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New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
Modern Legends

The Car Of Russia is lost in legend
Unless he shall again appear definitely
in the flesh, so that his identity may be
positively established before all the
world. the question of his fate will be
always disputed. He will take his place
in the list with the lost Dauphn Of
France, VINO is supposed to have lived
out quiet life in America after being
spirited away. and with "JoLn Ord" a
brother of Frans; Josef. who rcnounccd
his title and sailed away in a vessel re-
ported lost with all hands, but who is
supposed to be living incognito on an
obscure, palm-shadcd island far frcm
the reach Of the turmoil that marked
the last days Of tho Hapsburg court.
AS result Of the conflicting stories
now being circulated regarding the
Car, The public mind is already divided
as to whether Bolshevik bullet really
ended his life or whether the Count
Tatchev, the Empcrcrs personal mill
tary attachc, with q supreme devotion
to duty, died in his masters stead Only
the clearing up of the mystery can pre-
vent the reports years hence that in the
death Of some obscure Old man of for
cign appearance the end has finally come
to him who was once Autocrat Of All the
RuSSiaS
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
Dr.. Fletcher's Art Of Eating

Chance, not services rendered, seems to
control the processes by which persons
name is taken up as a common noun, or
formed into verb Who was Captain
Boycott? Nobody knows or cares, yet he
yielded enc Of our meat;est and best of
modern words Will "to flctchcrize' last
long enough to reach similar fate? We
guess net, judging by the relative disuse
into which the word has already fallen.
AS we read of DR.. Horace Flctcher's
death, the idea for which he popularity
stood comes back like an echo.
This does an injustice to an unusually
able Investigator as it happens. Dr..
Fletcher has, naturally, reccded from
that peak of glory wherein he presided
at every breakfast table. He remains as
a very real contributor to our modern
science Of dietetics, such as it is. There
was nothing new in the idea that masti-
cation aids digestion. We wonder how
many millions Of gobbling children have
been frightened by the shade of Glad
stone with his thirty-two chews per NOR
sell! But DR.. Fletcher developed the idea
by experimentation upon himself and
laid foundation for much that has
como after.
Some of his notions have been ovc~-
thrown. An essential truth remains and
it is probable that no health -theorist has
done so much good and so little harm.
The fundamental facts that we eat too
much and eat too fast are unassaiIable
Even if Dr.. Fletcher's plea for 700 bites
to the onion is altogether practicable, his
influence was sound and in the right dl-
rection. And, unqucstionaby, if we eat
slower we do not care to eat so much.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
Epizootic and Influenza

From the hunters of Northern Saa-
is being "decmated' by innucn "a; that
the smaller animals show marked symp-
toms of the disease. and that even the
moose are SO weakened that thcy be-
come exhausted quickly when pursued.
The report is just ano' her bit of evi-
dencc added to the yet unsettled dis
pute among scientists as to whether or
not influenza attacks animals In earlier
days it was accepted without question
that such was the case The frightful
epidemic that swept the Greek army in
the tenth year of the siege of Troy is
believed by many scientists to have been
Influenza. Homer, describing the raw
ages of the disease, said:
"Oh mules and dogs tn infection first
began,
AND last. the vcngcful arrows iix'd them
selves on man."
carefully compiled chronology of in
fluenza, beginning with this supposed
Greek outbreak of the disease. records
numerous instances wherein both hu
mans and animals seemed to suffer from
the same disease One historian of in
fiuenZa says:
"Cows and horses have especially sus
fered as is observed III the epidcmics of
1888, 1887, 1908, 1881 and 1887. DOGS.
cats, deer, sheep and swine have not en-
Joyed immunity; poultry also and even
fish seemed occasionally to be affected by
the morbid influence"
On the other hand, scientists who have
experimental with the disease declare
they have found it impossible to transfer
the complaint to any of long list Of
animals; monkeys alone showed a toxic
effect, but true Influenza did not develop.
These scientists assert that the disease
that attacks animals is what is COM
monty known as cpizo0t,c, the symptoms
OF which arc very similar to those of the
influenza which attacks human beings. A
generation or two ago, for instances.
America almost suffered a TRANSFORMATION
.lc-un because of an epidemic Of cnizoot:c
that attacked the horses.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
The Business Future OF Hying
Evan ]. David in The Saturday Evening Post

EVAN though ths aeroplane does travel
~ the shortest route in The shortest
time between any two given points,
before sufficient number OF passengers
can be induced to travel via the aerial line
to make it financially profitable to the trans
portation company the public must be as
sured that it is reasonably safe; that they
fly in comfort; and that tho price is
reasonable. SO let us first sec what has
been done and what is being done to satisfy
those three requisites.
The dangers Of acroplane fight have been
grossly exaggerated by newspapers which
record only the unusual. Moreover, flying
n TIE war zone was done under the most
adverse and dangerous circumstances. Also
the machncs were built for man9uvrng
ability and speed. and not for stability and
safety factors. Furthermore, all the scouts
and most Of the reconnaissance and battle
planes were driven by only one motor. 80
that if engine trouble developed they had to
volplGne to the ground at the mercy of the
anti- aircraft guns and the aerial fighters.
Finally, they often had to land in she'll
SCARED terrain. Naturally the casualties
We're high. Indeed. the war in the ar~was
meant to be as pcrlous and dangerous as it
could be.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
The Gold Pool VS.. Foreign Loan.

simultaneously comes word that tho
United States and its allies will form
al international gold pool and that sew
e'a' governments now seeking direct
h3' rs IN this country will be ENCOURAGED
oh'ciaiiy and otherwise. Both AFRO ex-
ceHent steps in the direction of meetino
an extremely difficult situation. The
gold pool will be, more or less on tho
pian OF our Federal Reserve system. and
ene oesign Is to arrange the settlement
ol trade balances without further shin
ments Of gold from one country to an
other. This would be an ideal arrange
ment IN normal times. 1t would be Of
slight efficacy alone now.
The situation is that our trade balance
snis year will run three billions in our
FAVOR. And it will be a real balance
:. e., there viii !e but small offsets. The
larger part of this debt will be against
England, France and Italy. Some wav
~ must be met. Our government can go
on ioaning billions to the governments Of
snese countries, and they in turn can
use these funds in a fashion TO liouidatc
these balances, as in the last year and a
half.
That creates an ill-baianced politica,
situation. You can't talk on even terms
70 man to whom you owe great deal
o1 money and want TO owe much more.
Moreover. these are questions of finance:
and political end to financial arrange
roents is all wrong. Half billion in
agold pool, with the United States con-
trtbuting two-ffths, would not meet the
situation at all Leans, and heavy loans
alene can do that. These loans should
be made directly by the thrifty folk Of
TINS country. The Treasury seems to
have recognized this promptly, and some
large fozeigullpans may soon be Aoated.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
Barraging Bolshevism

Food relief for various unnamed pop
olations Of Europe and countries con-
tiguous thereto is to be like barrage
laid down against the spread of Boil
shevism. President Wilson cabled to
Congress from Paris: "Bolshevism is
teadily advancing westward, is poison
ing Germany. 1t cannot be stopped by
force, but it can be stopped by food"
The American people will not, if it can
nelp it, see any CT the populations in Ea-
rope or Asia starve which have suffered
in the war without any fault Of their
own. We are ready not only to lend but
torgivc out OF cur abundance to the Bel
@;ns, Poles, Czccho- -Slovaks, Rumani-
ans. South Slavs. Serbians, Montene-
@rins, Abanians. Armenians and Syri-
aps. We are ready TO assist these un-
fortunate peoples as duty we owe to
huTanity--in tie same spirit in which
We have sought TO help them heretofore
Through the Belgian and Polish relief
commissions and the Red Cross. We
dare say d straight appeal to American
generosity would carry even more weight
than any argument based on political ex-
pedency. But can we placate Bolshevsm
oSly by feeding it? Should we feed it,
even to placate it? Is rationing weapon
all? What we want is rational
ical and military policy which will
order in Poland and Russia and
up the sources of the Bolshevist in
IN.
food is sent to the populations of
Eastern Europe great care ought to be
,aken to sec that its distribution does not
strengthen the hands of those who arc
conducting the propaganda of anar-
chism. Lcnine and Trotzky have tight
cncd their grip on Russia through con-
,fnl of Russian food supplies Many
.apport the rule of terror in order to eat.
There is no end to that except the end Of
the food People cannot practise Boil
shevsm and feed themselves. They eat
at the expense of others.
In every case where food is supplied bv
,hc Allied governments the people who
receive it must exhibit willingness to
tee'Sc W DC HOI-p prOQuCtlVc-tO turn to
work. They must be willing to contrib
ute to the restoration of civil order.
What the distressed populations of East
crn Europe, now tormented by Bolshevist
propaganda need most after food is
some encouragement to become self-sup-
porting once more. And they have been
deprived of that encouragement by the
ittcr lack of clear Allied policy of paci
;catlon and reconstruction
The food question is only one phase of
the general Eastern European question.
which the Allied governments have per-
slstently pushed into the background.
rood can be only palliative. Whether
Eastern Europe is rationed or not. Boil
shevism will continue running sore. IF
It is not healed before a new European
order is established at the peace confer
enee, 1t will return to plague Europe be-
fore the ink is dry on the Versailles
settlement.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

"Things are pretty elegant for rs
now continues Lieutenant Merz.
"From our windows at 4 Place dc la
Concordc. the Peace Mission lIeadquar-
ters. VIC have a good view of fine cid
brick wall some two feet away. and We
have a Lite French stove that keeps
the room so hot We have 80 keep the WIN
dows open and darn near freeze to death.
On our desks we have "A number cf wire
trays, suitable for matches, handkor-
chiefs, etc. And there is push button
system which works very imply If
you press the 'Stenogra pher' button, an
orderly appears, and if you press the
Orderly button, nothing at all happens.
Herb Swope arrived to-day, and
took general charge of good deal
| was planning to send you some
snapshots of myself but they've been
in French camera store only nineteen
days, so they're not finished yet"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
Discomtorts Ouercon,e

There were three dscomforts of air travel
the cold, the noise of the motor and 4he
lack of room in moving about. Electrically
heated clothes eliminate the cold; acousti
cons, which shut out the noise Of the motor
but which permit the passengers aviators
to converse together, have already been
installed and are in universal use on aero
planes. With the increase in the size Of
the acroplanes and the number of motors,
the nacellcs and the incloscd roomy cabins
be constructed as they were on the
famous Sykorsky acrobus, which was built
in Russia before the This acroplane
carried twenty one people to an altitude of
seven thousand feet. On this trip they had
ample room to move about and to observe
the sky and the landscape. On Thanksgv-
ing Day last half dozen guests Of an Amer
lean aircraft factory had their turkey dinner
served in a huge aeroplane above the clouds.
1t is true that owing to tho cost Of the
acroplanes and the aero motors, their up
keep and the number of skilled men re-
CURED to fly and maintain them, all aerial
travel is expensive. The two-seater train
ing machines equipped with one motor cost
five to seven thousand dollars, and the huge
bimotored bombing machines averaged forty
to sixty thousand dollars. This price WAS
due to the necessity for hurried construc-
tioa. For everything that went into the
building of the motor and the
chine itself and also for the labor the very
highest price had 10 be paid. Tools, ma
chinery, factories, fields. hangers and a
thousand other things had to be purchased,
and great body of skilled workmen had to
be trained before aircraft could be turned
cut in quantity.
Now all this skill and billions of money
have been invested in the industry so that
the plants in this country ready to man
ufacturc nearly two hundred day With
this nucleus to start a peace construction
programme the price of even the biggest
machines must shrink to that of n
high priced automobile or private Yacht.
Plenty OF sporting machines with small
wing spread and two-cylfMder motor ihat
will sell for five hundred dollars arc now
being maae; and snoo these machines can
average twenty-five mics on a ga'lon o.
gasolene the expense OF maintaining one o.
those will not bo out of the rneans of hun
drcds OF tina young fers who are now re-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

the canteen system, supplanting the post
exchanges run by the military in other
wars, was run by the "Y," by request,
with funds separate from those raised
for the regular work of building and
manning huts, transporting supplies and
furnishing athletics, educational work
and entertainment. He doesn't remem-
ber, if he ever knew, that supplies were
given away under fire
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
The Coming 7ower
To w. HohcnzoIIern, on Continuius
The Coming Tower

To W. HohcnzolIern, on Continuing
The Coming Tower
Well, William, since I wrote you long
As recall one cool October mcrning-
l have The Tribune files. They clearly
show
gave you warning
Since when l penned that consequential
ode,
The world has seen a vast amount Of
slaughter.
And under many Galic bridge has
flowed
y lot of water.
l said that when your people ceased to
strafe.
That when you'd put an end to all
this war stuff.
And all the world was reasonably safe
I'd write some mere stuff
That when you missed the quip and
wanton vile
And learned you couldn't bear
Towerless season.
| quote: 80. shall not be petty
I'll
Listen to reason"
La6untu' ami, not to say Ellen
Fugaces' William, by my shoulders
Glistcnlng
| have the final laugh. for it was you
Who did the listening.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

turning from flying on the West Front. More
over. since there viii be no maintenance Of
roads. rails live wires, and so on, such as
there is in the railroad and. electric road
industries. tho cost of maintenance will be
infinitely smaller, SO that aerial travel may
become cheaper than any other known to
man.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

Aged readers will recall old Doc
Mcrz. Of The un-M Midan touch They will
remember that Mr.. Mcrz jourrcyed TO
the Mexican border and arrived there
just as the war crumblcd; that he thcn
became managing editor of Harper
Weekly which melted away under his
scorching jurisdiction; and that. in June,
1916, nc secretared for the Progressive
party. 81 WONDER" Lieutenant {. Mcrz
writes from Paris. "if. when you saw by
the papers that Germany had signed an
armistjce. you said 10 yoursclf Well.
Docco's gene and pulled another one
Speaking as an authority on quoS In
;shcs, may say that While this PER
ticular war lasted little longer ,han
the Mexican and 'IIarpcr's Weekly and
Progressive affairs, its actual yndup
came as speedily as any dcathbcd scene
I've ever sat in on
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

German papers say that Theodore
Roosevelt was the "arch enemy" Of Ger
many. This is the most complete and
wholly satisfactory eulogy that has vet
been uttered.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

In honor of the far-famed Fourteen
Points. it had been our intention to run
this Minarct OF Militarism in l4-pt.
Wilson, but Mike, the demon makeup,
says that'd never do So, instead the
column is IA ems wide.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
Thoughts on a Roosevelt
Memorial
Additional Suggestions as to
the Form the Tribute
Shall Take
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

CIR You asked for suggestions for
memorial TO Colonel Roosevelt.
should suggest the opening OF a new
avenue, parallel to Fifth Avenue, between
Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. Beginning
at the Worth Monument, at Twenty-ffth
Street, and running north to Central Park
and widening out as it approaches the
park, thereby forming an open square
Place in the centre Of this square an heroic
equestrian statue OF Colonel Roosevelt.
Now, at the beginning Of this new thor
oughsare, at a sufficient distance from the
Worth Monument to make it imposing,
build the new arch to the soldiers and sail
ors and heroes OF the World War This
new avenue viii run through Bryant Park.
W. II. WARNOCK.
'Tarrytown. y. y. Jan. u, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

To tho Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: | am a student in the Commercial
High School. of Brook ", and my plan is to
have designated in each high school library,
and, if possible, in every pubic library in
the city. section known as tho ar 90 sevclt
Division" wherein will he placed all OF Mr.
Eooseve;t's works, his travels and his biog-
raphy- in short. everything that pertains to
him, written either By himself or Others
GEORGE vOGEL Gagged 15).
BROOKLYN Jan. Y, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
Variation S07

81 was with Grant the soldier SAID,
"And don't mind telling you
That | had lunch with Grantlana Rice
One day at g. II. O.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

How can the Administration expect to
cope with the high cost Of living il its
members continue to resign because
they can't live ON their salaries?
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

There was a luncheon club that met
every Tuesday in Washington. At one
of the November luncheons the names
of two candidates, Major Raymond Pull
man and Major Arthur Train-a iuxta-
position nobody commented on at the
time, by the way-were presented. Majcv
Pullman is chief of the Washington Pc
lice Department, and he made speech to
the writers present, telling them that if
they were looking for things to write
about after the war, the theme of the
insufficient pay of Washington poicc-
men might offer possibilities Ever
since Major Pullman gave US the idea
we have been nursing it and trying 10
make It talk, but long disuse has caused
our battery to run down and we can't
get much out of the whimsey However,
we promised the Major that we'd say
something about it the first chance we
got, so: According to Major Raymond
Pullman. the Washington policeman Is
insufficiertly paid
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
o the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: What memorial could we erect that
would more entirely sum up the principles
that actuated his career and that would be-
come year by year more appropriate
tribute to his memor! than by establishing
universal service, and thus finish the work
he SO greatly began? BY creating this in
stitution his would become insepa-
rably bound Up with the very structure Of
our government. DAVID 7. EATON.
Boston, Mass, Jan. II, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

Speaking as one who used to be of
those who were known as swivel chair
officers. VIC hereby 20 on record that be-
tween October a. la17, and last night we
aat in never a swivel chair
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
The Cosmic Urge in Cedar Rapids

LFrom The Motion Picture Magazine
The Mcrtgagcd Wife. with Dorothy
Phillips Well liked by patrons. Pair
picture. Drew we'll Beginning to Think
folks like sex stuff Isis Theatre. Cedar
Rapids, la.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
, the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: When transcontinental route had
been laid out from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc and named the Lincoln Highway, it was
felt that ideal had been achieved as
memorial to a Of Lincoln's type.
With the Lincoln Highwa.-. alreadv we'll
defined aud marked for completion, the
Roosevelt Highway ready to be outlined
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, parallel to
the Lincoln. and the Washington awaiting
the patriotic impulse Of the people of the
South, our three most distinguished Presi-
dents would receive the tribute Of immortal
rcnown and the country would profit by
bonds OF ideal communication from one end
to another.
FREDERICK LINCOLN SMITH.
philadelphia Penn Jan. 49, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

Replying to the frequent query rs 70
What returned warriors feel like it may
be stated That some feel like Enoch
Arden ana some like Ulysses.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

"Parsnips," says a Food Garden eN.
pert, "are best left in the ground We
grec.-Punch.
Our Ally in all wars, the British.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

To tlc Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: WIZ not rename the Congressional
Library. st WASHINGTON, D. c.. the "Roose-
vclt Library" since that is the greatest
American library? Thcn. again. upon what
BODY of men should the memory of the life
and character of Theodore Roosevelt have
greater influence than uoon the governing
bodies Of these United States?
r. c. WORMLEY.
pIainfield. n ! Ian 10 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: What statue could adequately por-
tray TIC virlitv of Roosevelt? Or what
memorial arch or column would typify the
creates, American since Lincoln? None thu t
| can imagine. What. then. should bc his
memorial? believe that Gouvcrneur Nor
ris's suggestion Of "Happy Hunting
Ground' is the best ono vet made. The
chief fault TO find with it is that it is 80
complicated, and reall. more dcalistic than
PRACTICAL
have a suggestion Of my own to make.
IT comes near to practical realization Of
the "Hapny Hunting Ground" proposed by
Gouverncur Morris. NJ idea is to rename
the Yellowstone Nationa, Park, our scenic
wonder Of nature, after our great soldier
President. EARL " PHELAN
Ithaca. ~ Y, Jan. 12. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

We feel like Rip Van Wrinkle.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

Plainheld, n. j., Jan. IL. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-15

FREDERICK LINCOLN SMITH.
Philadelphia, Penn, Jan. Is, 1919
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-06-13
Editors plan Bio Meeting

Atlanta. Plans for the annual meet
ing of the Georgia Press Association,
to be held this year at Monroe, on
July Is and Is, were discussed at a
meeting held at the office of Hal Stan
ley at the state capitol Paul Harder,
president OF the association announced
that this looks like the biggest year i'll
the history OF the editors organiza-
ton, which includes the heads OF most
OF the weekly papers in Georgia. and
which recently was opened to daily pa
per representatives also. "The old
members who had dropped out are
coming back and applications for new
memberships are being received" he
said. THE editors found out what
they missed by not being at Wrights-
vile last summer, and they all want
to go to Monroe this year. The ed
itors and their wives will reach Mon
roe the morning of Monday, July 10,
and will be given reception that
night at the Walton county courthouse
with addresses. Business sessions will
be held Tuesday morning and after
noon. Only newspaper topics will be
discussed. Two speakers from out
side Georgia will be on the program
One speaking on journalism and the
other on advertising.