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New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
Prohibition $ Cost
Estimated Billion Dollar Loss in Taxes
Expense of Enforcement


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: George W. Dithridge in his let
ter to The Tribune of August 7. enti-
tied Prohibition to Stay" which
seems to have been inspired by M
letter to your paper entitled "Proh-
bition's Future" does not appear to
lave grasped the spirit in which
suggested not controversy, but calm
and unprejudiced investigation OF aI'
tempted prohibitions attanments.
Many people believe that the b.
products of prohibition are even worse
than conditions which existed when
there was saloon on every corner.
These same people. however, DO not
want the return of the saloon, but they
do want careful investigation of the
situation in order to see whether it
would not be better to substitute at
this time reasonable regulation for a.
tempted prohibition, which, as We all
"''o e'''.'"'eu "i'''ou' s.''"s '"e PN'
p4e " ia'' o"@"ce 10 'ea'1y ui'0e' S'"''u
wha' was Delhg dohe.
II has been estimated lately that the
annual loss IN taxes to the country
through prohibition amounts 10 about
sl'ooo'ooo'ooo. To this, however must
be added the cost OF all the comp'-
Gated machinery Of enforcement IN
Guiding the work of every state ana
municipal police force IN the country
which IS partially neglecting It's other
duties in consequence Of being obliged
to spend much of its available time IN
the enforcement of prohibition, to the
detriment of the protection Of life and
property.
1t would seem, therefore. as though
the amount really lost to the county
must approximate if not exceed one
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

Parades always bring us close to
tears. We feel like weeping when we
watch people marching for prohibition
or against prohibition or for light
wines and beer. There is q tide when
men begin to march. Among the many
beauties of A. S. M. Hutchinson's new
novel, called If Winter Comes, is the
glorious chapter in which he describes
the departure of crack British reei-
ment, the Pinks, at the beginning Of
the war. To an extraordinary degree
he has caught the sweep of the spec
tacle. There are times in the book
when the cadence Of Hutchinson's prose
beats too evidently upon the ear, but it
lends itself gloriously to the tramp of
the troops across the printed page. He
writes:
Here they come!'
"Frightful words! Sabre caught
them from young woman spoken to
very old woman whose arm she held
few PAGES from where he stood. Fright
full wordsl He caught his breath and.
more dreadfully upon his emotions, as
the head Of the column came in sight.
the band, taking them to the station,
burst into the Pinks' familiar quick
step:
The Camp Town races are Ave miles long.
Doc -da Doo-d
Ihe Camp Town races are five miles long,
Doc ~da Doo-da. Day.
Gwne to run all night Gwine to run
all day.
bet my money on the bob-tail nag
Somebody bet on the bay
HE never in his life had experienced
anything so utterly frightful or i'm
agined that anything could be so Ut
terly frightful. His throat felt burst.
ing. His eyes were filled They were
swinging past him, file by file. Doo-dat
Doo-da! Day! He scarcely could sec
them. They were marching at ease,
their rifles slung. They seemed 20 be
appallingly laden with stupendous
packs and multitudinous equipment.
tin mug and God knows what else be-
sides swung and ratified around their
thighs. The women with them were
running to keep up, and dragging chill
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
New York, Aug. ~, 1921.
Dye Industry and Preparedness


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial this morning on
the dye industry gave some much
needed publicity to the most important
and least appreciated aspect of the
same. The relation between peace
time dyes and wartime explosives and
poison gases is as close as that between
walking sticks and umbrellas. A
fourishing national dye industry
means preparedness to supply the
chemicals so essential to successful
warfare.
Mr.. Bryan pictured us as "springing
to arms overnight" in the late World
War. We did, but with these reserva-
tions: the might" was rather longer
than the well-known Arctic variety,
and our microscopic supply of artillery
and aircraft forced our artillerymen
and aviators to postpone their spring
ing until they arrived in France.
where our ally supplied the "75s" and
planes to complete the picture. Where
will we be should the summons come
again, when the chemical side of war
fare has grown to still greater impor-
ance? A good dye industry will ar
swer that question more adeauatelv
than a poor one.
ARTHUR S. CRANE.
New York, Aug. ~, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

prices of those which we sell to
them. That may temporarily in
crease the balance Of trade in our
favor, or decrease the balance
against us. But seeing that our
European rivals, Great Britain and
Germany, are greatly lowering the
prices of all the goods which they
sell to those countries, it may afford
a suggestive explanation of our in
ability successfully to compete with
them in markets OF which two or
three years ago the war gave us
almost monopoly.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
dren, and stretching hands into the
ranks, and crying-all crying.

dren, and stretching hands into the
ranks, and crying-all crying.
Doo-da, Doo-da
The Camp Town races are Ave miles long
Dood Doc -da Day.
"He thought Damn that internal
music!' He wiped his eyes. This was
impossible to bear. Doo-da Doc -da,
A mcst frightful thing happened. A boy
broke out Of the ranks and came run
ming, all rafting and jingling with
swinging accouterments, to the old
woman beside Sabre, put his arms
around her and cried in a most fright
ful voice, Mother! Mother.' And +
sergeant, also rafting and clanking,
dashed up and bawled with astoundIn,
ferocity, Get back into the bloody
ranksl' And the boy ran on, rafting.
And the old woman collapsed prone
upon the pavement. And the sergeant,
as though his amazing ferocity had been
the buttress Of some other emotions.
bent over the old woman and patted
her, rafting, and said That's all right.
i'i0'iioi' nat > ali flBnl. III look after
him. I'll bring him back. That's Al,
right, mother And ran on, jingling.
Doo-da! Doo-da, Day."
We were inclined to think at first
that 1t was great pity that the war
took from Hutchinson the spright!v
gayety which animated Once Aboard
the Lugger. Now we are not so sure.
The new novel marks no particularly
Illuminating thinking about the war
The story deals throughout with a
rather conventionally minded man. In
SO much as the author comes through
into his hero, he, too, is intellectually
podder But like the marching men
OF the Pinks he keeps coming on. Ono
may read fifty pages of If Winter
comes and go no further, but he will
rot stop if he has read hundred Pv
then he will find himself in a current
OF amazing strength. With the excer-
ton of Tarkingtons Alice Adams we
have not read any book this wear of
such sustained feeling We think that
IL Winter Comes is the best novel IN
English which has come from the war.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
To the Editor of The Tr;buno

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS longtime reader of The
Tribune may ask favor for verv
"orthy young man, Yankee who lives
at Ierryville, twenty miles from Hart
ford? He has been drunlard. lvinc
IN the cutters of his town, but has now
Deen redeemed and has become an
ac'lve Christian worker, aborinr with
US IN the work of the Hartford Pravjne
Band, voluntary association of Law
CHRISTIAN workers, of whom I am one
OF the leaders.
rms man, about thirty years old.
VINO is chopper, carpenter and farm
hand, and very poor cas- might be i'm
aglned from his past life), greatly de-
Sires to obtain a second hand automo-
bile with which to carry people to the
gospel meetings. which are held all
around the state, in halls, in homes
IN the streets, etc. Every day. bv
prayer and Bible reading, in shack
of home, this man is struggling to
hold on to the horns of the altar of
Heaven. He is not yet strong in the
faith and needs lot of encouraging
and nursing in order to become rooted
and grounded in Christ and to resist
the temptation to return to his former
evil ways. thought this letter might
come to the attention of some kindly
disposed and charitable person who has
used car that he or she would be
willing to present to this worthy man.
He wants the cae solely for gospel
uses. GEORGE w. SMITH.
Hartford, Conn, Box 80, Aug. 10,
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
South American Trade Changes

Fluctuations in our South Amer
lean trade emphasize the desira-
sibility, hitherto urged in our col
umns, of paying regard in statistics
to the volume as we'll as the value
of merchandise imported or ex-
ported-a practice which has now
happily been adopted by the De-
partment of Commerce in at least
some of its reports.
Thus the statement that our i'm
ports Of coffee from Brazil in the
fiscal year 1921 were only S102,-
100000, against $191,000, 900 in
1920, would indicate a great de-
crease. But the fact is that the
lower price represents the larger
quantityto wit, 857 100000 pounds
in 1921. against 100000 in
1920. So cocoa imports from Brazil
fell in value from $12,000,000 in
1920 to only $4,000, 900 in 1921, but
at the same time increased in vol
ume from 64,00O,000 to $4,000, 600
pounds.
In some other important items
there have been marked decreases
in quantities as we'll as in values
rotably in hides, wool and rubber
though the decrease in volume has
been less than that in value Thus,
hides from Argentina fell from
fs$GS 100000 to 100000, but in
quantity only from 174, 100000 to
100000 pounds. Wool from the
same country declined from $50
100000 to $4,000, 900, but only
from 125,000,000 to 92,0OO.00O
pounds. Rubber from Brazil fell
in value from $40, 100000 TO S5,-
100000, but only from 54,000.0O0
ITO .26,000,000 pounds. In copper
fror Chile and Peru there was also
n large decrease in value and a less
= enc in quantity
A striking contrast is presented
by some OF the chief items of our
exports 10 those countries. In some
cases there has been an increase
and in some decrease Of quantity.
but generally there has been an in
crease in value. Thus our sales of
dncral oil to Argentina fell from
100, ,00b to 45,0OO,O0O gallons.
;cse ia value from $4,000. 900
1900, ,000.-say from 29.4 to
cessts a gallon. Exports of
70 Argentina rose from 933, 900
sas 2,000, 500 tons, but, more than
hat. from $1,000, 900 to $19,00O,-
oss0 IN value, or say from $3.50 to
$3.50 a ton. Gu the other hand,
exports Of cotton cloth to Argentina
decreased in quantity from 10000
coo TO 33,000,000 yards, but in
value only from $11,000,000 to
$4,000. 900, indicating an increase
in price from 22.5 TO 3O.3 cents a
yard.
Thus, while the South American
countries are lowering the prices
Of the chief commodities which |
Lfley sell to US, we are raising the
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
A MARYLAND Cave

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: / have recently discovered q
cave in my farm near Boonsboro' j"
Washington County. Maryland. lte0"-
tains beautiful stalactite and st"'sf'
mite formations Of every descrip'''"'
If any of your readers are interes's'
il caves I would be glad to have the"
communicate with me.
f. E. HUTzELL
Hagerstown. Md, Aug. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

which is strengthened by the un-
mistakable Mongolian end Indo-
Chinese traits of the Thlinkets and
other tribes of Alaska. If such
were the fact we have in it the one
noteworthy exception to the rule
that migrations are to the West and
& refutation of the famous lines of
Berkeley.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
The Obvious Result

(F'rom The Philadelphia Evening brsisel."'
The imperial wizard OF the Au- n '1~
Khan, who now offers 10 destroy TAG
child of his handiwork before suen aS''
of lawlessness as have been done. !"
Texas in the name Of that organizas''"
shall continue, ought to have known N'
the beginning that secret oFsan'6s'
tion of the kind was bid for just sus'
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
Gotham Gleanings
GlNaHG GII SlSz zi7 Sss szs5

Ray Ives is home from Crba.
Now is the time to subscribe.
Hank Curran is pretty busy
these days.
Looks like we were in for an
other hot spell.
Miss Helen Eggleston of here is
up at the 1000 Islands.
j. D. Rockefeller and bro. passed
through Saratoga Thursday.
Mrs. John Magee had some
friends to luncheon Thursday.
Art McKeogh and wife of Ph;1a-
delphia Wednesdayed in our busv
midst.
Gilbert Miller who has been liv-
ing in England ior many yrs. is in
Gotham for brief sojourn.
DR.. George King and Vincent
Richards are at West Hampton the
guests of Geo. A. Walker, Jr.
Julian Street and wife of Nor
lolk' Cohn., came IN Wednesday to
see Lola Fisher act at the Times So.
Arthur VIM. Brown GOT home
from Europe Tuesday eve. and glad
to be home, were his words to yc ed
as he walked off the ship.
-Gelett Burgess is visiting Fno-
lish Walling in Mass, and Mrs. Es-
tellc Loomis Burgess is at a hotel
where she can see the reservoir in
Central Park from.
Five steps toward peace mentioned
IN Secretary Hughes's invitation are
hardly enough to demand the erection
OF an cscalator.
The Groaning Board
Fommes de terrs frites, pommes de
terre trites!
They tasted so good l said Encore.
tout de suite"
Haricot vert, Haricot blanc,
was all | could say to the little garcon.
Centgrommes du pain, Centgramnes d,x
pain
never could eat without beaucoup dss
V'n. ANNAB ACCAS.
Opposition to the long skirt is
strong, and the autumn and winter
styles include the short and simple
panels.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

If the fusion campaign committee
wants slogan, there is no reason
for US to hang back any longer.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
N.fosprn OF rIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tha Associated Press IS exclusively entitled 70
tho ,lse for ,epuhilcaj.o. of all dispatches
credited TO it not otherwise cTeditcd An this
rtper, ar also the local news OF spontaneous
origin pui ted herein.
Al rsfs cf republication o. ali other matter
herein a. reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
uARAM MTf

ycu purchase nerchancIse advertised In THE
TNtBukE Nth ahso'uts safety-ior il dssatisfac-
4 results In any THE TRIBUNE nuaran-
zf<s to DAY your Horey tark upon request No red
tap5- No cu,hbiing We good promptly II
the advertiser docs not.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

AS we envisage it, the lower middle
classes of Upper silesia are riding
for a fall.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

OF course, it is interesting
about minute, which is as long as
most of us can endure sustained think
ing--to speculate as to what the world
would be like under those conditions;
Dut what interests US even more is an
answer to What Sort of Place Is 1t
Now?
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
Political Poems

Curran and Lockwood,
Curran and Lockwood.
Tammany's licked again
(Whistle and knock wood)
Old Red Mike is jolly old type
And he laughed as he said to me:
"A playground street has a school
house beat,
And hydrant bath is free" j. T. S.
Perhaps it is the perfect harmony
tt rat exists in Los Angeles that makes
tfat city's Times speak of "the party
of Hamilton and jefferson" 1t re-
minds L. Z. F. of the great Davis Cup
team of Mclaughlin and Brookes.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

What sort of place would the
world be-and there, Mr.. II. G. Wells,
is subject fit to your hand-if writers
of every kind should disarm for, say,
ten years? All publications to discon-
t'nue; all writers to throw away PEN
ellis, pens, and typewriters
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
Rhymes of Reasons

Rhymes OF Reasons
Sir: Before you go on YOUR vaca
ton, won't you award the prizes for
the champion near-rhyme of the sea-
son! I'm in favor of a song heard
lately at Keith's, which goes:
Choo choo, call me
Back to Raleigh,
That's my Southern home.
The same song has another couplet
about
The old four poster
With its bolster.
STILL one must give credit to +hs
song in Irene" that for two seasons
double rhymed faint heart" and "la te
start"
Continuing in the field Of verse. have
you noticed in the August Bookman a
poem called Needless Birds.o bv none
ether than Thomas Moult? And sneak
ing of The Bookman, don't YOU think
that Murray Hills Characterization of
Don Marquis, in the July number. as
tnat sllver-haired cherubim'' could be
construed as Personal Remark? To
go further into literary research one
of the contributors to The London
Mercury is the perfect simple declara-
tive, Nina Gust. Do you think r. Scott
Fitzgerald knows of this? RAR
Real estate candor by the Clark
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

Idle Words

Idle Words
Percival knight, who Ia quite meticulous
Knows the meaning of the word pedicu-
lous
And Dot will bet you plate of soup
You don't know the meaning of Hripoop
Connie says she swears you'll shrk it
10 state offhand just what's spi,-ket
And want to know if you like the
AROMA
OF what is to me the W. k. soma.
And here's final flop for you:
DO you know the meaning Of teledu?
p. w.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

A vote for Hylan is vote for Hylan.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

Real estate candor by the Clark
Neatly Company: Reasonable rent
until October; $4,000 year there
after"
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15
MONDAY. AUGUST Is, 1921

Owned by New York Tribune Inc. New y.rk
scessorstIcn. Published ee:ly- Ogden Reid. presl-
'dent; g, verios Rceefs vicc-rrcsidenl: Helen
IsnSess Reid. secresy f. F. MaNaeld. Treasurer:
address. Tribune building l54 Nassau Street. New
Xogk. Telephone Bcekman 5000
New-York tribune., 1921-08-15

Opposition to the long skirt is
strong, and the autumn and winter
styles include the short and simple
panels.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-25

ness of the shaded pastures is con-
ducive to contentment The deep shade
of the forests provides refuge from
flies and other pests, the equal of which
in shade-producing sheds would
necessitate the investment of prohi-
bitive sums of money. And the sue
culent forage of the forests is not
excelled by that produced under any
other conditions.
Contemplate, therefore. a drying up
of the water. the elimination of shade
and the harshening of the forage which
are the inevitable results of devastat-
ing forest fires. Think of 1t only in
connection with the effect on the live
stock industry of Colorado. forgetting
for the moment the hundreds of other
doleful results of the burning of for
ests. and there still is more than good
reason for being careful with fire in the
forests.
Many kinds of wild game animals
and birds which civilization has driven
from untimbered lands to the protec-
ton of the forests will survive the on
slaught Of their natural enemies and of
man only il the unburned
forests continue to exist over
the major portion Of their present
fers no protection to game and in the
process Of burning many hundreds OF
birds and animals are actually cre-
mated in efforts to escape a fast driven
Forest hre FISHING streams arc likely
to dry up in a burned over forested
country, and even tho they continue to
run a lesscned amount of water the
conditions for fish will never be as
favorable until new forest is grown.
and that takes long weary years.
Colorado has been famous as n hunt
ing and fishing state but game has
heen too rapidly decreaxinE in numbers
Improvement In late years in laws and
their enforcement and in public scnti-
ment makes the outlook more favor
able for the continuation Of Colorado's
name as hunting and fishing mecca,
Every Coioradoan should therefore be
careful with fire in the forests and see
to II that visitors from other states
arc equally careful
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-25

yesterdays meeting the new water
commissioner stated that at low water
stage it is impossible for five deputies
and the commissioner to get the water
down to the decreed users 1t was
stated that one man has supervision
over 30 bitches. and another of fully
100.
After three hours conference, dur
ing which the subject matter was
discussed from every angle, the Pueblo
county commissioners decided to make
no decision until report from the
division engineer is received concern
ing the actual status of the affair. 1t
will require a week. it is understood,
for the division engineer to make a
full investigation. When his report is
received, the Pueblo county officials
will decide what they are willing to
allow as their share of the water COM
missioner's expenses IN that district
One thing however, seems to he
pretty we'll understood, and that is
that deputies will not be paid for
their time in the winter when there
is little or no irrigation to be done.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-25
ASK ADDITIONAL
TINE TO PREPARE
SUNDAY CAMPAIGN

A meeting of the representatives OF
the Protestant churches Of the city
was held last night at the city 7. M.
c. \. to discuss the proposition of
Billy Sunday relattYe to the raising of
funds for the necessary expenses for .
tabernacle. and the incidental cx-
penses for the proposed revival ser
vices.
Mr.. Sunday was not agreeable to
the plan arranged OF securing notes
to guarantee the expenses thru the
pan collections. and has notified the
local committee that they should have
$4,000 in cash TO guarantee the an
tricipated $4,000 OF total expenses:
he being willing. Il Ia understood. to
make UP the remaining $4,000 with
collections.
The committee has secured $4,000
in notes, but since learning of Mr..
Sundays requirements. they have
raised SIS 900 in cash. and the result
OF last nights meeting was the sending
OF n telegram To Sunday asking for
time until June .. to meet his require
ments in tho way OF cash for ex-
penses.
II is tho intention to erect n taber-
nacle which VIII seat at least 10000
persons.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-25
FOREST PROTECTION WEEK SALIENT
EVEN TO THE MOST MATER|ALIST|C

Forest protection week. when consid-
cred in the light of need of protection
of Colorado's industries dependent on
her forests. becomes important even
to those materialists who are not en-
thused by the health-giving recreation
opportunities in the mountain forests.
And too. those materialists. If they
thought of the need of protecting for
ests, would probably think of that
need from the standpoint of furnishing
lumber. But If so they would be in
terested to learn that about so per
cent of the cattle and rs per cent of
the sheep raised in Colorado Craze dur
ing half or more of each year on for
ested land. In other states. stock is run
in similar proportion on the forested
areas.
Those who would be inclined to aues-
ton the Importance of forests as graz
ing ranges would ask IL grazing lands
would not be better IL not covered with
timber. Decidedly not. A contentment
of grazing livestock recognized by
stock growers as necessary in the rapid
fattening of cattle and sheep is char
acteristic of animals grazing in the
forests. Water is frequent and the cool
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-25
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RETURN
COhFAB At WAlSENBURG

Pueblo's county commissioners and
attorney returned last evening from
Walsenburg where they held a con-
ference with the Huerfano county
commissioner of irrigation district
number Is.
Object of the conference was if
possible to thresh out the difference
heretofore existing between the COM
missioners of Pueblo county and the
irrigation commissioner referred to.
or rather with his predecessor, over
the expenses of that office, a portion
of which is of necessity for geograph-
ical reasons. borne by Pueblo county.
Last year. and it is said for other
past years, district 16 has had a water
commissioner and as high as eight
deputies; under the new law the depu-
ties receive SIS day, and last year. is
it stated. those eight men charged
for every day in the year-winter and
summer
The Huerfano river water shed
comprises most of district is. and
both counties are interested in it. At
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-25
Realty Transfers

Charles a. Phillips to A. j. and W.
f. Sanford. 100 acres in section rs.
twp. a5. range 81. $500.
Charles a. Phippe to a. j. and W.
r. Sanford; south half of the south
west quarter section IS and southeast
quarter of the southwcs; quarter
tho southwest quarter of the south
east quarter section rs. and north
half of the north half section 35, twp.
IS. range 81. $500.
Arthur II. Stanard. "a county treas
urcr, to NJ. a. Nyc: lots ~ and S3.