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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19
Home Manufacture

The new Stanley amendment as
agreed to in conference seems to
provide that in liquor proceedings no
search warrant against dwelling
shall be issued "unless there is rea-
son to believe such dwelling is used
as a place in which liquor is manu-
featured for sale or Sold"
The new regulation is stated mega
lively; there is no express authorize
ton of domestic manufacture, but it
does not strain Interpretation to see
in this provision recognition of a
right to produce and consume at
home beverages with more than one
half of l per cent of alcohol.
Under this regulation founda-
ton seems laid for a revival Of a
once widely practiced domestic art.
No one need suffer from lack Of
potable liquor who has energy
enough to assemble few easily OBJ
tainable ingredients and the patience
to wait as nature gets to work.
Mr.. Volstead, who voted for the
provision, says it was never intended
to interfere with home manufacture.
Perhaps he is right. Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel of the
Anti-Saloon League, gentleman
who seems a sort of Supreme Court
to determine what is the law, recent
" encouraged the grape growers of
Ohio to make wine as they pleased
provided they did not sell. The rea-
son for this tolerance, it would seem,
is the number of home brewers and
the difficulty Of subduing them.
Is national prohibition in the end
to be merely prohibition of the saloon
and its adjuncts? To the strict tee
totaler this, Of course, would not be
an ideal result, but it would have
many practical advantages. The pub
lies attitude toward the bootlegger
probably would quickly change-with
acute pressure off and John Barley
corn bubbling in private cellars the
bootlegger would find juries less
friendly and would be more vigorous
ly attacked as vender of poison.
Perhaps the elimination of the saloon
is about all the prohibition achieve
ment of which single generation is
capable. Many prohibitionists will
be angered at what they deem is an
unspeakable betrayal, but those who
look at matters with an eye to def
mite results will not be certain that
prohibition has lost anything.
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Just a p nce '''

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: should like to say to the
writer of the Tribune editorial Gust
'Prince'":
I am a brother of yours and have
been, if you are nearly my age, for
nigh on to sixty years!
When / was lad of ten had a
Prince--a little mongrel, black as coal,
having a white shield on his breast
He had assured me many a time that
whittier thou goest will CO." Prince
had way Of peering into your face
with his head first on one side, then
on the other, his effort to anticipate
your wishes causing three lines Of
wrinkle in his forehead.
Prince and I had younger brother,
or my younger brother and Prince had
an older brother-either way But we
were irseparable. My younger brother
and I couldn't remember when we
didn't have Brince. So that when |
was old enough to be trusted with a
gun Prince had become an old, old man.
All his life he had had horror of
guns and pistols. He was ever ready
to join in our sports except Fourth Of
July celebrations, when, unless he was
urgently invited to "Come Quit" he re-
manned in the big dark place under my
fathers shop, or buried under shay
ings at the front end of his work bench
Arrived at the gun age I was when
Prince had become so infrm that his
days were full of sorrow and pain. In
winter he lay we'll under the kitchen
stove and in summer under fathers
shop-not for comfort in respect to
heat and cold, but to be sure that no
enc would touch him-so old, decrepit
and rheumatic he was.
For year, l think, we said daily
that the greatest kindness we could do
dear old Prince" would be to put him
out of his misery. SO one evening
near sunset, my brother induced Prince
to follow him up the garden walk, while
l, with my gun carried down my side
walked up Jameson's garden walk.
When near the end Of the garden nv
brother said 10 Prince: "Now you STAY
here" Prince had an intuition of what
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19
Adolph S. Ochs

twenty-five years ago The New
York Times passed to the manage
ment of Adolph S. Ochs and has
since remained under his unrestrict-
ed control. In view Of the relations
sustained by an important news
paper to the public it is fitting for
Mr.. Ochs, as he has done, to give an
account of his stewardship. The
narration is one any man might be
proud to make.
A quarter Of a century ago the
press of this country was in great
danger. The competition of the
"ycllows" threatened to sweep It
from its honorable traditions. 1t is
to the credit Of Mr.. Ochs, something
emitting him to the grateful regard
of the public and particularly of
Journalists to whom their profession
is more than money-making trade,
that he enlisted on the side Of de-
cency and has had the strength 70
be steadfast.
The Tribune is glad to testify that
it has found in The Times Il most
worthy and stimulating competitor
May Mr.. Ochs long continue to di-
rect its destinies and gain comfort
from the fact that he has done a
great work we'll.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Replying to the question Of G.
Robinson as to what will kill the poi
son ivy Notwithstanding this to be
Rhus toxicodendron-th the SCIENTISTS
remedy is sodium arsenate, two pounds
to ten gallons of soft water; a small
quantity to be poured at the root of
each vine. The farmers remedy is to
keep the leaves cut off; as the plant
cannot live without leaves the stem
and the root soon die.
AS remedy for poisoning from this
'ivy" nothing is better than good,
strong laundry soap in very hot water.
The solution should be rich in dissolved
soap and the temperature as hot as can
be borne by the patient, and the wash
ing repeated as often as the itching
returns. Relief is immediate and the
spread of the eruption definitely
checked. RICHARD FERRIS.
Norwalk, Conn, Aug. IA, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19

In the exchanges between Messrs.
La Guardia and McAnepy in regard
to the traction situation Mr.. Nc
Aneny has the great advantage Of
superior information; he also has
the advantage of having done some
thing to relieve the public and to
keep fares down, while, SO far as the
public is aware, Mr.. La Guardia has
done nothing but talk, and not al
ways intelligently, about the subject.
Imagine what would be subway
conditions to-day if, when the subj
way extensions were. under consid-
Grafton, Mr.. McAneny had leaned on
Hearst for advice and guidance, as
Mr.. La Guardia apparently now
does! The congestion would be in
tolerable. Hearst said he would po-
litically extinguish Mr.. McAneny if
he dared to link the new subways to
the old and foster contracts essential
it there we're to be integrated services
with single fares. Hearst demanded
discontinuance of gotiations-
that is to say an indefinite post
ponement Of action that came none
too soon. If Hearst had had his
way there would not now exist the
Lexington and Seventh Avenue sub
ways, the B. R. T. Broadway line,
Tor extensions in the Bronx, Queens
and Brooklyn.
Happily, Mr.. McAneny preferred
to be true to his oath Of Office and to
his sense of duty rather than to obey
Hearst. So those who otherwise
could not ride at all are able to ride
in fashion. To Mr.. McAneny
probably more than any other per-
son the great mass of our citizens
owe their present ability to go to and
fro more rapidly and cheaply than
can the people Of any other city in
the world. Mr.. McAneny added
vision to his courage. He planned,
and planned intelligently. What
equal record can Mr.. La Guardia
point to as basis of public conf
dence?
Mr.. La Guardia should be ashamed
of his attack on Mr.. McAneny. He
should be equally ashamed of the
fact that Hearst praises him, and
thus indicates his belief that he can
use him. Mr.. La Guardia has lived
in this community long enough to
know the fate of Hearst favorites.
They are thrown aside as squeezed
lemons when no longer serviceable to
him. We don't want to see a head
stone to La Guardia in the Hearst
cemetery. 1t will be there if Mr..
La Guardia altogether confdes him.
self to the nlinistrations of our most
active grave-digger Of regulations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19

"Lightnin'," the homely comedy
which will have survived three years
and a night Of Broadway when it
closes Saturday night, should throw
scmc illumination on the eternal
query Of the managers, what kind
Of stuff do they want?" Bear in
mind that the show is not being
closed even at this late date because
TIE interest in Frank Bacon as
Ljghtnin' Bill Jones IL tagging.
II leaves broadway because it was
contracted for in Chicago more than
two years ago. Actually this run
will have totaled / ,29l performances
Plays of record runs in New York
are Of varied types. Edwin Booth
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No Water-HauIs

Coincident with the news that
Grover Bergdoll, the fugitive draft
dodger, has departed out Of Ger
many in anticipation Of the United
States signing treaty with that
country the special House commit
tee which has been investigating his
scandalous escape files a report.
Primary responsibility, without i'm
putting dishonorable motives, is laid
at the door of Adjutant General
Harris, who granted the application
which permitted Bergdoll to leave
his place Of confinement to search
for "a pot Of gold"
while there are many who par
ticipated in the conspiracy leading to
Bergdoll's escape and the acquittal
Of those who brought it about, there
are three who arc infinitely more
culpable than the rest. Those three
are General Ansell, Colonel Hunt
and Colonel G. G. Cresson."
So runs the majority opinion Of
the Congressional investigators. A
minority Of two members absolves
the army Of blame, but holds Colonel
Hunt, Bergdolls keeper, and Ser
geants O'Hare and York, his guards,
all Of whom have been tried and ac-
quilted in courts martial, to have
been guilty Of dereliction of duty.
The majority of the committee rec
ommends the disbarment of Samuel
T. Ansell, who, in the capacity Of
attorney for Bergdoll, obtained his
release; the dismissal Of Colonel
Hunt from the retired list of the
army and the removal Of an en-
ployee Of the Department Of Justice
who is alleged TO have withheld from
the government information that
Bergdoll was planning an escape.
Enough VI th;s sort Of thing
There has been too much Of this kind
Of tomfoolery-too much investiga-
lion that gets nowhere in this Gaze.
The Tribune recommends that the
Attorney General busy himself. Let
Mr.. Daughsrty make cast Of his
net and 90 TO the bottom for his fish,
BE- they large or be they small. The
American people will not DO satisfied
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19

in Hamlet" achieved record of a
hundred nights. "The Black Crook, :"
one Of the first of the alternatives Of
the tired business men, lasted ATS
performances. Denman Thompson s
tas rful "The Oh Homestead" sobbed
through 372 nights. "The Two
Orphans" with Kate Claxton,
thrilled for 2l8 nights. The record
for consecutive performances until
March II, 1920, was held by Hoyt's
"a Trip to Chinatown"
The play "Lightnin' is devoid of
all the appeals that most experts
maintain are demanded for a sue
cess. There is no sex appeal, there
is no blood-curdling melodrama,
there is no display of draperies.
The actor folk say that it is merely
Frank Bacon, who, like Vincent
Crummles, came out Of the prov
inces playing himself. Yet this play
has endured on the most sophisti.
Gated street in the most sophisticated
city in the world, while the girl
shows, the boudoir farces and the
crook plays languished and died.
On its record "Lightnin'" can
come close to making the claim that
it is the sort of play that the present
generation of playgoers want. One
might deduce, then, that the popular
taste is wholesome and that it is not
hard to please.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19

should be permitted to live IN these
parks is reflection upon the park
management or custodians. To elimi-
nate the poisonous vines is no great
problem.
Many people are very susceptible to
ivy and poison oak toxication, while
others seem to handle the vines and
shrubs with perfect immunity. AS in
so many problems of toxicology, the
individual element is most important.
HARRY A. MARCH, NJ. D.
New York, Aug. IT. 1921.
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Huntington, L. l., Aug 16, 1921.
Cut Out Spending"

Aut Gut spending
To the Editor off, The Tribune.
Sir: I resent your sta tement that
more taxes can be raised later if we
do not have enough. One of the great
est of present evils has been the way
money was spent over appropriations
and the loss calmly handed to Con-
gress to be made up.
| also resent your statement that
the present planned reductions of a
round half-billion will REDEEM Repub-
lican promises" Republican promises
can be truly redeemed only by reduc-
ing as much as can be reduced, wheth-
err that is dollar or q couple of bill
lions. Personally, I think a half bill
lion is not as much as can be done.
Cut out spending. Fire half Of the
100000 Federal employees and stop
work On the old type battleships till
after the peace conference. do not
say stop permanently, nor cut the army
to 100 1000, as am no pacifst. Kill
The bonus for good and all, but pay any
amount for the crippled men. DO any
thing with the merchant marine to get
rid Of the waste and futility therein
and stop paying railroad labor about
twice what it is worth. Why should l,
ms taxpayer, pay for our railroads
or our ships? J. C. A.
New York, Aug. Is, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19
Settle!
Americans Friendly Advice to the
Irish to Accept "a Good Thing"

Irish to Accept Good hing
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In speaking Of the English pro-
posals of settlement with the Irish and
the latter's reply, speak upon q basis
Of lifelong sympathy with the Irish
a THY sometimes sorely strained
by what looks like unreason and exac-
tion--but to an American mind it now
seems that the Irish do not know a
good thing when they see it.
Lloyd Georges proposals evidently
stand upon the basis Of no English ex-
action which is merely for English ad-
vantage Is against Irish advantage To
the contrary, the effort seems to have
been to give Ireland every advantage
which would not be an English dsad-
vantage fatal in essentials. Sooner or
later the horse sense of this percep-
ton will permeate the Irish under
standing, as it will the worlds, and it
will appear that the rejection of such
settlement Is not based on loss of
anything essential to ireland but the
loss of Irish pride in the reshorten-
ing Of Irish independence. The only
rational answer TO that is to say to
Irish patriots is to any one else: "If
you want independence take it from
him who withholds it''
And right here is where American in
tcrest comes in. America wants no
recruiting" against friendly nation
on American soil. And it will have
none. America does not intend to be
embroiled with England through pes
tiferous intrusion of Irish interes SITS.
Anything friendly to Ireland America
sands ready, willing and anxious to
offer Ireland, but if Ireland would
rather fight than not fight, on general
principles, all she needs to learn from
America is that America has another
mind.
If Irish statesmen cannot grasp the
sine qua non Of the situation-thal
England never will permit Ireland a
status enabling Ireland to make treaty
with another country to the effect that
the latter may land hostile forces on
Irish soil, just off England's weather
shore--then these statesmen are not
equal to their job.
And if Irish statesmen do not grasp
the American mind better than to be-
licvc that American friends are not
Americans but are Sim Fein, then
these same statesmen have yet to learn
that that is not the kind of friends
that Ireland has in America, and ii
they cannot see it, again they are not
up to the job.
ALFRED c. COURSEN.
Huntington, l.. l., Aug. 16, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19
More Than a Sam Browne

One of the most significant feat
ures of the Pershing General Staff
plan is the division of that body
into five sections. The fifth sec
ton, which during peace is to func-
ton as the war plans division of the
War College, becomes in war the
G. H. @. in the field. All the ma
chinery connected with modifying,
training, equipping and transport
ing the troops to the field is to be
handled by the four War Depart
ment sections Of the General Staff
under the executive assistant to the
Chief Of Staff.
SO far as this goes it is excellent.
But there is no information as to
what arrangements have been made
to recruit civilian experts+railroad
men, engineers, foresters and the
host of technical men whose serv-
ices the World War proved to be
indispensable for staff work. There
is no indication as to how the re-
serve personnel will be chosen or
trained. Is the staff limited only to
West Point graduates? Must the
reserves come only from the regu-
lar establishment? If not, will there
be staff schools for reserve officers?
What plans have been made to
detail to the General Staff men who
can see staff work from the point
of view of the line? 1t is true that
this is especially important for di-
vision and corps personnel, but the
principle also applies to G. H. @.
One of the best of the younger staff
officers in the way used to hammer
into the heads of his assistants the
Importance of seeing things from
the point Of view of the soldier in
the trenches. Napoleon's maxim
that an army marches on it's stom-
ach was one Of his favorites, but
he carried it further and declared
that everything that could be done
to improve the comfort and morale
of the soldiers deserved the con-
slant attention Of staff officers.
Candid critics among our allies
and the Germans have made the
same criticisms of our army in the
war as have many thoughtful Amer.
leans. They have said that our
company officers and non-commis-
stoned officers were admirable In
every respect, but that our higher
officers, ard particularly our staff
suffered greatly from inexperience.
The blame belongs to our old sys-
tenn rather than to any individuals.
The regular army men naturally
felt that they were best qualified to
do staff work, but they failed to
realize that to jump a first leuten-
ant or captain who had never COM
handed more than a handful of
men to the rank Of major or colo
mel, handling staff work for thou
sands Of men, placed many officers
in positions far beyond their ca
pacities.
If the new General Staff plan can
remedy some of these defects it will
be a notable achievement. To be
effective general staff must be
more than Sam Browne belt!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19
A Mean Accusation

Is it cruel and inhuman, warrant
ing breach in marital relations and
providing basis for suit for separate
maintenance, for one party to a do
nestle contract to call another a
"highbrow"? Is the term one of con-
tumely and reproach, and, as the
lawyers say, libellous per Sc?
The question has arisen in the
case Of Roberts agt Roberts, wherein
the wife AYERS, as one of the justifi-
cations of her separation suit, that
her husband thus characterized her
Declining to submit tamely to the
imputation, she asks for $3.50 week
1t is seemingly the duty Of Justice
Wasservogcl to resolve the issue.
Though aware of the impropriety
Of expressing an opinion concerning
matter before the courts, we ven
ture, with due apologies, to say that
our sympathies are with the lady.
To call any person a highbrow is a
mean thing. The word paints a pic
turc Of strutting, self-conscous, prig-
gish superiority. Applied to wom-
an it is especially Objectionable.
The snecring Byron wrote:
Oh yc lords of ladies intellectual,
Tel me truy--havc they not hem
pecked you all?
1t Is thus implied that possession
Of mental superiority means that an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir; The lively correspondence ir
Tho Tribune on the "some one else's'
topic leads NE to put another question
to your grammnrians. Should ono sa,
"Thcy went ut each others throat" O,
"They went at each others throats"
Singular or rlural? The first form T.
correct. In my opinion,
IGNORAMUS.
New York, Aug. II, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-19
To the Editor of The Tribune

To Ute AuTV01 UI TIC ITlbune.
Sir: AS cure for ivy poisoning
permanganatc Of potash is infallible.
Get ten cents worth in crystal form
In one-quartcr teaspoonful Of water
drop pinch, dissolve and rub on and
around the itching spot. Repeat when
ever it itches much. Later the color
(black) can be removed with 10 per
cent solution Of oxalic acid. The So
luton is harmless except near the
eyes. 1t must be mixed fresh.
1DLEMERE.
East Orange, N. j., Aug. 16, 1921.
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until they have the whole truth and
see responsibility fixed. The men
who stood IN 70 the Hun and took
the gn@, while l'ergdoll stayed home
cnd dctied authority to put him in
khaA... vii not be satisfied, either,
until then.
Le1 us have no water-hauls, Mr..
Daugherty
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was coming, or else, despite my great
care, he had caught sight of the gun
But because he had been told to "stay
there" he stayed, and, looking at me
piteously, he obeyed even while / was
taking a seat on the fence.
Ny brother was several years younger
than I, and it wasn't to be expected
that he would refrain from raising his
voice in lamentation. And he did
And SO did his older brother, and
mother, while she was trying to con-
sole the younger by caressingly pat
ting his head, which was deep in his
mothers lap.
And then mother told us we must
take comfort in the thought that Prince
was out Of his misery and that maybe
in time he would become the happy lit
tie fellow he was when he came to us
years ago. I am seventy-three And
because l owned Prince and he owned
me it is inconceivable that there is NO
place in eternity for my Prince, who
surely loved me past nderstanding-
even unto death
This is why you who wrote Gust a
Prince" are my brother and I am
yours. Once / had a friend. He was
walking beside me with his little lad's
hand in his, when a half-grown puppy
in puppy trustfulness, came up behind
the child and licked his disengaged
hand. And who doesn't love to kiss &
baby hand? Of course it startled the
child on the instant. And that man
instead of patting the pup on the head
and assuring him of a kindly spirit
turned about and kicked him!
couldn't be brother to such man.
And just see what a long letter
have written, when 1. started out to ask
if it would be possible to get a fuller
account Of Prince and his. god.
J. A. DEMUTH.
Oberlin, Ohio, Aug 1e, 1921.
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Judging from the Berlin reports.
the only thing delaying a separate
peace with Germany is the obstinate
refusal of the Americans to admit
that Belgium started the war by
ruthlessly invading Germany.
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The Complete Characterised

lFrom A Case in Camera. by Oliver Onions
dare say you know the kind of man.
If the house had a billiard room up
stairs he had his private cue in it, as
we'll as his private shaving pot at tho
BARRIERS round the corner. For all his
freshness and rlumpness there was
nothing Of the jovial about him. Either
he had no humor or he did not intend
Tat humor should stand in his way
through the world. His convex blue
eyes were hard and bullying, and his
rosebud Of mouth never blossomed
irto smile. Probably his wife had a
thin time Of it. But she would have
as good fur coat as any of her
neighbors.