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New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
College Women and Marriage

The college bred woman Of to-day
does not shirk marriage and mother
hood, says DR.. Thelberg, of Vassar.
"She marries as naturally and in
just as large numbers as other girls
in her class and station. She has
as many children as her non
college friends" This is contrary
to the popular belief, but DR.. Thel
berg, in her capacity Of resident
physician and professor of physiol-
ogy and hygiene, has had ample op-
portunity during the last thirty-five
years to study this much-mooted
question.
She admits that the first college
women generally did not marry, but
points out that they were much
older than the freshmen of TODAY
when they began their stadies and
had given up marriage as a future
prospect. So they went to college
to prepare for a career. They are
still included in the statistics Of to-
day. with the result that the per-
eentage of married women graduates
IS lower than it would be were
only statistics Of the last decade
considered.
The fact that the college women
OF an earlier day were not mar
rylng women had really nothing
to do with the college In most
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

cases they would not have been
marrying women anyway. In
stead OF repining and settling down
into hopeless old maids, as they were
expected to do, they reached out for
something definite and worth while
with which to occupy themselves.
Tho colleges represented the oppor-
tunity for acknowledgment, grudg-
ingly offered at first, to be sure, but
the bluestocking would not be
daunted.
Young women go to college now
as young men do, not renouncing
marriage, but putting it Off to its
proper time. SO far from casting
marriage out of their reckoning,
Vassar women prepare for it in
their study Of the problems Of mar
riage. maternity and the care Of
children.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.

commerce which had long since turned
toward expectation, established upon
very rich sub-soil, having at their
disposal skilled labor, an intact pro-
duction and competitors, all of whom
were weakened by the war. It Is diff
ficult to conceive a more splendid oc-
casion of proving the benefits of an
exchange depreciation. Germany ought
to have flooded the world with her
products, beaten al former records.
and promptly acquired a considerable
credit balance.
German exports in 1920 did not
amount to one-third of the TONNAGE of
1913, nor, expressed in gold money.
half Of its value before the war. The
known results of 1921 are even more
unfavorable; and far from striking a
balance to its advantage. the compari-
son of purchases and sales shows a
deficit that becomes aggravated from
month to month: 92800O,O0O paper
marks in May, 941,o0o,000 in June, L.
S68,o0o,ooo in July, 2,735,oOo,ooo in
August
These, it will be said, are statistics
made in Berlin. Are they invalidated
by the information furnished from the
custom houses of the Allied countries ?
These questions are followed with in
tense interest. In much agitated
meeting held the other day at White
chapel the British Chancellor of the
Exchequer declared that during the
first nine months of 1918 Great Brit
ain received from Germany goods to
the value of f58,0O0O00; in 1920 e2o,-
000,OOO-that is, practically one-third; !;
and in 1921 $4,000, ,0O0--i. e., little
over one-fourth. And these unsatis-
factory results have been obtained in
country that should have been par
ticularly exposed to the dumping of
the exchange" because the leaders Of
British finance, in reducing expenses
increasing the taxes and tightening
credit during many long months, have
more energetically than all others
tended toward return to a gold stand
ard.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Future Footpath Ways
Separate Thoroughfares Foreseen for
Pedestrians and Autos

Pedestrians and Autos
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Several letters have appeared
recently in your columns voicing the
plant of both pedestrian and motorist.
They all seem to have beaten around
but failed to touch the main point in
the argument, which is this: During
the last twenty years we have brought
to perfection many inventions which
have passed into everyday use One
may cite the automobile, wireless teleg-
raphy and the airplane as examples.
Mentally, however, we have failed to
keep pace with such rapid development.
This is demonstrated by the gray
haired young men and women on our
streets and the cases of nervous
breakdown and loss of memory filing
our hospitals. Automobile accidents
arc yet another instance.
One does not hear, as formerly. Of
CHASTITY carnage where q modern bridge
now supplants the old-fashioned crimi-
nally negligent grade crossing. As
long as pedestrians and automobiles
occupy the same street level accidents
will occur Unquestionably the future
will either see certain streets set apart
for each kind Of traffic, or, what is more
likely, an elevated road for pedestri-
ans.
One cannot altogether blame the So
called Jay walkers" either. Pedestrians
antedate all other kinds of traffic by
few thousand years in the worlds
history, and, amazing though it may
seem, there are still people who walk
for pleasure and exercise! So far. no
one has said what shall be done to the
Jay drivers" who daily run past the
signals at crossings unless an officer
is there to enforce them.
The traffic situation in New York
City is sufficiently serious to warrant
a cooperative conference between
acknowledged experts on civic plan
ming and officers of such an institution
as the Automobile Clue of America
and this without delay
VICTORIA WILLIAMSON.
New York. Dec. 18, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Calendars for Prisoners

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The chaplain OF Clinton Prison.
at Dannemora, N. Y, writes nee asking
for q supply of calendars to be distTo-
uted to the men in that prison. ne
says: az do not want to disappoint tae
men this year, as to many of them
calendar is the only remembrance thes
get at this time, and it occurred to ms
that you might possibly be in touen
with some source from which NUMBER
OF calendars might be secured"
There are upward Of thirteen nun
dred men confined in this prison, and !
should very greatly appreciate having
any concerns or persons who wouia
care to comply with this request ssAa
them direct to the chaplain, Clinton
Prison, Dannemora, N. T., and advise
me by letter at Is Dey Street. Ne"
York City.
There also is great need st tnis
prison for books published in Ehe itai'
ian language. A number of the men
confined there are unable 20 read any
Englie'
J. S. KENNEDY, Commissioned
New York, Dec. II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
On a Back Track

The first query raised by the pro-
posal Of the Meyer committee to
scrap the Board of Estimate is, What
is to be left for the Charter Re
vision Commission to do?
Under the provisions of Chapter
S43 of the laws of this year, the
Governor was authorized to appoint
a body of fifteen distinguished &
citizens to draft and submit to the
Legislature new charter. The
Governor has acted. The commits
sion met and organized on Decem-
Der 5. But before it has time to get
to work along comes the Meyer
committee with recommendation
which If adopted would revolution
ize the city's government. Why
rush in with hasty and necessarily
not thoroughly digested conclusion?
But even though the Meyer COM
mittee had not been practically
superseded with respect to charter
revision its proposal is not alluring.
1t would separate the executive and
appropriative powers OF the city
government. 1t would create a
finance board Of nine members, three
elected every year, to have charge Of
the city's finances, to determine tax
levies and make appropriations. In
word, the scheme is to go back to
the old balance and check system,
which our municipal reformers have
struggled against for q generation.
1t would divide control and restore
the conditions when no one could be
held to responsibility.
What New Yorl. needs is more
rather than less Capitalization of
authority. The borough and county
governments, concessions to local
sentiment, linger on and duplicate
expenditures. But the Meyer COM
mittee is apparently not interested
IN ending them. Instead Of greater
simplicity it would introduce COM
plexity-would have a charter under
which the power once possessed by
the Board of Aldermen would be
vested in Finance Board.
The abolition of the Sinking Fund
commission, as proposed by the
Meyer committee, is well enough by
itself. 1t could with equal reason
advocate the elimination Of the City
Chamberlain's Office Both the
Sinking Fund Commission and the
City Chamberlain are useless limbs
and outward fourishes of the
executive plant. Neither is worth
It's cost.
But as to larger municipal mat
ters the greater the city the great
the need for simple and direct
] methods Of administration. The
very politicians who the Meyer com
mittee thinks will be eliminated b.
its proposal would rejoice to see
1t put into effect. To them more
boards mean more Offices, and more
Offices mean more opportunity te
take care of themselves and their
friends at the public's expense.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
Poor Butterfly

4 scientist has succeeded in extending hs
life of butterfly from seven days 10
tpeniy- -fpe.
Time was when from your chrys-
abs
You scared across the hills,
You found delight, and tasted
bliss,
And knew ecstatic thrills.
The world was lovely to your gaze
AS you went winging by,
For, though you lived but seven
days,
You were a butterfly
For you no loves ingratitude
Or benefits forgot.
The morning honey-dew your
food,
The rose your fairy grot.
You fiuttered round the rainbow's
Amid the scents of spring,
And died before the dust grew
Upon your shining wing.
But now, alas, comes envious man
Most basely to contrive
To lengthen your allotted span
Of days to twenty-five.
So you must linger on the stage
Till life, once free and fair,
Is turned by stern and chilling ago
To sorrow and despair.
Three weeks. when one was quite
enough
To fit through sun and shade,
And feast upon the filnly stuff
Of which delight is made.
To wane, to droop, to fear the
cold,
To view the world awry-
A beaten thing. infrm and old,
Alas. Poor butterfly
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Germans Christmas Readins

70 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following extract from
"The London Times" of December 2
seems to indicate that propaganda is
now being spread in Germany bv the
old military clique:
The first Of two works recommended
by German publisher as "Christ-
mas books for the German neonle"
is entitled what We Have Lost y
the frontispiece being picture of
Strasbourg Cathedral. The book
deals with Alsace- Lorraine, Eupen-
Malmedy, Posnania, Silesia and Aus
tria, and the introduction is signed
by Hindenburg. The second book
bears the title "What the Enemy
Has Done to U.s." with the subtitle
"The Book of the Brigands' Peace -
Hindenburg, Ludendorif and Mack
ensen have contributed articles.
Englewood, N. j., Dec. II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
The Motorists Bartlett

Flow gently, sweet Apperson
shot Pierce Arrow into the air
Parking il such sweet SORROW.
oh, for Dodge In some vast
Tho shark was a Buick, you sec!
AS She sat in her Wills Sainte Claire,
The cop at tho crossing there
Didn't do as he ort
And smashed up bort
AS she sat In her Wills Sainte Claire.
Or, If that should seem too violent,
this
AS she sat In her Kisscl KAr,
The man at the turnpike bar
Never asked for her license
Or even for A. cents,
But waved on her Kissel Kar.
s. M.
In the bright Lexington of youth
Twinkle, twinkle Kissel Kar,
How I wonder where you are.
Did they take you near or far
Twinkle, twinkle Kissel Kar.
G. II. s. JR.
! am the master Of my Eight
| am the captain Of my Cole.
T. CRABTREE.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Germany's Financial Debauch
French analysis of the Progressive Depreciation of the Marx
The Road to National Inpoperishmen
By Roger Fougeray
From LIE Figaro

Not day passes but we hear vaunted
the profits derived by Germany from
her deprecated exchange. The none
tary deterioration, it would seem, is
an irresistible means of industrial and
commercial expansion. NJ BRAND, in
his speech at Saint Nazaire, seemed to
lend to this hackneyed theory the sup
port of his high authority. It is even
declared that by practicing imitation
without limit and deliberately resign
ing themselves to the depreciation of
their exchange our neighbors beyond
the Rhine have discovered and shown
to others a way to real prosperity.
II such were the intention Of the
leading minds of Berlin, and it were
followed by success, nothing would be
moro discouraging to those who seek
in patient and arduous efforts the sub
stantial foundation of success. It is ex-
pedicnt to examine the facts.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Imitation

The notes Of the Reichsbank, not in
Guiding substitutes, amounted at the
end Of 1918 to over % milliards. They
reached rs milliards on June so, 1920,
and 81 milliards at the beginning Of
November, 1920. 1t is evident that the
imitation, continued with a certain sue
cess during the war, has not since then
ceased to develop, without any serious
effort to stop it.
The fall of the mark shows no less
striking progression. From about 10
centimes the day following the armi-
stcc it has fallen to % since the begin
ming of 1920. 1t must be recognized
that the Reichsbank has exerted itself
in meritorious way in combating this
evil. On July !, 192l-that is, eighteen
exchange up to 16 confines, but, after
exhausting in this fight more than four
milliard marks, it gave up the game,
and the mark fell dizzily down to the
rate of five centimes in the last few
days.
The amplitude and continuity of this
decline brought into play to the utmost
the famous bounty on expectation. The
action of the Reich had worked in
the same manner in retarding and linz
iting the compensating rise of domestic
prices. Multiple subventions, the chief
Of which bore on food and transporta-
tion, have been necessary to make toll
erabe conditions Of existence which
otherwise would have become perfectly
ruinous, and to permit the maintenance
of salaries and the relatively moderate
costs of production.
Any gambling policy can be main
taincd only by imitation. If the gov
ernment had pretended to pay the cost
of this expansion through taxes the
country would soon have perceived the
deception practiced on it and would
have rejected the policy. 1t was there
fore by the ever-increasing emission Of
banknotes that the state had to cover
the enormous losses which it had itself
assumed. Thus there arose from the
sSiJ Sho1 Va w PdilAdte tHe NATURAL con-
sequences Of the monetary imitation a
new cause of depreciation, and the va
rance between the home and foreign
market. which the economical laws
tended to level, was artifcially kept up.
Add to this that these absolutely
unique conditions were offered to a
vigorously organized Industry and
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Rv mali. Including
Nnetara IN IINf1.rll
GUARANTY

Yeu can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
THiEuNE with absolute safcty--far u dissatisfac-
ticn results In any casr The TRIBUNE quaraa-
tees TO pay your money back request No red
tape. No clubbing. We make good promptly II
tho advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
,rsnrprR OF THE Assoc1ArEp PRESS

The Associated Press IS exclusively entitled 10
the Use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited TO 1t not otherwise credited In this
p&per and also the local news OF spontaneous
or.gin published herein
XII fights OF republication o; all other matter
herein also reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Merely a Bouquet

America doesn't care who writes
the laws of the nations so long as
she can right their wrongs.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Anagrarn

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Eamon de Valera: Reveal
mad one. r. II. COWAN
Kitchener, Canada, Dec. IT, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
A Golden Silence

fFrom TIE Chicago Daily Newsj
Forty-one superiuous government,
publications have been suspended b,
the government and now the Creel ers
Is nothing hut a memory
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Human Nature

Most of US would Pay our income
tax with a lot better grace Il ws
didn't suspect our neighbors OF
lodging theirs.
Copyright by James ]. Montagus)
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
Eventually-

Sooner or later Europe viii have
to accept a policy of golden rule OF
ruin.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20
There will be, we understand,
Xmas matinee Of anna Xie."

Fifty-two out Of fifty-nino leading
lawn tennis players, answering R. Nor
rls "llliams's question, said they were
in favor of the seeded, or selected, as
opposed to the blind draw in the ma
taonal championship. And still we
favor the blind draw and see no reason
why Tilden and Johnston, ranking No.
l and No. 2, should not play their
match in the first round if the draw so
DEGREES.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

Although the tax on theater passes
is to be rescinded on January 1, most
of US have to pay our fares on the
subway, SO it will continue to be de-
batable, now and then, whether the
evening was worth the investment.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

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Address. Tribune Building is4 Nassau Street. Now
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New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

Yesterday we caught ourself driving
with somewhat less than our usual
carefulness. It was, we analyzcd, be-
cause we were casting about for ad-
ditions to The Motorists Bartlett.
That, we thought, would be poor ex-
cuse to submit to the policemen who
handed US summons, or to Magis-
trate House, or even to Magistrate
Cobb, SO we abandoned the pursuit of
belles-lettres and concentrated on driv-
ing. Still, if the Magistrate had said,
Cant you work in your office 2" our
reply would have been, "Well, Your
Honor, it's far quieter and lonesomer
driving in Fifth Avenue traffic"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

But it transplres that the line about
"tother dear Chalmers" isn't ours at
all, but Heloise's, and we printed it
herein four years ago. And that line
about the Mutsu and the Jeffsu was
thought of by Neal R. O'Hara and
printed by him in The Evening World
week before it appeared in this de-
partment. If anybody else had done
these things, we'd say it was no mere
coincidence. but we happen to know we
are blameless.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

But the proposed law to make ten
mis- players stop writing is one we hope
will pass. Its real motive, thinly dis
guised, is benevolent, the thought be-
hind it being that we done enjoy writ
ing anyway, and that hereafter we NAV
devote our entire time to the perfect
ing of our backhand drive.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

And, If motorcycles arc not excluded
K. P. offers, "Loathe the poor Indian
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

This is the week when you set the
kind of janitor and elevator service
you pay for in your apartment house
rental.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

Now that the blind draw in tennis
is about to be abolished, how about
the query is directed to Mr.. K. Clifford
Black, Chairman of the Tennis Umpires
Assoclation--the annihilation of blind
linesmen?
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

Tomorrow is the years shortest
day, and we're glad we don't work
u'shts any more. - r. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

These cigar stores should put signs
on their safes for the guidance of
cracksmen-'Not To Be Opened Till
Christmas"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

/ am the master Of my Eight
/ am the captain Of my Cole.
T. CRABTREE.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

Speaking of the eggs triumph, it
was, we assume, a glorious victory for
the hnotyper and the proofreader to
make US refer to Shcrwin Anderson in
stead of Sherwood Anderson.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

Well, we win our bet. The clipping
referring to "the little brown guy" in
this Turrct Of December 7, was sent to
Little, Brown & Co. by Albert Rome Ike
s: Co., Inc.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-20

Small wonder Keats was inspired to
write his "Ode to a Grecian Vase.
McCreery's advertisement.
Small wonder he wasn't.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-30
TEXAN TO TRAVEL
TO AUSTRALIA TO
GRAVEOF QUEEN
Oil Operator TO Journey to
Native Land Of His
"Cannibal Queen.

Ut WORTH. Texas. oct. 2s-W.
J. CASSIDY Fort Worth oil operator.
is going to Australia 20 place a
monument over the grave OF a can
nibal queen
Also he viii take with him a dozen
head or cattle 70 make a feast for
the members OF the girls tribe.
Behind this unusual journey lies
an almost unbelievable story that
Cassidy revealed only after long
urging.
Since the age Of Is he has been
roaming the wilds OF the world
prospecting for gold and for oil.
when / was 49, says Cassidy.
"three companions and myself were
prospecting for gold in the cannibal
country IN northern Australia.
was captured by a band of them
and carried into the hills whore for
FIVE days they tried 20 fatten me up
for roasting.
con the night before T was
scheduled to furnish breakfast for
the band, a girl about my own age
whom 1 had noticed watching me
intently for several days during the
dances OF the tribe, crept up under
cover OF the darkness and cut the
thongs that bound me 20 tree.
like the other women Of the
tribe, she was repulsive. She had a
bone through her nose and copper
pieces through her ears. She, like
the others. had no forehead, the
hair beginning almost al the eyes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-30
Heiress ofMilIions Lives IN Poverty

FRUITVALE. Calf. oct "a
Poverty has cast its drab shadow
over tire declining years OF the wo-
largest estate In the west.
Although claimant 10 land and
rentals valued at 500, 0OO, 600. Mrs.
Guadalupe Castro. oldest native
born white woman in California,
finds herself at the age OF IS fight
ing for a mere livelihood. Her
home is a rRmshackle cottage, al
though she lays claim TO property
where mansions rise. Hers has be-
con- e a race between waning life ana
court litigation.
A belle OF the early California
days and one OF nine heirs TO the
huge Peralta estate, "A famed Span
ish claim OF early western history,
she says that she failed 10 pool her
share with her sisters and brothers
and became so entaneled in legal
difficulties that she lost a fortune.
She has deeds 10 lands held by the
Standard Oil Co. but cannot collect
rentals because OF litigation, she de-
clares.
A decision is promised by Feb
ruary Of next year. But viii death
take a hand IN the meantime and
rob her of such comforts as might
be hers during the few remaining
years. That is the question that
bothers her. for she has grown feeble
through haru YORK and age.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-30

W. J. Cassidy, who was saved
from an Australian CannibaI tribes
caldron by their queen.
she was q princess Of the tribe,
soon 60 become its queen. Without
speaking word. she seized my hand
and led me noiselesly away through
the brush We had not gone far
before my absence was discovered.
and the whole pack OF trlbesmen
started after us. yelling like demons.
Girl Leads Way.
The girl began 10 run. dragging
me after her. and i'm some miracu-
lous way we escaped. For 10 days
the cannibal girl guided me through
the wilderness until we reached a
British mining settlement $50 miles
away.
When we reached tho British.
the girl was In a Quandary. She
wanted me 60 run away with her
again. but I had enough OF canni-
balls.
II took her 10 Cookstown IN
North Queensland and left her. II
] had remained. 7 would have had
20 marry her ont Of gratitude. and
couldn't do that Five months
later she died. She could not thrive
in civilization.
And so I'm going 20 drop my
work for a few months and go back
20 Cookstown over her grave I'm
going 20 erect n suitable monument.
It's the least that I can do.
90 81 n
along ana II I can locate those can
nfbals I'm going 20 send the bceves
up 20 them. They missed a feast
or me, and 7 really feel as If !
owed 'enl sometime"