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New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
Is Our Word Good?
Are We Not to Observe Treaties
with Pure and Absolute Faith"2

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir Your editorial "Is Our Word
Good? ?" sounds great principle In
American constitutional law and for
cign relations, upon which the general
apathy is appalling. Jay charged the
Grand jurY (Circuit Court at Richmond,
May %, 1888: "By the law of nations
our conduct relative to other nations
IS to be regulated both in peace and in
war. 1t is a subject that merits atten-
tion ard inquiry, and it is much to be
wished that it may be more generally
studied and understood"
Note that it is the conduct Of .his
nation, not alone the conduct Of it's
foreign relations, that is subject TO
international law. ''By the general
law of nations We certainly ara bound." :"
lThe Lon. Richard Pcsers.) The
power Of Congress to abroeate treaties
does not reach the sanctions of the
law Of nations under the Constitution.
The principle is as controlling to-day
in American Jurisprudence as it was
when the Constitution was framed that
the municipal avs of country can
not Change the law Of nations so as to
bind the subjects Of another nation"
EVery branch Of the nat onal Adminis-
tiati9r., wrote Duqoneeau, each @ithin
It's distinct and is particular jurisdic-
zion, is bound to administer The law
Of nations, which rests upon the com
mon consent OF civilized communities. ~
On Wall. 10, lS7; l75 I. s. 577, 71i.)
No principle of international law,
which in its hroadest sense is part O.:
The law Of tic Uaitoa States, is
moro obligatory, more armly rooted
and established in precedent, TRAN
tho sanctity Of treaty rights,
privileges, inaaunitios and their cor
'ativcs. These rights, founded on
me law u nation or brought Under
especial protection CT the Consti-
tuition IF The United states, by act Of
ne treaty power, az secure and may
not be impaired without just ccmpen-
'''N' -VNht'c@S Icc4SlCNs might be
cited the authority OF Marshall, Story,
Jay and numerous names consouant
with all that is Il and Of spiritual
value in tie pubic life Of Amorica-il
support Of the absolute obligation Of
international law upon all branches of
'vernmont III The protection cf rights
granted BY authority oe treaties and
Jaws of the United States.
IN = policy in our foreign trans
actions has been" wrote Washington
to observe treaties With pure
and absolute faith; to ohcck every
deviation from the line OF impartial
ity."
JOSEPH WHTTL4 srINsoN.
New York, Oct. 70, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

kind that the Senators wish to stop
are bobbing UP in every direction
A Glenmont farmer, after doing his
marketing at Albany, started for home
one night recently. He was driving an
auto truck containing few empty
crates, and his young son was with
him. AT dark spot in the highway
three men popped up in the road, -four
ishing guns and ordered him to stop.
One or more cf them jumped on the
running board, while the farmer and
his son, thoroughly frightened, jumped
and ran. The prohibition agents, who
had neither reason Tor warrant, chased
after them, shooting as they ran. The
farmer was hit and dropped The son
was not hit.
The farmer is protected under the
Fourth Amendment. bat as there is no
penalty the man who shot him will 60
free whether he dies OF is crippled for
life At least. hat appears to be the
law and the agents are appealing that
no penalty shall follow.
There have been cases IN his section
whore guests from New York. women
and children, located in quiet boarding
houses, we're frightened at midnight
by finding prohibition agents search
ing their trunks, valises and baggage
in their private rooms, and they were
threatened with arrest if they made
outcry.
Let the searches and raids be legal.
Let the enforcement heads stop putting
poisoned alcohol on the market, and
let the physician have the right to
minister to tho patient in need of
either tonic or stimuant. Further
than that, let them recognize the right
OF trial by jury and make the penal
ties fit the crime. When all this is
vouchsafed under the Eighteenth
Amendment, then prohibitionists will
have right to talk about law enforce
ment.
just now they are putting premium
on rum running and automobile theft
The agents who seize the machines Of
rum runners generally come into pos
session of machine that has been
stolen. Ten thousand a year are stolen
IN TINS state. f. a. GALLT.
Catsklll, n. Y, Oct. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
Reasster! !!

The third Gay Of registration
showed a falling Of? in keeping with
the slump Of Tuesday. The total
for the three days is 51,s16 less than
the enrolment during the CORE
speeding period Of 1920, a Prcsidcn-
tial year, but it is 158, $50 more than
the first three days Of 1917, when
Hylan vas elected!
Tho women did not have the vote
four years ago, but it is theirs now,
and they purpose TO use It. Still, on
Wednesday night, for the first time
zince registration bcl an, men out
numbered the women This is at
sYibuted to the Kuddcn cold snap.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
Children Sleep. Sun or No Sun

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Having been an educator Of
young children for over twenty years,
feel qualified to dispute the esser-
ton OF Anne ClaAin Keyes shat through
the artifcially prolonged day the child
gets less sleep than it requires for its
normal development and that il this
respect it would be benefited by re-
turn to standard time.
1t may be that some parents put
their small ca.idren to bed an hour
later under daylight saving. bat in
that case the child Will wake up TIE
next morning tha. much later. sun or
no sun. Prudent parents. moreover
will let their children rest in the early
afternoon. Almost without exception
they fall asleep.
Noise TO which it is accustomed does
not disturb the sleeping eh.ld-as
rule he even sleeps through q violent
thunderstorm.
l have never known child to be
oVertrcd or nerYously TNn GOWN -
it is fed correctly, is occupied ration
ally during the day and IS kept in bed
the required length of time. Since
daylight saving have observed no
change in behavior or health OF the
younger children in my school.
My personal experience with grown
ups is that since tho average person
gets more sunlight for his recreation
time, be this what Il may, he gees
through the heated term with less im
pairment Of nerves and health, man~
Tested by less irritabili.y and moss
patience.
MRS. 4. RENO MARGuLlES.
New York, Oct. IL, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
Humdrum Magazines
Is American Literary Taste Up to
European Standalds2


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There is ore thing about which
I should like to inform your readers
in relation to "Humdrum Magazines, s."
letter published last week in TIL.
Tribune. The writer of that letter Ee-
moaned the fact that he and Others
ike him could not arrive in popular
magazines because these periodical,
listened only to "the feminine demands
Of the great midwest in morals, taste,
lack of intelligence and optimistic end.
ings."
The person who wrote the letter.
which prompts this one, evidently does
not comprehend the sociological status
Of the approximately $4,000, 600 women
readers in America. No editor In
America wholly understands the psy-
chology Of the great group Of readers
our national magazines reach But all
Of US do see that the greater part Of
the 25o00.0o0 just referred TO have
never been trained TO appreciate the
literature in the atmosphere of which
many British, German and French
people, "including the scandinavian"
have grown UP. The fault is prin.
eipally one Of boards Of education,
which are native products of the
regions for which they supply limited
intellectual dict
While our country, excluding a good
part of the population Of large cities,
remains on the plane CT hap7y opti-
mism where it is to-day publishers will
be obliged as merchants to supply the
copy that the 25.000,00o readers want.
However, when our literary taste
evolves synchronously with our socic-
economic development. mo'aing a new
desire comparable with the wants OF
European readers, We shall and many
editors who WI gladly supply the new
market. MARSHALL D. BEUICK.
New York. Oct -, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
The Coming owcr
THREE SOLDIERS

BEING THE FIRST OF SERIES OF
POPULAR SONGS MODELLED IN NOVELS
Three soldiers apent selling dmoy to
France,
Aacoy to France as drofted goofs.
And they hated their o. d. issue pants.
And they hated the fra,vgs that spoke
OF oofs;
And the talk Of the Y. man made them
sore,
And their motto soas "Goaaam The .ror!"
CHORUS
For they had the army, said the army.
they hod the u s. army blues;
They kissed the rooa1e,,, they uent in
swimmin', and thoy drouis q lot o.
Cognue booze.
Bat they didn't iiAs tho officers, tAsy
didn't Ike the chou;
They Sidn't Ike anything anyho.e.
Trey had tho ormp, the crabbin' arnv,
the bcefn' U. S. army Jlssss.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

Resident Prohibition Wc}crs Plain Tale Of Hard eide
SoakeL Towns and Alaaading Enforcement Agents
o the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Sundays issue of The Tribune
contained n letter by Charles E. Man
Mere on "Prohibition So Far" Inas-
much as was one Of the delegates to
the National Prohibition Convention at
Cincinnati that nominated Clinton B.
Fisk, being at the head of the work in
Greene County and always worker
for prohibition, it might be interesting
to take look at this question from the
angle from which I, with other prohibi-
tionists here, view it. The Eighteenth
Amendment is all right in theory but
in tho concrete it looks bit disap-
pointing.
Let's sec what We have got SO far.
shall conine myself to Greene
County, which has been mostly for
many years prohibition. There is a
condition of lawlessness in which
Prat-svlle, Hunter, Lexington, Wind
ham, GreenviNe, Coxsackie and sec
tions Of the county for long years no
license take the lead. Every one Of
these towns is sotted with old cider-a
perfectly legal drunk producer and q
beverage containing to "A per cent
alcohol, notwithstanding the Eight
ccnth Amendment prohibits tho sale
and manufacture of Intoxicating Ii
quor as beverage. There have been
raids in Prattsville, Hunter and Green
Vile, rounding UP Illicit stills and
great quantities Of liquor Drunken
ness is rife in these towns and drink
ing goes on in whole families.
The saloons in the license towns are
still in operation at all hours, and
seven days in the week.
The old topers have not given up
drinking. I know a lot of them and
they all either make it at home or get
moonshine at high prices. Their boys
and girls are now learning to drink at
home. know street after street where
pretty nearly every family has its
wines or brews, made at home. Con-
tempt for the law is everywhere.
can give the names of family after
family where boys OF tender age are
drinking, not light beer, supposed to
be the stepping stone to whisky, but
so-callcd whisky, made from medicated
alcohol, which contains one of three
deadly poisons. have seen these boys,
who never would have been seen in .
saloon and never would have learned
to drink, so intoxicated evenings in
public places in Catshill as TO be
disgrace to themselves. Drinking
places have been multiplied and their
badness intensified because Of the
"little foxes" everywhere in the grow
ing grain, so to speak.
But listen. Twice during the year
have tabulated the crime conditions in
Greene County, and the comparison in
September was over 400 per cent in
crease in arrests and Jail sentences.
the greatest courts ever nearly double
court expense. and hundreds of crimes
unpunished.
There are moro prisoners in Greene
County jail than were reported in the
Tombs, New York, recently.
Now just n word in regard to the
Fourth Amendment. Unreasonable"
searches cannot legally be made at any
time. Where there is due proof a JUS
ticc may issue n warrant. That's plain
English and apparently Congress, so
far ns the Senate is concerned, under
stands It. Eoncrcto examnlca of tho
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
A Word for Psych ho-Analvsis

i
To the Ed.tor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue Of September 23
'N. Y. z.,' OF Savannah, Ga, crticizes
1sycho-analysia and asserts, inter ALA
that at destroys character ana in
dividuality."
first became interested in Frcud's
psyche analytic theories about six
years ago, and was much impressed
by one Of his enjoinments. This was
to the effect that the only way by
which person can hope to under
stand the psycho-analytic principles is
to test them in relation to ones own
self; to apply them in the case Of
ones own personality.
Aftcr havac applied the Treudlan
anaiytic technique to my own self for
q period Of over four years | would
Ike to state that instead of those
methods destroying character and in
dividuality the fleets are directly op-
posite
Psycho-analysis is technioue for
determining the unconscious motivat
ing influences Of human behavior and
for adjusting the nature and trend
Of those influences when they arc not
IN the best interest Of desirable per-
sonality. When, therefore, person
violently reacts to normal stimulus
and INDUCES in exaggerated utterances
such as those which "X. Y. b." has ex-
pressed. surely the attitude Is mo-
tivated by aomo significant uncon-
scious prejudices.
JOSEPH RALPH.
Long Beach, Cnlif., Oct. 7. 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

Likewise "swinton's Analysis" and
Wehster's speller and Montieth's
biographies" were full of all sorts Of
deficiencies. But there was some
thing about them that made them
last. The child's imagination flied
in what WAS lacking and the fbers
of the will we're strengthened by use.
They We're not used because they
we're easy, but because they were
hard, and though dogsedly hated by
the pupils they were of sweet SAVIOR
to those of maturer years.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

perience. II is an evil thing when
10th its letter and its spirit are hout-
cd by the laws agents. All forms Of
lawlessness are bad, but specially
bad, worse than mob cxcesses, is Of
fcial lawlessness.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
Heartbreak
(Ajter The Propsncul)

(Ajter tke PropsncalY
"When your heart is broken"
The wise man said, cts true
That pain is past and peace at last
VIII come to comfort you"
And now my heart if broken,
But oh! the pain throbs through
The shattered parts "a hundred
hearts
Still yearn in me for you!
ISOSCELEs.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

"Ths Giants third baseman," said n
gentleman in Sec. 1e, Row v, Seat Ia
yesterday at o'clock, "has been to bat
only twice" EYES," said his madwag
neighbor, "Frisch every hour"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
MyNfarH OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tho Associated Prres is exclusively eutl0sd 70
'he for republication " all dispatches
crested to II rst otherwise crcsllted In this
prirr. an also ,te locGl news OF spentane Gus
crign published herein.
a. rlsAts q republication Of al other mater
te!rin also reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

Mr.. Ftbcredgc's Information

u EUNI tIc WHslINgTOn Star
MT. Ethercdge declared that Mrs Eliza
beth Tyler OF Atlanta had no relation with
tho imperial body, and, according to his
Information, was with tho propag atinr de-
partmcnt
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

The President told the Press Con-
gress Of the World, assembled at Homo
lulu, that tho timo for newspaper
propaganda WAS past. We arc with
him: and hereby join In the propa-
ganda against propaganda.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

fFron The Phfsbroh Gosetie-Timcs)
Soldiers arc everywhere in the Bal
lans rendy fer action. That section is
normal, IL not stable.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL 2EpYs

October 12-Up very betimcs, and by
subway to my Office, where st work all
morning and so TO meet f. Case and
he drove me to the baseball game, and
waccrcd $5 with MIN and $40 with
Mr.. Lvano and SIC with d man whose
address | nave not, and | chose the
Yankees, but Mr.. Ward made q gross
error. ard the Giants won. TO the
city again, and met my vile and with
2. Hammond and Florence, and s.
Adams and Jane to dinner, and good
one, too, my wife having ordered IT,
SO home, and ordered some flowers
against nv wfe's birthday the NOR
vov morn, and fashioned some verses,
and played tune or two on the con-
,ertna ard sported with the cat, and
began reading ". L. Georges "Ursula
Trent" but stopped to write in my diary
concerning the delight | had last night
IN George Fawcett's acting in "The
Wren, which play I found but indif-
fcrcnt amusement when he was off the
stage.
g Early up, and 20 the Office to
fin sh my stint in time to sec tfc base
ball game. which 1 did, with c. Steele;
and so home to dinner.
AT the request of Mr. Etaoin Cmfwyp
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

What they are going to take off the
1922 schedule is thu nuisance tax,
though our brief experience as resi-
dent member of the human RAGS leads
us to believe that non nuisance tax
is q good deal like a popular price.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
A Vicious Circle

(From The Philadelphia North Amor.can,
The latest example NJ vicious circle
is rum ring
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
To My Flapper Granddaughter

Darling, am getting gay;
Golden hair has turned to gray;
But instead of growing old.
I'm efficient, strong, and bold
And, my darling, you must see
What this life has done for me;
no longer knit and pray,
prefer to jazz and play.
GRAMMA RUSH MOORE.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
Thosc who paid to sen the 6rst aevnn

Those who paid to sec the first seven
games Of the W. s. totaled 178,357;
ard from where wo sat it seemed that
1886 Of them were seeing their first
gano OF baseball
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
Oar Own Travelogues

L. P. a.: Coming down on IL train
from the White Mountains tonight a
chap told me he knew man in Boston
who had whole barrel of 1894 rye III
his cellar. We called This persons
house by telephone as soon as we
reached North station. He had sailed
for Naples last Saturday,
1t being holiday, a band is playing
on the common. 1t is bitter cold and
apparently the cornetist has frozen
fingers. He flats terribly on the high
notes of Hail, Columbia!" Mem
Must put weather strip on the bottom
Of my trouser lces.)
It's 9 o'clock. Not q newsstand IA
open at Young's, Parhcr's, or the
Tourajne. A boy on the gusty corner
is attempting to sell pedestrians 4
copy of to-morrow's Advertiser. They
do some things early in Boston.
In Rochester, New Hampshire, to-day
saw q sign in tha window which it
said: Shotgun for Rent.
Wish I had it. Would blow my
foolish head off for stopping over in
Boston. TAB.
Boston. Oct. -.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

"Tho slow ball" wrote Mr.. Ring
Lardner, "was keeping Yom Kippur;
it didn't work" Well, "Rng," thai
shows how little you know about 1t; n
ball that keeps Yom Kirpur should
ought to b~ ., fast ball.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

Not 50 saucily rosuish in "The
Wren" is Miss Helen Hayes as she
was in "Bab" and "Ciarcncs"; she is
suffering, our diagnosis is, from fallen
archneSs.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

Ysu can purchase HnSechand.se advertised Ia 1Hs
TRIBUNE vita ABSOLUTE safcty-for v dssatsfae-
tsn r-sults n any cass THE TRIBUNE Buarsn-
tes to cay your money lack u5or request. No red
tspe No ouIbbHu. No make GOOD premptty II
the advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14

AT the request of Mr.. Etaoin Cmfwyp
the announcement hereby is made that
the ball Of the Linotype Operators
Society will take place on November 5
at Snrtllu Hall
New-York tribune., 1921-10-14
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-25
By J. J. MONTAGUE

We can prove by 30.000,000 or more There is no excuse for this condition. Lessons are too hard because teach CTS make them too hard. They make them hard because if they were easy fewer teachers would be needed. It is all abrutal conspiracy against the child. We are glad to note that a movement is on foot to end it.
 This movement consists of making lessons easy by rhyming them. Everybody but free verse writers knows that learning rhymes requires little intellectual energy. No child who ever read the tragedy of Jack and Jill can forget it. That is be- cause the author of the tragedy put it in rhyme.
 The same thing Is now being done with lessons. A beginning has been made in science, a subject that the average adolescent mind little notes nor long remembers as taught at present.
 Rhymed scientific lessons however are difficult to dodge. For example, take one on the microbe: The microbe is vicious germ which
 wriggles much like a worm; If he is spread upon your bread, And reaches your interior, You'll get the humps or maybe flu
 and have to spend week or
 two
 Inhaling pills to cure your chills.
 And nothing could De drearier.
  Be very sure before you've chewed or
 masticated any food
 No germs have hid themselves amid The food. by methods stealthy, If your digestive tract is free from
 all bacilli it will be
 Tn better shape and you'll escape
 Diseases, and keep healthy. Mathematics is a little harder to branches. Yet even trigonometry can be made easier for the child, of 10 or s12 by formulas that will remain in its mind longer than over night. AS for instance:
 If problems seem too intricate, And you are puzzled with 'em, Write down upon a nice clean slate A lovely logarithm. By adding it. dividing it,
 And twisting 1t about The while the pleasant hours fit, You'll work the problem out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-25
Education Made Easy

Geography of course, Is a cinch. It has often been rhymed, but no sys- tematc method of teaching 1t in that way has, so far as we know been de- veloped. We would suggest the lim- erick~,fo as most readily remem- bered.
 If you were a travelling man, And travelled due west from Japan You would soon see the tracks Of the great herds of yaks That browse around Afghanistan.
 History. of course, has been writ ten by almost every poet who ever existed especially Browning and Macaulay. Longfellow wrote the his- tory of the American Indian in the United States and followed the line of the least resistance, so that every child. if he chooses can write his his tory lessons that way. He needs only to follow the measure: When the Pilgrims came to Plym-
 outh,
 When to Plymouth came the Pil-
 grims-
 However there is no rhyme here to fix the fact in the mind. Rhyme helps, but not enough. A better method would be:
 When first the Pilgrim fathers saw
 Our coast in 1920. There wasn't any Volstead law, N And liquor was plenty If prohibition they had found,
 On this side of the foam It's likely, they'd have turned around
 And hurried right back home.
 We have not patented or copy righted this system. Anyone is free to use it. without taking the trouble of giving us credit.
 It is fitted for kindergartens, grammar schools, colleges and uni versailles.
 Once started it will sweep the country, and education will become so easy that ignorance will be swept away.
 Alread wye can hear In our minds ear the chant of millions of little children reciting their applied psy- chology or materia medica or differ ential calculus together, while the harmony reverberates through their little brains and leaves lndelible ech- oes, If you know what we mean.
 We are glad in humble way to have helped to give 1t momentum. If you try it, and it works, please write us. We shall appreciate appre- citation.