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New-York tribune., 1921-12-31

ndent Of The London Times)
more than enough to build the pyramid
of Chcops. The molecular energy can
be harnessed, and 7 doubt if it IS more
than that used in laying a trowclful of
cement between two of the blocks.
Professor Fisher drew a startling
picture Of the changes in values that
would follow method for making
"synthetic" gold. l have no doubt that
he is correct in these deductions. But
coneomitant of the mplIshment
of such a transmutation would be
greater than profound change in the
standard of money. For it would rnean
the discovery of new source of energy
far surprising any that has ever been
available to the world If we can tap sub
atomic energy, then everything from
coal and oil to human labor will assume
new aspect. The world will have to
shape civilization so profoundly diff
ferent from that which exists now that
We shall have more ado than to worry
altics Of foiled ambition. If a pound
of clay or of chalk becomes as useful
as great coal field or an oil basin
we shall no longer be concerned with
the relative values of printed paper and
coined gold.
But, again with the proviso that a
negative prediction as to the progress
Of science is dangerous, I repeat that
there is no evidence as to tho i'm
mediate approach of such revolu-
tion. We're I to venture on prophecy
should hazard the guess that the
most immediate economic changes
+, likely to come from chemical knowl-
edge are in the artificial synthesis of
foodstuffs. AT present the chief source
of human food is the wheat plant. In
the chemical laboratory of green
leaves the energy radiated by sun
light is stored up in building the mole
cules of the grain. Chemists are
gradually drawing closer to a full COM
prehension of this process. If and
when they succeed in reaching full
knowledge they may be able to elm
mate the uncertain and slow co.
operation of a living organism and
synthesize starch and gluten directly
and continuously in any region of land
or sea during all the hours of SUM-
light.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Gotham Gleanings
GaI li1 SlG ~ III Siix zSifs

Fred Vandewater is busy these
days.
Charlie Beck of Philada Tues
dayed in Our thriving midst.
Wishing our subscribers
happy New Year is the pleasant task
of this item.
Ray Ives gave ye scribe some
Havana cigars Xmas, the best we
ever smoked.
Art Ferguson has gone to Bal
timore to work for Paul Patterson
OF the Sunpaper.
Mike Myrick is going to be
prexy of the tennis association
again, a good thing say we for all
concerned
-"An Evening With the Thana-
topsis Club" is the title of the play
that will be given at Ruth Hates
party this eve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis T. Hunter
are going to fill the Tribune Cup
with something potable tomorrow
and dispense the contents of same.
To Put New Story ON the Aquarium.
Herald
Would you," asks W. P. H., "call
that another fish story?" If we'd
thought Of it in time, yes.
Convinces Both He and Her Mother
He Is an Honest Suitor.-Eyening
World headline.
These copyreaders overworship
Lardner.
From Mr.. Arthur Marx, OF the a
Marx Bros, now playing Des Moines
comes this addition to the Motorists
Bartlett.
Nashes to Nashes,
Stutz to Stutz.
May the 1922 year
Be filled with JOY and loye
A happy Happy New Year
Or fraction thereof.
| r.. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James ]. Montague
The End of the Year

IN other days, when other years
Were drawing to a close,
We Joined the general, Joyous
cheers
That on the midnight rose.
" a year has gone; that makes
score
We've left behind" we said.
But what Of that? There's plenty
more
Ahead.
.''There's life to live and sights to
And fortunes to be made;
Bring on the years that are to be,
And let the old ones fadel
Well look on newer, brighter
scenes,
And, while youth has its fling,
Why wonder what the future
To bring?
A host of days has come and
gone,
Like soldiers in review,
And still the same parade moves
A little faster, too.
The years of our allotted span
In turn go swinging past.
Each year a tritle briefer than
The last.
And now the shouting leaves US
cold,
And we forbear to cheer;
We're not SO eager as of old
To greet the glad New Year.
The years that held our hopes OF
yore
Have paused a while and fed,
And there are not as many more
Ahead!
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
An Acid Test

The Root resolutions, first by pre-
cisely defining the existing law Of
nations with respect to the use of
submarines as commerce destroyers,
and, second, by amending interna-
tional law so as to forbid such use,
apply an acid test to the intentions
of the nations represented in the con-
ference.
Great Britain has honored herself
by Immediately giving hearty sup
port to the American proposals. She
las placed herself fully and unre-
servedly by the side of America.
But France, her friends in America
painfully note, has thrown doubt on
her purposes by withholding similar
assent and by fathering the delay
ing suggestion of referring the reso-
lutions to a commission of interna-
tional jurists. For the French dele
cation to ask for time to consult it's
home government is a request in
form proper enough, but it does not
decrease wonderment as to why the
delegation is without definite in
struction as to an important matter
whose consideration was seen ap-
preaching.
Americans arc not disposed to
argue the question Of whether or not
any vessel, whether of the surface or
beneath it, may legally sink mer-
chant vessels without warning or
without placing crew and passengers
in safety. This country passed on
this question when it entered the
war. 1t held, and still holds, that
the Lusitania slaughter was murder.
1t has not accepted as valid the Ger
man excuses for ruthlessness. 1t
condemns the infamous German doc
triNe, no matter whose mouth re-
peats it.
Concerning the second point, that
commerce destroying in violation of
international law should be defined
and treated as piracy, there is equal
ly no difference in the opinion of the
American delegation. The four
American delegates to the conference
are men of varying views, but they
vie with one another in their insist
ence that murder on the high seas be
heavily penalized. Mr.. Root told the
conference that it must not adjourn
without an expression concerning a
subject which he said was "the most
vital, the most heartfelt, the most
stirring to the conscience and feeling
OF all our countries.' Mr.. Lodge
spoke of the intense feeling back of
the demand for the protection of in
nocent non-combatants and the ut
most possible limitation on the sub
marine as a commerce destroyer
Senator Underwood and Secretary
Hughes added their appeals to the
same effect.
The French delegation has done
great injury to French repute anc
prestige in this country. 1t cannot
be that her government will commit
France to a course that will b,
deemed tantamount to justification 0.
German ruthlessness. This would in
deed disastrously isolate her and ado
heavily to the burdens of her alread,
overburdened people.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Hungary s Case
|itor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In general l was very much
pleased with your statements dealing
with the diplomatic relations between
America and Hungary However, for
just reasons l object to two of YOUR
assertions.
First, l deny that by the present
form and development of the independ-
ent Hungarian state "the dream of
Nossuth is realized" Kossuth dreamed
Of and fought for great and free
Hungarian state so far as this could
have been justified ay the historical
and innate rights of the peoples living
in that geographical unit called Hun
gary. Kossuth's dream was demo-
cratic state with federalistic govern
ment giving freedom and national in
dependence to all the nations repre-
sented therein. Hungary of to-day is
miserable skeleton, horrible mock
cry of Kossuth's dream.
Second, l do not sec any good reason
why Hungary should not expect "any
extensive financial aid, either private
or with government support" 1 think
that the writer of this statement does
not recognize the principle of "dis-
tributive justice" If ugo-Slavia, Ru-
mania, Czecho-Slovakia-even Germany
are aided by American financial pri-
vate or government support, why should
the Hungarian people, "whose wisdom
promises we'll for the nations FUTURE
be deprived of this privilege?
JOHN DIKOVICS.
Glen Ridge, N. j., Dec 81, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31

diose egoism. When there is talkof "a
man on horseback" that Russia may
yet produce no has self-conscious
look. Why not lead a conquering
Red army to the heart of western
Europe, even as Napoleon led the
Grand Army to the heart of Russia?
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31

Last week the London School of
Economics and Political Science made
our flesh creep with two startling pro-
nouncements. Sir William Beveridge,
the director, predicted year Of
scarcity for 1928, and added that if
certain arthmetical calculations were
correct this bad time might equal the
famine Of 1916, the worst and most
general known in European history.
Then Professor Irving Fisher, an
American economist, declared, "on
credible authority" that a German
chemist had discovered how to make
synthetic gold, and suggested that
these wicked (and scientifc) Germans
are going to make the reparations
scheme ridiculous by paying of in a
nominal value.
1t is dangerous to deny the posi-
bility of any achievement of science,
but l do not know of any existing
knowledge which sugge is that 8
chemist can yet transmute the baser
metals into gold. The transmutation
of elements has indeed been accom-
plished, and theory now points to all
the elements being built up OF COM
mon materials. The radioactive ele-
mcnts disintegrate very SLOWLY by
giving off what have been called
Chips of helum. BY this process
uranium degrades. into thorium. tho
rum into radium and radium into
lead. But the disintegration is spon-
taneous, not a result of laboratory
methods, and, so far, depends on the
natural existence Of radioactive sub
stances.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
The Explanation

The Congressman who introduced
bill banning beauty contests is
probably afraid that his official duties
will be interrupted by the necessity
of continually taking part in them.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Unlocking Energy

The energy locking the structure of
these heavy elements is prodigious
and requires prodigious forces to un-
lock it. Possibly process will be
found, or may have been found, by
which the application of radioactive
substances to mercury or lead breaks
these down, leaving gold as the resi-
due. The stock case of transmutation
of an element is that of nitrogen.
Rutherford, by bombarding it with
alpha particles, succeeded in breaking
it up into hydrogen and helium. But
even if it were possible, the purchase
of radium to transmute lead or mer-
curry into gold would not be an eco
nomic process.
1t is to be noted that all the cases
of transmutation, spontaneous or in
duced, known as yet are examples of
analysis, the breaking up of more
complex element into simpler elements.
The triumphs Of synthetic chemistry,
where simpler substances are COM
bined to produce more complex sub
stances, relate to molecules, not atoms.
The forces by which atoms combine
in molecules ara not only almost in
| fnitely smaller than those which cause
the adherence of protons and electrons
! into the atoms of elements, but are
we'll within the range Of experimental
handling.
The contrast between molecular and
sub-atomic energy may be realized by
t recalling famous dictum Of Sir Oliver
Lodge. He calculated that the energy
within the atoms Of the piece of chaii
which he was using to make diagram
on the blackboard amounted to 100000,
Geo foot tons. I do not know if ths
molecular energy in the same piece o.
chalk has ever been calculated, but a
the most it is in the order of inch
ounces. Could the sub-atomic energy
be harnessed it would raise 100, ,00t
tons to height of 5000 feet-possibl.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Hardly Original

General Ludendorff says in his new
book that Germany made many mis-
takes. Germany is reminded of that
every time an indemnity installment
comes due
Copyright by James J, Montague)
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
A Difficult TARGET

From The Charleston Netes and cosr|srj
A new Red party has been organized,
its aim being the overthrow of the
United States government. That was
the aim of all the Red parties we've
had in this country, but they'pe all
been poor marksmen.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpYs

December 29--Up by times, and to the
ONCE, where busy at this and that, and
dld some scrivening too, and at my
task until late, and home to dinner
Mistress Lura Fitch hath sent us a lot
OF pine branches and our cat so de-
Lighted to play among them there was
nought better to do for an hour than
watch him disport himself. Early to
bed and read in f. B. G. Jones's "Quiet
Interiors;" well-wrote, but not, thus
far, highly interesting.
30-Early enough up, but lolled at
my dressing, putting Off going out as
long as could, owing to the hateful
cold weather. SO to the office, where
all day, and so, wishing all as pleasant
new year rs may be, home to dinner
where | found all tho Pembertons.
Ihe employment Of aUhon for svho Is
another abominablc vice, and vet very
common; as "whom he said was lip
whom intended should be sent for'
that is, whom was ill, lie said"-
"whom should be sent for, intended"
1t is long, dispiriting tight. The
preceding is taken from The New York
Mirror for April 4, 1885.
"Some seasons" John B. Foster writes
in The Sun, "thcre is scarcity Of good
first basemen, which is felt in the six
teen cities that make up the major
league circuits" Name them towns
John.
Referring to Joe Stecher's 300-jewel
incrusted belt, The Sun says "The
abominable adornment is valued at
100000" Stet!
You Never Know, Do You?
The would-be Contrib writes; and,
having writ,
Hopes on: but all his Confidence of
Wit
Can't get the Boss to notice half
Line,
Much less to Print single Word of it.
M. M. N.
It is we'll enough for the esteemed
Brooklyn Daily Eagle to advertise set
of the Encyclopedia Britannica; but,
unless the appeal is to what is known
as an omnivorous reader, we don't see
why it is printed under the classifica-
tion "Good Things to Eat"
And when the capital ship ratio gets
down to 600, as we boldly assert to
any non-gambler in earshot it will do,
little Agnes will recite:
| saw no ships go sailing by, go sail
ing by, go sailing by;
l saw no ships go sailing by on Christ
mas day in the morning
Her "complcxion" and Exhibitions"
and the like will be laid before the
jurors prs.-Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The amateur Freudian reads copy.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
A Notable Difference
Ia,,.n.n Thc pcnshinutnr etnrl

7F'foFn TIC Wdshington StarJ
A very slight difference in geological
events prevented Japan from being
peninsula instead of an island This
difference, however, looms up as of the
highest Importance in political and
economic transactions
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to
tie FOR republication OF all news d!si at hes
credited TO 4 or not otherwise credited IN lhis
paper. and also tho local news Of spontaneous
origin ruosished herein.
An rish;s Of republication OF all other matter
81
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
A Fair Exchange
From The Woshinoton 81

(From The Washington starr
President Harding has been so
courteously willing to listen to advice
that he may be relied on to give some,
in turn, that will be of value in a criti-
cal moment
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY NAH. Including
GUARANTY

yse can s0rehass merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE vita absolute safey--for II cissetsfac.
tIen results in any TIE TRIBUNE susrar-
tees to pay ysur money back open REQUEST. No red
tape Ne qubb.lr,. We make soad promptly II
tho advertiser doss rot.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
R|lIlnNTMNNMNIIlN N'I1IaIIIIMN MNlMNlE1IINmInDl
To each who sent thi. frugal bard
A wish ON costly Christina. card
The happiest New Year now wish l.
Saving a &c stamp thereby.
MNNnH|NENIEIIlzrlIHluIEHnzIImuNIaHvnNIE

Early in the season Of 1896 we sat
through play in which tho limo
Wont you sit DOWN." did not occur;
but that was in our careless and unob-
servant days, and we have forgotten
the title of the drama.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Highly Profitable

California has made a remarkable
success of the public ownership and
sale of sunshine.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31

Well, we are going to give Old Pat
kerrigan the 1921 watch for his
Frankie and Johnny" in the manner of
Synge; but Mr.. Newman Levy, with
his "Tosca," and Mr.. Lee Wilson Dodd,
with his 'To the Younger Generation"
never will know how close they came
to coping the chronom.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1921

Owned BY New York Tribune Inc New York
Corporation Published daily. Ordcn Reid. Prsei"
deHt: g. Werner Rogers vice-Prcsident: Heleu
Rogers Reid, Secretary: r. F. Maxnsld. Treasurer.
Address. Tribune Building. lss Nassau Street. New
York Telephone. Beekmap scoo
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Synthetic % Gold
1t Would Mean The Discovery of Mem Source of Energy
Surprising Any That Has Ever Been Available

By the Scientific Correspondent Of London Tizaes)
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31

Her completion" and Exhibitions"
and the like will be laid before the
jurors. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The amateur Freudian reads copy.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
The Tower

AS years go--and as Horace used to
say, how they do gol-1021 was a good
year when we had it.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31

It is we'll enough for the esteemed
Brooklyn Daily Eagle to advertise se.
of the Encyclopedia Britannica; but,
unless the appeal is to what is known
as an omnivorous reader, we don't see
why it is printed under the classihca-
tion "Good Things to Eat"
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-04-18

FL invento del visjo Edison gsnlsis
ION, 81 tuvi6ramos Ia sueEte nosOtroA loa
hombres de este dgia. de avanzar tante
en- la afnaci6n de nuestrm brdIuia psa-
quicai ISL nos fuera dado arribar Al CO.
nOcimiento casi absolute de Ia religien
y de la hlosOfiai isi puditramos llegar
a la certidumbre de cue ssta vida nues-
ira no es sino una evOluei6n. un aspscs
TO- un transito. stapa de Ia inAnita peEs-
grinaci6n que ell alma debe reeorrsrl
lone balsamo scria para Husstro atri
bulado espiritui lous deliciosa seEia
nuestra existenciai Deiiciosa en- IA IL
queza en- Ia pObreza. en- Ia saiud o
en- el dolor.
veriamos liegar. iayi. ei momsnto ds
Ia muerte con Ia curiosidad de an viaiss
y ser,iriamos por esta envoltura cue
nos rOdea el modesto aprecio cue nos
inspira una vieja vsstidura dsmasiado
usada y deterioTada.
ioh, precursor americana; cue Dies
Sc te muestre propieiO y cue sea para e
la gloria de este sagrado descubFimis1l-
tot Que asi como CristO suhi6 pOr inSpf
raci6n al G6lgOta. desds 81 cue vsia >
Dios. I'll subas con si meesnismo cue
inventaste. esa cumprs supssma Dc 4
Ciercia desde Ia cuai. como desds un
acantilado, Sc descubra ei terrible y
fascinante panorama del mas ana.
Luis Anton DEL oLAxET.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-04-18
La leyde au-
tomoviles

FL Departamento del Interior ha intro
iucido varias enmiendas la ley de au
tom6viles, que oportunamente ha So
metido la consideration de la Legisla-
tura para SUI aprobaci6n.
Algunas de las enmiendas tienden a
imprimir mayor severidad en- cuanto a
las penas que fila la misma para los
: 'chauffeurs'' convictos de negligen-
cia en- case de un accidente, en- cual-
quier momento en- que demostrara su in
Ciferencia hacia la seguridad plblica,
% desprecio inexcusable hacia las dispo-
siciones de la misma Ley. Todas las me
didas que Sc adopten en- ese sentido tie
men la unanime aprobaci6n del publ
co, toda vez que de la V0LUNTAD
de la mayor parte de los 'chauffeurs"
depende la vida de uro. No pasa un solo
dfa sin que la cronica de academies en-
la prensa denuncie uno varios casos
de academies automovilistas, en- que
sale maltrecho algun pacifico transeun-
te
Sc va va constituyendo en- un serio pro
blema para la vida ciudadana ell tran
sitar pie al traves de las Gales, por
adonde vuelan los AUTOMOBILES, hacienda
case oniso de las personas que dejado,
ensangrentadas y examines, en- terra.
(En este Sc parecen algunos politicos
ssuue padecemos1
s Sc nos ha hecho tan familiar ell asun
to de academies automovilistas, que va
no nos acostumbramos Ell dia que no sa-
be1nos de la fratura de alguna pierna
sinfantil, o del despanzurramiento de
un vecino.
La ley de AUTOMOBILES, 81 Hogan ser
aprobadas las enmiendas en- Ell sentido
sapuntado, acabara con mas de veinte
sabnsos, y ensenara a los que Sc dedi-
can a guar vehiculos de motor EN- Puer
to Rico, que Sc debe ejercer mas cui
sdado en- ciertas funciones de la vida.
E Por nosotros mismos, antes que por
snosotros, por Ell plblico en- general, que
esta cansado de yer piernas rotas era
nneos deshechos, deseariamos que tales
enmiendas fueran 10 Nsuficientemente Sc
Rverfsimas para concluir con un grave
peligro que amenaza diariamente los
transeuntes
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-04-18
La situacion
del az1car
(InfOrmes de la prensa neOyorquina.J

(Informes de la prensa neoyorquina.)
Ell pesimismo que existe sobre la situa
cion del azlcar es sin duda irrazonable.
Aunque las condolences, generates en- ell
mundo financiero industrial han esta-
do un POGO trastornadas, creemos que no
es motive para sentirnos pesimistas.
Por supuesto, que es impossible profeti-
+, zar, como en- amos anteriores, una base
solida para ell azucar.
No debe entenderse por 10 que arri-
ba expresamos que nosotros esperamos
una subida en- ell precio del azlcar, pero
ST creemos que en- la actualidad, no Sc
esta vendiendo azticar a un precio de-
masiado alto. Nosotros no nos sentimcs
pesimistas sobre Ell future del azdcar.
De acuerdo con los calculos Y esta-
disticas de los sefiores sWillett y Gray !,
la production total del mundo en- los
afios 1919-192o fue de 1922, ,6S4 tonela
das de azucar, para los amos i920-21
Sc estima (presumicndo que Cuba produz
ca 3,500,0O0 toneladas) que alcanzara
un exceso de 100000 de toneladas
sobre la production del ano pasado. To-
mando en- consideration estos datos,
comprenderemos facilmente que ell au-
mento de diez por ciento sobre el con-
sumo del mundo, no afectara absolute
mente NADIA al mercado del azdcar, pues
es sabido que, con exception de Cuba y
Estados Unidos, la production del mum
do ell afo pasado no era tanta.
Es sabido, de acuerdo con las mejo-
res informaciones obtenidas, que sola-
mente habra un pequeno aumento en-
la production de aztcar de remolacha Ell
ropea, 10 cual significa que sera alredor
tde diez por ciento % sean $4,000 to-
neladas, mientras que del otro lado, te
nemos Cuba Puerto Rico, producien
do menos azlcar ell pr6ximo afio. La
production de azicar de remolacha en-
los Estados Unidos declinara con toda
probabilidad
No obstante el pesimismo que hay en-
muchos paises, no perdemos de vista la
probabilidad de que aumente la produc-
cion del azicar del mundo, vendiendose
de un cuarto a un tercio de los precios
del afio anterior.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-04-18
: Sc ARR1ENDA UNA F1NcA''

De $50 cuerdas propias para cafias,
tabaco lecheria; aguas abundanteS
y buenas, diez minutes de Caguas, y
canine para autom6viI. Tiene casa para
vivienda, magnifco punto para estable-
cimiento, dos escuelas publicas dentro
de la fnca. Buenos ranches, bueyada es-
cogida y 1875 cuerdas de cana para 1922.
Para mas infornles dirijanse .
G. MANRIQUE
/. Caguas, P. R.
Advt