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Arizona republican., 1921-04-03
Wrong Sales Method
 Kills Confidence
RY Georqe s. Shuoart

 Vice president, United States Tire
 Company.
 A friend of mine who is a mer- chandising expert happened to be in a tire store one day. While talking with the proprietor he saw man drive down the street, look at the tire signs on the front of the store and bring his car to a halt.
 Entering the store he asked the proprietor if he might see certain cord tire. He inspected it carefully and finally asked the price. He got the price and it seemed to stagger him a little He said the amount was larger than he was in the hab- it of paying for a tire.
 I've been using a brand of fab ric tire for a number of years" he said. but I am not satisfied with the service it is giving. I have seen in the magazines and papers that this cord tire is a good tire, ana have had my interest further aroused by the company's signs along the country roads. My friends have had nothing but good words for the tire. The price is high. hut I'll take one"
 The proprietor noticed his hesi- tancy on account of the price and took advantage of it. He said, Now here, I notice that the price worried you a bit. Let me show you anoth- CT tire. Here is one that I consider a very fine piece of goods, every bit as good as the cord you men tioned. I can sell you this for a lower price,"
 The customer looked the other tire over and it looked pretty good, and | he bought it. Now there was tire man who was under the impression 1 that that was the way to build up {. 1 good business. My friend. the mer 1 chandising expert, stood looking on l After the customer had gone, he said T was very much interested in your conversation with your customer. He comes to your place sold on a certain cord tire. To be sure he hesitated | at the price. having been using fab ric tires, but he finally wanted it. Then you talk him into buying this off brand tire. I would just like to know what your theory of merchan- dising is. Where have you profited ! by switching that man?"
 T received a larger discount on that tire" replied the dealer. "I have | made five dollars more on that tire than on the tire he asked for"
 T understand that, all right, but you know that that tire isn't as good as the other"
 "No,'' said the dealer, q don't thinl it is.'
 You realize that that man was solC on the tire he mentioned. You know he is not going to get the same serv ice out of that other tire. Wouldn' it have been better if you had solC that man tire that would have giv en him good service? In a few week. another of his fabric tires may giv' out and he would have come back t' you for another. one of those cords The tire man rubbed his fac thoughtfully. but made no reply. "As 1t is," went on the questioner "do you ever expect to see that mai in your store again?''
 "No,' was the response. I'm afrai, l I don't"
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03
SCHOOL
 KIDS PLAY AUTO I TRAFFIC GAM [
A most interesting thing is happen

A most interesting thing is happen ing in Detroit
 Despite the rapid growth of the city, fatalities due to automobile acci- dents have actually decreased in an astonishing way. Among school child ren between the ages of seven and ten, accidents have been reduced in many localities over 100 per cent.
 This fine showing has been part of an educational movement fostered by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. This work is also being presented to various local associa- tions by such men as Edward s. Jor- dan, president of the Jordan Motor Car company.
 This movement plans to educate school children regarding traffic laws.
 The work is carried on through the ! schools in a most interesting and uni que way. The teacher chooses one of the children to act as the traffic cop. The little one then stands in the
 middle of the room with hand up- lifted and goes through the traffic signals as familiar to us all. An other child then acts as a tall build | ing, another as a truck, still another as an automobile, and so on until the 1 setting is similar to every day busy corner conditions.
 Then, off to one side. one of the 1 children plays the part of an older
 sister, leading a younger sister across | the street. All eyes become fixed on
 the traffic cop. His signals are ob-
 served and according to his sema- phore or his upraised hand, the
 children go through with their play in 1 strict accordance with actual traffic rules.
 | Not only do the children love te | play the traffic game, but they carry away with them an understandine of the traffic laws which, in Detroit l has been such a boon to the children of that city.
 Many realize that there is only one
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

way to handle a careless motorist. He must either learn. or be driven from the streets.
 Part of the movement to educate this careless driver will be through the children, who, because of their in- terest in this subject. will bring the situation home to their elders in a forceful way.
 Another way is to stop. not only careless driving, but wild speeding. It is in the interest of this great humanitarian movement that several big motor car manufacturers are in terested in this movement being spread by MT Jordan.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

with the standards of the Jordan
 takes pleasure in selling cars The head of the company simply states the Jordan pledge when he says in a few forceful words: ITO such as these we want to give assurance that the Jordan ear will serve them we'll"
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

Only 309 automobiles were reported stolen in France last year, while more than 50 per cent were recov- cred. Arrests were made of 225 per sons suspected of the thefts.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03
motor vehicles before the end of

The postmaster general is the only department head in Washington who cannot have an automobile at the expense of the government. He must use a horse drawn vehicle or walk
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

Of the passenger automobiles pro- duced in this country for 1921, the present style list shows 56 four cylin- der, S5 six-cylinder. 14 eight cylinder and three 12-cylinder cars.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

According to statistics. the average consumption of gasoline per passen- ger car in this country is 390.3 gal Ions. Motor trucks consume approxi- mately 1000 gallons annually
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

Based on the records of deaths in former years, it is estimated that 500 persons now walking the streets of New York city will be killed by
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

Aoout 2,7oo,ooo, or nearly 3 her at' or the total population of the .liled states. make their living from 4e automobile industry. -ii
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

Four Der cent Of the output of steel shis country is consumed in inc ,ouction of motor vehicles.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

Placing the life of the average automobile at between four and five years, it is estimated that practically 1.50O.000 cars will go to the scrap head this year.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-03

Poland is adopting motor tank cars for blowing
New-York tribune., 1921-08-28

remamber. also, that Roster & Bial
later acquired the building on the
southwest corner of Twenty-fourth
Street and Sixth Avenue and there dis
pensed the best beers and finest lunches
to be obtained in the city. In August,
1893, Roster e. Bial closed the Twenty
third Street Hall and took possession
of the Manhattan Theater, in West
Thirty-fourth Street
This theater was the third house
built by Oscar Hammerstein ir New
York City and was situated on the
north side Of Thirty-fourth Street, mid
way between Broadway and Seventh
Avenue, and ran through to Thirty fifth
Street, occupying a frontage Of 100
feet and depth Of over 200 feet 1t
was opened b. Mr.. Hammerstein, No
vember ID, 1892, but by July of the fol-
lowing year he had had enough of
drama and opera. He transferred the
thcater TO a company composed Of
stein, and as "Koster & Bial's Music
HalP' it was opened August 49, 1893,
with company Of foreign vaudeville
celebrities, including Senorita Torta-
jada and her band of Spanish Trouba-
dours, Made St. John, the three De-
Una sisters, Carmencita, the Three
Judges, Mario and Dunham and the
Barra troupe. The Roster & Bial
tenancy ended in August, 1899, and
William a. Brady became the manager
John Roster died March %, 1895.
The last performance at Roster e.
Balls WAS given on Sunday night, July
21, 1901. An auction sale OF the
scenery, etc. was held July %, when
everything was sold at ridculously
small prices. The place having been
sold to X. II. Macy for tkc erection Of
new building, workmen began at once
TO tear down the theater
WILLIAM SEYMOUR.
South Duxbury, Mass, Aug "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-28
Prohibitionist' S Ten ".Whys?"
In Answer to Assertion That Nine enths of People
Want Wine and Beer

fol drunkenness from 3l6,842 in 1917
TO 1O9, ,768 in 1920?
Why did the conventions of alienists
and Of the American Medical Associa-
ton condemn the beverage use of aico-
ho and demand prohibition?
Why did ffty-nne cities, including
New York, Chicago and Philadelphia,
with combined population of 2o,000-
900, show a decrease in arrests for
drunkenness from 316,842 in 1917 to
109,76 in 1920?
Mr. Maxim glorifies the ancient Vik-
ings because, as he says, "they drank
to one another's health until they fell
under the table, and the conquerors Of
imperial Rome he commends as "a race
of boozcrs, wine -bibbers and beer drink
ers." A mighty bad bunch to take as
examples of sobriety and virtue
The American people are too alert
to be deceived by such sophisms. They
know that booze always has been and
always will be a degcneratng influence.
Ii was luxury and wine ythat destroyed
the physical and moral fibre of the
ancient empires Of Assyria, Greece and
Rome and made them an easy prey
to invaders. Vigorous aboriginal races,
like our American Indians and many
African tribes, have fallen before the
"hrewater" invasion, just as virile
Ame mericans-before the days of prohi
bition - have fallen by the millions
Such as fall through drink, Mr.. Maxim
stigmatizes as "defectives bearing the
stigma of degeneracy." Granted; but
what brought the degeneracy Alcohol,
which attacked and broke down the
highest functions of the organism first,
the lowest last, following the law of
dissolution.
Nothing could be more brutally NAL
thusian than the theory that alcohol
should be permitted to do its deadly
work upon chose who cannot save
tt emselves, namely, the detectives"
saying: "Those whom nature would
eliminate for the good Of the race, pro-
hibton seeks to save, and let their
tainted blood and their poisonous
protoplasm be turned into the blood
stream Of the race"
Yes, prohibition has already saved
thousands of victims Of alcoholism
and made them over into industrious
and worthy citizens, but it has still
greater work to do 1t will save un-
told millions of children, yet unborn,
through the ages to come, from the de-
generating curse of drunkenness
SAMUEL WILSON.
Jersey City, N. j., Aug. 25, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-28
o the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Hudson Maxim in his remark
able letter in The Tribune of August
2l, in reply to mine Of the previous
week, says: at has been amply proved,
over and over again, by undeniablc and
unimpeachable evidence upon the sub
ject, that the great mass of the Amer
lean people throughout the country are
overwh elmingly opposed to the present
type Of drastic prohibition Then he
adds: "Ninetenths Of the American
people are opposed to the prohibition
laws, ne-tenths want wine and
beer, "Nine-tenths already have wine
or beer in their homes,' etc, seven
times repeating "ninetcnths of the
people want something or "are op-
posed" to something about booze. The
figures are too uniform to be accurate
1pse Dixit is not a reliable witness
unless corroborated by facts and fig.
ures.
Will Mr.. Maxim please explain, in
the light Of his statements, the fol-
lowing:
Why "nine-tenths" of the states have
ratified national prohibition?
Why, after testing prohibition, every
state referendum in recent years, and
in most Of the Canadian provinces, in
creased their popular votes to sustain
the law, and to keep out wine and
beer?
Why, out of thirty-three prohibition
states, not one has repealed the law
if vast majority" Of the people are
against it?
Why did the people, last year, elect
by increased maiorities-a dryer
Congress than the one that enacted
the Volstead act?
Why, if physicians are opposed to
the law, did only lone old man appear
a. the hearing at Washington to speak
for beer and medicine, whereas the
great medical societies and leading
medical schools, representing thous
sands, were on record against it?
Why have only 20 per cent of ply
sicians taken out permits to prescribe
liquor, if so necessary for the human
race?
Why did deaths from alcoholism in
New York City fall from CS7 in 1916 to
only 90 in 1920, with half enforced
prohibition, and why was there a fall
in cases of alcoholic insanity--frst ad-
missiOns-in New York State civil
hospitals from Ga to ] 2 per cent, as Of
hcially reported?
Why did fifty nine large cities, in
Guiding New York. Chicago, Philadel-
phia with a combined population of
10000 000 show decrease in arrests
New-York tribune., 1921-08-28
Architectural ranks
Sir Christopher Wrens Joke on the Corporation Of
Coventy-Ribald Sculptor of lie Mans

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Referring to n recent article
in The Tribune. "Carven Satire Adolns
Churches" | was interested to hear
about these "portraits" and their import
as explained by Mr. Mayors and Mr.
Robb. Some architectural "iokes' were
brought to mind
Sir Christopher Wren built mu-
nicipal hall for the corporation of the
town of Coventry, England. Wiseacres
among the members of the corpora :
tion told Sir Christopher that they
couldn't accept and pay for tie build
ing because the roof, a rather fiat one,
was not properly supported.
The architect tried to tell them how
the arch principle employed safeguard :
ed the roof, but they would have none
of his explanation and demanded that
two rows of pillars-they knew all
about Gothic and Renaissance pillars
be added to hold up the roof
Wren complied with their demand,
put in the pillars using London work
men, got his pay and departed. Wren
and the members Of the corporation
had been 200 years in their graves
when, about 1910, "reform" town
council decided to wash down the whole
hall, ceiling and sides. They then dis :
covered that the capitals of the COL
umns concealed the fact that no pillar
reached the roof by about six inches.
The legend of the building and re-
pairing Of the main part of lie Mans
Cathedral, done in the fifteenth or
early in the sixteenth century, by a
celebrated architect, may be known to
many of our soldiers who were quar-
tered at lie Mans during the war.
1t seems that the architect died in
the midst of the work, and no one
could be found to continue the build
ing and its decorations except the
architects son and assistant, and he
was so wicked, dissipated and atheistic
that the Archbishop was scandalzed at
the thought of the impiety of leaving
such work to him.
But, no one else being found. the
son was finally commissioned to per
form the job. This he did exceedingly
we'll The cathedral was formally con-
secrated, the builder got his money and
all was we'll until the winter rains
washed out hard clay that had been
packed into good-sized sprocket about
forty feet from the ground, ending a
sort Of pinnacle on the caves edge.
in plain sight from the square that
surrounds the cathedral.
This washing out disclosed the fact
that that particular sprocket was a
carving of such sort as to be scan
dal to decency, let alone Christianity.
But the whole church had been conse-
Grated. II would be bold clergyman
who should order the removal of anv
part. Anyway, and for whatever rea-
sons, it wasn't removed. When our
soldiers came into lie Mans they dis
covered it, and used to gather In tho
square beneath and cheer, to the great
scnnda Of all good people thcrcabout
The present authorities OF I.o Mana
are evidently moro rcsourccful than
the medieval clergy, for when saw
New-York tribune., 1921-08-28

this sprockct in March, 1919, it was
incased in plaster of Paris and made
a noticeable white spot on the great
gray walls.
Portraits carven on buildings are
common enough. In New York the
architect or sculptor of the finals of
. Fifth Avenue house sits perched
cross kneel on a pinnacle little back
from the street front, student tam over
one ear, Belgian and Blue Devil style
a mallet in one hand.
At the foot Of the columns that sup
port the porte cochere of the house on
Fifty-eighth Street and Fifth Avenue
that was once Cornelius Vanderbilts
there are ;lto-r reliefs representing sing
ing children, and these are portraits of
William, Cornelius, Alfred and Regi-
nald Vanderbilt, their sisters and play-
mates, Elsie French, Peter Gerry and
others.
The question is pertinent as to
whether she architect, sculptor or deco
rator should be permitted to put repre-
sentations Of secular and political life
into churches, or church or government
symbols into business or private
houses, more especially as to the In
PRODUCTION Of memorials of themselves
into buildings paid for by others, of
which they are only ,ne erectors. Our
joker, Sir Christopher Wren, didn't
think it proper to perpetuatc his
memory by acrostic or cryptic allusions
in his stone walls. His tomb in St.
Paul's Cathedral, Lonuon, bears this
inscriptions "Si monumentum requiras,
crcumspice." "If thou seekest his
monument, look about thee"
0. NJ. CURTIS sr.
Walden, n. Y, Aug. 25, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-28
All About Roster and Bal
One Who Played With Edwin Booth Tells of Their
Various Enterprises
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: do not know anything Of the
establishment conducted by Roster e.
Bal, located under the Tribune Build
ing, which is mentioned by one of your
correspondents. They came to my ken
in 1879, when they took possession Of
what had been originally Bryant's
Opera House. in West Twenty-third
Street, which Dan Bryant opened with
HIS minstrel company November %,
1870, and which he occupied until
April, 1875, when he died.
The hall was reopened in August
under the name Of Darlng's Opera
House, but in December OF the same
year it was rechristened the Twenty
third Street Theater, and was opened
as a dramatic house. 1t had an un-
certain existence until November, 1877,
when, after q closed period Of several
months, it reopened as the Theatre
francais. Again an unsettled period,
as the st. James Thcatcr and Theater
of Arts
After varied, unsuccessful enter
tainments, It closed in December, 1878,
and the next lessees were Roster {,
Bal, who gave It their own name aud
Transformed it into concert hal,
which they opened May 5, 1879, as Kos-
ter & Bial's.
The building, on the north side of
Iwcnty-third Street, west Of Sixth
Avenue, had a frontage on Twenty
third Street CT 80 feet, extending back
80 feet, and was four stories high (75
1ees). The auditorium was so feet
"ide by 90 feet deep, with a parquct
and balcony capable Of seating one
thousand persons. was member Of
"u"ah bootn's company, at his thea
ter' on the southeast corner Of TWENTY
th'rd Street and SIKH Avenue. in
Aoos-1o-'71, and saw Bryant's Opera
mouse while in process of erection
@Dout the same period saw the cor
nerstone laid Of the Masonic TEMPLE
~ INC northeast corner Of Twenty
tn'rd street and Sixth Avenue. and
watched the erection Of that building
also
When was connected with the
Hadison Square Theatcr, in 1a31-ao
- waH the custom for the nnanagcroent
nj Roster & Bal's to admit holders
II scat coupons to their concert n,
the close u the performance 1T any
- the cthcr thcaters. have often
a7siied myself of uuuscd couponz
from the box office Of ny own theater
u attend the Koster & Bal concerts.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-28

English as Written

The Word orturlng School of
Authors-Adventures in Reading
To the Editor of The Tribune.
yir: Your editorial "Enrish as Wr,.-
ten'' delighted my soul. This tor
tured English which has come to be
accepted as the carmark of the mod
ern American school of "advanced'
writer's, indeed as you say, "labors to
invent new noun, verb or adjective
or TO find strained use Of an old
one You have hit the nail squarely
on the head Thank you!
This style Of writing at times re
vcals fresh thoughts, but so hideousy
contortcd in the Nabored EXPIRE ssion
that the true lover of literature is not
only robbed of all enjoyment, but act
ually rritated often to the point Of
laying the book down unread
And how futile all this uprooting of
words is how relentless this forcing
them into strange soils! Never has
ore of these writers given me the fine
thxill Of the living, interprctative word.
Take the passage which you quoted -
evidently the publisher was peculiarly
proud Of it. have seen many coal
tircs, but never did tho glow OF C.
resemble the check Of a winter apple.
There is no sense of adventure keen
er aad finer than is to be found in the
pages ocr the great wrtcrs-of the
moderns the names of Barrie, Gals
worthy. James Huneker and Edith
Wharton rise to my mind as write
when some happy phrase reveals a
rare power of observation in words
that flash light into the far recesses
Of past emotional experience.
! delighted in many such adventures
in reading Main Street, and it has sur
prised me to find in all the discussion
which it aroused so little said of the
sheer literary charm Of the book
mean something more than the mordant
irony Of Characterization, I mean some
thing more than even the accurate de
scriptions that make the authors word
painting of the railroad car work Of
art Ike Daumier. | mean something
more than the delicious humor of the
account Of the Woman's Club or Of
Mrs. Cass's parlor. I take off my hat
to the genius that can give US SEN
tences like these:
"a girl on hilltop; credulous, plas-
tic, young, drinking in tn air as she
longcd to drink in life"
Or the exquisite line worthy of the
highest poetry, at once interpretativc,
illuminatvc and melodious:
"to the sterile winter air the wood gave
a scent of March sap"
1t is in precisely this quality of reve-
latory insight that so much of our
tortured, smartAleck, Menckcnized and
George \ athanized literature is so lack
ing.
ANNIE NATHAN MEYER
Seal Harbor, Me-, Aug. 26, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-08-28
The Original Spoonerist

(fro" The London DAILY Mall
DR.. ". A. Spooner, from whose name
the word spoonerism" is derived. has
just celebrated his seventy-sevcnth
b'rthday Most people have heard Of
him as the pcrpetrator of some humor-
Gus verbal blunders rather than as
warden of New College, Oxford.
Inc story of his search for the Quill
Man. at Greenwich instead of the
Green Man" at Dulwich is known the
world over and such transpositions as
the Showing leopard" for the flowing
shepherd' and his statement that he
must instantly return from London to
Oxford by the town drain down train>
are classics
Talking to Daily Mail reporter. Dr.
Spooncr modcstly denied tho father
mood OF most of these jokes, and pro-
tested that one Of the few "spooner-
isms' lie could remember making Was
his pcrvcrsion OF tho first line Of tho
wcll-known hymn into "kinqucrinc
congs their tklos tate" He eaid ho
believed his famc as spoonerism-
maker was originally duo to some face
tous remarks In Punch about the ger
mons he delivered In New COLLEGE
Chapel. Most spoonerisms" he attrib
utcd to the fertile minds of irrever-
ent undergraduates