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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
Color Again
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l read with much interest the
news Item relating to objections made
by certain won'en clerks opposing the
appointment of a negro Register of the
Treasury.
l wonder if those women objected to
thousands of negroes sacrificing their
lives that America might live? also
wonder did those ex-ser.ice men object
to going over the top with negroes ?
No Mans Land knew no color, and the
negro died there that d emocracy might
reign.
The negroes helped to elect Harding
and his Administration. All that thew
ask Of him in this case is fairness. re.
CARELESS Of the whims OF nine hundred
clerks. Nine hundred white clerks
from thirty-fve states want white
Register of the Treasury, but 12,5O0,-
600 negroes from forty eight states ask
for negro Register. Which shall we
have? H. FRANKLIN LEWIS,
Ex-Service Man.
Trenton N. j., April d, 1921.
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Auto Bureau Clerks Hours

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Ex-Governor Smith was quoted
recently as saying that the CLERKS u
the Automobile Bureau just hand ou'
licenses in February and then sit Gown
and wait for next February. | happe'
to be one Of those clerks employed II
the Autom obile Bureau in New io'i
City.
The hours are from a. m. to =
H., but during the months OF JehD'',
and February the clerks work froh
c. m. to p. m, and the male help ~0''
on Sundays, with no extra compeHs'
ton for any of this overtime LOT -
years back. At present we arc worAias
until p. m. While we take in n''.
money for the state than any o''''
department, the compensation pa'' :"
the clerks is the lowest.
l am almost sure that the clerks V
the New York City bureau wouia W.
come visit from any state ofisiA '
any one connected with a newspsps'
not during the months Of January II
February. but any time during y
year, to see how much .oafing IS .es"
being done. AN EMPLoiH~
New York. April 7, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
Baconiana
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Auent the article in your Sun
day issue on the discovery of cipher
manuscript attributed to Roger Bacon
and said to offer new information
about the scientific discoveries of this
illustrious Franciscan triar, your read
ers may be interested to know that:
/. A recent and full photography of
Roger Bacon, by A. G. Little. of the
University of Manchester, is given as
an appendix to RashdaIl's edition of
Fratris Rogeri Bacon: Compendium
Studii Theologia, published in 1911 by
the British Society Of Franciscan
Studies, London.
2. In 1872 the came society published
Part of the Opus Tcrtium of Roger
Bacon, Including a Fragment Now
Printed for the First Time, by A. G..
Little.
The two volumes can doubtless be
obtained from the secretary OF the
society, Paul Desconrs, 65 Deauvile
Road, Clapham Park, London S. w.
JOHN A. TENANT.
New York, April 8. 1921.
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Of evolution ought to be able to view
this problem with some breadth and
understanding. The variations and
mutations of nature are absolutely
essential to progress. Yet not one in
a hundred, one in million, fits it's
setting and prevails. The others are
brushed aside by the successful type.
So with art. The academicians
carry on the old truths pending the
evolution of the new. They perform
AN absolutely essential and worth
while labor. The nonconformists we
may regard as variations, moro or
less extreme, who push out their
new ideas, some few of which will
enter into the body Of established
truth. Most of the nonconformists,
alas! are destined to extinction.
Such is natures way.
Most humans tend to sympathize
with one group or the other and
stamp and rage accordingly. At any
given moment, in any controversy
between conservative and radical, 1t
is natural and right to want to take
sides. Go to it. But why not keep
background Of philosophy the
while, realizing that the radical is
valuable and necessary, possibly
right. but probably wrong; and that
the conservative is equally valuable
and necessary and, it must be con-
fessed, probably right and only pos.
sibly wrong!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
Prices Out Of Reach
Theory That Peop:> Aren't Buying
Now Because Tnsy Can't
EE y

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | was interested in the points
brought out in the editorial "prices
and the Business Outlook" in yester.
days issue. The burden of this edi-
torial is that business is poor because
money is finding its way into the hands
of those who are reluctant to purchase,
either because they think the market
is going lower or because Of the So
called buyers strike"
In my opinion the buyers strike
is more less of a myth The term
indicates that people are able to pur-
chase but unwilling to do so. The
actual facts are that probably rs per
cent Of the people are unable to pur-
chase even if they so desire.
The real crux Of the situation IN nj
mind is the attitude of the retailers.
There is no disposition apparently on
their part to get things down and take
their loss so that business may be re-
leased for that purpose.
believe if this point we're brought
cut more clearly to the retailer By
those who extend credit to him ne
might change his position. Your edl-
torial indicates that there would be
plenty Of money to lend if debts could
be collected. The situation in some
parts Of the country, unfortunately
does not allow Of a quick consanms-
ton Of this desire. Many banks Gre
still lending money on wheat, cotton
corn, cattle, sheep and wool. to farm
ers who have not been able to sell
their crops at a price that would even
pay off their bank indebtedness.
believe that your theory is entire
ly wrong when you say that money Is
finding its way into the hands OF
hoarders, and therefore is not being
released for the purchase Of goods
Money will circulate at desirable
velocity when the prices Of com
modities are such as to make them a.
! tractive to buyers and possibly to me
many thousands of people who would
buy if they could. The mere though
that there is buyers strike is gong
to retard matters instead Of making
them better. 1t will induce the De-
lief, particularly in the minds OF the
retailers, that if they hold out long
enough the. buying public must n'ss'
them at their price. G. NJ. u
New York, April 4, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
Meeting an Immigrant
Personal Experience of Its Difficulty
Ellis Island Hardships

Ellis Island Hardships
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: immigration is in all our
mouths and on the front pages OF the
daily press. The loudest cries are for
restriction. They should be for con.
sideration--of the immigrant.
Last week steamer from Glasgow
locked in this city. With my wife I
tried to meet and extract from bond
age third class passenger, young girl
coming over to be governess in our
household. After waiting in line in
the street an hour I procured pass.
It got us as far as the Ellis Island
Ferry. The ferry gate was guarded.
We could not pass. because no passen-
gers from tho S. S. "B" would Be
there for examination till the next
day.
The next day the mystic pass adj
vanced US to the ferry entrance. "Ths
| b.? Nothing doing. Cons back at
12." Guest for further enlightenment
was terminated abruptly by one Of
New York's Finest" who showed US,
with some seventy people Of foreign
birth, bewildered, anxious about
family and friends, none too gently
back from the ferry gate. At IL we
were told to return at 1880. At 1890
the word was come tomorrow"
At 9 that evening, alone, terrified,
told that no inquiries had been made
for her, doubling our existence, the
girl arrived at our suburban home
She had been at Ellis Island both days.
During two days mon, women and
children had nothing to eat between
an early breakfast on the "B" and a
meal on their return at night.
They asked for food. There was
none. Mothers asked for milk for their
babies, in some cases less than eight
months old, still feeding from bottles.
These immigrants we're respectable
people from Scotland, a highly desir-
able class. There is no typhus in
Scotland. Yet eastern Europeans were
herded among them on two occasions
during the ten days. There are typhus
and cholera in eastern Europe.
The above is not an isolated in
stance. Is there any excuse for the
condition depicted? Is this the way
to instill Americanism?
DANFORTH GEERs Jr.
Short Hills, N. j., April 4, 1921.
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Wolf Children
(Froan The London Daily Many

(Fro,n The London Daily Mdtl)
The origin Of language is a mystery
that has never been properly explained.
Would a person who was isolated from
infancy and never heard the human
voice learn to express himself in any
ineligible vocal sounds?
An interesting account of Indian
"wolf children" given by Sir William
Bampfylde Fuller in The Science Of
Ourselves goes to prove that when
children grow up among the lower
animals they neither speak nor stand
erect.
During the last eighty years at least
nine of these wolf children have been
recaptured from the foster m othe rs.
In India wolves carry of many chill
dren, but they do not kill them all.
Major General William Sleeman gave
the first authentic account of these
extraordinary cases as long ago as
1S49. He himself saw two Of the chill
dren who were rescued from the wolve
when they grew too large to enter the
burrows. None of them showed any
traces of human manners; they ran on
all-fours; they had no articulate
speech, and they preferred the society
Of dogs to that of men.
Even long subsequent association
with human beings effects no change.
A wolf child rescued in the Agra dis
trict was kept in the Secundra Mis-
sionary Asylum from 1867 to 1895. He
was discovered sitting in the company
OF wolf at the entrance to a burrow.
During his twenty-eight years. stay
in the asylum he never attained a
completely erect position; he never
learned to speak, and his sole accom-
plishment was that he came to use his
fingers In eating instead Of "wolfnr''
the food
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
Profit Sharing

Of the employees Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad $4,000 have consent
ed to an application Of the profit
sharing principle when it hurts;
that is to say, they agreed, the rail-
road business being bad, to materi-
al reduction in wages.
The company spread all the facts
before it's employees and, in effect,
asked what was the best thing to do.
Convinced Of the accuracy of the in
formation, their representatives
unanimously voted that the quickest
way to restore prosperity was for
them to bear their fair share Of the
common loss.
Here was a victory for common
sense patriotism and intelligent self
ishness cheering to those who have
faith that the American wage
worker can be trusted to face dis
agreeable conditions and to realize
that his interest is not in making
bad matters worse.
The common school pays. It lifts
men and women out Of the rut of
wrecking ignorance. The reading
of newspapers pays. 1t carries on
the work of current education. A
square and honest presentation of
conditions in particular industries
pays. 1t makes strike silly thing.
Trust the average worker Of
America to do the wise thing. Mists
and vapors still obscure vision, but
they come from the past and are
dissipating. Uninterrupted industry
is the basis Of general prosperity
Out Of job can come no more than
the worker puts into it. Wages are
not paid out of capital, but out of
current production. These elemen-
tary truths can be driven home tc
become a common and beneficent
heritage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
Main Streets Abb

Mary Austin, who writes IN the
current Bookman, is convinced, after
a three-years Couture survey" that
the phonograph, the choral society,
the travelling pageant and the mo-
ton picture show--to say nothing Of
the public library-will soon enable
the Gopher Prairies to challenge
Boston, Indianapolis, even Greenwich
Village, for the national culture
championship.
"The culture Of the coming gener-
ation," she writes, twill be a culture
Of small communities, communities
of twenty thousand and less. To the
average American such statement
needs no explanation. Though he
hears of them first in the cities where
they have gone to market their
product, he recognizes the prophets
of national life as fellow townsmen.
Even in their abuse-and who does
not abuse the small town nowadays?
there is too much Of noble fury not
to spring from an equally furious
devotion"
Describing the cultural equipment
Of typical small towns, she mentions
"the town Of B. in Texas" which
she found had "a drama club which
presents several plays a year, an
exhibition room for pictures, a mo-
ton picture house, ten-piece band,
a string quartet, community
chorus, branch of the State His
torical Society, three women's clubs,
a mems debating society and a we'll
patronized club"
With the stacks of the public Ii
brary she is not we'll pleased, though
she finds they have "the best of what
was written before 1890 and the
most popular of what has appeared
since" But with the state of the
public mind. she is more encouraged.
Thrills, sensations, romance, are
now supplied by the movies" and
the public is turning to books for
reliable information concerning this
troublous sphere. The war may be
given credit for this, presumably,
and the quickened interest in poll
tics, due to woman suffrage.
If water can rise no higher than
its source, it is equally true that the
source is just as high as the foun-
tain. The small town nourished the
infant souls Of most Of our writer's,
however much in their maturity they
may rail and berate it. Their self
satisfied perfection is Main Streets
alibi.
When an honest search is insti-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
By
Heywood Broun

much detail and, we fear, little relish.
The maj. in question took Conklin's
job when he struck for a raise in
salary. Things went we'll enough. dur
ing the first performance until the very
end. and then it was the fault not of
the lion but of the substitute, for the
trainer was ignorant of one of the cues
which had become a part of the act.
II had taught George to jump for
me as | went out the door," writes
Conklin. at had been done by blow
ing on his nose and then jumping back
as you would plaJ with dog. 1t al
ways made great hit with the crowd,
who supposed it had seen a lion try
to eat a man and that had had very
narrow escape. I worked it this way:
After I had finished the rest Of my
act would get George all stirred up
and growing. Then l would fire my
pistol two or three times and jump out
of the cage as quickly as I could At
the same time George would give a
big lunge and come up against the
door which | had just shut behind me-
George had learned the trick so we'll
that l frequently had to turn on him
once or twice and work him farther
back from the door before 1 dared
attempt getting out"
Unfortunately the substitute had
missed all this part Of the act. He
started out Of the cage and George
Jumped at him and the man was not
prepared to dodge. The moral seems
to be that nobody should covet another
mans job, not even that Of lion tam
ing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
The Oldest Quarrel

The combat between cOnformist
and nonconformist is the oldest of
all quarrels. In politics, in art, in
literature, it has ragged from genera
ton to generation. And it is still
raging-as witness the last writing
of John Burroughs, in Current Opin-
ion, damning Red poets and Red
artists for classifying nature:
"These men claim to get their
charter from Whitman. do not
think that Whitman would be
enough interested in them to feel
contempt for them. Whitman was a
man Of tremendous personality, and
every line he wrote had a mean
ing"
1t is good to hear the voice Of
John Burroughs detoning such home
truth. What is particularly annoy
ing is the plea of the Red that his
particular vagary must be great art
because Whitman was an innovator
attacked by academicians-as Whis-
tier was attacked by Ruskin-and so
on along the great line of successful
revolt. The huge non sequitur in
volved is never considered by these
radicals. For every Whitman and
Whistler who revolted and gloriously
succeeded there are a hundred ex-
perimenters who fail dismally They
succeed in being different, and that
is all.
1t certainly seems that genera
ton brought up in the atmosphere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
Justice to Disabled Soldiers

General PerShlng was the chleI
speaker Monday night at the first of
a series Of meetings planned by a
Citizens committee to obtain JUS
tee for the wounded The exist
ence of such committee is in itself
a startling indictment of the govern
ment's achievements in dealing with
sick and disabled veterans. That
the head Of the army, its former
commander in chief in France,
should say publicly that there has
been Incompetence" in administra-
ton and that the governments
methods have been "cumbersome and
faulty" ought to end debate as to
the necessity Of recognizing the
present relief agencies.
Care for the wounded and dis
abled should have taken priority
over other postwar duties. Few
will venture to dispute the para
mount claim of those who went into
the fighting line and carry the
marks of that service. Yet by some
ironical perversion of justice our
disabled have had to bear two
crosses-one at the front, the other
as recipients at home of a dila-
tory and half-hearted government
charity.
President Harding has taken
steps to change all this. He has ap-
pointed a commission, headed by
General Charles G. Dawes, to over
haul the instrumentalities whose
work has given rise to so much COM
plant. The two years following the
armistice were years of admnistra-
tive DISCRIMINATION in Washington.
The government ran at loose ends.
Domestic problems were elbowed
aside. The returning soldiers were
mustered out and left to shift for
themselves. The rehabilitation pro-
gram which Congress adopted was
strangled in red tape.
The President now properly en-
phasizes the country's dssatisfac-
ton with this long neglect. He
writes to the Dawes commission: sit
is we'll to realize that the American
people want to prove the Republics
gratitude to these men," The public
Il distressed and angered at the
many instances of martinetism and
indifference brought to its attention
by victims Of the governments rigid
and ultra-deliberative processes. The
people would like to see some real
heart and sympathy put into SOL
diers' relief work. The American
Legion did what could be done to
make the last Administration APP
preciate it's duty to incapacitated
veterans. It will have less trouble
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
Books

Lion tanning seems 20 trick at all
if you read George Conzlin's The Ways
OF the Circus. Take, for instance, the
familiar stunt in which a trainer puts
his head into lions mouth and you
will find upon close survey chat it is
nothing to worry about. "This never
failed to make the crowd hold it's
breath, but it was not as risky as it
seemed" says Conklin, "for with my
hold on the lions nose and jowl could
detect the slightest moveme... Of his
muscles and govern my actions ac-
cordingly." Mr.. Conklin does not de-
velop the point, but we suppose that if
he detected any intention on the lions
part Of closing his mouth he would
take his head out in order to make it
easier for the animal.
Mr.. Conkln also cor:ects a number
of misapprehensions about lions which
may be Of use to som, Of the readers
OF The Tribune. Contrary to popular
belief, you have nothing to worry about
if any of your lions insist on walking
up and down. "a lion that will walk
round when you get in the cage with
him is all right, as a general thing"
explains Conklin, "but look out for
the one that goes and lies down In
corner"
To be sure, there Is something Just
little disturbing In the afterthought
indicated in "as a general thing" Our
luck is so bad that we wouldn't feel
safe in a cage with lion even If he
ran up and down. In fact, we would be
! almost willing to wager that ours
would be one Of the unfortunate ex-
ceptons which didn't know the rule
and so would do his bit toward prov
ing it.
In another respect the lion tanner
is little more specific ABOUT lions and
therefore more helpful. ut is true,
though" he adds, chat YOU should
never let one get behind you II you
can help 1t, though in many OF the
acts it is not possible to keep all of
them in front of you all the time"
We can understand this advice, though
it is not altogether clear to us just
what we would do If lion tried to get
him not to, but after that we should
be somewhat at loss. We have never
believed in being rough with lions.
Probably we would let him have his
way Just to avoid argument. AS mat
ter of fact we would have no great OBJ
lection to having all our lions behind
US II only we could keep far enough iii
| front
"a lion that growls frightfully and
acts very ferocous when you are out
side the cage may be one of the
easiest to handle Ind get work out of
when once you are actually in the
cage; and on the other hand, lion
that is mean and dangerous to do any
thing with in the cage may be excep-
tionally docile from the outside and
allow you to pet him freely"
This should go long way toward
solving the problems Of lion tanners.
All you have to do before a perform
ance is to make test from outside
the cage. Try to pat your lion and
pull his ears. If he growls and bites
your hand you will know st once that
you may come in and go about your
business with perfect safety. On the
other hand. if he meets your caresses
by rolling over on his back and purr-
ing it Is up to you to call of the
show or send for your understudy.
/ The unfortunate fate Of such sub
stitute Is described by Conklin with
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New York Just Now
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Where there is so much that Is
unpleasant to read about all over the
world why doesn't some author devots
little time to writing how lovely
New York is on one Ct these spring
mornings?
With soft haze over everything and
a faint sea breeze, enough to put lit
tie pep in you, surely 1t Is wonderful
to be alive and to live in the incest
city in the world, notwithstanding all
its faults. AN OLD NEW YORKER.
New York, April 4, 1921.
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tuted for the fountain head Of their
inspiration, It may even come about
that the most abused Of all institu
American public school
may be given its due Of praise.
Could we believe it il some investi-
gator-preferably foreigner
should reveal to us the fact that
music, art, poetry and the drama
actually flourished in the public
school, and that American children
like them?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-06
A Needed Reform
fFrom rhe Seattle Pose-fntelfoenc

From The Seattle Post-fnteufoencer)
AS special concession to teams fac
ing the mighty bat of Babe Ruth this
season. Judge Lands might issue
ukase allowing six outfclders, three
utility men to take their stations two
blocks away from the ball park and
behind the outer garden, when Babe
steps up to the plate.
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SONG

SONG
WILTON Watson
April, Apsii,
La~Sh Thy rirsish laughter;
Then, the Anomsxt after,
Weep Try oirlish tsarsi
April, thnt mine cora
Lfks lovsr sysstest.
III tell thes, tweetsst,
All MY hoppe and fears,
April, April,
Laugh thy golden laughter,
But, the moment after,
Weep thy golden tsorsi
Four years ago to-day the United
States declared war. Will the world.
we wondered. walking down Riverside
Drive with Prof. Henry s. Candy.
ever be the same? Little did wa think
that IL would be. Wherein we were
unwontedly accurate.
To celebrate the Anniversary Of cur
entrance, on April 8, 1917, into the
war, appropriate exercises should be
INDUCED in this afternoon by dis
abled service men in the Vocational
Training offices.