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New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
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AS time passes the truth is thrown
into relief that for its healing the
world needs both a right spirit and
right method.
In his address to the unknown
warrior of France entombed be-
meath the Arc de Trio1nphe General
Pershing, soldier, eloquently ap-
pealed for that confidence and trust
without which aspiration for peace
will be vain. About the same hour
Georges Clemenceau, civilian,
sketched in broad outlines to his
Vendean neighbors the plan which
must in some form be adopted if
there is to be much progress toward
disarmament. The two speeches are
complementary. Read together they
leave little more to be said.
"You gave your life for peace"
said General Pershing in his
apostrophe, "but your gift will be
barren unless the generous spirit of
unselfish cooperation arises to take
the place Of hatred Not on the
edges Of craters Of national ami
mostly may we expect the flowers Of
peace to blossom. Distrust is the
real forger Of Big Berthas-the
real developer of diabolic warfare.
But how is distrust to be sub
dued? Georges Clemenccau points
the way, and it seems the only way
First is to make firm the union Of
the democratic nations whose brave
sons won the war, and second, for
this union to take az It's watch
word the following: "Neither TO
dominate nor TO be dominated !;
peace Of equity for all the world. j"
But no nation or group Of ma
t!ons, it is said, can be trusted to be
true to so awful responsibility. If
this is true, Il the possession Of a
preponderance of power implies its
abuse, then there is no sound hope
for peace. There will be only truces
precariously maintained by resort
again to the old fashioned balance Of
power principle. Why not openly
face the fact that preponderant
power exists to-day and resides with
and Is possessed By specific ma
t:ons? Why not conhde in one
grand alliance rather than in Il
number Of smaller and inevitably
hostile alliances?
Just before the opening of the
Paris Conference, while President
Wilson was touring Great Britain,
Clemenccau, in behalf Of France,
made public proposal 10 pcrpctu-
ate the union formed in the
trencheg. The profered hand Was
rejected. In his Manchester speech
President Wilson declared he would
1T once come home rather than even
ciecuss an alliance. Then he
joovneyed TO paris, and his labors
were directed To fonentin9 dis
cord among the war partners rather
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
What Miss Robertson Said

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial "Womcn in
Omce,' Of September %, you mad
vertently repeat misquotation of Miss
Alice Robertson to the effect that she
believed no woman capable Of serving
en- the limitation OF armament commits
sion
Miss Robertson's own statement, pub
iLshed in "The Woman Patriot for
September /, is as follow5:
The newspapers announced that a
delegation of women were to urge
the President to appoint a woman
member Of the sarmament commits
sion. On the sixteenth OF August
went to the Executive Office and filed
a letter recommending Mary Chandler
Hale, OF Maine for such appointmen
A reporter stopped me in the lobby
to ask what had seen the President
about, 10 which replied had merely
filed letter. He asked if my letter
was as to a woman OF the commits
sion. l did not wish TO give him a
direct answer, so | answered with a
question. "Do you know of woman
who is qualified ." "Qualifed, What
do you mean BY 'qualifed' % I said,
"She must be American born; edu-
Gated; of an environment which has
given her an insight into diplomacy
and corresponding knowledge of in
tcrnational procedure; knowledge
Of French; social prestige; woman
Of affairs who has had business ex-
pcricnce; to all Of which should bc
added tact, discretion and ability to
listen much and talk littlc.' And
then added, "Show me the woman"
BY an unfortunate mistake | was
misquotcd as saying there was no
sucn woman.
j. s. EICHELBERGER.
Editor, "The Woman Patriot"
Washington, D. c., Oct. /, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
CnSeatinr RIac1 Carc

Dear T. P A: If you had been at
the Fabian Society this summer or at
any OF the places in London where
Americans go to discover things about
their native culture that they are not
permitted to learn at home, you would
have heard me explaining why the de-
tective story is the earliest authentic
American pattern, and Conan Doyle
the true product Of the American cx-
perience - the American experience
which Europe had in the two or three
hundred years between Columbus and
George Washington, l mean.
During all that time the chief popu-
lar reading of Europe was voyages and
discoveries and the following of faint
clews, of being followed and of learn
ing to read again indices of reality
which would have stumped our friend
Sherlock and caused DR.. Watson to fall
on his face with astonishment And
this follow-and follow pattern, the
weaving of which was taught Europe
9new by the original Sherlock, whose
name was Umpas or Pottawatomie. or
something of that kind, is the oldest
story pattern in the world, the pattern
Of all narrative for as many hundred
thousand years as the anthropoogists
say it is.
"And so, Watson,' said the wolf
leader to his friend, Il knew it was a
large buck by the distance between
bounds, and so fresh that the scent
between the prints of his feet still
hung in the air. All at once, close to
the juniper tree, there was a smell of
fear and the jumps were longer. I
suspected that some other pack NAV
have picked up the scent, and sure
enough, Watson, at the yellow rocks
came across the smell OF that lone
wolf, Moriarty! Some day, Watson,
there will be reckoning between that
lone wolf and me. Well, there was
not buzzard IN the air, 50 knew that
the kill had not yet been made"
Follow -and-follow: the oldest pas
ture we ever ran our minds into. But
for the moment Europe had overlaid
the pattern, and it took a couple of
hundred years of American experience
to bring it back.
And then Cooper, and Poe,
Well, there you are! It's an easy
way Of playing Indian again, and for
the Tired Business Man it's not so
darned far from his regular line that
he feels painfully unfamiliar in it, as
he would if he tried to read one of my
novels. MARY AUSTIN.
"This is not Oshkosh, Wis; this is
New York City, said one of DR.. Grants
vestrymen. 1t is, it is; but it hasn't
yet risen .abovc sneering at Oshkosh
just because it has hokumly comic
name.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

an amendment to the original bill per-
mitting municipalities TO make what
limitations they chose and legalizing
those already made, so that there is
now no question as to the constitutions
ahty Of the act,
While the ordinance did not become
effective until February %, 1921, yet
all dwellings, finished since April /,
1920, will receive the benefits provided
for in the law. The fact that dwellings,
completed since April were included
in the assessed valuation for 1921,
which valuations have already been
confrmed and fixed, will not prevent
the relief being given for 1922 and sub
sequent years.
Since the enactment of the exemp-
ton ordinance plans for an average Of
more than 1000 homes a week in the
greater city have been filed.
A feature of these building applica-
tions that have been filed, which IS
very encouraging to me, is the great
number of little one and two family
houses that are being provided under
the impetus OF tax exemption. Plans
for nearly 10000 of these old-fashioned.
so far as New York City is concerned,
little, honest-to goodness homes, have
been filed thus far in 1921, as against
5,442 in 1920. They are literally
sprnging up III the outlying sections
of the city, and what this means to our
people, only the man can tell who has
moved from his cliff -dweller-likc abode
in an apartment house 10 one Of these
real homes where the family comes
downstairs to breakfast and goes up
stairs to bed.
At the same time, under tax exemp-
ton, apartment house building has
taken on a healthy new lease Of life
Plans for 447 of these. TO house 1895
families. have been filed. This is an
increase Of GA per cent over the pre-
ceding year. 1t is perhaps significant
that in practically all building plans
filed this spring the cost home has
averaged under $4,000
believe that the tax exemption
ordinance is accomplishing all its
friends said it would 1t is bringing
homes to thousands who would other
wise be homeless. However. if the law
is to achieve the fullest measure Of
success, help must come from those
able to help. ! am speaking now of the
man or woman who can afford to lend
money on first or second MORTGAGES.
There is no greater public service to
be rendered to-day than cooperating
with the man who is trying to find q
home. 1t is IA responsibility that no
citizen can afford to evade. Tax exemp-
ton makes the investment doubly Sc
cure, and the investor has added re-
turns of inestimable value in the bet
ter citizenship that decent housing
facilities for everybody will insure.
To the builder the tax exemption
ordinance has meant that much if not
all OF the increased cost Of building
over normal conditions is written off.
Careful estimates place the saving AT
30 per cent Of the cost of construction
hnsed on the 1920 tax rate To the
New York family it means more new
homes; and more and yet more new
homes are what we have got to have
before rents come down and the in
sanitary and demoraizing living CON
ditons in this city are remedied.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
be REGULAR Ihino

Nrom Yhc Richmond Times Dispotch)
There is one thing that can be said
about approaching French Cabinet
crises. They always manifest their
symptoms in advance and do not over
whclm tho ones at whom directed with
'surprisc.' as in the case of similar
occurrences in some other countries.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
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New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

of the flavor of the older time. He
leaves behind him a gracious men,
cry of what was best in the New
York Of his youth and earlier man
hood, when the present huge me-
tropolis was still only a moderate
sized city.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

Infallible, to our notion and ear, is
tho transcription of Ring Lardner. If
there is a more conscientious, pains
taking slave to art now writing, we
don't know who it is. Add com
plete characterizer, from his "Some
Like Them Cold" in the Satcvepost: 81
have been reading myself to sleep with
Robert w. Services poems Don't you
love Service or don't you care for
'highbrow' writings %
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
Hard to Forget

Fror 7jie Pyopiicncc JoalrnaD
Germany has formally apologizcd for
sinking Argentine chips during the war,
but she can never erase the phrase.
sink without trace from the worlds
ncmory.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
Tax Exemption Success
Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc
By Henry II. Curran

In The National Municipal REVIEW for October the Fusion
Candidate for Mayor of Mem York describes phat is being
done in this city 10 provide homes for The people under The
lap granting tax exemption for new houses.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
\ Hard School

From The WnShi,.ot Pos'j
When new Congressman comes 70
Washington TIE world IS his 10 reform
When he quits Office he is only thsnk'
full that he has not been reformed.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

Young Mr.. John Van Alstyne
Weayer's acquaintance with the Amer
lean Language is first-hand, and his
Transcription of it is good; but when
writing in The Double Dealer) he
speaks Of James Whitcomb Rileys
"Seein' Things at Night" and VIII Ir-
wins Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum" and
Love Sonnets Of a Stenographer," he
proves that his acquaintance with
American Literature is as nodding as
his habit. "Seein' Things at Night is
Eugene Fields; Wallace Irwin wrote
Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum"; and
S. L. Kiser Love Sonnets of Stenog-
rapher."
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

Speaking of transcription, this ap-
pears (p. 295) in John Dos Passos's
Three Soldiers: "'Talk about inside
dope l got this from man
who's actually in the room when the
Peace Conference meets Andrews
heard Aubrey's voice with d Chicago
burr in the RS behind him in the
stairs AS one who pronounces the
when it should be pronounced, We
defy MI. Dos Passos to show what rs
in that quotation are Chicago Durable.
Our contention is that Chicago mans
articulation of the quoted passage
would be precisely like a Harvard
mans. OF course, the Harvard man
might say "actyoually.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

or matters musical Nj. Dos Passos
displays considerable knowledge, but
his ear is faulty. "Oi was in my bike
making about thoity, for the road was
all a-murk" is his developed negative
of an lrishman's talk. If "Oi" why not
"boikc"? If "thoity' why not "a
moik"?
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
The Coming I ower

e fG@
(But now, suppose you multiply two feet
by two feet by two feet by two feet, what
does that represent From The Book of
Life by Upton Sinclair.l
1t represents reluctant feet
Where Sinclair and Einstein meet.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

liant or Yanh? Giant or Yank?
T, IN picking the American League
team, we have erred, we shall
probably get a letter, "Your ac-
count ID ovcrdrawn,' from the
bank. r. p. A
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
New York, Oct. /, 1921.

In the United States holidays are
fixed by legislation of the states.
Thus there is no national holi-
day
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04
No National Holiday

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: VIII you kindly inform ne eor'
rcctly as to the following? I have al
ways been under the impression that
the Fourth Of July is national holt
day. A friend Of mine tells me IL IS
not. II not, why not?
Ia A-iS
New-York tribune., 1921-10-04

"This is not Oshkosh, Wis; this is
New York City, said one of Dr. Grants
vestrymen. 1t is, it is; but it hasn't
yet risen -abovc sneering at Oshkosh
just because it has hokumly comic
name
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-10
Keep Your Spool Handy

she can draw upon it as she needs it. A
contrivance newly patented by John w. Oil
yer, Of New Yofk City, seems to meet the
requirement admirably. 1t is simple, the
spool revolving on a little rod set between
two upright plates which are erected upon
a clasp that may be sprung over the wrist.
holding the affair securely. The thread
passes from the spool through a tubular
channel just big enough to allow for an
easy pull, while offering friction enough to
prevent the thread from unreeling too fast.
Thus snarling is avoided. The spool, up
held above the wrist in the way described,
does not interfere with the movement Of
tho hand. The device, being made Of alum
mum, weighs almost nothing, and it may
be put on or taken of in an instant. The
device, its inventor claims, will prove q
great convenience.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-10
Where Suns
Are Bunched

TN THE constellation Hercules is an object
! that looks like a hazy star. Not until
very recent years was it supposed to be any
thing else. As revealed to the new high
power telescopes, however, it is a con-
geries of suns. s:
The distance of this clAster If suns is SC
great that a ray of light, travelling 1S6, 900
miles a second, would require 800 centuries
to reach us. In other words, as we may
view it tonight, we behold it as it Twas
$4,000 years ago-a date since which man.
kind has emerged from the cave-dwellins
period, acquired the use of tools and devel-
oped all Of his successive civilizations.
The cluster is not even a part Of our
universe, properly speaking-that is to say,
of what we call the Milky Way. ]. is a
distinct and isolated system. At least
$1,000 of the suns contained in it are in
dividually brighter than our own sun, and
the most brilliant of them exceed in light
giving power 1000 suns like ours,
y The distance of the cluster from the earth
is about 200 900, 900, 0oO, 600, 900 miles. 1t
seems to be egg-shaped and may rotate
about its shorter axis. Observations have
proved that it is moving directly toward us
at a speed of something like 200 miles a
econd.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-10
The Gazing Bowl

TN FORMER days a method of divina-
l tion often practiced by magicians was
to pour a little puddle of ink into the palm
of q PERSONS hand, the bright surface
thereof showing reflections which gave in
formation of things that were going to hap.
..pen, or else of occurrences actually taking
place at a great distance.
An important Improvement on this idea is
a gazing bowl" which has been patented
by. Leo NJ. Anderson, Of New York. 1t
ought to yield valuable results when used in
connection with the ouija board.
The bowl is broad and shallow, preferably
made of copper or brass, and lined with
glass. The metal beneath the glass, how.
lever, has a variegated c%oloring, bestowed
by treatment will an acid.
For use, the vessel is filled with water.
its interior brightness helping to render the
surface of the fluid brilliant witt, varying
reflections.
Seeking visions, the user concentrates his
gaze upon the surface and waits. If he has
= proper faith, they are sure to come.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-10

together in such wise that they may be
folded fat for transportation, yet the struc-
ture when erected is virtually all in one
piece.
The surfaces Of the various sections are
priated in colors to represent roofing, out
side masonry work and windows, wall and
ceiling decoration for THE interior, and even
rugs. The dolls house looks half furnished
before the toy furniture 10 put into Il.
a square apertdre II, the ROOF. provides
for the insertion of a chimney, which, while
contributing domiciIiary yerisimilitude, helps
to sitye rigidity fo,theS building. Hinged to
the end walls; outside, arc pieces repre-
senting gate and fence structures, with
folingc. .E
The heuse hasa peaked roof, which pro.
Z yides ~ It'll, an additional attraction.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-10
Glue Made F rom Blood

A NEW kind of glue, very valuable to
- cabinetrnakers and for various other
purposes, is made of dried blood albumin.
It is a dark crystalline substance, and, with
the addition of simple chemicals, furnishes
the most waterproof glue known. 1t is
used for airplane parts and 'plywood''-
the latter term relating to articles which
are made by gluing pieces of wood together.
Plywood is a great economy, rendering
practicable the utilization of small stun
which used commonly to be thrown away
and thereby saving large-size material.
A new and ingenious method of applying
the glue for this purpose has been developed
BY the Forest Service. Through a trough of
Eiue solution are drawn broad strips of tbs.
sue paper, which, being thus saturated, are
then dried. A layer of this tissue paper is
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-10
Tapestry
Forests

TIME Hawaiian Islands were thrown up
i ages ago from enormous volcanic cn'h'
neys that opened in the Pacific floor. Even
to this day the eruption has not ceased. Inc
mountains of the archipelago, with the
passage of a great length Of time, have been
weirdly worn by torrential rains, so as to
present to the view fantastically carved
canyons and gorges, fanked in many places
by almost vertical cliffs.
Upon the faces Of these cliffs fourishes a
dense growth Of tapestry Forest as it has
been called, composed of many species of
trees strangely dwarfed in order to enable
them to cling, supplemented by a shrubbery
underground and woven into a continuous
mantle. The soil on the cliff faces is neces'
sarily thin, and, to save themselves from
being bloFn off, the trees develop an lntri'
cate system of anchoring and bracing roots,
forming in many a steep place natural lad
ders up which the natives climb.
The tapestry growth is saturated with
water like a sponge, the rainfall in the parts
of the islands where it fourishes being cx-
traordinary. To the eye, with its variations
of gray-green, yellow green. olive green
silver-green and scores of indeinable shades,
it has a rich, mottled, velvety effect, as if OF
a wondrous woven drapery. Now and then
landslides occur, making great rents in the
drapery, which are slow to heal. The repair
work begins with grasses; other humble
plants follow and eventually, when enough
soil is available, trees sprout and Establish
themselves.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-10
Bats to
'Skeeters

THE breeding of bats to kill OF malaria-
/ CARRYING mosquitoes has of late been
seriously advocated.
Not long ago the Carnegie Institution
said; BATS deyour large numbers Of mos
%ouitoes. Flying. at dusk and after dark, and
capturing all night flying insects on the
wing they are important mosquito destroy
ing animals"
The mosquitoes that carry malaria are
night fiers. Hence the idea might seem a
good ono.
It was with this object in view that a
.battery''--in other words, a bat roost-
was built on the experimental farm of the
Department Of Agriculture six miles south
Of San Antonio, Tex. Another was estab-
lishcd at Mitchell Lake, not far from the
same neighborhood, which is an attractive
body of fluid formed by sewage from San
Antonio, its margins offering excellent
breeding places for 'skeets.
These structures are about twenty feet
high, uplifted on posts, with slanttng walls,
a projecting roof slightly elevated to allow