New-York tribune., 1921-10-25

"Old Nassau has been content to tackle
only those colleges which are located
east Of the Mississippi."
"Princeton will win," shouted an un-
dergrad Saturday afternoon. "Tell
that" madwagged Mr.. Fontaine Fox,
from Ramp s, Sec. s, Row 40, Seat 18,
"to the Maroons"
Add Lardner's Ringlish Grammar
IF'rom The New York Commercially
there will be trip for he and
his wife to Atlantic City.
Another user of "like" as q conjunc-
tion is Sir Philip Gibbs. From Beauty
and Nick: "Bristles dressed himself
like he had taught Nick to dress him.
self" "The thoughts were muddled
like his toys got muddled."
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYs
October 22-To Princeton, standing
all the way with Mrs. Ellis Lardner,
and we all had luncheon on the campus
with great courtesy and generousness.
To see the football game with F. Fox
and Edith and my wife, and glad to see
Chicago defeat Princeton, and to home,
and Edith and played many airs upon
the harmonica, which all in the train
arplauded. So to dinner wit. RS.
Sally Farnham, and much talk Of the
motion picture business, and to home,
and finished reading "The Blood Of the
Conquerors," very good, too, and filled
me with a wish to 60 to New Mexico.
23-To the Office, early, and so to
the courts, and beat D. Geer, owing
more to his ineptness than to my skill,
and so home, and thence to Mrs. Mar
garet Swope's for dinner, and saw
there Edith Snowden, the first time in
many years, and glad of seeing her.
24-Lay late, and to the Office where
all afternoon, and in the evening to
the playhouse to see "The Six Fifty"
Well, we can't call our next collec-
tion of idyls "Ashes and Sparks" after
all. AS eight widely read contribs
hurdle to inform US, book so entitled
by Richard Wightman appeared in 1915.
o ever thus from chidhood's hour
I've never, in joyous glow,
Thought up some new stuff for The
Tower
But some one pulled it years ago.
revolter against the gaudier-hued
garbs is Alfred Ershmann, married
last Wednesday in Paterson, and
"tastefully attired," says The Press
Guardian, "in black dress suit"
Changing the name of "Wait Till
We're Married" to "Oh, Marion!" looks
to us like an attempt to bring it to the
attention of the Presidents home town.
Truetalk
[Roscoe c. e. Brown in The North American
Reviewl
The essence Of the mischief in propa-
ganda is not it's falsity in any particu-
lar case, but its origin. The essence of
journalism is its autonomous express
sion OF itself as an interpreter Of So
ciety. The editor who is entitled to
confidence, and who alone in the long
run will get it, is he whose every ut
terance is his own. Neither the ac-
curacy of journals news nor the
business of its opinions is half as i'm
portant to society as certainty that
whatever it publishes is tho result of
It's own independent outlook on the
world in the capacity of public watch
man. That is its profession; that is
it's trust.
"When I was elected" said Mayor
Hylan, II appointed Police Commits
sioner whom l supposed had expert
ence. The Tribune.
Did the Mayor say it, or The
Tribune?
l ought not to complain. First nv
wife gave me the plot for story and
then. after I had transcribed it, A. E. |
Thomas came along and turned it into |
play, which he calls "Only 49," NY |
lot would seem to be nearly as easy as |
that of column conductor-Walter
Prchard Eaton in The Evening Post.
How true that isl Even your
similc, Wally we shouldn't have seen
If our attention hadn't been called to
it "You ought to say something about
that" said the attention caller
Miss Alexa Stripping, Of Atlanta, de-
Tending champion, had no. trouble in
surviving Post.
Has The Post confused her with
Bobby Jones?
"If he gets to be Sir Charles Chap
lir," offers Bill Netch, "his favorite
book will be When Knighthood Was
in Flour"
Maybe some day he'll be Earl Of