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The Washington herald., 1921-05-07
Ta~ lnY for Blind

aTnuaI tag day Of the Aid As
sn- iationi for The Blind for the BEN
efft OF lle liCme for the Blind.
1850 r street northwest. viii be
held today. according to announce
ment yesterday by Mrs. Josephine
L Jacobs. president of the associa-
tion. :.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-07
Lightning Stuns Couple.

BERRYv1LLE, Va, May 6.--J. w.
Barringer and wife were stunned
by. lightning during a hailstorm
here. when a bolt hit their resi-
dence. The lightning followed the
electric wiring into the kitchen but
I'D little DAMAGE.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-07
CLARK FUNERAL
SERVICES TODAY

Funeral services for Joseph D.
Clark. who died at his home. 2125
First street northwest, Thursday
will be held at St. Martins Catholic
Church. North Capitol and T streets.
this morning at S:45 o'clock In
terment will bc in Mt. Olivet Gene
terry. Mr.. Clark was born in Phila-
delphia, October 2S. 1860. and came
to Washington in 1892. He is sur
vived by his widow. Mrs. Mary r.
Clark. two sons. Cyril C. and Ro-
land r. Clark and brother. Arthur
/. Clark.
Christian r. GIiem.
Christian p. Gliem. chief electri-
cal engineer of the United States
Capitol and prominent Mason, who
died Thursday afternoon at his
apartment in the Congressional,
win be buried today in Congress
sional Cemetery. following Masonic
services held at Zurhorst's Chapel.
301 East Capitol street. He was a
member of Washington Command
cry. No. /. knights Templar; Almas
Temple. Mystic Shrine: Kallipolis
Grotto. and American Society of
Mechanical Engineers. His widow,
Mrs Eva n. Gliem. a son. Christian
lie Roy GIiem. and a daughter, Mrs.
Edna Cassaday, survive him.
Mrs. Kate Otey Elliott.
Mrs. Kate Atey Elliott, 5S years
old, widow of Col. Stephen Haber-
sham Elliott. died Thursday at her
apartment in Chatham Courts. 1881
Columbia road, after an extended
illness. Funeral services will be
held this morning at st. Margarets
Episcopal Church, when the Rev.
DR.. Smith will officiate. lnterment
will be in Arlington Cemetery. Mrs.
Elliott was born in Lynchburg. Va.
A daughter. Miss Caroline Elliott
and two sons. Maj. Dabney o. Ell
liott and Capt. H. r. Elliott, both
of Engineer Corps, L. S. A, sur
vive her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
No Postal Censorship

The Postmaster General follows
in the case CT the New York Volks-
zeitung the same course which he
has pursued in former similar cases.
He restores to the paper the second
class mail privileges Of which his
predecessor deprived it, announces
that he is not and will not be
censor of the mails and says that
"any publication entitled to the use
CT the mails at all IS entitled to
second-class privileges, provided it
meets the requirements # law"
The weakness Of t Durleson
policy which Mr. HAS soids ,ay
N TINS, that papers were exc'gAol
from the seconded IS nails for req
sons which if true should have ex
Guided them fron, sho frs. class
Yet they were admitted to the first
class SO long as the publishers were
willing and able to pay the higher
rates. In effect the Postoffice De-
partment said to excluded publish
ers: "Your papers are disloyal, Sc
ditious and criminal and therefore
unfit to be carried in the second
class mails, but we will be glad to
carry them as first class if you will
pay us the higher rates for so do
ing"
The law does not provide for any
such special censorship of second
class mails. Anything that is sedi-
tious is lon-mailable in any class.
The especially low rate for second
class matter is not granted in con-
sideration of any special degree Of
moral merit. If they fell short~-as
we believe some papers did--it was
in respects which made them unfit
for transmission in any class of the
mails. The assumption is that the
forme. Postmaster General doubted
his ability to substantiate against
them charges Of such unftness, and
therefore resorted to the device Of
compelling them to pay rates of
postage which he hoped would prove
prohibitive.
Mr. Hays is also right in holding
that while certain issues of a peri
odical may be unfit for mailing
subsequent issues may be entirely
acceptable, and that therefore it is
unreasonable and unjust to place a
permanent ban upon any paper and
condemn to exclusion future issues
not yet printed or written. 1t Is
also a matter Of course that there
should be no star chamber proceed
ure about the exclusion Of an Of
Tending issue, but that the cause
Of ofTcnse should be clearly made
known TO all whom it may concern.
Mr.. Hayes sane and sound policy
is in no sense charter TO political
or moral Iibcrtinism in the press.
II in no whit lessons the powcr Of
the government or the tcrrors Of
the law against cYildoers. On the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
Harvard's Fine Glee Club

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: | have watched rather careful
Nv .he reaction of the European pub
lie to the threatened invasion Of the
cheaper musical efforts of certain
Americans, and am sure that the
Harvard Glee Club would not have
obtained any hearing from the Euro
pean musical public had it gone
there with the type of program sug
gested in your editorial of August 8.
The Harvard Glee Club has obtained
a unique position in music in America.
The leading critics have not hesitated
to call it the greatest male choir III the
United States, and its work merits
that recognition. The facts that it has
dared to cut away from the convcn-
tional college glec club program and
that it has succeeded in achieving
something so remarkable in the mu-
steal world of America should in
spre us with pride in the new i'm
petus thus given to the greater cultu-
raj development of musical life in at
least one big American university.
GERALD REYNOLDS.
New York, Aug. ii, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
"Open Covenants"

The principle of "open covenants
openly arrived at" is, of course, a
sound one, bat obviously impos-
sible of literal application. To ad-
vocate it without qualification is to
raise false hopes in the minds Of the
credulous and expose ones self to the
sneers of the cynical. Mr.. Wilson'S
experience abundantIy attests this.
70 see today two such implacablc
anti-Wilsonites as Senators Borah
and johnson picking "open cove
nants openly arrived att out of the
Wilson scrap heap must surely cause
merriment to some of the former
Presidents friends. Do they think
the gulled can be gulled again, or
are they merely supporting a move
ment for the widest feasible pub
lefty?
Both of these gentlemen have had
some experience in life and must
realize that in ali negotiations claims
are advanced and remarks are made
in the preliminary stages which are
open TO SO much misinterpretation
that their publication at the time
might endanger the success Of the
whole enterprise. While minor mis-
understandings are being adjusted
there is much to lose and little tc
g2in by too open publicity. But
beyond the preliminary negotiations
there IL q line, difficult 10 locate, on
the other side Of which it may well
he said that publicity VIII benefit the
cause. The public opinion Of the
world NUT be kept well informed al
10 the progress Of the disarmament
conference. All business done must
be done openly in 80 far az thjs can
possibly BE- done without prejudice
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
The Tax Bill

The taxation problem and the APP
preparation problem are treated by
some as separable. Yet they are
parts of one whole. They are
Siamese twins, or, to alter the fig
ure, one is the intake and the other
the outflow-one is bunghole and the
other is spigot. Diminish the out
flow, and the intake becomes CORE
spondingly less. Diminish the in
take, and the outflow is correspond
ingly less.
Despite the confusion in other
quarters, both the Administration
and Congress seem to be clear
headed concerning this relation.
General Dawes was put to work be-
fore the details of tax revision were
considered. In squeezing down ap-
preparations Congress has shown it's
desire to support the Administra-
tons economy policy. BY cutting
out the superfuous and by postpon-
ing the postponable, while making
the most of general assets, tax bill
which will raise S3,200,000, 900 prom
ises to suffice.
The list of proposed reductions is
most attractive. The excess profits
tax is to cease on January l. The
railway tax is to stop at once, like
wise clothing taxes. The income
tax exemption is to be lifted from
$4,000 to $500, with $4OO, instead
of 5000, additional for each de-
pendent. The so-called nuisance
taxes are to be repealed, and in lieu
manufacturers are to pay flat tax
OF 5 per cent on sale price. A Wig
orous attempt seems to have been
made to revise downward, with a
general tendency to make taxes in
direct rather than to lay them di-
lectly on consumers. This step
backward is because the collection is
easier and because there is a politi-
cal pressure to return to the old
principle of a maximum of feathers
taken with minimum of squawk
heard.
Secretary Mellon has suggested
larger appropriations. He has not
been friendly to postponing pay
ments which some day must be made.
His advice is financially sound, but
the argument of immediate relief
has great appeal. Public opinion
apparently strongly supports the
doctrine that the future should bear
a larger part Of the burden than the
Secretary deems wise, but there are
worse things than a deficit balanced
by short-tern. borrowings.
The tax bill as reported is, of
course, not finality. There will be
time and ample opportunity for
amendment and improvement. But
III the main matter in which the pub
lie is overwhelmingly relief from
burdens which hitherto have beer
endured with exemplary patiencc-it
marks a long step forward
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
To Win South America
I'VE Must Take a Leaf From the
Book of European Traders

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: A few days ago l read with in
terest your editorial Our South Amer
lean Trade" and few days later | no.
ticed your observations had soaked
through to the first page and crystal
lied as disagreeable fact.
There are certain rules a nation
must pursue in order to capture (no.
by conquest but by entrancing) the
trade of a fastidious Latin-American
republic, and as we have not formu-
lated these rules our war orgies are
over, leaving only headache and the
recollections of a very short and sue
cessful heyday.
We have certain trade which com
pels the attention of the South Amor-
can republics and, being fully pro-
tected by patent, we cannot very well
lose it. | refer to the automatic,
such as self-playing pianos, typewrit-
ers, cash registers, adding machines,
| inexpensive automobiles. But apart
from these we are outthought and out
distanced by the irrepressible Euro
peans.
Why not admit at once our lack of
| personality and fnesse and that our
structural commercial armada is leak
ing badly owing to bad workmanship
and worse captaincy? It takes some
! time to overcome our racial concet
and realize that we are persona non
grata, but instead Of blaming South
America for her bad taste why not
study the reason for her preferences9
First and foremost there is the sem
timental, tcmperamentel side TO be cul-
tivated. The Germans do this witt
precision which achieves q success most
annoying and disheartening to most
competitors with the possible cxcep-
ton of the English, whose keystone
policy" is quality, first, by learning
the Portuguese language before they
leave Germany; second, by complete
familiarity with the metric system;
third, by open-handed generosity re-
garding tens Of payment intervoee7
with high voltage" Of animal spirits
which radiates an optimism VERY COM
pelling.
When in Brazil I noticed that NARY
letters and catalogues which were
carefully sent out from the United
States were written or typed in Spar
ish and were rapidly consigned to the
waste paper basket, Opened but not
read" as it were. A great many mis-
takes of this kind could be mentioned,
but space forbds.
Our banks in South America have
made rapid strides in their endeaVor 70
please by their forbearance and leNi-
bility. This is the one pleasant fea-
ture of the South American dabacle.
HENRY FiNLAY.
New York, Aug Is, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17

The revolt in Tammary Hall
Dungeons into substance. 1t has as
samed such form as to suggest the
possibility that it may contain the
seeds Of revolution.
In our experience men--and Tam
many district leaders above all-are
not given to the employment Of such
language as that of Mr.. James J.
Hines when engaged in mere gestur-
ing.
Murphy still makes and breaks
judges" Nh Hines informs the city.
True enough. The decent citi-
zenry of New York, inclusive of all
political faiths, has known that this
long while. But would it not be
more to the point if the Democratic
leader of the 18th Assembly Dis
trict, who is familiar with the in
wardness of Tammany's processes,
let US have a few names and dates?
Who are these judges that Mr..
Murphy, Of Good Ground, makes
and breaks? Who are these judges
that he has made and broken? How
does he go about it? How does he
make an arrangement with men he
selects for Elevation" to the bench?
Does Murphy send for them, or do
they seek him out? Do they come
to an understanding on the golf
links at Good Ground, or in Four
teenth Street, Or in the private room
Of some restaurant in Fifth Avenue?
Again, Mr.. Hines asserts that
"Murphy's candidates are Murphy's
tigureheads." The city has known
that, too, for the longest time. If
they were not Murphy's fgureheads
they could not be Murpfy's candi-
dates. But cannot Mr.. Hines give
us something more than a gener-
atty?
For instance, having told us some
thing about the making and break
ing of Judges, could not Mr.. Hines
tell us the tale of how Mr.. Murphy
and Mr.. Hearst merged their in
terests and ambitions and selected
poor John Hylan as their candidate
or figurehead for Mayor four years
ago?
We think Mr.. Hines could tell
New York lot Of things out of
his long experience with the methods
of Tammany Hall. There is nothing
like direct evidence We think he
should unbosom himself as an ear
nest of his purpose to free his party
Of the domination of Mr.. Murphy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
Not To Be Tolerated

On August last a citizen named
James A. S. Carpenter went to the
Polo Grounds to see baseball game.
lie happened, he says, to step on the
coattail of man sitting in front of
HIM. An argument ensued. What
was said by Mr.. Carpenter we do
not know nor care. But, according to
his account, the man on whose coat
tail he had stepped drew blackjack
and set to beating him, the while
another man, displaying a police
mans shield, held off a crowd of out
ragged and protesting onlookers.
The ckjacker and his companion
then, alleges Mr.. Carpenter, dragged
him from the Polo Grounds, osten-
sibly to take him to a police station.
On the way thither the man with the
policeman's shield disappeared and
the man with the blackjack jumped
on police patrol wagon and rode
away.
After seven days search, which
would have resulted in their discov-
cry had they not come forward and
admitted that they were the ones
being sought, Mr.. Carpenters al
legged assailants stand identified, to
The Tribune's regret, as members of
New York's police force. They are
charged with felonious assault and
have been admitted to.bail.
If a full and fair investigation
sustains the complaint made against
these policemen, let them be put on
trial at the earliest moment. And
should they be found guilty, let them
suffer the laws full penalty, to the
Iend that this present wave of police
crime shall cease.
The safety Of the people demands
this. The good name of our police
force demands it. There is no place
in that peerless blue parbed com
pany for beaters and black ackers OF
citizens. New York will not toler.
ate them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
By
Grey Hammond

nent New York drawing groom floors. He
flushed to the very back of his shaved
neck when Celia, his heroine, recited to
him the details of her Pomeranian S
accouchement.- When Nancy Fleet, de-
scribed as "a very New York GIRL" en-
arms in a taXicab, embarrassment,
though only momentary, ensued. None
Of these perturbations would have dis
concerted the cowboy had he been a
pupil of Mr.. Hughes's fiction instead of
a character in it. Mr.. Hughess soici-
tous instructions are made even more
valuable to the naive pilgrim, because
despite the elegant glibness of his re-
citals, he seems himself to be casting
furtive glances of wonderment and ad-
miration up at the tall buildings.
Elsewhere the bronzed and muscular
ranchman from Texas found New York
to be a rodeo Of delights, a "play-
ground of amazing innocences and
sweetnesses." He had saved a young
New Workers. life in a honk-a-t onk
somewhere among the hot sands of the
Southwest. and at this youths sugges-
ton he had brought his fortune to the
East, there to realize the dreams he
had dreamed as he galloped across the
lonely deserts in pursuit of the way
ward and temperamental heifer. The
rich boy whose life he had preserved
from the fury of a Texan bad man be-
duced him to Celia Blakeney and to
Nancy Fleet, who found his gaucheries
beguiling. His subsequent romance
with Celia was impeded somewhat by
the young woman's demise at the be-
ginning of the tale, since she was
frozen to death while swimming in q
mountain lake. Such is the wild au-
dacty of this American Balzac that
thereafter the dead heroine looms
tragically over the narrative, lovely
cadaver, frozen in a cake of ice which
leans broodingly against the veranda
of palace in the Adirondacks, pre-
served from decays effacing fingers by
the frigid minstrations of swell
autumnal blizzard Death is no poor
untidy thing" in Mr.. Hughes's polite
stories. He would put spats on a grave
digger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
English as Written

lake taste CT a Forthcoming
novel Of poet and writer who is
much acclaimed whose first chapter
leading literary publication is per-
United to publish in advance Of the
books publication:
"The only sound in The big front
room is tn" lint growing of the
bright coa' .il- Il: it chars to the rud-
dincss OF {. win.er apple behind the
three black bars of it's CRATE. Outside
the wind slashes at the windows,
Ringing handfuls Of spatting rain to
run down the panes like long tears.
Clovc-black and brittle brown as tat
tcrs from old sails, the dead leaves Of
the eucalyptus hurry past in the wet
of the gust, to be hcaped into over
flowing cutters along with shriveled
gray pepperberries and torn flowers
and much red sand. 1t is pleasant to
look once through the window at that
scurry of storm and broken cloud and
of the Goals"
In the presence Of this picture and
the technique Of its painting the
mind runs back to George AIDES lit
erary guide-especially the passage:
"The book that begins with De-
scription of Sloppy Weather:
Long swirs of rivcn rain beat
somberly upon the misty panes, etc,
etc. You turn to the last chapter to
see if it rains all the way through the
book. After that who would have the
nerve to wade through the 240 inter-
mediate pages ?"
The new school is deeply dissatis-
fed with English as formerly writ
ten and views with disdain the
snuffiing imbccilities of good taste.
With head up, tail up and teeth
acrackin' it goes it's Gathering way,
Mencken leading on. Not for it is
the skill to do more, hut the will TO
refrain 1t yells at the top of its
voice and is amazed when stupid re-
dictionaries object to the noise Little
interested in ideas, its labor is to in
vent new noun, verb or adjective
or to find a strained use Of an old
one. 1t regards its artificial product
as fine WI Sing, even as the dccaden,
sonnctcers thought their linguistic
acrobatics proclaimed norid fancy.
Yet amid his growing and crickling
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I must thank you for putting
in your paper this morning the story
of the dog Prince, and | would add
that l thoroughly agree with you that
such capacity for devoted love indicates
quite truly that the dog survives death
and is placed somewhere where good
dogs go. Moreover, our belief is shared
by good many persons, some Of dis
tinction. as named in list given by
the Archdeacon Of Westminster to his
congregation, when during the war he
asked them to pray for the animals who
served US so nobly, in the words Of a
bishop of the third century. What is
there more divine than love in our
own nature? O. E.
New York. Aug. Is. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17

ing the success Of the conference.
There is happy medium between
secret diplomacy and pitiless pub
LEFTY. In the present case it is the
object rather than the principle that
must be the guide, and this object is
the successful outcome of the con-
ference.
The two Senators will scarcely add
to their regulations by campaigning
to revive the "openly arrived at"
rriueipis: Better will it be for them
70 desc So ."c"rately what
IL 81 -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
Books

To the unknOwing emigrant, making
his timd way toward the Capital, the
works of Mr.. Rupert Hughes are pre-
cious compendium. The most urban
Of the urban fellows is Mr.. Hughes,
stepped in the mysterious character
imparting his wisdom and experience
to those less versed than he in metro
poltan practices. The venturesomc
clodhopper leaving the open spaces for
these cosmic four-corners, therefore,
may peruse Mr.. Hughess rudy fc-
tons with profit to himself and his
destination and, arriving here, be no
amateur in its glamorous bewilder-
ments.
Mr.. Hughes himself was once a
rough lad from the prairies, and in his
novels of life in New York City he
remembers his own early sdiscomfitures
So he seeks sympatheticaly to assuage
the miseries Of emigration through
agitating, through informative recitals,
preparing the unwary ingenue for the
pains and pleasures Of existence in the
East. If you are scholar in Nv.
Hughes's graphic prescriptions of life
in New York City you are equipped to
meet most of its crises. He is wise
and thorough courier, happy to guide
the gazing rustic in his adventures,
from week end firtations to tipping the
head walters Learned in etiquette, he
will suggest graceful conduct for all the
perplexing junctures.
X \
Would you know, for instance, when
and how to kiss debutan.e in a
canoe at house party in the Adiron-
dacks? If not, MIR. Hughes will supply
the information in Beauty, his latest
composition. If at dinner the woman
who sits next you blinds you with the
splcndor of her radiant surfaces and
frightens you with the venomous cyni-
eism of her conversation Mr.. Hughes
will advise you as to your attitude.
Cad Larrick, the cowman hero of
Beauty, was abashed at the dazzling
candor Of a debutante's glowing flesh
while bathing in q suit which was lit
lie more than ga colored varnish about
her torso" He was likewise startled
at the profanity which punctuated
some smart crap shooting upon promi-