that can defend all parts Of our ter
ritory from an air attack, such de-
partment viii set about the develop
ment of aircraft des igned not only TO
meet enemy aircraft and destroy them.
but, working from a land base, to 60
after battleships of an enemy, its trans
port service and, if possible, its indus
trial centers and land Transportation
services and army concentration camps
This does not mean that the navy
rapidly going out Of business, although
there are many indications that dreaa'
noughts are rapidly going out Of fasa'
ion. But as long as they exist it VIII
be necessary for them to be protecEes
by aircraft for observation and defen"
of the fleet.