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Evening star., 1921-06-05
look he handed It to

,shame-faced look he handed It to
Nora.
YOU'D know more about such
things than /. It's wire that made
a broken, worn-out rose look a whole
/ lot better than it was. l found it
| and the rose in the next room.
recognized it. because, Nora, when l
| came to dinner the other night i
| stopped at sidewalk stand and
bought a rose for my buttonhole.
Silly, wasn't it? But it was a good
| thing. because 1 got stung with one
of those. That's why l know what
the broken stem and the wire meant.
/ learned that Randall didn't wear
flowers, and 1 made sure this after
noon what kind of a rose Treving
would have worn. Therefore, some
body else had been in that room.
| wearing a cheap rose, which ne had
almost certainly got at that cheap
wedding. When 1 heard Randall had
sent for this man i decided to hold
over my subpoenas for the servants
until tomorrow. and run out mere
! myself as soon as the detectives were
called in-maybe get my man when
he wouldn't lie"
"And you guessed Randall didn't
caught him.
! AFTER 1 landed him in jail. his
manner. taken with the rest of 1T,
worried me. If he wasn't guilty. why
What we found in the stone house
answered that, and almost certainly
Put it up to Mrs. Randall. OF course
he guessed she had done II. and that
cleared her in his eyes. It's why he
been SO sentimental about protect
f, ing her memory. He's probably fig
ured he could tell some story on the
stand that would clear her of the
scandal. provided Thompson gath
| cred up these little souvenirs of her
! indiscretion.
! Jim, I'm proud of you" Nora said
But will DR.. Randall thank you for
! interfering?"
| u think so. when he's got over this
first mistaken idea of what he owes
her for protecting his honor and her
/, own even to the point of murder.
He'll soon be clear-headcd enough
to weigh both sides. He'll appre-
ciate then that there isn't much dis
grace about such crime for her.
proof the world could have that
Thompsons opinion is right
, AS they went down the stairs Garth
wondered that his success borrowed
its chief value from its effect on Nora
As large as the satisfaction of clear
! ing an innocent and harassed man,
| doomed the fact that he had, indeed,
provoked her praise.
/ Garth when he went to bear the
news of his discovery to DIR. Randall
! in the Tombs. proved that he had been
good prophet. Randalls first re-
sentiment gave way to a gratitude.
expressed with difficulty. but genuine.
Tit was exceptionally fine of you
/ to let Thompson destroy those
| things.
II would want some one to do as
much for me-" he answered. that is.
| if 1 ever had the nerve TO do what
you did. That was the fine thing
doctor"
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1921-06-05

and with a motive plant which is prac-
tically immune from the risk of break
down. they will offer not only speed and
comfort. but also safety.
Meanwhile, the exploration Of the
upper air is Offering wondrous speed
ways" for aerial liners
Exploring airmen have found that
from North America toward Europe
there is great constant wind stream.
setting regularly from west to east, and.
as some experts now believe. attaining
at high attitudes a velocity five times
that of the fastest express train
X X
THEN there is another mighty cur.
rent of the upper air which, sweepingI
down past the coast of Spain, curves
thence into the Atlantic and rushes at
huge speed and height across the
waste of waters till it reaches the Gulf
of Mexico. The existence of these two
high-alfitude winds must have a pro-
found influence on the navigation of the
upper air. They are the aerial speed
ways of the future
Fast traffic, westbound from Europe.
will climb high, swing down southwest
and make its crossing to America by the
windway which will bring il to a landl
ing, say at Key West; while the craft
working eastward from New York and
bound for London and Paris will rise
in a swift, mighty climb. until they are
in that favoring wind which will bear
them at speed three times greater
than their normal rate Of travel
1t will be taking machine which al
ready moved through the air at one
hundred miles an hour, and so directing
its pilot that he can send it soaring up
into great favoring air current in
motion at the rate of several miles a
minute.
Moving in and with this strearr, its
motion will not be felt and -, aadh.s
its speed to that of the winged ship it.
self, the rate OF travel over the face
OF the earth will be as much as three
hundred miles per hour.
The grandiose air epoch is upon NJ
1t will give ease and joy Of life. IA
varied ways. to one and all. more thaA
imagination now can guess-if!
The men of war are snatching al
the conquest of the air to desolate this
earth. Already We hear that giant
aircraft form the backbone of the
modern navy. British umpires have
given a decision to an air fleet which
! attacked fleet Of capital warships.
After dropping smoke screen the
airplanes descended on the feet. and
when the smoke cleared away. eigh-
, teen airplanes were found riding low
over each battleship. The umpires
decided that the battleships had been
destroyed.
THE next war Will De chemical
war" says DR.. Peppenbarg, the ''Lu-
dendorff Of chemistry" who organized
Germany's peace time industry for
poison gas. II have interested my
seYf in artificial smoke. We have de-
veloped chemical smoke, which will
cling to the water for five hours. but
no one has invented smoke which will
cling to cities, making them invisible
to aerial attacks. War inventions are
successful only when a nation so or
ganizes its chemical and metal inc
dustries during peace time that the
road is open for wartime progress
unimpeded!"
Evening star., 1921-06-05

1A7ITH an apparatus similar to an
w .airplane joystick. Pescara con-
trols the angle at which the wing
Evening star., 1921-06-05
FRENCH GOVERNMENT BUYS PERFECTED
FELICOPTER FROM ARGENTINE INVENTOR
BY STERLING HEILIG.

Z you have heard of the helicop-
" ter Beware of it. Its prom
ise is sinister. though it is
wonderful. The helicopter's
Evening star., 1921-06-05

He crumpled at her feet.
Near the water. spilled from the
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
A Poor Prophet

L
Sir: l am glad you published that
letter of Macaulay's on America. I am
a hearty admirer Of Macaulay, and
have read, and shall continue to read,
with enthusiasm everything he ever
wrote,
Recent events in England and Amer
ica, however, have proved the grand
old historian poor prophet. His Eng
land, when "thc supreme power was
in the hands Of a class, numerous. in
deed, but select" is gone, and will
probably never rise again. The aristoc-
racy which controlled England is as
dead as q door nail, and the possibility
of labor revolution was never SO
strong as it is to-day And this despite
the treme endous "anchor" of the So
called ruling classes that were power
full in Macaulay's day. In the mean
time we have gone through several Of
the eras prophesied by Macaulay, and
none of them has been disastrous for
US.
The fact of the matter is that our
government and our Constitution are
somewhat Of model nowadays. We
are satisfied that our Constitution is
quite an anchor, particularly in days
of stress and strife. Z. E. FUCHS.
New York, April 23, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
The Lusk Bill.

The Lusk bills are vague in Ian
guage and, in principle, so little in
accord with that spirit of free
speculation and liberty Of thought
which should inspire alike our po-
litical system and our public
schools that Governor Miller may
we'll veto them.
The exact meaning of the clause
prohibiting any one from being
q teacher who has advocated
a change in our government
is not certain. The extreme inter
probation put upon it by some of
its opponents is, as the Governor
remarked, absurd. 1t would not
exclude an advocate Of change in
our election primary system. But
the precise point at which it would
stop is by no means clear. Within
the limits Of republican govern
ment there is wide range of pos
sibility.
1t is the proud boast of our con-
stitutional system, and surely it's
strongest bulwark against attack by
force, that it places the Constitu-
tion within the control of the people.
They can amend it peaceably, almost
at will, provided only that enough
votes are ready for q change. The
Federal Constitution was enacted by
the people, as its preamble recites.
1t belongs to them and they should
be taught their control over it,
through the ballot, as part of their
elementary training in citizenship.
Such being the fact, we think it
most inadvisable, on theoretical
grounds and for the practical eff
feet upon the teaching personnel,
to make any such restriction as
that contained in the Lusk bills.
Any one who advocates change by
force or violence plainly falls into
wholly different category. But
the Lusk bills make no such dis
tinction. Their patriotic intention
should not blind us to their poten-
tial danger. Neither should the
evil associations Of some of their
opponents. Among their opponents
also are included the New York
Bar Association and many other
organizations of unquestioned
loyalty. The considered sentiment
of the state is clearly against the
bills, we conceive, and we greatly
hope that they will not become law.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
The Cinderella Complex

The old stuff always wins on the
stage, and once in while it puts
over winner in real life. Witness
Miss Lulu Bett and her perfect
embodiment, Miss Carroll McComas,
1t anything, Miss Lulu was more
archaic than her prototype, Gin
derella. To the loud plaudits of the
realists Miss zona Gale, by the
simple device of plastering her can
vas with plenty of drabness, sue
ceeded in putting over as wild and
absurd fairy extravaganza as one
can find in the fairy books. AS
soon as it got a fairy prince end
ing everybody had to see it. And
now Miss McComas falls into a
fortune by one of those events, at
once romantic and tragic, dearly be-
loved by the elder playwrights and
romancers.
Yet the plain facts of this shift
ing world are that Lulu Belts have
gone out. They doubtless exist here
and there, but they are exceptional
and their lot proves nothing worth
playwright's attention. The daugll-
ter Of the American home is it's
spoiled child, nine times out of ten.
Instead of sitting in the ashes, she
spends her afternoons and evenings
at the movies, or in toploftier cir
cles uses the family Limousine so
continually that her poor mother
has to take to taxicabs. Father
has to give up smoking to pay for
her permanent waves.
Who has come in? Where has
the Cinderella complex, shifting,
alighted? On father, it must mourn
fully be chronicled. In real Ameri-
can life of to-day, untouched by
the stage, it is old Dwight Deacon
who is Cinderella, toiling away long
hours at the shop to buy more
tickets for the family and a 1921
model runabout for his wife's sister,
Lulu, so she needn't spend too much
time studying or anything.
Daughter not only lives on the fat
of the land--she deserves to. For
is she not its chief hope of fortune? -?
Time was when families prayed for
sons to grow up and take over, the
old business and hand down he
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

Poor old law always has a tough
time when it comes into head-on col
lision with the facts, however vulgar
or trivial. The majestic legislators
cf Connecticut decreed thus and so
touching daylight saving. But the
trains started earlier and lunch
started earlier, and what can the
most supreme and exalted Of legisla-
tors say in reply to a train or a
stomach? They had to arrive at the
State House an hour ahead Of their
standard time, and they had to swal-
low their hunger to maintain their
dignity.
How will the issue result in this
contest between the Legislature of a
sovereign state and mere city Of it's
creation? Unfortunately for the
Legislature, more is involved than
even city. There is the State of
Massachusetts and most of the State
Of New York. To suit these major
portions of their territory the rail
roads were obliged to shift their
trains. The railroad clocks remained
unchanged; but the trains were
enough.
If demonstration were needed of
how our whole modern life re-
wolves around our trains-our busi-
ness, our pleasure, our food, our
heat, our everything-daylight saw
ing has yielded the truth. 1t is sos
when the 500 train goes, let the
clock say what it will.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Against a Sales Tax
ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial approval of a
tax on retail sales is surprising and
perplexing. If any form of taxation
is to be justified there must be some
rationale on which it is based
The seller of goods receives no spe-
cial privilege from organized society
for which ie ought specially to pay
since the exchange or sale of goods is
primary activity in society, long
antedating formal government, and is
a necessary basis for the existence of
any status above the most primitive
savagery. Moreover, such tax would
at once be passed along to the ultii-
mate consumer. as an increase in the
cost of living.
So far from being deal, it is one
of the worst kinds of taxation that
which is levied for the support OF
government, should obviously be one
which falls on individuals proportion
ately to their respective shares of So
cial service.
The Ralston-Nolan bill, now before
Congress, is a step in the right direc-
ton, In that it would require the hold
ers of land value to, pay a modest tax
to the Federal government, proper
toned to the rental value which social
service has given to their land.
JAMES F. MORTON, Jr.
New York, ARril &c, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Assuming Guilt in Liquor Cases

Whlle the judgment of a justice
of municipal court is not final, the
decision of Justice Prince concerning
the state prohibition enforcement
law is cheering to thirsty champions
of the Constitution.
Judge Princes objection to a part
OF the law in question is that it
practically assumes guilt until in
nocence is proved, throwing the bur
den of proof upon the accused. This.
he says, is contrary to the spirit of
our laws and to the explicit guar
anty of the Constitution.
More than two-thirds of a century
ago prohibitory act was passed by
the New York Legislature and
vetoed by Governor Seymour on the
ground, among others, that "revers-
ing the order of every other known
proceeding, the accused stands con-
victed until his innocence is proved.
e. Thus, without proof of guilt,
he is condemned unless he can prove
his innocence. This is not
due process of law"
The next year similar bill was
passed and signed, the prohibitionist
Myfon H. Clark being then Gov
ernor, and was declared unconstitu-
tional by the highest court of the
state.
The constitution of this state has
been changed since 1856, but not, SO
far as known, at the expense of the
Bill of Rights, not to speak of Magma
Charta. The fundamental princi-
pies of jurisprudence are supposed
to remain what they were.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Selling Health to Children

There is promise of pertinent
and engaging matter in the Child
Health Division Of next Saturdays
Boys Loyalty Parade. Teaching
health to children is a job that un-
questionably should be done. But
how? Any number of Respondent
parents, fresh from a failure with so
simple matter as tooth brushing,
will echo the query.
One of the efforts of the Child
Health Organization of America
has been to solve this problem, with
what success any one who will
watch Saturdays parade can judge.
This is the first time, we believe,
that health has ever been reduced
to personalities and fun and, thus
materialized, marched down an ave-
nue.. A huge milk bottle, for ex-
ample, inhabited by Health, with a
smiling face, will head the section,
as becomes it's Importance. With a
cat-o'-nine tails made of small milk
bottles he will pursue Tea Pot and
Coffee Pot down the street. Tooth
Brush will stride along, with "Use
Me Daily upon his person. And so
on--with frequent slogans to reiter-
ate the point of the personifcations.
Of course, such a parade is only
a passing show. But the idea of
selling health to children in a vivid
child way instead of by dry ana
tomical study or by ukase from
above has come to stay. 1t should
prevail in our schools and in our
homes.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28


the world when British astronomers
in Brazil testified and exhibited evil
sdence that light does not travel in a
straight line, or something to that
effect. This was accepted as sub
stantiating the Einstein gravita-
tional theory, and men of science all
over Europe, even the irreconcilable
anti-relativists like Sir, Oliver
Lodge, applaudcd the Berlin profes-
sor for having gained another inch
III Sciences million-mile journey to
Truth. To disagree with him because
he is a guesser is empty. Every sci
enlist is highly organized guesser
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

Economic evolution will be failure.
Controller Crissinger says, unless all
the people put their conscience into
their business and their work. Then
1T will be failure. Few are the people
who are able or willing to put their
consciences. (if any) into their busi-
nesses or their work When man is
conscientious about his business or his
work and material reward is not evil
dent, he, unless ho is unusual, asks
himself why he should do more work
than he gets paid for. What keeps a
lot Of people from accomplishment is
the widespread and human fear of be-
ing called a Soft Mark. And vet.
though it may be hard to prove, we are
willing to bet that moro first class
achievement has been attained by the
Soft Marks than by the Dominant
Magnetics.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

Angora has gone dry. Some
Turkish Volstead has done what the
laws of the Prophet failed to ac-
complish, No more will ruby cups
be raised to dusty lips. No moro
will the disciples of Mahomet- drink
deeply in defiance Of the Prophet.
The home Of long-haired cats and
goats and dogs (the cows and rab-
bits, too, have special hair) is
doomed to the same fate as old New
York. In fact, arrests Cor drunk
enness this year are scarcely s per
cent of what they were before the
drys succeeded in Angora.
Is this perhaps reflection on the
Angoran police force?
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
A Bungalow Plan
he Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Did you ever hear Of the fol-
lowing plan? Build five or six small
cottages or bungalows on one plot,
without crowding the houses too close
together. Let them he plain, but good
and artistic.
They would contain not more than
five rooms; there would be no dining
room, but Pullmsn dining alcove off
the kitchen. All inc new devices for
doing your own work would be in
cludc@. No servant. There would be
one ! a.ng plant for all the houses.
Such houses could probably be built
through building and loan associa-
tion. believe they may be built for
$4,000 and perhaps much less.
c. ROBOTHAM.
East Orange, N. j., April 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
One Who Saw Lincoln
,ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: read in one Of your recent IS
sues several communications in which the
writers referred to having seen Abfa-
ham Lincoln when passing through Ne%
York on his way to Washington III 1901.
To these accounts l wish 10 add my
testimony. ! attended Lincolns recep-
ton in the Governors Room at the Ci'y
Hall on the occasion referred to. aiso
saw hlsn lying in his coffin (in those
days there were no caskets, as they are
now called), which was placed st lne
head of the circular stairway--apoDs
twenty-five feet from the spot wherc
passed before him while on his way 70
the capital in 1861. After standing j"
line for a long time, | reached the en-.
trance about midnight and proceeoe'
with the rest up the iron stairway g.
the right. After looking on the iass
Of the illustrious deceased. we descenos'
the stairs to the left.
noticed as / approached Lincoln AZ
the reception in the Governors hoo"
that he had stopped shaking hands De-
cause, as I afterward found out, 'h'
practice was too strenuous for h'm "
continue.
was much surprised at Lincoln's re-
ceding forehead. i am prompted 70 re-
fer to this because, in many OF his pO'-
traits and some of the busts and statues
this popularity seems to be overlooked
1t was very striking.
GEORGE M,KITTRICK.
New York, April IS. 1921. =
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Savings and Loan Progress
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The opportunities for construc-
tive good-citizenship work through
participation in the activities of CO.
operative savings, building and loan
associations are not generally known.
A few of the large industrial con-
Germs, through the social service
divisions, are alive to this hometown
ing and thrift movement. notably the
Edison Company.
The last report of the Edison Saw
ings and Loan Association shows 329
first mortgages on homes (the average
mortgage is less than $4,000, and the
secretary states that at least rs per
cent of these >home-getters would still
be living in rented places if the asso-
citation had not pointed the way to the
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Educational Insurance
A Father Who Wou..l Provide for
Sending His Son 10 Colleqe

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: / have a son one year old and
I desire to take out insurance to pro
vide for his college education. Being
a professional man on a small income,
l wish to secure this insurance at the
cheapest possible rate. None of the
American insurance companies write
the kind of insurance desired. Thev
all offer expensive forms, which, though
they will accomplish the purpose, cos
much more than is necessary for the
object in view.
Briefly, what is desired n ny case
is special renewable term insurance
as follows:
/. In case the boy dies before he
reaches the college age-say, eighteen
no insurance is to be paid 10 any
body
2. No insurance iss to be paid to the
SON until he reaches the age Of eight
cen.
8. The insurance is 10 be paid as
follows: $3.50 year for four years
in suitable installments while my son
is in college.
4. In case the boy for any reason
fails to finish his college course any
i unpaid balance twenty-five years from
the date Of the policy shall be paid TO
designated third party.
1t is evident that in case the hoy
dies before he reaches the age Of eight
cen no money will be required for
his education. If the Insurance actua-
ries will calculate from their mortality
tables the chances of boy one year
old living to the age OF eighteen, they
can make much lower rate than the
cheapest insurance available. A con
servative estimate is that such rate
would be less than one-fifth the ordi-
nary life rate.
One insurance company replied to
my inquiry that no agent would sell
such insurance, as the rate Is too smaii
and he would not get enough commits
sion. The general reply was that there
is no demand for such d policy.
am writing The Tribune on this
subject in the hope that some of your
readers will reply that shere is de-
mand for such a policy. D. ". 6.
New York, April &c, 1921.