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New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
Training COR Foreign Trade

Ae recent meetings in Philadelphia
ana Washington to discuss the re-
ViVal OF American foreign trade
little was said about the difficulty of
finding men with suitable training
and knowledge to represent Ameri-
can business houses abroad,
Before the war boom most Amer
lean concerns with foreign connec-
tions contented themselves with em-
ploying English or German agents
or with sending out q successful
American salesman to push their
goods Such man as rule knew
ms ilne we'll and was proficient in
Sel'H| IN his own territory in the
9'ts>j s'At<s. In foreign country,
aowtNer' he was generally handi
capped by ignorance of the language
and by lack Of understanding of
the peculiarities of the people with
whom he sought to deal. AS a re-
suit he commonly failed to get much
business, and usually gave an i'm
preston of American methods that
reacted against all Americans who
came after him.
During and Immediately follow
ing the war boom some of the big
trading companies and banks picked
a different type of American to rep
resent them. Unfortunately, how
ever, many of them went to the con-
trary extreme, and chose men with
knowledge of foreign customs and
languages, often having diplomatic
or military connections, but lacking
in practical business sense. They ar
rived in the foreign capital as if they
were merchant princes. They visited
officials. They spoke of
the great benefits that would follow
their installation. They raised the
high hopes of close Amer
lean cooperation.
But most of them, handicapped
by their lack of business knowledge.
found themselves unsupported by
those who had sent them out, with
The result that they left an impress
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
Mr.. Barthelmess on Applause


To the Editor of The Tl4lane
Sir: Neither DR.. Free, 1hc rsychoio-
gist, WAC Claims that Applause in a
theater Is caused ~ weather cordi-
tions, nor Joseph Santley. tNe actor,
who ssy> "the mentality of the
audlenco is tie basis of all applause"
is quite right in his deduS ions. While
Mr.. Santley comes nearest to being
right, at least as | see it. both he
and Or. Free seem to have lost sight
Of tho real cause.-the actor.
Is it not true that all applause Cor
lack of it) is brought about by what
transpires on the stage? This being
true, then why not give credit to the
cause rather than the effect?
And if DR.. Frees argument be cor
rect, that applause is determined by
weather, then what of the poor motion
picture actor, who, once he plays his
part before the camera, can do no
- And yet his pictures are shown
IN all climes, under all weather con-
cltlons, and still remain successful or
otherwise on the strength of the
original acting. Therefore, ] say again,
1T Is the art of the actor that deter
mines applause.
RICHARD BARTHELMESS.
New York, May 20, 1922.
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bOOPS By Percy Hammond


Mrs. Deland avouches in the oneninp
sentence of "The Vehement Flame"
that there is nothing in the world
nobier and lovelier and more absurd
than boys love-making."
As rule of romance this tender
proclamation by Mrs. Deland is a
Judicious decree. The young fellows
of to-day certainly have, in the an
nouncement Of their alterations, the
eager, noble touch of the amateur.
which, to knowing ladies', is loveier
and more eff1cacious than the finished
procedure of elderly dilettantes.
But Mrs. Deland's example of the
beauty and nobility of boys love
making in "The Vehement Flame" is
pervious to dissatisfaction. The boy
is nineteen and his inamorata is
thirty-n He is not good at his
lessons in the prep school, and she is
handsome, dull, impassioned, virtuous
and tee cher of vocal.sm He is no
infant, of course, and she not at all
a cradle vamp. She involuntarilv kid
maps him as an innocent kleptomaniac
might abstract bauble from a TOW
counter, discovering, after she got it
to her apartment, that it was her
Kohinoor. The trouble was that she
married it.
One suspects that Maurice, aged
nineteen, making love to his adult if
not veteran bride, aged thrty-nine, is
no proof of what Mrs Deland calls
loveliness and nobility. An hour after
they had eloped he lay in the blossom
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31

In prison each cell should es = ga
size and aisy The to'ts fsst...'',
should be sanitary A eel! sae"
never be occupied by two ps"''e
Food should be ohundant, paiataoH ~
.utritious. Sae, ness should not y
allowed.
!. afficient outdoor air ai:a eIefsa"
should be insisted upon. Conversss'''
at meals and at other times shoais
permitted with proper limiu.'I'
Visits from near relatives or insinsa
friends should be permitted '"
care should prevent all drugs ana ~
bidden articles from being DfOs'
into the prison.
When criminal is tried tne ~
should be rapid and the sentens' !.
ecuted speedily without appeal W.
it were evident that the defendsas !.
been wrongly sentenced. No apps
mercy or shortening OF sen'enS.
the Governor should be pei"'"
The most important part OF pris0as
ernment resides with the ~,
Therefore, he sh ould be man o. :,
character and known humanny' !.
should be sufficiently salariea' a
should be retained in Office dul'a .
good conduct. No politics snous
ter into prison management. s.
Sentences must never be !.
long. Length of sentences dos'
promote reform Of prisoners "A
Minors should not be mixed WIZ s..
offenders. The ignorant, the msn -,
defective. should be kept apsss n
those who are instructed anu
average mental endowment. -,
Contract labor systems IN p'
should never be tolerated. -
BEVERLEY ROBiNSss
New York, May 81, Ia22 -
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trust category, he is saved from
making a fight on it. True, he has
few other issues save the one which
he urged during the war and which
did little to enhance his political
popularity.
But the baseball trust issue
wouldn't have been a profitable one,
and he at least, perhaps for one of
the few times in his career, will well
come decision by the Supreme
Court.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
The Land of Opportunity

Doubtless the youth of the land
will find high encouragement in the
news that one of the most celebrated
of the motion picture stars came to
this country penniless.
Though genius must have shonc
from his eyes even in those DAYS,
this lad was compelled for a time to
wash dishes and toll in suburban
gardens in order to secure the simple
ration of spaghetti and light wine
necessary to keep his manly body
and his glowing soul together.
But chill penury could not repress
his noble rage. Though the very
elements seemed combined against
his single heart, he still bore on.
Lingering ABOUT Broadway on his
days off, he learned to dance, and so
sodalously did he school his feet that
he soon became the dancing partner
of some of the gifted young women
who shared in the responsibility for
the jazz wave.
With the money he earned as a
dancer ne turned, as the needle to
the pole, to Hollywood, and there in
tWlnkllng became celebrity. And
that is not all. To-day he is a twin
figure in one of Hollywood's most
colorful scandals and is charged with
bigamy.
This is sometimes held to be q
stern, cold city, but W hen one is de-
termlned the gates of opportunity
are never closed to him.
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ing grass at his wife's feet and, look
ing up into her dark eyes, became en-
bodied Joy. Birds and insects were
mating, the sunshine was glinting,
there was warm earth, the slipping
rlpples of the river, locust blossoms
and the exulting, whispered outcries of
natures passion. Suddenly she began
to sing, being music teacher, and
there was very noble quality in the
serene sweetness OF her voice. "Sine
10 me, Star" said he, and she sang:
Tell me how many beaGs there ara
IN a silver chain
OF evening rain
And threading the eye OF a yellow star
So many times
Mrs. Deland's story intends to be
and Is cruel study in jealousy,
proving again that. as Solomon said
the Goals thereof, are Goals of fire
which hath Il most vehement flame"
Eleanor pesters, throughout the narra-
tive, her youthful husband with her
incredible ignorance of feminine wiles
she puts her age and her envy of
youth In an arena and exhibits it to
hlm, She plaques him with marital
though not domestic attentions. and
she demands that he come to bed early
when she is tired and he is not. And
despite the advice of sagacious rela-
tives she cries out to him. Glove mo
because l am old and love you, and
you must not look at any other lady"
Her hoyish husbands casual interest
In virgin flapper inspires within her
suicidal frenzy Though she learns
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
Europe in Main Street" Eve.

Ill Fldlll CLICCl LYCS
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Sinclair Lewis, after an ex-
tended visit, has come back from Europe
with the last word upon that part
Of the world; and his last word is not
very good. He finds Europeans lazy, a
not so recent "fray" providing them
LIBERALIZATION. The Europeans are dis
illusionized, disinterested, Charming
and gracious, but without any pep"
Neither does Mr.. Lewis in his spe-
cializing think much of England. He
has been year there and proudly
boasts that in that time he has learned
rothing of English politics, the eco
nomic future of England, English
music, English shipping, Viscount
Lascelles, the Prime Minister or the
possibilities of prohibition. One thing,
however, has registered, and it is that
in England they drink their cocktails
warm.
l was in England just after the
armistice. I found a people prone,
spent, emaciated. III the Eve years of
warfare for every day of each year
they had kept an uncea3ing vigil.
The beloved was dying. 1t gaust not
c'e The Beloved of its youth went out
without stint to save it; the strength Of
Its years was given without thought
Of giving. Read Mr.. Page: Cali the
old stories from Homer down are out
done by these people."'
Has Mr.. Lewis never been in a house
where the beloved lay dying? Where
every thought and every breath was
concentrated on the holding of it back?
Nor seen after the fear was over
the state of those who fought death;
the exhaustion that took them; the
reaction that came to save after the
strain had passed?
| was in Paris on the day the French
celebrated. l saw people in a dream
before an altar-the altar of their God
who had delivered them. For them
there were no strangers in Paris. They
passed US by as if we were not there.
They were telling their beads, and the
radiance of their vision blotted us out.
Five years for recovery is as five
days for such wreck as that five years
made. Fifty years will not do it. Yet.
Mr.. Lewis, who wrote main Street"
and for that might be regarded as a
person with open eyes, has seen moth
ing but what he says. The war was
fray" the people have no "pep," the
English drink their cocktails warm.
WINIFRED JAMES.
New York, May 2S, 1922.
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What Readers Are Thinking

mon carrier only. and no Pu!lpsan
equipment is mo- a CONNER CAREER. II
Is possible that some officious cna-
cu1tor would orasr negro to leave
pullman car, but he would be com
mntting an illegal act.
for the iaformation of Mr.. Strihl;,,s
We sfems to think ts,at the Sou ecr,,
feop'c are untriendly to the negro. at
Greenville, Miss, on the main street
store, in which Mr. Striblins's book
would be carried and sold, is con-
Quoted by a negro and his wife and
pa'ronized by the white people.
B. j. HIRSHORN.
New York, May 27, 1922.
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that Maurice, in one Of his desveue
moments, has consorted with Lily. lii,
genuous little sister Of the nisht.
who has had by him an offspring 81.
still Is enamored Of her baby-hu.t.at
She will take the helpless progeny c;
his desperation and make Of il Z
worthy and successful citizen. Bu.
fortunately she decides to drowa ls,-
self.
Mrs. Deland's The Vehement FLAME
is an engrossing narrative. It is ta!
we'll, with d minimum OF stereotyp.:
landscape and other inpedimenta q.
fiction. But, ore surmises "Th
Vehement Flame would be more pent
trating if it had explained why bc!
OF nineteen married spinster 0.
thirty nine, and why she married him
rather than what happened to ther
after they did so. All Of US knes
the probable result Of such mstr.
mony. What we are curious about in
these peculiar days and we ask to
have explained is why Eleanof at
thirty-nine was so mad about Atsriss
at nineteen.
Maurice is expllcable, since Elssss'
had figure and, though adult, eoeld
sing, and she mad rosy under lip Bu'
if Mrs. Deland had sent them tor
fortnight u the Riviera, where, Il y
said, newly-weds always 60, be m'sf'
not have tired Of her.
An expert book, 'The Vehement
Flame" giving an unusual TIT 70
conventional allegory. telling . so4
rtNrx- IN Mo -,eaD time
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More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
A New Terror

~ lHcW lcTTOt
They're going to found a college
OF moving picture art,
That actors may have knowledge
AS we'll as soul and heart.
They're going to lift the drammer,
And elevate the screen,
And introduce good grammar
In every thrilling scene.
In days to come the villain
Will not be made to say:
81 GOTTA DO SOME KILLIN'
BEFORE HITS THE HAY"
But murmur most politely
81 AM NOT SATISFIED
TILL I'VE COM NIT T Cd
NIGHTLY
AT LEAST ONE HOMICIDE"
The patient movie mother
will not in anguish sigh:
81 CAN NOT WALK NO
FUTHER;
I WISH THAT COULD DIE"
But: "LJFE IS SO FATIGUING;
MY NERVOUS FORCE is
SPENT;
TO DIE WOULD BE INTRIGU-
ING
IVIEW 1T WITH CONTENT"
The rising generation
To movies now may haste,
Nor suffer violation
Of educated taste.
But we are old and hardened,
And when things get that way
We trust that We'll be pardoned
If we Just stay away.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
Germany Yields

Germany has yielded in full, or
nearly in full, to the Reparation
Commissions ultimatum of March
21. The Reich promises to submit its
fiscal operations to the commissions s
inspection, to stop the wild currency
imitation which has brought on a
fictitious appearance of national
bankruptcy, to curtail the floating
debt, to abolish subsidies and
bonuses and to balance the budget
These measures are necessary if
Germany is to face honestly the
problem Of meeting her war obliga-
tions to the Allies.
The Germans have not yielded
cheerfully or, perhaps, with any real
conviction of the moral expediency
of payment. They have been CO.
creed by circumstances-more par
tlcularly by their own mistakes.
Two months ago it seemed possible
for them to defy the commission and
to bring about breach in the Allied
concert through their default. At
that time Berlin may have argued
that the Allies would never be able
to agree on punitive measures--that
if France undertook to seize the
Ruhr, acting for herself, she would
at once part company definitely with
Great britain and Italy.
Whetl,r Berlin guessed right or
wrong In this matter will never be
known. rathenau's maladroit diplo-
macy at Genoa prevented the test
When he made public the treaty of
alliance 3hich he had negotiated
with ths Soviet government he in
evitabls recemented Allied harmony.
If Germany and Russia were to
aHal tnge the rest of Europe by an
'Vf.lsive and defensive alliance the
* stern powers and the Little En-
7 t;te could no longer think of allow
l. , their front to be broken by Ger
s>'n maneuvering on reparations.
Whether Lloyd George knew of
the Berlin Moscow compact or not, it's
disclosure to the world shattered all
hope of a clash inside the Repara-
ton Commission or inside the Allied
Council which would relieve Ger
many Of her reparation obligations
or enable her to compel Poincare to
act single-handed, and thus. perhaps,
isolate France.
Moreover, Germany's appeal for
foreign loan has compelled her to re-
study her situation, not from the
point of view of what she can obtain
through political wrangling, but
from the point of view of what her
present credit and economic STANDING
entitle her to. The bankers to whom
she applied gave her a rude lesson.
her future, they insisted, depended
not on political trickery but on finan-
clai integrity and good faith. The
political bankruptcy which the Reich
has been trying to use for trading
purposes did not appeal to the f:nan-
clers. NO reconstruction, no loan.
was their verdict.
Germany therefore goes to Paris
IN a Canossa mood 1t is a mood
which represents cunning acquies
cence, at the least. 1t will mean
much for European appeasement If
1t can be translated later into genu-
Inc acceptance If real les and q de.
Termination & face \ Il, VT. GOOD
faith.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
The T0gver
THE OUTLAW
TIE RIDES my feeble body forth

THE OUTLAW
TIE RIDES my feeble body forth
Ill With hard-held bride rein.
The spade bit white with dripping
froth.
The rowels scarlet stain;
The reeking, lathered saddle cloth
Are guerdons of my pain.
Along the placid, level road
He will not deign to go.
He mocks the mounts that bear
their load
With careful gait and slow,
And, shouting, scores me with the
To race the winds that blow
Although l falter in my stride
He puts me to the bars.
Beyond the fence are uplands wide,
And we shall laugh at scars
Who through the fields Of midnight
ride
And race the shooting stars.
My aching withers have been wrung;
My fanks are caked with clay.
Yet we have heard the dawn song
sung;
Have chased the moon away;
Have known the sting of spray up
Fromout the Milky Way.
The cautious riders amble home,
Nor fear the Masters ire.
Their steeds are not besmeared with
loan,
Nor scored by rasping briar.
My hoofs have drunamed on heavens
And dared Aurora's fire.
He knows the prize will not be won
BY him who travels fast,
Yet all things, when the race is
done,
Will fade to dust at last.
And we have ridden down the sun
And galloped with the blast.
"Ame'1ca," Lord Derby means, "seems
more fond of 0iving aduice than of
taking responsibility"
It's beginning to look as if the State
Department 1oould haze to draft note
TO the European powers humbly apolo-
giSing for starting the late Uar.
The Ward case is rapidly achieving
normalcy. They've found a mysterious
woman.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
No Pullman Color Line
To the Editor Of Tho Tr;huro

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In book called "Birthright."
by T, s. Stribling, the first lines of
Chapter | contain the following: cat
Cairo, ILL.,, the Pullman conductor or
deied Peter Siner to leave the Pull
man car in which he had been riding
to go forward to the Jim Grow coach.'"
The Jim Crow law" applies to COM
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31

The Governor does the Mayor a
wrong when he accuses him Of play
ing politics. His Honor makes ter
rifcally hard work of it.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
Nothing Above the Ears

Carpenter is going to fight Demp-
sey again, which indicates that there
is very little in the talk of his high
intelligence.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
MranER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES.

Iat Associated Press Is exclusively entitled 10
Tire for republication OF ali dispatches
eretite5 10 u Otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local OF spontaneous origin
pJb.shed hcretn.
AL rshH Of republication a ali Other matter
ksre.n aso rtscrYed
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Immune

In this country we are apparent
ly willing to try anything once ex-
cept the criminals.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31

The 1nterborough has added mil
lion seats daily on its trains. But it
hasn't taken out any Of the straps.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
An Absorbing Pursuit

(Fron The Boston Herold)
If Ireland could only get tariff
bill to argue, her other troubles might
vanish of themselves.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
His Color Scheme

The Rcd is always yellow under
reath.
Copyright by James J. Montague.)
New-York tribune., 1922-05-31
Look Before You Squeeze

After trying for fifteen minutes thi.
morning to get lather uvder my
brush I found l was using RoSt.'s Su.
preme Facial Improvement Cream, ano
later I heard my wife quietly cussing
to herself, with Bucks Superior Quick
Shaving Cream all over her toothbrush
Why, she gave the baby Jinks's Hair
Emulsion for castor oil the other night
It's too much for me- c.. F. W.
Ne Wonder 1ohether any genius umono
commercial chemists has yet thouoht oil
"''r'ng hair 'onic With sharing soap .and
thus increoe'ng solos ard coming a ste1
nearer tho achievement of perpet,ln!
notion
There's one comfort in working on
holiday: We won't feel so rotten
this morning when we come back to
work
We don't kmow whether to be more
amazed at the prowess of the mute 1yho
began talking in an airplane or at the
auditory nerves of the companion 1yho
says he heard him.
s T r A W
Time was when Spring her advent mild
Proclaimed in tender spray and
bloom;
In violet and crocus smiled;
With balmy breath reft Winters
gloom.
But now, IN streets of senseless stone,
BY walls Of soulless brick beset,
Her hands are tied. One sign alone
Proclaims her glad return-the Hat
Like mushrooms, over night they spring
Fromout the clod of Winter black
The sunny, smiling straws! They sing
The joyous reign of Youth come
back.
Fresh in their pure and spotless youth
They come; the natty, tff-brimmed
straw;
The Bangkok, scion of the South;
The plutocratic Panama.
Their narrow bands symbolic seem
Of few remaining dismal days.
Their little bows, poised uuiyerinp
Like butterflies in Summers praise.
What if to manly cheeks fame
OF conscious blush their weird
shapes bring?
Perish the thought! We Isl ara Ssraa
To go the limit In the <nrine,
4. s<, H.
In justice to the temporary editor
OF The Tower and in response to the
customers who continue to send him
directions for shining these leather
and buck pinto shoes, it is on]v fair
70 announce that he hasn't any, doesn't
want any and isn't going to buv anv
until he reaches that stage of decrepi-
tude where he'll purchase one of these
straw hats that look as if thew had
been made of Nabisco crackers.
He Also Subscribes for a "Hom. N..n
Sir: The fellow who reads the ma
t'onai weather reports and the doinqs
OF Congress also reads patent medicine
testimonials, drug store almanacs and
tne booklets in tooth paste containers
HIS Idea of good time is to 20 win
dow shopping. BILL, NETcu
germany Is rapidly assimilating demo-
cratic ideals. One member Of thu
Fe'ghstog has threatened to 1vauon mn.
other IN the joa0.
The almost civil tone of the lettor
announcing our rent for next vear
convlnces us that the HOUSING sbor+
age is practically over.
lhe--to coin a phrase-fnny deni-
zens that the papers say swan ont ~
tne broken water main onto Broadway
Monday after noon were, no Doubt
o'''er hsn. F. F. v.
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@ u A r A N ~

Entered ., the Postoffes ~ New York Second
ClaAs Mai Matter
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You can purchase msrchandiss advertised In THE
rRIeuhE with absolute safety--fer II dissatistac.
tAa resuits In any Gaze fhE TRIBUNE suaran
sses 70 pay yevr money back upon rsuusst. Ne red
ne>- Ne sulehiln3. w retune promptly II the
a6 .aytiser ecSs not
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lhe--'o coin a phrase-fnny deni-
zens that the papers say swan out Of
the broken water main onto Broadwav
Monday after noon were, no doubt
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Owned s5 N<~ York Tribune Inc. 4 New York
Cooperation Published daily. Ogden Reid Fresi.
tent: O. werner Rogers Vice President: Helen
kcgv-s Reid. secrs,sr-. H. f. Ma1assd. Trenurer
AddfVss. Tribune Building ist Nassau street. New
Yesk Telephone. Beekman 3tae.
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The almost civil tone of the lettcr
announcing our rent for next year
convinces US that the housing sbort.
age is practically over.
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We don't knoW Whether to be mora
amazed at the proWess of the mute 1yho
began talking in an airplane or at the
auditory nerves of the companion 1yho
says ho heard him.