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New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
Depew Place

Probably not more than one cltl-
zen of New York out Of ten thousand
knows where Depew Place is or who
are it's owners. The news, therefore,
that it may soon be turned into a
city street has aroused only scant in
terest.
And yet Depew Place is, or, rather,
could be made into, one Of the most
important thoroughfares in the city.
1t lies directly east of the Grand
Central Station and runs from the
upper level causeway in Forty-sec-
ond Street through to Forty-fifth
Street, All traffic up and down
Park Avenue now passes to the west
of the Grand Central Station on the
causeway, leaving Depew Place q
parking>ground and a place for the
loading of baggage and mail. The
resulting congestion at Forty-hfth
Street and Park Avenue is we'll
known to all who have had occasion
to cross at that spot. Taxis COM
ing from Vanderbilt Avenue join
with the crosstown Forty-fifth Street
traffic in interfering with the regu-
lar Park Avenue movement. 1t has
been estimated that nearly fifty
thousand cars pass this crossing dur
ing the daytime hours.
The obvious thing to do is to use
Depew Place for the up town
through traffic in Park Avenue, thus
splitting the stream and relieving
the congestion. Park Avenue would
thus become an uninterrupted chan
mel of traffic parallel to Fifth Ave
nue. and able to relieve that street
Of some of its present excessive con.
gestion.
If Borough President Miller's ne.
gotiations are successful Depew
Place will soon be opened. This
should, as a matter of fact. have
been done when the causeway sys.
tenn around the Grand Central was
| first installed.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
The Political SUBWAY

Under the existing transit law
neither Mayor Hylan nor the Board
of Estimate is authorized to make
any plans for subway building or
extension. The plan that Mr.. Hylan
has submitted is his own private
proposal. 1t is questionable if he
has the right to use the rooms of the
Board of Estimate or to give the
time Of that body to mass meetings
for its discussion.
If Mr.. Hylan were as deeply in
terested in the subject of subways
as he imagines he is he would wait
before submitting his plan until he
was duly authorized to submit it..
Then he would at least be able to
proceed with the countenance of the
law. The Legislature has granted
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
White Coal for Black

Inc ending Of the coal strike
Should not mean the forgetting of IT'S
lessons. The public is paying, and
VIII continue to pay, it's cost. And,
paying the cost, the public may well
demand that measures be taken for
lessening its dependence upon the
products of the mines.
That can be done, beyond cues.
tion' by substituting what has been
caled the white coal" of our rivers
for considerable proportion of the
black coal. To what extent it can be
done is set forth in report of the
State Water Commission. This tells
Us that on the upper Hudson and the
oacandaga no less than 222 600
horsepower still awaits development
or utilization. To produce that
amount of power 100000 tons of
coal a year are needed. In other
Fwerus' we are paying big prices for
ahu consuming two million tons of
coal year, every bit of which might
De saved by utilizing in its place the
water power which is now r,,nn;n o
to waste.
still greater, of course. is the
available water power of the Nj
agara and the St. Lawrence, while
the Delaware, the Susquehanna and
0tner streams could contribute con-
siderable amount. Modern engineer
ing inventions have provided salts
factory methods of converting, trans
lnittlng to distances and APPLYING
1hls great and inexhaustible supply
OF natures energy, and the use of it
would materially lessen the cost of
operating industries and public utili-
ties. incidentally, the construction
Iof the needed storage reservoirs and
other appurtenant works would miti-
gate the damage now done by floods.
and would promote public sanitation
and improve conditions Of navigation
ON the rivers.
For certain purposes coal is all but
Indispensable. Prudence dictates
that it should be reserved for them.
and not be used for the many pur-
poses which can be more cheap,v
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18

him no such authority. 1t has ex-
pressly delegated the control of tran
sit in New York City to the Transit
Commission. The commission, as
Mr.. Hylan we'll knows, has adopted
plan and is working to put it into
execution. 1t is practical and
workable plan and will result in
great benefit to the city, which is
possibly the chief reason why Mr.
Hylap is SO much opposed to It.
Calling together a large body OF
citizens to listen to attacks on the
Transit Commission lays the Mayor
open to the charge made by citizen
at Fridays meeting, that the Who'll,
scheme is political and arranged t.
make capital for the Democratic
candidate for Governor.
Campaigning for Democratic
candidate for Governor is perfectly
legitimate. Even Mr.. Hylan wouls!
be within his rights if he went on
the stump for himself, OF for Mr.
Hearst, or for whomsoever he de-
sires the Democrats to nominate for
that office. But using his office as a
campaign agency and the City Hall
as the scene of a political rally i1
not within his province. The only
subway Mr.. Hylan can possibly con
struct in this way is a political sub
way, through which he hopes to dis
patch Mr.. Hearst or himself to the
Governors chair in Albany.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James J. Montague
Reminiscent

Reminiscent
In the old Western days when the
Indian was wild
And his thoughts fondly turned
upon war,
The campfire freely with branches
was piled
And he danced for a fortnight
or more.
He howled as he danced, till the
echoes awoke
The granite walled canyon
along,
And the startled coyotes grew
tuneful and broke
Into what Ito their fancy) was
song.
The music that softens the savag-
est breast
Had nothing to do with the
shrieks
That wakened the owls in the tur-
bulent West
For weeks upon hideous weeks.
1t wasn't the dancing that stirred
the big buck
10 a war or an emigrant raid
The note that aroused his wild
frenzy was struck
By the horrible noise that he
made.
Years passed, and the music of
civilized man
Came to soothe the rude saw
ages soul,
And as 1t grew prevalent most~of
his clan
We're content with a placider
role.
The mandolin's tinkling in pale
face canoes,
The strum Of the tuneful guitar
And the lulling harmonica did
not enthuse
The chief to longing for war.
But when they played Jazz tunes
where Indians could hear
A menace came into his gaze,
And the red light of battle began
to appear
AS it did in the war-whooping
days.
So state legislatures have found
that it's wise
To ban every jazzy refrain,
Lest the redskins who hear it will
swiftly arise
And massacre white folks again.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
more cleanly, more uniformly and in
all respects moro satisfactorily
served by the power of failing water.
T-ilden Still on Top

| For the third year running Will
| liam r. Tilden I'd has won the
| American lawn tennis championship,
which has come to be the blue ribbon
of the game. There is no room for
! guesswork in deciding who is the
ranking player of the world.
Up to Saturday afternoon at the
Germantown Cricket Club this looked
| like William M. Johnston's year, and
when the great little Californian was
leading in sets, 20, but few more
minutes were needed, it seemed, for
him to administer the stroke of ex-
ecution to the long, strong Philadel-
phian. Many thumbs were pointing
down, for Little Bill" is always a
favorite and it was his turn to win.
But at the last moment big Bill"
got a reprieve from somewhere and
took three sets in a row. 1t was a
stunning reversal.
Johnston is the last opponent to
whom Tilden could afford to give a
head start Of two sets. 1t speaks
volumes for the champions game
ness that he was able to overcome
such a lead in the most critical
match he ever played with his only
dangerous rival for tennis suprem-
acy. Each had two legs on the cham
pionship cup. Now it is Tilden's to
have and to hold. He has at his dis
posal all the implements champion
needs - strokes of every variety,
strength, speed, strategy, nerve
everything.
Exactly as designed, the Tilden-
! Johnston duel was the apex of the
tournament. The seeded draw
worked famously. The committee
that planted the reputed better play.
ers so that they would blossom ir
the later rounds picked the right men
with scarcely miss. The tourna-
ment was played correctly in the
minds eye before it started, except
ing for the final, which everybody
felt was an open question between
the two aces. There were no anti
climaxes like last years, when the
luck Of the draw ran wild.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ! will attempt to offer a pos
slble solution of the problem that
weighs so heavily on the mind Of
Edwin Bjorkman. who in a recent
article asks for the 'swhy" Of "the
half-drawn shade"
Window shades in a room. or
throughout house. to make the best
appearance, should, when possible to
nave them SO. be at the same level. I'm
doubtedly the best stationary position
Tor the shade is at the center of the
opening, or rather a little below the
center, to cover the meeting rails of the
TWO sashes. Then, too. a half-drawn
shade offers some protection for the
rugs and hangings.
OF course, Mr.. Bjorkman's landlady
OF the boarding house may have had
other reasons for demanding a half
drawn shade. When shades are half
drawn the upper panes of windows do
not require cleaning so often or so
thoroughly. r. Fl. FLEMING.
New York, Sept. 1s, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
The Use of Oxyger,

Again, a vast amount OF work o.
been done in deyising safegusN
against the strains and stresses Of ~
ing. One of the symptoms Of strsa
is breathlessness, or oxygen want, s's
one Of its consequences is dulling 2
mental faculties and impairment q
judgment and perception. This is |
common disability, yet until @
method of giving oxygen at high ~
tudes was devised it often passed "
noticed.
Worse than that, pilots, With thsa
judgment dulled, frequently had
unwarranted sense Of well-beins ~
security. The case IS cited Of y
flight commanders who declared ns
were just as fit at 10000 feet as cr y,
ground, and who scoffed at the use =
oxygen. But a week later. having e's
psed oxygen for long fight o. ns'
than three hours, over $4,000 fees ~
were loud in their praises q =
benefits conferred. and made ~ =
compulsory among their pilots -
observers.
Many cases are on record q
curious efforts Of Oxygen want. ils
pilot in a Bristol tighter, nlee's's
a patrol Of the enemv, failei 70 rsse.. !.
his danger, and in spite of the pFs'',s, =,
of his observer gayly waved hls h'''
to them.
In another instance a sqdadren ~
mander was returning from -
bomb raid at i7.oo0 feet, using azFsss ,...
AS he did not begin 10 deseeaa -
crossing our lines his observer ses... Z.
him and discovered that he bag IS. g,
doing. his Oxygen supply ea'~'
failed.
It is manifest that measures ssss
the proper use Of oxygen vaftes 3. q,
serve the mental clarity q ths Aa'ss
are Of inealculable value. ~ 4
present only at the beginnsng z ! &
study and discovery of saeh ssss's :
vices, 4
In order 60 make Aying sats - !. j
world the policy inausarassS WIZ w !, {
assistance Of this Medical kssse
Council must bc carried sorwass,
allow this werk to drop Wes's 81.
worse than folly; II wesla s1s y.
very nearly, 70 8 crime
humanity.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
Making Flying Safe

The London Times publishes the fol-
loWinG article by its Medical Core.
spondent:
| Every game which man has ever in
vented is a test of mans endurance
and Of his power of reacting swiftly
and decisively to his surroundings
Sooner or later all games divide their
| players into three classes: the super
men, who seem to have been born with
a natural gift the average good ex-
ponents of the game, and those un-
fortunate individuals who for one rea-
son or another, cannot hit the ball"
This general rule applies with but
few reservations to the new, great
game Of flying in heavier than-air ma
chimes. There are, as the war soon
showed, born flyers, "aces" and faces
Of aces"; there are large numbers of
good, reliable pilots and observers, and
there are also men who, through no
fault of their own, cannot succeed in
this new enterprise.
The fierce test of war separated the
good from the bad with great rapidity
But in that process of separation i'm
mense waste Of life, Of strength, even
Of material, was occasioned, so that
after time farseeing men began to
ask themselves whether or not it
might be possible, by the application
Of scientific tests, to weed out the un-
fit before the day of battle and to
preserve the fit against those stresses
and shocks which, as experience
proved, were sapping the vitality of
many Of them.
Thus that elusive and romantic body
which consisted of the doctors attached
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18

rapidity and certainty Of our respaas
to continually varying set Of ess.
ditions. Eye, ear, touch-all as
senses, It may ta--must SO swiftly Il.
form the brain Of new calls fer sssl,,
that the muscles may be hroueht irso
full play in the flicker Of sn eyeliS
Delay is notzonly dangeroEs it's htsl
Yet soma Of US are natural dslsyers
The mechanism OF the ressgtion Of
calls for effort is abncrmaily slow il
It's action, and so our response CONES
too late. When we strike, the ball hai
already passed.
In the air, and notably in air hgai
ing, that spells ruin. Many q gallsa
fellow lost his life, in the early yssF
of the war, because he was attemp.t
to do what nature, in his case, Ia
forbidden absolutely.
The general term "reaction-tins
has been applied to the fate Of r
sponse. It varies little in evary b
dividual, but there IS a limit Of vsria
tion below which cir pilots shoul
never fall.
Thus, the methods Of measuring II
time" which have been deyias
are of vital Importance both to sss-
mercial and military flying. FIR iss
one cause alone q special bsas d
trained investigators is a necesssg q
our air service.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; You speak Of the late w. II.
hudson as having been one Of the half
dozen greatest contemporary writers Of
English. ! wonder who are the others.
Shall we say Hardy, Kipling, Conrad,
Morley and Bernard Shawl This may
seem to some Of your seaiers with
better critical judgment than mine s
queer selection. should like tc hear
some opinions. READER.
New York, Sept. II, 1922,
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18

Archy, by the way, was very flattered
the other day when we informed him
that we had named a motor car for
him. 1t goes up hill by fits and
starts, with much the same motion
which he uses when he is diving at the
typewriter. Mechanics in several diff
ferent garages have been unable to do
much about it, except to pay their in
come taxes through association with it.,
and we are now thinking of taking it
to an entomologist
Not that the car is total loss.
There was 4 fabrication chart came
with it that is worth it's weight in
in coal. We were never able to lubri-
cate by the chart, but it is an excellent
pattern to carve chickens by, and re-
Gently a friend used it as plan for
bungalow, thus saving a $4,000 archi-
tect's fee and getting building that
invariably evokes the exclamation:
"Oh, hopo diferent"
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
Nothing To BE Proud OF

The Senate's attitude toward the
tariff conference report is almost
as apologetic as was it's attitud !
toward the McCumher bill. On pre-
senting the latter its author pleaded
fervently with intended heneiciaries
not to take full advantage Of the
bills high rates. "We are giving
you more than is good for you,. hG
said, in effect. BE moderate; re-
member the poor consumer; don't
shame US by abusing our generosity" !"
1t was unique plea from tariff
maker, disclosing, as it did, the
workings Of an uneasy conscience. In
defending the conference report Mr..
McCuraber admits ether twinges of
remorse, although he doesn't parade
them so openly.
The Senate added to the House
bill an, elastic tariff section, allow
ing the President TO raise or lower
rates SO per cent. This grant of
authority was to expire in 1924. The
conTerees strained their functions
when they accentuated the difference
with regard to this provision. They
removed the time limit on the Presi-
dents power to change rates and
also gave him the right in certain
instances to substitute American
valuation for foreign valuation.
Conceding the President the novel
right to revise schedules amounts to
confession that the bill shoots
either too high or two low. 1t is
reported that the President feels
that 1t shoots too high. He is said
to have intimated that he would
veto it if the elastic tariff section
We're not broadened. If he signs the
measure he will be in a position to
say to the public: Don't worry
about excessive duties. I can cut
cut the excess"
Mr.. McCumber knows this. Yet
he airily defended the conference
compromise" by suggesting that the
grant really meant nothing, since the
President would seldom make any
use of it. If Congress had any great
confidence in the balanced character
of the bill it certainly would not put
the power of indiscriminate revision
in the hands of the President. The
bill is confessedly bad. The confer
ence scheme of alleviation is also bad.
How can there be any stability in
production and foreign trade if all
the schedules are open to SO per
cent revision downward or upward?
The remedy may be worse than the
disease. Think of the havoc that
might be wrought if Congress hap
pened to be of one political faith
and the President of another and
both were trying to play politics
with the tariff!
This tariff bill is political in char
acter. 1t is not structurally sound
in an economic sense. For that
reason The Tribune still hopes that
it may be sidetracked or vetoed.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18

to the air force came into being. It's
justification Is that within a few
months ths number Of Crashes" had
been materially reduced, the fighting
efficiency Of the service materially ina-
proved, the health and nerves" OF air
men conserved and a scientific litera-
ture and method built up which will
bear comparison with any similar
body Of knowledge in the world.
The direction Of this knowledge is
toward the discovery of men who can
not, in any circumstances, make good
or safe pilots, the detection Of the
early symptoms Of strain or stress in
good pilots and the prevention, by
various means, Of the oncoming of
such symptoms in all members Of the
service.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
Detection OF "Cround.Men''

That there are "ground-men" as we'll
as "birdmen" is now established.
These people, normal enough at low
altitude, exhibit curious and extreme
sensitiveness to changes in barometric
pressure. Thus, at very low attitudes,
they show the symptoms of distress
noraally met with at great heights.
Thanks to the clever experiments of
Martin Flack and others, it is possible
to detect them with great ease and
certainty.
Such "ground-men" are rare, yet the
Importance of excluding them is
obvious. Less rare are those individ-
uals who from the constitution of
their nervous systems are unable to
chit the ball." Success in every game
depends in large measure on the
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
Another Tariff Rebel

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: am by inheritance thorough
Republican and have been brought up on
The New York Tribune since Civil War
times, but l cannot be longer deceived
by the fallacies and humbug OF the
principle of protective tariff. We
have no longer infant industries" but
great Industrial corporations fattening
on protection shall join the
rebels" on the tariff, as you entitle
the letter writer of to-day, and vote
for any party which serves the people
of the middle class.
r. R. UPJoHN.
New York, Sept. is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
In Spite Of Fordney-McCunber

In Spite of Fordney-McCvnber
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: While my sentiment is some
what similar to that expressed in H. X.
Eben's letter, headed "a Tariff Rebel" in
your issue Of September Is, might sug-
gest that he secure copy of a pam
phlet entitled Imported Merchandise
and Retail Prices" which is printed at
Washington for the use of the Com
mittee of Finance? think, after read
ing this pamphlet, he will still vote the
Republican ticket, irrespective of the
passage of the Fordney-McCumber
tariff BILL ~ w. F. WATTS.
New York, Sept. 10, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
NEVER SHALL
MYSELF OEMEAM
BY KEEPING
DESK OR OFFICE CLEAN,
An Equestrian Monument

AN Equestrian Monument
Sir: Out here where men are men
and mans best friend is his horse
they erect monuments to the horses
when they die. In Hillsboro, N. NJ.
there is a caretaker of mine who
mourned very much the loss Of his
horse and erected q granite monument
set in heavy concrete base.
The following appears on the stone
erected to the memory Of this true
companion:
BONANZA SADDLE HORSE.
RANGER.
BORN 1889 DIED 1914
often burden had
of Ladies from the higher rank
And Also Gentlemen
which many was a crank
Goodby my friends, Goodby to ALL
, For cruel man am no more
I had to go where we all shall be
Back to our Mother Dear
I Greatly thank my dear
My friends I had at last
That lay my body here
To get my longest rest
The punctuation, etc, are exactly as
they appear
H. W. G.
Los Angeles, Calif.,
Sept. 18th.
Aunt Prudence Hecklebury put lit
tie pa11talettes and skirts on the
table legs IN her house gears ago,
because she did not think 1t proper
for legs to be entirely auaclothed
And get Aar,1t Prudence has 1,eve7
aoished to be entirely out of fashion;
she aUa1,ts 1t k,,oaOa that she at least
k1so1Vs aUhat the styles are. So, sev-
e1'at seasons ago, aUhen short skirts
became the vogue, aunt Prudence
reluctantly shortened the skirts on,
the table legs. Now that long skirts
are IN once more, she thanks heauen
for 1t, she sqys; she can ask people
IN to tea again aOithout feeling en-
bmrassed tOhen they SIT down to the
table.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
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A Slogan

From The Louisville Courier -Jourmal)
Hereafter shoe dealers who want ~
sell 'en, like hot cakes will advertise
that they will last as long as rail-
road strike,
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
You Never Can Tell

Jack Dempsey will fight again next
July unless another war should
break out, in which case his country
will call him to some shipyard.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
Normalcy Restored

Three or four wars are going on
in Mexico, which indicates that
everything is all right down there
once more.
Copyright by James j. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
Whv the Edictp

Vaudeville actors are forbidden to
say funny things about prohibition
hereafter. We were not aware that
they ever did.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
Pressing His Suit

FFeSSlng HIS SUIT
He was a butler,
And she
Was one Of his
Codterie
He met her
In the
Pantry,
And they were married
In the
Vestry
MERVIN L. LANE.
Reg, Barrett (Aptronymic Scout 100
s76) reports that DR.. John Blow wasssor.
ganist OF Westminster Abbey in 1000.
OLE Il
New-York tribune., 1922-09-18
What Readers Sau

terious fashion kept out by this un-
slightly, senseless, inexorable shade-at-
half. DAISY S. GILL.
New Paltz, N. Y. Sept. is, 1922.