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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
Haytii' S Aid to Bolivar

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The whole Haytian question
might be viewed in a new light by the
American people, especially the people
of New York City, if there was general
knowledge of an almost unknown Incl
dent in the history of democracy on
the Western Continent.
The President of the United States
recently unveiled in this city a monu-
ment to Simon Bolivar. This ceremony
placed before the larger American pub
lie the knowledge that Simon Bolivar
is regarded in South America in the
same way that George Washington is
regarded in North America. But per-
haps none of that larger public knows
that 1t was the Republic of Hayti that
helped to make it possible for Bolivar
to establish democracy on the CONT
nent south of us.
Hayti was the second American re-
public. Following the United States, it
achieved its independence in 1904.
AT the end of December, 1916, Boil
var, hard pressed by the Spaniards,
took refuge in Hayti and asked for aid.
The embarrassing circumstances under
which the Haytian Republic found
itself did not prevent President Potion
from extending all the help possible,
not only to Bolivar but to the sailors
of his fleet and to the Venezuelan
families who were refugees with him.
He furnished Bolivar 1000 rifles, pow
der, cartridges, provisions and even a
printing press, and authorized Haytian
citizens to joiA Bolivar in his return
expedition.
The only request that President Pc
ton made of Bolivar in return for his
assistance was that the great Venezue-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
A Berkshire Savant

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In all the discussions which
Mr.. Edison's questions have caused I
have seen nothing from the "back
counties"
1 am sojourning among the Berk-
shire Hills, but The Tribune brings US
daily news from the outside world. We
are dependent upon the town automo-
BILE somewhat in the line of taxi.
The driver is q genuine native, with
only the most ordinary district school
ing.
We gave him the questions and q
half hour to look them over. while
waiting for us at the door.
OF seventy-seven questions he
answered fifty-six at once, and half Of
several others. For instance. he knew
who Cleopatra was, but not how she
died. He knew two of the principal
alkalis. When 1 asked, Why does Edi.
son give such a question? he gave
practical reason.
TO be sure l am only woman, but
have had liberal education" How
was this unschooled man able to
answer more of the questions than /?
Because he has read some and
thought much, has kept his eyes and
ears open, has common sense and a
most retentive memory. It's great
oenefaction to make men like this
put into words what have been only
vague ideas and to give reason for
doing SO. 1 sincerely hope Mr.. Edison
VIII keep it up and that The Tribune
Will pass the questions along.
E. NJ D.
Great Darlington, Mass. May is
1921
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
A Great Profession

Forty years in the nursing profess
sion is the record Of Miss Anna c..
Maxwell, now about to retire as head
of the School of Nursing of the
Presbyterian Hospital. Here has
been a noble career, a life of rich
unselfishness, a blessed chance to
help in establishing on firm foun-
dalton new and great profession.
Thirty years ago, when Miss Max
we'll began her labors, prejudice
against the trained nurse existed
which now seems amazing. 1t was
feared nurses would make hospital
work an excuse to get into medicine
and to usurp the duties of physi-
clans. eve were constantly told. "
says Miss Maxwell, chat a little
knowledge was dangerous thing"
Nurses were kept in ignorance of
the character and object of the
treatments they had to administer.
The professional jealousy was un-
founded, however, for, as Miss Max
well observes. very few women left
nursing to take up medicine.
Among other training hardships
OF the early days were distressingly
long hours, heavy labor incident to
the absence of elevators and stretch
ers' and the performance of much of
the work now done by porters. Some
OF these obstacles still stand in the
way OF progress, although modified.
The eight-hour day, better educa-
tionai facilities and better provisions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

Ian would issue a proclamation abol-
ishing slavery.
After leaving Hayti on April 10, 1916,
Bolivar landed at Carupano, on the
coast Of South America, on May 81. On
July 10 he was defeated by the Spanish
commander, Morales, and he again fed
to Hayti. Potion once more gave him
sympathy and assistance and furnished
him with supplies of arms, ammunition
and provisions. On the 26th of Decem-
Der of the same year Bolivar left Hayti
with a new expedition and succeeded
in overthrowing Spanish rule in the
northern part of South America, Just
before leaving on his last expedition
he wrote the following letter to GEN
eral Marion, the Haytian commandant
of the reimbursement of Cages:
General: On the point of starting
with view to return to my country
and strengthen its independence, I feel
that it would be ungrateful of me were
l to miss this opportunity of thanking
you for all your kindness to my coun-
trymen. If men are bound by the
favors they have received, be sure, gem
eral, that my countrymen and myself
will forever love the Haytian people
and tn worthy rulers who make them
happy"
There stands in Caracas, the home of
Bolivar and the capital of the republi;
of Venezuela, monument erected to
Potion, President of Hayti, as trib-
ute to his memory from the Venezue-
Ian people. During the time I was
United States Consul stationed in
Venezuela often saw this statue and
noted it's significance.
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON.
New York, May Is, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
The Noblest Anthem

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have read with interest the
letter of Douglas Wise in reference
to the legalization of "The Star
Spangled Banner as the national
anthem. I have had the privilege of
being in America since the great war.
Being singer. have sung most OF
the national hymns of the world and
studied those that are not sung, con-
sidering music one of the greatest
religious, political and emotional
forces of humanity. 1.-THE Battle
Hymn of the Republic" seems to me
the most truly spiritual document in
existence; also It seems to impart as
only o truly spiritual inspiration
could the great vision of America, the
vision which has called uncountablc
weary souls to the bosom of Liberty.
/ have translated the words of the
Battle Hymn, words which have in
deed 'fbecome flesh" into many Ian
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
Concurrent Power -
Supreme Court Decision on a Section
of the Eighteenth Amendment

Supreme court Decision on a Section
of the Eighteenth Amendment
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Kindly permit word in cor
rection of q statement in the communi-
cation signed 81. H. b." which
appeared in The Tribune of May II
discussing your editorial "Paradoxical
New Jersey" Your correspondent ar
rives at a correct conclusion, but
makes the following incorrect state
ment: "The Supreme Court decided
that the first section of the Eighteenth
Amendment, the prohibition one, was
constitutional; but the second section
as to concurrent power was unconsti-
tutional"
This statement regarding the second
section is incorrect. The second sec
ton Of the prohibition amendment
reads as follows:
"The Congress and the several states
shall have. concurrent power to en-
force this article by appropriate legis-
lation"
This section is as much part of
{ Constitution as is the first, or
rohibition, section, and your CORE
pondent is misinformed as to the Su-
preme Court action regarding the
same. l quote as follows from the
unanimous decision Of the Supreme
Court, Sections 7 and 8:
81. The second section of the
amendment-the one declaring 'The
Congress ard the several states shall
have concurrent power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation
does not enable Congress or the sew
eral states to defeat or thwart the pro-
hibition, but only to enforce it by ap-
propriate means.
-. The words concurrent power in
that section do not mean joint power.
or require that legislation Hereunder
by Congress, to be effective. shall be
approved or sanctioned by the several
states OF any of them; nor do they
mean that the power to enforce is
divided between Congress and the
several states along the lines which
separate or distinguish foreign and in
te,rstate commerce from intrastate af-
fairs"
SAMUEL WILSON.
Jersey City, N. j., May 10, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

physiological fact is, Of course, that &
human being is distinct and unique
person from the instant of conception
Personality is not sudden occurrence
but development of traits already
existing before the child is born.
II have two children myself, neither
one Of whom has yet attained the ar
ticulate ago of two. Both have, however
very vigorous personalities, which have
been increasingly evident to me since, t.
put it conservastvely, they were three
months old. The elder one is sensi-
tive, high strung, hot tempered, irnagi-
native, keenly observant, Of an analyti-
cal turn of mind, stubborn as a mule
fond Of music and books. He is shy
and shows off badly, but his curiosity
and interest make him a fascinating
companion, and he expresses an as
tonishing variety of ideas by means OF
some ten words and sign language OF
his own.
"His sister is placid, contented, So
ciable, affectionate, docile and lovable,
with keen sense Of humor. All the
feminine members of my family can
distinguish their individual traits-and
so can even their father, with a little
assistance. SO don't despair--persevere,
and with careful study you may bring
your age limit down a bit. Perhaps
before H. Sd attracted your attention
you found children rather dull at an
even more advanced age than two. l
have heard the theory advanced that
all small boys should be buried up to
the neck and fed with a shovel until
they are fifteen years old.
GAS for all new babies looking alike!
How many have you observed with
scientific accuracy? Frequent ma
ternity hospital and study few thou
sand If you wish to have light shed
upon this point. Personally should
not need any name necktie to identify
my offspring at glance. Both of them
reproduced the features of their father
with startling but far from flatter-
ing accuracy. He would not be hand
some bright red and entirely bald.
81 prefer my own babies, thank you!
That's one reason why / married my
husband"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
A Good Beginning

Ambassador Harvey appears to
have made an excellent beginning.
He has successfully endured the
ordeal, trying to an American repre-
sentative in Great Britain, of max
ing his first speech in manner
satisfying to his hosts while not
opening him to mean attack at home
as an Anglomaniac. AS Brother
Watterson of Kentucky is fond of
remarking, there is death upon the
upper road and "Iniuns" on the low
er when the American Ambassador
talks in London.
Mr.. Harvey, who has not neutral
cast of mind and whose thoughts
have way Of finding a way to his
tongue, did not seek safety by say
ing nothing. He did not dissemble
his pleasure over the fact that spe-
cial bonds unite two great peoples
who speak common language, who
inherit common traditions of liberty,
who can better fulfill their separate
mission by cooperation than by OPP
position. Nor did he conceal his be-
lief, also the belief of his chief, that
in the main the two peoples see
world problems from the same angle
Of vision, and that thus it is folly to
declare, when they agree, that one is
following the policy Of the other. All
Of this, of course, was agreeable to
British ears, for it has been plain
for many years that the British peo-
pie are most DESTROYS of the closest
possible relations with the people of
America, whom they naturally think
more like themselves than in fact
hey are.
Then Mr.. Harvey began to take
his hearers into his confidence. He
communicated to them his opinion
that Americans do not care to be
loudly saluted as altruists-that as
they distrust vauntings of idealism
by others, so they have humor
enough to feel uncomfortable when
told they are especially noble. They
prefer to have it understood that
what they do is born of reasonable
sense of their own interest. This
country has vanity enough to be
willing to be Roland, but fears
that as world crusader it would
appear as Don Quixote mounted on
Rosinante.
The picture painted of how the
contest over the league issue was
waged here was scarcely complete or
accurate. For example, Mr.. Har-
vey omitted mentioning that twice
President Harding when a Senator
voted for entry into the league, but
he was doubtless a good prophet
when he said that as things now are
there will be no entry. Indeed, it is
cabled that Mr.. Harvey's hearers
laughed when he mentioned the
league. They were also fully aware
that as peace preserver the league
is failure; that it is not consulted
when arise ticklish questions, such
as the Silesian one. SO it may be
assumed that few British feelings
have been hurt by our absence from
Geneva. American representatives
are to sit in the determining coun-
ellis. This is properly deemed of
more practical consequence than
membership in the league.
Ambassador Harvey promises to
confound his critics in this country
by being success. This, of course,
IS vastly irritating to them, but they
nave no recourse but to endure their
disappointment philosophically.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

accord. Both are idealists, but both
are also realists and know that any
one mocks an ideal who serves it in
impractical ways. Their method of
attack is sound. Instead of grasping
for an impossible perfection, they
would lay, stone by stone, those sound
economic foundations on which alone
better world can be built.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
Too Particular
From The cotumbia State,

O"' 4 TIC VUtUHFUtu STACY
A Maryland historian has been ac-
cused of "unadulterated fraud'' be-
cause he discovered the headquarters
Of Washington in log cabin and in
vited General Pershing to dedicate it
Dear me, if these things are going to
be SO severely looked into, what will
become of all the historical societies,
museums of antiques and heirloom
hounds? Ii Washington didn't have his
Headquarters there, he had them some
where, so why not let it go at that?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

guages. In each case their beauty
seems to deepen with pregnant, spirit
ual meaning. In the present time o.
strife, when unity is the only goal,
could the world be given anything
greater, more hopeful or dignifiei
than HE is sitting out the hearts of
mem? NAARDYN LYSIR.a.
New York, May 10, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
The Coming oloer
Lament
(After Ronscrd)

(After Ronscrd)
Youth, shc delicate, is dead;
My feeble feet are shod with lead
My teeth are black, my hair ia white.
sleep by day--but not by night,
My body shivers in the sun;
Pink lemonade my veins do run.
Farewell, gay songs to sayer girls;
must forsako them gidty whirl,
OF yesteryear; the Joys knew
In those days always wen, for two;
Now lonelicF comforts serve instead.
My open FIRE, my wine--and bed.
And on my neck | feel the breath
(Not of the wcll-belov'dD- death.
LEE WILSON DODD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
Wild. Wild Thnnehts

I'm wild, like the modest violet
That hides meath its leaf of green;
I'm wild, like the bud of the blue hell
That bushes almost unseen;
I'm wild, like the palest primrose:
Or the crocus blooming low:
I'm wild, like the pink arbutus
Trailing beneath the snow.
I'm wild, like all things at springtime,
A cosmic vernal sinner;
I'm wild, I freely confess it,
To attend the Contribs' next dinner
ALURA FAIR.
There IS an athaletic young photog-
rapher's salesman who comes to the
office every night vending pictures of
Openly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

Ysa purchase merchandise advertised ia tn G
TRIBUNE with absolute safsty--tor II dttsatisfae.
sisa reeaits 10 any case the TRIBUNE suaran.
tsss b pay yeur money hack upoH request. No red
tape Ne euihblins. We make ge9d Prsmptiy II
she advertiser does rot
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she use FOR republication os all news dispatches
credited 20 ii or not otherwise credited In this
paper. and also the local news OF apontsneous
etigin published herein.
All rights Of republication Of all ether matter
Assein also resarFsd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

AS matter of fact, New Haven was
not entirely silent Haywood, very
alias Professor Broun," writes Cam
pus, chow about parking that joke on
the Yaleses calling their yard campus
with the dinosaurs in the National
Museum at Washington? II ever q
weak wheeze was hoary with honorable
antiquity that is it. If you must laugh
a throaty Harvard laugh, at least
seek probable cause. We think per-
sonally you're trying to laugh off the
cinders the Yale track team so bounti-
fully cast over old John Flat "a at a
recent Boston calamity. Incidentally,
after reading your little literary ex-
periments for some few years we are
yet waiting for you to write a review
of story you've finished reading. High
faith is ours. We are confident that
some day, somehow, you will do it, and
when you finally reach the empyrean
height we will reward you with a seat
at the Yale Harvard baseball game,
where you can fat your 'A's' and drop
your RS with your brethren in boot
less attempt to keep Yale's hitters from
an exhibition which promises to be
brutal"
Well, we have read Booth Tarking-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
LEE WILSON DODD.

ne seemed to feel that, like
the Caucasian in the jingle, the native
American stock was played out.'-The
Freeman.
That jingle Of Bret Hartes was
written in the sonorous and dignified
meter OF Swinburne's "Atalanta in
Calydon." What does The Freeman ask
OF a. poet to graduate him from the
jingle school?
Calling anything that isn't ponder
Gus piece Of prosody jingle is az
typical Of the reviewers attitude az
1t is revelatory. Humorous verse, light
verse, must be referred to as iingles.
or amusing of its kind" or good of
the sort" -
What this sort of critic says to him
self when he--~ consciously orr otherwise
Il atronizes humorous writing -,
anybody, including, of course, myself,
who wanted to take few seconds off
some afternoon could write light and
humorous stuff"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1921

owrsd By New York Tribune me. New Ycrs
scfeors4cn. Published daily Ogden Reid. Presi-
dsns: @. Vernon Rogers. vice-pscsideat. Heier
Rogers gssd, secretaTs: n f. Msxaeid Treasurer.
Address. Tribune Building. iss Nassau stresa, New
York Tclcphene. Bechrnan seee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

must know that few contract tu-
berculosis by accident. The mslady
can be stamped oat--Snade as rare
as smallpox or yellow fever.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

/
Last week we wrote two pieces which
we hoped would BIO provocative. One
was about Yale football, and there was
a day when stirring up undergraduates
and alumni was the simplest trick in
the world, but this time there was
| hardly murmur of protest. Perhaps
there is something in that theory ad-
vanced by some scientist or other that
the soil Of Connecticut has grown 40
debilitated from constant usage that
there is no longer any kick in the
vegetables Of the Nutmeg State. Ger
tainly, Yale men don't resent things as
they did once upon g time, OF course,
it may we'll have been that there wasn't
much kick to our piece. but then in the
old days the sons Of Eli could be
reused to fury by even the feeblest
roillery. We can testify to that. Maybe
it isn't the vegetables. Judging by the
altogether convincing picture Of Yale
drawn by Meade Minnigerode in The
Fig Year, a softer note than was
known years ago has crept into under
graduate life. Take, for instance, the
touching little scene in which Curly
Corliss, the captain of the Yale foot
ball team, and his roommate are re-
vealed in the act Of retiring FOR the
night:
EAhbSi
yeah" very sleepily.
They all seem to get over IT."
cover what?"
"The fellers who have graduated"
Curly explained. "I guess they all feel
pretty poor when they leave, but they
get over it right away. It's just like
changing into new suit, expect
yeah, l guess So
"Well, GOO night, little Teller"
Goo night, Teddy" =.
We could wish Mr. Minnigerode had
been little more explicit and had told
Us who tucked them in.
And again we noted with some sur
prise:
"Oh, Bill Sanders!' the chairman of
The News would call up the crew cap
tain--something important, no doubt
yes, very important. Throw me down
the keys to my skates, will you'll"
Fortunately, one field of criticism is
still left to the newspaper man who
finds it privilege to receive sufficient
number of protests from readers to
tighten his own work of writing He
can't get them out Of Yale, but it is
still possible, we find, to stir up
considerable controversy almost any
time by suggesting that one baby is
about as good as another.
"Of course there is nothing original
about saying that child is not 3 per
son until he reaches the age of two,"
writes Jane Baris. give heard the re-
mark made so often by members of the
laxative sex (each time with an air of
conscious profundity) that it almost
ranks with the one about never touch
ing coffee at night or the one about
making good score if he hadn't had
bad luck with his putting. Mere wom-
an soon learns to place it under the
heading, Masculine Remarks Which
May as Well Be Allowed to Pass With
Smile Now, what you mean,
of course, is not that the child has no
personality until he is two years old,
but that you are unable to realize his
personality until he has learned to con-
vey it to you through the medium of
the spoken word. TIE cold, hard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

Well, we have read Booth Tarking-
toms Alice Adams all through and re-
viewed it, 90, in Sundays Tribune.
We will watch for those seats.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

1t is G. E. v. O.'s notion to open a
cleaning establishment, the sign being
Damned Spots Outed."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
The Automobile Borrowers

You low-down thief!
Please to bring back
My Nineteen Twenty
cadillac. E. Fl, L.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

That enterprising firm OF uplifters,
Connolly and Woollcott, have added
two departments to their shop. The
signs are paths Narrowed and
Strengthened" and "Twigs Bent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

Our new commercial motto is to be
Morals Pointed and Tales Adorned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
GUARANTY

xntsrsd AT tas Pcstoraco at New York sscOnd
Class Mall Matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

And again we noted with some sur
prise:
ooh, Bill Sanders!" the chairman of
The News would call up the crew cap
tain--something important, no doubt
yes, very important. Throw me down
the keys to my skates, will you'll"