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New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
"Stop" and GO"

\ uniform system of traffic sig
rails in all the states is obviously de-
sirablc. The American Engineering
Standards Committee is to work one
out. If the plan proves to be we'll
devised it should and doubtless will
be adopted the country over.
The committee will be wise not to
tamper with danger signals to which
every person by instinct responds.
Red is the color Of warning; green
or white says 60 ahead.
1t is awkward that red and green
are the colors undistinguishable by
the color blind. to whom both are
green. There is a story of John
Greenleaf Whittier, who would not
depart from Quaker garb, appearing
at reception in a bright vermilion
necktie. It's deeply verdant sobriety
had appealed to him. Galton, the
great student Of heredity, made the
curious observation that Quakers
oftener than others were color blind
because for many generations their
eyes had dwelt on somber hues Sci
dom does a member Of the Society of
Friends "see red"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Cuba's Flag

There was a peculiar fitness IN the
formal presentation of flag Of the
Republic Of Cuba to the City of New
York which does not seem to have
been mentioned in the ceremony but
which should not be overlooked. The
flag was simply returning to its
birthplace; in New York City the
first Cuban flag was made.
The Cuban flag was designed by
Narciso Lopez, the famous Nonczu-
elan. onetime con1radc Of Simon Boil
ivar, who sacrificed his life as the
leader Of the first serious Cuban in
surrcction. After bis first plans for
a Cuban uprising we're betrayed
Lopez came to New York, in 1913.
on his way trying in vain to get
either Jefferson Davis or Robert f.
Lee to head his next expedition to
Cuba. While he was in New York
he was tried IN nbacutin by a court
martial at Havana and was con-
demned to death.
The flag was designed by Lopez
and his comrade Miguel Tolon, of
Matanzas, poet and patriot. Its
colors were copied from the Ameri-
can flag, and 50, in a general way,
was the pattern. The five blue and
white stripes represented the five
provinces of Cuba. The triangular
red field represented thc blood Of
sacrifice. The white star was the
star of Cuba's hope. That flag was
carried to Cuba by Lopez in 1850
and raised on Cuban soil at his cap
ture of Cardenas, May 10, 1850, the
halyards being operated by Lopez
himself and Theodore O'Hara. au-
thor of THE Biyouac of the Dead. >
After the capture and death Of
Lopez the flag disappeared But the
design was remembered. and in 1868,
in a Workshop on Warren Street,
near Broadway, were mace Jhe many
flags carried in the Ten Years War.
1t was first raised in Cuba for that
campaign at the Iara plantation, on
October 10, 1868. where Cuban inde-
pendence was proclaimed. And
again many copies were made here
in 1894 and 1895, under the direction
of Jose Marti, for use in the final
war Of independence.
The flag was presented to this
city on the twentieth anniversary
Of the day on which the Cuban flag
replaced the American flag over
the Palace and Morro Castle at
Havana. But it was also WITHIN a
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Old Mr.. So-and-So
From This Hotion)

From This Hotton)
WHEN I first came here. a dozen
years ago,
The mountains said they'd tell me when
time came to go.
That Is promise they've never taken
back;
To-day they pointed Gabriel the way to
my shack
Early this morning when the first cock
crew,
Gods angel touched me and named a
rendezvous
I've q little water and I've a little
meal;
I'll build me fire while can sill
Beneath a down coverlid my father died,
With smooth linen sheets tucked along
the side.
With priest and nurse and a screen
from the air,
And a second silken screen to break the
lamps glare
! hdI Is "JlAt II meant 10 me, Wnep ne0o
pie said:
"old Mr.. So-and-so died in his bed"
There's no one to care and there's no
one to come.
III build me fire before my hands
are numb.
The first birds are here and the flowers
win come soon,
warm wet wind blows clouds across
the moon.
Old men are cold, and it Is a bitter thing
To live through the winter and die in
the spring.
Again it will be true and again It will
be said:
"Old Mr.. So-and- So died in his bed"
No screens to break the searching
rays that pour
On bare plank and hearth, with
Gabriel at the doori
MALLEVILLE HASLER.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Public Defender Support

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The statement contained in
the pamphlet entitled the Criminal
Courts" issued recently by the Glove
land Foundation Survey of Criminal
Justice in Cleveland viz: "The as
signed counsel system should give way
to the more modern. more efficient,
more economical public defender sys-
tenn is significant Of the appeal which
the public defender proposal s making
to public favor. The former criticism
that public defender support was to be
found only in the ranks of "senti-
mental reformers" is gradually disap-
pearing in the face of the prestige
given by these foundations, as we'll as
by distinguished judges and lawyers.
The so-called "coddling" of Grim
'inals, referred to in the public prints
in connection with the existing "crime
wave" has no application whatever to
the public defender proposal, which has
for its fundamental basis the melting
out OF equal justice 20 all classes or
accused persons. The successful demo
stration Of an official agency to repre-
sent INDECENT accused persons in Los
Angeles and in other American com
munitics clearly indicates the need for
extending the system throughout the
country. "The assigned counsel" sys-
tenn has proven itself inadequate from
any viewpoint.
The public defender is the Logical
solution of the problem of securing an
equality of justice to poor persons
accused Of crime and vigorous; cffor,
will be made at the mex. session o;
the Legislature to bring about the re
quired legislation.
MAYER c. GOLDMAN.
New York. Nay ~. 1887.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Satapulting Hvdropianes

naval alrp,ane catapu!t has sue
.eqsa -. in launching hydroplane
WIN sufficient force for it to attain
: speed Of sixty miles an hour al
s,'S' instantaneously. Eyewitncsses
..'eft that this velocity is obtained
'.nln distance Of sixty feet,
ans new device is, of course, pri-
AsrHy important in connection with
"a operations. The new airplane
.~'f'ers' equipped with this cata-
s"'' VIII become formidable bsttle
s@pohS instead # mere hydroplane
"ansports.
Da' the catapult IL not without it,
p'rtance in the development of
aefclal aviation. 1t is not in-
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
A Week of Verse
Twelfth Night

lFrorn IN, Frcc,nnrl
q SWEET slow tempo Of those happier
years
That left men leisure for 80 many
thingsl
Leisure for music and for madness, too,
FOR alterations and for fertile tears.
VINO listens now when comes the Fool
who sings?
Who cries OLIVIA" the whole nfght
through,
Or builds willow cabin at the gate
or his desire and stands importunate
Till air and earth give heed?
We have no time for anything but speed,
And scarcely know what we pursue
Or whittier tend,
Or what far lovers meeting may await
The reckless journeys end,
ANNE GOODWIN WINSIOT.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Rowdy Fans" Hurt Baseball

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your account of the New Y ork
Washington baseball game of Thursday
presents a good word picture not only
Of the occurrences at that game but Of
typical conditions in the grandstand at
many another game.
! have no desire to defend Ruth y
conduct either on the field or in the
stand, but do want to comment upon
the cowardly, filthy abuse which was
shouted from the grandstand by fan"
whose language, according to your ac-
count, was unfit to be printed in a
newspaper Heard on the feld, it must
also have been heard by hundreds of
women IN the stand.
Is there no prospect of securing ac-
tion by the promoters of the national
game looking to the election from the
stands of men whose cheap profanity
and cowardly vulgarity are certain, if
permitted to continue, greatly to lessen
the attendance Of decent sport loving
people? No amusement will continue
to be prosperous when conditions are
allowed to develop which drive out the
decent patronage. That is plain
business fact.
My own interest is aroused because
baseball is the finest athletic sport for
boys, and it is good thing to have
boys see the game played by the best
professional players. 1t is very bad
thing to have them carry away the i'm
preston that a spectator who has OBJ
tanned ticket to see the game has ac-
quired with it right to insult the
ears, as we'll as the sportsmanlike in
stincts of hundreds of other people
both men and women.
For the sake of the boy keep the
great game clean, and for the sake of the
sport itself put out Of the grounds the
occasionaLloafer. who, if permitted tc
remain, will keep many a patron away
from the grounds. Quite aside from al
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

1t happened at Walton Heath, in
England. A member Of Parliament was
in a bunker. with a niblich, goltng.
His wife was standing near by, patiently
observing him. and presently she said:
"Charles, shall read to you while you
do that" Obviously he needed some
thing to sustain him in a crisis of
this sort, one in which insult was added
to injury. And as obviously he had it,
for the story does not add that he
either killed the lady or gave up the
game. Opinions may differ as to just
what pulled him through. One analyst
Of the episode might be content with
calling the NJ p. good sportsman.
Another might possibly assert that ha
was upheld by an incurabl enthusiasm.
maintain simply that he was philos-
opher.
There is philosophy OF golf, which
is not explained by ardor or sports
manship. Indeed, I am not sure but
that it is by some subtle paradox anti
thetical to sportsm anship, though fire.
quently coexistent with it in the self
same golfing soul. About true sports
manship, take it, there is som thing
chivalrous. From respect for an an
tagonst il rises into admiration for
him. Sportsmsnship without generos-
ity is contradiction in terms When
you have just lost a hole and your
opponent takes the honor at the next
tee we will assume that he hits out a
perfectly sweet, clean ball, straight
down the course, for good 900 yards.
We will assume also that you rejoice
with him in his drive. Surely that is
part of the game. But if he fufFs it
into the rough, about ten yards off,
wouldn't 1T take fearful lot of as
sumption to credit you with immeas-
urabie sorrow? It is curious how in
such moment philosophy creepE in.
You say hard luck" of course. There
are always the decencies to be observed
But you proceed to make your own
drive in mood OF resignation, which
develops into something like compla-
cencY if by good luck you get beyond
the rough. And are you downhearted
/ II, by any bad luck. you fluff it, too
( Not at all. For arc not you and your
! dear friend even off the tce'
It all comes back to the law of com
pensation. The golfer, no matter nov
much he may esteem himself, is after
all only a child at play, and, like g
child. what his heart Graves is con.
ISOLATION. When Wilkins minor. aged
three. silver mug in hand falls off q
rug and abrades his damask cheek, al
he requires is that Mummy shall rush
we'll" When Wilkins major, agee
/ thirty three, going strong on his game
and hopeful of mug with the date Of
a tournament scratched upon Il. falls
! off his drive, all that is needed to keep
the glow upon his brazen cheek is fol-
the enemy to slice into a pit-or IL
some way to keep the thing "al
square" | have observed the opera
tion of this philosophical instinct upor
several occasions Once, for example
I had the pleasure (not at all un
familiar) of match with a golfer ex
ceedingly my superior. We dingdonget
along for a number of holes with M
salient incidents. He merely took th'
honor and kept it until we came tt
one of the longest holes on the course
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Good News

The best news from Europe for
long tmt is that the International
bankers. who would make loan to
Germany and would create CON
dtions making it foatable, have no.
tfed Germany that she must comply
with the terms of the Reparation
Commission and also take immedi-
ate measures to stop the initiation Of
German currency.
Coincidentally is the news from
Berlin that the Wirth ministry is to
t0nlply and will increase taxation
and submit, 50 far as may be nee
essary, to financial control by the
Reparation Commission. Thus Ger
many climbs down. By 50 doing
practically once more she confesses
the true nature Of her claims of IN
ability to pay.
Last year Germany perpetrated the
great mark joke. She met a rep
sratlon installment by putting print
ing presses at work 10 turn out
paper marks that were sold to mark
SPECTATORS throughout the world
Thus she loaded on the SPECTATORS
the amount of the bill against her.
This year the plan was to go scot
Gree a second time by borrowing on
n unsecured note Of bond. Half
jae proposed to keep for herself and
he other half was to be turned back
70 those from whom she borrowed,
and who were TO graciously stamp
Pad in full across this years rep
atstion bill,
But financiers have harder heads
'han politicians and are not so easily
ulled. Yes" they have said in
eject, I'VE may be able to make a
ban, but YOU must give us special
security, agree to pay debts now due
with this money we advance. stop
the issue of paper money, which only
makes your economic recovery i'm
possible, and submit to taxation that
will aNortize the debt, and thus
make real instead Of bogus pay
ment."
German fnesse has been too fine
has overreached itself. Germany
mas actual wealth aggroeating $780,
oOo,oO0oO0, and surely can pay one
tenth Of it But the trouble has been
us lack of lquidity. The bankers
nave apparently found way to
make It liquid, something that Ger
many so far has avoided herself.
let the reparation question is solved
Saen Germany consents to issuing
securities that are good. No French
man or any one else wants actual
s0lo. 4 salable credit is better.
mat Germany cannot pay interest on
me new bonds will scarcely be said
" the widest pro-Gernaan. Her
anhua per capita taxation is only
slV' against a per capita TAXATION Of
20 IN France and $50 in Great
'',ain. France would, Of course,
''ner nave we'll secured, marketable
"a1s than IN open account, More
"ef' the French are shrewd enough
ne glad 70 have q larger number
" persons throughout the world in
%'eSted In seeing Germany conquer
VIC hab't Of pledge breaking.
Tepara,ion settlement will have
great effect n quieting Europe.
and to settle it there must be
Sneme satisfying to French opinion
'"o reasonable certainty that Ger
many has abandoned the policy Of
''e'n'ng evasion. The ba0kers have
mace q good start toward succeeding
held i'm which the statesmen so
's' nave been helpless.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Clouds
fFror, The Measure J

TFFo7H ] NJ N eGsIyeI
EARTH dies to haze below, the cables
sing,
The motor dronez like son,e cioan+ic Av
A monstrous mound Of vapor bathes my
wing
And backward with the wind goes sweep
ing by;
Above the voids white crags 20 sharn
or dim.
Oaks wave the discs OF rootless island.
swim,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Flight

fFror, The Heo.urs)
WHO shall know the way
w That her feet took,
BY a sapless tree,
BY dried brook?
None woke to hear,
She left no door ajar,
Down the road Of night
She went like a star.
She left no door ajar;
On her, light as air,
She felt a deadman's hand
Tremble on her hair.
In the hush Of dawn,
Down trail lost.
She reached a river
That sne never crossed.
HAROLD VINAL.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

questions Of ethics. it would be good
business to refund the price of half a
dozen tickets a day. and by cjecting
the offenders ndvcrtisc the intention
of the management to keep professional
baseball sport for decent people.
EDWIN ". DAYTON.
Boys Work Secretary, Rotary Clpb Of
New York.
New York, May 26, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
On Philosophy in Golf

with the thickest Of all the greens.
don't know what accounted for the
adequacy Of my wooden shots, my sue
cessful use Of the midiron, or the ap-
proach that took me over a nasty OBJ
stacle onto the green, with a long putt
to contemplate. Least of all can ac-
count for the putt itself, which sank
the ball for a win. 1t took me a
minute to come to, and, when l was to,
| found hadn't budged. I measured
that putt. foot by foot, and when the
job was done I said to my opponent:
"Listen this is going down into my
memoirs as my forty-foot putt He
swallowed hard for moment and then
quoth he, gravely: But see here, old
chap, your foot isn't twelve inches
long You remark how phlosop
slipped in to kiss his cheek and make
it we'll.
I have known this consolatory move
ment of the eolfing mind to lift man
above positive disaster. 1t was in a
threesome this time, the third member
of which fairly looped the loop
around his companions. But at the
seventeenth tee fortune smiled upon
us. My partner drove most edify-
ing ball, over the rough, beyond the
bunker. a good bit up the fairway on
the hill. 1t must have inspired me, for
I contrived, somehow, to follow suit.
Then emote he the ball, our Master, a
super-wallop, leagues over the bunker.
Only it WAS sliced traS caly off the
course, into rough sprinkled with
powders, which, to make matters worse,
were disposed in front of stone wall
way. You figure our anguish, com
fortably set for the next move and
obliged to regard a comrade in such
appalling distress. For him to get out
of his mess was job enough. For him
to gain any distance to speak Of IN the
process was merely impossible. The
only thing to do was to play safe
back onto the fairway, at the sacrifice
of a whole shot Well we awaited that
solution of the matter with the cheer
full resignation TO which have alluded
But the Master had some philosophy
too. Huh" said he, scornfully, as he
got into position for the pitch; ANY
wav. no duffer could have driven in
here"
That has always seemed to me the
last word in the philosophy Of golf.
ingly lost. The situation is beyond re-
pair. Waterloo is rolling up it's pre-
destined battalions Butcher is not
twenty miles away; he is just turning
the corner. But you snatch modlcum
of solace from the jaws of defeat.
know this, if only from single eX-
perience Of my own at Garden CITY
There were eight of US in this match
the Reds and the Blues, two Reds and
two Blues for each foursome. There
was q pot to be played for and exc
dinner. Nothing thrilling occurred in
my foursome until we reached the
home hole, the short hole over pond
drove a ball there which would have
been ideal save for the detail that 1t
came to rest in the shadows about two
, feet from the opposite shore. How,
ever, be kind enough to keep that ball
in mind.
7 drove another. And another,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Three Sisters

fFroo, Votces>
JOHANNA talks Of Lemuel
" And talk of spinning sing
But Emily sits all alone
Nor speaks of anything.
The thoughtless words Johanna drops
Are dull and little worth.
They sink to rest with those I speak.
AS pebbles fall to earth.
The silent words Of Emily.
I wonder where they go
The secret things she does not say,
When she is sitting so.
HELEN FRAZEE-
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

day of the seventy-sccond annivcr-
sary of the first raising OF that flag
over Cuban soil
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

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New Britain herald., 1922-03-11
|. $. EXPENSE ACCOUNT.

The United States has asked that she be paid her expenses for occupy ing the Rhineland before reparations are distributed to the allies. This ex- pense has been greater than the Unit ed States would have had it because the allies did not want the forces of this country to depart as soon as the United States intended This coun- try obliged and now would seek pay ment, Strange it is that the allies should be surprised. The request looks sane wise and cminently proper on the part of the United States. Moreover the United States is in clined to suggest to the allies that as they have not readjusted their own expenses, reducing arnlaments in &C., cordanco with the peace spirit sought to be cultivated. it is not seemiy for them to object to paying the mere expenses of this country for doing what the allies wanted it to do, be- fore they themselves begin to receive separations payments, aS they had de- cided to do.
 When the United States made it's separate peace with Germany il re- served the rights granted it under the treaty of Versailles. It was suggest cd here that this country would have been in far better position had it been q party to that treaty as taking the advantages of t without it's ob ugations might cuuse some discus sion later. The allies seem to have hit upon thfs fact aa one which ,ends Co cloud the title of the United States to paymont-as 1t was expected they would raise the question
 But whether or not this country relies upon the Versailles contract. it has another ,mpliod contract, good at law, justifying it's present demand. Certainly it is wise to demand our ex- penses now.
New Britain herald., 1922-03-11
MORE ENCOURAGING DATA.

Bad news, in addition to travelling fast sinks into the mind of it's own weight, No pressure is needed. Good news, on the sother hand, needs em- phasis. The human ear seems more attuned| to- bad than to good news. Hence this repetition. 7 From Washington comes the in formation that Thigh treasury off, cials" feel that the marked improve Ment recently in the general economic situation bears evidence of perma- tency. They expect a continuance of the upward trend
 W Deputy Labor Commissioner Burke, of this state, bases his optimistic opin- spectors and on the records of a spe- cial investigator. He says: "Thc out look for employment is very cncour- aging" He pays a compliment to New Britain by saying it has been well taken care Ol Dv lHe Clty dullOf!llGS and the conditions here have im- proved. He fails to pay the compli- ment> to the taxpayers which he should. He might have added that they, through their representatives, authorized the issue of bonds, patron- ized the municipal employment bu- reau, and co-operated in every way possible, doing the things later rec commended by the Washington unem- ployment conference long before that conference made it's recommends tions.
 The secretary of the New Britain Welfare association in her report says: Tn spite of a temporary slump in the factories during January, con ditions have improved somewhat and the men of tho families are gradually getting back to work some of 45 and 50 hours q week.
 If everyone will but believe that conditions will be better here and will conduct themselves and their business as though they believed conditions would be better, conditions will be better. Let's go
New Britain herald., 1922-03-11
IRONING IN SCHOOLS

| Many people, unable to hear com- Iiiict, win ahuddor at the news that official sanction has been given to holding boxing contests in public schools and community centors, as the | Cleveland board of education has ldonc. They, these obiecters, will see in the action a return to the primi- |tiTe.
 There is much Co be complained of justly in professional boxing, as there is in professional football, perhaps. But this is beside the point here made.
 There is no question but that on Icouraging boxing in schools would develop some of the attributes of the
 primitive man. The question arises
 Immediately and compellingly: "Do
 We not need just a bit of such de-
 yelopment?"
 As infusion of new blood will re-
 vitalize q weakening strain so, it
 would seem, would cultivation of strength, courage, freedom from fear of physical pain, revitalize men. The wisdom of proper supervision of such attempts to renew the vitality of the race, is obvious. If the introduction of boxing in schools and community centers would result in it's general
 practice by all students, contestants being carefully selected with d view to allowing no uneven matches and giving no chance for the encourage ment of natures too primitive, but rather a modification of such disposi- tions good would result