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New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

Fort Washington succumbed to the
British November Is, 1915 1t was
triumphantly repossessed by the
Americans November Is, 1888. It is
now suffering a second and final de
feat at the hands OF Modern Progress.
OF course, in view OF the great i'm
portance of extending Pinchurst Ave
nue. and 1a2d Street 8 few blocks fur
ther north and west, respectively, it
would bs unreasonable to object
merely because the road makers are
destroying the last traces Of the cita-
del which was the scene Of the worst
and the most heroically resisted dis
aster to American arms during the
War for Independence.
Sentimental persons have pestered
the city authorities with petitions to
acquire the three or four acres which,
there on tho highest point of Man
haitian Island, comprised Fort Wash
ington and to preserve them as public
park. They thought it would be a good
thing for our children and our chill
drens children to be able to trace
the defenses so laboriously created by
the patriots of rs. to have a visible
reminder Of what they endured for
us. The city has consistently turned
deaf ear to these representations
and is now being guided by the prac-
tical sense of property owners who
know what Is good for our growth.
One cannot help wondering what
George Washington thinks Of US, If he
knows. History records that Wash
1ngton "wept like child" when from
the Palisades Of Jersey, through a tele
scope, he witnessed the butchery Of
his garrison by the Hessians. Does
his ghost weep (supposing that his
ghost Is around here and that ghosts
can weep; what does Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle say on that point 7)-does
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
The Oppressed to Confer

A report from Angora--in the
name there is something suggestive
Of search for goat-says that there
will shortly be held in Moscow a con-
ference of all those who were not in
vited to Genoa. Soviet sympathizers
characterize it as a conference Of the
oppressed peoples of the earth.
Just who these oppressed ones are
and what they have on their agenda
has not yet been made public; but
that the conference will be conducted
IN much greater harmony than the
one at Genoa may safely be forecast
The brethren in a manifesto fathercd
by Turkey are said to be at one in
their conviction that they have been
robbed, despoiled or deposed
Among those who are anxious to
be represented at this conference,
doubtless. are William Of Wicd, in
the name Of Albania, and Ataman
NelnenON, on Denalt or certain 81
berians. Castro, of Venezuelan
fame, and Dc Valera and Enver Bey,
from the crstwhile kingdom of Van,
together with representative from
Mexico, are also thought to be can
didates.
Just what will be the attitude of
the State Department on this subject
is not yet known. But it is learned
in Washington circles that consider
able indignation is felt by some
because the United States has not
yet been officially invited. Senators
Borah and France would surely
like to go.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
Prob;b;tive Glove Duds

To the Editor Of The Irloans, s,,..a b
Sir: The letter from Emil us.H !.
regard to the outrageously ass i'.,,e
ties imposed on womens ~, NM
gloves by the pending taris D'A ~. :.
trates the methods by when = "
are made without considers"'A
wishes Of the consumer. So.
1t is well known to the pss. ~
the senate Committee on Fia.'ss ~. 1 /
inserted these prohibitivs ss... as.. NJ
the leather goods schedule ~. ~. "
kind of gloves on which the 90 s'''. y, !,
been increased more than 100 e@| y
are not now made in this eoa0s =. =
vii, not be made even under w. 4
barge put upon foreign glow,
rsa1 pasTT nnrpose r of the glovs-szs'aasy
+;ss is to force the Amer!esa .
to use a different kind o. ',~..st
that to which they have Ions
customed. -oANN
New York. May II. dsSA .-,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague

A Reformation
We don't get angry any more
When waiting on the wire
For four -eleven-forty-four,
The number we desire.
We DO not cry in fury Miss,
Whatever is your name,
The manager shall hear of this
Such service is shame
No longer do we shake with rage.
Then in a frenzy start
And wildly rend, page after page.
The number book apart
When summoned by a jangling
bell
And, soft as summer seas,
A lady s voice makes answer:
"Well,
Won't you excuse it, please7"
For VIC have learned from Doctor
Doyle,
Who. ever since the war.
Has spent long days Of patient
In doping spirit lore,
That those who dwell in that
queer state,
We call the great unknown,
Their messages communicate
Upon the telephone!
We fancy we are slow to scare
And quite as brave as most,
But still we do not think we'd
care
To irritate a ghost.
And though we inwardly may
chafe
To frame some smart rebuke,
We feel that it would not be safe
10 sass a savage spook,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
While There Is Life

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The strangest thing I have
seen IN the papers lately is the story
ABOUT surgeons hurrying from New
York to operate on a man conss,,re6
to death at Sing Sing. l think if they
had consulted the victim he would
rather have died from appendicitis
than 60 to the electric chair.
f. c. K.
Elizabeth, N. J., May 90, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

midges heein TO emerge. Ihs '0p, -,
snce Of the insects can be sse's. :.
by looking for delicate yellow. . :.
transparent skins or "esss r =,
truding from slight swellinss o. = =, :,
under surface Of the leaf. s''a :
Of these means that one OF 'as ~ !.
flies has escaped. 1t IS Imports. =.
make the first spraying short! ~ =.
the flies begin to issue ana " -. -
the foliage sticky for at iesss ...s,
preferably two. repeating sns - -
ment If the molasses Is wssheS y. !.
Z. P. FELT, State Entomo''s'
New York. May II, ls2a'
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
For the Nation 9 Children

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Now that the decision of the
Supreme Court has cleared the way for
action let us be worthy. The young of
nation are national trustl In
precedence of every other issue that
Of the child labor amendment must
pulse through our thought from wax
ing to sleeping. A people which fails
millions of its young, the America of
tomorrow, in their emergency has no
right to stand erect.
DAISY S. GILL.
Douglaston, l.. T., May 20, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
What Readers Are THinbine

pen to be written. They forget that
constitutions were made for the people
and not the people for constitutions.
STEWART BROWNE.
president United Real Estate Owners
Association.
New York. May 60, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
At Last

In New York City they have dug
UP an old forgotten statute which
forblds burglary and highway rob-
berry.
Copyright by James J. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
Unetflical

1t Congress discovers that Cen
eral Dawes has really been saving
money, he'll become still more un
popular with the members.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
A Compliment

Bakhmeteff ought to feel fat
tered. The last battle waged by his
adversary, Mr.. Borah, was with the
whole League OF Nations.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

feu can pu'rhas. mefchandISs advertised In THE
TSteuNE vita absolute satst.--for II dissatisfao-
ton Insults N any case T-e TRIBUNE euaran-
tess 30 pay your money back upon request. No red
tape 10 ouisbiins We refund promptly II the
advertiser coes no'.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

Demrsey's return indicates that
the Genoa conference must have
started something.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
The z0wer
THE GIFT

THE GIFT
r GIVE my body to the Garth,
~ A present, joyously.
For though | pass to nothingness,
New loveliness shall be.
New moss, perhaps, beside the brook
New notes in the clear call
OF a young bird, perhaps strange
New flower by the fall.
| give my body to the earth;
Take of my dust, O Lord,
And build whatever lovelincss
You need, to speak your word.
MABEL WILEs SIMPSON.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

The ex-Kaiser wants million dol
lars for his memoirs, which is a
pretty high price fer fiction by an
inexperienced author.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

Civil disobedicnce' is proclaimed
in Hayti, which seems to mean that
the Haytians politely refuse to do as
they're told.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

A Bolshevist is dcapot in a
ragged suit Of clothes.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

Mr.. Hearst specified five towns
that have crime waves as great as
the one in New York. He has news
papers in all of them.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
There's a kitchenettc by the Sea

Sir: 1t may interest some of your
readers who are thinking of staying ir
town all summer to know that or
Broadway in the Eighties is a sign dis
played on n hathouse, announcing
"To Let: Q and 8 room apartments
Lighthouse keeping II. NJ. K.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

What relief it would be to the rest
Of the nation If Georgia would only
secede again.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
No Cure Remains for That Tired
Feeling

Sir: You recently inquired as to the
whereabouts of the man who used to
lecture on "the stomach Of the drunk.
ard You may be relieved to learn
that he rode away on the brewers h;o
horses. They, too, are no longer in on =
midst, but you haven't noticed that 7
suppose.
Really your continual jibes at pro-
hlbitlon make one exceedingly tired
The Eighteenth Amendment is q ma ~
OF the Constitution of the Irn;ted
States, you know. The world is 20 fu,,
OF number Of funny things that one
would think you might now and then
ma another subject to play upon.
Come, be man! You might evan
try being a patriot =
Every time we think SERIOUSLY 80 Va
coming a patriot we consider how i, :
artistic our proportions would anna,
IN enduring bronze and RELAPSE ir+o
2'Io per cent Americanism.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22


Lillian c.lsh end Wallace Reid will be
In The Fatal Marriage a screen
adaptatton OF Tonnyson's poem "Enoch
Arden. The Tribune.
If the movies insist on filming the
classics let en-, we say. But if they
are going to change the original titles
as well IS everything else, how is the
spectator ever going to identify the
film play? Maybe that is not ncces-
sary, though. And we are certain that
"The Fatal Marriage" has things to
recommend IL as a title that "Enoch
Arden" has not It's only matter Of
time, we suppose, before we read the
following:
Fritzi Dolores and Montague Ar
buthnot have completed their super
film "Madness and Matricide,"
photoplay based on Shakespeare's
drama Hamlet"
Lily de Lys and Peyton Msnwar-
ing are to appear in the cinema fea
ture of the century, "Sin's Sinkhole,'
film production of Dantes On
ferno'
Beatrice Van Rensselaer, and Guy
de Mont are at work upon "Sold to
Satan screen version Of Goethe's
play, "Faust.'
Olivia Love and Tancred Delaine
will be seen next week in "Lustful
Lucifer,' a motion picture inspired
by Milton's "Paradse Lost"
Yvette Meredith and Clifford Ar
nisted arc in the midst Of Helen
Msbehavcs.' picturizati tion Of Ho-
mer'5 "llad.'
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

tionship that has been postulated
and generally accepted, but only
rarely studied at first hand.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
C. u 4 r A n T Y

Ta:.yed AZ tie Pre,ofscr 8, New York %oond
class Nau Matter
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

with our sentence nearly five-eighths
served, we find our shoulders have
grown somewhat calloused beneath the
yoke. We've even become Injured to the
cries Of "Pretty soft" that continue to
greet our entrance and exit. When
you stop trying to think up snappy
come backs you find that these don't
bother you so much And, conAden.
TALLY, 1t is pretty soft.
Yet sometimes, on a day like this
and when we get as far down toward
the end of the column as this, we be-
Gln to wonder whether this much
touted notice that g. columnist attracts
isn't SO 7 per cent bunk. One-third Of
the customers continue to address us
as Editor of The Coming Tower
Trough this has not been its name for
some eight months. and another third
keep on sending in their contributions
to IF. P. A, editor of The Tower "
which Is at once fattering and dis
oouraging. Sometimes, when confronted
with such evidence of humanitv's
power of adaptability, we sort Of doubt
this evolution theory.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-22

Owned ~ New York Tribune Inc. New York
CcrprrsCor Published daily Ogden Reid prssi
cent. G. vernor Rose,, yicr Pr'sident Heen
Roxers Ret. Secretary H. + Msxfeid, TREASURER.
A4drsss Tri5une Buiidins lSs Nassau Street New
Iock- Telephone. BeeAman 5000.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01
DRYS DECLARE WAR ON WET NULLIFICATIONISTS
Declaration of Executive Committee of AntSaoon League
America Adopted PHILADELPHIA Tuesday November 18th

Committee OF
America Adopted Philadelphia Tuesday November
Endorsements
organized liquor interests to
nulfy the Eighteenth
defiance
process
ndefensb methods
of the United States.
the
resulting
the Association
Representatives and its
this notification should be
member Congress and friend of orderly
Department so con-
STRUNG national Prohibition purpose
will
Loyal American citizens will flag
land and
We persistent upon the Pro
We appeal the friends of Prohibition
ment foreign governments
vessels registry
late thu laws the United States
prove oidi6-
cation public except in
especially large cities foreign
population has been majority Senate
districts with large
of
sentiment and therefore
Prohibition provided
heed the warning
We therefore upon people continue their efforts
League
W. c T. U this essential task the Constitution
enacted to enforce it,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01

was puritanical to stand in the way
of friendly wagers-at baseball
games, polo, tennis, etc.
OF course, this talk was mere
"camouhage" for the real purpose of
the gamblers. 1t was their first
skirmish in their battle to break down
the entire law. They were not con-
ccrned about wagers between friends,
nor the small amounts bet in
amateur sports. They were after big
ger game-and they got it!
The anti-rce track betting laws in
this state, thanks to an accommodate
ing judiciary, are farce. Betting
conditions on our lace tracks are
worse than before the law was
enacted. Then, the man who wagered
with a bookmaker had a slight chance
to win; now he has none at all. The
bookmaker has had the law inter
preted HIS way; and the money as
certainly goes HIS way too.
The liquor interests naturally have
now adopted the same tactics. They
profess no desire to break down the
anti-liquor laws. All they seek to do
is to "liberalize" them. What they
mean to do, if light wines and beer
law should be enacted, is to make a
rum-saloon OF every place legalized
to sell light wines and beer. The old
Family Entrance" sign would be
restored to its place over the saloon.
and it would have the same vile and
debasing meaning to the world as in
the days when it brazenly dehed
decency. law and humanity itself.
If the issue is to come, let it be
stripped Of false cries and brought
down to the one question at stake
do you or do you not want the saloon
back OH every street corner?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01

Until we know the facts, we do not
propose to comment upon the publish
ed interpretations of Presidents
Harding's letter to Mrs. Douglas
Robinson regarding the Eighteenth
Amendment and the Volstead law.
The summary of the letter is con-
cededly faulty, and all deductions,
therefore, must be equally SO.
Nevertheless, it is familiar argu-
ment that to ''liberalize" the anti
liquor law would take the question
out of politics and lead to the observ-
ance by all people.
One might as we'll say that sieve
will hold water. Punch holes i'll the
Volstead law and you have sieve
drought which not only light wines
and beer, but every form of alcohol
will freely flow.
No one ever found leaky dam of
much account. Those who tolerate a
small leak in it just because only a
tiny stream OF water oozes through it,
always wake up some day to find the
dam gone; that little leak steadily, but
surely widens and, widens until it robs
the dam of its strength
We have said before that the cry to
"liberalize' the anti-liquor laws is
precisely the same cry that went UP
from the race track gamblers i'll this
state after the Hughes antibett.ng
laws became effective You never
heard from one of these gamblers that
he planned to violate the sanctity OF
the law All he sought to do was to
'liberalize" it--so that personal
friends could wager nat or a small
sum on favored horse without being
liable to arrest. The same type OF
supporting story was pleaded that it
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01
Government Control Not Howling Success
In British Columbia

The of British Columbia is experimenting with
government control of the liquor traffic This method Of
dealing with traffic adopted by the people the plea that
ALL bootleggng
Rev A. Cooke in address before the Dominion Alliance
November % declared that
infinitely than they under the old license system
government controlling the liquor the liquor
ar controlling the government
has increased such that the of
byword and thing of contempt
citizens of the United States"
He sounded warning to the people OF the Province of On
Of the dry in Canada against the newt
would follow should fall he
the siren the modeaonsts when they begin their chant
of beer wne This ought be enough the people
OF the United States who being appealed by the liquor in
the the brewers and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01
BY William Z. Johnson.

noThe following editorial by William Johnson written
Rev. Mr. Hammond this
publicity possible
United
AS write this Rev. R. B. S Hammond on his way to Amer
left him Wellington August H. when tremendous
gathering give him godspeed and incidentally to
welcome having arrived in the morning OF that day
This the third that Mr. Hammond has made Amer
gathering facts about the operation of dry laws which
he all Australia Ta
Zealand He the big leader of the southern
hemisphere president of the Australian Prohibition Council
1t disparagment ybody that r. B. S Hammond
everybody south of the equator ability oraoca
power influence He the prince of the Southern World
Nobody listened o him who disappointed.
that America will extend him the degree
welcome and hospitality has been extended by Aus
aans and New Zeaands since my arrival in these If
she does, she will be going some.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01
The Noisy Minority

Ir early Jewish history, related that the Hebrews put
Syrian army flight by making great noise.
liquor gang today employing the tactics in their
fight against Prohibition Forysx of the have
already Prohibition Amendment thirty
action of their citizens, and dry aorie
creasng practically everywhere
Notwithstanding the liquor sellers and their patrons
declaring vocferousy that Prohibition put through ove
night" by anaca mnority that the American people dis
gusted with Prohibition and rapidly turning against it,
the adoption Prohibition by the
of Maine until its ratification by Nebraska 1919hat
certainly notification sufficiently long of Americas
reference to the saloon.
This camor arises principally from those financially interested
traffic and their unfortunate vctmspracca else
is increasingly satisfied with Prohibition.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01
Closing In

Formerly persons condemned death placed in cells with
movable walls. These walls moved inward with almost mpe
cepb but irresistible force which slowly crushed the imprisoned
victim to death.
clearly the American people
slowly irresistbly closing the liquor traffic The cleo
to the election the gained
nothing They simply held what they had before most
with decreasing maorie The drys gained state and in
creased their maortes in number Of others The Congress of
United States the great goal of the liquor drive
caby dry the 1t is much hope that the
liquor will be observant enough the irresistible force
moving heir destruction their effort to overthrow Pro-
hbtion But with the dys aroused and the job the issue
certain
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01
IT'S A LONG, LONG WAY


a comfortable majority, estimated at
nearly $4,000, for state law to en-
force the Eighteenth Amendment and
the Nolstead act. These are two
notable direct defeats for those who
hope and labor for the permitted use,
not in the saloon, of beer and light
wines.
So the amiable watchmen OF the
towers of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment need sharper
eyes. There were disasters as we'll
as victories for the liberalizers of Vol
stead SIN. 1t is likely to be long
time yet before the ruby kindles in the
vine in these United States. The
rigid enforcement of the Volstead act
and the various concurrent state acts
lis, to many minds at least, the best
help toward modification of the law
and reasonable definition of intoxi-
eating liquors. None the less, efforts
for that modification, though they
may be powerless in immediate effect,
should be pursued with new zeal. The
California and Ohio vets should try
again. And if the above-named as
ISOLATION, which is said to number
among its members 100000 persons,
a not yet impressive part of the whole
population, desires to do something
for the relaxation of the Volstead act
the very first thing it should do is to
change its ill-chosen name.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01
Why the People Turned Down Beer and Wine

Because they Intoxicating quosso says science
the United States government.
Second. They impair the public health
majority of instances they stepping
to the use strong liquors. addctons drugs which
dosage be steadily increased produce the
effect drnker Desires resulting the creation of alcohol
appetite.
Fourth Wherever beer and wine saloons have been tried
Norway Sweden Quebec and elsewherebeer and
saloons sell openly all kinds of liquors.
Hence decided this wooden horse could invited
back without danger the nation.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01
"Going Too Far

trade argument during all the OF temper
the dys going far When the
saoonists by the sell noxicants children
and drunkrds the raised 1T going too Tar Similar
when the traffic taxed help support the
victims Likewise limiting the hours of SALE and
every limitation placed upon the liquor business
promptly brand, going too far.
When however, the old alley dives and joints in ouohe-way
began
business great funds the protection
criminal when they began interfere with the adj
justice the elections dictate legislation defy
the constitutional authorities corrupt the judiciary whine
from the trade" about going too far
The people, however the traffic going too
far" and promptly proceeded to suppress it. Le7Ie
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-01

In 1914 a statewide Prohibition
amendment to the Ohio Constitution
was beaten by more than $4,000 votes,
in 1915 by $4,000, in 1917 by LOO.
Gradually the vets were losing. In
1918 the dry amendment won by some
$4,000, only nine of the lightweight
counties going vet. Many persons
who believed in local Prohibition
were averse to Federal Prohibition.
There are large foreign elements in
the Buckeye population accustomed to
the use OF beer and wine. The people
have had nearly three years OK
perience Of the results OF the Volstead
act. The state is rich in cities, i'll
great industrial centers; and labor
complains bitterly. and not without
reason, of the INEQUALITIES" of the
Prohibition law. loe s
This was year to bring out 1niscel-
laneous dssatisfactions. Everything
was auspicious, one would have sup
posed, for the success of the Ohio
constitutional amendment legalizing
beer and wine. 1t has been beaten by
sensational majority, some 10000,
according to unofficial returns, and a
convert to Prohibition was elected
senator. California home of grape
raising and wine making. has voted
against Prohibition steadily and again
and again. California has just given