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3fet? gork ?ritome Fifst t. Last?the Truth: News?Editorials ?Advertisements * V-m'r- i>f tlM A'.l.tH Bure?u of Orrtititton* | WEDNESDAY, JANUAKY J3. 1919 tfv. .,( .,?,| publtslicd iio.v bv New Vork Tribune Ine.. %t *^>v? york Corpomtinii Ocdcn llr'it. PM*ld??>t: '?? 1 -9 ? T llnjwis. V'.. !?, ,|(| ?,- n:.-|,arl II. U"' Si-vrft*rv: I *V S'.i'rr. Iru-in-r A.t;i..i. li.Vu-i,- Hu.'.ilHK '>?? \, ., v . .' ,i.?:,-r-.., ,-. Ucvkumi -?"" ?tKsci;;rno\ e.v;.- '.:. vij.i. includini I'ontat :n< in;: t .\; ,..-.-... ~ A ,;, CANADA ,>?? mi rhr*? 0t? Vnr. MOIWh. Montbli VI. iv ? & ??'" - . . .7 SJIO 00 $'. On $'7'>n ?'-J" v . s ,iii 4.0H 3 J.? ; ' - -j ,iii i -.. ?*? ?'; . . r-?|, S.00 '-'?""> ' '-'?' ' ... '.VTKS isundo < j ?:: no 5" .'" *- ;' ? -vHn OUU i. , 11 ("I 4 so L*iJ .nlj . s i.i \ lil '-'.??> ,J 'twii.m ?> .- Yniw ?* secomi ;';??. vi, v I.1 A r. 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Tiie American people will not, if itcan help lt. see any oi thc populaticns in Eu? rope or Asia starve which have suffered in the war without any fault of their oWn. We arc ready not only to lend but ( i give out ol" cur abundance to the Bei ; ns, Poles, Czecho-SIovaks, Rumani aijs, South Slavs, Serbians, Montenc ;:rins, Albanians, Avmenians and Syri . jss. Wc are ready to assist these un fcjitunate peoples as a duty we owe to hfjmanity?in thc same spivit in which c have sought to help them heretofore trjrough thc Beigian and Polish relief commissions and the Red Cross. We *!;irc say a straight appeal to American ginerosity would carry even more weight. than any argument based on political ex pedii ncy. Hut can we placate Bolshevism [ly by fecding it? .Should we feed it, i to placate it ? ls rationing a weapon all? What we want is a rational ical and military policy which will c order in Poland and Russia and p thc sources of the Bolshevist in ?n. footl is sent to the populations of Ecslern Europe great care ought to be .ivkcn to see that its distribution docs not ifcrengthen thc hands of those who arc ?qnducting thc propaganda of anar ijism. Lenine and Trotzky have tight :ni their grip on Russia through con Lijol of Russian food supplies. Many ?it the rule of lerror in order to eat. Tjierc is no end to thct except thc end of .ho foi ii. Pei ple cannot practise Bol IJcvism and feed themselves. They eat a| thc expense of others. fn every case where food is supplicd by hc Allied governments the people who rcc'ive it must exhibit a willingness to cijasc to be non-productive?to turn to w?rk. They must be willing to contrib ute t" the restoration of civil order. W'ia; the li tressed populations of East -m Europe, now tormented by Bolshevist pjfopaganda, need most after food i.s encouragement to become self-sup pt$rting once more. And they have been I] 7,1 0f that encouragement by the iltcr lack of a clear Allied policy of paci ication and reconstruction. food question is only one phase of thc general Eastern European question, which thc Allied governments have per sistently pushed into the background. Food can be only a palliative. Whether Eastern Europe is rationed or not, Bol ihevism will continue a running sorc. If it is not healed before a new European or3er is established at the peace confer? ence, it will return to plaguc Europe be? fore the ink is dry on the Versailles settlement. The Gold Pool vs. Foreign Loans Simultaneously comes word that the ! Oited States and its allies will form ternational gold pool and that sev I governments now seeking direct in this country will bc encouraged tlly and otherwise. Both arc ex ' Went steps in the direction of meeting ? iremely difficult situation. Tbe Sold poo] will be, morc or less, on the .'dan of our Federal Reserve svstem,and the design is to arrange the settlement f trade balances without further ship? ments of gold from one country to an? other. This would be an ideal arrange? ment in normal times. It would be of ?light efflcacy alone now. situation is that our trade balance this year will run three billions in our favor. And it will be a real balance. '. e., there will le but small offsetn. The Iwrger part of this debt will be against England, France and Italy. Some way it must bc met. Our government can go on loaning billions to the governments of intriw, and they in turn can < e funds in a fashion to liquidate balances, as in the last year and a haif. That crcatfs an ili-baiauced political (tuation. You can't talk on even term* o .- man to whom you owe a great deal money and want to owe much more. d? -over. these are questions of finance; d a political end to financial arrange wnt? ic all wrong. Half a billion in ? gold pool, with the United 8t?tf* con tributing twoflftttj, would not meet the ritoation at all. f^an?, and heavy loans, '?ne can do that. These loans shouln W made directly by the thrifty folk of this country. The Trea?ury MMSf to have recognized thia promptly, and wm? large fozeign^oans may ?oou be floated. That will be an ideal beginning for the United States as a creditor nation and a real power in international finance. The Nation's Health The war has taught us mujch?if we will only remember our lessons! Im perfcetly as the health agencies of the nation were unified for thc duration of the war, there wcrc immense benefits immediately yielded and there was a promise of va?t possibilities. All this is disappearing with thc return of peace aiul will bc lost completely unless thc proposal for a Federal department of health, with a secretary of health in the President's Cabinet, shall be speedily adopted by Congress. Under our existing Constitution there is no dangev that sucii a department would absorb every health agency and stiflc independent thought. Health is an aii'air of the states, primarily. under our system, and a national control could at most be directive and advisory, and such authority as it obtained over ex? isting state and private associations and institutions would be wholly voluntary. What, then. would be accomplished? As Dr. Vincent, of the Rockefeller Fourida ilon, made clear in his discussion in last Sunday's Tribune Magazine. cooperation in research would be one of the most im? portant gains. Under the guidance and influence of a national health depart? ment possessing the prestige which a seat in the Cabinet would give it, over lapping of effort and confusion could be largely eliminated and united effort se? cured along many lines. What is not less important, the adoption of half baked public policies by cities ancl states would be made unlikely, for there would then bc an authoritative central body, whose conclusions and recommendations would be ha.sed on a comparison of all evidence and would be generally re jpected. In Justice to the Y. M. C. A. There is danger that a very grave in- ; justice will be done thc Y. M. C. A. | Our fighters seem to be in a groucli with it. The most human quality of youth is ' gossip. "If they didn't kick, they wouldn't fight,"said an officer in France j last summer when he reminded a "Y" ' secretary that his doughboys were kick- \ ing about their mail, their food, their j quarters, and their pay. i Before the armistice was signed wc j used to hear that the Y. M. C. A. was ; open to criticism behind the lines, but i that at the front the serviees rendered | under fire were beyond praisc. One com- ] manding officer insisted that tlie "Y" sec- ; retary attached to his battalion march j with the men through Paris on thc j Fourth of July. Secretaries were mcn- ! tioned in citations and were elected hon- i orary members of outfits. You can't very well criticise a man J when he crawls out to your machine gun ' nest through a barrage to bring you your i smokea and cookics and chocolat.es and | letters from home. And the records show j that secretaries cik! things like that. j Many were wounded, some. were killed. The secretary in his hut back in the j training area had a harder time and less opportunity to win popularity. He was i a country storekeeper. a janitor, a the? atrical .booking agent, a promolcr of ath- ' letics and a librarian roiled into one. Formerly thc criticism one heard of j the Y. M. C. A. took these difficultics I nnd differences' into account, and was at : least discriminating; but now it is bc- ! coming fashionable to say unplcasant things about thc organization. and much of its really line work is disregarded. i When you remember that each mili? tary unit formed its opinion of thc whole Y. M. C. A. organization from one Y. M. J C. A. secretary you can realize. how '? much cnergy, tact and resourcefulness ' each of many hundreds of secretaries should have had. Unfortunatcly many of them didn't measure up. That was : inevitablc. Perhaps thc greatest fault of the Y. j M. C, A. was that it assumed too many j burdens. It was asked by the army to j run the canteens, and it did. It was asked to organize entertainments, ath- ! letics and educational work, and it did. It was asked to send money home for the soldiers, and it did. The army called for more new secretaries, and still more, The Y. M. C. A. got them and sent them over, bolieving that. even though all of them weren't ideal, it was better to send them than to let the landing troops be without their hut.s. And the troops were landing by the hundreds of thousands. The army wanted one secretary for each unit of five hundred men. But with the number of men in the army and tlie number engaged in jobs which they couldn't leave at home, that goal was. never reached. Ask the men who were without "Y" service part of the time. They will tel! you what. it meant. They are the ones who realize best what our army's life wbuld have been without this organization. Tho Y. M. C. A. assumed the prosaie, useful jobs. There was 'ittle picturesqueness in its work. There Were weeks and months of grtielling labor?in warehouses, for instance. To dismiss with a thoughtless, unin formed word the efforts of an organiza? tion which has earnestly tried to do its best is not fair play. One hears the work of the Y. M. C. A. contrasted un favorably with that of the Red Cross. There is a sentimental reason, perhaps, for that. The basic appeal of the Red j Cross ii that it helps tlie helpless. The Y. M. C. A. dealt with whole mcn. Tha' was the urulerfttood division of work be ; tween thc two organizations. Soldiers I who say they didn't ee a Y. M. C. A. man or woman from thc time they were ? '.vounded until they reached horho do not rtalize ihe reason, \nd they den't real i i/,e how much they hurt the Y. M. C. A. when they make crit'eism which ;-:cems to Wulicttte a lack of human sympathy. When a man ?ays the Y. M. C. A. -old dt*r raeachandise hc doesn't rfealize th?t the canteen system, supplanting the post exchanges run by the military in other wars, was run by the "Y," by request, | with funds separate from those raised j for the regular work of building and | manning huts, tranaporting supplies and furnishing athletics, educational work ! and entertainment. He doesn't remem? ber, if hc ever kn2w. that supplies were given away under tire. Dr. Fletcher's Art of Eating Chance, not serviees rendered, seems to control the prccesses by which a pjrson's name is taken up as a common noun, or formed into a verb. Who was Captain Boycott? Nobody knows or cares. yet he yielded cne of our meatiest and best of modern words. Will "to fletcherize" last !ong enough to reach a similar fatc? We guess not, judging by thc relative disuse into which lhe word has already fallen. As we read of Dr. Horaee Fletcher's death, the idea for which lie popularly stood comes back like an echo. This does an injustice to an unusually able investigator as it happdns. Dr. Fletcher has. naturally. rcccded from that peak of glory wherein he presided nt every brcakfast table. He remains as a ver.v real contributor to our modern science of dietetics, such as it is. There was nothing new in the idea that masti cation aids digestion. We wonder how many millions of gobbling children have been frightened by thc shade of Glad stone with his thirty-two chews per mor sel! But Dr. Fletcher developed the idea by experiincntaticn upon himself and laid a foundation for much that has coma aftcr. Som. of hi? notions have been over- . thrown. An cssential truth remains and it is probable that no health-theorist has done so much good and so little harm. The fundamental facts that we eat too much and eat too fast are unassailable. Even if Dr. Fletcher's plca for 700 bites to the onion is altogethcr practicable, his influence was sound and in the right di? rection. And, unquestionabl-y, if we eat slowcr we do not care to eat so much. Modern Lcgends Tlie Csiar of Russia is lost in legend Unless he shall again appear deflnitely iu thc flesh, so that, his identity may lie positivcly established before all the world, thc question of his fate will be always disputed. lle will lake his place in thc list with the lost Dauphin \,( France, wiio is supposed to have lived out a quiet life in Ameriea a!'tc;' being spiritcd away, and with "John Ord," a brother of Franz .Jo'-ef. who renounccd his title and sailed away ia a vessel re? ported lost with all hands, but who ia supposed fo be living incognito on an obscure, palm-shaded island. far frcm the reach of the turmoil that markctl the last days of the Mapsburg court. As a result of the conflicting stories now being circulated regarding thc Czar, tbe public mind is already divided as to whether a Bolshevik bullet really ended his life or whether thc Count. Tatichcv, thc Emperor's personal mili? tary attache, with a supreme devotion to duty, died in his master's stead. Only the clearing up of the mystery can pre? vent the reports years hencc that in the death of some obscure old man of for? eign appearance thc end hasfmally come to him who was once Autocrat of All the Russia s. Epizootic ond fnflnenr.n From the hunters of Northern Sas katchewan comes the report that game is being "decimated" by influenza; that the smaller animals show marked symp? toms of thc disease, and that even the moose are so weakened that they be? come cxliausted quickly when pursued. Thc report is just ano'her hit of evi? dence added to the yet unsettled dis pute among scientists as to whether or not influenza attaeks animals. In earlicr days it was accepted without question that such was the case. The frightful epidemic that swept thc Creek army in thc te.nth year of the siegc of Troy is bclieved by many scientists to have been influenza. Homcr, describing thc rav ages of the disease, said: "Ori mtili's ancl dogs tii* infection first began, And last, tho vcn__ful arrows fix'd them? selves on man." A carefully compiled chronology of in? fluenza, beginning with this supposed Groek outbreak of the disease. records numerous instances wherein both hu mans and animals seemed to suffer from thc same disease. One historian of in? fluenza says: "Cows antl liorac3 hnve especially suf? fered, ns is o'onerved in the epidemics of 173,'!, 1737. "M)'.;, 1831 nnd 183?. Dogs, eats, deer, shcep and swinc hnve not on joyed immunity; poultry aJso; and even fish seemed occasionally to bc atlectcd by lhe morbid influence." On the other hand, scientists who have experimented with the disease declarc they have found it impossible to transfer the complaint to any of a long list of animals; monkeys alone showed a toxic effect, but true influenza did not develop. These scientists assert tha.t the disease that attaeks animals is what is com monly known a ? epizootic, the symptoms of which are. very similar to those of the influenza wbich attaeks human beings. A generntion or two ago,> for instancc, Ameriea almost suffered a transportation tie-up because cf an epidemic of epizootic thal attacked the horses. German papers say thal Theodore Roosevelt was the "area enemy" of Ger? many. This is the moRt complete and wholly satisfactory eulogy that has yet been utteved. How can the Administration expect to cope with the high cost <$f living if its membci'i.1 continue to resign becuuae they can't live on their salaries? Thoughts on a Roosevelt Memorial Additional Suggestions as to the Form the Tribute Shall Take To the Editor of Tlie Tribune. SIR: You asked for suggestior.s i'or a memorial to Colonel ' Roosevelt, l should suggest the opening oi.' a new avenue. paraliel to Fifth Avenue, between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. Beginning ;.t. the Worth Jloiiuniont, at Twenty-lifth Street, nnd running north to Gentral Park and widcning out as it approaehcs the park, thereby forming an upon square. Place in the centre of this sc'iiare an heroic equestrian statue of Colonel Roosevelt. Xow, at the beginning of this new thor oughfare, at a sufficient distance from the Worth Monunient to make . it imposing, build thc new arch to the soldiers and sail? ors and heroes of Ihe World War. This ne-.v avenuo will run through Bryant Park. W. H. WARNOCK. Tarrytovvn, X. V.. Jan. 12, 1919. To tlie Editor of Tiie Tribune. Sir: What memorial could we erect that would more entirely sum up the principles that acluatcd his career and that would bc eoino. year by year a more appropriate tribute to his memor: (han by establishing universal serviee. nnd thus finish the work he so greatly began? By creating this in? stitution, his name would become ilisepa rably bound up with the very structure of our government. DAVID T. EATON. Boston, Mass.,,Jan. 11, 1919. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: When p. transcontinental route had been laid out from the Atlantic to the Pa? cific and named the Lincoln Highway, it -was i'eit thal an ideal had been achicved as a memorial to a mnn of Lincoln's type. With tlie Lincoln Highwa;*. already well defined and marked for completion, tho Roosevelt Highway ready to be outlined from the Atlantic to the Pacific. paraliel to the Lincoln, and the Washington awaiting the patriotic impulsc ol" Ihe people of the I South, our three most distinguished Presi dents would receive the tribute of immortal rcnown nnd the country would profit by bonds of ideal communication from one end I to another. FREDERICK LtXCOLN SMITH. Philadelphia, Penn., Jnn. 13, 1919. To tlie Editor of Tlie Tribune. Sir: What statue could adequately por tr.'iy f'c vii*ili**? of Roosevelt? Or what memorial arch or column would typify the greates? American since Lincoln? Xone thnt I can imaginc. What. llien. should he hi-* memorial? I believe that Gouvcrneur Mor ris's supgestion of n "Happy Hunting Ground" is tbe best one yet made. The chief fault, lo find with it is that it is so coniplicated, and really more idcalistic than I practical. I have a suggestion of nv own to make. lt. comes near to a practical realization of the "Happy Hunting Ground" proposed hy Gouverncur Morris. My idea is to rename the Yellowstonc Nationa' Park, our soenic wonder of nature, after our gycat soldier Prosident. KARL W. PHELAN. Uhaca, X. Y.. Jnn. 12. 1919. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: \\ hy not rename the Congressional Library, at Washinrrlbn, D. ('.. the "Roose? velt Library.'' since that is tbe grentcst American library? Then, again, upon what body of men should the memory of the life and character of Theodore Roosevelt have greater influence thnn upon the govcrning bodies of these United Statcs ? R. C. WORMLF.Y. Plainficld, X. J., Jan. 12, 1919. To the Editor ef The Tribune. Sir: I am a student in the Commercial High School. of Brookljfb, and my plan is to have deslgnated in each high school library, and. if possible, in every pubiic library in Ihe city, a section known ns tho "Roosevelt Division." wherein will bo placed all ot Mr. Roosevelt's works, his travels and his biog raphy in short. everything that pertains to him, written either by hims-jlf or others. GEORGE VOGEL (aged 15). Brooklyn, Jan. 12, 1919. Rescuing Porto Rico To the FJditor of Thc Tribune. SIR: Tlie great problem the solution of which is an imperativc need for the wel? fare of tbe vast majority of Porto Ricans is economic; we must have a thorough going reform in our economic aiul indus? trial life if we are to avoid a future of terrible misery. And we have no Porto Rican who can be trusted to utidertake such a task nnd honestly and efficiently carry it through. The only appointed of licial wo could trust would be one who comes from the I'nited States, with his heart and mind doniinnted by the purpose of working for Porto Rico in the spirit of the people of the I'nited State;*. Independence as a movement is wholly ' farcical. What it rcally means to the ! men behind it is that all the remaining Americans in tho government should be \ turned out and irood coreligionarios put in. It has no serious meaniug for tiie working i classes, but conditions are so bad to-day that there i.s fcrtile ground for even inde? pendence when they talk of their golden ago. As a matter of fact, political changes in the government of the irlnnd, whether it ; be territory. state or nn independent re- : puhlit, ave of secondtuy importance, The intensely important fact is this: there must. ; ho ;i great. a radical change in the island's j economic situation. That is why I want the investigating com mission to come. Let fair, honest represent atives named by the Xational War Labor ' Board iook at conditions here nnd clearly ' and fairly tell the facts of our industrial i i nd economic life. Let them say what must j be done ii' we are to be rescued from misery, : poverty and ignoranco end given a chance ? ?? :? a solf-respecting, prosperous, happy community. Action is very badly needed in Porto Rico. I sincj tho actual Commissioner of Health of the island just tho other day has stated | thal tho men. women and children sufferlrig j from tho "infhienin" conimoiilv die from : 7. vi ? on . ther than from the results of 'bu disoftoe itsc-lf. And 'here wero several i' .'?? ?! *?> : :ons who died in the in? terior of the Island withoul propor medical ! on ?." :.',? dii Incs *>?? nourishment! SANTIAGO [GLES1AS, Pl istdotit Free Federation of Labor, of > Porto Rico. i San Juan, P. R., j-y-u 8, 1919. | BERLIN ?JW WAM && U?__ ^(e^v liw?. AJW_ .PEACE. ^\ ;.. /<r r -? y \ - "- ">ZZ \ , .-^. vv\ C/?V \> X ^ .''""V ^.f* V'-?' ; i ' Liftzs /U> \ff"^=&f: .jr IJ z'7^ ^ /Z . \zfik - T3^ i/^V'Vr sMWm^z}^^^^^^ ;s^H-"^i /^-^sT^lW-O ?From 77?c /,os Aiir/eJrs Times The Business Future of Flying Evan J. David in Fhe Saturday Evening Post t">VEN though tbe aeroplanc does travcl * tho shortesl route in thc shortesl time between any two given point', before a sufficient number ol' passengers can br> ituiucd t > travcl via the aerial line to inpko it financially prof'itable to the trans? portation company the pubiic must be ss sured that it is rcnsonably safe; that they can fly in comfort; and that the price is reasonablc. So let us first see what has been done and what is being done to satisfy thosp three requisitcs. The dnngers of acroplane flight have been rr.-os :ly cxaggcrated by newspapers. which record only thc unusual. Moreover. flying in tbe war /.one was done under thc most adverse nnd dangerous circumstances. Also tho machines were built I'or manceuvring ability and speed, and nol for stability and safety factors. Furthcrmore, all the scouts nnd most of tbe reconnoissancc and battle planes were driven by only one motor. so that if engine trouble developed they had to volplcne to the ground at the mercy of the nnti-aircraft guns and the aerial lighters. Fijially, they often had io land in shell scarred terrain. Naturally thc casualties were high. Indeed. tbe war in the air.was meant to be as pcrilous and dangerous as it. could be. Discomforts Overcome There were three discomforts of air travcl the cold, the noise of the motor and -the lack of room in moving about. Elcctrically heated clothes eliminate thc cold; aeousti cons, which sl-uit out the noise of the motor but which permit the passengers or aviators to converse together, have already been iilstalled and are in universal use, on aero pla-.ies. With the increase in the si/.e of the acropla'nes ar.d the number of motors, the nacellcs and the inclosed roomy cabins can be constructed as they were on the famous Sykorsky acrobus, which was built in Russia before tho war. This aeroplane carried twenty-one people to an altitude of seven thousand feet. On this trip they had ample room to move about and to observe the sky and the landscape. On Thanksgiv ing Dav last a half do:'.eti guests of an Amer? ican aircraft factory had their turkey dinncr gcrved in a huge aeroplane above the clouds. lt is true thal owing to the cost of the acroplanes and thc aero motors, their up kcep end the number of skilled men re? quired to fly and maintain them, all aerial travcl is expensive. The two-seater train? ing machines equipped with one motor cost five to seven thousand dollars, and the huge bimotorcd bombing machines averaged forty to sixty thousand dollars. This price was due lo the necessity for hurricd construc? tion. For everything that went into the building *f tiie aero motor and the ma? chine itself and also for the labor the very highest price had to be paid. Tools, ma? chinery, factories, fields. hangars and a thousand other things had to be purchased, and a great body of skilled workmen lu'd to be trained before aircraft could be turned out in quantity, Xow nil thia skill and biliion;; of money have been invested in thc industry so that the plants in this country are ready to man? ufacture nearly two hundred a day. With thia nucieus to start a peace construction programme the price of even the biggest machines must soon shrink to that of a high-ptficed automobile or private yncht. Plenty ot sporting machines with a . mail wing tspread nnd a two-cyl'mder motor that will sell for live hundred dollars aic now boitig liiad'; and sinoo these machines can averago twenty-two mi on n "a'b n oi' gsaolemc tiie exper.se of maintaining one of those will not bo out of the irmanu of hun? dreds of Uai vouaat fliera who are now re I turning from flying on (he Wcst Kront. More? over, since there will bc no maiiitenancc of roads. rails, live wircs, nnd so on, such ns there is in the railroad and. electric road industries. tiie cost of maiiitenancc will be infinitely smaller, -0 that aerial travel may become chcaper than any other known to man. Incxpensive Flyabouts Perhaps the best indication of what wc may expect of the aeroplane as a commercial carrier is embodied in the present plans of the manufacturers of aircraft. Using the past history of thc heavler-than-air ma? chines' performanee nnd their own cxperi ence and the experience of tons of thou? sands of fliers under all imaginable circum stances and conditions as a basis. they are bu;lding various types of aircraft. More than a score of American and British firms , have already built and are putting upon the market large numbers of sports models. These machines are single and double seat i ers after the type cf thc famous Baby Nieu | ports, Spada and British Sopwith Pups. They I have a wing spread of anywhere from I | seventeen to thirty feet. The fuselage meas? ures between ten and twenty feet, Some : arc equipped with one small motor generat ing from twenty horse-power up to forty horse-povyer. Most of these motors are up right, like the. ones used on motorcycles. The whole machine will not weigh more ] than tive hundred pounds, and these models ! are able to fly at eighty to one hundred miles an hour and make an average of twenty miles or more on a galion of gas. j The price of these will depend on the de? mand, but most manufacturers believe they will sell for five hundred to a thousand dol? lars. These machines are so small that they can be landed on any road or field. Besides, thc small amount of space they occupy will make it possible to house them inexpensively and they can be used for any kind of 'cross-country flying. Tho second type of the sports model has a wing spread of twenty-six to thirty-eight feet. These wings can be folded back so that the aeroplane can be housed in a hangar ten by thirty feet, with ample room for thc owner to work indoors on thc ma? chine. Tbe fuselage i.s proportionatelv larger than that on the smaller machine. This aeroplane is equipped with a four cylinder upright motor or an air-tpoled ro tary motor of the Gnome style with nine or elcven cylinders, generutir.g Up to ninety horse-power. Some also have two small twenty horse-power cngir.es geared to the one propeller so they can be throttled down, or in case one stalls the other can take the fliers to their aerodrome without being forced to land. Some models have two mo? tors on the smaller machines. Theac air? craft will sell for about the price of a medium-cost automobile. Naturally no manufacturing industry can exist without a potential market. Aircraft manufacturers are sure the majority of'the twenty thousand fliers and hundred thou sand aero mechanics who have learned their trade in the great War will want to flv either machines of their own or of Bomebody ohe ' . r of some trans-aerial company. The aero nautical enginecrs have, therefore. daaigned | the sports type for thc young foliovv, who wish to i-ace in thc air, travel from, country town to country town. "ror.i lalto ro river, or tj commutc from countiy to citv. SinP.>' Lhcso machines fly fast r thnn tha fasteil bird or the fieetett anlmaj they will affoi | iojt 'i : gunners. Jndoe-l, the ma- ! a i7- Itavo already b?en i.-e.l wiiii suah di :.. ti 6us- effects r.pon Ihe bird that man I huntara say it i.s not good aportaman-ihin to flunt from them. To W. Hohenzollern, on Continubtg The Conning Tower " ; Well, William, since I wrote you long ago? As 1 recall. one cool October mcrning? I have The Tribune liles. They e'early show I gave you warning Since when I penned that consoquential ode, The world has seen a vast amount of slaughter, , And under many a Gallic bridge has flowed A lot of water. 1 said that when your people cca ed to strafe, That when you'd put an end to all this war stuff. And all the world was reas< nably safe I'd write some more stuff; That when you missed the quip and vanton wile And learned you couldn't bear a Tower less season, I quote: "0, I shall not be petty. . . , I'l! Listen to reason." Labuntur anni, not to say Ehc i Fugaces! William, by my shoutders glistening! I, have the final iaugh, for it was you Who did the listen ing. .Speaking as one who used t" bc of those who were known a-- swivel chair ofiicers. we hereby gd on record thal be? tween October ., 1017, and last nighl we sat in never a 3wivi I chair. In honor of thc far-famed Fourteen Points. it bad been our intention to run this Minarct of Militarism in 1 I pt Wilson. but. Mikc, the demon mukc-up, says that'd never <h>. So, instead, the column is 1 1 ems wide. V'ariation 867 "I was with Grant," the soldi "And 1 don't mind tellii 7 ' That I had lunch with Grantlan I l\ :e One day at G. II. Q." Aged readers will recall Old 1)"? Merz. of thc un-Midan touch. They will remember that Mr. Mcrz journoyed tn the Mexican border and arrived there just as the war erumblcd; that ho then became managing editor of "Harper'" Weekly." which melted away under lns scorching jurlsdiction; and that, in June, I'.Mi>, he secretaried for the Progri party. "I wonder," Lieutenant < . Mcrz writes from Paris. "if, when ,-. ? 1 nw by the papers that Gennany I ad ig icd an armistice. you said to yourself: Well. Docco's gone and pulled another one.' Speaking as an authority 011 7; . I n ishes, 1 may say that while thi |vu ticular war lasted a littl than the Mexican and 'Harpcr's '? Progressive affairs, its actual eame as speedily as any dcathbed r ni I've ever sat. in on." "Things are pretty elegunt for us now," continues Lieuti nanl M< "From our windows al i Place tlo la Concorde. thc Peace Mi sicn llea ters. wc have a go< tl vii w of ? brick wall, some two feet away, and wo have a little French stove that keepa thc room s=o hot we havi to ' cep thc win? dows open and darn near freeze to On our desks we have a number cf v\ne trays, suitable for mat-hc-, handki chiefs, etc And there is a push-button system which works very . imply. If you press the 'Stenographer' button, an orderly appears, and if you press the 'Orderly' button, nothing at all happens. . . . Herb Swope arrived to-day. and took general charge of a good deal. I was planning to send yon _ome snap-shots of myself; but they'vfe been in a French camera store only nin days, so they're not finished yet." The t'osmic Vrgr in ( edar Itapid* [Frem The Motion Pli lure M . 1 The Mortgaged Wife, with D Phillips; Well liked by pati picture. Drew well. Beginning to thi: k folks like sex stuff. Isis Theatre, Rapids, Ia. There was a luncheon club that met every Tuesday in Washington. At one of the November luncheons the names of two candidates, Major Raymond Pull? man and Major Arthur Train- a position nobody commented <m at the time, by the way.were presented. Majcs Pullman is chief of the Washington Po? lice Department, and hc made a speech to the writers present, telling them that if they were looking for things to write about after tho war, the theme 1 insufflcrent pay of Washington police? men might offer possibilities. Eve* since Major Pullman gave us thc idea we have been nursing it and trying to make rt talk, but long disuse has caused our battery to run down and we c: nt get much out of the whimsey. However, we promised the Major that we'd -: something about it Lhe first cham got, so: According to .Major Raymond Pullman. the Washington policeman is inBufnciently paid. "Parsnips," says a Food Garden ex petrt, "are best. left in the ground." W? rgree.?Punch. Our Ally in all wars, the British Replying to the frequenl querj whajt returned warriora feel like. it mny l.e stated that some feel like Enocfe Arden and some liko 11; Wc feel like Rip Van Winklc. F. V, A.