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New-York tribune., 1922-09-03
By Stephane Lauzanne
Editor in Chief of @Le Matin"
PARIS. September


wv abandoned her last
steam locomotive, her
railroads being entirely electrified"
This is the prophecy made by M. Yves
lie Trocquer, the French Minister of
Public Works, in a recent conversa-
tion.
Bending over a map, he pointed out
to me the various regions which will
be tapped for electrical energy, as well
as the various stages of this marvellous
transformation.
Before the end of next year," ne
informed nae, "the entire southwestern
region of France, that is, the region
abutting the Pyrenees, will have been
electrified. 1t is quite simple, as the
waterfalls Of the Pyrenees will fru-
nish the necessary energy. Before the
end of 1926 all southeastern branches,
particularly those on the Mediter-
ranean coast line, Marseilles and Nice,
will also be electrified, and this, too,
will be quite easy, as the Alps will
give us the wherewithal to obtain all
the current we may need. Before the
end of 1926 all of central France,
thanks to she Auvergnc, will fall in
line with the general transformation.
We will then attend to the north and
the east, where we already have
powerful electrical stations. All that
will be left then will be Brittany and
Normandy, that is, the west of France.
Here our difficulties will be great
er, as this part of France has
no mountains, and but few rivers of
any Importance to aliment electrical
stations. But we have the entire
Atlantic Ocean and the Channel at our
disposition--here we have vast field
of electrical energy. So, by the year
1910, at the very latest, all French
railroads will have been electrified,
thanks to the inexhaustible white and
blue fuel resources of France. Coal,
WHOSE mining and transportation are so
costly, and which is SO disagreeable to
handle, will become thing of the past.
Not single wreath of smoke will con-
taminate the air in France, and it will
save US 100000 tons of coal an
nuaily.n
Industrial Revolution
is Seen in Prophecy
! remarked his prophecy as great
industrial revolution-one of the
greatest industrial revolutions of the
generation. But the public does not
appreciate a revolution unless it is
progressive and its comfort is assured
What q wonderful step forward will
the realization Of this plan then be, in
deed! For the French public has a
wonderful vista of comfort ahead in
the transformation of its railroads.
NJ. LIE Trocauer added: ssThe passen-
ger cars will be cleaner, as in doing
away with coal we will do away with
the coal dust that at present makes
| railroad travel so disagreeable. They
will be we'll lighted, as all cars will
naturally be lighted by electricity, in
| stead Of by gas as at present. Above
ell, the locomotives will be in need OF
less repairs, and the reparation Of To-
comotives is the nightmare OF all rail-
roads at present In July, 1914, just
before the war, there were Just 1,72o
locomotives lying idle. waiting to be
! repaired, In 1919, just after the war.
this number had Increased to s.4is, and
by July !, 1929, despite all that could
New-York tribune., 1922-09-03
Carrier Pigeons Employed
In Carrying Drug Supply

:, Another method is to attach pack
ages of:cocaine to carrier pigeons, who
fly from Germany back to the home
OF the drug dealer, and then are trans-
ported across the border for another
load. This was discovered when a
pigeon fell exhausted and was taken TO
customs officials. The bird fell be-
cause the package it carried was too
heavy for the long fight.
Its'is almost impossible, customs Of.
fcials say, to stop these ingenious
methods. Specific cases, when dis
covered, are attended to and the trade
is stopped momentarily, but there is
nothing TO prevent its starting UP
again in some other place and to con-
tinae there until some accident causes
discovery.
The methods of selling the powder
in Paris, and in the principal centers
Of France, is even more ingenious.
There ARE still a few men and women
Who offer the little packages openly.
and tffsy are. only caught when they
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New-York tribune., 1922-09-03

RANCE is lighting the drug
~ menace. The alarming in
crease in the Illegal importa-
tion and sale of habit-forming
drugs since the war, especially in Paris
and the larger cities, has caused the
Chamber of Deputies to pass new law
exiling drug vendors for at least FIVE
years.
The famous Paris Academy of Medi-
cine does not believe that mere penal
legislation is sufficient to solve the
problem, and has organized meeting
of savants to discuss the subject in all
its aspects and to insist on series of
new prohibitory laws designed effec-
lively to stop the use of cocaine, (which
is liable to undermine the vigor of the
French people"
The burden Of the blame rests on
Germany, for most of the innocent
looking white powder comes from
across the Rhine, and many and devi-
Gus are the paths it takes in crossing
the frontier and until it reaches the
addict. In the past the penalties have
been slight for those caught selling
snow and the profits so great (two
and a quarter pounds costing 1900
francs are retailed for 2o,0oo) that its
merchants were willing to take the
risk, but still they resort to clever and
often amusing methods of concealment
to escape detection.
At first most of the cocaine crossed
the frontier in soldiers knapsacks
when returning from the occupied area
on leave. The soldiers were never ex-
amined by the customs officials, and as
the poilus are paid only few sous a
day they could not refuse 400 francs or
so for carrying a small package over
the border. When this was finally dis
covered the cocaine rings hunted out a
number Of ingenious plans for getting
their supplies from Germany. One
group bought large country house
near the frontier in Alsace- Lorraine
and went in for raising dogs, The dogs
were trained to cross into Germany and
to 60 to a certain house, where pack
ages Of cocaine were attached to them,
and then return straight to their
Kennels. They passed right under the
noses OF the customs guards, who did
not realize that the harmless looking
dogs were carrying confraband in their
collars.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-03
BY Dudley Haskell

PARIS, August 70.
~ RANCE is fighting the drug
~ menace. The alarming in
q crease in the Illegal importa-
tion and sale of habit.forminp
New-York tribune., 1922-09-03

RAtslEt AUGUST ~.
w-. EVoT1NG her own industrial
"a activity to her own needs
and subordinating almost
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New-York tribune., 1922-09-03
By Harold f. Scarborough
LONDON, August 10

~ NE Of the few really new
IA n weapons which the late war
V " developed was the tank.
Credit for this invention has
Evening journal., 1922-05-09

These are pure thread silk
hose, fun fashioned and three
seam, in nude, steel, cordovan.
tan, navy and black; seconds;
all sizes.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
The Bonus Pro and Con
Readers Who Have Positive Opinions and Suggestions 10 Offer
the AN-Absorbng Topic

cause we suffered severe financial
losses in selling investments to buy
Liberty bonds, with added losses on
the bonds themselves. have yet to
meet an uninjured ex-service man who
would give up his experience as a par
ticipant actively in the most momen-
tous event in history.
The whole bonus idea is economical
~ unsound, fostered by political ex-
pediency, as Senator Borah so con-
vincingly stated. 1t Is no less danger
Gus nationally in the present era for
the Legion to dictate demands than it
was when the Roman legions in their
era sought to dos or the Napoleonic
armies in theirs. If the ex-solder
could realize that his bonus will large
ly be taken from him in taxation and
in the higher cost OF living because Of
resultant business depression he would
not demand that he be pcnalzed for
his enlistment by a bonus bill.
f. B. q.
Litchfcld, Conn, Feb. %, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
In Terms of Dollars
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems very sordid to set a
Price, in dollars, on the duty of defend
ing ones country, yet the price of
patriotic effort is being computed by
various ways and means committees
and some viewpoints have not been dis
cussed. For example:
How many Of the 100000 service
men were earning $50 a month clear
of all living expenses before the war
Board and room figured modesty at
$50 a month and clothing at a very
modest $40 a month would make the
gross pay 500 a month, without al
lowance for medical and dental care.
Did half of the service men earn more
than that before the war? If the bonus
Of $50 month demanded by the
Legion be added to the $100, the re-
sultant pay is more than the average
young man of service age earns even
now with the high wage scales.
A favorite pro-bonus argument is the
fact that Canada, England and France
have allowed additional pay to their
service men, but it should be remem-
bered that those countries paid their
men much less than the $40 paid by
the United States. L. E. S.
Brooklyn, Feb. 90, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26

memories who in a few days could
be ready to answer all the questions
propounded by Mr.. Edison and an
swer them accurately. The born
chess player can carry in his mind
the positions Of all the pieces in
dozen or more games; but he would
have considerable trouble filling out
an income tax blank.
1t is highly important for man
to know his Owl business in detail
and to have a general knowledge of
what Is going on in the world and of
the prominent facts Of history; but
a professor Of applied psychology
would gain little by memorizing the
names Of the state capitals or in be-
ing able to tell how long the reign of
Tiglath Pileser endured.
A quiz upon a subject that a stu
dent has lately studied is useful
test of his attention and Of his abil-
lty to concentrate; but asking all
manner of men all manner of ques-
tions in which they have but the
slightest interest is worthless
method of detecting their ability or
capacity to discharge their duties.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
Will 1t Never End?

Life insurance rates will follow
burglary insurance rates upward if
something is not done to restore
public safety in New York.
Last week had witnessed four
daring daylight robbcries. A fifth
was added yesterday when three
men held up and shot John +. Smith.
paymaster of the Superior Meter
Company, in the hallway of the
company's offices in Brooklyn. This
crime was committed at l | o'clock
in the morning.
Mr. Hylan will return to-day or
tomorrow from a sojourn at Palm
Beach, from which pleasant resort
he has been writing letters Of com
mendation 10 Police Commissioner
Enright.
Whether or not on his arrival he
will express his gratitude to Mr..
Enright for the lattcr's conduct of
the Police Department there Is no
present means Of knowing. We
trust he will look over the list Of
daylight robberies before he be-
comes too laudatory.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26

justice prevails in Washington and If
service in a shipyard or munition plant
Is rated higher in value than service
with the coIors. Surely if our govern
mcnt can reward those with whom it
had huge incompleted contracts for war
materials for which the need ceased
with the armisticc, it can find "A way
TO compensate the service man, and
without the dire economic disas ster that
is forccasted as inevitable by the self
ish interests who oppose it.
That the bonus is right IN -I.ncIsic
has been demonstrated by the distribu-
ton Of $50 to each man upon his dis
charge. This sum at that moment was,
as all realize, entirely inadequate. The
bonus is right in principle and the
only fair means Of rcctifying the eco
nomic inequalities that exist as be
tween the soldier and the civilian la
Eorer. RAYMOND f. HAIL.
Cambridge, Mass, Feb. %, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
Instead Of Cash

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Here is suggestion which may
help toward solving the bonus qucs-
tion: Eliminate I'll cash payments, and
such other Of the options now under
discussion as may be determined, and
substitute in effect the following:
Increase to $1,000 the income tax cx-
emption for every person who has
served during war in the army, navy
or Marine Corps, end who was honor
ably discharged, with the provision that
it shall not apply to income from in
vestment, but only to personal serv-
ices, such as wages, pay, commission,
salary, etc.
Establish free camps for all men
coming under the above mentioned des-
lgnation who are out Of employment.
using existing camps and unused bar
racks for the purpose, and make it casv
for applicants to be admitted the first
time.
Classify vocationally each applicant
train him if considered desirable. and
then get him job by regular employ
ment agency methods, with the under
standing that when man is offered a
JOB he must take it and will not again
DC eligible for admission to the free
camp unless he shows good cause.
NJ. T. A.
Brooklyn, Feb %, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
Litchfcld, Conn, Feb. %, 1922.
Canada's s Example

To the Editor Of The. Tribune.
Sir: The soldier Of to-day is no hired
mercenary, as many Of your anti-bonus
respondents would lead US to be-
lieve. 1t is quite possible that we
should never have heard Of "bonus"
had it not been for the splendid man.
ner in which our northern neighbor
rewarded the men who wrote the name
of Canada in large letters across the
history of the great war.
Sir Robert Borden, former Premier
of Canada, has said that there were
10000 men from the States In the
Canadian army. This may have been
an exaggeration; we arc in no position
to know. Most of these men, like the
writer, are back in the States, expo
nents of the fact that large bonus
Gas high as s6o0) has been paid to an
army of half million by country
whose population does not greatly ex-
ceed that of the State of New York.
LEWIS J. CULLEN.
West New Brighton, S. l., Feb. %,
1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
Greensboro Line Extension

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; wish to voice my protcs st
against the granting Of the appropria
tion for the proposed extension of the
Greensboro subway line from East
Forty second Street to Eight Avenue,
under the present Forty-second
Street tracks, Bryant Park and Forty
first Street. Consider the following
suggestions:
Extend the present greensboro
tracks up to the old express tracks of
Forty-second Street, using the present
greensboro and Forty second Street
stations.
Extend the present four tracks on
Forty-second Street from Broadway to
Eighth Avenue or Hudson River.
Remodel the Times Square stations
so that traffic may board or leave trains
on both sides. Stations ought to ex-
tend up to Forty fourth Street on
Broadway and Seventh Avenue.
Eventually we will have unified
in that event the Times Square sta
tions naturally would have to be re-
built.
The B. r. T. would continue up
Broadway from Times Square, and the
|. +. T. would connect with the Seventh
Avenue line after leaving Times
Square.
The sensible thing to do with the
present Greensboro line is to bring
the tracks up to and under the present
Fourth and Lexington Avenue tracks
which would require new station
under the present Fourth and Lexing
ton Avenue station. The greensboro
tracks to connect with the old express.
tracks on Forty y-second Street.
S. LEONARD HOFFMAN.
New York, Feb. IT, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
From One Who Fought

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: AS one who served with the
A. E. F. in the recent alteration with
the result Of having been rendered
substantially "hors de combat" permit
me to add my voice to the mighty roar
that is being heard throughout the
country concerning the so-called bonus.
While we were receiving the huge
sum of 81 day for hourly facing hard
ship and probable loss of life, the men
who stayed at home were receiving
fabulous wages and, what is more, did
not hesitate to 60 on strike for still
higher wages. The sentiment then was,
"Never mind the cost; we need the
ships and munitions of war" Now we
are told that labor is solidly against
the bonus" Why not? They had "got
theirs"; why worry about the soldier
and the sailor who made their jobs
secure?
This sort Of selfish sentiment leads
one to wonder just what conception OF
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
AS kipling Says
Editor Of The Trib,,rc

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: enjoyed reading a letter this
morning on the bonus discussion cap
toned "As Kipling Says The writer's
quote:
For it's Tommy this and Iommy that,
An Chuck him out, the brute"
Why drag poor Tommy into this af-
fair? True, in the old days Tommy the
timc-servcr was not social lion, but
as an American who served in the Brit
lsh army during the late unpleasant-
ness | would like to say that when the
war had run its course and VIC marched
home singing that stirring ballad
"Madcmoisclle From Armentieres" we
were received in every corner of the
British Empire with gratuity or
bonus, if you would call it that, which
sounds fabulous to the uninitiated.
Somewhere | have read: =
when war is near and danger is nigh,
God and soldier!' is the cry.
But when war is over and wrongs are
righted,
God is forgotten, the soldier slighted."
You may not, Messrs. Moore and
Woodward, receive bonus, but, as a
Tommy said to me that day at Cam
brai, "You jolly we'll have something to
put in your diary"
L. J. CULLEN,
Slosson Post, A L.
New York, Feb. 23, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
The Futility of the Quiz

1t has been discovered that college
professors do rather worse than col
lege freshmen when subjected to the
quizzes lately employed as tests Of
intelligence. This does not prove the
illiteracy Of college professors. 1t
merely demonstrates how futile is
the quiz method of determining in
tellectual ability.
Any man with trained mind
knows the folly of loading his men,
DRY with facts and figures which he
can readily find in book of refer
encc. No lawyer pretends to know
ell the law. The good lawyer knows
where to find it.
Go to your family doctor with
complaint about your vision, and he
will send you to an oculist. He knows
the wisdom Of sticking to his own
field.
Il is easy to find men with freak
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
Qualifications for the Bar

Chief Justice Taft has expressed
himself in favor of making a full
college course obligatory for those
seeking admission to the bar. In so
doing he has gone even further than
Mr.. Root, VINO last year advocated
minimum of two years college
study before entering law school.
The question has frequently been
discussed, opponents of the college
training nearly always taking the
ground that to require college edu-
cation for lawyers worked injustice
to certain young men anxious to
enter the profession. By putting
premium upon education, it was
said, the handicap Of poverty would
be accentuated.
Defenders Of the college course,
on the other hand, while admitting
that in some cases college require.
ments might work hardship upon
individuals, claim that the standards
Of the profession require a broad
education and thorough intellec-
tual training, which, though not
always obtained through college
course, are rarely obtained outside it.
Demanding clear thinking, the law
requires training in accurate express
sion. and it stands to reason, there
fore, that the law student who has
had the advantages of the intel
lectual discipline Of n good college
is the better prepared for his law
studies.
Such an authority as Dean Roscoe
Pound Of the Harvard Law School,
in discussing his experiences as in
structor at four different law schools,
remarked that he had found that
"students who come to the law school
with q good linguistic training, espe-
cially those who have had good
training in the classics, other things
being equal, have an advantage and
do better work from the beginning" !"
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
The Iwo-Seater

Prom The London Mercury
I AM SO conscious Of the girl,
Of brown ringlets how they curl
Seductively against a neck;
Sidelong l watch a clear profile,
And all the cleaning streaming while
Swinging along without check
We drive an eager fervid wedge
Between each feeting roadside hedge
While ever the static distance waits
Beyond its far enchanted gates,
Its magic palings, rows on rows,
Which as we speed forever close
In circling bounda around our eyes
Beneath blue centripetal skies.
Ten little phantom horses race,
Slacken their speed or strain at trace,
Housed in their panopiy of steel,
Well bitted and obedient to
Little subconscious things I do
With finger-tips Oh steering wheel
But we, we two are sitting still
Content to let them race their fill.
Our spinning wheels do fast unwind
The streaming road that floats behind;
And back there all the things we've seen,
Intense, significant, this day,
Along this high triumphal way,
Are just as if we had not been. :.
KENNETH 81. ASHLEY.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
The Historians Microscope

Professor Albert Bushnell Hart,
inquisitivc historian, finds that
George Washington had red hair. 1t
may be so. No X-ray can show what
vas concealed beneath the handsome
wig that so we'll becomes him in his
portraits. And his features have
been well studied. Did not Oliver
Wendell Holmes remark: Had the
dental art been perfected in the last
century. we should not now behold
the Father of His Country, as in
Stuart's portrait, dividing his atten-
tion between the cares Of state and
the sustaining Of his uppers in posi-
ton
Washington IS temperament lends
color to Professor Hart S discovery
1t is mistake to suppose that he
was frigid; he had red-haired dis
position, which he kept in leash
Jefferson says of him: "His temper
was naturally irritable and high
toned but reflection and resolution
had obtained firm and habitual as
cendancy over it. If, however, it
broke it's bounds, he was most tre-
mendous in his wrath" 1t is known
that on one occasion he swore like
the soldiers in Flanders.
Passing from one historical trivi-
ality to another, one notes the re-
vived disputes concerning a Presi-
dent as to whose hair there can be
no argument, for his pictures show
glorious pompadour that would
hardly have submitted to a peruke.
North Carolina and South Caro-
lima are again at odds over which
has the honor Of possessing Andrew
Jackson's birthplace. Let it be ad-
mitted that he was born in both
states and end the controversy. He
was certainly Carolinian. An
equally important problem is this:
Has it ever been decided whether the
Governor Of North Carolina said to
the Governor Of South Carolina or
the Governor Of South Carolina saio
to the Governor of North Carolina
"It's a long time between drinks?
Can Professor Hart answer that?