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New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Tenement Fire Prevention

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To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Beginning with Fire Preven-
tion Week, we have had three tenement
house fires, two with loss of life, all Of
a familiar type. There are some SIM
pie measures of prevention, that have
been suggested over and over again. to
the fire and tenement authorities.
The staircases can be covered with
tireproofing material, making them
slow burning, instead OF torches or
Aues. The '.weils' can be enclosed
with fire-proof or slow-burning parti-
tions. and metal covered swing doors
placed at the foot Of each staircase.
There should be four-inch gong on
the outside Of the building, connected
with thermostat, and giving auto
matte alarm when halls become heated
above IT'S degrees.
Inc dangerous fire escapes should
be placed between the buildings. the
ladders in front of the party wall and
not rendered useless by blazing win
dows.
until these precautions and remedies
are put into general use. we will have
repetisions Of the Lexington Avenue
disasfer 1t is a matter, not only for
the attention Of the authorities, but
rests on the conscience Of every citizen
JOSEPH d. HOLMES.
New York, Oct. rs, 1922
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
A Fair Canadian Victory

When 1t came to racing the Cana
dians had the better of it. The Blue
nose won--and that is that. Her skip
per accepted uncomplainingly the
protests of the, skipper of the Henry
Ford. And last, but by MO means
least, the Canadian committee. had
the good grace smilingly to receive
The demand made by memberof the
American committee for new race
because the Henry Ford had carried
away her topsail, When asked wha.
he intended to do about this protest
the Canadian chairman answered
simply, "Frame it."
There is, Of course, sympathy for
the American skipper, Morrissey.
He honestly considered that he had
won the first contest, which the com
mlttee refused to recognize as a race.
and much of his subsequent conduct
was a protest against this committee
rather than an exhibition of poor
sportsmanship. AS matter of fact
there is much to be said in behalf of
his opinion that this committee. with
Its technicalities and rules and req
uiatlons, hindered rather than en-
couraged true sport. In the present
instance, by failure to determine ac-
curately beforehand the amount of
canvas that the Ford could carry
thus twice obliging her to cut her
sails, and by the indecision about rhe
voided race, the committee brought
upon itself the proper resentment of
the Gloucestermen. Captain Morris
sey's preference for race arranged
directly by the two shippers is there
fore readily understandable.
But all friends of good sport will
regret that the Americans did SO
much protesting. The Canadians
began the wrangling by their de-
cision ruling out the Mayfiower
The rules of the contest obviously
need revision. But this fact hardly
justified the overcritical attitude Of
many OF those who participated.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Drying Out Wet Statistics
To the Editor of The Tribune.

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Sir: A dispatch in to-day's Tribune
from your Washington Buresu pre-
sents statistics and arguments credited
to Captain w. H. stayton, founder and
executive head Of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment.
The doughty captain alleges high
percentage Of increase in arrests for
some fourteen classes Of crime, rang
ing from drunkenness to embezzle-
ment. He says, "rhey this statistics)
show, beyond possible contradiction,
that crime Of ell kinds has increased
at an unexampied rate in 1920 and
1921" Without contradiction for the
moment, what, we ask, has that to do
with the Eighteenth Amendment in
respect to most OF the crimes in his
list! The acrime wave" which over
flowed the land antedatcd the amend
ment and is due to conditions unre-
lated to prohibition, and it has not
yet fully ebbed.
| But, the captain argues, "arrests''
for drunkenness and disorderly conduct
Increased a6,ei per cent in 1921 over
1920, and that "thsse figures aurely
indicate that drunkenness Is on Tho
insrsase In spite ot prohibition They
asureiy' indicate nothing 81 the kind,
What they do "indicate'' is that the
law against booze Is bsing more and
mors vigorously and successfully en-
forced. The time was when drunks
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
What Readers Are Thinking
The Golden Rule in Bus'nsss

The Golden Rule in buslEless !
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: About six months ago Ashss.
newspaper announced that u sesss
publish the Bible serially a. new asss. &.
Of interesting the business man - -
teachings of Christ. To-day P ~
dispatch from Kansas City reporss sA.s
Z achr.stian Business Mems Fsoess =,
tion' has been formed with the p1'o's.
aim sto assist men in searching y, =
and applying the laws Of Goa !" S.
commercial relations" ...l.
In the midst Of present-day msssa
ism these are indeed encouraging s4sS,, ass
These business men who have W
moral courage and spiritual esas.s -
tions to proclaim from the housss - 4
that they srealixe and declsre thes = V Hs =
is tho source Of ell tAsir pyssPss'ssi ut.
and that they must ~demonsfrass ss
laws In their commercial atfsirs q ss.. n.
as in their church and social lfsss
worthy Of the highest eomnsa ass'ys 3 g.
sThe Golden Rule" they Say. raa.'' ss ssE
Fundamental in car dealings wisa 8.
people; loving service, rather thsn p. 8.
senal gain, shall be the keynoss g ! ..... "a
commsseial ambition, and the tsssa..
Of Jesus, as given in the New I & ~ &
ment. shall be aur guiding iiee s. &.
The most, remarkable fsatufs g s'As.. Il: Z.
ulan III that they will at al ras.s'ss g,
81 the federation, reserve : shsR S.
the unseen guest, Christ, q
Naw, yarl ga AZ. 1893.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
.Opprcssed" Germany

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: l have seen II stated that
Americans have lost ssoA,Ooo.O 900 In
vested in German marks. France has
RECEIVED up to date approximately
S1b,oo0,00o in gold from Germany on
reparation account, and according 10
q Paris correspondent 8 total oil
only about s4oo,Ooo,00o in gold hiss
been paid BY Germany.
Senator Hitchcock rscently de-
.noanced France for expressing Ger-
many, and such dennnciation has be-
come habit with some politicians
But wherein has France oppressed
Germany when Gernany'a clear profs
on German marks sold in the United
States Is more thsn twice ~ much al
she had paid in reparationsf r. q.
Butte Mont, Oct. 90, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Premature Forgiveness

Sir George Paish strayed far
from the safe paths of economic
doctrine when he told the American
Export Manufacturers Association
that it was time for us to forgive
and forget the crimes of Soviet Rus
sla. He said at the associations
dinner on Thursday: y
This great nation Russia YOU
nave helped set free. want YOU
TO treat her as free nation. / do
not sympathize with, but strongly
condemn, the communistic economy
OF Russia, but l am glad to saw that
the Russian government has already
learned the lesson that communism,
is impossible. 1t is already changing
and beginning to accept principles
which YOU support. hope you will
express your sympathy for Russia
in tangible manner"
The utter breakdown of commu.
nism on the economic side forced the
Soviet dictatorship to modify some
OF the restrictions it had put on in
aiv'auai ownership and production
FMS reversal was grudging and
was described as a temporary ex.
pedient. Lenine lacked the power t.
despoi! the peasants of their lands
and crops. They were zoo many fo,
nm. But in any field in which he
has had the power to confiseate and
inationafize he has not compromised
or recanted. He is not willing !,
promise to pay foreign debts unles,
ne Is paid in advance for doing 40
lie IS not ready to restore the prop
erty OF Russian nationals ex
eept on onerous conditions. He !;
content to sell concessions to for
eign spectators. But they have h,
assurance that he will live up t,
hia bargain.
Did the Genoa conference an,
ne Hague conference show tina
Strict Russia had been genuinel,
ess'yersed to recognition Of th.
yasssatg of international obligation,
Or gse IavieIabiiity Of private prop
ssFsys They did not. They n,ere|,
sasfseses tfas Moaeow wag willina
Y ayfgs 4 hard bargain with atases
~ sasleh n owed dests and sndi,
gtSaaas sAosa IL had robbed.
% " a tsavsgsy on facts to sas
fsst 1<sasn@ ~ sssgsnning so accep,
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Oddments and Remainders
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compel the two men to be pals or
associates"
| Some of the radical editors ignite
thar front pages with infanling stories
of innocent negroes tortured and
| lynehed on vague charges by hysteri-
cal, expectant white women. They tell
of humilities in shops, streetcars and
| theaters, and of abuses suffered as sol
diers in the war. Occasionally one Of
the more sagaeious Of the journalists,
as is the editor of 1.-THE New York
News" will report the judicial execu-
| tien Of q negro criminal and approve
the penalty. "Burly White Brute At
tacks Pretty Colored Girl" is favorite
headline with few Of the gazettes;
while others further their crusade with
such admirable war songs as this from
"The Boston Guardian"-"A Prayer for
the Race That God Made Black" by
Lucian Watkins:
We would be peaceful, Father-bus when
Help us to thunder hard the blow that's
just!
We would ne .prsyerfal: Lord, when we
have prayed.
Let US arise courageous. unafraid!
We would be manly-proying well our
worth,
Then would not cringe to any SOD on earth!
We would be loving ana forgiving. thus
To love our neighbor as Thou lowest US!
We would be faithful. loyaI to the Right
| Ne'er.. doubling that the Day will follow
Night,
| We would be all that Thou hast meant for
Up through the ages since the world
began!
God! save us in Thy Heaven. where all is
We ,3me come slow struggling up the Hills of
| Amen! Amen!
! Mr.. Detweiler is intrigued by the
extraordinary amount of rouge and
hair-oil advertisements in the black
| press. Skin-bleaches, lip-paints, herpi-
cides, bust-developers and hip-reducers
may strike the white person as absurd,
he thinks, when intended to enhance
the bruno comeliness of the sable
smart set. But he is disposed to SYM
pathize with the yearning of the me-
gress-beauties to be of assistance to
Nature. So he writes of Mrs. C. j.
Walker, the pioneer colored hair-dres-
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28

were wellnigh immune from arrest,
as were saloonkeepers in spite Of their
notorious and fagrant violations Of
the legal restrictions upon their busi-
ness. But that time is past. There
lis now little or no winking at the
laws violation.
Captain Stayton proves too much in
his argument, for whatever force there
is In IT against the amendment bears
equally against the laws prohibiting
burglary and embezslement.
C. v. HARTzEI.L
Muncy, Pa. Oct, 2s. 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
More Truth Than Poetry
BY James ]. Montague
Inspiration

lnSplfdtlon
The lazy summer days are gone
Farewell to loafing time!
The hills and meadows, in the
dawn s.o5, o,
Are white with frosty rime.
The mornings have zip, and
snap, ~
The air tingling zest---
a touch Of chill that stirs chap
To do his level best,
No more. more l lols by babbling
My idle soul to feed
Upon the stuff of silly books
never ought to read.
This autumn weather rouses me
To thoughts of nobler things,
1t shows me what I ought to be
And lends ambition wings.
No more my days shall slip away
With next to nothing done,
A long good-by to futile play
Now autumn has begun.
Toward stern, hard work my
steps are set
And have walked, at last,
To seek to make up, even yet,
The folly of the past.
Whate'er the weather, rain or
shine,
| do not care at all.
I'm out upon the stroke Of nine
And teeing up my ball.
I'm filled with vim and dash and
force;
Pm virile and alive;
And / am going to make that
course
In less than eighty-fve!
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
WE LEARNED last night from Fred

WE LEARNED last night from Fred
erick G. Detweiler's "The Negro
Press in the United States" that 500
newspapers and magazines are pub
lished by colored journalists in Amer
lea and that they have million eager
subscribers. Also that their contents
include news Of crime, society, sports,
hair straighteners, cosmetics, music,
the drama, race wrongs, baptizings and
politics, and such editorial comment,
often in verse. as these topics suggest.
No colored comic supplements intoxi-
cate the negro periodicals, and there
is an absence Of stock market reports,
departments sof etiquette. book re-
views and, oddly enough, comic "col-
umns."
Mr.. Detweiler's survey is more de-
scriptive than interpretative, but its
inferred conclusion is that the negro
press is a benefaction to the "laggard
sons Of Ham," This despite the fact
that many dark journals are sometimes
bitter and infammatory and that their
editors explicably are now and then
guilty of selfish devices similar to
those Of white journalists. In the most
conservative Of the papers there is y
brooding, dominant mood of sentiment
against the injustice Of the negro's
plight, determination ITO wage re-
lentless warfare against everything
that prevents US from being recognized
as full-fedged citizens Of America"
II is Mr.. Detweiler's belief that the
black man as he is expressed in his
best newspapers does not desire
amalgamstion with the white race. But
the negro will be dissatisfied with any
social order that makes him feel in
feriority. He demands, so he says, only
"social equity" not "social equality
The author, in discussing what he calls
this "enfant terrible" of the race ques-
tion, quotes "The Houston Informer"
as saying somewhat subtly that social
| companionship cannot be regulated by
laws. If Bill Smith wants to associate
with John Jones all the laws in the
genius Of mankind cannot keep them
| apart. On the other hand, if they do
not desire each others companionship
/. no law can be enacted that can
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
archy
THE GREAT GLAND MYSTERY

IL.
Let US introduce our heroine, Miss
Maybelle Bellmaye, the Empress Of
the Films.
She had darling little head that
rippled and laughed with red wavy
hair.
On the inside of her head there
was bright sunshine also.
She was Pure.
No liquor had ever touched her
rosy lips.
| Once, when her Mornma lighted a
cigarette, she struck the vile weed
from her parents withered lips.
! The blow brought blood.
In an instant Maybelle was all
contrition. She bound up the wound
with bit Of lace torn hastily from
one Of her most expensive costumes
and begged her Momma's forgive
ness in a storm Of tears.
That night she passed upon her
knees.
She knew that she had done right
in saving her Momma from the vile
Vice, but her heart was so tender
that the blood she had drawn from
the aged mouth haunted her.
Toward morning her Momma
came and knelt beside Maybelle and
promised her that she would never
smoke another cigarette.
II only learned myself to smoke
50 as to be like the other Mommas
In Hollywood, Maybelie," she said.
And these two sweet women for.
gave each other just as the sur
came. up bright and happy over the
location.
Maybelle used to go to flask par.
ties for the purpose Of trying e
convert other Film Expresses 10 I
simpler and sweeter life. She hated
. them. But it was her duty.
OFTEN, as she came home from
these wild orgies, in the early morn,
ing hours, she would see the sur
rise and would think how like he,
own red hair it was and whoeve,
happened to be her husband at tn,
time would say to her that she wa, m
always right, Little Queen.
For she had many husbands, littl.
Maybelle. $500
/ One at time, for she was as un
sophisticated as high school girl.
4 A high school girl Of the era whe,
her Momma would Of went Ia higl
school, II her Momma had of went
She married men to reform them
lips, ~ ~
Maybe!le was engaged to be mar
RED at the time our story opens t,
Millionaire Fairweather.
But terrible shock was in stor,
for dear little Maybelie.
(To Be continued)
DON MARQUIS.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
By Percy Hammond

ser, who, assuaging the kinks In the
coiffures of her shadewsd sisters,
achieved riches and a majestic win,
upon the Hudson.
at has been pointed out,s be asu
shat kinky hair calls for greater
amount of attention than the white
person realizes.
"Mrs. Walker made serious pratss-4
sion of negro hair-culture and grew %
be very wealthy and highly estsemsdsr-
Here is dispatch in "Ths Beetaa
Chronicle" that has auspicions hlsf
ences:
The CoIored Smart Set Of Providsns.,
r. T.. will hold a big holiday dancs Dseen.
ton Day night May 3oth. at Affair Hal.
music viii be by Worthinstoa's Jais
Orchestra. Rhode Islands society estss:
tanners, pep music tell the world" Ausn
hospitality TO one and all. strictly peitet
in every particular
Perhaps you will like, as we %,
the "Oath of an American Youth.
printed in every edition Of "fhe Ssfs'
falo American:
will never bring disgrace upon ny
race by any unworthy deed or dithenot-
able act. / will live q clean, decent, many
life, aud will ever respect ana & dsls1a Iii sas
upheld and obey the just laws OF tx
country and of the community 10 MnSa sa
I live, and will encourage others 20 ~ -,
likewise. viii not allow pre5udice, ~.
Justice, insult or outrage 20 cover my
spirit or sour my soul. but viii ev6s prs
serve the inner freedom OF heart ana cog.
science: viii not ,t as0T nsI, ,trjvs Sss to oysr.
coms evil with good; will endeavor e.
develop and exert the best powers W.T.
in me for my own pefsonat - n,,ichsn shs
sense of racial duty and responsip,,aa.ty -, !.
will in all these ways aim 10 upilts ~
race so that, to every one oouna hons ~
ties of blood. U shalt oecIm hrwerd Of re-
proach.
Mr.. Detweiler's scrutiny OF the negfo.
press includes an investigation o. she
voluptuous Marcus Garvey' whose ua''
forms, titles, vision snd genunecsisa
are inebriating to his fellow men. NJ, :.
Garvey's daily negro paper mas su''sss
up it's toes; but. as one suspects &
|Detweiler's opinion that the gorgses''
spectacular, quixotic Gsrvsy, VITA g
visions, symbols, long words, pfosss
sionals and incense, is more posens :
the end than many poets and fsv'es',,
ers.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28

principles which the American peo-
Pile support He lives in q world of
his own, utterly different from ours
politically and economically. We do
not want to 60 over to him or to
let him and his come over to us.
We have relieved innocent victims
whom his policies were starving.
For his absolutist and repudiationist
government we have nothing but
aversion and contempt.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Ronar Laws Program

In accounting for his fall as Prime
Minister Lloyd George said some
what acridly that there was a curl
Gus idea abroad in England that the
man who was good in war was not
good in peace. He also remarked
that some of those who brought
about the change in ministries
thought that what was wanted was
somebody more commonplace and
with better bedside manner"
gonar Law has been sagacious
enough to turn these sighting epi-
Grams to his own advantage. He adj
mits that he is commonplace and
says that it is his fixed purpose to
give the country commonplace and
negative administration. He indi-
Gated to his Glasgow constituency on
Thursday night that what Great
Britain needed most to-day was
rranquillity-a long breathing spell
which to recover from the turbu-
lent and tumultuous Georgian re-
gime.
This was pertinent retort. Bonar
Jaw has guod platform as well as
l good bedside manner He has al
ready announced plans for abolish
ing the famous Lloyd George "secre-
tayiat," which took the burdens of
1he empire and the whole world upon
It's shoulders; for restoring the au-
thority and prestige of the head of
he Foreign Office; for cutting out
spectacular inter-Allied conferences
Of prime ministers and getting back
10 normalcy in the conduct of for
eign affairs.
Much Of the unpleasant friction
between Great Britain and France
arose through the conferences of
which Lloyd George was so passion
ately fond and at which unlimited
opportunity was given him to dis
play his buoyancy and fertility as a
dipIomatist. The trouble was that
at these gatherings a diplomatic
victory could not be staged for
everybody. Poincare wisely called a
halt on them so far as France was
concerned. 1t is an augury for bet
ter relations between Paris and
London that Bonar Law now aban-
dons these rough-and-tumble tour
neys.
The new Prime Minister also said
helpful word at Glasgow on the
subject of reparations. He neve,
syrnpathized with the Lloyd George
khaki campaign demand that Ger
many pay every penny of the Allied
war debts. He does not sympathizs
now with the Lloyd George flop t,
the opposite belief that it is impos
sihle to get anything out of Ger
many. The Versailles Treaty pro
Vided for reparations. 1t is Bona
Laws notion that the treaty shoul
be lived up to rather than run ava
from, Both France and we," h
declared, twill go into this matte
With the same object in view. w
7 need something from Germany if w
can get it,
mat Is common sense and con,
mon fairness. France can get alon
with any British government wh;e
pursues that straightforward polio,
Here is a long step already towar
that disqualification and quiet u,
derstanding which Lloyd Georf
may sneer at but of which Gre,
Britain and Continental Europe bot
stand in need.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28

Yes ssn sarckass mershaneits advertised To IhE
TRIBUNE with absaists ss3sty--fey II d.ssAtlefac-
sies rssats in any ease fHE TRIBUNE sasrsn.
tea te psy Sesr msasy back ueea reaussf, Ae RED
tspe ke euihbliaa. We refund pfempty u ths
ssssstisee Sees act.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Conserving Their Pep

The country's coal supply may be
exhausted soon, but if strikes con-
tinue there is no, danger that the
miners will
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
mruprn OF TIE AssocrATgp PRESS

4hM AssosIassd press IS exclusively entitled 70
tie Use les republication Of all nsws dispatches
eYestea 10 IS ro< otherwise credited In his
papcG arG se the local news ef spontaneous origin
gfi5issBei s,Tseifi.
All sa,s .: republication Of ali other matter
isfta slss reserved.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
An Illusion of Hope

What the nation needs this year is
an open winter, openly arrived at.
: Copyright by James j. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Hard Luck

Unfortunately BARRIERS cannot
take advantage of the change Of
style by unbobbing hair.