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The New York herald., 1921-10-02
They would be no more effective than

They would be no more effective than
SO many pea shooters.
And the Alabama tests have proved
that the air force can attack the feet
at night. What could the feet do?
This situation is appalling
General MIToHEIL's warning to
America goes on:
"At present there Is complete
lack OF liaison or system about our
national defence. Tho duties are
distributed between the Army. the
Navy, the air force. the coast ar
tillery, the army corps area COM
manders and the coast guard In
such way as to make 1t impossible
to function efficiently In an emer-
gency."
This is absolutely true. Our sys
TEN is one of chaos. 1t spells con
fusion, turmoil and complete unpre
paredness for modern war. There il
no head.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
SUNDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1921.
Police Joy Riders.

The story of police joy riding told
before the Meyer committee is an
other arrow pointing the way the
Hyianized Police Department mas
Leen going. OF course the loss was
not great to the city. The cars were
stolen cars. The gasolene used by
the Joy riders at the city's expense
cost S1,21S-a mere trifle. The Po-
lice Commissioner won ten times as
much as that in one adventure with
Morton Pete in Wall Street.
True, there was the time OF the
joy riders. 1t is not made clear that
in all instances the policeman went
motoring in the stolen cars during
duty hours. The cars seem to have
been used largely on Saturdays. Sun
DAYS and holidays. But is a JOY
riding policeman much good even
when he pretends to work?
We do not expect to see the town
grow furious over the stolen car es'
capades of the small fry among the
police. The head Of the department
had accepted the loan, for an indefi'
mite period, of fine car from a
special deputy. Why should not the
little fellows aspire to ride in the
stolen buzz wagons? Better on the
high road than gathering dust in the
property clerks possession.
Joy riding on the city's gasolent
and oil was wrong, certainly; bu
1t was a symptom as much as i
was a scandal. Probably the higl
officials whose bad example was re
sponsible for it were not aware tina
1t was going on When men ar
watching the ticker or thinking ~
martial music for the Mayor or In
specting apartment houses as pre-
spective buyers the regular routin
or police business would cut int
their time If they pursued 1t. s.
they don't pursue it.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

sun. Meteorologists no longer re-
gard the floating dust Of the upper
air as foreign matter. 1t is a ma
terial constituent necessary to life In
it's present forms. When the hoat'
ing dust falls into the lower air the
particles become the nuclei upon
which cloud matter forms, and the
clouds send the dust to the ground
along with raindrops and snow
flakes.
1t is not new science of the air
which the airman has given to hui
manity, but science broader ana
more profound than that which pre-
ceded modern aeronautics. Thanks
therefore be to LANGLEY and the
brothers WRIGHT.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
The Omnivorous Trout.
From the Field.

The Journal OF the Toruuay Natural His
tory Society for 1921 contains an interesting
report by Or. Y. @. l.. Perkins on the diet
OF trout. Half a dozen fish averaging
threc-fourths OF a pound. caught toward the
end of August. were examined and It was
found that the bulk of the food they had
been taking consisted Of water beetles and
ants In nearly equal proportions. The rest
Of the food showed considerable variety,
and II seems TO have consisted OF anything
edible that came in the way OF the fish
caddIs. leeches. gnat larvm. &c. One
striking thing noted by Or. Perkins was
that many OF the weeviis and water beetles
we're found 10 be alive in the fishes storn-
achs hours after capture.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
American Art.
1t Is Denied That 1t Is Necessary to
Seek Inspiration Abroad.

TO THE NEW York HERALD: As man
aging secretary OF the League Of New
York Artists. Inc. a society composed
Of more than 5000 American painters
and sculptors. wish to take exception
to the ideas promulgated by Miss Cecilia
Beaux at the International Art Congress-
In Paris.
That america win have to find III
chief inspiration in Holland, Italy and
especially In France" Is an absurdity
infinitely increased by the fact tha1
American artists as artists have no delos
cation at the present time In the In-
ternational Arts Congress. In view ol
Miss Beaux's remarks 1t is pleasing ia
American ears to hear that the French
and other pationalitiee represented at
the conference agreed that tho speci-
mems of American art they have seen
indicated national school already es-
tablished in this country.
To-day our oncoming artists are tech~
nically as proficient in almost all de-
partments of arts and crafts as were the
men Of any period of design history.
Perhaps the most striking example Of
the awakening felt among our younger
generation is shown in the large num-
bers Of students In painting, sculpture
and architecture who are focking ia
Jay Hambidge, the American artist
who has recovered the lost principles
of design used by the ancient Greeks
and Egyptians. These students know
that the use Of these principles applied
to our modern art life will in the next
generation place America on a plane
equal to II not SURPRISING that Of the
classical period OF Greece.
It has not been beneath the dignity
of a great American painter like George
Bellows to interpret his own life and
times, even to the extent of introducing
the aaodern prize ring into art. Thus he
has become one of the most prseminent
examples of American artists to-day,
Howard Giles. Stirling Calder. Robert
Henri, Eliot Clark and group Of other
artists are among the younger men who
are interpreting American life and en-
vironment in their art.
American artists are and should be
thankful for the traditions Of European
countries; but it must not be forgotten
Such men as Robert Fulton, Samuel r.
B. Morse and many others were artists
and gave to the world the steamboat,
the submarine and the telegraph.
The National Academy Of Design and
the Art Students League present schools
of art instruction which America may
well be proud Of 1t is no longer neces-
sary for the young student to journey
to Europe for instruction.
| AS sure as there is an American
Declaration Of Independence, tho League
Of New York Artists, Inc. will function
as league OF American artists and
fight the intrusion Of foreign IDEAS and
uphold the traditions Of our own coun-
try and reflect our native environment.
Art is a great national asset and one
| OF the most potent mediums for that
consolidation of our people which 10 50
manifestly needed to-day.
| JULIAN Downs.
NEW YORK, October /.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

Adoo, Gompers and others OF the same
kind. Hence. as General Pershing said.
It is time for the American people to
take notice. And they are taking notice,
as some politicians who are afraid of
Mr.. Gompers and others OF the same
kind will find out in due time. When
the people wake up to these facts there
will be something doing that will help
to make these United States what they
once were, the greatest country in the
world. c. F. WRIGHT.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, october I.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
The First Frost.

The dahlla with its gay rosettes
still musters on parade,
The sun is still so hot at noon
That workmen seek the shade.
And green as In the summer time
The maple towering high
Extends it's thickly foliaged boughs
Toward the eapphire sky.
But lol it's emerald glory now
rs destined to be brief,
For on It's verdant top appears
A single crimson leaf,
Jack Frost came down from Icy lands
Across the polar sea
Last night and left his fatal kiss
Upon the maple tree.
MINNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

kind. II come from Peekskill." said
a youth witt down on his cheeks,
''the works shut down and l heard
there was something doing In the
big town. Say, these Bryant Park
fellows are great. They have fine
ideas. And kind folks! Seven sand
wiches and three meal tickets al.
ready tonight" Another drifter was
started on his way.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
An Escalator Wanted.

To THE New YORK HERALD: 1 am a
commuter on the Long Island Railroad
and / call attention to the lack of esca-
lators at the Pennsylvania Station.
There Is only one escalator for the
thousands of persons using this station
and that one has been out OF commits
sion now for six days.
Stair climbing is good exercise for tho
young. but for elderly folks whose hearts
are not 100 per cent efficient It is quite
another matter. Another escalator should
be built on the Eighth avenue side.
LYNBRooK CoMMurER.
IYNHRooK. October /
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
The First Quarrel.

This pickering that stings and smarts-
I think It has not touched our hearts
Tomorrow we shall laugh Mt this
And heal the trouble with q KISS
To-morrow. ah. why not to-day7
Tomorrow Is day away
Come. hold me close and still my fears
And with your kisses dry my tears :.
On Hiss me now and laugh at sorrow
-, there should never be tomorrow
ABIGAIL W. CREssoN.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Missouri Campers.
IRON the Hopkins journal

From the Hopkins Journal.
few years ago camping out was only
INDUCED in by those out for a lark. but
t's different now. Not only do people
travelling through the country on long jour
neys camp out. but travelling men as well.
One insurance man who visits Hopkins At
regular intervals carries a tent in his car
and not only camps out but does his own
cooking. He says he not only eats better
but feels better and makes quite saving
and predicts that IN few years nine out
~ ten ~ the travelling men WIN be FOL
lowing the same custom.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
The Seller Of Silks.
Shopping in Bazaar Where Rare
Fabrics Of the East Are Shown.

Lahore correspondence London Daily Mon.
silk, silk and again silk, hanging In
softly billowing folds from roof ana
door and cupboard: neat piles of the
same material arranged on shelves Of
polished deal: floor covered with thick
carpets from Persia and quantity pat
termed numdas (rugs) from Afghanis-
tan-such is the general impression we
get of the shop as we enter at the door.
heavily screened with mat that hangs
dripping with water.
Within. the place is dimly lighted,
cool and fragrant. and seems very
haven Of refuge from the binding heat
of tho sun. On one side, on q slightly
raised wooden platform. sits Mahmud
Baksh, the owner, dark and fat and
lightly clad, with a huge pink caste
mark showing from beneath epotlessly
white turban.
Rising. he bows us toward some low
stools that are placed on his right, and
then. in perfect English, asks us what
we desire.
"Saris-the dresses worn by Indian
women? Why. yes but what kind. Silk
or muslin, plain or embroidered, heavy
or finer''
We tell him what we want. He gives
an order to one Of his silent footed at
tendants and in a trice a bundle Of ma
terial. carefully wrapped In soft un-
washed null and sweetly smelling Of
musk and lavender, Is laid at our feet.
Talking volubly all the time. he opens
It and displays his wares-rich hand
woven Lahore Silks cleaning strangely
In that dim light: muslins from far of
Dacca, so fine that a whole length could
be crushed into one hand II one 20
willed: embroidered cloth Of gold from
the distant south. At for the raiment Of
kings and dainty fabrics OF rose and
lavender and white. bordered with mar
row bands Of silver.
Choice is difficult and we spend . great
deal of time Weighing the respective
merits of the different saris around US.
Here Is dark blue brocade, inter-
woven with crimson-a royal garment
In sooth. Beside it lies length Of sea
green gauze delicately embroidered In
silver--such wear as the fairies Of our
childish dreams were wont to indulge In.
On this dais Is unrolled piece OF mus
lin from Benares Of texture that Cap
tain Molyneux would love to fashion into
a summer frock for Deauville or Ascot.
Mahmud Baksh, with the accumulated
wisdom of years, studies us individually
our coloring. height. figure-and not
little does he help toward a final choice.
We have no troublesome hats or shoes
or gloves to worry us---the sarf is prac-
tically all sufficient. The material for
the little inner bodice chat has to match
IL easily chosen from the piles on tho
shelves. and its making. we know. win
offer no difficulties
Az we rise to leave tho screen u
lifted and the sun, catching the CLINT
of the hanging silks. lights up the aim
interior. revealing a wonderland Of
cleaning colors
There. on the wooden dais. Mahmud
Baksh has alreacy resumed his seat,
and the fiutter and stir our coming
caused have died down even before W
have timos to reach the waiting tonga
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
General Mitchell on Bombing.

General MrTCHEIL's report on the
bombing of the German ships and his
estimate Of the lessons to be derived
therefrom have never been published
verbatim for reasons best known to
the War Department. And yet 1t may
be said that this report hits the tar
get in every sentence.
Conservatism in the Army and
Navy vainly seeks to depreciate avia-
tion in war; 1t insists that weather,
darkness, speed and zigzagging, anti
aircraft guns, &c., will protect fleets
and forts. The Generals report
punctures and fiattens all these the
ories. He says.
"Air forces can find and destroy
all classes of sea craft under war
conditions with negligible loss to the
air craft"
This statement is unquestionably
true. The Ostfriesland tests proved
1t by day and the Alabama tests by
night. He says further:
Conditions of weather affecting
air and sea conditions do not alter
the statement made above, as air
craft can operate under conditions
under which sea craft cannot oper-
ate For instance, a sixty mile
wind, low visibility near the water
/ trr1af
difficult for sea craft
This statement is justified. A feet
is helpless at night. The Alabama
was bombed at night. A fleet Is help
less in a fog. Planes can fly above
the fog and attack fearlessly as the
fog clears. The rolling and pitching
of ships in a heavy sea will prevent
anti-aircraft guns from hitting any
!, thing. Planes can attack with i'm
J punity. General MITCHELL goes on:
: 'The Army Air Service was not
permitted to attack the targets as
it would under war conditions, and
never was more than one-tenth of
the force employed in single at
tack"
/, This statement is undeniable. In
| some cases planes were compelled
!. to fly around over the targets with
, heavy bombs for half hour, wait
. ing for permission to attack. The
, Generals report declares.
Had the Army Air Service been
Y permitted to attack as II desired
( none of the sea craft attacked would
I have lasted ten minutes in SER
j viceable condition"
This is not an overstatement. Il
the German ships had been undel
way their boilers, engines, magazines
ammunition, steering gear and com
munications would have been ex
posed. An attack in full force will
! bombs, torpedoes, mines and poisol
gas would have destroyed or pu
9 them out of action in single fligh
i over the squadron. It is not neces
: sary to sink ship to render he
II useless in battle. General mitchell
continues:
The First Provisional Air Br-
gade could have put out of action the
entire Atlantic Fleet in single at
tack. The money value of the air.
!, planes did not exceed the cost of one
y modern destroyer"
IS This statement is perfectly reasor
al able. Our feet has no air fore
c. capable of resisting such an attacl
k The Navy Air Force has a splendi
and gallant personnel, but 1t lack
is the weapons with which to figh
is Naval aviation has been suppresse
rs and discouraged for years.
~ Anti-aircraft guns are the onl
al hope of our feet. They are pract
ne cally useless. Masts, smoke pipe
,n bridges, searchlights, radio and figh
r- ing tops filed with fire control pc
ht sonnel blanket these guns almol
is completely. They are broken rec
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

Nothing in the transit report gives
hone that subway ticket agents viii
ever use both hands and more speed
in dispensing their wares.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

rbe Associated Press is exclusively entitled
20 tho use for republication of all news des-
matches credited to II or not otherwise
credited in this paper. and also the local
All rights OF republication Of special des-
matches herein are also reserve6
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
A Missouri Curricslusn.

From the Aurora Advertiser.
One Of our high school boys recently said
he would take three subjects this year.
which no doubt will be football. cigarettss
and girls.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

The weather bureau stories about
Fridays horizontal" rain storm were
strictly on the level
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

Directors and officers: Frank A. Munsey,
President; Erwin Wardman. Vice-President; ;
VIM. T. Dewart, Treasurer: Y. ii. Tither-
ilgton. Secretary
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SYNOPSIS.

PART I-Robert Hervey Randolph.
young New York man-about-town, leaves
the home of his sweetheart. Madge Van
Teller, chagrined because of her refusal
of his proposal of marriage. His income,
$4,000 a year, which he must surrender
If certain Miss Imogen Pamela Thorn
ton (whom he has seen only as small
girl ten years before) Is found, is not
considered by the girl of his heart ade-
quate to modern needs. In don't care"
mood Randolph enters a taxi, unseen by
the driver, and is driven to the stage
door of a theater. A man he knows.
Duke Beamer, induces girl to enter the
cab. Beamer. attempting to follow, is
pushed back by Randolph and the cab
moves on. His new acquaintance tells
Randolph she is a chorus girl, and has
Iost her position. She is in distress, even
hungry, and he takes her to his apart
ment. There, after lunch, a chance re-
mark convinces him the girl Is the miss
ing Pamela Thornton. He does not tell
her of her good fortune but secures her
promise to stay in the flat until the
morning, and leaves her. In a whimsical
Snood, also realizing that the girls reap
pearance has left him practically penni-
less, he brides the taxi driver to let him
take his job, and leaving word with the
legal representative of the Thornton es-
tate where he can find Pamela, takes up
his new duties under the name of slim
Hervey." He loves the girl, but his pride
forbds him approaching her under their
changed conditions.
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typewriter when no one was around.
Here Is n sample.
"Mr. Poindexter MacGuler, Sir: AS
was driving you and Miss b. Il.
larSt night who was fOster-mothered
by an aunt Of friend Of a friend of
nine. ! heerd YOU talkin to her and
all l got to say Is If l see you out
with her again short of the bands Of
matrimony I'll get another friend of
mine to get Mr.. Robert Herv Ran
dolph to tell what he knows about
you cheaten at cards on Dec % last"
Nights that gave birth in the morn
ing TO such iliterary tit-bits could
scarcely be called dull but 1t was not
long before Mr.. Randolph found him
self threatened by an unexpected mo-
notonous employment. Unfortunately
for his entertainment, his reputation
as the one par excellence st. Bernard
Iifesaver to the inebriate elite spread
rapidly throughout the Force so that
the telephone was constantly burdened
during the wee hours with the follow
ing: "Say. is Slim Hervey on the job?
w Cliy WITCH hC NOlllCo III tCil SOl
another tailor-model drunk here what
has lost his home address from his
mind"
With suspicious suddenness Mr..
Randolph proceeded to forget half his
school and eliminates and cOld-blooded-
ly leave them to their fate and
night out. not without coming to grief
on at least one OCCASION. however.
"What are you comm over me?" de-
manded the irate captain of the Nth
precinct. "You amt forgot that you
was vally TO r. H. Randolph for seven
years, have va? Has all his frehs
gone on the WagOn?"
1t looked like loOp-ho'e. Sure
said Slim Hervey promptly His
clubs near busted what with water
drinkers and softs."
sounds kinda phony to me-" said
the captain grimly. "considerin' you
took this same gent home a week ago
come Friday"
did II" said Slim, and with feigned j
surprise managed finally to recognize
the mess of evening clothes that was
huddled on nearby bench you're
right Captain He's drunken than I
ever saw him before and besides, he's
wearin' "A new set of shirtstuds. Kind
of changed his looks"
Slim fingered. "Look here" he muir.
INJURED to the captain confidentially.
"YOu're on to me, but just let me
whisper. Tn getting to be the delv-
cry wagon for all the high-spot soaks
in town. The first one of 'em that
loses his jewelry between the curb
and his own front door, just tell me
where get off, will you? I'm honest; |
got reputation, an tell you, Cap
tain, Pm willin' to bill em through for
you when you ask for the home port, |
but it's nix on me handlin' all the |
high-eXplOsive freight north of Forty !
second street. Get me?"
"Sure, Slim" said the captain, APP |
preciatively. "Ill pass the word, lad"
Thus did Mr.. Randolph make good |
his new front name and little capt. |
tai besides. working on the stalwart |
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"Tm on" said Mr.. Randolph, ran
his car to the comfortably quiet nook
designated, dug out a road map Of
Manhattan and vicinity, scrutinized
II carelessly and settled down to medi.
tate.
To select and once afIluent few
the name of the G. hostelry above
mentioned will bring certain vivid
recollections and will also place the
chronology of this yarn, for the
said abode of revelry was too good to
last very long; it choked to death on
its own popularity and consequent pub
licity. From the outside, even in its
hey-day, 1t presented a most innocu-
Gus appearance, just renovated farm
house standing under a clump of veil
ing sugar-maples on the top of hill
whence the nearest neighbor was out
of sight.
But once within its modest portal,
Its habitues found themselves in the
cleverest fake atmosphere Of pleas
ure-loving decade. An organizing gen.
ius, sensitive to all those cheap adj
juncts which usually crate on the soul
lowering at the edge of the decline
to Avernus, had pandered effectively
to an ignoble end and made of each
small room an isle of forgetfulness
price, twenty-five bucks in advance,
supper and drinks extra.
ITO be continueT
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old motto: Every knock is a boost.
Instead of becoming a mystery and
consequently anathema to the Force,
an impression was created that Slim
was hustler but clean white goods
ready to sacrifice fare or two that
he might sit high up alongside Gaze
sar's wife. BY stopping at two or
three strategically placed police sta
tons during the wind before the dawn
to ticket such DRINKS as were of his
acquaintance, he was able to give the
glad hand of farewell to a job not
to his taste.
About this time series of coinci-
dences befell the young and fevered
Fair of the city of New York which
would have given pause TO the persons
involved had they been able to get
together and compare the dope Take
what happened to Miss Georgiette
Hattone. Her people had played in
hard luck and died. George had Sc
cared a job and was doing pretty
well at it until young Doctor Bones
met her and gradually persuaded her
that she was threatened with gallor-
ing consumption. Once he had fright
ened her, the rest looked easy; he
would take her out of bad ventilation
into his run-abOut and the open-air-
out of the goodness of his heart and
the fullness of his purse, he would
take care of her.
He began by leading her to a Meth
erlimb Show and supper afterward I
They danced little and for the first
time in her life, but under medical
advice, she took something in the
way of stimulant after the initial pref
ty cocktail. They issued from supper
and II was when Mr.. Chauffeur Slim
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
Much Resin in Hawaiian Tree.

When you pull a piece Of bark OF
The chunky oil! 2la maIonkssE,poa tree e,
PORTS ! Traveller Recently IN Hdwaiit
you smell so much resin that it seems
to you that the hot sun alone Would
be enough to set the bark flaming Ike
a torch: L makes tall, pointed flame.
like the flame on a big candle. Fire
turks In the tree somewhere, that Is
certain They say that at one time
the old Hawalians tapped the tree as
Americans do a sugar maple.