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New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t was most encouraging tt
read your editorial this morning or
"The Need for Half-Nickel." But yor
stopped too soon.
The demand or the use for a 2-cent
piece simply does not exist. Two cop.
pers are twice as good as one 2-cent
piece, for they are divisible for use
The 2-cent piece is simply more clumsy
and accomplishes nothing that two cop
pers will not do.
Every store in the country quotes
such prices as 1871 cents, 371a cents
62h cents, SIN cents; but every sale
of single unit or any odd number OF
units now means loss of II cent to
the purchaser. Every half-yard OF
half dozen Of 25 cents, 35 cents, rs
cents, $1.25 or $1.75 goods means a loss
of half cent to the customer.
Perhaps you say the half cent is
nothing; but in years time it is mil
lions Of dollars-in store fractions, in
movie ticket taxes, as ycu say, and in
many other transactions.
When stop to buy gas for my car
and the price is quoted with = half cent
I find myself asking for even gallons,
as matter Of principle.
The half-nickel is national need
in the name Of true thrift. When we
get it 21a cents will DO tho work of
cents, and that Is saving of 20 cents
on dollar!
Is that worth while or isn't It?
Who will impress Congress with the
big fact? w. r. HOTCHKIN.
New York, March 90, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
4 Half-Nickel Needed
Fractional Coin Would Benefit the Ultimate Consumer
Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune In

are now "22 cents and cents tax"
according to the placards. In other
words, the ticket tax has furnished an
excuse for raising admission rates on
the ground Of convenience in making
change.
This particular subject is not Of
great Importance in itself, but it is
an excellent illustration of the need
for careful attention to details in
drafting tax laws. If the law had
provided for specific tax, as for ex-
ample, Give cents on each ticket of
so cents or under, 10 cents on tickets
from SO cents to ST." the government
would get considerable revenue that is
now absorbed by the box Offices.
A. C. PLEYDELL.
New York, March %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Special Park Policemen

The demand for special park
poaice force for the city's parks rep
xesents the carefully considered
view at the Park Board. The bills
now pending in the Legislature at
Albany have been ably pleaded for
BY Mr.. Hornaday and others who
know the park problem thoroughly
and have the interests Of the whole
city at heart. We think they should
be passed without further delay.
There is always superficial argu-
msnt to be made for uniformity. for
unity 3ox Jumping al services deal
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / understand that our city
fathers put off daylight saving until
April "a. If daylight saving is a bad
thing, why compromise with evil; if a
good thing, whom are they trying to
placate? One extra hour Of daylight
in April is worth more to the COM
muter than two hours in May.
Our Office force has voted unani-
mously to commence daylight saving
March %, beginning work at 8 and
closing at a. There will probably be a
good many others who will do the same
thing. B. G.. PRATT
New York, March 23, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
The Ticket Tax
To the Editor OF The Tribune,

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The coinage of 21s-cent piece
would not help the buyer Of 25-cent
movie ticket (whom you use as an IL
lustration of person who pays an
extra half cent tax because of the
absence of fractional coin). 1t is
true, as you point out, that the tax on
such ticket is only PA cents, but
it does not follow that the buyer pays
8 cents tax, which would be only a
half cent too much. What has hap
pened is that tickets formerly 20 cents
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Cardinal Gibbons

SdIOlA16t 0lUbOuS was lOT uAuy
years the most eminent representa-
tive in this country Of the Roman
Catholic Church. He was the Sec
ond American archbishop to become
member Of the Sacred College. For
a long period he was the only Amer
lean cardinal. He presided over the
oldest Roman Catholic see in the
United States. His career, his char
acter and his engaging personality
had given him place in the hearts
of millions Of his countrymen.
To the Roman Catholic commu-
nifty here the Cardinal appealed as
great Church statesman, a far-sight-
ed steward and organizer, power
in council and vital spiritual force.
He had the simplicity and unosten-
tation Of greatness. He was revered
and beloved as man as we'll as a
priest.
To the non-Catholic community he
stood also as broad-minded citizen
and patriot. He was American by
birth and intensely American in
spirit. He had been born and spent
the greater part Of his life in state
in which the Roman Catholic faith
had been firmly established for many
generations. It had it's roots in the
Colonial history Of Maryland and
had fourished for generations in
native soil. This environment nat
urally affected its general status and
attitude. It didn't represent, as it
did in many other states, new and
partially alien growth.
North Carolina and Virginia were
extreme nativist states, the field
of the Cardinals first labors as
bishop. He had breathed in his
Americanism, as it were, and was
always firm opponent of policies
intended to segregate Church groups
here according to nationality and
language and to erect barriers be-
tween native and foreign-born COM
nunicants. He said modestly, but
truly, at the celebration of the twen-
ty-fifth anniversary Of his elevation
to the cardinalate: Zone merit I can
claim, and that is an ardent love for
my native country and her political
institutions"
The Catholic Church in the early
years Of Cardinal Gibbons's priest
hood had to face intense animosities
the aftermath of the Know-Noth-
ing agitation. But before he became
Archbishop at Baltimore those as
perities were dying away. His
own conduct Of Church polity tended
to disarm enemies and doubters. He
tried to bring the Catholic faith al
ways into more intimate contact with
American life and to make it an ef-
ficient agency not only of piety and
good works but also of good citizen
ship. He took friendly counsel with
public men Of other creeds. He
preached and practiced concord.
His clerical associates have appre-
ciated to the full his distinction as a
scholar, an ecclesiastic and an ad-
ministrator. The public at large
will mourn him as something more
than that--a venerable figure on the
American scene, kindly and potent,
sagacious and charitable, an ex-
emplar of high virtues and a benef-
icent influence in our natlonal life.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
A Tough Job
(Frons I,hs Los Ancel., r.. .

Fro"s Ihs Los An0eles Times)
President Harding will have his
troubles in the next four years. We
believe and hope he will pull out of
them in good shape; but regardless Of
his success, he will be much more than
q -FOUR years older man in 1924. And
his friends, or rather his intimates,
will be far fewer. No man can take
the Presidency without giving away q
great part Of his life in exchange.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25

under similar conditions? IL there
not always a fair chance that we
may some day reap the conse-
quences Of our silly sentimentality
that has swathed the sword of
justice in red tape and briefs on
appeal?
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
A Leisure Interval
fE'~o,,, IN. p,n,;s.... yo...,,nf

fFT0m Tho Providence Jouy7adfJ
Sitting on his dignified and peaceful
new rostrum, vice-President Coolidge
will have an abundance Of time to
think up some more Of those trenchant
utterances that have made his personal
brand Of eratory SO Distinctive
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25

~ saa pursAass msrshandlss advsstised n THE
f9twUNG WITH ahs4iuss satsty--fse II dlssatlstae.
Uoa rssulta ln any eass THE TRt8uNE suaraa.
~ = ~ your meAss hack upsn request. Ne rs1
SeneAI Ne lsthhIlaS. We make eesd promptly u
~ a1vertIssf dess net
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
,xnsnrn ar rHx Assoc1Arrp PRESS

shs use for republication Of all dispatches
credited 70 II OF not otherwise credited in this
tapsf. and also the local news Of spontaneous
efisfH puhlshed herein.
& Al rights Of republication 4 all sthse matter
oets4n also are reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
The Missing Allied Flags
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In this mornings Tribune I
read with interest the letter entitled
"The Missing Allied Flags" This
voices (from my own observation) the
sentiments Of numberless Americans.
who would not be 100 per cent Ameri-
cans if they did not sense the absolute
necessity of recognizing not only those
who were our comrades in the great
war. but those who stand close to US
in our understanding of the principles
that make for righteousness and are
the foundations of our Constitution.
The one thing most desired by our
enemies is that difference shall, arise
between US and England, but we know
SO long as America keeps her head
this can never happen, and whenever
crisis does come into our affairs
America does keep her head. But it
has occurred to me several times Of
late" that inasmuch as the goats are
lining up it would be we'll for the
sheep to step into the ranks, just to
let them know that we are there.
A DESCENDANT OF ONE WHO
FOUGHT AT LEXINGTON.
New York, March %, 1921. q
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter from A. n Warren,
OF Richmond, Mass. in to-day's Trib-
une surprises me, coming, as it does,
from Massachusetts, Warren. He con-
demns the non-use of flags of the AL
lies with the Stars and Stripes at the
splendid meeting in the Garden on
March 18, when the second Declaration
of Independence of Americans was
made, this time from the hyphen.
A display Of the flags of the Allies
would have served no other purpose
than to have aroused the puerile ire Of
the hyphen-Irish. The speakers, the
meeting itself, showed beyond dorbt
cur feelings for the Allies.
e. ". STREB0R.
New York, March %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
A Glutton for Punishment

tFrons The Baltimore Sxn)
It may not be an enduring peace. bui
it has endured a great deal
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
The Coming Tower
KING COPHETUA AND THE BEG.
I. NAn RaArn

KING COPHETUA AND THE BEG
GAR MAID
The feast was spread and sarlanded;
The guests had como; the bride.
more fair
Than lilies, leaned in tatters there.
Beside the fruitflled canister.
Slaves held cup for her to sup
The citron-scented bridal wine;
While cardamoms Of dusky shine
And pomegranates wore offered her.
But he .0ho Iay ocross tho suuy
TO 10ctch the Joyous compuny,
As beg0urs come to catch each cvun,b,
Crept nearer to her, hwngrily.
The bridegroom laughed and gayly
quaffed
His golden cup to welded love.
ITO eyes that match the mating dove,
And lips the mating tanager,
To hair outshining jewels twining
Moro royal maids, drink" he said.
And placed his crown upon her head,
And on his high throne seated her.
But he who 10y aoross the yay
Wept bitterly and hid his faos.
"She svas enthronedw he wildly moaned,
"Upon my heart, higher place."
The beggar bride, her king beside,
Drew close her lily-tasseled veil.
And no one heard her hidden wall
Above the royal chorister.
"Weep not for me, dear Love-" wept
she,
"Who lose mine all to be q queen"
And then she raised her tattered
screen,
And faced the king who welded her.
But he .oho 10y across tho svoy
Rose, dosolated, to depart.
Nor dreamed that aohen he left her them
Rebeggcred suos her soynI heart.
RHODA HERO DUNN.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25

The second job we held was that
Of bill-collector, fact which doubt
less is recorded in the carefully COM
piled and collated indices Of the De-
partment of Justice and the Military
Intelligence Division. But-and let
this be added to the record in the event
that the President wants US to collect
the billion marks from Germany-our
success was far from conspicuous.
Bill-collecting was our pleasantest
pre-colyuming job. We collected for
FIRE insurance agency, and most of
the delinquentpolicy holders lived many
miles from the Office. To reach them
we had to take long car rides. In May,
1901, for example, we read all of
Malory's Morte d'Arthur, book which
changed the hue of the universe for US.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25

Something is wrong with the movies.
The title of the screen version of Sem
timental Tommy is to be Sentimental
Tommy. ERA ,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
March Is Daylight Savers

New York, March %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
GUARANTY

Uatsrsd u TIE Postofacs at New York ~ Second
Glass Mail Mater.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
Tome Town
4t1glp5A
BEST DESIGN FOR CHIMNEY
Style of Construction That Reduces
Danger of Fire to the Lowest
Possible Point.

1t is Well-known that the ordinary
brick-and-mortar chimney, as usually
constructed, is a source of danger. The
constant heat from fire in time causes
the mortar to become dry, so that it
falls out of place, leaving holes in the
chimney. Such a condition usually
goes unnoticed and is a constant source
of danger from fire.
In constructing chimneys in build
ings made of combustible material, the
chimney should be built straight up
from the ground, and not placed on a
bracket, as is often the case, and
should extend two feet or more above
the peak when the chimney is in the
center of the roof, and three feet or
more above the surface when a fiat or
slanting roof. For a proper draft the
minimum-sized opening for the 1ue
should not be less than 81 square
inches, While the walls should be at
least eight inches thick. At the base
Of each f1ue a clean-cut door should be
provided, if possible. Whatever the
material used in construction, it should
be of good quality and laid in cement.
Flue holes should never be filled with
any inflammable material, but should
be covered over in a secure manner
with a metal iue stop.
The joists used to support the floors
through which the chimney passes
should not have their ends supported
in the brick, as the chimney may set
tie, leaving at these points cracks
through which fire may creep to the
joists; furthermore, no other wood
work should come in contact with the
chimney.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
MANY USE NEIGHBOURS sIREs
Minnesota Breeder Keeps Up and Inn
proves Quality of Live Stock !
by Simple Plan. !

That the use of good purebred sires
does not necessarily involve owner
ship is shown by developments in the
Better Sires-Better Stock cam
paign, which is improving the quality
of domestic animals in the country.
A Minnesota breeder in Kittson coun-
ty raises four classes of live stock
cattle, horses, swine and poultry. He
owns a p%urebred bull but uses a neigh
boris Percheron stallion and also a
neighbor's purebred boar. To obtain
poultry Of improved breeding he pur-
chased eggs from a breeder of stand
ard-bred fowls. i
Aonther live stock owner in the
same county states in a letter to the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture: :" do not W a purebred bull,
but all cows r bred by a purebref
bull owned by a neighbor." In these
cases the quantity of farm live stock
kept was relatively small and under
such circumstances the arrangements
stated are both simple and practical.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
HAPPINESS in OWNING HOME
Ideal Citizen Is the Man Who Lives
Upon and Cares for His Own
Small Property.

A correspondent writes: SO
1--WE need not look far back into his-
tory to prove, nor far around us in the
world to see, that the deepest content
ment and the highest prosperity are
ever found where there are the most
proprietors of small holdings Of land,
each owner living upon and caring for
his. own property. The most stable
and ideal governments in the world are
those whose citizens in the largest
number w and occupy their homes.
The first step in the prevention of
anarchy is to secure a homecoming
and home-loving people, and the long
est step toward peace and prosperity
in a nation is the possession Of Its own
home by each family in the state. The
fundamental reason for this is in our
nature-our intuition demands tive
know, because we are created to know,
that the family home is the nearest
approach to heaven that this earth at
fords, and is the source of the deepest
contentment the human heart can at
TAIN
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
GET TO WORK ON GARDEN
Really There Is No Reason Why There
Should Be Any Unused Ground
in Community.

.. ~~-SSS~
A garden is a good investment. A
garden saves money. A garden pro-
notes health.
The cost of living still is burden
some to mu1titudes. Here is where the
garden al be made to help. It all de-
ponds on the man with the hoe. Enough
of him, working at odd times during
the next few weeks, with slight atten-
ton during the summer, can accom-
plish more for the general material
welfare than can be accomplished
through the operation of treaties and
tariffs. No doubt about it at all! Let
the available unused plots of ground
in the nation be utilized for garden
purposes; let every citizen tend his
little patch-rich man, poor man, beg
gar man-with the school children do
ing their bit, as was done during the
war, and 10! the most vexing internal
domestic problems will be settled, and
millions of people will be out of the
trenches of trouble before Christmas,
Now is the time for the man with
the hoe to get busy. Whether prices be
high or low, it pays to make a garden.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
Home Garden Saves 500.

LE7--F-- I
The average American family can
grow one-eighth of its food and save
$100 annually by home gardens, a Col.
umbia university survey shows.
O. S. Morgan, professor of agricul-
ture at the university, in making
public the survey urges the thousands
of gardeners who made q start with
home gardens during the war and who
"quit them just OF the eve of victory
to %re-enlist. He says that 22,540
farms have been abandoned in New
York state during the past decade,
a reduction of 1O5 per cent of the
total number in 1910.
I'm a recent survey of a thousand
families with home vegetable and
fruit gardens, it vas shown that as
an average the garden produced one
eighth Of the food requirements of
the family" Professor Forgan said.
"At current prices it is estimated
that even in remote suburbs this
would represent well over 500 actual
saving to each family."-New York
Sun.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
WATCHED EFFECTS OF STORM
How Great Naturalist Took observa-
tions During Severe Weather in
the Shasta Country.

Day after day the storm continued,
piling snow on snow in weariless
abundance. There were short periods
Of quiet, when the sun would seem to
look eagerly down through. the rents in
the clouds, as if to know how the
work was advancing. During these
calm intervals 1 r%eplenished my fire
sometimes without leaving the nest,
for fire and woodpile were so near
this could easily be done-or busted
myself with my notebook, watching
the gestures Of the trees in taking the
snow, examining separate crystals
under a lens, and learning the methods
of their deposition as an enduring
fountain for the streams. Several
times when the storm ceased for q
few minutes, a Douglass squirrel came
frisking from the foot OF a clump Of
dwarf pines, moving In sudden inter-
rupted spurts over the glossy snow ;
then without any apparent guidance
he would dig rapidly into the drift
where he buried some grains Of bar
ley that the horses had left. The
Douglass does not strictly belong ia
these upper woods, and I was sur
prised to find him out in such weather,
John Muir.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
Plant Memorial Trees.

Mere human art, no matter how
great the genius Of the artiicer, cannot
begin to compare with the art of ma
ture. There is something appealing in
the latter which renders it far superb
or to anything of the kind in stone or
metal or on canvas.
Cities and towns, nay, eve villages,
on this side of the Atlantic that have
been bereaved Of their sons In the world
conflagration Of the second decade Of
the Twentieth century cannot do bet
ter than to take a leaf out Of a book
of the gold diggers Of Ballarat, Austria
liza and create memorial avenues, lined
on either side. not by stone or bronze
statues but by beautiful living maple.
or oak trees that will bear their names
and that win develop and flourish with.
the growth Of the c-ountry.-Montreai
Family Herald.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
Study Of Park Shrubs Helpful.

It is a good plan to have some of
the large shrubs in the corner of the
lawn, and smaller ones in between
should be in an irregular line, with a
tall specimen here and there near the
front, so the top line will not be too
straight. BY visiting parks a study
can be made of the growing habits Of
the various shrubs. This will be found
helpful in deciding what plants will
be best suited for certain locations.
You will avoid such mistakes as plant
ing shrubs too close together and plant
ing the wide spreading varieties too
near the walk. Close planting may be
practiced, but it is usually necessary
to take up every other n within a
few years. If plants are set near the
walk it is often necessary to keep trim
ming them back every year.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
Eel.Ltke Water Don.

The hellbender Is a large, ugly look
Ing but harmless salamander, found
In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and
southwark. The h%ellbender is known
as an alligator and water dog. Two
species inhabit the central parts of
the United States, of which the more
common and widespread is the Nee
turus maculatus. 1t reaches the length
Of one foot to twenty inches, is
smooth. Shiny and brown blotched,
with the tufted gills dark red. These
creatures remain mostly among weeds
or rocks at the bottom of the water
during the daytime, but at night, they
move about, often with quick ell-like
motions, In search of crawfish, worms,
insects. frogs and it readily takes the
bait off the isherman's hook. It is
tenacious of life and can live for hours
out of water. They spawn during the
months of April and May. The spawn
much resembles that of frogs. but
is lighter in color.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
Land Words at Sea.

Cat is not an animal; it is a tackle
used to hoist the anchor. Chains are
not chains, but plates of iron bolted
through a ships side, to which the
rigging supporting the masts is fas-
tened.
Dog watches are net periods Of time
consumed in watching dogs, but they
are half watches of two hours each
from 4 to 6 and 6 to 8 p. No..
Draught is not a drink of water,
but the depth of water in which a
vessel is required to float.
Duck Is not a thing that swims and
Quacks, but a light canvas used for
small sails.
Eye is not an organ of sight; 1t is
q circular part of a shroud or stay
that Is iooped y e a mast.-Nation's
Business.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
STATESMAN KNEW, ALL RIGHT
the Motto Of the State Was
in Latin.

~. -ENE-E AHF Id .-14sa LNNHA
A Chicago lawyer, a man Of great
ability and wide learning, visited.
during a trip to the Southwest, the
capital Of one state, where he was
given a dinner at the expense Of the
state.
The feast was an abundant one, and
all the great men from miles around
we're invited to it, to honor the great
lawyer. He had the governor on one
side Of him at the table and the lieu
tenant governor on the other side.
AS the party sat down the menu cards
had already been laid beside their
plates. These cards were very fine.
They cost $25 each, and they bore at
their heads the state coat Of arms,
upon which was engraved a motto in
Latin.
AS the lawyer sat down he took up
this card and, looking at the motto,
said to the man at his left, VERY
good, indeed, and very appropriate"
whats good?" asked the lieu
tenant governor.
Il refer to these words" said the
lawyer, as he pointed to the motto.
YES" replied the lieutenant gov
ernor, with a knowing look, "them
words is Latin"