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Peace Pessimism
Expressions ? '.' dis satisfaction
generally m istice Day
comment. Lloj 1 Ge rge, who ex?
claims "things are going right," is
about t'i'.' ; iy one able to retain
his cheerfulm ?-.-.
The pessii lisrn seoms somewhat
overdone. Yet it ; natural enough.
Realization seldon equ? Is expecta?
tion. We are ch e to events,
and nearness behi d fects and
blotches that kindly i ' ? nee softens.
Mor: ever, \ h le eul tic of .sol?
diers who ; .! object openly
and direct Iy, ma ious
and critic:;! of statesmanship and
diplom icy, wl are i
sarily devi u '. N vor \- - there a
generation which did not cry out
against the bankr :y of the po?
litical leadership. So it is not
strange there is n w no exception.
Eut barring the first f w nonths
following the ci . i I Hostili?
ties, when a gn ?? born of a
vast joy uplift d evi "\ pirit, there
has been sure pro re: in reconstruc?
tion. Predicted evils have not come.
Read the newspaj r of eighteen
months ago. i'ou .vill arn that if
3omething were not at once done
(souk: hing : i lar group
of alarmist ; v h ? vocalizing
regarde I as i d) Europe w? uld
soon dissolve ?nt ? cl . . Germany,
France, Italy and even
Great Britain w< re I ? I < ci me as
Russi ..
First one winter and then an?
other pa.- sod wi ? ' universal
catacly: m. \'o a third api oaches,
and there i 10 new i i for de?
spair. Vrari ! ? have c< me
to an end. i a t roubled
sea are gra ?ually subsiding. There
is a return to work and the nor?
malities of life.
Life, of ci ur e, ?.as proved
stronger than theorv. I so it hap
pens that t ? < f tnine's
does not differ f mentally from
the - ! !. 'I I ':.: of the hu?
man family are re; :;: ; them?
selves, and f ?" ient reason.
Those habit -. in the m . n, accord with
what man <'?? coi tute the en
vironmei ' thai lu pr fers. 1 Ream?
ers have dreamed oi ? eal trans
format ns, but great t ransforma
tions are not to the 1 ng of the
force ; that control iy and
velopn imt. Na ire si eks change,
but she -.' II not h I len ex
. ept wia n in I he m 'd to dest ? y.
Bui the gains, d< ' ? the pessi?
mists, have been . e pecially in
what may be called the unsystema
tized imponderables of civilization.
It is little likely any nation will soon
attempt to imitate the Germany of
10M. This is our be ' security of fu?
ture peace, though guaranteed by no
document. War has been well called
the great ill us ion n that
one people is i by the
overthrow and misery if another.
This illusi n is by n m< aas gi no,
Inn the great war has dimmed its
will? a good will based on
idea's and backed up i y intelligent
selfishne s.
The Shlpp lie
On the adini le our
war experim . ing has
been a -a. needed failure.
The I nited ? ' many ships
built, but ?
them ami of u ift r\\ ai 1
were la. rgel I and hap?
hazard. The
with inci n no tent . ment at
t he top, ami ha red through
the great .. . a : y firm
gr?sp ?ai tl . anges in
authority wei ut. and :\ fixed,
. nao: h ?:. orkii icy v made
impossil Ic by rtainty
and lack :' . ?
One of Ai sist
ants snali';.! mid yes?
terday that the i
? as "an ateurisi Why was
'amate ri lo ? '
Possibh '
the shipping \ rail?
road v< nt ur il
appoii tees \\
energy i ) d ? '
were capable Political
management of the . ;>, like
Mr. McAdoo's, li nd it a trail
of extravae im e ai ' an ei rm ?-<
deficit to be n i I y the tax?
payers. Tl ?
concern, < p< rat< i dui ing the gov?
ernment ci ?
tive efficii my, so f; r ? traflic wei t,
thanks to the gr
workers. A bad poli at the top
couldn't sped everything. But in a
pew field suddenly expanded, like
shipbuilding, confusion and care?
lessness at the top had a far more
disastrous effect on the mushroom i
organization beneath. The door was
opened wide to extravagance, favor?
itism and irregularity.
The Walsh committee is doing a
painful duty in uncovering the re?
sults of shipping mismanagement.
The public's distrust has been
aroused by a mass of charges and a
conviction of general inefficiency,
many symptoms of which have come
to the surface. It will be pleased if
only "amateurishness," with its at?
tendant waste, is disclosed. But it
is prepared to go to the bottom and
to face the worst.
The Adriatic Settlement
Italy and Jugo-Slavia have at last
settled the Adriatic dispute?and on
a reasonable basis. The two coun?
tries haven't been as far apart as
has been commonly supposed.
The chief controversy?that over
Finnic?was unfortunately aggra?
vated by blundering at the peace
conference, which aroused patriotic
passions on both sides and made it
difficult for the representatives of
the enlarged Serb kingdom to yield
to Italian wishes. Yet the forces of
common sense and mutual interest
I have finally won.
Jugo-Slavia has now conceded the
main Italian contention?that Fiumc
shall remain an independent city,
not walled in by Croatian territory.
An Italian strip is to connect it
with Istria, so that both nations
shall adjoin the free city and thus
be, in a military sense, on the same
footing. Italy otherwise accepts an
Istrian frontier similar to that fixed
in the Treaty of London and sur?
renders all her Dalmatian claims,
except those to Zara and three of
the islands.
The Italians, therefore, pay fairly
for the independence of Fiumc,
which they allowed to be assigned
to the South Slavs under the Treaty
of London. The Slav argument has
; been that the Slav hinterland needed
Fiume as a port and that access
to the sea would be valueless with?
out political control. But Hungary
needs nice--- to the sea as much as
Jugo-Slavia. Both countries couldn't
have political control. Fiume,
whether it remains independent or
? vi ntually seeks annexation to Italy,
can be developed as a port only if it
serves the non-Italian hinterland.
There is, therefore, every economic
inducement to put this outlet at the
* r\ ice of its best customers, the
nnre so as Italy will benefit by
ixporting her surplus manufactures
into Jugo-Slavia and Hungary and
receiving in return their surplus
agricultural products. Economic
considerations alone ought to insure
a fair use of the port. And Italy's
claim for compensation and protec?
tion on the east coast of the Adriatic
can hardly be denied her on political
and military grounds.
Serbia's territorial gains as a re?
sult of the war have been far
greater than Italy's. She acquired
some former Bulgarian territory,
absorbed Montenegro, a part of the
Banat, promised by the Entente Al?
lies to Rumania; Bosnia, Herzego?
vina, Croatia, Slavonia and a large
part of the South Slav holdings of
Austria. She now gets nearly all
the Dalmatian territory promised by
treaty to Italy. The Croatians and
Slavonians fought Italy to the end.
The united Jugo-Slav state lias
therefore no just causki of complaint,
against a peace settlement giving
independence to Fiume, which was
itself not a part of Croatia, but a
separate appanage of Hungary.
The Adriatic dispute was dis?
ruptive and demoralizing. It nearly
broke up the conference. It para?
lyzed the Allied concert. The set?
tlement now reached is a belated
contribution to real peace reorgani?
zation in Europe.
War Surplus Scandals
Evidence is piling up which seems
to make inevitable an investigation
of the War Department's handling
of its surplus stocks. Secretary
Baker apparently dec;,Uni after the
armistice to hold this surplus off the
market as far as possible. His idea
may have been that to release sur?
plus supplies for public consumption
would upset business and cause
losses to the manufacturers, jobbers
and retailers. This policy was un?
just to the hard-pressed consumer,
!: also cut down the salvage due to
the Treasury. Many of the supplies
deteriorated in value or became unfit |
for consumption.
The charges which have been
appearing in The Globe cannot be
met with a mere disclaimer. These
charges are to the effect that the
-ah' of supplies was manipulate.!
nside the War Department for the
benefit of individuals either then in
l he ao\ ernment ser\ ice or formel
a: close relations with it. Dates,
..'i - ..ad : aim S arc given ; 0 sh i .'?
hat s..!as were j ue gl< d ana st 01 ks
withheld not to protect business m
reneral but to allow profits to favor
The integrity of the department
is impeached by these accusations.
Mr. Baker issued just before the
lection a lame defense of the sur?
plus sales operations. He conspicu
?. avoided answering the charges
.if complicity and, manipulation, lb
must himself feel that the depart?
ment's reputation can be chaired
only through an investigation by an i
outside body. Even if the charges j
are exaggerated or baseless, the im
pression they leave will hardly be
dissipated by explanations such as
he has issued or by further expla?
nations from subordinates who are
under fire.
Incompeiency and wastefulness
have been disclosed in nearly every
field of War Department activity.
They may be excused by irvexperi
! ence. haste, indecision and the lack
j of centralized control. But the
| country will not condone deliberate
I mismanagement or personal pick
: ings. If these things have existed
i they must be exposed and punished.
Those Wicked Headlines
It is a teary picture that Com?
missioner Enright paints in his an?
nual report. We could weep for the
poor yeggmen, clips and hold-up
; men who want so much to behave
: and who try and try and try to be
i good, only to be seduced by the
j wicked newspapers, with their allur?
ing tales of successful robbery.
"Ten Nights in a Barroom" held
i nothing as full of sobs as this spec
| tacle of well-meaning, kind-hearted
young thugs led into a life of shame
by vicious headlines.
But in our humble way we can
; not help wondering if Mr. Enright,
| being a literary man himself, does
not overestimate the importance of
; the printed word. There are other
I methods of communication in the
? underworld than newspaper head
| lines, we seem to have heard. If
i burglary is brisk and the police
' over-polite in any particular com?
munity we imagine that the tidings
get about r.mnng those profession?
ally interested long before the
umpty umph victim gets peevish
and writes a letter to his paper and
a reporter investigates and one of
those insidiously suggestive articles
is printed. Speaking offhand, we
; should say that the public would
i always be the last to learn of any?
thing as exclusive as a burglary epi
demie, especially in a community
like New York, where the police
| consider it their bounden duty to
protect the public from all knowl
i edge of such painful details.
No, we think Mr. Enright will
'nave to try again and find a better
excuse for the epidemic?which, by
the way, elsewhere in his report he
proves never to have existed. Just
as a suggestion, we ? ffer the
thought that very likely the cause is
nothing else than the super-effi?
ciency of Mr. Enright and his force.
? which lias goaded the underworld to
a last desperate battle in a dying
effort to do Mr. Enright dirt.
i Dressed up in Mr. Enright's imagi?
native prose, this might, bo very ap
; pealing, we think. Even as thus
stated, in bald and unconvincing
journalese, it sounds more per?
suasive than that black guilt of the
headlines that robs the orphan of
; his yeggman papa and sows the
seeds of inquity in a million inno?
cent hearts, more or less.
Keeping the Frontier Alive
There are many good points about
the Girl Scouts?as about the Boy
Scouts. But we like to think that
the central aim of these two organ?
izations can be best, summed up in
the declaration that they would keep
alive for all time in our boys and
girls the virtues of the frontier.
This week's gift of 150 acres of
wild country to the Girl Scouts was
not an unrelated chance. Neither is
the name "scout'' an accidental de?
tail. The activities of the scout and
his code have been broadened with
the years. But the things done and
the standards preached are precisely
those of the upstanding frontiers?
man who knows the outdoor world
at first hand, who can take care of
himself and his own in any situa?
tion, and who is, in that best of all
American phrases, "a good scout."
The influence of the frontier upon
American life, social, political and
economic, has been the major subject
of American historical study in re
ci nt years. That we have always
had, for three centuries, a frontier
?ever pushing westward, but ever
at the farthest-flung fringe of pio?
neers reproducing the same bus:;.',
resolute living that has been the lot
of our frontiersmen from the days
of the Mayflower onward?has been,
it is in w generally considered, the
greatest of a!! influences upon our
national development. The frontier
constantly reacted upon the older
regions. The flux and reflux of
population was continuous?-passing
through all the stages of settlement,
from the rawest frontier, past, the
ripening prairie towns, to staid
Philadelphia and prim Boston.
To-day the last frontier has been
conquered, and in the century to
com ? we shall possi ss no such ad?
ventures wherewith to renew our
youth and maintain the old virtues.
it is altogether fitting, therefore,!
that the Girl Scouts and the Boy
Scouts should take up the task of
: ? rpetuating in the very liber of our !
y? uth all that the frontier lias con- :
tributed to the greatness of Amer-,
u.a. The ideal training would be to
have every American spend a year !
in the Rockies or on a ranch, out?
doors, roughing it, working his way,
fighting his way if necessary. The
Scouts can give much the same
training right here at home.
The Girl Scouts, who are asking
for every one's aid this week, are
quite as useful as the Boy Scouts.
No such aim as has been described
could possibly be attained unless our :
girls shared with the boys these les- .
sons of outdoor life, of health, of ?
courage, of practical good fellow
ship. The Tribune is glad to urge
the support of its readers for this
organization, aptly designed to build
a greater America for the future
upon the best of our past.
Labor and the Press
Recently fine of the largest labor
unions in the city decided to forego
precedent and admit to its more im?
portant business meetings represen?
tatives of the daily press. An in?
vitation was extended by officials of
the union, including a vice-president
of the State Federation of Labor, for
reporters to attend sessions at which
upward of 15,000 organized workers
j were to vote on a question of wage
! scales and arbitration of new de?
mands. For the first time in the
history of local labor matters the
press was welcomed.
This recognition was not due
wholly to the labor leaders' tlesire
; for publicity; it was inspired pri
j marily by a situation about which
! those leaders realized the public
! must not be antagonized because of
? any misunderstanding of the union's
aims. But the act of admitting the
reporters was good diplomacy, and
if the practice becomes general or?
ganized labor will be materially ben?
efited through a more accurate
understanding of its troubles on the
i part of the reading pul lie.
The old custom of evading the re?
porter, or of telling him, in effect, to
"clear out," and regarding him as
an ambassador of ill will rather
than a writer of facts for public
j consumption, is certain to pass with
' the appearance of more intelligent
! leaders of union labor.
The Cost of Daniels
'. His Extravagant Waste of Public
Funds Will End March 4
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am heartily in favor of your
splendid editorials on the navy, point?
ing out its needs and the necessity for
economy in its administration. We all
! know that Mr. Daniels, against the ad?
vice of Admiral Mahan and all sound
leaders, sent half of our fleet info
i the Pacitic to bring California into the
: Democratic column, but California an
[ swered "No" by 5(10,000.
Can you not any a word for the cour?
se of Representative Planton, of
Texas, in attacking Mr. Daniels's ex?
travagant and impudent proposal to
plan the operations of the fleet for
I several months after his retirement?
The taxpayer does not object to the
cruising of our fleet, but he does ob?
ject to these divided junkets of what
' was once an effective fleet. Not con
, tent with a winter cruise of the At
' ?antic fleet to Peru and the Pacitic
fleet to Chile, Mr. Daniels now pro
' poses to start the ship-: off on a long
?unket next summer to South America,
Africa and Australia, and, rightly, Rep?
resentative Blanton objects. Isn't it
i like Josephus to propose to forego the
I splendid operating weather here real
: to send our ships into the Southern
| hemisphere during its winter, with
its incessant rain ?
The cruise that should take place
I after March -1 is the cruise of the Pa?
cific fleet back into the Atlantic, und
nil summer will he required to reor?
ganize into one fleet.
Economy must be the watchword for
the navy, as for all other departments
t f the government.
Mr. Daniels would prolong hia orgy
of spending into a Republican adminis?
tration if he could. But the public
must prevent it, and Ri presentative
' Bianton deserves our commendation
for his stand. Let Mr. Daniels end his
rule on March. 4. Then let us begin to
repair the damage, with economy al?
ways before us. There can be no fleet
efficiency without economy, and we
must start our economy on March 4.
TAXPAYER.
New York, Nov. 8, 1920.
Our Pro-Sinn Fein Government
I Te the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: How long must decent Amer
! icans put up with the outrages com
' mitt e d by Irish "hyphenates" in this
City? For the second time in Armis?
tice Week the tla^ oi one of our al?
lies has been tarn down from the Capi?
tol Theater, and no official action is
taken to prevent further like occur?
rences. Of course, with a pro-Sinn E?in
Mayor, a pro-Sinn Fein Governor and
a pro-Sinn Fein Secretary of State at
Washington, wc cannot hope for im
[ a ivement, but, praise God, 1921 will
see a general exodus of such undesir?
ables. Meanwhile, let us commend the
British Embaas;, and Consulate for their
extremo tolerance and show of good
breeding.
WILLIAM NEWMAN CHEW.
Brooklyn, Nov. 10, 1920.
The Daniels Excursion F Le et
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I; is the understanding of the
writer that the navy tradition prior
to 1912 rigidly exea.;.led women,
families or' officers or civilians from
seagoing trips.
In this connect on President-elect
Ilarding's recent refusal of the offer
oi a battleship inspires the hope that
a reversion to pie-Democratic times is
thus presaged. A popular "reaction?
ary" move will be the restoring of the
navy to its primary function a busi?
ness arm of defense. It has served
too long a> an excursion fleet for the
present Secretary, his friends and
administration in-laws and as a side
show to business men's conventions in
Southern seaports. F. II. R.
Westfield, X. J., We-. :>. 1920.
Respectfully Referred to Any
Dictionary
To the Editor of The Tribune-.
Sir: Referring to your lead g a ti
c!e in yesterday's Tribune about Ire?
land, it would be interesting te know
by what preces-- of reasoning you and
ethers arrive at the conclusii n that t ??
cause of Ireland is a domestic English
duesticO. Will you kind!: say?
ONE INTERESTED.
New York, Nov. 10, 1920.
The ConningTower
"MAIN STREET"
When Mrs. Dr. Konnicott went out to
(iopher Prairie,
She found the town a dull, malicious
bore,
Where no one hod a thought beyond
the wheat iNrm and the dairy,
The movies and the flivver and the
store.
When Henry Adams got what he de?
clared was Education,
lie gazed upon the world without a
smile;
The Culture and the Politics of this
amusing nation
lie found unworthy anybody's while.
Though Henry found the Universe a
very Gopher Prairie,
(The latter being commonplace and
trite),
And Carol found American existence
ordinary,
I like to live here.Proving
they were right.
_
Regarding the parodies In Mr.
Charles Powell's "The Poets in the
i Nursery," Mi3s Carolyn Wells, than
I whose ear none is moro sensitive to
stylo, agrees with us; but sho con
i siders the parody of Walt Whitman
better than any other she knows of.
? She is making a collection of Whitman
I parodies, and if any one knows of a
! better one she wishes to know it.
To J. A. M.: On "On Main Street"
; Of course you're happy.
But not because you're living nearer
to Main Street than I,
! But further from it.
. I, too, have books upon shelves.
But no patience to read them.
, I, too, have thoughts,
; But no sooner do I start to think them,
, Than the telephone rings, und it's Sam
Clarke,
! Or Nat Hicks, or even, sometime?, Cy
Bogart,
Urging me to "step out."
: The spiritual beauty of Side Street is
lost to me forever.
I have the Village Virus. B. J. JR.
Although M. W., of Pine Orchard,
Conn., thanks us for printing the
story of "There ain't goin' to be no
core," Mr. John II. McGough, E. P. S.,
M. It. S., H. L., and T. H. inform us
that the wheeze is an old one.
. By the way, that young woman who
wrote "The Purple Cow," and from
whom we expected so much, hasn't
done anything else.
HOLLYWOOD HAPPENINGS
Gertrude Atherton, .who is learning
lo write motion pictures, says that it's
all right to write motion pictures, but
personally she prefers to be a novelist.
Higgins's tilling station has a new
gas pump which works with a push?
button.
II. Wilson got mad at the stories of
fabulous sums paid for screen stories,
sat down and wrote one for a maga?
zine and hung up thirty thousund
dollars for the boys to shoot at. "1'il
show 'em," said il. L.
Rupert Hughes is expected in a few
days, bringing with him about eighty
pages of densely typed manuscript.
The increase of the Jap population
is getting to be alarming, and, like?
wise, nobody knows just what to do
with the lo-.vans.
There are 204 screen writers in
town, all averaging twenty thousand a
year, except while filling out the in?
come tax report, V. C.
Hollywood, Calif., Nov. 7.
I
It is such a mistake to
. . . spurn the highly born
With love affected,
Or treat with lofty scorn
The well-connected.
The Sun.
It is such a mistake to misquote
Gilbert.
Prohibition Mother Goose
Little Miss Muffet sat in a buffet
Sipping a seidel of ale,
j But along came a spotter, the miserable
rotter,
And rustled Miss Muffet to jail.
C. G. H.
Little Tommy Tucker, the poor old
sucker,
; Drank some home brew, and now he's
a-pucker.
How could he do it and thus risk his
life?
He should have given it nil to his wife.
JONE.
Neither Fisher Nor Roper 1? None
Ton Sanguine.?Boston Herald head?
line.
"Don't never say f didn't tell you
ah,ui! it," beg. R. M. VV. V.
The Squanderers
When Spring bequeathed the poplar
Ten thousand leaves of gold,
I had a coin for every coin
The poplar's arms could hold.
And I was just as proud then
As any careless king,
And I was stirred as easily
As poplars are in Spring.
Throughout the ardent Summer
I could not be outdone;
For each gold piece the poplar spent
I flung a finer one.
But new we both are beggars . . .
The tree no longer gleams,
And I who had as much to give
Am destitute of dreams.
Geobgb O'Netl.
"Dulcinea tells me," writes Carlita?,
"that, after a luncheon she went to
ther day, every girl present
smoked and she was never so amused.
Because you could see that none of
the girls really liked to smoke; they
were doing it, of course, just out of
a kind of silly bravado."
Do you know Euphemia, Dulcinea'*
chum 7 She was saying last night,
after ordering some succulent bivalves,
that she'd go to Princeton tu-morrow
if she could annex one of the coveted
past ?boards.
Ruper or Jones9 Jones or Ropert
You tell 'cm, Grant," you're a won?
derful doper.
???8 ?port r?_?.
W. T. A.
A Full Days Work
It Offers the Only Road lo Better
Conditions
To the Editor of The Tribune. I
Sir: The public must realize one I
fact and keep it constantly before it:
that the fundamental causes undcrly
ing such outrageously high prices have j
been the desire for gain possessed by
the much greater percentage of nil
human beings and the opportunity.
The latter may be real, but is surround?
ed by conditions permitting, by its ma?
nipulation, of its assuming unduly ex?
aggerated proportions.
If labor will deliver a day's honest
work and this day is of sufficient
number of hours; if the employer will
dispose of the product at a reasonable
profit to those who sell th?3 product,
and if this dispenser will also be satis?
fied with a reasonable profit, then we
will once more get back to normal
world conditions.
No one who knows will deny, if he
be honest, that the unscrupulous labor
leaders have, in order to accomplish
their own desires, used the unthink?
ing and ignorant element in labor
| toward unreasonable demands as to
hours of work and compensation for
the work. No one can deny but that
j in order to live and to support one's
: dependents a certain number of hours
! must be utilized.
The small farmer in very isolated
i sections is probably the best example
! of this fact. He knows that in order
I to support himself, his family and
? cattle, which are necessary for well
being, and in order to do his work he
i must till a certain acreage. He knows,
' by experience, that in order to till
this acreage he must devote a certain
number of hours to it.
I believe that we may safely assume
this as a basic example and a basic
principle, and this principle applied is
the only means by which the world
may live normally. This nation must
get back to a common sense basis. The
most beneficial legislation and the only
legislation which will accomplish the
I relief of all concerned will be that
which will circulate by illustrative
propaganda the facts of this principle.
Did you ever stop to think how much
would be accomplished by a world?
wide application of the "piece work"
principle? Give the honest worker,
whoever he may be, the benefit of an
honest day's work. Let labor "clean
house" and give the gate to the un?
scrupulous labor leader.
Let the manufacturer "clean house"
the same way and let the mercantile
combinations apply the same principle.
GRANT SHEPHERD.
New York. Nov. 0, 1-020.
How Does Al Do It?
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1 am a Democrat, but I did
not vote for Al Smith for Governor.
He has been a handy tool for Boss
Murphy ever since he began his
political career. He polled a big vote
in the recent election because there
was a deal between Barnes and Mur?
phy to sell out the national Democratic
and the rest of the Democratic ticket
for votes for Smith*
What a spectacle we witness now
when we see Al Smith hobnobbing
with the "boss" a' French Lick! Sup?
pose some other Democratic Governor
had the "boss" up at the Executive
Mansion two or three limes p. month
and never came to New York without
hobnobbing with the "bos;" at his
house, and Tammany Hall, and Del-!
monico's, and buying an estate near
the "boss's" estate, on Long Island,
and traveling around the country to
prominent resorts with the "boss"!
What would the Democratic and Re?
publican newspapers say about it?
What a scandal there would bel
How is it that this man Al Smith
"an do the most brazen things right
In the face of the people and get away
with it?
Have we no newspaper in this city
that can tell the truth? Looks as if
everything that was said about the
New York City press in The Brass
Check was true. We haven't got a
fighting paper in New York except the |
Hearst newspapers, and they fight only]
for Hearst?but they know how to
fight. R. E. ROBERTS.
New York, Nov. ]i). 1920.
Aid for Martyred Peoples
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Nov.- that the heat and bitterness
cl the electoral campaign are over, may
not your readers trust that your great
paper, which, 1 believe, had much to
iio with what now seems une of the
greatest miracles in history, i. e., the
participation of America in the war,
will do everything possible to rouse our
r.eople to the realization of the dire
need of Armenia and the other nations
which are vainly at present hoping that
we will come to their aid?
Surely the enthusiasm which only
last spring made an audience which Dr.
Manning was addressing spring to its
feet in eager indorsement of his words
when he said that if need were Amer?
ica would send armies to fight for
Armenia is "not dead, but sleeping."
One cannot, help beli? ving that mul?
titudes of earnest men and women
voted the Republican ticket on No?
vember 2 because th? y believed that
?r.ly by the election of a President
whose views were in harmony with
those of a majority of the Senate
would it be possible to secure the rati?
fication of the Versailles treaty md
the league covenant, and long before
that end was secured to send adequate
assistance to the martyr peoples over- !
seas. SARA RIDY SCHUY'LER.
New York, Nov. 10, 1920. j
Marble Memorials
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I fully agree with your ideas '
about "Eugene Field in Marble," in to?
day's paper. 1 abominate marble me?
morials; your suggestions are line. I
want to thank you for "Woman Takes
Her Place." It was on the editorial
page the day after election. I had it.
copied in our local press.
MARTHA COCKS W1LLETS.
Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y., Nov. 9,1
1920.
Books
By
Hey wood Broun
Curiously enough, at this very time/
when millions upon millions of voters
have expressed themselves in favor of ',
the principle of "America first and the
world well lost," the best of our na
I tive novels seem invariably to be con?
cerned witli the question, "What is
the matter with America?" The young
' men and women who write these books
l seem inclined to back ideal commiini
! ties which are still but dreams and to
play the America of to-day for nothing
[ more than show.
In this new current of questioning
literature the two novels which stand
; out are Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis,
jond Moon-Calf, by Floyd Dell. Mr.
Lewis is a frequent contributor to The
?Saturday Evening Post and Mr. Dell
i is an associate editor of The Liberator,
I and so it comes with something of a
? shock to find Lewis far more impatient
; with American life than Dell. Perhaps
the explanation lies in the fact that
' the. protest which Lewis voices in
i Main Street is the expression of a bit
I terness newer than that of Dell's. A lit?
tle of the sawdust of the trail still
' clings to L-?wis. Dell has been longer
! on the mourners' bench. Probably he
! doesn't like things a3 they are any
better than he ever did, but he ?3 in
' clined to ask now for light rather than
' lightning. Later we hope to discuss the
i two books in detail, but to-day it is
I more convenient to let Dell speak for
i himself. He writes :
"A friend of mine, who a year ago
i lent me a volume of Congreve, has
! written to rap, indignantly, demanding
i it back, after reading my remarks on
i Sinclair Lewis's Main Street in your
I columns; he feels that a person who
; defends the Middle West and suggests
I that a young idealist has anything to
| learn from the stupid people among
| whom he was brought up does not de
I serve to have in his possession a vol
? ume which contains the story of the
i charming and outrageous young ideal
is' , Mrs. Millamant.
"It serves me right. I did not intend
to attack the young idealist. But I
had just published a book about a
ycung idealist, more foolish, if pos
rabio, than Mr. Lewis's yeung heroine,
| but decidedly less unhappy; and what
' I had in mind was the superiority of
i my young idealist to Mr. Lewis's. My
? modesty having betrayed me, I put it
by. I am interested in the subject
: in more ways than one, and I can't.
? help comparing my hero and his hero
! i- e. Felix Fay in Moon-Calf does not
: hate the Middle West the way Mr.
Lewis's Carrie hates it; nor, although
he is a Socialist, does he cherish such
egregious plans for reform ng it al?
together. In fact- and this I think is
tiue of many young people in the
j same situation ? he manages to find in
it the things he needs?the friendship,
comradeship, love and human educa?
tion. Sinclair Lewis's Carrie fails to
find anything except misunderstanding,
envy, contempt, failure and misery.
"1 suspect that many young people
will find it easier to identify them?
selves with Carrie than with Felix.
!i" this is so, then -barring other com?
parisons between the two books which
I am not qualified to make is it be?
cause the younger generation, is afraid
to laugh at itself? I wonder what you
think about it ?
"I have been interested, too, in com?
paring Felix Fay with the young hero
of This Side of Paradise. There is an
extraordinary similarity, underneath
their differences of class, between the
two young men of these books. Only it
seems to me that the aero of This Side
<r Paradise is essentially lonelier and
unhappier than Felix Fay, has less re
-oarcea within himself to serve ? a
defense against the harshness of the
world and is more deeply suspicious
rf women. A pity, too, when, n, i
so much to learn fr ?
"Speaking of being suspicion ..
tornen, I am waiting for som? on?-^
make some literary and psycho
lytic commentary on SomersetXaupk
who, in every book and p;a.,. .
or ironic or ligl tly
his knif" out for women.' Th? t*.
"? ?-*r ;'
women is a trait of I ? .- - e,?
tion, it seems to me; at
more than half a ?
poetry, and is
| nate English and Am
The Russians have ha
"And that brings us to Tolstoy ? ,
- whose distrust of wo
mscences seem to throw cor.,
i light. In ever,- , WgJ
: tacking women for
i and defer. ; I . - ? t v:__
, "" ij*~
; attacK. Jas* a ?, n<
; reproaching God* for ] ? -, itv]
in the universe
i plain to himsi If 1 - .-..- -^3 ?_-,.
' and just. But he :.
himself on either -
: cr, argi ...; against
after book. The ; : ~,sr fc(
, the problem of deatl a
I wcri-' his n.hisco?
, stant obsebS!in. I
. leading his
I two gigantic qu
selves brooding]
, Why must ; B
I wo men tor tu i
i "Yet the women ij
are always du
eray'a Ameli 1. : ? 5ts E~.
? and again that
'pi asantlikc'
but when he )f it 1
nt the ei d of War ai ,
I conscious so - ? . ...
1 cut, and we '< ?
piness. It is .
I tiring unhapp ne thai
"And he
disconti nted he t
j is temp?rala- . ?? '
! piness, pai ticularly 1 . -.- -
me tic I - ---ver de><
l it for that n
of women -the ... . . .
"I am. ; ou 1 i iggtsti
that m<
; ? hat it ?:?::
cover of a : v
: since a writ ir of mnot foi
lus point home 1
pends upon ( ?
: what he I 1
to note that this
: which finds its . tion
the life and w rk ?' ? ?
l stoy, and it s a and b
; tal set: ing forth
' The Moon and Sixpence, .< en
act era-- c of
pi oof of ich I ca . m to
less than five sU
i d attempts to
his native lair Sh rw
Anderson'; i' <s V hit
The Dark Motl :
Side of Pa r Lewis's M
Street and my ov 1
of such, new E
Macaulay's Po1
and more familiar ones as those
H. G. Wells, who
!i. era ry 1 ..rea t of
mcon-calves.
"I hope to ha -
your mind,
What is soi
ms moon-cah -?- 'or In
'alarming question, What ";
calves goii g '
"I res] that, it
signs are not a
the world bi longs 1
unless the cav?
for dem - :y a
that is all going
to disintei
r.ny. Par: icularl
arc
on : ?
: he ca v. m
Lest We Forget
Tc the Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: I have just read Philip Gibbs's
book, Now It Can Be Told, and was so
impressed with it that I believe all who
read it will have a fuller understand?
ing of the suffering and horror of war
that our boys went through. We in
the United States felt very little the
deprivation and suffering of it all.
therefore it has been so easy for us to
forget. Our indifference has caused
the boys to become very bitter, and
who can blame them?
I was told the other day that in
Wasl ington i ur wounded boys, on their
way to the Waiter Reed Hospital, stood
up in the cars, no one offering them
i it, If such things are true, it is
a ili.-grace.
I am sorry that Gibbs did not find
space in his book to praise the work
of the Red Cross women and the Sal?
vation Army lasses. He mentions the
v. ..?:? n who danced and enjoyed them?
selves while their men fought and died
for them. That is true of some, but
t?a re are many instances of the tine
work done by others. ! am proud to
think that in a humble way 1 was
! to cheer and comfort sume of the
I . Many a story was told me, as
1 visited tho wards in the base hos?
pital at Fox Hills, and, because I am
an old woman, they felt free to con?
fide in me and told rue of their loves
and hopes and ?'ears. Such homesick
'.ads they were, and how they longed
f<>r a glimpse o_ mother, with her com
r1 rig arms about them and lier good?
night kiss! Men they were in every
i :' the word, and y?:t, what ! inely
Hike boys, with their longing foi
home and all it meant!
It makes my heart ache to thinii
tl feel we have forgotten all s?
con. They have done their bit, ami
in the years to come, let us do our;
with love and ever the hand to hel;
and comfort them.
JUST A WOMAN AND MOTHER.
New York, Nov. 5, 1920.
A Temporary Break
{.From The Detroit /->ee i'r??*i
Mr. Wilson may feel that the hear
ni the world is broken, but he ought t
le to comfort himself a little wit
the 'ought that heartbreak is rarci'
a fata! disorder, and that this is
tough eld world, with fine recuperat'.v
_ owers.
The Protected Commuter
To the Editor of . ine.
Sir: I read with much Interest thi
letter from a commuter in to-d*r!
Tribune, entitled "When -He Co?1
muter Forg< ts."
Commuters in and out of Now Yo?
may be inter, sted ' 0 'v '
Si u- . ?? y ..._ csr;
of this ma
Massach usetts ? ' ? a ? mmut
his monthly ticket
the ;?-..?' -r. *
gives him a r te il
ing I
> "???
on the r? b'? I a
vides that if t
g ith r with 1 thly - '"
?
of the railroad wit
amount of fare
The n? .. ty i
of the gei
sime ticket
few d .
railroad ma to 1
muter. inconv? nience 1
o ' at - -. ?? - ?
curren ? ts 1
The com muter,
1y out of po
In Mas . ? '
pe rmit ted to pui
any day ? t
tickets are [
law furtl er j
muter, through
'
tick ?; f r a pel .
more the ticke
......
seng -r ag? ? t
tension of time eq a
[he
period of deposit
one week. EDM '
New Yc ? '?:. N
Happy Massachusetts
Cheer g
men: to the ?
adopted we are fr? - lte e'". ,
tions now for two years, ai i Be? 1
beyond soi f< "
iiave to worry about politics a'1"
won't be any Senate!- : ' -'""^^'h
to elect for ever so leng. Ai"' "* j
grand an' glorious feelin'? ^^^