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New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
The RootIeggers' Baboon

There Is a good deal Of Poe, a
little Of Kipling and just touch Of
Stevenson in the story from Baby
lon Of the bootleggers' baboon. The
very headline suggests mystery, ad-
venture and horror. Cast upon o
lonely shore by smugglers ESQ it
would seen1), this animal, like Bimi
in Kipling's story, was a pet with
an uncanny facility for copying
mems manners. A house was to him
g home, even though 1t was but n
deserted pavilion on the links. He
even resorted to the traditional de-
vice used in mystery stories Of slid
ing down lightning rod in order
to escape from his pursuers.
To the reports of his being seen
fitting from window to window in
the deserted house, always evading
the would-be pursuers with admi-
rable elusiveness, has been added the
charge that he suddenly appeared
on a footpath, towering above boy
on his way to inspect muslrat traps,
and with his great arm knocked him
sprawling and would have COM
menced operations worthy Of the
perpetrators of the murders Of the
Rue Morgue had not police dog
fearfully put him to flight.
The setting Ia admirable. Dark
woods, dusk, a creek, boy, a
baboon dropped from a tree, a
shrek, a scuffle, dog, bite and
fight.
1t is a mystery for more than a
Poe to solve. Whence came the
animal, and why should bootleggers
have such pet? Why, furthermore,
should they desert him on the grim
shores of the Great South Bay? How
did he get into the house and what
did he do there, and where has he
fed to that he has evaded all parties
Of searchers?
1t is only few months since
Mary Ellen mystified the ghost
hunters of Nova Scotia. Is it pos
sible that In the present instance it
Is man and not an ape who has
"too much ego in his COSMOS" and
is deliberately playing the role of
the bootleggers' baboon for pur-
pose7
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

relatively useless nitrogen compounds,
such as ammoniaA-a by-product Of the
gas industry.
The next stage, still In active prog
ress, was the transformation Of lab
oratory experiments into practical
manufacturing methods. Norway and
Germany were the first TO accomplish
this result on large scale, with such
success that Norway, when the CUB
marine attacks on shipping became
acute, was able to supply great guam
titles chiefly to the Allied countries
and Germany contrived to increase her
output Of food and to maintain her
stock Of explosives long after she
would otherwise have had to surrender.
Since then other countries, each In
proportion to their foresight, the en-
couragoment Of their governments and
their scientific and engineering skill,
have been following the lead.
There are now nearly dozen proc
esses, each successful on a non-eco-
nomic scale, and several actually hav-
ing reached, or rapidly approaching, an
economic scale. But, let 1t be repeated,
"fixcd' nitrogen is really "fxedv en-
ergy. With the single exception Of
the Hanaser process, In which the en-
ergy is obtained by explosion Inside a
bomb, all require an abundant supply
Of energy from some external source.
The percentage Of the energy expend-
led, which is actually stored, varies from
about two Gin the electric arc process
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
For Justice Marsh

The first name among the candi-
dates for the Supreme Court for the
First Judicial District is that of
Robert McC. Marsh. He Is Re-
publican and Is nominated by the
Republicans alone, but for several
reasons he is deserving Of more than
a party support.
He has made an admirable record
as justice of the Supreme Court
serving by appointment Of Governor
Miller to fill vacancy. 1t Is the
testimony Of both his fellow judges
and the lawyers who have appeared
before him that he has demonstrated
his complete fitness for the post.
The Republican Judicial Convention
named him along with two Demo
Gratis, Judges Lehman and McGold-
rick, whose terms also expired, thus
adhering to the principle Of non
partisanship on the bench. The
Democratic convention refused a
nomination to Justice Marsh and
ramed Democrat, William II
Black. in his stead, lawyer who
has never held judicial office.
The action Of Mr.. Murphy was
part Of his design to tighten his grip
on the bench Of New York and II
deserves outspoken rebuke at the
hands of the voters. Without re.
gard to party, citizens should vote
to keep Justice Marsh In office, both
for his fitness and as warning to
the Tammany boss that the bench of
New York Is not one of his party
requisites.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
The Last of the Sultanate

When the Angora Assembly for
mally deposed Moham,ned vi as Sui
tan it merely recorded long-accom-
plished fact. Mohammed vi has
been sultan only in name since the
Grand Assembly set up its power in
the Anatolian capital, repudiated his
action in signing the Sevres Treaty
and broke away entirely from his
authority. For two years he has
been the head not of the real Turk
ish state but only Of counterfeit
state maintained by the Allies in
Constantinople for their own pur-
poses. Now that they are ready to
deal with the real sovereignty Of the
Turkish nation the only reason for
the existence Of Mohammed's gov
ernment disappears.
The sultans Of recent times have
enjoyed very uncertain tenure. The
law of primogeniture has no stand
ing with the Turks. The descent Of
the crown is from brother to brother.
Deposition has consequently been a
common practice. Thus Abdul -Aziz
was deposed in 1876 partly by force,
partly through decree obtained
from the Sheik-ul-Islam. His brother
Murad, the next ruler, was deposed
after few months and the scepter
was given to the crafty Abdul
Hamid. The latter was ousted on
April 25, 1909, by the Turkish Ma
tional Assembly. The Angora As
scmbly only follows precedent in
ejecting a sultan no longer persona
grata to it and the nation.
1t is different with that portion OF
the Assembly's decree which abol-
ishes the Sultanate. Here Is revo-
luton which the Young Turk re-
formers of decade ago held away
from. Enver and his fellow dictators
suppressed the Sultan's powers and
treated him as a political recluse.
They made their war alliance OF
August, 1914, with Germany and
never consulted the Sultan. They
conducted the war as they saw MT,
and their fight after the armistice
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
By Frederic r. Vnn de Water
(F. F. W

Gate. IL 10, roughly estimated. 900
words in length.
1t sounds as though Sinclair Lewis's
Babbitt had had hand in compiling
II. "Gargoyles," we are Informed, Is
written In "straighsSoxward, man-to-
man, bstween-you-and-ma plain Eng.
lish."
Sinclair Lswis and John Galswor orthy
seem 70 be two authors who learned
about che mechanism Of life so early
in thsir careers that they have come to
accept sex as matter Of course. It is
not some astounding secret that they
have Jusa discovered. It Ia, TO them, q
silver thread, tarnished OF brilliant,
woven into the web of existence.
They don't wink surreptitiously and
jerk thumb over o shoulder in it's d.
reotion. Neither do they Jump up and
down In dust cloud believing their
discovery OF something older than hu-
manity.
Somehow, we have q probably entire
ly inaccurate picture Of Mr.. Hecht suf-
fering uneasy qualms every time the
sun sets and feeling an immense relief
from the threat Of eternal night every
time It rises again.
.
Sensual" Is an adjective chat be-
comes little threadbare through much
use in "Gargoyles." It is thrown at
almost every 'character like handful
Of mud. Yet. taking It from the Gen.
tury Dictionary, Sensual" means per-
tanning to, consisting In or affecting
the senses or bodily organs Of percep-
ticn." From this one might fancy that
the world, remoulded closer to Mr..
Hecht's desire, would consist only Of
the atrophied or parslytic.
Mr.. Heeht's genius seems 20 lie in his
capacity for giving one infinite pains.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
The Hunger for ''Fixed" Nitrogen

supplied. The ratio between the acre
age Of country and the population 1t
can support, after very few years Of
cultivation, depends on the quantities
Of fixed nitrogen that can be supplied
more than on any other single factor.
The second peculiar quality Of fixed
nitrogen is that it can give up it's en-
orgy almost instantaneously with tre-
mendous vehemence when the opportu-
nifty is offered It by simple chemical
means. The gas is as swift to free 1T
self as 1t was reluctant to enter into
combination. Hence it Is the basis Of
the vast bulk Of explosives rsed In
munitions CT war, in mining and in
blasting. Food supply, defense and ag-
gression and great series Of opera
tions, from mining to the making Of
roads and harbors, depend, In the pres
ent state Of knowledge, on the energy
fixed in nitrogen compounds.
Until shortly before the war the
world obtained It's fixed nitrogen al
most entirely from natural beds in
South America. Effective command OF
the sea by an enemy could have re-
duced any populous country to mill
tary impotence and actual starvation
as soon as her imported stores were
exhausted. But in a number of lab
oratories, notably by Crooks and Ray
leigh in England, methods had beer
devised by which fixed nitrogen coule
be produced artifcially, starting either
with the nitrogen Of the mir or witt
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

where air is forced to combine in an
electric hame) to some forty er fifty.
Doubtless great Improvement will be
made, as in other industries, in the
direction Of more economical trans
formation. But when the raw material
is energy. and the product stored an
ergy, the future rests with the country
which obtains It's energy most chsaply
by the employment Of water power,
by the construction of generating sta
tions on a huge scale, and by proper
use of coal. Energy must be made
cheap II stored energy is 60 bs cheap.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

rible shock. It's pity that thas cox.
cellent series Of books on whas boy
and young man should know hasn't
had larger circulation among the Gre.
ative minds Of the country.
Still, we suppose we ought to DO glad
that IT'S no worse. Some ons might
have enlightened Mr.. Hecht further
Some ruthless destroyer Of illusion
might have informed him thas there
are other psychological hungezs beside
sex. There are the desires for warmth,
shelter and safety; the irresistible
longings for drink and food.
We're sort Of glad that the author of
"Gargoyles" picked on seq. IL would
have been much worse II he had chosen
the food desire as his theme. We hIc-
cough involuntarily when we think Of
novel whose characters are presented
as Just SO many erect cylinders con-
tanning conglomerate foodstuffs under
going chemical dislntsgration. Our
mind reels and hangs on to the ropes,
CLASSY eyed and staring, when we think
Of the billiousness, the dyspepsia, the
gastritis that would cry aloud from its
pc gcs.
The more we think Of 1t the happier
we are that MIR. Hecht Is SO taken up
with sex impulses.
D
Mr.. Hecht and Mr.. Sumner and Mr..
Freud to the contrary Notwithstanding,
sex and sex desires, complexed and SIM
pie, seem to us comparatively minor
part Of existence--necessary undoubt-
edly, but not all-dominating. Without
their influence there would probably
be no novels and darned little poetry.
That is not completely desolate con-
ception Of life. If there weren't any
novels there wouldn't be any publishers
blurbs. Mr.. Hecht's "Gargoyles" has
the longest Of these we have met to
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Save the State

Tammany Hall is making the fight
cf its existence against Governor
alller for two reasons:
First-He has kept its hands of
transit in New York City.
second-He has prevented it from
ussnding the Tammany system to
tie state government and through
liz state government to water power,
brest reserves and state institu-
acns.
More than any other Governor of
recent years Governor Miller has de-
landed the citizens against the po-
Eseai machine which for more than
hundred years has fattened on tax
money.
Tammany Hall is a cold-blooded
business institution. Its business is
graft. The more opportunities for
graft that can be created the more
Tsmmany insiders prosper. Under
Governor Dix 1t discovered that the
opportunities for plunging its hand
INTO the public pocket were by no
means limited to New York City.
Since then 1t has sought on each sue
ceeding election to control the state
government.
Governor Smith did not satisfy the
Tammany appetite for power while
he was in ofica. But expenses in
creased enormously during his adj
Ininistration. And when Governor
Miller came into power he found
that requests for appropriations had
grown In two years to more than
s2W,0o0,o00. Mr.. Miller made short
york Of that growth, and Tammany
dstrmined to get him out Of AL
hany at its earliest opportunity.
al Smith has all the qualities Of
good fellowship and ability that his
admirers attribute to him. He has
risen through his own efforts from a
tumble station in life to great Office.
But he has been and still is Tam
many man-proud Of the organiza-
ton that he represents and ready to
dsfend it whenever 1t Is attacked.
What is more important from the
point Of view Of the voter, Tam
many, whose motives and aims are
asver disguised, is fighting des-
Erstely to re-elect him. And Tam
many, the voter can be assured,
wants no man in the Governors
chair who will interfere with it's pur-
poses to extend the rule it exerts in
this town to the entire state.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

> i 4 - +
which he headed. No member 81 +he
Legislature gave Governor Hughes
more intelligent and effective sup
port.
mr.. Wainwright served with dis
finetion during the war as colonel
ON General Organs staff. He has
made an efficient Assistant Sec
retafy OF War under Mr.. Weeks. In
now returning to legislative life he
Is returning to a career ably begun
and certain to ensure his district in
eeiiigent and faithful representation
IN Congress. He deserves the heart
lest support of his party and of his
district.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Wainwright IN Westchester

ue Republicans of Westchester
- koekland counties-that Con-
4 sssslonal district which bestrides
!. = nudson-are :. to be congratulated
& o.. 'ae candidacy of j. Mayhew
s'hwright for the House of Repre-
=. a'atives. The record of Mr.. Vain
ht at Albany is still fresh in the
a. ',us OF his fellow citizens. AS
- see Senator in the time Of Gov
i 4vf J, Hughes he was a leading figure
=. sas constructive reforms then en-
-. - The workmen's compensation
Z IS the product of a commission
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
practically released him from a gild-

practically released him from gild-
ed prison.
but using the monarch as a nun
pet is not the same thing as discon.
tlnulng his Office. A prince Of the
Hcuse of Osnlan is to be chosen as
Caliph--a concession to Osman : size
| cessful claim that he was the trpe
successor of the Prophet. But the
Assembly is to do the choosing and
IS itself also to exercise complete
political sovereignty. The executive
1T selects may be dictator, but he
will owe his dictatorship to the peo-
pies representatives
Here is sort of Louis Napoleon
republic-empire on the political side
On the religious side the calinhate
tradition is modified for the purpose
of bolstering up nationalism and
Young Turkism. How will it affect
lslamic unity? That is question of
far greater Importance than how it
will affect the durability of the new
Turkish state. For without Islamic
pressure in the Asian and African
empires Of Great Britain and France
the Angora government would never
have triumphed over the sultanate.
And If Turkey loses the caliphate by
terminating the sultanate Mustapha
Fasha's near-empire, near-republic
will retrograde to a status scarcely
superior to that Of Persia or Afghan
istan.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Just a Wisl,

The movies are creatures Of senti-
/ ment. We wish to appeal to that
sentiment. We wish to appeal in be-
half Of the children.
We wish our children to know
Charles Dickens, and Alexandra
Dumas, and Mark Twain and the
great story tellers Of the child-world.
We do not at all object to their know
ing these classic figures from what
is known as the "silver screen" in
stead Of from the printed page. But
we wish the screen to give a true
reflection.
We do not wish to see the "title
man" intersperse "Oliver Twist"
with modern vaudeville puns. We
do not wish to see Robin Hood, that
penniless outlaw, start his career as
the grandiose Earl of Huntingdon.
We do not wish to see the yankee
at King Arthur's Courr" assail Mer-
lin with tanks and armored cars and
airplanes. We do not, above all,
wish to see the fine fancy, the his
toric spirit, of great story or a
great writer lost in the sands of
ccmmercialized impertinence out con
the lot" at Hollywood.
We present this as a wish, instead
Of protest or a demand, because we
know the imperviousness Of the
movies" We know the armor they
oppose to outcries in behalf Of that
pale thing called art. On such a
plea we are licked before we begin.
But in the name of sentiment
the weak spot in the armor-we may
breathe wish to which even Holly
wood may give ear. We wish to
have our children's rights protected
in motion picture palaces as rigidly
as they ought to be in factories. We
wish to have Mr.. Will Fl. Hays save
"Little Orphant Annie" from being
jazzed up so that James Whitconlb
Riley would never recognize 1t. VII
he kindly oblige7
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
fFro,, rhe London Iymas)


More than three-uuarters of the vol
ume of the atmosphere consists OF
nitrogen. There Is superabundance OF
this colorless, tasteless and invisible
gas, and yet It is the center Of a great
international struggle. We may leave
intricate chemical and physical details
to experts, and yet understand In broad
outline why there should be hunger
for "ixed" nitrogen, although "free"
nitrogen is free to ali. Free nitrogen
Is highly inert--that Is to say, 1t enters
into chemical combination with other
elements with reluctance that can be
overcome only by the utilization OF
large quantities Of energy. Instead OF
speaking Of fixed" nitrogen 1t would
be as correct and more inteiIigtble to
speak of energy fixed in compounds Of
nitrogen.
Such energy has two qualities which,
as vet, cannot be replaced by any other
forms of stored force. The green vege-
tation of the earth and of the waters.
which is the ultimate source Of the
food supply Of men and beasts, cannot
aourish in the absence Of "fixed" nitro
gen. The quantities present in all soils
arc limited, and are quickly exhausted
by cropping; If the yield Of wheat or
OF potatoes is to be maintained or in
creased by intensive cultivation, arti-
fcial nitrogenous fertilizers must be
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Waiting Another Pentecost
Expectant Aspiration. Not ''Cowardly
Flight from Reality"

Expectant Aspiration. Not Cowardly
Flight from Reality"
To che Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In "salvaging Civilization" in
'The Century" g. Stanley Hall de-
clares, Moreover, the attitude Of
watchfully waiting for ths miracle Of
another Pentecost or the advent Of q
new millennial dispensation Is to-day
q cowardly flight from reality and
treason to faith In the higher powers
Of man"
For centuries the watchful waiting
OF Christians, tbs patient march to
higher events has spsnned the dark
ages, encompassed the Reformation,
closed in peace and unfiinching faith
the eyes of millions who have been
standing IN their places, and Christsn-
dom has been asking. "How long shall
It be to the end Of these wondersf"
The inspiration Of the fathers, the
martyrdom Of the saints, the passing
Of ranks upon ranks of Christianity's
nobility has been in this hope. They
have forgiven and waited the Great
Advent, the divine Justice, tho unfet-
tered life. In retrospect they have con-
sidered: "The Lord possessed me (wis-
dom) in the beginning Of his way, be-
fore his works Of old. ! was set up
from everlasting, from the beginning
or ever the earth was" In futurity
they have considered, 81 am Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and che end,
the arst and the last" And Christen-
dom - that invisible sovereignty Of
Christ on earth--responds, "Even 80,
come"
"Is It treason" ask, "to have faith
In the higher powers Of man." to ewait
that divine presence OF wisdom, to
withdraw so far as freedom permits
into contemplation Of this agc-en-
circling wisdom, to come forth renewed
in spirit, soul and body to meet again
the fatal disappointment, but with
effort, winged with expectant aspira-
tion Of that day-the day Of the bright
and morning star - Of this kingdom
which shall never end Is this "a cow
ardly fight from reality7" Rather IL
| it not the inspiration Of every advanc-
ing step in the travail Of earthwhoss
time is accomplished.
1t is true that the world Is facing
| incalcuiable disaster. This must sound
foolhardy, the opinion Of an alarnnist,
but we must cherish that attitude Of
mind which enables us to discern the
signs Of the times. This pentecost of
wisdom must come, or we sink. It Is
the wisdom to set up and maintain
ever progressing standards Of right
Its animus is love, it's reward the
| death of this life until the full stature
| Of perfect manhood In the veal of
Christ be manifest and revealed. LIE,
us not deny that our eyes have seen
| "the glory Of the coming of the Lord
1 JOSEPH WHITLA STINSoN.
New York, Nov. 1, 1922.
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Overture
fEkazsa Ynf6aal

Overture
sFrom vosossj
A PLAGUE Of stars was overhead,
= OF small, insectous ones,
And many little milk-sop moons,
And microscopic suns.
An from owl with lantern eye
Above the woods dark rust
Saw cartwheels turning in the sky,
Admired the pretty dust,
And made e moon and dubbed it song,
Then listened TO the sound:
II was o hurt meter long
And bleeding as wound.
While lustrous lay the earth below
With silver going chesp
There wasn't any one to know.
(The greedy wero asleepi)
But from the coppice to the left
A satyr or Its brother
Leaped lightly, showed It's foot wes cleft,
And beckoned to another.
ssAsA1 AeSSe &AoNh 40 &SS 0k&0 4oS2
AS comic 81 your own
They clambered out of every nook
Among the frosted st.sH.
And from metallic flowers, stif,
Dew-snelling and night-dim.
Tho fairies ross and stretched a. Il
TO ease thu aching limb.
s.1i.s
While moonbeams peltsd down liks raid
The pitter-patter feet
Came ringing bells across the plain
Or hopping from retreat.
On mushroom seats Of splashing gold,
OF pearl or ivory,
| They fled to place as they were told
1 Proudly and funnily. IL
Then was a pompous pixie heard,
Gray with gargoyle grin,
And, tinkle-tinkle, fell his word,
II think we may begin"
| AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
n Week of Verse

Rivers Unknown to Song
James Thomson
from Tbs Asta.sso Month,vl
WIDE waters In ths waste; or, out Of
reach,
Rough Alpine falls where late a glacier
hung;
Or rivers grcpfng for an alien beach.
Through continents, unsung.
Nay, not thess nameIess, these remote.
alone,
But all the streams from all the water
shods---
Psneus, Danube. Nils--.are the unknown,
Young in their ancient beds.
Man has no tals fos them. ohi trav~
elers swift
From secrets to obiivionl Waters
Wild
That pass In act to bend flower or lift
The bright limbs of a childt
For they are new, they are fresh; shsres
no surprise
Like theirs ON earth Oh. strange
forevermorel
This moments Tiber with his shining
eyes
Never saw Rome before.
Man has no word for shsir stsrnttYS
Rhine. Avon, Arno. younehnga, yoaaA
uncrownedl
Ignorant, innocent, instantaneous, free,
Unwelcomed, unrsnownsd.
ALICE MNYNElxA
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

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80, md also ths local news OF spontaneous origin
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