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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
Traffic and the Five-Cent Fare

The most striking feature of the
Transit Construction Commission
annual report is the tabulation
showing the increase Of rapid tran
sit passenger traffic in. 1920. This
increase has direct bearing on the
five-cent fare question. The rapid
transit lines, including the Hudson
and Manhattan tubes, carried
l,424, 166,5Sl passengers last year,
an increase over 1919 Of 100000
900 in round numbers. Of this in
crease oil, 100000 was in business
on the subway and elevated lines
the dual system---in which the city
has large financial interest. The
increase In passengers carried on
all lines, surface and rapid transit,
was 284,S32,0 G3.
The city has a contract with
the rapid transit lines, excluding the
Hudson and Manhattan tubes, for
operation on a iivc-cent basis. The
operators arc asking for higher
fare. Their bargain was highly
profitable over series of years.
War conditions and a violent in
crease in the price of coal and other
materials, accompanied by rising
labor costs, ate up the profit. The
lines have appealed to the city gov
eminent for a mitigation Of the
contract. But an agreement is an
agreement for lean years as we'll as
fat ones Public opinion has been
little affected by the higher fare
argument, because it realizes that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
him by majority of more than

him by a majority of more than
three to one.
France wants to, see Germany held
more vigorously to the obligations of
the treaty. She has much to lose by
an extemporizcd downward revision
of PREPARATIONS. The new ministry
therefore will stand more strongly
than the outgoing one did against a
waiver of French rights. France
has at least one guaranty of treaty
enforcement in her occupation of the
left bank OF the Rhine. Without
that she perhaps would now have to
contemplate yielding most of the
fruits of her victory to Germany's
fixed and so far fairly successful
policy of treaty notification.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
Wanted: Musical instruments

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: A group of boys in the lower
East Side are anxious to form a band,
under the auspices of the Music League
OF the Peoples Institute. These boys are
eager to meet weekly and willing to
pay small amount for instruction. but
have not enough instruments to make
up band. If any of your readers know
of any instruments that are not being
used and could be loaned or donated
to this band it would be a great service
in helping to develop good music in the
community among the boys of that dis
trct. The boys hope to pay for these
instruments in time. The services of
an eminent band conductor already have
beer donated to this cause
HARRIET SELMA ROSENTHAL.,
Musical Director
152 Hewes Street, Brooklyn, Jan,
8, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

any losses incurred in 1918 and 1919
were more than balanced by excess
profits in the period before 1919
in. any event came from risk as
sumed.
1t is encouraging to note, since
the city as we'll as the operators
are concerned in running the lines
at profit, that the war depression
is passing away. The increase in
general passenger traffic in 1919
was subnormal-only a little more
than a third as great as the in
crease last year. New rapid transit
mileage has been opened, entailing a
minimum extra cost of operation.
Coal is falling in price. Labor costs
have passed their peak.
Service has been more economi-
cally spaced in the non-rush hours,
so that trains are filled more con-
stantly to and beyond capacity.
There will be a further increase of
10 per cent in passenger traffic this
year, and the balance will probably
swing appreciably to the profit side
of the ledger.
When the dual contracts were
signed, in 1918 the Subway lines
We're carrying s1o,o0o,oO0 passen-
gers year. In 1921 they will be
carrying more than 2,500,000,00
The five-cent fare was long term
proposition. There is no satisfac-
tory evidence yet to show that it
will not make good on the lines it
covered for the duration of the
cONtrnct
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
icks and the Clergy
.ditor Of The Tribune.

: Regarding the treatment Of
ministers in books and motion pictures,
1t is possible that in many instances
no injustice is done them. Wherever in
TACT or fiction q minister fultills the
expectation of his community he is ac-
corded the respect due him.
Could any man on earth be given more
sincere admiration than the Vicar of
Wakefield as portrayed by Henry Irving
IN "Olivla"? Would to God that it was
on the screen to-day. with Irving and
Terry in the cast! 1t did me more good
than any sermon ever heard. and | 20
to church regularly.
In the remarkable story "My Son"
by Cora Harris, just ended in The Sat
urday Evening Post, we find the minis
ter's weakness was that che PREPARED
his sermon as a school teacher prepares
lecture" Later, when he aban-
doned that style and preached the true
Gospel, his church was crowded with
representatives of capital and labor
alike and he won the admiration not
only of the community, but of his
mother also, who had no use for a
backboneless preacher
Joseph c. Lincoln, in The Village
Oracle, gives US a glimpse of the esteem
in which a local preacher is held by one
of his townsmen. l have read all of
Lincoln's books thus far, and he is al
ways courteous to ministers and every
body else worthy of same
In the screen play of Ellis Parker
Buffers "The Jackknife Man" the vii
lage liveryman is permitted to give the
minister a good, swift kick, which is we'll
deserved, and no one is sorry.
All who know Lincoln and Butler
know them to be men of very high char
acter culture and refinement, who
arc held in high esteem by the clergy.
They would not willfully misrcpresent
the clergy. and it would be cnlighten-
ing if, in the event of this reaching their
notice, they should tell US that these
characters are true to life
LAYMAN.
New York Inv 1901
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
By
Heywood Broun

ence Of an intellectual and social quail
lty almost as intense as that of a first
class mule.
So far as countenance goes, the
New York first night audience is in the
main fully as lovely as the floor Of a
Russian barber shop after a busy day"
We wonder just what sort of wit Mr..
Nathan would seem to the casual reader
II a reviewer furnished only these two
samples and then said no more.
"William Allen White says lin the
January issue)," writes Adelaide,
that Zona Gale in her play, Miss Lulu
Bett' Che apparently does not consider
the novel at alb 'enmeshes the
cry Of the free woman of the new day
the woman who would rather be the
beloved mistress than the neglected
wife | cannot see anything free or
new about the woman who makes such
choice; she is at least as old as
Clytemn@stra, whose sister Helen
probably falls into the same category
Though | am not quite so sure about
the latter's previous marital relations
Menelaus being less clearly defined
person than Agamemnon), while Fran
cesca da Rimini represents her medieval
prototype. The new woman is she who
chooses to be neither the beloved mis-
tress nor the neglected wife, but the
independent spinster. In this sense the
Lula Bett of the play (not of the novel)
as new-new in the triumphant isola-
ton with which, like small town Nora.
she sets forth 'on her lone at the close
But hear rumors to the effect that
the original conclusion of the play has
been, or is to be, changed to the ira
ditional happy ending Well, one must
welcome anything that tends to make
the drama still more like the novel; but
where. then, IS the new woman? The
Lulu Bett Of the book frankly admits
that she made her first matrimonial
venture just for the sake of having a
husband, and her second is undoubtedly
OF more or less the same type. Is there
anything-apart from the frankness-
new or free about that?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
Two Arrivals
To the Editor of The Tr;buno

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some little time ago an Arme-
man who had fought side by side with
our American soldiers on attempting to
enter tins country was denied admission
because he had no passport, and was
accordingly "scnt back"
To-day an individual who happens to
be the Mayor of Cork, and who. as a
member of the Sim Fem, belongs to
those stay at-home" Trishmen who
sided with the enemy against us, is adj
mlttcd without passport.
Are the Federal laws of our country
to be regarded as null and void at the
command of handful of lrsh-Ameri-
cans? AMERICAN CITIZEN.
New York City, Jan. 7, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
Filming, Not FiddIinp

Talk no more Of Nero and his
callous rendering of a violin obbl-
cato while Rome was burning.
Fame endures only till it is eclipsed
by greater fame. There is nothing
spectacular about fddling, anyway.
Nero's opportunities were limited.
He never had a chance to drive
flivver around City Hall Park for
the benefit of film production while
the city Of which he was chief mag
istrate was being overwhelmed by a
crime wave and swept into bank
ruptcy by an undertow Of graft.
This Mayor Hylan not only could
do, but did While ululating thousands
gathered round he guided an antique
comedy car about the pavement,
narrowly missing stenogra piers and
bookkeepers and tired business men,
and distracting the ATTENTION of
hundreds of newsboys from their
occupations.
1t was an achievement that his
tory cannot fail to record for the
benefit of posterity. Undismayed by
the activities of four investigating
committees, undisturbed by the regu-
lar ''thud! thud.' of the footpad s
blackjack on the heads of the pro-
letariat, the Mayor calmly chauffed
his amusing vehicle in order that
crowds over the length and breadth
of the country may be provided with
humor when the film shall be re-
leased
Mr.. Hylan now belongs to the
future. His permanent fame is as
sured. Murphy may throw him over
board, Hearst may turn on him, but
forever and ever it shall be remem-
bered that he fivvered for the
movies at time when his fellow
citizens were turning pallid faces
toward the future and crying in
their distress, Good night"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
The Coming ower
THE PATRIOT

I profteered throughout the war,
/ profteered for. two years more.
And when the people asked me why
| kept my prices up so high. 9
l told them that | had to make
A profit for my country's sake.
And nowadays when prices fall,
/ tell the people one ard all
That every one who buys and buys
Will help the nation stabilize.
Be prices low, be prices high,
None loves his country more than I.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
Books

We recommend to our readers Hun
cry Hearts, by Anzia Yezierska, which is
published by the Houghton MiH,in Com
pany. Miss Yezierska has not only
written volume of interesting short
stories, but she has put before US a
new point Of view, point Of view
sorely needed. For the last three or
four years we have heard a great deal
about what America expects from the
immigrant. THE immigrant has been
fold that be must do this and he must
think that if he is to be welcome in our
great republic. Now, through the me-
dunn Of Hungry Hearts, we are able
to turn from these notions of ours for
moment in order to learn what the
immigrant thinks of America. Again
and again Miss Yezierska brings out the
appealing tragedy Of the discrepancy
between what America seems to be
when the peasant from Poland begins
his journey TO the New World and what
it is when he arrives at his destination
in an East Side tenement
To be sure, these dreamers in far-off
lands expect q great deal of u.s. The
ideal which they set up is perhaps I'M
possible Of fulfllment, and yet few who
read Hungry Hearts will be able to
avoid the wish that we might miss it
by at least little less.
Here, too, there is material to dis
turb our compacency about our schools
and our charities. 1t may be that some
body will object, of these foreigners
DONE" like America let EN- stay in their
own country but, after all, the picture
which they bring with them is not en-
tircly of their own making. For years
and years we have told the word that
our land was the refuge of the OPP
pressed and the open door to oppor-
tunty. 1t is up to US to take the sorry
course of Withdrawing much which we
have said or to adopt the Drawer meas
ure of making it come true.
Hungry Hearts is by no means q mes
sage OF black pcssimism 1t makes no
ringing declarations that everything is
all wrong and has always been wrong,
and will ever De, world without end.
Indeed, there is a definite avowal that
America has a soul Some of Miss
Yezierska's characters find it. Others
don't, and in her opinion it is not al
ways their fault. There is, then, some
sunshine and sweetness in the book and
a good deal more of fine, challenging
arrogance. We can't speak for our read
ers. but for our part we must admit
that whenever any foreign born person
who has come here because Of the
slogans turns and says sharply, "Just
what do you mean by the home of the
free? % we have no answer ready on the
tip of the tongue.
From time to time. George Jean
Nathan ridicules some individual or
other by the simple process of digging
out one or two sentences from the VIC
tins collected writings which fall short
of wisdom or eloquence. 1t is an easy
and diverting practice, but not quite
cricket. Thus, Mr.. Nathan himself is
an amusing writer, with neat turn of
wit. but it would be possible to create
somewhat different impression if a re-
viewer should quote just twice from The
Theater, The Drama, The Girls. az fol-
lows:
at is perfectly true, of course. that
there arc regularly number Of per-
sons in the Broadway first night audi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
New York, Jan. II, 1921.
Racial Eruptions in America


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As great adnirer Of your
American editorials, especially on the
racial eruptions that break out on the
face of poor Uncle Sam, I wish to
thank you for your stand on the Irish
question:
However, why not try Mr.. Boland's
cbullitive idea and encourage the Irish
in this country to tear everything Eng
llsh down? Then, naturally, to be abso-
lutely fair, we could spur the English
on to rctaliate and shred all things
that looked Irish. If this would not be
suf1lclent, the Poles could start in on
the made in Germany" products. And
the Huns might saw down all the poles
they see. Not to be unneutral, there
are the Turks and the Greeks. the
Italians and the Slavs; the Armenians.
for the time being, could assist the
Greeks; then come the Rumanians and
the Bulgars, the Serbians and the Aus
TRANS, the Chilians and Peruvians. and
SO on ad inhnitum.
When the cruel war is over, the
Americans-yes, the Americans, there
are still some left in these United
States of America-mght all get to-
gether and assist the American Legion,
the National Security League and The
New York Tribune in teaching foreign
ers that this country is America, and
also that if they are not Americans
without hyphens they are still foreign
ers and that the country they left is
open for their return. Let us speed
the parting guest. AN AMERICAN.
New York, Jan. 8, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

1t is, as Prof. Briggs illuminatingly
says, 6. and g. f. to receive Il letter
from the Bureau of Internal Revenue
to the effect that you have overpaid the
government. Ours was that feeling last
June. 1t would be even grander and
more glorious to get letter, in answer
to ours Of last June, inclosing a check
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
Not Worth SAVING

Tro1n The kdnsas Citu rinlca)
Sometimes it seems az thouch tbo
government was putting itself to a good
deal of Unnecessary trouble trying to
keep people from drinking wood alco-
ho'. Really now, isn't person who
would drink wood alcohol better Off
preserved in it and safe from all harm, .
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

"And what" asks H. W. H., comment
ing on The Tribunes california to
Have First Aerial Derby" headline,
about the one Mercury has been wear
ing all these weary years?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
A Prohteer' $ Holiday

(From The Toledo Blade)
After reading about the prices Wash
ington hotels are going to charge in
1T might be profitable to build hotel
there to open just for the week and
then give it away.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

For broadmindedness and fairness
toward its rivals, we cite The American
Magazine, which prints letter whose
writer says that he subscribes to the
best magazines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
A Garden in Winter

The winds Of winter moan among
The leahess branches overhead
q drge for vanished summer days,
A requiem for roses dead.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

Rare Musical Fare Served by 2 Con-
ductors.-Tribune.
"The Railroad Blues and "Casey
Jones'? inquiries Q. Or perhaps "Put
Me Off at Buffalo," an the Baggage
Coach Ahead" or "My Dads the En-
gineer."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
Intimidation

Sir: If you allow Mr.. E. L. Mas
ters to write for your paper I shall
cancel my subscription.
ELMER CHUBB, LID, Ph.D.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
The marble Pan is overthrow.

And lies enshrouded in the snow;
And this is something like the way
A wintcr-g garden pomc should go.
C. w. w.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
InsOmniana

InSOmniana
Lord God of hosts, be with us vet:
Miss Lulu Bett, Miss Lulu Bett.
The hours l spend with thee, Bret Harte,
Are Arthur Stringer pearls to me.
Rita Weiman met Pieman going to the
fair;
Said Rita Weiman to the Pieman, CDR.
Berthold Baer." C. W.
For Zona Gale did Otto Kahn
stately pleasure dome decree.
III fares that land, to Fastening ills a
prey,
Where wealth accumulates and r. p. A.
| Oh, what is so rare as a Haywood
broun! F. T.
Candy is cheaper. and the new smile
is Lower than moasses in January"
In conformance with the other plans.
probably the weather on March will
be simply dreadful.
Motto for the Republican party: Sim
plicity of the better sort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
ELEGT.

AS though the best Of them weren't
temporary, the Hotel Aberdeen adver-
tises Rooms with permanent bath
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

Sir; may be Ryskind my reputation
but not Morrie's friendship when t. {. W.
that 'Unaccustomcd AS nrn'--the best
book that young man ever had published
will be on sale Tomorrow Saturday.
January 18th. .Knopf said
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

Some of this irish stuff" writes G..
A., suggests the title of the second
volume of the Century Dictionary. You
know@Celt- Drool.'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
LINES TO HIS HONOR

Your Honor, if your many critics knew
How much you studied for your city's good
What worthy effort emanates from you.
Certes you would be better understood
They do not scent the pungent midnight oil
That lights the leaves Of ofty-minded
tones
Wherein you search for hints-eans thought
of toll
Whereby to better your dear comrades
homes.
They do not know the books you gravey
read
That name the best in structure for n
court;
They do not know how you abhor the greed
OF grafters who but know how to extort
All that, and more, these arbiters know not
In short, they think your ethics not SO
high,
They coldly cry you do not know what's
what,
And hone ely, Your Honor. so do I.
ELMO P ABBrArr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14
u Line Ad. for the Maine Woods

q Line Ad. for the Maine Woods
You know how Office workers
Are supposed to get restless
And look out Of the window
And write poetry
In the first warm days Of spring.
You've seen those poems.
But spring in the city
Isn't half bad
With hurdy-gurdies and new hats and
all.
Just now is the worst time,
When all the typewriters are rafting
And the radiators kissing,
And every one is talking about accounts
and Investigations,
And little whirl Of city snow
Turns on the window sill.
! keep thinking Of quiet forests
Where the snow lies fat on pine
branches
That hang heavy over snow
That is patterned with rabbit tracks.
And | can't get my shoe ad. done
The one with the Palm Beach appeal.
S. G. S.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

Motto for the Republican party: Sim
plicity OF the better sort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

In conformance with the other plans
probably the weather on March A will
be simply dreadful.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

Candy is cheaper and the new smile
is Lower than rolasses in January"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-14

Lord God of hosts, be with us yet:
Miss Lulu Bett, Miss Lulu Bett.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-03-22
NOTICE
OF SALE OF STREET. IMPROVE
MENT AND SEWER BONDS OF
: THE CITY OF PARIS, KY.

The City of Paris, Kentucky, will
accept sealed bids, in open council
at 1880 o'clock, p. M. at the City
Hall, in Paris, KY, on Friday,
April 1, 1921, for the sale of Street
Improvement and Sewer Bonds of
the City of Paris, Kentucky, of the
face value of twenty-five Thousand
Dollars for Streets, and Thirty-flve
Thousand Dollars for Sewers, which
bonds will bear date May 1, 1921,
five per cent of which bonds mature
on the first day of November in
each year thereafter, with interest
at so per annum, payable semi
annually on the first day of May and
November of each year in gold coin
of the present standard of weight
and fineness at the Bank of America
in New York City.
Each bidder is required to accom-
pany his bid with a certified check
for ten per cent. of the total
amount of his bid, which check shall
be made payable to C. X. Thomas,
Treasurer of the City of Paris, Ken
lucky.
The checks of the unsuccessful
bidders will be returned Immediately
after the letting and the check of
the successful bidder will be, retain
ed until such bidder has accepted
and paid for said bonds, and mty be
applied upon the purchase price.
In the event of the failure of the
successful bidder to accept and pay
for said bonds, such sum will be re-
tanned as liquidated damages for
such failure.
All bids must be addressed to and
filed with ]. w. Hayden, Clerk of
the City of Paris, Kentucky, not later
than 1880 o'clock, p. m, on the date
aforesaid.
I e. B. JANUARY,
: (22-4t) Mayor.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-03-22

In January the Court of Appeals
decided an important case sent up
for hearing from the Bourbon Cir
cult Court, that Of McFeena's Admr.
VS.. the Paris Home Telephone Com
pany, finding in favor of the COM
pany. The opinion of the Court was
rendered by Judge Sampson affirm
ing. The appellant was represent
cd by John J. Williams, and the ap-
pelle by Judge Denis Dundon.
The published opinion of the Court
as just rendered was as follows:
"First-Pleading in judicial No
tice.-Facts of which thes Court is
required to take judicial notice
need not be stated in the petition,
and a general demurrer will be
sustained to a pleading if when the
facts of which the Court will take
judicial notice is read into the petit
ton, it presents no cause of action.
Second Courts-Judicial Notice
of Acts Of Congress.-A court will
take judicial notice of the acts Of
Congress and proclamations of the
President of the United States.
''Third-Master and Servants
Governmental Control and Operation.
An action cannot be maintained
against a telephone company by one
injured through negligence of the
employees of the Government while
the Government was in control Of
the telephone company's system and
lines. John j. Williams, for appel
ant; Dennis Dundon. for appellee.