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The Washington times., 1922-05-03
No MEN WITH TAILS.

To the Editor of The Times
EnovipV the fairness Of The Times In its
xriIIinpness to correct any inaccurate statement
that may accidentally slip into its columns In
the natural course of the reporting OF .ne oaS
news I wish to direct your attention TO an
article headed Are There Men With Tails?'
nubIished in The Times of March p.
The article was based on letter written 0 0y a
man OF the name OF Samuel Huopsru' Oh oah'
land Cal. Mr.. Hubbard wrote:
"a mar by the name OF Barton blew In from
the Orient. claiming that he was great Asatc
traveller He tried to interest some or my
friends to send him back to Asia with a mouoh
picture outfit to photograph race or people nc
claimed had been discovered by him. ths tIioe nSn
according to his account. numbered about 4,ooo
souls. They had tails growing from the emo OF
the spine. which were from six to eight inches
long He refused to divulge the spot In
A,a where they were. but showed me a photo
graph Of a man answering this general descrip.
ton The photograph looked convincing, but
was yery skeptical In talking the matter over
with my friend Gerville Mott, who had just
returned from Manila. he showed me a similar
photograph which he had purchased from an
official photographer In Manila. The picture
was Of an adult nude man with distinct tail
about six inches long. standing out at right
angles to the spine. motifs Information
the northern part of the island of Luzon; that
there are about 1900 to 1,40o OF them
l feel certain that some record concerning these
people be found from the Department or
the Philippines at Washington"
The facts relative to the above statement are
follows:
der returned from the Philippines bearing
photograph OF an Igorot with a tail. Investiga-
ton has demonstrated that this photograph
faxed. We have at the National Museum two
photographs of this Igorot one showing the pic
ture as actually taken, with a slight protruber
ance at the coccyx. and the second revealing the
work of enterprising photographer at Manila
who has fastened to the small anomalous pro-
lection a tail" several inches long.
As to the statement that there from 400
to l.4O0 Igorots with tails, It is pure fiction.
might be anticipated. The tribe Ii well known
to science.
Rudimenary tails" generally in the form
Of small fleshy projection in the coccygeal
region, do occur in man, but they very rare.
and have never been observed except in indi-
viduals.
trust this Information may be Of interest
to readers OF The Times.
Curator, Div. Phys Anthropolory.
The Washington times., 1922-05-03
TAKE 1T FROM
POLONIUS
By s. z. kISER.


MY boy, you're startin' out in life;
Nl Now listen; let this be your plan:
When you decide to choose a wife.
Get one with money. il you can.
Beware of art; don't let that bring
Your final overthrow about;
Art may be good, but it's a thing
That folks can get along without
THERE'S poetry; WELL / admit
l. Sons poetry is mighty grand;
don't intend to say that it
Amt got its place, please understand;
But, good or bad, the poets lay
/. nothing people have to buy;
The poet can't come out and say:
You've got to have my rhymes, or die
10 in for oil or coal or wheat,
u Or deal in clothes folks have to wear;
Produce what people drink or eat,
And then you'll never have to care.
Remember, son-and get this straight
Sell what must be conumed by men;
You'll never have to educate
Them up to any standards, then.
IT'S good to give the world the things
i That help to polish and refine,
But all that easy money brings
Is always in some other line.
Go in for something people think
They can't afford to be without;
You'll have the poets beaten pink,
The artists crowded up the spout.
The Washington times., 1922-05-03
The High Cost of
Appetite

no we pay the highest price
ID willingly for what we want
most! Do we want most
what we spend most money for7
"A young man, G. K. Nelson, has
launched a new stomach tempta-
ton on a hungry world. He has
invented the marriage of a bar of
ice cream to hot chocolate. The
right to build these is granted to
manufacturers on a royalty basis.
It is estimated that the annual
ROYALTIES will be $1,500,000, or
about $4,000 a week. This in
come is nutritious, whatever the
pie may be. We pay a moving
picture idol, or some one does, an
annual fee that makes the Presi-
dents salary look like three
dimes.
What must the consumer spend
to justify such figuresi We pay
big sums for pleasure, pleasure of
the palate, the eye, the ear. What
do we pay our greatest thinkers,
our leading scientists, our finest
workers for humanity. our truly
greatf Usually in life they ask
for bread; after death they get a
stone, called a monument.
The Washington times., 1922-05-03
Noses and the Farm, Bloc.
!YYNITED STATES SENATOR
II MOSES of New Hampshire

1NllCD OI AL EO oENh lOt
ii MOSES of New Hampshire
~ made an address in New
York lately on conditions in Con-
gress. His speech was an attack
upon alleged faults of his fellow
members of Congress. He was
most bitter in his comments upon
the so-called farm bloc.
This is group of Senators and
Representatives who come from
the agricultural States, and whose
constituents believe that the bank
er control of the country caused
them to be almost ruined two
years ago in the deflation precipi-
tated by the Federal Reserve
Board and urged by the banking
group.
The interests Of nine-tenths Of
Mr.. Moses constituents are really
with the farm and labor "bloc"
and not with the big business
"bloc."
The Washington times., 1922-05-03
Going OUer
Eur0peby Air
TT is the ambition of all Ameri.
cans some day to do the Crane
TOur Of FurOne.

| l.
cans some day to do the Grand
Tour of Europe.
The Grand Tour usually means
going through the British Isles,
France, Belgium, Holland, Ger
many and Italy.
Along this route lie most of the
great monuments of European
civilization, and the trip is of
immense educational value.
The time is not far distant when
the visiting American will be able
to make it all by airplane. Per-
haps then our sentimentalists will
lament the good old days of travel
by train, just as now they declare
that the best part of Europe is
missed because we do not 60 by
coach, by horseback and afoot.
But we cannot stay the wheels
of progress, nor its wings.
Already there is an air guide
to Europe, giving all the routes,
the fares, the times of departure,
the airdromes and the kinds of
machines used. 1t is a sort of an
air railroad guide.
Here. for instance, is round
trip bv established air lines that
one can make at the present time
London to Paris. 21a hours, 235
miles; Paris to Warsaw, 9 hours,
1000 miles; Warsaw 10 Danzig,
y hours, 175 miles; Danzig to Ber-
lin, 21a hours, $50 miles; Berlin
to Bremen, . hours, 200 miles;
Bremen to Amsterdam, . hours,
1SO miles; Amsterdam to Paris,
Az hours, 375 miles.
Then, if you take the train
from Paris to Toulouse, you can
fly from Toulouse to Casablanca,
in Morocco, around the eastern
end of the Pyrenees, down the
coast of Spain, past Barcelona and
Gibraltar, and across the Straits
over Tangier, 1,150 miles in ap-
proximately thirteen hours.
The fare for this whole circuit
lis not over $3.50.
You are as safe, according to
the averages, as YOU would be in
an express train or an automobile
Nobody can forctell accidents nor
entirely prevent them. But an
accident such as occurred some
time ago, that of collision be
tween two airplanes, one from
Paris and the other from Lon
don, is most unusual. One has to
take chances and consult aver.
ages in anything. An airplane
may fall, but also a wheel may
come off of an automobile or a
train may be ditched, in spite
of the utmost precautions.
Travel by airplane is steadiel
than by any other vehicle, and
lis quite comfortable. IT will not
be long before one can fly to Con
stantinople, and there will be
aerial connections between Pc
king, Shanghai, Tientsin and
Tokyo. In other words, air trave
will soon become commonplace
Just now it is adventurous and
romantic.
The Washington times., 1922-05-03
SAVE RICE
ANDWIN WAR
Bv Bugs" BAER.

TROUBLE in Far East.
i Tired OF threatening
world. famous yellow peril
has turned around and bit
ten itself.
CHINESE are fighting like
Turks. But being du.
pleS polite nation, they have
established very civil war.
Its brother against brother.
No matter who wins. it's all
in family.
Each sde has issued Mon.
gol an proClamations.
Soon as one arrives in Amer.
iCa we will read ii and weep.
MANCHURIAN ukases are
Avn easily read provided YOU
use two rainspouts for opera
glasses. Trouble with laun-
dry republic is that they
N"o
TWO governments would
make roughness any.
where. One government
starts corrugation over here.
WET wash regulations
w have been issued for
wartime conditions. No spies
allowed within hundred
yards OF soap and water
front.
RATTLE song. Starch,
~ starch. starch. boys the
starching.
GENERAL CHOW-CHOW
~ has surrounded Admiral
Sing-Sing's supply Of mul.
berry leaves. but patriotiC
silk worms are eating NUT
ton and spinning wool sox
for soldiers.
KIMoNo and paiams 70.
"A public Is usually docile
nation. But they got sore
when Germany started 10
sell money cheaper than the
rest Of the world.
TUB chauffeurs also have
u two Presidents. That's
one system we could use
over here during Democratic
administrations. One presi-
dent stays home while other
president travels.
AT preeent only fifty mil
"A lion button. eyed soldiers
are fighting ono another.
But It may spread.
WELL have some fine
w skirmish slogans over
here N we are voted into
the war,
THEY washed for you.
You wash for them.
7 .AUNDRy check will he
service star.
GOING to he tough when
~ we get starchless Tues
DAYS and chop sueyless Mon
days,
The Washington times., 1922-05-03
OUR OWN NATURAL
HISTORY.

Here's to the stork,
A valuable bird,
That inhabits the residence
districts.
He doesn't sing much,
His plumes are absurd,
But he helps out the vital
statistics.
The only real water hay.
ard In golf now is st the
nineteenth hole.
Superfluous flesh can be
easily removed by taking
UP poetry a. q profession.
The Washington times., 1922-05-03
From, FuctOru
battle-ground
n PRING means the return of

world. 1t means the bloom
ing of flower and tree, the return
Of birds, the laughter and play
of happy children.
This is the third spring that
100000 children, formerly con-
demned to inhuman labor, have
been free to play and go TO school.
1t was in 1919 that a Federal
law went into effect abolishing
the worst forms of child labor by
levying tax of 10 per cent on
the profits of corporations that
% work children under sixteen
in mines and quarries; (2) work
children under fourteen in fac
tories; (3) work children from
fourteen to sixteen over eight
hous a day or over six days a
week. That legislation affected
10000 of our boys and girls.
Whether they shall remain free
hangs upon a pending decision of
the United States Supreme Court.
Five weeks ago it listened to
arguments on the constitutionality
Of this Federal law. 1t has al
ready been declared unconstitu-
tionl by Federal Judge Boyd, of
North Carolina. He claimed that,
under guise of Federal taxation,
the law interfered with the right
of State to regulate its internal
affairs.
There was national disappoint-
ment and chagrin when in 1918
the Supreme Court decided that
the 1916 Child Labor Law was
unconstitutional. That law for
bade interstate transportation of
the products of child labor. This
same Judge Boyd, in the interest
of the Southern cotton mills,
ruled that the law infringed upon
the constitutional right of con-
tract-in this case, the right of a
father to contract out the labor
of his children. North Carolina
father was induced to represent
that he could not get along with
out the earnings of little children
whose employment had been for
hidden by the law.
But this time the decision of
the Supreme Court will, in all
likelihood, reverse Boyd and up
hold the statute, Judging from
the courts decisions in similar
eases in the past.
The Department Of Justice s
conduct of the case has been ex-
tremely able. The brief Of the
Solicitor-General is a splendid ex-
ample of the defense of the help
less against oppression.
We have a right to hope and
believe that the 100000 children
will not be driven back to factory,
mine and quarry.
The Washington times., 1922-05-03
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright. 1897. sy Star @
BY X. c. B.

Dear X. c. B.-I know an sI-service man
who really tried for . long time to nnd him.
self Job. Failing In his search he began the
manufacture of Illicit liquor and is now doing
business in that line and providing for his
family. In the Declaration OF Independence IL
found a clause to the effect that ito secure
life. etc, governments are instituted among
the people" Now II one cannot secure work
10 It not the duty OF the Government to provide
work. Also, should report to the authorities
this man who is br.sking the law
CARL r.
The Washington times., 1922-05-03
SUNSHINE AND CHILDREN.

The Medical Research Council finds that the
metabolism OF children exposed to sun and air
at the Treloar Hospital 10 nearly 20 per cent
above that OF children kept within doors, says
the Scientific American; also that at the sea-
side the body heat production 10 Increased five
times by padding along the shore. ard from
eight 10 ten times by swimming.
The New York herald., 1922-10-15
they CALL Me
CARPENTER

fearlessly but reverently answers this
question, and thousands of readers are
eagerly reading his answer 9th edition
already. The New York Herald says
Regarded merely as fiction, it is the clev-
crest thing Mr.. Sinclair has done; highly
successful from the point of view of lit
erary technic and handled with genuine
originality. He has added one ele-
ment that is conspicuously lacking in the
New Testament-a sardonic humor"
On sale everywhere, SI.75.
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

TN The Critical Game John Macy,
the new Literary Editor of The
Nation, and author of The Spirit
of American Literature, writes
about Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy,
Nietzsche, Conrad, Masefield, Wells,
James Joyce, etc., etc. The dominant
theme of the book is that literature
is to be enjoyed and that talk about
literature is of no value unless it is
enjoyable, unless il is itself literature
$3.50
Heartbeat. by Stacy Aumonicr.
IS considered by many to be this fine
English novelist's best book. 1t is
proving to be his most popular book
that has ever been published in Amer
ica $4,000
Doubling Castle, BY Elinor Chip,
Is a fine novel in the Galsworthian
method by new American writer
$500
Ludwig Lewisohn brilliant and
exquisitely written Up Stream, An
American Chronicle, is more pog-
ular to-day. six months after public4-
ton, than it was even in the first flush
Of its enthusiastic reception $500
And, of course, Hendrix van Looms
The Story of Mankind is still the
outstanding non-fction success of the
year. $500
The New York herald., 1922-10-15
3 8 O
cAQG.OyLE$

by Ben Hecht (now in its 9th large
printing! is being SO widely dis
cussed, so furiously defended and at
tackled, that the mere mention of this
new novel by the author of Erik
Dorm. is sufficient $500
The New York herald., 1922-10-15
HARRY kEMP'S
Autobiographical Novel
TRAMPING ON LIFE
Excerpts from the first three reviews:

ISL InTee reviews.
gree Many an autobiog-
raphy has been ruined by those
twin curses, tact and reticence.
Kemp just blurts every
thing out. He reveals himself to
an extraordinary degree and yet
as we read it, it seemed exactly
what he should do."-Heywood
Broun, New York World.
"Tramping on Life is truly
distinctive story that should rank
with the great biographies of the
earth, because it shares with them
the qualities that give them en-
during life-honesty, simplicity
and candor."' Harry Hansen,
Chicago Daily News.
Everywhere, $500
The New York herald., 1922-10-15
BABEL

Scott Fitzgerald says: Babel is
the love affair of hundreds of thou
sands of people, one of the most real
and human love episodes in recent
notion. $2.oo
The New York herald., 1922-10-15
Between
Ourselves


II P. A. says Between Ourselves"
is bad English. Elinor Chipp,
the author of Doubling Castle,
the novel which is being compared TO
those of Galsworthy (Which means
while Among Ourselves" is prefer
able, the publishers, as party Of the
iirst part, so to speak, talking to
the public, as the party Of the second
part. may. properly head these columns
as they do. Which reminds us that
r. +. A. once asked us to match for
a luncheon. OF course, he meant for
the privilege of paying for it.
Harry Kemp speaks a lot about
Shelley and Keats and Chaucer and
Petrarch in Tramping on Life, but
doesn't mention Longfellow, whose
line, Look, then, into thine heart
and write" might have served as the
title of his book. Haywood Broun
calls Trampine on Life lone of the
most enthralling autobiographies," and
Mrs. Dawson nominates it for this
years Pulitzer prize. According to our
Bartlett, by the way, Philip Sidney
beat Longfellow some 500 years when
he wrote "Fool, said my muse to me.
look in thy heart and write"
1he Nation is to be congratulated
on its choice of John Macy as its
Literary Editor. Mr.. Macy's "The
Critical Game" has just been pub
iished and those who have read it and
his The Spirit Of american Literature
lin the Modern Library, of course),
expect The Nation to double its cir
culation before the year is up.-(Adu.)
Said Madame Sand to NJ. Flaubert.
Your letters, love, are truly rare"
Said Gustave dear to Madam Sand
And yours, ma chere, are simply
grand"
(The George Sand Gustav FIau-
bert Letters, limited to 1900 copies).
Mr.. 7. R. Smith has been seen sey-
eral times recently in the neighbor-
hood of the Madison Square Hotel.
Is it possible that Mistress Gertrude
Atherton and he are conferrine about
the title of her new novel which is
to be published in january
(Hih apologies TO Toapn Tobics).
Literature is an interpretative de
scription Of human life, it cannot limit
itself to the Interpretation of one side
OF human nature only, for otherwise it
would defeat its own aim of truth and
power. From Hon. Chas. A. Ober-
waeer's decision upholding the publ
cation of the limited edition of The
SdtwicoH Of Petr0niHs A rbiter
1t looks as though Time would be
the name of Gertrude Atherton's new
novel. To anyone (knowing nothing at
all about the book, of course) suggest
ing better zone, an autographed copy
of Mrs. Atherton's ReeaRog (Modern
Library edition. viii be gratefully
dispatched.
When the great majority agreed with
Socrates, he Immediately wondered if
he hadn't been wrong According to
this theory Babel is a had novel.
Burton Rascoe says it's great stuff;
John CournoS does for London, Paris,
New York, Philadelphia, what Wasser-
mann attempted to do in The Worlds
Illusion for continental cities. Scott
Fitzgerald, Sheila Kaye-Smith, May
Sinclair, John Macy, Edward ].
O'Brien, Rebecca West are most enthu-
siastic Babel boosters. The Brooklyn
Daily Eagle says: "No book this year
has established better claim to en-
thusiastic recognition" Oh, well,
Socrates has been dead long time.
Hendrix van Loon cables from
The New York herald., 1922-10-15
BEYOND ROPE AND FENCE
By DAVID GREW

Beyond Rope and Fence is a refreshing instructive
and inspiring novel There million people in
this country who should read this book the reading
would benefit their souls bring proper share of
comfort and happiness the lives of creatures
whom they have control
Colin H. Livingstone, President Boy Scouts America
The leading booksellers throughout the country en-
Enthusiastically write that Crews book is
the best animal story since
Jack London's Call of the Wild"
5Son puiistes, @adi0e Everywhere, S2oo
copy
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

1ASCI PtS HUN XIX
The next award for the best
American Autobiography - last
given to Edward Bok-should go
to Harry Kemp for his Tramping
on Life. The book is unique in
America, and, so far as we know,
in any biographical literature. We
have read the 43S pages not only
with the liveliest interest, but for
the most part with a very real
sympathy."-Mr Dawson,
". Y. Globe.
Tramping on Life is one of the
most enthralling of modern auto
biographies. 1t is beau
tifully simple prose. In
addition to simplicity, the book
possesses frankness to high de-
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle says:
mo book this year has established
better claim to enthusiastic recogni-
ton than
The New York herald., 1922-10-15
WHAT would Christ do if
w he should return to earth
to-day?

This is the question men and women
sincere or sneering-have been asking
with recurrent emphasis ever since the
World War. In this novel of the Second
Coming of Christ UPTON SINCLAIR,
the author of
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

Publishers bON
o"ad only $50 ea
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

.oa1 a7 y, e1.''
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

The Nation is to be congratulated
on its choice of John Macy as its
Literary Editor. Mr.. Macy's "The
critical Game" has just been pub
iished and those who have read it and
his The Spirit Of american Literature
Tin the Modern Library, of course),
expect The Nation to double its cir
culation before the year is up.-(Adu.)
The New York herald., 1922-10-15

1t looks as though Time would be
the name Of Gertrude Atherton's new
novel. To anyone (knowing nothing at
all about the book, of course) suggest
ing better zone, an autographed copy
of Mrs. Atherton's ReeaHov (Modern
Library edition. viii be gratefully
dispatched
The New York herald., 1922-05-20
.HfRSHFfELD PROTESTS
BUYING VOTE MACHINES
Tells Lyons Manufacturer Of
Them Should Testify.

Referring to the declaration of John
J. Lyons. Secretary OF State, that he
would not place. an order for voting
machines until he had Investigated the
price. David Hfrshfield. Commissioner
OF Accounts. said last night:
"Perfunctory examination by him will
not clear bis skirts should he commit
the folly Of placing an order for these
machines for the City Of New York,
and that, TO my mind the only way
he can mako an exhaustive idvestiga-
ton" OF the subject Is by requiring
Laustorer. Hamilton and other officials
and representatives of the voting ma
chine corporation TO submit to an ex-
animation before. me concerning the
cost OF manufacturing these machines
and Of all expenditures for assistance
and Influence. cif any. In connection
with putting through the Legislature
this anti-hone rule bill. which seeks 20
impose upon the CITY OF New York this
unwarranted expenditure OF millions of
dollars, out Of which this corporation
and its friends will make an estimated
profit OF million and a half"
Commissioner Hirschfield's desire Is
to examine William .Lausterer, ,- prcsi-
dent OF the Automatic Registering Ma
chine Corporation OF Jamestown, and
other officials Of. the concern.
The New York herald., 1922-05-20
MCCLELLAN NOT SEEKING
TO GO TO CONGRESS
Princeton Professor Calls the
y -,Ruupor Mere Gossip

George B. Mcclellan, former Mayor, In
a message to THE NEW York HERALD
last night, said the story that he was a
candidate for the Congress nomination
In the Fifteenth district here was mere
gossip" Mr.. Mcclellan Is professor
at Princeton. It is said. however, he
established a legal residence in the Fiji
tecnth district prior to the municipal
election last year. -.
Ono of the first things the former
Mayor did on his return from abroad
then was to give out a strong statement
In favor of the reelection of Mayor
Hylan. At the time 1t was reported that
Mr.. Murphy had picked Mr.. Mcclellan
to so to Congress- again.
Recently the three Assembly district
leaders in the Congress district-Charlcs
w. Culkin. William Dalton and The
McManus-heard that the Tammany
chieftain would like the former Mayor
to have the nomination there. They
have shown signs Of revolt, as two OF
their, own workers have aspirations for
the nomination. They are John J. Boy
Ian, State Senator, and John r. Nc
Court, former Alderman
The district, normally a Democratic
stronghold, is now represented by an
anti-Wiison Dcmocrat--Thomas Jefrer-
son Ryan-who was nominated by the
Republicans.