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Zeal Can Go Too Far
The Anti-Saloon League will do
welt not ; ? insisl that the prohibi?
tion law be so amended as to deny
the right of the churches to use
sacramental wine. The support o? ?
many religious people was won to
the prohibition movement on the dis?
tinct assurance that there should be
no interference with the taking of
wine at the altar.
Now that the law is in effect, it
?will be an impertinence to suggest '
that the clergy are not abiding by ;
it. Any attempt at espionage and ;
effort, to "regulate" the uso of wine ;
by them is certain to be resented.
The statement by Ralph A. Pay,
-prohibition enforcement agent, that
ho will enforce the law without re?
ligious prejudice is quite unneces?
sary. Mr. Day is at present with?
out discretion in the matter of sacra?
mental wine. He can interfere with
its use only if Mr. Anderson and his
Anti-Saloon League succeed in se?
curing an amendment to the law.
Mr. Anderson announces that he
has not yet made up his mind as to
what he intends to do. It will be- j
hoove him to make up his mind at a j
very early date and to arrive at the j
decision that there are limits even j
to his zeal for absolute prohibition.
The great body of Christian peo- j
pie will tolerate no changes in the
law that will enforce changes in the
epremonies of their religion. A pro?
hibition movement that goes so far
as to attack the Church and its in?
stitutions will drive from it its most
valuable and influential supporters.
An Unwelcome Advocate
William R. Hearst devotes two
columns of black-faced type on the
first page of his newspaper to a ful?
some praise of France that will fill
intelligent Frenchmen wiih mingled
feelings of amazement and hcrror.
Since France went to war with Ger?
many Mr. Hearst has not been
among her admirers. It ia true that
he never blackguarded her so vio?
lently as he did England and the war
administration of his own coun?
try. But by insinuation and innu?
endo he made it plain to the French
that he was not their friend, and
through the support of their enemies
I in the early years of the war he con?
vinced all France that he desired
her defeat.
France has long since listed and
ticketed Mr. Hearst. She will have
none of him or of his newspapers.
She shrinks from his friendship as
she shrinks from his praise. Just
now she has troubles enough of her
own without the blighting advocacy
which for perfectly obvious reasons
Mr. Hearst has begun.
She does not forget that she
found it necessary to execute for
treason one of her citizens who was
friendly with Mr. Hearst during the
war. Belated and insincere praise
will not deceive her in the least. His
simpering "Vive La France!" she
will find unendurable.
No Rest for the Weary
Mr. Hughes, in his capacity of
human dynamo, grudgingly made a
concession to Christmas Sunday, but
induced the delegates to continue
their labors among themselves.
Achievement is the only thing that
seems to appeal to the Secretary of
State.
And to achieve he is willing to
work the delegates as they have
rarely been worked before. Results
are all that satisfy him, and results
are all he will discuss publicly.
This gives him a double incentive to
keep the conference moving, for not
only does he desire concrete results
for their own sake, but he is con?
stantly spurred on by the wish for
news on the part of the country. As
he makes it a fixed principle not to
discuss uncompleted things he never
talks of anything except, what has
been decided by the conference, lit
erder to satisfy this craving of the
press, therefore, and yet play the
game according to his own rules, the
Secretary is obliged to have points
settled so that he can hand them out
to the voracious public.
To the Europeans, accustomed to
rest one day out of seven and not
to kill themselves on the six others,
there is something rather appalling
about the fierce energy with which
Mr. Hughes strikes at his objectives.
Anxious themselves to pet home for
Christmas, they accepted his severe
standards so long as there was some
prospect of petting away. But when
they saw that the conference could
not be finished in timo they began
to hope that he would let up at ?
Christmas. The British thought i
fondly of bow they closed up simp ?
during Christmas week in Eng?
land even while the war was Still on.
Some wont so far as to have visions
of a few days on* in Virginia.
But not so Mr. Hushes. There is
still much unfinished business, so
there is no rest for the weary.
South Pacific Settlements
The Chilean government has ac?
cepted Peru's proposal that the two
countries name plenipotentiaries to
meet in Washington and continue
negotiations for the settlement of
outstanding disputes. The Tacna- j
Arien pl?biscite, provided for in the;
Treaty of Ancon, is one of the main
subjc? > of controversy. The pleb-j
iscite was to be held in ISO;!, and
hasn't been held yet. Chile recently;
asked Peru to cooperate in fixing a
date for the election and in deter?
mining the conditions under which
it should be held.
There seems to he a disposition in
Lima to hold that the plebiscite ar?
ticle of the 1883 treaty is moribund.
From the tenor of a note sent by
Peru to Bolivia a few days ago it
may b? assumed that Peru prefers
to have the Tacna-Arica question}
arbitrated. The note said that Peru
would gladly help in bringing about
an arbitration between Bolivia and
Chiie, provided the controversy be?
tween Peru and Chile could be set?
tled by arbitration.
Bolivia also has claims against
Chile arising out of the alleged non
execution of the. treaties which ended
the war of 1878. She suggested the
calling of an international confer?
ence to deal with "the South Pacific
problem.''
Whether a tripartite settlement
can be arrived at or not, or even a
dual settlement, a beginning of ne?
gotiations which may lead to .some?
thing now seems assured. American
concord will be greatly helped by
the disposition of misunderstandings
and grievances which have clouded
the relations of these three South
American republics for the last forty
years.
Forces of Unrest in India
Unrest in India continues. The
government has put down the Mop
riah rebellion in Malabar and west
lorn Madras. It has imprisoned the
i Ali brothers, Mohamed and Shau
kat, tho recognized leaders of the
: seditious pan-Islamic agitation. The.
1 brothers w,ero interned for disloy
? alty during' the war, but were re?
leased in 1919. Prosecuted last May j
! for inciting violence, they promised ?
not "U. advocate violence or to cre?
ate an atmosphere cf preparedness
| for violence." They promptly broke
their word at the meeting of the All
India Caliphate Conference at Kara?
chi last July and were arrested late
in August, when the Moplah insur?
rection began. Sixty-two more mem?
bers of the All-India Caliphate Con?
ference were arrested a few days
ago at Allahabad.
On this side the Indian govern?
ment is dealing with Mahometan
| India, aroused by what it considers
the wrongs done to the Caliph (the
Ottoman Sultan) in the S?vres
Treaty, partitioning Turkey. The
Indian Mahometans have been
stirred, as all Islam has been, by the
encroachments of Europe into Mos?
lem territory following the war.
1 Tho Ali brothers have preached
1 pan-Turanianism and fired religious
prejudice against the British gov
j eminent. The Islamic element in
?India is militant and inflammable in
i matters of faith. It is the more ag
I gressive force in the present move
! ment to break down British rule in
India.
On the other side, allied with the
disaffected Mahometans, is the
: Hindu nativist and nationalist agi
. tation, directed by Mohandas Kar
amchand Gandhi. Gandhi is a
: strange and potent figure. A man
| of modern education, admitted to the
I bar in London, he is also an ascetic
and a mahatma. In this latter char?
acter-that of a holy man and
mystic?he appeals ' to all that is
most sensitive in the Hindu imagi?
nation. He is personally a pacifist
and non-resistant, a genuine Bud?
dhist practitioner of self-mortifica?
tion and renunciation. His protest
against. British rule has taken the
'< dangerous form of what he calls
f"non-violent non-co-operation." He
deprecates the use of force, but
: urges all Hindus to dissociate them
| selves from government activities?
j to avoid the courts, the government
1 schools, the public services, and even
! servie- in the Indian army. He bans
i the purchase of British.-made goods
! and the consumption of alcohol, tea
or sugar, because these articles are
under government monopolies.
Gandhi's plans haven't yet brought
j him into direct conflict with the
Indian government; but they con?
template an undermining of authori?
ty which mere violence couldn't
1 bring about. He is a craftier oppo?
nent than either of the Alis, and he
has maintained a working under?
standing with them without com?
promising himself.
The Indian government's problem
is, therefore, far from simple. Its
fight to overcome a disaffection
which for once has unified the Ma?
hometan and Hindu elements has
only begun.
Our H ay t? an Protectorate
The Senate committee which in?
vestigated conditions in Hayti favors
a modification of the form of
American control there. At present
there is divided jurisdiction. The
committee would have, authority
centered in a High Commissioner,
who would replace the Envoy Ex?
traordinary and also be superior
both to the military and to the other
civilian authorities.
The troubles we. have had in Hayti
wore due largely to defective ad?
ministration. The American per?
sonnel was not happily chosen. Un?
necessary antagonisms were aroused.
The chairman of the Senate com?
mittee, Mr. McCormick, calls at?
tention to the "great importance of
choosing for service in Hayti, in
civil and military capacities, officers
who are sympathetic with the Ilay
tian people, who will seel; to estab?
lish cordial relations with the
Haytians." This rule was unfortu?
nately not observed under the
Wilson Administration.
The United States has established
a protectorate over Hayti. But Hayti
is still a recognized state. It is a
member, for instance, of the League \
of Nations. Our occupation is a '
friendly one and intended, under j
the terms of the treaty of 1915, to
be helpful. We are obligated, there?
fore, to respect the nationality of a
people among whom we are trying
to establish moro orderly admin?
istration. This obligation was not
scrupulously enough recognized
under the Wilson r?gime. Hayti has
now become tranquilized. It can
easily be made prosperous and freed
of its European debt. Its educated
class also can be fully reconciled to
American occupation by a wiser
policy of consideration and co?
operation.
As to Censorship
Tho effort of dramatists and "sce?
narists" to reform the spoken and
pictured drama from the inside may
eliminate a few objectionable pro?
ductions in the future. It may even
serve to lighten the labors of the
official censors.
Yet after all it is the playgoing
public which decides whether plays
are good or bad, and its decisions
are, as a ?mle, righteous. The
trouble with the drama just now is
not that it is getting out of bounds
as to morals. It is due to the wane
of a spending era and a consequent
growing discernment on the part of
people who buy theater tickets.
These people may not be highly
cultivated, but they know what they
like. Mostly they like plays that arc
wholesome and amusing. The mor?
bid sex play appeals to but few of
them. List the successes of the last t
two years, and you will observe that I
most of them carefully avoided tri?
angles and other problems of a cer-|
tain sort of society.
Playwrights and scenario writers
are as likely to err in their guesses
about public taste as managers??
moro likely, if anything. The pro?
ducer has the larger stake, and has
to give the matter more thought or
lose his money. The author has only
unmade money to lose.
Taken as a whole, the people of
the United States can be trusted to
exercise the right sort of censor?
ship. They will pay to see the plays
that interest and amuse them and
make failures of the others by leav?
ing them alone. And inasmuch as
they are normal and healthy-minded
people, the matter may be safely
left to them.
Vitamines
Enter a new set of words into the
general vocabulary?namely, deriv?
atives of the term "vitamine." As
electricity brought in a brood of ad?
jectives and metaphors, and the
motor car did the same, so the little
vitamine promises to have a large
family.
Domestic service experts are rec
I ommending foods swarming, as the
English say, with the jolly little
beggars. Scientists display as warn?
ings starved white rats that have
I been stuffed with carbohydrates,
but which perish because their
i ration has lacked the element that
stimulates healthy metabolism; ad?
vertisements invite us to carry
around vitamines in convenient vest
pocket packages. Milk distributors,
on the ground that the product they
handle is a great vitamine contain?
er, exhort all to increase their milk
order. Pill, tablet and cake
manufacturers proclaim that the
vitamines in milk are the right
strain and have no doubt that a
| man who fails to ingest them in
j concentrated form is not fair to his
! family.
What is it all about? The skepti?
cal suggest that the only conclusion
| to be drawn is that the notion still
prevails that a large part of tho
I public continues to be gullible.
Those who have a liking for novelty
partake eagerly. But Dr. Casimir
Funk, who has borne some part
?n introducing the newcomer, frank?
ly ijdmits that it is improbable
that much can be positively said.
"If there is any message," he de?
clares, "from the scientific labora?
tories to the American people it is
this: Lcok forward with confidence
to the day when science shall ferret
from Nature her valuable secret as
to vitamines. Meanwhile do not
become overexcited about them, nor
enthusiastic over exaggerated claims
that cannot have foundation In
actual scientific experience."
In the mean time grandfather
smokes his pipe and grandmother
rocks in her chair, and both say that
they did not become dwarfed by
following the simple rule of eating
what they found on their plates
without thought of chemical mys?
teries. But though conservative,
grandfather and grandmother are
intelligent nnd give due weight to
the statement that the average hu?
man life has been lengthened ten
years by the scientists.
Women Debaters' Topics
Questions About To Be Discussed
by National Organizations
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I think the following questions
to be debated ?luring: the first two
weeks of January by representatives
of the larp;e national women's organ?
izations of the country meeting in
Washington might interest your read?
ers. Indeed similar debates might
well be held throughout the country.
1. Will the American valuation
plan of the Fordncy tariff bill tend to
skyrocket the price of household
poods at a time when wages are fall?
ing, thereby working unnecessary
hardship on the American consumer?
The idea i ?? to place the tariff not as
formerly on the foreign price of the j
?roods but on the American price.
2. Shall the women's organizations
favoring a separate department of ed?
ucation accept a department of educa?
tion and welfare, with education as
one division, as a step toward their
goal, remembering that commerce and
labor started as one and eeparated,
and believing that If education and
public health start together they will
be found too big for one bed and will
ultimately becomo two distinct depart?
ments?
3. Shall prohibition officials be
] laced under civil service? If so, ?hall
there be for them a specially guarded
law, one thai does not make it neces?
sary that a man entering the service
has a pa:-t police experience, as to de?
mand this experience might cut out
from service many excellent officials?
4. Will the proposed blanket amend?
ment of the National Woman's party
calling for the removal of all civil,
legal and political disabilities duo to
se;; or marriage, do inoro good than
harm? It will give su (frage to our
overseas possessions, remedy many
unfair marriage, probate and jruardian
ship laws, but at the same time it is
feared that it may upset industrial
welfare legislation, eight hour law,
etc., as such laws have been upheld by
the courts on tho ground that women
have disabilities. The Boston Asso?
ciative Charities is asking lawyers of
various charity organizations to state
what effect these stale and national
bills will have on legislation being
used by welfare organizations.
Recommendations from the sub-com?
mittee on prohibition of the woman's
joint Congressional committee will be
discussed by various national boards
favoring law enforcement, calling for
jail sentences for the rum-runner and
tho bootlegger, on the ground that the
law of the land shall be observed; and
all organizations interested in physical
education are ns1Kod to make a drive
for tho Fess-Capper physical education
bill. ELIZABETH TILDEN,
Legislative Chairman Congress of
Mothers.
Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 26, 1921.
Prohibition's Temperate Foes
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Failure to understand and re?
spond to the psychology of the pro?
hibition problem is responsible for the
scries of disasters that have attended
all past attempts to remove this ex?
crescence from the body politic. Not
until the anti-prohibition forces recog?
nize the vital fact, that the liquor evil,
past, present and future, is of equal
importance with the evils of prohibi?
tion will they make any headway in
the direction of "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness."
If we expect to right a wrong we
must be sure that we are not in the
wrong ourselves. We must not leave
the work for temperance in tho hands
of fanatics and those whose sole in?
terest is the profit, political and other?
wise, to be gained by masquerading as
the friends of temperance and Who
know not what that word means.
A few active, intelligent and red
blooded Americans with the courage ef
their convictions, having a well defined
objective of a practical nature, will
accomplish more in the way of a sane
and safo solution of the prohibition
problem than all of the half-hearted,
who are content to sign their names
to a protest against prohibition and
j let it go at that. D. R. BROWNE.
New York, Dec. 26, 1921.
The Glories of Italy
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Maurice Broceo, the bicycle
rider, although of Italian parentage,
j proclaims himseif a Frenchman and
I wants any credit of his victories to be
j given to France and not to Italy. I
would like Mr. Broceo to know that
? the glories of Italy are not the races
j that he has won, but the genius of her
| greatest sons?of Colombo, Danta,
j Galileo, Michael Angelo, Raffaele, Verdi,
Marconi and others. If Mr. Broceo de?
sires to bc French France can have him
NICHOLAS ARNONE.
New York, Doc. 24, 1921.
j
Out of Joint
(from The Toledo Blatle)
Mr. H. G. Wells admits the failures
and defects of the League of Nations.
He points out the shortcomings of the
Washington Conference for the Limita?
tion of Armament. So another con?
ference, congress or meeting must be
held shortly. For, as wc all know, Mr.
Wells must be pleased, lie lias shown
us that a world which does not conform
to the pattern he has drawn must in?
evitably drop out of its placo in the
solar system and become a hopeless,
bedraggled tramp iu the dark vastness
of the skie?.
The Tower
Christmas Greetings f?M* 1928
There was a man in our town
And he was wondrous wise;
Ha said he'd never send a Christmas
Card to any guys.
But when he opened up hia mail
From many friends and cousins,
He jumped Into a stationery Bhop
And sent out several dozens.
Before knowing what the Attorney
General thinks about Debs, it is neces?
sary to know his definition of certain
words. What if* Mr. Daugherty's idea,
for example, of usefulness? "I hope,"
ho says, "ho may direct his talents to
a useful purpose." Why not have said
"to what I consider a useful purpose"?
For surely the talents of Mr. Debs will
bo directed to what Mr. Debs calls a
useful purpose.
And Mr. Daugherty speaks of Debs
as "pursuing a theory erroneous in
principle." la it? Has Mr. Daugherty
a right to assert that is erroneous?
Has Mr. Debs a right to say it is a cor?
rect theory? There are few ,/ords that
mean the same thing to two persons;
which is one of the things that make
writing a hard job. For even when a
writer knows what he means, which is
not always, and even when he says
what he means, which ?s less frequent?
ly, no reader can go through a season
with a perfect fielding average.
Anaconda 1'apcrN Please Copy These
Memoranda
Sir: A bets B that Uganda has more
strategic value as a naval 1 ase than
Agenda. Which wins? MEL.
We string along with J. S. W., who
sets forth that cornbelters say Hewa
ton Street and seaboarders say House
ton, Tex. Our first visit in New York
was made to the Pack office, HoHBton
and (then) Mulberry streets. We asked
the conductor to tell us when we
reached Hewston Street. . . . He
never did.
Dail Paragraph Withdrawn
F. P. A.: Greatly puzzled by your
paragraph about Mr. I.lord George, said
to have hit the Dail on the head. Em?
ploying the hypothesis that you sought
a fair mental transference, as Bau?
douin would put it, of the word "Dail"
only leads one into the blind alley of
supposing that you have mistaken the
pronunciation of "Dail." . . . Not
long ago I had dinner with the Lord
Mayor of Dublin ( editor:; sometimes sec
a bit of life). The Dail was discussed.
William Hard, who was present a$d
had just returned from Ireland, pro?
nounced it to rhyme with oil. The
Lord Mayor, however, said it different?
ly. I don't know, doubtless you do,
what English word will rhyme, but
there are plainly almost two syllables,
and if you will bring yourself to say
"G?raldine Parrar sang fa ill," running
the last two words together, you will
pessess a rough plan of a rhyme, with
"Dail." It may be good enough for
practical purposes to say d.?yle, that
sounds Irish, hut. I believe nobody can
say dale to rhyme with ale and nail
without getting into much to be avoided
serious trouble with the sons of the
Republic of Ireland. CARL HOVEY,
"My dear, these are Tecla Pearls,"
says the advertisement, whose writer
apparently is a student of Lardner's
Ringllsh Grammar, "but nobody knows
it but you and I."
And What About the Cop at. the Corner
of the Quay and Elizabeth Street,
Hobart, Tasmania?
I want the world to know that I don't
have to nominate New York or
Connecticut cops for any roll of
honor.
I've traveled, too.
Listen to this:
On the Quay in Hobart, opposite Kan?
garoo Point, where tho Derwcnt
River is at ita widest, O'May's
ferry boats slip in and out.
And that is where- the New Zealand j
boats tie up, too, on their way to
and from Dunedin.
The traffic on Elizabeth Street Is ter?
rific at that point.
Sometimes as many as ten thousand
people, including vehicular pas?
sengers, pass in three weeks.
And I'll bet
That if Ilobart had any noed for a
traffic cop at that lively corner,
he'd be a dandy. P. W.
It's an old wheeze, pulled many years
ago In this Turret of Truculence, and
maybe Mr. Damon Runyon wants It re
jerked. He suggests, In The American,
that Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., buy the
Philadelphia Nationals. And call 'em
"Tho Phillies of 1922"? -
A botanist, for instance, may concen?
trate hi3 attention so exclusively upon
questions of taxonomy that it might j
be said of him?
A primrose by the river's brim
Primula flava was to him,
And it was nothing more.
?From "Scienco from the Side
Lines," by Edwin E. Slosson, in
the January Century.
A primrose by a river's brim
Primula vulgaris was to him,
And it was nothing more.
?From "The Amateur Botanist," in
"Tobogganing on Parnassus" (1910).
Mr. Slosson's memory is at fault in
quoting Wordsworth, who didn't say
"the river's brim."
Non-sequitur, offered by Carl Van
j Vechten, from "The Pussy-Cats of
( Paris," in Vogue:
"For some unexplainable reason, 1
| cats rarely are to be met with in '
Parisian drawing-rooms. . . , 'Of j
course, I adore the pretty creatures,'j
says Madame, 'but I will not allow
them to claw tho furniture.' "
For membership in the Mrs. Harria
Club: A theatrical manager who said
he was going to quit the show busi?
ness, and quit it.
Nor must the Motorists' Freud be
fcrgotten. Old Wally Eaton has a
friend with an Inferiority Simplex, nnd
another who is decidedly super-sixual.
And we have one with a brand
Neurosis. F. P. A.
ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY
Copyright, 1121. N?w York Tribun? lu?.
Sometimes it takes a long while to iron out eren little domestic questions
And even our time honored judiciary are unable to settle everything at once
Can't finish up everything in six weeks
The Restless Near East
Situation Has Escaped From the Policy) Underlying the Treaty
of Sevres?Bolshevist Complications
(From Th? London Times)
The Allied foreign ministers are tak?
ing timo for reflection before meeting
to discuss the Near Eastern problem.
Reflection is certainly needed. The
situation in the Near East has long
since escaped from the policy or poli?
cies once framed by the Allies. The
Treaty of S?vres is as valuable for
present purposes as the Treaty of Kai
nardji. The appearances or illusions
on which the treaty was based have
vanished. There must be. no playing
with illusions now, since the realities
are ugly, complex and dangerous. For
lack of a genuino working policy the
Allies have been forced by tho pressure
of events into divergent paths, to the
great detriment of all. It is well that
they have decided to take counsel to?
gether, and it may bo hoped that in the
end they will agree on a policy that
will insure peace. But It must be ad?
mitted that the difficulties are all tho
greater because of the mistakes of the
past.
Our own government, no doubt, will
give, in framing their policy, due
consideration to the susceptibilities of
the Indian Mussulmans. They will also,
we hope, realize the imperative neces?
sity of bringing about the evacuation
of Asia Minor by the Greeks, apart
from which there can be no peace. Nor
is anything to be gained by suggesting
as a compromise the grant of some
kind of autorwmy to Smyrna, with a
Greek administration. However we may
meet the obligations we have incurred
to the Greeks by encouraging their
Asiatic ambitions, the cost of allowing
them to remain on Anatolian territory
will be too great for them and for us.
It goes without saying that the security
of the Christian population must be
guaranteed, and it may be necessary
for the purpose, as was recently sug?
gested in our columns, to provide for a
temporary occupation of the Smyrna
region by the Allies.
The Turkish Factor
Such steps as these, however, are the
merest preliminaries to peacemaking.
A great difficulty lies in the uncertain?
ty and elusivenesa of the Turkish fac?
tor. The Greek advance has given the
Turks an appearance of unity, and it is
with Mustapha Kemal, as representing
the strongest element of Turkish- re?
sistance, that the Allies will have first
of all to deal. Mustapha Kemal will no
doubt retain a considerable prestige
whatever happens, but the opening o?
peace negotiations will reveal certain
inconsistencies and irregularities in
his position. He ia not the Caliph in
whoSfe name agitators have cried aloud
for ?upport for the Kemalist cause
throughout the Mahometan East. It is
the Sultan of Turkey who is looked up
to as Caliph by the majority of
Mahometans, and the Sultan, his en?
tourage and a great many Turks who
acknowledge his authority are antago?
nistic to the Kemalists. The Sultan is
in Constantinople, and the theory put
forward by the agitators is that ho is
a prisoner of the Allies, which is un
tru*. At any rate, th? relations be?
I tween the Sultan and Mustapha Kemal
! will have to be readjusted before the
j Ottoman state can be regularly re
i established as the result of peace.
A further difficulty lies in the very
complicated relations that subsist be?
tween Mustapha Kemal and the Rus?
sian Bolshevists. There is not the
slightest reason to suppose that the
Kemalists are in any sense Commu?
nists, though a peculiar brand of Turk?
ish Bolshevism has been evolved, un?
der the name of "The Green Apple," by
some enthusiastic young pan-Turani?
ans. Mustapha Kemal, however, cut
off from the West, has been compelled
to make terms with the Bolshevists
who havo supported him as an ally in
their attack on the West. They sup?
port him in his extreme nationalist de?
mands. They may easily withdraw
their support if he modifies his claims
and so alienates his more violent fol?
lowers, or if he actually comes to terms
with the Allies. One result of the con?
clusion of the agreement with France
has been apparently to create trouble
in the Kemalist rear.
Pressure From Moscow
The nominal Independence of the Cau?
casian Soviet republics has been abol?
ished, and Moscow is preparing to es?
tablish a strong front against Anatolia
in order to exercise pressure to prevent
any Turkish agreement with the Allies.
Enver Pasha, who has made himself a
tool of the Bolshevists, is reported by
our Constantinople correspondent to be
raising troops in Daghestan, with the
object of stimulating Mustapha Kemal
to continued resistance by threatening
him with revolt if ha yields. What?
ever may be said of the Bolshevists'
enforced return to capitalist methods
and their desire to establish normal
relations with Western capitalism, they
are still actively fomenting nnrest in
the East, and are evidently determined
to use every means to render impossi?
ble the conclusion of peace between
the Western nations and Turkey.
Their own demand for a full peace
with the Western powers 1b vitiated
by their stubborn persistence in dis?
ruptive propaganda and in the provo?
cation of the Eastern peoples. In the
Near East, at any rate, the only course
for the Allies is to test the situation
by Jointly offering to Mustapha Kemal
terms of peace to which he may rea?
sonably be expected to agree. This will
i be at least a beginning of progress out
of the present miserable deadlock.
The Razor a Progress
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In looking over an album of
2,337 photographs of New Yorkers
prominent in 1900 I counted 637 wear?
ing full beards, showing that beards
were the vogue in 1D0O in the profes?
sions and in business. But to-day the
only United States Senator with a full
beard is Lodge, and he was in tho Sen?
ate in 1900. He sticks to the old style
REPUBLICAN.
I New York, Dec. 27. 1921.
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
The Romance of the Sea
"Sailor," sai? t, t ) me sun
browned lad
With the mariner's roiling gait,
"What glorious cruises you must
have had
From Opoi-to to Behring Strait!
You have seen the flying fish
skim the foam
Where the Gulf Stream rip?
pled blue,
And the cachalots spout in th?
darkening gloam
(As I've read that they often
do).
Tell me of every thrilling cruise,
Talk of the life you've led-?"
"The movies was go'-d down te
Newport News?
None better," the sailor said.
"But, sailor," I cried, "you have
seen whole fleets
Of the Portuguese Men or
War,
You have heard the whine of th?
brine-wet sheets
As you beat off a leeward
?shore;
You have cleft a track through
the green sea moss
While it clung to your rusty
prow,
You nave glimpsed the gleam of
the Southern Cross
As it rose on the starloard
bCrW.
From Pi Chi Li to Matanzas Bay
You have breasted the rolling
tide-"
"There's plenty o' hootch down
Havana way?
Swell Hcker," the tar replied.
"But what of the equatorial sun
To the sou' sou' west of Spain,
And the desperate time when the
ejpindrift spun
In the terrible hurricaneT
What of the calms, when you
tossed for days,
With never a breath of breeze,
And nothing at all to attract the
gaz?
But a desert of empty eta?"
Yon have dropped your anchor
In bights and sounds
From Brest to Van Dlemen's
Land-"
"I seen Babe Ruth at the Polo
Grounds,"
Said the sailor, "the blighter
fanned!"
Wo Miss 'Em
We hope they win end the confer?
ence to a few weeks, so Mr. Well? can
go back to writing novels.
Like the Old-Fash.oned Kind
The Open Door m China appear? ta
have a wait attached to it.
Sign for the Dublin-Ulster Pow
Wow ,
"Monkey Business As Usoal.'*
(Ccpyrlg-ht by James J. Montai"?)
Reparations
To the Editor of The Tribuna,
Sir: A headline in to-da/N TribV
calls the bill for reparations an inda??
nity. Part of the plan for M"aMv?f
payment for the damagj d^n? by tt?
German army (largely calculated *?
ruin the French inda.-.tries) ia to rr.%**
people forget that ir.de;c:utJe? wer*
w?t.'od and only reia^H'.tcn?* asked.
S. H. P. PELL
Ksw York, Dee. 34, It*!. J