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New-York tribune., 1922-05-25

here Is room enough between Ii,
infinitely great and .he infinitely lj,t,
for anything u Il, ard there are .;r,.,
enough IN operation IN ne nacroco.r
and, indeed. in ogr cosmos, to p.oau.
any effect, bvt we must renemb.. a.
always remember. that in nature thsn
can be 70 effect without cau.. ar
tha. .he sum total Of a.! esect. I.
nature is exactly equal 70 the sun tot
Of producing causes. Every es.e: sas
It's parent in q producing cauasstss.
causes and effects succeed o.s ns.a
n undertaking. inevitable o-d.. ind n
effect can possibly happen ts-iay tia
did not have a cause in .hs p,ina
nebIla. which cause. 100, hs3 its p.,.
cause and lire OF ancestry .unna.
back n Infinite time, beycad or &C,
ception, and there has been from .hs,
cause in the primal nebula a coa.ln.
ous chain OF causes ard effects aes
10 the present efec. which We cel
tempiating.
II the entire mechanism Of IRE u,i-
verse could BE set hack 8 .housan!
years and all ths stoms in existence
pc placed in the positions taey thea
occupied ard actnated by the zane
forces, then everything would recetH'
exactly as i has occurred through
nature during the past thousand !m'
Every earthly event would reocer'1
its exact order, and the history Of x
lives would be exactly the same, ,ac"
should ali again be here al the p'sssa
moment. thinking the same 'aossm
and acting or the same imeu!sss-sa
without chsnging the nature Of fssHs'
atom or swerving one from its dss1'as'
course.
Thus it is thst # We have sn I'D
mortal soul It must, ike ourselves"
q necessary child Of evolution ana"
must. by our every thought ana GU
every act. be made pregnant withH
ethereal body and counterpart OF @.
selves. TO which we snail at death g.
birth HUDSON MAXIM
Landing. y. J., May %. 1872.
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Mr.. Maxim on the Eternal Riddle

OF the mind, and if we have a soul i.
probably sits on tho same perch with
the mind, somewhere on the top Of
the medulla oblongata If the brain
has an immortal soul. then it Is also a
rational supposition that every part Of
the body also has some sort Of death.
surviving essence.
Out of the ether nature has
quarried the worlds, and from the ether
all life has sprung. Nitrogen. HYDRO
gen and carbon united in speck Of
slime in an ancient sea TO form the
moneron. the primal germ Of all life
on the planet Under the stimuli Of
ehVlronlng forces, that germ OF life
was IN modified, and the descendants Of its
modified forms also were modified and
differentiated on the lines Of -heir
chlct necessities. until the world was
peopled 5 we find it, with every form
Of life, animal and vegetable, from the
monad up to man. Those same forces
are operating today still further to
modify and difFerentiate all existing
living forms, and always on the lines
of their chief necessities.
Now, if it happens to be one of this
chief necessities OF human life that it
shall have an immortal soul. then that
immortal soul has been in its making
from the moneron up to man, and its
maker has been the same kind OF
stimulus that has forged the human
brain from the terminal ganglion of
the primitive cord worm, and from the
fin of a fish forged that marvellous
mechanism and companion of the brain.
the human hand.
cannot conceive of any unbroken
chain of necessity that can bridge the
chasm of death and maintain an i'm.
mortal part Of us, and go on modify
ing and differentiating it after death.
Nevertheless, there is so much in
nature that transcends our understand
ing that we must meet all problems
with an open mind and not make
1eclslon or pronouncement against any
heory of natural law and life without
convincing evidence.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
aris Hotel Rates

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A few weeks ago lunched with
friend who was about to sail for
france She had many tales to tell of
the extortons which Americans were
SAID to be experiencing in the hotels of
Paris. | asked her to write me from
Paris and let me know lust what tho
conditions were, and in particular I
asked her to find out for me the rates
IN the hotel where I had STAYED in 1918.
hotel to which the American Red
Cross was then sending it's personnel.
! quote from her reply: "Nothing is as
DAD as represented in America. | pay
mere SO francs day, but have real
American steam heat. In YOUR hotel
your rate would be 80 francs day each
en- pension"
AS the franc is to-day worth about Q
cents, this means that at really cx-
cellent hotel which I found most COM
portable you can get good room and
three we'll cooked and we'll served
meals for $3.l5 a day.
also wrote to a we'll known Paris
motel asking for a statement as to the
conditions which tourists would find in
the city, and have received the fol-
lowing reply:
The prices now in force in French
hote's are not to be raised. These
prices are lower than those of last
year. There is tax Of 10 to 3 rer
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Saving Riis Park

hough the ever growing popula-
ton Of New \ ork constantly en,nha.
sizes It's already woefully inadeouate
amount of park space. the Navv De
partment has renewed it's demand
tor part Of Jacob Rils Park, on
Rockaway peninsula, 1t would es-
tabllsh there a permanent nava, air
station.
With all the levels Of Long Island
to choose from the department finds
nothing except Eiis Park suitable to
It's requirements and makes the p)ea
that the land is needed for nur-
poses Of naval defense.' As Rock
away is not particularly strategic,
this plea is manifestly merely pre-
text. The department would secure
site without going to a stony
hearted, pocket-buttoned CONGRESS-
Tor an appropriation. 1t is deemed
easier to eject New York from one
Of its few pieces of sea front.
Rockaway Point is now distant in
time from Manhattan; but it will
not be long until it will be accessible
and its breeze-swept reaches will
give relief to sweltering millions.
Here is a case where the claims of
CIVIC necessity outweigh those of
military necessity. The government
may properly be asked to 20 else
where, leaving the park alone to full
fill its great future mission.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of the 1otf
instant Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE ha.
called me to account for my exprcsse ed
opinion that photographs of the spirits
Of the dead are produced BY sope sort
of hocus -pocus and that thev are
not actually photographs Of immorta
souls
| wish to say that gave this mere
Iy as my opinion, without stating it
as a fact. furthermore, 7 wish to
mention the fact that I expressed the
highest regard and confident belief in
the sincerity, honesty and high pur-
pose of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir
Oliver Lodge and Sir William Crookes
IN their inquiries into spirtualistic
phenomena, generally termed psychic
phenomena.
What is evidence to one mind is not
evidence to another. A truth that
nlay be self-evident to one mind NAV
not appear even plausible to another.
/ must admit that in the absence of
sufficient scientific evidence to con-
vince me that we have an immortal
part am an agnostic respecting a soul
that will survive death
We may. for all ! know, have an i'm
mortal spirit, and if we have. then. in
my opinion, spiritualism is the most
rational of all religious beliefs; be-
cause, if we have surviving spirit,
the world Of spirits must be still our
world and there must be ever present
about us. billions upon billions of the
souls Of those who have lived and
died on the earth
If I were actually to believe that I
have a ghost-body. which will survive
death, wrapped up in my earth body,
then I should certainly be worried
some as to what I should do with an
lnextnguishable consciousness fitting
about forever in the homeless depths
of space. 1t is, for me, a much more
comfortable belief that when am
lead | shall be altogether dead
We know that the brain is the seat
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
Profitable Travel

Sinclair Lewis, returning from
England and looking on America
again, finds it endurable, almost
good. He has discovered, as have
other travellers, that Europe is as
provincial as is the United States.
and even more money mad.
Thus one of the most facile of
our tictlonal muckrakers, who gained
distinction and sold a vast number
Of copies of his book by lammine the
American small town, comes close to
recanting. His case is familiar. A
way to develop affection for native
country is to try another. Emma
Goldman is not the only one who has
peen educated by travel. The out
cries of foreign-born undesirables
who face deportation show pref
erence for America, no matter
though they put in their time black
guarding it while here.
But over one item Mr.. Lewis still
oerates our people. Americans, it
appears, buy too many English
books. Home authors. he anna,.
entity thinks, should more command
the home market. He is. as it were
sort of Fordney as to literary
products. He is against the pauner
writer's of England. It does not oc-
cur to him that perhaps his fellow
clt'zens are weary Of the "grouch"
which is now the fashion here and
prefer English books not only be-
cause they are commonly better writ.
ten but are more old-fashioned,
IN the intellectual exchanges he-
tween this country and one whose
people read the same language it has
not been our practice to stress ra.
tionallty. Taste may be safely left
to Its natural course. To be to]er- |
ant of the art-forms of other coun- |
'rles is no vice. Slavish imitation
Is bad, but it is worse to make y cult
OF home literary products. Let orr
writer's perfect their art and in
crease the contents of their minds J
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Once Upon a Time
To the Editor of The Tr;h,,

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The article on the CRYSTAL
Palace IN to-day's Tribune deserves
notice. The termination of the Harlem
Railroad was where the Criminal
Courts Building now stands. Horses
were used from where the Fourth Ave
nue. tunnel terminates, and the round :
mouse was where the present terminal
is. The turntable was where the 71st
Armory stands. Trains north of the
tuhnel were on the surface. From
about Forty-seventh Street north were
the cattle and sheep markets.
An article on the opposition Of
the railroad interests to the subwayinr
OF the tracks of the Harlem and the
New Haven would be we'll worth pub
fishing just now.
c. NJ. BANNERGRAs sR.
Syracuse, N. Y, May 90, 1929.
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Encouraging Mr.. Lewis

To the Editor OF Ths Tribune'
Sir: | read in your issue o. ~
20 an interview with Sinclair e'"
author Of Main Street" upon n''
turn from Europe, in which he s'''''
that he had recently completed "
other book. dealing with life n
large industrial city. 1t is to be h'ss p
that Mr.. Lewis's portrayal OF e''s !. !.
will be more accurate than that Of "
small Middle Western town p's
Ms Gopher Prairie in "Ma'n s'''s
1t is evident 10 me that Mr. ls.s =.
know little about life in the y
which he calls Gopher Prairie ~D'. -
wrote Main Street" From tho -. -
towns Of the est come many OF 0a'as i
eminent citizens, statesmen . :,
scholars-even from towns hA'''. j..
more high sounding nsme'
Gopher Prairie. ;:
A few Sundays ago IT Vas ny IL
fortune to hear lecture 0n !,
of Main Stree. =.
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn ~ -
an address worth while and tooA ,,,s
the bitter taste left after s,sIl
main street" The Rev. ss
Dwight Hills painted a true p'.ss, p.,,A
the life of such towns as Gopher Il.
Stony Ridge, Muddy Dale ana a.
Creek. II would be we'll for MI -.
to secure a copy of DR.. Hilliss in sns
tive lecture. AkIhOh ~
Brooklyn, May 20, 1922.
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What Readers Are Thinbine

cent on hotels of the frst and second
classes, but there is no question OF
raising these taxes; on the contrary. a
strong campaign is being made for
their reduction"
/ pass this information on to The
Tribune because I believe it will have
present interest to many who are
planning to spend their summers
abroad. SARTELL PRENTICE.
Nyack, N. Y, May 90, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25

signed, and in his place is to be put
a Bolshevik dummy.
1t has been no secret that the
Soviet leaders have disliked the
churches. They are also very
greedy. So they have despoiled not
only the churches but the syna-
gogucs, going SO far as to shoot after
trial one rabbi who resisted the ma
rauders. The Bolshevik declaration
IN favor of religious freedom is
about as sincere as Bolshevik pro-
fession of devotion to political lib
crty.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
The New Freight Rates

The order Of the Interstate Com
morce Commission horizontally re-
ducing railway freight rates 20 per
cont cannot fail to have stimulat-
lng effect on business. It will par
tlcularly foster the building industry
and al other industries whose ton
mage is heavy and whose rates. pro
portionate 10 value, have been high
Reason exists for entertaining =
hope, hope shared by many practi-
cal railroad men, that the railroads
viii have larger earnings under the
lowered tariff. This at least Is the
leilef of the commission, for if as
Slmes return Of 5A per cent will
TOW be realized on the estimated val.
uauon Of $4,000, 100000. During
1871 the railroads. theoretically al.
lowed s per cent on value, actually
received less than 3 per cent. So the
commission counts on net gain, The
railroad interests will, Of course, be
pleased If the commission present
guess proves more nearly accurate
hsb others it has made.
Railroad prospects have been 50
poor that present railroad owners
viii doubtless be richly satisfied with
"a per cent return-provided they
get it The water is out of railway
securlties and there is q chance for
fresh start. Enormous losses have
been endured and investments made
IN good faith have been cut in two.
but if the liquidation is over, if i'm
provement funds are now to be get
table, what has been lost will be for
gotten. The railroads, whether as
sessed OH q replacement basis or on
the basis of money actually put into
them, are, Of course, worth more
than $l8,000,000,0oO. But the factor
Of immediate concern is whether or
not the period Of scarcely disguised
oontlscaton is ended Henceforward
IS railroad property to be treated as
other property is or as in class
apart? Twenty years ago about 10
per cent of the country's wealth was
IN railroads. Now it is approximately
per cent. Property generally has
had an increment of value denied "a
railroads. The ton-mile rate is higher
than formerly, but proportionatelv
TO the total value Of the goods moved
lates are lower. For example. ?
rate of s. on 1000 brick worth So is
only one-third as much as the same
rate when the brick are worth so4
railroad arrangements are max
ing great efforts to reduce expenses
by lessening waste. So far thev
have secured only grudging support
from the Interstate Commission and
the public. Yet under the now es-
tablished rate policy. with railway
tariffs intimately rejecting costs, we
have system under which the pub
Tic automatically pays the freight
more when costs are up and less
when costs are down. The time cam
not be far distant when this obvious
truth will be understood by all and
into the limbo of forgetfulness
passes the old idea that railway ex-
penditures, while they mattered to
railroad owners, did not matter to
buyers of transportation.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
Pcrsuading the Obstinate

Judge Cropsey's decision that the
receivers for the bondholders of the
New York & Queens Railway Com.
pany may each charge a single fave
on the unscrambled lines raises q
solid obstacle to bringing all the
transit lines of the city into a uni
fled system.
Evidently the receivers for the
bondholdors, whose liens anledate
Tho consolidating leases. were with
III their legal rights when they dc
fed the Transit Commission, There
is apparently no way to compel Joint
single fare service by court process.
The commission, If the transit lines
are to be kept together in one svs.
tom, must use othcr means. With
1t arc lodged large discretionary.
regulatory and administrative pow
ers. Of undoubted legal validity,
which 1t may use in such a way as to
persuade hondholders to be reason.
able
1t Is fortunate that the city has
III the commission body competent
to deal with obstinate cases as they
arise. The Interborough's travel is
increasing at the rate Of two thou
sand day The two companies op
Grating the subways are soon TO in.
crease their service Is per cent. But
the relief will be temporary only.
The citizens of New York want 10
know what more is going to be done
and when.
Also they want to know who is
ohstructlng the building Of now
lines and why. They will use this
latter information at the polls in the
next election. Any one at all ia
mlllar with the situation knows that
the obstruction comes from two
sources-namely, the city adminis-
tratlon, which is trying to play poll
tics, and some Of the transit com
panles, which are resisting, by every
method known to their lawyers, tie
orders Of the commission.
This sort Of resistance offered bv
the receivers of the New York E.
Queens may be legal, but is never
theless bad business. Some of the
can, it is true, OCCASION |
ally go to the courts and obtain per
mission to violate some minor ruling
of the commission. A number of
them, indeed, may follow the ex-
ample of the Queens Borough line.
But the mandates of that body must
IN the main, be obeyed or another
Legislature will doubtless find way
% make all its mandates effective.
The members of the commission
nave proceeded carefully and kept
within their rights, as there is rea-
'on to believe they will continue to
10. But they were appointed to
AIRY out vast and necessary en-
and they have no discretion
'ut to discharge that duty-no mat
er who may try to oppose them.
Transit companies will find it
o their interest to cooperate with
he commission, and the city admin
stration will discover that a policy
+ obstruction is very foolish politics.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
rather than seek to start an artificial
propaganda to promote sale Of their
wares.
A Million Dollar Excuse

For million dollars the cx-Kaiser
of Germany offers for sale in Amer
ica such sorry excuses as he will he
able to make for tho most terrible
crime in history.
1t will be the work Of a feeble
minded old man, who, despite his
miserable failure as a ruler, is still
Vainglorious and cgocentric, No ono
will expect it to be anything but a
succession Of self-iustllioations such
as he poured forth from the begin
nlng of the war that he loosed upon
Europe.
IL is quite possible that in hs
present bcWidered state William
Hohenzollcrn believes he has been
writing history. He has apparently
discovered, however, that, notwith-
standing his repeated cutlery Of God
knows did not Will this way" the
people Of the whole world, including
sane Germans, know that he did Will
II and that he did bring it about.
IT Is not surprising that he now is
another hopeless attempt to
plead not guilty to the Indictment.
The only surprising thing about the
whole affair is that his agents should
think that the reople Of apv country
which was smltten by his war should
care to listen to what its author has
70 say and to pay a million dollars
for the privilege.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
Bhghted Amhltlon

those who are gifted b. nature ca cam 'c1ci pct
along safely With Wild animals
When | was young 7 used to yearn
TO stroll about cage
And brave. with placid uncon-
Germ.
y hon savage rage.
! hoped, on reaching mans estate.
10 look him in the eye,
Although he stared his furious
hate
When he came snsrling by.
Arrayed in gay, respondent tights
That left my movements free,
meant to dodge the vicious bites
The monster aimed at me.
And then, in accents stern and
gruf,
To make him sheath his claws
And cease his growls and do his
stuff
Amid profound applause.
I do not mind admitting now.
Though frost has touched nv
hair,
That Id be pleased if 7 could COW
The lion in his lair.
I'd give--well almost anything
If | possessed the skill
TO make the growing Jungle king
Obey my human will.
But these great brutes are light
ly miffed
And prone to slash and MAIN
A man unless he has the gift
To make the creatures tame.
To me was this denied by fate.
And though I'm not afraid,
Since | have grown to man S estate
I've piled another trade.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
,,roenER or rar ASSOCIATED rnxss

Fhe As-,ss'ea rrcse is olclua,re,y ~,utl.d tn
'oa uss fos Equalization of ali uses disp.,chss
ara 70 - CT npt othcrfiss credited IN THIS
sc4;- Ard asa The lo al Of spontaneous orisiu
l'JaSalsd he-oin.
rtsh'a g repl5ncstloa At Al oth.r matte.
irls.u 80 arc rsse-re4
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A Large Order

Fro" The kanaas Citv Yime,)
hufope is said to be looking to the
: O"l'eo states for a solution of its
problems. OF course, this country js
smart, But it isn't that smart
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25

V-v csr rurchas. msrchsndne Advertised Ia THE
IHleUhG With sasolote .sfet-fcr " dissaustas.
''a 'ssgIt, !. any THe TRIBUNE puaran.
tsa--ts cay yegr mcr-y back upoa request n. r-d
f'ee No ouit1line "s refund prcmstly II th.
a5Y1tivr toes &C..
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Life Is Never Perfect

just as we were beginning TO enjoy
the beautiful spring weather, along
comes the Stillman case again.
Copyright by James J. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
It Doesn't Pull

Conan Doyle has given the spirit
land lot Of publicity, but it hasn't
done much to stimulate emigration
thither.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
Pretty Tough

No wonder the statesmen are badly
fused
If the bonus don't get them, tho
tariff must.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25

it may be stated without fear of
contradiction that G.. ". Morse and
f. +. Morse are not related in the
least.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25

Henry Ford's long cherished pref
udlce against self-starters didn't
apply TO his Presidential boom.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25

Ono would think that the irish
would pause now and then long
enough t. find out what they are
fighting about.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
r L G r E r.

e Z g r E
II her eyes tear had risen;
10 his lips pardoning woyd.
o"1 ~ PRIDE she checked her wceping
And the pardon died unheard
lhTo"9h the lonely gears hoy often
zach IN silent thought has said.
Ho-"Nhy was the word not spokeuqn
She" Why ras the tear not sheda"
&. h. p.
"eorsiana arc going to be hard nut
TO 1t TO devise fitting punishnsrt
'or the negro who had the effronterv
70 escape from the band of lvnchors
,-r, " 7 wonder as constant reader of
nc Saturday Evening Post" how
isaac Marcosson, the great interviewer
. mas managed to keep away from Mount
"'' 'hese years +. +. v.
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when our desire for sclf-extinct;on
completely overpowers us we are mot
certain whether we'll qualify for a ONE
way trip on the Styx with gunpowder.
poison or gas. But of one thing vc
are sure. Even though it seems to he
inc style in present-day suicidal circles
10 mop Off the top of some buldinp we
are not going to do it.
Our chief objection to this mode of
opliterat'on is not the publicity gem
orally attendant upon such feats: it's
the Tact that once embarked on vour
downward fight there's practically
nothing to be gained by changing vour
attitude on suicide.
we are haunted by picture of our
self passing the eleventh floor on tho
way down filled with the sudden CON
"ctlon that self-extnction is both
morally wrong and personally unde-
sirablc.