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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
Let En- Walk

Corporation Counsel O'Brien, by
attacking the Knight-Adler traction
act as violative of constitutional
home rule, has selected a legal bat
tletield not unwelcome to Governor
Miller.
1t seems the prevailing legal opin-
ion, founded on study of the general
tenor OF justicial decisions, that q
city has only delegated powers and
that state can limit or change these
powers practically at will. A city
charter is not q constitution. More
over, in New York the first rapid
transit act, which was not success
fully assailed, did not concede to the
city shred Of home rule. A state
commission, its personnel named in
the act, exercised sole authority. The
veto powers possessed by the Board
of Estimate when the dual contracts
were negotiated was later grant.
Governor Miller, distinguished for
mer judge, apparently has had no
fear of an upset of the legislation he
promoted on the ground that it was
ultra vires as a whole. The argu-
ment against the act related to
policy rather than to law.
But what the Governor has indi-
Gated he has some doubt about is
whether a contract having been en-
tered into with the city as a party
in interest the contract can be in
validated without the city's consent.
1t is not claimed the private compa-
MES can be deprived of their con-
tract rights, and it is contended the
city similarly cannot be. So it has
been assumed that the legal contest
would come when the new state
commission took specific action in
contravention of the railway con-
tracts.
But the city administration will
go up first on the home rule issue,
and later perhaps on the con-
tract issue. It would be more in &C.
cord with public interest not to
waste time in double proceedings
to combine both issues in one case.
But the Hylan administration is
seemingly not concerned over prac-
teal results. 1t sees a chance to
prolong the litigation and it seizes
it. "Let 'em walk" is it's motto. 1t
is deaf to the plea that with respect
to traction improvements the main
thing is to get them made rather
than to have nothing done while a
struggle to determine who may pro-
vide them goes on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
On Seeing Life Whole

Probably nobody ever did or
could or will really see life steadily
and see it whole, as Matthew
Arnold urged it should be seen.
Mental progress is always beat
to windward, a series of tacks this
way and that, the direction Of the
one correcting the direction of the
other. Or the metaphor of the spiral
is at your service if you prefer three
dimensions-the idea is the same.
But it does seem as if a GER
tain perspective might be re-
tanned throughout these wanderings.
Searching for definition of that
superiority of the French mind
which every one feels, we should say
it was precisely this ability to keep
ones head while plunging however
far into one excess or another. We
commend this suggestion to all
those American writer's, old and
young-from Theodore Dresser and
Miss iona Gale to Mr.. Sinclair
Lewis-who are so persuaded of the
conspicuous meanness and sourness
of American life as to see the need
of putting little else in their books.
An interesting illustration of our
point turns up in The English Re-
view. Mr.. Richard Arlington, the
English poet, is writing of Mr..
James Joyce, whose incomprehensi-
bic tale Ulysses recently so shocked
the head Of our anti-vice society
that he felt obliged to advertise it
with criminal prosecution. Mr..
Arlington is an admirer Of Mr..
Joyce and feels that Ulysses large
ly succeeds-is, certainly, a worth
while venture by an able writer.
But he cannot agree with the Joyce
tendency to overstress the repugnant
side of humanity. Most writer's of
the sweety-sweet school pretend that
such repugnancies do not exist; but
why, in correcting this excess, libel
humanity by rushing to an equal
excess on the other side?
Mr.. Abingdon makes a vivid per-
sonal application. He happened.
three years ago, to read one of the
episodes in Ulysses in a front-line
trench. Here, surely, was the worst
of humanity. vile smells, dirt, dis
ease, "a dismal hide-and-seek with
humiliation" But was even this
"red-eyed, muddy, unshaved set of
pitiful rascals" as despicable as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
Inspiration

fFron, The Westminster Cazette)
I ROSE, lit candles, locked the door,
Seized paper-now no chance
Could rob me of reward wore
My laurels in advance.
Not once but twice, not twice but thrice.
Great thoughts unthought of came;
What poet would not sacrifice
His sleep for worldwide fame?
All! what tremendous truth I spoke.
Sublime, stupendous stuff,
At dawn l slept; when l awoke-
Surely I've said enough?
Somehow the greatness had all gone.
For grain l found but chaff:
We'll, you have done the same, my so~,
Yourself, you needn't laugh!
GODFREY DEARMER,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
a Week of Verse
Adversary

From The Century,
s' VIE time is passed for all these his
trionics
Boy, this is not the garden of your
love
That's only a blue sky-piece hung
above,
Wings and back-drop just canvas-old
mnemonics
Used by gross nature What you need
are tonics
OF laughter, food of friendship, sur
felt Of
The raw repast Of life-you sucking
dove!
Lord! does it mean that you're among
the 'chronics'?
On, ludicrous!" So in nv mind grown
grim
Hooted old Adam, that bitter. hard
gainsayer;
But bright as lightning another blazed
on him
Furiously, and feiled the base betrayer.
Sprang with a splendor of winga
scared through fierce fame,
Blinded all heaven with crying of your
name!
WILLIAM ROSE BENET.
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Joyce makes humanity? Let Mr..
Arlington answer:

answer:
"Had we poor infantry cannon fod-
der-apt symbols of humanity in a
world whose misery seems to have
neither purpose nor Justification
had we nothing to set against our gro
tesque sufferings? Let those answer
NO who never knew the comrade-
ship of the front line, who never saw
man give his life for another, who
never shared that dumb, profound
kindness of common men under a
radeship; I knew an obscure soldier
who lay out under a heavy barrage
to give the comfort of his presence
to two wounded men, though he could
easily have escaped to safety, and
was indeed ordered to do so; / have
known an officer lose his life to save
his servants. And l say that such
things, obscure, unknown, show that
men are not wholly debased, even by
the disgusting savagery of war--that
they can be equally superior in the
disgusting vulgarities Of daily ex-
istence. l say, moreover, that when
Mr.. Joyce, with his marvellous gifts,
uses them to disgust us with man
kind he is doing something which is
false and libel on humanity"
Both England and America re-
fused to see war whole while it was
On. Witness, as an illustration,
Sir Philip Gibbs, who painted one
side of the shield during the war
and the other afterward in "Now
1t Can Be Told" and quite lost his
balance, his sense of proportion, as
a consequence. The Frenchman,
on the other hand, never romanti
cized war to the same extent.
The war was always "sale" to him.
Its heroism, its cause, were glori-
ous-the thing itself, never.
Our American fiction has, of course,
maintained silly pretense of perfec-
ton in American life, an ignoring of
realities. Not Howells, not Mrs.
Wharton, not Stephen Crane, not
Frank Norris, not our real artists, to
be sure, but the bulk of magazine
story tellers have. And we are due
to face the other side Of the shield.
But is it too much to hope that these
correctors of our outlook will soon
regain their sense of humor and pro-
portion and not inundate US indefi-
nitely with realism SO obviously
one-sided as to defeat it's own ends?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
Youngest of the Sciences
(From The Chicooo Da;lu News)

fF'rom The Chicago Daily NeaDs)
For science that is still kicking in
the cradle, psyche analysis has mora
than a little assurance. The latest
textbook on the subject, declared by
some of the experts to be the best and
clearest, speaks in no bashful tone.
Why, asks the learned author, why
spend so much time on algebra and
Latin, which are of no earthly use to
999-1 900 of those who study them
Men should know more about sleep,
in which they spend one-third Of taeir
lives. One is reminded OF the adver-
tisement of a certain brass bed con-
Germ: you spend most of your life
in bed; why not buy good one?"
But any scientific contention deserves
to be respectfully considered. Why do
people spend more time on algebra
than on the study of sleep? For one
reason, of course, because algebra cam
not be managed without study, while
sleeping is one of the easiest things
most men do.
But possibly the psycho-analyst was
a little careless, and said sleep when
he meant dreams. For the study Of
dreams, perhaps, there is more ex-
cuse. For instance, the exact rela
tionship between the Welsh rabbit and
the nightmare no zoologist has yet
traced. If the psycho-analysts could
find and extract the root of this and
kindred problems they might save a
good deal of misery.
Psyche analysis has proved it's claim
to existence, but not to a seat in the
front pews of science. Men who spend
one-third of their time in sleep can
hardly be asked to give another third
to the study of slumber But, as the
baby among the sciences, psycho-a an
alysis is naturally importunate. ,,ew
sciences always have to bawl and gouge
their way into the curriculum, but
psycho-analysis will settle down by and
by and make itself comfortable m q
nice little corner in the psyche. ogy
department.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
Questions
(Fron, Hnnitu Enir

fFrOn, Vanity FAIR
A N EVENING star coerces night
Into an attitude
Of brooding admiration.
A far-off bell is quarreling
Somnolently with the evening air.
Why do these things dispute
The validity of our despair
And make it small and unreal?
Are trees, that tender evening
Green and rustling lyrics,
More deeply alive thar our love?
This country road beneath our fees
Seems inscrutably aloof,
But if we could forget
The proud complexities of thought
And melt into this evening.
We might find that country roads
We're gestures of mute understanding
MAXWELL BODENHEIM.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
Justice to France

France naturally suspects any
suggestion that may give the spirit
Of German intrigue any foothold in
-reparation negotiations. No wonder
the sand of French patience has
run out. She has not been fairly
treated or adequately supported by
her war colleagues and regards with
Just doubt any policy that may lead
to further delay.
During three years, while she val
orously stood as civilizations chief
bulwark, France was heroic. Her
suferings and sacrifices, greater
than those of any other nation, were
ecstatically applauded. But those
protected by her too often since have
been cold to even a partial righting
Of her wrongs. A tireless propa-
ganda has labored in Allied coun-
tries to leave French wounds un-
closed, while the lesser wounds of
German, are humanely healed.
Think of what Frenchman must
feel as he hears that Germany must
be rehabilitated, while France, as the
result o. the war, is condemned to
'u.ure weakness and inability to
-mpete either in war or peace!
So any participation by us in rep
stion negotiations must be to help
Ee Allies, and particularly France.
y course other than this would be
bsnlinable. France stood by US in
ing times. 1t is now not only our
la5y but our privilege to stand by
~. We would have Germany pros
-trous, even as France would, but
consideration for the war maker
should not be at the expense of the
reace maker and civilizations chief
protector To lift burdens from Ger
ran shoulders is to place them on
French shoulders. To sympathize
with the German is we'll, but not at
the cost of callous cruelty to the
Frenchman that the German de-
spoiled.
A poor friend to future peace is
any one who would not have the
guilty German repair the ravaged
homo of his innocent French neigh
Dor. 1t must be made plain to sue
ceeding generations that war making
is an Improbable national industry.
When the accounts Of the Great War
are closed they must carry a stark
warning to would-be war makers.
Here is the principal reason, out
Weighing perhaps all others, why
Germany should pay. All these
things may be deemed as plain to
resident Harding and Secretary
hughes as to other sensible persons
and intelligent lovers of humanity.
80 one may feel completely assured
mat Washington has it's face firmly
set against countenancing Germany's
hnai efforts to defeat justice and to
WIN the peace, even though she lost
the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
Foreign Exchange and Dumping

Representatives Of the Mer-
chants Association of this city and
Oh the National Council of Ameri-
Tan Importers and Traders have
protested against the exchange
equalization feature of the emer-
sehcy farm tariff bill. The ex-
.nahge section provides that import
uu'les shall be assessed on the basis
VI ehe current value of the foreign
money of invoice, but that for duty
purposes no currency shall be deemed
70 have deprecated more than sc 2-3
Per cent.
mere are many countries in
"n'ch much larger depreciation
Juan 662- per cent has occurred.
me new law as drawn would put
'aeln at a disadvantage in trading
''''' 'ne United States, for it would
.o'npel the assessor to assume that
."e article imported is worth three,
ai' SIX, nineteen, twenty-five or
even thirty-fve times its actual do
es'lc price in the country of ex-
s0r'atlon. Imports from Hungary,
c1''ria' Germany, Poland, Rumania,
~ U.:e'eho-Slovakia, Jugo- Slavia and
p nand' and even from italy and
's1i' would be overtaxed as COM
pared with those from Great Brit
-. 80 france, Spain and other coun-
~: LIZ whose money is not at a two
'nlrds discount.
=, s'."any is about the only coun-
.,s :" Europe prepared to dump
commodities in dangerous quantities
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Old Song
From The Smart Setl

From The Smart Set)
4 1GHTSOME Annie was blythe ana
bonnie.
60 Gay Thomas she's like to deed
Gay Thomas has gle her red red rose
OF Of a red rose tree.
Lightsome Annie was plucking early
Violet blooms in the fields of barley.
Gay Thomas come in scarlet brooches,
Gay Thomas would Of charmed the
witches.
Gay Thomas come with trumpets snarl-
ing,
Gay Thomas was the witches darling.
Gay Thomas come with drums a-beating,
Gay Thomas was the witches sweeting.
Gay Thomas left in the morning hours.
The rose is the flower of passion.
flowers.
JOHN MCCLURE. !
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
(Fror, Vonity T

From VGntty Fdir)
z DO not care for the future
Knowing we'll my capacities to deal
with it
Are breeding up from the fulness of my
response
To this single hour
Therefore do not ask of me the future
And rather let us hold gently to one
another
ourting-inviting ease
And sending one another away beniR-
nantly refreshed
Proud befriended with tie memory Of
an eternal moment
MICHAEL STRANGE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24
Good News for Smokers
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The following appears in the
April number of The Union Signal, the
official publication of the w. C. T. u,
contradicting the falsehood which has
been circulated concerning the attitude
of that organization toward tobacco:
absolute denial is made by the gen
eral officers of the national W. C. T.
U. that there is any plan to launch
campaign against tobacco or in
favor of Sunday blue laws. The only
campaign which is being waged by the
organization at this time is one for
membership, the goal being doubled
membership this year"
SUBSCRIBER.
Baltimore. Nd, April 10, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24

If the young American idea, during
the whole period of its receptive devel-
opment, is taught to shoot by and for
women; if all its earliest and keenest
impressions are dominated by the GEN
tie but very firm figure of Her Who
Must Be Obeyed, is it matter for won
der if the resultant Man continues all
his days to walk humbly before one
whom he has learned to reverence and
to fear? Is it strange if, for the sake
of her white spinster soul, he chval-
rously assumes virtues to which hi.
real Adam can lay no valid claim? Is
it any wonder if he consents, and even
expects, to be treated as child
(naughty or good, as the case may be-,
to be patronized and supervised in all
his goings out and comings in, to be
admonished and chastened through life,
keeping q wistful eye all the while on
thea back-door fence and the trail to
the woods, where no squaw rules the
wigwam?
If the hand that rocks the cradle
does all that they say, is it not equally
certain that the hand chat spanks the
child Che it spank Of the body or the
souD will appeal to the Mans magma
ton to, the end Of his days? Will he
not walk, so to speak, continually un-
der the shadow and menace of that
spank? And if the hand of the spanker
be spinster hand, will it not impress
upon the young idea. and the Man who
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-24

van esa purehass merchandise advertised In ThE
ssiauNF with absolute ssfeS-tor 4 dssat,stac-
,,ss rssslt. IN AIRY case TnE TRIBUNE suaran-
IVA 10 pay your money back upon request. No red
s.s, No ouhtlins. We mako good promptly u
a, advertiser Goes not.
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,r,rprn or Tur AssoclArEp pRrss

~. Associated Press is exclusively entitled 20
~ yss for republication OF all news dispatches
s-ss,tci 70 It or not otherwise credited in this
500 ard also the local news OF spontaneous
ssrsa published herein.
Al ishs Q, republication OF all other matter
Asrsin also are reservcd.
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zeal announcements derive their in
spiration from that culture. Even be-
fore the war, before the Anne rican
woman had descended into the political
arena, nobody whose business or pleas
ure took him among the educated
classes could fail to be impressed bv
the fact that while conversation among
men was generally confined to bust
ness, politics and sport, woman's range
habitually included all things in
heaven and earth, and left her seeking
for new worlds to conquer.
E1 plonation
Somewhat dazed but still feebly
seeking some natural explanation of
all these signs and portents, there
came to my recollection the wise words
of the philosopher, who said, "What
you put into the school you get OF. Of
the state" Whereupon there flashed a
CLEAN of light. OF sudden I remem-
bered that in Gods own country" the
primary schools have for many years
been entirely in the hands of women
teachers, and that in the high schools
they constitute an overwhelming ma
Jolity. Then, in my minds eye, l saw
the male youth of the United States
being led in the way it should go, from
childhood to the very portals of man
hood, by women, and most of these UNI
married. And in that vision | found a
possible explanation of the artificial
development of woman's intellectual
and social superiority over man in the
land of the brave and the free. Herein.
It seems to me, lies the only rational
Interpretation of the fact that the idea
Of woman has come to be instnctively,
unconsciously associated in the mind
of the American man with the idea of
superior wisdom and incontestable au-
thoritY
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A Dry Toast

fFrom The Philadelphia North Ameyican)
Here's to you, New York; if at first
you don't succeed. dry. dry again.
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was compelled to overstay a fair
selling market by Mr.. Hearst's
pestiferous Leviathan suit. The
cost of Hearstism is high.
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immortal

Immortal
(From The Marion Stcr)
II begins to look as though the cat
hadn't anything on Turkey.
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~s nv New Yosk Tribune Inc. New York
oN aS ~ Published daily. Ogden Reid PreSt-
tcrIs'Sns' ys-nor Rogers. vicr President: Holsa
Ins.s Reid. SECRETARY: r Y. Msyneld. Treasurer.
E,ss.S TSibunc Ruiaaing IA NsssaH Street. New
As Az 'Tieiephoae. Hickman 5000.
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GUARANTY

rs.<,.a :, the Postonice at New York a. Secm
Class Mall Matter.
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srpscyfpIIoN yArES~-Bs mall. Including
IN TpE UNITED STATES.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-07-06

"Pochopuji tento pocit; a.
vsak nevim, jak opatfil jste So
be tax znacnou castku, kterou
nam jste udelil?"
~ sobotu, kdyz slecna Eu-
genie odesla, mel jsem jiz jer
nekolik hodin prace ku dokon-
ceni sveho obrazu; V nedeli do
poledne jsem jej dokoncil, v
pondeli zanesl jsem jej k OBJ
chodnikovi a prodal'.
"To jste ucinil, pane More
liz"
"Byla to ma prvni prace,
kterou jsem zpenezil; mohl
jsem lepe pouziti prvne vyde-
lane penize, nezli jak jsem u
cinil, vazena panf?"
To VSe fekl tax proste, tax
nelicen6, re panu Lurotova, at
koliv premahala Sc, zatajiti ne.
mohla dcinek, jaky slova jehc
ma nj ucinila.
tPokracovanD
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20 akra, II mil cd Squaru,
Moline tractor, 300 slepic. so
kachen husi, 3 kravy, 2 We
pri, uroda i S nafadim, cena
$4,000.
SO akrI, blize Miles Ave,
dobytek, droda, nacini, cena
$4,000.
ia akru ma trait mestske
kary, 6-pokojovy dun, vince a
ovoce, $4,000.
100 akrI, II mil od squaru,
dobytek, uroda a nacini, cena
$4,000.
1879 akru, Is. East. A.B.C
$1,000 akr.
Dotazy zodpovi JOHN JA.
RES, 5847 Broadway. 7-1z
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PEkARI, Poor!

Prodame moderni budovu,
obsahujicf kram, suitu a peka1
stvi, vcetne vsech pfihrad, W.
kladnich skrini, uplne pekar-
ske zafizeni S dobfe Sc vyplace
Jicim obchodem "a skuteGne
prlJatelnou cenu, nasledkem
vzdani Sc obchodu. V dobre pc
loze ma linii poulicni kary, pr
hlavni ulici ma zapadni stran6
Prime Sc prislusna hotovost ia
ko prvni splatka, neb Sc ma
vymenu prime jedno, neb
dvourodinny dGm, zbytek ma
snadne splatky.
Otto Pollock, 3423 Clark A.
ve., roh Fulton rd. Tel. Lincoln
1857, Central 1868. 7-9
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CECHOSLOVACI Poor!

Velka lace urodnych farem.
Farma o 55 akrech, mlekar-
ska, veskere budovy v nejlep-
Sim pofadku, 2 mlade kone, 5
krav, as Is tun sena, psenice,
owes, korna, brambory, ovocne
stromy, 7 akrd lesa, veskere
farmaTske stroje, velmi dobra
pfilezitost pro dobrou budouc-
most. Cena $4,000, hotove $5,-
600, zbytek ma 6 proc. - Far
ma so. akrech, velmi dobra,
Sc vsfm zarizenim, cena $9,-
600, vymeni Sc Ia jedno neb
dvourodinny dim. = Farma o
50ti akrech, dplne zafizena.
elektrina, dlazdena costa. Cena
$4,000, hotove $500, zbytek
ma 6 proc. Farma 0 50ti akrech,
mlekafska, vse zaTizeno, costa
dlazdena. Cena $1,000, hotoce
$4,000. - Farma 105 a.
krech, velmi drodna, vymeni
Sc. Cena $1,000. Dalsi Yam
vysvetlf Josef Pechota, 1914
w. So. St. S. W., aneb dopiste
ma Jos. P6chota, r. F. D. No.
2, Chardon, O. TO
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JSTE VYSfLENI?

Nezazivnost a porucha zazi-
vaciho dstroji jsou vzdy prici-
nou vysilenosti. Mnozi snazi Sc
zazivaci ustroji privesti do po-
fadku, ale nemohou pfijlti ma
pravy lex. Nell by utiniti to,
co cini tisice jinych, kteri po-
dobne trpeli. Nell by Sc obra-
titi ma DR.. Formanka Hork6
Vino a Magadoru. Leky tyto
jsou k dostani We vSech prvo-
tridnich lekarnach a obcho-
dech, kde prodavaji leky, aneb
primo od vyrabitelu DR.. f. For
maneck Co., 1873 S. California
Ave. Chicago, Ill.