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New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

Incidentally, we pause to acknowledge
number of contributions in which we
are asked: "Why don't you stick to
reviewing books instead of making
elephantine and unsportsmanlike COM
ments on Yale and Princeton?"
For this state of affairs we have a
partial excuse in the fact that a
binders strike is holding up many of
the new books. But Alice Adams, by
Booth Harrington, is available, and we
recommend it as among the best Amer
lean novels Of our day. Already we
find one or two comments in which the
book is referred to as "a novel of small
town life" AS matter of fact, Alice
Adams is laid in a city of 100000, but
it has become the convenient fashion
among reviewers to docket all stories
which are not laid in Manhattan as
tales of the small town.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
A Metropolitan Reauisite

:. fFrom The Seattle Post-Intetiigsncer)
NOW that Seattle has its own build
ing scandal it casts glance of scorn-
full disdain at New York.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
Books

Our assertion that "one meets so few
Princeton men socially" has made us
80 much trouble by now chat we must
get statement into the record that
we were only joking. AS matter of
fact, caste feeling Is entirely foreign
to our nature. We are nothing if not
democratic.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

To guard against the sneers and pro-
tests which might be aroused by this
boast of Norman blood we hasten to
add that SO far as we know there never
was any Sir Norman Broun. Still, we
don't call it Brown.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

she Associated Press is exclusively entitled 20
she use for repuo.se@tio,. :. ali dispatches
srsditcd TO 1. or not otherwise credited in thB
paper and also the local news ef spontaneous
ssikin published herein.
ALI rishts OF republeAhea es all sthar Massss
hsystn also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

Yea ess surehass meeehabdlss sdvsrtissd Ia THs
YRt6uNE with absolute eefeN~-tor y dissstssso'
tisr reauits In any eass THE Tribune auaran-
sses 10 pas yeUr money back upeH request. Ne red
Ease. No aulhhllns. We ~sks coed essmFtb 10
fhs advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

Well, it is wallop to us co learn
that all is motif Mr.. Untermyer is
rlght~-as it should be in the fire in
surance business To pull a Frank
Bacon. we used to be in the ire in
surance business ourself; and except
for the rebating, the paying of excess
commissions, the irregularities of ad-
justing, it was, we thought, one of the
straightest, decentest professions we
ever engaged in.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpYs

lHE DIARY Of OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYS
May 25-Eary to the office, where
all day, but in low spirits, feeling too
i'll to have any zest for work Home.
and learned Mary Black Henderson,
who was our handmade for many wears.
hath gone to the hospital, so thither
with my wife, and l could not see her.
but my wife saw her, and hath small
hope of her life
26-Rose with great distaste for any
activity, but to the office, and finished
my stint, but so dizzy l could hardly
see. To G. Colby the doctors, and
he gave me some medicine, and so home
and to bed at two in the afternoon,
and read four books of F. P. Dunne's.
and it occurred to me that haply have
been too harsh with him in chidlng him
for having ceased to write Forasmuch
as it may we'll be that it is his conscien-
tiousness that keepeth him from writ
ing now. For | can imagine that he
might sit down to write now, and say,
But | said that twenty years ago. For
it seemeth to me he hath said all that
could be said, and as we'll as it could
be said, and there is little of it that
might not have been written yesterday,
Re-read also Graphics, by Harms Mer-
ton Lyon, and thought how great
writer he might have been if he had
lived longer. So to bed, early.
27-Wakened early with the news that
Mary died this morning. So to the Of
flee, and at my stint all day, and far
better physically than for many weeks.
So home and early to bed
In the youthful mind of another con-
trib. who signs something like J. A. G..
it registered thus:
Liza Graymen, ALA Mindus
We can make Eliza Blime,
Andy Parting, Lee B. Hindus
Foot Prince Johnny Sands time.
Rutherford, like every good life in
surance dealer. The Sateve-
post.
Old Charley Sachs, who is So seniln
that he wrote us twenty-year en-.
dowment in 1901, says he has peen Ia
the ms. bus. 300 years, man and bow
and never met life insurance dealer
yet.
The vast majority of business me;,
and workmen are fair and sincere"
SAID Judge Gary. That is where bust
ness men and workmen have it on the
rest of the excessively human race.
The English beat the Americans plav-
ing golf, eliminated them all. Do not
weep. If Americans are to be beaten
at any game, let it be golf. You feel
about an American playing golf as DR..
Johnson felt about woman preaching
He was not surprised that she did not
do 1T we'll; he wondered that she did
it at all. So with Americans, you Won
der that they play golf at all.
How man, energetic and nervous.
can hit little white ball with a nrs.
posterously shaped club, then walk a
hundred or two hundred yards to hit
it again is psychologically puzxling-
especially as there is real work to be
done.-Arthur Brisbane in The Amer-
lean.
We feel about Mr.. Brsbane's COM
ments on golf the way DIR. johnson felt |
about woman preaching. We are not
astonished that he does not do 1T we'll. |
we wonder that he does 1t at all. J
II U
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
The Coming ,7owcr
About This Time Of Year

If my spirit yearned and my great
heart burned for the feel of the
open road,
If my soul were sick Of the baili-
wick and my back were bent
with the load,
If I tasted the taint Of the city's
paint and | craved the meadow
sweet,
If felt the appeal Of the yielding
feel of the young earth under
my feet,
If 1 longed for the free and the
open sea and the salt spray on
my cheek,
If I'd wishing pains for the West
ern plains and the wild coyotes
shriek~-
Should be here writing insincere
old stuff that the yearners sing
OF the Spaces? Not I'd hurry and
go, and not write gol-darned
thing.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

The Fire Insurance Ring seems to
have been doing business, according to
Mr.. Untermyer, as-as we in tie pro-
fession used to say-its interest may
appear.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

Anybody who knows Harrington only
through Baxter or Penrod will be sur
prised at the grim quality of much of
Alice Adams. AS we said in a previ-
Gus review, the heroine is woman
who has the courage to meet heart
break with shake of the shoulders,
but nothing in recent fiction has been
so poignant or devastating as the down
fall of her father, Virgil Adams. Tar
kington has had the discretion not to
confuse tragedy with mere dying. He
has studiously refrained from killing
off Virgil Adams. He has even devised
the rush of incidents in such way
that we find the old man muddling
through. Harrington knows, and so
must anybody who reads Alice Adams,
that the true intensity Of tragedy lies
in the lives Of those who keep on
going.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
The Apathetic Copyreader

Sir:-The A. P. despatch read: ain
playing he accorded Mrs. Mallory his
usual handicap. Remaining on the base
line he defeated her 60, 6-3.'
This should have been edited to read:
SIN playing he accorded Mrs. Mallory
his usual handicap, remaining on the
baseine. He defeated her 6-2. 6-3."
ROB SENSENDERFER.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

Will Hays made good move when
he restored second class mailing privi-
leges to The Liberator, for, in reading
the current issue, we find Howard Bru-
baker remarking: According TO a
chemist, Yale's weakness in athletics
is due to the exhaustion of the nutri-
tive qualities in Connecticut land, and
he asks state aid for soil improvement.
Then, when Yale bites the dust, it will
get square meal"
We wonder if this is a sample Of
the dangerous Red propaganda con-
cerning which we have heard so much.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

But to get back from brute force to
Yale football, at least one query from
aroused subscribers is easy to answer,
1t touches a field in which we are so
sure of our ground and our grasp of
the subject that it becomes possible to
answer boldly without our usual mod
est qualification, at seems to u.s." Will
liam j. Schaefer writes:
I'm discussing one of your recent
slanderous articles dealing with Yale
life and customs, friend of mine pro-
nounced your name as though it were
spelled b-r-u-i-n. Although I have sur
missed that you must be sore as a bear
over something which Yale man did
to you, or the Harvard team, some time
in your past, yet have always thought
of you as an ordinary Brown, and at
tributed the use of 'u' instead of W.
to some queer Harvard idea. For the
benefit of q couple of ignorant 'Yaleses'
who took the Scientific course, will you
be kind enough to tell which pronuncia-
tion you approve"
AS a matter Of fact somebody may
have taken the "w" out in place of
"u," but it was not in our time. Very
possibly it was Sir Norman Broun. one
of our most direct ancestors, who came
over with William the Conqueror. As
it stands at present the name rhymes
with "loon.'
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

Niggardly as this city may be about
many things, it was prodigal when it
bought all those blue and white sings
and put them up in the vicinity of
hospitals to warn those in the close
vicnage not to make any unnecessary
noise, under penalty of the law. 1t al
ways has seemed to us that when the
board of directors meets to select
q site for a hospital, the majority vote
must be for the noisiest available place,
nearest the most car lines. The noise
of fat-wheeled car probably is listed
under the head Of necessary noises;
but large crowds of screaming children
ought to be asked to play elsewhere
than under the hospital-the Harlem
Hospital, DR.. Copeland-wi windows.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

Revolution, of J. D. Beresford's, is
also available, and this is another
novel which we suggest and recon-
mend. 1t is published by Putnams
Alice Adams is a Doubleday-P Page book.
Revolution will be reviewed here on
Monday. 1t is an unusually able type
of the novel which undertakes to fore
shadow possible events. Generally
such tales are wholly unconvincing,
but Revolution has caught reality so
profoundly that the author has found
it necessary to explain in new pref
ace to the American edition that he
does intend it "as a definite precast of
social troubles over here in the near
future" Yet given any one of the con-
ditions which Mr.. Beresford brings
about so easily in his novel, we haven't
doubt that all the governmental fig
ures involved will act with striking
similarity to their replicas in the novel.
In Revolution Bolshevism comes, and
is in turn swept away by counter-rev-
oluticn. Force, Beresford says, never
actually solves anything. And this,
too, he has made persuasive and con-
vincing.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

"old Yale Man" takes a rather I'M
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

H. B., from New Haven, writes at
greater length and advises US to pause
frequently in writing and "Ask your
SELF assuming it is true, is the para
graph / have just written in good taste" :"
Oh, man, we never have time to pause
long enough to ask ourself is it in
good English. Fl. B. continues with
the challenge, "If you fail to print this
letter it will be confession Of your
bad sportsmanship." But here it is ~
o'clock, and the column almost done
and we've lost the letter and are quot
ing from memory, and it's too long any
how. Well, we are not going to print
it. Bangt Another moral victory for
Yale.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

Somewhat to our surprise we find
that number Of readers seem to feel
that recent reviews in this column Of
The Big Year and The Guarded
Heights constituted an underhand
and malicious attempt to propagandize
for the Harvard footall team. P. b.
Townley princeton, '20) asks with
some heat what we know Concerning
the mysterious letter which caused a
recent Harvard football star to with
draw from Princeton after he had been
there for several weeks as a student
and promptly enter Harvard"
Honest, we didn't have q thing to do
with it, but if the authorities at Cam
bridge have proper enterprise they
will find that letter writer and tell
him to make it eleven letters to Prince
ton this time and to send them by spe-
cial delivery.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
"Hit Him in tn Sla,,v
Mr.. n, DooIey's Fitzsirnmon,.co,s.. co,s...
Cla'sic--The Scrap at Carson V1os'' c::.

lThe forthcoming encoun,.- =. IVY
dempsey and Carpenter. for whit ssea ,s'
world now waits breathless." a. ~ Ia
Shaw has said. may produce vnaa ,,.ha'd ,,ld
ture' An anthology of the rine v...,tsa H.eFa-
cinde such names as Victor 4uns s'0 IN.
Borrow, George Meredith. wilgs. wis, ssorss
lit. Bulwer Lytton. But whara an Hss.
nna companion piece to the ,,u.. ~ ssa
ishse'e thoughts of Nr. Dool.v - a"D'''
outhFajous affray" at Carson c,,w 'ns
IN the 'sos7 Here II is. borro,-aSs aaek
ms ms volume Mr. Dooley In Psaes ~, s'n
war copyright 1893. BY smsu ana "a ia
nard & Co. Boston.l May.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

Rutherford, like every good life in.
surance dealer. The Sateve-
post.
Old Charley Sachs, who is SO senilc
that he wrote us a twenty-year en-.
dowment in 1901, says he has peen ia
the ms. bus. 300 years, man and boy
and never met life insurance dealer
yet.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

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New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
By
Heywood Broun

fair advantage of us by winding up his
letter, "Vous me faites malade." We
have already made public confession
that we hunked French A.
This confession. by the way, has led
Prospect Princeton Club" into an
erroneous premise on which he builds
a four-page letter concerning the evil
manners and bad sportsmanship of men
who are dropped in their freshman
year. Our confession did not go far
enough. AS a matter of fact. we
funked French A four years in suc-
cession.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

"The vast majority of business me-,
and workmen are fair and sincere"
said Judge Gary. That is where bust
ness men and workmen have it on the
rest of the excessively human race.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
GUARANTY

Eatsesa a. tire restosnos az Ssw York ~ ssssad
ClsSx Mail Afattsr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18

is the material and have de-
 veloped color scheme of oyster white and jade, shade unusually ef- fective in an out-of-doors costume. A band of green around the bottom of the skirt is the one touch of color in the white frock, which is of that simplicity demanded by the mode. The sleeves are short and the little narrow belt ends in a tiny steel buckle, making the frock one of youthful charm and quite effective when worn without the cape. Dash and chic are provided by the short cape of jade green topped by turnover collar of white fastened by large pearl buttons, With this costume is worn one of the new worsted hats in black and white.
 Serge Retains lts Popularity
 Another suit for Southern wear com- binsa soft, white serge and raspberry tweed. Tho skirt is straight and slim and rather short. Paris still features this length skirt for tailored suits. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18

Perhaps the most popular of the newer wool materials is perllaine. This supple, woolly fabric, with it's pebbly surface, is admirably adapted to the sports frock, cape or coat and may be had in wide range of colors as well as interesting combination of plaids, stripes and border motifs. Then there are the light wool crepes, Kasha, camelshair, railline, which is rather like wool corduroy, and a soft wool material with quilted surface called piquellaine. Soft suede which comes in hunters green and the browns and reds found in autumn glades, is used for the little sleeveless jackets demanded by the mode. In fact, every conceivable material is called upon to fashion the sports frock of distinction that is now such an essential part of the wardrobe of the modern woman.
 A Model of Youthful Charm
 The large photograph on this page shows a smart sports model for tho woman going South, consisting of . slip on frock and . jaunty iittlo cape that
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18

tweed of this jacket and is new and interesting development.
 The coat is slim and narrow with the long-waisted effect that has become a distinguishing feature of the mode. Serge faces the long roll collar and is inset in the coat, forming unusual and interesting pockets. A piquant hat of white velvet trimmed with black patent leather leaves complete a sports costume of unusual charm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18
The Cape Once More

Capes have come to stayl To become convinced of this fact one has only to view the myriad models that proclaim the ever-growing popularity of this type of wrap until now we have some yer sion of the cape for every hour of the day. Women have discovered there is nothing else quite 50 graceful of line or 50 convenient to slip on. It has be- come an indispensable item in the sports wardrobe, as often ono prefers to wear a one-piece frock of some woolly ma terial with cape to match.
 Tho cape shown hers Is unusually graceful and han most interesting bias opsnings, with buttons, through which one may alp ons's agns. Tho material isa soft perllaine In a warm ahade of tan. It reaches quite to the bottom of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18

Wool jersey still retains it's popularity in spite of the onrush of newer ,weaves. It has a pliance and uncrushablel quality that endears it to sportswomen the world over. Then there are the tweeds and homespuns that are now procurable in such delightful shades that one can have very rainbow of a sports ward robe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Boston Is against
Landlords Unless :

BOSTON authorities are not only
prepared but are determined to
stop unreasonable landlords from
inflicting any more financial hard
ship on the people of that city. The
State Commission on the Neces-
saries of Life has advised rent pay
ers who have been informed that
they will have to pay higher rentals
to refuse to be inundated by the
threats of owners and to inform the
commission at the earliest possible
moment of any demand that may
be made by house owners for more
money or for possession of prem
Uses.
Declines of 40 per cent in repair
and replacement costs are in great
contrast to rent increases in some
cases approximating 100 per cent,
the commission is reported to have
said. Because of the turn that has
come in economic conditions the
state commission is understood not
to be in sympathy with the de-
mands, of landlords unless it is
shown beyond the slightest ques-
ton of doubt that higher rental
is warranted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Volume of Inquiries for Infor.
nation About Auction Sales
Indicates Popularity

Prospects of speed in carrying
through the plan for linking Richmond
to Brooklyn, and in that way to other
sections by means of the subways, have
aroused interest in real estate in Staten
Island. This is shown particularly in
the inquiries that are being received
for information regarding auction sales
OF Richmond property scheduled to be
held soon
Bryan L. Kennedy, who viii sell
"esterlelgh lots on next Saturday, re-
ports that it is remarkable what inter
est the public is displaying in this sale
He will sell on Saturday five modern
dwellings ard ISL building lots. The
sale Will be held in tent on premises
at o'clock, regardless of weather con
dltions. The property is situated on
Nlchmond Turnpike, Wescott Boule-
ward and Maine Avenue. near Jewett
Avenue, and is reached by the Silver
Lake car from St George ferry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Country-Here's an Attractive House Design
People Seem to Think
Time to Build Has Arrinod
Construction Work Is on Increase Everywhere !.
Building Costs Move Steadily Downward;
Prices Off so Per Cent

Reports from many sections of the
country would indicate that people
have come to the conclusion that this
is good time to build. There has
been a marked increase in activity as
building costs have steadily dropped
back toward the levels Of pre-war time,
which may be accepted as normal.
Since May, 1920, the cost of building
labor and building maSerial has been
slipping back for several reasons, and
as the decrease has shown no sign Of
having reached the end of the slide the
conclusion is that construction costs
will 60 down some more.
If it s@ere possible to say definitely
that building costs had reached a level
that would not be lowered for long
struction would be started that would
tax the capacity of the building army
of the country as it has never been
taxed before. Monks & Johnson, archi-
tects and engineers, of Boston, who
have prepared the accompanying build
ing cost chart, report that they have
found few authoritative men who be-
lieve that prices will continue to decline
until pre-war levels have been reached.
They say that there are some men in
the building field who think there will
be quick revival of business in the
next twelve months and that prices
will rise correspondingiy.
At Close of Civil War
"When comparing the price move
ments caused by the World War with
those occurring at the close of the
Civil War" say Monks Johnson,
"we find rema rkable similarity, which,
we believe, will continue to exist dur
ing the next ten years.
after the first drop that took place
at the close of the Civil War prices
eased off gradually, and normal prices
were not reached again for fifteen
years. Though it is probably true that
our present business structure is bet
ter able to recuperate from such catas-
trophies than was that of 1865, and that
we should, therefore, expect return
to normal in a shorter period of time,
we believe this is offset by the much
more extensive effects of the last war
as compared to our own Civil War
which, though affecting US greatly, did
not involve the rest of the business
world. 1t would, therefore, seem as
though a decade were none too long q
period to allow for return to nor
malcy."
Trend Is Upward
at should be borne in mind that in
normal times the trend of prices has
been upward, and if plotted would BY
no means be represented by a hori
zontal line, but would consist of Sc
ries of peaks and valleys, the average
of which would rise from year to year
eve have in all probability reached
the bottom of the first big depression
In the last few months an artificial de-
cline in the costs of materials has been