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New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
Park Site for the Memorial

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: It would be interesting to know
whether the city authorities ever have
considered placing the proposed art
and music memorial in Central Park.
The site just inside the Fifty-ninth
Street wall, between Sixth and Sew.
enth avenues, would give practically
the same location as the one tenta-
lively chosen, and at a saving of
some Sl5,000,Oo0. The contour of the
ground at this place is such that it is
of little use except in a scenic way,
and it would seem that the erection of
such building as is proposed would
add to-, rather than detract from, the
beauty of the park at this point.
Precedent does not seem to be lacking,
since the Metropolitan Museum de-
servedly occupies somewhat similar
position on the eastern side of the
park.
| know, of course, that any proposed
encroachmont upon Central Park is
always resented on all sides, but the
nature of the building and the great
amount Of money necessary to secure
location considerably inferior might
be strong enough considerations to
waive the objections. 1t would be
worth while to get The Tribune read
ofs ideas on this. F. NJ. PAGE.
New York, June 20, 1922.
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American VS.. German Claims

The proposal to make a partial
settlement of the claims of Germans
against the Alien Property Custo-
dian is criticized as violation of
the Treaty of Berlin. signed last
year. This contains a clause pro-
vlding that property Of German in
dividuals as we'll as of the German
government shall be held by the
American government pending the
settlement of American claims
against Germany.
Tie treaty contains no stipulation
that American claims must be paid
out Of German private property.
Germany can reimburse her own ma
tlonals for so much of their prop
erty as may be kept to pay Ameri-
can claims. But caution on our part
suggests that until it is known how
much the German government can
pay it would be unwise to liberato
too great a portion of the property
Of German individuals now held
here
But this is no reason to 60 back on
Americas traditional policy of lib
erallty in the treatment of private
property seized in war. The salts
faction Of The just claims of Ameri-
cans does not necessarily imply the
permanent retention of German
property. Nor does it mean that
German property should be restored
before American claims are settled.
The most valid objection made
against the proposed preliminary
/ settlement is that it gives the claims
Of thousands of Germans priority
over those Of any Americans. This
Is scarcely fair or reasonable.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

The status of the architect and Of
other professional men cannot be COM
pared with that Of organized labor.
The products are entirely different.
Those of the architect (setting aside
mere questions of construction and
workmanship are difficult or impos-
sible to classify as merchandise is
classified, and the verdict on them
must finally depend on the body Of
qualified opinion. while those Of
skilled labor are easy to specify,
measure and judge. The standards of
architectural work are maintained
through severe competition, and the
architectural societies exist chiefly to
maintain and improve the standing of
the profession through improving the
quality of service.
HAROLD A. CAPARN.
New York, June %, 1922.
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Says a South Carolinian
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: 1t is twenty years too soon
to settle for popular acceptance the
question of who caused the Civil War.
4 venture the assertion that the
South's case is steadily. being pre-
pared by Northern historians. No one
even now, anywhere, will assert that
the war would have come when it d'o
had Lincoln not been elected.
The life of Lincoln, recently writ
ten in Boys Life" by Miss Ida Tar
bell. was an amazing step forward IN
telling the truth, even though "
sometimes appears between the lines
Twenty years from now will Be
plenty Of time to plead the case befers
the Hague court Of popular opinion.
WILSON WARREN FOWLER.
Parksville. c.. June "a. 1929.
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Asphalt Not Guilty
Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Referring to your editorial of
June 20 entitled Goal Tar and Can
GER the writer wishes to call to your
attention an error which YOU have
made in chasing tar, pitch, asphalt
and the like as similar products.
Asphalt is q totally different sub
stance from tar and has no charac-
teristics in common with this mate
rial. Coal tar is a by-nroduct of the
dlstillation Of coal by chemical proc
ess, whereas asphalt is obtained in
nature on the island of Trinidad in
the British West Indies, the Bermudez
deposit in Venezuela and elsewhere.
Regarding the possibility of asphalt
causing cancer or cancerous growths,
one form of asphalt is used as q
method for treating growths of this
kind and is we'll known in the medical
profession for its healing properties
We ask that you publish this letter
so that your readers will not be under
the Misrepresentation that asphalt is in
any way responsible for cancer or any
other disease. KARI, KNIpE
Advertising Manager the Barber
Company.
Nn-- York T,rn % 1000
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague

The Gathered Policeman
When little Roland Robin
Sets up a troubled squawk
Because he sees
Above the trees
A swift and soaring hawk
His agitated parents
Rush homeward on the hop,
And shrilly shout
The warning out
That calls the Kingbird cop.
Upon a nearby locust
The foathered guardian swings,
With beady eyes
Upon the skies
And half extended wings;
And when. upon the signal,
He hurtles through the air
The bird of prey,
With scant delay,
Departs away from there.
The owl and jaybird tremble
To see that flying streak;
The eagles dread
That black-capped head
And needlc-Dointed beak.
And even Mr.. Tomcat
Lies fattencd on the ground
And for time
Renounces crime
When Kingbirds are around.
His size is not imposing,
He's gaunt and rather slight,
No bluebird's child
Appears more mild,
But how he loves to fight!
And all the fowls of plunder
win turn in swift retreat
And hide away
Till fall of day
When he is on his beat.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

MIR. Leacock, the most jocund Of the
Canadian pedagogues, has been visit
ing, humorously, in Great Britain.
Concerned, as he says, about "the bal
ance Of trade in impressions be-
tween America and foreign parts, he
went abroad not long ago to see what
could be done to render more stable
the equilibrium of international lit'ry
economics.
British writer's, Mr.. Leacock re-
fected, come over to US travelling in
gleat simplicity" and after prosperous
ruminations upon the rostrum and in
the magazines return to England in
the ducal suite Of the Aqutania.
There is no doubt, Mr.. Leacock be-
lieves, that this business has been too
cne-sidcd. eve Americans emit i'm
pressions," says he, with the careless
ease of the glow-worm, and "like the
glow-worm we do not think or ask
for anything in recompense."
So Mr.. Leacock in his new book, "My
Discovery of England" endeavors to
stabilize, as the saying goes, the I'M
ports and exports Of itinerate bellies
lettres. Being a Canadian, he is not, of
course, a 100 per cent American; but
he horns in so Hospitality under the
eagles beak that we regard him as an
admirable and a welcome stowaway.
Toronto is no less his town than is
Portland, Me-; and he refers to Burling-
ton, VT, as effectionately as if it
were Stoke Pogis or Vancouver. Mr..
Leacock's America includes Canada and
the States He Ia with, If not Of, US.
should like to read, however, the
amused American impressions of Eng
land of Oliver Herford, or Wallace
Irwin, or Robert Benchley, who are so
quizzically aquiline. Eventually, no
doubt, those New York humorists will
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
get around to the fertile spoofing
grounds which exist across the sca.

get around to the fertile spoofing
grounds which exist across the sca.
Speaking as I have been Of Mr.. Lea
cocks works, l should like also to tell
him about the destination of one of his
books. Requested by young friend
and son Of mine to find the grave in
France Of his roommate at Harvard,
John McCutcheon, Of "The Chicago
Tribune" and l explored all the soldier
cemeteries within twenty kiiometers of
Bouressele. In Belleau Wood we found,
incidentally, a sort Of "fox hole" in
which were cached" the material
treasures Of United States marine.
There was a deck Of cards, half filed
cartridge belt the jawbone of a Ger
man, a redeemed first-aid bandage, a
marine helmet with tragic hole in it
and a sprayed copy of Professor Lea
cocks "Moonbeams From the Larger
Lunacy." / own half of this pathetic
relic; Mr.. Montague Glass possesses
the rest Of it.
In my Discovery Of America" Mr.
Leacock compares the habits Of the
American press to those Of the Eng
lish. in reports Of everyday episodes
An American statesman, having killed
himself, earns these headlincs:
"Bughouse Congressman Blows Brains
Out in Hotel"
and then follows the minute Of his
self-destruction:
"Seated in his room at the Grand
Hotel with his carpet slippers on his
feet and his body wrapped in a blue
dressing gown with pink insertions
after writing letter of farewell to his
wife and emptying bottle of Scotch
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
"P asgiotic Libcrt:nes"

The inventor of a new phrase,
especially one that is abusive, is now
admired in select literary circles Of
certain sort more than he who
taheth city or develops new idea.
SO congratulations may go out to
I. 3. Kaye, who in "The Nation"
coins a novelty. In articles ex-
pressing his disgust at love of coun-
try as commonly practiced he speaks
Of the abandoned persons who dis
Play 1t as "patriotic libertines"
What roues, then, were Nathan
Hale and William Tell and the bow
who stood on the burning deck.
What a lascivious old creature was
Walter Scott when ne wrote the
lines about the man whose soul was
so dead! AS for Roget de Lislc and
Francis Marion Key, they were OBJ
vlously vermn Of the deepest mire.
In the clear language Of James joyce,
IN the much admired ULYSSES" >"
"Prfffxt!" "Whoopsah!"
When psychology digs a little
deeper it will doubtless shovel up
reason why patriotism is so hated.
But why picked on all the time is
mystery. Why can't the school of
slmperers let it alone? 1t has done
no harm to them except, perhaps,
to breed in them sense of their
own unmanliness. But they knew
this before.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
By Percy Hammond


whisky in which he exonerated her
from all culpability in his death,
Congressman Ahasuerus P. Tigg was
found by a night watchman, Henry T.
Smith, while making his rounds al
usual with four bullets in his stom ch."
In England, Professor Leacock says,
the heading of similar suicide would
be Home and General Intelligence"
and there would follow the prudent rs.
port of "distressing incident which
occurred at the Grand Hotel, situated
at the corner Of Millbank and Victoria
streets, and where patronage is draws
mainly from the cattle droving and dis.
t!!lery interests Of South Wales, though
it was the meeting place Of the Sur.
biton Harmonic Association and notsd
for its boiled shrimps. Mr.. Llewellyn
P. Ap-Jones, NJ. P. for South Llangfydd,
partook of bottle, becoming there.
after topic for a coroner's inquest"
Mr.. Leacock is a competent visitor.
He takes with him in his travels the
first essential Of q successful pilgrim.
a sense Of hunor, and he is able to
sneer with affability at the habits Of
the "so-called human race" He
sneers so amiably, in fact, that even
when he slyly suggests that Harvard
is imperfect and that Oxford isn't
you do not, in case you are from Rut-
gers or Purdue, resent his implications.
Mr.. Leacock is best and most helpful,
perhaps, upon a platform in front Of
an American woman's club, and he 10
very good at honest. velvety derisions.
At any rate, his volume, my Dis
covery Of America" is humorous
book, in which between It's solemn,
7ervy lines there are always laughing
spaces.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
What Readers Are Thinking

the trucks ruin all the good roads he
really means that they, with che tour
ing cars, help to ruin the bad roads.
If the public highways were built with
the wisdom, honesty and economy with
which the stockholders railroads are
built they would suffer no serious wear.
For the benefit of the general public
let US insist on the best possible high
ways, according to community needs
taxing the users justly in the light Of
costs and upkeep. Let US discourage
foolish, and especially dog-in.the-
manger, competition between transpor'
tation media, rather distributing the
classes of burdens according to special
abilities to handle them.
KEITH ROLLlN MANvILLE.
Brooklyn, June %. 1922.
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Genuine Prosperity

=. Never in the history of New York
have railroads been so hard pressed
as they are in the present holiday
otime. Thousands Of New Workers
who heretofore have spent the
Fourth at home are bound for the
mountains and the seaside, and will
1t.g TO ray fer reserved seats and
@ferths and hotel accommodations.
!. Last evening, twenty-four hours
before the usual weekend exodus,
yhe Grand Central and Pennsylva-
mia stations and the terminals in
-Jcrsey City We're thronged with
~-i7'o n crowds. hundreds of
- --rH;nted because the
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
Room for Both
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: E. c. Merritt in his letter to
The Tribune regarding motor trucks
ard railway refers to the latter as the
proper medium Of transportation. OF
course he means they are merely a
medium proper to certain classes Of
haulage only.
In other classes other media are pre-
eminent. 1t happens that FOR small
loads over short distances the motor
truck dominates, transporting in about
one quarter the time at about one-half
the cost Of the railroad. The public
justly enjoys these savings, as would
be evident quickly if the trucks were
SO heavily taxed as to be compelled
to raise their tariffs.
WV Al A
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

with a gentleman of different
color. Like Jeffries. he has been
holding off for some time for racial
reasons, but, like Jeffries, he over
looked the racial reasons when the
profits loomed sufficiently large.
During the twelvemonth that must
elapse before the supremacy of the
races may be again determined we'll
intending citizens will endeavor to
invoke the aid of the law to forbid
what they term brutal pastime,
and thus help in the advertising
campaign.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
Social Justice


st:tuted agencies, after full hear
ing, has ordered 10 per cent cut IN
railway wages to Offset to some de-
gree preceding cut IN railway
rates, would not be merely fair TO
railway employees. Itwould be more
T. than fair-even generous. It values,
and with reason, the services CT rail
way workers and would lie no para
site on them. 1t would not ccerce
, them into accepting an adjudication
not firmly based on social justice.
What does social justice demand?
Manifestly that in this case as in
others there shall be no pr!V.leged
class. Some work with their hands,
others work with their heads and
others work with their capital.
Each should receive proportionately
to his contribution. Perfection in di-
vision is impossible-the efficient, for
humanitarian reasons, must carry
some of the proper load Of the in
efficient Moreover, proft-mal.ing
is of such a nature that seldom can
profit be secured without giving to
the public large part of the gains
accruing from better machines and
methods. But the goal is to allow
as nearly as may be an equitable di-
vision of society's product total
Consider. in the light Of this pr;n-
ciple, the argument made for the
shopmen by the minority of the La
Dor Board.
Not challenging the admitted fact
that railway wages in dollars are up
hearty 100 per cent since 1915, while
the cost Of living is up less, the La
Dor Boards minority was driven to
put forward what is called the living
wage principle. 1t assumed that the
railway employees, without regard
to the effect on others, had an in
herent right to specified minimum
compensation based on statistics
which have heen derived from study
ing family budgets. The figures, be-
Sides being the result of only par
tial survey, practically left out OF
consideration the fact that many
families have more than one wage
Garner, and that wage earners, when
Al ~1
dustry, often follow other gainful
pursuits. Nevertheless, the stats
tics were set up as fnality-as
something to be accepted and almost
worshiped.
The majority Of the Labor Board
in reply briefly considered where the
country would get off if the figure
of $4,000 year. the sum arrived at
by the computers, were established
as the minimum wage. 1t pointed
out that the country's total number
of families is 25,000,O00, whereas
the aggregate annual incomes of
all our people, taking in rich and
poor, is approximately $4,000, ,000,-
o00 But to give each family head
$4,000 would require S65, ,o0o,o ,oOO,-
600. Where would the extra sum
come from? No one gives a hint
No wonder the conclusion is drawn
that something is wrong with the
statistics.
." If railroad employees are guar
anteed $4,000 each, whereas there is
an average of less than S1,700 pro-
duced, who will pay the difference?
The greater part will come from
the $1,700 class-in higher prices
fer food. for communication tickets
and the like; the rich person does
not pay much more for freight than
the poor and travels by automobile
- rather than by train. The railroad
employee. because of his skill, is en-
titled to an extra reward, but
scarcely so per cent one.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

least can help some of these self
captured villains to liberate them
selves, and thus teke glory to
himself in the eyes of the American
government.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
You Can't Stop Her

Mrs. Asouith says America is too
rich. If she means the government,
We'll agree with her every time tax
installment is due.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
Perfectly Safe

Mr.. Hohenzollcrn will never get
writer's cramp from autographing
copies Of his book for American
admirers.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
ONLY Human

Now the Bolsheviks want money.
We thought they would begin to be
less different by and By.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

You ean purchase merchandise aiso1;i'sd n Ist
ton r,suit, n any ease THE TRioUHe auatah.
tees 10 gay your noney back upen reauea Nc rec rec
tsEe. No cuibtiin5. We refund pfaGf'H ~ '"'
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-. Associated rrrs. Is exclusively entitled 70
the use fcr tepub,ieatic'' a all news dispatches
credited 20 It or uot otherwise credited IN t,ls
eapcr ana 50 tie .o.al o. spontaneous origin
m tvb,iascd heIt,a.
Al rights o' repubucst!o, Of ali othe' mai'e'
herein also are r~cTycd.
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The Tower

UNDERWORLD LOVE SONG
I'D, lie for lie, Pm probably
IN your equal;
Murder for murder, hold you
pretty we'll;
Yet when urge you as a fitting
sequel
To marry me you bid me go to
hell.
You've no more flim-ha mined bank
ers to your credit,
And have forged as many checks
as you.
You called me once soup hound
and you said it,
For just as many safes as you
I've blew.
And I've a hunch that you've got
no more spouses
Than what I could lay hands on
if ! would,
So why you pulls the upstage stuff
and g4ouses
I doesn't sec-My Gawd, you amt
turned good?
STANLEY K. WILSON.
As these immortal lines nero penned
the impending rail1oau strike seemed to
be hanging fire until it Was decided
which party in the issue dreaded it the
more.
If the shop craft men do 60 out they
are certain to be followed shortly by
the Erie engineers. Even the best tenn
percd and most loyal men are going
to object to climbing out of the cab
! every few miles to pick up the engine.
Soldiers, President Harding an
nounces, will take the places Of the
strikers, and with that promise ut
tered it is with difficulty that we re-
stain ourself from taking a vote on
walk-ou
BIELAsKI ESCAPES, PAYS NO RANSOM;
| FLEES BAREFOOT, FALLS OVER CLIFF.
SWIMS RIVER, NOW SAFE IN MEXICO
The Times.
"But what" demands F. D. D., "is
nero ransom to those bandits, COM
pared with the motion picture rights?"
The Staten Island grand jury has
failed to find an indictment against
any of the twenty-one alleged boot
leggers whose cases were brought be-
fore it. Every time a jury does find
rum vender guilty we are certain
the prisoner must have sold some of
his wares to a juror.
Prohibition prosecutions might pro-
gress more rapidly if they tOould charge
the merchants Of ,Uhat passes currently
for liquor Nth mayhem.
who's Who in Aviation" has just
been issued. The front page of the
paper almost any morning leads US to
hope that, to avoid too frequent re-
vision, the volume is oose-leaved.
Commissioner Enright has told the
police officials of Europe that he is
just like Napoleon. 1t may be his deli
cate sense of reverence that keeps
Mayor Hylan on this side of the At
lantic.
Government officials, the papers say,
are two gears behind in checking up on
income to1 returns. We can imagine
no more pathetic figure than the man
tuulted on his 1919 statement.
New Orleans Papers Please Copy
When I attend dance or cabaret
I really live. The jazz musicians
rhythm
Commands my pulse. Believe me, gal,
I'm with 'em
They balm the wounds Of my most
hectic day.
But since you left, whene'er [ take
the floor
call to mind the times-alas, too
I floated In q golden haze with YOU,
And breathe silent prayer-"May
there be more!"
Ethel, Paul Whiteman's band is simply
thrilling.
(You must admit that's not faint
praise; now, is it?)
And if you'll pay this little town a
visit
Well hear them just as often as
you're willing.
For, as a dancing partner, you're a
hummer.
Say, Ethel-are you coming North this
summer? A. S. c..
In spite Of all the uccinotizing efforts
Of the recently departed and unlamented
June, three people died yesterday from
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

There is this to be said about the
tariff: 1t is just as tough on the
statesmen who passed it as it is on
the rest Of the country.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

Oswald Garrison Willard has
probably picked Wills to win the
worlds championship prizefight.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
SATURDAY, JULY /, 1922

Owned hy New Tcsk Tr.ouns Inc. Z. Sew foss
cerr,ora;,on Published dsiy. Ogden Reid. Prest.
. 6eut & verror Roger. rice-fwsGsn.: Helen
Rogers Rfid, secretary. r. e. Naxae.1, Treasures
Add.tss, Tribune building. iS Nassu Street. New
rotk Te,epsene Beeknan 1000.
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With million people leaving
town over the Fourth that hardy
annual the editorial on New York
as a summer resort" will have to be
deferred until later in the season.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

Maybe all the fuss is just Ireland's
preparation for Safe and Sane
New-York tribune., 1922-07-01

In spite of the dolor that hangs over
US to-day, we're glad we're not Dub
lin theatrical manager. Imagine try
ing to decide what the public wants
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ey.BscRTPrI0S RATTs Ty mail. Including
Tesisse ~ TIE UNITED STATES
cu A Y A N 7 Y

Entered at the Poe;o.icc a. Ne', YORK as secon
Class Mail Mstter
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As these immortal lines nero penned
the impending rail,Uay strike seemed to
be hanging fire until it Wns decided
which party in the issue dreaded it the
more.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-20
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