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New-York tribune., 1922-01-30
Addresses and Telephone Numbers
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Pacific Steamship Co.
II State St., n. Y. Bowling G'n 5e25
Americas Hawaiian S. s. CO.
United Avusracan Ltnss. Man'c Agents
eo Broadway, N. Y. Whitehall 1920.
American Line Il. NJ. N.Y.
I'll Broadway, N. Y.
Pgr. B'e G'n $500; Fgt. Wh!t1l 206o.
American Ship & Com. Nav. Corp.
90 Broadway, n. Y. Whitehall 1920
Atlantic Fruit Co.
81 Battery Pl., 2. whitehall eos.
Atlantic Transport Line Il. M. M.)
oil Broadway. NY.
Pr. B's C'a $500: Fet. Th!.1l ooec.
B,ess, Daniel, Agent
E,dsr-Dempstcr & Co., Ltd.
26 Beaver S., NY. Broad 43co.
safber S. S. Lines, Inc.
81 Battery Pl., n. Y. Whitehall 1900.
biek Diamond Lines
Ny; 81 Exch. pl. Rect. Is9e-2sl7-1s.
Baltimore: 80 South Calvert st.
Chicago; 5l7 Webster Bldg.
Agts: Phils., Gcyclia G. Co., al
So. lt.l st.
No-..: Hsrriss. iiar!ll, Git. Bk. Bldg.
Boston: G. II. Sprasue. 1Al Milk st.
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'o'ansr, tunresstcrd) ietters insilcd UP 70 D
p ni the next day Will. provided there 10 no dslav
In the overland transit reach Seattle 10 time fof
correction With the steamer mentioned
+A classes Of mali including domestic par,s,
post sent TO Hawaii. Guam and Philippine Is.arC,
by the above dispatches
sicStstesed articles may be mailed up to D. T.
~ the General Post Of'ce but be mailed not
ater than = p IN a the City Hall Station For
mails scheduled TO close Sunday registered arti.
Siss must be mailed not later than u B. m .,
ralit (which includes mail. regular and pascel ocss
s,s,1 or state S r West australia Bismarck Archplao
mon sands) Is Forwarded via the Pacinc rOuss.
except that parcel post is not sent by steamers
saAo troM Vancouver Mai for Rhsmo ana
Tcnguch. In the Chinese Province Of Yunnso. "a
,9rs H,ss, atded 1 % sl. hr'is Inds,h. au..s route
Mail or Philippine Islands Is dispatched by the besi
opportunit; from Pacific Coast except that specially
are forwarded Is addressed
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
Worth the Effort

The Tribune believes that the city
administration could have, had 1T
chosen to do so, supplied the Kings
County Grand Jury, just dismissed,
with evidence that vast improvement
is still necessary in the conduct of
the public markets.
But the finding of the grand jury
that many improvements have been
effected is a source of satisfaction.
Before this newspaper came to the
aid Of the prosecuted pushcart ped
dlers they were being mulcted for
the benefit of as grasping a gang
of Tammany officeholders as ever
was sent out for plunder.
These are now at least obliged to
turn their takings over to the city
instead of pocketing them. Further
more, public attention has been d.
rected to the markets, and miscon-
ducting them is not going to be as
easy or as safe as it has been.
The removal Of the present Com
missioner of Markets and the trans
ferring of further Investigations into
their management from the hands
of Mr.. Hirshfield would, of course,
be beneficial. But neither of these
things is to be expected Of Mr..
Hylan.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
Preserve Secaucus!

Dissent and remonstrance, wide
spread and emphatic, must greet
the proposal for changing the name
OF Secaucus to Clarendon. The pre-
text alleged by those who are thus
petitioning the Town Council is that
the name Secaucus has been the
butt of jokes and has thus retarded
the growth Of the town. To that we
feel sure the better sense of the
community will demur. Of course
1T is primarily q matter for the town
itself to settle, and after that for
the State of New Jersey to take an
interest in. But as the place in
question lies within the metropolitan
suburban zone New York will SURELY
be pardoned if it, too, expresses in
tense solicitude for the preserva-
tlon of one Of its highly priced
possessions.
For that is what the name of
secaucus has been for generations
past. 1t is honey to the tongue: II
Is music to the ear; it is an adorn-
ment OF the map. 1t is joy to the
orthoepist, as one of the few names
that cannot readily be nispro-
nounced. Even upon the lips OF a
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
The Senator From Detroit

The Senate of the United States
is to welcome an automobile manu-
facturer from Detroit after all. But
he is not to be an advocate of peace
ships and scorner of history.
Quite to the contrary, James Couz-
ems split with Henry Ford during
the war upon just these issues, re-
marking: II think you're wrong on
preparedness, history, finance and
peace" Which fairly we'll covered
that
Since then, as Mayor of Detroit,
he has given that vigorous city the
sort Of administration that New
Workers yearn for and seldom get.
In obedience to a law he took
over the city's railways and ran
them well-thereby proving that mu-
nicipal operation is fine thing if
you can get the general manager of
one of the nations largest and most
efficient automobile companies to
boss it. Here in New York we have
another set Of facts and another
theory. But that is another story.
What The Tribune especially likes
about Senator Couzens is that he is
not a stationary statesman. He is
capable Of both learning and for
getting. His mind has not set in
any given year of the sos or '9Os or
any other decade. He believes that
the world moves, and he intends to
De Republican only so long as the
Republican party moves with it. He
should be powerful recruit for the
Republican party as The Tribune
hopes to see that party develop in
the coming years. Governor Groes-
beck is to be congratulated upon his
happy choice and Michigan upon it's
new power in the Senate. Detroit's
loss is the whole country's gain.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
Christmas Seals Are Ready

One of the happiest expressions of
goodwill and community service that
the holiday season brings is the
broadcasting Of the Christmas seals.
These inexpensive and attractive
tokens are at hand again to grace
letters and packages. The mails will
be frightened with them from now
till Christmas.
The annual sale of the seals will
begin tomorrow, and the more that
are sold the more lives will be saved.
The New York tuberculosis Asso-
citation depends mainly upon the
funds raised by the double red cross
stamps to carry on its work through
the year. The money intrusted to
the association has been excellently
used, as the decreasing death rate
in this city from tuberculosis bears
witness.
Here is a disease that is prevent
able and durable, but the task of COM
batting it is one that must enlist the
aid of every one. We can all have
modest share in the humane under
taking SO vital to the general well
fare by investing a few dollars, or
even few cents, in the Christmas
seals. They will bring large divi
dends in health and happiness to
many a family. It is hardly neces-
sary to appeal to the generosity Of
The Tribune's readers in such
good cause, but they will be glad to
be reminded that the Christmas seals
are ready.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
of ideaiist worth having. He goes
out after them, brings them down to
earth and puts them to work.
T1,anlssp5ixir,p

If gratitude is the expectation of
favors to come reason for gratitude
is abundant. III it is, on the other
hand, as the Pilgrim Fathers inter-
preted it, thankfulness for blessings
already vouchsafed, Americans may
surely observe the day without
hypocrisy.
Were it possible to take an inven-
tory of the nations physical re-
sources they would be found more
than sufficient to meet any liabili-
ties that are likely to be incurred in
the national life for many years to
come. Appraisement of the national
character, which is Of far more i'm
portance than an inventory of it's
wealth, is more difficult. But Amer
lea, admitting for the sake of any
argument into which we might be
plunged with the interviewers of
Rudyard Kipling that she has some
times mislaid her soul, surely found
it again in the Great War.
Here is no nation of money grub
bers or of sordid bargainers. Should
the other half of the world again be
imperilled nobody on either side of
the water can doubt that the United
States would answer to the call of
distress. True, we got something
from the war, even though we asked
nothing. But it was not money, nor
territory. nor world power, but a
better understanding of our own
people and firmer faith in them.
Whatever seeds of anarchy may
have been sown upon this soil have
found it barren to such a crop. The
war and the dark days that followed
it have proved only test of
strength, and in the meeting of that
test it has been proved again that a
new nation conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal shall not
perish from the earth. For that
alone every American should to-day
give his devout thanks to Provi-
dence.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
The Lantern
copr.. Nov ymk qrIbuno Ina. lsaa

Thanksgiving Day was instituted,
If we are not mistaken, by the Pill
grim Fathers, who invented at about
the same period the saying 1T
might have been worse" which has
since become a household word.
Of the Pilgrim Fathers we know
very little at first hand. The only
Pilgrim Father, in fact, whom we
ever knew personally is Captain
Peter Fitzprse. Captain Fitzurse
contemplates a pilgrimage to all the
places where he has become a father,
which is, we believe, an original mo-
tive for the circumnavigation of the
globe. George Moore take note.)
When one considers that the
original Pilgrim Fathers, who in
vented Thanksgiving Day, did not at
the time have even axle grease to
spread on their bread, and scarcely
any bread to spread it on, one is
obliged to arise and acclaim them as
eternal members of The good sports
league.
There is a lesson here, moral
lesson which but we desist.
Probably DR.. Frank Crane has al
ready done it.
Captain Fitzurse objects to being
referred to as a grandfather.
1t seems to have occurred to a
great many different European
statesmen that America is shirking
grave responsibilities.
But they don't seem able to get
together with regard to which re-
sponsibilities we are shirking.
If we shirk some of the response
bilities which the English think are
paramount, we escape reproach from
the French.
And the British are able to bear
with 8 certain stoicism our failure
to live up to the high standards
which the French have been kind
enough to set for us.
There are so many different coun-
tries in Europe, all with different
notions of just what America should
do to save the world, that sometimes
we are in utter despair we
shall never be able to please all of
them. We go to bed every night
meaning with a sense of failure.
And they are all so unselish about
it; that hurts worse than any hing
else.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
A Blgmder or Worse !?

The Tribune has found much to
praise in the broad recommendations
of Seymour Cromwell, president of
the New York Stock Exchange, for
purifying financial practices and i'm
proving safeguards for the investor.
1t particularly regrets, therefore,
the incident of the premature listing
of the North American Oil Com
pany, whose career as listed stock
lasted only one day. Errors and in
fractions of rules cannot be avoided
by the Stock Exchange or any other
institution where the human eaua-
tion is factor. But ac this time.
when the exchange is undertaking to
point the way to the rest of the ma
tlon in the matter OF reforms de-
signed to protect the investing pub
lie, it is especially desirable that it's
conduct be, so far as possible, above
reproach.
IL a oiunueTs or worse, has been
made in connection with the listing
of an oil stock which sold at $40 a
share on one day and was without a
bidder the next, the Stock Exchange.
after completing inquiries now un-
der way, ought to make a public
statement fixing the blame. Silence
IN such matters plays into the hands
OF the swindler, the blue-sky opera
tor and the bueketeer, who point TO
such nlissteps as reasons why the
nnknowing should patronize them.
instead of institutions of established
reputation.
Aside from the legal technicalities.
listing on the New York Stock TX
change places security in favored
status, and, no matter how nunaer-
ons the letters Of recommendation.
the authorities at the board should.
in our Minion, act only on the basis
Of theft own Independent analysis.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30

the world at large may not be particu-
larly interested in his family affairs
or in any affairs exclusively his own,
Tor th&J matter. So he tells the worli
instead of his contacts with Emerson,
Thoreau, Hawthorne, Sumner, Louisa
M. Alcott, John Brown, Verlaine,
Whistler, Rosa Bonheur, Canfeld,
Booth, Stanford White and score
more.
Mr.. Simmons was born in Concord in
the parsonage where Hawthorne lived
when he wrote "Mosses From an Old
Manse." He lived in San Francisco
during it's vivid, prodigal youth. He
studied in Paris and has worked for
many years in New York. Each of
these cities, in turn, forms the back
ground for life story that consists
chiefly of one anecdote after another
gorgeous anecdotes that restore flesh
and blood to persons who had begun to
grow glamourous and indefinite through
the passage of the years.
Edward Simmons is a great artist
more shame to us for our Ignorance
We think that he is even greater as
an autobiographer. After reading his
account of his life, you feel real re-
gret that he isn't a cat.
1t is a great pity that all autobicx-
raphers are not as frank ae Mr.. Sim
mons-or even more so. After all, each
mans knowledge of himself and the
theories Of living that he has built
up for that self during the course of
two or three generations, embodv
everything that fiction tries to encona-
pass and SO seldom achieves.
The best fiction, we think. ;a canar-
ally directly or indirectly autobio-
graphical--and the worst part Of auto.
biography is the fiction that the writer
instills into it to shield or glorify him
self. The chief fault Of the man who
sets out to write the story of his ,;fs
Is that ne Is less willing to be honest
about himself than about anything else
IN the world. He admits this. bur in
stead OF eonceding that his ego makes
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
lF.F ~

I him 8 liar, insinuates with hunbls
pride that he is modest.
Men set out on their voyage and Il
it's course explore tie bays and ests.
aries of life, ground on its shoals, an
buffeted by its storms. Then, whs
port is in sight, they hide eyeryshis
they have found in their adyentasSs
There are either migerly-or sslaa
Even when they are inspired TO sre
the tale of their voyage, this is usay
feeble imitation of saga, lusni
Of an elaboration, clari6cation ai
5unmation OF the facts set down il
the log book.
Consequently, for truth concerning
a7srar corduct and the operation d
these formulm we call life, one has u
go back TO the Bible, which, eftti
thirty or forty centuries, still remain.
the greatest of human documents II
may be divine inspiration that makes
the pages Of the Old Testament vital
to-day. Rather, we think, it is an at-
sence of self-consciousness and this
modern restriction men call medssty--
which is not infrequently fear Of the
libel law.
When we become Gear. wa shall ID.
sist that each man who has left has
mark upon his era shall be compelled
to write candid story Of bis own lifs,
to be published, if he desires, post
hunously. If this becomes common
custom Of humanity, We might los
some of our present heroes, but vs
think that the heroes, now unkcxn,
who would be raised TO glory vona
more than compensate FOR the loss.
Out of such a mass Of Testimony azs
unvarnished accounts OF experiences
there would develop In sine sort q
Bureau of Life Navigation, to ghlsa
we mariners could refer for maps aaa
advice and to which we could eserts-
ally report uncharted islands and r1s
marked reefs encountered on our 'sa
voyages.
There is still another unusual tang
shout Mr.. Simmcns's autobiograpns'
He has evidently written Il himself
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
Sunken Roadway for Autos

o"S &uiboI VI knG tribune.
Sir: notice with much interest ana
satisfaction The incipient agitation
against existing conditions in regard
TO motor vehicles in this city, an agi-
tation which, unless I am very much
mistaken, will shortly reach prpor-
taons which will compel the authors
Ties to take some other steps for the
protection Of pedestrians than posting
placards telling them not to get hurt.
1t is time for them to wake nm TO
tne fact that an arrangement bv which
motors and human beings travel nm tha
same level Is not practicable. The motor
can Kill the human being, while the lat
ter cannot even stop the motor. A
trolley car runs on a track and xtavs
tnere' SO that one can easily avoid con-
tacc with II. Automobiles run any,
where by which minute or two can
De saved, at the expense Of the pedes-
trian's safety. Sometimes. il INA
hands Of inexperienced or care,asa
drivers, they trespass on the sidewalk
ana even invade buildings BY wav az
their plateglass windows.
There is ono and only one solution
oT the traffic problem, and that il )
sunken roadway for automobiles, tho
cost to be met not by additional tax.
asion OF the unfortunate pedestrian
VINO mas already suffered loss OF health
ana !, obstruction Of nerves, but BIZ !
,,,,, aalses ', sax On al motor vehicles which
Wl.i provide sufficient san FOR the
Duisaing and maintenance o9 such :
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
The Anti-Lynching Bill

The chief objection offered to the
Dyer anti-lynching bill is that it is
an invasion Of states rights. This
matter was threshed out when the
bill appeared before the House. Its
opponents then went so far as to
state that if it were passed the states
would cease to exist except as geo.
graphical expressions.
AS a matter of fact, there has long
been indecision as to the boundary
between Federal and state rights in
the exercise Of the police power.
This the Dyer bill aims to eliminate.
If the state or county fails to pre-
vent lynching it's officials become ac-
countable to the Federal govern
ment. 1t is simply matter of SUBJ
stituting Federal enforcement for
local non-enforcement. The state Is
under a pledge to protect Americans
and foreigners within its borders. If
it continues to fail to do so, what
other remedy is there than for the
Federal government to step in2
Few indeed are those persons who
attempt to justify lynching. But it
is not enough merely to deplore this
barbarous practice. OF what good
are protestations Of horror about
lynching when these same protest
ors, who have the power to put an
end to it, are unwilling to support
measures designed to achieve this
purpose?
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
Three Per Cent Beer

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. volstead, in his letter to
The Tribune, states, among other
things, that "3 per cent beer, as eyery-
body knows, is Intoxicating"
But "evs -ybody" does not know that
8 per cent beer is Intoxicating. I do
not, for one. I have never yet seen
any one drunk on straight per cent
beer (and in my time / have had an
extensive and sad and varied ex-
perience with booze-fghters of every
kind, nor. individually, have | ever
possessed the physical capacity to con.
tain enough per cent beer to make
me drunk.
Mr.. Volstead should not lose sight of
the fact that there are probably very
few people who have ever been both
physically and financially able to ac-
quire and consume at one sitting
enough 5 per cent beer to produce in
toxication.
GEORGE WEsTERvELT.
New York, Nov. %, 1922.
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Books and So Forth By Ffsde; e F : ye1 e, de waA'
DESTINY

DESTINY
O'er drab and futile tasks I pore,
In sordid ways my life is laid
Yet l shall face, at last. the door
Where august Caesars stopped, dis
mayed.
No hosts my swift decisions wait;
On humble paths | go and come
Yet l shall stand before that gate
Where heroes haIte i, awed and dumb.
And there, when He, unseen, will watch
One unrenowned for Worth or Sin,
May I not tumble with the latch
And fear to push the portal in.
Shall l., when have struggled past
The barriers that Fate had planned,
Forget my longing, when at last
on Adventures threshold stand?
pray that for seconds space
Upon that door my shadow fall
Before burst it in, to face
The True Romance that waits for all.
I NTIL we started to read @From
" Seven to Seventy" the auto
biography of Edward Simmons, we had
no idea, such is our artistic benight-
edness, who Edward Simmons was. We
know now. He is our friend and we
are his respectful admirer. That is the
sort Of volume "From Seven to Sew
enty" is.
Most persons who sit down to write
their personal histories appear to feel,
not unreasonably, that their triumphs
should be the most important part of
their history and everything else incl
dental. Mr.. Simmons has reversed that
scheme. A mural painter by profes-
sion, he has used spacious canvas
for his work. He has given us as vivid
an impression of his surroundings as
he has Of Edward Simmons.
We don't remember whom he mar
ried. We don't think he says. We're
uncertain whether he mentions his
children, or the lack of them. He ia
gentleman who has considered that
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
Elevator Hat Etiquette
ths Editor q The Tribune.

io the Editor Of The Tribune.
sir: Henry Finlay. who writes to
you about Elevated Hats is laboring
uhaer delusion when he infers that
= woman who travels in an office
building is only worker and there
fore not in the same class with the
women who enter elevators in i build
ing which is lived in.' Does mot Mr..
T1hiay knew that some Of the very
women who travel in the elevators Of
hoteis and apartments likewise ride
IN office building elevators?
am quite aware of the fact that
Present day etiquette does not require
shaf man remove his hat IN an once
oa'ldang elevator in the presence of
Women nor do women expect suck
ereatment; nevertheless. think YOU
WIN agree with me that Mr. Finlay Is
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James J. Montague
Hard TO Understand

LidTu 10 OnIerStanQ
t"Rat Week" Is shortly to be observed
in England.l
Though it is not to be denied
That in this busy nation
Too many weeks are set aside
For public observation,
Though we are always in a fret
Concerning this or that week,
We're proud to say we never yet
Have celebrated Rat Week.
Though England has declared she
means
For seven days to feature
In journals and in magazines
This base, burglarious crea-
ture,
We loath the varmint such lot,
So scornfully we view him,
That we assuredly would not
Attract attention to him.
Though geese saved Rome and
though a dove,
When Noah cut it's tether,
Brought home the leafy tidings of
A welcome change of weather,
The rat raids granary and mill
In quest of ill-got booty,
He never has and never will
Perform public duty.
We hold that England is at
fault
A monumental blunder
Is this proposal to exalt
A brute whose trade is plum
der!
To waste on such squeaking
beast
A wealth of time and money
Seems strange TO US, to say the
least
But Englishmen are funny!
New-York tribune., 1922-11-30

train hand announcing the station it
must sound crystal clear as 1t is
liquid and melodious. 1t rivals the
name of the late John Boyle O'Reilly,
of which It's proud possessor said
"D'ye mind what smooth, soft name
I have? John--Boyle--O' 'Reillyjust
like strokin' cat!" That such a
name should vanish from the map
and from the tongues of men must
be unthinkable.
New Yorkers don't know where it
is, any more than Moonachie, or
Succasunna, or Hohokus, or Hackle-
barney, or any other Of a multitude
of places with whose names New Jer-
sey has enriched the gazetteer. But
they love to think that there is such
q place. They have themselves let
their own good old names of Tubby
Hook and Bloomingdale and Car
Evansville and what not be eliminated
and forgotten. But it comforts them
to think that neighboring commu-
mites are wiser and more reverent.
Life seems somehow brighter and
sweeter and better worth living in
the presence Of names which are not
merely five but full fifty "sweet
symphonies, such as Acquackan-
monk and Parsippany, Allamuchy
and Pahaquarry, Chestnaquack and
Musconetcong, Cushetunk and Ora
noken.
Of these verbal jewels, "that on
the stretch'd forefnger of all time
sparkle forever" there is none
brighter than the much loved
Secaucus. Long may it wave!