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New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
Mental Overhead

Should those kindly enthusiasts
who are constantly inventing new
responsibilities for us be further
encouraged, or is it now proper to
suggest that our endurance is al
ready limited, our feeble energies
already overtaxed? Not content
with reducing us to daily basis
Of offensive efficiency, they now
propose to encroach upon the sea-
sons. Our good friends the pub
fishers have invented catching
slogan, "Take along a book" Says
The Publishers Weekly: "The pub
licity will center not only on fiction,
which ought to be part of the con-
tents of every vacation bag packed
for the summer, but also on num-
berless varieties Of books that fit
into summer activities" For pisca-
torial pleasures a bewildering num-
Der of volumes, modern improve
ments on Izaak, suggest them
selves at once. If we go touring
there are appropriate anthologies
Of the poets, the very latest de-
scriptions of scenery and philo-
sophical discourses on auto repairs.
The mind reels before these activi-
ties. But what is any vacation for
if it is not to make us realize that
there is no rest for the weary? We
must return from rest periods with
new lines of care showing beneath
the tan.
Not that we intend to deride the
true JOY of reading or to minimize
its wholesome compensations. But
is it not high time to consider the
mental overhead? In commercial
parlance, the overhead is something
that runs along from month to
month that a business man spends
most of his working time in trying
to keep up with. The mental over
head begins to be even more bur
densome. Think of the thoughts
that we have to think every day!
Though we cut it down as much
as possible the mental overhead of
an ordinary vacation is not to be
despised. One has to think of ones
baggage, of how temperamental is
a Ford, of ones car space, of ones
food and shelter. In the midst Of
these forbidding barriers to free
dom one turns back with relief To
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
Reviving River Traffic

/ 1t is an interesting announcement
that surveys are being made of the
Allegheny River with a view to re-
storing commercial navigation as
| far as Olean, N. Y, a distance of
approximately 200 miles from its
mouth. Years ago this stream was
thus utilized and was an important
highway of transportation. But it
was abandoned, as were many
other rivers, at the time when the
rapid development of railroad serv-
ice caused inland navigation to fall
INTO desuetude.
1t is assumable that the ALE
gheny, in common with many other
rivers of like history, is as capable
of such utilization now as it was
three-quarters Of century ago.
There is belief on the part of
some that the water volume of
rivers has diminished because of
the destruction of the forests
through which they and their tribu-
taries flow. It is more probable
that their flow, instead Of being
diminished, has merely been less
equable. Just as much rain falls
as ever, and though little more
may be lost through evaporation
than formerly, very nearly as much
water flows down the river chan
nels. The difference is that now,
because Of the mischievous destruc-
tion of the natural storage reser-
voirs, the flow is not regulated, but
the streams alternate between
freshet and drought.
This unfortunate condition may
be corrected by the construction of
artificial dams and reservoirs,
which will impound the precipita-
tion when it is plentiful and release
it gradually according to need
when the weather is dry. In this
way streams can be made even
more useful for navigation than be-
fore, while the settlements along
their courses will be better pro-
tected from floods. The art of
canalization of rivers has made
great progress in the last century.
and, of course, greatly improved
means of propulsion of boats have
been devised.
AS to the need of inland naviga-
tion there should be no further
question. There is traffic enough
for all available rivers and canals
and for the railroads, too. In early
years, when the first railroads were
built in this state, legislation for
bade them to carry freight in
competition with the state-owned
canals, or heavily handicapped them
with tolls for SO doing. In later
years men urged complete aban-
donment of the canals in favor of
the railroads. But experience has
shown, in this country as well as in
ether lands, that railroads and
canals paralleling each other are
mutually beneficial rather than
detrimental. We need the railroads
restored to prosperity and full eff
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

Rousseau, who remarked that the
proper way to enjoy vacation was
to make many plans in advance and
never carry them out. That has COM
fort in it. Let us cravenly yield to
the opportunities Of our friends and
take along all the books we can
carry. But don't ask us to read
them--only to have the privilege of
implying that we have done so.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
Books

|
win, "you let slip the remark, some
where in your book comment, that there
doesn't seem to be much writing for
the fun of it any more.
Brushing aside DR.. Johnson's IA
nous remark to the effect that the
only motive for producing literature is
the need of money (and it is true
enough that something, some desperate
urge, must usually drive writer down
through that mental crust above which
most OF US have our entire mental be-
ing)-brushing aside, too, Stevenson's IS
| fine half-truth, for art is, first of all
| and last of all, trade,-let me say that
| you must be, you are, wrong.
"Of certain of US rather old-fash-
Toned tellers of tales the worst may be
freely said. We cling pathetically to
sense Of form. We indulge, when
we hope no stern young psycho-analyst
or vorticist is looking, in the happy
ending. We receive pay for our work,
and are therefore commercialists. We
permit our work even to appear in
popular magazines, and are therefore
prostitutes.
"All this is bad enough. But we
did at least suppose we were enjoy
ing it. The thrill of recognizing a
story as ones own when it first peeps
elusively over tho threshold Of con-
sciousness has at times been ours. We
have known the JOY of writing swiftly
in fine rhythmic flow through the
quiet hours of the night when the clock
| seems to strike every few minutes and
mighty silent forces seem to flow
through ones veins. Is there finer
pleasure than that of feeling charac-
ter come true in some incident or sit
ustion? Or than that of drawing out,
little by little-and oh, SO gently and
deftly, lest it break like a cobweb-
the pretty thread of story?
And the fun of experimenting. They
dwell heavily on subject matter now
adays. A novel is about this or that.
But to perceive--oh, so clearly!-that
the very qualities you love-the glow
OF romance, the finely chiseled bit of
real Characterization blend
happily, sometimes don't. To try it
this way and that, driven on by the
sheer love of writing and by the hope
that this time the thing may come off,
that for moment you may sense and
see beauty-isn't that fun? Even to
fail at it, as you must at least part
Of the time, brings it's compensations;
you gained little something at this
point, or learned a useful lesson in
losing at that.
There is paragraph in my Henry
Is Twenty that is, as it stands, the re-
suit Of nearly sixty experimental re-
writings. And so it appeared in one
OF those dreadful magazines, and very
young people cried-'How could youl'
But they couldn't rob me of the fun
had. And--honest, now!-if I'd been
doing it just for money, why waste so
much time? And I wrote the first
twenty thousand words of Anthony
the Absolute within less than a week.
And oh, boy, the thrill of that expert
ence!
Writing in Red and Gold was
glorious fun. I couldn't let it alone:
couldn't get away from it, day or
hardly night. You didn't know that.
You said that the 'melodrama' in it
wasn't the most spontaneous thing in
the world That's all right, too, but
would gladly have shared with ycu, If
could, the fun of telling about Dixie
Carmichael as she sat so quietly in
Kang Yu's garden looking on at those
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

here are circumstances which were
within our control. The rule of
trade is that the seller shall provide
what the buyer wants. We ignore
it, and then wonder why we cannot
compete successfully. In many
ways the American is most adapt
able, but with respect to tastes and
preferences he is often psycholog-
ically stiff and stubborn.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
Babe" Ruth's 8 Day in Jail

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I see chat "Babe" Ruth was
sentenced to day in Jail. How much
is a day? The accounts indicate that
he was sentenced somewhere about
noon and was released about p. M
the same day.
Is this one of those cases in which
a prisoners good behavior takes about
55 TO rs per cent off his term? Great
are the penological theoristsl
/. GooDNow.
New York, June II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
Shipping Board Policy


The reorganized Shipping Board
finds itself saddled with two oppres-
sive legacies. 1t is the common no
ton that its only problem is to liqui-
date the war ship-building venture.
While the war was on the German
submarine campaign made it neces-
sary for the United States to pro-
duce all the new merchant tonnage
possible. The government had to 60
into ship construction on a vast
scale. The war organization which
we then had decided to ignore cost in
order to make good the German in
roads on the worlds shipping. The
new fleet represented an investment
of $4,000, 100000 or more. In these
days of surplus bottoms and mari
time prostration it probably has a
market value of less than $1,000
100000.
Government operation Of plant
which is now enormously over
capitalized and for which it is diff
cult to obtain business will mean
continuous loss to the Treasury. The
only way to avoid throwing good
money after bad is to sell all the
ships which can be sold and to stop
operating the others. If the Ship
ping Board had not been prevented
by the Hearst injunctions from put
ting ships on the auction block a
year or more ago, and had it not, be-
fore and after that proceeding, held
them at too high a valuation per
ton, the government might have cut
its losses materially. Now, perhaps,
two-thirds of the construction cost
will have to be written off.
Such liquidation is painful, but it
is prudent business move. 1t is an
inevitable incident of peace adjust
ment. But the new board is faced
with another question of policy.
Even before the war the Wilson Ad-
ninistration had conceived the idea
of bringing the merchant marine
under Federal control. 1t saw the
need Of restoring the American
carrying trade. But it wouldn't ap-
ply the methods which the other
maritime nations had successfully
used. 1t wasn't willing to stand be-
hind the private builder and opera
tor, but wanted to bring the govern
ment into the shipping field as
rival builder and operating competi-
tor.
Mr.. Wilson evidently intended to
make the experiment Of a govern
nent-controlled marine under peace
conditions. The war suddenly gave
him free hand with the merchant
fleet, just as it allowed him to make
similar disastrous experiment with
the railroads. 1t Is this earlier Will
son policy which the new Shipping
Board will have to aim at reversing
within reasonable period. Having
tried the wrong road-perhaps an
unavoidable road in 1917 and 1918
it is time to get back on the right
one.
The bad effects Of dual operation
have been emphasized in the course
Of the marine engineers strike. The
government has shown disposition
to make terms with the strikers
which the private companies feel
would be ruinous to them. The old
Shipping Board was always intent
on keeping its ships moving. Yet
keeping government ships NOV
ing under conditions which would
strangle private enterprise simply
defeats the true purpose of govern
mental activity in the shipping field,
which is to create and sustain
merchant marine owned and oper-
ated by private capital.
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New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

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credited 10 s. or not otherwise credited In this
paper. and also the local OF spontaneous
origin published herein.
AL rights of republication Of all other matter
herein also are reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
A Sure Cure

from The Boston Transcript
Having laid down the principle that
"the only way to abolish divorce is to
abolish marriage" Bernard Shaw can
now go on with the noble work of &bei-
ishing death by arranging that nobody
shall be born.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
Gotham Gleanings
News are scarce this week.

News are scarce this week.
--Rollin Kirby bached it last wk.
Typical Jrne weather we are
having.
Miss Violet Palmer has got a
new auto.
Bill Hays of Sullivan, Ind, was
here Thursday.
Who will be the next Mayor is
absorbing the attention of many.
Mrs. Sally James Farnhan was
over to the NATL capital last week.
Raymond Ives left for Cuba Sat-
urday to be gone for several months
on bus.
Miss Baird Leonard Saturdayed
in Pennington, Conn, recovering
from spell of rheumatism.
Herb Swope has leased the cot
tage next to the Lardner mansion at
Ct. Neck for the heated term.
Sam Rowe of Chgo is making
elaborate plans to come here next
wk. for the Princeton commence
rnent.
Marc Connolly is working off his
condition in French at the Berlitz
School and expects to qualify for the
track team in the autumn.
Just what the illustrated dailies and
the Sunday rotos would do if there
were no claws" against ene-piece bath
ing suits, this poor brain finds itself
incapable of imagining.
The Comic Maiady
tFroul The Glens Falls Times1
Henry Colpay, Hudson Falls, is stopping
at Geo. Luttes, convulsing from an attack
of grippe.
There are seventy stanzas in the
Uruguay national anthem, which fact
may account for the Uruguay standing
army.
What Prexy Obregon wants to hear
the United States say is advance one.
and be recognized"
Milk week is over, and probably the
cows are discontented again.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

Mr.. Belasco and Mr.. Cohan may both
retire from the theatrical producing
game; and, as Kid Gleason said to AL
Keefe, San Francisco Bay may be made
OF grape juice.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

cheney, and we need the rivers and
canals, rehabilitated after more
than two generations Of neglect.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
ticn results In any case THE TRIBUNE puaran.
tees TO gay your meney back request. No red
tape. No aubbiins. We make good promptly II
the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
A Safety Valve
fFrom The Washtnctor

fFrom The Washington Poss)
These are blessed days because there
are SO many people relieving their feel
ings by scoring ball games instead of
their luck.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

For honorary membership in the
Flnnegan Club we propose the travel
ing plans Of Mile. Suzanne Lenglen.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
Tho Pre-Nuptial Chill

Mrs. Dey testified she first noticed her
husband was growing cold one morning In
1910. when he failed to kiss her as ne started
for business. They were married October
90, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
MONDAY, JUNE l3, 1921

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New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
CHAR ANTX

Entered at the Poston,ce at New York secont
Class Mall Matter.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
LEE WILSON DOpD.
Our Own Travelogues

The waters of this lake are 80 cold
that the trout seeks them as it did
before the white men came and so clear
that they catch and hold all the rose
and amethyst of each setting sun.
The natives are kindly people-save
only when they have aces back to
back A. w.
Skaneateles Lake, N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
The Coming ower

LIFE
Life, If you ask me news of it,
Is good and ill and nothing long:
A stab of pain, fash Of wit;
A sigh-a song.
A bluebird; futtering apple bloom;
snake that strikes; wasp that
stings;
A spreading fame-a freless room
So many things!
So many things, and nothing long;
81 many weary things-and fair!
babys laugh-an old mans song
A wofnan's hair
LEE WILSON DODD.
These Sunday stories entitled
"Christnas In TERRA del Fuego" OF
Thanksgiving in Many Lands" don't
raise our blood pressure a point, but we
should like to read piece called "How
Grover Cleveland Bersdoll Spent
July d."
II shall have my baton for the Anti
Prohib Parade" writes Rocco. "But
who will play the cornedyet, the
claretnet, and the pickle 2" And who
the sackbut?
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

So poor a memory has friend Of
Old Don Herold's that Don says he
couldn't get q job calling stations on
shuttle train.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

What Prexy Obregon wants to hear
the United States say is advance one,
and be recognized"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

There are seventy stanzas in tn
Uruguay national anthem, which fac
may account for the Uruguay standin,
army.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

Just what the illustrated dailies and
the Sunday rotos would do if there
were no claws" against one-piece bath
ing suits, this poor brain finds itself
incapable of imagining.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13

Milk week is over, and probably the
cows are discontented again.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
The Comic Maiady

tFrom The Glens Falls Times1
Henry Colpay, Hudson Falls, is stoppins
at Geo. Luttes, convulsing from an attacl
of grippe.
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

Above-The Prince of
Wales lin centre) at the
Grand Military Steeple-
chase at Sandown. On the
left is the Duke Of York
and on the right Prince
Henry.
Copyright, Kadel & Herbert
News Service
At Right Arthur
Morgan, 15-year-old scul1
tor, working on bust
DR.. Simon Baruch. Th
is the second statue Mo
gan has made from life al
his work has been praise
Ihighly by art critics. +
Twas born in Louisiana ar
lives i'm New York.
Copyright. Keystone View.
The Washington herald., 1921-12-27
LIQUID CHEER SNARE TO
CHRISTMAS MERRY MAKERS
Nearly 40 of Those Arrested Over Sunday Pa,
$40 Fines in Police Court.

release on collateral and were de-
tanned. Ten dollars was the usual
fine. The others forfeited collat-
eral amounting to s25 each.
Twelve were locked up on more
serious charges Only one man was
sent to jail and this sentence,
amounting to six months, was i'm
posed on a charge of carrying .
razor. Several other cases were
continued until some witnesses, who
were more or less injured in fights,
could appear.
George Reese, colored, age. occu-
patton and address not given, who
was alleged. to have become intoxi-
Gated on Christmas Day and an
noyed women on the street, was
sent to Jail for six months by Judge
Harrison and fined s35 on charge.
OF carrying concealed weapons, be-
ing drunk and disorderly.
A young white woman. testified
that Reese followed her on N stree,
southwest. She summoned Police.
man O'Donneil who sent the Of
fender to the Fourth precinct A
razor was found in his coat pocket
The Washington herald., 1921-12-27
BLACKJACKS MAN
IN SIGHT OF POLICE
AND DISAPPEARS
Negro Fells Another Wh6
Was Going to Station
With Officers.
is SECOND CHARGE
Bluecoats Declare Assailapt
Has Been Sought Year for
Jumping Bond"

negro feIied another with a
blackjack in the presence OF two
policemen directly In front OF the
Third precinct station last night and
'outdistanced the policemen in
chase. The police charge that the
assailant was Leroy Marshall. ac-
cused Of having Jumped bond"
year ago.
The injured negro. Edward White,
20 years old, 1920 Government sfley-
northwest. was accompanying Po--
licemen J. r. Roshford and r. T.
Mulkey to the station house 70 sp-
pear as a witness against one Of a
dozen prisoners in charge of Tho
officers.
The trouble began when the pe-
licemen entered a near beer saloon
at Twentieth and l. streets NORTH
west to quell a disturbance. The
officers arrested several negroes
At the station house, Walter Con-
rad, colored. 3os X street southwest.
was the only one held. He was
charged with assault
White was rushed TO the Emer-
gency Hospital
The Washington herald., 1921-12-27
ASKS SFEET CLEAR
AT FIRE MIGRANTS
Chief Watts Says Autos
Hamper Engines in Get
ing Water.

Five feet is not enough clear space
around fire hydrants. according to
Fire Chief George s Watson. He
has requested the Commissioners to
amend the traffic regulations SO as
10 leave a clear space on all sides
Of the hydrants of at least eight
feet.
In making this request Chief Wat
son complains that under the pres
emit rules automobiles are parked
so close as to delay the fire en-
gines in getting into operation.
Whera angle parking is to be per
nitted the chief thinks ten feet
should be reserved.
In the report of the citizens traf-
fic committee, recently made public
nv the Commissioners, the space
allotted fire hydrants was five feet
The mmissioners expect to act
on the report as soon as the hear
inrs on Distpct appropriations have
bcen completed.
The Washington herald., 1921-12-27
Gambling Charge Fails
Against Man AsIeep


1t is legally impossible for a man
to be asleep in bed and run a gam
bling house at the same time. ac-
cording to ruling yesterday by
Judge Hardison in. Police Court in
dismissing charge Of setting up a
gaming table preferred against will
lam Crew, colored. of 1870 Second
street northwest, by Policeman v.
P. Kew, OF the Eighth precinct.
Kew testified that he saw two
men gambling in Crews kitchen, and
discovered a demijohn of wine. a
pack Of cards and some small change
on the table. He went upstairs and
woke Crew. Crew said his head
was heavy from wine" and he went
to bed, but knew absolutely nothing
about any gambling going on in his
kitchen. =
The Washington herald., 1921-12-27
CHINESE TARIFFS
PUZZLE CONFEREE
Underwood TO Call Committee
For Renewing De-
bate.

Senator Underwood, chairman of
the arms conference subcommittee
studying the Chinese tariff. has in
formed members of the committee
that a meeting will be called in a
few days to resume consideration
of this subject.
There is no prospect of early
agreement on the question. China
asks an immediate increase from
the existing per cent ad valorem
to IA per cent and a pledge that
the rate will be increased to 1874
per cent when the Chinese govern
ment abolishes the likin, or inter-
nal traffic tax imposed on goods
passing from one province to an
other in China.
A Chinese spokesman said yes
terday that China demands COM
plete autonomy as regards her tar
if, but, seeing that the powers are
unwilling to concede II, she is pre-
pared to accept 12h per cent
tariff.
Delegates to the conference as
sert that il is awkward for them
to discuss publicly some of the Chi
nese problems, as 1t Is desirable
to maintain the spirit of good feel
ing which has animated all the dis
cussions, but that it is generally
known that China Is not in a posi-
tion to expect either tariff auton-
omy or withdrawal of foreign
troops.
The corruption of Chinese on
Gals is declared to be notorious,
this being one of the primary pur-
poses of the powers in organizing
the international bankers censor
tium for financing China, which
would require supervision of the
expenditure OF loans granted to
China by foreigners, and which is
the reason given for rejection by
the Chinese government of the con-
sortium plan.
The Washington herald., 1921-12-27
ROBS POLICEMAN
VISITATION HOUSE
Thief Steals Watch from the
Pocket of Sleeping
Officer.

Slipping through the lines Of the
enemy unnoticed at the First precinct
station, Saturday night, a thief picked
the trousers pockets Of a sleeping
policeman ON the third floor Of the
station house and escaped with a
watch valued at $45.
The victim Is Policeman E. Fl. Gray
son. He was on reserve duty during
the night and had placed his trousers
near his bed in the room occupied by
the reserve officers. When he aKQke
Christmas morning he discovered that
he had been robbed
The loss was Immediately reported
to headquarters and Detective Sergt.
Stringfellow was detailed to assist the
victimized policeman in an attempt to
trace the thief.