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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
Restore the Mail Tubes
Next Step Toward Putting New York
Again on the Postal Map


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: VIII H. Hays displays a long
head, practical head, in way to con-
found those who looked upon him as a
politician only. Building up political
patronage is evidently not to interfere
with genuinely constructive work.
What relief after Burlesonism, which
meant the imposition of the standards
of Waco upon New York and other big
cities with a czar-like ruthlessness!
What 4 relief to have q Postmaster
General who appoints a committee of
five eminently able New Yorkers-
Michael Friedsam, Clarence Il. Kelsey,
Darwin P. Kingsley, William Fellowes
Morgan and Alfred E. Smith-to make
recommendations for the good of the
service in New York.
How hope-inspiring it is, also, to
have such practical step taken as the
restoration Of mail boat service This
enc measure will advance hundreds Of
thousands Of letters kly-advance
them many hours, sometimes days, IN
delivery not only to metropolitan
points but to the rest Of the country.
Equally gratifying is the proposal to
restore pneumatic tube service, but II
is too bad that this has not actually
been done, as the restoration Of the
mail boats has actually been accom-
plished.
There has been enough wordiness and
wrangling about the tubes, and busi-
ness man with Offices in the city could
we'll wish that a decisive action would
cut short & debate that never should
have been started. The big point in
the tube case is the same as in the case
of the boats-namely, the saving Of
hours in delivery within the city, and
sometimes Of days in forwarding 70
distant points. But there is this big
difference: the pneumatic tubes expe-
dite the dispatch and delivery of nail
lions Of letters daily.
recall that the last postal joint
commission (Drior to the one now hold
ing he4rings) cited the fact that the
tubes in six cities forwarded twenty
five million letters day, OF which they
greatly expedited the progress Of sew
eral millions. Thus the tube service Is
more important even than the boat
service, which expedites only mail COM
ing in from abroad.
Now that the present postal commits
sion has reported unequivocally in "a
vor of tube service, as other commits
sions uniformly have reported 10Y
twenty years, our brilliant young Post
master General should act as decisivelg
to restore them as Burleson did 10 de'
stroy them. JOHN II. CLOSE"
Seabright, N. J., Aug. 4, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08

OF course, hs will look handsome to me.
But he will be brave and true and ut
terly sincere. He will be q 100 per
cent American. I think he will have
fought for his country, at least in his
heart. And then he must be the one
who was meant for me. think it is
a frightful mistake not to wait until
you are absolutely sure Of that, don't
you? Or to be so impatient just to
get married that one takes the first
man who comes along. I have to say
NO q great many times, Of course, and
it has often been very hard to Go. Of
course, waiting isn't so hard for me be
cause | am blessed with such wonder
full mother. We well--everything
to each other. Just pals, you know;
the best pair of pals that ever lived,
I think, though l hope there are Tote
of other girls who think that about
their mothers, too Some people have
said that the reason l cannot fall in
love with anybody in particular is be-
cause ! love all the world so much.
Well, l do love it and everybody in it.
All the millions and millions of people
who go to see my pictures and come
away loving me just little. But some
day believe the right man will come
along, and then you will know all
about it."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
Settling the Unsettled

With rather studied innocence,
Premier Hara of Japan remarks
that he does not believe that such
"settled" questions as Shantung and
zap will be included in the sub
jects to be discussed at the coming
conference. Thus summarily dispos-
ing of two long disputed subjects, he
is in apparent contradiction with the
report from Japan that the Japanese
are most anxious to settle questions
at issue between this country and
Japan.
But the contradiction is encourage
ing. 1t enables us to think that
Premier Hara does not really think
zap and Shantung are settled mat
ters, and thus is willing to go to
work to transfer them from the Gun
settled" to the "settled" group be-
fore November IL. This will smooth
the way for the main purpose of the
conference and at the same time de-
prive the trouble makers in the press
Of both countries of the opportunity
to incite hostility. Some American
papers have so far outdone the Jap
anese jingoists in stirring up hatred
and distrust. For them unsettled
issues are renewed opportunities for
making trouble. Their purpose is
to make war in the Pacific. The
object Of the coming conference is to
insure peace,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
Back in Wall Street

- There is a type of investor that
Vail Street regards as a financial
weather vane. He is the "infrequent
investor" Perhaps he might more
accurately be called the "unemo-
tional speculator," for he never is
aroused by the mere spectacle of ris-
fng or falling prices. His practice is
to buy when buying is unpopular
when, as the saying goes, nobody
wants stocks. He sells when nearly
everybody else is buying.
4 His last appearance in force was
tn the early fall Of 1919, just before
the great postwar boom collapsed.
Then he brought neat bundles Of
previously accumulated securities to
his broker, sold them and went into
retreat with the proceeds. There he
has remained ever gince--that is,
until the last week or two. Now,
the brokers say, he is back in the
Street again. But this time he is
busy exchanging his boarded funds
.1or stock certificates. When he has
bought ali he wants he will 20 into
retirement again, 70 wait in his I'M
emotional way for what he thinks il
u good time to sell. That Is what In
meant whan the financial pages re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08

as to the men, except in the matter
Of remuneration. During the tran
sitional period before the law goes
into effect the question Of equal pay
will be reviewed and a decision
reached.
And so 1t goes. There may be
some who will not like the inevitable
future status of women. With old
prejudices will also go the privileges
that belong to dependence. Idleness
among women will one day be con-
sidered as deplorable as it is now
among men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
Washburn Arrives

Our fellow-townsman Watson NJ
Washburn on the Casino courts at
Newport badly dislocated the official
tennis ranking. To have taken the
measure of William NJ. Johnston and
Richard Norris Williams, who are
pegged as second and third best, is a
capital feat for player not rated in
the very first fight. 1t is the more
remarkable since Washburn has
plodded along for years with q
steady, stodgy game just good
enough to make it interesting fer the
brilliant masters of the racquet. And
now when it's time, according to ten
mis- precedents, for him to fade out he
begins to strike sparks. A brave
model for all classed ss middling
good!
What of the approaching cham
pionship at Germantown? The recent
surprising upsets make prediction
futile. Vincent Richards has beaten
the title holder, Tilden, with ease,
and defeated Williams, who, on q
second meeting, demolished Rich
ards. And then Washburn had his
field day with Johnston and Will
liams. There should be merry tus-
sic between these five men. And no.
body knows how many dark horsca
may be grooming.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
The Timid Male
From The Philadelphia Ineuir

From The Philadelphia Inquirer
Many a man must have wisns"
during this hot weather that custom
permitted him to go coatless in ms
street. For years the suggestion 'nS'
men break with tradition in this re-
spect has been made without result
Yet to discard the coat would De
logical consequence OF discarding INV
waistcoat That innovation was re-
garded askance by the conservative J."
its early days. Many felt such III.
formality impaired ones professions
or business standing.
1t must be borne in mind that INV
coatless man would be expected ~
present an appearance gratifying "
the aesthetic sense. He could not as
close suspenders; he would have "
wear belt If VIC look for sn ca
ample of neat and appropriate a'''i'
for scorching day we can ma -
in the person Of the letter-cafr'e4'
Why must man be hopeless sareo''S'
renctionary7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
Dover Straits Memorial

A correspondent suggests that a
more appropriate site might be found
for the Dover Straits Patrol memo
rial than the one the city has allot-
ted at the North River end Of West
Eighty-sixth Street. There is merit
in his objection that "the foot of
West Eighty-sixth Street, which is
backed by modern apartment houses
and fronted by the high ground Of
Jersey, lacks the environment suit
able to this obelisk."
Is there not some place on one of
the shores of the Narrows, or, better
still, perhaps, on the highlands Of
Staten Island, where the shaft could
be mounted to be seen Of all sailor
men as they come and go on the seas
occasions? 1t is not landsman's
nor a rivermans memorial. 1t is to
commemorate the work of men who
belonged to the deep sea and who
were true to it, and who, that others
might live, lay them down in its
bosom gladly and valiantly when the
summons came.
So the place for it to stand ia in
the sight of ships, in the very pres
cree of the sea, range mark of in
spiration for the restless saltwater
children.
We feel it would seem lost and
lonely elsewhere.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
below the Belt
Readers Reaction to The World

Readers Reaction to The Worlds
Comment on a Tribune Editorial
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In this mornings World I read
an editorial entitled "Stick to the Is
sues" 1t quotes an excerpt from an
editorial of your paper of the day be-
fore as follows:
what The Tribune particularly
likes about Major Curran is the way
he reacted when the smoke from the
battlefelds of the World War began
to send its acrid fumes across the At
lantic.--The Tribune"
The Worlds editorial comment on
this is:
What The World particularly likes
about Major Curran is the way in
which he sticks to the issues of the
campaign and refuses to exploit his
military career. Our advice to
The Tribune is to keep to the issues of
the campaign"
I remember this editorial which The
have it before me. notice that
The World has been very careful to
leave out an essential paragraph
which brings out the entire spirit of
The Tribune editorial. The exact quo
tation is:
Henry Curran IS too sound and too
modest to seek to capitalize his patri-
otto record to his personal advantage.
But for itself The Tribune believes
that New York shares with it liking
for real men-men who have proved
their manhood on test"
l believe that The Tribune is keep
ing to the issues of the campaign" and
that it doesn't need advice from a next
door neighbor. You distinctly brought
out the thought that you believed
Henry Curran is too sound and too
modest to seek to capitalize his patri-
otto record to his personal advantage"
1t is significant to note that The World
says that this is what it particularly
likes about Curran."
think little of New York news
parer that strikes elbow below the
belt" in a mean and contemplate at
tack such as this, made only in an
effort to belittle worthy contempt
rary.
Yours for fair play,
ARTHUR H. SAL1N.
Woodhaven, L. l., Aug. A, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08

the minimum figure for his ward
robe, while shoe manufacturers as
sembled in Boston have discovered
that such excellence must be based
on at least fourteen pairs of shoes.
For men or women the prospect
would seem hopeless. The old dis
pute was over whether the species
should eat to live or live to eat; the
new one relates to whether we live
to wear things. Was Beau Brum-
nell the greatest man?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
A Need for Watching
(Fron. The Indianopolis N,,c,

(Front The indianapolis Nens)
If America is to feed Russia-and
the ground work for such a program
seems to have been laid-we ought at
least to stipulate that Lenine and Trot-
sky be put in stockade and fed the
same rations, and no more, that every
other Russian Is to receive. Otherwise
1t may be expected that they will "ab-
sorb' most Of the relief food and
funds that may be sent to Russia.
They have allowed thousands of their
people to be murdered or starved. and
there is no reason to believe that they
would permit relief to reach its desti-
nation without heavy rnkc-off.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
Our South American Trade

Our SOuth American Trade
That which was feared and
against which innumerable warnings
were uttered in our South American
trade is apparently coming to pass.
We are again yielding ground to our
oldtime rivals.
1t is true that business conditions
in those countries are generally bad.
But this is not surprising. South
America is simply suffering from in
fluences which are unfavorably felt
throughout the world.
The feature of the case which
should give us concern is that in
these untoward circumstances United
States trade seems to be suffering
more than that of other countries,
and to be displaced by European and
particularly by German trade. Thus
in Argentina few American statesmen
are now to be found, and some Amer
lean branch houses have gone into
liquidation. Incidentally, German
goods are being sold at from 20 to rs
per cent less than American goods.
In Brazil German trade representa-
tives are active, while important
American concerns are closing their
offices. In Peru our trade commits
sioner advises suspension of all ef-
forts to sell goods.
During the war there was an enor-
nous increase of American trade
with those countries, the major part
Of Germany's coming into our hands.
Numerous warnings were then pub
lished Of the extraordinary efforts
which Germany and other European
countries would make to regain their
trade after the war, and of the i'm
perative need of special efforts on
our part to hold what we had gained
The opportunity before us was the
greatest that we had enjoyed in that
quarter since that which we flung
away in 1924. TO what extent those
warnings were needed cannot be
said, but it is obvious that whatever
action was taken upon them was in
efficient
It is no small thing that we are
losing. Men have been giving far
more thought and attention to the
rehabilitation of German and even
Of Russian trade than to South
America. Yet our Russian trade at
best was picayune affair compared
with that with South America, and
even that which we had with Ger
many before the war was much less
than that which we have since had
with South America. In 1913, the
last year before the war, our exports
to Argentina were more than twice
as great as those to Russia, and
those to Brazil were 80 per cent
larger than to Russia. Our exports
to South America were scarcely half
as great as those to Germany, but
our imports from the former were
much greater than from tho latter.
In 1918 we imported from Argentina
much more than we ever did from
Germany, while our imports from all
South America were nearly three
times as great as they ever were
from Germany, and our exports to
those countries were very nearly as
great as those to Germany when at
their peak.
There is no part Of the world the
markets of which are better worth
our cultivating than those Of South
America. To permit ourselves to be
forced down into second or third
place would be strangely discredit-
able to American enterprise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
Nature Eaking

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Returning from trip to Ore
gon, I was greeted this morning with
the news, printed in your paper, under
Lenox date line, that I, in company
with somebody | don't know, had been
watching two albino deer on the Mount
Everett reservation. I am surprised
that you permit so inaccurate a re-
porter to cover for you such important
matters. Inaccurate here, it may very
well be that some day he will misspell
the name Of some guest at Lenox tea
party. There were not two deer, but
three, and they were not white. but
pink. Moreover, one Of them had a
green tail.
WALTER PRICHARD EATON.
New York, Aug. 6, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
One Issue-Hylanism

AS a lawyer and jurist, County
Judge Reuben L. Haskell, of Brook
1yn, is familiar with the legal proc
esses through which the Eighteenth
Amendment had to pass before it be-
came a part of the Constitution of
the United States. AS a lawyer and
8 jurist he must be aware that if the
Eighteenth Amendment is to be re-
pealed the same processes must be
invoked anew.
Were it otherwise, were it possible
for the President or the Governor
81 the state or the chief magistrate
Of this municipality to say, Suspend
this law or that, for I do not ap-
prove it," this would be a govern
ment Of men and not Of laws. 1t
would be an intolerable thing. The
very thought of such condition, we
are certain, is as abhorrent to Judge
Haskell as it is to The Tribune.
= So it is that we find it impossible
TO follow the reasoning which leads
him to proclaim his entrance as a
candidate for Mayor in the Repub-
llcan primary Of September IS on
an anti-prohibition platform. AS
Stunning by the widest reach of the
imagination and for the sake of ar
gument his election as chief execu-
tive of the municipality, he would be
compelled to enforce the prohibition
law. Failure to do so would be fol-
lowed by impeachment just as GER
tainly as a misfeasance or malfeas-
ance committed by him in his pres
ont office. - f'fe5t
=, The Judge was elected to the bench
on this false issue Of prohibition.
How many voted for him believing
that through him in some mysterious
way repeal would be achieved? He
has not repealed it nor, we are sure,
held back his hand in its enforce
ment.
=. To lead people to believe prohibi-
ton to be the issue or an issue Of the
campaign now forming to put an end
to the disagreement of Tammany
Hall is to delude them. Tammany
laughs in it's sleeve as it looks on
from Fourteenth Street and Good
Ground. 1t knows that the issue is
not prohibition. It knows that the
issue is Hylanism. More than that,
it knows the tactical advantage to be
had out of a divided opposition.
Thus has it returned to rule and to
ruin time after time.
With Judge Haskell arrayed
against his own party's candidate
and with Mr.. Fiorella La Guardia
and Mr.. William M. Bennett sniping
at him from the woods, has not Tam
many, for the moment, occasion tc
smile?
n Let it smile while it may, for we
are Of the opinion that the intelli.
gent Repubilcan voters ana the IN
dependent Democrats enrolled with
them will do their duty on Primary
Day.
"The enrolled Republican voters
will not be stampeded or BAN
boozled," says Senator Charles c
Lockwood, the candidate for Comp.
troller. "They know perfectly wei
that the issue of the campaign is the
displacement of the Hylan admin
istration. Prohibition cannot bt
dragged in by Judge Haskell or any
one else"
- We share Mr.. Lockwood's faith
Four years Of Hylanism and Hearst
ism and Hettrickism and hyphenisn
forbid their being led astray.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08

Charlotte Nicoll Geer rejects our
guess both as to the sex and character
istics Of the author Of The Sheik and
submits her own theory. you're wrong
about the author" she writes. "E. NJ.
Hull isn't a fve-foot four-inch male
with a Bloomsbury address and hay
fever-he's q she! The 'E' stands for
Esther or Emily or Ellen. She lives in
two-family house In Yonkers and her
husband is short and fat with shiny
face and a bald spot Esther, Emily,
Ellen has never seen an Arab, but she
remembers them in the geography les
son book. She knows that they are
wild and she is absolutely positive they
are not like Henry. One warm day last
summer Henry was ten minutes late
for breakfast. He was very angry with
her about it. He ate a bowl of oat-
meal and four rolls and all the bacon.
When he finished Henry said, ooh, did
you want bacon this morning? I'm
sorry and he tore out. AS he rushed
down the cement path he called back,
'To-night's budget night and I hope
the ills wont be as large as they were
last month And she called back,
You've got egg on your chin!'
"And then she slammed the screen
door and went to her desk and took
Henry's pen and pad of paper and
began a story about a tall, tall man
y ,,Io
country where Bordens and the A
L. P. and trains and wedding rings
weren't even in the language. And she
wrote and wrote and before 1t was time
to get Henry's favorite dinner ready
(mutton stew the book was done.
"a month later when the publishers
asked her to come III and talk it over
she wouldn't go because she didn't
know whether to pronounce it 'Shceck'
or 'Sheck.' So she wrote them in
stead.
Henry says it's very silly bad
book, and he's ashamed, but every
married woman is reading it, and edi
ton after edition comes Keeling off the
press. Some night when you've wilted
your collar or spilled the soup or have
a cold in the head or have forgotten
her half day, ask your wife why she
liked The Sheik. If you've picked the
right tie she may tell you the reason.
If not, ring Mr.. Freud"
Having finished Henry Kitchell Web
ster's Real Life we are ready 20
affirm our preliminary recommendation
of the book. We suggest it particu
larly as pleasant antidote to The
Sheik. Leda Swan, the heroine, who
is described as the second most famous
moving picture actress in America.
runs completely all the men with
whom she comes in contact. Her
mother handles the rest. However.
the novel. There is, for instance, the
moment in which Leda Swan discovers
the weekly syndicate letter written
under her name and becomes one of
Ato HiOoL tHIH fcduSTS. hey
fAvorite is the letter, which appears at
least once year, answering the in
quiry as to whether or not she is mar
ried. Mr.. Webster thinks that Miss
Swans press agent answers as follows:
mo, my dear, not yet. I am still
waiting for the absolutely right man to
come along. l think | know little
what he will be like. I am not sure
that he will be handsome-not in the
ordinary sense Of the word-though,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08

We also recommend the scene in
, which Leda Swan for the first time in
her life has love made to her without
the presence Of camera man or d di-
rector shouting, according to Mr.. Web
ster, "Now look into her eyes
Now she is beginning to crack up;
reach for her. Easy there! Wait till
l say. Now! Kiss her! Hold it, That's
good"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08

port that stocks are going "out of
the Street"
All of which may or may not be
very significant. Usually the "in-
frequent investor" is right. 1t looks
as if he were.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-08
Prirneval MaxiIns

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Of course, it was to be expecte
that some one would point out that
George Washington was not the author
of the maxim that way to keep out
Of war was to be prepared for it, but
your correspondent Giovanni Inner
so exposes himself to the same risk in
assuming that the preccpt originated
with the Roman who wrote "Si Wis
pacem, para bellum." Whoever the
Roman was he probably lifted 1T from
some Greek paragrapher. Old Mentor
tutoring young Telcmachus in polit-
cal science, gave him the same ad
vice.
1t is quite likely that the same idea
occurred to John J. Neanderthal when
he fashioned his club or stone Ratchet.
Maxms are born of instinct and renec
ton. So we may assume that precepts
arc as old az human wisdom.
Thomas Kempis uttered a wise
maxim when he said Enquire not who
spoke this or that, but attend to wha'
is spoken" L. c.
Glen Ridge, N. j., Aug. s, 1921.