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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-02-11

Evan f1uSHeS,
Attorney for Petitioner.
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rvan Bowen e IARcw Bowen,
ATTORNEYS for Petitionar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
The Dreicer Primitiyes

From the published list Of works
Of art in the bequest made by the
late Michael Drcicer to the Metro
politan Museum it is apparent that
he was not altogether Indifferent to
the cult for Renaissance painting
and sculpture which has been so
characteristic of American connois-
seurs in recent years. There is a
portrait by Lorenzo Lotto. There is
a Della Robb;an group. There are
religious compositions from the ItaI-
ian school in the same period. But
the special note Of the preicer collec-
ton is one less familiar in this coun-
try, on the value Of which it is
peculiarly interesting tt. dwell. 1t is
the note of primitive" simplicity
and truth as it was struck in north
crn Europe.
Modern art is lowering on the
brink Of that melting pot in which,
as soma commentators like to be-
l:eve, everything is to lie beautifully
made over for the benefit of new
generation. The historic modes, we
arc told, are hopelessly outworn.
l'reakish innovators long to push
them into the bubbling brew of mod
ERNST experiment if only to "see
What will happen" At such a time
every call to thoughtful prudence, to
tried facilities, to sanity, in a word,
is doubly precious. That is the sig
niticancc Of the Dreicer pictures and
other objects. They recall us to in
comparable standards.
1t may seem to the layman who
has not meditated on the traits of
carly Flemish art that they are arid,
even ugly, beside the masterpieces
Of the south. The typical Italian
Painting Of the Primitive era has an
extraordinary charm in its naivete,
ii is tendcrly alluring, it is essen
tally thing of grace and beauty.
Art in the north appears, by com
parison, harsh and bleak. Neverthe-
less great beauty is there, the beauty
Of sincere feeling and a profound
artistic rectitudc, which easily coun-
terbalances the want Of sensuous ap-
peal. Mr.. Dreicer comprchended
this. He loved the stern realism in
the portraits Of Mcmlng, Van Der
Wcyden, Mabusc and Cranach. He
klndlcd to the concentrated emotion
and the supcrfne workmanship in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
Undermining
Sir Philip Gibbs Harping on the

Sir Philip Gibbs Harping on the
Theme of Franco-British Rupture
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Sir Philip Gibbs, who was
known rs a fiction writer but became
a war spondent, has lately been
contributing syndicated Sunday arti-
cles to the American press which are
being published by The New York Her
aid here and by the Hearst press on
the Pacific Coast. These articles have
been characterized by fearful repe-
tition of the theme that the entente
cordiale between France and Great
Britain is near break. The last arti-
Gle, published yesterday, again an
nounced this as painful fact" This
accompanied by much lachrymose pro-
testatlon Of love for Franco, winding
up, however, in charging France with
moral dereliction over the question Of
Upper Silesia, which. according to Sir
Philip Gibbs, is strictly and lawfully
German" being in that respect more
GERMAN IMAM the Germans.
This statement of fact may be
weighed in the light of al Associated
Press dispatch published in this morn
ing's Tribune, in which it is stated
that France supports the Polish claims
20 the mining district of Silesia, made
up of 903 townships Ito the east of
the Oder), Of which 673 voted Polish.
We're this district to be awarded to
Germany it would constitute the ideal
war plant for her next aggression.
This dispatch from an impartial Amer
lean source may be contrasted to the
statements of Sir Philip Gibbs, whose
activities should = considered in the
light of the following passage taken
from that same Associated Press dis
patch:
Z" remier BRAND insists with the
utmost frmness upon the broad JUS
tice Of the French governments posi-
ton. He affirms that it is question
between eighteen or twenty cosmopol-
itan financiers on the one side and the
mass Of Polish workers on the other"
Sir Philip Gibbs doth protest too
much his affection for France. British
publicists whose motto is not "for
revenue only" have better work to
perform than to undermine Franco
British-American solidarity, without
which world peace is doomed.
I write as an American who is "A
friend of both Groat Britain and
France. MAURICE LEON
New York, Aug. 8, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10

the devotional art of their epoch. He
grasped the fact tlrat the art Of
painting has never had a nobler
meaning than in certain Of its more
austere phases.
1t is in giving to the Metropolitan
Some mastery illustrations Of an in
spring tradition that Mr.. Dreicer
has rendered a rich, constructive and
timely service to the public. His
paintings hold up once more for our
study and delight ideals of spiritual
serenity-and conscientious tech
nsque. They affirm lasting princi-
lles of pure color, polished drafts
nnanship and dignifed style. There
has been, of course, no lack of SINH
larly sound object lessons in the
museum. But the Dreicer bequest,
through its compactness, it's bril-
lance and its individuality, will
command special attention. It's
Flemish pictures, it's French Gothic
sculptures and enamels, withdraw
US for moment from thoughts Of
art as a decorative luxury and ally
II instead with everything that is
fine in the human soul. The art
lovers Of America have received no
more admirable gift.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10

in such weather, and navigating his
vessel with the caution imposed by
the circumstances and the experience
of the sea. We hope that it will be
shown that Captain HOBBY was I'M
der reduced speed, with lookouts
properly placed and his sounding
machine and lead working. 1t would
be matter of keen regret to learn
that it was just one more instance
of taking chance" for HOBBY
must have been so much of a man.
"No; prefer to go down with my
ship
That was his answer when offered
life belt, And he went down with
her, true to his sea tribes tradition.
There are some cyncs who may call
it folly. We think the manner Of
his going partook of something of
the divine. Unafraid, he made the
supreme decision.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
Orange County Bee Census

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Concerning the article pub
lished in your Sunday issue two weeks
40 on the census OF bee colonies in
Orange County, New York, we would
like to say that the census was not to
count the number of bees and stamp
out disease. 1t was only for the pur-
pose of locating and sscertaining the
number of hives or colonies so thst
the bee farmer might be kept in
formed of the progress made in exter-
minating American and European foul
brood, with which | will venture 10
say not one-ninetieth per cent Of the
bees are infected.
We have taken the matter up direct
ly with +. +. Phillips, apiculturist
Bureau o. Entomology. Washington,
D. c., and his reply is practically the
same as the above. In addition ne
says: =. it is, of course, absurd
to state that either OF the diseases
can be in any way communicated to
persons who eat honey from colonies
having these diseases, since both OF
these diseases are caused by bacteria
which do not affect human beings 10
any way whatever"
STAUBLE BROTHERS.
Monroe, n. y, Aug. s. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
Russian Land Titles
To the Editor Of The Tribune

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune find If
stated that the ukase of Alexander II
"seventy-hve years ago extin-
guished the titles of the nobility and
turned over 70 per cent CT the Rus
sian land to the peasants" Is not
the statement too comprehensive >
That Emperor did free the serfs of
Russia from bondage, but did he con-
vey to them ownership in the land !.
see it stated, in Alden's CYCLIC
pcdia, that "husbandry, in general.
has undergone great changes since the
emancipation Of the serfs, to whom a
considerable portion of the land has
been transferred in freehold. The
land owners, deprived of their former
right to the labor of their serfs. find
1t more profitable to reduce the
amount of their land in cultivation. or
to grant portions Of it in lease to tho
peasants, often in return for half OF
the product The same auti. oritv
says: The recent emancipation gave
freedom to 20,000O0o serfs. who. prior
to 1861. being governed exclusively by
their owners. had very limited civil
rients. Communal government is the
fundamental principle Of all the rights
OF the peasant class. In general. the
lands allotted to the peasants arc not
their individual property, but belong
to the commune. and are shared
among the members"
That the people OF Russia were ter
fbly down-troddcn there can be no
doubt but the neasantrv OF that land
were not so much oppressed as were
those who began Il e revolution that
IN western Europe brought about a
reign Of terror that shocked the
whole world four or five generations
ago. WILLIAM " E,,r>c
Dcs Moines, Iowa, Aug. 6. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
The Trade in Narcotics

The American Vice-Consul at
Changsha, China, Walter A. Adams,
acted with fine courage in selling, at
the risk Of his life, tons of opium
over which the American flag had
been fraudulently thrown
The incident is reminder Of the
fact that Americans are so greatly
interested in the manufacture and
export Of narcotic drugs as to sug-
gest that q considerable part of their
goods reaches the illicit trade. Off
cial statistics are most disquieting.
In 1913 there was manufactured
and shipped from New York II, 3O4
ounces Of morphine In 1919 the
amount was 1896 ounces. In the
first three-fourths Of 1929 it was 61,-
l7o ounces, and if that rate was
maintained during the rest Of the
year the total was 81,5G6 ounces. or
an increase Of 5G2 per cent in two
years.
Manufactures and shipments Of
cocaine in 1913 were 43,52l ounces,
and in 1919 they were 38,A46 ounces.
In the first nine months Of 1920
they we're 8l,042 ounces, suggesting
Il total for that whole year Of 108,-
0bG ounces, an increase Of more than
lsl per cent in year.
These vast quantities Of narcotic
druGs ere, moreover, only a part Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
Among Us Mortals -
HIS Drawings Like Letters From
Home to Americans Abroad

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: For the last eleven months
the undersigned has had occasion to
travel through all the countries OF
southwestern Europe. Being con-
frmed fan of ". E. HIPS Among Us
Mortals," my journey has been i'm
mensely cheered from time to time by
the thoughtfulness Of friend in for
warding those pages. This letter is
not written, however, merely 10 ex-
press personal feelings. but TO call
your attention to a fact that may in
terest YOU
All over Europe, anu org resident and
travelling Americans, the mention Of
Hills name is received with the most
intimate knowledge and the greatest
enthusiasm. Next to letter from
home his pages are about the most
delightful souvenir of the United
States our wandering countrymcn can
chance upon. | think ] am safe in
saying that hardly one of his pages
crosses the Atlantic that is not passed
around again and again and made to
do not double but triple and quadru-
pie duty They are read with 80
eagerness that has it's pathos and that
speaks for the rare American quality
in them, as well as their delicious
humor--a quality which people living
at home can ardly be conscious Of.
If you doubt this, pick up a page Of
Hill when you have not heard word
Of English all day
in behalf of a large number Of
Americans in Europe who know
personally come to a page Of Hill
with the pleasure Of the hungry to
feast, may | thank you for giving Us
Among Us Mortals"? J. " r.
Oxford, England, July IS, 1927
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
Some One Else 8

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Doubtless you are burdened
with letters about some one clse's. be-
cause of your laconic "stet" in Satur-
days issue. DO not presume to cavil
at your dictum, especially since die
tionarles now condone the nnrasc as q
substantive one. Nevertheless, could
you not have spared space enough to
add that some ones else is permis-
sible as an archaism?
In certain parts of our country.
where shall and will are still correct
~ used unwittinely, else is always
remembered as an adverb. am mind
full of the old, retired Maine SCHOOL
master who taught me fly fishing, and
who >once pertincntiy snapped: "Sav
somebody's else rod else you are
wrong' had as lief hear you split
an infnitive." To my grandmother
the phrase was SO uncouth that once.
when happened to remark that =
book was some one clse's, she sar-
easticaily asked: "What Elsio's.
Elsie Hobbs's her hired girl.
E.. p. c.
New York, Aug s, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
Tax-Free Bonds

Senator Smoot proposes that the
Twentieth Amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution shall permit the
collection Of taxes on income derived
from state and municipal bonds.
Here would be a change worth
while. The annual value of the
present exemption is $500, 100000.
Interest on the present net national
debt would practically be taken care
of If one income looked the same as
any other to Uncle Sam.
Moreover, for reasons that have
been brought out in the discussion of
the income surtaxes, the exemption
of state and municipal bonds dis
courages productive enterprises and
encourages state and municipal
extravaganza. Speaking broadly, the
proceeds Of state and municipal
bonds are spent on productive
undertakings. BY impounding in
vestment bonds there is less avail
able for productive enterprises. Thus
the whole country, whose primary
interest is in production, is disad-
vantaged.
The theory Of the exemption is
that to permit Federal taxation of
the securities of local governments
might lead to their extinction by
taxation. The fear is imaginary
is survival from days when the
ederal government was viewed as
a possible enemy. If the amendment
is drawn so as to make it impossible
to discriminate against the present
taX-exempts, then states and cities
may be quite sure that the level of
taxation will not be high enough to
extinguish them, for if it was, then
it would be high enough to extin-
guish every other interest.
1t has not been fair to let those
who had the luck to invest in the
tax-exempts go free while others
have borne staggering burdens. Pub
lie opinion should get behind the
Smoot amendment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10

the total manufactured in the United
States and shipped to other coun-
tries-largely, it is complained, to
China. Is this enormous increase
needed to meet corresponding in
crease in legitimate demand? =
The United States is under a
strong obligation not to permit the
Illicit shipment Of narcotics to China
But there is still more potent rea-
son for closer supervision Of the
traffic. There is cause to believe
that drugs, made here ostensibly for
export largely, reach illicit dealers
in the United States, and that drugs
sent abroad are returned through
secret channels.
1t is to be feared that the special
champions Of prohibition, particu-
larry the officers of the Anti-Saloon
League, are unalive to one of the
gravest dangers confronting the fu-
ture of prohibition. If the suppress
sion of alcoholism leads to the de-
velopment of worse form of intoxi-
cation, what will happen to the
Eighteenth Amendment? 1t surely
Is startling thing that in two years
the American manufacture of mar
cotic drugs has increased nearly six
fold. Yet if the Anti-Saloon League
is greatly concerned the fact is kept
from the public. The counsel of the
league is putting in his time lobby
ing for the bill, Of most doubtful
constitutionality, forbidding under
all conditions the prescription of
beer as tonic medicine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
HOBBY

Only an official inquiry can de.
yelop the facts and fix the response
bllity involved in the piling up Of
the steamship Alaska on the Cali
fornia coast and the LOGS Of forty
seven of her company. The Alaska
laid herself broad on Blunt's Reef in
"a dense fog. An assistant engineer
is reported 10 have testified at a
scoroner's inquest at Eureka that she
was proceeding at the moment Of
dfsaster at full speed.
We hope when the whole truth is
known that it will be disclosed THAT
the Alaska's master, Harry 5obcy.
.was on the bridge, where he belonged
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
Invisible Exports

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: read with intense interest
your editorial in to-day's paper on
Our South American Trade" and I
wish, through your columns, to call the
attention Of American capitalists and
exporters to the thing which, to nv
knowledge, is the key to the whole
situation, namely: Invisible exports.
For the benefit Of those not familiar
with this term I will explain its mean
ing. Invisible exports are the gem
orally kept secret interest or profit
made on capital invested in foreign
countries.
South America is full of investment
opportunities. Great Britain, fully
aware of this fact, has taken advantage
of the other countries stupor to jump
into the lead. And now perhaps you
will wonder what good were Britain's
invisible exports to hor? Answer:
She had a favorable balance of trade
even when her imports far excceded
her exports
The benefits our trade with South
American countries would derive from
capital invested there are TOO obvious
to need lengthy explanation.
| believe that q corporation of can't
talists should be formed to study these
great Investment opportunities and to
open UP the road TO increased national
wealth through invisible exports,
ARMAND GARRISON.
Brooklyn. Aug. s. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
Better Understanding

Aoru bryce statement that Japan,
paraphrasng Kipling, learned
about intrigue from u.s." embodics no
new truth. In various ways it has
often been said before. Nevertheless
Lord Bryce seems right in intimat-
ing Japan may be excused some
cynicism. European flags float over
PARTS Of the Chinese homeland. How
did they get there and by what
power do they stay there? Christian
nations, alas. have been the great
grabbers.
Are we just as bad? Let US hope
not. But what would we have done
{ tempted? Then comes another
thought. How sacred are the claims
Of backward country against the
intrusion Of a more advanced one?
May group of people, by mere pos
session of part Of the earth's sur
face, forbid the proper use Of
natures gifts and dwell inviolate in
chronic misery? Is it not a glorious
thing, for example, that America &C
copied the trusteeship of the Philip
pines and has given the labor Of
noble lives and bountcously of it's
wealth to uplift the Filipinos?
For nearly twenty centuries, until
the British came in, India and
Egypt were oppressed by sodden an
archy. Since the Romans left, North
Africa, until the French came, sank
lever and lower. 1t sometimes seems
as if so-caled liberals, parroting
phrases, do not take sufficient note
Of the facts Of life. What is berated
as imperialism is not altogether base.
Another consideration is pertinent.
Missionaries Of good, their hearts
pure, go forth to help. AS an Incl
dent to helping they establish insti-
tUtions and recruit followers, and
their work becomes so enmeshed
with circumstances as to lay the
foundations for national expansion.
Is it endurable, when there is re-
surgence of barbarism, to have over
whemed the results of years of I'M
Selfsh labor? Then there are the
missionaries Of business, who indi-
vjdually pursue selfish ends, but COL
lectively insensibly bring in better
ways. Are their titles subordinate
to the caprces of local passion or to
the whims of some despot who hap
pens to gain power to wreck?
Then aside from the rights of a
resident population are the rights of
the incomers. Need we feel ashamed
Of erecting the white mans house
where stood the red mans tepee?
Japan's population is increasing at
the rate of II per cent year, and,
considering her present congestion,
il is necessary for her people to go
elsewhere or develop outside markets
/ to give them chance to live On the
Chinese mainland are vast regions
little occupied, Inhabited by nomads
or semi-nomads. Who has the better
right-those who only partially use
CT those who will put to complete
use? The parable of the talents
comes to mind, with its lesson that
/ the servant who buried the treasure
confided to him was not as worthy as
the servant who gave it increase.
1t would be excellent if it were more
the human habit to think problems
through and it were less common to
seize on some particular formula, as
was the practice CT President Will
son, and assume for it universal and
absolute applicability. Patience and
tolerance, leading to more perfect
understanding Of the problems of
each nation, would help secure
against war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
Hymn of Devastation
l hate Joe Mott
Eheu fugaces!
He says "I've got
Two pairs

Are we a candidate for the psyche
pathic ward AFTER having read Hutch
inson's If Winter Comes, we began to
read Mary Borden's The Tortoise. And
that, too, it seems to US, is full Of
the same cadences. Can it be that
we have metrical monomania7 Are
these lines, from The Tortoise, acct
dental p
Then what was the use of thinking of things
that were not to be?
Thinking of her lover gave her no clue
to her husband.
II was growing warm in the garden. The
morning had deepened.
The flowers glowcd. They meant nothing
to her
Her eyes skinned over their coIors i'm
patiently.
There was the house beyond at the end OF
the long lawn.
Maybe the house would tell her what she
wanted to know.
A bluejay flashed from one tree 10 another.
A (pearly] haze hung above the river to
the fields.
She took the path that led TO the orchard.
O"NS'"i'0i iiaoe d LINN green tunnel Tor
her to pass through
In the direction of the stables she heard the
sound Of splashing water.
The river was deep at the bottom Of the
field
Its black current slid by swiftly She stood
with her back against
The trunk Of tree and looked down into
the water.
If these are accidental, we apologize
to Mary Borden, and to A. S. NJ. Hutch
inson. If not, we want to know all
there is to know about this curious af-
fectation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
A Shift of Position

fFrom The Los Angeles Tsmes)
Why should scientists worry over
the fact that a California mountain
mas moved ten feet one way and six
feet another in period of three.
qasfters of century, The parry
OF Hamilton and Jefferson has moveo
more than that from it's original
moorings, and scientists are paying
no attention to that.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10

What the papers didn't print about
Eddie Rickcnbacker's visit to the Lick
Observatory was that Eddie probably
went there to sec Director Campbell,
who is the father of Douglas Campbell,
of the Gath Aero Squadron, who, with
Lieutenant Winslow, brought down the
first German plane captured by an
American outfit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10

Omissions from Mr.. Neal R. O'Hara's
Evening World list OF tours: Carte,
Ala; Pontifcal, Mass; Otto, Conn;
Feeling, I'll; Wealthof, Ind, and Bon,
Mo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-10
The Coming ower


(Fron, The Prorencal)
Love, if / only knew
What can the answer be?
II cared less for you,
Would you care more for me?
Love, it's q mystery.
Can it be this is true:
# you cared more for me,
Would care less for you2
Isoscelcs.