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New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
The Book Avalanche
Varied Appetites of Hungry Readers
Must Be Satisfied
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In a recent issue you had an
editorial, entitled "Veteran of a
Thousand Books" which interested ne.
You referred to a statement of an
editor Of a paper associated more or
less with the book trade, who had "read
thousand books to ascertain why
people did not read books"
In your editorial you remark that at
a rough guess 1--WE should say that
only one book IN a thousand ought TO
be worth WHILE" which you supple
ment with the statement that with
an average of twenty thousand books
year we should then be forced to read d
book every two weeks, and the average
reader might feel that even this task
is too onerous."
May we venture an objection from
the attitude Of the unillumined angle
Of trade opinion OF an editor whose
business is to record ard review not o
picked list OF one thousand books but
all the books that are published?
Your statement that only one book
out Of thousand Is worth publishing
is a dangerous assertion, even il it
were true, because 1t limits the audi
ence. You might as well say that
speaker Of note-or any kind OF
speaker--has the ear of but one
hundredth part of his audience. Who
shall damn an orator because one man
in the audience of one hundred thinks
that he talks pifle or goes over his
head? The orators message to the
three or four thousand others may
carry conviction, inspiration, revels-
tion or truth.
The publishers are rot in business
for philanthropic purposes, and II
their output rather staggers the imsS-
ination. it is because they are cater
ing to great mass of readers WITH
diversified appetites. Books are mental
food and the appetite Of the public
must be satisfied. Of course, there are
the epicures of the intellect, but thsy
form the 10 per cent Of the average
hungry minds. Because of their
intellectual epicurean preferences
should the others starve?
You may say that such mental food
is poor, is bad for the mental diges|
ton. Granted. But it is better 70
have poor food than to have none at ale
1t is not that too many books are
published; the whole trouble Is tnss
there are not enough books read. Oet
the people to read That is the point.
Let books come like an avalanche. Dis
elimination will follow. Beadiea
dime novels would not be classed as
classics, but they formed many tas's
for reading that led TO love of gress
literature. b. NJ WALAEn-
New York, Oct 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

lean people and the government of the
United States be dictated to by labor
unions? Now is the opportune mo-
ment to decide this question once and
for all.
The unions say 1t is a fight to the
finish. So let 1t be. The American peo-
pie are ready for the test The ques-
tion is, Will the government stand be-
hind the people or behind the unions :?
That decision Is up to President Har-
ding. America has her eyes upon him.
In this emergency let President
Harding call on the American people.
The response will be surprise to him,
as well as to the unions. "This strike
must not and shall not succeed" will be
their reply. LOUIS c. TETARD.
New York, Oct. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Tax Revision's Breakdown

The tax revision bill is coming in
for many hard knocks in the Senate.
Mr.. Underwood characterized it as
zone of the worst ever framed
Criticism of it is bipartisan, and
much Of this criticism is well
founded.
The fact is that the bill in its
present shape is a political compro-
mise--a mere stop-gap measure to
tide the Treasury over for a year
or two longer.
AS amended, the Senate's bill is
worse than the House bill, for the
latter at least had the courage to
reduce the income surtaxes to q
point at which capital would no
longer be automatically diverted into
exempt securities. Restoration of
surtaxes exceeding 80 per cent will
shut off the relief promised in the
House measure. Congress hasn't yet
taken to heart the lesson that ex-
cess profits taxes and income taxes
beyond the saturation point have not
only become Of little value from the
revenue point Of view but also OBJ
struct business and injure those who
do not pay them directly, even more
than they injure those who do.
Real tax revision as well as real
tariff revision will go over for an
other year. Congress wasn't pre-
pared to deal with these two sub
jects when it met, although some of
it's leaders thought that it was. With
regard to the tariff there isn't yet
q sufficient realization of the vast
economic changes which have fol-
lowed the war. The Fordney tariff
bill is an anachronism. AS to tax
revision, it has been hard to kill old
delusions. Congress Is making its
way slowly and more or less blindly.
Quicker action was desirable. Yet
postponement is probably better than
quicker action of the sort which Con-
gress has been SO far in the mood to
undertake.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

My nri'ad it often .po,ders book to d0gs
that 1oao arc gone
When toas but q child In Old Nc1c York:
When Times Square soosmt heard Of no,
Columbus Circle born,
Aud there were no telephones through
(which to talk.
We had no motion pictures them nor
midnight cGbGrcts,
We didn't dance the toddle after dark.
But sometimes ,,o10 Pm longing for those
bright and happy dogs,
And back to them alvoys like to knrk.
CHORUS
Let's 90 back to the Age Of Innocence.
When all tpGs SO simple and gay;
When no bleeding hearts
FILLED 1Uith loUes s,nnrts
Uttered the street called Broadtunu
Things they acre not then ou;te 81 in.
tense;
To do 4orong they didn't k,aoto how.
In Faith AOen,te life
7 o~ could count on your toife,
B~t ruth Auenue ain't Innocent nom.
C.. A, l..
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Locking Up the Subways

The Tribune, like others who view
the deficiencies of the Hylan admin
istration with regret, would be
scrupulously fair to the Mayor.
So it must reject the report that
when the subways, under the policy
of the Mayor, cease to be used as
shuttle-ways for laundering trains,
he will close and paddock them and
forbid their use for anything. Such
may be the consequence of the May
or's course, but he is to be acquitted
OF deliberate purpose to make entire
ly tenantless trenches on which so
many millions have been spent.
Likewise incredible is the surmise
that the subways are to be turned
over to Grover Whalen or some other
friend of the people to dump ashes
IN. 1t is true that the courthouse
excavation became such repository,
but the Mayor is now ashes-shy. Not
even to oblige Hettrick, when that
good friend comes back from Sing
Sing, is he likely to assign the SUBJ
ways as storage places for rubbish.
To what use, then, will the trainless
underground passages be put? Many
dispositions are conceivable. With
the tracks removed they could be
used as an automobile speedway. 1t
would be convenience to have a
well-screened roadway running
north from the City Hall at least as
far as Fourteenth Street. In off
hours Hearst would doubtless find a
sub-surface avenue a good route to
race his trucks through. Having to
open schools, the Mayor could assem-
BILE school children OH the station
platforms, and thus confound critics
who dwell on his broken school
pledges. Or at small expenditure the
conduits could be converted into jails
to confine those whose opposition
shows that they are the tools of
heartless traction jobbers and un-
derworld interests. To pen all these
tools space is needed, and the empty
subways will furnish it.
So it isn't true to say that to stop
tie operation Of subway trains nee
essarily means no use Of the sub
ways.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Make Him Answer

Henry Curran does we'll to chal-
lenge the maudlin wallowing of the
Hearst-Tammany manikin who is be-
seeching the great city he has dis
graced and brought to the brink of
bankruptcy to return him as Mayor
for another four years.
1t is immaterial whether Hylan as
a boy had to walk three miles or
thirty to school. Who is responsible
for the wTrecking of New York's
school system? That's the point.
1t is immaterial whether Hylan's
mother or grandmother told him to
be honest. Has he dealt honestly by
the people of New York during the
past four years? That's the point.
1t is inlmaterial whether his
grandfather or the village smith or
general store keeper told him to
make the Golden Rule his motto of
life. Has he lived up to the Golden
Rule in permitting a fire hazard to
enter 496 out of 695 of the city's
school buildings? That's the point
Asks Mr.. Curran:
"Will Mr.. Hylan deny my charge
that he has sold out the children of
New York;"
The man is desperate. He will at
tempt to deny it. But let Major Cur
ran make him answerl
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

laws. When the American mission
went to Russia in 1917 it found to
its surprise that the American most
inquired after there was Mooney.
To most people here the Paris CAM
paign for the relief of Sacco and
Vanzetti is pure brainstorm. But
1t isn't that exactly. 1t is also an
other manifestation Of the interna-
tional solidarity Of the Communist
conspiracy against all government
and all laws except those Of Red
origin. We shall continue to admin
lister American justice in our own
way in spite Of the rawlings Of Mar
eel Cachin in France or Lenine and
Trotzky in Russia.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Laws Against Strikes foreseen

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: We had the great satisfaction
of reading your editorial in to-dsys
Tribune entitled "The Country's ks-
sponse." 1t pictured the real ISSUE
forcibly. The day will come when oa'
laws will make tie-up Of our 'rSH'-
portation systems impossible. "nen
man enters the railway servics nc
should agree to conditions which w0a'A
prevent a tie-up, just as poIicesasA
or a soldier. He should be fully pi',
tected in his rights. This threa'ehsa
strike will hasten the enactment u
laws which will protect our people is''~
such a calamity. o. M. STAFFoHn
New York, Oct. 10, 1921. -
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Know South America
Trade Cannot Be Stimulated by
Offering Fur Wraps to the EQUATOR

Offering Fur Wraps to the Equator
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: have an abiding faith that the
very first thing the United States
manufacturer must do to get and hold
foreign business is to deserve it. am
positive that until this first condition
Is complied with all other efforts and
plans, both individual and collective.
are absolutely futile and useless. By
whom and how such efforts and plans
are originated or utilized is immaterial,
know from personal contact and
knowledge that in South America there
Is enough material to startle ard en-
tighten every one, from the Depart
ment of Commerce down to the corner
grocery store. Please consider the fol-
lowing few instances:
Steam heaters pictured in a tropica1
paper.
Fur wraps and closed limousines, ac-
companied by warnings against the
cold, used in an advertisement in q
paper on the equator.
Rooms with bath in the big New York
hotels advertised at So a day.
Catalogues and Advertising matter on
which have been spent thousands of
dollars sent into South America,
printed in English, using English alb
breviations and technical expressions,
measuring in inches, quarts and pounds
instead of meters and liters.
Thousands of dollars worth of shoes,
bought by an Argentine merchant, paid
tor in advance, and, upon arrival, found
to be unfinished as to tops and with no
way of lacing them up.
Adhesive tape for insulation pur-
poses, with no adhesive substance on it..
Goods that fail in any manner to
accord with samples.
Fifty-ive American travelling sales
men unable to speak Spanish or Portu-
guese.
A Chilean merchant purchasing large
amounts of summer finery and receiv-
ing it in May, to be sold in June, July
and August, which is the Chilean
winter.
Managers of export departments here
at home who have never been south of
Palm Beach.
The representative Of a big United
States concern who, on the boat going
down, said he was going to take the
train from Lima to Buenos Ayres.
| have in my possession documentary
evidence of most of the above. There
is mass of material just like it. 1t
is scattered all along the trail, from
the door of almost every manufacturing
plant in this country to and including
Punta Arenas.
Our publications, officials and public
bodies, departments and organizations
have been for years trying to stimulate
foreign trade. To date the most vital
element has been entirely overlooked
our mistakes. JOHN P. GRAY.
Mystic, Conn, Oct. 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

baskets or to piles or rocks. Fisher
men gather them for the markets,
and even the children help. In fact,
one Of the best known old songs Of
France describes the revolt of a
small girl against going to the beach
for mussels because the little boys
Of the seaport of Marennes teased
her.
These same mussels arc to be
found in large numbers along our
Atlantic coast. During the last two
years the crop has been particularly
good, and on the shores Of the bays
off Long Island Sound there are
largo beds containing many thou
sands. They are to be had for the
plucking, and make as good a dish
as CLAIMS when steamed, or can be-
fried by dropping the whole shell
into bacon grease or other fat.
just why they are practically
ignored in this country is hard to
tell. But those who have eaten them
sing their praises and wonder that
SO few Americans have yet discov-
cred the delicious taste Of "moules
n1arlnieres," "or mussel soup. Steamed
clans have been better advertised,
but II ever the mussel comes into it's
own the clam diggers' union will
either have to start propaganda
against the mussel or institute a
campaign to maintain the prestige
or tho clam. The mussel Is a dan
gerous rival.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If the present contemplated
strike succeeds, we would be over
whelmed by successive strikes of all
sorts throughout the country.
The question naturally arises, ais
this a government by the people and
for the people" or is it a govern
ment controlled by the labor unions of
the country? Grover Cleveland an
swered that question to the entire sat-
isfaction of the American people on
similar occasion in Chicago, during his
administration. Has President Har-
ding Cleveland backbone? If he has,
this is an opportunity to demonstrate
it.
The contemplated strike is not at all
against the railroads; it is against the
authority of the government of the
United States and against the whole
American people. Can both the Amer
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
The French Twist; or Tell Me Where
Is Fancy Bread?

The French Twist; or Tell Me Where
Is Fancy Bread?
4. P. A.: The rart of "Thc Spar
row." l gather from the neat and pre-
else program of the Theatre Guild. is
to be played by Egon Brecher, who
created the original Vienna role. With
wiener schnitzel and stone litre of
Lowenbrau, they used to be wonderful.
| knew place in the F'iirstenstrasse
All, me! And didn't Miss
Maude Adams have something to do
with the making Of petit pain? Perhaps
not. Now why do l think Immediately
OF Caffy OLay, that irrepressible
boulevardier? don't know.
. BY the. way, who created the
original bun! HUGHES.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
The Great American Hee.Haw School

F. P. A.: From your sanguine refuta-
tlon of MIR. James L. Ford's mention Of
the above mentioned school, it Is evi-
dent that your life has been happily
spent far from the jocular repartee of
the Main Streets which make up the
bulk Of our country-where the Hee-
Haw School wakes as strong and as
exuberant as it ever did in the sos
and '90s. Its pupils number thou
sands yearly, and unsparingly is the
degree H. H. D. conferred pro rata.
What, when your neighbor, discover
ing the name of the disconsolate rag
man to be likewise "Jones," outlaws
loudly, "Say, is he COUSIN OF
IoURS!' B. ROSS.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
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New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

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credited to 1t or nos cthsrwtss credited IN this
paper. and Aisc tbs local OF spontaneous
ertdn published herein
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Aercsn also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
before the Senate adjoins to-
morrow night.-The Woild.
More phonetic spelling.
FRIENDSHIP

Clear-heart and Cloudy-heart:
One was slow, and dreamed;
One was swift as fever,
And the wearier seemed.
Clear-heart and Cloudy-heart,
Strange boys at strife,
Comrades fer an afternoon
Stayed so for life
Clear-heart and Cloudy-heart
Long lives have had;
One is gnarled and jolly,
And one still slightly mad.
ADUL TINA.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

October

October
October's hues arc red End gold,
And chill her morning air;
Fair Is her sun or brook and void,
And all her smiles are fair.
All, fair on brook and wold her sun
IN this, the month I sing;
But that's no news to any one
Who's ever read thing.
There won't be a strike. At least
that is our forecast A strike would
mean that the Harvard team would
have to walk to Princeton and the
Princeton team to New Haven. This
prospect ia more than tho Brotherhood
OF Firemen, or whoever is threatening
to strike, can bear.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

Pre-war, war, post-war-the quality
is always the same. We refer to the
ferry shoe-shine
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

Sings Wilecat Vitus Marsden
don't bother railroads,
They don't bother me;
Hear me yowl! Ise on my prowl
In Memphis, Ten-o-see.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Book Review

I think "Three Soldiers" by John Dos
Passos,
Is better than "Tobogganing on Par
nassus."
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
The WelIses

bombardier carries wallop;
H. G. writes with a pen;
But Carolyn writes for The Conninf
Tower
frequently, now and then.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

Unnecessarily dull, our belief Is, arc
the subway bulletins. Verse might
stipple them with red; apt quotations.
artful aid might be employed. AS you
have guessed, this is Constructive Crit
icism. We have just been reading
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind, !"
whence Mr. A. S. M. Hutchinson took
the title for his recentest book. And
1t struck US that the subway passenger,
toiling home in the night, might para
phrase Shelley's line to "If Bleecker
comes, can Spring be far behind"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

Also in that ode We stumbled upon
the title for one Of our next books
"Ashes and Sparks"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

america Favors Giving Japan Her
Place in the Sum-" headlines The Eve
ming Post.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

And then lobbing high to the base
line,
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

1T is easy to make fun Of the Voliva
system of geography, but, although we
got an A in chemistry and one in physi-
ography, we didn't-and don't-under-
stand electricity, nor why there are
tides.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-03-31

Legal blanks for sale at this office.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-03-31
NORMAL. WINS OPENER
 FROM CATHOLIC TEAM

Little Rock, March 31.-Eight er- TOTS committed when errors hurt, caused Little Rock College to donate the opening game of it's series with State Normal to the teachers, to 6. yesterday afternoon at Forest park. Although Trigg pitched fair ball, he II had no chance to win.
 Five hits, none of them good for extra bases, were nicked off the To- cal hurler. In only one inning, the sixth, did the teachers hit him more than once. In that inning, success sive singles by Pait and Henderson aided materially in scoring three runs. Four men worked him for bases on balls, and he made five go out on strikes.
 Little Rock College tied the score in the sixth inning by driving Tuck CT off the hill, and scoring five times before the slaughter ended. Three bases on balls, single by Lillis, and Vignos' crashing triple to right field spelled the end of Fuckers services on the mound
 State Normal came back in the seventh and scored two runs on a walk two errors and Brannon's single Little Rock started a rally in its half of the seventh. showed one across, and then quit scoring.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-03-31
BANQUET 10 START
 PROMPTLY AT 7P.M.
CANES FOR HARTJE, COLE
MT. TorreysOn Postmaster at Annual Banquet to be Served by
 Ladies Auxiliary.

Members of the Conway Conner cial Club, about 100 strong. will gather tonight at ' o'clock for the annual banquet to be rendered them by the ladies auxiliary. The hour is placed early at the request of the ladies, and those who will attend are asked to be on hand promptly at the appointed hour. At noon today 51 had phoned their reservations to Tom Davis at the Bank of Conway, but it is probable the affair will be attended by 100 or more members of the club.
 While the banquet is the annual one rendered to the club by the ladies auxiliary, the affair tonight will be especially in honor of Senator George F. Hartje who represented this and White county in the last two sessions of the legislature, and Mayor W. D. Cole who has accomplished much as head of the citys government. Gold headed canes purchased by the club will be presented to the officers in recognition of their services in be- half Of the county ana clIy.
 The program for tonight will be divided into two parts. B. w. Tor reyson, president of the Normal, will preside and present the speakers. Talks to occupy eight minutes each, including the presentation of the canes will occupy the first part, which will be as follows: Invocation, by Rev. c. M. Reyes; "The Conway Conner cial Club," by P. F. Cleaver, the pres ident; "Conway's Future,' by w. $. Cazort; "The Time, the Place and the Man." by Jo Frauenthal and presen- tation of cane to Senator Hartje; "The New Order,' by Doak s. Camp bell, and presentation of cane to Mayor Cole; "Optimism-Adversity is the Test of Strong Men," by Rev. R. L. Jetton.
 Three minute talks comprise the second and final part of the program. The following will make brief talks, serious, satirical, cynical and gay: R. W. Robins. J. w. Conger, Fred Gordy, H. L. McAister, J. B. Parker, T. s. Staples, T. M. Williams, J. C. Clark, Frank E. Robins, Judge E. L' Smith and Frank Farris. The bene- diction will be said by Rev. E. r. J. Garrott.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-03-31

Frank E. Robins is a business wis., ltor in Little Rock today.
 Pure home rendered lard, 15 cents per pound. Erbacher's-3-14dtf.
 County scrip for sale. Circuit Clerk w. F. Whiddon.-3-22dtf
 For Rent-Four acres with good house, barn, garden, etc. Durham & Co.-2-12dtf
 Get a Vacuum Cleaner for your spring cleaning. Newborn Brothers.
 Dressed chickens delivered any where in town. Phone o. S. Russ, No. 298.@3-30d2t.
 For Sale or Trade-A few milch cows. Erbacher's Market. Phone 90. .2-16dtf.
 Five Cities League Games-local high vs. Clarksville on high school campus Friday and Saturday.-dlt
 Miss Lucille Hall, student at the State Normal School, left this morn ing for visit to relatives at Havana.
 High school vs. Clarksville. High school campus Friday and Saturday. Come out and see the home boys play.-d1t
 For Sale-White Rock eggs, from purebreds with the best blood lines in the country. c. D. Estes, phone 327 -3-1Seod4t.
 Attention I will be at Anderson's bookstore on the afternoon of April 1 to collect the March w. c. Grove dues. Please come in and pay them. Hattie B. Hairston, Clerk-3- -30d2t.