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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30
George Eliot "Fans"

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: May be allowed to point out
slight insccurscy in your article on
George Eliot's centenary? Warwick
shire. not Derbyshire. is the county 70
claim the honor OF being George Eliot's
home. True she was born in Derby shire
but when she was quite young her father
became land agent Tor the Newdigates
whose home is at Arbury Hall CCheverel
Manor in Scenes from Clerical Life" ),
Just outside Nuneaton. Here the Evanses
lived in a very pretty cottage called
Grif House. on the Arbury estate. and
close to Chilvers Cotton fShoppertonl .
All the characters in her first book
were taken from life from people living
in and around Nuneaton (Milly). When
was . boy l often used to 60 and have
tea with an old lady. Mrs. Dewes. who
was . great friend Of Miss Evans, hav-
ing been at school with her at an es-
Enlistment in Vicarsge Lane. still con-
Quoted as a school by Miss Warrington.
My uncle, f. S. Clay, town clerk Of Nun
eaton, is in charge OF the centenary
celebrations.
must confess land I an afraid Nun
eaton Is not unique in this respect) that,
although I had . very large acquaint-
ance in that town, never recollect
..~;-. .cv - b.p knoLs u,h.vovsv 7
visited, and certainly there were no
Eliot fans" The general opinion
seemed to be tina. her books were not
mice" But this is fourteen years ago,
and perhaps Nuneaton sees the value
Of advertisement, il not seized with lit.
srsry zeal.
z. A. LEEDAM BENNETT.
New York, Nov. 20, 1919.
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The guiding principle for a State
Department is, of course, that, no
matter what happens to its nation
ais. it should not offend any other
nation. Our Mexican neighbors, for
example, are a high-spirited and
sensitive race, quick on the trigge,
(where an American is concerned,
that is-they are distinctly slower
when the target is a Briton), and
one cannot be too careful to avoid
stirring them up unnecessarily.
Therefore the language used in
the Wallace case seems to US the
height of successful and ingenious
diplomacy. 1.-The murder was un-
warranted" is the nice conclusion
reached. Murders of Americans
evidently fall into many grades.
Some are warranted. Is there any
score at all for these? We fancy
not. They are simply charged to
profit and loss and the heart Of the
world throbs on as usual. Unwar-
ranted murders are doubtless care
fully entered in the archives at
Washington. Once entered, we Won
der what becomes Of them.
Is there, perhaps, . limit! SO
many unwarranted murders, per
week, per month. per year? Rum
blings Of many typewriters at
Washington suggest that something
or other has been done in Mexico
that annoys or irritates-or, at
least, requires typewriter attention.
Probably the limit referred to has
been reached-or is in danger Of be-
ing reached.
Nine murders in one month was
the last figure we saw. Can 1t be
that this approaches the monthly
allotment graciously permitted to
our high-spirited neighbors? II 50,
they must be told plainly to 60 slow
with murders until the schedule has
been restored.
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Quite Unirnportant

LLOYD Georges reference to his
conversation with the President on
the subject of the so-called Bullitt
mission stimulates curiosity. Char
acterizing Mr.. Bullitt as "a young
fellow returned from Russia Mr..
Wilson suggested that he might have
Interesting views" But he eau
toned his English colleague mot to
attach too much importance to him.
The advice may have been excellent,
but il left out Of view the young
fellows" estimate of himself, as
Premier and President now sadly
know. When officially selected for a
confidential mission he swelled with
Importance, and when his advice was
ignored he burst from interior
pressure when he appeared before
the Foreign Relations Committee.
The case of Bullitt would be hard
" worth recalling in itself. But who
let the young fellow" loose at q
critical moment in postwar diplo-
macy? Tnc Presidents casual attl-
tude prompts the questions, How far
was an undisciplined host Of super
numeraries allowed to muddle things
at Paris generally? How many OF
the glaring plumbers made were the
consequence of advice as expert or
inexpert as Bullitt's? And how often
was a private tip given not to take
seriously the counsel Of earnest
highbrows who took themselves most
seriously?
Not only at Paris, but at home, the
President has seemed to turn TO
radicals for counsel. Has it been
cynically done, merely to compliment
those who might be politically use
full? Is the real Wilson the one
who wanted to knock Mr.. Bryan into
a cooked hat? In other instances
he has pigeonholed reports prepared
with much labor, writing on the
documents the note, Interesting, but
not important" An uncomfortable
feeling must steal into the minds OF
the members of the Administrations
radical annex.
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A Hundred Pipers
New York, Nov. IS, 1919.


To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: an prompted 10 write this let
ter By the realization OF remarkable
fact. A great and significant meeting
took place in the fist Regiment Armory
Wednesday evening. but. as far ss can
discover. not word appeared in the
newspapers to record the event. Verify.
how little do New Workers know wha,
Is going on in this big town.
I refer TO the festival OF the New
York Scottish. There is no trace OF
Scottish blood In me. but as surveyed
an audience OF some 5000 or 1000 per-
sons. representative either by birth or
descent OF that little nation with the
enviable history; as I listened TO the
stirring music Of the pipes and drums
and 10 the glorious old Scottish songs
rendered by such artists as Craig Camp
bell, Florence Mulholland and Edith
Scott Magma; ss ! gazed upon the
unique, picturesque and never-to-bc-for-
gotten spectacle Of "a hundred pipers
an a. an a." and as absorbed the
patriotic speeches Of Colonel Wells of
the fist Regiment and Colonel Walter
Scott OF the New York Scottish. my
somewhat calloused old New York heart
experienced rare thrill and gained
new appreciation OF an admirable ele-
ment in our citizenship.
II dawned upon me that quietly. calm
" and with no thought OF public recog-
milton these worthy people did their
generously full share in all the tasks
imposed by the warm contributing
men. money. WORK and spirit and that
they do present such a perfectly natural
and unstrained attitude OF single
hearted loyalty to the country Of their
adoption as TO command the deep re-
spect Of oil Americans. Let the loud
mouthed hyphenstes consider the Scots
and emulate the high example of good
citizenship which they have set.
W. A B
New York, Nov 81, 1919.
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The Meddling Stranger

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune expresses the
thought Of all law-abiding citizens
when it says that it "has no sympathy
with the despicable elements which try
TO make hard the lot Of the foreign
born" The foreigner who comes here
to improve himself. or to earn q better
livelihood, to lay aside something for
his old age, and In exchange for this
gives honest, earnest labor for 1t, has
perfect right to all that he has
earned, and should not be tainted and
ridiculed and ill-treated because OF
this.
But. on the other hand, "the alien
who comes here and while enjoying
the benefits Of American life seeks to
unset our institutions" should be pun
ished according to law. No alien
should be permitted to weaken the
foundations Of our republic. The Con-
stitution must be respected and pre-
served, because it is the safeguard OF
this nation.
An alien has no right whatsoever 10
do any act or deed by which the Con-
stitution may be injured. The citizens
only Of this noble land have the right
at the proper time and in an orderly
manner. to demand changes in our
Constitution. Would man allow
stranger to upset his house, interfere
in his domestic relations?
JOHN NAZZEl.
Me- Yoyk- Nav. n. 1919.
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To the Editor Of The Tribune.

Sir: You will probably receive thou
sand answers to your heading. what
Did Roosevelt Do?" for the enlighten-
ment Of Leon F. Chapman. Of Jersey
City, whose letter asking that question
appears in your paper this morning.
will, therefore, merely tell MI
Chapman one thing Roosevelt would
have done had he been in the White
House on May 7, 1915. when the Lusi-
tanis was sunk. There would not have
been any MAY not?" but redblooded
"You riu not, damn you." and the war
would certainly have come to an end
at least two years before it did.
The world, including its heart. would
be in an entirely different condition TO-
day. CLEVELAND DEMOCRAT.
New York. Nov. 20, 1919.
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To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter Of Leon F. Chapman
appearing in your issue of November 20
was sent me by a friend, anc take
great pleasure in attempting to give a
few Of the reasons why Theodore Roose-
welt is being "eulogized as America
greatest, and sometimes as the worlds
greatest, man"-since Mr.. Chapman
states his request is made from pure
" genuine desire for enlightenment
l. Because he was and is an example
and inspiration to young men every
where. He had faith that right would
eventually prevail, and due to this faith
he labored from the time he was mere
youth until he died, unswervingly, IN
seiishly for the right, "ss God gave him
the power TO see the right" He changed
himself from q sickly youth to q ma
tional. yes, even an international, exam
pie Of vigor and strenuousness, and
then used the self-scquired vigor
and strength in the cause OF JUS
tice in every walk Of life which he
trod. Before he died he lived TO see
the change come in politics, in business
and in public morals for which ne Ia
bored so long and so unselfshly. and we
who are living to-day. our children who
are not as yet OF understanding age,
and our unborn children and grandchiI-
dren will reap the benefits OF his IN
Auence and his work.
2. Because as loving and devoted
father and husband he preached and
practiced the highest standard OF pri-
vate morals. His life is, and will con-
tinue 20 be in this respect, an inspira-
ton to the head Of every home IN
America and Europe.
3. Because his was the earnest and
sincere voice that aroused America
from her selfish commercialism. her
neutrality even in thought until our
beloved country that he loved so whole
heartedly took its place on the side OF
right and justice In the recent war; and
he did this when preparedness and the
suggestion Of our going into the war
were unpopular, unpolitic and denounced
by the Administration then In power
Also. he led the fight for q genuine and
thoroughgoing participation in the war
after we declared war. when the Admin
istration was thanking God we were
unprepared" and dillydallying over our
preparstion. He did all this knowing
hi, own sons would be in the fighting
line, and he eagerly offered himself as
soldier.
4. Because he showed ststesrnanlike
foresight in anticipating crises in pub
lie affairs and preparing himself and his
country for them. and he did not wait
for crises to be precipitated before COM
mcncing TO prepare measures to avert
them.
II ia because Of these accomplishments
and many others too we'll known and
forming q list Of too great length to BE-
included herein. that he will for al
time be eulogized as 'the great Amer
can" THOKNION LEVI
Philadelphia, Nov. "a, 1919.
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defect Of the use OF sixteen separate

defect Of the use OF sixteen separate
cameras.
According TO Mr. Maeksye. Ls Prince
made moving" pictures early in 1856 or
late In 1885. but according 20 Mr.. lie
Princes son. the first pictures he ever
saw we're between January and April,
1888" This. IL will be remembered. was
subsequent to the date Of Mr.. Edison's
conception that il was possible 70 de-
wise an instrument which would do for
the eye what the photograph does for
the ear" The testimony Of the son also
confirms the statement OF the patent,
because he says that the transparencies
were fitted on metal belts which passed
over the drums, and which were flexible
enough TO prevent the cracking or twist
ing OF the films" On the fundamental
point that with the lie Prince device the
pictures would be taken from different
points Of view, the following testimony
is Of particular interest:
@. II series Of pictures be taken
BY q battery OF sixteen lens OF man
Resticulating IN front Of the camera the
position Of the man on the negatives will
vary slightly in the different pictures, will
IL not?
"A. Yes"
In conclusion. il seems 20 me that the
reference TO lie Prince does not affect in
any way the statements made in my
letter:
What was wanted was not the taking
Of separate pictures each from It's own
point OF view. but the taking OF many
Thousands Of pictures all from the same
point Of view. just a. . scene might be
looked At by the eye. And II was no;
until this conception was had and . cam
era was invented having the capacity OF
taking sixteen or more separate photo
graphs a second through the same objee-
tive. that the moving picture Art can b
said 70 have had is genesis"
In other words. i. is quite clear that
lie Prince did no more than Muybridge.
namely. TO take pictures from different
points OF view, and il is manifest that
II investors went no further than that.
there would be no moving picture art.
because there would be no illusion.
FRANK L. DYER.
New York, Nov. 26, 1919.
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The Child's Guide
To an Undeniandlns q tie BRUSH
Constitution
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A Week of Verse


Iron Po~fr,o
EOAMLESS the gradual waters well
From the sheer deep where dark
ness lies.
Till 70 the shoulder rock they swell
With n slow cumulsnce Of signs
o waters, gather up your strength
From the blind caves OF your unrest;
Loose your load utterly a, length
over the moonlight-msrbled breast
There sleep. dirused. the long dim
hours
Nor le, your love-locks he withdrawn
Till round the world horizon flowers
The harsh. inevitable dawn.
ROBERT NICHOtA
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Discords

Prom Art ard L,fs-sD
IRON where our lonely vessel saSS
We see the eurving town extend:
The wisp OF smoke each house eshsles
Trails r.bbon-like; below. the sand
Lies streaked in crooked burrows
Where stones and shells are sown.
For day and night the ocean ploughs
Till its great horses foam.
Distorted images OF day
Still thrown by the molten mirror %
the sea
Upon the cliffs. where darkening shsd-
ows cling.
Create tall striped psvilions;
And In this dusk
The switchback paths unload
Their hurrying crowd,
Fes,ooning through the trees.
In patterns. In great wres.hs.
Until the couples disengage
Abou, the bright-lt cage.
From which, like rings OF smoke.
Music escapes 20 hover in our wake
An opalescent form that bends and
fades
High. over ashen-fosming waves.
The moon above our boat
Hangs like huge balloon;
The rigging seems the rope
From which our car hangs down.
Until the whole world svsys.
Swings, waivers. IN the breeze,
The clamor and cseophony
shoreward. grow continually.
Lights flicker. glitter.
Bands play: religions dance ard sing
With tsmbourine and EITHER;
Bands. trumpet, organs, bells. ell
chime and clsng.
Combine into . fanfare.
The Old Day is no more.
W. sink into the vas, horizon.
While little waves intons their sun
set orison.
Here all the shoreVard clsmor
Sinks TO a signing sound,
When Night unfurls her banner
Above her playing ground.
The Mermsids and the Mermen
Dive. foundering about
The singing Of the siren
Calls the ses-ci,y out.
They leave their homes. their coral
caves.
Rise slowly. and their silver sheen
Reflects the waters lucent waves.
But now another form - seen
Near where the hunchbsckd dolphin
plays,
Gu, Of the sea. renew'd. reborn.
The hairy. drunken Triton s~ays
And hiccoughs down the horn.
oSBERT SlTWELL
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Boston is to have a Smile Week II
its health officials carry out their
plans. The contention is that moth
ing will provide a better resistance
to disease than a good. stiff dose OF
optimism-that il people feel happy
if they insist that they are happy,
insidious germs will retire baffied.
The idea is not new, though the ap-
plication of it may be. Hamlet ar
cued that there is nothing either
good or bad but thinking makes 1t
-: and the influence 81 The mind
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The First "MoUie"
Basis Of Mr.. Edison's Claim
TO Rank az Pioneer


Sir: Your correspondent II. S. Mae
kaye, takes issue with my statement
that edison unquestionably was the
pioneer in this Emotion picture art"
According TO Mr.. Msckaye. it was not
Edison but Augustin lie Prince who first
conceived the modern motion picture.
In my letter to you OF November
IA I was particularly careful TO say
1T is true tina, q number Of dreamer
Of the Jules Verne type. said that motion
pictures might in the future be produced
bu. they had not described how they might
be made"
And | also recorded the frank ac-
acknowledgement Of Mr.. Edison's that the
germ of the idea came from the work
of Muybridge. Marcy and others"
have been familiar with the lie
Prince patent, 70 which Mr.. Macksye
refers, for a great many years. lie
Prince had very much the same concep-
ton as Muybridge. although instead Of
using twenty-four cameras he used only
sixteen, and instead Of photographing
only q single cycle Of movement he pro-
posed to operate his cameras successive
ly. over and over again, to photograph
numerous cycles. But the underlying
thought was wrong. The lie Prince
photographs were taken from sixteen
different points of view, whereas the eye
looks at scene from only single point
Of view. Success could be secured only
by reproducing what the eye sees; there
fore, there could be no conception Of a
true illusion of movement until there
was a conception Of using a single cam
era so constructed as to permit sixteen
or more pictures to be taken through q
single lens.
This was the essentially brilliant
thought in Mr. Edisons conceptions; it
was the key to the problem. And no;
only was the underlying inventive
thought one Of great brilliancy, but the
working out of the mechanical details, BY
which q great number Of complete pic
lures could be SUCCESSFULLY taken on a
single celluloid strip at this apparently
incredible speed, involved inventive
talents OF the highest order. OF course.
every one familiar with photography
knew that the actual exposure could be
made practically instantaneously, but il
required great mental courage to tackle
the apparently impossible mechanical
problem OF moving a film one inch.
bringing it to absolute rest. taking a
photograph. and moving il forward
again, these successive stopping and
starting movements taking place sixteen
or more times in each second.
Not only did lie Prince have the wrong
fundamental conception in taking the
successive pictures from different points
Of view, but his disclosure Of apparatus
for the purpose was crude even to the
point Of inoperativeness. lie Prince did
not suggest the use OF light, flexible
celluloid film a, proposed BY Edison,
having the necessary strength and light
ness to permit Of high speed, but, on the
contrary, he mounted the "flm trans
parencies" on two metallic ribbons
punched with holes" and he describes
these transparencies as being made OF
"gelatine, mica, horn, etc" OF course
it must be obvious to any one familiar
with tn. subject that such disclosure
would b. absolutely Improbable, quits
spsrt krun the fundamental underlying
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Autumn Song

Iron, The Westwirs,er Gdsr'i'j
TURN now to sleep me AR $ n''''
i with dreams;
Over the meadow grass the small winds
With scarce a sound. the yellow sunshine
clings
'Monr trees where still birds rest with
folded wings.
And on a whitening branch a robin sings
OF sleep.
Turn now TO sleep-ior darkness will Do
soon,
And mists like thoughts that slumber.
Mortals keep
With lighted lamps . watch on wintry
hours:
But you shall turn. with all your trees
and flowers
And garnered sunshine, to the quiet
bowers
OF sleep.
RUTH NANNlNG-SANDERS.
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lie will soon learn to fix accounta-
bility where it belongs. And when
that happens the President must
stand - explicitly for what the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury does as he
would have to stand for what might
be done in his name by special
budget director.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

The ADMINISTRATOR attitude tow
ard Americans in Mexico is no Sc
eret to Carranza. It dates back into
Mr.. Wilson's first term and has
often been exemplified.
It's doctrine was emphasized in an
article which DR.. Charles W. Eliot
published in The Atlantic Monthly
for. October, 1915, advocating Mr..
Wilson's reelection. DR.. Eliot said:
ITO President Wilson's Admin
istration the country owes its thor
ough committal to two policies which
nearly concern Its righteousness and
Its dignity. The first Of these poll
cies is-No war with Mexico. The
second is-No intervention by force
Of arms to protect on foreign soil
American commercial and manufac.
turing adventures, who, Of their
own free will, have invested their
money or risked their lives in for
eign parts under alien jurisdiction
America has now turned
her back on the familiar policy Of
Rome and Great Britain Of protect
ing or avenging their wandering cit
izens by force of arms, and has set
up quite a different policy Of her
own"
President Wilson was elected in
1912 on a platform which said the
contrary, viz:
! The constitutional rights Of Amer
,csS citizens should protect them
on cur bsSssrs and 60 with them
throughout. tho warid, and every
American citizen residing or having
property in any foreign country Is
entitled to and must be given the full
protection of the United States gov
eminent. both for himself and his
property"
Yet Mr.. Bryan, as Secretary OF
State. and with the support OF the
President, repudiated this doctrine
saving that the Americans in Mex
leo "had no right to demand protec-
ton for their property"
Excusing himself for his failure
20 respect his platform obligation
The President, in his speech OF &C.
:aptancs in 1918, said:
I'VE could not act directly :
without denying Mexicans the right
"a any revolution At all which DIS
mrbed M and making the emanc1pa-
ton Of her own people await upon
our snterest and convenience"
Carranza has drawn natural de-
ductions from these declarations. II
the United States means to refuse
protection to ordinary American cit
liens, when such action might ham,
o.r the freedom or sweep Of Mexican
revolutionary activities, why should
that rule be departed from even IN
the case Of our official agents7 In
reference on their behalf might also
halt tho beneAcent progress OF Mex
lean emancipation"
Jenkins, the Puebla consular
.osnt seems to have been drawn
into the current Of the emancipation
movement. That is unfortunate for
him. But beyond his personal inter
est, or our governments interest IN
maiyn ing its diplomatic and con-
sula( representation intact, lies the
great right of the Mexicans to rev
olution."
If Jenkins were merely CONNER
cial traveller or a mining or oil man
his name would hardly have got
on the front pages Of the news
papers. But has he really any more
claim on Washington's good offices
than has the commercial traveller or
the mining or oil man? That is,
under the new policy" proclaimed
in 1915 by DR.. Eliot and President
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Ina Year Of Peace
r,o,r IN. indiana polis News)

fFrorr The Indianapolis NeVU
What in the world shall We do when
the miners strike is settled, the peace
o.ct out of the way and the rail difi-
entity a an endi Oh, yss, We have .
,.litie.l campaign asxt' year.