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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
Edison Mods

The snapshot Of Thomas A. Edi-
son dormant in u Maryland forest
glade is treat to normally indolent
mortals. So the wizard Of Menlo
Park, who by common report has
always found sleep to be superflu-
ity, does have his lotus-laden inter-
walls! Mr.. Edison's head indents the
pillow Familiarity as though the ex-
perience were not at all unusual.
Thus does the CAMERA dispel a
legend.
One may guess that few of the
ancients and moderns who have
been said to have stayed wide awake
while others slumbered were much
less somnolent than the general run
Of human beings. Though the fiat
tcring Seneca declares that Macenas
went three years without sleep, the
Hunter Horace could no doubt have
told of a sleepy aftermath to many
banquet of his patron. The stories
of Napoleon's restlessness are surely
exaggerated. We should know more
about that astounding man if re-
porters and photographers had had
access to Fontainebleau. His physi-
cal requirements, including sleep,
we're doubtless like those of other
specimens Of the genus homo.
Has there ever, indeed, been we'll
authenticated instance of a man or
a woman who could live and flourish
on three hours of sleep a night? Do
not all in their hearts echo the beni-
son of Sancho Panza, BLESSED is he
who invented Sleep?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / am a Republican, but ] an
getting pretty "het up" over what has
become plain crawl" on the part OF
the party regarding reduction of taxes.
/ ask you, plump and plain. how
many of the 100000 Federal employees
have been discharged? We were told
IN the campaign that at least half OF
them could and would be fired. How
about the plan to change Liberty bond
issues to long term ones instead OF
retiring them as due? Why is not the
river and harbor bill dropped entirely
at such a time as this? Why did
twenty-five millions hive to be given
to Colombia, to say nothing of the
slap taken at Theodore Roosevelt
l am single track mind on taxes,
want them reduced, not excused.
INDIGNANT.
New York, July 25, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27

Romantic love has ceased to hold
first place in the novelist's attention.
and other great fields of human re-
lationship, hitherto neglected, will
be explored by the writers of to-
morrow, according to Miss IONA
Gale, expounding the status of lit
erature at Columbia University the
other day.
This will be true only to the de-
gree to which romantic love is like
~ to vanish from the imaginations
OF men and women. We can hear
already the protests of aggrieved
mankind-"Why don't. they write
any more good love stories?"
Just so long as girls and bows fall
in love so long will they enjoy read
ing about other boys and girls in
the same plight. PSYCHOLOGISTS
would add that just SO long as they
fail to realize the happy ending in
their own love affairs so long they
will turn to the novel for the bright
dreams denied them in real life:
from which follows the illuminating
corollary that the woman who reads
too many love stories is herself
starved for love.
1t was only a few days before
Miss Gales prophecy that Joseph
Hergesheimer burst into loud wall
over the deplorable state Of litera-
ture, due, he maintained, to the
pernlcious and voracious taste of
the novel-reading woman.
1t is possible to reconcile this re.
proach with Miss Gales optimism
only through faith in women. So
long as the life of the novel reading
sex is limited to romantic love. SO
long will the happy ending be a
necessity for women readers. But
suppose the time comes in feminine
tradltion--as it has long since ar
rived in the practice Of womankind
love takes its place at the
head OF the procession perhaps, but
still part of long series Of en-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
Obdurate Panama

Panama still insists that she will
not accept the awards made bv
PRESIDENT Loubet of France and
Chief Justice White concerning her
boundary with Costa RIGA. Arbi-
tration is all right if the decision ia
in your favor, but if it is against
you there is little doubt that the
arbitrators are prejudiced, misin-
formed or wrong-headed.
In the present case both Panama
and Costa RIGA bound themselves
by treaty to accept the decision Of
Chief Justice White as final. But
the justice decided against Panama.
and so, after trying devious WAYS
of ignoring this decision, the Pan
anna government now discovers that
the question at issue has ceased to
be one between Costa RIGA and
Panama, but is, instead, between
Panama and the United States. And
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
WIZ So Hot /?
Because the Gulf Stream Won Last
Year; August Still Warmer


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: This extraordinarily warm
summer is to be accounted for in the
high temperature of the waters along
the coast. The regularly moving
warm and cold currents of the oceans
circulation are the means which
nature employs to effect the transfer
of the heat of the torrid zone toward
the poles, and the cold Of the polar
regions toward the equator.
The great weather factory for all lands
contiguous to the North Atlantic, on
either side, is located at the tail OF
the Grand Banks of Newfoundland,
where the Gulf Stream and the
Labrador currents make their heaviest
contact, and the victor dictates the
character of North Atlantic weather
for the ensuing six months.
Last August the Gulf Strelm won
out and our mild winter was the con-
sequence.
Last February the warm current
from the equatorial regions was hold
ing it's advantage and this warm sum-
mer could be seen on its way TO us.
photographic Office sea temperature
records indicate that the water off
Cape May averages 81 degrees F. for the
period of June Is to July Is. have
fairly accurate readings of the tenn
perature of the surf at coast guard
station near Asbury Park, N. j., for
that period this year. The average is
II degrees F.
AS the total range of sea water tenn
perature is between 20 and SO degrees
r, and as the Asbury Park water
probably averages one degree lower
than at Cape May, it is perceived that
the average this year is five degrees
above normal, equal to about 8 per
cent of the total range.
1t is therefore 30 be said that the
summer has moved about per cent
further north than usual this year
Eight per cent of the ninety parallels
OF latitude between the equator and
The pole is minutes II seconds.
New York's latitude is about 40
minutes Do seconds. Lowering it
minutes IL seconds brings it down to
80 minutes 33 seconds, and we may
say that we are enjoying" the sum
mer climate which usually visits
Georgetown, S. C.
You will be delighted to know that
August will be still warmer.
r. H. CORSON.
Jersey City, N. j., July 26. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27

Fein faces is, What will be the atti-
tude of its sympathizers ii it restarts
terrorism? Will the southern Irish
people sustain such a course? Can
the war spirit be revived and public
opinion enlisted in support of a cam
paign ct midnight assassination? 1t
is doubtful. The southern Irish
people much want peace, and they
may make their influence so felt
that De Valera will be led to break
with the extremists with whom he
has hitherto associated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
Digging Down to Truth

The German public has never been
allowed to know the truth about the
origin and conduct of the war. That
is one reason why an influential part
of it is still we'll disposed toward a
monarchical restoration. linden
burg and Ludendorff remain popu-
lar heroes. Both of them have writ
ten books to cover up the RESPONSE
bility of inefficient war leadership
for Germany's defeat. But this con-
spiracy against history is being grad
ually exposed. General Hoffman,,
who was Ludendorff's right hand
man on the Eastern front, is re-
ported as saying of the literary eff
forts of these two warriors:
"Ludendorff's book is a whitewash
work, a defensive book and therefore
stupid, false and all lies from begin
ming to end. Whenever he defends
himself the book swarms with errors
AS for good old Hindenburg
his book is enough to make a dog
laugh. The only one who reports we'll
and has anything to say is Tirpitz,
because he was real fellow"
Ludendorff, says Hoffman,, "was
no strategist." Ludendorff has demon
strated that Moltke and Falkenhayn
made grievous errors as chiefs of
the General Staff. Hoffman, agrees
with him in this. But if he (acting
through Hindenburg), Falkenhayn
and Moltke were all failures as oper-
ating chiefs, who was the really
competent soldier in high command
on the Teuton side? Hoffman, says
that Conrad Won Hoetzendorff, the
Austro-Hungarian chief of staff,
was. But Ludendorff always spoke
disparagingly of the Austrian COM
manders and rated General Arr
higher than Hoetzendorff.
German self-esteem is receiving
many hard bumps. In his latest
book Walter Rathenau, Minister of
Reconstruction in the Wirth Cabi-
net, wrote:
ut Is petty thing to say that we
were destroyed out of envy. Why did
not envy destroy America and Eng
land? The world regarded us at once
with admiration and with repulsion:
with admiration for our systematic
and laborious ways, with repulsion
for our tradesmanlike obtrusiveness.
the brusque and dangerous character
OF our leadership and the ostentatious
servility with which we endured it.
1t 1t had been possible anywhere out
side of our naked mercantile and ma
tional egoism to discover a German
idea, it would have been respected"
Such confessions from eminent
Germans must shock the faith of the
misguided masses who still think
that Germany didn't deserve to lose
the war and lost it only through
some inscrutable misjudgment of
Providence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
Taxing Spendings
Merits of the Bill Introduced by
Representative Mills

Representative Mills
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The people of the 18th Congress
sional District Of New York City are
again to be congratulated on having
elected Congressman Ogden L.. Mills
as their representative. He has made
notable contribution to the solution
Of the national tax problem in the bill
which he has introduced to tax spend
ings.
1t may be found necessary to in
crease the rates of this tax and to de-
crease its exemptions, but it seems
beyond question that fundamentally
1t will prove an admirable measure.
Taxes must come either out of the
national aggregate Of principal or out
of the aggregate income of the people.
Under ordinary circumstances they
ought to be collected out of income, and
1T ought to be apparent that The aver
age mans income is less depleted if
the tax is paid directly to the gov
eminent instead of being concealed in
the high prices of purchased goods, in
which case it is almost certain to rep
resent additional profits collected by
various persons through whose hands
the goods have passed.
The effect of the expanding tax bill
combined with the repeal of the excess
profits tax will be to reduce materially
the cost of many products, leaving in
the hands of the purchaser a balance
with which to pay the tax and Incl
dentally encouraging general economy
which after the great expenses of the
war will lead to further prosperity.
It is to be remembered that the in
come tax law of New York State was
made possible by the activity of Mr..
Mills when he was a member Of the
State Senate and chairman of the Joint
Committee on Taxation and that it net
most pressing need of the state in a
thoroughly efficient manner.
CHARLES E. MANIERRE.
New York, July 25, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27

For hot weather reading we have
found nothing so soothing as Captain
G. A. w. Monckton's cannibal book
which is called Tanning New Guinea
and is published by John Lane. The
book confirms our belief that can
nibalism is something not to be taken
up lightly. No amateur is likely to go
far Decidedly 1t ought to be left to
those who are born to 1t. Among
cannibals tradition Is all important
Captain Monckton takes high moral
ground in regard to cannibals and will
not even listen to arguments on the
other side. He takes no count at all
OF early training Or environment AS
matter of fact, the virtues of the
Anglo-Saxons in this respect are not
so much because of abstemiousness as
mere lack of inclination. We don't
want to be cannibals, and so we frown
on the practice and speak i'll Of it.
Probably most Of us would be hard
put to it to think up so much as half
dozen persons whom we would ac
cept even for the most informal meal.
1t isn't done, and that's all there is
to it.
, However, Captain Monckton seems
to have had an arduous time in bringing
New Guinea around to our way of
thinking. AS q resident magistrate the
young Englishman found himself deal
ing with natives who seemed to share
with him hardly a single common
plank IN morals or ethics. He might
well have followed the example of
That other young Briton who, when
asked to report on the manners and
morals of certain backward people,
sent in as his official report: "Man
ners-none; morals-frightful."
Captain Monckton took his ASSIGN
ment with great seriousness and
undertook to leave New Guinea q
little bit more lii. Devonshire than he
found it. The magnitude of his task
may be gagged by considering the
parting instructions of his predecessor.
VINO is quoted as explaining:
Now, then. here is a list of thinps
mat need attending to at once. There
Is murder at Awaiama, a man cut his
mother-ln-law's throat; there is to be
new mission station at Cape Voeel.
survey and buy the land from the
natives; Fellows is in trouble at the
Irobriands, go and put him right;
bromilow has collected lot of orphans
at Dobu, go and mandate them to the
mission; man named Ryan has shot
a native at Ferguson Island, arrest him
and inquire into the case; Carruth has
oeen supplying grog to the natives on
Burns, Philips diving boats, catch Car
ruth and deal with him; Patten has
got into some sort of trouble at the
south end of Goodenough, find out
what it's all about; Thompson has
started cocoanut plantation on the
northern coast of the island, look him
up and see that he is all right; when
you get some spare time go and buy
cargo of yams for the gaol, and don't
pay more than ten shillings per ton
for them; see that Billy the Cook
closes his pub at - o'clock, there are
only fights and rows if he is open
later. Don't use the police for arrest
ing white men If you can possibly avoid
it; arrest them yourself. Some one
stole an anchor and chain from the
Siai, think it was Graham, search
his vessel the first time you come
across him; he was last heard Of In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
crossing spiritual and mental occu-

crossing spiritual and mental occu-
pations?
We all know women who are too
happily married to bother with
love stories, just as we oil know
women who are too wisely occupied
with business or mothers clubs or
politics. Granted that youth is in
curably romantic, in the twentieth
century there is a chance for youth
to grow up--even feminine youth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
HIS HEROINE
with opologies to r. W

" WV NPObOHtc0 10 ~. w y
He is reckless and brilliant and sue
cessfui. He loves to say, what diff
ference would it make If died ?'
which thrills her because she almost
believes that he almost believes that
he means it. His every day behavior
would scarcely be a model for her
little brother, but he can rise to any
occasion with q startling glory that
takes her breath away. He has a
snappy, sparkling manner; then some
times he pauses and looks at her in
tensely, allowing thoughtful express
sion to come into his eyes. She won
ders if he is thinking Of something
profound or just nothing; and usually
decides that it is something profound
about her.
He never sends her candy or flowers.
like che other men she knows; he has
subtler ways. Sometimes he leaves the
most important business and sudden
ly appears at the house at IL in the
morning, to the establishment of the
housemaid, who is caught in her dust
ing apron. At other times he goes
down to steamer when he knows she
is seeing some one OFF to Europe, Just
to see her-not even waiting to take
her home. He cuts out little things
from the papers that remind him of
her, things which always picture her as
charming, elusive coquette.
And yet it is he who is really elu-
sive. She often wonders just how she
stands with him, for he has not asked
her to marry him. Indeed, she never
knows, when he leaves her, if she will
ever see him again; sometimes she does
not for weeks, and she never knows
what he does or whom he sees during
those times.
Her heroine is a girl, who; caring
as deeply as she does, will never ques-
ton him as to his absences, always ap-
pear gay and flippant no matter how
she longs to be otherwise, never at
tempt to make him define his flirta-
tlous attitude, and above all, always
resist the overpowering temptation to
ask him when he is coming again.
CELESTE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
Getting in the Way

The political speciality of Judge
Reuben L. Haskell, of Brooklyn,
who is considering becoming a
mayoralty candidate in the Repub7
lican primaries, is the repeal or ma
terial modification of the Volstead
act. The issue strikes responsive
chord in many breasts.
The political speciality of Major
Fiorello H. La Guardia, of Man
haitian, who is also consider
ing becoming mayoralty can
didate in the Republican pri-
maries, is home rule. He is deeply
dissatisfied with upstate" rule.
This, also, is an issue which strikes
a responsive chord in many breasts.
But one thing at time. In an
election it is difficult, usually impos-
sible, to concentrate public atten-
ton on more than one issue. EN-
phasis at this time on the specially
of either Judge Haskell or Ma
jor La Guardia necessarily means
the neglect, or at least the
subordination, of the business prop
erly before the city in November
namely, the ending of Hylanism and
such defeat of Tammany that it
will no more bother the city.
Poor old New York; Is it for
ever to be victim of gross Tam
many misgovernment? When con-
ditions are propitious for breaking
century-old bonds, is it to be lured
from its main business? Is it to
drop the bone it's teeth have
fastened on to snap at shadows?
Judge Haskell is, of course,
aware that the Volstead act is
Federal law, and that if changed the
change must be made by Congress.
Yet Congressman are not to be elected
this year. A Mayor of New York
has no official relation to Federal
legislation. The election oAa "wet"
Mayor would be merely gesture,
without practical effect. The new
Mayor would have no option except
to enforce the law while in exist
ence. The time for Judge Haskell
to make his campaign is not this
year, but next.
Similarly Major La Guar6 /,
aware that Tammany success
not to promote, but to V EN-,
home rule. Why is there upstate
rule? Because when Tammany is
in power in this city its behavior is
so outrageous that the city's popu-
lation is led to appeal to the Legis-
lature for relief and protection.
Home rule will come some day, but
not so long as Tammany is a men
ace, and every one knows it. If
Major La Guardia contributes to
Tammany success he delays home
rule. 1t is certainty that neither
the Legislature will concede it nor
the greater part of the city ask
for it when men such as Mayor
Hylan are at the City Hall.
Judge Haskell and Major La
Guardia should enlist in the big
movement and not try to lead public
opinion down side alley If they
30 enlist they will not only help save
New York but prepare the way for
q more effective presentation of
their political specialties. Will they
get in the way and prevent straight
anti-Tamnany shooting this fall?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27

Eddie Cicotte says that the crying
he has done inwardly is much greater
than the tears which actually cane out.
Fans whose disappointment in and con-
tempt for the implicated players are
greater than they can express Will un-
derstand what Eddie means.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
Try to Trill Us of tho Trellis

Iry to Trill Us of tho Trellis
Peerless Phyllis, in your palace
Call US to some golden trellis
Gallus with the flowers shat solace-
Amaryllis, corydalis,
Daffodil and asphodelus.
We will dress US up and doll us;
You shall fill us, from chalice.
Luscious potions that will spell us,
Phyllis, be we ne'er so callous.
Then to thrall us, you shall tell US
Tales of "Pallous Mistress Alice"
And the Peeress who was Jealous.
Phyllis, Of your palace trellis. G.
There are tough jobs, Of course. but
suppose some practical--or even theo.
retical-joker sent you up to Senate,
Lusk's house to try to sell silve,
polish?
Well, we'll be one Of ten Socialists
to contribute 100000 apiece to fund
to keep Senator Lusk from BEING
custed.
The Groaning Board
Liver, or Kidney, or Cranberry Pie.
II had to eat 'em I'd certainly die
+. s.
Steamed Tripe with Onions, Spanish
Style
TO dodge that dish I'd walk a mile.
But simply grand, in my opinion,
Are iced Cantaloupe and Filet Mirnon
LUCULLUS.
Honey Dew Melon and Cola Conscmm2
Hereby are lauded by
Yours,
gs y. PA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
Keeping Track of Taxi Drivers
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t occurs to me that "hold-ups'
by taxi drivers might be prevented by
the simple means of passing a munich
pal law compelling the chauffeur of
every licensed taxicab in greater New
York to give every fare engaging his
taxi a card bearing the license number
of the taxi and the name of the driver,
The passenger could readily compare
the number on the card with the license
number, and then if anything happened
the police could finish the job. The cost
OF the cards would be almost nil. while
the protection given to the passenger
would be greater than any ordinary in.
surance. 7. ARTHUR JOSEPH.
New York, July %, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
A Harmonious STYLE

lFrons The Chicago Daily Nesos)
bobbed hair and bobbed skirts ought
TO go we'll with the prevailing masculine
fashion of bobbed income.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27

Add Society News: Mr.. Cornelius
Vanderbilt jr., who is spoken Of on tho
cover Of the August American Maya
emo ("Young Vanderbilt Tells Why
He Works"), and Mrs. Vanderbilt are
eft their summer cottage in British Co.
lrmbia, where they will stay until Oc-
tober Is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
The Coming ower


Miss Janet Kirby Of Scarsdale, N. Y.
Is spending her holidays swimming
at Rye. A. G..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
Sharp Practice

From Lifsj
A politician never buries the Ratchet
unless he has an Ak to grind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
Mr.. and Mrs. William Goadby Loew
Are back In town for day or 50.

Miss Ruth Hale and Mr.. Haywood
Broun
IIavo been down at Navesink since
late last June.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27

Poetry, or at least verse, marches
along in columns. The Times.
Thanks for the ad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY"

(Bob Smiths notion of Mother Goosc's
notion)
frankie, O frankie, your lover you've
shot.
He swore he'd be true as the stars,
but was not.
You knew all the time he was doing
you wrong,
So / can't understand why you waited
so long.
Mistress frankie,
Cute, but cranky,
Why isn't Johnny along?
You say he's shot?
Well, like as not,
You found that he done you wrong.
Too romantic is the accepted version
Of frankie and Johnny" "Ir real
life" submits C. S. W., "ladies who
shoot lovers do not go to the electric
chair. suggest the following ending:
frankie sobered up the next mornin'
Soon was all happy and serene;
Made the most of her notoriety,
And now she's a movie queen
Cause she shot the man
Who done her wrong.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27

Well, We'll be one of ten Socialists
to contribute 100000 apiece to fund
to keep Senator Lusk from being
custed.