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New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

due to the fact that these people
have learned to appreciate the value
of self-government and to realize
that there is a mean between radi-
calism such as swept France in 1893
and the despotism of monarchy CT
empire. This mean they have found
and will preserve. Rcpublicanism is
firmly intrenched in France. She
sought to have a republic by proc
lamation and constitutional short
cuts, but human nature would not
allow this and demanded century
as elbow room for real progress.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

than some of that Of the oldtimers-
Edwin Arlington Robinson is good
poet. So is Nicholas Vachel Lind
say. Miss Amy Lowell, in her
simpler moments, is interesting
But a century hence will statisticians
be comparing these poets, and mary
others who are now more or less n
that tenuous circle known as "the
public eye," with those who come
later? How many Of them will De
known as Keats is now known?
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
A French Anniversary

1t is difficult for Americans Of the
generation of the A. E. F. to appreci-
ate that the French "Third Republic"
completed it's first half century in
the world only yesterday. More
difficult still is it to realize that often
during this period there was seri-
Gus talk of a monarchical restora-
ton. SO firmly fixed is France in
the ways of the republic to-day. so
unconscious in its sense of democ-
racy, that it is almost impossible to
realize that the claims of the Or
leans, Bourbon or Bonaparte pre-
tenders were long widely supported.
Americans know, of course, that
in operation the French Republic
differs from ours. Frequent changes
of Cabinet, bitter personal quarrels,
violent partisan strife seem to be
characteristics of republicanism in
France. At first they were treated
4 as indications that France was not
fitted for self-government. But as
the republic survived repeated
shocks these extravagances We're ac-
cepted as part of the order of the
day and a change Of Cabinet was no
longer considered crisis. To-day
they are recognized as merely dis
turbances on the surface, and they
are discounted at home and abroad
The success of the French Repub-
lie is due not alone to the schooling
of the French people in self-govern-
ment, but largely to the inherent
common sense of the French people
Sound at heart, simple and intensely
patriotic, the men of France, The
5 small farmers, the small trades
people, the small capitalists are little
disturbed by the gyrations of the
politicians. They believe in a proper
measure Of equality and fraternity
tempered by liberty, and yet they
recognize the Importance of au-
thority.
They are the backbone of the
FrencE Republic. And the sound
Aess and success Of the republic are
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
Anonymity Out Of Date?
Reader Who Does Not lake Kindly
to Immortals of Obscurity"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Generally I am in perfect ac-
cord with The Tribune's editorials. l
think they say the right things in the
right way, and if ] happen to hold a
different view I promptly revise il, OF
drop it and adopt that e& The Tribune.
But cannot do this in connection with
the article "IAmortals of Obscurity'
in your issue of August 90.
Anonymity on the part Of the
authors of THE Glass of Fashion"
The Mirrors of Downing Street" and
"The Mirrors of Washington" does not
seem to me to be q virtue. My I'M
preston on reading "The Mirrors OF
Downing Street" and "The Mirrors of
Washington" I haven't read This
Glass of Fashion" yeti was that the
they naturally suspected would not add
to their popularity, 50 their identity
was withheld. They possessed details
and experiences that a gossip-loving,
uncharitable public would swallow
greedily. I can't think for a minute
that modesty is responsible for this
anonymous authorship. The method
and spirit displayed suggest no
modesty.
Making due allowance for the satire
ever a welcome and wholesome element
in literature which the years and
events they cover may arouse, there is
an acidity and spite running through
their pages bred only in persons
whose moses are out of joint"
Who wrote the books? 1 suppose
those men and women who are on the
inside of literary matters know, but
we of the rank and file do not. And
in our discussions with our friends we
are accusing every British author We
know, from Bernard Shaw to Sir
Philip Gibbs, of being "a Gentleman
With a Duster,' and all Of the Wash
ington newspaper cores spondents have
to shoulder responsibility for THE
Mirrors Of Washington" There is .
woman of my acquaintance that I shall
never like 80 we'll again, because she
insists it is the work of Irwin s. Cobb.
Whatever We may think of Margot
Asquith's Autobiography" and Colonel
Repington's Diary" we must acknowl-
edge these authors had the courage Of
their pens and boldly backed up what
they had written, throwing no suspicion
on the rest of literary England.
Pen names and anonymous au-
thorship, long out of fashion. were
never anything but silly atfectation.
Now we know who and what our
authors are, as we have every right to
: know, even if we do get surfeit CT
$ them at times. The only desirabl..
e 'Immortals of ObscurityH we possess
h are our editorial writers. and hope
h some time their real names will be af-
s fixed to their articles and not remain
t exclusively the property Of the news
t papers until they die and get an
d obituary notice Of column or two
n GRACE f. EMERSON.
e Norwalk, Conn. Aug 80, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
Women 8 Overseas League Aid

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am greatly interested in the
plight of the overseas woman volun-
teer whose letter appeared in your
issue OF August 26. There are,
know, a number of women, now dis
abled, who served in France with the
A. E. F., who have shrugged to secure
adequate compensation against govern
ment red tape, or welfare organization
red tape, with incomplete success.
However, the American Women's
Overseas League is alive to this prob
lem. Through newly formed serv-
ice committee, national in scope, it is
endeavoring to do for disabled service
women what the American Legion has
done for disabled soldiers.
suggest that the writer of the let
ter published under the caption "Nothina
But Decorations" communicate with
Miss Mary Bogart, secretary of the
league, at 150 East Thrty-ffth Street
She will find one group of persons, at
least, who have not forgotten the war
HARRIET HOUGHTON.
Elmdale, Lunenburg, Mass, Aug. 20
1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
Poets

In common with the published III
formation about the advanced age
of SO many Of our business and pro-
fessional men of the present period
comes the news from England that
British poets are now living much
longer than of yore. We have with
us at present, for example, Thomas
Hardy (eighty-two), Austin Dobson
(eighty-one), Robert Bridges (sev-
enty-seven), Edward Gosse (seventy-
two) and Sir William Watson (sixty-
three), as against the same number
of poets at the beginning of tbs last
century: Henry Kirke White Given
ty-one), John Keats (twenty- six
Shelley (thirty), Lord Bryon (thirty-
six) and Thomas Hood (forty-
seven).
Can it be said that our own Amer
lean poets are enjoying the same i'm
munity from the inroads of time
that is thus apparent in England?
And is this, after all, not unlike the
old game which began with the direc-
tion first catch your rabbit?
Edgar Allan Poe is the only poet
duly acknowledged to be such by
foreign critics, unless we admit also
Walt Whitman. Poe lived to be
forty and Whitman lived to be over
seventy.
There are undoubtedly among us
great numbers of so-called poets.
Much of their work is mora nlao GIN,
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
"A Shadow on Justice

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l admired your fine editorial
"a Shadow on Justice" I once heard
E. J. Phelps, Ambassador to England
under President Cleveland, state in a
lecture on law ct Yale that when the
poor man realized he could not get the
same justice in the courts as the rich
man the republic would never survive.
ARTHUR H. BEATTY.
Grace Church Rectory, Cortland, N.
Y, Aug. so, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
To My Dog

You were the finest gentleman
ever knew,
OF excellence accorded but
A vagrant few;
l was your only thought;
To me you gave
Your very all in all,
My willing slave.
To-day beside your lonely
Grave / wept,
And you, unknowing,
All unmindful--siept.
left behind little
Prayer for you.
The very finest gentleman
/ ever knew.
RUTH IRVING CONNER
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
A Different Propos;t;o

From The Philadelphia North d..
The English language is to ~ cam
compulsory in the common scho., ,"aoe
Germany. This is a change yros OF
proposition to make the German - me
guage compulsory in the IAN
schools of the rest Of the W., Inn OH
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

Still, why should we repine when
we've got another scene for our prec-
edent-shattering novel all worked
out?
Bright and late some morning the
villain is going to attempt a gentle
assault upon the hero, COMPRISING him
senseless to the pavement, where he
will lie with his breath coming in long
pants. He will be carried to a far
distant drug store for treatment. And
when the heroine learns that his
wounds are not fatal her face will
ascend. Tho doctors bill, however,
will amount to an untidy sum-
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
axing State Securities

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some of YOUR correspondents
hail with joy, apparently, the proposed
taxation of state and municipal securi-
ties now being agitated in Congress.
Do the advocates Of the measure real
ize that the class chiefly affected would
be women-widows and single-whose
small incomes have been so invested
to afford a safe return and who have
never dreamed government would
arise to sweep aside all guarantees and
promises Of exemption
FAIR PLAY.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

Dear Sir: Reluctant to butt in, but
an 'unmistakable reference to Raisuli
and Morocco bindings was made by
B. l.. T. in "Puck" in the summer Of
1904. AS somebody remarked to Queen
| Victoria at the conclusion of the first
Americas Cup race: "There is no sec
ond,. your majesty" A. II. f
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
A Unanimous Choice

(From The Propidencs Journal)
The interested citizen doesn't care
so much what tongue is designated as
officia. for the disarmament conference
as that it may speak the language Of
peace without hesitating or equivocat-
ro
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
Photographic Declaratives and
ImDeratiyes

(Culled BY Roy Luxenberg from his rec
ord cdbinet)
Where the Lazy Mississippi Flows
Lost My Heart to You.
Suwanee River Moon-Held Fast in a
Baby's Hands.
Love Me-Underneath the Palms
Nargie.
Oh, Promise Mel Love You truly.
My Last Dollar-l'm Gonna Quit
Saturday.
Lead Kindly Light Need Thee
Every Hour.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your article "a Shadow on
Justice" published in Tuesdays Trib-
une, sure did hit the' truth. If Bran.
don's death was the result of mis-
carriage of justice, who will shoulder
the blame? More power to The Trib-
une. W. HERBERT COOK.
New York, Aug. so, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

The prohibition enforcement agent
is about to set new "mopping up
squad" at work here, and we can use
a couple of them right away to pre-
serve the integrity of our collar.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

Alas, alachl We neuer 1o''ite
A Jest about the aoeatier,
Except to find thot ovornight
It's transformed altogether.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

F.F. YIN the case Of Fall VS. Sum-
mer, in which, as you noted, service CT
eviction seems to have been made, in
dications at this writing are that Sum-
mer intends to put up hot fight.
WEINIE.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

sarily step by step, and no one by
loud shouts that this shouldn't be
so can change this law of life.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

~ see in the papers," says Uncle
Abimelech Bogardus, of Preakness, N.
j., "where Tammany is kicAin' about
the new votin' machines. Gosh, you
can't blame 'em when you think how
we'll the old one has worked for thern"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

And ruoe is As' We print joke
To make the public roar.
And don't they though! A dozen foM
Cry "That's been done before"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

And if they don't Ak it pretty soon,
we're going to steal their darned old
sign and wear it ourself.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to 1. otherwise credited in this
paper. ard also the local news Of spontaneous
origin published hsrein.
AL rights OF republication Q. all other mater
herein also
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

You can eurehase merchandise advertised In tn {
TRIBUNE With absolute safety--fcr II dl,satsfao-
ton results In any case The Tribune suaran-
tees TO pay your money back upon request. No rod
tape No ouibbling. We msks GOOD promptly II
tho advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

And who could despair even on a
Gay like this, when Ireland has re-
turned to normalcy?
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
The Coming ower
SPEAKING INDEPENDENTLY


The city's voice is full of pride.
In shricks and roars and jolts and
jars,
1t sings of wealthy folk who ride
About it's streets in motor cars.
1t brags and boasts from sun to sun;
1t cries its wonders rich and gay.
But I would sell them, every one,
For hills that rise to greet the day.
The city's aspect, too, Is proud.
1t rears it's pinnacles on high
To scrape the drifting summer cloud.
Its lights affront the midnight sky.
rs flashing incandescents tell
The merits great of drinks and gum.
But every last one l would sell
For moonlight when the hawkmoths
hum.
For where triumphant buildings leap
To heights unknown by other towers,
By night thousand scrub and sweep
From streets the filth of daylight
hours,
And where the great signs wink and
blaze
To mock the dawning of the morrow
a million people go their ways
From sordid sorrow on to sorrow.
Oh, braggart city by the sea!
Oh, blatant, tawdry, tinsel town.
This hymn of hate sing of thee,
Oh, siren in drabbled gown!
would omancipated be,
From vain and gaudy lures I'd go
To climes where skies are clear and
free
For-well, at most two weeks or So
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

"Swears O'Malley Got $1,000 Cash
Under Pressure, says World" head
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

The morgue has been offered by the
Deck Department to the New York
Yacht Club, and we don't blame the
Nail Truck Drivers Association if it
raises cry of favoritism
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

F. F. ": Even if one doesn't work
for living, why bemoan the "Out Of
Order" escalator at Park Place sub
way station when the stairway can
give you an additional thrill by max
ing you lose all sense of direction.
also your wind and temper?
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01

The pressure, obviously, driving n
deeper into the Meyer
New-York tribune., 1921-09-01
GUAR TY

Entered At the Postonice at New York Second
Class Mail Matter.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-02
EGYPT SHOWING
 SIGNS OF QUICK
 TRADE REVIVAL

Cairo, Egypt, Nov 2-Signs of a commercial revival are seen by busi- ness and shipping communities in Egypt. After months of depression, they say, there has come 8 healthier tone of confidence and optimism which is most encouraging. The feeling prevails among the business interests that the late fall will see the country back to normal and healthy trade.
 The Egyptian public is wearying future political status and Is showing far more interet in the price of cot ton which is the barometer of com mercial activity.
 Throughout the spring and sum mer, the large hold-over from last years cotton crop acted as a damper on the business community which feared a further restriction of the Egypuan's purchasing capacity. Eff forts have been made to relieve that situation. Prominent groups of Egyptian cotton growers have visited England and told the cotton spinners of Manchester that Egypt will not continue to grow, cotton for unremun- erattve prices.
 The Egyptian government has of hcial1y restricted the area of cotton cultivation, and as a result, this ses.- sons crop is considerably less than the average. In addition, the crop has suffered this year more severely than usual from the boil weevI
 Owing in part to these reasons and ton. the Egyptian crop nearly dou- oled in price. Consequently, optim- ism prevails among the growers and shippers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-02

London. Nov. 2.-Without disarma- ment> the League of Nations fails, and ton conference can be made possible only if the combined religious senti- ment and Powers of the world are united in later-day crusade to that end
 Such is the gfst of the belief of Lord sParmoor, who struck out boldly for international adjustments and a sane policy of reconstruction inn med1ately- after the armiStice. An early supporter of the League of Ma tions and the greatest ecclesiastic authority in Britain, Lord Parmoor fathered the first humanitarian move lies and Of the Central Powers were jointly represented after the war the ''F1ght the Famine Council" of which he is president. He is also president of the Worlds Peace Council
 In an interview granted the Inter national News Service. he expressed himself very strongly against any po- littcal jobDery interfering with the work of disarmament.
 Urges Pressure on Conference
 '"rhe religious societies of Great Britain and the United States, what ever may be their creed. color or race" he said, must unite and insist on the Washington conference achieving the ideals for which it was planned.
 '@The Christians should take the lead. bury prejudice and act in ac- cordance with the peaceful teachings of our faith
 ''TIhe League of Nations cannot function as a medium for peace so long as armaments are maintained at their present level and So-called nego- tiations are put forward under a threat of force refer particularly to the disastrous war in Asia Minor and the occupation of German towns on the Rhine.
 "No league or association of na- tionS is able to exercise, under pres ent conditions, any effective super vision in international affairs
 Naturally it must take time to erase the spirit of war from races, es- pecially among those who owe their greatness to military deeds. In my opinion there is only one appeal that rage for armaments, which is provo cative of one thing only, that is war, and that is to appeal to the religious foorces of the two great countries.
 ''I assume it is not necessary to em- phasize the absolute consistency of the Christian teaching of brotherhood opposed to war or violence. On this there can be no difference of be- lief betweeen the religious forces of the world.
 Let the appeal be made to them. ing of their creed, whatever that might be, there can &sbe none other than a happy ending to the Washing ton conference.
 Should the appeal to the religious side fall and the conference fail to stop armaments there can only be one result-war."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-02
LUMBERMAN
 GOES IN FOR OIL: MAKES BIG STRIKE
John H. Kirby, of Houston, Head of New Company
 Which Owns Biggest
 GuSher.''

MeXia, Texas, Nov. 2.-John Henry Kirby, of Houston, who represented Texas at President Harding's unem- oloyment conference, isn't out of ;OD himself. In fact he has so many that one wonders how he swings them all.
 Just now the big job on Kirby's hands is finding a place to put the liquid wealth of what oil men say is the biggest gusher of Texan history. And thereby hangs a tale.
 For some months oil men have been prospecting around this little town. (By the way call 1t Muh-hee-a) the Kirby Petroleum Company. A lot of business men shook their heads. Isn't it a shame that John Kirby, after an honorable career. as million aire lumberman, head of the National Iumbermen's Association and the Southern Tariff Association, should dabble in the oil game and take the
 But those who knew Kirby and the Midas touch that seemed to affect every Hong chance'' he took. or that others thought he took. kept silent.
 Then, on September 21, the Bass No. 1 of the Kirby Company came in. shot skyward over the derrick and showered the country for acres around with high-grade oil. Of course then came the chorus of T told you so's!"
 Just how much oil the Kirby well will produce has not yet been deter mined. It is rated at from 10000 to 30 900 barrels a day by cold, calculat- over the derrick that first day said 1t was 50.000-barrel gusher. Just now it is capped while Kirby rushes the job of getting tankage.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-02
BERLIN MOB HAS SUCCEEDED
 TO THRONE OF KAISER BILL

, stag from a Munich district. The | nominee will make a trip to Munich, where he will make three or four speeches and return. If elected he probably will not see Munich again until the next elections,
 Tho result of this system is that most of the members of the Reich stag, who art professional politicians. become dyed-in-the-wool residents of Berlin, swayed by vagaries of the Der lin mob, and coldly indifferent to the desires of the residents of the district most cases they have never lived in the district, know almost no one there, and have TO interest in it.
 Imagine the Congress of the United States so elected that resident of Michigan is the Congressman from California and a Western ranchman a representative of Boston, This is the system by which the people of Ger many are trying to rule themselves. But the situation in Germany is much more aggravated than It would be in America, for there is probably less south in America than between Ba- varia and Prussia with their relations frequently at the breaking point
 The German Reichstag. although it is supposed to represent the entire country has it's ear to the ground to lin crowds. The politicians who drew up the constitution were fixing sure things for themselves; they can al- ways stand for election in districts where assured of a positive victory. The people are becoming dissatisfied. The slogan has gone forth in Munich: "Los von Berlinn There are many indications that the country will not rest until the Berlin petty politicians have followed the path of Wilhelm II.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-02

Berlin, Nov 2.-The Berlin mob has to no small extent succeeded to the throne of deposed Kaiser Will helm. tunes of the German nation, One thousand noisy dem ontsrators shout ing their demands in the Lustgarten before the old palace, or shrieking for their rights before the Berlin Rath aus. have more actual influence than a million quiet, earnest citizens in the provinces far from the mad chaos of metropolitan life.
 Berlin ward bosses the refusal of the Social Democratic party leaders to accept positions in the Wirth Cab inet. Socialists representing every district in Germany voted at their na- tional convention in Goerlttz to enter the coalition government with the lib- eral Volkspartei,
 The leaders of the Socialist party, however. remembered that city cleo tions are soon due Tn Berlin, The In- dependent Socialists would use the en- ti ance of the old Socialist party into the Wlrth government for propagan- da purposes; and they believed there would be danger of losing votes in the local elections. Whereupon the party leaders announced that for tactical reasons they could not car ry out the wishes of the party conven- tion, and would not enter"the national cabinet.
 System Not Representative
 Germa ny-s parliamentary system is not really representative of the peo- pie as the word representative is known in America. The Weimar constitutional convention adopted the British election system. whereby it isn't necessary for man to be res ident of his election district
 The Socialist party leaders may de- eide that a resident of Berlin will be a candidate for election to the Reich