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New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Police Beatings

What goes ON in the back rooms
Of police stations is not merely the
affair of Boshevist cheka. 1t is
the business Of the people Of New
York.
The constantly reiterated CHARGE
made by men brought into court by
the police, that they were beaten
by their captors, is beginning to ac-
Qure weight, even though most of
those making the allegations have
records Of imprisonment and are
poor witnesses. Jurymcn declare
they prefer their testimony to that
Of police Witnesses.
Justice Tallcy. in rebuking a iury
for scorning the testimony of police
witnesses, attributed it's action to
worldwide spirit Of lawlessness. to
prohibition and to other causes. For
mer Justice Morris Koenig probably
would disagree with him. Mr.
hoenig recently defended, by court
appointment, the murderer of two
detective sergeants. His client or
The stand testified that he shot be
cause he was terror stricken. He
said he had been beaten repeatedly
IN the back room of the station T,
which the officers were taking him
Did he lie when telling his grew
some story? The town does not
seem convinced he did.
Under Mayors Gaynor an,
Mitchell policemen charged witt
beating prisoners were suspende,
pending an investigation. Commits
Sioner Enright follows a differen
policy. The Police Department con
uibuted none of the evidence tha
sent clubbel Tiehe to Sing Sing.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Our Place in the World

The success of the Washington
conference has greatly heartened
hose who look forward to stabili-
cation of world relations. The inter
rational SPIRIT has been quickened
everywhere.
The barriers to cooperation have
been largely those of nationalist
nreiudice-of misunderstanding due
10 inadequate knowledge. We do not
sce ourselves as others see US. We
do not see others as they sec them
selves. One Of the great works of
he future Is the breaking down of
ISOLATION and insularity, whether in
The political or in the cultural field.
We still have our isoationists; but
hey reflect mood Of the past.
Americans generally have begun to
realize the unvisdonl-even the I'M
possibility holding aoof from
world concerns. Economic and polt-
zeal considerations are rapidly fore
~'@ - 80 close relations with the
peoples of the other continents Our
outlook has broadened immensely in
,he last ten years.
lnternationalism, getting rid Of
he mawkish dreaniness that once
marked il, has become. therefore, a
genuine force in The United States.
oar thought arc turning toward
World associations. Whatever the
older tradition may have been. We
are inevitably becoming internation-
al minded
An interesting sign Of this new
enlargement IS the enterprise in
which Herbtft S. Houston, proni-
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20

line old stagcrs have become bind.
1t has become an American habit to
make social gatherings of Legislative
sessions-larRe and small. Even
the greatest delibcratiVe body IN the
world is not free from it.
Time is consumed in public bodies
by futile tongue wagglng. Men with
their vanity love to make speeches.
Once started. they don't like to stop
And it is to he feared that the same
vearning will fasten itself upon the
other sex.
However, these two women have
at least started something. If their
sisters generally will follow their cX-
ample. and refuse to roman where
the dispatch of business IS shame
lcsslv sacrificed to oratory, the bcnc-
fits Of universal suffrage will be even
greater than the most ardent 2dVo-
cate Of political equality could hope
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20

O'Neills. He becomes more or less that
pitiable object, q vain producer VINO
regards a happy ending as necessarily
unworthy, and who yearns to do the
better things, though he has, like most
of US, but vague idea OF what the
better things are. Following the habit
of the Broadway showmen, he sees
everything in the terms q the play
house Visiting, for instance, an Eng
lsh garden, he stages it IN his mind
eye Rear wall Tower OF church, right
background. Two small children playing
with kitten. Young Englishman in
twceds. Tea table, center. three ladies
and q clergyman Bulbs, he thinks,
tinted with straw color, might get the
pallid afternoon glow on the wealth
cred stones Of the manso.
s, x
A, any rate, Mark Waliing develops
lovab'y under the influence of the
American theater and o. MS young
nephew and his niece. who nave come
to live with HIM in New York. lie is
by alr. Beers, who IS not. He worships
the boy and the girl, who are, as NJ
Beer reports them, fascinating in their
subtly marked individualities. both
smart ard both sentimental in their
different ways Charles Froh
man appears for a moment, speaking
TO a child at Broadway and Forthwith
Street. Anna Held, tripping over
sill IN Mark Walling's new thea
ter. calls "Au : cours." Stan
ford White laughs as Wauing pro
nounces "architecture" with soft
''ch.' Dignihcd but unemployed
English actress. a little tipsy, in a cate
says to her millionaire candy mer-
chant. Am | too loud. cherished one o.
And he answers, "Shout your head off
dearie; it's free country
1t wns too bad but not too realistic
when Marks divorced wife and her
actor husband conspred against him
to get an opening in his new theatcr
in New York. They compromised his
pretty niece in a Philadelphia hotel and
made the price Of their silence 8
Broadway premiere. Some "dirty
wires,' as they call them in the higher
circles Of the drama, passed between
them and were efficacious, one way OF
another. The story ends pretty vel
in the period of The Test as It be-
gins pretty well in the period of "The
Prisoner of Zcnda.' Who. the unin-
formed reader may ask, is the Marx
Walling of MIR. Beers's insstent biogra
phy-Sam Harris. Al. II. Woods. George
c. Tyler, Alfred Aarons, Arch. Selwyn
Guthrie McChntock, John Cort jr.
Augustln Duncan or j. J. Eosenthal
None OF them is the answer and some
of all Of them. A good sane. brightly
stlppled fable "Thc Fair Reward" anc
one not to be disrcgarded If you ar,
unsentimental in your attitude TOWARD
the theater
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Basic Infantry

The Var Department has once
more proclaimed the doughboy the
mainstay of the army. Ii would dis
abuse tho public mind Of tie idea
that mechanical appliances now out
weigh the human clement
There has been, it is true, d ten
dcncy to magnify the Importance Of
sirplanes, gas and big guns in the
press. But until the armistce there
was a tendcgcy on the part of the
old army men to refuse to admit that
the effectiveness of these weapons
had changed since our Civil War.
They clung to the theory Of infantry
combat made successful before The
days of new weapons and were Loaf
to admit the lessons Of the French,
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Better Prison Conditions

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | can quite understand that
since the WAY the enormous increase OF
grave crimes has led to a feeling on
the part Of the public that prison dis
ciplinc is inadequate and in some way
csponsble for this condition. Rctalia-
ton and punishment have been consid
cred by oldtme advocates as the only
way for dealing with transgrcs5ors Of
the laws, little thought being given to
the future Of the man confined
OF late years advanced penaliSts have
given much attention TO tho question
Of reform Of the criminal. II has beea
found that degradation such as was en-
forced under the old system did not
produce good results, and that recroa-
tion. visitors and healthy work were a
stimulus to better aspirations and that
protitab work can be secured from
large percentage Of prisoners provided
there is a wage incentive and better
prison industrial equipment. Results
have been found doubly fruitful in
making the criminal supporting
whle in prison and enabling him to
acquire a trade valuable TO him in civil
life when he is released
1t may be interesting to note that
prison wardcns now meet at yearly con
ventions to determine the best methods
Of dealing with all questions involved
in the treatment Of convcts With
prison managers realizing the immense
Importance Of improvement Of prison
conditions, let US give them all the help
we can to work out their conclusions in
this darkest corner Of civilized Fife
HERBERT S. CARPENTER.
Ardsle ey-on-Hudson, Feb. is, 1922.
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Answer: Nothing
Los Angeles Sunshine

To tho Editor of The Tribune
Sir: +. r.. who on grounding w.
wrote you regarding the climate OF ~
Angeles, no doubt saw his shadow ~
went back into his holc. II ne ns' :.
other dream before waking up 10 "
spring let us hope he has it pupl''''s'
so we can all have another n''''
laugh. !.
To native of the neither region >
might seem bitter cold" here A p''s !.
bear would fnd the weather d" ~. .
summer. An Arab straight from ~ =.
desert would notice the fog VIZ.
comes in from the ocean halt o''.t :,
times year. But to me-, ns''S' y, y
New England, the climate seems '''''
perfect. :,
Three solid weeks Of sunshine = .
January, with an average tempe'ss y.
of so degrees in the middle of the w., ~,
can hardly be called bitter cold, 'Ve'
weather.
Los Angeles, Calf, Feb. IL, 1sSS
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
The Halftone Pioneer
Stephen H. Horgan's Invention In
troduccd by The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: You printed this morning. an
obituary notice of Mr. Frank c. Drake
which states: ON 1896 he became art
director of The New York Tribune. and
in that position devised the first
method of printing halftoncs on fast
presses and ordinary print paper
The facts are that the writer was the
inventor and patcntcc of the method
Of using haiftonos on stercotyping web
presses, and the first halltonc so PRINT
ed was that of Senator Thomas c. Plat
on the front page of The Tribune o.
Thursday, January 81, 1887
The Tribune led the newspaper world
for long time in the use of halftone
illustration, and it was from here that
this method Of illustration spread into
the newspapers everywhere.
1t is Whitclaw Reid who deserves
the credit for encouraging the inven-
ton. for he paid for my patent, 60i.472
dated May "a. 1898 Mr.. brakes only
contribution to the invention was, un-
ioi luIhttlN, OpIOHlilou W H. NilINI lF-
suited in my succeeding him as art di
rector OF The New Y ork Tribune. The
use Of halftones has become such al
important contribution to the illustra-
tion of the news. in confirming It's ac
curacy, that it is important the history
oil its beginnings be correct while those
who contributed to it are still living.
Some years ago German named
Mcissenbach died, and the press gcncr-
ally honored him as the inventor Of the
halftone principle in 1888, while | had
bsen making halftones to illustrate
THE New York Daily Graphc,' begin
ning March 4, 1880, or three years be
fore this inventor invented it-a rather
cmbarra ssng situation to be in.
The writer was the pioneer in the
making of newspaper halftoncs, but
never realized anything from his III
vcntions. He is going to at least in
sist on credit for his work and that
history be set straight in this matter
STEPHEN ii. HORGAN.
Orange, n. j., Feb. is, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20

learned in the bitter and bloody
school of experience.
The infantry remains, of course,
the principal arm of the military
establishment. The function of the
air force is to serve as its eyes and
that Of the artillery to protect and
enforce it, But the experience Of the
way shows that new technique has
been made essential by the increased
power of these other arms.
The old army was slow to admit
the existence Of this technique. 1t
would be unfortunate if the depart
mont, IN its desire to show the proper
relations of men and matcricl'
should assign less Importance to the
latter than it deserves.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Keeping Evil Company

Sport and amusement arc neces-
sary parts of American life. They
are valuable because they are en-
joyablc. They supply the rest and
the recreation and the change of
interest which are Nccdful to every
Individual whose mental or physical
effort is helping to build the nation.
No fair-mindcd person can CON
demn either sport on amusement If
honestly and decently conducted. 1t
happens, however. that a great
many persons are uneasy about ten
ocncies in both, and uneasy with
some show of justification. The
first pages of the newspapers fur
nish the reasons.
Tins is not because baseball or
boxing or the theater or the motion
picture theater is bad in itself. 1t
is because those who direct them
have fallen into the way of tolerat-
ing vicious and uncloan company.
People of notorious and we'll
merited i'll repute are altogether
too prominent both in amusement
and in sport. They are, it is true.
few in number. But the very fact
Of their prominence brings them
into wide publicity and spreads the
impression that their callings are
becoming disreputable.
This impression sport promoters
and amusement promoters resent
They know it is not true. They
know that they are suffering the i'll
opinion of the public because of
sins which they do not personally
commit
Yet they are responsible for the
company they keep, and it is the
company they keep that promises to
be their undoing. They countenancc
and continue to associate with per
sons whose misconduct is fully
established, Instead of turning them
from their doors they fly to their
defense. And they insist that the
public contempt Of individual male
factors is directed, and directed un-
fairly at the profession with which
these malefactors have been identi-
fed.
There could be little crooked sport
and no harmful amusement if these
eviIdoers were not tolerated. There
would be no prejudice against box
ing or baseball or against the
"movies" or the theatcrs if the pur-
veyors of these industries would
recognize the fact that clean-mnded
Americans extend their disgust at
individuals to everything with which
the individuals are connected
Censorships, prohibitive legisla-
tion and, most drastic of all, the
withdrawal of public patronage will
be averted if all honest and clear
persons in sport and amusement will
combine to drive out of them al
persons who are dishonest and un-
clean. Let them remember what
happened to the saloon business
when 1t neglected to clean house.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Women in Men 3 Jobs

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Ny view Of "W omen in Men s
Jobs" is quite different from that Of
your correspondent, J. f. c.
When the men came back it took sew
cra months for them to get settled,
either in their old positions or in new
ones. AS for those who did not get
jobs, | wish to say it was not because
girls had their positions, but because
business was bad and there were no
positions to get. This is proved by the
fact that there are Just as many girls
applying for any one position as there
are men. 1t is Just as hard for girl to
get position as it is for man, even
more so There are more girls out Of
employment since the war than there
were before.
AS for CIR holding mems positions,
allow nc to say nat know Of two or
three cases where a girl was III in bed
with grip. This kept her home for al
most two weeks. When the girl re
turned TO continue work She had lost
her place; 1t had been Tiled by a man
What is moro, men everywhere are
employed to fiji positions which women
heretofore held
1t is the bad times. due to the in
cvitablc aftcrwar reaction. which are
the reason for unemployment and not
the women in mems jobs
NJ K
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
The Waste of Tongue Waeeing

Two women members of the city
council Of Three Oaks, Michigan.
have resigned their places because
too much time. they think, is wasted
in the sessions of that august body
They prefer houseWork, where a
body can get things done without
unnecessary conversation.
These women, being new in poll.
tics and belonging to the realistic
sex, see conditions to which mascu.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
An Orderly Influence
ffrona -As Wash,noton starr

ffrom -Ae Washlnofcn Star)
The suggestion that the Russian
ballet be taken to Genoa is not devoid
of appeal. A ballet is necessarily a
highly disciplined organization, and
some assurance is needed that dis
cipline has not become entirely impos-
sible under Russian influence.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Coal Trouble Roots

Ihe / nlted Mime W OrkcrS con-
vention voted for six-hour day and
five-day week, after arranging for
a strike referendum in March, un-
less the operators agree to renew the
present bituminous wage scale and
give 20 per cent increase to the
anthracite men. Some of the leaders
warned the delegates that it would
he most difficult to make the public
understand why the unions want to
reduce production and at the same
time to maintain, and even increase,
war wages.
The public viii. in fact, be puzzled
20 find a satisfactory explanation,
apart from the general one that the
nine workers are anxious to prevent
a Reorganization Of the industry on
peace basis. The convention pro-
tested against any lowering Of the
present prices Of coal at the mines.
Apparently its idea was that wages
could he kept nigh by limiting the
output and working the mines below
capacity. The consumer wishes to
sec production increased and coal
prices descend at last toward nor
NAL He sees wages declining in
other industries and wonders why
she coal miners should be excepted
from the operation of general eco
nomic law. He doesn't understand,
however what is the main motive
behind the unions fight against re-
adjustment He has not sufficiently
appreciated the economic fact that
the coal industry is overmanned.
IN the years before the war, ac-
-cofdinQ to the records of the Geo
logical Survey, the average number
Of days the coal mines were worked
caeh year varied from 116-in 1902
10 81 in 1919. The average from
800 TO 1916 was about 200 days. In
1917 and l9lS-the two war years
,he days worked were 2S5 and 293
respectively almost full working
wear
In 1918 678.000,00 tons were pro
duccd, compared with 5l3.O00,o0 il
19l4. But only $4,000 men wer,
employed in 1918 in the bituminou.
field, against 5S3 500 in 1914. In th,
anthracite field the supply of me-
), decreased between 1914 and 1871
from $4,000 10 $4,000 There VA
no increase IN the ranks of min
abor. Moreover, from 1916 to 1871
he number Of men employed lnsid
he mines increased only % 900. O
10 per cent But the amount o
coal mined increased IS 100000 ton:
or nearly 20 per cent.
A, the peak of war production, tn
Geological Surveys report show,
mining labor was fully equal to SUI
plying al demands There was
-. sbor'ase IN transportation and dis
tribution facilities, but not i
miners NOW, for peace production
the labor supply is excessive. 1t
that fact more than any otheI
which tends to hinder defation an
gives point to the mine worker.
anti-economic campaign for the rc
striction of working hours and G
coal outpul
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Experts

F,om The Bostop Eroano Transclipt)
General Goethals says that the
scheme to make ocean terminals of
Great Lakes cities is not practicable.
But what is the opinion of the man
who built the Panama Canal compared
to that of a propagandist from the
Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas7
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
THKOCKNoRTON TRAVELS

EN PllILADELPT11A PENN 1852 IS
+ r "
NETWORK TRIBUNE 1874 NASSAU sl
NEWYORK NY
TNROCKMORTON CUSH THRU on
PIrTSR RURGlI SLEEPER WITH WIFE
ATTEND FUNERAL HER COUSIN HE
N DEEP BLACK 1lT HAD LOW ER
NINE MRS CUSN UPPER USED -FOUR
TOWELS IL WASH ROOM AND WIS
TIED THRU TEETH WHILE SHAVING
STOP NO STAMP ENCLOSED NEITHER
IS RETURN MESSAGE PAID FOR
lADDOCK
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Long Suffering

fF,om The Indianapolis EsrS'~ ~ 4
Scientists say that this old v0"-
ours hasn't varied more than sses wv,
or two since recorded time IN "aS c.r
its annual trip around the sun. "a,
sidering the trouble and turlr0n r
carried along, the record Is
abla
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
The Voice of Authority

+. f. v: While the Heart Interesters
arc busy dashing off reams of copy to
tell us that the females who wear their
arctcs open arc not engaged and those
who wear them closed are out of com
that the arctlcs with a buckle from
each missing and the heels and toe 5
ou are worn by the married women.
Hoping this grasses all doubt from tho
minds of your customers and settles
the question permanently, ! am
LA GRIPPE.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
Ii Ia.f Leaf

The Last Leaf
CSot Dr.. Holiness versonl
We used TO hear her sign
AS she tottered feooly by,
Poor old dame.
OF her proud estate hereft;
Little worth possessing left
But her name.
But she passes by US nos
With a hlgh and naughty brow,
And a frock
Cut 50 low-and exc 50 high
That i gives . modest eye
Quite shock.
One can glimpse her silken hcs
And the color of Ire rose
On her lips.
And one readily may see
That her shoes are from Pars
As sae trips.
Though her age We may not guess,
It is sixty moro er less.
All the same
When shes half a block away
Lamp the aaDuer, ads, we say
Some swell dame.
Not fo~ her 70 droop and fade
Like the leaves that fall decayed
From the limb.
t you fancy there's chance
Watch her sometimes at q dance
Where they sllim
Unbecomirg? Maybe SO.
In one doomed 50 soon to gA
Poor cd thing
Yet upon HES little stage
Youth has no more right than age
To i+e firu'
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20

From The Dos Mones Reoioter}
II get my sermon by wireless" may
soon be new excuse for not attending
church.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20

feu car pDrchass merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE Win absolute ssfcty--for II dSSati,fsc-
tlen results In any case THE TRIBUNE eusran.
re-. to paS sour money back rsouest. Ne red
advertiser does net
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20

NTNFfN VT lie ANSl7 IAIEO FRFSS
Tr- As.o-s'et p-ess g rse.uNVs'y entitled 10
Shs for repgu atior ot al d p- q cs
T~''ted tr e. cr nu c'eerst,t r;edifed n '..i
par srf ssr tie aea' reHs of sporisr origin
80 isnsa hrnsr
A rSH,s X reput'icsaon q =. other mate
he-es1 s.so reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
The Tower
LTTANY
LT wv 7
GIVE mo Thy grace;

GIVE mo Thy grace;
Not for the shouting assault
when my banner advances;
Not for the thunder Of hoovcs and
the tempest of lances>
Keep Thou my face
Calm in the heart breaking crash OF
The overturned dream
When to my mouth comes the sick
cning, salt taste Of fear,
And over the tumult and cries OF
the vanquishcd hear
The hurrying wings Of the Furics;
their hidcous scream
Give me Thy stcadfastness then, oh
God Give me Thy grace!
Give me Thy mirth;
Not for the sun and the sky and the
summer winds laughter,
Not for the meeting Of friends and
the wine that flows after
But when the earth
Hardcns TO iron and the winds Of
adversity blow,
When the past walks, a terrible
ghost, and the future is vain,
Give me Thy bright gift of laughter
to Aaunt before pain;
Give me Thy smile to fling stark in
the teeth Of the foe
Give me the flame of Thy manhood,
God Give me Thy mirth.
Hear me, oh Lord
Teach me to stand on my feet in
the final black hour;
Turn Thou my eyes unafraid to the
oncoming power
Give me q sword
Grant that cry for no shield to
withstand his bleak blade,
But hilt in my hand and an edge
that the foeman may feel;
Let me pass to the chime and the
chant and the cIangor Of steel,
That you sec and rejoice in the soul
of the man YOU have made;
This is my prayer to You, God Of
Men. Hear me, oh Lord,
The American army is 10 quit the
Philippines. and maybe this noble ac-
tion will inspire the Japanese army to
move out Of Japan.
Apparently the only way to satisfy
thc data-sechino Senate is for Mr
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20

In Vintcrs chill and ,-ime and ml,rl;
We dnd it dtficuH to ,oorh.
BIT an the balmy days Of spring
We fnd the sclf-snnlc, gosh dorncd thing
New-York tribune., 1922-02-20

We might be able to stand February
better If we didn't know that as soon
as it's over it's going to be March.