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New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
Grants Real Greatness

Grants Real Greatness
In recent article Professor Dodd.
Of the University Of Chicago, lays
somewhat disagreeablc stress on
what he considers Grants original
disQualifcations as candidate for
the Hall Of Fame. At thirty nine,
Mir, Wilson'S biographor intimates.
Grant was hopeless down
and outer" He was drawing
salary Of $50 a month as
/. clerk in the Galena tannery
owned by his father and run by his
two brothers. He had left the
army under a cloud and had failed
tragically to make a living in Mis-
souri, with the aid Of his wife's rela~
tjVcs. He was floating down the
current to oblivion. "Would Mars
take that man, poor and condemned
Of his family and his fellows, and
make Of him one Of the immortals?' %
writes Professor Dodd. "Who would
have answered yes to that qucs-
tion in 1S60?'
Grants failures after leaving the
army arc here painted in the black
est coIors for the sake of contrast
yet they did not eat into his moral
character. He had the stuff in him
of which greatness is made and it
wasn't Vitiatcd by external adversely
or by occasional lapscs into inso-
briefly. True greatness is an inner
quality, 1t disrcgards cxtcrnals. It
is tempered by misfortuncs. 1t
awaits its hour Of revelation and
recognition, which may come
or may not come.
The rest is chance--or was IN
Grants case, at least, The war gave
him his opportunity. But it was
chance again which allowed him to
use it. His letter offering his scrv-
ices to the government was buried
in the War Department archives. He
became a handy man at Illinois state
recruiting headquarters, and since
he was about the only person there
who understood military routine his
competency for command was even
tualIy recognized.
lie needed only a start for he had
military qualities which few officers
on either side possessed at that time.
He believed implicitly in fighting, n
the offensive as the winning method
in war, in the North's superior re
sources and in the wisdom Of using
those resources to the limit. He was
always serenely confident both Of
immediate and Of final victory.
There is violent contrast be
tween the Grant Of April, 1861, and
the Grant Of April, 1865. But the con-
trast largely is in the stage setting.
Grants success was fortuitous in
tie sense that his career was thrust
upon him. Yet his rise was not a
mere irony of fate. His greatness
was not fortuitous. twas inherent.
The comparison which Professor
Dodd drives home is the old surface
one between environments. Grant
was an exceptional man because he
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

sons N practically every couaT
irrespective Of what is own arts
precepts may be. are receiving tn" E"
force Of literal depletion. acquiring
foudness cor the beauty OF scene
getting bacA 10 nature. A. u =
Ncw York. April II, 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

and in Peoria, Ill., In Des Moines there IS
said to exist what Roy McCardell used 20
call a Harvard Man. In Denver, once, q
romantic woman fell, though not igrobly.
and in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul,
to say nothing OF Pittsburgh, Cleveland
and ST. Louis, sex and its drama are
reported 20 rear their discommoding
heads. They dress sometimes for dinner in
Wilkes Barre, and there is traffic cop
in Oil City. There are zoo, an arr
museum, cabarets and skyscrapers in
Toledo and Baltimore, which obscure
centers claim, like the dramas great
Jew, to have. as we'll as New York.
organs, dimensions senses and passions.
But the native writer's who might
write about them have moved away 10
Ne" York and prefer TO sing in com
pliment of their new headquarters
rather than of their old. There is no
patriot so fervent as the literary out
Lander who has been removed from
the provinces to Court - there is no
New Yorker SO hot as the near-New
Yorker who writes OF New York. He
torgets the COWS and the chickens in
dlgenous to his home town and he COM
poses the magazine stuff that makes pos
slble the Grand Central and the Penn
Sylvania Terminals
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
The 7owcr


WIIIEN still a clumsy juvenile,
w checred myself by thinking,
Though my stature and proportions
were artistically bad,
That when my pants and roundabout
had stopped their constant
shrinking
would be the living counterpart OF
every collar ad;
With visagc brisk and vivid ms ter
rcr. or brisker.
And patent leather pompadour that
had lustrous glow
And then the truthful mirror where
shaved my youthful whiskcr,
Spoiled the pleasant vislon for me
and announced it. wasn't so
In the adoIescent period 'twixt gosing
and the gander,
When my voice was IA uneven as my
figure and my face,
would quit the painful present and
would let my fancy wander
To when I'd have maturity Of stature
and OF grace.
| would bc-or 50 promised snr-
toral exquisite,
With n graceful breadth Of shoulders,
slim Of waist and thick of bust,
But the tailor that | went to said
looked like Zip Whatisit.
And after futile fittings threw the
job up in disgust.
And even at the present, mid the
thwartcd /drcams' confusion
! am hoping for aristocratjc, dignl-
fed old age;
Tall and white haired and commanding,
but know it's all illusion,
If ever reach senility they'll put
me in a cage.
Yet long for manly beauty, and per
sistently l ask it
In the face of disappointment that
my optimism Warps,
And my present dream is when they
come and lay me in my caskct,
They will murmur as they do it:
What a really handsome corpse!"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
.dI.LEGOR}'

iore to sit and lOqtch the smoke
Rise from my cigarette,
A thjn ond fl'nv line Of grag
4 climbs up straight, and get.
We're I q bright philosopher,
Who did not think in prose,
I'd note, the higher IL ascendS
The crookcder it gro,cs.
TEDDY BEE.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
Cruel and Unusual

mere ought to be some redress for
the pro0freader on the Congressional
record who is the only man in tho
country who really has to read the
tariff bill all the way throurh.
copyright by James j. MONTAGUE,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
We re Still Reac,ionarv

we dont agree with Mrs. MedjI,
Mccormick that women ought 70 ha
p'S'r'ct leaders. In her capacity of
boss "oman's place is still in +be
home. '"e
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

We don't suppose we'll ever attain
aufhcient fame to incite the nations to
squabble over our nationality. That
doesn't worry US ovcrmuch. We'll be
contented if we become only prominent
enough to have volumes published after
our death, exposing our private life.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
Curious

lhere seems to be a growing I'M
preston among college presidents
mat colleges ought to be educational
institutions.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

Lloyd George neglected to mon
ton that another important purpose
of the Genoa conference was to find
out who won the war
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

You car rurorase rerehaHdi,e advertised in rAE
tribune With absolute ssfety--fcr II dissstisfac.
ton -esult. N any TA6 TRIBUNE suarsR.
10 Gay your monty back upon request Nc rod
ape No Quibhtinq. We refund promst'y " tho
sdvertiser does rot.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
Poetry for the People

You mustn't think of pleasure,
You mustn't stop for meals,
Or Ole Hard Luck will run amuck
An lay you by the heels
No gold mines is discovered
Except by lads who smite
The rocks with picks from half
past six
A. NJ. till twelve at night.
Don't buy no clothes nor neck
A suit O overalls
Amt no disgrace in any place.
Not even gilded halls,
A greasy jumper apron
Beats all the tailor's art
"hen 1T is worn with naughty
scOrn
Above an honest heart
Don't bow and scrapc to no one
But look 'em in the ewes:
rat pocketbooks and smartv looks
Don't make men great or wise
'uSI 81, keep your pick a swinging
it"' all you gotta DO;
An IN the end, my noble friend.
You'll beat the whole blamed
crew
Don't 60 to no theayters,
:, Don t never tech a card,
oT ~ t re sure to win if you pitch in,
Though life is mighty hard
Don b. seek no fool amusements.
put learn to toll an save
An ny an by ef you should die
ou IL I'LL an honored Grave
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

New York Will not be jealous Of
the rapidly increasing population of
Ossining.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

Maybe the bruised and confused
world could get at the real seat Of the
trouble by starting movement for
the limitation of diplomats
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

The Mayors efforts 10 put the
subways in a hole seem a trihc su-
pererogatory.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

Columbus was an Armenian. dis
patch from Paris announces. Is Ar
menla going TO start in now where
Germany left off?
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

10 proposed anthology Of the
seductive things that have been said
IN fiction about New York. Louis Jo-
seph Vance's melodious glimpses OF
Fifth Avenue in Linda Lee. Inc. -"
should be added 1t is just after dark
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
CRIME LYRIC


MARY had little bandit
On string, she did;
And When she aoent 10 aoork at miami
He foiloWed her-thot kid.
They stole their 'Oay through home and
bonk:
They robbed aud stabbed aud shot
Till Enrigkts Forda come suro;no n
And caught thems They did NOT,
G. d. A.
"Womans place" said the banditctto
to her mate, swinging her blackjack
"is on the dome
Another army officer has been shot
in Ireland. The warning factions ba,o
evidently determined to fight out THAR
battles on the installment plan.
The 1922 version of the traditional
slogan seems to be:
Erin 60 bang rE y
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

Temperament and Trousers Legs
Sir: English is pure in Boston; in
Cambridge il is purer still. Harvard
is that Holy of Holes where one saws
rice for rise and bcgs pardon for
snceze with d curt "Sorrv,"
In the shops about Harvard Square
the tradesmen's diction often puts
customers to shame. Even in abuse
the bootblacks are precise One gets
Johnsonian phrases along with the
BARRIERS tobacco breath
To tailor shop within the zone of
influence took pair Of trousers to
be altered. AS some of my friends
know, one of my hip bones is half AZ
inch higher than the other. and
wanted trouser leg rrespondingly
shortened. For reasons | shall never
know, the head tailor was reluctant to
undertake the work and tried Gin som
tences worthy Of De Quincey) to talk
me out Of the notion. Finding me
stubborn, he turned to a bent and
specialized assistant who was stran
Cling in the steam from some garment
he was pressing. The old assistant was
brief, but
This matter of unequal length in
trouser legs" said he, "is largely tenn
peramental."
| carried the trousers home and the
left leg was shortened by the lady who
knows about my defects OF tcmpera-
ment and physique.
DONALD R. TURNBULL.
The city has the crime wave by the
throat, District Attorney Banton an
nounces. The only question remaining
unsettled is who will choke to death
first.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28

The "ind velocity Of the current
month 1nctines as to the beiief that A April
hoS taken mp fcminism.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
a Skilled Collector

IRON The ST. PoM Pioneer P,e.sl
Lloyd George is said to have tho
finest collection Of crises" in Europ..
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
KINDA SEEMS AS IF SOMEBODY OUGHT TO co OUT ANN
HOLD AN UMBRELLA OVER HIM OR SOMETHING wv

Copyright 1922. New York Tribune in'
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
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+ t.vrd a. ne YosiasGc~ a Ne~ Yo;H Second
. Ma. Mt.tst
New-York tribune., 1922-04-28
Clock Time and Sun Time

Pensacola, Fla, April "a, 1922.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03
ALLIES SHOULD
PAY THE BONUS
REPUBLICANS ISSUE OPEN LET
TER TO CHAIRMAN FoRDNEY
ON THE QUESTION.
OPPOSE OBNOXIOUS TAX
Leaders in the House Are Not In
clined to Speed Up Bonus Legis-
lation-BiII May Omit Means
Of Raising Revenue.

! Washington.-SOm thirty republic
/ can members of the house of repre-.
7 sentatiyes, prominent in the group op,
/ posing the sales tax, came out form
ally in favor of using the refunded
I fore On bonds to finance the soldiers
I bonus.
( Ia a joint open letter to Chairman
Fordney of the ways and means com
mittee they said the use of these
+ bonds would remove a grossly unjust
proposal. prevent the political over
turning Of congress and viii be just
to the ex-sOldiers, who saved for US
these foreign debts
1.-THE bonus should be passed with
out any obnoxious tax and should be
passed without delay added the let
ter which was framed by Representa-
tive Frear Of Wisconsin and signed by
% other members. mostly from west
ern states.
Your action, supported by members
of the subcommittee, in discarding
any sales tax on the bonus bill,' the
letter said, will receive the hearty
support of members of congress gen
orally. We believe the subcommittee
vote Of seven to two against such tax
is a close index of house sentiment on
the subject.
"A sales tax would penalize every
ex-soldier and compel him to pay to-
ward his own meagre bonus Nine
hundred thousand jobless ex-soldiers
would be obliged Immediately to pay
consumption taxes under any sales
tax law.
No sales tax law could get through
the house and senate in less than 80
days if passed at all Ninety
days more would be required to Sc
cure a clerical force to put the law
in operation, thus taking until Septem-
Der or October of this year.
Congressman Longworth is author
ity for the statement that when Brit
ish bonds are received in June or July
next, these can be used with the APP
proval of the president to finance the
bonus, or seven months before any
sales tax would be available.
'fSemi-annual interest on this debt
amount to S125,00O,000 has been voted
in the British budget and is under
stood to be collectable by June 1 next
W III tAAAo ACttCi oetACo Nd<A OppOACtlLo
gave notice that their campaign would
be vigorously waged despite the re
lection OF the tax proposal by the sub
committee. The entire republican
of the ways and means
will meet soon to consider
the subcommittee action and the fight /
Of consumption tax opponents will go
on, at least up to that time.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03
DOSE OF His OWN MEDICINE
German Submarine Commander Whe
Sank Lustania Also Now at
Bottom of Sea.

The commander of the German sub
marine that sank the Lusitania is now
at the bottom of the sea, according to
a story which has reached American
Legion headquarters. Flogged and
flung over the side of Paraguan war
vessel, he met death with "A dose of
his own medicine.
The story is that the commander,
fleeing from allied justice, took refuge
in Paraguay, where he at once took
out naturalization papers and swore
allegiance to the Paraguan republic
Friends in the shipping world secured
for him the command of a Paraguan
man-o'-war, the Adolph Riquelmi He
had hardly set his heel upon the decks
when he inaugurated the rules which
had been his custom. The crew, with
their Latin blood, could not stomach
the diet as the stOlid Teutons had
done in the old days. SO they passed
him around for a beating, and then
threw him into the sea, far from sight
of land.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03

q climax TO his adventures IN Clarks-
burg, w Va, in the form of 1.-THE only
girl
Rufus, who is forty-four years old,
an ex-soldier, and native of Dan
vile, started out last November. bear
ing four sealed messages from the
Danville chamber Of commerce, which
he was to deliver in person. to the
President Stalking out of the White
House six weeks later, he said: II was
all eyes and ears, looked straight
ahead, and got what 1 went after"
The hiker is dropping in at Ameri.
can Legion posts when he wants TO
darn his socks or shave, and his stories
have become we'll known He started
from his home town with with one cent
and the instructions neither TO beg.
borrow, nor steal. He carried IA
pound pack which. among other things
contained a cigar for Uncle joe Can
non.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03
HAD THE "THE0DORAY oDoR
Fancy French Pets Saturated With Un-
welcome Perfume OF Marshal
Foch's American Mascot

Fifty thousand francs worth of pet
dogs were temporarily ruined by Mar
shall Foch's wild cat on the voyage to
France. When the marshal, as guest
of the American Legion, had picked
up Theodore from an admiring friend,
he had little reckoned what devasta-
tion was in store
Theodore was placed in the kennel
room atop the liner Paris under care
of the ships butcher, who acted as
animal valet for the trip. Believing
that the fluffy Pekinese, and pOodles,
and Mexican harnesses that shared
her compartment did not represent
like herself, the true red-blooded pi-
oneering spirit of America, Theodore
lay quietly in her cell and eXuded the
aroma peculiar to wildcats. When the
Paris touched the shores of France,
the valet handed the pet dogs around
to the group of daintily-scented mad
amoiselles and was greeted with loud
shrieks.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03
SENDS NOTES FROM ALASKA
Historian of ketcnikan Legion Post
Writes in Answer to Letters
of Sympathy.

please note following" the long
suffering historian of the Ketchikan
post of the American Legion in Alas
81 has written in answer to many let
ters of sympathy from buddies back IN
the States;
1. There isn't gold miner in the
post.
2. The thermometer has never
dropped lower than five below.
3. The deepest snow in recent years
was three inches.
4. Some winters pass with practical
~ no snow.
5. Overcoats are often a nuisance in
January and February.
g. RaincOats and umbrellas are COM
monty worn.
z. No one has even worn furs or
snOwshoes to a post meeting.
8. "Gold-fishing" is the principal in
dustry.
o. No one reads by the northern
lights or the midnight sun.
The fact that people in Ketchikan
ride in automobiles, and that the only
dog sleds there are hot-dog Sleds is
hard to get across, according to the
historian.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03
Carrying On With the
American Legion

The Minnesota post of the Ameri-
can Legion is given credit for 43, 262
goou deeds TO unfortunate hnddies dur.
ing 1921.
A surplus of $4,000 remaining from
the Kansas City convention of the
American Legion may 90 into a head.
quarters building.
Of the 300 ex-soldiers enrolled as
vocational students at Pittsburg, Kan,
who negotiated a loan, not one has
failed to make full repayments.
Ladies are present even in the north
land A unit of the American Legion
auxiliary has been chartered at Wran-
CELL, Alaska 1t viii doubtless be
named The Arctic Circle
Compensation checks amounting to
1923, Ar so were obtained for 1924 ex-
service men and women by the Amer
lean Legion's service division, between
October 10, 1921. and January II. 1922.
To aid in building a 5000 home, the
Entiat (Wash.) post of the American
Legion shipped apples to Seattle where
other posts sold them.
Frank Apgar. late of the United
States army. sold on the auction block
at Boston, Mass. has been given WEEK
by the Legion post at Racine, Wis.
The British ministry of pensions has
issued a report to the 1900 English
former service men wearing wooden
legs stating that it has much lighter |
aph ~a.,tlv improved ones for them
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03
ALLIED QUARREL
ENDS IN COMPACT
LLOYD GEORGE AGREES THAT
THE LEAGUE SHALL BE
GUARDED
GENOA MEETING APRIL 10
Poincare Wins Victory in Promise
Preparations Shall Not Be Read
justed in Favor Of Germany
Lengthy Conference.

Boulogne-A complete accord be
tween England and France on their
differences in foreign policy was
reached ia a three hours and a half
conversation between Prime Minister
Lloyd George and Premier Poincare.
The strained relations between Quai
d'Orsay and Downing Street which
have been intensifying steadily since
January 5, when former Premier Bri-
and broke up the Cannes conference
by resigning. has been eased and an
understanding has been reached.
Among the questions discussed on
which agreements were reached were:
First. an Arglo-French guarantee
pact; second, arbitration between the
Greeks and Turks when d cabinet has
been formed in Rome and Italy can
participate; and third, guarantees for
the Genoa conference under the. fol
lowing subheads:
A-On the political rights to be as
sured to avoid any encroachment on
the rights Of the league of nations.
Bon the Versailles treaty or any
other treaties signed with the enemy
powers
Con an allied ruling regarding
reparations
April 10 has been fixed as the new
date for Genoa conference.
1T was a most successful meeting,
and one of the most successful ever
held. We have cleared up most Of the
misconstructions which have arisen,
said Mr.. Lloyd George as he jumped
into his motor car and drove off to
catch channel boat.
I'VE are quite content and quite sat
isfied," said Mr.. Poincare as his au-
tomObile dashed to the train for Paris,
which had been held Is minutes for
him.
Mr.. Lloyd George agreed to all Of
NJ Poincare's demands for guarantees
TO safeguard Frances interests at the |
forthcoming economic and financial
conference.
Russia and Germany We're both dis |
cussed during the afternoon. and Mr.. |
Lloyd George practically promised |
France that Great Britain would sup |
port it against any possible combina- |
ton which Berlin or Moscow might at |
tempt at Genoa.
There will be no difficulty about |
an Anglo-French pact We understand /
each other perfectly on that" said /
Mr. Lloyd George when asked if the |
subject of an alliance had been dis
cussed.
The official communique issued
states that both the premiers agreed
an entente between France and Great
Britain on all international questions
would produce the most fruitful re.
suits
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03
Army asprina Eashions.n

Even the army has its spring mod
els" What the well-dressed soldier
will wear is a knotty problem. Recent
changes permit extension of blouse to
the crotch, a slit in the bottom of the
coat skirt, and hook to hold the Sam
Browne belt in place. Brooches of
Bedford cord of different color than
the blouse will also be allowed. A
new design for officers overcOat con-
templates an open-necked effect. The
soldiers coat remains soberly tbs
same. in all its simple beauty.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03

ing up a stew for a casscwary.
Upon his return from a recent trip
Of the liner. bearing lizards, carpet
snakes, rat-kangaroos. and other things
$500 altogether) from Australia to
England, chef Galpin expounded dietet-
les TO his Legion comrades. They
had to believe everything he said. 1t
seems that the bird of paradise, para
dOxically, has secular tastes and
squawks vigorously when offered such
seemingly compatible delicacies as
angel cake. Il fed 'em bananas and
hard-boiled eggs" said Galpin. and
not one of 'em lost a single heavenly
feather"
And on the other hand" he added,
Il had a couple of Tasmanian devils
aboard. and they wouldn't touch a
thing the whole trip except floating
island"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03
SWAMP-ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

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Swamp-Root makes friends quickly be-
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However, if you wish first to test this
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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-03

boys mother separated. The child
of six months was given TO the moth
er. She remarked and the boy lived
with her until he was fifteen years
old, when he ran away. He Joined
the navy, served overseas with the
aviation forces, and was wounded.
Last summer Mr. Morrison. Sr. was
motoring in the East. A chance con
versation with passing acquaintance
led to the discovery that his son was
at that time lying III in a hospital in
Washington, D. c. The reunion was
effected. and George is now in bust
ness with his father in Flint.