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New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

fectly at the other end and heard by
an expert in acoustics.
No discovery has ever been less ac-
cidental. 1t was the last link of a
long chain. of discoveries. 1t was the
result of persistent and deliberate
search. Already, for half a year or
longer, Bell had known the correct
theory Of the telephones; but he had
not realized that the feeble undulatory
current generated by a magnet was
strong enough for the transmission
of speech. He had been taught to
undervalue the incredible efficiency of
electricity.
Not only was Bell himself a teacher
of the laws of speech, so highly skilled
that he was an instructor in Boston
University. His father, also, his two
brothers, his uncle and his grand
father had taught the laws of speech
in the universities of Edinburgh, Dub
lin and London. For three genera
tions the Bells had been professors of
the science of talking. They had even
helped to create that science by sew
eral inventions. The first Of them
Alexander Bell, had invented a system
for the correction Of stammering and
similar defects of speech. The sec.
ond, Alexander Melville Bell, was the
dean of British elocutionists, a man
of creative brain and a most impres.
sive facility of rhetoric. He was the
author of dozen textbooks on the
art of speaking correctly, and also OF
a most ingenious sign-language, which
he called "Visible Speech" Every let.
ter in the alphabet Of this language
represented certain action of the
lips and tongue; so that new methoc
was provided for those who wished
to learn foreign languages or to speak
their own language more correctly
And the third of these speech-improv.
ing Bells, the inventor of the tele.
phone, inherited the peculiar genius
of his fathers, both inventive anc
rhetorical, to such a degree that as a
boy he had constructed an artificial
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
A Use for Mosquitoes

That all creatures, great and
small, have their purpose in crea-
tion is difficult of belief by the resi-
dents of New York and New Jersey
who have lately been losing their
sleep that the mosquito might dine.
One whose slumbers are con-
tinually interrupted by a whining
buzz next his ear, followed almost
instantly by sharply painful SUBJ
cutaneous injection of a mild but
Irritating poison, feels that the mos
quito might have well been dropped
beside the way in the evolutionary
construction Of the world.
Yet a use has at last been found
for him as an adjunct to the dis
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

The folloaOing paragraphs are quoted
from Herbert N. Casson's "History of
the Telephone."]
In that somewhat distant year 1875,
when the telegraph and the Atlantic
cable were the most wonderful things
IN the world, tall young professor
of elocuton was desperately busy in
a noisy machine shop that stood in
one of the narrow streets of Boston,
not far from Scollay Square. 1t was
a very hot afternoon in June, but the
young professor had forgotten the
heat and the Crime of the workshop.
He was wholly absorbed in the max
ing of a nondescript machine, a sort
Of crude harmonica with clock spring
reed, a magnet and a wire. 1t was a
most absurd toy in appearance. 1t
was unlike any other thing that had
ever been made in any country. The
young professor had been toiling over
ly baffied him, until on this hot after
noon in June, 1875, he heard an almost
inaudible sound-a faint twang-come
from the machine itself
For an instant he was stunned. He
had been expecting just such sound
for several months, but it came SO
suddenly as to give him the sensation
of surprise. His eyes blazed with de-
light, and he sprang in q passion of
eagerness to an adjoining room, in
which stood a young mechanic who
was assisting him.
"Snap that reed again, Watson!''
cried the apparently irrational young
professor There was one of the odd
looking machines in each room, so it
appears, and the two were connected
by an electric wire. Watson had
snapped the reed on one of the ma
chimes and the professor had heard
from the other machine exactly the
same sound. 1t was no more than the
gentle twang of a clock-spring; but it
was the first time in the history of the
world that complete sound had been
carried along a wire, reproduced per-
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
Ambition

fLimes bv a Caddy Bow
Not so mucha longer
tote around da club;
No mucha care to hear da swear
From some great bigga dub.
/ play da tournamenta,
An by an by you see
l cop da mon off every one:
Da golfa champ-dat's me.
I got da gooda swinga.
l got da gooda putt;
No needa drag da bigga bag
To make da bread an but,
Just leeta beet more BETA,
l wear da granda cloes
An go an play around some day
An lick da gooda pros.
Gene Sarazen-him caddy,
But only for a while.
He gotta class--he swing da
brass
An swat da ball mile.
Da paper print his picture
Dat look so gran an proud,
An people say, Hip, hip,
hOOray!
He beat dat foreign crowdW
Yes, sir, he win da prize
For old starspangled BAN.
He got da pep to get rep,
Dat good American!
worka night an morning
An get da snappy game;
You looka mean soon YOU
see
Sometime l do da same!
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
Cool Heads

But for calmness and presence of
mind the collision of the Grand Re-
public and the Erie ferryboat Chau-
tauqua might have become a terrible
disaster - approaching that of the
General Slocum, the sister boat of
the river craft.
Regardless of to whose fault the
crash may have been due, it is GER
tain that the captains and crews of
both boats behaved admirably after
1t happened. Though the side of the
Chautauqua was smashed and the
bow Of the Republic almost torn
away, nevertheless the 1000 pas
sengers were quieted and reassured
and within few minutes the boats
were safely tied up to nearby piers.
No one who has never been in q
collision on the water can under
stand how terror tends to become
epidemic, and how cool, courageous
and efficient must be the work of
crew to prevent a catastrophe.
An investigation will in all proba-
bility determine the blame for the
accident, but in fixing the blame
there should also be large measure
OF credit given to the men who kept
Gown a panic and prevented a
calamity.
In these days of faultfnding, when
1t seems pleasurable to many to
dwell on our national deficiencies, it
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

ties to the Dominion. Sir Andrews $
cheek "flabbergasted' the Down
East Yankees of Portland, Lewiston
and Bangor, not to mention such
metropolitan centers of Aroostook
as Houlton, Fort Fairfield and
Presque Isle.
Maine has ever been ready at the
drop of the hat to fight for the po-
sato empire. Has Aroostook no
gratitude, that she talks of seces-
sion?
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
Supreme Folly!

BY deciding to have the railway
shopmen's strike go on rather than
to agree to take their old employees
back the railroad executives have
assumed a heavy responsibility.
Two great strikes by their joint
effect are pushing the country
toward great crisis. What will be
conditions in a month or six weeks?
There is grave likelihood that they
will be such, through decrease of
tonnage, as to cost railroad owners
far more than they would pay out by
temporarily carrying some extra
men Told employees and new en-
ployees) on the railway pay rolls.
The consequences to the public of
suddenly throwing 100000 men
out of work through closing fac
tories need no description. Con-
gress, by direct appropriation, could
we'll afford to pay the wages of the
extra men rather than have the
strike continue.
Not only is the response of the
railway executives against the in
terests of the owners of railroad
property and against the interests of
the public, but it is illogical and
self-contradictory.
The railway chiefs offer hereafter
to obey the decisions of the Labor
Board. This is inconsistent with
their subsequent implied refusal to
accept the rulings in regard to
seniority that the Labor Board may
be expected to make.
The board has full power to fix
and modify seniority rules. Is there
any doubt the board would prescribe
rules in accord with the Presidents
views? The President is the boards
political superior. The board is his
agent with respect to the exercise of
the discretion the law confers.
The railroad executives in one
breath say they will obey all the or
ders of the Labor Board and in the
next in effect declare that they will
not with respect to seniority privi-
leges. Instead of fatty refusing a
settlement, they might at least have
said they would submit the seniority
issue to the Labor Board.
The seniority issue has been given
an exaggerated Importance by the
railroad executives. The impression
is sought to be conveyed that the
railroads are asked to throw out
their new employees. This is not
the case. The new men are to retain
their jobs. With accumulated work
to be done, there is now room for
the new men. The two forces will
assimilate and in short time, espe-
clally if business revives, there will
be employment for both.
In 1902, confronting a similar
crisis, the late ]. Pierpont Morgan
had vision enough to force George
f. Baer to abandon an impossible
position. Another Morgan is needed
now. A month ago the much-beset
railroads had the sympathy of the
public. Now they have lost it, or
will lose it when the effects of the
refusal Of the Presidents proposals
begin to appear.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
Seniority and Pensions
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your leading editorial of this
morning under the headline "Accept ?"
you say:
GAS to seniority there is a vast
to-do over nothing or very little,
The chief privilege of an old en-
ployee is his pension rights. This
the men on strike have already paid
for"
No railroad man of any extended
experience could possibly assent to
the validity of any one of the three
above statements. 1t may be possible
that on some railroads the EMPLOYEES
make payments which ultimately come
back to them in the form of pensions,
but this, if true, is an exception and
an unimportant exception. 1t is not
Enthusiastically true. 1t is not true
on such important railroads as the
Pennsylvania, New York Central,
Union Pacific, Burlington, Santa Fe,
Northwestern, Illinois Central, Del
aware, Lackawanna & Western. New
York, New Haven &. Hartford, and !
might go on naming numerous others
Pension rights are no part of the
payment of railroad men recognized by
law; they are entirely gratuitous and
at the expense of the railroads them
selves. They have been established to
encourage faithful service, and the
action of the strikers, aimed, as it was,
to strangle the business of the COM
pany, and the traffic of the country,
could hardly come within this category.
There is no real parallelism such as
you suggest with the holding of an in
surance policy issued by an insurance
company. In the last case the policy
holder has legal right for which he
has paid and which can be protected in
the courts. Pension rights on rail
roads are more in the nature of a
voluntary bonus given for faithful
service.
Again, seniority, instead of amount
ing to nothing or very little" is
matter Of extreme Importance in
railroad mans life
AS to the shopcrafts seniority
rights they cover privileges of the
selection Of jobs paying different rates
OF pay; also choice of shifts (whether
day or night and the right to work on
Sundays or not.
When forces are to be cut down the
senior men are kept at work while
junior men are laid off. When forces
are restored the laid-off men having
seniority privileges must be given
preference over new men.
Under the revised rules. Of course
there is provision that hours of serv-
Ice shall be reduced before men are
laid off, but this does not materially
affect the continuity of the employment
of the senior men,
note the following statement in
the editorial referred to:
For months the railroads have
houted the boards decisions"
l know of no basis of fact to war;
faht sueh generalization. Railroad
unions have charged that there have
been some 1o4 violations" by rail-
roads Of Labor Board decisions.
According to statements made by
spokesman for the Labor Board, it
will be found that many of these cases
are classified as violations" only by
the 0rpapizu}ieo, ,,l A..
cases they apply to railroads which are
not involved in this controversy.
These cases have not all been heard
by the board, and no one is in posi-
tion to say whether or not "viola-
tion" has taken place.
JOHN G. WALLER,
executive Secretary Bureau of In
formation of Eastern Railre =.
N0w YNrkE hnn 9o1a
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
The Birth of the Telephone

skull, from gutta-percha and India
rubber, which, when enlivened hy 4
blast of air from a hand BELOW,
would actually pronounce seyenl
words in an almost human manner
The white plague had come to hs
home in Edinburgh and taken svay
Bells two brothers. More, it had pu.
its mark upon the young inventor hin.
self. Nothing but a change of climst.
said his doctor, would put him out &
danger. And Sc, to save his life, b
and his father and mother set sal
from Glasgow and came to the smsl
Canadian town Of Brantford, whsn
for year he fought down his tendena
to consumption and satisfied his ner'
Gus energy by teaching visible speech
to tribe of Mohawk Indians.
Before Bell had begun to expsh.
ment with his telegraph the scene u
the story shifts from Canada to Mssss'
chusetts. 1t appears that his fathsf
while lecturing in Boston, had met
toned Graham's exploits with class
OF deaf mutes; and soon afterward ths
Boston Board of Education wrote 70
Graham, offering him $500 if he would
come to Boston and introduce his sys
tenn of teaching in a school fer aesi
mutes that had been opened recently
The young man joyfully agreed, sna
on the first of April, 1871, crossed tie
line and became for the remainder o.
his life an American.
His second pupil who became is''
tor-a very considerable factor|i
Bells career was a ffteen-yearsat |
girl named Mabel Hubbard, wbe ni' 4
lost her hearing, and consequently nsia
speech, through an attack OF s'si's
fever when a baby. She was gen"s
and lovable girl, and Bell, in his araens.
and headlong way, lost his heart TO as'
completely, and four years later ~
had the happiness of making her u
wife. And through her sympathy WIZ
| Bell and his ambitions she leo Nv
father-a widely known Boston lsW!s'
named Gardiner G. Hubbard-to W
come Bells chief spokesman ana w
fender, true apostle of the teieph0'',
Bell ventured to eonfide to Huhos'S
his wild dream of sending speech Owe,
an electric wire, but Hubbard laugass
him to scorn. "Now you are taiki's
nonsense" he said. Such a tn'as
never could be more than a sciehs.~
! toy. You had better throw that 'a''
out of your mind and go ahead a"s
your musical telegraph, which II II !
successful will make you millies'sils
But the longer Bell toiled az o.
musical telegraph the more
dreamed of replacing the telegraph az
it's cumbrous sign-language by ~,
machine that would carry not dots ~,
dashes but the human voice.
can make deaf-mute talk" he sa@
81 can make iron talk"
The telephone was now in exlstens.'
but it was the youngest and 1eeDis'.
thing in the nation. 1t had not "
spoken word.
For forty weeks-long, exaspsra''ls,
weeks-tne telephone could 40
more than gasp and make s1la'ss
inarticulate noises. Its eduea'e
had not Learned how to nss.ss.
IT. Then, on March 10, 1878 1t Co. J.
It said distinctly--"Mr. Watson GER.
here. want you" Watson. VINO "
at the lower end of the wire, IN =,
basement, dropped the receiver =. =.
rushed with wild joy up three n'sa.
of stairs to tell the glad tidlngs =
Bell. II can hear you'll" ne snoussr
brsathlsssly. 81 can heas the wo'p''
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

is agreeable to note how seldom av-
erage men fail to measure up to
supreme cali that in a twinkling
comes roaring at them. The ma
tional color is not yellow.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
A Queer Race

Man is a curious creature. When
he isn't working on a plan to save
daylight he is thinking up way to
spend the summer.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

Yeu purchase ugchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with zbsoiaso saesJ--ior " dissatisiao.
tion results In any ThE TRIBUNE guarau.
tees 10 pay your money back upon request. No red
tape. No auihhlIng. We refund promptly II the
advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
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herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
ON A JERSEY PORCH

l often say when it's warm out
here how awful it must be on the
people in the city.
No, we have very few of them
generally.
It's strange, but every ether night
we've been here we've had the coolest
breeze.
This is by far the warmest evening
we've had.
There are a few of them tonight.
but that's because we had the grass
cut to-day.
Of course, it isn't really SO hot. It's
just close. I suppose it's
1t must be terrible in the city to-
night.
Goodness This is really the first
time they've bothered US this season.
Wilbur, look on mothers bureau and
get the citronella-the big bottle.
Usually we have the most wonder
full breeze all evening, and toward
morning you always have to pull up
the blankets.
Wilbur, please don't keep a light in
mothers room. The light always at
tracts them
Well, / know 1t is there. put it
there myself when we came in off the
PORCH last night.
Of course, there probably aren't real
ly so many Of them around But when
you scratch new bite that stirs up
all the old ones too.
We'd go inside, but lamp always
makes room so hot and I don't think
the window screens can be in tight.
This must be a terrible night for
people who have to stay in the city.
When we were dumped into solitary
confinement in the above Tower last
January we were told that we were to
endeavor to keep it from dropping 10
pieces until September /. And now
we are informed that additional days
have been added to our sentence and
we won't be free man again until
September IL.
ApparaNk1Sy WA naro L.n~ 4
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
The Toughest lob Yet

We never felt sorry for book agents
till the ex-Kaiser's book was put on
the market in this country.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

So Does the u. S, Shipping Board
Now we understand why the big
room on ship is called the saloon.
(Copyright by James j. Montaguel
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

We wonder if really vindictive small
boys don't gather these days at 116th
Street and Broadway to gloat over the
teachers going to summer school.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

DI A 10 G u e
Said the poison pie
To the poison pen:
"You amt been around
In God knoWs When."
Said the poison pen
To the poison pie:
"You kill 'em, kid,
And LEAVE me he." )
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
The Particularly Long Trail

The PARTICULARLY Long Trail
(From Hearst's International Ma1asine)
Who knows if the people who look
down over the brink Of the canyon of
the Colorado to-day are more or less
awed by it than Francisco Silvestro
Velez Escalante, who set foot on the
rim Of the Grand Canyon some sixty
years before the British set foot on
Plymouth Rock?
What we do know is that in the
year of the ringing of our Liberty Bell
in Philadelphia Escalante went clear
across the abyss and the basin of the
Colorado.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

Apparently we have been penalized
ten days for holding. y. v.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
The Tower
EXPL AN ATTON
(Rondeau RedoubIa)

IL Il Il IL a ~ II u ~
(Rondeau RedoubIa)
"IXyRITE me a poem," you ask,
W., 20 roundelay,
| A sonnet, pamtoun, or ty'ioiet;
Indite some lines that sing a loue
song gay
Or frame an ode to sparkling
eyes of jet.
"To celebrate the fact that we have
Rhyme up some words for me this
very day;
Get on your mark! Get ready! Now
get set
Write me q poem," you ask, 20
roundelav.
"String out some words in orderly
array;
Rhymes can't be scarce enough to
make you fret;
Sit right down now and build for
me, l pray,
A sonnet. pa7,tonns or a triotet."
Oh, lovely lady, deep Is my regret,
This one request it seems l can't
obey;
You could not make me-not by plea
or threat
Iadite some lines that sing love
song gay.
1t may seem strange, but poems
don't come that way;
They are not made to order, not
as yet;
You can't command: "Please fashion
me lay,
Or frame an ode to sparkling eyes
of JET"
You think me mean and stubborn?
Lady, let
Me say just this before you start
to flay:
Some day I'll meet the girl; you
just can bet
When that dame comes she will not
have to say
"Wsite me poe1n."
MICHAEL GROSS.
Amundsen believes he will find hither-
to unvisited land in the neighborhood
of the North Pole, and the Prince of
Wales is thinking Of trading his battle
cruiser for an ice breaker.
From our own experience with trav-
cling men. we suppose that H. R. II.
must have, by now, the most complete
collection of that sort of story in
existence.
Still, Albert Edward must be the al
most perfect travelling man. Up to
date no one has squawked about
single item in his expense account.
DIALO CUE
Said the poison pie
To the poison pen:
/ "You amt been around
In God knows ,vhen."
Said the poison pen
To the poison pie:
"You kill 'em, kid,
And Leave me He." x,
We wonder if really vindictive small
boys don't gather these days at 11sth
Street and Broadway to gIoat over the
teachers going to summer school.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

If some genius UouZd only find a.
method of mtilizing evem a. fraction of
the not air generated by the rail strike
I've don't suppose the nation Mould worry
u the coal miners stayed out forever.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1922


Entered at tho Postos3ce at New York Second
Class Man Matter
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

Still, Albert Edward must be the al
most perfect travelling man. Up to
date no one has squawked about q
single item in his expense account.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-03

Amundsen believes he will find hither-
to unvisited land in the neighborhood
of the North Pole, and the Prince of
Wales is thinking Of trading his battle
cruiser for an ice breaker.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-06-22
EIGHT ARE ARRESTED For
TRAFFICKING IN TEACHERS
EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

The following eight persons were
arrested for having in their poses
sion questions for, teachers examin-
atoms: Irvine Bullock, Harold Jones,
J. l.. Jones, Miss Martha Jones, Ies-
sic d. Lay, Luster Scott, W. II. Spur
lock. and Albert Smith. They are
all students of Eastern Kentucky
State Normal School.
Bullock is said to have brought the
questions from Mt. Vernon to J. l..
and Martha Jones to answer them for
him. While he was there Harold
Jones saw them and quickly made a
copy. il is thought, and proceeded to
make a salesagency. Bullock was
arrested in Mt Vernon and escared
from the sheriff when he got per-
mission to speak to an attorney, and
has not been recoptured.
Mrs. Alice Davis, Superintendent
of Rockcastle is to be trlsd in Cir
cult Court on the charge Of issuing
illegal certificates.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-06-22

big world, but kept in constant touch
with the institution. He was presi.
dent Of the Alumni Association from
1907 to 1910.
A few years ago Mr.. Racer left his
city home in the North and took up
his abode in the sunny South. Choos-
ing West Palm Beach, Florida, as his
abiding place. True 60 his nature,
he could not sit in idleness, and there
he entered the real estate business,
continuing same up to the time Of
his death.
In the death of James NJ. Racer
Berea College Alumni Association
has lost one of its best members, and
his virtues should be emulated and
should remain long in our memories.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-06-22
CLASS OF 1917

Judging a class from the interest
its members show in the annual re-
union at Commencement time the
Glass of II certainly deserves credit
Some of their members claim that
during the last five years they have
had the greatest representation on
the college campus at that time. This
year the class had the following rep
resentatives present: j. Harl Tate,
Mrs. Ralph Griffin, Mrs. Carol Robbie,
John Kilbourne, Lorena Hafer, Eu
dele Num-. Jewell Ogg and Mary
Cocks. VIM. Dizney, who was a
member Of the class but not a grad
uate, was also here. Let the other