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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
Joshua S Rivals

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your interesting criticism Of
those writer's who supplement their
atmosphere by taking liberties with the
sweet regent of the sky" have no ex-
cuse except that with them fiction is
stronger than truth. That they are a
little ahead of time in the matter Of
tho moons uprisings and downsittiDqs
would probably pass unnoticed but for
your observations.
Some writer's, however, 20 further
still and turn the heavenly bodies com
pletely around. In that little read.
nowadays, delightful romance Of THE
Antiquary' the Harp of the North
makes spectators OF the east coast Of
Scotland sec the sun set in the North
Sea.
One may forgive Sir Walter. who had
a habit Of setting his stage to suit him
self. We condemn the insignificant and
c0ndone the faults of the great. Peace
to his ashes, in spite of Mark Twain
III comparison with the author of
"Waverley" Joshua was mere ANA
tour in solar arrangement.
W +. ALLEN.
New York, Aug. 2s, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
MIR. Hoover Steps In

The Administration will do what
can be done to check the spread of
unemployment. Government re-
ports indicate that there are now
100000 people out of work. The
arrangement Of our productive ma
chinery is widespread. Next winter
will be the first one Of hardship for
the workers in many years.
Unemployment, now exceptional,
results, in Mr. Hoover's view, from
a poor coordination of American
production. The industrial machine
runs at loose ends. At the confer
ence which is to be called and in
which he will be the Administra-
tons chief spokesman stress will
undoubtedly be laid on the need of
organizing production along sound
er engineering lines. Unemploy-
ment is increasing portentously. Yet
there is talk at the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor's meeting at Allan
tic City Of strikes by strongly in
trenched and favored labor groups.
Retail prices have ceased falling
and are still far out of their proper
relation to wholesale prices.
Profiteering still goes on. Economic
processes are tangled up in the con-
fusion of partial and unequal de-
hation.
The government itself has been
forced to retrench and is not in a
favorable position to undertake
large public works. But it is a re-
Election, as the Secretary of Com
merce says, on our economic system
that while business as a whole is
steadily improving unemployment is
at its height and suffering is the un-
avoidable lot Of many who are will
ing to work.
Mr.. Hoover is not passivist in
such matters. More than academic
advice is likely to come out of
conference on unemployment of
which he is the guiding spirit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
Char-les's Platform

The people" are to write the plat
form on which the political manni-
kins of Tammany Hill will perform
this fall. 1t is to be their very own.
public" meetings are to be held dur
ing September in the Fourteenth
Street wigwam and elsewhere" at
which tbs people" will be invited
and expected to utter their judgment
of the issues" Of the campaign.
The candidates of the phone booth
convention are to be theirs through
whom to work their utmost desires.
This is Mr.. Charles +. Murphy's
latest announcement from Good
Ground, via Fourteenth Street. The
effrontery Of it has seldom been sur
passed.
There are those who pretend to
see in it an attempt at jocosity on
Char-les's part We cannot. To US
it is sheer effrontery-the effrontery
VI q dCoptl q CC illiIildIl I'd dllI-
many confronted by defeat, availing
itself of one of the stock tricks of
Hearstism-thet trick OF guiding.
1t will not be believed by the peo-
pie of New York that either Mr..
Murphy, of Good Ground, or Mr..
Hearst, Of Riverside Drive, will per-
NIT them to participate in any sense
in the writing of the Tammany plat
form.
The public will have as much to
do with the making Of that platform
as it had with the naming of Char
less candidates. 1t will have as
much to do with it as poor John
Hylan had to do with the statement
he read to the legislative Investigate
ING committee, or with the compost
ton of the campaign speeches the
unfortunate man IS going to recite.
And that is nothing at all.
1t will be Char-les's platform.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
Duty on Methyl Alcohol

To tho Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: After long agitation Congress
recognized the Importance of alcohol
as an industrial material, and enacted
the "untaxed denaturcd alcohol law ="
cxempting from internal revenue taxa
ton alcohol used for most manufacture
ing purposes. The Fordney tariff bill
imposes duty of Is cents a gallon on
"methyl alcohol" a substance LARGELY
used as denaturant for industrial
alcohol. presumably in the interest of
the 20 sc producers by whom the
mcthyl alcohol is distilled from their
by products.
There is not the slightest excuse for
thus adding to the cost of an important
industrial material, particularly at this
time, when every effort is being made
to develop and extend our dive and
chemical industries, which consume
large quantities of alcohol The SEN
ate committee on Finance should
promptly strike out this obnoxious tax
WHIDDEN GRAHAM.
New York f,ur OF 1901
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

The Allied Council at its last
meeting washed its hands of the Up
per Silesian controversy. France
and Great Britain were at logger
heads and no compromise appeared
possible. Each government was in
volved in too many commitments to
back down gracefully. SO a mandate
to make decision was given to
the Council Of the League of Nations
"a highly convenient method of
passing the buck.
The three nations which have
acted through the Upper Silesian
commission and succeeded only in
nagnlfying their differences are
represented in the league Council
rive other powers not directly con-
cerned IN the Silcsian settlement
Belgium, Japan, Spain, Brazil and
1hina--are also represented. Can
1ne eight end a conflict Of interest
f~' F'oo "nlc0 mas ragged ever
since lloyd George and Wilson over
ruled Clemcnceau at the peace con-
ference and unwiscly turned down
the unanimous recommendations Of
the experts Of the Polish Commits.
sion for an immediate determination
= an Upper Silcsian boundary line
between Poland and Germany?
The evil effects Of tina. decision
have beer cumulative. Greet Britain
ard France have been brought by IL
many times to the verge Of rupture.
rrper Silezia has been lett for two
years in state u civil VAR. The
relations betwcen Poland and Ger
many have been indaucd. The
Lloyd George plebiscite too long de-
laJed, has eettIcd nothing. The
League ri Nations Council, shad
owy body, fearful Of its own future
and glad = be let alone, is now
forced 70 ertake a settlement Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
Questioning I eachers
What Do They Know About Physics
and Physiology

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some time ago wrote letter
to your paper in which I suggesr-l
that no one should be allowed to tea y
music unless he had college degrcl
To carry my argument q little IL
Their, I would like to suggest that ;
one can be an efficient teacher of vo
technic unless he has really SCUM
knowledge of the physics of sound an
of the science of physiology.
This statement seems to be 80 obvious
as to be almost trlte; nevertheless
can assure you that have lately been
questioning several vocal students, and
even teachers, and have almost without
exception found them ignorant Of even
the fundamentals of these sciences.
The first question I ask is: "Wha.
is resonance" They all say: "0h.
resonance is what makes the voice
sound full and round" I have never
net with one Of them who realized
that an air cavity which resonates for.
say, middle &C" will not give resonance
for higher or lower note. say mid
die &C." They never seem to under
stand that resonance cavity is such
a cavity that the air in it Will vihrate
spontaneously with the vibrating men,
brane, nor DO they know that, for 2
tube closed at one end. as the note as1
cends the scale the cavity which gives
resonance must become shorter and
shorter
So far is this fact misunderstood
that most teachers tell their pupils
that the tone is felt higher and highe:
in the head as one ascends the scale.
This is obviously absurd. and such
statement could not possibly be made
if the fundamentals were understood.
| could quote other absurd fa.laces
which arise through ignorance Of the
physics of sound, but do not wish 70
become too technical
Again I have asked: whist are th1
names of the cartilages Of the laryNf
and of their accompanying muscles ard
how do they function?" So PROFOUND
is the ignorance Of elementary physi-
ology that in one book en- voice which
has recently been published the aa.ho'
states that it IS most undesirable thai
the student should understand physE
ology.
Such statements compel che to ask
"What, then, should the student know
Is he to accept with blind faith an
statement the teacher chooses to make
even if the statement has no scientia'
basis? DOUGLAS STANLEY.
New York, Aug. 27, 1921
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

religious and secular-which during
the war were so anxious to aid the SOL
der and sailor? Where are those who,
during the war, said that the old order
of things as to ex-soldiers- would not
prevail after the cessation of hostili-
ties? Where are those who swore they
would stand by the youth of the U. S.
A. after its return from overseas and
uplift and support it?
Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad" or, rather, when q
people, in sheer disregard of the right
of all who are willing to do their bit
to eat, sleep, hold up their heads and
enjoy reasonable comfort, permits
misery on large scale, that people
invokes doom.
This is not q time for frittering of
hours, or minutes, or seconds. Every
American should do what he can, in
dividually, to revive business, multiplv
avenues of employment and to prevent
wages from sagging out of all propor-
ton to the slight reduction in the
cost of living. Every influential Amer
lean of adequate means should busy
himself or herself actively and en-
ergetically in bringing about actual
relief for the men who are slipping
all Of them
The government can and should
provide avenues of employment of
sufficient elasticity to provide for
those who just now need to be taken
by tse hand. If it be economy and
nothing more to discharge on a
large scale government EMPLOYEES
whose incomes are small, at such times
as these, is it wise or just? am
not an alarmist, but the veterans of
the World War, in all branches. fifteen
times outnumber those of the war with
Spain. What is more, the temperament
or the present day does not placidlv
turn toward martyrdom.
A. NJ TAYLOR.
Brooklyn, Aug %, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Many thanks fer the ed:For's'
in to-day's Tribune "Borah's F'T'1
Ideas" 1t is part Of a crest newspa'
per's duty TO keep the truth before 'hs
people. So many facts arc distorted
and wrongfully presented that i u
necessary from time 10 time 10 writ
such an editorial, or the people WI
forget the truth about who started tn
World War. Keep the responsibility
fixed whore it belongs,
Please accept the thanks Of YOU
old friend CONSTANT READER
East Orange, \. j.. Aug. Is. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
The Inhibited Victory Complex

There is certain type of Ger
man mind that reads in the inno-
cent acts of other nations plots as
vicious and designs as cynical as
were those of the old imperial Ger
many. 1t regards world politics
through the distorted lenses
Of Machiavellian methods and
imagines cunning schemes and deep
laid designs of selfish imperialism
wherever it looks.
Such point Of view is seen in
recent article in the Berlin "Neue
Rundschau" dealing with Latin
America. Besides an ill-concealed
delight at the prospect of world
war over a conflict between Peru
and Chile, the author lets it be
known that there is hope for a war
between the United States and
South America over Mexico. The
United States, it appears, is i'm
patient to conquer its southern
neighbor. No pains have been
spared to bring about a situation
warranting intervention. "No revo-
luton has occurred in Mexico" says
this gifted author, (which cannot be
traced to its northern neighbor, or
where at least the trail of the dollar
IS not found" The American gov
ernment, it appears, raises and
knocks down Mexican presidents at
its pleasure. But there is only one
situation which would really justify
American intervention in the eyes
Of South America, and the situa-
ton is imminent-the rise in
Mexico Of Soviet government!
Beyond question:" says the
writer, every recent Mexican revo-
luton has had Bolshcviki behind it,
or at least forces which could
plausibly be described as Bolshe-
visit. Now, should the Mexicans set
up a dictatorship Of the prolctariat,
whether Of their own accord or in
response to Yankee intrigue, it
would give the Yankees a splendid
excuse to seize the country without
protest from Latin America" This
idea is naturally intriguing to a
German mind that saw no moral
turpitude in the imperial German
government supporting the Bolshev-
Xxi in Russia. Why shouldn't Amer
lea do the same thing in Mexico?
However," no continues, "this
would be playing with fire, in view
Of the fact that there is already so
much Bolshevist agitation among
American workers."
Has any Freudian yet made
psycho-analytical study Of political
writers? If he should commence
With the Germans he would find
plenty Of examples of the Inhibited
victory complex Having lost the
var, the Germans encourage them
selves by imagining wars among
their enemies and revolutions every
whore except in Germany They
czult in the mutual dcstruc-
ton Of America and Japan.
They glory in the ruin Of the Brit
ish Empire. They gloat OVER Boil
shovism Ia Mexico and tho United
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

States. They look forward to the
humiliation of South America.
Then they become enraged because
we laugh at their credulity. Who
but person suffering from the in
hibited victory complex could write
such nonsense about Mexico and
the United States? Who but per-
son with a diseased imagination
could believe such foolishness?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
Our Leading Industries

fFvom The Louisville Courier Jourr0J
The misunderstanding industry, y
seems, will soon rank next TO that q
hcotlegging, which is said by some Il
be itself next in immensely to the stet
and iron business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

II. B. n. says Mrs. H. b. n. wants
t. know whether the theater that ad-
vertiscs eli, Eli Chorus really is
housing the Yale Glce Club.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
Why the Future Tense?

Everything ne fiylan) says in public
VIII be carefully prepared IN advance and
VIII represent the product or ut least
h"N-aozcn Of the best minds among tho
Iammany and Hearst mcn.-Thc World
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
All There. Franz

NJ. Sturman +. Dyson and T. P. A.
Were up at Seal larbor the other day
f. O. NJ.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

fFrom The Boston Transcript
Coal dealers again announce that the
PRICE will remain high Why take the
JOY out of life by calling attention to
disagreeable fact that everybody recog~
nizes7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
sud the Chief of Staff Has Writer'S
CramD

f. T. V.-If you are following the
development Of the great Indian re-
vet you will have observed that the
Moplahs have retreated from Gopi-
cfettipalaiam and Sanakaranayinar-
kovil to a point midway between b.
inayakkanur and Chinknavakanhalli.
Has it ever occurred to you that few
of these towns if laid end to end. :?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
Mr-MnrR or rnr Assoc1Arrn rRrss

The Associated Press Ia exclusively entitled to
the for republication Of all dispatches
credited % It not otherwise credited IN this
paper. and Siso the local news OF spontaneous
o-isn puhshe,. hsrein.
AL rights Of republication Of all other mattaz
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Mr.. Hearst, we also learn, is to d.
rect the campaign of His Honor, and
we fcrvently hope that his usual sue
cess in this field Will attend his cf-
forts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Summer seems to have been served
with u notice Of eviction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Some periods in the lives Of even
the greatest might as we'll be forgot
ten. There are epochs in the careers
Of the highest over which it would be
we'll to draw the veil of charitable
oblivion.
But nothing is sacred to the unret-
cent movie film. There are things other
than the length of feminine water
wear to which the omniscient censors
might pay attention. But they don't
AS lately rs Saturday q Bowery NOV
ing picture theater was advertising in
letters a foot high:
THE LIFE OF DANTE.
From the Crucifixion to the Persecu-
tons by the Emperor Nero.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Turkey has cut off the Greek right
wing, and if it we're only nearer Thanks
giving there might be possible jest
contained therein.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

TWILIGHT

WILlGHT
I shall not fear to meet his face.
The old pretender men call Death,
If may wait little space
When twilight draws it's languid
breath
And hills are crowned with clouds Of
fire
About the dead days flaming pyre.
If one last time before I pass
| see again the dusk a-creep
And smell the night wind in the
grass
And hear the tree toad calling
Sleep"
If thus my journey I may end
III wait as one who waits friend.
Once more III see the firehies CLEAN
And smile little then to know
How many brilliant, youthful
dream
So cleaned, and faded, long ago,
While all the time with tranquil
eyes
The high stars Knocked each enter
prise.
So let me wait little while
In summer twilight ere we meet.
If so it may be, I shall smile
To hear his slow approaching feet
And clasp his hand when he has
said:
"Come, little son, it's time for bed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Sing Sing convicts has been for
gin cheeks" says Uncle Abimelech b.
gardus, of Preakness, N. J. Gosh.
Amt there no honesty anywhere in the
world these days ?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

l wish l were an ostrich grand.
No more I'd fatless roam.
I'd plant my visage in the sand
And think myself at home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Wonder why they don't change their
signs to read:
department To Be Ransomed."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30
VacuOus Verbosity

In contests for vapid phrase
This takes high position;
Observe when on the ads you gaze:
USED cars in good condition."
W. H. V.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Two taxi men were held up yester-
day. Now, if the Bandits Union will
only turn its attention to the hat
checking situation!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

The United States is about to launch
its largest dreadnought, and if they
don't stop increasing in size we'll
have to build some new oceans pretty
soon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Words that are empty and senseless,
indeed,
Utterly void of all flavor or scent.
Make up the ad that we frequently
read:
Seven large rooms at moderate
rent"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

My dentist has an awful clutch.
He holds my jaw and looks within
The while he wears a fendish grin
And softly croons: This won't hurt
much!'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

And It's Hard Bed That Has No
Turning
Dear F. F. V.-Our Proverb-It's a
rolling chair that gathers no gossip.
Mount Sinai Hospital. MIN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Our thanks to George Taggart, of
Paterson, N. j., who has sent US
swell book, all full Of pictures of the
Fassaic River. Some Of them are chat
lfclike we can almost smell it, From
Paterson on, the Passaic has only one
rival, and that is the Gowanus Canal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Entered At The Tostoricc a. New York ~ second
Class Mail Matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Come, little son, it's time for bed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

New York. 4uC. 81, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-30

Florence I. y. Bradley.
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New York, Aug. 2s, 1921.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-12-01
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE

Whereas leila F.. Feeney of Jones'
boro In the County of Washington and
State of Maine, by her mortgage deed
dated the eighth day of November.
1919. recorded In Somerset Registry of
Deeds, Book $50. Page 10s, conveyed to
me. the undersigned. certain lot or
parcel of land with the buildings there
on situated In said Pittsfeld bounded
and described as follows; on the north
by road leading from Pittsfeld Village
to Weeks Corneri on the east by land
of E. f.. Johnson; on the south by land
of Emma Phshor; on the west by road
leading from Weeks Corner to Clin-
ton Villagea containing one hundred
acres more or less and being the same
premises conveyed TO said leila F.
Feeney by Amanda Pushaw by war
ranty deed OF November eighth. 1919:
and whereas the condition of said
has been and now is broken.
Now therefore, by reason of the breach
of the condition thereof claim fore
closure of said mortgage.
Dated at Pittsfeld,e Maine, this 18th
sw4s "p FRANK WEEKS.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-12-01
The Late Nathan Chandler

Nathan Chandler a native of Fox
croft who recently passed away al
the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. M
Francis. in Norridgewock, at the age
of SIS years, was the grandson of Ar
thur Bradman, who taught the first
school in the town of Turner. This
was in Revolutionary times, Bradman
having come here to this country from
England His daughter the mother
of the gentleman just now deceased,
married Ichabod Chandler, who took
his family by means of an OK sled to
Foxcroft from Minot by spotted
trail, where he cleared a farm and
established his home. The older chill
dren of the family participated in the
OK sled expedition, but Nathan Chand-
Ter, who was the youngest of the nine
children, was born in FoXcroft He
spent the greater part of his life in
that town, coming to the Francis
home from Guiiford about u years
ago. His wife died a year ago last
September and the daughter already
mentioned and son, George Chand-
ler of Long Island, N. Y. are the only
survivors of his family. The deceased
was a member Of the Baptist church
His remains were buried at Norridge-
wock.