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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
In the Open
If police conditions. after

IT police conditions, after two wears
OF restored Tammany, are as in
dicated by the statements of both
Assistant District Attorney Smith
and by Inspector Henry (the prose-
cution and the defense agree as to
the facts, though differing as to
where lodges responsibility, it will
be conceded there should be prompt
and thorough investigation.
And if there is an investigation
it must be conducted by legisla-
tive committee rather than grand
jury. A grand jury inquiry is
secret, whereas it is highly desirable
to have public investigation open.
When witness appears before a
grand jury and gives testimony often
sive to a high officer Of the Police
Department, that officer commonly
learns the substance Of the evidence.
Then the witness may find life I'M
comfortable for him, while he lacks
the protection incident to public
knowledge Of why he is disliked.
Nor has grand jury she indie
pendence which an Investigating
body should possess. The Jury is
under the charge Of a Judge, and
in many respects controlled by the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
Eruine on Prohibition

10 the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: 1t is discourteous and bad taste.
to put it mildly, for St. John G. Ervine.
the Irish author of two plays which
have had successful runs in America,
to speak slurringly in an interview in
last Sundays Tribune about an Ameri-
can law. Mr.. IRVINE showed that he
knows nothing of the history of prohi-
bltlon in this country, nothing of the
rise and fall Of the saloon as a social
and political factor in American life
and nothing of the tremendous and
farreaching effects for good which
have already followed the advent of
prohibition.
We take it that men and women who
are sufficiently interested in human be-
lngs to make them a subject of study.
IN plays and stories, are also interested
IN the race as whole and in its prob
lem. 1t is natural to assume the
modern writer to be person whose
grasp reaches beyond to-day and whose
gaze penetrates the future.
If Mr.. Ervine is sincerely interested
IN human problems, surely he should
have sufficient breadth and sincerity.
or at least curiosity, to urge him when
ne comes face to face with an epoch
marking social revolution to pause and
consider it, to study its various and
amazing new angles and to try to dis
cover its effects. But no; Mr.. Ervine.
instead of doing this, has adopted the
cheap New York City cant about
"fanatical reformers" and their attacks
on all the joyous things of life. He
would show himself in a better light if
he would really strive to discover the
social and political background behind
this great reform and take peep into
the lives of thousands, nay, millions. of
people who are singing ate deums" in
their hearts to-day because of the
change that has been wrought by what
he is pleased to belittle and regard as
the subject for cheap humor.
MARGARET DODSON.
New York, March rs, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

District Attorneys office. The AL
mirall jury sought to do it's duty,
but whenever it struck hot trail
it encountered impedime9ts.
Moreover, an investigation with
one side directed by District At
torney Swami and the other directed
by Mayor Hylan would scarcely
command every ones confidence.
Mr.. Swami has relations with Tam
many Hall and Hearst, and so has
Mr.. Hylan. 1t is to be feared
Messrs. Murphy and Hearst would
arrive with buckets Of whitewash
and demand a cessation Of what
they would call foolishness.
So it must be a legislative investi-
cation if there is to be an investi-
cation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
The Housing Bills

Some of the Real Estate Boards
proposed amendments to che hous-
ing bills are entirely reasonable. 1t
is suggested, for instance, that the
emergency period be ended not on
November l, 1922, but on Septem-
Der so, 1922. 1t would certainly
be more convenient to everybody if
the restrictions should cease at the
end of the usual leasing year, in
stead of running one month into a
new year.
The board also raises the point
that tenant who contests dis
possession after a rent increase
ought to be obliged to pay the ex-
listing rent for the time he holds
over. If this provision was omitted
from the Lockwood bills it must
have been through inadvertence.
Tenants who INSIST on staying on
will probably be duly grateful for
that privilege. 1t isn't likely that
court would pay much attention
to their complaints if they were US
ing the law merely to avoid paying
any rent.
1t is true also that the restric-
tons will operate unequally as be-
tween landlords who were fore
handed in boosting rents in 1918
and those who didn't get the fever
until October, 1919. 1t would be
more satisfactory all around if the
/ glaring profteers alone were reached
and penalized. But the housing
bills are not constructed on the
theory Of reaching and penalizing
profiteers. They are not retalia-
tory. They are drawn to meet a
grave public emergency, and as an
economic discrimination are justi-
fed only on that ground. The idea
is to stabilize the situation for at
least two years, while new construc-
ton is in progress. The tenants
who are in are to be protected, in
order to avert the disaster which
would follow the unrestricted op-
Grafton Of the law of supply and
demand.
In an abnormal situation, created
by the war, individual interests
must be subordinated to the general
welfare. Most landlords forget that
the war hasn't legally ended. Con-
gress passed a law for the District
OF Columbia forbidding increases
of the rents of tenants in possession
and forbidding dispossessions. 1t
IS still in force. Such a law is a
hardship to real estate owners. But
the war has caused enormous eco
nomic establishments, affecting
groups and individuals uneuuallv.
That is one of the inevitable evils
Of war. Till we get rid Ct war con-
ditions, such incidental evils will
have to be faced. The only fair
test to apply to the housing bills is
whether they do or do not serve the
larger interests of the community
for the limited period in which they
are to be applied.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
This Different World
To the Editor Of The Tribune

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Several years ago the country
rang with praises Of the strenuous life.
The chief exponent of this idea was
Theodore Roosevelt and the energy ex-
pressed in this thought became our
national ideal. We were people i'm
bued with the notion that we should
work hard and play equally hard. The
growth of our ideals had been gradual
and we accepted conditions with a GER
tain calm feeling that affairs. would
work out satisfactorily in the end if
we but gave them time.
Suddenly the world was eneulfed in
tragedy. Stunned at first, we awoke
to the realization that we were moro
than mere flotsam. There was a duty
to be performed and we were respon-
slble for its execution. Now the OBJ
jective has been gained, tears have
been dried, grief has been forgotten,
or, II that be not possible, at least hid
den IN the hearts of the bereaved, and
man again finds himself his own
master.
TRULY his own master, but in q diff
ferent world. Where formerly hapni-
ness had existed in humble surround
lngs, dissatisfaction is now found.
Emerging from the abyss Of horrible
suffering we demand silken luxuries.
Many salaries are mounting. million
aires are multiplying and the steady
plodder who worked and saved finds
himself an insignificant item in the
book of the world.
Each new slogan finds an army to
bear it aloft. Foreign Commerce. /"
shouts some one, and at once we are
plunged into an orgy of unlimited pro-
duction; "Let US Dance" cries another.
and unbridled gayety rushes on the
stage of life. Old men with long white
boards would be brushed aside in the
mad rush Of to-day, but should we 90
to the PROSTATE form of an aged sage
and ask his counsel we would hear the
one word oft repeated, "Repression,"
"Repression." J. CARLISLE SELL.
Washington, D. c., March "a, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

execution Of the treaty--now about
the only solid guaranty against Ger
man aggression which remains in
French hands.
The Millerand government has re-
organized the army, which had been
allowed to disintegrate after the
armistice. If force is needed to
compel Germany to live up to her
obligations, it is now evident in
Paris that France means to supply
that force. The army reorganiza-
ton, necessary consequence of the
weakening Of the bonds between the
major Allies, undoubtedly gave rise
to President Wilson's recent charge
that the new French government
had turned back to "militarism" and
imperialism"
Such an imputation was unjusti-
fled. For France is merely reinsur-
ing her own rights and safety. The
Allies have been acting for months
on the theory that they were power
less, in military sense, to impose
compliance with the treaty on Ger
many. The French government and
people are determined that this
theory shall not hold good any
longer so far as France is con-
cerned.
What is happening in France is
not "a renascence of militarism." 1t
is merely an awakening Of the
French people to the fact that they
must be ready to enforce the treaty
by military action in case Germany
persists in evading and multiplying it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
Pointed Right at Last

The petition signed by A. Law
renee Lowell, Cardinal Gibbons,
Cleveland H. Dodge, Herbert Hoover
and many others conspicuous in the
agitation for league to enforce
peace at least has the merit of being
pointed in the proper direction.
1t is addressed to the occupant of
the White House. 1t asks him to
retransmit the treaty and to revoke
the order under which enough SEN
ators voted mo" to defeat ratifca-
ton. So doing, the petition locates
responsibility where it belongs.
That responsibility is with the
President alone. 1t is true the
"irreconcilable" group is also against
ratification, but they number only
sixteen, negligible company except
for the Presidents alliance with
them.
Since July, when the treaty. was
brought home, those who assumed
charge of the public agitation in
favor of the league have been little
helpful to the cause they had at
heart. They persisted in center
ing blame on Senator Lodge and on
the majority party in the Senate.
Never was it in the power Of
Senator Lodge or the party of which
he is member to command the
two-thirds vote essential to ratifica-
ton. 1t was obvious the treaty
could not be ratified except through
the cooperation of the President, for
it early became sadly evident that
Administration Senator's would fol-
low not their own judgments, but
orders.
Nevertheless, little if any fire of
protest was built under the Presi-
dent. On the contrary, White House
pettifoggings were applauded by the
peace leaguers. No absurdity was
too strong for their acceptance. 1t
is still the practice in certain quar-
ters to curse Lodge and the Senate.
But at last the lesson has been
at least partly learned. The holder
up Of ratification now, as for many
months past, is the President, and
this is now practically acknowledged.
No wonder Senator Lodge exclaimed
to Mr.. Taft: "Why hammer me? /
am not strangling this treaty. If
you don't like strangers, protest to
the White House."
Whether the President will Weld
to the present petition is, of course,
unknown. Probably he will not. He
seems to want to use the treaty in
politics. But what chance there is
of inducing him to yield lies in max
ing it plain that the country at
last thoroughly understands where
is the obstacle to ratification. Every
utterance that minimizes this fact
and every declaration to the effect
that responsibility is divided will
encourage the President not to
change. The White House must be
approached realistically.
All good Americans have high
respect for the Presidency. But all
good Americans have stronger re-
spect for the country and it's in
terests. So plain speech is called
Tor. At this juncture no one can be
considered much of friend of the
treaty or of the peace league who
shrlnks from courageously testifyine
to why the treaty is in the Presi
dents pigeonhole.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
Tangled Policies

(From The Memphis Commercial ppeoD
The Constitution provides that the
Secretary Of State stands third in sue
cession in the government, so If any,
thing should befall Mr.. Wilson and
Mr.. Marshall we would have Colby, a
Bull Moose Republican, at the head Of
Democratic administration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
The Unkindest Cut
(F>om The Los Angeles Times,

IF1om TIE Los Angeles TImes)
The Germans are preparing LIST ~
Allied atrocities as an offset to the
blacklist of the Supreme Council. Thew
wish to show that war is two sided
even in barbarism. But the greatest Of
tense Of Marshal Fochs forces was
the flemish manner in which the7
chased the Kaiser's noble supporters
from their comfortable, steam-heated
trenches. That was a naughty trick.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
Kept for Change

tFrom The Indianapolis Ncrcs)
AS the zenith of production has,
according to Mr.. Baruch, been reached
and the nadir of the dollars purchas-
ing power is pretty close, according
to the observations of the rest Of US,
it seems as if we were about due for
. turnover.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
What Miss Ennis Meant to Saw
February 20, 1915.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The sewers of Europe are
dumped over here in the form of Com
munlsm, Anarchism, I. W. W.-ism, and.
IN the parlance of the day, it is up to
the public school teachers of New York
City to help stamp that out. You can't
stamp out that menace without teach
ers and you won't have teachers unless
you pay them salary sufficient for
them to live decently.
The defendant rests.
ISABEL A. ENNIS.
Brooklyn, March %, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
Before Progress

Exactly like Kerensky, Ebert has in
his final despair unclaimed real revo-
luton. But is not a real revolution
the necessary prelude to any real prog
ress in Germany? Instinctively we
are all shuddering at the thought of
Bolshevism now appearing on the east
bank Of the Rhine, but is it quite clear
that the safety Of the world will be
more assured if $he alternative-and 1t
is the alternative-namely, the restora-
ton of the junker element to power, is
finally accepted by the German people ?
Underlying all else is the fact that
the Ebert government was sham, a
camoufage, to cover the monarchists
until their hour should arrive. If the
counter revolution, which the Ebert
government permitted, if it did not par
ticipate in it, had been successful we
should have seen Ludendorff, Tirpitz
and all the notorious figures of a pre-
vious regime shortly seated in their
old position. We should have been
back in the atmosphere of 1914 and at
the beginning of new period of prep
aration for war of revenge.
Conceivably, Allied influence may now
avail to restore the Ebert government
to power, but it cannot restore it to
popular confidence. The masses, who
have repudiated it as the tool of their
junker tyrants, may consent to swallow
Ebert on their bread if there is no
other way of getting bread, but either
their submission will be temporary
and new uprising come in due course
of time or the junkers will be able by
using the color of Allied approval IT,
regain absolute mastery of Germany
and resume their, old methods and pur-
sue their ancient detectives.
Copyright, 1920, By the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicdte)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

cluded terms which disappointed the
German expectations. Incidentally,
these terms served to discredit the
sham liberal government, and thus sup
piled the reactionaries, the Junkers,
with an opportunity to strike for their
,old position. Against such q blow the
Ebert government was helpless itself,
because it's military establishment was,
in fact, in the hands of the old mill
tary element.
Masses Com plants
How far the Ebert.government as a
whole was party to the recent stroke
Of the reactionaries is matter of con-
lecture. One may recall that Kerensky
was reputed to have agreed to the
Korniloff rebellion and to have lost his
courage at the last moment and thrown
himself into the arms Of Lenine and
Trotzky, thus insuring the ruin of
Korniloff, but insuring the imm ediate
collapse of his own rule. In any event,
Ebert at the final moment seems to
have followed similar course, and pro-
claimed the general strike. This
weapon once unsheathed produced the
situation which in Russia precipitated
the deluge, for it called into power
exactly the elements which had never
accepted the Ebert government, never
ceased to denounce it as a sham and
never hesitated to allege that behind
it was the old gong, awaiting favor
able moment to "come back"
OF the masses, who are now repre-
scented by the communistic and soviet
leaders, it is necessary to remember
that they have very grave and just COM
plants. Their leaders were massacred
by the old militaristic element, with
the passive consent, if not the active
approval, of the Ebert government.
Their brothers were shot down by Prus-
sian soldiers, the real reforms they
sought to bring about were prevented,
and following the bloody repression
there has come in due course, as they
forecast, the counter revolution, de-
signed to restore the Prussian system
and not impossibly some Hohenzollern
to serve as the necessary fgurehead.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
The Dairy Problem,
Farmer Explains WIZ
Many Are Sellinr Or,

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Perhaps the city mil.
sumner would like to know wh.,. wy :,
drop in price of milk for April eo, sa'
from, and why the farmer nro,.s.
against reduction in price whsn ~
cost Of production is higher than :, w sas
been for the last six months. s'
Retail feed priceA Dec. 1919. M.
Wheat bran..... $4s per ton TEA 1924
Gluten feed. 90. sss sssss Per tsa
Ground Ground, oats pats. :ss :. :. SIS
I have a dairy of twenty COW. a..
averaged 5000 pounds Of milk fl, wat :.
year 1919, and employ one man to hi. ~
by the year. Extra help to cut .r.;
lage costs 80 cents an hour. Oar vo.'.
is 365 days per year and from 10, :.
twelve hours per day.
If we are not paid the cost o, No.
duction can you blame the 'dairv fsrr..-
for going out OF business? Nv e.
have been MIXED about seven mo,.,-
and daily production for March /. sos
pounds of milk (S.7 per cent butter fat,
which, at 1878. amounts to 1880
Cost OF production
600 lbs. ensflage ................. ~.
300 lbs hay .................. ~ sy
one man ................ so
Tot,, -
Ao.ai observation-disclosures. tls.;e
A deficit of so cents per day, with nv
own work, three horses and an inyes,.
nent of $4,000 not counted.
Now the April price has been Az.
nounced, 81 cents per hundred love-,
which makes an actual loss of s4.ss no,
day, which will continue till about the
first of June before there will be g,.s,
enough for pasture to make cost ~
production less.
Why the price of milk should +.
lower for February, March and Anil
the farmer has never been able to M.
derstand.
where New York City is prodrc;s,
milk at some Of its institutions IN
Orange County it costs l2 cents No,
quart.
Many farmers are selling their dai.
ries. There were fourteen sales--abou.
500 cows sold-in a ten-mile radius
during the last ten days. If this keeps
on long there will be no surplus.
c. NJ. HOUSTON.
Wisner, N. Y, March 26, 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

YOU can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safeiy--for II dissattsfac-
:icA results Ia any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
TO pay your money back upon request. No rcd tape.
No auibhline. We mako GOOD promptly Il tho
advertiser does not,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

At the moment Of sliding to press,
Nlghthawk. Wash, has not declared
for daylight saving.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

The rising tide Of the high cost of
living, otherwise known as the Perma-
nent Wave, threatens to knock us all
over. And the profteer's message is.
If you know of better universe on
to it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

With an hour more of daylight, it
should be easy for the police to find
Nicky Arnstein.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
AfEAlngR or rHE Assoc1ArEp PRESS

Tic Associated Press Is exclusively entitled the
use for republication OF all dispatches credited
1t otherwise credited III this paper aud
also the local news Of Spontaneous origin published
Sorcln.
All rights Of republication OF all other matter
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

Humphreys, whom she saws
earns upwards of $4,000 a year.
The American.
"'Whom are your said Cyril"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

ROUNDED
Your coming is my springtime. What / feel
Is so apparent, there's no use Of mumming.
Bright eyes and heightened color all reveal
Your coming.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

Nor has Daylight, Tenn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

You set the pulses in my TEMPLES drumr,n,
You are the cause, yet you alone can heal
The malady that sets my blood a-humm;no
When with you I am happy just to kneel
Close to your feet: the joy is wcllniph
numbing.
Oh, lover! Life is love- and love is real.
You're coming!
r
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

Speaking of revising Gilbert, do you
think a letter addressed to Getty
Square, Basingstoke, would reach it's
objective?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

Owned and published daily BY New York Tribune
Inc. New York Corporation Ogden Reid. Prcs-
don't; q. Vernon Rogers. Vice Presidents Hclcn
Rngeu Reid. secrstay: \. + Maxneld Treasurer.
Address. Tribune Building. 1854 Nassau Street, New
York. Telephone. BcskmAn 5000.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Dy mail. including
Fsstase. IN TILE UNTgD STATES AND
CANADA.
One Six One
Year. Months. Month.
p psiS s ana sundr., ..slas.SsSS 500 sSS si9e
Sunday Only ..,.,...,.. 400 200 40
Sunday only Canada...... 500 2s5 .55
FOREIGN RATES
D D:,y AN: and Sunday % lssS 81 s
SInday only .............. 9.t5 ol2 .Sb
Entered a: the rostosnse a, New York as Second
Class Mall Matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

The esteemed, in manner of
speaking, Evening Telegram quotes
Mr. Charles Dana Gibson as saying:
1.-The Moon and L. which was INV
first picture to be accepted, was sug-
gested to me by the song Three Little
Maids From School, which Yum Yum
sings in The Mikado.' Yum. Yum
comes out and looks at the moon as
she sings it." We prefer to think
that Mr.. Gibson was incorrectly
quoted; if he wasn't, we protest
against the revision of Gilbert.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30
GUARANTY

Entered q: the rostofnse a, New York as Second
Class Mail Matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

1t is no astonishing thing that the
farmers are opposed to daylight saw
ing. The average farmer doesn't vet
believe in open windows; and he still
thinks the Night Air Is Bad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

Homer Aids Boston to Conquer
Gants.-Times headline.
Yet the universities are abolishing
Greek.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

Yes, but there never was so much
real sport as there is to-day. In the
'90s most men said farewell to sport.
except the vicarious kind, at the age
Of twenty or so. Now men call up
Columbus 5000 from the golf links or
the tennis court. In the in
terests of accuracy, it should be stated
that before we rode Barnes White
Flyer our mount was a Monarch
Ride Monarch and Keep in Front"
with rams horn handles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-30

y. P. A..