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Evening star., 1921-04-10
Thinks Short Skirts
Lessen Trolley Peril
to WOn1e1, and Girls
Snecial nisna tch tn I,he Star.

Spectal DlSpatcn 10 Inc star.
BALTIMORE, April 9.-ShOrt
skirts nre believed by John II.
Truitt. supervisor of safety of
the United Railways Company.
to he helping materially in Less
ening the number of accidents
which befall women and girls
aiishtfns and boarding trolley
cars. While the cumbersome
long skirts of hygone days hnVc
been generally superseded by
the shorter garments, the high
heel still ranks as M impedi-
mcnt to reducing mishaps on
cars that are standing. accord
ing to the same authority.
The local safety expert was
dixinclined to discuss the angle
that pretty misses. or. for that
matter. madameS. by slowly and
gracefully stepping aboard cars
and displaying to the best nd
vantage how high fhcir short
skirts could go. serve TO keep
men from boarding in a rush.
His way Of viewing the short
skirt was in it's cold relation to
safety. and no amount of in
friguinE could induce him to
speak Of 1t otherwise.
Evening star., 1921-04-10

cline to a kingly form of govern
ment."
Young men are urged to go west
into the wilds of Ohie and purchase
land at 20 cents an acre. in Spanish
money. by an almanac editor who
wore knee breeches and ruffied shirt.
In his mortuary statistics. based on
reportsd received in 1897. he asserted
that half of the persons in the Unit
ed States died before reaching the
age of seventeen years. smallpox,
for instance. being more fatal to girls
than boys at that period. However,
one in every 3,l25 of the population
attained or passed the century mark
in life.
Evening star., 1921-04-10
If Ruptmed
Try This Free
Apply it to Any Rupture, Old or
Recent, Large or Small, and
You Are on the Road That
Has Convinced Thousands.
Sent. Free to Prove This

Any one -GptIfcd. man. r"Irau ~ chile.
,h;l'i write at o-.~- 10 " :. Rec. ZIG
Mar St. Adams. y. y. for q ffe. trial
Of his wonderful Stimulating aPnl eaton
J,,~t ~. :: On the rupture and the mus
cles I-S:a 10 Tighten: they begin to Dinc
together. 80 that the opel, ng closes natur-
ally AMI the nocd cf a support or truss or
appliance :. th"n Gnnc away with. Is'n't
cegIccf Ia SEMI for this free trial Ever if
your r,.p:ura doesn't bother you. what is
, :iie nse OF wearing supports all your life:
wry suffer this nuisance: Why ran the
r:s6 0f sanxrsee and such dangers from 4
small and innocent little rupture. the kind
that has Thrown thousands on the opcrat-
.Ex table: 4 hoss OF mon and women are
daily running sac risk just because their
-ap:ures do not hurt mar prevent th,m from
Sait.nG around. Write at f0s this
free trial. as il is certainly a wonderful
:hins and has aiGed in the cure Of -up:ures
that wee as Big a mans two fists Try
and Wife at once. using the coupon be-
low.
Evening star., 1921-04-10

and Obliged the employees to Join
their ranks. Even when they omit
ted this last outrage they would
leave the owner and his employees
in helpless position by carrying
off all the horses on the place.
In certain instances they did
great deal of wanton damage. such
as the wrecking of shearing ma
chinery and the cutting of boundary
fences.
The panic they caused among the
sheep farmers and others was so
great that many of them abandoned
their properties and fled.
The police had more than one en-
counter with the enemy but sufs
fered defeat. with many casualties.
The Argentine government finally
sent cavalry to deal with the ban
dts Some of the miider spirits
among the 'rebels' gave themselves
up, while others. numbering about
200, took TO the mountains and still
others fled to the adjoining territory
of Chubut where they are reported
still to be making trouble.
II PAYS to read the want columns OF
The Star. Hundreds of situations are.
filed through them.
Evening star., 1921-04-10
HELD IN MAIL ROBBERY.
Alleged "Fence" Surrenders to Fed

CHICAGO, April 9.-lsadore II. Starr
who is alleged TO have acted as fence
in the 81 ,00o, 600 union station mail rob-
be-y here two months ago, has cur
rendered to federal officers He was re-
leased in $4,000 bond. following ar
raienmcnt before United States COM
missioner.
4 warrant TO- Starts arrest was OBJ
tanned by post Office officials when it
was alleged he attempted to dispose OF
$4,000 worth of the stolen bonds.
Thomas Shupe, charged with being
one CT the bandits who participated in
TIE robbery, recently was indicted by a
federal grand jury and is in Jail await
ing trial.
Evening star., 1921-04-10
MEXICAN CITY TERRORIZED.

NOGALES, Ariz., April 9.-One Chi
nese merchant was killed. two other
Chinese were so severely beaten that
they probably viii die and six MeXi-
cans were injured last night when
thugs terrorized the southern
section of the city of HermosilIo,
capital of Sonora, Mexico. according
TO Chinese consular advices at No
gales. Sonora. opposite this city. Rob
berry was said to have been the mo-
tive.
Evening star., 1921-04-10

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1921-04-10
sTIMSON RESIGNS POST.

Et-ENOS AIRES. Apri! Sired
rick }. Stimson. American amba ssa :
dor to Argentina. has notified the Ar
ScHtine government; that ne has re-
'gncri his post. Prof. StimsDn eN-
acts to retura to the United States
ior,iy.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27

11.5 in 1910 and 1874 in 1920; and
in Texas the figures were, respcc-
lively, As, 9.3 and 10.6.
The colored people form one Of
the most restless and migratory ele-
ments Of our national population.
But this trait cannot be considered
traditional and Inherent character
istic, but rather is the result Of ex-
traneous circumstances. Migration
of certain kind is, of course, neces-
sary, desirable and profitable, such
as that from the Atlantic states
which settled and developed the
West. But migration in order to
make permanent settlement III an
other state is very different from
that which is Just restless drifting
about from state to state.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
A Near-Sigl1ted Refornaer

The Rev. 0. r. Miller, of ALBANY
is clergyman and a reformer. Also
he is superintendent Of the New
fork Civic League, an organization
which is supported by people who
believe that its purpose is to purify
the state legislator.
Such being the case, the following
uttcrance, quoted from "The Times"
concerning Senator Lusk by Mr..
Miller is noteworthy:
After the expenses of that BAN
quet (tho banquet of the police de-
tectives seeking special legislation
IN Albany had been paid there was
still about s1,1oo left. The detec-
tives naturally thought that the
money could not be put to any more
appropriate use than to buy a fine
present for Senator Lusk. Hence
they used the remaining profit from
the banquet to buy a fine set of
siverware for Senator and Mrs
Lusk, which cost about Sl,lO0. II
was presented to them the day after
the banquet. That is the whole story.
No detective contributed cent
to this present, and it should be re.
membered that none Of them proGted
from the bill, for it was vetoed by
Mayor Hy'an long before the ban
quet."
Here we have a justification of
the giving of gifts to legislator
by parties having special interests
before legislatures. The gift is fur
ther justified because the bill for
which the Senator had presumably
toiled did not happen to succeed.
This method OF reasoning would
make perfectly proper any present
to a public official if the official
didn't happen to deliver the goods.
The Rev. Q. r. Miller may be "A
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Who Are the Conspirers =?

A letter from John Crosby
Brown, a gentleman of standing,
written to The Tribune criticizing
it's comment on the Tumulty-Wilson
book, says:
~ recall n recent editorial wherein
it was graciously stated that no
doubt the Tumulty articles were in
spired by "a more eminent author
than appeared in print The actual
fact (learned within week from
a close intimate of the cXPresident,
who recently visited him) is that
the cX-Prcsidcnt who is physically
unable to read the papers, is as yet
completely unaware OF the existence
Of these articlcs.''
AS to the origin of The Tumulty
articles, it has been noted that, with
out the use of quotation marks,
in many instances the language is
identical with that appearing in the
book of Mr.. Creel, another intimate
of the ex-President. 1t also has
been noted that the identity is so
close that even gross mistakes are
repeated. If there was not com
mon inspiration how did such paral-
lelism occur?
But more interesting is Mr..
Crosby's statement that the ex-
President "is as yet completely un-
aware of the existence of these the
Tumulty] articles" Shat an un-
named friend Of the ex-President
recently discovered this when he
visited him. IF this is SO, why did
not the friend mention the facts to
the ex-President? If the ex-Presi-
dent is the victim of conspiracy,
if those who are close to him are
making money at the expense of his
fame, why did his caller, as it is to
be gathered, not intervene to pro-
tect him or at least to warn him?
If the ex-President's condition per-
mitted talk on other matters it
surely did on this one of vital con-
Germ to him.
If the Tumulty articles. are un-
authorized or untruthful, is there
not some one in the ex-President's S
confidence willing to speak publicly
in his behalf? Yet not syllable
Of open reputation has come.
There is no report that Mr.. Tum-
ulty has been shown the door. Thus
there are difficulties about accept
ing this disclaimer that Mr.. Brown
submits. But if, as his words sug-
gest, there is a conspiracy why does
he not busy himself breaking it up?
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
The Knot Again
ditor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Referring to the knotty problem
that your cspondents have been
discussing, if those who insist that
the word "knot" is never used as a
measure of length will refer to "Traut-
wine" they will find under measures of
length nautical mile, geographical mile,
sea mile and knot given as equiva-
lent terms and defined as 6,080.27 feet.
according to the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey They will find
Tie British Admiralty knot given as
$3.50 feet.
If they will turn to William McFee's
captain Macedoines Daughter" page
23, they will read the words OF the
chief engineer, "If we dropped knot
below our customary two hundred a
day. manifestly a reference to dis.
tance travelled, not miles an hour. And
McFee is q practical man of the sea as
well as an author
1t would seem that the case for
knot as 4 measure of length is
proved. GEORGE Y. PAYZANT
Isle of Pines, W. l., Dec. IL, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Flexible Tariffs

Senator Smoot has introduced a
bill to carry into effect President
Harding's flexible tariff suggestions.
Representative Longworth, one Of
the most influential members of the
House Ways and Means Committee,
also has spoken in favor of the
hexibility idea. Opposition to the
Presidents theory has been shown
by protectionists of tho more rigid
type and, not unnaturally, by Demo-
cratic newspapers, which, not belicv-
ing in protection, would regret to
see its methods of application i'm
proved and modcrnizcd. 1t is
argued, for example, that adjustable
rates would keep industry in a state
of unrest, because the manufacturer
always must plan far ahead. But
this theory assumes that changes
will be made arbitrarily and with
the purpose of upsetting rather than
preserving tariff balances. The aim
of the advocates Of flexible rates is,
on the contrary, to counteract the
effects of rapidly shifting conditions
Of production abroad, which chal-
lengc stability here. A flexible rate
is from this point of view safe
guard to the domestic manufacturer
and consumer against both under
protection and overprotection.
Mr.. Longworth sees what Mr..
Fordney and others have been un-
willing to see--that tariff making
is no longer the simple problem it
was a few decades ago. He says:
Hitherto We have always been
debtor nation. To-day we are a
creditor nation. A tariff which
would amount to prohibition of i'm
portation would work great damage
not only abroad but here
We don't want prohibitive tariff
or an insufficiently protective tariff.
Any tariff written while world
trade and production are as unset
tied as they are to-day would be
merely provisional in character. 1t
might become obsolete within a year.
But it takes Congress many months
to enact new tariff laws. With
some revisionary power confded to
the Executive Department the
necessary adjustments can be made
as conditions alter. The rigid
yard stick soon begins to measure
wrong. Convenience and equaliza-
tion therefore demand an elastic
yardstick. Those who want to
cling to the old yardstick seem un-
able to realize the vast changes in
economic relations, American as
we'll as foreign, which were
brought about by the war.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
The Aliznony Club

Ludlow Street Jail is our only
debtors prison. The condition pre-
cedent to Incarceration there is to get
into contempt by refusing to nav
ones debts when ordered to pay
them by the court. This happens
most often to those whose debts con-
slst of unpaid alimony accounts.
Sheriff Knott on leaving his Office
advocates the abolition of this svs-
tenn, as relic of semi-barbarous
past. Possibly he is right. Yet at
present there appears to be no wav
IN winch the support of an aban-
ooned or otherwise divorced and de-
pendent wife can he assured. Few
husbands like to pay alimony. None
OF them pay it cheerfully. Manv OF
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
The Steal Box Abroad

For some time disquietude has eX-
listed in many quarters as to what
sort of repute America is establish
ing abroad. Ground for anxiety on
this score will scarcely be removed
if the Steal Box is opened and it's
contents are sold for publication.
1t is announced that the contents
cf the Steal Box are "the secret
minutes of the Big -Four and the
Council Of Ten-never before pub
lished, hitherto seen only by the
heads OF governments and a few
confidential advisers"
Such minutes, of course, init
mately involve the business of a
large number of nations and the at
titude of their representatives tow
ard delicate controversial questions.
Yet they have not, it would seem,
been consulted concerning their pub
iication. Some one in America sees
chance to make money out of them
and has been given access to the
copy Of our chief representative.
Talk about war profteering. Was
there ever such a case. What will
americans be able to say in defen-
sive explanation when the storm of
criticism breaks?
Great Britain has law which for
bids public man after leaving Of
flee using iii literary way docu-
ments which come into his posses
sion while in Office. In America
there has been no similar prohibi-
tive statute, for it has been assumed
that no American public man would
dream Of such diScourteous impro-
priety, no matter what compensa-
tion was offered to him. But there
is obvious need for Congress to en-
ac1 a restraining law. Otherwise
when an American delegate ragtici-
patcs in an international conference
ne naay hear the gibe, What do you
expect to sell your copy Of the con-
fidential minutes for?''
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Prohibition a Success

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | read with interest articles on
prohibition in both magazines and
newspapers, and note that seemingly
many are Influenced to think that pro-
hibition is failing. I wish to suggest
that most Of the noise on the failure Of
prohibition comes either from interest
ed financial sources, from weaklings or
from evil minded. I believe that the
abuse of liquor in the last three years,
alth ough marked, is nothing to what we
would have seen in the same period Of
reaction from the war in the case Of
no restriction on the consumption of
liquor. I think that all such powerful
instruments as The New York Trib-
une should lend wholehearted aid to
the suggestion that prohibition is &
success, necessity and a decided ad-
vance. w. D. M.
Santa Fc, Isle Of Pines, W. l.. Dec.
II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Workers >of the Workers

If actual workers were willing to
join the new Workers Party it's be-
ginnings might be significant. But
actual workers are not for soviet
government. Even in Russia the
Soviet leaders are not workers. Not
only are their hands white, but with
few exceptions they have no profcs-
sion or technical experience. They
arc agitators and pamphletecrs who
have seldom done a days work Of
any kind. Parasites of labor, they
lived on the proceeds Of the passed
hat until a time when they could
put their hands into the public
treasury.
In the United States workers, like
other healthy Americans, are Demo
Gratis or Republicans or Socialists,
or even Socialist-Laborites. They
have as many different political be-
liefs as have other people
To-day, when the Soviet govern
ment has succeeded only in reducing
Russia to wrctchcdness and anarchy
workers refuse to take any interest
in revolution as a remedy for social
conditions. Being workers they
want work and plenty Of it. And
they know they are far more likely
to get work under our form Of gov
ernment than they are under such
rule as has been established by
Trotzky and Lenine.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Fifty-th three Pay Days

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Have our wage carners and in
come tax payers realized that the year
1921 has ffty-three pay days? Some
business concerns pay employees por-
ton of their wages weekly and the bal
ance az the end Of each quarter Of
thirteen weeks. They should be care
ful to have The quarterly payment in
clude fourteen week. in year of fifty
three o&y Gaya, which comes every Eve
OF six years -ia 1927 1927. 1882, 1888.
1874, 1899, 1855. 1890. 1906, 1912. etc-
Brooklyn. Dec. -. 1921 7.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Bloaters, and Bloaters

Lovers Of sea food-which ought
TO form moro important part of
New York's dietary than it does
will regard with gratitude and hope
the action Of the Federal govern
ment III suppressing the practice Of
"bloating" scallops. This action is
taken on the ground that the bloat-
ing process is a form of adultera-
ton, as of course it is. 1t is as
truly adulteration to expand a
scallop with an abnormal quantity
of water as it is to increase the
quantity Of milk b. I've same
process.
Whether the bloating impairs the
wholcsomeness of the shellfsh for
food may be an open question,
though probably to be answered in
the affirmative. Certain it is, how
ever, that the process goes far to-
ward running the flavor of the seal
lop and its attractiveness to the
taste of any one who knows what
good food is. In it's natural estate
the scallop is firm and crisp, de-
llclously sweet and toothsome,
Bloated with fresh water, it may
please the uneducated eye by it's
size, and of course increase the
profits of the marketman; but-as
the word implies-it is a soft, effcm-
mate, slushy thing, devoid of flavor,
and needing to be doctored and dis
gulsed with tomatoes and tahasco
and what not to make it swallow
able.
The Yarmouth bloater is Justly
much esteemed. But its bloatine
has nothing in common with the vile
practice to which scallops and
oysters have been subjected. In
fact, it is the very opposite Of it.
The "bloating" Of herring or mack
erel or salmon or sturgeon in good
wood smoke is a commendable
method of preserving the food with
out impairing its flavor, if indeed
it does not add to its piquancy. The
"bloating" of shellfish by soaking
them in fresh water until they be-
come dropsical is a sordid device for
hIllng the purse by defrauding the
palate.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
History in Newspapers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l read with interest in a recent
Tribune the article by the late Henry
Watterson on journalism. He uttered
wholesome truth when he said:
"The newspaper is the history of yes
terday."
When future histories shall be COM
piled for the instruction Of Americans
their authors should be able to find
much appropriate matter in the news
papers of the period, the substance of
which could be transferred to their own
pages.
Short biographies of our great men,
both past and present, could be pub
lished in the press. Extracts from
their writings and speeches also
would be beneficial, and no doubt
highly appreciated by the reading
public, which is ever looking for that
which is substantial.
O. ". WEBSTER.
Ithaca, N. Y, Dec. "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27

them will not pay it at all if they
can help it.
Vet for the preservation of marital
responsibilities it is necessary that
some penalty must be imposed upon
those who violate them. Locked up,
the recreant husband is more quickly
brought to a realization Of his obl-
cations. There is no place like Jail
for reflection.
If Sheriff Knott will suggest some
substitute for this old fashioned way
Of collecting alimony we shall be for
it. AS matters stand, the present
method seems the only way.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Increasing Negro Migration

Analysis of last years census fig
ures reveals throughout the Union a
marked inclination Of the negro pop
ulation to migrate from state to
state. Thus, while in 1900 only 1876
per cent and in 1910 only 1876 per
cent Of the colored people were liv-
ing in other than their native states,
III 1890 the percentage rose to 1873.
There has been so much talis at in
tervals for many years about negro
migration from the South, because
OF the political and social discrin.-
ination against the race, that it
might be supposed that the move
ment was chiefly to tho North. 1t is
true that there has in the last decen-
Eium been a considerable migration
from the South to the North. But
much more marked has been the
migration along lines of latitude,
from Last to West, or West to East.
New York. Of all important states,
shows one Of the least changes, the
percentages of negroes horn here
who have gone to other states to live
having been 1873 in 1900. 1872 in
1910 and 1913 in 1920. New Jersey
shows greater increase, the per-
centages for the three years being.
respectively, 16.9, 16.3 and 2O.6. In
the Middle West the migration ana
Its increase are both much larger,
the figures for Ohio being 1913, 22.2
and PA and for Indiana, 21.o, 27.5
and 32.5. Even those records are
far surpassed by Kansas, with per-
centages of 26.7, 82.l and 2s.9. Re-
menbering the war which was
waged to make Kansas free state.
there is touch Of irony in the fact
that considerably more than one
third OF the negroes born in that
state have gone out OF it to live.
The actual migration from South
ern states is doubtless larger than
from Northern states, but the ratio
of 1t to the whole negro population
is generally much less. Virginia.
Missouri, Kcntucky and Tennessee
show figures similar to those Of their
neighbors at the North. But from
North Carolina the migration is
actually decreasing, the percentage
of negroes born there, but removed.
having been 1856 in 1900. 17.7 in
1910 and 1875 in 1920. In South
Carolina the figures under the three
censuscs were 1873, 14.2 and 1877.
and in Georgia they were similar,
but little less, in each year. From
Louisiana and Texas the migration
IS large, though the actual percent
ages are still small. The percentage
Of native negroes who had migrated
from Louisiana was only SO in 1900,