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ADVENTURES
OF THE TWINS
b. Olive Roberts Bertn7
DISEASE.

DR.. Mink looked very learned.
Fortunately, do know. The Sc
cret of curing this strange disease
was told me by my great-grandfa-
theirs niece's Cousins sister-in-law's
brother"
"Finep' cried everybody at DIR.
Mink's words, and even the other pu-
pills in Meadow Grove school were so
interested that they quite forgot to
sit in position, and Scamper Squirrel
fell off his seat altogether.
''But | must have help" went on
Dr. Mink, cor rather obedience. Will
everyone agree to do exactly as |
tell him?' And he looked at each
one of them over his glasses.
Markie was getting very uncom-
Portable, not so much because the
chewing gum he was sitting on was
pulling every hair out of him, nearly,
but because he felt guilty. He sort
Of felt that he needed good trounc-
ing and it would be lot better if
someone would just give it to him and
have it over with.
Copyright. 1920
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A STRANGE

IVES" said Dr. Mink looking down
at Markie Muskrat's chair with
a queer look on his face, ''it's very
strange disease this chap has. Mr..
Scribble Scratch, very strange one,
indeed! It's called "stuckankant-
movaninch." The person who has it
can't move at allW
"You don't say SC" exclaimed the
fairyman schoolmaster, 81 never
heard of it before, did you Nancy?"
Nancy hadn't, neither had Judge
Grow, nor Prof Hare, nor Mr.. Chuck
nor anybody.
as it a kind of paralysis?" asked
Scribble Scratch anxiously. feeling
sorry that he had ever scolded Mar
kie for anything.
sort Of" nodded DR.. Mink, "Only
it doesn't last so long, and the only
way to cure it is very difficult to
learn. Very few people know how. "
ooh" cried Nancy very much wor-
ried, "don't you know, DR.. Mink?
Won't poor Markie ever be well
again?"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-15

Says the Portsmouth Star Of Mel
ville's Comedians
"Melville's Comedians who opened
their engagement here last night
presenting their initial performance
of Broken Hearts, were well receiv-
ed by a large and appreciative au-
dience.
"The entertainment was a great
treat to those who witnessed the per
Torrance and was exceedinly sur.
prised to see this great theatre I'M
der canvas with such a grand array
of talent. The play was produc-
ton and given in its entirety with
splendid stage setting and beautiful
wardrobe and scenic effects com
plete.
mot only was the performancesit-
self up to standard but the numer7
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Steel Mill Workers
To Be Offered Stock

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIU, OCT y
The Youngstown Sheet Tube Co
employing nearly $4,000 men, to
day announced plan for selling one
hundred thousand shares of its stock
to employees on installments, with
bonuses to those who hold stock. The
project covers five years, and 10000
shares will be offered each year. This
year the price will be $85 per share
The American Legion has Is posts
outside of the United States.
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Gus numbers intermingled between
acts deserve high commentator.
''The company will remain here all
week giving an entire and complete
change of program each and every
night they are in our city and there
remains no doubt that the Melville
Comedians will have capacity attend
ance at every performance and are
certainly deserving of the same
when they present such splendid
plays"
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Learn the Lesson.

Therefore, let us be patient, patient;
and let God our Father teach US his
own lesson his own way. Let US try
to learn II well and quickly; but do
not let us fancy that he will ring the
school bell and send us to play before
our lesson Is learnt.-Charles Kings
lev,
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MIschIaf Makers.

have heard 1t said that spies and
talebearers have done more mischief
in this world than the poisoned bow
or the assassin's dagger.-Schiller.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
Anti i-Aristocrat
To the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Mr.. Wadsworth may be gentle
man, a scholar and a good judge of
heraldry, but he is not the proper per-
son to represent the common people of
this country. He IS an aristocraA born
and bred, and has no sympathy with the
average American citizen, and has about
as much use for workingman as an
absentee landlord has for his tenants.
Look at the names of the men who
for the last fifty years have repre-
sented the Empire State at Washington.
and then look at Wadsworth. Do YOU
wonder why there are so many inde-
pendent voters? The problems con-
fronting this country to-day must have
the services Of the most broad-minded
men in it, men who are In entire accord
with the fundamental principles Of a
true republic.
Put none but democratic Republicans
on guard. MECHANIC.
Norwich, N. Y, March /, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
High School Resisnations

10 thei Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. PralPs comments published IN
The Tribune this morning on the report
OF Mr.. Nifenecker. concerning the resig-
nations from the teaching force of this
city are splendid illustration OF tho
misleading quality of partial statistics
It is stated that during 1919 s86 ele-
mentary school teachers resigned, -
against only 121 high school teachers,
from which the inference is made: "The
figures 60 to show that the princips'
discomfort is among the elementary
teachers, or the lowest paid
The total number of elementary school
teachers. given by the Board of Edu-
cation to-day, is 1855, Of whom $50
Is 4.64 per cent; of high school teachers
1896, Of whom 121 is 500 Per cent
These figures speak for themselves. 10
the High School of Commerce, whose
teachers come perhaps more directly IN
line for commercial positions than 90
those Of many other schools, 80, or 20
per cent of the whole force, resigned
during 1919.
ALFRED HOLMES LEWIS.
High School Of Commerce, New YORK
Feb, 81, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
Wasted Milk Bottles
the Editor of Tho Tribune.

To the Editor Of Tho Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to suggest to Mr. Fitz-
patrick, retail sales manager Of the Bor-
den Farm Products Company, whose
complaint of milk bottle shortage ap-
pears in your newspaper Of February
81, If some effort were made to collect
empty milk bottles in winter as we'll as
in summer many thousands of the same
might be collected in one day in Brock
lyn.
The writer has seen thousands Of
empty milk bottles in apartment house
cellars which are in plain view Of driv-
ers. The drivers place the full bottles
Of milk on the dumbwaiters in the morn
ing and the tenants place the empty
ones on the dumbwaiters, from which
they are taken by the janitors and set
to one side. have seen more than one
hundred empty bottles in one apartment
house cellar, and after tho janitor had
appealed in vain to drivers to remove
them, placed them In ashcans and set
them on the sidewalk to bo carried to
the dump by the Street Cleaning De-
partment.
An automobile two or three times
week should be able to pick up several
thousand of these empty bottles a day,
and at five cents each - $50 a thou
sand--the price claimed by the COM
pany, it would help to reduce the short
ago and pay for cost Of collection.
Brooklyn, March 2, 1920. w. l.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
SoIv;ng the Subway
A Plan for Ending Conges-
t;o5a at Car Doors

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Subway delays occur in the
rush hours, and the cause is found in
the congestion at the stations, which
results in serious delay in getting
passengers on and off the cars. If
this delay were eliminated many more
trains could be run during a given
time. To relieve congestion at stations
will therefore Immediately improve the
service.
The spectacle of train choked with
humanity stopping at station also
choked with people, all frantically
anxious to wedge themselves somehow
into the cars and solidly blocking all
doors so that exit is a physical
struggle, does not impress the con-
clusion that this problem has been ef-
fectively considered.
1t would seem that those in charge
Of operations have made their ar
rangements on the requirements of a
normal non-rush hour travelling public
and let it go at that. They are not
geared for conditions considered to be
out Of the normal. Unfortunately, the
rush hour condition is not now out of
the normal.
One step that would help conditions
would be to keep the doorways and
approaches clear until the passengers
leaving the cars had got off and
away. This would save . substantial
part Of the time now lost at each sta
ton. It would seem possible to effect
this by providing with fences and
gates clear passageway to the street
for those getting off and keeping the
oncoming crowd back Of these gates
until these passages are cleared.
Another step for improving condi-
tions would be to prevent excessive
crowding in the cars. Such crowding
slows down the running time, because
passengers cannot get on and off
promptly. If only such numbers are
admitted as can properly be carried
the trains will run on shorter headway,
more trains will run and probably as
many people will be carried as at
PRESENT. If only such part Of the on
coming passengers are let through the
suggested gates as can reasonably get
on the cars, then at the station this
objective will be met.
In other words, remove tho point Of
congestion from the door Of the car
to gate some distance from it. Keep
the doors Of the cars free and the ap-
proaches to them also. Admit pas
sengers to the capacity of the cars, but
not more. Speed up the headway of
the trains and so provide three trains
at each station in the time that two
now require. Possibly the plan is not
feasible, but 1t seems worth q trial.
1t Is not without precedent in other
places. HERBERT BARRY.
New York, March 3, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
The Anti-Saloon League
An Organization With Much Inter-
ested Service
o tho Editor Of The Tribune.


To tho Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t will not accomplish anything
to reiterate the substantial principles
of personal liberty upon which rest the
objections to the Eighteenth Amendment
all of which have been admirably ex-
pressed by contributors to your columns.
I think, however, that the many es-
Unable citizens who have given of their
money to the Anti-Saloon League should
be advised Of the fact that the persons
who are active in that organization are
not performing their labors with any
idea of disinterested service to a cause.
They are in it for what they can get
out Of 1t, financially or politically. A
month or so ago I had the shock of
hearing certain gentleman remark to
a mutual friend that he now had new
job; that he was in the employ Of the
Anti-Saloon League as collector of
contributions, and that he was making
more money than ever before in his life.
think, too, that many of the we'll
intentioned persons who believed in the
elimination Of the saloon had no re-
alization of the extent to which their
enthusiasm was destined to carry them
and of the inevitable violation of con-
stitutional rights which was bound to
result from their failure to discrimi-
nate between temperance and prohibi-
ton. JAMES 0. TRYON.
New York, March 2, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
Bridging the Gulf

1t may be hoped that Germans
who in good faith are bent upon re-
constructing the trade relations
which once obtained, to mutual
profit, between this country and
theirs will take to heart the lesson
Of letter from Hamburg business
man to an American friend, pub
lished elsewhere on this page, to-
gether with the reply it elected.
The German in question appears
to have resided for some years in
New York, and is desirous now to
resume business connections with
American shipping concerns. He
bases his appeal on the assumption
that American opinion has swung
around to recognize the righteous
ness Of the German cause and the
folly Of having entered the war to
"get the chestnuts out Of the fire for
the English" Such misreading
Of American psychology properly
brought a spirited answer recon-
mending different methods Of ap-
proach and a genuine change of
heart
There is no reason for questioning
the bona fide intentions of the Ger
man letter writer, and he is blandly
without malice. But what denseness
To some it is unfortunate to be COM
PEELED to continue living on the same
planet with the ravishers of Belgium
and the spreaders Of woe. But there
is no help for 1t, and the sum total
Of bitterness should not be enhanced
in world where there is too much
of it. But Germans must under
stand, or pretend to, if bitterness is
to be effectively diminished. The
proper basis Of friendly intercourse
is truth, and Americans, while able
to forgive, can scarcely be expected
to stultify themselves by being silent
in the presence Of falsehood.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
Hounds of Spring

Poets are always being commiser-
ated upon the necessities Of their
sordld trade, which oblige them to
write Christmas hymns on the
Fourth Of July and pen their spring
odes to the first violet while the snow
is still knee-deep and furnace shak-
ing is the only important voice to be
heard in the land.
But they are really only doing
what every one does who has an eve
to see beyond the horizon and a heart
ever faithful that refuses to hiber-
nate. Who are the first hounds Of
spring, yipping on winters traces
long before the first robin has had
a hint of green thought or the
most ehterprising magazine has
printed line of ooh, to be in Eng
land when it's April there!" verse?
Our old friends the baseballers. who
wend their way southwark early in
March to send back columns of
words about the antics of budding
bush leaguers and anything, any
thing, so long as it is Of the South
and smells of warm earth and green
things playing ball.
Do the fans of the winter leae,,e
or any other league care about these
early bootings Of a sphere miles
from anywhere? They do, rave.
nously, but not nearly so much for
it's cosmic Importance as baseball
dope" as for its quite incidental but
none the less infallible and authen-
tic breath of spring. Here sing our
real Swinburnes, answering a thirst
as old as humans and more power
ful than many SHOWS.
Anybody can be a spring poet in
spring, when the apple blossoms are
pink, for instance. The real test is
to plow through fresh snowdrifts
and sign fresh checks for coal at
unheard-of prices and still re-
member. To hunt spring not on
a houseboat or baseball diamond
down South but right here amid
smutched snow and under winter
skies, then is the task beyond the
skill Of any robin, yet we'll within
the capacity of any of us everyday
poets, inarticulate though we be.
And when that first warm touch Of
the sun comes, and the wind blows
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
To Be Repealed

The fundamental defect Of the
Sherman antitrust law, revealed in
full absurdity in the Steel Trust
decision, is that it relates in it's prin-
cipal sections to forms of business
organization rather than to conduct.
If business aggregate was or
ganized in one way it was legal; if
in another it was illegal; the circu,n-
stance that the social effect of one
organization was the same as that of
the other was inconsequential. 1t
did not matter, as was said in an
early decision, whether the restraint
Of trade was unreasonable or not.
In the Tobacco and Standard Oil
cases the court sought to escape this
sitting legalism by setting up what
Chief Justice White called the "rule
of reason"-that is to say, the court
would judge trust in some degree
by its conduct. But this made the
Supreme Court legislative body,
which was to pass on social desira-
bility. Some strong judges like to
legislate, but. courts as rule recog-
nize that they should not; that men
should know what the law permits
and forbids-not be left to the un.
certainty Of having a court guess
whether, on the whole, taking it's Or
ganization and conduct together. a
corporation Is good or bad trust.
The Sherman law should have
been repealed long ago. If bigness
is dangerous, then bigness should be
directly legis' ated against. If some
agreements and methods are against
public policy, then they should be
defined. Messrs. Sherman, Hoar and
Edmunds assumed that if they pro-
hlblted certain forms of organiza-
ton, then bigness was impossible
and competition would protect the
public. Time has shown thew were
mistaken-the large concern has an
economic soundness which, thirty
years ago, few thought it possessed.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
Armenia. Future

The American Committee for the
independence of Armenia has issued
q protest against the partition Of
Armenian home lands, reported to
have been tentatively agreed on by
the Allied premiers. 1t says that
under this partition the Mediter-
ranean littoral claimed by the Ar
menians is to be assigned to France,
that Northwestern Armenia is to 20
TO Turkey and that the central dis.
tricts, north to the Black Sea, are to
be annexed to Kurdish state, under
= British protectorate. Only a
small portion of Eastern Turkish
Armenia east of Erzerum is to be
Joined to the existing Armenian re-
public, created out Of territory
which was formerly Russian.
France and Great Britain rccentlv
recognized the independence Of the
Armenian republic, subject to a fu-
ture determination of the western
boundaries. The United States has
not yet extended recognition. It is
the desire Of the friends of Armenia
in this country that our government
should also accord recognition to the
existing state, but at the same time
should dissent from partition
which would mean a small Armenia.
Americans have shown a keen in
terest In the liberation Of Armeni-
ans. The fate of this Christian
people, subjected to torture and mas
sacre by the brutal Turk, has ex-
cited tho liveliest sympathy. But
circumstances have made it exceed
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
ingly difficult to translate that SYM
pathy into political aid.

lIlkiy OIlltCuIt w tANuoA0to eiAstv SJ Aa@
pathy into political aid.
The Administration restrained
Congress from declaring war on
Turkey, SO that our right,to partici-
pate In the Turkish peace settlement
as an equal with the Allied bellig-
erents, or on any other footing, is
open to dispute. AT Paris the other
powers in the peace conference were
eager to give the United States .
mandate over Armenia and over any
or all of the purely Turkish portion
of the Ottoman Empire. The Presi-
dent was apparently inclined to ac-
cept an Armenian mandate, at least.
But he never disclosed to the public
his plans or possible commitments,
and there is now no hope of persuad-
ing Congress to accept territorial
mandate anywhere.
The Armenians realize that they
can expect nothing from America at
this stage but moral support in their
protest against a contraction Of
their boundaries, and perhaps some
financial assistance to an Armenian
government, whenever it may be
established. These are moderate re-
quests. An Administration which
apparently was anxious to do so
much more for the Armenians could
properly use it's good offices to Sc
cure them fairer settlement than
the one which the American Com
mittee for the Independence of Ar
menia now condemns as depriving
the new Armenian nation of real
independence and self-support.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
An APpeaI to the Legion

TO tho Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I am q member of the American
Legion, but more than that / am an
American citizen, and as q citizen I
wish to make public my protest against
the stand that the Legion has taken
on two matters now before Congress.
The pension scandals which came af-
ter the Civil War, and which have
grown as the people injured by the war
have died, were disgrace to this coun-
try. 1t now appears that the American
Legion is using the political influence
which It's large membership gives it to
force through Congress, with votes,
not reason, as its backing, a bonus
measure to pay all ex-service men. not
In proportion to tho injuries they re-
ceived, but merely in proportion to the
length Of time they served, which gives
no idea Of the sacrifice they made, since
some men gained through their scrv-
ice. 1t is quite as much hold-up for
the benefit of a class, at the expense
of the nation, and casts quite rs much
discredit upon Its sponsors as did
the strike threat Of tho railroad en-
ployees, which put the Adamson bill
through Congress.
The second matter is one on which
it is peculiarly appropriate that the
Legion should act, but it has done
nothing. Two army reorganization
bills were introduced in Congress. One
provided for small regular army,
with a workable and efficient system Of
universal training. The other provided
for large regular army and useless
system calling itself universal training.
It now appears that those who two
years ago were called pacifists, pro-Ger-
mans and slackers, and who still have
the same characteristics, have sue
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
Hamburg, Dec. 90, 1919.

Dear Mr.. -: Your remarkable let
ter of 29th ult. deserves an answer and
L am only answering same in the re-
mote hope that I may be able to offer
you honest food for earnest reflection.
AS one possessing soul and as
a humanitarian, l can truthfully say
that / am very glad tc hear that you
came through the war withou bodily
injury, for the sake of your wife
and little ones, but it Is absolutely
incomprehensible to me how you
could have passed through all the
horrors of war without some chasten-
ing of your soul; yet not scintilla Of
a thought for humanity is apparent in
your letter. from beginning to ekd-
rot one pang OF remorse.
When think of the sufFerngs Of the
thousands of innocent men, women and
children rendered destitute and home
less; the acts of wanton cruelty, bes-
TALLY and destructiveness committed
" SSNa >ONAtA iuSiit Vie ulteE iaCk u
international honor and morality dis
played by them on land and sea, why.
my dear sir, 1t will be generations be-
fore your country can wipe out the
bloody stain, and never can it be done
If your fellow countrymen are to show
the same spirit which permeates your
letter.
You are very wise not to come 70
America, and If your friends feel the
same way as you do they had best keep
as far away as possible.
You state you think Americans are
coming around to share your views.
II they are it has certainly been my
good fortune not to meet them, or,
might say, it has been their good for
tune not to meet me-
Your judgment of the American peo-
pie is evidently as shortsighted as was
that of William Hohenzollern.
For your own future good and with
an honest desire for the future reju-
venation Of your country along the
lines Of humanity and international
morality l have deemed it my duty TO
reply to you as above.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
Soldiers Against Bonus
Men Who Fought in 1860 and in 1918
Agree In Condcmning Seroice Payments

ceeded In having all universal training
provisions Of any kind removed from
the bills on tho ground Of economy
While tho Legion has allowed this to 60
on without protest, It has been trying
to fill It's own pockets at the expense
Of the country. Economy
If all Americans keep still and lei
the German VOTE" the "ex-soldie1
VOTE" the "1rish vote," the Tabor vote,
the Socialist vote" and all the rest OF
special interests" run things fol
themselves we will soon have no coun-
try worth defending. If our Congress
men and Senator's will vote as Ameri-
cans they need not worry about re-
election; they will be elected By
Americans.
GERARD T. REMSEN.
New York, Feb. %, 1920.