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New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Bulgaria's Poor Technique

In his protest against the recog-
milton Of Bulgaria as one of the
guardians of world peace by receiv-
ing her into the League of Nations
M. Spalekovitch, the head of the
Serbian delegation at Geneva, in be-
half of Serbia, Greece and Rumania.
says:
"The people of Serbia, Greece and
Rumania are unanimously opposed to
Bulgarin's admission at this time
Bulgaria has not fulfilled any impor-
tant terms of the peace treaty. The
only conditions under which the
three countries will approve her ad-
mission are, first, the restitution Of
all property, machinery, cattle, furni-
ture and the like, stolen from them;
second, the payment of just indem-
nifty; and, third, punishment of the
Bulgarians guilty of outrages COM
mitted against the women and chill
dren of Serbia. We have not re-
celved one cent of indemnity; nor
has single Bulgar been tried for
the crimes committed"
Bulgaria does not possess the
we'll organized press bureau pos
sessed by Germany. So the heart
strings Of the world have not been
torn by pitiful tales of Bulgarian
misery. 1t has not been shown that
she is the victim Of cruel and re-
'entless enemies-that it is abom-
inable for any to suggest she
should return the property she stole
She has not presented herself as a.
gentle and pacific nation surrounded
by wolfish neighbors. Her methods
of disregarding the agreements she
made are crude. She merely de-
faults, pleading no excuses and max
ing no proclamation Of her great
virtue. She does not even threaten
to go Bolshevik.
The next time Bulgaria appears
as an applicant for league member
ship her case will doubtless be more
skillfully handled. She will weep
and wiring her hands, and then, ac-
cording to their practice, elements
which salute themselves as liberals
will tearfully argue that Bulgaria
has been most unjustly treated and
that to enforce the treaty against
her would be supremely wicked. AS
things now are, Bulgaria is obvious
" weak in the technique of propa-
ganda. She has great need to learn
from Berlin.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29

childish and ridiculous. The echo
reused in ones mind is the voice not
of Napoleon but of the Duchess
the one who wrote such admirable
novels for servant girls, we mean.
These English critics speak glow
ingly of the "lovable candor" of the
writer, and we would not contest
their verdict in favor of the truth
fulness of the book. But the uncon-
scious revelation Of the character Of
the writer seems of far more value
than any amount of ephemeral gos-
sip, however accurate. The picture
Of Horseback Hall is of a life not
only "fast, furious and fashionable"
but hard, selfish and shallow
wherein a woman of education and
family can live without purpose or
plan, foA the pursuit of sensation
after sensation-and at the end sell
her sensations for cash. Perhaps
Horseback Hall is only Shaw night
mare. Perhaps Margot Asquith is
typical Of nothing save the tribe of
emtants tc77TbIes that belongs to no
one era or nation. But these seem
the important points to discuss
rather than the quality of gossip
which would bring a blush to the
cheek Of George Moore himself.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
When We Forget

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The cemmuter and his tieAs'
have brought forth host Of comment
but apparently all have missed 'n' %
mark. Even SO good citizen as I
H. Woodward tries to argue from ~ "
illogical standpoint The same lsD''
exists in hundreds Of instances. LUCY
want to dodge their own responsiOi'"
and make somebody else accoun'a'''
for their own blunders. 1.
With every little i'll they rusn !"
Washington to get it corrected. .
real red blooded man, if ne forge's ~
communication ticket, is ashamed OF "
and he pays his fare meekly ana ~
ratively kicks himself all day oeca'''
of his forgctfulness.
When a man forgets his neeA'''
does not expect some haberdssns' :.
loan him one; when he forgets 70 '-..
of the electric light at night, OF eOu'''
he expects the electric company 10 !.
imburse him-but, of course, Il oOss" :
JOHN JONES.
New York, Nov. 26, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Mother Goes to Court

Jury duty for women, like the
Burden" of the suffrage, is much
easier in the performance than in
the anticipation, if one may Judge
from the pleasant time had by all
in recent session in the City Court
of Orange, New Jersey.
The danger that threatened the
home if women were ONCE made sub
ject to the stern demands of the law
calling wives from the sickbeds of
the suffering and mothers from the
condolences of their children-was
proved to be of the substance Of soap
bubbles. A judge could prick it
with word, excusing any woman
whose personal affairs made attend
ance inconvenient. Mrs. Thomas A.
Edison was excused because her hus-
band had a cold Another woman
was excused because invited to a
wedding. But for those the sum-
mons held the session was as inter-
esting as a matinee.
Nor did the children suffer. "My
baby is fourteen years old. If she
cannot get herself bit of lunch,
then | have long since failed in my
duty as mother" said Mrs. Van
Ness, the newly elected member of
the Jersey Legislature. And for the
women whose children were Younger
every member of the jury was
married-the day was still un-
clouded by domestic tragedy. The
commuters wife has long since
solved the problem of a few hours
absence from home. Few and iso-
lated, indeed, are the women who
have no devices for securing a day
off for shopping, visit to a lonely
mother, college reunion, or mayhap
q concert.
The higher motherhood, as prac-
ticed in the twentieth century, de-
mands Of every woman frequent
glmpses Of the richness of life out
side her walls, even though the chill
dren go without pudding. To sit for
day in a courtroom learning some
thing Of the processes Of the law is
a sort of adult education that will
contribute to keeping the boys and
girls of the future out of court.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
: The Queenstown Fights
Father Duty Doubts the Official
Report Of Admiral Sims
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1 first read Admiral Sims's re-
marks on the Irish incidents in copy
of Worlds Work, which I bought on
train. Alongside me was navy man, a
ron-com with eight years service.
What did they have you doing in the
WARP" I asked. "Destroyers. Base at
Queenstown most of the time" "Did
you see any rows with the Irish ~
"Sure, some of them used to raise a
rumpus If they saw our fellows keep
ing company with the girls" "Was
Ireland the only place you saw that
kind of trouble ?" "Why, no. Saw
fights in Portsmouth, fights in Brest"
In the smoking room a naval lieu
tenant was telling of experiences in
England. "There's disadvantage in
some ways in talking the same Ian
guage as your allies. You can swear
at Frcnchman or pass remarks on
his fighting qualities, and he won't
know what you are saying. But try
it on an Englishman and the road
won't be wide enough for the size of
the fight that will get started. | like
them for it. And, of course, the thing
works both ways, for the brags and
insults were started by the Britishers
at least half the time, and our fell
lows were just as ready for row.
Often our authorities and the English
had to make arrangements so that
their men and ours wouldn't have shore
leave on the same days"
This led to talk about army troubles
with the French, caused by soreness
about overcharging and, especially after
the armistice, when French soldiers
began to get home, by that eternal
source Of private war, sex-rivalry.
The press has not chosen to saw
much of these incidents. One would
think that no troubles of this sort
existed save in the Cove of Cork. Yet
nobody in America, nor in Canada, nor
Australia, need leave his own street to
hear first hand tales of fights between
overseas forces and English or French
people which are on all fours with the
incidents about which Admiral Sims is
SO solemnly fussy.
1t is not 50 very long ago that
Kipling wrote Tommy" the protest
of the English fighting man against the
treatment he got from his own peonle
And | remember hearing echoes while
abroad of mutual rccriminations be,
tween sailors and civilians in some Of
our own home ports during the war.
1t does not make a thing right to
prove that it is universal under given
conditions, but it does make it easier
to understand and harder to get
excited about. FRANCIS P. DUFFY.
Chaplain, 69th Regiment, New York
[Father Duffy quotes the casual
remarks of person he happened to
meet against the formal and de-
tailed statement of Admiral Sims.
who was in position to know the
whole truth. The offset does not
seem suficient.-Ed.1
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Bolshevisrn in Holland.

Lenine and Trotzky naturally Sc
lect Holland as the centre of their
propaganda in western Europe
Besides the advantages flowing from
Hollands geographical position and
her neutrality in the late war, AM
sterdam is the seat of the Second In
ternational, the central organ Of the
Social Democratic parties opposed to
Bolshevism, and Moscow would de-
stroy this organization.
A party Of Dutch Bolshevists.
headed by d. j. Wijnkoop, the leader
of the Communist movement in Hol-
land, recently visited Soviet Russia
and have reported their experiences
to a conference held at Amsterdam
1t would appear that the Dutch ex-
plorers were more favorably i'm
pressed than their British. German
French and Italian colleagues.
Nevertheless, Wijnkoop is not in
complete agreement with the Ex
treme Left of his party, whose lead
ers demand immediate break with
all "constitutionalist" tactics and
affiliations.
1t has been charged that Bolshe-
vik money, realized from the sale of
the Cars jewelry, backed the
strike Of the Amsterdam and Rotter-
dam lockers and transport workers
last spring. The strike suspicously
broke out shortly after the Bolshe-
visit conference at Amsterdam. or
yanized by the sub-bureau of the
Moscow International. Not the least
significant Bolshevik activities ars
n the Dutch East Indies, especially !
lava, where a lively Communist and
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Gotham Gleanings
s.g.ZG ZEI g

News are scarce this Wll.
-Nmas shopping is the O. of the d.
Dick Bennett entertained on
Thanksgiving eve.
--Everly Davis is O. k. again after
slight indisposition.
&C. V. Van Anda enjoyed some
kippered herring last wk.
Hank Bristol enjoyed seeing Ro-
land Young act Tuesday eve.
PROT Lou Strauss Of Ann .Arbor
was a Gotham visitor Friday.
Mrs. Sally Farnham celebrated
her birthday quietly last Friday.
~"Maj.' Art Samuels Thurs
dayed in Hartford with home folks.
--Denning Miller of here is now
one of the editors Of the Harvard
Lampoon.
Boyd Sparkes has been down to
the Canal Zone with w. G. Harding
OF Marion, O.
Newt Baker was in town Sat. for
the ft.ball game. Newt is going in
the law bus. in Cleveland Mar. 5,
1921.
Raymond B. Fosdick the gifted
piccolo-hute player was among the
spectators at Saturdays football
game.
-Hendrick William Van Looms
new history book is as good reading
for kids as H. G. Wcllss is for us
old folks; and pretty good for us
o. f., too
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Anti Neutral
10 the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir; The following excerpt was
taken from the account in The Tribune O
Of the Irish riot in front of the Union
League Club:
"Police Inspector Underhill. who went
IN while the riot was at its height and
asked that the flag be taken down. was
told that the club was standing on its
rights in the matter.
Well, you see what has happened
the police inspector is reported to have
said"
Did not Won Bernstorf warn the
Americans to keep off the Lusitania .
Just where do we poor Americans get
on? Must we even think nentral
again7
While the Hun was planting bombs
and sneaking around poisoning with
anthrax, etc, we can at least applaud
the Sim Feiners for fighting in the
open. Oh, Lord, how long?
AN AMERICAN.
New York, Nov. 26, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
State Rights and Rates

The Attorney General of New
York is seeking q permanent injunc-
tion to prevent the railroads operat-
ing in the state from charging the
intrastate passenger rates author
lied by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. He says that the state
is acting ain its sovereign capacity"
in trying to impose passenger rates
of its own which the Federal board
holds to be discriminatory.
1t is highly desirable that the case
shall be fought out on the broad
principle whether or not state con-
troll of the railroads may be exer-
cised in a sense hostile to Federal
control. The State Public Utilities
commissions didn't raise as bald an
issue as that. They accepted with
out protest the Interstate Commerce
Commissions increases. in freight
rates and allowed intrastate charges
to be conformed to interstate
charges. If they had followed the
Attorney Generals theory to it's
logical conclusion they would have
insisted on a different schedule for
intrastate freight traffic as well as
for intrastate passenger traffic. Then
every other state might have felt
tempted to follow New York's exam
pie, thus setting up determinations
against all traffic originating within
its own borders and against all
traffic originating at points just be-
yond its border line.
The commissions didn't care to
push the state rights doctrine as far
as that. The trainers of the Consti-
tuition had noted the evil results Of
the restraints put on intercourse by
the whims and prejudices Of the
various colonies. They wanted to
break down determinations and bar
rers. In the United States to-day
commerce and transportation are
nationalizcd interests The carriers
work as a unit under Federal direc-
tion. They are sustained through
rates fixed by the Federal govern
ment. The Interstate Commerce
Commission approves certain charges
for freight and passenger business,
in order to produce revenue pledged
to the railroad systems If one state
tries to cut these rates down for its
own benefit TIE people Of other
states must do the' same thing or
bear an unequal burden If the
courts should hold that every state
may impose whatever intrastate
rates it pleases, beth freight and
passenger, them interstate rates
must be again raised to make up the
deficit. Interstate traffic would be
universally Disseminated against.
Dual control, with clashing man
agement, thus means a return to
colonial protincialism. 1t would de-
feat the purpose of the Constitution
to liberate and unity the instrument
talities of commerce. 1t would also
sacrifice the vast benefits of nation
wide Standardization in order to
make a barren gesture Of reverence
to the faded image Of state rights.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
cne Of those bedroom farces Of al
Woods cor,os b. 4a.
By
Heywood Broun

cne Of those bedroom farces of Al
" oods comes to town.
NOW we know, at any rate, why Mr..
harding never went into any details as
to how new league could be BROUGHT
INTO the world He wanted his listen
ers to assume that he could find one
under a cabbage leaf.
Careful as Edith Wharton is in all
the detail which goes to make up the
atmosphere Of The Age of Innocence
she makes one mistake twice. During
the course of the book some Of her
characters go upon two occasions 10
hear joachim play. AS matter Of
iact, joachim was deathly afraid of A
sea journey and never came to America.
Hitherto I have believed in Won y
writes Morris Ryskind. "When Eva
Ianguay resigned from your cabinet 7
wrote you letter OF congratulation
When Ethel Barrymore denounced Won
as baseball writer, my faith in Won
oid not weaken. When George Creel
CHAIRMAN Of the Bureau of Public Pol
manlsm or Potterism or whatever il j.
nominated you for the Ansnias Club
old not second the nomination. saw
'ne SHOWS you raved about, bought the
DooKs you recommended, and, like vouru
sell, voted for Debs and BOUGHT Til
orator bond.
But now, Haywood I'd, know Won
-or what you are. You are. mauere
your expressed admiration for w. Fl
hudson, nature faker. remember
your story on the landing Of the 6rs.
American forces in France; it was well
written and 1t rose to stirring cl;max
IN which you depicted the first game of
crap TO be played on French soil.
My heart was touched. AZ wer.
oouDtiess those of all your readers bv
'he TACT that America was again en-
ilghtenlng the world Here was ths
great American game being taught 70
me Latin races. American douohbovs
were teaching French poilus to throw
'."'urals' to read 'em and weep, to root
1or hlg Dick and LII Phoebe. When
HngNsn trends asked me who won tha
war pulled out the clipping of your
story and showed them concmsivelv
'as l thought) who had made the world
safe for democracy.
but now I find that crap is an old
game, game the Latins PLAYED awav
back in l22 B. c. am, I hope 19o
per cent American, but my pride of
country is not such that would bave
us claim honors we are not entitled to.
mat Is not in accordance with the
fourteen Points; nor even. for that
matter, with the Treaty of Versailles
1T was this passage from Caius
Gracious, by Odn Gregory, that re-
vealed the bitter truth to me:
'Drusus-(Throws dice) A Jupiter,
NO good! Septimuleius-thr throw,
-" Sept.-(Throw dice) A dogl Still
worse! Throw thou, Rutilius-throw!
'Rut.-(Throws dice) A Venus,
There. l win
MT. Gregory explains in footnote
that every throw of the dice had
special name The 'canis' was the low
est throw, the Venus the highest.
Clearly that is crap, albeit an old
form. The dice were thrown in those
days, instead of being shot. But that
IS mere technicality. Crap, sir. is
not an American game Admit i ,;L.
a man.
Perhaps, with proper apology, you
could get Mr.. Gregory to tell US more
about the old form of the game. For
example, did they throw two dice7
Or Ave. poker fashion,
"Of course. there are other forms
OF gambling that am interested In.
For example, that intrepid publisher,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Wholesale Slaughter

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The correspondent who wro'' :.
on the subject of stenography anu
nunciation might also have asked -, :,
so many persons mispronoun's =.
words address" and inquiry !" .,,
first case. the accent should be On = =
second syllable, and in the see0a' .
might as wel say 'inqueer" - "
ling -uery" The wholesale s'A"s
of the English language in tns a..
truly appalling. HARRY HobAAD
New York. Nov. 26, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29

the changes must not involve the de-
struction Of an economic system
which energizes men while at the
same time it automatically secures a
leadership which has shown itself
the most competent.
Marx ended his famous manifesto
by telling the workmen of the world
that they had nothing to lose
through revolution except their
chains. No greater falsehood was
ever promulgated.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
Horseback Hall

In "Heartbreak House" Shaw let's
one of his characters explain his title
and supplement it with the equally
pungent phrase Horseback Hall. The
former is the middle-class home. the
latter the aristocratic home of mod
ern England. One might have
wished that Shaw had written a
companion piece under the second
title, but Margot Asquith has saved
him the bother. In her autobiog-
raphy-judging at least by it's serial
lzed publcations-she has all uncon-
sciously and with the naivete of an
unbelievably self-satisfed woman.
drawn a full-length portrait Of a
conspicuous and typical inhabitant
Of Horseback Hall.
AS such a document it would be
easy to justify the solemnity with
which London has received this
extraordinary publication. But the
weeklies just arrived, from the dig
nified Spectator down, give it the
space and consideration due a great
masterpiece-instead Of self
revelatory document. To an Ameri
can this can seem only silly. A
witty and conceited woman who feels
none Of the ordinary obligations of
friendship to hold intimacy sacred
can always write such d shocker. If
she has associated with conspicuous
people she can always make her
shocker of enough general interest
to earn wide reading and much
money. But to call such vainglorv
and gossip literature or suggest that
intimate love affairs rather duly
stated have some artistic value be-
cause the lover and his desired are
real folk seems an extraordinary
blindness.
Typical Of the absurd argument
with which these English critics are
defending the volume is the explana-
ton given by the critic of The New
Statesman as to why Mrs. Asquith,
while presenting all the appearances
OF vain woman, is not really vain.
1t is because she really believes in
the doctrine Of the poet:
To thine own self be true;
And it must follow as the night the day.
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
THAT is to say" applies this
critic, untrue in any serious sense;
though the result may be wounded
feelings and pain to many" This is
not vanity "in the ordinary sense"
the argument continues, because.
while admiration pleases her, her
self-respect is deeper and based upon
"a peculiar detachment which funda-
takes herself for granted"
Margot Asquith wrote: when any
one leaves the room l do not ask
myself if they liked me, but if l /
liked them" and this the critic re-
CARDS as proving his point. To the
casual reader at this distance the
remark-and especially the publica-
ton of twill only confirm what
the rest Of the book constantly dem
onstrates, that here was a vanity
not SO much grandly eroistical as
New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
The Bases of Prosperity

With 6 per cent of the worlds
population and 7 per cent of its land,
the United States annually produces
60 per cent Of the worlds cotton, rs
per cent of its corn, "a per cent of
its wheat, &c per cent Of it's coal, 60
per cent of it's copper, IS per cent
Of its automobiles, and so down a
long list.
"The richest country in the world"
admiringly exclaim most Americans.
"Not So" rejoins The New York
Call, the Socialist organ, "if the test
is diffused distribution, as it should
be-" 1t says, truly enough, that the
totalty of q country's wealth pro-
duction does not measure the aver
age prosperity of its people, and re-
marks that, though the cotton gins
invention greatly swelled the cotton
crop, this did not help the slaves who
raised the cotton.
Let us, then, take as the true test
the one Of diffused distribution.
What becomes OF the enormous an
nual industrial harvest Of this coun-
try? Less than 10 per cent is ex-
ported. Who're goes the 80 per cent
that remains at home? 1t is con-
sumed here. BY the very rich? Only
to a small degree. 1t reaches the
stomachs, is worn on the backs, or
goes into the shelter of average
Americans. The rank of our people
eat more, wear moro and have more
comforts and luxuries, amusements,
books and the thousand and one
things Of human want than any
other people, past or present. If The
Calls editor does not know this he
is grossly ignorant. He knows it
well enough, but belongs to a sect
whose interests, he thinks, will be
advanced by concealment and mis-
education.
And why is the production of
America so vast and why is her dis
tribution so diffused? Our natural
resources are great, but, per square
mile, scarcely exceed those of Rus
sla, for example. Our people are in
dustrious, but expend less muscle
power per capita than many others.
We are new and have skinned the
cream from continent, but back
ward Brazil is even more new and
has as much cream to skim. We
must look further for explanation.
The chief reason why our produc-
tion is so great and our distribution
SO dltfused is because we possess a
political and economic system which
releases human energy by putting
premium on superior efficiency and
intelligence. The children of this
system are inventive and have initia-
tive. Our political institutions are
designed to secure equality of oppor-
tunlty as nearly as human ingenuity
can secure this, and then our eco
nomic system says to those who toe
common mark: "Run as fast as
you can. If your hand reaches a
prize it Is yours" And, lo all run
the faster because Of the comnet;-
ton.
Destroy democracy and the capi-
talistic system, as Russia has done.
and the share Of production that the
average American now enjoys would
soon shrink and shrivel. The future
Will doubtless see many bettering
laws and customs to perfect furthec
Of opportunity, but, unless
the human family would retrograde,