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New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Basketball or Football?

The revulsion against the forward
pass in football was bound to come
for variety Of reasons. That such
an eminent authority as Percy D.
Haughton, of Harvard, now takes the
lead in criticizing it is highly sig
nificant. His specific criticism is
against the rule which let's an in
completed forward pass, not caught
by the opposing team, revert to the
team which started the play. Treat
such a knocked down pass as a
blocked kick is his suggestion. The
practical effect of this change would
be to compel the protection of the
passes exactly as the kicker is pro-
t. cted, and thus reduce the number
of men eligible to receive the pass
from five to three or possibly two.
From the spectators point of
view the incompleted forward pass
does more to destroy pleasure in
the game than any other feature. 1t
halts proceedings, puts the game
back and generally curbs excite
ment. So far from adding to the
thrills by forcing an open game, it
is probable that the forward pass
has distinctly lessened tension and
zest.
The criticism Of Mr.. Haughton de-
serves careful consideration. The
open game has come to stay if it
can be achieved without sacrificing
the essential elements of American
football. The question to be faced
is whether there has not already
been more basketball than is whole
some injected into the game. The
present 8 Jms an admirable time
for taking account of the situation
and applying the best brains OF the
football world to q review Of the
whole topic.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
My Horse
{ From GotHAnes,s

(From Sorb~e-s>
'hE future called, 1 could but 20
On you and childhood close the r.t..
You missed the Boy, sh, we'll know.
Though darkness shrouds your after
fate,
o Strong and Beautiful and GrestI
Your neck was archcd In lordly pride
When last loosed your stcsminx
girth
And nung my useless spurs aside,
Here IN the Wild land Of your birth
10 let stranger prove your worth.
Not yours to sense the fevercd strain
That heeds net love nor rest nor
place;
Unconscious all Of parting pain.
You bent your head with loving grace
In comradeship against my face.
The land still holds It's princely dead.
Forget? How could this land forget,
Its canyons echo still your tread,
Against the blue It's ridges yet
Give back your staiwsrt silhouetta.
And Memory whistles through these
hills
TIL you como rompinr down the
yearsi
On phantom winds your neighing shrilIs.
Your hoof-beats thunder in nv ears
'Tis Boyhood's waking heart that
hears!
Far sink the suns their flaming lights:
Great stars from shadow heights are
drawn;
And through the nower-scented nights
With spark and fash our fight speeds
From golden dawn to golden dawn.
Somewhere in this fair land, trust
Some silent, sun-w warmed, star-loved
place
The grass is greener for your dust,
Some pendant leaf floats richer eracs.
Some flower lifts sweeter face.
But If from out the clinging past
On shores behind the shadows grim.
The things we loved are ours at last.
Your form awaits me, proud and slim.
Your hoofs are stamping at the rim
HARLEY r. WILEY.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Bohemian Town
From Poetr1)

From PoetrD)
A ARMY of geese cross the prairie
by day.
Az sundown they stream in gray and
white professionals through the
streets;
Bohemian ice sits on his stoop
Dreaming into the smoke of his pipe,
Dreaming Of boy in Bohemia.
Back Of him lies settlement of squat
houses,
And women with lowered shawls Rre
calling the geese.
The cleaning coaches Of the Burlington
express
Flash through the street in front of him.
Beyond the railroad track lives another
race.
Bohemian Joe has not learned the new
language and the new ways,
But his children have crossed the track
And are teaching American In the pub.
Lie schools. LAURA SHERRY,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
That Rejected Million

Scoffing and a certain sympathy
combine in most reactions to the de-
clsion by young Mr.. Garland of
Back Bay and Cape Cod, to throw
his million out the window. Most
of us have our great problems put
up to US before we are old enough
to solve them wisely-usually We
learn most Of our wisdom by our
errors in these very premature de-
clslons. To have a million thrust in
ones face along with ones first
razor is little like asking a baby
to run before he can creep.
Naturally, there is vagueness in
Mr.. Garland's rationalizing Of his act.
He does not swallow the communist
theory whole-hc expressly disowns
a belief in equal rewards. Merits
are unequal and rewards must be
unequal, he comedies. 1t is appar-
emily inheritance alone that he
would delete from the capitalistic
system. But even here he stumbies.
The money Is to be held in trust for
his children. Thus, he recalls the
great Iolstoy, who rid himself Of
the uncleanness Of wealth by letting
his estate 60 to his wife who there
after fed and clothed him as ne
dreamed.
But, as Mr.. Herbert Hoover. a
stanch progressive, once pointed out,
to rush ahead and destroy inheri-
tance entirely is to destroy one Of
the largest incentives to ambition
inheritance may be limited-it has
been increasingly restricted and
limited in America ever since the
foundation Of the country, from the
abolition of entail down to Califor
MAS graduated Inheritance tax
without impairing this motive for
laboring and saving. What Mr.. Gar
land apparently has in mind goes
great deal further and would reduce
every man to working for the pres
ent involved in his own span of life
and enjoying his day while it lasted.
So the general progress along
these lines will necessarily have to
be tedious. 1t will have to be worked
out slowly by cautious experiment
and observation. Mr.. Garland could
live first and learn afterward, the
common method Of individuals. be it
said. The world learns by all our
blunders, and thank goodness that
it does.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
A Patriotic Sacrifice

Mollycoddles are not wanted at
Northwestern University. The dean
Of the institution suspects that too
many of them arc there already. He
has told the assembled students that
they are in danger of becoming "pink
tea hounds" Presumably pink tea
hound is not as dangerous as a
lounge lizard, but it is a creature
not to be encouraged. Brace up
and make fighting school Of it," he
says.
His counsel Is not merely general;
it goes into details. He urges that
those not on the football team should
refrain from going out with girls
while the football season lasts. He
does not appear to object to the in
fucnce Of feminine society in itself,
but says there are circumstances in
which 1t is inappropriate. The North
western football players, who "can't
take their sweethearts to social func-
tions, resent seeing them 10 out with
other Students" This jealousy is a
familiar human weakness difficult TO
rcprobate. The dean submits that
the consequent worry causes their
football prowess to suffer.
His conclusion that the ethical
thing for those who do not play is
to abstnin for the time from social
pleasures is logically irrcfragablc.
Tie corollary is that "thc girls
ehou'd refuse TO 70 out with them" "
Ii this sacrifice in the cause Of cdu-
cation too much to ask? An insti-
tuition Of learning defeated at foot
ball Is pitable thing. But will
not tho Rhadamanthine dean permit
the girls to be present at tho games
Would not all chance Of winning
thon be lost IL they were absentf
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Goods Still Flow Out

Confident economic assumptions
are upset by the startling increase
of our October balance of trade.
The exports for the month totalcd
$752,000,000, against $6O5, 900, 900
for September last, and $632, 1000, 900
for October, 1919. Imports for Octo-
Der were 100000, producing
balance in our favor of $500, 100000,
the largest for any month this year.
1t has been said repeatedly by
expert prognosticators that the
United States couldn't continue to
export on large scale because Of
foreign exchange conditions and the
exhaustion Of foreign credit. Yet
the rest of the world goes on buying
twice as much from US as we buy
from it. And foreign exchange rose
last week In the bargain.
The Secretary of the Treasury
was recently implored by represent
atives Of the cotton growers to
create a vast credit here to be used
in financing German purchases of
raw material. He refused to lend q
hand. And he might have justified
his skepticism by quoting the Treas
ury Departments export and import
figures. For the ten months ending
October 81 this year exports were
S6,S32 100000. For the first ten
months of 1919 they were $780,
100000. The outflow of goods con-
tinues undated. And the position of
the exporters has been strengthened
by the fact that imports the first
ten months of this year were three
times the value of imports for the
first ten months of 1919, despite a
recent downward tendency in prices.
In the end, doubtless, the experts
will be vindicated, but the process is
slow. There is so far no evidence to
be found in our current trade statis-
tics of collapse Of foreign purchas-
ing power. 1t must be that our bust
ness concerns, in their private
capacities, have given more credit
than is commonly supposed, and
speculation grows dizzy as it tries to
estimate what would have been the
volume of our exports if the govern
ment had also given credits.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

said: "To even discuss the exclusion
Of Ulster or any portion of Ulster
from a Home Rule measure is in
itself traitorous. When God made
this country He fixed it's frontiers
beyond the power of man to alter
while the sea rises and falls"
The Sim Fein organization was
the enemy Of the United States, and
has steadily opposed self-dctermina-
ton. 1t is inconceivable that such
an organization in any true sense
represents the majority of the Irish
people.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
A Week of Verse
a F February ROUNDED

tFron The London Aercury N ph,eh ~.
pears this note: These poems ~, ,,bsss
through the kindly oDices of Hr. T ! N-,ss
t"sI te'c J0NRd b. hinl among the urDub
ns"ed papers preserved az The Ptres and
S'SboSed o. by Mr. Varls- Dueton oftr-
EHE heavy day hangs In a heaven Of
lead
Sick-hearted, like a blind hurt beast
astray
On paths where light scarce lishtened
ere 1t fed
The heavy day.
The hollow darkness holds tn. LIGHT a.
bay:
Cloud against cloud, reluctant. vet makes
head:
Hour against hour, wins-broken. vet
makes way.
Time hath no music in his darklir,
tread.
The wind no heart to wall. the sun ne
sway,
Ere night with starry shadow svaths.
her dead,
The heavy day.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
A Change of Meaning

From The Philodcfr6ia Euenino Public
Lcdyrr)
There was y time when "Hoovcrism"
and "Hooyerized" stood chance Of
being incorporated in the language, Ike
"Fletcherism" and "Fletcherized'' or
Boycott or Banting; and if the capab e
engineer had dropped into ohscurity
assaredly the name would have sur
vived. But because he has rot dropped
into obscurity. but has remained an
encrgizing factor in our national l.f.
trd seems happily destined to remain
80. "Hoovcrism" as implying restricted
diet Is likely to die or give olace .
"Hoovefism" which will mean some-
thing entirely different.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

the Department Of Agriculture. The
employment service and tho en-
ployees' commission are with the
Department Of Labor, but whether
they should be transferred is open
tI question.
There are other minor bureaus
that should be included in the work
OF a social welfare department.
and the bill provides for their trans.
Ter by the President, The work pro-
posed by the Shepard -Towner bill
for maternity and infant care would
naturally fall under such a depart
ment.
While not specifically pledging the
creation Of department of social
welfare, the platform of the Repub-
lican party on which Mr.. Hardinp.
was elected has this to say:
"The public health activities Of the
Federal government are scattered
Shrougn numerous departments snd
bureaus, resulting in incfficicncy. du-
pilcation and extravaganza. We advo-
cate greater centralization Of thu
Federal functions and in addition urge
the better coordination of the work
of the Federal, state and local health
agencies"
The Republican platform thus
recognizes the need of centraliza-
ton. And 1t Is obvious Capitalization
can best be secured through action
at Washington.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
10 America Slipping?
To the Editor Of Ths Tribune.

To the Editor Of Ths Tribune,
Sr' Your correspondents an B."
and Fcntion Johnson, like the majority,
are evidently ignorant Of the essential
dnta Of biology and authropology
data which arc readily available In q
vast and ever increasing literature on
the subject, data which In fairness 1t is
every ones duty to acquire before at
tempting to refute the deductions bnscd
upon them. III. BIS" first error is to
confuse nationality with race. Race is
Fundamental, bological; 1t Is the phys
lea! and psychical potentialities with
b. heredity and in accordance with
certain hereditary laws. Nationality is
grated upon the newborn child from
the hour of Its birth by environment
and education, using that term In It's
brondcst sense. Such characteristics
are not transmissible by the germ
plasm, but must bo acquired by each
generation in turn. Therefore, when
"H. B." speaks Of Greeks, Rama mans,
Italians, Poles, Danes, Dutch, Japanese,
etc, no Is sepaking of nationalities, not
Of races.
There are only three main divisions
Of the white CD race-ihe Nordics,
long headed, tall, blond; the Alpincs,
round headed. thickset, medium col
! ored, and the Meditcrraneans, long
headed. short. brunei. Every nation
ality In the white world is COM
posed of various mlxtures--not combi-
natlons--of two or more Of these ethnic
elements. or these elements tho MeUi-
terrnnean has inhabited Europe since
Upper Paleolithic tmes, about 10000
years, and forms nearly everywhere the
substratum Of the population. The
Nordic, the most highly difIerentiaie ID
of ali human varieties, has repeated
saturated Europe In recurrent weyea
of migration from his homeland In the
North since about 5000 b. c. The Al
pine race, much more mixed, less
clearly defined variety, has invaded
Europe from Asia and occupies al the
central belt OF Europe from Brittany,
in France, eastward into Asia, and ns
one progresses eastward the Alpincs
are less and less Caucasian (?) in ap-
pearance ard more and more Mon
golian, until eventually they merge in
the Mongol people Of Central Hsia.
The British Isles arc inhabited in
greater part by Nordcs over a sub
stratum of Mediterranean, a substratum
that becomes predominant among the
lower classes in London and other large
cities and in ali classes II Wa.es and In
Ireland, with the exception of Ulster.
The United States WAS celonized by
Nordic INN grants IN whom the Medi-
terranean elemont was present in Il
much smaller proportion than In Eng
.lnnd itself. and by Dutch, who arc pre-
dominantly Nordio. These elements
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
The Sinn Fem

In recent discussions in this coun-
try concerning Irish affairs question
has been raised as to the attitude Of
the Sim Fein orga niZation toward
Germany and its true attitude toward
the principle Of differentiation.
With respect to both of these mat
ters abundant evidence clearly re-
veals the truth. The Sim Fein now
denies that it was for Germany and
asserts its devotion to the principle
Of elf-determination. The denial
IS untrue and the assertion is hypo-
critical.
Leaving out of view what the
Sim Feiners did to our boys at Cork
because they had crossed the sea to
fight Germany, let US consider what
was openly said by the Sim Fein
press.
AS far back as 1900 The United
lrishman spoke of the alliance be-
tween former Irishmen and Ger
mans in the United States as "a well
come feature of contemporary poll
tics" In 1912 Sim Fem, recogniz-
ing that if Germany came to Ireland
she would come to stay and would
rule the Atlantic from Irish shores,
welcomed German domination. "She
will give US better TERMS" the official
lnouthpiece Of Sim Fein declared,
than England offers. We
have no doubt whatever that Ire
land under German rule. would be
more prosperous than she has ever
been under the rule of England"
In 1911 Irish Freedom published,
with Endorsement, a letter from John
Dewey. of New York, which predict
ed the war with Germany, said that
Ireland must fight either for Eng
land or against her, and left no
doubt az to his choice. When tho
war came Irish Freedom published
IN capitals across its first page the
motto, Germany Is Not Ireland's
Enemy"
In 1915 the publication Of Fire
Ireland was begun, with Arthur
Griffith as editor. Its first number
carried an article by Roger Case
rnent, subsequently executed for try
ing to induce Irishmen to enlist
under the German flag. When John
Redmond declared his support Of the
var ne was sayagcly attacked as
traitor 70 Ireland. The Sim FGin
organs even accepted at face value
the statement Of the ninety German
professors. Finally, in 1917-'l8,
when submarine barbarity was at its
height, the chief council Of the Sim
Fein officially demanded an embargo
on the export Of Irish foodstuffs and
called on the public To treat food ex-
porters az public enemies.
AS for the second point-that the
sinn Fein opposed the principle Of
characterization - two quotations
ounce u show the facts When it
was proposed TO give Ulster the
tighs Of self-dctcrmination Irish
freedom declared: "As Tor Ulster,
Ulster is Ireland's and shall remain
reiand's. Though the Irish nation
10 It's political and corporate capac-
ny were gall and wornwood tn every
oni"nist In Ulster, yet they shall
Swailow 1t. We will fight them II
hoy want fighting, but we shall
never lot them 60"
ASSon khs same time Sim Fkin
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

20 tHe EClCor OF Inc tribune.
Sir: In view Of tho fact that there are
fairly comprehensive statistics as to
the racial distribution Of crime in Ger
tain sections Of the United States and
as these figures are quite well known,
1t seems strange that "A. D." in his
letter to The Tribune of Saturdar, No
venber 20, headed "1s the Melting Pot
Fallacy?" should have entirely neg
lccted to refer to them in arriving at
his faulty conclusion that the over
whelming prepondorance Of crime in
American cities over those of Great
Britain Is due to our creator foreign
born population. He gives no reason
able basis for this fanciful assumption,
which may, in fact be definitely refuted
by the following authorities:
According to the report Of the United
States hmm grafton Commission, Vol
ume 36 page |, "no satisfactory evil
dence has yet been produced to show
that immigration has resulted in an
increase In crime disproportionatc to
the increase in adult population. Such
comparable statistics of crime and
population as it has been possible to
obtain indicate that immigrants are
less prone to commit crime than are
native Americans"
The United States Census on Prison
ers and Juvenile Delinquents in fnsti-
tutions, 1904, says: ut Is evident that
The popular belief that the foreign
born are filling the prisons has little
foundation in fact. 1t would seem.
however, that they arc slightly more
prone than the native whites to commit
minor offenses." A large part Of the
minor ohenses are, Of course, merely
misdemeanors, such as .-lecting to
obtain city pushcart licenses, which the
foreigner, ignorant Of our laws, is quite
| likely to neglect unwittingly These
ould hard y be called "crimes."
But to quote cold figures. Chicago.
according to "A d." was the worst Of
Tending American city. Chicago. he
says, with only one-.hird as largo a
population, had lO5 murders In 1916
to London's nine--twelvc times as many
and twenty more thun tho whole Of
England and Wales together Chicago
had also 532 moro burglaries than Lon
don in 1915, and a,45o moro In 1917.
Chicago Statistics
If "a. D." how~vcr--as he apparently
does-blames Chicngo's largo foreign
born population for this prepnndcr-
ancc Of crime, the statistics Of the
Chicago Council Committee on Crime
should point out to him his error In
their 1915 report they show that the
foreign born, who form 467 per cent
Of Chicago's population, furnish only
35.3 per cent of the arrests and 1874 per
cent Of the convictions In other words,
thcY show Il smaller percentage Of ar
rests and convictions than their pro-
portion Of the population entities them
to, and conversely the native whites
show greater. 1t must be remcm-
bercd that in Chicago also the foreign
| borns mIsdcmeanors exceed their TEL
onIcs. or the total fclonies committed
by males In 1913 659 per cent OF those
convicted were native born and 8i.l
per cen, foreign born. while OF the
misdemsanors CAL por cont were ma
tive born and 8A.9 psr cont foreign
born.
| 1t Ia uuite sv,d.nt. therefore. thst tho
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Is The Melting Pot a Fauacy?
Facts and Theories Submitted By Tribune Readers

conclusion at which "A. D." arrives
from his statistics Is wrong There is,
Of course, an underlying cause for such
q condition, but In view Of the facts
quoted above 1t would appear more
probable thRt the cause would lie
rather with some such condition as n
less efficient police system than with
our much abused fore; gn-born popula-
tion. GEORGE II. HODENPYL JR.
New York, Nov. 90, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
NEot Counts Is Rcce

1t must not be forgotten that mis-
mating In human beings has not, nee
essarily, anything to do with national
tiles. What counts is race, not coun-
try, not political divisions. Men from
the United States, France, England.
italy, Sweden and Spain might all be
blood brethren, and it would not be
difficult to find in any one Of these
countries half a dozen persons whose
ancestors We're as fer apart as a grey
hound and Skye terrier; and this will
go Jar to explain the many successful
unions of persons of different national
tiles. They take partners of their own
or closely allied races.
The writer suggests that the way for
the various races to fulfill their destiny
and to contribute best to the progress
Of mankind is not TO try to submerge
their identity, established by so many
ages Of struggle and evolution, in that
Of other races, but rather to strive to
keep it pure; not to mix the immisci-
bic, for it is easy to put two good
things together and produce bad one;
but to keep, cherish and develop their
best racial qualities mot their worst),
to supply what is lacking IN other
races for the mutual advantsge Of all
branches Of humanity. Few races but
have something to give, and most Of
them have much, and they can both
give and receive more by guarding
their birthrigtt Of identity than by
absorbing that of others or being ab-
sorbed in It. The way to abolish race
hatleds is not to abolish the race but
the hatreds, and this might be much
easier if the several races could seri-
ously take counsel of themselves and
try to she'd those qualities which
arouse hatred in others. Certainly not
quick or easy thing to accomplish,
but probably as practicable as dissolv-
ing them all to make one imaginary
compound Of unknown uses and prop
critics. HAROLD A. CAPARN
New York, Nov. 25, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

Yea saa po,ehass a.-ohsndiss advertised In YHE
yslBuNE wItn absolute safuD-teY IL sissatlsfas-
,ss rSuih Ia any ca.. THE rEIBUNE guarantees
ts %, ysur msns, bach open request. No RED tape.
No svihbine We maks esoa promptly " tho
sa,>xtuN seee rsf.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
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