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New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
Boy Killed by Brother
I'm Coasting Accident
Youngsters Race to Hill to En-.
joy First Snow of Winter; One
Dead i'm a Few Minutes

The first serious coasting accident of
the year on Staten Island ended fatally
last night when William Lewrich, a
sixteen-year-o schoo'boy, og 67 Co
iumbus Avenue, Graniteville, was killed
by his brother.
The two boys, who had been look
ing forward eagerly for the first coast
ing weather of the year. last night took
their sleds and went to a nearby hill.
s ;llism, in race for the top of the
hill, beat his brother by inches. With
a shout he threw himself fat on his
sled and moment later was speeding
down the hill. John did likewise and
was close behind his brother.
Half way down the hill the runner
of Williams sled dropped into a rut
and the sled whirled about so that Will
liam was facing up the hill and look
ing right at his brother. In spite of
all his efforts to avoid an accident the
runners OF Johns sled passed over his
brothers. head. William was killed
instantly.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
French Mission Led by yiviani
coming to Y. S. for Debt Parlev
WIN o,art Early in Spring After Harding Inaugural
Faris Asks Britain for Advances Pend.
ing Reparation Payments

pledge their share of these reparations
IA return for credits from Great
britain. They believe that If this
method is pursued Gfeat Britain will
neip to speed up Germany's payment
OF her war bill.
Ihe British Treasury officials seem
to pc giving the French proposal sym-
pathetic consideration, but they haven't
committed themselves yet, 1t would be
q big coup for BRAND, French leaders
mere suggest, if he succeeded in enlist
ing. the British government in this
project and would go far to strengthen
him politically. At the same time it
would improve French exchange rates.
- me report from Washington that
FresTuent Wilson intends to recon-
mend to Congress the acceptance of a
special issue of German bonds to pay
belgium's debt to the United States
caused much surprise here, as it had
been generally believed that America
was averse to any such arrangement.
Ihere is no authority for the rurnor
that Lloyd George intends to make a
similar recommendation to the British
farllament 10 cover Belgium's debt to
his &C antry.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
By Arthur S. Draper
fTos's The TTfoane's EUropcan Burea~
(opyright, 1921, New York 1,rih11ne Inn


Copyright, 1921. New York Tribune Inc
LONDON, Feb. 22.-The French gov.
ernment intends to send a mission.
headed probably by Rene yiviani. for
nler Premier. to the United States to
olscuss with the Harding Administra-
ton the question of Frances debt to
America, it was Learned here authori.
tatiyely to-day. The mission is ex-
pected to start early this spring.
The Tribune correspondent learns
also that French officials are conferrine
here this week with representatives of
the British Treasury regarding Great
Brltaln's loans TO France. They are
hoping to make settlement without
bringing America into the negotiations,
The French feel that they must get
some kind of advance from the British
to cover the period before they begin
to draw their share of German repara-
tions money. They are trying to make
an arrangement by which they would
New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
Aged Man Plunges Into
Pond for Lost $1,000
Pochetbook Containing All His
Possessions Dropped Into
Water; Nearly Loses Life
spee.al Dlspetch to AZ Yr{nlna

WORCESTER, Mas, Feb. 22.-Lars
j. Lund, seventy -year-old PEN
sioner of the American Steel and Wire
Company, dropped d pocketbook con-
tanning all his savings, more than ST.
0o0, into Middle River Pond here yes
terday.
The weather was cold and ice covered
nearly all Of the pond. but Lund, with
out moments hesitation, jumped into
The icy water to rescue his posses
could not ret out of tho water. He was
wearing heavy winter clothes and a
big overeoat, and his predicament was
highly dangerous until employees OF
the south works of the wire company
rescued aim, soaking wet and shiver-
ing, but with his money clutched tight
ly in his nand.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
Montenegrins Declare
Holy War on Serbia.
Berlin Wireless Reports That
Two Regiments Have DC
cuDid Cetfinie

LONDON. Feb. ga wireless mes
sage from Berlin to-day says that, &C
cording to Swiss reports, the Monte
neerins have declared a holy war
against the Serbians.
Two Serbian regiments hsvs oceu-
pied Cettinje, Montenegro and the ANU
alton sa grave. the nessss.a says
New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
Invasion of Orient Is S1g.
gested as Sequel to Oc-
cupation of Calf fornia,
Hawaii and Philippines
L artly Inspired
By Propaganda
Native Mind Is Unable TO
Credit America With
Amy but Selfish Aims

flhts rs the third Of q series Of ar
t'cles on Japan's feeling to,0ard the
om'ted States and the role she is play
'"g IN the Far East. The fourth ,oiu
appear IN The Tribune tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
Parachute Record Smashed
L. S. Aviator Jumps From Aiti-
tude of $4,000 Feet

FORT SILL, Ark, Feb. 22.-What is
believed by aerial officers here 10 be
worlds altitude record for para
chute jump was established late to-day
when Sergeant Ensel Chambers. of the
i55th Aero Squadron, jumped from an
airship piloted BY Lieutenant Wagner
at height of 1000 feet, during an
aerial circus at Post Field.
The previous record is said to be
$4,000 feet. Chamber landed six miles
from his take-of.
Get tho habit of reading the Want A5
aolun OF The Tribune daily. They con
tain ny ttsrs os interest. .--AAvs,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-23

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New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
Special Cable to The Tribune

Special Cable TO The Tribune
Copyright 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
PARIS, Feb. 22.-The note from the
American State Department to DR..
Gastoa de Cunha, president of the
League OF Nations Council will be pre-
(Centinued on next nancy
New-York tribune., 1921-02-23

Rain and warmer to-day: tomorrow
cloudy and much colder; south
east winds. shifting to westerly.
Nv SsI
The New York herald., 1921-01-16
An Irish Dostoevsky

with the ungrateful uncomprehend-
ing, Imaginative. reactionary and
scurrilous "pub-crawling" population
about him, whose cumulative. vicious
ignorance and innate cruelty remind
one of the Iberian folk life set forth
in The Cabin" by Ibanez.
It would seem that Brinsley Mac
Namara has suffered so much from
the human beings, who, like Martin,
had sprung from the clay, crawling
about dark places. filled with the heavy
stencil OF souls" that he Is filled with
bitterness toward them. They have
warped Martins soul and he hates
them, and with such unforgiving in
tensity that he must proclaim his re-
pudiation to the world and to them.
He knows their malice for what it Is.
And in particular does he expose the
hard, narrow soul Of his ambitious,
meanly practical mother. Perhaps 1t
may not be without significance that
in MaeNamara's first novel, Valley of
Squirting Windows" the chief char
acter is a somewhat similar mother
"In Clay and Bronze is his third work
Of fiction, and The Clanking OF
Chains" his second.
When he Is twenty-five. Martin. who
sees himself worse than any play
boy yet Is conscious OF genius and q
"heart filled with too much good ma
ture," lays what he Justly recognizes
as his morbid callousness" to weak
ness of character and to the peculiar
suffering that had twisted his soul for
the last four years. At this point he Ia
something of Sanlne, except that he
had once had a sense Of duty and
-laved at tiiling the land till circum-
stances outside himself whisked him
away to study in Dublin, where he was
soon engulfed in the literary Renais-
sance as it existed just before the war,
reading in the National Library side
by side with inspiring celebrities, fall
ing in his exams, acting In the Tower
Theatre and escapading with Kitty
Haymer, a fascinating pagan with
whom he later comes to New York.
Hero hard times befall, they grow
apart, and Kitty returns without him.
He does not answer her appeal to come
to her before their child is born. He
returns to the clay instead and to the
old hated life--now ever more hateful
when Lucy on the adjacent farm.
who loves him, In, as before he wen,
away, his only consolation. except for
the vindlctivs novel he is writing
about his nsighbors. And in the end
he IL stili a ssnins, Eoing his own way,
back to the beauty OF Dublin and this
time to fame, leaving Lucy, with her
wedding dress ordered, to the mockery
of the community.
The New York herald., 1921-01-16

In one period of the worlds history
an inventor would have been burned
to death because he was thought a
sorcerer. Now an inventor is recog-
nized as a benefactor. The United
States Patent once 10 the avenue
through which world-transforming in
ventions pass, and DIR. Francis Rolt-
Wheeler has picked this phase Of Gov
ernment work as the subject for his
book for boys, The Boy With the U.
S. Inventors Lothrop, Lee q Shep-
srd). The author in his book shows
how. through inventions, this coun-
try has blossomed into greatness. In
doing so he describes the most in
tricato and complicated mechanisms In
language no boy will have trouble In
understanding.
The New York herald., 1921-01-16
Illustration From Polish Fairy Tales"

POLISH FAIRY TALES. Translated
from A. J. Glinshi by Maude Ashford
B,ggs. The John Lane Company.
The renascence of new Poland is
one of the fairy romances of history.
After suffering the tortures Of parti-
tion that kingdom is coming into her
own again, and we want to extend her
felicitations. sympathy with another
race ought to begin in the nursery and
MrsS Biggs has performed service in
giving English speaking children a
chance to read or to hear the fairy
tales of Poland. She has drawn from
an almost inexhaustibls reservoir. for
Glinshi did q remarkable work in col
lecting tales from the peasants Of Po-
land. Her selection has been wise. She
has taken subjects which are familiar
to the children of our land, and yet at
the same time rather new. There are
no such exotic characters and situa-
The New York herald., 1921-01-16

tions as appear in the Cossack tales
collected by Nisbet Baine, but child
hood has its own conservatism and
prefers variants Of. the familiar story
of the beautiful princess and her brave
rescuer.
These tales are among the most an
cient Stores of folk lore of the Aryan
race. and In the original Polish they
contain much needless repetition and
not little coarseness. This Is a testi-
mony to their antiquity which inter-
ests the bespectacled student of primi-
tive. mythology but has no appeal to
the child who demands 4 story at bed
time or on q rainy day.
The volume il illustrated with splen-
did pictures that have both color and
movement to appeal to the child, and
elements of composition which will
make them liked by discriminating
adults.
The New York herald., 1921-01-16

WIN recall her frankness in describing
how men loved her. Here's how the
millxmanv loved the mythical Marge:
"On Sunday told him ] would ac-
company him on his usual walk.
Better not he said. Looks to me
like RAIN
"But you have an umbrella I
pointed out.
AYE he said, and when two people
share one umbrella they bpth get all
the clippings and none Of the protec-
ton. You take book and read
"'No,' said. I'm coming with you,
and though v's leap year ] definitely
promise not to propose to you.'
well he said, that makes differ
ence.' We went on to the heath to-
gether. Some minutes elapsed before
! asked him to tie my shoelace.
HE looked down and said 1t was not
undone.
Il simply turned round and left him.
! was not going to stay there to be in
suited"
Margot AsQuith danced once before a
bishop. She tells how she swore,
whereupon the bishop complimented
her for her dancing. Marge took dane
ing. too.
MY education in dancing was ir-
regular. as the greasy Italian did not
wheel his piano around every week.
However, l acquired sufficient pro-
ficiency to attract attention, and that
is the great thing in life."
The New York herald., 1921-01-16

UNCLE MOSES. BY Sholom Asch.
Translated from the Yiddish by Isaac
Goldberg. e. p. Dutton & Co.
The New York herald., 1921-01-16
Seasons Most Famous Autobiography Stirs Up Satrist

, But he had no intention Of marrying;
he didn't need toll" With the coming
Of the half century mark. however, he
No longer did business have the same
zest for him; no longer could he
visualize and plan new projects, and
no longer did he have enthusiasm for
building new houses. Suddenly he
wanted a family, wife-children.
And this is where the real story of
Uncle Moses begins.
: Perhaps by this time, you will realize
that Moses was a type; the kind of a
man who wants what he wants. though
not necessarily when he wants it. His
was a patiently persistent, IL impulsive
makeup. He knew how to make plans
wanted Masha- And her stupid, self
ish. Intellectual parents enjoyed a vi
sion just long enough and broad enough
to see the end of their own misery and
poverty. Why. 1t was an honor to
have Uncle Moses manifest even the
slightest interest In the child, the rich
Uncle Moses. the benefactor of all
Kuzminl That he was coarse and
rotund, that he had no spirit and no
dreams. that his conception OF senu-
ment and romance ended with a law
ish purse and that she despised him
and rebelled. were of no account. The
pigheaded notion of getting q daugh-
ter married, whether or no to any one,
as long as he had money must pre-
vail. so tragedy comes thick and fast
and finally even the overconf1dent,
omniscient Moses is forced to ask:
Why did God punish me? Why?
What did ! wish7 What every COM
mon laborer has-a wife and a child"
In the end every one is undone. and
another generation is saddled with the
avoidable mistakes and stupidities of
it's elders.
Mr. Asch shows it all up, even unto
the details, and although the infirmi-
ties Of the characters depicted in
"Uncle Moses" are more or less uni
versal, their peculiar expression as
manifest In this book are characteristic
grant Jew. We see at close range his
poverty and his aspirations, his in
hibitions and his desires, his weakness.
his ideals. We meet the living dead
the older generation that cannot toler-
ate change. that would be part of a
new, free land, hut cannot bring them
selves to relinquish their old tradi-
tions.
And we feel the moving force
of change--"the protest of healthy
youth educated in a land of freedom
and equality" The reader likewise
gets glimmering of the genesis OF
that destructive discomfort Of immi-
grant youths of twenty-one whose
misconceived. impatient ideals" OF
Americanization result In temporary
havoc. All in all the portrayal Of these
we'll meaning but blinded people is
so pathetically realistic that Uncle
Moses" apart from being an unusual
book, should serve a good purpose. For
no American Jew. born and bred, can
read it without being awakened to a
realization Of the need for guiding the
faltering steps of those transition gen.
erations that go askew while learn
ing theafirst essentials of real Ameri-
can citizenship.
The New York herald., 1921-01-16
Mans Power Over
the Other Animals
SON OF POWER. BY Will Lexington
Cor, Comfort g a and q zamin XII Dost Double

SON OF POWER. BY Will Lexington
Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost. Double
day. Page & Co.
The wonder man of the universe
II you must KNOWS Sanford Hantee,
better known as Skag, who Is the hero
of this romance of india. Skag. by
the control of his emotions and the alb
sence of fear, held the wild animals of
the jungle with the glance of his eye.
Cobra or tiger. it mattered not. only
the hunting cheetah was unmindful of
this power, and of him the faithful
Nels disposed-Nels, one OF the four
best hunting dogs in all India.
The first manifestation Of Skag's
love of animals came at the age OF
eleven. when he wandered into the
spent seven hours a day for four con-
secutive days in the monkey house,
defying an unsympathetic father and
truant officers, and inevitably making
his way back to the monkey house
from the restraining bonds of reforma-
tories.
When his mother died he Joined a
circus. Came a day when his knowl-
edge of animals in captivity seemed
to have reached it's limits. Skag there
upon set sail for India to study wild
animals in their native jungle. His
power over animals gave him the
name in India of "Son Of Power" and
the reputation of holy man sent by
the Indian gods to protect the chill
dren of men from the beasts of the
jungle.
And then he met the Rose Pearl
Gul Mott. the Unattainable, otherwise
known as Miss Carlin Deal. physician
to the natives and member Of an am
cient half-caste family. And the un-
attainable was attained.
The story is full Of the ancient lure
and mystic power of India. The motif
running throughout Is that man has
a whole menagerie OF wild animals
within his own nature and when he
conquers these he need not fear the
Wild beasts Of the jungle.
The New York herald., 1921-01-16

Yes--he's done it againl "The
Mysterious Rider" is even better
than Zane Grey's last book, that
outsold all other novels of 1920.
The New York herald., 1921-01-16

MARGE AsKINFORIT BY Barry Pain.
Published by T. Werner Laurie, Ltd.
London.
Some prefaces are decorative. Some
are explanatory. Many are written for
advertising purposes. Barry Pain has
employed his preface to protect him
self in case of libel. for in It he says:
The New York herald., 1921-01-16
IN CLAY AND IN BRONZE: A STUDY
IN PERSONALITY. BY Brinsley
MacNamara. Brentanos.
Reviewed by e. w. POWELL.

I'm FEttoOANALiI IL l.. Dy. ioiiHSiSJ
MacNamara. Brentano's.
Reviewed by E. w. POWELL.
One feels certain that I'm Clay and
In Bronze" is in some degree autobio-
graphical, so minute, concise and per-
sonally observed are the impressions
on record here; and in fact the author.
who writes under a pseudonym. is
known to have been one Of the actors
In the Abbey Theatre, and Is said to
have played with astonishing finesse
a porter drunkard" a. distinguishable
from a whiskey or wine drunkard, as
does Martin Duignan, the central per-
sonality in the book. 1t Is this kind
of inflnitesimal naturalism that makes
Brinsley MacNamara, as we'll as his
introspective hero. ian Irish Dosteev-
sky" the first Irish Russian realist.
as he says, who wishes to "scourge"
his countrymen Into a clear view of
themselves and unninchingly reveals
all "the mud and filth" in the peasant
life of ireland.
When noble men died for Cathleen
nj Houlihan on Easter day OF 1916,
Martin asks himself, what can be the
source of that strange thing the love
Of Ireland? Ireland hadn't shown him
much worth dying for, with the pos
sible exception of Ellen (never much
more than a remote and ideal vision).
And as for Sim Fein, Martin analyzes
his own mind as so Subtle and mi
nutely threaded by cross currents OF
sympathy" that he understood hu-
manity as a whole and could never
imagine himself a Nationalist. Yet
the love of the beautiful is so strong
in him that the idealism of the leaders
of the revolution fires him with long
ing to take his part with them, In
which response he sharply contrasts
The New York herald., 1921-01-16

Thomas Hardy, whose novels and
poems of Wessex are published In this
country by Harper. a. Brothers, de-
signed the marble tablet which has re-
Gently been erected to the memery Of
the men of the Dorchester. England.
postal staff who fell In the war. The
veteran novelist. who was an architect
in early life. offered to do the design,
and the result Of his work is said to
be of rare beauty and dignity. A line
from one Of his Wessex poems. "None
dubious Of the cause. none murmur-
ing" was chosen as the inscription for
the memorial.
The New York herald., 1921-01-16

Dorothea Mooye's Head of the
Lower School, (Putnamsl is a story
for girls centring around Redlands
College and of Joey Graham's first
term in the Lower School. There 10
German plot interviewer In the story
Of life at the school and Joey and the
girls play a great part In uncover
ing IT,
The New York herald., 1921-01-16
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The New York herald., 1921-01-30
Critics Who Thought the Night Of the One
Step and Fox Trot Was Over Have
Another Thought Coming

They point out moodily that in the old
days they were content to become just plain
tight, without any dancing trimmings. But
now they say you can't become fairly glow
ing without taking strenuous exercise, when
1t is difficult to maintain both your glow and
your balance. They explain that previously
you could get your sknful in a cafe but
now the cabarets are the only places where
you can get some of the real old prune juice
without having to bring your own coroner
along. But usually at such resorts they are
lured from the straight path of drinking and
into the mazy morass of dancing and such
wayward exhibitions. So many of them have
to earn their booze by the sweat of their
brow.
Be that 1t may, 1t was recognition of
the growth in favor of dancing that led
Salvain and Thompson to turn Rectors, OF
yore the lively nocturnal residence OF many
a New Yorker who didn't care to take his
at home, the haunt of the one-step and the
fox-trot. The lower floor has seeded to
commerce and the second story is a dancing
palace the Cafe de Paris guaranteed to
be pure and simple, Churchilrs the Strand
Roof the Palais Royal, the Hotel Majestic
and others feature dancing and the cabaret
entertainment has really come to be assoc
ondary consideration. no matter how great
q loss that may mean TO art Some places
ers-Dorothy Dickson and Carl Hyson at
the Palas Royal. for instance. get $2,500
a week-and they rely solely on writhing
orchestra that makes you not personally re-
sponsible for your feet.
A new race of hostesses has arisen. AL
ready disputes are arising as to whether
Miss So-and-So is as good as Miss Such-and-
Such was in her tme-the history of
hostesses has begun The girls who first
introduced New Workers to their pedal ex-
tremties have passed out-and it's harder
nowadays to work up weeping jag over
their going. Men don't cry into their beer
the way they used to--t's too precious.
Justine Johnstone was one OF the ranking
ten in this industry when IL started Now
she has signed articles as the wife of Walter
Wanger, theatrical manager. and taken to
presiding over the movies. In fact, IL was
through her functioning as hostess at the
Little Club that her acquaintanceship with
Mr.. Wanger ripened into something more
enduring and expensive. Sophie Tucker is
no longer the life of Reisenwebers, and
there iya great vacancy there. Joan Sawyer,
and Grace TYeld have left this particular
sphere of usefulness. But the places of the