baric
atrocities which won for the German the name of Hun, and then looked
toward his own people and saw them being burned, disembowelled and
tortured with a civic unanimity and tacit legal sanction which made the
word Hun sound weak.

Perhaps he has heard it boasted that in America every man who is honest,
industrious and intelligent has a good chance to win out, and has seen
honest, industrious and intelligent men whose skins are black stopped
short by a wall so high and so thick that all they can do, on having
reached that far, is to bow their heads and go slowly back.

Any one of these reasons should have been sufficient for having written
"Darkwater."

It is unfortunate that Mr. Du Bois should have raised this question of
our own responsibility just at this time when we were showing off so
nicely. It may remind some one that instead of taking over a
protectorate of Armenia we might better take over a protectorate of the
State of Georgia, which yearly leads the proud list of lynchers. But
then, there will not be enough people who see Mr. Du Bois's book to
cause any great national movement, so we are quite sure, for the time
being, of being able to devote our energies to the solution of our
other problems.

* * * * *

Don't forget, therefore, to write your Congressman about a universal
daylight-saving bill, and give a little thought, if you can, to the
question of the vehicular tunnel.

XLI

THE NEW TIME-TABLE

The new time-table of the New York Central Railroad (New York Central
Railroad, Harlem Division. Form 113. Corrected to March 28, 1922) is an
attractive folder, done in black and white, for the suburban trade. It
slips neatly into the pocket, where it easily becomes lost among letters
and bills, appearing again only when you have procured another.

So much for its physical features. Of the text matter it is difficult to
write without passion. No more disheartening work has been put on the
market this season.

In an attempt to evade the Daylight-Saving Law the New York Central has
kept its clocks at what is called "Eastern Standard Time," meaning that
it is standard on East 42d Street between Vanderbilt and Lexington
Avenues. Practically everywhere else in New York the clocks are an hour
ahead.

It is this "Eastern Standard Time" that gives the time-table its
distinctive flavor. Each train has been demoted one hour, and then, for
fear that it would be too e