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New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
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be matter Of regret to all under
standing persons who have the ma
tion's welfare at heart. 1t is impossi-
BILE to enumerate within the brief
limits of this paper the many instances
in which public opinion has been
swayed by earnest humorists working
for the right.
A striking example Of the power of
wit couched in poetic and literary form
is found in 1.-THE Bigelow Papers,"
which were virtually political pam
phlets from the witty pen Of James
Russell Lowell directed largely against
the conduct Of the Mexican War. The
Civil War produced humorists like Pc
troleum V. Nasty, Orpheus C. Kerr and
other political writers who were large
ly quoted at that time. 1t also re-
vealed to us the humor of Abraham
Lincoln, on whose shoulders the
mantle OF Benjam Franklin had fall
en-, and whose jocose remarks con-
firmed the theory that wit and wisdom
are synonymous terms.
George William Curtis, usually re-
garded as gentle humorist, also must
be credited with the influence he un-
doubtedly exerted during the Civil War
and the period of the Tweed ring that
followed it. In the "Potiphar Papers"
he ridiculed ante-bellum snobbery and
pretense, but as the war clouds gath
cred his pen became more bitterly sa-
tirical and under his editorship Harp
er's Weekly" gained q nationwide in
f1uence. Even more effective than it's
patriotic efforts in behalf of the Union
was its course during the years of mu-
nicipal corruption, extravaganza and
vulgarity that live in the annals of
New York as its Flash Age.
1t is difficult for the present genera
tion to comprehend the extent of the
power acquired by Tweed and his asso-
ciates at this time or the amount Of
their lootings from the city treasury.
Still more amazing is the tolerance
WhSii which thNlI oPoi6tIOH was ICEdIQ-
ed by many citizens of repute. The
part played by Mr.. Curtis and Thomas
Mast in the breaking up of this ring
and the sending of Tweed to prison and
the most notorious of his fellow thieves
into exile cannot be overestimated, and
lives in the history of the town as an
example of the powers Of wit when
put to useful purpose. The cartoons
of Mast have never been excelled in re-
cent times. Drawing was not his long
suit, but he had what is termed in the
craft "cartooning mind; in other
words, capacity for seeing the situa-
ton Of the moment in dramatic form
and putting it on paper.
"Puck" began in the late 70's to con-
tinue the fight against humbug and
corruption, and soon became journal
of national interest. With the excep-
tion Of Keppler its writers and artists
were very young men-so young, in
fact, that numor gushed from them
readily and was not strained. KEEP
piers cartoons were of biting power,
and he may be said to have founded a
distinct school Of that art. But 1t should
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Fixed and Unhxed Wages

Senator Cummins, the principal
suthor of the Cummins-Esch law.
said on April II, when an amend
sneut clarifying the Labor Board sec
INN was under consideration:
aMy view of it is that here are two
men, and ere man may agree to work
for the other at any wage that he
would be willing to accept, whether
is lust and reasonable or not; but
when organized society comes TO fix
mo the ware it is no more right to
sxa wage below the point of living,
and comfortable living, than it is to
sxa return on capital below rea-
sonable point
When it is said that a man willing
b work should have a wage suffi-
cent to maintain himself and his
family, debate ends. No humane or
intelligent person will deny that the
laborer is worthy of his hire, or deny
that something is wrong when he
doesn't get it.
But when attempt is made to de-
fine the living standard or to trans
lste its demands into dollars, debate
q. once begins. No one knows what
the standard is or what money is
needed to meet it. From decade to
decade, from year to year, the stand
ard changes, and likewise changes
the purchasing power of money.
Viewing events through a consider
able arc of time, it can be seen
whether the standard rises or falls.
Thus We know that a man now gets
vastly more than the man of hun
dred years ago. We have progressed
fran $500 as the annual income of
had of a family in 1900 to some
Ting between S1,800 and $4,000 in
1920
But whether the level falls or
rises in particular years is not re-
vealed. The statistics which we
quote are practically valueless. For
example, the claim of Investigators
that $4,000 is the minimum cost of
family maintenance at the present
standards bumps against the cold
TACT that the average income, in
Guiding rich as well as poor, is now
less than $1,000. Tables of figures
carefully prepared by social workers
represent merely waste of effort.
Seemingly recognizing all this,
senator Cummins invokes special
principle when the government fixes
wages. Then wages, he holds, must
oe compensatory, even as the return
On capital used for public purposes
must be compensatory. 1t may be
oil right for those who have their
wages y liked to enjoy special priv
iieges, provided there are not too
many OF them. But if they are mil
''0iis IN number the extra they get
may break the backs of the unpriv-
'iegeo. There is thus limit to the
.ppllcation :! of the Senator's legalis-
tic idea.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

(Fsort The Loutspitlc Coa,icr-JouyNas.
The fellow who complains that the
newspapers print nothing but news Of
crime, vice and divorce court scandals
can tell you just what has been printed
that upholds his argument, bat in nine
cases in ten his avid eye has failed to
find the important news of the day,
displayed more prominently.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Ego

(From The Ns.0 EepubIseB
WHAT though the world rolls round
W FOR untold years.
While seas, through aons, toss their
sands ashore,
Tracing old tales Of time on oceans
floor,
Sitting more salt than dries in all
our tears?
What though the winds the tallest pine
tree hears
Still sing the songs they sang long time
before,
Winding through stars million years
or more,
As whirling mist on meadows clouds and
clears!
What comfort lies in this for heart and
will?
l cannot live their length--frsgile my
prime,
Brief is my noon--so let the long lived
hill
Endure the storms; It's grass and snow
are one.
Oh. let my days, that fill my short iife-
time,
Be clcvery sweet and bright tsneath
the sun!
ELISABETH WILKINS THoMAa
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: i notice the recent editorial in
your paper entitled Germany Can
Pay" OF course Germany can pay,
but even your figures are more than
generous in favor Of Germany. Right
after the war the "New Republic" pub
lished an article regarding Germsny's
ability to pay, and answered it by
saying that an indemnity bill Of one
hundred billions levied against Ger
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Hedges

tFfonS BrooU1
HEDGES have good manners
imposing order
Things grow straight
and keep In place
and breeds don't mix.
White buds stay white
and red stay red
with no indecent streaking
in the flower. :,
Cedars have room
to shape themselves rotundly.
There are shears for vines ~
that rise by easy handholds, rr.gE
.rs-,-- ,
But even garden remembers
remembers the thick choking,
the strangling climbers
blossoming scarlet above tense s7isvsra
Oh, the long straight rise to the sum-
Oh, the rough winds from the SHOWS,
the trampling,
the crowding,
the wild sap,
the unhampered seeding!
Hedges have good manners
things grow straight in rows.
Weak things bloom free
certain slow and strong things
wait the gardeners passing.
HENRY BELLAMAN.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
...,,s or 7rr Assoc1ArEp PRESS

81 * ..sa+,atsd P-ess is exclusively entitled TO
-. snr republication cf al news dispatches
hs ss ~ - z o, not otherwise credited in this
sss .r3 sso the oeal news q spontaneous origin
szsss n sss .. republication .; all other matter
,s,ds si.o are reseTTe'i-
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
AMY

N ss paaasa s'asss,,s ssy'r;'sd q I'VE
fsSsass, Ia ssy case THG TRIBUNE guaran.
r Z. sss ~ ysuT money rack upon request. No red
"a caiaaiIn7 We refund promptly II the
ssy.y,s,e Saes fef.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

Nothing would please me more than
to see renaissance Of American wit
and humor, but do not know how
this is to be brought about. Commit
tees of the sort assembled for every
imaginable purpose, and which COM
mand degree of popular respect that
seems amazing to the sophisticated, are
powerless in the matter. Not even in
those great universities that offer cleo
tive courses in nearly everything from
playwriting to plumbing is there a
chair of wit and humor; and, while ey-
cry variety of humbug and raseality
rears it's head without fear of conse-
quences, the sword Of ridicule, the only
weapon Of real strength in the fight
against evil, is permitted to rust in its
scabbard.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
ls,s, alork Urit,1t1,e
:. rsss---thc Truth: News--Edis
8 Observation-Disclosures
So A,,as lsusesu OF Circulation,
SUNDAY, JULY %, 1922

~ Ssx York Trlsuus ms. New York
nrffe = tsu;,ssFlse,l daily. Ogden Reid. Fres-
sgssss sisoss -t,r lt,ze.s president; Helen
US. "a 2, Secretary H. T. Maxseid. Treasurer.
Ns1s 4Shuns Ileildisls ia Nassau Street.. New
tss.Fsssi- rssoas re.kinan 5000.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
The Vanished Wit of Yesterdau b.

In praseworthy effort to inform
itself regarding the value of current
critical acumen, "The Literary Digest"
sent to number of experts request
to name "the five leading American lit
erary stars that have risen above the
horizon in the last ten years" The
results of this symposium, printed in
the "Digest's" current issue, are we'll
worth thoughtful consideration.
They show that Of the thirty-three
answers received from the critics to
whom the questionnaire was addressed
Joseph Hergesheimer secured % votes,
Eugene O'Neill IA, Sherwood Anderson
1S, Villa Sibert Gather l2 and Robert
Frost and James Branch Cabell 8 each.
There were also many others who re-
ceived from to votes, the last named
number going to Edgar Lee Masters
and to Sinclair Lewis and Edna St..
Vincent Millay. Carl Sandburg, Hen
dirk Van Loon and E. A. Robinson had
but votes and Scott Fitzgerald and
Amy Lowell a.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

l am of opinion that these figures
represent not only expert critical judg-
ment but popular current taste as we'll,
and we cannot study them without be-
ing convinced of the honesty of the
criticism which is sufficiently appar-
ent to insure all writer's of fair play
if not of the fervent eulogy so dear to
the human soul. Evidences of the
continued vogue of the soothing art Of
log-rolling are SO few that they are not
worth counting.
But this mass of testimony reveals a
popular trend toward the serious and
realistic forms of literature that bellies
our much-vaunted reputation as "a ma
tion of humorists." Whatever the tai
ents of the winners in the contest,
they have certainly contrived to hide
their wit and humor in the napkin of
solemnity.
Among the scattering ballots that
follow the chosen few only three are
for that genuine wit, Don Marquis,
and one for Edna Ferber, whose short
tales of life "on the road" are dis
tinctly hum orous, and one for Dorothy
Parker, whose satiric gifts are not as
yet widely known as they deserve. The
thought that American wit and humor
have gone into eclipse is depressing
to those of US who love our country
and are proud of it's literary traditions.
When we remember that that most
illustrious of American wits and states
men, Benjamin Franklin, stayed the
hand with which he was in the act of
signing the Declaration of Indepen-
dence to found a schoo! of native hu-
NOR, thus shaking off at the same mo-
ment our allegiance to England's jokes
as we'll as to her rule, it is melancholy
to think that school which has proved
wit and wisdom to be nearly synony-
nous has lost its hold on our public.
The saying, apparently paradoxical,
that thu xnorfsj,e ron;p~ ;r a ear;
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

The saying, apparently paradoxical,
that the humorist's calling is seri-
GUS one is nevertheless quite true, and
the present decline in its vogue must
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
By James L. Ford

be remembered that he had the assist
ance of an unusually brilliant staff, to
whom his rough sketches were submit
ted at the weekly council, and whose
suggestions were often Of great value.
Cleveland acknowledged in his later
years that he owed his election to the
Presidency in 1884 largely to puck"
1t was rather crude and vitriolic wit,
expressed on more than one occasion in
a sticking cartoon, that enabled an edi-
tor of very recent years to pick the
choicest plum from the diplomatic bas-
ket.
With these and many other similar
facts to guide them, the tendency Of
those VINO found weeklies designed to
influence public opinion to pin their
Faith on almost any quality save wit
seems astounding. Cartoonists still ex-
list, but most Of the so-called cartoons
printed to-day are merely pictures, de-
void of the essential elements of
drama.
Mr.. Marquis, who received but three
votes out Of ten times that number,
possesses gifts that entitle him to far
higher consideration at critical hands,
but he may console himself with the
knowledge that the American public
gives him a much more distinguished
rating. His humor is fresh, and I
often wonder at it's abundance. His
Hermione and Archy the cockroach
are creations that entitle him to a
high place. Housekeepers who read
this popular insects vers Hbre are
more kindly inclined to his contempo-
raries of the sink and closet. 1t has
been said of more than one satirist
that he "hits folly as it fies," but Mr..
Marquis hits it before it can spread its
WINGS
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
- lLUSETTE KITCHIN
AT HOME

Miss Musetto Kitchin entertained
a number Of her friends on Wednesday
night, Dee 2Sth, at her home in
larhsviEle. Hearts, the game of the
evening, caused much fun and excite
ment. Miss Sara burlington made
the highest score, and was given :,
lovely box Of candy. After enjoying
some dancing, the guests were serve 4
a delicious salad course, followed oy
zee cream and cake.
Those enjoying Miss Kitchin S hos
= taI.tj- were: Misses Jane Meredith
Sara burlington, Mary Hayes McWow
,lf -I@rv Wood Hall, Juliet Smith
Elizabeth Edwards, Hcstor kitchin
NJ Measrs. Buck Kitchin Sam Ar
rington Dunn, James Liverman, Pau
Eitchin, James Smith, Will Kitchin
Mcdowell, Landon Whitehead, Percy
Anderson.
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
Mss CLARK HOSTESS

Miss Laura Clark gave a most en- joy
able Bridge party on Friday evening,
Dee 3Oth. The house was decorated
IN pretty Christmas greens and mis-
tIetoe. -Four tables of Progressive
Auction Bridge were played. after
which the hostess served cake, am
brosia and whipped cream
Those present were: Misses Bertha
A]bertson. Mary and Mamie LAM,
Matte Josey, Annie Alexander, Annie
Mcdowell. and Elizabeth Kitchin: and
Messrs: William Alexander. Frank
Smith. Charlie Smith. Shields Alexan-
der, johnson Smith. Erwin Clark, Ell
mis- Bryan. John Josey, and Charlie
Lamb.
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
IN HONOR OF MISS RObINs
Anderson.

On Wednesday evening, Dee 2sth,
Miss Gertie Dunn was at home in hon
or Of hc:@ house guest, Miss Roella
Robins, of Raleigh, n. c. The guests
were received by Miss Dunn, assisted
by Miss Robins. After the crowd
gathered a number Of interested games
and contests followed. The ladv's
p,ize of the evening went to Miss
Lois Speed, same being dainty hand
kerchief, and Mr.. Harry Vaughan was
the lucky winner of box Of cigars
Refreshments were served by Miss
Dunn, assisted by her sister, Mrs. Aus
tin. Delightful creamed chicken, po-
tato salad, rolls, saltines, coffee, and
mints were thoroughly enjoyed.
The following were present: Misses
Mary Lamb, Ellen and Lois Speed,
Katharine Hancock, Evelyn Kitchin,
Eta Dunn, Collier, Bertha Albertson,
and Roella Robins, Messrs. Robert
Shields, P. A. Roberts, Harry Vaugha7
Paul Speed, Ennis Bryan, Spencer
Lewis, Louis Kitchin, Johnny Tillerv,
and Mr.. Perry of Winston Salem; and
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Austin, Of
Rocky Mount.
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
CHRISTMAS PARTY

On Thursday evening, Dec. goth.
Charlie Lamb gave a most ENJOYABLE
party to a number of his friends at
his home. The guests were received
by the host, and invited into the par
lor, which was attractivelv decorated
in holly and mistletoe Much excite
ment was caused by various contests
and games. The contents Of English
walnuts, which were handed each
guest, caused some very interesting
guessing, and Ian auto and geography
contest were quite test Of wits NJ.
and Mrs. Robert Johnson together won
the prize Miss Annie Alexander came
out ahead in a spicy Mother Goose
Game, an0 was rewarded with ooz
Of candy. After other entertaining
games, Misses Mamie Lamb, Mary
licious chicken salad, sandwiches, beat
en- biscuit, pickle, an1 coffee
Those present were: Misses Bertha
Albertson, Laura Clark, Matte Josev,
Annie Alexander, Margaret Meredith,
Mary lamb, and Mamie Lamb; Nj.
and Mira. Robert Johnson, Mr. an;
Mrs. William Alexander; Messrs. Ben
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
At Home

after the seventh of January
Hobgood, North Carolina.
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
Local News ana Personal Items

AR soc Early, Of Martin County,
~. r. 3. Josey, of Tarboro, who
.,.a1 . business visitor here yesterday,
.,.,,nid. to Tarboro last night.
4 .. JOSEF, Jr., returned to
rsrcst COLLEGE, this morning to
his studies.
@,jag ,e.l,,. her school.
Incl rona. i : been VS.
rar ho,,a ~ Weldon
noal7q ra,.7.. has been
,,,rs est !, D,,,. LOFT rasto~
4
-. ,o1 Mrs Holm wesls snent SIM
-, Mr. on1 Mrs / IT A1nxan.
.- o,,s;o r1r - ,a-,~,ad hon,,
,,ndin ,t~;s+nos u Wa,rc,-
..t1, ~, -. NJ zyo,ao, uo,1
III w. ,to,z- u-oa!.s hos ro+,,,no5 70
\ g ~ .oe,,,a bcr duties
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03

WEATHER REPORT
for the week ending JAN 1st. 1929
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03

supt. Water and Light Commission
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
vOTICE TO LIGHT AND POWER
CUSTOMERS

Iiiclt and power rents are now due
far fiscal month Nov. 20th-Dec. 20.h
If same are not paid by the 10th Of
this month services viii be discontln
ned 1-2-Tt
L. r. MILLS.
Supt Water and Light Commission
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
TO MEET WITH MRS. CLARK

The Daughter af the Confederacy
VII meet with Mrs. II. I. Clark Thurs
daT afternoon at 300 O'Clock. All
members are urged to be present.
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
BY j. II. Appiewhite

BY J. II. Applewhite
Temperature highest, 65 on 26tn
Temperature lowest, % on 31st.
Highest average 55 At.
Lowest average % CT
Rainfall none.
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
ra1rOltize
It's merchants who aC-
v@aT13a IN tilfS paper
I1eVwi}l tra-.f ~>c., rfr<;f<t
NOTICE: POSTED.

We AaTc bought the exclusive hunt
ing listing and trapping privileges
iron Ms. j. D. Arnold on all Of her
ia don east side of Applewhite Swamp,
bonded as follows: on the South
DF Clark s Canal. East by Willis We
"eef 'omrany-Kitchin, Kitchin and
{ "fe'l, on the North by the lands of
MIS- PATTERSON. All persons are
'''fehF forbidden to trespass on said
Lamb
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
ROAL ROLLING

~~..t
We have two cars Of coal rolling,
one due to arrive to-.iay, the other
fhre" four iavS later.
BOWERS & COMPANY
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03

Bracy, jim Smith, Frank Snt~..
Charlie Smith, johnson Smith, Ervi
Clark, and Shields Alexander.
The commonwealth., 1922-01-03
LEGGETT- T-SAVAGE

Mr.. and Mrs. William Vance Savage
announce the marriage of their
daughter
Blanche Burnette
Mr. Chauncey Hoke Leggett
on Sunday, Dec. the twenty fifth
nineteen hundred and twenty-one
Hobgood, North Carolina.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-02-16
Don't Shoot Bob White.

Every shot fired this season at ths
bob-whites that are wintering in your
fields is a shot at your pocketbook, says
Farm and Ranch. Quails destro,
millions of alternating bugs that would
otherwise awake next spring 10 fall
hungrily upon the product of fields
and garden.
while you fight the chinch-bug re-
double your efforts to increase bob.
white quails," says A. C. Burill of the
Missouri College of Agriculture. "They
are said TO eat from 500 to 1000
chlnches at a meal, and their stomachs
crave another meal every two hours
at least this is the usual rate of diges-
ton in most insect-eating birds. Ouails
are the only wild-birds which special.
ize on chinch-bugs in the winter sea
son."
To protect the tob-white the most
effective plan is for several farmers
comparatively to publish notice in the
county papers forbdding hunters to
shoot quails on their premises. This
has been done successfully in several
Missouri communities. Many county
papers already are running such
notices properly drawn up by lawyer
and kept standing in the paper through
out the hunting season. In such
cases the publisher will add the name
of any farmer in the county and keep
it there for, say, so cents for the sea-
son.
Protect the quails; they will fight
your bug battle for you-winter and
summer.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-02-16
Democrats Meet In Huntington.

The meeting of West Virginia Dem
ocrats at Huntington last week was
called early with the view OF avoiding
the embarrassment that might grow
out Of candidacies already having
been announced. Chairman r. F.
Dunlap explained to leading Demo
Gratis there that this meeting should
rightly be held before any candidates
had announced either for the United
States Senate or for Congress.
The Democrats who gathered at
Huntington therefore assembled with a
view OF the interests OF the party as a
whole and regardless of the interests
Of individual candidates. There was
nothing said during the meeting and
no action taken during the gathering
which would emphasize any particular
candidate for Office.
Only two Of those Democrats who
have been mentioned for the nomina-
ton for the United States Senate we're
on the programmed. w. e. Chiffon
and Hon. Clyde B. Johnson. Mr.. Chill
ton made one Of the important address
es at the evening session and Mr.. John
son substituted for Chairman Dunlap
at the breakfast for the women at noon
Former Governor John ] Cornwel
wired his regrets from New York TO
Col ]. II. Long, OF tn: Huntington
Advertiser, and possible candidate for
Congress in that district. ~. ". Nicely
former Congressman for the first dis
trict, arrived at Huntington ut 40
in the afternoon, and was given quite
an ovation in the Frederick lobby and
called on for an extemporaneous speech
at night
Col. Chilton's praise OF Woodrow
Wilson awakened the greatest en-
thusiasm. He is chairman for West
Virginia in the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation drive. Clyde Bcecher
Johnson inspired Democrats assembled
by saying that the Democratic party
Is "a party of high ideals" and by de-
timing the two dominant parties in this
way:
Observation-Disclosures dollar.
Democrats Citizens interest.
A committee was named to arrange
for a statewide publicity campaign,
which will be financed by contributions
OF dollar or more from Democrats
OF every county Of the State and from
other voters who wish to be allied with
the Democrats this fall.