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New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
On Umbrellas


This is a summer when umbrellas
are of consequence. There are seasons
when one forgets them. The sun
shines brilliantly and they grow faded
in dark corners losing their luster
from neglect. The umbrella is moth
ing if not companionable. The older
it grows the more stubbornly we cling
to it. That, perhaps, is why it is put
ting on SO many conceits this year,
since neither man nor woman can
scorn its service.
1t has lost the last faint touch Of
fogyism. 1t has shed its creaky ribs
and dingy habiliments. l is q toy, a
thing of beauty, the dainty finish of
the feminine ensemble. Underneath
its silken canopy one reflects on it's
history, its ups and downs, the part it
has played in literature and romance.
Once necessary, it is now a charming
accessory, designed to match COM
plexion and costume. It's purple silk
cover brings alluring dreams to
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28

lished an account of a molar tooth
dug up in Nebraska, which he con-
cIuded to be the tooth of an ancient
ancestor of man resembling the fa-
NOUS Java ape-man, Pithecanthro-
pus. Since then expert opinion has
divided, some anthropoiogists hold
ing that the tooth 10 the tooth Of a
Pliocene bear, others supporting
DR.. Osborn. The debate is still on.
Now, the publication Of such the
cries and their criticism by the
world of science are the common
place method Of scientific advance.
BY publishing an hypothesis of this
kind the testing process is uniyer-
sally speeded up. There is no dam
ger that science will go astray, for
the criticism of each new theory is
worldwide and ruthless. Only the
hypothesis that squares with the
facts can possibly survive. But the
casual reader who hears of such a
dispute rushes to the conclusion
that the whole theory of evolution
is in doubt. Sir Arthur Keith
rightly concludes that Darwinism,
SO far from declining in force, is
only at it's dawn. He might have
added that the general understand
ing of scientific method is equally
at dawn. May our schools hurry the
day when We shall all be scientists,
at least to the extent of understand
ing what science knows and what
science sends forth only as trial
balloon to see which way the wind
of truth is blowing!
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
The Open Door for Cables

The end OF the cable war in South
America between British and Amer
lean companies has been announced
by the State Department. After a
long fight the principle of the open
door for cable communications
has finally triumphed and British
monopolies have been broken. Amer
lean and foreign cable companies
henceforth will compete on equal
terms on the east as well as the west
coast of South America.
The story of the cable war is long
and complicated. An American
company seeking to encircle the
southern continent was held up for
years in Brazil owing to the fact
that the British had monopoly on
interport cable communications in
that country. This monopoly was
OF such a nature that when the
Western Union laid cable from
Barbados to Miami a landing permit
for this line was denied on the
ground that while this cable was
laid by an American company it's
connections with the British COM
pany at Barbados were such that it
tended to confirm the British in
their monopoly of the cables on the
east coast of South America. The
line at Barbados would be used to
feed the British cables, and thus
make it more difficult than ever for
American lines to get in.
The State Department, always
anxious TO expand American cable
communications, took the position
that until the British monopoly was
definitely broken it could not con-
sent to the Western Unions re-
quest. This led to extended negotia-
tions with the nations concerned.
AS six of the southern republics had
granted monopolistic privileges to
British or American lines it was
necessary to obtain waiver from
each country before the principle of
the open door could be assured,
Argentina, the last, has now agreed.
The American government has all
ways taken the stand that cable
communications are Of national com
Germ. In peace as well as in war
they are Of great Importance to the
nation in that they permit free and
uninterrupted intercourse. The ex-
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
A Road to Fortune

1t would appear from the findings
of Miss Ethel M. johnson, of the
Minimum Wage Commission of Bos-
ton, that wealth is accessible to al
most any one, and that poverty can
soon be abolished from the confines
Of. the nation. After looking into
working conditions among women
Miss Johnson reports that SO week
is enough for a working girl to live
on and that SIT week will supply
her with all the Injuries.
If this is true, any working girl who
gets $12 week can save So, which,
put out at compound interest, will
soon become an important accumu-
lation. If she earns 500, as some
stenographers do, a. fortune will
soon be hers.
Working girls eat as much and
require as many clothes as other
normal human beings. If they can
live on 80 week other people can,
and the saving that can be effected
by clerks getting $25 will insure
opulence.
OF course, if this schedule is
adopted there will not be any busi-
ness for the dry goods stores except
the sale Of calico and cheap, shoes
and stockings. and there won't be
any theaters or movie shows, or
automobiles or anything else that
makes for prosperity and comfort.
but theory will have been demon
strated, and that is something.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
Lafayette ard the Marne

1t is striking coincidence that
September 6 should be at once the
anniversary of the beginning of the
Battle OF the Marne and the birthday
Of General Lafayette. For six years
now the day has been celebrated as
a symbol OF all those memories and
affections which the name Of France
stirs in American hearts.
There are especial reasons for re-
newing our pledge of friendship to
France this year. Because of an
inadequate presentation Of her case
at the Washington conference, the
way was opened for a propaganda
against France, grossly maligning
her spirit and purpose. Though
that smoke screen has blown away
and the truth is once more visible to
American eyes, there is demand and
need for a public declaration of the
faith that is in US,
France has been through years of
horror and has suffered as no other
nation has suffered; Her nerves are
the steadiest in Europe to-day and
she asks no coddling. She does need
her ancient friendship with America
as a moral support in an hour of ex-
treme difficulty. II is not question
of subscribing to everything that a
French government has done or may
do. Governments can often utterly
nlisrepresent the sentiment of ma
tion, as every American knows. 1t
is question of saying to the French
people that we believe in them, adj
mire them and are their steadfast
friends. We cherish in gratitude the
name of Lafayette and are proud to
have fought for the soil of his coun-
try in the World War as he fought
for our America in the dark years of
it's beginning. These are things that
we cannot forget, that we shall al
ways cherish as a precious heritage.
All this we can say from the heart
on September 6, and we can disp ay
side by. side, as they fought at he
Second Battle of the Marne, the Iri-
color and the Stars and Stripes. 1t
is the hope and wish of every Amer
ican that they will always thus ad-
vance together.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
West Virginia's Service

The United States Geological Sur
vey puts last weeks coal production
at 4,300, 900 tons. 1t estimates this
weeks at 100000, possibly $780,
900, tons. The current production
east of the Mississippi, it is an
nounced, equals the requirements of
the railroads, Of the public utilities
and the lake movement program and
more than SO per cent of the present
domestic consumption.
The soft coal output will probably
mount steadily toward normal. The
embargo will be lifted; but where
would the country have been except
for the continuous operation of the
independent mines in West Virginia
and few other states? The miners
union could not shut those mines
down. 1t would have done so if it
could, and it was evidently in prepa-
ration for such shutdown that the
union miners undertook year ago
to make war on the authorities and
people of Logan County.
Mr.. Lewis hoped to convert his
tyranny into universal tyranny
to put the whole country, as. Presi-
dent Harding phrased it in his re-
cent message, "at the mercy of the
United Mine Workers" Fortunately,
the invasion of Logan County was
frustrated. One large and active
coal mining section was left open, in
| which Mr.. Lewis's strike orders car
ried no weight.
Many harsh things have been said
about the arbitrary methods of the
operators in the West Virginia Gin
dependent" district. But every user
of coal owes them a debt Of graft
tude for keeping up the supply
which has tided the country over
the summer. They have saved
transportation and industry. They
have nitigated the rigors of Mr..
| Lewis's famine.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
The Peddlers and the Mavo,

fFron' Topics Of The Times, h, The Ma,
York Tinaes)
ohe OF The Tribune's. reporters hay-
Ing investigated, by becoming an East
Side pushcart peddler himself for sew
eraI days, the treatment which those
small, but to the poor very useful.
merchants receive from their official
guardians under the present alminis-
tration, that paper feels justified in
saying editorially. some very harsh
things about Mayor Hylan. 1t pictures
MIN as spending more time on the Citv
Hall steps than did any of his nrede-
cessors, proclaiming love for the poor
and oppressed, but doing less than any
OF them did in the way of protecting
the objects of his. affection from ax-
pioltation by superfuous Supervisors, y
a letter sent to The Tribune, for OBJ
Vlous reasons unsigned by any name.
but evidently written by or for hara sse d
venders, sustains it in its severity,
Inc peddiers do not, in this letter.
clearly and directly charge that anv.
body is taking graft, but they imply it.
or at least that they are made con-
stantiy to pay money to men whose
only excuse for taking it is that thew
want thus to be enriched.
That excuse to the Mayor should
seem TO pc worse than peor one, and
y is TO be hoped that The Tribune
Aesps up its campaign in behalf of the
peooiers until ne either reduces the
number of tribute-collectors and gets
better ones or proves that those now
employed are not too numerous or un-
duly receptive of fees.
The Tribune's Investigator revealed
the existence of situation that GER
tainiy needs reforming somehow, and
1t cannot be reformed by denying that
anything is wrong.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
Equity Shop

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Answering "Born in New York, "
who states in letter published in your
columns that the Actors Equity Asso-
citation is striving for the closed shop,
beg to assure him that he is mistaken.
The Actors Equity Association is
striving for the Equity shop, which is
a very different thing. The closed shop
may be closed at times to new members,
but the very essence Of the Equity shop
is that it is and always will be open
to every one who belongs to or intends
to belong to the dramatic profession.
Equity shop also means that mana
gers may employ all non-Equity com
panies, but that our members will de-
cline to accept engagements with nom
members in the cast because these
people accept all the benefits that
Equity fought for yet decline to con-
tribute toward its. support. If nom
Equity actors are so bitter against us
is it not better that they should form
companies of their own?
If Born in New York" would care
to call at this office should be glad
to go into further details, and ! be-
lieve could convince him of the bene-
fits and necessity for our policy
! have the right to sign this letter
"Also Born in New York." but perhaps
my regular autograph would be better.
FRANK GILMORE,
Executive Secretary.
New York, Aug. rs, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
Too Much Ambition

/ am not like the modest bard
Who wanted little here below;
i have no lofty disregard
For what is wulgarly termed
dough"
I'd like to own large steam
yacht
And swift, expensive motor
cars,
I'd like to have an awful lot
Of fat, brown, 50-cent cigars.
l envy portly money kings
t n cir opulence acquiring
greed;
I'd like to have all sorts of things
That poets do not really need.
| never should avert my face,
Or cry disdainfully, "No, sir"
Ii ! were offered any place
That paid & hundred thousand
per.
To get as much as Irwin Cobb,
TO own John Rockefeller's roll,
Or sit in Mr.. Harding's job,
Would thrill me to the very
soul.
| fully understand a man
Who, as the world he journeys
through,
Attempts to get whate'er he can,
For life is brief and pleasures
few.
But when a former Russian
prince.
Abiding in a SAFETY zone
y Beyond his couMay's borders,
hints |s
That he would like to, have the
throne, na'
And says that he will march from
France
And hurry home to be the Gear
Ihe minute that he gets the
chance,
l think the fellow goes too far.
I'm not averse to power and
fame,
r.. No love for poverty vaunt
Simplicity is not my aim,
But that's one Job / do not
2OGnt! So
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
Arlington, N, j. Aug. "a. 1922.
A Lot Buyers Grievance

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Within the last few years I
have bought number of lots in the
Bronx at auction sales, and in every
instance have been assessed more than
| paid for them~-in one instance four
times as much. Real estate, like any
other commodity, is worth what it will
bring in the open market. The city has
no Justification for profiteering at the
expense of the taxpayer in any ease
and especially where the lots cannot be
utilized in any remunerative way,
where the streets are not filled in nor
sewers nor water mains installed.
TAXPAYER.
New York, Aug. 25. 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
The Near Scientists

The old Maine boatman who
gave the world the immortal theory
that "readin' rots the mind" was
more vivid than accurate. Yet he
was on the right track at that.
Those soft spots that appear so
often in otherwise firm and admir-
able minds can usually be traced to
some reading. Take those Ken
lucky legislators who almost ruled
Darwinism out Of their state. They
were not SO much medieval as mod
ern; they were not utterly unin-
formed; rather had they read a
little and misunderstood much,
which is the modern method of
wrong thinking.
An interesting review Of the evil
dence of Darwinism, illustrating
the above point, is contributed by
Sir Arthur Keith to "The Nine
teenth Century," He is a distin-
guished British anthropologist and
his books upon primitive man rank
high. He is answering not only the
Kentucky legislators, but sundry
other critics who are willing to ac-
cept evolution up to the begin
ming of man, but then suddenly
find the evidence weak.
| There can hardly be question
raised by any one who reviews the
evidence impartially as to the gem
eral scope of~evolution. But as Sir
Arthur clearly brings out, there is
the gravest question among scien-
lists themselves as to the point at
which man is related to the ami
mails, and it is by misunderstanding
these doubtful questions that the
critics of evolution find excuse for
their opposition.
| Partly the blame rests upon the
near-scientists, who race ahead Of
the men doing the real work and
pretend to know all manner of
things not really known at all.
Partly, probably chiefly, it is the
casual reader who is at fault. The
world at present knows too much
science or too little. Either the
public ought to sink back into
cheerful ignorance, leaving science
to the specially trained, or it ough,
to brace up and become really scien-
pfically minded. The reason Won,
true scientist is unwilling to be
quoted as a rule is precisely be.
cause he is afraid of disseminating
Just such false interpretations.
Sir Arthur Keith gives )
good illustration Of how scientific
method by, hypothesis proceeds
and how easily it can be mis-.
understood. Last May DR.. Henry
Fairfield osbora, of the AmerI.
can Museum of Natural His
tory, after prolonged study pub.
~ ~ 2
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
What Readers .Sau
What of Prisoners Victimsa

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial s'The Prisoners
Family" is excellent, no doubt, but
when the limited number of prisoners
families have all been duly provided
for and the prisoners, with or without
families, have all been duly coddled,
will some one rise up and say helpful
word for the prisoners victims? So
far there is no law and no justice for
them.
How many victims there are may be
estimated from a census of all the
jails, prisons, reformatories and peni-
tentiaries, to which may be added a
guess as to the number of criminals
uncaught. To this vast number of suf-
ferers society owes a debt which it has
never yet begun to pay. Not even
the slightest acknowledgment of the
debt has been attempted. Does any one
dispute it?
j. ALBERT STOWE.
Arlington, N, ]. Aug. "a, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28

perience of the World War showed
more clearly than ever that q nation
dependent upon another nation for
cable communications Iabors under
a serious handicap. The depart
ment's fight for the open door, there
fore. will doubtless be carried into
other regions where American COM
mnnicatiens are hampered by for
eign nonopolies.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
N O C T U n N E

/ am only q simple chauffeur.
And toll from the dusk to the day.
l am aoilling aud bright and / pray
every night
For some rioh looking fare to ,uaylay
When feel that Ipc landed n,y prep,
Quite emgagingly toOard him + lean;
And aoith one playful Vhack of my little
blackjack
completely remodel his bean.
Then pick till his pockets are clean,
And, to shoao that I'm, only In fun,
1 adopt his fur coat, take slash al
his throat
And then shoot him three times vith
-t m1y gun.
With tie pride of good Job ,oeH done
/ assemble the corpse tenderly,
Toss it out IN the grass, kghtlu steu
on the gas
And go home to my dear mothers
knee.
You vould laugh, If you svitnessed, eoith
glee,
As / picture this prankimg to her.
She 3ust hammers mg head. saying: go
on to bedi"
But she's proud of her simple chauf-
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
A Case to Report
New York, Aug. 25, 1922.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

~ eie Ioleok Oh Ihe lTlDune.
Sir; Coming along Hicks Street and
turning into pierpont, saw two light
dray horses dragging load admitted
by the driver to weigh three tons.
They could hardly gain a afoothold, slid
ing and slipping and being dragged up
from their knees every other moment.
Why in a civilized community can such
outrages be allowed? Any concern
that can afford to transport a load
weighing that much ought to afford the
proper means.
Can't the law stipulate the amount
per horse powsra
HENRIETTA McCAIG.
Brooklyn, Aug. rs, 1892.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28

tury is not TO be found anywhere,
even among menfolk.
But then, az its worst, it has al
ways been of friendly tendencies, eey-
ering man in his savagery as we'll as
in all periods OF his civilization. II
has been caricatured and caraassi
and butfooned, bat has survived snl
was never more popular--or nars
necessary-than during this rainsst d
years.
The first time that the umbrella vas
used as protection against rsia val
in the year 500, when we are told IN
the letters of Alcuin, an Englishmaz,
who was the friend and tutor Of
Charlemagne, that he "sent the Bishep
of Salisbury roof to protect his
venerable head from the rain" This
idea of roofing" heads when ii rafrsa
appealed to many as a sensible sehers
although it took long time for Il to
become really popular. In the Middle
Ages it was mark Of rank and hefw
to go forth with an umbrellas ne
Doge of Venice always insisted oahas
ing enc carried 'bver him, no nsisss
what the weather.
The ancient pagasol was Of "
mendous diameter and fat, witt
fringe of hanging beads. In Hs
seventeenth century it was higA sAa
leaflike. And in the eighteenth cen
tury. it reached the pitch of its folly,
being nothing but an impish nssie
piece of silk curved like lettass lea'
ON top of long thin handle II r
fused at this period to stay the rsgs
of the sun or intercept the rainy teE'
rent. The early nineteenth eefsai.
brought in the rage for the tfass
umbrella that died out in the dingihes
and dustiness of the late Dus Ecesl
Between 1871 and 1S43 no fswer thaa
sixty French patents were CRANES =
trick umbrellas. The assortment Y
cluded combined umbrella aad saH
telescoping umbrellas, umbrellas Wy
opera glasses and writing impssnsus
and even automatic umbrellas ssss
opened when you pressed tho sass'a
One wonders why 1.-THE last aas ~
come into common usage, AZ y
rate, there they are in his10ts'
row, as expressive of the times q
fashions as the tilt of hat g =
width of skirt. ..a,
Their, too, there have beer lnS''~
uaI umbrellas that have sessssr
worked their way into history. w
really after Defoe wrote kos'ss
Crusoe and told of his Hlafssss
umbrella that this article was z
cepted. 1t became vastly popa'aI
England. where students at oxfsFe y.
Cambridge used to rent one by e.
hour, thus laying the foandsNoh 8
the much ridicu.ed association ol s
fessor and umbrella. Then ss
Dickens's Sairey Camp, with hes ~. 4,
ter umbrella that bulged end ssssss ssss
and seemed to possess Ws 4
quality. After Sairey came sas ~ 81. :
the ''bnmhershoot,n the tfAs.s 4.
| tramp who mended umbreiiAs 80 s,,s
door to door. Where can he he ls's
new?
/ When one comes to thsnk q y, 81. q,
I is really world Of rornanea y q.
history of the umbrella. Y hss ~
tened so often to words ea isss VsI i
pered under it's sheiteFing ssss 4
| has heard the inneruost sss'sS 81 Il
| the heart. 1t has sanopiea pIs'1 "a
! wealth, shabhiaess and genias' - Is
has learned the secret Of ths oss q,
to Keep it's kRowlsdga w.sh'n a.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
The Towsr
I M M u N / T X

/ M M u N ITY
XYTHAT is there left to fear, since
wv you are dead?
Shame cannot blight me hence
forth in your eyes;
The downward crash Of broken en-
terprise
Will not alarm you in your narrow
bed.
You will not weep to see my visions
led,
Meek captives, to disasters sacri-
fice,
And when stark peril in the dark
ness lies
In wait for me you will not cry in
dread.
Above your grave monument they
rear;
It's stone has taught my heart
tranquility.
You wept for me when furies how
cred near;
In, pain you prayed that / might
gallant be.
Why should shrink when dan-
gers compass me?
For you are dead. What is there
left to fear?
A minister has announced that the
Bible is the "naost up-to-date book in
the world." The truth of the matter is
that human nature is the most stub
bornly conservative thing In oristence
and the Bible is largely human nature.
We don't see why the above-cited
parson chose the comparatively mod
ern Second Epistle to Timothy to
prove his point. Way back in Exodus
Moses smashed all of the Command
ments, and the front page of any
newspaper will inform you hows slav-
ishly humanity still follows his prece-
dent.
And for a duplication of the atti-
tude of Adam and Eve toward the
rules and regulations of Eden, stroll
through almost any park on Sunday
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
The Old Home

To the Editor Of The Tribune, i
Sir; Your editorial ssThe Man Who
Changes Countries recalled to ma
The Last Dream,p BY Grantland Rice,
published in "rhe Sportiight' about
year ago. I have been away forty
two years and doing we'll. but there
Is always that hankering away down
deep: sIm going home some day.
New York. Aug. %, 1892. n. M.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
Does He Leave Clean Corner
PrOtruding?

Sir: Now that you announce that Mr..
J. Throckmorton Cush Is commuter,
I feel proud of my detective abilities.
One Of my fellow passengers blows his
nose several times during the trip to
the city, and after each performance
carefully folds up his handkerchief be-
fore returning it to the breast pocket
Of his coat. I always was certain his
name was Cush. B. 0. B.
The fuel situation might be improved
by calling Frances attention to the
fact that we have coal mines compar-
ing favorably with those in the Ruhr
basin.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
Ruled Out
fFrom The Kansas citu

fFrom The hansas city starr
ANY kind OF fnancial theorist can get
hearing in Russia except one who in
sists On the old ideas of hard work,
thrift and well protected credit.