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New-York tribune., 1920-11-12

new field suddenly expanded, like
shipbuilding, confusion and care
lessness at the top had a far more
disastrous effect on the mushroom
organization beneath. The door was
opened wide to extravaganza, favor
itism and irregularity.
The Walsh committee is doing a
painful duty in uncovering the re-
suits of shipping mismanagement.
The public's distrust has been
aroused by mass of charges and a
conviction Of general ineniciency
many symptoms Of which have come
to the surface. 1t will be pleased if
only "amateurishness," with its at
tendant waste, is disclosed. But it
is prepared to go to the bottom and
to face the worst.
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Lest We orget

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have just read Philip Gibbs's
book, Now 1t Can Be Told, and was so
impressed with it that | believe all who
read it will have fuller understand
ing Of the suffering and horror OF war
that our boys went through. We in
the United States felt very little the
deprivation and suffering of it all.
therefore it has been so easy for us to
forget. Our Indifference has caused
the boys to become very bitter, and
who can blame them?
was told the other day that in
Washington cur wounded boys, on their
way to the Walter Reed Hospital. stood
up IN the cars, no one Offering them
seat. If such things are true, it is
a disgrace.
l am sorry that Gibbs did not find
space IN his book to prnise the work
OF the Red Cross women and the Sal
walton Army lasses. He mentions the
women who danced and enjoyed them
selves while their men fought and died
80 Nt'N44i' ma - CIuc VI some, Dut
there are many instances of the fine
work done by others. I am proud to
think that in humble way was
able to cheer and comfort some of the
boys. Many a story was told me. as
| visited the wards in the base hos
p!tal at Fox Hills, and, because am
an old woman. they felt free to con-
tide in me and told me of their loves
and hopes and fears. Such homesick
lads they We're, and how they longeG
for glimpse O. mother, with her COM
fcrtlng arms about them and her good
night kiss. Men they were in every
sense of the word. and yet, what lonely.
ohildlike boys, with their longing for
home and all it meant!
1t makes my heart ache to think
they feel We have forgotten all so
soon. They have done their bit. and.
IN the years to come, let Us do ours
with love and ever the hand to helm
and comfort them.
JUST A WOMAN AND MOTHER.
New York, Nov 5, 1920.
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The Cost of Daniels
His Extrapogant Waste of Public
Funds Viii End March 4
10 the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | am heartily in favor of YOUR
splendid editorials on the navy, point
ing out its needs and the necessity for
economy in its administration. We all
knoW that Mr.. Daniels, against the ad
vice Of Admiral Mahan and all sound
leaders, sent half Of our fleet into
the Pacific to bring California into the
Democratic column, but California an
swered "No' by 100000.
Can you not say a word for the cour
age of Representative Blanton. of
Texas, in attacking Mr.. Daniels's ex
travagant and impudent proposal to
plan the operations of the fleet for
several months after his retirement .?
The taxpayer does not object to the
cruising of our fleet, but he does oh
5ect to these divided junkets of what
was once an effective feet. Not con-
tent with winter cruise Of the At
lantlc fleet to Peru and the Pacific
fleet to Chile, Mr. Daniels now nro-
poses to start the ships off on lone
lunKet next summer to South America.
Afrlca and Australia, and rightly, Rep
1esentatiye Blanton objects. Isn't if
Like Josephus to propose to forego the
splendid operating weather here and
to send our ships into the Southern
hemisphere during its winter, with
It's incessant rain?
The cruise that should take nlace
after March is the cruise of the Pa
cific fleet back into the Atlantic. and
all summer will be required to reor-
game into one fleet.
Economy must be the watchword for
the navy, as for all other departments
Of the government.
Mr.. Daniels would prolong his orgy
Of spending into Republican adminis-
tration if he could. But the public
must prevent it, and Representative
Rianton deserves our commentator
tor his stand. Let Mr.. Daniels end his
rule on March 4. Then let us begin to
repair the damage, with economy al
ways before US. There can be no fleet
efficiency without economy. and we
must start our economy on March 4.
TAXPAYER.
New York, Nov. 8, 1920.
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The Protected Commu.sr

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: I read with much interest tbs
letter from commuter in to-day
Tribune, entitled When the Com
muter Forgets.'
Commuters in and out Of New YORK
may be interested to know that tn'
State Of Massachusetts has taken care
Of this matter by Legislation. IA
Massachusetts when commuter leaves
his monthly ticket at home he pay
the regular fare to the conductor, @''
gives him rebate check after indoFs'
ing his name thereon The commute
in also required to indorse MS nans
on the rebate check. The Jaw pre-
vides that If the rebate check, ''
gether with the monthly ticket, is pre-
sented to the general passenger asea
OF the railroad within one week 'a'
amount of fare paid is 10 be REFUNDED
The necessity Of ealing at the 0n''
Of the general passenger agent or .
some ticket Office and the delay o.
few days, which usually results N :"
railroad mailing a check 70 the coz
muter. inconvenience the comm-s
enough 50 that 1t is not common o.
currence for tickets TO be left at nom.
The commuter. however, is not aei'''
~ out OF pocket.
In Massachusetts the commuters q.
permitted TO purchase their ticAe.' ~
any day Of the month aad the moa'a'
tickets are good for thirty days. ''
law further provides that i ''~
muter, through sickness, vacation
other reasons, IS unable to use =.
ticket for a period Of ore week
more the ticket may be deposited ".
the station agent or the general %.
senger agent and reissued Win 81
tension of time equal to the pef''a
deposit. The law provides tA~'
period Of deposit shall not be less ,''
one week. EDMUND 5. COGSN lii
New York, Nov. ., 1926.
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How Does Al Do 1t?
Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: am Il Democrat, but did
not vote for Al Smith for Governor.
He has been handy tool for Boss
Murphy ever since he began his
political career. He poiled a big vote
IN the recent election because there
was deal between Barnes and Muir
ply to sell out the national Democratic
and the rest Of the Democratic ticket
for votes for Smiths
What a spectacle we witness now
when we see All Smith hobnobbing
with the "boss' at French Lick Sup
pose some other Democratic Governor
Rad the boss" up at the Executive
Mansion two or three times a month
and never came to New York without
hobnobblng with the "boss" at his
house, and Tammany Hall. and Del
monlco's, and buying an estate near
the "boss's" estate, on Long Island,
and travelling around the country to
prominent resorts with the "boss".
what would the Democratic and Re
publican newspapers say about it?
What scandal there would be,
How is it that this man Al Smith
can do the most brazen things right
IN the face of the people and get away
with it?
Have We no newspaper in this city
that can tell the truth? Looks as if
everything that was said about the
New York City press in The Brass
Cneck was true. We haven't got a
lighting paper in New York except the
hearst newspapers. and they fight only
tor Hearst-but they know how to
fight. r r RORFRTc
New York. Nov. 10. 1920.
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Keeping the Frontier Alive

There are many good points about
the Girl Scouts-as about the Bow
Scouts. But we like to think that
the central aim of these two organ
lzatlons can be best summed up in
the declaration that they would keep
alive for all time in our boys and
girls the virtues of the frontier.
This weeks gift of $50 acres of
wild country to the Girl Scouts was
not an unrelated chance Neither is
the name scout an accidental de-
tall. The activities Of the scout and
his code have been broadened with
the years. But the things done and
the standards preached are precisely
those of the outstanding frontiers
man who knows the outdoor world
at first hand, who can take care Of
himself and his own in any situa-
ton, and who is, in that best of all
American phrases, "a good scout"
The influence Of the frontier upon
American life, social, political and
economic. has been the major subject
Of American historical study in re-
cent years. That we have always
had, for three centuries, frontier
ever pushing westward, but ever
at the farthest flung fringe Of pio-
neers reproducing the same husky.
resolute living that has been the lot
OF our fr0ntiersmen from the davs
OF the MayAower onward-has been.
1T is now generally considered. the
greatest of all influences upon our
national development. The frontier
constantly reacted upon the older
regions. The f1uX and reAux of
population was passing
through all the stages of settlement.
from the rawest frontier, past the
ripening prairie towns. to staid
Philadelphia and prim Boston.
To-day the last frontier has been
conquered, and in the century to
come we shall possess no such adj
ventures Whcrewith to renew our
youth and maintain the old virtues.
it Is altogether fitting, therefore.
that the Girl Scouts and the Bov
Scouts should take up the task of
perpetuating in the very fiber of our
youth all that the frontier has con-
trlbuted to the greatness of Amer
lca. The ideal training would be to
have every American spend a year
IN the Rockies or on ranch, out
doors, roughing it, working his way.
fighting his way If necessary. The
Scouts can give much the same
training right here at home.
The Girl Scouts, who are asking
for every ones aid this week. are
quite as useful as the Boy Scouts.
No such aim as has been described
could possibly be attained unless our
girls shared with the boys these les
sons of outdoor life, Of health, Of
courage, of practical good fellow
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The Shipping MuddIe

On the administrative side our
war experiment. with shipping has
been a genereiv conceded failure.
The United States got many ships
built, but the processes Of building
them and on USING them aftcrward
were largely improviscd and hap
hazard The board started badly.
with incompctent management at
the top. and has hounderod through
the great work without any firm
grasp ON the situation. Changes in
authority Were frequent and a fixed,
smooth working policy was made
impossible by clashes, uncertainty
and lack Of genuine organization.
One Of Admiral Heuson's assist
ants said on the witness stand yes
terday that the root Of the trouble
was "amateurishnc Why was
"amateurishnoss' tolerated so long
Possibly the same idea prevailed in
the shipping venture rs in the rail
road venture-that merely political
appointecs would have the shill and
energy to do what only trained men
were capable Of doing Political
management Of the railroads, like
Mr.. McAdoo's, left behind it a trail
of extravaganza and IN enormous
deficit to be made up by the tax
payers. The railroads were q gcing
concern, operated during the gov
ernmcnt control period wisA re'a-
tive efficiency, so far as traffic went.
thanks to the great body Of railroad
workers. A bad policy at the top
couldn't spcil everything. But in
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The Daniels Excursion Fleet

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is the understanding of the
writer that the navy traditon-prior
to 1912 rigidly excluded women,
families of officers or civilians from
seagoing trips.
In this connection President-elect
Harding's recent refusal of the offer
Of battleship inspires the hope that
a reversion to democratic times is
thus presaged. A popular "reaction-
ary' move will be the restoring of the
navy to its primary functional bust
ness arm of defense. 1t has served
too long as al excursion feet for the
present Secretary, his friends and
Administration in-laws and as a side
show to business mems conventions in
southern seaports. +. II. r.
Westtield, n. j., Nov. g. 1920.
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4 Full Days Work
II Offers the Only Road 10 Better
Conditions

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The public must realize one
fact and keep It constantly before it,:
That the fundamental causes underly-
ing such outrageously high prices have
been the desire for gain possessed by
the much greater percentage of all
human beings and the opportunity
The latter may be real, but is surround
ed by conditions permitting, by its ma
nipulation, of it's assuming unduly ex-
aggerated proportions.
If labor will deliver q days honest
work and this day is Of sufficient
number of hours; if the employer will
dispose of the product at reasonable
profit to those who sell this product
and if this dispenser will also be salts
fed with reasonable profit, then we
will once more get back to normal
world conditions.
No one who knows will deny, if he
be honest, that the INSCRIPTIONS labor
leaders have, in order to accomplish
their own desires, used the unthink-
ing and ignorant element in labor
toward unreasonable demands as to
hours of work and compensation for
the work. No one can deny but that
in order to live and to support ones
dependents a certain number of hours
must be utilized.
The small farmer in very isolated
sections is probably the best example
Of this fact. He knows that in order
to support himself, his family and
cattle, which are necessary for we'll
being, and in order to do his work he
must till certain acreage. He knows
by experience, that in order to till
this acreage he must devote certain
number Of hours to it.
believe that We may safely assume
this as basic example and a basic
principle, and this principle applied is
the only means by which the world
may live toA AHldlly HIS NaLfOn must
get back to a common sense basis. Tho
most beneficial legislation and the only
legislation which will accomplish the
relief of all concerned will be that
which will circulate by illustrative
propaganda the facts of this principle
Did you ever stop to think how much
would be accomplished by world
wide application Of the piece work.
principle? Give the honest worker
whoever he may be, the benefit Of an
honest days work. Let labor "clean
house" and give the gate to the un-
scrupulous labor leader
Let the manufacturer "clean house
the same way and let tne mercantile
combinations apply the same principle
GRANT SHEPHERD.
New York, Nov. 9, 1920.
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Aid for Martyred Peoples


10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR: Now that the heat and bitterness Sc
ci the electoral campaign are over. NAV
not your readers trust that your great
paper, which, | believe, had much to
TO with what now seems one Of the
greatest miracles in history, i. e.. the
participation Of America in the war
VIII do everything possible to rouse our
people to the realization OF the dire
need of Armenia and the other nations
which are vainly at present hoping that
We viii come TO their aido
Surely the enthusiasm which only
last spring made an audience which DR.
Manning was addressing spring to it's
feet in eager Endorsement of his words
when he said that if need were Amer
lea would send armies to fight for
Armenia is mot dead, but sleeping"
One cannot help believing that null
titudes Of earnest men and women
voted the Republican ticket on No.
vember because they believed that
only by the election of President
whose views were in harmony with
those of a majority of the Senate
would it be possible to secure the rati-
feation of the Versailles treaty and
the league covenant, and long before
mat end was secured to send adequate
assistance to the martyr peoples over
seas. SARA RlDY SCHUYLER.
New York, Nov. 10, 1920.
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preston they leave will hardly be
dissipated by explanations such as
he has issued or by further expla-
nations from subordinates who are
under fire.
Incompctency and wastefulness
have been disclosed in nearly every
field of War Department activity.
They may be excused by inexperi-
ence. haste. indecision and the lack
Of centralized control. But the
country will not condone deliberate
mismanagement or personal pick
ings. If these things have existed
they must be exposed and punished d.
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The Adr;atic Settlement

Italy and Jugo- -Slavia have at last
settled the Adriatic dispute-and on
reasonable basis. The two coun-
tries haven't been as far apart as
has been commonly supposed.
The chief controversy-that over
tlume-was unfortunately aggra-
waited by blundering at the peace
conference, which aroused patriotic
passions on both sides and made it
difficult for the representatives of
the enlarged Serb kingdom to yield
to Italian wishes. Yet the forces Of
common sense and mutual interest
have finally won.
Jugo-Slavia has now conceded the
main Italian contention-thatF Fiumc
shall remain an independent city.
not walled in by Croatian territory.
An Italian strip is to connect it
with lstria, so that both nations
shall adjoin the free city and thus
be, in military sense, on the same
footing. Italy otherwise accepts an
lstrlan frontier similar to that fixed
in the Treaty of London and sur
renders all her Dalmatian claims,
except those to cara and three of
the islands.
The Italians, therefore, pay fairly
for the independence of Fiume,
which they allowed to be assigned
to the South Slavs under the Treaty
Of London. The Slav argument has
been that the Slav hinterland needed
tiume as port and that access
to the sea would be valueless with
out political control. But Hungary
needs access to the sea as much as
Jugo- Slavia. Both countries couldn' t
have political control. Fiume,
whether it remains Independent or
eventually seeks annexation to Italy,
can be developed as a port only if it
serves the non-Italian hintcrland.
There is, therefore, every economic
inducement to put this outlet at the
service Of its best customers, the
more so as Italy Will benefit by
exporting her surplus manufactures
into Jugo-Slavia and Hungary and
receiving in return their surplus
agricultural products. Economic
considerations alone ought to insure
fair use of the port. And Italy's
claim for compensation and protec-
ton on the east coast of the Adriatic
can hardly be denied her on political
and military grounds.
Serbia's territorial gains as a re-
suit Of the war have been far
greater than Italy's. She acquired
some former Bulgarian territory,
absorbed Montenegro, a part Of the
Banat, promised by the Entente Al
lies to Rumania; Bosnia, Herzego-
vina, Croatia, Slavonia and a large
part Of the South Slav holdings of
Austria. She now gets nearly all
the Dalmatian territory promised by
treaty to Italy. The Croatians and
Slavonians fought Italy to the end.
The united Jugo-Slav state has
therefore no just cause of complaint
against a peace settlement giving
independence to Fiume, which was
itself not a part of Croatia, but a
separate appanage of Hungary.
The Adriatic dispute was dis
ruptive and demoralizing. 1t nearly
broke up the conference. 1t para
lyzed the Allied concert. The set
tloment now reached is a belated
contribution to real peace reorgani-
zation in Europe
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The Suuanderers

When Spring bequeathed the popIa,
Ten Thousand leaves of gold,
| had coin for every coin
The poplar's arms could hold.
And | was just as proud then
As any careless king,
And | was stirred as easily
AS poplars are in Spring.
Throughout the ardent Summer
| could not be outdone;
For each gold piece the poplar spent
| flung a finer one.
But now we both are beggars
The tree no longer CLEANS,
And | who had as much to give
Am destitute Of dreams.
GEORGE O'NErL.
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Marble Memorials
EDITOR Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: fully agree with your ideas
about Eugene Field in Marble" in to-
days paper. l abominate marble me-
MORALS; your suggestions are fine. |
want to thank you for "Wo Takes
Her Place" 1t was on the editorial
page the day after election. I had it
copied in our local press.
MARTHA COCKS WILLETS.
Cornwall Hudson, N. Y, Nov. 8,
1920
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Happy Massachusetts

CFro,, The Host0n Globe
Cheer up. BY virtue q the ans. >,
ment to the state constitution ie''.'
adopted we are free of all state =
tons now for two years, and neA' >.
beyond some local elections. We y.
have to worry about politics ana - -,
won't be any Senators or Congfe,'.,
to elect for ever so long. Ami 'D''
grand an glorious feelin'?
New-York tribune., 1920-11-12

ship. The Tribune is glad to urge
the support of its readers for this
organization, aptly designed to build
a greater America for the future
upon the best of our past.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-12
Peace Pessinlisrn

Expressions Of dissatisfaction
generally mark the Armistice Day
comment. Lloyd George, who ex-
claims things are going right" is
about the only one able to retain
his cheerfulness.
The pessimism seems somewhat
overdone. Yet it is natural enough.
Realization seldom equals expecta-
ton. We are close to events,
and nearness beholds defects and
blotches that kindly distance softens.
Moreover, while eulogistic of sol
diers who pursue their object openly
and directly, manhood is suspicious
and critical of craftsmanship and
diplomacy, whose methods are neces~
sarily devious Never was there a
generation which did not cry out
against the bankruptcy Of the po-
litical leadership. 50 it is not
strange there is now no exception.
But barring the first few months
following the cessation of hostili-
ties, when great hope born of
vast JOY uplifted every spirit, there
has been sure progress in reconstruct
ton. Predicted evils have net come.
Read the newspapers of eighteen
months ago. You VIII learn that if
something were not at once done
(something that the particular group
Of alarmists which was vocalizing
regarded as essential) Europe would
soon dissolve into chaos. Germany,
France, Italy and perhaps even
Great Britain were to become as
Russia.
First one winter and then an
other passed without a universal
cataclysm. Now q third approaches,
and there is no new reason for de-
spair. Various tribal wars have come
to an end. The waves Of troubled
sea are gradually subsiding. There
is a return to work and the nor
malities Of life.
Life, of course, has proved
stronger than theory, and so it hap
pens that the new state of things
does not differ fundamentally from
the old. The fixed habits Of the hui
man family are reasserting them
selves, and for sufficient reason.
Those habits, in the main, accord with
what man dcsiles-constitutc the en-
vironment that he prefers. Dream
ers have dreamed OF great trans
formations, but great TRANSFORMED
tions are not to the liking of the
forces that control destiny and de
velopment. Nature seeks change.
but she viii not have it sudden ex-
cept when in the mood to destroy.
But the gains, despite the pessi-
mists, have been great, especially in
what may be called the unsystema-
tized imponderabes Of civilization.
1t is little likely any nation will soon
attempt to initiate the Germany Of
1914. This is our best security of fu-
ture peace, though guaranteed by no
document. War has been we'll called
the great illusion-the illusion that
one people is advantaged by the
overthrow and misery Of another.
This illusion is by no means gone,
but the great war has dimmed its
villa good will that is based on
ideals and backed up by intelligent
selishneas.
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A Temporary Break
lFroD, The Det,o,t r. n

'''o"' me Detroit Free Press)
Mr.. Wilson may feel that the heart
Of the world is broken, but he ought to
tie able to comfort himself a little with
the thought that heartbreak is rarely
a fatal disorder, and that this is a
tough old world, with fine recunerat,va
rowers
New-York tribune., 1920-11-12
Respectfully Referred to Any
Dictionary

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Referring to your leading arti-
Gle in yesterdays Tribune about Ire
land, IT would be interesting to know
by what process of reasoning you and
others arrive at the conclusion that the
cause of Ireland is a domestic English
luestioS. VIII you kindly say?
ONE INTERESTED.
New York, Nov. 10, 1920.