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Arizona republican., 1921-03-27

when it was checked out by postoffice officials. For 70 miles the car had pavement. then came the dirt road through san Timoteo canyon between Redlands and Beaumont
 The breakfast bell had not sounded when the crew in their white coveralls flashed like ghosts through the streets and headed into the desert just beyond
 At Palm Springs blazing sun reared it's head over the desert horizon shining directly into the eyes of the driyers The road shone as though covered with silver.
 At Mecca. = miles out, all roads stop and a desert trail across the sands and through the twisting turns of Box canyon writhes its way to Blythe s2 miles away. Here stop of Is minutes was made to repair tire that had gone flat and to take on fuel One stop had already been made at Palm
Arizona republican., 1921-03-27

Springs for q change and another al Mecca for fixing up the spare
 Four miles out of Blythe is the Coio- rado river which has to be ferried, and another delay was met with here. as the ferry boat was in midstream and the crew engaged in removing a sand bar. This delayed the ear Is minutes, and it required Is minutes more to make the crossing.
 At 10 minutes past l2, Phoenix time. the car rushed from the ferry and dis appeared in a cloud of dust into Ari- Zona.
 All trace of the car was lost to the waiting crowds in Los Angeles and Phoenix until it reached the railway at the little station of Vicksburg. II had covered 6s miles in less than two hours. Salome came next and then it was lost trace of again, for the Buck eye route was taken, and for so miles the car twisted and turned. jumped and jolted it's way from one group of chuck holes to another until it reached the Hassayampa garage.
 From there into Phoenix is 44-mile stretch of improved dirt road but with danger spots. One instant the car would be rolling along at 50 miles al hour to hit little rise in the roadwa and lean for 20 feet before the wheel. came back to the road. At other times l the front end of the car tilted up il l the air over some obstruction to land with a thud.
 Eyes glued to the road ahead the drivers urged the car on and as the flying mail approached the city O
 Phoenix interested watchers lined tht roadways. Special police Kept then from the path of danger With sirer screaming for right of-way the Stude
 baker neared the postoffice. where postoffice officials waited with officia time stamp to imprint the card with : record that showed the distance GOV cred one hour and four minutes fastel
Arizona republican., 1921-03-27

time. special delivery messengers with motorcycles were waiting to speed il to the various parts of the city. Most of the mail bore special delivery stamps.
 The mail was therefore delivered in | ess time than it ordinarily takes a railroad train to cover the distance between the two cities, not counting the time required to carry the mail from the postoffice to the railroad sta ton and from the railroad station to the postoffice here.
 The little car pulled away from the Los Angeles postoffice with the sack of mail at f o'clock in the morning.
Arizona republican., 1921-03-27

Mail stamped at the postoffice at Los Angeles was actually delivered to the addressee in Phoenix in less than i3 hours and 30 minutes by reason of the record breaking run accomplished Wednesday by the Studebaker Light Six mail car.
 When the mail pouch was handed to the awaiting postoffice officials here Wednesday afternoon after the Stude baker had fought it's way across the desert in the remarkably brief space Of f3 hours and 16 minutes actual running
Arizona republican., 1921-03-27
colORs FOR HOSIERY

cray and fawn are the colors that are leading in the demand for silk hosiery. A tendency for sheer hosiery ls noted by manufacturers, although tne demand for staple silk hose has not lessened.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Yale and Michigan

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune's we'll considered
comments on Yale's evolutionary
some may think it revolutionary-ad :
ministration should interest all Yale
men, especially pre- Hadleyites.
Several years. acquaintance with
President Angell's father and some of
his faculty revealed them to me as
liberal-minded administrators under
whom, for example, Michigan was the
first collegiate institution to admit
women to it's courses. Very discernible
was the contrast with Yales old-time,
narrow, red tape, semi military ad-
ministration.
At Michigan there was less "high-
brow" and "proletarat" attitude be-
tween faculty and Students; more big
brother guardianship of little brother
ignorance and inexperience; spontane-
GUS respect rather than we'll drilled
and enforced reverence for authority;
no compulsory attendance at early
morning prayers and hungry, sleepy
attendance at recitation Immediately
afterward-all of which we at Yale
took for granted was absolutely neces-
sary to teach and learn anything.
AT Michigan there was less of class
feeling and jealousy. There was a
more companionable spirit between in
structors and students. The "humani-
ties" seemed to mean something more
than classic languages and literatures.
If the new president of Yale succeeds
as we'll as his father did at Michigan
no one can regret the choice.
E. G. HOLDEN.
Tryon, N. c., June %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Concealed Japanese

It used to be thought that $4,000
persons were quite host, not easilv
hidden. Yet in California the census
ensnerators are charged with hav-
ing overlooked no fewer than 5000
japanese. This statement is tele-
graphed from Sacramento to SEN
ator johnson. State figures" SAYS
the telegram, tally with the Federal
census on every race except the
Japanese" who, according to the
Federal census, number 71,942. and.
according to California, number
100000. And then, the Senator is
told, "This evasion is just another
attempt to diseredit the seriousness
of The Oriental issue"
In short, the enumerators, all
Californians, are accused of delib-
erately falsifying racial statistics
or Of being imposed on by the Jap
anese who did not wish to be counted,
Either explanation is a severe strain
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Fading Out

The Socialist national party, in
convention ats Detroit, has declared
against Lenine. "The so-called Rus
sian Internationale," Mr.. Morris
Hillquit told the delegates, ais inn
perialism in Disguise"
1t can hardly be said that Mr..
Hillquit was the first American So
cialist to discover the incompatibility
he now recognizes. Spargo, Benson,
Walling, Stokes and many others
(indeed, almost the whole group of
native-born Socialists) saw it years
ago, and for the offense of being
right were driven out Of the Socialist
organization. Even Lenine preceded
Mr.. Hillquit in apprehension of the
truth. He drew up a list Of Socialist
leaders who were to be denied COM
munion with the Third Information
ale. Mr.. Hillquit was among the
prescribed.
A repudiation of Leninism is
therefore only a measure of self-pro-
lection taken by the present man
agemeat Of the American Socialist
party.
That party has been reduced to a
mere shadow Of it's former self. Ac-
cording to Delegate William Kruse,
it formerly numbered 100000 daes-
paying members. Last year it had
$4,000 members. Now it has only
$4,000. The Communists, with their
program of revolution by violence,
have left the Socialist organization
because they consider it too thin
blooded and too American.
In this country, even more than
in France and Great Britain, all
Marxism is under a deep cloud. Rus
sia tested it's principles and profes-
sions and proved them hollow, fan
tastic and destructive. So American
Socialists of the old parlor type find
themselves homeless. They cannot
associate with the new Communists
even if they would, for to the Com
munists they are as obnoxious as the
bourgeoisie. They may maintain for
themselves a select and dwindling
party, living on the memories of a
past which they considered red. But
the color is faded pink now. Mil
waukee will never be second
Moscow.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
"Sovietism' in the Navy
Morale Committee Defended by One
Of Captain Stearns's Men

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; The press has prominently
featured such headlines as "Denby
Will Not Tolerate Sovietism in the
Navy" referring to the removal OF
Captain Clark D. Stearns from his
command, the U. S. S. Michigan. To
the ordinary civilian the accounts were
10 written as to give the suggestion
that Captain Stearns had instituted a
workable system of autonomous gov
ernment among his crew. Allow me to
say that the coloring given the incident
was false and grossly exaggerated as
regards the ultimate effect of Captain
Stearns's Morale Committee"
| was fortunate enough to serve on
D naval mine planter under Captain
Stearns on the U. S. S. Roanoke, where
he had similar committee. Never
once in over a years time did / know
any of the men serving on the commit
tee to make foolish suggestion or to
make anything that savored of de-
mand. The crew of any United States
Navy vessel knows that there are naval
institutions capable of accommodating
any number of mutinous crews-should
there ever be any such as a result of
license or unwise prerogatives being
vested in them. I know that through
Captain Stearns's method of asking
advice or information from his COM
mittee, in cases of men being tried at
the mast, more than one man has been
given just deal which could not have
been his had Captain Stearns not
availed himself of additional facts
made known to him by his committee,
and no man feared a miscarriage of
justice at the hands of Captain Stearns
as result.
On the other hand, the crew of the
Roanoke offered surprisingly few cases
to the captains mast or any court
martial. The Roanoke stood first in
general performance in a squadron of
ten ships. All of which does not in
dicate any lessening of discipline or
regard for authority!
| earnestly hope that you will see
fit to publish this letter if only in bare
justice to the gallant commander in
question, and because our navy will
thrive the better and offer more at
traction to the right kind of man
through the effective, intelligent in
terest of the public in the navy.
GAYNE FICKE.
Brooklyn, June 25, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28

on credulity. Can it be that the
senders of the message. are excited
and indignant because his predic-
tions OF a great increase in the num-
ber OF Japanese have not been sus-
tanned and they cannot adjust their
minds to the fact? The official fig
ures say that the Japanese popula-
tion is now Sd per cent larger than
in 1910. This increase would seem
ample to suggest that "the gentle
mems agreement" is leaky.
While deTieate negotiations are in
progress in Washington, the un-
wisdom of introducing further COM
plications need scarcely be dwelt on.
The new immigration law perhaps
opens door to settlement, and
the opportunity offered may be lost
if new elements Of opposition are
aroused.
1t will be recalled that Japan has
conceded our right to exclude, and
has objected only to discrimination
Ito applying to her nationals rules
not applied to others. She has re-
peatedly said she would not protest
if she were not exceptionally treated.
Now the new immigration law limits,
as to Europeans and Levantines, the
number that can come in any one
year to per cent of the number of
aliens already here from each nation.
If this percentage were applied to
japanese only about 5000 of them
could enter America each year.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Mexican Intention

If recent reports are accurate
there is increasing evidence that
President Obregon begins to see the
need Of showing his good faith by
deeds. For example, it is said that
the interest on Mexico's foreign
debt will soon be paid. But as to
Article 27 of the Mexican consti-
tuition President Obregon says in
The World:
pending the enatment of an or
ganic law interpretative of Article
27 we have pledged our faith that
this article will not be given retro
active application and have taken no
as confscatory by even the most
malignant"
Replying to the criticism that this
Interpretation has not been formally
adopted, he offers various excuses
for the delay, concluding with a
sneer at 'sthe unrest" of American
oil groups, and practically an
nounces that the Mexican Con-
gress will deal with domestic
questions first. 1t is not difficult to
sympathize with Mr.. Obregon's s
point of view, but when will the
Mexican Congress and courts turn
their attention to international
problems? 1t is plain our govern
ment will not consent 30 keeping
open the door to possible confsca-
ton and cannot accord recognition
until Article 27 is denatured.
President Obregon is doubtless
sincere in his friendship for Amer
lea and in his desire to reestablish
close relations. Let us hope he is
also sufficiently intelligent as q
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28

with ill-concealed mirth and merry
gihes by the Substituted knights of
the tractor and the silo, the lairds of
.quarter-sections and all the fullness
thereof-"the old guard" as they
are called. For years these @toffs
had had exclusive privileges.
1t had been up to them to say
which stretch Of prairie should be
sown with wheat, which one with
corn, which one with oats and which
one with golf cups and flags. They
never gave their prize fields the at
tention they gave their putting
greens, and they never were SO ex-
elusive in their dining halls as they
were in their golf clubs.
But Graham won, Z up and 5 to
play in the finals, and when he got
home to Wellington the delirious
conlmoners there met him with a
twenty-piece band and one hundred
motor cars. One cloud must darken
Kansas democracy's sky. Alex
Graham's name? Is he, after all,
but the descendant of some Highland
chieftain, or does he come from
caddie stock? But come into the
plebeian fold with the rest of us,
Kansas!
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Tho Goes II Alone

Constantine has rejected the Allied
offer of mediation in Asia Minor be-
tween the Greeks and the Kemalists.
All the powers which signed the
Sevres Treaty, except Greece, now
want to revise it. Constantine upset
the regime in Greece on whose con-
tlnuance an enforcement of the
treaty was postulated, but he is
superior to logic. He unblushingly
claims as his own the fruits of Ven
izelos's craftsmanship after having
broken the relations which Ven
izelos established with the powers
that won the war.
1t Constantine's ti-Entente war
policy had succeeded there would be
to-day no Greek soldier or civil ad-
mlnistrator anywhere on what, up
to the signing of the Treaty of
Sevres, was Turkish soil. Yet he
wants the Greek flag to stay where
Vcnizelos carried it while he him
self was in exile in Lucerne. If his
present anti Entente policy sue
ceeds Greece will owe her expansion
into Asia Minor not to the treaty
or the Allies, with whom Greece
fought after 1917, but to the military
prowess of the leader who did his
best to prevent Greece fighting with
the Allies at all.
The war against the Turkish
Nationalists is to be continued for
the purpose of establishing an illu-
sorry historical distinction. By re-
calling Constantine the Greeks sur
rendered perfectly good title in
Asia which the Allies were bound
to compel the Angora government
to recognize. Now Greece has elected
to fight single-handed to compel the
Kemalists to recognize it. But even
if she should defeat Kemal she
would still have to have her title
underwritten by the now unsympa-
thetic governments of France, Great
Britain and Italy.
For the Greeks this is hugely
improbable gamble. A sure thing
has been exchanged for most un-
sure one. Again Tino is calling on
his subjects to sacrifice themselves
for his personal justification and
glory.
Can he beat the Turks? His
March-April campaign was a dead
failure. He has begun again by
taking Ismid, on the extreme
northern end of the battle line. This
movement is apparently only feint.
Last spring his main objective was
Eskishehr, in the middle of the line.
This time, according to the best in
formation from Constantinople, it
will probably be Afium-Karahissar,
toward the southern end. If the
Greek offensive is really on, it's real
development ought to come along the
front east and northeast of Smyrna.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Not .Statesmanship
To the Editor of The Tribune.


SIR: Thanks for your stinging edi-
torlal' "A Hyphenate Victory" in this
mornings paper. 1t is high time men
IN high places learned that catering
&c Sim Fein voters is not discharginp
ones duty in public office and is not
Craftsmanship.
There was not word in Admiral
Slms's speech that any true American
should have taken exception to. The
only real fault that could be found with
1T was its mild form of denunc;at;on
So, Notwithstanding the terrible NUT
tering of the head of the Navy Depart
ment, we, the great American public.
love Admiral Sims for the enemies he
has made. If his courage and conyic-
tions along the same patriotic Amer
lean lines continue he will make a good
candidate for next President.
AMERICAN.
Scranton, Pa, June 25,. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28

statesman to appreciate the value
of making hay while the sun shines
and that this country asks no inter-
probation of Article 27 that Is diff
ferent from the one he declares is
the true one. Why, then, postpone?
Americans may be stupid, but they
are unable to understand in what
respect a declaration of the true
meaning of Article 27 would pre-
vent Mexico dealing at the same
time with her domestic questions.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Back 10 the Dsvonian

Charles Garland, of Boston, af-
flicted with relatives who bequeathed
to him wealth that he does not want,
is once more victim. This time he
is forced to scorn S2,5o0,O0O. eve
should abolish this system of work
ing for money" he says in his latest
explanation of his refusal of the
legacy. He has no need for it-has
no use for the horrid dross.
But one expenditure the young
man might make greatly to his profit
He might go to school while and
learn something about economics, or
he might at least buy book cover
ing the subject, and then, after read
ing, devote some time to thinking.
Even a little thinking should open
his mind to the fact that without
wealth. Cor sight drafts on the future,
redeemable in materials or serv-
ices) world improvement would stop,
for there would be no funds to sus-
tain those engaged in works of i'm
provement. On the physical side
this would mean no Panama Canal
or the like, on the intellectual side
no colleges or schools, and on the
moral side no churches or institu-
tions of relief.
A strange thing about delusions
such as have apparently seized this
young man is that their victims COM
monty think their principles are
noble, whereas, as matter of fact,
their general application would
plunge the human family even fur
ther back than the Stone Age-to
about the Devonian time.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
And You, Too, Kansas!

The platitudinarians with their
the war has been a great leveler," F"
can now direct their lugubrious
chorus at Kansas. Barons have
served as batmen and chauffeurs to
British commoners. Greek and Latin
are no longer compulsory at Oxford
and Cambridge. A man need not bab-
BILE in Sanskrit to be eligible to the
Athen@um. A postoffice clerk has
won the ancient and most honorable
golf crown of the United Kingdom.
Kansas aristocracy held out long
er, it is true, but its capitulation is
dazer to the rest of the Republic,
which, though it long ago gave up
the blue blood tradition, believed the
masters of the fat acres of the Sun
flower State to be impregnable in
their hierarchy.
AT one swoop, too! There was no
gradual lowering of the upper crust
into the dust of democracy, such as
occurred in that other late strong
hold of decayed feudalism, Great
Britain. With all the audacity of a
Magma Charta baron before King
John, like the upstart Cromwell,
Alex Graham-with conspicuous
patches on denim shirt--obtruded
himself in the state golf tournament
at Wichita.
According to reliable accounts,
Graham "a mere railway night
watchn1arl--vas AZ 6ref ,.a.asj
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
A Sim Fem Murder
An Officer Who Had Protected
Towns from Black and Tans

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In recent papers appeared an
account of several murders by the
Irish republican army" One das.
tardly example was the killing Of Cap
tain the Honorable Sir Wilfred Peek,
OF the 9th Lancers, who was decorated
for numerous acts of bravery during
the war.
This officer was killed in cold
blood without a scintilla of provoca-
tion, notwithstanding the fact that he
has been known to protect more than
one small town from destruction by
the Black and Tans.
A case IN point was when there wc7s
four of the Royal Irish Constabulary
killed at the Four Milo TIousa =
County Roscommon. On this oe-
casion there were several Black aad
Tans stationed in and around Strokes
town, and it was rumored that they
had planned to burn the town in re-
prisal for the murder of their COM
rades. Captain Peek an hearing of the
threat issued orders to his soldiers to
shoot at sight any one whether CT not
in uniform) who made any such at
tempt. Thus did he save the town on
that occasion, and many mother and
little child prayed for him in graft
tude to the Supreme Commander
This is the type of man that tho
notorious "Irish republican army" mur-
der from behind hedge in ths most
revolving cold blood.
Is it any wonder that the real peo.
pie of Ireland are not granted IN
dependence when their seif-styled rep
resentatives encourage such atrocities'
Is it any wonder that the world, sra
particularly America, and most Of all
the better class of Irish people in
America, are turning with utter nausea
against this so-called "cause" of Ire
land? JAMES WALLACE,
An American Citizen Of Irish Birth.
New York, June 26, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
A Prediction
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir: Thanks most heartily for your
emphatic editorial this morning in re-
gard to Secretary DENLY. You ask:
SIS there. any place in Washington
for one whose. official influence is
thrown to the Sim Teiners and their
allies and who hastens,to please those
who would disturb the country's in
tefnal peace and embroil it in war
over an issue which does not con-
Germ it?"
for one am ready to answer. There
is no place in Washington for Secre-
tary DENLY. Within the last two or
three days l have predicted more than
once that there would very soon be a
vacancy in the Cabinet. I think /
speak for hundreds of thousands of
others when say that Mr.. Denby's
resignation cannot be filed too soon.
EMERSON PALMER.
New York, June 25, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Another Jerseyite" In 70.
cent letter on New Jerseys Dry Prd'
erence" is slightly humorous. BE
claims that Governor Edwards was
elected by "dry" votes. AS candidate
that gentleman said that il electes
"he would make New Jersey as ge.
as the Atlantic Ocean," and yet thsy
preferred him to the Republican can-
didate, Mr.. Bugbee, who, your eorrs'
spondent says, twas decidedly not dry
and would not state any definite
policy" Also the suffragists preferrea
Mr.. Edwards, even though the wettsss
of the wet, while Mr.. Bugbee stood fof
a referendum on the Eighteenth Amend-
ment.
There is nothing easier than TO mss'
a positive statement and assume it fe'
that reason to be fact. Your ecfre'
spondent says To-day New Jsrss,
would vote dry on a referendum. !
won't argue that question, for neither
of us knows what New Jersey wouis
do. AS New Jersey has not yet rsss'
fed there is stin time to prove wheshe'
his statement Is correct or not. New
Jersey can have referendum by ihs
calling of a special session Of tns
Legislature. TO put the question on sas
ballot next November, take recess
until after the election and then rat1s
or reject, as determined by the -yoN.
This is the legal and logical way g
proving your correspondents asserslan'
A NEW JERSEYMANh
Newark, N. j., june 90, 1921