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New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montssu.
T 90 Late

90 Late
mat crime = caused by n. do.ire to
occupy front seats in lies orchestra
When told that men are apt to be
Garrotors. thugs and cheats
Because the Show they fair
would see
From the Expensive Seats,
We quit the race for sordid
wealth,
And took to writing rhyme.
We didn't want TO risk our health
In doing time for crime.
Far better" so we told ourself,
Plain. honest work to do
Than sleep upon an iron shelf
And dine on prison stew.
Far better never see the Show
And thrills Of virtue feel
Than watch the evening sun sink
Through bars of phosph0r
steel.
But now we read from time to
time
Of men who fortunes gain,
And yet from all the forms Of
crime
Concurrently abstain.
Judge Gary. Schwab, and old
John D.
Have piles of gold. and still
We notice that they al are free
To come and go al will.
These thoughts are full Of Bit
terness:
We lack both cakes and ale
Who might have made fair sue
And still kept out of jail.
And we are sure. as ST these men
We enviously glance,
If we could live our lives sgaln,,
We-well, we'd take a chance.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06

How he would wait for her tonight
She would never come
He would never know Never re
member hcr Nothing
1t would all end in nothing. as
if she had never lived
Never lived door
They were in front of a door
pounding pounding
pounding Would it opcn2
Would it ever open" 1t
opened Cold air Light
The street
:: :. :
Before coming to New York With her
child Hida Thorsen. the daughter Of
respectable sand merchant in Still
we'll. Wis. had been betrayed and de
serted by the amorous son Of neigh
Dor. Weak, but not at heart bad fell
low. this lover worried about Hilda,
especially after he took up work in the
social settlements. He knew that girls
in her condition inevitably sank, and he
feared that he would meet her some
night on the streets-panted, vulgar.
in the gutter, "soiled beyond recogni-
ton, degraded beyond help But Hilda
was not of the sinking type. She found
a dull happiness in her unmarried
motherhood, and with desperate deter
mination strove to maintain it. No
self-pity and no brassy aggressiveness
marrcd her pleasant. reliable charac-
ter. She faced her troubles solidly, but
with anxiety, and was content in her
vast capacity for vicissitude.
!. X y
Hilda's road became easier after the
fire in the factory. for she was selected
by the labor unions to be one of their
officials in a making the shops safe
campaign" Her new position per-
mitted her to live comfortably in
Washington Square and to commune
with group of its interesting inhab-
itants about Rudin, Bernard Shaw, Sid
ney Webb, Havelocl1 Ellis, Bazsrov,
manual training for negroes and the
single standard of immortality. The
young women with whom she asso-
ciated were eager girls from the col
leges, who wore short hair and mems
shoes, but still she was unable to take
their revolutionary propensites seri-
ously. She noticed that cup of hot
chocolate when they were tired melted
away their mood of revolt. They were
sincere enough, but they were de-
nouncing expressions which they had
not experienced. Their cries against
social wrongs came from the brain, not
the heart. However, the most earnest
Of the lot disappointed 'Hilda when she
"crawled under the old blanket Of re-
sDectability" and married middle
aged banker from Denver with thin,
nondescript hair and a conservative dis
position.
When the inevitable meeting between
Hilda and her child's father occurred
ne was member of government
commission investigating labor troubles
IN the copper mines and she was one
OF the executives in charge of the
strike. In the newspapers she read
this Of him: "Mr. Raymond Evert is a
well known social reformer in Chicago
and is the founder and president of
the Clean Politics League in that city.
He Is intere ested in child labor prob
lens, in mothers pensions and in kim
dred social and philanthropic move
ments. He is g graduate of the Chicago
University. His wife is the we'll known
settlement worker, Mrs. Maude Straight
Evert."
MIR. Tobenkin's feelings in the mat
ter of Hilda and her Road, his views OF
conditions and the persons involved in
them, do not interfere with his per-
acTmanes ~ . story tellsr. Hilda is q
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
Keep the Lockwood Committee

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: To-day your first column tells
us that powerful interests" are work.
ing to kill the Lockwood committee
the mainstay and hope of homemakers
IN this town. Well. have been a con-
sistent Republican since Grants first
nomination. but if Republican state
government does this thing III change
sides. What interests are working e?
Not the interests that make big ma
lo"ties and keep homes. If this thing
is done New Yorks Democratic vote
at the next election will swamp any
thing up state can send to the border,
F. A. lie H.
New York, Feb. 3, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
The Smile Cure
Ed;tor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of to-day ! ~
ticed a news item quoting Mayor hs.ss
as advising the city to smile ! 'n'. -
this is excellent advice. and that w.
be of great benefit to business II ess'. :.
body remembers that next "s'A
Irrational smile week"
We have just passed through
riod of business depression ana
tice that Charles Schwab, IN fess-
speech. said that to smile at TINS .a- ,...
would be of great benefit in sprs'0'''
the doctrine of cheerful spirit -
If we all smile it will help 10 spI
the spirit of optimism which - ".
sary to revive US from the Dusa D..a
depression which we hsve ,orp v
through. H. on.
Sea Cliff, n. v, Feb. ], lszz'
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
Reducing the Spread

\NAo~uAS kAtC 0RA CdO
Along comes the annual report Of
one Of the large meat packing conf
panies (Swift & Coz with it's CO.
pious figures calculated to disturb
deeply rooted popular convictions
and prejudices.
1t has been almost automatic that
big business. when it approached the
frontiers Of monopoly, necessarily
meant inefficiency and robbery. Was
this not the doctrine Of the common
law. Of the Sherman act. of Adam
Smith? Why should captains of in
dustry seek to bestride the market if
their purpose was not to misuse this
power? There is mythology of
politics, and hard has it gone with
public men who ventured to doubt
the saNctity Of the old images.
SO the contents of the report of
this company, whose sales in 1921
aggregated $500 000,o 900. are irritat-
ing. Who finds it agreeable to be
pushed out Of ruts of thought or to
be asked to rid our minds Of
demonoiogy which hitherto has pro-
vided satisfying explanations? Can't
We be left alone with our old devils?
Must we invent new ones?
Yet unless the packing company
is circulating cooked figures it paid
in 1921 for each head of cattle
bought by it s87.53. and for slaugh-
tering. packing and all expenses. in
cluding freight, $15.l7-a total of
$82.70 IT received per head 1852
for beef and sS.51 for by-products
"A total Of $8S.S3. The profit per
animal was thus sl.13. This profit
is only one-fftll of a cent per pound
of beef-that is to say. were the com
pany operated with no profit beef
would be only one-fifth Of a cent
cheaper. But even this profit, it ap-
pears was not actual. When &C
count is taken Of the inventories of
goods carried over from the prior
year. and the decline therein, there
was loss. And in 1920 there was
loss, and likewise in 1919. Not since
1913 has the company earned any
thing for it's stockholders.
Equally disconcerting are the fig
ures which relate to the ownership
of the company. Popular belief is
still firm that the large industrial
companies are the property of few
rich men. On the contrary. this
! company now has $4,000 sharehold-
ers. approximately $1,000 Of whom
are employees and 1900 are women.
Capitalization Of management, but
diffusion of ownership, seems more
and more characteristic of big bust
ness. We are building I'D, in fact.
huge cooperative establishments
With their arrangements centered in
committee Of officers who are
agents Of vast army Of investors.
Formerly small savers did not find
I it as easy as the rich to select safe
investments. Now, if they show rea-
sonahle prudence and resistance TO
fraudulent lures, the door of oppor-
tunity is open on practically even
terms.
Of course, those of frozen and re-
dictionary minds. all the great COM
pany which clings to inherited be-
liefs. will be disposed to reject as
preposterous the claims Of the big
company. They are not to be caught
by it's bait. Yet there are the fig
ures. and if false the falsity should
be shown in some detail. 1ncredulitv
must sometimes justify itself BY
some details. 1t is scarcely enough
for it to proclaim incrcdulity - to
shout merely Ola"
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
Books Percy S.,,,... Ss

The name Elias Tobenkjn at the
front CT some worthy fiction entitled
"The Road" recalls to the reviewer an
unlmportant circumstance in his first
observation of that author ten wears
ago The reporters and sub-edtors in
the "city room Of Il Chicago news
paper were discussing with amusement
the fact that Tobcnkin, pcrplexed re-
cruit from no one knew where, had at
last been given an assignment after
many nights of puzzled hanging around
Rather strange youth, with an aspect
OF timld superiority to his environ
mcnt, Tobenkin had no intimatcs. He
vas regarded as something of an alien
freak There was much quiet sport.
therefore, when it was learned that the
city editor in Whimsical moment had
given the lad "ioke" assignment
one which stood no chance of publica-
tion but which involved hard and dis
agreeable work. OF course robenkin,
faithful to the traditions Of such
episodes. returned unrufled from his
expedition. and. ignoring the laughter
OF his associates. wrote his tale
Equally of course, it proved to be a
masterpiece of composition. After be-
ing submitted to the editor in chief by
mystitied subordinates it was spread
in unusual type across the front page
u. ...>t. ~
black-faced capitals, and with a note
of editorial commendation. AS the in
cldent is now recalled Tobenkin never
returned to the Office of that news
paper.
Something of Mr.. Tobenkins repor-
torial quality is revealed in "The Road"
by his account of New York sweat
shop fire. Hilda. the "heroinc,' was
waiting for the whistle, when a piercing
cry suddenly lifted her out of her
chair. "lt was as if the engine of a
train had dashed past her. Bot it was
no engine; no train. What it was
|
unbelievable, could not be But
it was The place was on fire
The shop was burning
The paper patterns, silk voiles, lingerie
were burning The wild
shrek was coming from the breasts Of
hundreds Of workers There
was stempede for doors, for elevators
Frantic leaping over machines
crashing Arms,
breasts, shoulders were driving on
ward, forward and meeting with re-
sistance from other arms, breasts,
shoulders {. Hilda was caught
in the midst of this swaying, scream
ing, agonized human mass
She recognized Ada's voice. Her friend
was calling her "Ada!" she
called back. "Adal Ada" and then she
caught sight of her friend, They were
only three feet apart. Their eyes met
The next moment Ada had been pushed
aside. A dozen bodies, heads, had In
terposed between them. But the in
Stant SuWCeu one Hdu never
seen any one look the way Ada did
She had never seen such eyes
Eyes that had known such ter
ror could not live There was
death in Ada's eyes :. She
would die =. She would di,
We're her eyes like that too?
Would she, too, dieY Yes, she
would die -. They would all die
ada! ! Ada! 4! Ada!' y
1t was useless Hundreds oI
voices were shrieking precisely as
her own They We're calling
names of children, parents, brother.
Raymond-her child.
Whist would happsn to him,
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
Reasonably Soft

Every time q European statesman
wants to get away for little goii 0s
organizes some sort of peace con-
ference on the Riviera.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
An lnsurgent Motion
IRON, The IndionoDo,,s N.,.

'fron' The Indianapolis Ne,os)
That bill introduced in the New York
Legislature ito lid US Of the paid pro-
fessional reformers" looks like nothing
less than IN attack on vested interest.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
Not Running Full Blast

They will have TO speed up sn'
peace conferences before they reseA
q stage of quantity production.
(Copvright b. James J. Montague
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06

in the presence. 1t is little short of
disgraceful TO put the city to the
risks involved by the Mayors alb
scnce.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
Three of En-

Congress is now split pretty eveni!
between the Republican party ana
the Democratic party and the pioe
party.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
The T'ower
ODE TO SMILE WEEK

NJ HCN customers are SaO ana rev:
When all the scenery looks blue;
When what I call my brain is vapid
And works in fashion far from rapid,
! do not mourn my present plight.
But softly to mysef recitc:
"Thc daybreak always follows night"
When oil the times seem out of joint
And | have reached the sticking point
Upon my task. and strive and pull
And sweat to get the column full;
Whcne'cr feel my pep declining.
say, to keep off vain repininR,
Beyond the clouds the sun is shining"
! rcsolutely try to smile.
AS should the man who is worth while.
! say that gloom is but sham.
shout. "How fortunate | ami"
| yell, ITS wrong to grouse and CURSE
And all my grounds for thanks rehearse
And then feel darned sight worse.
We deplore pessimistic outlook on
life, but we're willing to bet that we
shake this cold just in time to catch
spring fever.
Still, If they go ahead and sbolish
the Lockwood committee, We suppose
we'll have to place all our hopes for
q solution Of the housing problem on
the flu epidemic
Maybe it's the Ethiopian propelled
Palm Beach chair that has inspired
His Honor to launch his pro bus cam
paign.
Says the Senator From Georgia:
Six little rockies
Rchcarsing for parade;
A loot saw ono was out Of step
The others used the spade.
G.. r. V. p.
Women who powder their noses or
add to the natural tints Of checks or
hair arc cheats, Commander Evanycline
Booth announces. At some later date
we hope she takes up in a dcnuncia-
tory fashion the men who Insist on CON
cealing from the world the hue and
luxuriance Of their whiskcrs.
THE lMMUTABLE MALE
l am quite frankly forty.
nv MIND is normal
And IN the yccrs that hare hrcd
/ have not utterly neglected At.
I an, arife and mother.
Tail SONS ord daughters.
4 husband o~d o. home ore 7.iar.
Yesterday afternoon
1t Das my pleasant duty
To act as chairman Of meeting.
sort Of conference
OF women's cilbs
There ,cos little rcccsso,y business
Before introduced the speaker
This finished and tho iutroductioA made
sat dorm to hear this:
"Bcto7c start upon the line of thought
I 'cish, ah, to present this oftcvuoou,
I cannot 6"t rcmork upon the pleasure
II gives mo to obserre
The dignity, the case, the, oh. efficiency
With Uhich qromeN arc entering upon
their public duties.
lo2u' chairman, ah, this afternoon
connot, oh, 6ut compliment hcy"----
He acas a youn9 thing,
Not lot older than my oldest boy
And hnlf his size.
/ ask you, friends, for am at a loss 10
kNoW,
Hoao do they STAY that Moy?
EDITH B. ALLEN.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
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If- Associated Press exclusively entitled 70
II, f0r republication % all n~@s dkpstch.s
~-.dited (; CT otherwise credited q, this
rsg-r. and s.so the local s,cvs u spc, taneou,
e-.sil published Nc--in.
AL rights o. capitalization q sn ether meter
f-seln rsscrv~d.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06

yeo eaa purchase m.rchandhs esvs,,i..e 10 1HE
tribune with absolute satet-fsv dissstistae.
ton results in any case YHE TRIBUNE suaras.
tees to pay yeur moccy hack sVsa Vcsusst. Ne nd
taps No eulbbllnr we make coed premetsy II
the assertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06

hkable person and her adventures ~. AR.
credible, interesting and aa"iiAs administering
rated. Mr.. Tobenkin, while p.0.ssss p.sss.s..
obviously against the state o.. o. ss g.
does il with broad but unopsru"s,
fsrencss, and hs il not sasss
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
Poker ReQuiems

Poker Requiems
He's dead, but who a tear will shed
For poor old Johnny Childe?
In friendly games he always said
Lets make the dcuces Wild"
DICK.
The hu took Jack. He got the gate
A very glad affair
For he's the bird who'd fill straight
And cry: without pair!"
MAURY.
Bewail the fate of old Lem Tiger,
A man of brilliant d. D. luster.
He played the game from Nome to Niger
And coined our noblest phrase: "I'll
bust 'er." DAVE KING.
Lew Duff is dead; oh, heave sigh
And as d tribute sob and snuff
He Clipped in first; was never shy;
Played close and rarely tried to bluff.
BILL NETCH.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06

Besides this omission, Mr. Cush al
ways runs his suspenders through the
waistband loops Of his underwear. He
wears white socks on all occasions, cx-
planning that the dye is dangerous to
the feet, and he trusts, as W. A. jr. has
hazarded, to the friction of his ankle
length medium hcavies or hcavcs to
keep them up.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06

T. +. VI: On account of their cutting
off circulation. doesn't your Mr.. j.
Throckmorton Cush go without wearing
garters? ". A. Jr
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1922

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rcstase. IN TIE UNITED SrATES:
GUARANTY

Hptsrec a the Po~tor,c- At New York sHone
Cas- Mali Mater.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06
These Exclusive Colierians

These Exclusive Coliegians
Observed BY L. W. M. on tearoom
bulletin board:
COLLEGE WOMAN WISHES TO RENT
ROOM AND SEM1-PRIVATE BATH.
What the investigators of the Wash
ington theater collapse apparently need
is a dead engineer to blame for the
disaster.
MANHATTAN MATHEMATICS
is forty pounds he must make HIS roof
strong enough to support Ave times forty,
or $50 pounds-The Tribune
We wonder if the movie censors
avoid publicity in their work for fear
that some one will suggest establish
ing Board of Censorship Censors.
It's the practice, rather than the
theory, of censorship that irks us,
chiefly. we suppose, because the advo-
Gates Of the movement pay so much
attention to the latter. We have no
idea that, when censorship Of the thea
ter comes to pass, they'll appoint to
the deleting body either actors or dra-
matte critics. Nor will editors have
any place on the Board Of Press Con-
troll. AS for the Column Censor:
He'll probably be q humoMst.
r.. TsT.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06

He'll probably be 4 humorist.
r. T.N
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06

We deplorc pessimistic outlook on
lfe but we're willing to bet that we
shake this cold just in time to catch
spring fever
New-York tribune., 1922-02-06

Women who powder their noses or
add to the natural tints Of cheeks or
hair arc cheats, Commander Evangcinc
Booth announces. At some later date
we hope she takes up in a dcnuncia-
tory fashion the men who insist on con-
cealing from the world the hue and
luxuriance Of their whiskcrs.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-03-20
RIVER COMMISSION
SHOWN NEED FOR
BOULDER DAM
Continued from Page u

night the opinion was expressed by
several of the commissioners that the
necessary pact of states probably can
not be formed until another series of
conferences has been held. Commission
er Carpenter of Colorado, it is believed,
is decidedly unfavorable to develop
ment of the Boulder Canyon project
by the United States reclamation serv-
ice. He is of the opinion that govern
ment work is entirely too slow to afford
Imperial Valley ethe necessary protec-
tion from floods at an early date. 1t
also seems apparent that Commissioners
Carpenter thinks the desired result
might be obtained by spending $780,
100000 to put in a number of smaller
projects higher up in the stream. These,
he insists, would control the flow and
give lower states a bigger supply of
water when the stream would other
wise be at low stage. He admits, how
ever, that public sentiment may make
it necessary to build the dam at
Boulder Canyon. Chairman Hoover is
doing little talking, but is indulging in
a great deal of listening as the trip
progresses.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-03-20
SERIOUS CHARGE
FACES LOCAL
YOUTH

Hugh Shafer, former Ell Centre
youth, returned today under custody of
the law to face Il serious charge of
seduction brought against him by the
father of Il young FL Centre school
girl alleged to have been victimized by
the young man.
Shafer was located in Vancouver,
Wash, by the girls father whose re-
lentless hunt was terminated only when
he had found Shafer and caused his
arrest On the criminal charge.
The first indication that Officers had
here that Shafer was wanted came
when q telegram was received from the
Vancouver sheriff informing Sheriff
Applcstill that he held the prisoner for
him. Invest gation disclosed the charge
against Shafer and a warrant wa
sworn out for his return.
Deputy Sheriff Y. n. Adams went to
Vancouver for the young man. He will
be prosecuted here by the girl s father,
it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-03-20
LOCAL BU1LDINC 6
REPORTED ON
ADVANCE

Local building activity showed dis
tinct "trend upward here today,
figures announced at the building per
init department of the city hall indl-
Gated.
Although there had been but little
building activity throughout the winter,
during the past ten days the figures
compiled by the building inspector have
taken a sudden bound.
A permit issued recently for 10000
alteration contract on the new location
of the First National Bank and a
number of permits for bungalows swell
the totals considerably.
The value of building permits issued
since the first of the year show $l4,slO.
This is slight gain over figures over
II corresponding period of last year.
Dispatches over the United Press
leased wire to the Press told of an
economic revival throughout the
United States. The United Press said:
"Two of the fundamental economic
indicators-home building and en-
plovment-showed today that an econ
omic revival is approaching more rapid
ly each month.
"The department of labor and the
department of commerce reported an
increase in employment and homebuild-
! ing plans of great magnitude. More
than 100000 homes will be built this
year, the commerce department esti
mates from reports from all parts OF
| the country
Imperial Valley press., 1922-03-20

problems which often involve him in
disaster.
Mr. Hoover was listened to attentive
ly throughout his remarks and enthus-
iastically appauded when he finished.
Everyone seemed desirous to impress
upon him that he was in the house of
his friends and that the people of I'm
perial Valley not only value his coun
sci, but trust him.
Will $. Fawcett spoke briefly as an
Imperial Valley farmer and expressed
his hope that nothing would be permit
ted to intcrject itself into the working
out of the Boulder dam project which
might tend to block it or to prevent
its realization in our own day.
Director Davis of the reclamation
service spoke briefly as a friend and
almost a member of the family. He
spoke hopefully and congratulated all
of those interested upon the character
and ability of the men in whose hands
the project has been placed for working
out.
Members of the commission and rep
resentatives from other states discussed
the matter briefly and in compliment
ary terms to the Imperial Valley, fol.
lowing which the banquet adjourned
and the guests hurried to the station
to catch the night train for Los An
geles.