New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-05


shows how little he knows about the
public school problem of this great.
numerically, city.
Barber Shop Stuff
c. NJ: 1.-THE Curl Left Behind Me"
l.. R. M. K: "The Old Gray Hair, 1t
Amt What 1t Used To Be-"
And for the waiting customer to
read. R. Fl. D. suggests "The Shaving
OF Shagpat," "The Winning of Barbara
WORTH "The Inside Of the Cup" and
any story by Mary Stewart Cutting.
Unseating Black Care
SIT: Detective stories are pure phan-
tasy of the most concrete type. They
crafty, indirectly, one of the strong
est of unconscious wishes. that for
self-g lorficstion, always assuring the
triumph of the detective, with whom
the reader invariably, even if uncon-
sciously, Identifies himself. They thus
give vicarious, though actual, relaxa-
ton of numerous tensions acquired DUR
ing an arduous day; and the tighter
SLACK Care squeezes his heart Away,
the more need is there for some inter-
nal means, if the external relaxation of
alcohol is barred, by which the belted
horseman may free himself from the
grip of the grsly sprite. The best de-
tectlve stories, under semblance of
great control over directed thinking
make as little real demand upon it as
1oes moving picture. They satisfy an
innate sadism, which is frequently re-
pressed during the business day.
Poetry is less accessible to the ordi-
nary man, calling upon him for more
delicate sensibility than he has 1t
would take too much out of him If he
had it to give. 1t takes too much out
of him if it too deeply strs in him
such emotions as are associated with
Love or th-characteristically adult
emotions; while the man of affairs,
tight strung by events in a world os-
tensbly adult, unconsciously Graves a
repression into the infantle world Of
definite, concrete, secure satisfaction.
WILFRID LAY.
Nobody told US not to say anything
about it, so this paragraph is written
to inform 1d2,069 Of you that the Yale
University Press soon will publish a
volume of verse by G. S. B., the demon
contrib. Most of the verse has been
printed in The Coming Tower. The
book will be called yankee Notions.n
Things Boss Lord Didn't Mention
i. p. A.: Perhaps the NJ. f. desk,
Mr. Chester s. Lord couldn't observe
how deep a hate for his superiors the
young reporter could cultivate
Witness: How loathed Old Bart
Campbell on The Philadelphia In
quirer, who would take advantage Of
his geographical location as rewrite
man to put his beer in the ice cooler
and stand mine on the floor.
Witness. How / loathed Abe Merritt.
c. e. Of the P. l., who, while putting an
obnoxious pipe, threatened dismissal
oil any one seen smoking
Witness: How loathed Durand. c.. F..
of The Chicago Daily News, who, after
| had hoped out to kenosha. Wis, on
my own hook, and had a good story on
the wire (end the first story published
in Chicago of the Du Point powder mill
explosion, complained to Hcbb, Asst.
c. f., that a more experienced man
should have been assigned to the lob.
j. L. r.
The gentleman who is willing to bet
Any Amount that William A. Larned's
best game was better than William T.
Tllden's wants to wager that the Cubs
Of 1908 could beat the 1921 Yankees.
Lardner made his literary reputat ton
with Jack keefe in "You know me,
Al THE American.
No, he didn't. He made it,-or in
creased it,-with Jack Keefe in you
Know Me AL
There remained Briscoe, and for him
she did not care nothing (p. 59l.
This Barry Briscoe" said Mrs.
HILARY as she watched Nan and,
he start off (p. 62).-From Dangerous
Ages, by Rose Macaulay.
Is Miss Macaulay thrall to the Lard
merriam influence?
Il am going to buy my daughter
some wise saws announced Mr.. Muir
dock Pcmberton. 81 assume" tipped
Mr. Alexander Woollcott, for it was
indeed he, you viii buy them from
the Ultima Tool Company
II you are paying $50 for a pair of
tickets. don't lose your temper. Re-
membcr it's only n game.
Scncscence
Darling. | am growing old
Baseball series leave me cold.
And who wins the game of ball
don't care Mt all, at all. +. P. A.