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New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
The Chronometer's 8 Meannc.s
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

70 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to call attention to a
trifing inacouracy in your editorial ON
"The Ruined Ocean" in to-day's paper.
You mention changing the ships chro-
nometer at noon each day. Probably
you meant to say the ships clock. In
sailing eastward or westward the ships
local time changes one hour for each
fifteen degrees change in the longitude.
The clocks are set in accordance with
these changes.
1t is quite different with the ch'ro-
nometer. This instrument is used in
the navigation of the ship. 1t is usual
ly set on Greenwich mean time, and it
always keeps this time as closely as
may be. The only time when the chro-
nometer is changed is when it is reset
on Greenwich mean time after having
departed from that standard.
1t might be of interest to remark
that ships frequently carry three chro-
nometers, all set Oh Greenwich mean
time. AS long as the three agree it
is safe to assume that they are run
ming properly. If any one Of the three
changes its rate it no longer agrees
with the other two. When such diff
ference becomes apparent the navi-
gator has ample warning and can take
precautions accordingly
REGINALD HOLDEN THAYER.
Yonkers, n. Y, March 8, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Los Angeles Boosting

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: have noticed several letters
on your editorial page regarding Cali
fornia, its climate and its boosters.
Los Angeles is my birthplace, and I
feel safe in saying that majority OF
cur most enthusiastic boosters are
transpantations from east of the MIS-
sissippi. In nine eases out Of ten when
York Slater or an lowan has lived long
enough in California to call himself a
Californian he becomes so cbulcnt
that he must tell the world"
Oldtime Californians liked things
as they were and are little doubtful
about the desirability Of seeing south
crn California ovcrrun with people. OF
course, people with town and city prop
crty welcome the increase in population
on account of increased values. but Pm
sure the dissatisfied ones would never
be mished it they returned to their old
homes.
The southern counties seem certain
q.
and feel sure will not be SO pleasant
to live in with all that tceming life as
they are nov.
I have visited nearly every part of
our country and like it all. 1t is all
America" and much alike in sentiment
and action everywhere. New York has
Impressed me as being least like Amer
ica OF any city. More kinds OF broken
English are spoken here and by
a greater percentage of people than
elsewhere, and the typical American is
not represented in as great numbers.
Los Angeles has drawn her people
from old American stock to such an ex-
tent that it is the most American city
to-day. FRANK MONAGHAN.
New York, March 8, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
No Hurry Call to Genoa

There are two plain and sufficient
reasons for American -participa-
ton in The Genoa conference.
As Secretary Hughes justly said
III his reply to ltaly's invitation, the
Genoa conference will necessarily
have political rather than ali eco
nonic character. European read
justmcnt is largely political prob
lem. Political considerations con-
trolled in the peace settlements,
which aggravated European eco
nomic evils of long standing, due to
The multiplicity of nationalities and
the conflicts of interest among so
many crowded states. The ills
which Europe suffers from to-day
can be cured only through will to
cure them developed by The Euro
pean peoples. The latter can do the
work better if left to their own init
atlve. A stranger is never cast
happily as an umpire of the compli-
cations of family disputes.
Take Russia, for example. The
United States is unwilling to have
dealings with the Soviet govern
nlent, which is the greatest present
obstacle to Russia's recovery. If
The European countries find reasons
for admitting Lenine to their coun-
els, that is their affair. But why
should we hold out hand to him by
gong to Genoa? If Europe arrives
at plan of economic restoration by
hrst Strengthening out her political
relations the United States will un-
doubtedly contribute as far As prac
ticable to The successful working out
q the plan. But we haven't come
to that bridge yet.
The second reason for non-par-
tielP--1rv.s is domestic. The Wash
Ington confeTence treaties are pend
ing IN the SenasN. They ire direct
American contribution to interna-
tlonal stability. But they are being
attacked by the forces which at the
Paris conference went furthest in
urging American participation il,
The direction of European affairs.
we are q Pacific power. but not p
European power. Yet if our entry
into an association to promote
reace and friendly relations in the
Pacific is to be denounced by dew
otees of the covenant of the League
OF Nations and prevented by their
votes, why should the Administra-
ton risk at this juncture a commit
ment in Europe which those who
= wanted us even to accept mandates
IN Armenia and Turkey may turn
around IN wrath and repudiate? =?
There is no hurry call to Genoa.
Ratification Of the conference treat
les comes first.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Relief for Motor Victims

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
sir: Noting your editorial on =. ~
lief for motor victims ana reieii-.'
to the proposed bill at Albany for c0D
nulsorv insurance of automobile 0"s
ers to pay fer damages, permit NO -. :
suggest that If such an act nv"
passed it would have more Ill Ga
than any one can enumerste. III - -
there has hardly been law In rev. :,
wears for the presumed protectioh =. :.
help OF some particular class OF pe0s.,
that has not caused injury, to sfss.
or less extent, TO other ciaSS'
people. -
The only proper way to secui0 !.
lief "for the victims Of highway
cidents" is for the courts TO DO -,
afraid to render decisions and '"p,. !.
penalties that will stop this eVs' a
creasing danger. Ninety-nine per "a "a
of the automobile accidents are ~ =,
able, but unless the judges VIII ss =
decisions that will have some moss'
feet people will continue to oe S. =.
less. At present it is almost in !.
sible for the courts to give eo'i'a.. ~,
sehse iustice, it has been SO neus''
about by the legislation. ,s
NJ w. ROLLINS.
New York. March 2, 1922. IS
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
a Good Radiance

President Harding's message IN
the Senate disposes of the conten-
'ion that the Lansing-Ishii notes
are lett unaffected by the conference
. treaties. These notes, as the Presj-
aent says, and as Mr.. Lansing him
sell SAID when testifying before the
senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
rons' constituted nothing more than
declaration Of executive policy
they could not override any treaty
past present or future.
The notes were one Of the novs-
teries Of the Wilson Administrators
war diplomacy. The country has
never been informed why they were
exchanged or what they meant. The
'"o diplomats agreed that japan.
because of geographical contiguity.
had special interests" in China. Il
was hurriedly assumed by some that
ohey set up an Asiatic Monroe Doc
tfine. Mr.. Lansing subsequently,
told the Senate Foreign Relations
committee that the phrase special
interests" had no political sienifi-
cance. He said that he had refused
tc use phrases like Especial rights"
o. special influence" which might
have conveyed the idea Of pcl;tical
priority. He added, in fact, that
the special interests conceded to
Japan because Of propinquiiy we're
no different from any special in
tereSts the United States might
have IN Canada for tic same reason.
This would have left them prac-
tlcally meaningless.
MI Lansing's explanation sounded
Somewhat forced Yet the Lansing
ishii notes have never been inter
preted, except so far as they have
oeea Interpreted in the conference
.reasles- which do away with them.
" DAT War purpose were they nlexnt
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
A Third Class.
February Is, 1929.

To the Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: In the letters to your paper
which l have read regarding the bonus
the writer's seem to divide the country
into two broad classes-so soldiers and
profiteers.
What is to be said for the far more
numerous class who sacrificed money,
food and pleasures as their share of
the effort to win the war; They are
not kicking like the Legion and ask
ing to be paid for losses that in many
cases are more tangible than the losses
the unwounded soldiers have suffered.
They would be laughed at if they de-
manded that their little investments
their small business enterprisss-be
put back on the pre-war footing by
their country because they had done
enough for il in the sacrifices made
during the war. Yet that is what the
soldiers are asking-and more.
Finally, it is this small thrifty class
(5,0o0,000 out Of our 100,O0O0oo>, al
ready overburdened with taxes, out of
whose pockets the soldiers wish to ex-
tract their coveted $4,000, 100000.
The whole country is one on the
question OF the care of our wounded.
Their every need should be supplied.
To my mind it would be equally at one
on the subject of the bonus wers it
to come out Of the pockets Of the hun
dred million. 1t is very easy for ninety
Ave million people to be lavish with
money they mean FIVE million others
to pay. Z. B. KN1PE.
New York, March r, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

Mayor Hylan has issued a state
ment in which he commends, and
justly, The Street Cleaning Depart
nent for ridding the city of snow.
Mr.. Hylan was in Palm Beach dur
ing the principal snowfalls and
spoke on hearsay evidence, which
was. nevertheless, trustworthy. 1t is
unfortunate that he cannot, with
equal sincerity, praise his Police De-
partn,ent for ridding the city Of
burglars and higlwaymen.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

to serve? We do not know as yet.
and may never know. It is a good
thing, however, that they have been
declared officially dead, for there
was an unpleasant ambiguity about
them. They seemed, at least. to be
departure from the Far Eastern
doctrine as formulated by earlier
American statesmen and reiterated
by Secretaries Hay and Root.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

where they would cease to struggle.
And perhaps after enough elections
statesmen might learn not to "view
with alarm" or even to "trembc Mt
this crisis"
Then, if the ancients ceased to
worry, perhaps the young folks
would cease to resent. The eternal
conflict between age and youth
would be stilled. II is, after all,
neither the wisdom Of three hundred
years nor the hot hopes Of twenty
that will save civilization. but the
two living happily together.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Modem Ghosts
Solid Though Epuncsccnt Says H. Conan DOYLE Who Has
Seen and Touched "Ecoplasm'
Copyright 1872. New Yor6 TribHf
From The Westminster Gasette)

when we say that these shapes can as
sumo outlines which arc familiar TO
us and that they can show such signs
of personality as to convince us OF
their identity. Whom / entered Nine.
Bisson's drawing room l at once
recognized the picture OF her husband
from having seen his ectoplasmic
image in the photog graphs OF her book.
| am glad that The Westm instsr
Gazette" has had the courage 10 give
prominence TO this all-important mat
ter, but I would respectfully surges st
that it has a solemn and religious
bearing, and that all levity about
clammy ghosts, chains and the like is
very dstasteful to those who see the
fall human significance OF these de-
yelopments.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
February Is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James J. Montsgus
It's Clothes That Make the Diplon,

~ . SlCtiACS LdL Sftc hC Q4S DipiClle
In Mexico, before the var,
They dressed the diplomatic CORPS
In feathered hats
And green craTats
And such Ike radiant raj.
nent:
And all the hidalgos and sports
Went gladly off TO foreign courts
To represent
The government,
Without a cent Of payment
Enough for them TO be srrayed
In garments of a tropic shade.
If velvet suits
And Russian boots
They only were accorded,
IF through a capital they strollee
In vestments made Of cloth Of gold,
And trimmed with fur,
They felt they were
Sufficiently rewarded
But Obregon has changed all thst
He rules that every diplomat
Who fain would go
From Mexico
To deal with foreign nations
Must wear 10 feathers, furs ai
boots;
But dress in quiet evening suits
All bright array
He deems too gay
For diplomatic stations
In consequence there's not a gss'
Who Mexico will represent
In any land,
Now boots are banned
And gala clothes abated..
No Mexican would have the facs
To take or fill plain clothes
place.
And Obregon,
From this time on
Will be quite isolated
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
You Can, You Can't Bear Arms

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: How did the courts interpret
the right to bear and carry arms,'
which understand is in the Constitu-
tion, when they pronounced the Sulli-
van law constitutional? Is it not a
fact that rifles, shotguns and all arms
can at any time be prohibited both as
to carrying and to keeping in houses if
the Sullivan law is constitutional, as
it is pronounced to be?
Are you aware that a bill has been
introduced at Albany which seeks to
prohibit buying ammunition for any
kind Of arms without permit?
J. r,
Rcslyn, N. Y, March z, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Pathetic

fFrom The Philadelphia Evenino Ledoer)
The German citizen, statistics for
1921 show, pays less than a third the
amount Of taxes paid by the French
citizen. Poor Germany! And there
are hard hearted people who think she
sksuld pay her dshts!
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
BALLADE OF MEDIEVAL FRANCE

DAAh-ADE UT MEDLEY AL FRANCE
Down where the zephyrs breathe and
sigh,
Kissing the flowers like ghosts Of rain
Laughing aloft then, unto the sky.
In Aquitaine! In Aquitaine!
Warrior Michael and his train
Mocking the courage Of the sea;
Flashing the sword and the armo,
chain,
In Normandy! In Normandy,
Maidens who blush, but say not why;
Troubadours singing a lyric strain;
Passion that mellows but does not die
In Aquitainel In Aquitaine.
Tristram, 1scult and haunting pain
Crying for things that may not be,
Lips that are tinct with poppy stain.
In Normandy. In Normandy!
Sweet is the south, and tender-aye.
Happiness there each soul may gain.
Languid and dreamy summer is
nigh
In Aquitainei In Aquitaine,
Harsh is the north where strong men
slain
Stare unafraid at eternity
With cold steel dagger and white hot
brain,
In Normandy! In Normandy!
L'Envoi
Prince, | would hear soft refrain
In Aquitaine. In Aquitaine!
Prince, there is fame awaiting me
In Normandy! In Normandy!
L. w. B.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
The Dieictic Bard

+. +. I..; ~ Enc ssith The "Do o., Diet
editorial IN Wotauy mor,siug's Tribune
Since the diet is the issue and the
master of your fate, give a thought to
building tissue, yc who guide the Ship
of State; cure the iitful post war spasm,
seal each wide, unfriendly chnsm with
yard of protoplasm and some beans
upon plato. Why waste time with
foolish treaties that ignore the basic
facts' When a man goes in for meat
he's not amcnable to pacts. Dish the
Congrcssmen with salaries in our lcgis-
latiVe galleries, for not laws, but codes
Of calorics, show tho way a nation acts.
Some on pork too long have rourishcd
who were paid to earn their bread-ah
It's time that these were nourished on
stronger food instead; make the
treatment drastic, final; feed 'eln iron
Tahlac, Ninol; let tho bony growth be
spinal that now centefs in the head
Here at last cure FOR lawyers; no
more embassies or frils; let the
Wilcys and the Sawyers diagnose our
nations ills: purge the country of
dyspcptics, Danish ink for antiseptics,
we1l outlive the rule Of skeptics-free
to pay the doctors bills! CUSH.
Oh. B.-np relation to j. Throckmorton)
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
PARtS. FEBRUARY ii.

a substantial ghost, with hands that
arc warm to the touch, eyes that sec
and turn in their orbits, a voice that
can be heard, breath that throws off
carbonic acid, feet that move, fingers
that clutch--such is the modern ghost,
according to a deliberate statement
made by NJ. Cha rcs Richct, member of
the Institute of France, before the
French Academy of Science yesterday.
Thus tho old idea Of cold and
clammy ghost with clanking chains
must be abandoned, along with SO
many other picturesque notions, killed
! by modern science
NJ. Richet advanced his beliefs when
presenting his new book on meta
psychsm in this temple of science,
which has never previously consented
officially to receive communications on
occult SUBJECTS and problems Of the
spirit world. M. Richet, who has made
life study of so-called spiritism and
psychic phenomena, admitted that it
required much courage on his part, as
a recognized scientist, to devote him
self to the study of such questions and
present the results of his investiga-
tions to the world
But the duty Of science was to dis
cover. He declares that the reality OF
the materializatiors produced by medi-
ums cannot be contested. These
| visitors from the spirit world, he says,
have personality and intelligence and
all the attributes Of life.
! We have received from Sir A. Conan
Doyle the following letter referring to
the above cablegram from our Paris
correspondent which appeared in yes
terday's Westminster Gazcttc":
Sir: Many of us who have worked
upon psychic subjects will welcome
your report from Paris in to-day's
issue in which you give Professor
Charles Richet's plain statement, de-
livered before the French Academy Of
Science, to the effect that the much
derided figures Of the seance room are
as q matter of fact solid, though eva
nescent, manifes tations of life. The
strange substance from which they are
constructed has been named "ectoplasm"
by Professor Richet himself, and has
been investigated very thoroughly for
q number of years by Nine. Bsson,
DR.. Schrenck- otzing, DR.. Crawford,
DR.. Geley and others, who have illus
trated their remarks by hundreds of
photographs. | may add that I have
myself both touched and seen the sub
stance. Yet we have been treated dur
ing the last few weeks to the humilat-
ing spectacle of certain publicists, who
should be instructing their readers,
pouring ridicule upon this most in.-
portant modern development in psychic
investigation.
Charles Richet is the most famous
physi01ogist in the world, and as such
his words should be final But he has
told us nothing which was not known
fifty years ago to Professor Crookes,
whose long and careful experiments.
with just such form as Professor
Riohet postulates, were convincing to
any one who possesses the sense Of evil
dence and is not bemused by the idea
that there is something clever in in
credulity.
Having received this high confirma-
tion as to the existence of the actual
forms, it will not be difficult for the
reasoning man TO go one step further
and to accept--or at least to treat with
scspsst-AtAs assurance that we give
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Good Weather for Golf

1t will soon be spring IN Scousha'
and Lloyd George won't have 10 y
so far from homs to attend c'H'
ferenees.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
The East Man WA ShydIu 4tao;a

The maid OF honor wore a gown OF
pms sndlNa ;...s,yi;. ...,..,....j. -.
pink SILK end carried q shower bou-
Quet OF pink carnations whicl ths flower
girl carried a basket OF pink and white
carnations.
=. BEFORE tho ceremony. Miss Fioretts
sang Oh Promise Mc' The Wedding
march was played by Werner A Ny
under hover Of palms and a, large
white wedding bell trin,med with Or
anse blossoms, was followed by re-
ccption which was attended by only
close relatives and friends Of the young
couple.-fhe Morristocn, ". j., Jerse1-
ftCn
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Left Out

Up to date the Princess asfs
grsat-great-uncle's wedding in''
tion hadn't arrived.
Copyright by James J. 4ontxSa"
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

Still, IF the authority Of the pro-
posed deletets Of the drama might be
extended to include the sermons Of Ger.
tain ministers, wc'd abandon at once
about onc-third Of our opposition.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Highly Eligible

A forward-looking msn may na's
no chance in politics Just now pu'
he makes the best kind Of cnaui'
feur.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

After seeing what liquor prohibition
has done for the nation, you can't help
dreading moral censorship Of the
stage.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

Maybe the Prince Of Wales is still
hanging around India fer fear that if
he goes home they'll send him to visit
kslASd. =. IL V.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Rcslyn, N. Y, March z, 1922.
The Horns of a Dilemma
(From The Indianapolis Nsms)

fFf0in Tile ItdtHnapOIfS NeWSJ
In the bonus matter good many of
those Congressman who so valiantly
took the bull by the horns now seem
to be chiefly occupied In devising a
way to let 60.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

ysU car purchase merchandise advertised ia TIE
TRIBUNE With absolute safety-fer II dssstlsfso-
Her results In any case The TRtBUhE eusrsn-
s,s< to pay YOUR money back upon request. No red
tspc. No suiehline. We refund promptly " the
asYertlse- does rot
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

Ere extinction comes billotoiag Ger Us
One unaon to aUitncss ace aUish--
When Argentines plesiosaurus
Greets the specter of AntigonisA.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

The Associated Press IS exclusively entitled n
sAs foT republication Of all news dispatches
credited 10 {. Or nnt o.berSese credited IN thl.
gspcs sad also The local news q spontaneous origin
fsb'ished herein.
A. rights q republication Of All ether matter
asrsin also reserved
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Thc pI,thorin sinSera

fObserrtd By A, ". &. on the bulletin board
Of Nlc Glen Edge Congregational thurcjJ
II A. NJ
Sermon,
'I'hc Bread Line"
4 p NJ.
Gsul's "Holiy City"
~ tho F'uU Choir.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

The first faint flush OF millennial
dawn will be observed in America when
citizens read with equal avidity news
OF the Four-Powcr Treaty and tho Six
Day Bicycle Race.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

"Russia's economic retreat has
ended" says Nick Lenine. From what
we've recently read Of the land Of the
Muscovite it seems that any economic
movement it possibly can make will
have to be an advance.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

There is little we can say to salve
the lacerated sense of modessy or Bob
B., who announces that he saw vcster-
day on Fifth Avenue young woman
with bare ears.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
The Touer

TO EIGHTEEN CUSTOMERS
IN THE spring, when frost has fed,
/ You, who guiItless lives have led
All the winter, grasp tbs pen;
Dove" with ''love" Ia coupled
then;
Ardor is press-agentcd.
HoAry ago, that looked with dread
Toward the Anal narrow bed,
Feels tho surge Of youth again
IN the spring.
Poet, though her lips be red,
Pray refrain from verse. Instead,
In this vernal season when
Eros tnocks the wits Of men,
Go, beg, and soak your head
In the spring.
Agricultural Note: Now iA the timo
to Sow June weddings.
SEASONABLE LYRfC
Spring.
You camping thinai
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

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Corporation. Published daily Ogden Reid Presi-
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Address Tribune Building lA Nassau St-sst- New
Icrs. Teiephone Bsesman 5000.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

Hdving filed out his income tan blank,
President Harding hos started on O. trco
1rccks' rncd tinn.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

SEASONABLE LYRiC
Spring.
You camping thing!
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10

Agricultural Note: Now ia the timo
to Sow June weddings
New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
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