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New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Our Irish Defenders

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: What is the matter with those
Americans whose forefathers settled
the original Thirteen States? Are they
blind to the insults of the mother ma
ton, and can they not see through
the unholy conspiracy to make this an
Anglo-Saxon nation, at least in ideals
1t took an Irish Congressman to
discover that the British had so be-
fooled Pershing as to cause him tc
dress like an English officer. 1t was
an Irish colonel who would not receive
the English clothed American general
in Boston last winter. We all know
the influence which warned the So
called pro-Enghsh American admiral
about the wool being pulled over his
eyes. Only the Irish in this country
protested against the reception to the
Prince of Wales. Only the Irish re-
fused to believe the insidious reports
of insults to American sailors in Dub
lin and other Irish ports.
When it is considered that every
original American state was either
settled or very early developed by
Anglo-SaXons, it seems strange that
their descendants should allow an
alien race so carefully and so unset
tishly to defend America from the
tyranny of British traditions.
EPp ANn rO ppAv
Brooklyn, July 16. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
4 Defense Of Dogma
1t Is the Churches Without Definite
Crecds That Cry For Help
To the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter signed A. E. G., which
appeared in last Sundays Tribune, is
interesting if only as showing that dog
matsm is not confined exclusively to the
churches
No thinking man will deny that there
is mortal sickness abroad in the world
to-day and that it is affecting religious
! as we'll as political systems But
strange as it may seem, the churches
that continue "to preach definite creed
or doctrinal belief" are the ones least
affected. The cry for help comes from
the churches that have eliminated these
essentials from their systems and have
! food from the altar. If, therefore, there
is any question of decay it would ap-
pear to be due, not to creed and doc
trine, but rather to the lack of them.
Religion without doctrine is superficial
sentiment, fed on phrases and ending in
agnosticism.
That intelligent and educated men
think we'll of the churches that still
adhere to a belief in an anthropomorphic
God would appear to be proven by the
fact that so many of them continue to
attend their services.
If there is no shred or scintlla of
evidence to prove the truth of the
Scriptural account of the fall of man,
there is no shred or scintilla of evidence
to disprove it. Evolution is fully as
difficult to prove, as, however low in
the social scale we find man, he always
has will and reason. Professor Jevous
tells US that vast as is the antiquity
of the earliest remains of man, they do
not take us back to a time when he was
ignorant of the art of making either
fire or stone implements. 1t is, there
fore, a matter of mere speculation
whether there ever was such a period of
ignorance. AS matter of fact, man
being the weakest of all animals, it is
difficult to see how he could have sur
v;ved during a period when he was ig-
norant of these arts.
One would not be inclined to call the
fall of man a fundamental dogma of
Christianity, but the Buddhist priest
spoke the truth when he said that
similar story occurs in tSle ancient rel-
gion of Babylonia Christian scholars
are we'll aware of this fact. The Baby
lonian civilization was very old, and if
any record of the beginning of things
existed it would naturally have formed
part of their religious system. The
Buddhist priest might have added that
the Mosaic Law is fully set out in the
! ancient Code of Hammurabi, a wonder
full system of laws drawn up and put
into effect by Babylonian king of that
name, identified by some scholars with
Amraphel, the contemporary of Abra-
ham, who fourished some 2,3O0 years
before Christ.
Christians of all shades of belief will
agree with your correspondent that
Christianity has conquered the world
because its ethics are pure, but they
would be inclined to take strong excep-
ton to the statement that civilization
worked hand in hand with Christianity
in accomplishing this end Unless all
history lies, the civilization of the
period was bitterly opposed to the new
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Ho,U D0icntrodden?
Brooklyn, July IA, 1920

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A letter signed Francis Xavier
Herr appears in your issue of the 18th
from which l quote: "Surely it is typi-
cally American to befriend down
trodden people" 1t would be extreme
ly interesting to me to have some one
Cor the writer of this letter. state
lust what this "downtrodden" condi-
ton is. l was born in Ireland, lived
there for twenty years and have not
the remotest recollection Of ever being
"downtrodden."
Indeed, if / remember correctly, the
Irish enjoyed what Is referred to OF
late as personal liberty to a greater
extent than we do here. Not that
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
The New Centrals

The latest edition of Everyman's
Encyclopedia, guidebook and house
hold compendium, the telephone
book, weighs five pounds and is not
a thing to read in the subway or
slip into a coat pocket. But no
home is complete without it, and it
has no competitor as the best read
volume on the shelf of classics.
Most of this now historic work is
unchanged. But some important al
terations have already been noted in
the names Of telephone exchanges.
Fitz Roy, Lafayette, Glenmore and
Dongan Hills are all new, replacing
Greeley, Bedford, East New York and
New Dorp, respectively. All these
are improvements from every point
of view with the exception of the
first. We do not think it is affection
for a historic name, intimately as
sociated with the past of The Trib-
une, which makes US vastly prefer
Greeley to Fitz Roy and much re-
gret this shift.
There is remote historical back
ground for Fitz Roy, we are aware.
The telephone company bases it's Sc
lection of central names upon the
soundest principles, as a rule, and
Fltz Roy represents an old family
and an old (and forgotten) street in
the middle of the West Side of the
city. But it is an utterly forgotten
name, that has left no mark what
ever upon the present day city. 1t
is practically unknown to present
generatians-there are but two Fitz
Roys in the City Directory-and it
has no association with any great
event or distinguished figure in the
past of the community.
AS for the phonetics of the two
names, it behooves no inexpert out
slider, a mere amateur user of the
telephone, to speak with confidence.
But Fitz Roy is surely a lisping,
alien thing of sleeping car preten-
tiousness alongside of the crisp and
indigenous Greeley. We repeat our
complaint and regrets.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In letter in your issue of the
18th inst. correspondent bcrates those
citizens of Irish extraction or birth
who hold that Irelands cause is in any
degree Americas. That should need
no demonstration to any one who does
not confne to regions of pure theory
those respected documents, the Ten
Commandments and the Declaration of
Wilson's fourteen points or John Red
mond's authorized assurances to the
Irish recruits who fought in Flanders
that the liberty of all small nations
was the issue involved
No nation more than Ireland re-
grets the necessity which, in this
twentieth century at the close of a war
fought to establish democracy, forces
them to appeal to world opinion for the
recognition of their representative and
self chosen government. 1t is even
more astonishing to find that this ap-
peal should be termed an attempt to
dictate policies to American political
parties by means of coercion and
threats. Possibly the tribute to CO.
ercion is being made by those who ac-
quiesce to the British government being
the legitimate ruler and representative
Of the Irish people rather than by
those who grant that prerogative to
the elected representatives of the Irish
republic.
The recent war illuminated the fact
that international relations concern
every country and that the best way
to insure national freedom is to use all
honorable methods to establish world
wide justice and liberty.
Criticism of "the ancestors of most
Americans" as Miss Bailey arbitrarily
terms the British, is an Office which
they have imposed on the Irish people
bv means immeasurably worse than
criticism, by robbing Ireland of liberty
and all it holds most precious. That
the Irish charge of hypocrisy to Brit
ain in its international relations is
not altogether prejudced may be sus-
pected from the fact that Charles
Dickens discovered the same trait in
his countrymen's internal affairs.
DANIEL MOLONY.
Brooklyn, July IA, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
1t. Col. Roosevelt for Governor

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The electoral vote of the State
OF New York may decide the election
IN November; therefore it behooyes
the Republicans to nominate a strong
state ticket in order to enhance the
chances of carrying the state for Har-
ding and Coolidge.
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose-
velt Is 100 per cent American: he
is the son of the foremost man of this
age; he took an important part in
the World War and was esteemed BY
his fellow onacers and beloved by his
men. He would make a particularly
strong candidate before the people for
these reasons:
l. He is a thoroughly capable man.
able to arouse the emotions and awak-
en- the imagination of the masses.
z. AS member of the Assembly he
refused to vote in favor Of expelling
the five Socialists from the Legislature
on the mere ground that they were
members Of the Socialist party.
.. he is a steadfast Republican, Of
iiDerai views and forward tendencies.
4. He has consistently advocated the
right of women to exercise voice and
vote in the affairs of the government.
BY nominating Assemblyman Roose-
welt for Governor the Republicans Of
New York can elect their state ticke.
and insure the electoral vote Of the
Empire State to Harding and Coolidce
EDWIN G. LAWRENCE.
Athol, Mass, July 90 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Fair Weather Yachts

The jeers of the landlubbers at
the postponement of yesterdays
yacht race are richly deserved and
yachtsmen should be the first to ad-
NIT the fact. The Cup races have
developed into contest that is a
test of everything except what should
be the prime quality of every boat,
sca-worthiness. The sooner those in
charge alter the conditions so that
staAch, able craft are compulsory
the better.
Resolute is the Trailer of the two
craft structurally. But Shamrock
" has little to spare, as her behav-
ior in Fridays squall demonstrated.
Neither boat could safely be sent
fifteen miles on a thrash to wind
ward in the wind and sea of yester-
day. Yet any Cape Cod cat-boat
could weather such mild blow-to
say nothing of a Friendship sloop
out of Maine. Small boat shippers
of sturdy craft would blush with
shame at the idea of quitting in such
weather.
There are two things that can be
done. The present racing rule-or
the international rulessMhich it more
or less resembles-is a step in the
right direction so far as soundness
of model goes; but it fails to make
any provision for stanchness. There
should never be another cup race
that does not demand certain min
imum of scantling and seaworthi-
ness. The races should, in the sec
ond place, be held when and where
there will be reasonable certainty
of some heavy weather and much
stiff sailing. The blame for the Sc
lection of the Sandy Hook course in
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Symbols
Ernfr1 PoeffH'

From PoetrD)
BEAUTIFUL words, like butterflies.
- blow by,
With what swift colors on their fragile
wings!-
Some that are less articulate than .
sigh,
Some that were names of ancient,
lovely things
What delicate careerings of escape.
When they would pass beyond the
baffied reach,
To leave haunting shadow and a shape
Eluding still the careful traps of
speech.
And | who watch and listen, lie in wait,
Seeing the cloudy cavalcades blow
past,
Happy if some bright vagrant, soon OF
late,
May venture near the snares of sound,
at last
Most fortunate captor it, from time &c
time,
One may be taken, trembling, in e
rhyme.
DAVID MORTON.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Making Idealism Odious

(From an editorial in The Reule1D)
That Mr.. Wilson has desired to pro-
mote great idcalistic objects we have
never questioned. But something
more than this desire is required to
make a man great statesman" or
even a true 1eader in idealism." In
the latter capacity Mr.. Wilson has in
deed been source of genuine inspira-
ton, source Of spiritual exaltation,
to multitudes; but to other multitudes,
in our judgment both more numerous
and more important, he has made the
very name of idealism odious.
That man is not q true "leader in
idealism" who is sure that the goal to-
ward which humanity has been pain
fully striving for ages can be attained
by stroke of the pen; who is so con-
fident of the potency of his single
strength that he scorns to take &C
count Of difficulties; who sees no diff
ference between the formulation of
an ideal and its achievements; who
holds out certaintics, of which he
unqualifedly pledges the attainment.
things which are manifestly beyond
the limits of possibility, OF things
whose attainment requires coopera-
tion that he takes no steps to bring
about.
The kind of peace which Mr.. Will
son set forth in his New York ad-
dress Of September 27,. 191S-the kind
of peace which, therefore. to the
extent that this address might be re-
garded as binding, Germany had
right to expect under the armistice-
it was no more possible to bring about
than it would have been to abolish
the Rhine or to make German and
French the same language. The
treaty actually drawn up at Versailles
embodied no such impossibility, but
1T did embody a project which, what
ever its merits, required the assent of
a coordinate branch of our govern
ment. This assent Mr.. Wilson, in the
face Of solemn warning of its doubt
fulness, virtually pledged to the Eu-
ropean statesmen as certainty, and
yet, when the pledge was found i'm
possible of complete fulfllment he felt
no obligation to secure such approx
nation to it as was attainable.
If this be idealism, it is idealism
divorced from honest human response
bility; and in that divorce it is the
gaudier, not the homelier, party that
incurs discredit and odium.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Let Sim Feiy1 Settle DO,uy1

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If Mr. Herr could state exactly
how Ireland is downtrodden he might
then be able to cinve some unbiased
American minds that there is some
truth in the Irish propaganda. If the
Sim Fein could only prove to the rest
of Ireland and the world that their
aims are just and that they are work
ing for the betterment of all Ireland
and that they are not merely trying
to obtain control of rich, Protestant
Ulster for their own selfish ends, then,
perhaps, other things being settled,
America would be behind them in their
desire to better mankind. How can
we believe these things, however, when
their name, Sim Fein, means only
yourselves alone? Mr.. Dillon has
said, "The people of Ulster will have
to come down from that proud emil
nence, bow their lofty crests and ac-
cept equality with their fellow coun-
trymen." Do the people of America
want to drag hardworking, practical
and successful Ulster down to the level
of the shiftless, dreaming and revo-
lutionary south?
CAMPBELL R. COKE.
New York, July II, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25

religion. and to confess ones self
Christian was to invite martyrdom.
Humanely considered, Christianity's task
was an impossible one, as it was opposed
not only by the governmental and re-
lgious systems, but by every interest
known in pagan society. Our civiliza
tion Of to-day was brought into being
and nourished by Christianity. and any
connection between them is the natural
relation between creator and created.
AS to the statement that many of the
cardinal virtues were better practiced
by Buddhists than by the Christians, it
is admitted that good men and women
are not the special property of any
race, age or cline. At the same time,
If we eliminate Christianity as the chief
moral force of the world, then good be-
comes purely relative term, and
worshiper of Venus would have been
good and moral in Greece or Rome just
as worshiper of Christ is good and
moral in New York or London. Thus,
while we would agree that many of the
pagans may have practiced some of the
cardinal virtues, a study of their re-
ligious systems would convince US that
they most certainly did not practice all
of them, and the ones they did not prac
tice would, in almost every case, be
found to be the ones we venerate the
most. Buddha, "the deiied denier
of divinity" offers peace, but it is the
peace of annihilation. 1t is release,
not only from evil but from good as
we'll Your correspondent will. l am
sure, agree, that it is not q good reli-
gion for men who have great and noble
tasks to perform. ]. F. RITTER.
Englewood, N j., July 21, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Sugaring
lFror Poetrv)


FLOSE the iron doors and let the fire
~ die,
And the faint night-wind blow through
the broken walls.
The sugar thickens, and the moon is
gone,
The frost threads up the singing rivulets.
| am going up the mountain toward the
stars,
But I should like to lie near earth to-
night
Earth that has borne the furious grip Of
winter
And given a kind of birth to beauty at
last.
Look!-the old breath thrills through
her once again
And there will be passion soon. shaking
her veins
And driving her spirit upward till the
buds
Burst overhead. and swallows find the
Of the sugarhouse untroubled by the
talk
Of men gone off with teams to mend the
roads.
| think / shall throw myself down here
in the snow
So to be very near her when she stirs.
RAYMOND HOLDEN.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
a Week of Verse
On the Trail

From The Freeman
k1ELD upon field Of Indian paint and
daisy,
Mile after mile of hot, white sky
Down the yellow trail three horses plod-
ding lazy
And you and I.
All the little lizards in the sunbaked
lodges
Lie IKE dead leaves wrinkling in the sun.
Ger the worlds shoulders, in the mes
quite hedges,
Thin streams run.
There after sundown we shall halt our
horses,
Take stiff legs from the saddles and the
dust,
And make our camp where, by dwindling
water-courses,
Tall weeds rust.
Out there at nesting time, the great skv
over,
Myriads of ancient stars shall watch us
where we lie,
While clicadas shrill at US, and dim bats
hover
You and I.
On the lone plains where night comes
down like sorrow,
we shall sleep content, with the homeless
wind above,
Weary with the day and fearless of the
morrow,
You and l and love,
HOWARD MUMFoRD JONES.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25

Attorney General Palmer, who has
been an inactive volcano since GER
tain San Francisco event, erupts
again and says
"That he is determined to stop the
alleged extortionate coal prices now
being charged by the operators and
dealers"
A ch-burdened public has been
cherishing hope that the cost of heat
is lower, but it appears that it must
be surrendered.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
The Regular Thing

'fTo"' The Kansas City JourroD
In dynamiting a railway train Villa
may have simply been trying to help US
celebrate the glorious FOURTH" and
thus show his sympathy with America
The explosion of the fireworks few
days ahead OF time is something liable
to occur anywhere-espccially in Mexico.
Everything out there in the shape of
explosions carries 8 hair-trigger at
tAehment.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
DAVID MORTON.
Tropic Rain
From Ainslee's)

tFront AinsIec's)
THE blue lagoon is sudden gray.
The big drops splash against tho
wall,
And on the courtyard's yellow tiles
One after one the almonds fall.
Rose and hibiscus droop in rags,
The tallest palm sways in the breezs.
And petals in sodden purple heaps
Are piled about the china trees.
Then the gray lagoon turns sudden blue.
The downpour stops, the wind is dead.
And from an oleander trunk
A coai-black lizard lifts its head.
MUNA LEE.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Thoughts On ireland
Wherein Some Of Our More Temperate Correspondents
Themselves a Burning Topic
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have any objection to the law which
has put the brewer and the saloon
keeper out of business. I hope some
one may enlighten me.
w. T. DUNCAN.
New York, July Is, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Envyiings
(Fron, Poetry)

WHEN I am warmly bathed,
" And rubbed rosy red,
Cold-creamed to sleek and sweet,
Brushed, braided, gone to bed;
With soft sheets, cool,
And soft warm wool,
Gentle and kind like fur,
l wish that l could purr!
1t seems a gracious thing to do
Expressive, exquisite THANK you''-
Thrilling the body through and through
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
One Bergdoll Surrenders

/, "hen Erwin .Bergdoll, brother Of
!. ,.' more notorious Grover, and, like
!. a' draft dodger, surrendered to
.@' military authorities he could
''as' OF complete success in elud-
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] I
A S ONE grows old,

A S ONE grows old,
- And understands much folly,
Especially the joke of being wise;
And all things are revealed
In humorous melancholy,
To seeing and discerning eyes:
There is desire to flap the wings
And toot
A cynical and mocking, bleak
"Hoot! Hoot.''
KATHERINE WISNER MCLUSKEY.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25

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