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New-York tribune., 1922-03-31
Ste. Anne de BeauDre

In the early days of the French
settlement, so the story runs, a
ooatload of Breton sailors found
themselves in sore danger in the
broad reaches of the St. Lawrence.
A storm tossed their open boat and
they could see no land. In their
distress they piously prayed to Ste.
Anne OF the Bowsprit, the patron
saint of sailors, vowing to erect
chapel to her if she brought then,
to shore. Her intercession proved
avalllng; their frail vessel grounded
where now is the village of Ste
Anne de Beaupre, and they dill
gently raised the rude edifice whose
successor was the great church
whose loss by fire is now bewai]ed
and established the most famous
shrine of America.
Inc first recorded miracle is as
crlbed to the year 1868, when tradi-
ton has 1t that Louis Guimont was
healed. In 1870, at the request Of
the first Bishop of Quebec, relic
OF Ste. Anne came from France and
the wonders increased For two and
one-half centuries steady process
SION has worn the footways to the
shrine and added to the huge store
OF crutcheS, amid which the con-
migration started because of defec-
tive electrical insulation. The priests
attached to the basilica at first
marched about the veneratcd IMAGE
OF the saint, but when no sign of p
quenchlng miracle came devoted
themselves to saving the sacred
relics, figures and pictures and to
combating the fl ames in a mundane
fashion. Medievalism and modern
ism thus impressively faced each
other. But faith is not DISCOURAGED.
1t did not please the good saint to
protect her house.
The destroyed cathedral was
erected in 1876 from offerings
which came from the Catholics of
all Canada, We may be sure its
successor VIII quickly be built and
that in splendor it will exceed that
which is gone. The American
Lourdes, as it is called, is too firmly
rooted IN popular faith to suffer
from neglect. The stream OF pil-
grlms afoot, on horseback or in car
rlages or by the more rapid railway
Is pouring in while the ruins are
warm, seeking help for their bodies
or their souls. And soon will appear
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31
We Beg to Differ!
The Law, Though Flouted

The Law, Though Flouted
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t required years for the South
to realize the fact that African slavery
was abolished for all time in the
United States of America To be sure.
there were violations, but these became
fewer and fewer in the proportion that
Shareholders understood that the Thir-
teenth Amendment had come to stay.
Seeing that the human mind fights
TOR Its appetites as ferociously as it
lights for its very existence, it NAV re.
qulre longer and harder battle to
convince the liquor interests that their
more widespread form of slavery has
been abolished for all time from our
fair land. There may be violations.
but these are certain to become fewer
and fewer in the proportion that liouor
understands that the Eighteenth
Amendment has come to stay.
During this period of compulsion, out
OF respect for the minority that
considers its appetltes more than j,
does the Federal Constitution, should
Inc Tribune even hint at modifying or
repeating the enforcing law? Ones
right to get drunk should have less
consideration than the upright. self
denying citlzenry of this favored ma
ton.
II drinkers are unwilling to subor-
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Don't Fill the Tin Cup

Hiring beggars. cripples preferred,
at So a day brings net profit Of
$500 a week to man who was
brought before Magistrate Folwell.
How many such vultures are ex-
plotting human misery in this city?
Do not give aims to street beg
gars. 1t is hard, if you have decent
instincts, to turn cold shoulder to
q derelict, perhaps horribly dis
figured, who asks for a dole. You
feel that common humanity owes
him sustenance. 1t does. But not
through public begging. Charity in
New York is well organized. Not
one Of the sidewalk mendicants
need starve or go in want of
creature comforts who will apply to
the Charity Organization Society or
other established agencies of relief.
To accept such aid is not degrading.
A man in rags and Of piteous
aspect, holding out his tin cup at
subway entrance, is taken to the
pclice court. He has bankbooks
showing $4,000 deposits. This beg
gar operates on the upper West
Side lie has his counterparts in
every nook and corner of the town.
The only way to stop the begging
industry is for the people to quit
giving, except through the recog-
nized organizations of charity. There
is no call to provide luxuries for
parasites who hire cripples to beg
for them at SO day.
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men who are now in the full meridian
of their glory haste toward the setting
sun. Ere long others in the legislativ.
chambers via be welding the tooth
picks and flooding the unwsry cuspi.
doris emblematic Of American states.
manship. Something tells me that We
shall never be let off to play golf on
Medill Mccormick birthday or have
q baseball double-header in honor Of
Whoozis of Montana. We shall not
possibly ever be asked to go yachting
on "Newberry Day" or to wear but
ton or fly flag for Willis or Harry
c New. All Of them will remain
sleeping, sleeping, beneath the hills
as Mr. Masters said in his Spoon Rivss
Anthology" unless they are dug up by
novelist. f.,
Mr.. Masters's resurrection Of Stephen
a. Douglas IS a capable performance Ia
historical fiction. You get from it =
fine picture of the sprawling, mush.
room. ugly, illiterate early Illinois
from which Douglas and Lincoln grew
with just enough romantic adventure
and just enough honest study Of its in
habitants. Mr.. Masters is one Of those
steady fellows who do not become hys-
terical about their characters. do
gives you Douglas little and Douglas
big in a figure which is both an assay
and an approximation. Of course, you
will lift your eyebrows over the hst''iou'
biographer's mulatto half-sister, who ~
comes a noted prima donna, and lev
other bizarre developments. But every
thing is squared in the scene al eas
end, where Douglass tail efigy oroeo'
over the earth and decsyed ha'
Chicago park, while two hapna'si'
persons on a bench beneath wohas'
who and what he was. 1t is Dousi"'' :
birthday and Shakespeare's, and Doas
las seems to be pondering on his tl','
ulous perch what he would 90 Il ~
were again in the Senate. Aot !.
away from this neglected spot pa'is
school children and the Drams Lessu
ss1
Of the Bard. -.
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Public Lectures Missed

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ] sincerely regret the early
closing of the public lectures. am
interested in social and welfare work
and find many of my people have no
other serious entertainment or instruc-
ton which they can afford, so the clos
ing of the lectures is distinct civic
loss. As citizen interested in the
clty's welfare, am asking the Board Of
Estimate to restore this university for
the people as quickly as possible. Es-
peclally do | regret the loss of the lee
lures on Americanization that were
given last fall with remarkable sue.
cess. JENNY H. SEIBOLD.
New York, March 20, 1922.
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What Roosevelt Did

Twenty years ago the anthracite
miners of the Pennsylvania district.
then as now the most important an
thracite field in the country, went
out on strike. For months the
struggle between the owners and
the miners continued, accompanied
by violence and much suffering and
bringing about a serious famine of
coal.
President Roosevelt refrained
from interfering so long as there
was prospect that a settlement
would be reached otherwise. But
he found the operators apparently
determined TO hold out until the
miners were starved into submis-
sion, while the miners steadily re-
fused to give in. As the evidence
Of the growing shortage increased
the operators persisted in declaring
that there was no danger of coal
famine and resented any intimation
of interference by the government.
Finally, early in October, the
President, who felt that he had no
constitutional right to interfere un-
less the situation called for the use
of Federal troops, took upon him
self the unsuccessful task of bring
ing the owners and miners together
for conference.
My efforts to get the operators
and the miners to agree" he wrote
10 ex-President Cleveland, with
whom he had been consulting about
the emergency, failed chiefly
through the fault of the operators.
! then asked the miners to go back
10 work SO that the pressing necessI-
lies Of the public might be met,
promising at once to appoint such
q commission as Mr. Mitchell had
suggested and stating that would
do all in my power to have whatever
legislation they advocated enacted,
as well as taking up their recon-
in all other ways
But Mr.. Mitchell refused on be-
naif Of Che miners, and the President
finally decided, after dramatic con-
ference at the White House, to ap-
point a commission under the direc-
lion of the Commissioner of Labor
Mr. C. d. Wright. and asked ex-
President Cleveland 10 be a men,
Ger Of it. The plan as finally I'M
,heerfully. accepted by the operat-
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Lloyd Georges Last Stand

The British House of Commons is,
OF course, competent to manage it's
own affairs, but the opinion is not
without strength throughout the
world that it may we'll think twice
before giving Lloyd George his dis
mlssal papers. The time does not
seem yet arrived when he can be
spared.
The mistakes of Lloyd George
have been many. He often has car
rled his opportunism to extreme in
consistency. His methods have not
always been such as to command
complete admiration. He has vio-
lated British political tradition by
governing through the support of
coalition rather than as a represents
atlve of one Of the two historic
parties which have divided the
House of Commons for two cen
turies. His rule, in certain sense,
has been personal and has persisted
through the success of 'improvisa-
tions that to many Britcns seem
slippery and tricky. At one time or
another he has been excessively irri-
tating to the different elements
which divide the British public. He
has been condemned with equal vol
ubllity in both the drawing rooms
and clubs and in collieries and the
Offices of men of business. More
over, he is Welshman.
Nevertheless it is doubtless as ap-
parent to his fellow citizens as to
outsiders that his departure would
leave an unfillabe hole To the an
clant government Of King, Lords
and Commons he has added a fourth
tactor-king, Lords, Commons and
Lloyd George. He has been cement
and a universal go-between. He has
reconciled and adjusted, turned this
way and that, but always he found
some basis for cohesion when
British opinion, yielding to centrif-
ugal influences, seemed about to fly
into fragments. II is not what Lloyd
George did during the war but his
complicated maneuverings since that
displayed his remarkable genius.
1t is London saying that every
one is against Lloyd George but the
people of Great Britain. Perhaps,
although never before nave his pur-
suers been so close on his heels, he
again will work one Of his miracles
and bob up serenely. At least he
has disposed of one of the argu-
ments against him, for it is obvious
/ that his coalition is a solid one COM
pared with the hodge podge coalition
formed against him "a coalition
which consists of the hard -crusted
die-hard Tories, the radical Labor
ties and the Asquith Liberals, who
don't pretend to have a program.
But, whether he goes or stays, it is
certain that this remarkable man
will lose neither his philosophy nor
/ his sense Of humor and will continue
TO be Great Britain's foremost public
/ figure.
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More Truth Than Poetry
BY Jamcs ]. Montague
Oft in the Silly Night

We are not curious, as a rule
A grievous mental lack, no
doubt
We never troubled while at school,
AS others did, to find things
If information came our way
We soaked it inf it did not,
"Well, let it slide" we used to
1T "y viii not worry as a lotvr
But when the old clock on the
tower,
AS shadows round our bedside
brood,
Strikes "Onew- means
half past the hour
We curse it's inexactitude.
Half past?- -Nine?- ?-Ten?- ?-Eleven?-
Twelve?
As lst,, late as midnight? Surely
Through dull subconsciousness we
Why can't it tell US half past
Wh0t?
The night is chill; across the
room,
AS distant as the polar star,
Beyond veil Of Stygian gloom,
Our watch reposes-far too
far
A fevered thirst to know what
hour
Is tossing us in tortured throes,
With ears alert in bed we COVER
And then ensues another doze.
Again we wake; again the bell.
AS forth our questing head we
poke,
Is pealing out a solemn knell-
Consisting of single stroke.
y Il x
We who were young are bent and
gray:
Departed are our strength and
youth,
And all because these clocks pur-
vey
But useless fragments of the
truth
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Enforce

To the Editor of The Tribune. .r
Sir: Why Enforce or Repeai ~,
not inst "enforce"7 Would the s'.'
suggestion be made regardihs !,
other law that, in two short sea'' :,
it's existence, had been prodacs''. :.
the beneficial results to the p's.
generally that the Eighteenth Ans :,
ment and the enabling act, known
the Volstead law, have. ~,
Why not, Mr.. Editor inform :. :.
readers regarding these results 'us s;,s
of parading law violations whicn y y ],
hope TO the violators and comAo'
the criminal classes? .,r
YOURS FOR ENFoRCEMHs'
New York. March 20. 1872
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is clean? One critic thinks it w'p'
make a first class matinee performs.
for the graduating class OF 's'
Another suggests that it might '',
as a completely unobjectionaois y.
for DR.. Straton. 1t would, IN my 9,
nation, and the pity is 1t does :. ~
serve likewise for the critics ol "
drama on the New York press
We have fallen upon evil a."
deed in the theater when the OILY y
lection that can be found agsi's'
play is that it is clean!
New York, March %, 1877.
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From an Average Playeoe,

From an Average Playgoer
10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; The writer is playgoer from
down South''-Savannah, Ga, to be
specific Since l have been in New
York have attended many of the plays
mere. am an average playgoer,
think' and | am wondering how it is
possible that my own views and those
OF the critics should be so far apart.
| liked just Because" and considered
1T delightful, interesting and clean
play. What, as my amazement to find
ehat the tact that it is clean play
is beng used against it by most of
the critics.
In these days, when the stage is de-
manding by its licentiousness censor
"hat Is to be thought of press
"hich VIII condemn play because it
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

dinate their sensualty to the welfare
OF America, what might we expect to
follow in case they were successful in
having the prohibition law modified or
repealed!
lnasmuch as | am a regular reader
of The Tribune, l believe it is my
right to protest against its middle-of-
the-road attitude on this momentous
question.
ROBERT STANLEY ROSS.
New York, March 28, 1922,
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Easily Explained

The shrinkage of the income tax is
due to the fact that SO many people
who formerly paid it have gone into
the bootleg and bandit business.
both of which are exempt.
Copyright by James J. Montague,
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

new pyramids of crutches more nu-
merous than those which are gone.
The age is one of skepticism and
criticism, but not so in lower Canada.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

Thirty years ago they and others now
unknown were potent levers Of the Re
public; but the winds, it seems, have
blown them all away.
Stephen 4. Douglas, Mr Masters
says. "Iived, stormed about these States.
talked of great principles, was tossed
aside by q squall on the universe OF
things and died. He did more and he
was more than that, for as an indom-
liable eXpansionist he was instru-
mental in the acquisition by the United
States OF great territories which have
since proved themselves, it is said. a
benefaction. He was as essential a
figure in the American Passion as
Judas was in the scheme of Salvation,
though much nober; and his reward is
ndisy, neglected sarcophagus, hard
by some smoky railroad tracks in Chi
cago! The university he created is
proudly accredited to Mr.. Rockefeller.
as it should be.
It seems incredible. but no doubt
our present statesmen Will suffer a
similar ignominy after their voices in
the Capitol are stilled. In what mem
ories thirty years hence Will James E.
Watson live? Will the SCHOOLGIRLS
sing anthems of Borah, and in their
copy books inscribe the grave govern
mental sagacities Of the profound and
Mississippian Reed? viii Fordney be
held up by the economists as almost
an equal to Claude Kitchin, and Hiram
Johnson's chauvinistic outcries be rem
dered into classic? What celebrations
Will be made generation hence to
glorify the birthdays of Wadsworth and
Calder, and why and will we stop
work and close the city halls in trib-
ute to Atlee Pomerene or Sproul?
Obhvion's noiseless doors will prob
ably close on them as they have closed
on others of renown. Gillette as a
razor will be recalled after Gillett as a
Speaker has been forgot. The great
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Published herein
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bOOPS BY Percy Hammond


Edgar Lee Masters in "Children Of
the Market Place" calls attention to
Stephen A. Douglas, one of the most
prominent of our great forgotten. 1t
is study in prose fiction of American
pioneer life, and it imbeds among the
cushions of its romance, intrigue and
assassination the politics of the years
between 1888 and 1861 As a tale it il
stirring and picturesque and as bioc-
raphy it is as authentic as the records
Moreover, it exhumes with considerable
reverence one of history's MANY noted
cadavers, and renews it's whilom glories
tor little while. In an epilogue Mr.
Masters tells that feeble friend and
contemporary of Douglas visited his
monument and grave in shabby Chi
cago square. 1t was Douglass birthday
(and Shakespeare thirty years after
his death. No flowers were there. no
crowds, no orations. Just one old man
and pair of April lovers. "Who was
this Douglas 2" said one of these lovers
casually to the other "He was a Sena-
tor or something, | guess" was the
answer.
Like the Pyramids, we are prone 70
forget our founders. Only the peda-
gogues and their pupils know to-day of
the governors, diplomats, jurists and
legislators of even thirty years ago.
Any battling QUESTIONABLE might ask
who was Allison, "Silver Dick" Bland.
Horace X. Boies, Bellamy Storer,
Thomas F. Bayard, Hilary A. Herbert.
Daniels, of Virginia.; Henry M. Teller
CT Benjamin Butterworth; who was
the Watchdog of the Treasury, and
who the Tall Sycamore Of the Wabash?
Does any one now know of Vest, of
Missouri, who over the poker table at
the Chamberlain, in Washington, agreed
at 2 a. M with a Pennsylvania Senator
named Quay to kill the Force bill and
enact the Mckinley bill? And who
was Force? Have you ever heard of
j. Sloat Fassett or Calvin S. Brice?
That Senator Allen once talked for
seventeen hours and said something?
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

Yes ear purchase merohaneiso e6vertised In THE
Tribune vita absolute safets--fer II dfssatisfac
tisr results In any case THE TRIBUNE euaran
tses "a pay your money back upon request. Ne red
tape No clubbing. We refund promptly II the
advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

There is a Board of Health ordi-
nance forbidding unnecessary noises.
Why couldn't that be invoked
against visiting highwaymen?
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

The Mayor has refused to sign the
Dill increasing the pay of fremen and
policemen, but considering the pay
raising bill he did sign, who dares to
say that
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31
Tough Outlook

If Ireland isn't careful there is
gong to be war shortage over there
before long.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

With SO many robins around, the
early worm begins to wish he wasn't
so subject to insomnia.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

The onsy place where Ireland i
really understood is Mexico.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

Tho industrial court hearing in Emporia
Is set for Friday, March IT, at 9 a. m. in
the Chamber of Commerce rooms.
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His Honor is without profit in his
own country! F. +. v.
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Garfield Circle, No. 22 Thursday, March
l6 promptly 2:30 p. m. followed by social
hour and REFRESHMENTS
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GUARANTY

Entered 8; tho PcrtorHcc &, New York as Second
Cla.s MAJ MANer
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Judging from a list Of their de-
mands at Genoa, the BolsheviSi
think the conference is going to be
a petting party.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

The disclosures of Miss Goldman
concerning the state of Soviet Russia
will undoubtedly stir the souls of those
who haven't heard her speak on condi-
tions in America
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

If you expect a tired business man
to do any spring digging you will
have to give him a golf club.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

With oil the birds predicting the
coming pennont winners," Pete de-
mands, "why not pay the bonus Nth q
tdt on ercess p1ophets?"
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31

And think, too of all the people who
call at lost and found departments to
get back their property.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-31
The 7oucr
BALLADE OF DESPAIR

i 'G1eH like mad. ~I"'' u ''''S' ''''' ''''
know that Spring will enter soon;
Though weather be as wet and sad
As it appears this afternoon,
The Summer stirs in it's cocoon
And throbs against the cracking skin,
And l debate on where III swoon
As postmen bring the Sprngtime in.
In sonnet, rondeau and ballade
The customers their love notes Groom;
In verse that's good and verse that's
They sing the lure of May and June
And nights beneath an April moon;
Of girlish Spring in garments thin
cackle wildly as the loon
AS postmen bring the Sprngtime in.
0 lovelorn lass and lovelorn lad,
| urge you try to change your tune
AS baresark as the bee stung bruin.
Quit writing them and go and spoon,
Refrain from laudatory din,
Or sing my doleful plight, poor prune,
AS postmen bring the Springtime in.
ENJOY:
Kind customers, pray, read this rune;
Absorb the moral that spin.
Become platonic. Grant this boon
AS postmen bring the Springtime in.
On q day like yesterday We might
haue beieued that there ,Uas no opti-
mtsm left IN the worh if aDe hadn't
thought of all the suburbonites t0ho
wero planting gardens IN the fuU be-
lief that these mould yield living reph-
cas- Of the pictures in the seed cata-
logueS.
And think, too of all the people who
call at lost and found departments to
get back their property.
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Hardly an Enviable Possession

I1dTdIy an EnVlable Possession
Spain is beginning to be glad that
the interposition of the American
Continent prevented Columbus from
carrying out his intention of dis
covering India.
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Come to the burlesque
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Owned by New York Tribune Inc New Yots
Corporation Published dsily ogdcu Rid Presi-
Sert, 6; Vernon Rosers, Vice President; Helen
ReSers Re.d secyc;ay Il MaNne,d. Tressurcr.
A@dNss. IsisoDe hgtlttns. is4 Nassau Street New
lofk Ieacshaae. Beekmsn aN00.
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DO you suppose" asks Marjorie C.
Diven-and we suspect that it's lust
one of those rhetorical questons-"t that
the dramatic critics are all descendants
of the Great God PAM"