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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-14
EIGHT HORSES IN FINAL LAP
Survivors Of Seventeen Who Started
Reach Pimlico


Malimore. Md, Oct. II. - Eight
weary horses. with equally weary
i riders survivors of the seventeen en-
tries in the o mile test race from
Camp Vail, y. j., to Washington. ar
rived yesterday at Pimlico race track,
lending the fourth lap of the race, which
started Monday. Five of the horses
started at daybrcak today to finish the
|race.
The horses to finish the race are ::
|Rustcm Boy, crOssbred Arab. ridden by
Captain Il. Il. Allen. Of Fort Sam
Houston, Texas. owned by w. X.
Brown, of Berlin. New Hampshire.
|Crabbctt pure bred Arab, ridden by
IL. $. Humphrey, also owned py W: IL.
Brown; Cragmore. crossbred. ridden
|by Jack Frctz, also owned by w. Il.
Brown, Castor. purc-bred Morga, ,
4 ridden by Ed Goulette, owneu bS tie
Morgan Horse Club. Castor is the
smallest horse in the race and carries
ban unusually heavy ridre( Pathfinder.
. thoroughbred, ridden by Major Charles
4 J.. Scott Of Washington. owned by the
American Rcmount Association. Va
2grant, thoroughbred, ridden by Major
IA. II. Jones, OF t:cnookla, owned by
american Remount Association.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-14
AUTOBUS SPILLS; 2 HURT
swerves and Rolls Down seven.Foo
Embankment

New York, Oct. 14.-(By A. P.)-
An autobus carrying eleven passengers
to City Island last night suddenly
swervcd on Eastern boulevard. rolled
down a seven foot embankment, was
overturned and the roof crushed.
The occupants we're alive after their
thrilling experience, but two had to be
taken to n hospital The others were
treated by ambulance surgeons and went
home.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
w. r. Wilcox for Mayor
A Republican Regarded as Vel
Equipped for the Office
, the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; The city election is fast ap-
preaching and it behooves all loyal
American voters to be on their guard
against the placing of Hearstism and
Tammanyism in the saddle for four
years more. If they are to be over
come vast majority of the votes re-
quired to accomplish such benefcent
result must come from the Republican
party.
A Republican should therefore be
nominated for Mayor-a Republican
who would command the respect of all
citizens and the support of all indie
pendent Democrats. Such Republi-
can is William R. Wilcox.
President Theodore Roosevelt APP
pointed Mr., Wilcox Postmaster of New
York, and Mr.. Wilcox made good.
Mayor Seth Low appointed Mr.. Wilcox
president of the Department of Parks,
and Mr., Wilcox made good. Governor
Charles E. Hughes appointed Mr.. Will
cox president of the Public Service
Commission, and he made good Mr..
Wilcox was so highly regarded by Mr.
Hughes that he was made chairman OF
the Republican National Committee in
1916.
There are two great problems before
New York City at the present time.
One is the transportation problem,
Mr.. Wilcox is especially equipped to
represent the city on transportation
matters because of his long serviSe as
president of the Public Service Com
mission. The other is the grave neces-
sity of redeeming the city from Hearst
ism and n-Americanism.
The stalwart Americanism of Mr.
Wilcox and his loyalty to the people of
New York having been vouched for bv
President Roosevelt, Mayor Low and
Governor Hughes, he would seem to be
the best equipped man we could elect
as Mayor of our great city.
JuDsoN G. WALL.
New York, May s, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Fish That Swim Upstream
Study of the Habits of the Finny Tribe-Game
Fish and Game Men

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Many a pretty philosophy has
been founded upon false postulate
Witness the "Ballade of the Game
Fish" in Grantland Rice's column,
through which runs the refrain "Only
the game fish swims upstream"
Now, all fishes swim upstream, down
stream or athwart stream, according to
caprice. Common sea fishes swim to
the upper reaches of rivers to spawn; ;
or Their young, spawned in the sea-
SWIM up to fresh water to stay for a
season or permanently.
Eels, for instance, which are spawned
in salt water, may be seen in May in
swarms wggling upstream along the
margins of swift rivers-tiny chaps
two OF three inches long, moving in
a continuous procession and in close
formation and collectively; looking like
a broad, black band just beneath the
surface
Soft fishes, like herring, which have
so little vitality that they die within
two minutes after leaving the water,
and the mildmannered shad and the
sluggish but powerful sturgeon all
make these journeys.
So-called game fishes, like trout, bass,
pike, etc, not only inhabit swift waters.
but abound in cool lakes and ponds
where there are no currents to be com
bated; while common fishes, like the
festive perch, our boyhood's friend, the
pumpkin seed; the faint-hearted suck
er, the soft club and the despised mud
cat or bull-pout or bullhead, are all
found in swift creeks and brooks.
In truth, fishes must either swim
against current or themselves create
a current of water, which, passing in
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08

at the mouth and out through the
gills, oxygenates the blood and pre-
vents the drowning" or suffocation Of
the fish. All fishes seen in moving
waters are either swimming against
the stream or poised in the shadows
with head upstream, in position to re-
celve the benefit of this current. When
they desire to 60 downstream or
athwart-stream they dart rapidly,
keeping so far in advance of the cur
rent as to create, in effect, counter
current of water to supply the neces-
sary oxygen.
The fact that game fishes are com
monty seen working in swift waters,
IN preference to dead waters or eddies.
Is explained by the fact that they pre-
Ter live food, such as crustacea,
ephemera, etc, which they naturally
seek upstream, because they can thor
otghly examine the bottom or surface
when under slow headway.
II the poet wished to draw an
analogy between game fishes and game
men he should have alluded to the en-
durance and fighting propensity of the
former. These are the characteristics
which give them the distinctive name,
but they are rather the effect than the
cause of their habits of life.
II the truth were known, it might
appear that many fishes credited with
"hghting qualities" are merely strong
iusty fishes, highly sensitive to pain
easily frightened, but intelligent and
resourceful enough to plan and effect
escape when caught, 1t is certain that
many fish of great endurance are not
game in this sense, being stupid or
lnSensate; W. H. OSTRANDER.
Norwalk, Conn, May 5, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 tne EuIlof OF Inc tribune,
Sir: Allow me to express my warm
approval of George f. Ensey's letter
on the Descent of Man" in Sundays
Tribune. Science has not yet given us
proof of mans descent from the ape.
On the contrary, it's findings lead one
to believe that the missing link has
always been missing.
In the anthropoid ape the frontal
suture of the skull sealed up at the
end of the first year of life, while in
man of the glacial period it remained
free until the third or fourth year
and often until the adult period was
reached.
Both the baby and the ape, at the
end of the first year, knew what
pleased and displeased them, knew
what frightened them and realized the
sensation of pain; but here the SINH
larity ended-the ape never knew any
thing more, his closed skull prevent
ing brain growth; while the baby in
creased in knowledge, the free sutures
allowing the skull to adapt itself to
the growing brain
The Java man (Pithecahthropus
erectus) and the Neanderthal man,
two of the earliest known specimens
of the human species, resembled the
ape in that their foreheads receded
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor eff The Tribune.
Sir: A recent pronouncement Of the
President of the United States, as we'll
as the negotiation of the Colombian
treaty. has directed attention toward
eur relations with the Latin American
republics, The popular conception Of
oug position with regard to the nations
Of South and Central America is that
thss country has duty under the
Mcnroe Doctrine to protect and defend
their sovereign rights from invasion
By any non-Amerieaa power. The Mon
roe Doctrine. of itself, might very we'll
be limited to this particular construc-
ton. AS matter of right and of his
tory none other should be given it.
The great difficulty which the Latin
American republics seem to have en-
eountered in their relations with the
United States has arisen not because
of any false impression upon the part
of those nations that the Monroe Doe
trine was ever at fault or that it's in
eeption was not the fruit of an altruis-
tic and unselfish attitude on the part
of the United States, but rather be
cause we. having once promulgated a
highly specific doctrine in the face OF
particularized facts and circumstances
have gone on and so developed and so
expanded that original principle as to
have, as q result, new policy which
in some of its manifestations would
seem to be diametrically opposed to the
Monroe Doctrine itself.
Mr.. Horace C. Knowles lucidly pre-
sented the grievances of South Ameri-
can countries in a recent issue of The
Tribune. How can one hope for any
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Disowning the Monkeys
Mayoralty Suggestions
Monroe Doctrine Expansion
Latin American Republics Disturbed by Quasi
Imperialistic' Policy of intervention

form of pan-American unity when such
outstanding examples OF quasi-im-
pefialistic policy as illustrated by the
interventions in Hayti Santo Domingo
and Nicaragua are made capital of by
the opponents to the pan-Ameriean
ideal and, it would seem, with some
reason?
What excuse can be given for the
policy of intervention on the part of
the United States, even though it be
supported by the ultimate reason that
If we intervene in the affairs of a
smaller nation which might repudiate
it's just debts, some of which il owes
to European nations. we thereby pre-
clude the European nation itself from
intervening and enforcing payment?
Such reason is not only illogical
but is advanced in the very face of the
Monroe Doctrine itself. Under no cir
cumstances should there be any inter
vention by this government in the
affairs of any American state solely for
reasons of finance.
By limiting our present policy with
regard to the Latin-Ame epican countries
we could instill into the minds of our
neighbors an assurance of the inviola-
bility of their sovereignty and thus re
lieve them Of the fear of aggression or
intervention by more powerful ma
ton. Our economic and other vital in
terests are inextricably entwined with
those of the Southern Cross and it
is only by reconstructing our relations
with them on the basis of uberrima
fides that we can hope for any form of
pan American cooperation.
MELVIN L. KRULEWITCH.
New York, May 5, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Stone Age C,randfathers
Their Art Separated Us Forever From the Stigma 0
Monkey Ancestry

abruptly their chins receded and their
superciliary ridges we're prominent;
but the cranial capacity of the Java
man was $50 C. c., and that of the
Neanderthan man 1920 c. c--quite a
little below the cranal capacity of
The average English male of to-day
G,540 C. CD, but way in advance of
the largest gorilas, whose measure
ments never exceed 645 c. C.
Another sharply drawn line is that
of intellect 1t is true that our paleo-
lithic ancestors of the Stone Age we're
hairy, killed their prey with stones
and flint, just as some apes throw
stones and cocoanuts at their enemies.
and were, no doubt, beastly in their
habits; but our Stone Age grandfather
had hobby, something that an animal
has never been known to possess, and
that hobby was drawing.
He pictured the mammoth, the
woolly rhinoceros and his fellow man
on the rocky walls of his cavern home
and the bone handles of his flint
weapons, and did it for the pure love
of decoration Thus Art brought to
us the first gleamings of intellect and
separated us forever from the STIGMA
of monkey ancestry.
GEORGE WILLARD BONTE.
New York, May 4, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
A Republican Mayor
]. Van Vechten OIcott Suggested as
an Available Candidate
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The consensus of opinion among
Republicans in New York is undoubtI
edly in favor of a straight Republican
ticket for the mayoralty. The fusion
administrations We're all short-lived
because they were failures.
This city is becoming more Repub-
lican year after year, and is Repub-
lican city now. If Republican admin
istration gives US poor government
it can be turned out just as readily as
a fusion administration.
The question then arises, Who is
the strongest and most available man :?
There are various things to be oonsid-
cred in his makeup. In the first place.
there exists strong sentiment in favor
of a native New Yorker-a public spir-
tied man who takes pride in the city.
His slogan should be, "The seat of gov
ernment will be in the Mayors office!"
He should be one who will be a pub
lie servant, and not master. He
should be an unassuming, democratic
sort of man, who will consider the in.
terests Of people on the East Side as
readily as of those On Murray Hill He
must be one who is acceptable to the
sdherents of the Citizens Union and
the other reform bodies which have for
years struggled to improve our city
government.
he need not necessarily be busi-
ness man. He should be one who can
give us an honest. efficient and econom-
ieal government, notwithstanding that
he is guilty of being an organization
Republican.
Is there such q man? There is. His
name is j. Van Vechten Olcott.
Mr.. Olcott was born and reared in
old Greenwich Village. He is a law
yer and was Congressman from the
upper West Side. He has been active
in Republican politics since he had a
vote. He knows New York. He is n
ed type, who believes that an American
by adoption can be just as good an
American as one who was born on our
soil
Mr.. Olcott does not believe in seek
ing office, but thinks the Office should
seek the man. To use the words of a
celebrated man, native New Yorker,
by the way, his friends have thrown his
"hat in the ring" and all they ask of
didate over. GEORGE FENTRICK.
! New York, May 4, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Durable Roads
Automobiles Says Reinforced Con
crete Wears Best


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t was very gratifying to those
who own or use utomobiles-and there
mast be several millions of us in the
East alone-to note in the recent mes
sage of President Harding that he
gave such prominence to his views on
the question of good roads. Matters
OF foreign diplomacy and domestic
economics have usually dominated the
messages of former Presidents, and
the national policy regarding roads
has been left to work out it's own
salvation.
Right here in New York State note
tnat there is much misinformation re-
garding road matters, and various gov
erning bodies continue to award con-
tracts for bituminous macadam con-
struction costing over $4,000 mile,
when the best engineering opinion in
many other states steadily upholds the
superior desirability of the more sub
stantial concrete pavements.
Every county should remember that
the State Highway Department, che
State Legislature and the Governor
have provided necessary safeguards to
make unnecessary the hasty approval
of plans and contracts. State and Fed
erai aid work funds are limited to
$4,000 mile. The Jacobs bill allows
counties to participate in any cost
over $4,000, so when counties ap-
propriate extra money to get better
road, particularly in localities where
there is heavy traffic of trucks, they
should be sure they are getting the
right kind
The Hewitt bill allots for the next
Improvement each year. This bill pro-
vides that county may ask for COM
plete information before awarding con-
tracts, and the county will not lose
road because of any delay in ap-
proval of suggested plans. We have
many miles of superb roads in New
York State, but there has often been
toe much haste, and consequently a
great deal of waste.
The reinforced concrete roads built
in the last few years are wearing bet,
ter than the older type of pavement,
which was not reinforced The present
condition of the roads built under the
engineering supervision of General
Goethals on the Lincoln Highway and
elsewhere in New Jersey by the High
way Commission of that state attest
the fact that any county that is spend
ing $4,000 mile for road is not
getting the best unless it is built of
reinforced concrete. Road construc-
tion appropriations should not be re-
garded as an easy means to spend
money through favored contractors,
but as dividend paying investme Mt
for all taxpayers. o. f. BOYD.
New York, May 3, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Worse Than Execution
the Editor of The Tribune.

~ the Loatot 'of Ahe tribune.
Sir: l was interested in the letter
from DR.. Elmer Lee on humane execu-
tions. | write to tell you of a plan
heard advocated by s. radical. He
SAID that any savage can kill, mutiiate,
torture, intprison, etc, and those are
the punishments to be expected from
brutes; but that an enlightened genera
tion should be more refined.
He claims that ne knows u scientist
who has perfected process through
surgical and inoculatory treatment that
destroys the reason and makes the sub
Jeet an incurable imbeeile. He saws
that we should not take life, but rea-
son instead, and that the operation is
painless.
Going on to defend the idea, he says
that IL man has a weapon and uses
it to terrorize and harm the gublic
II would be taken from him; and so
i human being uses his human in
tellect like q beast, anti-socially. to
e'vcy on ana harm humanity. he has
forfeited his right to it. Once man
is dead, even though he be tortured TO
death in the worst way by lynchsrs,
he and his crime are soon forgotten.
But let him live TO die of old age, with
an intellect no higher than that of q
baboon, and IL would be the real deter
rent to crime that punishment Ia sup
posed to be, and is utterly Intellectual
IL II Is not. s. REID SPENCER.
New York. Mag s, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Rural America in Books
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune has discussed a
number OF recent American books deal
ing with farm and country ,life-Ma;n
Street and Poor White are notable ex.
amples. Judging from these books. one
would think rural America still little
removed from the Martin Chuzzlewit
period of dust, mud. and hope de-
ferred
Had one of the visiting English
novelists embodied his impressions of
America in Poor White or Dust. what
hysterical protests would arise as to
his caricature of the Great American
People
But there is another side, and the
real heart of rural America has found
It's chronicler. | have been reading
Hope Farm Notes, an unpretentious
volume dealing with everyday life on
plain American farm. The sodden
animalism that hides beneath material
prosperity in Poor White has no place
on Hope Farm, nor the SNUG self
satisfaction that limits vision in Main
Street.
Here is cheerful acceptance of every
day work, big, happy, variegated
family sharing pains and pleasures;
and under it all the standards of life
and conduct that have ever represented
this country at its best and highest.
Which is the real rural America-poor
White or Hope Farm Notes?
MRS. NOAH.
New York, May 5, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
The Only Competition

(From The Philadelphia Evening Balletin)
Europe is at work. Even May Day
was not permitted to interrupt the de-
termination to regain, the losses of the
war. And the competition which Euro
pean work presages cannot be met ex-
cept by like diligence on this side of
the water. Neither diplomacy nor tariff
can obviate the necessity for work.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
A Lost MARTYR
From The Kansas City Star

TOT" TIC 1fu4seus CFtT
Big Bill Haywood's flight to Russia
if he fed to Russia-is described as a
severe blow to the I. w. w. organiza-
ton in this country. And just at the
moment, too, when the /. w. W. was
ready to enter upon period of unprec-
edented strength by virtue of having
Bill Bill in prison for twenty glorious
years!
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Is That All?

fFrors The Flortda Times Umios)
Lots of folks will be surprised to
know that there are only $4,000, 900
foreign-born residents of the United
States. According to the noise made
and the pathetic attitude of Hobson
many had thought there were at least
that many Japanese in Californis.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
A Permanent Factor
(F'Yofa The Washin0f,n Str

1FYofR TIE Wdsftapfon Star
The coal strike threatens to become
so permanently deadiocked 40 to fig
ure as one Of those matters respect
fully referred to as British institu-
tions.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08

Touring car, $500 Sbo $500 Road1er $500 cAast $3.50
PfSHda Sedan, 5000 SEDAN, $500 Sdane $500 CoupE $500
H6spx ia Rxsr eA
The Washington herald., 1921-02-11
Building Permits

4367-To Henry A Vieth; to build
at 1904 South Dakota avenue north
east; lot l9, square 434o. Value
$500.
436s-To Heny A. Vieth; to build
at 1890 Twenty-sixth street north
east: lot %, square 1881 Value
$500.
4369-To l. A. Menhorn; for re-
pairs. alterations, etc. to lOS Bates
street northwest; lot 1872, square $50.
Value. $50.
437O-To Mrs. NJ J. Sherrau; for
repairs, alterations, etc, at rear OF
COS Thirteenth street northwest; lot
S2S, square 253. Value, $50.
437l-To James Crimer; for re-
pairs, alterations, etc, at rear OF
1895 Florida avenue northwest;
lot $50; square 2S77. Value, SIS.
4372-To Charles II. Berry; for re-
pairs, alterations, etc, to 232 L street
northwest; lot 4, square 594. Value
500.
4373-To Mrs L. I. Stark; for re-
pairs, alterations, etc, to 9lS Louis
lana avenue northwest; lot IS, square
3S2. Value, $500.
4374-To J. w. Day; to erect pri-
vate garage, at rear Of 26O3 En-
teenth street northwest; lot 500
square 1863. Value. 500.
4375-To United Supreme Council,
Masons; for office or storage shed at
l631-33 Eleventh street northwest;
lots Is and I6, square 1886.
4376-To Christian Heurich: for
awnings at 1900 f street northwest
lot $40, square 29l.
4377-To Mrs. y $. Bartholomew
for repairs. alterations, etc. to 21l4
Twenty-seventh street northwest;
lot a. square 2lO9. Value, 5000.
437S-To J. NJ. McCary; TO rebuild
entrance porch and steps at III
Kentucky avenue southeast lot IS,
square 1917.
4379-To A. NJ. Charron: to build
at 1901 Thirteenth street northeast
lots y and 13; square 5636. Value
$4,000.
43SO-To J. Arthur Fray; to erect
sign at 1925 Eleventh street north
west; lot 16, square 333.
43Sl-To Thomas Hyde: to erect
sign at 1883 New York avenue north
west; lot 9. square 252.
43S2-To w H. Turlin; for repairs
alterations, etc. at rear of l44i
Rhode Island avenue northwest; lot
90, square 2lO. Value, $500.
43S3-To Il. Costelli; to erect
sign at Ninth and r streets north
west; lot 4, square N-3s6.
43S4-To NJ. f. Swing Company
to install motor at l113 E street
northwest: lot II, square 347
Value, 500.
43S5-To J. H. Cain; to erect pri,
vate garage, at rear of 3S06 Twelfth
| street northwest; lot II, square 1884
Value, $3.50.
! 43S6-To J. Edward Chapman; tC
erect storage shed at $3.50 Georgis
avenue northwest; lot, Par. S7-235
square 2937.