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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-03
Back on the Postal Man

For some years the postal service
in this city has been on war or
near-war basis. That is to say, it
was being speeded down instead of
up in the last part of the Burleson
administration. No expansions were
encouraged, and so far as foreign
mail was concerned the disorganiza-
ton of the old transatlantic de-
livery helped ito make communica-
ton with Europe abnormally slow
and irregular.
Mr.. Hays has in mind many i'm
provements in local postal service.
So has the joint postal commission
appointed by Congress. The latter
favors the acquisition of two new
buildings for postal uses and the
making over of the old Park Row
structure. The New York postal
force is badly cramped in it's present
quarters, and many of the branch
stations are obsolete in type. This
is the prize revenue producing CEN
ter for the Postoffice Department.
The old downtown branch postoffice
alone has more business than the
city of st. Louis, which is fifth in
the country in order of productive
ness. More of the local receipts
ought to be put back into local facili-
ties. M. Burleson abolished the
Pneumatic tubes. Mr.. Hays will
probably restore them, since his
engineers say that 100000 year
can be saved through their use.
Mr.. Burleson also suspended the
harbor boat service by which mail
was taken direct from incoming
ships to harbor piers for railroad
transshipment. Mr.. Hays will d.
vert through Asiatic mail and other
mail to the Jersey side of the river,
where it will be handled by the
Pennsylvania, Jersey Central and
West Shore railroads. Thanks to this
diversion, 60 per cent of the incom-
ing ocean mail will not have to be
handled hereafter in the New York
offices.
Mr.. Hays has shown most ac-
tive and welcome interest In postal
reconstruction here and in the well
fare and efficiency of the employees.
New York again begins to have its
proper place on the postal map
something 1t didn't have under Mr..
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Pianos for Hospitals
the Editor of The Tribune.
New York, Aug. i, 1921.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l write to thank you for your
courtesy in publishing my letter re-
questing a piano for the mems psyche
pathic ward at Bellevue Hospital.
On the day the letter appeared in
your paper piano company offered to
lend reproducing grand piano, which
we gratefully received. The piano is
now installed in the psychopathic ward,
and we consider it very valuable adj
dition to the therapeutic wor6 now be-
ing conducted for the psrleHrs.
Twenty-Five other gener, g persons
likewise came forward with as many
pianos, all of which are BE- ng dis
tributed throughout the city hospitals.
MARION r. TA.BER,
Secretary Treasurer New York City
Visiting Committee.
New York, Aug. l, 1921.
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Burleson's captiCus and restrictive

Burleson's captious and restrictive
regime.
The prospect would indeed be
bright if Mr.. Hays and the postal
commission would open their eyes
to unsightliness as we'll as to eff
cheney. BY common agreement the
old postoffice building which it is
proposed to refurbish is the ugliest
structure of New York. Moreover,
it is built on city ground, has dis
figured and almost destroyed City
Hall Park and for many years the
government has violated the strict
terms of its lease. When using his
broom Mr.. Hays might well labor
to sweep the old building away.
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THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEPYs

July 30-Waking early l looked
down into the berth below me, and
saw S. Adams reading, and asked him
the time, and he babe me rise, which I
did, and so from the train at Auburn,
and had a fairish breakfast Of q
melon, and three eggs and some good
bacon, and sweet potatoes, and two
beakers of coffee, and so to his house,
where Mistress Jane waited for us,
and played some tennis with S. Adams,
and SO into the lake, and IN the after
noon Miss Mary Seymour and played
him and Mrs. Heath, but they beat us.
A great crowd of young folk come in
the evening, and 1 took Miss Janet
Van Sickle to the deck Of large boat,
and there talked to her.
31--Lay long, and into the lake, and
then a fine breakfast, s. Adams child
ing me for devouring so much, but l
was helpless before the excellence of
what was set before me. Played some
doubles with him and J. Richardson
and G. Weaver, and whoever played
with G. Weaver lost. Much merry talk
in the evening, by two Mistresses
Noble, but all the company left early,
so I was asleep by II, for which !
thank Heaven.
August Ito Auburn, and to T. Os-
borne's for luncheon very good, too,
in especial BURBERRY passy of some
sort, the best ever lasted. So to the
courts, and Mistress janet and I played
Mrs. Edith Osborne and S. Adams, and
divided six sets equally. So to dinner,
and thena-ter TO the train, ard to sleep.
2--Up early, and to my house, and
played with Mistah, my cat, he APP
pea, Ing glad to see me, and purring.
To the Office, where all day, doing my
stint and reading letters, some of great
interest.
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Welcome Resident Aliens
A Mistake to Press Unwanted Citi-
zenship on Foreigners

zensnlp on orelgners
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "Patrioticus" and "From Mis-
souri," havo brought out some very good
points with reference to the undesira-
bility of pressing resident aliens to be.
come citizens, and on the other hand P
j. O'Connell has stated the case very
we'll for those in favor of making citi-
zens of all corners.
To press unwanted citizenship on
foreigners residing here has always
seemed to me q useless proceeding. It
is like asking a man to join the church
when be is not firmly decided that 1t
is Che correct step to take, and until a
man Is ready Of his own volition and
desire to take either step the country
or the church is che loser, as 1t only
adds to the organization another link
the strength Of which is doubtful and
one which is likely to give way. under
pressure, to the detriment Of all.
"From Missouri" states that he knows
Of family Of recently acquired citi-
zens which openly sympathized with
Germany in the late wsr. 1t is a mat
ter Of record that there were many
people born in this country and citi-
zens by birth who did the same. Is
either the native citizen or the natural
lied desirable citizen In such case :?
On the other hand, there were many
resident aliens here during the war
that were heart and soul with all the
efforts Of this country. Are these not
desirable to have in the country7
American citizenship is boon to
many oppressed people that come here
from Europe, and the door should be
left open for all desirable ones Of this
class to become citizens as soon as they
wish to give their undivided allegiance
to the new country. Whore America
gains, however, by taking in as citizens
undesirable foreigners with divided
allegiance or desirable foreigners who
w liOC WlSH W UeCOiHc CAClZSUS IL more
than the writer can see.
The argument that because a man
earns his living here he should become
a citizen is nonsense. If Americans
don't believe it, let them look at all
the Americans scattered in other coun-
tries. Do these Americans give up
their citizenship and embrace foreign
one just because they make their liv-
ing on foreign soil? They do not, but
on the contrary they are forever tell
ing every one by word and action "I'm
an American"
Let US welcome all the citizens who
want to be with the country heart and
soul, but let us not modest the desira-
BILE resident alien who minds his bust
ness and refrains from joining us Just
because he is too honest to do so until
he can give complete allegiance.
e. j. BROWN.
New York, Aug. /, 1921.
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many forces present united trent,
and when together Tammany cam
not win.

not win,

The news that Caruso, after his
brave struggle, has lost his battle
brings a general sense of loss. The
world is poorer. Especially so is New
York. For eighteen years his pro-
fessional work had been chiefly, al
most exclusively, done In this COM
munity. From his first coming he
was the idol of the opera house
not only of the parterre, but even
more Of the long queue on the side
walk which stretched out, often in
the rain, on Caruso nights.
That wondrous voice is stilled--
that golden voice which blended
in its velvet tones the masculine
strength of a glorious barytone and
the feminine beauty of a lyrical
soprano. Great tenors are born
rather than made-come about
once in a generation. The cen
turys authentic line runs from
Mario and Campanini to De Ras.xke
and eliminated, we are permitted
to believe, in our day.
Memory end description are the
only guardians of the fame of those
who have gone before. But now
mechanical invention gives per-
manent record and Caruso will de-
light our children's children. But
though welcome, this is perhaps not
all gain. 1t is sometimes sweeter
to remember how a rose smellei or
looked than to have fond reminis-
cence disillusioned by true, precise
comparison.
When Caruso first began to un-
fold the story Of his gift some of
the critics, with the normal preju-
dice OF superior persons against
popular Judgment, were not con-
WINGED, however great was his vocal
equipment, that he was or would
ever become a great artist. He was
PRAISED as merely a natural singer.
But as time went on and his ability
| to phrase and present subtle nu-
ances was disclosed such belittle-
ment ceased. 1t was recognized
that Caruso was in a class apart.
Again the Judgment Of the popu-
lace which sees the big thing was
vindicated, as it so often has been
before.
A singularly full and happy life
was that of the great tenor. There
were early fruition and recognition.
When a lad in Naples that city Of
choristers saluted him as a coming
master. The church where he was
heard became crowded. On the
stage he was quickly triumphant.
His talent was self-declaratory, and
Immediately impresarios crowded
him with offers Of engagement.
After all, there is some excellence
that is without great labor. Caruso
was much beloved by his fellow
craftsmen---partly because his work
was so transcendent that his pre-
miership was undeniable, but more,
perhaps, because all the sunniness
and impulsive generosity of his
Neapolitan temperament seemed to
shine through him. He helped others
gladly, and among his compatriots
he delighted on every possible oc-
casion to mint freely his rich treas
ure. To him singing was not a task
but pleasure-Shelley's skylark
did not more spontaneously shape
from it's throat it's store of melody.
The sun shines to-day on a world
impoverished to no small degree by
the passing Of this son Of italy.
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that he would have added a chapter
revealing the fact that Uncle Tom was
not actually colored man but the son
Of couple of Caucasians who had
happened to get little sunburned.
AS we stated at the beginning Of
this review, we do not pretend to know
anything about woman's mind, but
we don't mind having guess at male
psychology. Sight unseen, then, we
predict that e. M. Hull, the creator Of
Ben Hassau and OMAR, the rough and
tumble wooers, IS at least FIVE feet four
inches in height. He lives, We imagine,
in Bloomsbury, II very respectable
bachelor digging. He has never been
to the desert nor ncar it, but If The
Sheik continues to iun through new
editions he plans % take a jaunt to
the East. He think 1t might help his
hay fever.
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The Groaning Boar

Ice cream and lobster once I tried,
And l almost took long, slow ride.
Soup With tomatoes and soup with
noodles-
Those are pair of my favorite
foodles. UNCLE MARCUS.
Corn on the cob, corn on the cob,
Whenever they have it I'm right on
the job. DIX.
Pineapple ice cream and strawberry
pie
Are the two dishes for which would
die.
But corned beef and cabbage and boiled
lake trout
These are the things I can do without.
FLINX.
Spinach with egg, spinach with egg,
Don't ever have that ON the table, l
beg' H. S. 0.
This is the anniversary of the day
when All Sin played it upon Bill Nye
and Francis Bret Harte IN way
despised, but celebrated in Song, by the
latter. And that day. as to-day. quite
eoft was the skies" +. ?. A.
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xpssnn or THE Assoc1Arrp PRESS

The Associated Press Il exclusively entitled to
The use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited In this
pspsf. and also tbs local news Of spontaneous
ofisfn published hersfna
All rights Of republication Of all othsr matter
herein also are reserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-03

What The Tribune particularly
likes about Major Curran is the way
he reacted when the smoke from the
battlsfelds Of the World War began
to send its acrid fumes across the
Atlantic.
He had reached an age when the
public excuses military inactivity
But. when the first bugle call came
from Plattsburg in 1915 he was
of the slender company which lost
no time in responding. Buttoning on
the uniform, he began to prepare
himself. He had enlisted long be-
fore the official summons came.
This response gives the measure Of
the man-rnore pointedly, it would
seem, than other items that loom
longer in his biography. 1t is good
for men to see their duty and to per-
form it when it knocks on their door,
but it is even better to see duty in
the distance and rush to embrace it.
SO when the war came Henry
Currar1 was ready. He had become a
magistrate. The pay was good, the
labor light, the tenure secure. But
overseas he went with the nth Di-
vision--not in any service, but in the
draft army.
What Major Curran was doing in
the summer of 1916 was in striking
contrast to what his prospective
mayoralty rival was doing then. as
he collogued with Hearst and
catered to the hyphen vote. Which
is the man that New York would the
more willingly trust? Which would
you hold up as q model to your boy 3?
Which has the greater stuff of man
hood in him?
Henry Curran is too sound and
too modest to seek to capitalize his
patriotic record to his personal ad-
vantage. But for itself The Tribune,
which has seen how Hylanism,
Hearstisn, Hettrickism and hyphen-
ism always express, whatever the
field of activity, the same foul spirit,
cannot refrain from bearing testi-
rnony. 1t believes that New York
shares with it a liking for real men
---nen who have proved their man
hood on test.
But aside from these deep matters
which relate to the roots Of char
acter, Henry Curran has claims not
only on the heart of New York but
on it's head. He was instrumental in
lifting the Board OF Aldermen from
the nire of disrepute and in making
it an engine of public service. AS
chairman of the Curran committee
which tracked police graft to it's last
places Of hiding, he demonstrated
that an investigation could be fair
as we'll as thorough. AS magistrate
and then as President Of the Bor-
ough Of Manhattan he has been a
tower Of strength in the Board of
Estimate. Few men ever nominated
for Mayor Of New York have been as
matured in their special fitness.
Moreover, he is home ruler of
the real sort rather than of the
spurious sort, and If elected can and
will do more to give New York self
government than a dozen Hylans.
To say such candidate can't beat
Hylanism is to reflect seriously on
tho intelligence of the city.
In Senator Lockwood there is on
The ticket man equally we'll
grounded in character, who will put
the financial affairs of the city into
something like order.
This ticket not only deserves to be
slssssd, but will be. Shipping recently
ssins oa WY cease. Tho ant-Tan-
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blame him; she had brought 1t or her
self; she knew his mood and he did not
know his own strength"
Dlana's realization that she love
the Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan and had
loved him for some time came under
sudden and dramatic circumstances
She was running away from him at the
time and he was riding after her.
Standing up in the stirrups, the Sheik
shot the horse from under her and
Diana was flung far forward and
landed on some soft sand" But even
yet her blindness to the whisperings
of love persisted. She thought she
hated Ahmed, but dawn was about to
break in her starved heart. "He caught
her wrist and flung her out of the
way" yet it was not until he had lifted
her up on the saddle in front of him,
using his favorite hold-a half nelson
and body scissors-that the Furnishing
nature of the familiar grip reused
Diana to realization of her great good
fortune. quite suddenly she knew
knew that she loved him, that she had
loved him for long time, even when
she thought she hated him and when
she had fed from him. She knew now
whv his face had haunted her in the
little oasis at midday-that it was love
calling to her suSconsciouslv." And all
the time poor, foolish Diana had i'm
agined that it was arnica which she
wanted.
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The Safety Valve
fF'rom The Baltimore 4,

fFrom The Bditimors SitHl
No organization of Americans will
ever run amuck while it retains the in.
aiicnable right to pass resolutions about
everything.
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Kernal's Defeat

Kemal's Defeat
'Mustapha Kemal was badly beaten
on the line Of the Constantinople-
Bagdad railroad, from Eskishehr
down to Alum Karahissar. But the
defeat was not as complete as earlier
Greek reports represented it to be.
According to an Associated Press
correspondent at, Eskishehr, the
Turks lost, by revised Greek esti-
mates, 1000 killed and wounded
and 6,go0 prisoners. The Greeks
lost 1880 killed and wounded and
1000 prisoners.
The Greek offensive has neces-
sarily halted, for it had outrun it's
communications. Mustapha's forces
are in positions about forty miles
east Of the railroad, covering the APP
proaches to Angora, the Turkish Ma
tionalist capital. Ismet Pasha,
Kenal's commander in chief, is said
to have been dismissed. He at
tempted the same counter attack on
the Greek right wing which had sue
ceeded in the spring campaign. But
the Greeks were better prepared for
the naneuver and checked it, al
though with some difficulty. The
greatest obstacle to further Greek
advance is the exceedingly rough
country between their present front
and Angora.
No Russian reinforcements have
Joined the Kemalists. There are
vague statements that Budeny is in
the Caucasus and that Soviet help
may eventually arrive. But rela-
tions between Moscow and the Turks
are no longer very cordial. Turkish
Communist delegates to the meeting
of the Third Internationale last
week denounced Mustapha, calling
him another Abdul Hamid. The
Nationalist Turk leaders, in fact, ex-
PEELED a group of Communist propa-
gandists who had come to operate in
Armenia and Anatolia. Angora has
created a Turkish Communist party
of it's own, each leader being
licensed by the government. All
other propagandists are subject to
arrest.
This party has it's special theory
of communism" as may be judged
from circular. issued by it, which
reads: -
Anybody who attempts to say that
private property must be confiscated,
that the land should be taken away
from it's lawful owners, is not Com
munist, but an imperalist; also, any
body who says that property held by
mosques and religious communities
must be confscated is not a Com
munist, but an imperialist; finally,
anybody who dares to speak against
the Caliph or breaches the over
throw of the Sultan and attacks
Islam is not Communist, but an i'm
perialist."
This is gloss on Communist doc
trine which cannot excite much en-
thusiasm in Moscow. Besides, Rus
STA is having too many troubles of
her own to think IF sending armies
to Kemal's rescue. The latter's de-
feat is not unwelcome to the Allies
or the Turkish regime in CONSTANT
nople. If Constantine is unable
to press his victory home and dead
lock ensues in Anatolia, still another
trouble maker may be squelched and
pacification in Asia Minor brought
nearer.
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The Coming T'owey

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LINES
Writtss, after burning c.. r. n. OF N. j,
Communications Ticket for Aucsst, 1885,
Sing me song of summer resorts,
Of cottages by the sea,
OF whitefanneled sports on tennis
courts,
Where breezes come DER the lea.
Sing me song Of the forest green,
Of camp fires under the stars;
OF lake serene in the emerald scene
OF canoes and Havana cigars.
Sing me a song Of tho mountains
height
Of the cool at the close Of day;
And the blue delight of starlit night,
And the musk Of new-mown hay.
Sing me song of such idle bliss,
OF meadows all wet with the dew;
Sing me your song on. day like this,
And I'll knock the block off of you
G.. M. M.
Cadenced as the tide in its ebbing
and It's flowing surge along the sem
fences in If Winter Comes, by A. s.
NJ. Hutchinson, his best book, despite
it's happy ending. since Once Aboard
the Lugger ---. We should like to
hear Mr.. fiutchinson's explanation of
his effective affsctation-of prose in
measured, and usually hendecasyllabic,
verse.
Society News
Mrs. Carolyn Wells Houghten
Is up at Lakeville, not very near
Groton. G. w.
Mrs. Frank O'Malley, the reformed
vamp,
Is summering up at Spencer Camp.
G. ON.
MT and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James
Arc in Newport looking at the tennis
games.
Filled to capacity, 10 holds between
100000 and 90,000,oo0 pounds of
food products. AS an average eater,
you could live on this for twenty mil
lion years.-The American Magazine.
The first million years, thinks I. s.
c., would be the hardest.
Added Starters
AL: CLONE Run--by Babe out of
Park"
S. H. A.: "A. W. o. LILY Doughboy
cut of Luck"
Tab: "Lullaby-by Baby Bunting out
Of Mother Goose"
A. C.-"N orthcliffe- Curzon out
Of Embassy.
Barney: Worn Tire--by Wheel out
of Alignment"
D. C. B.: "Books-by Haywood Broun
out Of Tribune"
Also there might be Double Fault,
by Server out of Court.
That sixty-one contribs may not be-
lieve there is conspiracy against
them to keep their stuff from print, we
quote this from The Coming Tower of
December 7, 1918: "'Out " Of the
trenches by Christmas is good
enough slogan, but to our horsey mind
it sounds like a nadirreeo