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New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
Another Who Remembers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: was much interested in Frederick
A. Hubbard's "Gone Where the Wood
bine Twineth." I, too, lived in Jim
Fisk's day, and although less than
eight years old when the Duke Alexis
parade marched up Broadway, / we'll
remember the great applause for Fisk
as he passed 470. The Connecticut
militia were in that parade, and to me,
a New Haven boy, the I'd Connecti-
cut was pointed out.
My memory Of Fisk's appearance
was as leader of "Jim Fisk's Band"
suppose as colonel of the 9th he
became the patron rather than actual
leader Of the band. Those days are
gone and now there are no such men
as Fisk, Berry Wall, Travers, Russell
Sage. / imagine even Chauncey
Depew could pass down the Avenue
from Fifty-ninth to Forty-second
Street almost without recognition. New
York is big, but not nearly so inter-
esting as thirty or forty years ago.
New York, Aug. /, 1922. E.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
Rural America
That the American stock

That the American stock, if such
a term may be applied to the native
whites born of native parents, num-
bers only little more than half the
population of the country is gen.
orally known. In 1920 it amounted
to 55.3 per cent of the total popula-
ton, as compared with 53.8 per cent
in 1910,
But it is less we'll known that the
percentage of the old American stock
is much higher in the rural than in
the urban districts. The Census Bu-
reau classes as urban" all COM
munities having more than $500 in
habitants. The rest of the country
is known as rural" Although this
classification does not permit sep
aration Of the small towns and the
cities, it helps to define the exact
nature of the rural population, which
includes nearly 48 per cent of the
people in the country. Of the rural
group 65.9 per cent are native born
Of native parents and 20 per, cent are
native born of foreign or mixed par
ents, or foreign born. Of the total
urban population, on the other hand,
only 45.2 per cent are native born of
native parents and 48 per cent are
native born of foreign or mixed par
ents, or foreign born.
While the urban" qualification is
unsatisfactory, because unclear, it
shows that the later arrivals do not
take kindly to the soil. Of the for
eign born nearly 80 per cent are clas-
sified as urban. Of these the greater
portion are in the big cities and in
dustrial centers.
The influence of this distribution
upon the political and social COM
plexity of the country is Only too
often ignored. New Workers gem
orally realize, forsexampie, that their
city contains an enormous foreign
population. But they fail to see that
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
American Women Tagging

Women abroad are making great
er political progress than women in
the United States, is the opinion of
Miss Anne Martin, who has just re-
turned from trip through Eng
land, Germany and Italy. Being the
first woman to run for seat in the
Senate, Miss Martin had a peculiar
interest in the political activities of
the women of the Old World.
In England it seems that women
have formed an election committee
taking in all kinds of organizations
with the avowed purpose Of sending
no less than three hundred women
to the House of Commons. In Ger
many there are already thirty-seven
women in the Reichstag. In Italy,
Miss Martin says, the woman move
ment is barely stirring.
American women are much less
militant with their suffrage privi-
leges than English and German
women. Fhey are spoiled by their
menfolk, Miss Martin thinks. They
are treated SO we'll and .hattered so
much that they are lulled into COM
placency. Inequalities here are not
so fragrant that they sting women
into group action. Nevertheless she
is probably right in her feeling that
such inequalities as there are cannot
be cured by the mere passage Of
laws if they are interpreted by men
alone. Only by actually taking part
in the making and interpreting of
laws can the equality aimed at be
attained.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
The Highway Hen

In Winsted, Conn, where nature
stages new sideshow' every day,
The Tribune's special correspondent
halls a seven-weeks-old chick as the
youngest egg layer in the universe.
This Isolated prodigy may be ac-
cepted with amazement, but let US
note general change in behavior,
related to the profound problem
"Why does a chicken cross the.
road?' that seems to indicate that
the clucking clan is growing
cleverer.
Hens are no longer the bane of
the motorist. They frequent the
highways as much as ever, but now
they take to the ditch on their own
side of the road with commendable
dispatch. They hardly wait to be
honked to cover. Where formerly a
driver needed to be skillful to avoid
poultrycide, to-day he must use
strategy inspired by artful malice
if he should attempt 30 ,un down
a feathered victim. suc..., at all
events, is the observation of nanv
automobilists on the routes most
travelled. And where the field of
operations is narrow, as on Cape
Cod, the. gallinaceous dodgers are
peculiarly agile.
Is it the survival Of the fittest?
Are the fleet and circumspect
estrays from the barnyard the de-
scendants of combed forebears that
were motor shy, and SO lived to
crow and cackle another day while
the less wary persisted? What have
the Darwinians to say of that?
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04

which this biological theory denounca
as useless and impossible of result
If there are 9o,Ooo,ooo people in
America who have no sense, that is in
some sort an indictment of govern
ment, but it would be open to graysr
indictment if it abandoned the attemp.
to put sense in them in favor Of the
attempt to preserve the sense Of the
100000 and with it their exclusigs
right to live, rule and possess the
earth. If there is a process clearly
discernible in civilization, it is tha.
classes unduly favored by govern
ment deteriorate. They do not star
fit, as the history of every privileged
order has shown. They go down
and the class that this authority calls
unfit comes up. They do not come up
through the operation Of biological
laws. either, but by the operation Of
laws directed to the spread OF knovi.
edge, the betterment of living cond-
tions and the Improvement of soeisl
relationships. This is the business d
government. 1t is business it does
not always attend to, or attend to in.
telligentiy and persistently.. 1t gets
off on other things. But it gets back
to it every once in a while, and when
it does we think we note some results
No doubt the biologists and scientists
in every branch can help, toe. but
probably not as political Legislators
Their business is TO teach and help
knowledge along so that the so,ooo,aOe
or whatever their number is. can pro
dnee more and better political legs
lators. Government must save 90
s0,o00,000 first, and then it will %
time enough to consider the pllsa'
Of the 100000.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James ]. Montague
No, Thank You

The locust is delicious,
The scientist observes;
His flesh is most nutritious
And builds both bones and
nerves.
You simply cannot beat them
For laying luscious eggs
Folks really ought to eat them
Because they are such plaques.
The rattlesnake and lizard,
Within the course of time,
Some scientific wizard e..
Will find to be sublime.
Wen get no peace or quiet
Unless we eat the snakes
And supplement our diet
On juicy lizard steaks.
They also may discover
That wasps and ants and flies
Are quite as good as plover
When baked in faky pies.
All insects in creation
And all the reptile brood,
With proper mastication,
May prove good, wholesome
food. "
But we get strangely soured
And go quite off our head
On finding we've devoured
An ant with pie or bread.
We've built our blood and sinew
On vegetables and meat,
And thus we shall continue
While they hold out to eat.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
(From The Kansas City STAR

it ought to be concerned in saving the
fit, who alone can redeem and preserve
the race If government should switch
to the right track it would let the
s0,o00,o0o alone to destroy themselves
as quickly as possible and function
solely for the benefit of the 4,ooo,0 900.
Biologists would know the right kind
Of legislation to provide in that case.
It seems to US that this is a theory
neither new nor untried. We do not
know that government ever was turned
over to the biologists indeed, but the
theory that government should concern
itself only with the fit, or those sup
posed to be fit, has had a pretty good
test and is generally conceded to have
failed. So far as history discloses, the
governments that have tried to leaven
the masses rather than to preserve the
classes. have been the best civilization
builders. The defects in the civilsza-
tion they have helped to build are ap-
parent enough, but, grave and numerous
as they are, they fall far short of those
evils that accompanied the contrary
principle. Even the fit, we imagine, if
there could be any agreement on who
they are, would be found to have
sprung from what this authority calls
the unfit. Certainly there have been
no wide biological experiments made
among the fit in order to preserve
them, and If they still exist at all as
100000, or any other number, it is
apparent their stock must have been
replenished from the mass. This seems
to knock out the theory that the unfit
cannot be made fit, and If they have
been we must attribute part of the
process at least to the spread by gov
ernmental agencies of that knowledge
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
A Campaign Issue

However admirable may be the
new. building code to be drafted by
commission appointed by the State
Industrial Commissioner, it must be
approved by the Legislature before
1t can become effective.
Members of the Legislature view
with distrust bills which are SUBJ
mitted to them by civic bodies or
commissions, even though they may
be perfectly good bills.
They hold the view that their pre-
negatives are infringed upon if they
take ready-made legislation as it
comes. They have an aversion to
being called rubber stamps" For
this reason many excellent measures
prepared by people who know best
how they ought to be drawn fail of
passage or are so amended as to
be wholly devitalized..
The need of a new building code
is so great and the Importance Of
well drawn one is so extreme that
all citizens familiar with building
operations and abuses ought to do
their best to make a campaign issue
of the matter.
Legislators will need to be edu-
Gated in the value to the public
welfare of building laws that will
tend to eliminate graft and prevent
profiteering and ultimately bring
rents to their proper level.
Doubtless great care will be ex-
ercised by the commission in draw
ing the code, but it must be borne
in mind that the Legislature has the
deciding voice.
The Senate and Assembly of
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
Safety by the Golden Rule

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial "Why Not a
Safety Year," is most timely. Why not
make it safety year every year? By
cutting out selfishness, greed and
speed and by universally applying the
Golden Rule the safety of pedestrians
and vehicular travellers may be rem
dered quite secure.
Take one theme at time. Exploit
the dangers and the possible remedies
and preventives. Grind the subject to
a pulp by constant, not intermittent,
hammering home of the truth. Nag, If
you like.s the offenders into the Golden
Rule circle.
Then discuss another of the vicious
practices that break down the safety
barriers. Treat the violators, in phrase
and picture, to repeated coats Of the
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
> Biology and Government

Another trouble with civilization Is,
so we understand from Albert Edward
Wiggam, scientific authority, that it
makes the mistake of ;ntrusting legis-
iation to statesmen instead of to biolo-
gists. At least, that is the conclusion
that must be drawn from his conten-
tion that government, as it now oper-
ates in the world. is not concerning
itself with the really vital things.
Those vital things, he has recently
told a Philadelphia audience, are the
processes of evolution by which, in time
Che does not say how long), the weak
and vicious of the human race will be
eliminated 1t ought, therefore, to be
the business of government to hasten
these processes rather than to retard
them by trying to make the weak and
vicious strong and virtuous. We gather
that it is his opinion, then, that if we
were to elect only biologists to Con-
gress we would get enlightened legisla-
lation-that is, not political legislation,
but scientific. "The danger in the United
States," he says, ais not from the co.
100000 who have no sense, but from
the 100000 who have. Artificial selec-
ton has replaced natural selection,
and as a result the 100000 are de-
creasing while the 9O,OoO,o00 are in
creasing."
Government is, then, on the wrong
track. 1t is endeavoring by artificial
processes, by which this authority
means-and cites-laws for the encour-
agement Of hygiene and sanitation,
even for the spread and application of
medical knowledge, to redeem and
make good citizens Of the unfit, when
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
You're Breaking Our Heart

He is a high private in the rear
ranks of the Grand Army of Column
Contribs. For time he landed regu-
larly in the column of thu paper that
is your vacation companion.
He has some ardent admirers and
each week they look for his bit.
Sunday he sent in his usual weekly
contribution. 1t must have lacked the
W. k. punch, for it did not land.
Then the admirers, mentioned above,
started to ask: "How Gomez Was he
falling down? He'd better make it
snappy if he expected to land this
week." etc.
He tried to be guided accordingly
but his powers of imagination cease /
to function. He tried and tried, but
in vain. Then an inspiration came. 1t
was typed and sent in--and you have
just finished reading it.
BILL NETCH.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
Suicides Among Doctors

The motive factors of suicide have
often been listed. Dependency
leads, followed by domestic un-
happiness, i'll health, insanity, dis
appointed love, business losses.
These Affections are generally dis
tributed. But tabling the figures by
occupations reveals that year by
year physicians are most Of all
given to self-destruction.
A medical journal explains the
melancholy fact by the nature Of
the doctors calling; it is said that
the occupational strain is greater
IN the medical profession than in
any other. The layman often mar
seis that those who see so much
misery are to all appearances most
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04

The essence of the Administration s
position is that, the railroads and
the shopmen both having agreed to
abide by the decisions of the Labor
Board and the shopmen having
agreed to accept the ordered cut in
wages, there is not sufficient moral
or practical substance in the SEN
iority issue to justify prolongation
of the strike.
With respect to morals, the Ad-
ministration's spokesman contend
that the pension right of the striking
shopmen is as good as the right of
newcomers to special privileges in
the shops; with respect to practi-
calities, that with work behindhand
the roads will need both the new and
old hands until natural retirements
make permanent room for both
classes Of workers; and finally, de-
spite the general impression to the
contrary, that the seniority rules,
aside from pensions, are of small
consequence, the privileges at stake
not being comparable to those which
exist in other industries.
II an exaggerated Importance has
been given to the seniority issue by
the railroad executives and they are
not justified in refusing settlement
on account Of it, the converse fol-
1ows-namely, that neither strikers
nor Administrator is warranted in
sticking stiffly for an exact restora-
tion Of the status quo Of July 1.
The White House does not seem to
quarrel with this conclusion. Pro-
vided obedience to the Labor Board
. is secured, it indicates its main OBJ
ject has been attained. So, properly
enough, 1t gives the railroads a
chance to demonstrate by actual ex-
pertinent whether they ecan induce
their former employees to return as
new men. Reports come of a break
down in the solidarity Of the striking
shopmen. Only a short time is re-
quired to find out whether this is
true or not.
The primary business of the Ad-
ministration is to put the public in
terest first. Whether the railways
or the shopmen win on the issue now
drawn is secondary. The supreme
public interest is that transportation
shall not be seriously interrupted.
Exactly how it is to be kept open is
important, but is not immediately
vital.
But loophole toward possible
compromise is open. What would be
the attitude of the warning parties
toward a proposal that the Labor
Board, which has pIenary control
over seniority questions even as it
has over wage questions, should de-
eide what rules should be applied?
AS to seizure and operation-this
should obviously be the last thing
considered. Too long have the rail-
roads been kicked about, to the in
!. jury of the public and the practical
&onfiscation of honest investment.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04

:
the tendency is toward making New
York non-American. They do not
appreciate the growing differences
between the old-fashioned ideas and
ideals of the native rural regions
and the new impulses in the great
centers Of the newcomers.
If the present tendencies continue
the rural regions will become the
guardians of the America of days
gone by. That the great urban CEN
ters would gradually become more
and more alien once seemed GER
tainty, but the new immigration law
will soon begin to show it's effects.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
SLUMBER SONG

(For Helen)
Sleep, baby, sleep! The white clouds
are thy sheep
That go before the gentle shepherd
breeze.
They feed in fields of blue
On some celestial dew
Or lie beneath the shining silver trees.
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
Rest, birding, rest! My grading arms
the nest
That shields thee from the waiting
wings of wrong
While through the twilight hush
The holy hermit-thrush
Makes prayer and praise for thee, as
evensong.
Rest, my doveling, rest!
Dream, dearest, dream! The stars are
all agleam,
Like cressets at thy slumber shallop's
PROV.
0 Mary, mother sweet,
Guard thou, at head and feet,
And lay thy blessing on her breast and
brow.
Dream, my darling, dream
PERLEY A. CHILD.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
Locking Back on Japan
Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The very interesting article by
Adachi Kinnosuke in last Sunday IS
Tribune induced the following thoughts: !:
Many old fellows, like the writer, in
his ninety-second year, must recall
with smiles and chagrin their vague
ideas regarding the Japanese, say sew
enty years ago. We recognized their
art, what little we knew Of it, but not
their mentality, and as to civilization!
Of course our ignorance was due to
Japan's system of exclusion and isola-
tion. Looking back-it is to laugh.
New York, Aug 2, 1922. X.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
Public Links Shortcomings

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: All golfers must pay $40 sna
year for the license to play golf "a
public links. About 100000 is faus
collected from the people for use y
their own parks. Yet, apparently, i :
not used on the links--they are ~ ~
usual unkept and unkempt conalti0A
The greens are scarcely ever rolea !,
kept smooth or cut closely; g0sS
putting is impossible. No police =
on hand to drive off hoodlums ana slh'A
boys who steal balls.
Thousands want more Inks ~
there is room for eighteen holes on -
west side of the pond at Van wv
landt and for nine holes toward Mash0ls
station. The present links are o,s
crowded. In Chicago and other cN'ss
citizens pay nothing except for ioens.s
but have first class courses. New "a
charges $40 for license to play ~
$40 for lockers besides.
/ think that we must go to Ai0s-s
and get law for the public llnks' z
propriating the license money % 's'
of the links, first class protess'o1ss.. =
in charge and building new iinks.
politicians will do nothing to help 8
Such ''pro" in charge will pus s. $,
beginners on special nine-hoie coss. ..
while they learn the game. You mlss y
as we'll let little boys and girls p's.
on your billiard table and spoil y :. !.
TO let the beginners spoil the dalrNs's
and greens. It's shame. CITIZEN
New York, Aug. 3, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04

1928 will have no more impor-
tant business before it than the
enactment Of better building laws
Care should be taken before sup
port is pledged to any candidate to
see that he understands this sub
ject and is willing to vote in the
interest Of the citizens instead Of
in the interests of grafters and
profiteers.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
What Readers Are THINKING

blacklist printers INK. Can them what
they are--reapers.
Invite remedial suggestions from
your readers on each phase of this
vital subject as it is being treated.
Give the greatest possible publicity to
each offending class and to the
remedies. l believe wide discussion
Of ''The Golden Rule Is Safety" will
be fruitful. H. G. KING.
New York, July 81, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
The Railroad Deadlock

To the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: have been reader of The
Tribune for some time, but l was much
surprised, at and displeased with the
editorial in this mornings issue rela-
tive to the railroad strike.
I consider (and others with whom I
have conversed have expressed the
same views) that the action of the rail-
way executives was an exhibition of the
good old-fashioned American backbone,
which has been SO wofully lacking in
recent years.
| have no reason to favor the rail-
ways, but I think they are absolutely
correct in the position they take re-
garding seniority. When men deliber-
ately ignore the rulings of a national
body, such as the Labor Board, and
exercise the privilege of giving up
their positions as a consequence, their
designations should be considered final,
and any reinstatement should be
made on the basis Of new applicants.
T. MILTON TAYLOR.
New York, Aug. 8, 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
The Towev
HOMEsICKNEss

llOM EJOO
nUT of the roar Of the street, the
voices of bells came Ginning
Like naiads, born from the foam
of sullen and thunderous sea;
Weaving a mystical spell with their
vague, inarticulate rhyming,
Melting the walls of the town by
the tide of their melody.
Over mist-covered field, their
echoes came, clink-clang- cling
ing;
Out Of the darkening sky there
blossomed the first faint stars;
The sun had died in the west; in
a maple robin was singing
AS the cows came up through the
dusk to low at the pasture bars.
They snuffed, and their breath was
sweet with fragrance Of thyme
and clover;
Their bells rang soft and faint in
the hush of the coming night;
A whippoorwill called from the hill
that the work of the day was
over,
And down b. the pasture brook
the glowworm kindled his
light.
Out Of the roar Of the town, the
chime Of the bells came plead
ing:
"Come home. 1t is milking time
in the land Of an unmarried
sky"
1t was only junkman's cart with
frowzy driver unheeding
His chorus Of magical bells with
their passionate, wistful cry.
Apparently the only theory not ad-
vanced thus far is that the arsenic
was put in the poisoned pies to keep
the flies off them.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04

We have mean suspicion that the
Instructor in the above cited records
acho shouts in voice filed with vin, and
pigor, "Lock fingers above head! Readyl
One, taoo, three, fourw 1Vas actually sit
ting in an easy chair aOhen the records
we're made.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04

Somehow, thinking of the woes that
beset other people doesn't cheer us up
bit at present. The owner of the
late singing phonograph across the air.
shaft has bought set of these daily
dozen, early morning exercise records.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
PLEASE PASS THE ECTOPLASM
(From The Trtbuuej

{, In this connection Mr.. Banton declared
that 1t might be difficult to establish legally
the fact that those who died did actually
dine In the restaurant, and therefore, he said,
he wished that all those who ate there Mon
day would communicate with him, as they
might be helpful on this point.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-04
Times Have Changed

In Europe nowadays a Stacker is. a
statesman who doesn't want to go to
a peace conference.
Copyright by James j. Montague)