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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-24
A ONE.TOWN WINNER

the Yankees and Giants win the pennant in the American and National probable that they wthe question naturally Who will the New York fans root or? And the answer bounds pack The Yankee ooters Will be in the majority
 The Hugnen much popular Gotham National though Giants late which majority support to the Tanks.
 For McGraws braws and his serial fist fight the Lambs club had tendency to dim the brancy of the Little Napoleons Baseball lovers like fighter they sst that his fights be made in portsmanshp for ball Another element that turn the tide of popular approval to the Tanks buying of the club by The latter is known all New York He has prominent public helped individuality that it formerly possess made the ado the village hero that New York Babe Advertising helped the will be looking Ruth and pulling for Babe soud get in the world series fight
 really helps win ball the triumph the Giants if they clash in the big series battle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-24
OLD DOLLAR BILL SEE,

OLD DOLLAR BILL SEE. If tn frost tn punkn this looks like it'll be shipped in by post. Hz Tuggle lightly of Jobs when tn fact he hisse is here tell tn tale
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-24

must first of all be dependable: The most accurate, the most re- liable, the most complete news gathering organization in the world is the Associated Press. In Birmingham on Sunday you can get the dispatches of the Associated Press only in the
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Checking Automobile T'hefts

Organized motor car stealing, we
are told, is a thing Of the past in
Massachusetts,, where it once was
common. The thefts now occurring,
it is said, are occasional and few.
The credit for the change is given
principally to laws which are eff
GENTLY enforced. The Massachusetts
FUSED car law requires every per-
son selling q car which he has used
to give notice of the fact, with all
details OF number, etc, to the police,
and also to the automobile registry
Office, and requires every dealer to
keep list of all the used cars which
he buys and to give notice of their
intended sale. This law, together
with frequent inspections of dealers
stocks, makes a dealer careful con-
corning ali cars which he takes in.
Moreover, when dealer buys a
used car he is required TO find out
where the seller got it. and to make
that part Of the record, which he
not only keeps for inspection, but
also forwards to the state registry
Office. Every such report is at once
checked up, and if it does not agree
with the former record of the car in
question. an investigation is started.
There is thus at the State House a
record of every purchase and sale of
every car in the state, with the
names of it's successive owners.
The stealing Of automobiles has
become flourishing industry. If
Massachusetts, has found a way to
suppress it, it is time for New York
to initiate.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
LLOYD George

If Lloyd George comes to visit US
his advent will be not to bolster up
traditions, nor necessarily to cement
ties, but chiefly, one may safely as
sumo, because he wants to come.
Deriving much Of his inspiration
from the life of Lincoln, TO the land
Of Lincoln he has ever been SYM
pathetic. Springing himself from the
common people, having as splendid
background the heroic figure of his
uncle, the little Welsh tailor. who
sacrificed his small savings that his
boy might be educated, the Prime
Minister has had what may be called
an American career. He would like
to see America face to face.
Of him there are various opinions.
His personality challenges neutral
ity of Judgment. Isaac Marcosson
referred to him in 1919 rs not a
human being but an institution. 81
have ranged the gallery Of the
great" wrote Mr.. Marcosson, "the
near-great and the would-be great
pretty thoroughly. Yet no one-not
even Acknowledgements the little
Welshman in vitality, many-sided-
ness and interest"
In that impudent book The Mir
rors of Downing Street one reads:
"If you think about it. no one since
Napoleon has appeared on earth who
attracts so universal an interest as
Mr.. Lloyd George. 80. And yet,
who does not feel the greatness of
Napoleon? And who does not suspect
the shallowness of Lloyd George"
Melville Stone, who has just re-
tired as the head of The Associated
Press, said not so long ago that
Lloyd George "has very keen sense
of humor and great power over the
multitude, but with this he dis
plays startling Indifference to, if
not ignorance of, the larger affairs
of nations" In this respect Mr..
Stone is in agreement with J. NJ.
Keynes, who said in his book that
Lloyd George was as ill-informed as
Woodrow Wilson. Of his work at
the peace conference Mr.. E. j. Dill
Ion in his inside story" writes that
"he relied upon Imagination and in
tuition as substitutes for precise
knowledge and technical skill"
These disparagements would be
the more credible il Lloyd George
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
The Schools

The Public Education Association
recently startled the city by it's re-
port on school conditions. But the
association, naturally enough, dwelt
on the financial and professional
breakdown. Now comes a report
from committee representing forty
women's clubs and civic organiza-
tions which emphasizes the deficien-
cies of the school service as seen by
parents.
School buildings are unsanitary
and have leaky roofs. There is dirti-
ness, and even filth. The children
are crowded together in an unspeak-
able manner. The visitors in many
instances were compelled to hold
their noses. The teaching force, loyal
though discouraged, does double
labor, but it cannot escape the eff
fects of the general gross misman-
agement. In all boroughs the
schools seem completely Hylanized-
are under a blight which began to
show itself when the present city ad-
ministration took office.
What is the remedy? How can
there be betterment? The first step
is to get Tammany and Hylan out
and decency in. And the women Of
New York are on the job Of seeing
that this is done.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

industry. Professor Einstein, fear
ing to take chances on any one
branch of thought, announced that
everything we had hitherto believed
about time and space was the oppo-
site. AS few-not even the other
astronomers--really knew what he
was talking about, he was perfectly
safe. His lecture tour was such a
success that he was even gracious
enough, when leaving, to declare
that our women were lovely.
Anybody, no matter how humble,
can become turntailer with few
lessons. Edmund Wilson jr., writing
in recent number of The New Re-
public about II. L. Mencken, is a
case in point. The belief was gen.
eral that Mr.. Mencken was god
less, un-American and grossly igno-
rant person, with an astonishing
facility for grouping adjectives. Mr..
Wilson declares that he is nothing Of
the sort; that at bott6n he is a Puri-
tan, an evangelist and an artist
Saturated with the thought and
aspect Of modern commercial Amer
lea"
No road to distinction is easier to
follow than turntailing. Try it.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

brag. And my first confession IS that
] arm too shy to fatter this Mother
Country Of ours. The mere attempt
would embarrass me from its pre-
sumptuousness. Rather would ! say
of the United Kingdom as Daniel
Webster said Of Massachusetts:
There che is; behold her, and judge
for yourselves Nor in withholding
fattery from your land would seek
it for my own. We, too, are begin
ming to feel in modest fashion that
Establishments contribute little TO
our satisfaction. Time was undeni-
ably when John Bull appeared to US,
rightly or wrongly, as perhaps a
trile arrogant, while simultaneously
Uncle Sam crossed your vision if st
all, as whiting vulgarian. But
half century has wrought won
drous change. The grotesque carica-
lures have passed into relative obliv-
ion, and in their places now CLEAN in
personiication Of our splendid ma
tions the beautiful figures Of Britain
MIA and Columbia, hand in hand, side
by side, erect and glorious, upon q
plane Of perfect equality in the eyes
of each other and of all the world.
So we would have them to stand for
ever"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Lives That Can Be Saved

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS matters now stand, out OF
all the thousands who die here in New
York each year at ages twenty to forty
five years more than one-quarter sue
cumb to one disease alone-tubereulo
sis.
Readers of The Tribune will no doubt
be shocked to think of this large.
steady death toll as being needless. Yet
SO it is. We say needless" because
tuberculosis is preventable, and any
thing that is preventable certainly
need not exist. =
Tuberculosis in this or any other
community means simply the existence
Of bad housing, poor or insufficient
food, lack Of fresh air, overwork and
too little rest. These should not be.
In time they will not be. And in that
Gay and by that act tuberculosis itself
will not be, and thousands of valuable
lives will no longer be a needless sac
rifce.
We do all we can, but the task is yet
very great in checking these yearly
thousands of needless deaths.
For the good of New York, therefore.
we shall be glad to give helpful infor-
nation to all who may inquire of Us.
NEW YORK TUBERCULOSIS Asso-
CATION
10 East Thirty-ninth Street. New
York, June II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
The Borah Amendment

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Senator Borah's resolution for
naval disarmament is too late for the
present war, now laboriously drawing
to close 1t may be in good time for
the next.
Had that resolution taken effect
twenty years ago there would have been
no American navy worth mention, the
British navy would have been made
quate, the German navy would have
swept the seas, the British army would
not have crossed the Channel, the
American army would not have crossed
the ocean, the German army would
have overrun the world, the Kaiser, in
stead OF saving wood as an exile in a
foreign land, would have annexed
France to Germany and removed his
throne to Paris; his eldest son would
have become vassal King of England,
another son would have become vassal
King of America, the rest Of his fam
lily would have been similarly placed
IL other portions Of the world. and TO
him every knee would have been forced
to bow.
Thus we see the virtue Of an associ-
alton for the weakening and disarlna-
ment of peaceful nations, rather than
voluntary league OF all nations for
the enforcement of peace.
CHARLES A. WILSON.
New York, June IA, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Philippine Object Lessons

The fruits of the Wilson policy of
seif-etfacement in the Philippines are
now being gathered. Under Gov
ernor General Harrison American
control was attenuated to shadow.
The nativism theory was rampant in
all departments of the insular gov
ernment. MIR. Harrison apologized
continually for having to occuoy the
Governor Generals palace and pub
hciy regretted that when he left
Manila he could not carry away
with him the last vestige of Ameri-
can sovereignty.
General Wood now reports that
the insular government is on the
verge Of insolvency. AS remedy
Congress is to be asked to increase
the debt limit from $15,000,000 to
S30,00o,000. The Manila treasury
hasn't funds with which to buy ex-
change to meet current running ex-
penses in the United States. Up to
Harrison's time the islands finances
were sound. The Philippine Bank,
government subsidiary, was pros
porous and conservatively managed.
A few years ago q native, General
Venancion Conception, was installed
as general manager. He was a po~
Iitical appointee and proceeded to tie
up the banks funds in risky local
investments. The bank is said to
have lost $2,oO0,000 backing hemp
spectators and to have $16,000,000
Of frozen credit in sugar and cocoa
nut oil concerns, The Shanghai
agency is reported to have lost
$4,000,o0o or $5,o00,000 in exchange
speculation. The insular treasury
deposited its current funds and
part Of its gold standard reserve in
the Philippine Bank. The govern
ment's credit has been over-strained
by the banks mismana cement.
The native politicians have Just
decided to send another mission to
the United States to ask for inde-
pendence. But the case for inde-
pendence, never convincing, has been
wrecked by the developments under
the Harrison administration. Native
control has been followed by low
erlng everywhere OF administrative
standards. The admirable regime
established by President Taft has
been disrupted. What government
would be under independence has
been painfully forecast. In do
mestic affairs there would be a re-
lapse to factional dissensions and
intermittent revolution--to spoIia-
ton and poverty. The islands would
also become a center of foreign in
trigue and a victim to intervention.
The Filipinos don't realize how fun
damentally we'll of they are under
American protection. Their real
chance of development and security
lies in their making the most Of the
advantages of their political rela-
tions with the United States.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
The Drift From Prohibition

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: While believe in temperance
and do not drink myself, I always
was opposed to the method Of the par-
sage OF the Eighteenth Amendment and
am glad to see that public sentiment
is beginning to turn against it. It has
served its purpose in eliminating the
corner saloon and I trust conditions
as they were prior to the Eighteenth
Amendment viii never return. Still. I
do think it is time this country
changed its laws and adopted some
thing more sensible in the way Of pro-
hibition.
The proof of the failure Of the lam
lies in the fact that no twelve reason
able men on jury ever convict any Of
It's violators. This is 3 serious thing
because when you go into court with a
prina facie case OF direct violation OF
the law and then find that no jury will
convict even against the weight Of evi.
dence It shows that tho law amounts
10 nothing. NJ. LOUISE GROSS.
White Plains. N. Y, June IT, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
On the Right Track

President Harding, in his confer
sucs with the new Shipping Board,
struck buli's-eyes as to essentials OF
sound shipping policy.
The government is 70 abandon the
Business Of operating q huge fleet of
merchant vessels in competition with
private shipping companies Presi-
dent Wilsct was unable to see that
such competition created an impos-
sihle condition; that if government
ships, supported by the resources of
the public treasury, paralleled the
services Of private companies the
latter would have no option except to
auit. But, fortunately, President
Harding has better understanding
Of a matter his predecessor would
not perceive.
Second, the government is so get
s1s Of the shipping business by pur~
suing the business course of liquidat-
ing It's shipping assets at tonnage
prices now current. The ships could
have been sold to better advantage
TWO years ago or q year ago. But
Hearst interviewed, started litigation
TO prevent sales, and the old ship
ping administration Einched and ran
away from the issue. But what is
past is past. The losses which have
accrued must be accepted and
charged off.
Third, as 10 ships that are not
salable and cannot be profitably
chartered, the economical course of
saspending operations that do not
pay Is to be followed. Boats are not
70 be kept in service merely to
crafty bureaucratic pride. They
are not to crowd in and divide busi-
ness at the taxpayers expense and
TO the banlrupting of unsubsidized
private lines.
The main features Of sound ship
Ping policy are thus clearly perceived
by the President. His words are
greatly cheering TO those who recog-
nize the need of building a new great
national industry and who have ap-
probation of how the work Of its
courageous pioneers have been be-
deviled and interfered with. At last
the country seems on the right track
toward the attainment of a stable
merchant marine.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
The Tmrntailers

The art Of turntailing has never
been recognized or put on basis of
efficiency; but il has latterly come
to have so many distinguished dis
ciples that some account of it is, per-
haps, not out Of place. The tech
nique of the process is very simple.
1t consists almost wholly in assert
ing that thing which has hitherto
been supposed to be so is not SO.
This enables great many writers
to make princely livings and great
many lecturers to acquire interna-
tional regulations.
In modern times turntailing was
apparently originated by George
Bernard Shaw. Mr.. Shaw was far
too clever to announce his discov-
cry. He covered up his invention by
pretending that he deeply believed
what he wrote. He announced that,
whereas the majority Of people
looked at the world through specta-
cles, he used only his eyes, and there
fore his conclusions were ALWAYS
right and the conclusions Of every-
body else were wrong. Anything
that had come to be accepted Mr..
Shaw denied. Shakespeare was
thought to be a great poet. Mr..
Shaw said he was not. Women were
supposed to be affectionate. loyable
creatures, agreeable to live with.
Mr.. Shaw indicted them as devils.
AS the literary world, however, is
as commercial as any other, it was
not to be expected that Mr.. Shaw's
discovery should not be made use of
by others. Competition is fierce.
And so Mr.. Chesterton took a few les
sons and made good. Stupid persons
have hitherto supposed that educa-
tion means knowledge; thereupon
Mr.. Chesterton announced an Amer
ican lecture tour on the Ignorance
of the Educated"
The bars are now down and every-
body is playing the game, the re-
suits largely depending upon ones
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Aside From, Sentiment

And here let Us say that we are de-
lighted that Colonel Harvey has made
it so abundantly clear that the new
American policy is not y policy OF
doles, moral or political, to England
out Of love and affection, not g senti-
mental preference based on blood be-
ing thicker than water, not an elee-
mosynary diplomacy. The British peo-
pie will infinitely prefer that it should
be based upon the much more per-
manent basis of mutual help.
We are not too proud TO be helped
by the daughter country, but we know
that nothing permanent can be estab-
lished except upon basis of equality
and OF reciprocal esteem ard respect.
We do not want q gift from America,
but ar exchange OF benefits, remember
ing always that an exchange is not a
victory for one side or the other, but
union Of forces. The true spirit y7as
admirably set forth in the final pas
sage of Colonel Harvey's speech-a
passage which also we must quote YER
batim, for Colonel Harvey is man
who does not waste words and whose
speeches cannot be summarized:
"As the saying runs in the States,
/ hare come 70 confess and not to
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
The Essential Matter

Colonel Harvey could not have cho-
sen words which would better repre-
sent what we have always regarded as
the essential matter in the relations
between Britain and America The two
nations must learn TO acknowledge
openly and freely what they already
acknowledge at heart and sub-con-
sciously. The relations between them
are not, and never can be, those of for
eign countries. Always, for good or
evil, they must be different from such
foreign relations, not merely in degree
but in kind
Their relations are like those which
in ancient times all the Hellenic States
Of the Mediterranean felt for each
other, even though they divided into
separate and even warning communi-
ties. They recognized that no Greek
was or ever could be foreigner 10 any
other Greek. The plain and ordinary
citizen in England has always instinc-
lively felt this prime distinction. Wit
ness the amusing but ludicrous story
OF the house agent who explained to his
American client that the clause in the
lease forbidding the letting OF the
house to foreigner could not by any
possibility be SO construed as TO in
clude an American. THAT doesn't
mean you, sir" Another example Of
this instructive feeling is to be found
IN the remark so often made in Eng
land, 'Of course war with America
would be civil wa"
We are not going to be so foolish as
to assume that the saying that war with
America would be civil war shows that
such civil war can never happen. We
know, as does Colonel Harvey, that it
can. What it does mean, ana this at
The moment is of vital import, is that
the relations between England and
America form foundation upon which
something great can be built, some
thing which will not only make civil
war practically impossible, but will
greatly help to maintain peace through
out the civilized world There is an
Arab proverb which runs: 81 and my
cousin fight with each other, but I, my
brother and my cousin stand together
against the world" That was q motto
for times when lighting was not only
the last argument, but the first. In
our day, let US hope that standing up
against the world will mean helping it
to straighten out its tangles.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
A Week of Verse
Batsersea Bridge
From The Century,

From The Century,
s@T'HTS is the hour" she said, "os
transmutation:
1t is the eucharist OF tn. eYeaing.
changing
All things TO beauty. Now the arciens
river,
That all day under the arch was POI
ished Jade.
Becomes the ghost Of river; tainly
cleaning
Under silver cloud. Il is net water;
1t is that azure stream in which th.
stars
Battle at the daybreak and become I'M
mortal
"And the moon," said l, not thus to b.
outdons.
"The moon, the waxen moon, nov almost
full.
Creeps Whitley up. Westward the
waves Of cloud,
Vernilion, crimson, violet, stream on
the air,
shatter to golden sakss in tie se7
Tnfnity OF twilight; and the moon
Drinks Up theix light, and ss they fSds
or darken,
Brightens. o monEtrous miracle OF -hs
twilight,
That one should live because the others
die."
Strange, too" she answered, that
upon this azure,
Pale-gleaming, ghostIy stream, irpal-
pable,
So faint, so hn., that scarcely it
bears up
The petals that the lantern ssr~ws
upon 1t,
These great black barges Hoat ike ap-
partitions,
Loom in the silver Of it, beat upon il,
Moving upon it as dragons move N
air.
@Thus always" then I answered, lock
ing never
Toward her face, SO beautiful and
strange
It grew with feeding or the evening
light,
"The gross Is given, By .nscrutabls
God,
Power TO beat wide wings upe1 tie
subtle.
Thus we ourselves, so Heshly, sallihis.
mortal.
Stand here, for all our foolishness.
transfgured
Hung over nothing IN an arch Of light.
While one more evening, like a wavs
OF silence,
Gathers the stars together and zoe.
cut"
cONRAc AIKEN.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Those Lofty Motives
(Fro,n G'he Los AnaeIes Ttrnesl

Not for themselves, you understand,
but for others. Jack Dempsey wants to
win the fight for the sake of his
mother. And Carpenter wants to win
it for the sake of his baby, Jacqueline.
1t will break Jacks mothers heart if
he loses. 1t will blight the future o.
Baby Jacqueline if Carpenter loses.
How cruel life isl And to think what
it is going TO cost to break mothers
heart or blight a babys innocent young
lifel
Two strong men hazarding the hap
piness of their loved ones through q
stroke of cruel fate. Oh, if you have
tears, my friends, prepare to shed
shem nowl