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The Better Fighter
litor OF The Tribune.

10 the Editor OF The Tribune. .
Sir: Much is being said IN favor Of
Carpenter and much there Is TO be-
said in his favor.
Much is being said in disfavor Of
Dempsey and much there Is to be said
IN his disfavor.
But much is said that IS wholly irs
relevant to the qualities of these twd
pugilists as such. This is unfair. Tho.
subject matter is one of fighting quali-,
ties, not of patriotism, learning, social
attainments and such things. Ard as
fighter Dempsey has proved his.
worth. OF course, Carpenter lost bet
cause he was lighter. more delicately
built, less brutal and more inexperi-
enced. That simply explains Why
Dempsey won. II he hadn't driven
Carpenter into oblivion by his brutal,
or whatever you want to call them-i
qualities, there would be some call fos
deriding him. AS it is, he has proved
himself the better fighter, and that Was
the issue TO be decided.
EDWIN B. ROBERTS 5
Pelham, N. Y. July 5, 1921.
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What of Prohibitions

Copyright, 1921, sssw York Tribune Inc.

was very clearly expressed by that big
banner in the recent farcical parade
of wet aliens, "We Hold the Eighteenth
Amendment To Be Unconstitutional
If That Be Treason, Make the Most
OF It," To such people it counts for
nothing that the Eighteenth Amend
ment has been declared to be constitu-
tional by unanimous vote of the United
States Supreme Court; they sheer at
the fact that it has been ratified by
fifteen-sixteenths Of the states by votes
of Sc per cent of the Senators and 80
per cent of the lower house members.
I'VE want our beer, beer, beer" is
their cry, "and the Constitution and
laws can go hang"
1t is unfair to judge prohibition by
conditions during 1920, without an Of
fetal arm raised in the East to enforce
it and the Federal government conspir-
ing to discredit it.
Conditions are different now since
the Federal government quit issuing
permits to all Corners; with Governor
Miller in the Governors chair at AL
bany and with prosecutors sending
bootleggers to Jail in shoals in New
Jersey under the potent Van Ness act.
A year from now conditions will be
very different, but last year prohibition
was not enforced because the duty Of
enforcement was in the hands of it's
enemies-Federal, state and municipal.
SAMUEL WILSON.
Jersey City, N. j., July 6, 1921.
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The ex-convict's appeal to the I'M
derworld to restore stolen jewels be-
longing to the wife Of man who
has befriended released prisoners is,
IN modern parlance, fine gesture.
1t the gems should come back the
answering gesture would be called
magnificent, especially if the dis
gorging looter should reject the
$4,000 reward offered.
James Curran, who has sent out
the call to the lia.ht-fngered tribe,
says: II want to substantiatc my
claim that there is honor among
thieves and that all Of them can be
reached through sentiment when
they cannot through the law" A
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Educational
Brooklyn, July 6, 1921.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. w. P. Emo says in his let
ter published to-day, aThe only way
people can be made to do what is good
for them is by education"
That is exactly what prohibition is.
an education to those who needed it.
The majority of folk who used liquor
too freely will gladly testify to-day that
prohibition has been an education.
Some children allow themselves to be
educated willingly; others compel their
parents or guardians to insist on their
learning; others are allowed to gain
their education through experience.
VINO can say the experience of pro-
hlbition is bad? Any claims that it is
so are based on the consequences of
the lack of enforcement.
,... Probably the cheapest way to en-
force the law would be for the gov
eminent to purchase the entire stock
OF liquor at cost and supply such Of it
as is believed fit for consumption to
those for whom it has been prescribed.
A druggist should be supplied with a
given quantity and he should then be
compelled to furnish doctors pre-
scrlption to the exact amount of his
recorder.
AL prohibition needs is a fair chance.
ana 1T will soon be evident that no
country can stand morally, physically
or financially against US with the
Eighteenth Amendment righteously en-
forced. PERCY g. WARMAN
New York, July 6, 1921.
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thief admittedly may be square
dealer toward his fellows, and that
Is what "honor among thieves"
means. And he would probably not
knowingly rob his henefactor. Few
crooks are as mean az that. Here
and there "The Hawk" gives up the
old life and turns good citizen if the
world will let him, just as Mr.. Cur
ran did. A man may steal, yet not
be an utter scoundrel, and there is
always hope that better instincts
may prevail. But even after the
Donaldson jewels are delivered up
the officers of the law had better
keep on trying to catch thieves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-08
Senator Penrose as a Quaker

Senator Penrose, of Pennsyl-
vania, gets out of the picture COM
monty painted Of him by declaring
for disarmament by the United
States without waiting for confer
ence with other nations or without
regard to what is the result of the
conference, if one is held.
This declaration recalls 1896.
when Bryan was really Bryan and
shouted he was for the free COIN
age of silver at Is to / without
waiting for the aid or consent Of
any nation on earth. The COM
mon people rejected the doctrine as
nonsensicaL Similarly they are
likely to judge adversely the sudden
determination of Senator Penrose to
be somewhat more Quaker-like than
the Quakers.
1t is material what sort Of guns
other fellows carry. 1t may be re-
garded as certainty that neither
this country nor any considerable
one will throw away it's weapons
until its neighbors do. More prog
ress will be made by those who
would lessen armament and in the
end extinguish it by pursuing the
paths Of sense and least resistance.
Probably there is no more effective
way to perpetuate armament than to
advocate complete end to pre-
paredness.
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anaticisn
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Before US lies the bulky "Serial
of the Hearings before the Judiciary
Committee Of the House" on tho new
bill to prohibit the use of malt bever-
ages by sick people as medicines. It
contains S72 pages and save for one
feature it might be labeled "Fanati-
cism, Selfishness and Ignorance, Ex-
hibit D."
A total of fifty-six persons appeared
and testified. How many of them adj
vocated the cause of the sick? Just
one! What motives inspired the re-
naming fifty-five? Commercialism,
professional fanaticism, fear and ig-
norance. How many times were the
best medicinal malt liquors mentioned +?
Not once! What are the best malt
drinks for sick people and invalids ?
Dublin stout and India pale ale. For
what ailments are they valuable :?
Anamia, impoverished blood, assesses,
malaria and loss Of appetite.
About how many American physi-
clans seem to be in total ignorance Of
the existence of these remedial agents
and their value in certain stages of
certain diseases? Apparently 70 per
cent Of them. What was the Keynote
OF the hearings referred to, from May
IL to 90, inclusive? To hell with all
sick people who think that they need
malt drinks as medicine!
But wait! The prohibition pendulum
has swung almost to. it's full length.
This denial of square deal to the sick
and afflicted will mark the beginning
OF the end. In New York and San
Francisco the governments corporal's
guard Of prohibition law cnforcers
stands alone. In New York s.the lid is
or" AS temperance man and a tenn
perance advocate of sixty years stand
ing | am sorry to see good cause
killed by its fanatical supporters. If
the President signs the new Volstead
Observation-Disclosures law that will in
deed be the beginning of the end of
this orgy Of prohibition fanaticisn.
OLD TEMPERANCE MAN.
Stamford. Copp., July 4, 1921.
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The Duty ON Oil

Putting a duty Of 35 cents bar
rel on crude petroleum and Is cents
barrel on fuel oil seems to require
a good deal of explanation. On what
theory Of national benefit is such a
duty to be levied? Our State De-
partment has protested against
Americas exclusion from the develop
ment of the Mesopotamian and other
Asiatic oil fields. Our government
maintains that the domestic oil sup
ply is limited and may soon be ex-
hausted. The Navy Department has
reserved home oil lands as far as it
could. A duty laid on oil, if 1t is
intended to stimulate domestic out
put, conflicts with our policy Of con-
serving the national resources. 1t
stultifes our appeals for admission
to the working of oil fields in other
parts Of the world.
Crude oil and its products are es-
sential raw materials Of the widest
use in this country. They are
needed for road building. They fur
nish motive power for ships and for
truck and passenger automobiles.
How is the public to be benefited by
tariff tax on oils, and thus on gaso-
line and kerosene? How are our re-
tiners to compete abroad?
The natural policy of every indus
trial and shipping nation to-day is
to nurse its own oil supplies and to
draw on the supplies Of the rest Of
the world. An export tax on oil
would seem to be more logical than
an import tax, unless the latter is
for trading purposes, pure and sim
pie. Have the oil we'll interests of
Texas become as influential in Re-
publican Congresses as once were
the sugar producers of Louisiana?
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Pedestrians, OFF the Street!
Reaction Of a Citizen to Measure
Before Aldermen

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS l see it, the lack Of protest
against that most remarkable measure,
now before the Board of Aldermen, de-
signed to keep pedestrians off the
streets lest they interfere with the
pleasure Of the motorists, who have
taken over the earth, or at least such
parts of it as are fit for human habi-
tation, is due to the fact that the num-
Der of persons not owning motor cars
is so small as to be negligible and that
we no longer have representatives Of
the common people" among US to
speak for us. We once had one, but
Palm Beach seems to have been his un-
doing.
Prohibition has made law-breakers
of millions Of US, and the rest Of US
will become criminals in the eyes Of
the law when the new ordinance goes
into effect. Perchance on some quiet
Sunday afternoon, on block not fire.
quented by tin lizzies and cars Of more
middle Of it. may feel disposed to cross
over to the other side and pass the
time of day with my neighbor. We may
even desire to discuss in friendly way
the wisdom Of legislators, municipal
and otherwise. In SO doing, if our
block is less than 800 feet long, do
not become criminal, with Sing Sing
looming up before me, with my children
and my children's children, recalling
that I never had anything to speak of
in my cellar, to point to and at me in
scorn because l have been a law
breaker?
There are two things to be done with
laws if they are passed-one is to en-.
force them, the other it to permit them
to die unrecognized. The proposed
ordinance cannot be enforced, but it
can be made great nuisance if its
enforcement is attempted. And there
still remains the puzzling thought
suppose my hat blows into the middle
of the street, and upon recovering it
inadvertently 60 to the further side
to escape being run over by an enthu-
siastic car driver, could this be offered
as an excuse to mitigate the severity of
my sentence? By the way, in what
year and upon what day was it we be-
came an independent people?
A. N. ADAMS.
New York, July 6, 1921.
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To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1 want to thank William P.
Emo for his masterful letter in to-day's
Tribune. 1t expresses my views ex-
actly. | wish every one could have
read it, especially those whose sole
effort in life at present seems to be the
desire to do away with all liquors, all
wines, all beer, and, finally, all freedom
for United States citizens.
To say that these fanatics and hypo-
critics (many Of them) are going to ex-
tremes is putting it mildly. They are
surely making prohibition obnoxious"
as The Tribune stated recently in one
of its editorials.
Let me quote Mr. Emo, whose letter
prompted this outbreak, as follows:
sit is now time for all who have their
country's welfare at heart to investi-
gate and weigh the results with open
minds in order that we may decide
whether to keep on with attempted
prohibition or adopt middle course
namely, that Of reasonable and scien-
tifc regulation, to bring about tenn
perance."
l am sure voice the sentiments of
many sober-minded, dignifed, law-abid-
ing citizens when l say that the pres
emit situation is farce-that it is
making drunkards and dope fends of
many men and women. running consti-
tutions, breeding crime and finally, it
is an outrage to our intelligence. It's
time to act. Let's 60!
FRED W. BOSWORTH.
Brooklyn, July 6, 1921.
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A Dig at the Irish Problem

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | am surprised that the real
solution OF the Irish question has not
yet been made public. Here it is:
!. Dig ship canal across north
eastern Ireland, thus making separate
island of Ulster.
2. Use the material obtaineA IN the
digging to make causewa. from
Ulster to Great Britain, thus changing
Ulster from an island to part OF Great
Britain.
Great Britain would then consist Of
England, Scotland, Wales and Ulster.
and Ireland would be Ireland.
NEUTRAL.
New York. July 9, 1924.
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trick-ability to keep himself in the
public eye, although that undoubt-
edly is large factor.
Taft S Legal Career
Experience in Office That Fitted Him
for Chief Justiceship

for Chief Justiceship
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: read in The Tribune of July
l an attack by Senator'S Borah and
Johnson on the legal ability and ex-
perience Of Mr.. Taft. Their speeches
in the Senate try to prove his life has
been wholly political.
The purpose of this letter is not to
point out how unfair these attacks are
or to what low plane politics can re-
duce two really able lawyers, but to
call to your notice that in your article
citing the career of Mr.. Taft you have
left out the most important part. You
leave him in Cincinnati In 1887 and
skip to 1900. when President McKin-
ley appointed him on the Philippine
Commission.
Mr.. Taft was Solicitor General in the
Harrison Administration and won great
legal fame in that office, and then served
eight years as Federal Judge and won
such a distinguished reputation as a
learned jurist that President Mckinley
commanded his services in the Philip
pine mission.
Why have you left out this all-im-
portant part Of his carcer1 The omis-
sion, when not observed by the unin-
formed, really is in harmony with the
Borah and johnson attacks. think
Republican newspaper on the most i'm
portant appointment Of the present Adj
ministration should write up Repub-
lican exPresident In better form.
FAIR PLAY.
New York Univ r. 1921
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FRANKIE AND JOHNNY
AS WilIish thinks Mr.. McGufev 1oouI

drive it home i'm has Second
Eclectic Readcr)
The Little Boy Who Would Not Play
in His Own Yard
Once there was little boy whose
name was John and he lived in the
same house with little girl named
frankie. John was a good boy, but he
had one fault; he would not play in
his own yard.
Whenever John played in tho yard
of one of his neigh-bors frankie
would be very lonesome. She did not
know in whose yard John was play
ing, but she missed him in his own.
: One day when frankie had been
alone the entire day she decided to
look for her playmate. She went to a
yard few houses away and asked the
lady on the front piazza if she had
seen John. The lady said that she
had seen him playing with another
girl.
frankie found him and shot him
after saying, "He done me wrong"
EXERCISES FOR THIS LESSON:
Where should every little boy play?
What was Johns one fault? What
effect did it have on his playmate!
What did she Finally decide? What
did the lady on the front piazza an
swer? Do you think the lady was
annoyed at the trouble or glad to
give the information? Are ladies on
front pi-az-zas always glad to give
such informal ton?
What great sin did frankie do?
What should she have said instead?
A woman editor asks for a written
expression on "Has the American
Woman Sense of Humor?" We told
her that writing was our trade, de-
pending on it for sustenance. "Do YOU
mean you want to DO paid for it :"
she asked. And then we almost
were tempted to write it for nothing.
Miss Liddle has been awarded the
Insignia bearing the numericals Of her
class, 1922.-Salem, N. Y, Press.
Palpably an athaletic young girl.
Built like filing cabinet ought to
be-" advertises the Library Bureau:
like it thought "like" was q con-
junction.
oh, why should the spirit Of mortal be
hot
Wien mortal may sail on an elegant
--~ yacht?
But why should the spirit Of mortal
be cool
When it has to engage on this Doric of
Drool?
Well-as We asked many years ago
what kind of weather do you expect
in July?
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1920 No Test

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: William P. Emo, in The Tribune
OF July s, argues for unprejudiced con-
suitatlon, cooperation and sane discus.
sion OF the prohibition question.
Like many other would-be conserva-
tives, Mr.. Emo overlooks the fact tina.
prohibition 10 no longer a theory---it
is fundamental law, beyond the realm
OF polemics, until it shall have been
repealed. The spirit of it's opponents
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-08

Mankind have always had classics"
said V.-P. Coolidge at the University of
Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon.
"They always will" And, in spite of
Calls unclassical English, we know
what ne meant.
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New York, July 8, 1921.

THE Tribune regrets that its re-
view Of Mr.. Taft's career should
have made the impression that ap-
parently 1t did on this correspondent.
It sought to praise it.-Editor.
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Brides Eventful Girlhood

From The Hartford Courant1
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Burnhnm knight of
New York, who were recently married, have
returned to New York after a short stay
sin this city. Mrs. Knight was Miss Da-
phene E. Keeney, one Of the builders Of the
original Brooklyn Bridge ard other impor-
tant edifices.
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A crewel wheeze is Ninety Sheff's.
"Ask your friend Mr.. Harvard Broun,"
he implores, whether the news Of the
Y-H boat race didn't come to him like
jolt from the blue"
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sl,ARaNry

GUARANTY
yeu eaa arsnkass nnechann!sc advertised IN the
IRsSuke with ahsoiuts ssfcy-for II dissAfiSfao-
tea results In any case THE TRIBUNE pusran-
tces to pay your money back uneu request. No rcd
tsse. No uuibhIlns. We mako good promptly II
ire advertiser does not.
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Tho Age of Specialization

from The Asheville IN. c. Ctizen1
TELEPHONE 1875 for information on fol-
lowing: Upholstering and Cabinet Work.
Roofs Repaired. Shoes Dyed. Wire Fenc-
ing. Dressmaking. Picnic Lunches. Shirts
Made Picoting and Hemstitching.
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The Coming 7'ower
Conversation Hymn Of Hate

Conversation Hymn Of Hate
A guy hate
Is Jasper Burt;
A nifty jane
He calls "some skirt"
Golf Hymn of Hate
A guy l hate
Is Henry Hive;
When he tees up
He hollers "Five!"
Hospitality Hymn of Hate
A guy hate
Is George McBubble;
When asked to stay over night
He hopes it's no trouble.
Friend Hymn of Hate
A guy hate
Is Lewis Lipe;
He uses twenty matches
To smoke one pipe.
Tennis Hymn of Hate
/ hate my wits
More and yet more;
Because she beats me
Sd, Cd.
Epigramnatical Hymn of Hate
A guy I hate
Is Philip Phedd3
He always says
GAS the teller said"---
Lunch Hymn Of Hate
A guy / hate
rs William Beck;
When it's my turn 10 pay
He grabs the check.
Poker Hymn of Hste
A guy l hate
Is Walter Pagej
He says "Your edge"
When he means your age"
BARON IRELAND.
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MrnssER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The fer republication OK all news dispatches
crsdited to it not otherwise credited In this
papar. and also tbs local Of spontaneous
egtgn published herein.
AiI rights OF republication Of all other matter
herein also reserved.
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OF course, a gun that will shoot
five-ton she'll two hundred miles is
great invention, though it won't make
the likelihood Of war any less than
the submarine did. But what we should
like is fountain pen that would shoot
q paragraph-frequently, though we
do say SO, lighter than air--two hum
dred miles. Then we might be able
to edit this department far from the
madding composing room.
We have tried long distance colyum-
ing, and it doesn't work. It is i'm
possible, away from the Office, to gauge
the length of column. But the thing
we should miss most would be the sound
criticism of Old Clint Ball, the demon
linotyper. He cured US, for one thing,
of overworking "altruistic." "Say,
Pepys," he said one day, clay off AL
truistic.' This minion machine could
set it in Its sleep"
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A Costly Dance

From The WieAifa Rsvsese}
New York seems worried by her Hys
Ian fling.
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01asd b. Ns~ York Ttfbrna fnc.. . New Tctx
onrcsasioa Published dsiiy. osssn Reid. Presi-
dsnsi g. Vernon Rogers vlce~prssidsat: Helen
hHE~1 RAsd- Secretary: n ", Maxnsad- Treasurer.
Acdsssa. Tsdbune Building. ls4 Nassau Street Nov
xar&- Teisphcce. Reekman 5000
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-15
MARINES HERE TO
GUARD THE MAIL

Nine Devil Dogs" arrived in Pueblo
yesterday afternoon and were taken to
the Federal building where they are
to be stationed and serve in accor-
dance with the recent order OF Post
master General Hays to guard coaches
carrying government mail. shoot and
shoot to KILL is the order given the
men, and Lieutenant G.. +. Monson is
here to see that the order is carried
out.
Tho marines came here from Denver.
having arrived there directly from
Marc Island, the western headquarters
of the marine corps. From Denver the
3c mon were distributed over Colorado
and adjoining states. From Pueblo the
.marineS will probably be placed on
Trains running in all directions, but
no plans are yet known by Lieuten-
ant Monson.
Armed with rifles, sawed off shot
guns and automatic pistols, and equip
ped with full packs, the men were
quartered in the grand jury room on
the fourth floor of the federal building.
Ono detail left on an early train this
norning carrying mail south.
You are not here for play: Il will
be hard work. the commanding Off
Ger cautioned his men last night. How
long the men will be stationed here Is
not known. but it has been stated by
an official of the corps that the men
will be used until a sufficient number
of guards can be mustered by the post
office department for the protection Of
the mails.