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New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
American Sea Power

The General Board of the Navy
has renewed it's recommendation for
an American fighting feet equal to
that of any other nation. Our naval
problem was broadened by the war
Up to 1914 we had a relatively
small ocean-going merchant marine.
Now we have large one. The
navy of the future will have to pro-
tect it as we'll as our coasts and
island possessions.
One of the chief lessons of the
war was that a navy which is Sec
ond in rank cannot hope to dispute
possession of the seas with a navy
which is first in rank. In the first
weeks of the war Germany lost or
was obliged to intern most Of her
big ocean carriers. She was also
compelled to lay up her surface war
ships in home harbors. Her big
maritime investment was nearly
valueless and she had to turn to the
submarine as her only possible
weapon Of offense against Allied sea
power.
If the United States expects to be
called on to protect it's merchant
men and foreign commerce as we'll
as its coasts and insular dependen-
cies against all comers it will
naturally have to create a navy
equal to the best in existence. Per-
haps this policy may be modified by
q scheme of international concert, in
which the United States gives and
accepts guarantees of disarmament
and world peace. Perhaps, also, the
character of sea power will change
in the near future so radically as
to make the surface navies of the
present day more or less obsolete.
The Naval General Board, how
ever, doesn't build on such proba-
tilities. 1t sticks in the main, and
scnsibly, to it's before-the-war plans
for a surface feet. 1t recommends
for 1921 the construction Of two bat
tleships (super-dreadnoughts) and
one battle-cruiser. Yet it is signif-
cant of the drift of things that the
board asks for ten scout cruisers
and five super-destroyers. Ships of
this sort came to the fore in the sur
face operations Of the war. They
are probably the real link between
the surface navy Of to-day and the
surface navy of the future.
Sea power may be lodged more
and more in the lighter and faster
ships and in aircraft, rather than in
the old floating fortresses. That is
the puzzle of tomorrow. Yet what
ever form sea power takes the
United States cannot afford to lag
behind. If nations remain COM
petitors on land and sea we must be
as strongly armed for that compe-
tition as any possible rival is.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
These Romantic Mathematicians

The Einstein theory has not ex-
actly become a breakfast table
topic, nor has Al Jolson begun to
chat about it conhdentially over the
footlights. But it is creeping into
the cables and the Sunday papers,
and nobody is altogether safe who
does not have a few of it's phrases
handy-as defensive weapons, at
any rate--when run down against
tea table. Anything from the Fourth
Dimension to the red end of the
spectrum will do.
Speaking for the mathematical
prcletariat, we are bound to say that
here seems far more romance than
mathematics as she is commonly
known and judged. A Swiss mathe-
matician sits in a tower somewhere
and sees man fall off a roof, and
Immediately begins to see the whole
universe curving and warping about.
The relativity' Of matter" becomes
respectable scientific phrase, and
the notion that "space is curved"
leaves the mirrors Of Coney Island
for the most ponderous of text
books.
No wonder higher mathematicians
write poetry! What they deal in
seems far more nearly related to the
product of the most mystical creator
Of rhymed Observation-Disclosures
Thompson or William Blake, let US
say-than any such sturdy and SIM
pie stuff as ratio and proportion or
the binomial theory. If you are
looking for romance why not con-
slider this same Swiss scientist, who
dreamed his theory and published it
and lived to see it confirmed by Eng
l1shmen in Brazil measuring star
rays we forget how many million
million miles away while the sun
was in eclipse? Tomlinson, whom
Mr.. Kipling wrote about and who
sailed about in the inter-stellar
spaces till chilled to the bone, be-
longs in such astral company; but
does any plain grubber with mere
digits and prosaic sines and cosines?
Utterly no.
We own an especial affection for
the perihelion of Mercury, which
furnished the first proof of the
validity of the Einstein theory. The
planets move in ellipses, we read
thus far comprehensibly. By the
Einstein theory the perihelion
(Which is to say the point of the el-
lipse nearest the SUM- should shift
slowly around. Why it should SO
shift no mathematician has yet at
tempted to explain to the unini-
tiated; and rightly, judging by
such other attempts at simplicity by
higher mathematicians as we have
seen. But, accepting the theory and
its application, the fact is clear and
star-strewn as any night of Keats.
How any mathematician keeps his
wits long enough to work out such
theory is beyond us. Yet he must
sit and toll for years, lifetime, at
the most painstaking and meticu-
lous operations and observations
and publish them in the most in
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
The Sacred Plumber

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Our public officials might take
lesson from recent elections and
champion the unorganized instead of
the organized as in the past. The or
ganlzed can take care of themselves,
Mayor Hylan has taken landlords ia
task, yet building construction, which
would eventually cut high rents. has
been at standstill for the last eight
weeks on account Of the plumbers
strike. Why doesn't Mayor Hylan take
the plumbers to task?
RENTPAYER.
New York, Dec 9, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
Work for Home-Bound Cripples

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The home-bound looked after by
the Federation of Associations for
Crippfes are in urgent need of work
that they can do at home. There are
many cripples competent to do address,
ing and typing who are barred from
earning living because they are not
able to leave their homes to do work
in an Office. Surely there must be per-
sons willing to give deserving cripplss
an opportunity to do work of this
character. Those interested are re-
quested to communicate with the
writer.
ELIZABETH H. M'cLEERY.
Secretary, Federation of. Associations
for Cripples, 3l1 Fourth Avenue.
New York. Dec. 5, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
Lay Blame on the Papers
(From The Toledo B,ode,

Attention Of the people who are for
ever saying "That's another newspaper
story" is called to that cruel report of
the Presidents death, made to Vice
President Marshall. The biggest, most
damnable, iaeycusable liars on earth
never saw the inside Of newspaper
office. They are the chaps who keep
newspaper reporters and press associa-
ton correspondents busy chasing ru-
mors into their lair. The average per-
son either lies or nnocently repeats
more lies in a day than the most unre-
liable newspaper prints in one issue.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11

The world public has become so &C
customed to treaties Of peace which do
not bring peace that the document just
signed in the little town hall Of Neuilly.
suburb Of Paris familiar to the A. E..
F. because Of it's great American hos
pital, has excited little comment. Yet.
all things considered, this treaty may
fairly be reckoned the worst of the
series which began with the Treaty of
Versailles.
The vice underlying this particular
arrangement is the familiar evil discov-
cradle in its predecessors. BY compari-
son with the number Of things it settles,
it unsettles or postpones settlement Of ?
far more considerable bulk. The object
of the treaty was, in restoring peace
with Bulgaria, to regulate the Balkan
conditions; to erect solid structure in
place of the several jerry built construc-
tions which have followed one another
since the Balkan States attacked Turkey
just six years ago.
Vital Decisions POSTPONED
In point Of fact, the treaty has set
tied nothing but the size of the wholly
mythical "compensations" Bulgaria is
expected to pay her neighbors and to
trace the new Serbo- Bulgar frontiers
BY contrast, 1t has postponed three vital
decisions: first, as to the Greek rights
in Thrace; second, as to the European
frontiers in Constantnople and the
status Of that city; third, as to the uiti-
mate disposition of the southern Do
brudja.
To take these items in order: The
Greeks, have claim, based upon his
torical grounds going back severa
thousands of years and upon racia
grounds valid at this very minute, to al
of the old Turkey in Europe south OF
that Bulgarian frontier which existed
at the moment Of the outbreak of the
World War. This would include all OF
the Egean seacoast left to Bulgaria b,
the Treaty of Bucharest in 1918 anc
everything in Eastern Thrace, including
Adrianople, right up to the walls Of
Constantnople. In point Of fact, thei,
claim to Constantinople is almost equal
ly impressive.
But for the United States representa-
tives in Paris this Greek claim woule
have been recognized, but our commits
sioners disclosed an astonishing solici
tude for the Bulgars. Thus, we Ameri
cans have insisted that the Bulgarian,
have corridor to the Egean and hav,
prevented the cession of all Of Thrac,
to the Greeks. We have done this in tn,
face of AngloFrench wishes; we hav,
allenated Greek friendship, we hav,
postponed actual settlement. sine
Thrace is now ceded by Bulgaria to tn
great powers, who have postponed fina
ALLEGATION. In doing this we have not i,
the least placated the Bulgars, who will
lose much territory, but we have ken
alive their hope to regain things t
which they have no claim.
Fiume Ouer Again
This is tho old story of Fiume owe
again. No compromise has been DOS
sible because of our stand, and at tn
same time the passions of both side
have been greatly intensified and tn
dangers Of new hostilities multiplied
The postponement of the dispositio
OF Constantinople is due to the desir
and expectation Of Europe that tn
United States would take = mandat
for the city and the wish Of the Euro
pean nations ia consult our pleasure a
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
GUARANTEE

Yer cen purehas. rsrehsniisc advertised In THE
Ht6UhE With absolute sst.ty--scr II dssetisf&c.
'sn results In any case THE TRiBunE guarantees
pay ycur moaey back UPON request. No RED rapc.
9sibsttas. We make coed prcmptN If the
dsefsiser dees aot.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
MEMnrR OF rHr Assoc1Arrp rRrs.

1ne Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the
Tor republication Of all dispatches credited
II or not otherwise credited in this paper and
refn.
All rights Of republication of all other matter
rem are also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
The Coming 7owey
La Princesse Prisonriere

My lady is a princess fair,
With eyes of blue and golden hair.
High in Tower the whole day long.
She spins her silvern thread of song
And watches where afar below
The paths of common people 60.
She seemed so pure, 80 sweet, so rare,
thought it best to put her there
Immured aloft, TO lock her in,
Lest others seek her heart to win,
And that, if you should ask, is why
She dwclls this day in the Tower so
high
My lady with the golden hair. .
She flirtcd, so put her therel
LEMUEL.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
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Revised

tFrom The arkansas Gasette)
In these days even a wise man and
his money are soon parted.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11

What the young visiters to our
thriving city are going to do with
their time now that the cabarets close
at II, one trembles to imagine. A
person who goes back to Ottumwa and
who can't boast about how late he
stayed up in New York and what they
charged him for a tongue sandwich
and bottle Of ginger ale and how
the room cost $11 day and how lucky
he was to get that-such a person
they wouldn't believe he was in New
York at all.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11

The band that played "Hail, Hail,
the Gangs All Here" for the Republi-
can National Committee may not have
known that the tune was composed by
Sir Arthur Sullivan, who might have
been, had he lived here, prominent
Democrat. Or that the chorus of the
original, from "The Pirates of PEN
zance," ends with
Let's vary burglary
With little piracy.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
1t Is Net Always Maynard


Sir: Is it lack Of worldlness or
lack of Christian charity that leads
pious people like Belvin w. Maynard
to tell all they know, and when they
don't know, to insinuate? And, fur
ther, if the Anti-Saloon League wants
to start me drinking again when it
is so expensive and inconvenient, they
can't do better than get out some more
press stuff like the interview with
Belvin. c.. B. D.
The cost Of living, it transpires,
has advanced 131 per cent since 1914.
These long winter evenings it is
pleasant to sit by the anthracite fire
and figure how you are beating the
game. Your rent, for example, may
have increased only 100 per cent; that
counts you 81. Apparel has increased
perhaps 150 per cent; that counts
minus 10. And SO on. But unless
your income has increased 1872 per
cent, you can't win.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
Our Own Travelogues

Out here there are two telephone
systems: the Automatic, which never
gets you the right party, and the
Bell, which no one has in his home
or Office. One Of my bright young
friends recently opened a business
Office and knocked 'em cold with this
advertisement:
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11

hfessd At The Pos,ocnce at New York a. Second
Glass Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11

lOE tUO IAUQlSn lnCrl2OGQ.
A Nineteen-Year Endowment
tFrom the Galeton Pa.) Leader Dispatch]
Mr.. and Mrs Schlyer have been resi-
dents Of Galcton for nineteen years, and
for the past seventeen years Mr.. Schlyer
has been night dispatcher Of engines at the
B. & S. yards. His fellow workmen pre-
sented him with a Colts revolver as a
token of their esteem.
Commercial candor: eve know
every twist of the market. Our
limited experience makes our judg-
ment valuable to YOU"
Mississippi Valley Needs To Be
Pressed.-Christian Science Monitor.
Resulting, suggests Exile, from ex-
tensve dry cleaning.
Motley's the Only Wear
Sir: G. M. B.. of Nebraska. was intro
duced to The Tower yesterday morning.
What shall l wear to the banquet" she
asked BELLE FRYEa
Contributions to the fund for the
poet yesterday reached tho total Of
Sl024; and that, we think. is enough
for long time. Again we have faith
in the human race; and until we are
certain there is a better 'ole of q
planet, we shan't go to it.
Article 6S7 Of the American Credc
with obeisances to Nathan and
Mencken): That everything praised by
George Jean Nathan and H. L. Mencker
is excellent, and everything attacked by
them is reprehensible.
Our first snowstorm is yet to come
and with it the realization that the
snowshovelers' union probably will
strike for a two-hour storm and 9
maximum of a one-inch fall.
Pollyanna, whe lives on Riverside
Drive. says that the reduction in trair
service will make 1t easier to keer
the curtains clean.
The esteemed Flushing Journal ad
vertises for sale "Tifty-one year oil
Leghorn chickens"
The miners may have the Presi
dents Ia per cent confused with hi
Ia points.
-
OF course, the Conventions might b,
assembled at Democracy, O., or Repub
lican, Ark.
The fires Of Gehenna, we are in
formed, are kept alight with Anthra
cite.
Also. Gehenna represents an essen
tial industry. r. r. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11

~ don't find Mrs. Katharine Fuller
ton Gerould's hectic nearly so jar
ring" observes c. w., "as her falling
for the faddish 'intrigued.'"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11

NelCNer PnOne.
Same Number"
He says it keeps the elbows from
getting shiny, and that the results
are the same. BILL CON.
Sioux Citv. Ia.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11

Anyway" writes E. B. L., "why no.
suggest that some of your contrbu
tors offer their ideas on what woulc
be m. or l. public spirited work? A
starter, suggest cleaning the mir
rors of the gum slot machines on sub
way and l. Platforms"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11

Commercial candor: eve know
every twist of the market. Our
limited experience makes our judg-
ment valuable to you"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
euBSCRsPTION RATr>-By MAIL Including
estage. IN THE UNITED STATES AND

FOREIGN RATES
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-23
TWO CHILDREN
SLIGHTLY HURT
Badly Shaken and Bruised
Wednesday in Street
Car Accident.

Louis Brosseau, aged two years. son
Of Henry Brosseau, proprietor Of the
Chocolate Shop, and the small daugh-
ter Of Isadore Rose, LOG Cottonwood
street, who were injured Tuesday
when a derailed trailer ran into the
forward car on the switch at Skidmore
avenue, ire reported to be somewhat
improved today.
Both of the children were badly
shaken besides receiving some small
wounds and bruises. A cash on the
head which Louis Brosseau sustained
when he was thrown forward in the
car will not prove serious. according
to his father, although the wound Is
painful. He was also injured on the
foot. The boy was badly shaken but
did not lose consciousness and was
able to walk off the car.
1t is impossible to tell as yet how
serious is the injury done to the little
girl, Mrs. Rose said today. She was
struck near the heart and today is
suffering slightly, although able to be
about. Mrs. Rose says that the child
was sitting on her lap as the car was
crowded, and that she was unable to
tell just how she was hurt.
The accident happened yesterday
about 3 o'clock when a trailer ran
into a car full of passengers from the
fair grounds where they had been
viewing the circus.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-23
RESPONSE TO
APPEAL SLOW
Few Books Being Received
For Use of Men in Unit
ed States Army.

Those in charge of the campaign
for books for the soldiers are sur
prised at the lack of response of citi-
zens in Grand Forks and East Grand
Forks. 1t was the plan of the COM
mittee to close the drive here on
Thursday, but with only a handful OF
books yet contributed this now seems
impossible. The latest reports OBJ
tainable today showed that not a hun
bred books had been collected at the
various receiving stations. .
The American Library association
must have a million books for the
troops overseas. The quota for the
two cities here is only $500. The
boys in Europe are starving for some
thing to read. The funds of the A. L.
A. have already been expended in the
purchase Of vocational books for the
men who wished to carry on their
studies while in the service. The call
for recreational books must be met by
the free gifts of the people.
Members of the committee solicit
ing books were surprised to have a
number of people say that they had
pretty we'll cleaned out their shelves
during the last drive. This drive.
however, is not meant for a ,weeder
out of poor books. 1t is now time
to- keep. That is the only sort of
books that Is worthy to go to the boys
across the sea.
The schools in Grand Forks and
East Grand Forks are being used as
receiving stations for the books. IN
less hundreds of books come in in the
next day or two these two cities will
have failed for the first time since
the war began to answer a patriotic
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-23
Honor Students .
To be Announced
Thursday Morning

Announcement of the names Of the
first four members of the 1918 gradu-
ating class of the University of North
Dakota to be picked for membership
in the Phi Beta Kappa society will be
announced at university c~onvocation
services tomorrow morning. Phi Beta
Kappa held a meeting last Saturday
afternoon to vote upon the names but
announcement of their decision has
been deferred until tomorrow norm
ing.
One-sixth Of the membership Of the
! graduating class of the university are
elected to membership in Phi Beta
Kappa each year. This years class
t numbers approximately 60, permitting
Of the election of six more people at
the meeting Of Phi Beta Kappa in
June.
The c~onvocation address Of tomor-
row morning will be made by DR.. r.
T. Young of the university medical
school, who will lecture on a motion
picture, entitled "How Life Begins"
to be shown on the screen at Wood
worth auditorium. The purpose OF
the showing of this motion picture is
to make clear the complex subject of
life and the methods by which new
plants and animals come into ex-
istence, said the announcement given
out this morning. H.
The film has been shown under gov
eminent auspices many times during
the past year, and recently the French
and Italian governments have pur-
| chased the rights to it.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-23

The Victory Liberty. Loan campaign
was resumed in Grand Forks city this
morning after a days vacation caused
by the appearance here of the flying
circus"
At noon today, the subscription list
tory figure, according to the execu'
tive committee.
The campaign is not progressing as
rapidly as members of the committee
desire. Subscriptions came in today
very slowly, far too slowly to indicate
that the city's quota would be sub
scribed by Saturday night .
When headquarters opened this
morning, the regular sales force was
on duty, but there was not enough
business to keep them all at work
throughout the morning.
The executive committee issued the
following statement at noon:
''pThe Victory Liberty Loan cam
paign must speed up!
Very good results were obtained
the first day, but today they were yer.
APPEARANCE here yesterday of the
flying circus would fill the people
with a desire to do everything posi-
bic to. help bring the other brave
American soldiers home from France
1t should have done so: if it did not
then the more shame to the resident:
Of Grand Forks. II results obtained
this morning are any criterla, tn
people have thought nothing of thos'
who still remain abroad with thu
army of occupation.
This loan must be subscribed. 1t:
our debt and we must meet it. Crane
Forks must give $640,000 Of h tota
amount. That is absolutely OUR debt
and we MUST MEET 1T 1MME
DIATELY. We cannot fail the boy
over there! They have kept faith
Shall WEI"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-23
MORE SCHOOLS
WILL COMPETE
Sixteen Now Entered in
Music Contest to be Held
At University.

Two more high schools nave entered
the state musical contest to be held at
the state university in connection with
the high school conference in May.
The two latest entries which are
from Bismarck and Park River, make
a total of 16 high schools which are
now entered in the contest.
On account of lack of entries the
district contest scheduled to have been
held at the Grand Forks high school
next Friday evening, may be given up
Both the Larimore and Langdon
schools which were entered, have
withdrawn and a. a result Grafton is
the only school entered.
This is due, in the opinion Of Miss
Blanche Leigh, supervisor of music in
the local schools, to the fact that the
district contest is in no way an elm
ination contest for the final compete
ton at the university.
A final decision along this line will
probably be reached today. .
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-23
CIRCUS MEN WERE
ENTERTAINED AT
CANTEEN STATION

Over thirty a~viators Of the Flying
Circus, which appeared in the city
Tuesday, were entertained at the Red
Gross canteen station in the evening.
A number of the men were served to
supper at the canteen and the re-
mainder of the evening vas spent in
a social way, with special music and
singing for entertainment.
Since the canteen has been estab-
lished, the women in charge have
made a special attempt to entertain
not only the individual soldiers who
came through the city, but have upon
several occasions entertained large
groups of service men. Among the
largest groups are the Langdon boys
who assembled in Grand Forks to re-
turn home and the soldiers Of the
First North Dakota Regimental band
which appeared in concert here some
time ago. ~,