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New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
What the Campus caches
Mere Book Learning Held of Little
Use by Comparison

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: l have read your editorial on
"Ihc Game of Going to College" and
also the accompanying letter ancnt
Bright College Years." signed by a
Harvard senior. Perhaps you would
not be averse to allowing n Columbia
man to contribute few sidelights on
this question.
AS any one who is in position to
know will testify, the value of col
lege education lies not in what is
learned in the classroom so much as
in what is learned on the campus. The
pure book knowledge gathered in col
lcge is of little use to a man, for he
can learn as much from reading for
himself. But on the campus he learns
teamwork and cooperation and the
value thereof. He learns the princi
Piles and value Of fair play, the square
deal and craftsmanship. And these
are assets which will carry him far
in after life.
Frederick P. Keppel, formerly Dean
Of Columbia College, later Assistant
Secretary Of War and, in my humble
opinion, one Of the most brilliant men
IN the country to-day, said to NE when
l was a lowly freshman, trying for a
team managcrship, that he would
rather see a man take five years to
flnlsh his course and be a decent citi-
zen of the university, taking part in
all its problems and activities. And
he ought to know. Nobody can saw
Columbia men neglect their studies.
Her graduates stand as high as any,
and higher than most. But to be a
good student one does not have to
be a grind" and neglect his college
life, as your editorial would seem to
indicate. Remember, there are such
things as "eligibility rules" for the
athletes and others who take part in
any other phase of college activity.
AS for college leaders coming from
private schools, most emphaticallv
take exception to "a Harvard Gradu-
ate" OF this point The great maior;tv
OF our college leaders are from the
pubic schools of New York City and
vicinity. We turn out just as good
leaders as does Harvard, too He cites
specific cases, of course. AS a matter
OF fact, the public school boy on the
average is every bit as we'll educated
as the boy from the private institution.
In passing | might say that I myself
am graduate of very we'll known
private school in New Jersey. The
test Of leadership rests with the ability
of the man--not the curriculum of his
prep school.
Men do not 60 to college to loaf. as
some think, nor do they 90 to grind,
as others would have it. They 20 10
be made into good citizens. with all
around mental development and a
broad outlook on life, and in nine cases
out OF ten succeed. OF course. there
are failures, but there are executions
TO every rule. and those failures need
not blame their oollege--the fault in
most cases lies with themselves.
WILLIAM NEWMAN CHEW
Columbia University, 1918.
Brooklyn. n. T., Dec IS, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
Christmas and Armenia

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
sly: Considering what it wonld
mean to the starving and freezjno
people Of the Near East. | venture "a
propose plan which might net an
immense sum for their benefit. If on
this coming Christmas Day. little
savings bank or other reccptacle wore
placed on every festive board in the
country and into which every member
OF the family and every guest was
asked to put 10 cents for the relief of
these freezing and starving people an
enormous sum would be realized at the
expense of little thought only.
Surely no hostess need be embar-
rassed in asking a 1O-cent donation 70
such an object. The money thus col.
lected should be sent direct to the
American Committee for Armenian and
Syrian Relief, l Madison Avenue Now
York, Mr.. Cleveland H. Dodge, treas
urer.
New York, Dec 10, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
speare, Titus Andronicus," Act

Scene /.
"Run, 0 rum" "To who, my lord ~
king Lear Act 5, Scene 8.
whats the matter with my lord ?"
with who ?"-"Othello," ACT 4, Scene ?.
yield thee, thief" "To who ?"-
"Cymbeline," Act 4, Scene g.
And our dear old friend Charles
Kingsley: "Who have you there ?''-
"Hypatia"
The pedagogue and the purist may
try to restrict the language to grammat-
zeal rules, even as simple speller would
like to simplify the spelling according
to his dicta, but the language
Will have none of it. Not so many
moons have passed since my good
friend Professor Lounsbury presented
a strong defense for at is me-" and,
while am no prophet, | feel in nv
bones that whom" is going to kick over
the traces OF its grammatical harness
and rejoice in it's violations of the
canons Of our speech. impelled thereby
by the genius of the language.
Our speech is not to be measured bv
a yardstick, nor is it to be confined in
pint pot. Man spoke long before
grammar was codified, and. therefore.
conclusively showed that he had no
need of it, and when I look back over
the foregoing l am impelled to ask,
mere Is the man who does not hone
some day to see his English rank with
that OF Shakespeare and Milton, of the
scholarly translators of the Bible. who
labored for the most high and mighty
Prince James, by the grace of God
King Of Great Britain, France and Ire
land; and of Dryden, Montgomery
Kingsley and William Ewart Glad
stone? Usage makes English what it
ls-the most flexible and the most ex-
presslVe language in the world; the
crotchety grammarian would like to
make 1t what it ought to be. according
to his horizon, that seldom extends be.
yond the tip Of his nose.
"Quem Deus vuir perdere prjus de-
mentat," which is commonly translated
"Whom God would destroy He FIRST
makes mad"
FRANK II. VIZETELIY.
New York. Dec. 20, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
Rolshevizing Islam

Arousing the Moslem millions of
the Near and Middle East against
the Western world proved to be a
task beyond the powers of the Ger
man military leaders and their
Young Turk accomplices. The heri-
tage of their failure, however, does
not seem to discourage the war lords
of Moscow, who now are trying to
work up their own brand of holv
war among the Turkish-Tartar
tribes Of Caucasia and Turkestan,
as we'll as in Persia and Afghanis-
tan. In the latter country the soil
was prepared for Trotzky's agents
by the Turkish-German War Mis-
sion led by Reouf Bey, whose efforts
bore a belated fruit in the Afghan
attack on the Indian frontier last
summer.
An Afghan Embassy is now in
Moscow negotiating an alliance be-
tween their country and RED" Rus
STA, combination which may be-
come very dangerous for the safety
of the Indian Empire, and a Turkish
emissary, Nazim Beg, is at Tash-
kent, in Turkestan, apparently work.
ing the Turkish Nationalist, Pan
Turanian end of the game. In
Persia, again, an envoy of the Cau-
casian Tartars, Hadji Baba, is stir
ring up trouble among the mountain
trbesmen in the Azerbil district,
just south of the Caspian.
One of the avowed aims of this
movement is to bring about what is
called a Pan-Islamic Democratic
Union. and pressure has been ex-
erted upon the Persian government
and the powerful Emir Of Bokhara
to join the combination. The link
between ths Moslem states Of tba
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which all men are subject, is re-
strained neither by competition nor
by law from levying toll at will.
Two Ships

1t is a picturesque coincidence that
the ark Of the Soviet should be leav-
ing these shores almost on the ami
versary of that first landing on
Cape Cod, now almost 800 years
distant. The facts are in all things
utterly reversed. The PROV points
eastward now; there is no willing
adventure in fervent hope; the
voyage is the end of a volume, not
the beginning; the emotions Are
those of failure, hatred and despair.
On the other hand, the deporta-
ton of these aliens, anti-state in
their faith and their purpose, is
clearly in keeping with the spirit
which ruled the cabin of the May
flower. The words of that great
basic compact, signed November
II, 1920, two days after the ship
first dropped anchor, come to mind.
They are worth quoting for their
sonorous beauty, and more for their
provision of that structure of order
and equal law, Of a state constituted
by its members, to the building of
which each succeeding generation
of Americans has contributed, and
to the utter destruction of which
by violence every passenger on the
ship which has just left our shores
was pledged. The signatories of
"The Mayfower Compact"
"Do by these presents, solemnly
and mutually, in the presence of God
and of one another, covenant and
combine ourselves together into
civil body polite for our better
ordering and preservation, and by
virtue hereof to enact, constitute
and frame just and equal laws, ordi-
nances, acts, constitutions and Offices
from time to time as shall be
thought most mete and convenient
for the general good of the colony;
unto which we promise all due sub
mission and obedience"
Here is the fundamental basis
of our America as it was later
crystallized in our Constitution,
ordained and established by "the
people Of the United States" There
is the conception of law subscribed
to by all; there is the conception
Of law created by all. Here was
a political conception of the utmost
clarity and justice and simplicity.
No wonder that the spirit has per-
sisted through three centuries!
Is there room for the avowed
anarchist in such state of mutual
trust and covenant? Unquestion-
ably not. The boatload of lawless-
ness and violence and rebellion
which has now sailed away has no
place in a nation whose foundation
was law and whose guiding spirit is
mutual agreement and consent.
They have gone where they belong,
to backward nation, experiment.
ing with liberty for the first time
and knowing not the only practi-
cable way to use and preserve it,
under law, created and respected
by all men,
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
The Soldier Dead
Many Parents Wish Bodies
Returned at Once
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Permit ne to contradict some
of the statements claimed to have been
made by General O'Ryan es published
in your issue of December l3 and 10
object to the impression such an art-
Gle is apt to create.
If General O'Ryan has any doubt as
to the wishes of the bereevcd parents
whose sons are buried in France, he
can ascertain from the Adjutanr Gen
erals Office at Washington the follow
ing facts, which are a.so part Of the
public hearing before the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, House o Repre-
sentatives, held October %:
"Of the $4,000 parent who were no.i-
fed or requested to send in an *
preston OF their wishes in this nat
ter. all but 5000 replied, and Of that
number II per cent were in favor Of
bringing the bodies home There is
strong reliance on the part Of parents
of soldiers who were killed IN France,
on the promise of the War Department
TO bring the bodies Of those soldiers
home, and the parents will be incOn-
solable If those bodies are not brought
back"
The general also refers to the neces-
sity Of our dead soldiers remaining in
france as a guarantee OF future cor
dial relations, but if the relations be-
tween France and America depend on
retaining our sacred dead, It must be
very poor relationship that needs that
kind of reminder to impress it with
the obligation owed to this country.
The opinion that the soldiers be al
lowed to rest where they died is Of
little weight when 1t is known that at
least 25,o0o, or one-third have already
been removed from where they fell and
rebured IN centralized cemetery.
1t is regrettable that General
. Ryan's questioning of parents should
have been confined to the exception
and not the majority. or 1000. who
have already officially fled their re-
quest with the government TO have
their boys returned. If there is any
doubt as to the wishes or the inten-
tens OF the parents on this subject,
short talk with any member OF the
Committee on Foreign Affairs at Wash
ington Will convince the inquirer Of
the true situation.
Not only have these parents fled
their request. but associations are be
ing formed throughout the country
slch as Bring uome the Solder Dead
League of PITTSBURGH. aaa delegations
from other associations OF Richmond
Va, have gone 70 Washington % plead
with the officials 10 carry ont ihe'r
wishes
From the agitation that is nov gong
on II is very evident that the parents
are insisting most strenuous.y and
actively. Every boy went TO France
with the promise OF the government
about his neck or his arm that his
body would be brought back, and me
time to redeem this promise - now
while the government is winding up
the war and still controls the necessary
funds and shipping.
A. r. POUCb.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
Burr-Ha1nilton

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Pardon the delay in nv protest.
In your December IL issue. under the
caption Burr, Hamilton Banks Merged -
you mention the Two famous diehsts
Without wishing to unearth old bones
that time has turned 20 dust. NAV i nor
as our President says point out ths,t Won
have indirectly eulogized Burr in YOUR
last paragraph? Please understand
that my interest is purely historical
not commercial.
Hamilton was the greatest banking
theorist OF his time. while Burr was IT.
tie more than a jealous intellectual
scalawag
Shortly" before going to his death
Hamilton wrote that he intended to
waste his shot. He foresaw his doom
and after the affair his first words on
regalnlng consciousness were a warn
ing that his piece was still loaded and
cooked tie was unaware that he had
discharged it after receiving the mortal
wound Burr. always Hamilton's Jealous
opponent, sought the quarrel by asking
retraction of some of Hamilton's pub
lished statements.
ny Hamilton's death the country lost
one OF the intellectual phenomena Of his
tory, figure to whom we NAV look
and offer thanks that we exist as a
United States. In the reconstruction
period directly following the Revolution
ne was the originating power that
brought order out of chaos.
c.. H. DICKINSON.
East Orange, N.sJ., Dec. 16, 1919.
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'Fro'n The MiNlaAfeF S14'lflp
1t appears from the dispatches thss
various organizations are at work e1~
iectlng data TO solve the problems OK
Unrest, and We sometimes wonder m
vague sort of way il it wouldn't be
possible to dispense with few data
and substitute little plain horse
sense once in a while.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
For the McAuley Mission

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
o'r: Our treasurer's report shows a
deficit of nearly S4oO, a fact we desire
TO impress upon our friends. We are
planning for our usual Christmas dim
ner, and will appreciate any gifts tow
ard this fund, the general fund or the
food and shelter fund. Please make
checks payable to the treasurer and
specify which fund you wish your gift
applied to. JOHN II WyRIrpN
Superintendent McAuley Mission.
New York, Dec. 16, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

Prices of the necessaries of life
went up again in November, accord
ing to a Labor Department report.
1t would be cruelty, however, to
call Attorney General Palmer's at
tention to this fact.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

The consciousness of senescence
weights US down. In our mind, DR..
Garfeld's chief claim to distinction is
that he is the son of the man who
added new demonstration of the
hypothenuse theorem; and we never
think of the Chief of Staff of the
United States Army without the
realization that he is the son of the
man who compiled March's Thesaurus,
What. If any. do you make of that,
pr. Freud?
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
Sovietized

path it has travelled.
Prior to October, 1917, the btu
minous coal industry was conducted
in the main as other industries were
The operators were in nominal con-
troll but under the eye of watchful
government ready to apply the anti
trust act against monopolistic COM
bination. Confronting the operators
was labor organization which had
in it's membership part of the
miners. The public deemed itself
protected from extortion by the
competition among operators, by the
rivalry of operators and miners, by
the competition among miners for
jobs and among districts for bust
ness.
The Administration, to meet war
exigencies, thought it more conven-
lent to deal with the operators and
miners as units. So the Sherman law
was practically suspended and the
officers of the miners union were
accepted as spokesmen of all miners,
thus driving practically all miners
into the union.
With matters so arranged, the Ad-
ministration came in control. 1t
fixed wages and working conditions
and also fixed the prices the opera
tors might charge for coal. There
was, in effect, temporary nationaliza-
ton of the bituminous coal industry
In September this year the miners,
repudiating their agreement to work
until next April, demanded fur
ther 60 per cent increase in wages
and 30-hour week. When the Ad-
ministration called on them to re-
spect their bargain the miners re-
piled they would not, and struck.
Then the Administration, on the
ground that the strike was illegal,
applied for and secured an iniunc-
ton, which was ignored.
The union again came to Wash
ingtcn, and Fuel Administrator Gar
field, waving the point that a bar
gain was bargain, declared that an
increase of ID per cent, plus the in
creases already granted, would COM
pensate for the increase in the cost
Of living. Once more the miners
refused.
Then, Attorney General Palmer,
changing terms again, said that the
Ia per cent increase in wages would
be Immediately granted and that a
commission would be appointed to
consider how much more, if any,
thing. should be given. This the
miners accepted, and went back to
work.
The bituminous coal industry is no
longer nationalized, with control
with the government. 1t is more
accurate to say it is sovietized; con-
troll is not with the owners or the
operators or the government. but
with the 100000 miners, subject
only to such regulation as they are
willing to accept from the coal COM
mission. If the commission adjudi-
cation does not suit them they can
quit again. A monopolistic combina
tion, by decreeing another cessation
of production, can secure whatever
wages and working conditions are
pleasing to it, the burden of paying
the bill being automatically trans
ferred to the public. The operators
are without authority. Of their
former estate the greater part is
transferred to the organized miners
and the little remaining is with the
Administration.
1t is we'll to have a clear under
standing of what has occurred, and
to look through the superficialities of
the controversy to the bigger things
below. The country confronts con-
dition wherein monopolistic group,
moved i the selfish influences to
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

The Contribs' Dinner is society
function over which we have no juris
diction; so those who want to know
about It should telephone not us, but
Mr. Norre Ryskind, Famous Players,
4S5 Fifth Avenue. As to the dinner it.
self, we are not concerned with it, two
being the maximum number for q ban
quet TO be enioNed.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to tho
for republication Of all dispatches credited
10 1t or not otherwise credited In this paper. and
also tho local Of spon aneous origin published
herein.
All rights Of republication OF all other matter
herein also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

10 S. s., who has a bottle of Sauterns
(lue- mi por es8e des videtur)
Peer of a god I'd seem to be:
Nay. gods themselves might envy me-
Sitting beside Sauterne and thee
Dutcs bibente,n e NJ -
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The Press AGENTS AIDA

Sir: John they has not overlooked VIM.
DanAth who cavorts comcally in the Gilbert
and Sullivan excellent comic opera revivals
at the Park theatre nightly and .;.,
matinee Xmas. I.sav
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

If, more than another, there is an
author who unseats Black Care perch
ing at the horseman's back, it is Cal
verley. When the heart of the world
stings and aches beyond endurance,
read Calverley.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

Tomorrow Christmas Shopping Day,
Welcome to Our Store. Eugene L. Vos-
bury, Funeral Director Scranton Re-
publican
Mortuary frankness is the order of
the day.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

what do you think it is" he asked.
who do you think it is, you mean"
Very we'll, only the word is whom e."
Mrs. Haverford ignored this.-From
Dangerous Days" p. 80.
Mrs. Haverford was right.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

No. 2876 of the American Credo ::
That cigars that women give you at
Christmas are never any good.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

Have you Calverley?" we asked at
Duttons. "Who wrote it?" asked the
clerk. But at Scribner's the clerk
said: "Charles Stuart" "None other"
we said. "Well." commented the at
tendant, "Tll look all over the store.
I'd like to read 1T Is Railway Pas
senger again
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

We should like Mr.. Charles Edward
Carryl, if he has time, to write the
rhymed log Of the Buford. 1t should
begin, of course, "A radical ship for an
ocean trip"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

You can purchase merchandise ADVERTISED 10 TIE
TRIBUNE with absolute safesy-for II dissatisfac
tisn results in any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
to pay your money back upon request. NJ red tape.
No auhbiIns. We make good promptly u the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

1t will be white ribbon Christina,
at any rate 4 FpA
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
The Coming 7ower
The Circulation Of the Blood

When I read these PONIES in The Tower,
Written by teachers and college pro-
fessors
Who are embarrassed by the Fl. c. Of L.,
1t makes me laugh.
Sometimes my laugh is sympathetic;
sometimes scornful.
I, too, am college teacher;
l handle Red Blooded young men and
women at Columbia
And I am also somewhat Of Banker.
Yet neither the desire to marry some
Ruth"
Nor the inadequate compensation derived
from teaching,
Drove me into Banking.
But it was primarily my disgust In
being forever
Compelled to listen to the talk and ideas
OF so-called "Weak- Sisters"
Even now every evening when Virginia
And I dine at club where the faculty
congregate.
My wife often remarks, "Look at that
assemblage Of sisters
Who doubtless are discussing English
Philology
Or whether Chaucer wore a Green
Or Red tie at Breakfast"
Then / laugh q scornful laugh,
And when she points to another table
Where are seated professors emeriti
Who are bald and emaciated and forlorn
looking,
remark, "Red Blood is for business in
this century;
But what a pity" H. G. f.
Radcalism is comparative. If 10000
"Reds" are deported, there will be
$4,000 others, who, now only mild
and innocuous pink, will take on what
looks like a carmine hue. Carrying
this out to the nth power, there will
be left in this country only conserva-
tives like you, treasured reader, and
ourself. And we shall probably then
have to get rid of you.
1t is easy to imagine the Reds on The
Buford disporting themselves in the
seclusion that cabin grants. Playing
roulette, probably, and above all the
voice Of Miss Goldman, "a thousand on
the red!"
We should like Mr. Charles Edward
Carryl if he has time, to write the
begin, of course, "A radical ship for an
ocoon +rir, -
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
And, TO Make Us More Than Merry"

Sir: My only claim for n bid to the con-
tri5s' dinner was poor little hymn of hate
VIII a fas&-yes. a full one--be of any as
sistancc in getting me there?
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
ALSO

Dear F. P. A:
Will you not add the following to your
list Of Death Bed Instructions?
am dying. Egypt, dying.
Call up Eight Two Hundred Col.
When thoughts of the last bitter hour
Come like a blight over thy spirit, ETC.,
Go forth unto the telephone booth
And call up Columbus 5000.
GERTRUDE G.
Into the Valley of Death
Marched the Gallant Six Hundred,
Shouting aloud, they went:
Gail Columbus Eight Two Hundred
DR. BEnTHoLD A. BAEk
Alike for those who for To-day prepare
And those that after some Tomorrow stare
a Muezzn from the Tower of Darkness
cries.
Call Columbus 5000 (Dr. Baer)."
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

1t is easy to imagine the Reds on the
Buford disporting themselves in the
seclusion that cabin grants. Playing
roulette probably, and above all the
voice of Miss Goldman, "a thousand on
the red!"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
Long on Shortages

ffrom The Dstroit Journa)
Everything seems to be scarce except
shortages.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
GUARANTEE

Entered at the Postonlce At New York Second
Glass Mail Matter
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New York. Dee. Il. 1879.