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New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
The T'railers After Art

Callous outsiders will only jeer at
the grief Of established residents of
Greenwich Village over the invasion
of their sacred region by rough
marauders seeking only wine in tea
cups and high jinks in a studio.
There was always too small per-
centage of art in the products of
the Village to make them truly
stimulating. Too much thought was
given to being devilish and not
enough to hard work. "Day by day
in every way am getting wickeder
and wickeder" would have done very
well as motto for the young hope
fuls of Polly's that was.
But that was ages and ages ago
now, and most of these ancient in
ventors Of bobbed hair and bobbed
verse are now mothers of families
and roll their eyes in shocked sur
prise at the doings Of their out
rageous successors, the fappers. We
have not the statistics at hand, but
the turnover in youthful revolt is
very rapid. Such of the old Green
wich Village pioneers as have re-
mained faithful to the principles of
their earlier soul states have moved
over to the Greenwich Village of
Paris, to wit, the Montparnasse
region, where you may see them any
day drinking their near-absinthc
and writing their near-poetry and
painting their near-pictures and
talking their far-French. They have
quite overrun the famous Rotonde,
and any one who wants to travel
three thousand miles for the pleas
ure Of meeting Greenwich Village in
its sere and saddened old age can do
so right there.
So while some sympathy is due
the real folk of Greenwich Village,
freshly invaded by richer and noisier
aliens, their fate is neither new nor
unique. Every art colony runs the
risk Of being overwhelmed by hang
ers-on before it is half established.
There must be hordes of stout
ladies in batik gowns waiting with
ears to the ground for the first faint
whispers of the words "art'' and
Studio" Close on their roguish heels
tread the armies of lean young poets
and chubby, lazy art students in
their spectacles and smocks. Finally,
as now in the Village, turn up the
mere Toisterers who know nothing
81 art and batik gowns but who
know exactly what they want. Per-
haps they are more awful than their
predecessors, but that is surely
question. Anyhow, art, like good
cheese, seems to need parasites to
feed on, SO why worry?
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
The Right to Work

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Let Gompers say that there
will be no further illegal interference
with non-union men in their legitimate
right to work when and where thew
choose and there will be no occasion
Tor inJunctions. Is this clamorous
protest of union men against iniunc
tions simply because these injunctions
would prevent their doing what is dis
tinctly unlawful and outrageous
The whole trouble is at the factory
gate, and nowhere else. If the union
laborer does not wish to work (and
that is his privilege), then let him go
to his home and mind his own bust.
ness and he will not be troubled with
injunctions. But if, on the contrary.
he interferes with men who do wish
to work, then he is a lawbreaker and
he should be arrested.
In this blessed country, country in
which my ancestors have lived since II
was founded, the honest, intelligent. in
dustrious laborer has better chance
OF preferment than in any other coun-
try on this earth.
MINOT S. MORGAN.
Detroit, Mich, Sept. 10, 1922,
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
New Heads for Old

There seems to be hope for those
who lose their heads that they may
find others. Also that there may be
literal realization of the ideal of
''an old head on young shoulders" or
Vice Uers1. Indeed, there may be
replacing of some of the domes of
solid ivory with others containing
abundant supplies of softer and
grayer matter. when men can change
their heads as readily as they now
change their coats.
So, at least, the optimistic NAV
gather from an accidental discovery
by DR.. Hans Przibram, director of
the Vienna Biological Laboratory,
and Walter Finkler, his pupil. Ac-
cording to ola Revue Scientifque.
they had for some time been trying
to determine whether the action of
the eyes had any effect on tue color
ing of living things. Their expert
ments were carried out on caterpil-
lars, and later on water beetles.
Finding it impossible to graft ewes
from one insect to another, DR..
Przibram decapitated some. which
continued to live. His pupil then
grated newly-severed lead to
decapitated body, and was as
tonlshed to find that the head stuck
ON, and in few weeks the wound
was completely healed.
Herr Finkler then grated the
heads of female water beetles ON
male bodies and vice versa. and
found that the females with male
heads acted like males, while males
with female heads continued to act
normally. He then exchanged the
heads of insects of different species
and discovered that the operation
had a marked effect on the colorine
OF the insects. He found that the
markings and colorings in these
cases approximated to those of the
species to which the head belonged
Ii this process can be made to
work with caterpillars and water
beetles, why not with beings of a
higher order? Obviously, It would
be most advantageous to fit some
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
A Nature Pioneer

No mean place on the roll of ben
cfactors of the nation is filled by
the name Of Enos A. Mills, explorer
and naturalist. There were few
more indefatigable explorers of the
wonderland of the Rocky Mountains
and few who did so much as he, by
personal guidance and otherwise, to
acquaint the multitudes of tourists
with the really worthwhile features
OF that region.
His best work was done as one of
the founders of the series of ma
tional parks in the Far West and al
an educator of the public in the de-
STABILITY of conserving the native
flowers, trees and animals of the
wilds. To him was due much of
the credit for the enactment of laws
and rules for the protection of
plants, birds and beasts. AS q lover
and student Of nature and an ex-
positor of her charms and wonders
he was not unworthy successor of
Audubon and Thoreau and colleague
of Muir and Burroughs.
1t was a strange freak of fate
that man who had challenged
death a thousand times in his lonely
scramblings among the cliffs and
peaks of the Rocky Mountains, and
who scorned the protection of fire.
arms against grizzly bears and
mountain lions, should receive
in New York subway the in
juries which ended his active and
useful life. Perhaps remembrance
CT that circumstance may cause New
Workers to regard with more svm-
pathy the interests, SO remote from,
this city, to which he devoted his
career.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22

But it is easy to work out the me-
ehanics of the movement of machine
with planes. in theoretically still air.
Under these conditions, no such ma
chine could rise from the ground, or,
once in the air, could rise above its
starting point unless it had some
initial momentum. The bird runs
along the ground, violently beating it's
wings, or, using the joints and muscles
of its legs as a powerful spring, gives
a leap into the air. Watch a sparrow
setting of from branch. and you will
see that once it has left its foothold
the branch sways under the impetus of
the push. The "sail plane" is launched
by catapult, by the aviator running
along the ground or jumping into
space from a height.
Granted this initial velocity, then a
movement of trans lation il possible.
depending for its length on the skill of
the aviator, the design of his machine.
and the distance vertically between the
points Of departure and arrival. The
experiments in France and in GERMANY
show that even in still air a skillfuI
aviator on a well-designed machine
could cross the Channel if he started
from height which could easily be
worked out. But, let it be noted, birds
whose exploits in soaring flight have
commanded most attention require q
long run or have to head up against q
breeze to leave the ground. Nor is
there any evidence that they ever
ascend without powerful strokes of the
wings, unless there is good breeze.
The Wind as a Motor
The best place to study the me-
chanics of soaring flight is on the edge
OF cliff. Gulls have discovered that
such conditions provide what they like
and rejoice in them. The wind. as it
strikes the face of the cliff, makes a
great upward curve, and you may watch
the birds circling round toward it on
outstretched, motionless wings, being
caught in the swirl, and acquiring mo-
mentum for a further soaring fight,
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
Mechanics in the Air

"7'he London Times" publishes the
folloaoimg article By its Scientific Cor
respondent:
The successes of the German "gliders'
at Fulda have excited the just admire
tion and interest of all who care for
aviation. But gentle warning ap-
pears to be necessary that such princi-
pies as the conservation of energy
have not yet been superseded either by
powerdriven machines like birds and
the familiar aeroplanes, or by thistle
down or engineless "gliders."
A body, whatever it be, that is
heavier than air, if it has no momen-
tum of It's own, must fall, slowly or
quickly, with respect to the air in
which it is placed. If it is in strong
ascending current, it may rise so far
as the earth is concerned, but, obeyine
the laws of gravitation, it will not rise
as quickly as the current in which it
is placed. If there is no ascending cur
rent it will fall, quickly if like a piece
OF paper crushed into ball, more
slowly if like the same piece of paper
folded into the form of dart or ar
ranged as a parachute
Motion in Still dir
Had such falling body the power OF
changing its shape, by expanding and
contracting or by "feathering" its
planes, 1t might gain temporary mo-
mentum from gravity and move hori-
zontally by a series of "L" shaped
movements in which the lower limb of
the 81" might even have an upward
inclination. But, however quick and
skillful the changes, however beauti.
fully designed the machine, the tip of
each horizontal path would be lower
than the tip of the preceding vertical
path, and in time the contrivance
would come to earth.
Probably the air is never without
movement. There are ascending cur.
rents and currents descending; there
are horizontal movements of strengths
and directions varying with the height
even in days which seem most still
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22

Sometimes they miss the enact mo
nient and have to make ssdasu dive
so as to acquire momentum isou
gravity or to gain it by tapping tasf
wings.
The conditions at the edge of cliE
consist essentially in sudden changes
OF direction and velocity of the wind
currents. We can see what prodw.
them in case so easy. But they exist
in all winds, whatever the nature Il
the ground may be over which the ca,-
rents are passing. Any pilot or nav
gator OF balloon is we'll acquaints
with their existence. Anemometes
have registered a sudden zero pressHs
in the midst Of a hurricane.
Momentum
Just as a bird or gliding maxine
may rise temporarily by using the NO
mentum it has acquired from gravity,
or from an initial source when Il
started from the ground, so either mag
use the momentum acquired in .
stronger current to help them to rise
in 4 weaker current. They may even
rise high above their starting points
# they hit by accident or have the
knowledge to find and the experience
to use suitable alterations Of velocity
Initial momentum, gravity and til
varying strengths of the currents y
air are the sources from which soars
birds and sail planes" acquire the y
mentum which enables them to pertaa
their wonderful feats.
In all probability the success ofgila
ing flights depends only in Hlns,
degree on the exact construetoa
the machine; probably machines y
very different types might prove esaie
ly efficient. The fundamental neeessa
is the presence Of breeze, either
lrSel1 guSty or maze Susss
nature of the ground over whlea ?
is travelling. Next comes the eSpsls
ence of the pilot, enabling hlra :
recognize sufficiently quickly Us
changes of which he has to tase ~
vantage.
But it must be remembered, n''A
that even soaring birds have wy
competent engine, in the shape OF sas-
muscles and wings, on which 70 - !
when the wind fails or battles thsn' :
is also to be remembered that easla,.
aeroplanes can at present surpass has
in speed in both favorable and anis's'
able circumstances.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
A Woman Diplomat

Inc appointment of Hiss I,,,cile
A'cherson, of Columbus, Ohio, as a
secretary in our diplomatic service
marks the first time in the history Of
American diplomacy that a woman
mas Won a regular position in tba
diplomatic corps. There have of
course, been many women who have
exercised extraordinary influence on
international relations without hold
ing any official position. But Miss
Atcherson is the first to receive the
definite rank of secretary of en-
bassy.
Thus another barrier in the wav
Of woman's advancement has been
broken and one of the most conser-
vatlve bodies in the political world
has been shaken loose from a cher
ished tradition. In few government
tai services do matters of form, and
tradition count for so much as in the
diplomatic corps. Rank is jealouslv
guarded and precedence is the subj
ject of continual heartburnings.
Anything that upsets the established
order is viewed with alarm. The
appointment of q woman secre-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
Conversational Transit

: The chief business of the Board Of
Estimate Just now is the building of
s sabways Inasmuch as these sub
ways which have been planned by
. Mayor Hylan would cost $600,O0o,-
: 600 to build, it is we'll for the tax
payers that they are being con-
structed by conversation rather than
with pick and shovel.
Talk, always cheap, is nowhere
. cheaper than at meetings of the
Board of Estimate. 1t is also amaz-
ingly simple. No engineering is in
yolved, no financial problems must be
settled.
To the City Hall come admirers Of
Mr.. Hylan by the score to tell him
now nice his new subways are and
how inferior are the subways which
ars now in course Of planning and
construction under the Transit Com
mission, which happens to have the
authority to build them
Mr. Hylan, in the seat of author
ity, beams when the enthusiasts
speak in his praise or in dispraise of
the Transit Commission and say
agely denounces any one who oues-
tions the practicability Of his plan.
He has an opportunity to allude to
the law-defying corporations at least
once every two Or three minutes.
he can denounce people who object
to his plan as auburn haired little
pettifoggers" and be sure of instant
laughter and applause from his audi
ence,
It is on the whole rather harm
less way Of spending an afternoon,
although there are those who con-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
On Watch,

Undoubtedly Ex-Governor Smith
would prefer to remain a quasi
private citizen-at least for a few
years more. His position on the
Port Authority gives him abun-
dant opportunity for public service.
He has held office for many years
and needs time to make money to
support his large family.
Notwithstanding, he has renewed
ms declaration that he will go to
syracuse next week and, if neces-
sary, become candidate for
the Democratic nomination fo,,
Governor.
BY IF necessary" he means that
he will become a candidate if there
appears to be any danger that Will
ham Randolph Hearst may be named
by the convention.
This danger The Tribune believes
was removed at the primaries But
the Democratic party is indebted to
Mr. Smith for his determination. It
is never safe to be sure about Mur-
phy, as the party discovered some
years ago at Buffalo.
Mr. Smith is a known Quantity
lie has more influence with the
party than Murphy. He can pre-
vent Hearst's nomination if he
wants to, and there is not the sl;ob+
est doubt that he does.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22

Comrades in Honor

The thirty-five Senators who stood
against the bonus bill on Wednes-
day must share with President Hard
ing the glory Of frustrating de-
plorable surrender of the public in
terest to organized group demands.
The veto would have gone for moth
ing but for the steadfastness Of this
saving remnant in one branch of
Congress.
The bonus bill represented pecul-
iarIy dangerous departure from
sound financial and political stand
ards, because it camoufaged self
seeking with the gloss Of patriotic
gratitude. The supporters of the
bonus act were for it chiefly because
of expected dividends in votes. The
beneficiaries were assured that their
claims on the Treasury were valid,
however much those claims might
strain the Treasury's resources and
credit. But the voice which said
this spoke deceitfully. Those who
wanted to create the debt were un-
willing to do anything to guarantee
payment.
1t is profoundly discouraging to
find among the promoters of this
fraud on the soldiers nearly all the
Republican leaders in the House and
the Senate. Representatives Mon
dell, Fordney and Longworth and
Senators Lodge, Watson and Nc
Cumber all combined to play through
sorry comedy. They were ready
to undo at q single stroke the heroic
work which Congress has done to
reduce Federal expenditure and
taxes and to liquidate war extrava-
gance. In that they sinned against
the light. But some respect might
have been felt for them if they had
said: eve don't care what the bonus
costs. We are SO convinced of it's
justice that we are going to specify
in black and white just how the tax
payers are to pay for it." They
stole away from such test of their
good faith. They were afraid to
face the consequences of their own
legislation.
1t is Republican leadership of
this lodging, squirming sort which
the country cannot look up to. II
is narrow and reckless and toe
much tied up with electioneering re-
quirements. 1t contrasts unfavor-
ably with the Democratic leadership
in the House and Senate, although
on the bonus vote Mr.. Garrett and
Mr.. Underwood were both leaders
with a scant following.
The nine Democratic Senator'S and
e the twenty-six Republican Senators
who made Mr.. Harding's veto good
constitute the honor roll of this Con.
. eress. The Tribune congratulates
them all. And it notes with especial
satisfaction that New York and New
% Jersey, its own more immediate con.
stituency. voted solidly to rebuke
y the false pretenses and meretricious
" leadership which it has lost no op,
portunity to denounce.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
The Three Kearnys

To the Editor Of The Tribune. s.
Sir: Closing q contract WIZ :
United States Steel Corporatioa !. !
Kearny, N. j., counsel told me 3. !,
Kearny was named after the fain's :,
which Commodore Lawrence Az.
and General Phil Kearny were sss
bers. New Mexico and Calitornas = y.
General Stephen Watts Kearny o. =
first Governor. Was he mempe' :.
the New Jersey family? In SaA's
where live, General Stephen heslg
our hero, LANGBERRy DIxos
New York, Sept. 90, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
o'r: Alter reading Mr.. Hammond's
renections on the name Percy" in his
odaments and Remainders'' in a re-
cent tribune / can understand why he
catied his son John and took such
pleasure in Johns membership in the
on'eed States Marine Corps. I was in
oonh's company and platoon in the
q marine officers training camp at
.suantlco, and, although have lost
track OF him, have not forgotten that
me- too, was little regretful of the
name Percy, even when it was signed
TO ms fathers delightful articles.
JAMES G. KORAN.
scranton, Pa, Sept. II, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22

diplomats, congressman and other
statesmen with new headpieces;
though, of course, discretion would
have to be employed. For instance,
it might be embarrassing to have
Don Marquis's Old Soak and Mr.
Volstead trade heads.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James J. Montague
The Limit


Far be it from us to diminish
The zeal of the militant drys.
They mean to keep on to a
finish
Till the demon croaks feeb]v
and dies.
Ihey now are converting the Ger
mans,
And hope, ere the end Of the
year,
That the bibulous Hanses and
Hermans
viii pin a "verboteno on beer.
The Scotch are a little bit wor-
rled,
Suspecting that one of these
days
They waken to find they've been
Into rough and abstemious
ways.
And Englishmen shudder and
tremble,
While their foreheads wax
clammy and pale,
When prohibs amidst them as
semble
To threaten their brandy and
ale.
But long in the lands of the Vik-
ing,
Where the blizzards sweep
down from the mole.
For liquor have folks had liking,
And sounded their jovial
"Skoalw
Since the days of the red-headed
Eric,
Who led their adventure and
strife,
You couldn't pry loose with a
derrick
The drink that's the breath Of
their life.
The Russians may go on the
wagon;
The French, in the ages to
come,
May put the laws ban on the
f1agon,
The Dutch may refuse to take
rum.
But in spite of the anti-hootch
legions
We will cheerfully venture to
bet
That the Danes and the Swedes
and Norwegians
Will always and always be wet!
We Knew 1t
Women aren't smoking so much
as they used to. That's because no
body objects to their smoking any
more.
Business Note
1t looks as if the well-known firm
of Capital & Labor was about to ask
for dissolution Of copartnership.
Lucky We Put Them On
We're going to need those locks
we put on our cellars to keep what
coal we have left.
Copyright by James J. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
Disappointed Callers

(From The Cincinnati Eaqasf0f )
"Your party does not ans@es,
the familiar telephone exchange 81 :,
that many aspirants for political 81. 4.
got and are getting at the pra'as'
this year.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Percy Hammond will doubtless
be consoled to some slight extent to
know that one of the greatest full
nacks that ever played on Harvard
team was Percy Wendell, who is at
present, believe, coaching the will
liams College football team.
ARMITAGE WHITMAN.
New York, Sept. Is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22

ever routed battery of Gamers
guerrillas. Give this Percy credit
Percy, for he deserves it.
PERCY ARMISTEAD.
New York, Sept. IA, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22

IStephen Watts Kearny, born $
Newark, N. j., was l'aE'sa; s.;
Kearny's second cousin ano s
Kearny's uncle.-Ed.1
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
Concerning Percy

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The fragrant irony Of percy
Hammond's lament that the name Percy
is synonymous with failure does not
excuse his subtle indifference to facts
There is successful Rockefeller
named Percy; Mr.. Percy johnson is
president of one of New York's great
est banks, and Mr.. Percy Hill is the
executive head of the American To-
bacco Company, to mention but few
Percys who have not been Handicapped
in their christening There are as
many illustrious Percys in New York
as there are Ebens or Ezras.
SAMUEL. MORTON.
New York, Sept. 1S, 1922.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My old pal Perce is a wee
bit off on his Percy "dope," and / am
not going into any long piece OF
paIaver about it either. He asked .
Can one imagine fullback entitled
Percy?"
Yes, one can. Maybe not a fullback
but guy who could play the game and
play it in its rip-snortiest "get-your-
man" manner. mean Percy Haugh.
ton. | don't recall now whether he
was Harvard or Old Eli, but he was
one hell of football performer. And
also, some coachl Besides that. this
Percy person has the reputation of be-
ing the only gink who, single handed
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
Business Note

1t looks as if the well-known firm
of Capital & Labor was about to ask
for dissolution of copartnership.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
We Knew It

Women aren't smoking so much
as they used to. That's because no
body objects to their smoking any
more.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
Lucky We Put Them On

We're going to need those locks
we put on our cellars to keep what
coal we have left.
(Copyright by James ]. Montaguel