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New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
By. Royal Cortissoz

one Of the best of your games 1t is
when you are outrageously fit that you
fall by the wayside. Get up in the
morning feeling like king, all set for
a game that you have long been antici-
pating. Go to the course in the most
luxurious of cars. Drive off in cloud
less weather, with a cherished friend,
having a clear field ahead and no one
to press you. 1t is million dollars
to tin doughnut that you will fub
your drive. It is when all these con-
d:tions are reversed and you are made
aware, with the upward swing of your
club, that you've got a nail in your
shoe, that you really hit the ball. Look
a, the champions, with their not infre-
quent "slumps." Is it physical condi-
tion that betrays them? Why, they
haven't any nerves. 1t is q subtler
enemy that lays them low The devil,
after all, is more respectable to cite
tran an alibi, the most hateful pest in
golf. When a great golfer misses a
ffteen-inch putt let him repeat for his
consolation the words of Cassie: EVERY
irordinate cup is unbless'd, and the
ingredient is a devil"
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

Grand juries seldom indict innocent
persons and if they should happen
to do so the innocent persons could
easily prove their innocence. Surely
Mr.. Hirshfield, who is as brave as a
lion and roars rs much like one as he
Is able to when bullying witnesses in
Investigations, ought not. as Ian
guage with which he is familiar ex-
presses it, to "fear himself before
"a paltry inquisitorial body. even
though it may be legally constituted.
But Mr.. Hirshfeld is not as other
men. The lion predominates in him
at times. Again his meekness could
we'll supply a pattern fer the most
timid of lambs.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
The Bonus Comedy

Congress has played to the erd the
shabby comedy of passing a soldiers
bonus bill which raises no funds
wherewith to pay the benefciaries.
The duty now rests on the President
of protecting the country from the
consequences of this cheap Juggling
with uncovered Treasury obliga-
tions.
The politicians in Congress have
thought of the bonus bill only as an
expedient to win votes. The Presi-
dent has to think of the Treasury's
uphill struggle to balance expendi-
ture and revenue and of the public
on whom will fall eventually the
burden of taking up these cleo
tioneering l Q US. Congress was
too cowardly to impose new taxes.
1t asks the Administration to pluck
the millions which are to so to the
soldiers out of the air or hot off the
printing press after the Berlin man
ner of meeting government obliga-
tons.
The President is on record as op-
posed to any bonus not to be financed
by specific new taxes. He recon-
mended to Congress the levying of
sales tax and said in his letter to
Chairman Fordney on February 16
last that he could find no suitable al
tentative to the sales tax. Congress
naturally disregarded this advice,
which smacked too much of hard
headed business methods.
On March 7 this statement was
given out at the White House: "He
1.-THE President] has nothing to add
to his previous statement, and does
not expect 'to have" That was the
last public announcement made Of
the Presidents intentions.
There is no reason to think that
the bonus bill will now escape a de-
served veto. And enough Senators
have disclosed their opposition to the
bill to put repassage over veto out
of the question.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Warning ON Russia's Soul

In the days of the czars the Rus
sian revolutionists were the intel
lectuals. Socialists, anarchists, even
Nihilists, belonged to the intelligent
sia. Dostoievsky in his earlier and
better years, Kropotkin, Tolstoi,
Mikhailoff, Tchernyshevsky, LavrofT,
Bakunin, even for a time Pushkin
and Turgueneff, were pioneers of
various phases of the revolution and
were all conspicuous intellectuals.
To-day Bolshevism is conspicu-
ously and aggressively anti-intellec-
tual. From the very beginning it
has prosecuted and prescribed the
intelligentsia. Scientists, authors,
teachers, journalists, have been
systematically exiled or put to death
Now, faced by impending extremity,
the Soviet regime redoubles its saw
age campaign against the intellectu-
ais. Hundreds of them have lately
been rounded up by the police as
dangerous to the state. Some have
been executed. Some have been sent
to remote penal settlements, more
inhospitable than the Siberian mines
to which their predecessors in the
cause were sent by The czars. To
some is given the unwelcome choice
of exile or imprisonment.
1t is thus that the Bolshevist oil
garchs seek to maintain their sway
'over Russia by lettering the minds
and enslaving the souls of the people
and booming them to ignorance.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Breaking the Rail Deadlock

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Since the railroad executives
and the mediators of the labor unions
have reached an impasse on the
seniority question l would like to sug-
gest two solutions, either of which
might be successful in breaking the
deadlock.
+ First-Let the question of seniority
be dropped entirely, and all returning
workmen with those that remained
and those taken on during the strike
be placed on an equal footing. Later
on a plan could be worked out whereby
changes Of duties, location of work or
overtime would be granted monthly on
the basis of drawing numbers or else
on merit standing.
Second-In the event that the above
then let the men that are really in
terested, those that are out on strike,
take a vote as to the acceptance of
the terms offered by the railroad execu-
tives or on the suggestion outlined
above. This vote to be taken by the
Railroad Labor Board and carried out
with the same secrecy and protection
as is the case with the usual November
elections; the employers and unions to
have representatives as watchers and
the Labor Board to appoint tellers and
Judges. The details of this plan could
be easily worked out.
HAROLD F. ADAMS.
New York Sent IL 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Spoon River Renascence

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: How many hearts throbbed
with pity when they learned through
The Tribune of the Rip Van Wrinkle
town on the Spoon River, in Illinois,
which has just been filmed for the
first time in its life and where here
tofore there had been no motor
cars, telephones, trains or movies! To
think that in this enlightened land
there should be grown-up persons who
until last week had never jumped six
feet in the air at the sound of motor
horn just astern; who had never seen
Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford,
and all the rest of the stars on the
screen; whose only knowledge of stars
might have been obtained from gazing
into the heavens, a place which has in
the centers of our more enlightened
civilization retreated a little beyond
the vanishing point; who wouldn't know
a Ford from a Rolls-Roycel
Yet, now that these ancients of n
century ago have been introduced to
our blessings, now that our higher
civilization has been waited to them
on gasolined wings, now that their
wants will, presumably, be multiplied
scveral-fold. with no such multipiica-
tion of the facilities for satisfying
those aspirations, it is to be wondered
perhaps, if the dazed villagers will find
it ali worth while. OF course, the
iappers will begin to flap, and youth
will no longer be content with the old
home town; but will not the persons
of both sexes who have reached middle
age come out of their daze with the
feeling that they would, if they could
draw again the curtain which has been
torn from their untroubled simplicity !
A. NJ. ADAMS.
Plainheld. N. j., Sept. 1e, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
A Week of Verse
| raYestY
fFron' The Nation

FROM The EdtfonI
a MONKEY in little feathered hs.
And scarlet brecches, danrjed or
string,
Climbing for some one else's nsr,,
that
Changes the comic to a tragic tbi,1
Halfman, from whose unhatter;no eve.
may peep
a secret sorrow-does he wonder bow
The world was lost, how it would Be- 70
leap,
Careless of coppers. free, from bough to
bougb?
The organ whines, the cord goes TAU. O,
slack:
Street after street; the same old tricks
again.
Who puts us down to beg, who jerk. us
back
To many drcary, oft-repsated
The stars give silver Hark!
Across the years
Murmurs the mighty music Of .hs
spheresi
LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Yacht or Fisherman l.?

The Mayfiower is again in
trouble. The Canadian committee
of the international Ffshermen's
Regatta once more has refused to
admit her right to challenge for the
cup. No specific charges against
her have been made this time, but
the implication is that she is more
of yacht than fishing boat.
This charge was made last year.
Designed by Burgess and built
frankly in the hope of winning the
trophy, she was barred on the
grounds that she had not taken and
could not take the part of a full
f1edged fisherman. At that time she
had not spent an entire season on
the Banks. Since then, however
she has made her catch with the
best of them and her owners believe
her fully qualified to enter the race.
The feeling of the Nova Scotians
that this regatta must at all costs
be open only to bona fde fishermen
is shared by all Americans. The
deed of gift Of the cup recites that
the purpose of the races is "the de-
velopment of the most practical and
serviceable type of fishing schooner.
combined with the best sailing
qualities. without sacrificing utility"
That the Mayfower possesses
good sailing qualities is admitted by
all, apparently. 1t becomes a ques-
ton, therefore, whether or not
she is practical and serviceable. To
ascertain this should not be difficult
Does the Mayf1ower earn her living
on the same basis as other good
ships of the feet? If so the fact
that she has more qualities of a
yacht than most fishermen cannot
rightly be held against her. If she
does full seasons work, bringing
in full catch each trip, and earns
on her investment a sum proper
tionate to the earnings of her sister
ships. it may honestly be said OF
her that she is serviceable and
practical.
If, on the other hand, as her
Canadian rivals and some of the
Americans charge, she cost much
more than the average fisherman,
and if she cannot earn her way on
the same basis as the others, then
the charge that she is a yacht and
not fisherman cannot we'll be re-
futed. Neither side in the contro-
versy has yet made public sufficient
data on which to form an accurate
judgment as to her qualifications.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
The Fen
fFror, Inc English Reverl

fFrons The English Rev.euJ
THERE waiting for the windy spring,
Through the long winter falls,
The little drowning houses cling
About the manor walls,
And miles on miles of meadows wake
With blare and blaze of ponp,
And buttercups and kingcups make
One gold, gigantic swamp,
And round the carts with old reed-loads
The black dust clouds ascend
Along those dark, eternal roads,
Beyond the evenings end.
And there, like free and noble though,
White windmills, swinging fair,
Tell on the work that man has wrought,
To all the wandering air.
There by the dykes at term of day
The traveller may behold
Cattle at Craze against the gray,
Fat geese against the gold;
Till on the silence of that plain
A deeper calm Is shed,
And ell the marsh becomes again
The Fenland of the dead,
The airy gay, the light blue day,
Long years ere he was born.
When full-rigged, four mast schooners
lay
Snugly along the corn;
Till he, so wandering, half at loss,
Shall mark nor house nor tree,
But centuried ghosts that cry across
That bled and beaten sea.
DOROTHY WELLESLEY.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
they come of age and adopt another
might be assumed to be of the same
nationality as their parents.
The Open Door

The belief, long held in the West.
that nobody but a burglar could find
out what was behind the doors of
New York City's stately homes has
been dissipated. The wives and
daughters of the delegates TO the
convention Of the American Bank
ers Association, numbering more
than two thousand, will be enter
tanned by committee of New York
society women of whom Mrs. Dwight
w. Morrow is chairman. They will be
entertained at luncheon, dinner and
theator parties, invited out like Wis
iting royalty and will see everything
they care to see.
1t is probably true that this could
not have occurred in the days de-
picted in Mrs. Wharton's age of
Innocence" when New York was
highly sufficient unto itself and was
inclined to think that people from
Chicago and other Western cities
must wear blankets and war bonnets
when at home.
But New York has expanded in
sympathy and understanding as well
as in area. 1t is becoming more and
more the typical American city, and
New York hospitality and friendli~
ness will soon become as much to be
expected as hospitality in the South
and breeziness in the great open
spaces where men are men.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

q; Ar' David Hirshfeld is Commis-
wv @ OF Accounts of the City of
4. ~ : FORK. He is not in charge of
D. department of Public Markets.
y not responsible for its conduct.
!, ne Is quoted as saying that if he
~, summoned by grand jury to tell
ne knows of that department
WI stand on his constitutional
a., ~ ana refuse to waive immunity.
~. ha' Mr. Hirshfeld has to fear
Grand jury is not at all clear.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Lamb

From The ChapbookJ
ESHE old bellwether
- looked at the lamb
as a gentleman looks
when he mutters Damn"
"lf you jump and 'frisk,
you little fool,
you'll only end
by losing your wool.
When was lamb
| always would
behave as like a sheep
as / could"
did you!" the lamb
replied with leap.
II always thought
You were born a sheep"
The parh-keeper said
to the boy on the fence:
Lets have less
of your impudence.
Of with you, now,
and do as you're bade,
or you'll end in prison
When I was a lad"
HJTMpERT Wr1yET
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Man Seeks to Cage Delight

fFrona The English ReuieuJ
MAN seeks to cage delight
In vain, not seeing
That her strong -pinioned fight
Is all her being,
And sets about to frame
Dead fantasies
Eternity, Infnity to tame
The ecstasy that flies:
For to De single, sure,
In one swift fash,
Pure flame or diamond pure;
To slough the ash
Of things burnt out; to gain
The fountains powers
Gathered in little compass to attain
Its crown Of glittering showers;
This is the eternal, this
The infinite,
The gods immortal kiss
Set warm and bright
On heroes brows.
In these brief moments span
Shall Man outiise the thousand centuries
or the blind life of Man.
MARTIN ARMSTRONG.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
When I was lad"
HUMBERT WOLFE.
"A Return to Nature

Many Histories Of Poetry
(Front The London MercxryJ
PROMETHEUS
1T WAS the south: mid-everythine,
- Midland, midsummer, noon.
And deep within limpid spring
The mirrored sun of June.
Splendour in freshness! All, who stole
This sun, this fire, from heaven?
He holds it shining in his soul,
Prometheus, the forgiven.
ALICE MEYNEIL.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
For Travellers Convenience
New York, Sept. Ii, 1922.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Ding's cartoon on the railroad
ticket window suggested the following
idea to me: 1t would be courtesy and
convenience to the public il the rail-
roads would install in their depots a
price list board, similar to that IN the
box Office Of theater, giving the cost
Of transportation from that depot to
various important points. Inasmuch as
fares are frequently changed, can see
that it would not be sensible to com
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

For once Lucifer bellies his name. You
call upon it in vain. He has gone up
tree to mock at you. Positively, at
moment like that I have heard his
derisive chuckle.
1t is when the game moves on that
he comes down and moves with it.
You can almost see HIM His gloomy
features,
Like a midnight dial,
Scowl the dark index of fearful hour.
1t is the hour, known to every golfer,
in which you try to repeat. Then en-
sues diabolism of an uncannily high
order. You made the hole a day ear
lier in the week in par You know just
how you did it. So much distance is
to be assigned to your drive. The sec
ond shot will leave you, inevitably,
with an easy approach. You have
hopes of four. You are certain Of a
FIVE. The devil is most like himself at
such juncture. He lets you have your
drive, thereby increasing your certi-
tude. He is good to your second shot.
But, although you know all about the
approach, just why you should "go
easy" with it, just why you should
avoid running over, he comes nimbly to
the front and takes you into the pit
beyond. Oh pit, pit, how aptly art thou
named! Art thou not his designated
dwelling place? 1t is there. above all
other hazards, that you are ''as help
less as the devil can wish.'
You land there never SO decisively,
never so snugly ensconced in an un-
playable lie, as when, having won the
hole once. you try to repeat. can't
believe that it is pure error that ac-
counts for this special brand of hu-
initiation. Some analysts lay it to
self consciousness. 1t is just because
you are thinking of repeating. they
say, that you lose your grip on concen-
tration and fetch up on toast. 1t is
the demon, rather, who works the
evil. One of my fellow golfers is a
particularly good driver, straight and
far. In a recent game l saw him slice
his ball out of bounds from nearly
every tee, sometimes two balls from
the same tee. He knew better and
there were several players present quite
willing to tell him the reason for it if
he needed light. But he couldn't help
going on slicing. He kept at it with
the devotion of train dispatcher.
He knew nothing about my theory OF
demoniacal possession, yet I was not in
the least surprised when he laid it
all on the devil.
Some students of the game, strangers
to the delights of mystical speculation,
are prone to explain away the more
fantastic of golfing collapses by what
they call, with scientific simplicity and
aplomb, physical condition. 1t is all a
matter of nerves, they tell you, mat
ter of coordination. AS a friend Of
mine remarked the, other day, the
character of the drive is determined
by the synchronization of the pathway
Of the hands and the pathway of the
club head at the moment of impact,
and this in turn depends upon your
bodily state. Can't you hear that
chuckle coming up from the pit? AS a
matter of fact, there is nothing like
the complete disqualification of all
vour corporeal faculties to assure you
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
When the Family Is Not a Unit

There would seem to have been
enough examples of the hardship
and injustice involved in the appli-
cation of the emergency immigra-
tion act to warrant amendment by
this time. The determination of the
nationality of the newcomer by the
mere accident of place of birth has
caused complications both distress
ing and ludicrous.
That the family is both nat
ural and civil unit is apparently
lost sight of by the provisions of the
immigration act. Its administra-
tion allows for no fiexibility, it ap-
pears. with the consequence that a
mere infant is declared to be of a
nationality totally different from its
parents. The family may believe
itself to be all French, but if one
member of it happened to be born
in Italy during temporary resi-
dence there, then, according to our
new immigration regulations, that
member is Italian and subject to the
quota requirements. Perhaps that
one child may come in this month,
while the rest of the family may not.
or vice versa. Then begins a dizzy
maze of effort to land the nationally
divided family Even for war ref
ugees, where families have wandered
from country to country, no excep-
ton is made.
Among recent cases that of
young English girl on the way to
join her father already settled here
is as absurd as any. 1t develops that
she is not an English girl at all,
though her parents and sisters are
English, because she was born in
South Africa. So she may have to
go back to England until she can
come in under the quota for the land
of her birth.
A parallel instance last week is
that of the eighteen-year-old boy
who had every reason to believe he
was French. He and IN older
brother were born in East Africa
while his French parents were resid-
ing there. Four years ago his wild
owed mother came to this country
and became a teacher in a Southern
high school. She brought the older
son with her and settled him in a
Western university. Attempting to
bring the younger son to the new
home. she is met by the ruling that
he is native of Africa and there
fore ineligible for entry at this time.
He, too, may have 70 return to the
other side until later date.
Appeal may be made, to be sure,
but mcnths have been spent at Ellis
Island by some members of such
Kaleidoscope families while dis
tracted relatives have sought their
admittance here, only in the end to
find the ocean separating them. II
the family is really a unit, it would
seem that the children, at least until
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
On the DeuiZ in Golf

If the devil is perfectly at home on
a golf course it is doubtless because
that place is so thoroughly we'll paved
with good intentions. There can be no
question as to his presence there. How,
otherwise, are you to account for GER
tain things that happen to golfers T?
Surely, it is not "the spirits of the
wise" that do "sit in the clouds and
mock u.s." 1t is a dark and sinister
force, and, so far from being content
to perch upon cloud, it comes right
down to earth, infests every turn of
the course and even turks in the locker
room. If you do not believe this, ac-
cept an invitation to play in foursome
at a club you have never visited before.
Let it be on q Saturday, when the
crowd is thickest and the time card is
as adamant Linger a little longer over
luncheon than you should and then
hurry to dress. Look out of the win
dow and observe the throng at the
first tee Look at your watch and bend
to tie your shoe with the realization
that you have just two minutes in
which to take your place in the game.
And then have your shoelace snap,
close to the eyelet | will not repeat
your gloss upon this pretty situation.
'Tis not mine to record
What Angels shrink from: even the
On this occasion his own work abb
horred
And no wonder I would not make
a mountain out of a molehill, life
line out of a shoe lace. Goodness
knows that though men have died and
the worms have eaten them it has not
been because they were late at the
first tee But it is the kind of mis-
chance that makes you dancing mad
and it is unthinkable without diabol-
ical intervention.
There is a whole catalogue of these
little pin pricks which are to be cred
tied to his majesty. Take your short
sighted man. who can't play without
his golf glasses. Let him discover, on
some such visit as | have indicated,
that he has remembered to bring every
thing else but has left the one indis-
pensable aid at home. Reader, did
you ever try playing golf with pair
of bifocals on your nose? If not, try
it, and then say whether your predica-
ment is devilish or not. | know of
only one other posture of affairs to
beat it. That is to reach, say, the
tenth hole, we'll out on the course, re-
mote from the clubhouse, good
twelve miles from lemon" and to
take out on that sequestered spot the
cigar you have been saving up for
about the middle of the game. Every
body in the foursome is in the same
biissful case. Pipes come out, and Gig
arettes. Everybody is ready to light
up. And there isn't e match in the
house! Not ono of the players has a
match. Not one of the caddies has a
match. There isn't a man with match
anywhere in sight, for miles around.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

picate timetables with them, but by
using a changeabie letter board the
ticket clerks would be saved the an
noyance portrayed in the cartoon.
LEON DAVID.
Newark. N. J., Sept 10, 1922.