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New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
In Behalf Of Boy Musicians

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Who is there that at some
time hasn't wanted to play In band :?
Surely every boy. AS the number of
bands is SO limited a good many who
have tried at one time or other must
have given up the use of their instru-
ments, which are now lying on the
shelf unused and silent.
We have great many boys and
young men who ardently wish for an
instrument to play. We have 3 small
band for them to play in if they get an
instrument We have teachers to in
struct them in its use, but the price is
prohibitive. What instruments the
school now possesses are already
loaned and the waiting list grows. If
this letter reaches the eyes and hearts
of any owners of instruments that are
now silent won't they send them to the
Brooklyn Music School Settlement, 1876
st. Felix Street, Brooklyn, where they
may once again learn to sing and make
hearts glad?
Some Of these boys are blind. some
LAME and otherwise shut off from the
normal fun Of their comrades. If only
they can join the band they will gain
not only music but companionship.
They will learn to play and work har-
moniously aud have place to spend
their leisure time, where the influence
is all for good. OF the brass and wood
wind instruments, the latter of which
should be Boehm system, we need
cornets, clarionets and slide from
bones; we also can find good use for
more violins, violas and ccilos, and If
any one can send MS a good piano to
replace one Of the worn and decrepjt
ones in so many Of our studios he
would be more than repaid, ! am sure,
by visit to the school, where he
would see it in use.
KENDALL X. MUSSEY,
Director Of the Brooklyn Music
School Settlement.
Brooklyn, April 6, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
The Bear Family Returns

Mother Bear and the twins, Boxer
and Woof Woof, have been seen in
the Green Forest highlands of Pail
sades Park. Where they came from
the park people do not know, but
all the little boys and girls who read
the Bedtime Stories know that
they came down from the Great
Mountain. They know, too, that
they came because it is once more
safe to wander along the Hudson
and the Ramapo, where two-legged
creatures are no longer allowed to
carry Terrible Gun.
Buster Bear has not been report
ed yet. Perhaps he has not ven
tured down from the Great Noun
tain or perhaps he has found it
easier to conceal his presence since
he leaves the care of the two-year-
old cubs entirely to Mother Bear and
does not have them ambling at his
heels all day long. Buster Bear
thinks mostly Of himself, as every
one knows. However, it is safe to
say that he will make his appear
ance sooner or later.
Major Welch, the manager of the
park, says that other wild creatures,
furred and feathered, are gradually
coming back to the highlands-the
grouse and the deer. the wildcat and
the beaver. But it is the return Of
the bears that gives him the most
JOY. He declares there is no reason
why they should not become as
much at home in the great park Of
the East as they are in the Yellow
stone. He hopes that any two
legged creatures who happen to meet
Mother Bear, Boxer and Woof Woot
will treat them politely. Then per
haps Buster Bear will make his
presence known and other Bean
families may come down from the
Great Mountain.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Loosening the Travel Brakes

Another sign of the return to nor
mality is the reduction of baggage
transfer rates in this city Who
can remember the good old days
when trunks were transferred for
40 cents apiece? The rate has sky
rocketed since to $1.25 for trunk
and 80 cents for a handbag from
the railroad station to points in
Manhattan below 150th Street, with
extra tolls for longer deliveries.
The Public Service Commission
has just ordered a reduction to a
base rate of 81 for trunks and rs
cents for handbags to and from
points within what is defined as
Zone One, and slight additions for
business to and from other outer
zones. We have here a great trav
cling public. which has resented the
increased penalties put on travel.
The excessive baggage transfer
charge was one of these. The
8 per cent Federal tax on railroad
tickets was another. Congress
wiped out the ticket tax. Tte
Public Service Commission has
pruned down baggage charges and
promises an additional pruning
next fall.
Hundreds of thousands of New
Workers go into the country every
summer. Hundreds of thousands
travel at other seasons on business
or pleasure. 1t does them good and
relieves that insularity on their
part which the outlander is perhaps
overfond Of noting. Cheaper travel
is boon whose enjoyment has been
sadly interfered with since 1914.
Any removal of present obstruc-
tions is welcome event to travel
loving, curious, far-ranging COM
munity like ours.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

our coast is protected by airplanes nc
ships can reach our shores or land
troops"
Thus, the best authorities at home
and abroad are of one mind-that air
power will dominate in future war.
What Are Ne Doing?
In the meantime what are we doing
Actions speak louder than words. In
truth, 1T may be said that the United
States is dawding. The aviation bu-
reaus of the army and navy are doing
all in their power with the limited and
crude facilities they possess, but their
hands are more or less tied. Appropri
atlons for aviation are insufficient and
conservatism continues to place hur-
dies in its path.
Moreover, legisla ton and laws for
the encouragement and regulation of
civil aviation are held up. The Wads-
worth Hicks bill for Federal control Of
aeronautics, after passing the Senate,
is being mangled, if not strangled, in
the House by flaw -pickers and all sorts
of seeming y jealous personal or
bureaucratic influences. And little
legal minds with states rights, per-
sonal rights and property rights prey
ing upon them in this modern age, are
supporting Farmer Brown in his claim
that he owns all the air between his
COW pasture and the moon, and that no
trespassing aviator can fly through and
breathe his oxygen without paying for
it by the cubic inch
Thus, while aviators are flying all
over Europe, and when we are told that
"a night air line between London and
Paris will be in operation soon to carry
the mails" when we are assured that
sleeping car airplanes will soon be in
operation for tired business men who
must cross the Channel quickly
while all these advances are being
made abroad the government of the
United States appears to be asleep at
the switch.
The need of prompt and intelligent
action is imperative. Aviation, both in
peace and in war, is already dom
mating force.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
No Spoilsmongering

One Of the policies which the Pres
ldent has at heart is to improve the
quality Of government service. He
has attacked this problem from
many sides. Over-cost is being elimi-
mated by the budget system and
laudable attempts are being made to
modelnize machinery and methods
ard to increase the efficiency of the
personnel. Mr.. Harding's sincerity
and lack Of partisan motive in this
undertaking are sufficiently attested
by the fact that he employed for this
task so ruthless an efficiency engi-
neer as General Charles G. Dawes.
The President recently made GER
tain removals "for the good Of the
service and was immediately
charged with reverting to party
spoils hunting. His friends reply
that he is merely living up to his
sense of responsibility for the eff
cient operation of government. He
is accused by Democratic Senators of
violating the spirit of the civil serv-
ice laws. The answer is made that
civil service regula tions ought not to
be applied to guarantee the tenure Of
incompetent officials.
The present civil service system is
more concerned with guarding entry
into the governments employ against
political pressure and protecting en-
ployees from the politicians after
they get in than it is with stimulat-
ing improvement inside the service.
General Dawes is now working on
plans to keep bureau chiefs up to the
mark through efficiency ratings. The
same method of selection and elimi-
nation could we'll be extended to
clerks-at least, 10 those in the high
cr grades. Without internal compe-
tition the civil service becomes in
evitab!y inert and lethargic.
As yet we are only on the threshold
of a vitalized government service.
The great struggle so far has been to
destroy the noxious spoils system.
We need service free from manipu-
lation for party purposes, above and
apart from party dependence. That
is what civil service laws everywhere
have aimed at The spoils theory has
been scotched, not killed. 1t would be
over-optimistic to say that the Fed
eral civil service has been already so
dissociated from spoils hunting that
the present moral restrictions on re-
movals can be generally lifted.
The Presidents ideal Of merit
operating freely within the service IS
the right ideal. 1t is the ideal, Ger
tainly, of the future. But we have
had a long, hard fight-not yet COM
pletely won-to oust the spokesman
and defeat his Vaccinations. Renaov-
ais which are for the good OF the
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

middle of August may actually be
frosty.
in all cases great care should be ex-
erc'sed to see that every vcstige Of the
campfire Is eXtinguished before leav-
ing the ground, and if the season is
very dry the party might we'll forego
the fire rather than run the risk of
starting forest conf1agration.
Third - When the cooking is to be
done over quick fire it should be a
very small one. The butt end of three
or four dry sticks four or five inches
IN diameter brought together with fire
IN the center of them forms a range
over which kettle may boil for
very long time, requiring only oc-
caslonally that stick be moved in
little toward the center. For the
shorter operations, such as frying and
quick boiling, where the cook is sup
posed to be busy about the re, he will
End himself constantly IN the smoke.
unless he has taken the precaution to
build the fire near a rock or fallen
log which will act as a chimney. In
either case the fire should be kept
foot and half away from the chimney,
so that it may not unnecessarily re-
fleet the heat
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Camping in Comfort

the trip might begin on September 10.
Second-As to the evening campfire.
This, Of course, will be impracticabe
near much Travelled roads and in set
tied districts. But where the stop is
made in forest there are certain
points to be considered. If the camp
ground has been used before it is gen
erallv safe to build the fire in the OLD
location. But few campers realize the
necessity of rejecting the heat botn
from the opposite side of the fire and
from behind the camping party as they
sit before it.
A screen at the back OF the fire may
he omitted if the fire is large enough
to hermit the waste of heat. But the
screen behind the party cannot be
omitted without positive discomfort.
The nights after the first of August
are likely to be cold, and after the
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
disease or else confess that our OK.
pressions of sympathy are hollow and
hypocritical.
The Mayors Opportunity

MIR. Hylan's apparently sincere
approval of the Man
haitian agreement is as welcome a.
II was unexpected. For the first
time he indicates q glimmering be.
lief that "the interests" NAV bo
seeking to solve the traction puzzle
as earnestly as he is.
Reasonableness breeds reason
abieness. If Mr.. Hylan adopts a
reasonable attitude toward tho
traction situation he will doubt
less discover that he can co.
operate with the Transit Commits.
sion without surrendering anvthine
he will learn that the members of
the commission are sincerely con.
cerned with the task Of bui]d;nc
more subways as quickly as possible
and that they are perfectly willing
to accept his cooperation and to
give him all the credit he could ask
Hitherto Mr.. Hylan has refused
TO regard the Transit Commission
as anything but an agency created
to serve the wicked "interests. :"
having admitted that in one in
stance at least they have acted for
the good of the city perhaps in time
ne VIII come to see that if 1.-The in
tcrests' are intelligent enough to
know that if they are to maintain
control of the subways they will
have to operate them honestly and
emclently. incidentally, the Mayor
VIII gam higher opinion of the
transit Commission after he has
worked for time in harmony
with it.
Mr.. Hylan will not, in the opinion
or The Tribune, ever be able to up-
set the Transit Commission law or
to block permanently the plan the
commission proposes to carry out.
He can only delay new construction
- INV PcIudD DS IOT IN no
remainder of his term, and thereby
bring about transit stagnation.
On the other hand, he can. bv
using his influence in helping to
promote the plan, do much to con-
tribute to a good result. He can
do this with no sacrifice Of consist
ency and without injurng himself
politically 1t is time for him to
broaden out.
In his approval Of the agreement
between the lnterborough and the
Manhattan he gives rise to the hope
that he may be more conciiatory in
the future. If he does he will gain
more public gratitude than he can
gain by keeping the people out OF
subways for another three and
half years
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

except at those hours. They continue
to be a considerable nuisance until
about August 90, by which time
frosty night or two largely dscourages
them About September / the stable
fly, which looks like house fly but is
capable Of stinging sharply, becomes
minor nuisance.
A proper choice OF the nights loca-
ton will make a g.eat difference with
regard to the pests. They will be at
their worst among trees, where the
wind is cut off, and close to marshy
land and water, which by reason of
water plants is not much agitated by
the wind The outlet of a forest lake,
where the road crosses, is sometimes
as bad place as could be selected.
Perhaps the best time for such camp
] ing trips is between August 20 and
September 10. except in lower New
York and southern New England, when
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
The Mountain Girl

fFrofn Contemporary r.-s.l
LIE r1pens swiftly in these lcnely
- hills.
Ripens, then hangs long withered on th,
bough.
Out Of their sullen hates, r.lenti.s.
wills,
And unsaid loves, youth buraeons Aero.
and strong,
Ready for life when life has sc.,,.
begun;
Eager to spend its all and then be done
So, as l gaze at Dorothea nov,
Windblown against the cabins weatb-
cred side.
Defiant, flushed. with bodice blowing
wide,
And rain-soaked homespun skirt tha.
cannot hide
The bold, strong, ardent curves Of WON,
anhood;
My exultation winces into pain.
Youth, splendid, careless. racing with
the rain
Laughing against the storm "a i
roars by.
And yet, perhaps when pass by again.
Hid from the beat of weathers she
will be
One of the sunken, burned-out lives
Here where the mountains shoulder 10
the sky.
So, as the storm goes smashing down
the range
Striking white fire from the smitten
hills,
Swelling the falls and streams until l.
fills
The cove with giants music wild and
strange,
The laugh she sends across the shaken
Brings sudden tears; its very triumph
sings
OF beauty so intense 1t cannot last
Beyond the transient day of fragile
things
That brush US, like a wind from unseen
wings.
And then are gathered up into the past.
DU BOSE HEYWARD.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
A Saga by Wireless

In their little skiffs the Morse
vikings roamed the polar seas, and
Scandinavian bards related their
exploits in sagas. That was the
style of reporting in those days.
Now Roald Amundsen, twentieth
century viking, equally at home IN
the cellar and on the roof of the
world, expects to float to the North
Pole in the good ship Maud, with
casual side hops in metal airplane,
and he will send daily bulletins Of
all the Arctic news by radio. Sagas
by wireless! It's the modern way.
Most polar expeditions are de-
scribed as Clashes" Amundsen's
trip will be more leisurely. The ice
pack on which he is to drift has
much to learn about rapid transit.
Its timetable promises to deliver the
explorer at the pole in three or
maybe five years. Yet he says there
is enough of interest in the million
square miles OF uncharted surface to
keep the ten members of the expedi-
ton busy every waking moment. He
has high hopes Of enriching the store
of scientific knowledge and in par
ticular of solving the mystery of the
aurora borealis.
OF major interest in the enter
prise is the auxiliary use Of the air
plane. 1t will be the first real test
Of the feasibility Of aerial recon-
IL. A
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Old Worker

(Fyon, The Measure)
SHE who once was slave to clocks
~ Huddles at her dingy sill
And dreams and rocks.
Noises beat along the slum
Till the air is bruised and heavy
With their drum.
Once that throbbing woke her ire;
Plucked her nerves and made them
twang
Like thin wire.
Then one day she smiled, grew mute,
Let the kindly heel of time
Crack the lutte.
Now she rocks beside her sill
And dreams OF water whispering
To an old mill.
MILDRED PLEW MERRYMAN.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Cleaning Up

Comparatively few spots are special
ly suitable for lunch stops and still.
fewer are suitable for an overnight
camp. The thoughtlessnes and mex.
perience of many motorists sometimes
make these places impossible for use
and unsightly to look at, by reason OF
broken bottles, empty cans, waste pa
per, and miscellaneous debris.
When the party has thoroughly ex-
tingushed all fires and is ready to
start on its way, any tent poles they
have used should be stacked at one
side, with tho tent pins, the only thing
remaining in place being the lug pole
over the cooking fire, and not paper
nor tin can nor bottle should be
visible. The next conner to such spot
is at once aware that his predecessors
were gentlemen and had acted up to
the decent requirements of the camp
ing fraternity.
CHARLES +. MANIERRE.
New York, April 8, 1929.
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70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The growing popularity of au-
tomobile camping will bring out large
number of parties who have had no
camp experience. Such parties are GER
tain to meet with considerable discom
fort, which will do them no harm If
they are in vigorous health. few
hints on some important points Will
doubtless not be amiss. The following
suggestions apply particularly to New
England and the hill and forest country
of northern New York:
First-As to singing insects. The
black fly is about onequarter the size
of the house fly and is at its worst in
June. July is a great month for the
MOSQUITO and the midSe, which is al
most invisible. Both of these are at
their worst about sunrise and sunset
and the midge gives hardly any trouble
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Sonnet


fFron, The laboratory
IF I could only reach across the space
That still divides US, and could take
your hand
And laugh with you, so you should
understand
My happiness that you are In this place;
If l could touch most gently your dear
face
And tell you what have so often
planned;
If we'll at ease beside you I could
How many memories might efface-
You would forget that have seemed
unkind.
You would forget what you have never
known
That my great hunger for you made me
blind
And dumb and deaf and heavy Is q
stone
Dropped on the shore. O, lift me from
the sand
And throw me in the sea again, alone.
LYDIA GIBSON.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
High Trees
(Front Poet~L)

THERE is imprisoned day up there:
The even flow of level lights,
The passing OF the wilder rains,
The perfect circle of the world
These, and the longer ride with sun,
The earlier tryst, with stars,
The virgin silver Of the moon.
1t must be we'll to hear
The broken song of trampled dust,
The long complaint Of streets,
Soothed to uncertainty
Earth's weaving futter laid aside
Like a folded fan.
See how deeply their lifted breasts
Are stirred!
See how the highest leaf
Fingers a star!
HENRY BELLAMANN.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
A Week of Verse
Shallow.
from Post-D,

fFrorn Poet-v)
MUST swim out
overlong have stayed
Here on the warm shale;
Aimlessly played.
Gathering sea-shells
Empty and frsil
One dwindles here
Where the tides creep
5 Grows dazzled,
Gazing too long through the clear
Wave at the sun asleep
On the sands overnear.
"hat If the thought Of the d.en
Should become a feare
must swim out
Lest the urge fail,
Darken duskward
And fade, as a sail.
FRANCES DICKINSON PINDER
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

service Justify themselves. 1t is cs-
sential, however, to avoid in all cases
the slightest appearance of place
hunting motive. At the present stage
of the development of the service it
is not wise to sacrifice stability and
immunity from the political heads
man to over-rapid improvement.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

subordination to the general or adj
miral in supreme command"
These astonishing admissions OIL the
part of the British government are
justified-in fact, their soundness is
conclusively demonstrated by recent
happenings. Vt will be recalled that
the Spaniards have used bombing
planes to dislodge and demoralize the
Moors when other weapons failed,
thus saving their battalions from
decimation by frontal attacks against
a determined enemy General SHUTS
employed bombing planes with similar
effect against the rebels in South
Africa, who were quite unprepared and
helpless against this form of attack.
And now we are informed that "the
possibility Of effectively controlling a
troublous country by means of an air
army is to be thoroughly tried out by
the British in Mesopotamia.'
Winston Churchill has taken the
lead in this enterprise. "a feet Of
$50 troop-carrying planes is under con-
struction, each capable Of carrying ten
soldiers fully equipped together wit.
two machine guns and ammunition.
BY this means complete battalion of
1000 men can be transported hum
dreds of miles across deserts and plains
and concentrated in any troublous spot
without the fatigue of forced marches.
Thus, before q savage enemy expects
attack he can be pounced upon by a
powerfully and perfectly fresh force
A layman can readily understand the
great military power Of modern air
forces in the cases cited above.
american authorities Agree
Foreigners have not been first, nor
are they alone, in recognizing the vital
Importance of air forces. Ten years
ago Admiral Fiske declared that we
could best defend the Philippines and
our other foreign possessions by air
forces. And Admiral Simms has re-
Gently asserted: "The command Of
the air means the command Of the
surface. whether it be sea or land. The
experiment of sinking the Ostfries-
land by airplane bombs proves that if
New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Sleeping Arrangements

| Fourth-Another suggestion relates
| to the sleeping arrangements 1t is
quite possible%for party of young men
to spend night or two with consider
able satisfaction and comfort, but with
e minimum of sleep, without any prep
aration whatever. But for refresh
ing rest an adequate amount of cover
ing and suitable place for the bed
are necessary One cannot adequately
dispose of the subject by awarding a
/ blanket apiece to each member of the
/ party and letting it go at that The
average double blanket weighs about
five pounds. Two of them are not too
many, but one and half may be suf-
ficient. The blankets alone permit too
much air to pass through and when
heat is lost No one would advocate
another covering made of rubber, but
waterproof canvas or light tent ma
terial is full Of minute holes which
permit the passage Of sufficient air
| and make an ideal outer shell.
Further comfort may be had by US
| ing yard square of waterproof can
! vas and above that yard length of
| machinaw cloth to lie on, and by fold
! ing the blankets and other covering
so as to make bag some seven feet
long by two and a half to three feet
wide as folded. and catching them to-
| gether with sail twine at short inter
walls along the bottom and for a yard
up the sides. This arrangement is par
ticularly comfortable if there is no at
tempt to get the blankets under the
body, but to have the feet inside the
bag and the blankets about one. the
canvas square and mackinaw being the
foundation of the bunk. A heavy scarf
which may be passed over the head and
around the neck. and even across the
face, is very desirable, as we'll as sub
stantial wristlets and plenty of foot
and ankle covering.