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New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
Milk Bottle Waste
A Simple Plan for Ending
Negligent Loss and Expense
10 the Editor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In one of our dailies there ap-
peared, several weeks ago, a communi-
cation regarding the high cost of milk
in New York, and referring to the
"loose methods" the milk companies
have Of collecting empty bottles. The
writer stated that in the cellar of the
apartment house in which he lived
there must be more than = hundred
bottles which had been there more than
year. He suggested a charge of five
or ten cents by the milk companies.
have suggestion to offer; it may
not be worth much, but it is based
upon an experience Of trial extend
ing over many months, and it is, so far
as I am able to Judge, success. 1t
is this:
We keep on hand a cream jar of the
size we usually buy, pint and
quart milk bottle. If we want a Jar of
cream we place the empty cream jar
outside our door and the milk man
replaces it with jar of cream; if we
wish pint of milk we put out the pint
milk bottle, or if we wish a quart of
milk we put out the empty quart
bottle. In this manner we indicate
to the milk man just what we wish, no
unnecessary bottles are accumulated in
our apartment and the milk company is
not kept out Of the use Of more than
the three bottles-or rather, not more
than one or two of them.
If the milk companies would require
that customers place outside empty
bottles which would indicate what the
customer wishes left each morning the
empties would return to the companies
very promptly, no milk or cream to be
left where no empty bottles are found:
the lack of empty bottles to be inter
preted as "No milk Cor cream) desired
to-day" Ed w
New York. Feb. IL, 1920.
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With All His Worldly Goods

The exile at Amerongen has pos
sessions in Germany whose list is
formidable even in a hasty summary.
There are castles and forests, villas.
houses in Berlin and other cities.
presumably we'll rented. What his
total income may be is matter Of
surmise. But it is much greater
than he can possibly need for the
modest remainder of his days, even
If his natural term of life should not
be shortened by law. He has offered
to hand over--in return for a con-
sideration - various belongings for
which he has no further use; but
these are few in comparison with
the whole. So there are murmurs
among the Germans that he could
III part atone for the miseries he has
visited upon his country by turning
the bulk of his property over to the
state.
That he would not do this will
l1ngly may be taken for granted.
There Is nothing to show that he
has the slightest consciousness of
the evil he has wrought The role
OF martyr more appeals to his the
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Hungary's Agony

Developments in Hungary con-
t'nue to be of sad character. The
Magyar leaders defy not only the
surrounding states but the major
powers of the Entente as well.
count Apponyi and his associate of
the Magyar delegation at Paris pro-
Tess lip service to the principles of
humanity and democracy, but at home
Admiral Horthy. who ls a virtual
dictator behind the dummy Premier
Huszar, puts down the doctrine that
1.-The territorial integrity Of Hungary
Is a necessity of worldwide impor-
tance, and cannot be upset by the
megalomania of a crazy Paris law
yer" BY this he means M. Clemen-
eeau.
Professor Roland Hegedus, reputed
TO be moderate" says Hungary
must become kingdom again, but
that whoever desired the crown of
Hungary must recover her lost ter
ritory." Militarist infatuation in
The press assumes proportions un-
paralleled even at the height Of the
wartime enthusiasm Of 1914-'15.
One 9hauvinist sheet, close to the
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The Solitary Hitchcock
With everybody doinr # T. IN,

With everybody doing it, it indi-
Gates intellectual sterility not to have
your own brand of reservation to
Article x. There is such catho-
icity and variety Of taste abroad
that the worst possible case of
reservation may hope to be some
body's darling.
In the happy throng bobs the
pudgy, giggling figure, with broad
hat and broader cheeks, that
Brother Taft has led to the floor.
Near by, with a gentleman who
seems not altogether we'll, is young
woman whose side view is normal
but who, looked. at from the front or
back, is seen to have had her heart
cut out. Then there is a svelte
creature with Boston Bag and her
only ornament Goldfish, beaued by
an oldish young fellow who laughs
as he wheezes that the initials
II. c. L. do not always signify High
Cost Of Living. The crowd is so
thick and the reservation debutantes
so resemble one another that it is
difficult to distinguish among them.
One exclalms, as did the colored
gentleman who counted the sheen
leaving the pasture, "Dar goes
anudder!"
Who is the tall and somber per-
son who glowers darkly at the
merry party? Candor compels the
admission that it is the melancholy
Hitchcock. He refuses to mate.
He brought no companion, and
neither among the wallhowers nor
the other fellows girls does he find
anything suited to his taste. The
unfortunate man stands about as a
killjoy. When askA to say what
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
The Police to the Rescue

The "finest" have earned the
good will of New Workers on num-
Der Of occasions, ranging from riots
up and down. Only the other day
police lieutenant in command of
police launch made as handsome
sea-going rescue off the sands of
Long Island as any coast guard
could hope to brag of. The list
to praise is long, but never, we
think, did the bluecoats inspire
warmer feelings in the hearts of
grateful fellow citizens than in the
last few days, when, shovel in hand,
they have made the snow fly as no
shovelers ever made it fly before.
Three thousand Of these husky
public servants were on the Job
yesterday. There was no false pride
in their makeup. They gave no
slightest sign that they considered
their uniforms 'too good for the
job" To the contrary, judging
actions and results, they felt that
the uniform was exactly where it
belonged-rescuing New York from
one Of It's worst predicaments-and
that the only obligation it inspired
was to dig harder and faster than
any other shovelers who have yet
been on the job.
1t is a fine exhibition of the right
public spirit that these men are Civ
ing, and the city should be proud
of them and duly appreciative and
grateful. We think that it is.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
American Crews
. Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The ratio of progress and de-
velopment OF the Junior Naval Re-
serve movement, with which you prob
ably are familiar, is dependent very
largely upon the securing Of suitable
men who are willing to become COM
mandants of local posts. l am. there
Iore' addressing this communication TO
Ihe Tribune, with the hope that it.
may reach the eyes of retired naval
officers who haven't grown so old q s to
lack interest in boys and who NAV
feel like helping forward this Junior
naval work, which is also q work in
behalf OF an Americanized merchant
marine
10 those who are interested we will
be glad to send full printed matter
and information regarding the extent
OF the movement, with the view of
ellciting their active cooperation. This
request will apply to all parts of the
country
Ihe United States Junior Naval Re-
serve has a membership exceeding 10
ooo OF the nations representative men
ana women in every state. These mem
bers are all interested in the successful
establishment of local training post
OF Junior Naval Reserve cadets in their
vicinity.
AS an evidence of the practical re-
suits OF this movement, 1 might add
that during the last year the Junior
Naval Reserve "sent to sea" more than
100 boys. In 1920 that number will be
largely increased.
EDWARD A. OLDHAM
Executive Secretary.
New York, Feb. 12, 1920.
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Hard to Let Go

One hour the name of Attorney
General Newton is signed to q brief
which argues that the suspended AS
senlblymen violated the espionage
law, and it was implied that the evil
dence taken by the Judiciary Com
mittee would be referred to the Fed
eral District Attorneys as basis for
criminal prosecution. Such ref.
erence and prosecution would, of
course, automatically call off further
proceedings at Albany.
But before the ink used to publish
this news is dry along comes state
ment by the Attorney General say
ing that he was not a party to any
such buck-passing, get-from- under
plan - that he recognized that it
would be grossly improper to deny
in this manner all opportunity to
offer a defense.
1t seems as plain to the Judiciary
Committee as to any one else that
the prosecution has failed to make
out any case of personal guilt
against the suspended Assembly,
men. So it maneuvers to get its
hands from the bears tail at min
imum Of risk, Hence the shouts to
the Federal authorities to get busy
under the espionage act. There is
about as much chance of getting the
Administration to accept the invita-
tion as there is prospect of Hylan
cleaning the streets. Imagine Tum-
ulty helping out Brother Sweet in
so sweet and vnselfish a manner!
There is sometimes bipartisanship,
but not in their most chummy days
did political machines ever 90 so far
In mutual helpfulness. There is no
desire OF any one to divide credit
with Messrs. Sweet, Barnes and
Stanchfield.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
A Still Unsolved Problem

The problem of how to have a
handsome family Of, say, four chill
dren and be a great artist in one
and the same lifetime is still un-
solved-providing, that is, that you
are a woman. The truth is the
truth, and we do not see any harm
in the efforts Of our playwrights to
demonstrate this truth, as Mr.. James
Forbes and Miss Rachel Crothel.
have done so successfully.
There is 4 fundamental physical
burden involved in bearing children
and bringing them up that our radi-
Gals have been little too ready to
ignore. If you are prepared for the
naturalization Of children you can
facilitate feminine genius consider
ably. But even our best feminists
hesitate over this proposal. The
communal creche has won very little
way, especially since the institu-
tional care of children received closer
analysis and it became clear that
even the ordinary home, a strange
one at that. was better than most
asylums.
IT you cannot check your children
while you paint or warble or sing or
design cathedrals, what can you do?
You can stay unmarried or stay
childless; or you can postpone your
genius-put it in cold storage until
your flock is grown and your first
ties are released. None Of these
possibilities is wholly satisfactory.
Children are valuable and ilnpor-
tant events even in the life of a
genius, it is agreed. AS for the de-
layed Towering Of genius, it perhaps
offers the best opportunity to-day
for the woman of talent who can
wait that long. If woman mar.
ries at twenty she is astonishingly
empty-handed at forty or forty-five,
for children grow up and fit before
you know it. And in the forties one
is just about ripe for work-pro-
vided all taste for it and all tech
nique have not been buried beneath
a mound of family cares.
We quarrel chiefly with Miss
Crothers over her stage husband.
The problem does not lie with him,
we think. The husband who mar
ries a woman of unusual gifts is
glad to have her use them nowadays.
we think, more often than not. So
much ground feminism has won. The
husband has consented. Society has
yielded. 1t is only the children and
nature who stand out against a
woman's going full tilt as woman
and as artist throughout her life.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14

governments heart, the NenSet,
Uisaq, declares that "the national
army is the foundation Of our ex-
istence. 1t will be the foun-
dation Of our future glory and the
backbone Of our inevitable recon-
struction."~ Another, the Vi Mem
xedek, referring to the Treaty Of
Neuilly, announces: "The peace of
Europe will be broken in the moment
this brutal piece Of injustice be-
comes reality" The papers point
out that to-day the troops Of Ad-
miral Horthy form the one well
equipped and disciplined army in the
eastern half Of Europe save that of
Poland, and the latter is engaged
against Soviet Russia.
None the less outspoken are the
members of the Cabinet. Not long
ago Mr.. Benes, the Czecho-Slovak
Foreign Minister, offered to lend eco
nomic aid to Hungary. To this Mr..
Rubinek, the Magyar Minister of
Agriculture, haughtily replies that
Hungary will have nothing Of the
sort until political differences are
smoothed out'-or, in plain English,
until the Prague government re.
nounces Slovakia.
And Premier Huszar, Admiral
Horthy's megaphone, appeals to the
Magyar electorate with the following
flourish: eve shall hold ourselves
forever to the resolution formed to-
day, that we shall never renounce
the territorial integrity Of the coun-
try. To-day we are weak and must
carry our cross. But we shall never
surrender millenary Hungary"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
Canada's Just Demand

Among all the peoples of the world
the friendship of no one is more
needed by the United States than
that of our neighbors to the north,
the Canadians.
Their territories join ours along
three thousand miles of border. The
Canadians now number 10000, 900,
and within the lives Of those now
living will number 50,O00,0O0. They
are now a great nation and destined
to be greater one. Closer to US in
every respect than any other people,
it would be a crime against the
future to provide any basis for COM
plant. 1t is probably not going too
tar to say it is more important to US
to have Canada's esteem than to join
the league.
1t is thus not good craftsmanship
to put sort of stigma on Canada
by saying she is not good enough to
sit with us on terms Of full equality
in the assembly of the league Of ma
tions. To have it appear that we
vetoed Canada's just aspiration for
honorable recognition would work q
grave injury to our own country.
What counts is not what the British
think or the Irish think about Cana
dian representation, but what the
Canadians think. We cannot afford
to have Canada out even though she
were willing to stand aside.
An American of sense and fair
ness would not find it easy to an
swer Canadian friend who might
say to him: you put Cuba, Pan
anna, Hayti, Santo Domingo, your de-
Tendencies, in the league, but you
we're unwilling to trust u.s. Why?"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14

the nth power all over the globe Car
ried out it would give us a president
of "free" Delaware and Of every county
of every state in the union There is
higher principle. The solution of
India and the Irish question is not a
split-off. England needs blend of
the Irish character. America needs
ireland; Ireland needs both The solu-
ton is union of all three Let Ire
land insist that if England and Ire
land hold together, as they should,
England shall take the United States
into partnership in Irish matters, so
that the superstate in Irish affairs
shall not be England alone but Eng
land, Ireland and America.
MORRISON l. SWIFT.
Boston, Mass, Feb. 10, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14

atrical sense. Yet martyrdom may
easily be achieved through poverty.
William did not have the spirit Of
the soldier; nor did he, having
drawn the sword, perish by the
sword. A personal heroism, which
might have served as a sort Of re-
demption of his life, was quite be-
yond him. TO give up all he has
beyond bsrc competence in order
to tighten the heavy load Of indem-
nifty might be part settlement with
his creditors. But he prefers COM
plete moral bankruptcy.
The German people, at least, could
do nothing better at this time than
seize these castles and villas and
forests and sell them for the benefit
% the depleted national treasury.
That would be help in paying for
the mischief he and they did.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
The Trainman's Lot
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Reading your editorial on the
proposed railroad mems strike this
morning, I cannot help wondering if
you are in the same state of lack
knowledge that I was about the facts
or this matter until the other night.
The trainman on the commuters last
hope, on which I get home nights. is
an affable, intelligent man. He has to
be to handle his job and the people
that he runs up against in the course
OF day. He works ten hours a day,
thirty days month, has family, is a
good American and good citizen. His
salary is now S12o month. Last sum-
ner, at the time Of the wage readiust-
ment, his organization was promised
$3.50 a month, but they got only s12o.
They were asked to stomach it on the
ground of patriotism and with the
promise Of lower living costs. Most of
them being intelligent men, and appar-
emily moro patriotic than most of lis.
they did it, and have been patiently
waiting for the cost of living to come
down or to get what they were prom
ised ever since.
Now. he says that if they don't give
him enough to live on he is going to
get job wheeling ashes in a factory
he knows of at $50 week. And he can
DO 1t, and before long he'll be doing
skilled work at much better wages
because he is an intelligent man. As
a matter of fact, men shoveline ashes
on the same road for which he works
are getting $44 week as steam
shovelers.
Now, do you call his attitude a hold
up?
And don't you think you could use
your influence to pretty good advantage
IN boosting for the asked-for raise for
that type of worker anyway?
ELLIOTT W. HAYES,
Boonton, N. j., Feb. 12, 1920.
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Efficient Telephone Bills

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: !, too, as Tribune reader,
and in regard to the inefficiency of the
New York Telephone Company, wish
to say that if they would only use the
same methods in the phone service
as they do in sending their bills out
monthly, it sure would be Al.
1t is safe bet that on the let
OF every month your phone bill is de-
llvered by mail. 1t never fails. Whv
not suggest, too, that the public paw
their bills according to service re.
ceived?
But, as before mentioned, it cer-
tainly is marvellous, the system thev
have pertaining to bills for service
that is positively maddening and dis
graceful to New York City.
AN INTERESTED TRIBUNE READER
New York, Feb. IL, 1920.
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he wants he shakes his head. When
besought to choose from among
the goods offered he shakes his head
again. "I'm a mule" he says, and
turns around to get the largest
possible area under command Of
his heels.
He who will not when he may
often may not when he would. 1t
Is greatly to be feared that the
unpleasable Hitchcock will soon be
dancing solus if he dances at all
The treaty is to be ratified and with
a reservation to Article X.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
Quagn1ire Streets
Let Responsibility for Neglect Of
Dutu Be Fixed
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Three weeks ago last Saturday
the streets of the city were q quagmire
of slush, which at the time could have
been readily washed with hose into
the sewers. Instead, it remained and
a serious obstruction and rendered
greatly more difficult through the
Mayors belated and unscientifc han
ding of the recent snow storm, with
which the administration appeared to
be totally unprepared to contend.
In consequence Of this shameful
neglect Of New York County the traf-
fic and transit have been paralyzed.
The people have been subjected to un-
sanitary crowding and enormous waste
Of time and business to incalculable
losses. The poorer quarters are af-
ficted with the unremoved snow-slush
now--and uncollected refuse. 1t is they
more than any others, who suffer most
and will pay in disease and death. The
results of and responsibility for all of
these conditions should be fastened
where they belong and their evasion
should not be tolerated.
The situation obviously exhibits so
serious degree of neglect of duty as
to warrant a thorough investigation
rather than casual Indifference or ex-
cuse. 1t provokes a thought with
which the public prosecutor of the
county should be familiar. 1t is per-
tlnent now to recall and to emphasize
the repeated contention of the extraor-
dinary grand jury that inquiries
should be made into the municipal and
county offices. E. G. M.
New York, Fob. II, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
An Anglo-American Ireland

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The attacks. on England the
other evening in Boston by Senators
David Walsh and Reed were unintelli-
gent, ignoble and anti-American. 1t
Is the popular fashion now to pound
England in grateful return for the
terrible loss Of life and wealth she
suffered in saving America from Ger
man conquest while we loafed apart.
corresponding with our all-highest
patron, the Kaiser, and getting rich
England saved us. 1t matters not that
she saved herself in the process; she
saved US, and the return we are max
ing her is as shameful as that of
man who besmirches the character of
one who has saved his life.
De Valera scornfully said the other
day that what she England wants
10 make provision for is the perpetual
tion OF her domination of the seas by
.ne control of the great Irish har-
oors." Of course, that is what she
wants and should want, and it is also
"hat we and the Irish should want
ior if England loses control of the
sea we, America, and Ireland ara gone
ohly that saved us both; only that
now protects US both
some lrishmen trusted Germany and
wanted the British Empire smashed
ana1 was CHASTITY anti-Irelandism
"nat would a Hohenzollernized Ire
laho = have been? Germany's catspaw
n1ss' and then the whole cat in the
os1man stomach. The Irish nature is
- oear to the German nature a. fire
is to water.
me Wilsonian hallucination Of SELF
sssefmnation Of ell peoples as the su-
pfeme principle has raised havnc -
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Too Much Generosity

ffrom The Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Clemenceau was defeated because he
yielded too much to the English and
Americans, President Wilson is repu-
dated by the Senate because he yielded
COO much to the French and English,
and Lloyd George faces defeat because
ne yielded too much to the Americans
and French. The next big war the
leaders VIII play safe by going to the
front Of the battle lines and sending
substitutes to the peace confsrsnca.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-14
Ballade of a Polygamous Heart

Sylvia, Gwendolyn, and Flo;
Janet and Marie;
Dora, Mary Jane, and Jo;
Belle, Andromache,
Frances, Katharine, and Bee:
Blanche and Caroline;
Gladys, Emma, Lalagc-
Be my valentine!
Ethel, Edna, Doris, O.
Phelia, Dorothy,
Claribel Kezia, Lo-
La, Penelope,
MAZDA, Margaret, and New
Sa and Geraldine;
Sallie, Grace, and Emily
Be my valentine!
Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Low,
Mrs. Cassidy,
Miss McComas, Miss De veau,
Mrs. McAtee,
Mrs. Ferber, Miss DuPree,
Mrs. Rosenstein,
Mrs. Glass and Miss McGee-
Be my valentine!
LENvoI.
Queens and princesses, to 70
Goes this heart of mine.
Willow waly, pity mel
Be my valentinel
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Eternal Dryness2
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: Your very interesting article ON
Heavenly Golf" to-day, while fine.
deals more with niblicks and bunk.r.
leaving the most important angle Of
the game in doubt.
what assurance can the writer Of
tne article give as to the continuance
o. 1he nineteenth hole and a SUNDAY
afternoon game ON the eternal cour.as !,
THEODORE s. HALF.
New York, Feb. IL, 1920.
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Circumlocution
How the Treasury Treated a
BondhoIder

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: inciose a copy of a letter 1
have to-day sent to the Secretary OF the
Treasury, names being omitted, which
may throw some light upon the work
ings of one of our circumlocution offices
and be of some public interest.
EDWARD H. WILSON
New York, Feb. 7, 1920.
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