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New-York tribune., 1920-03-06

great. To-day they are active in a
score Of cities from coast to coast.
The new scenery is now a common
place Of Broadway. For most New
Workers. 1t was few enough years
ago, In Robert Edmond Jones's set
tings for "The Man Who Married a
Dumb Wife," that the, idea Of
scenery as anything more than a
dead frame or snowy dress first
made itself real.
Looking back thus-at the varied
elements Of writing, Of paint, Of act
ing, Of the box Office, which have
somehow got themselves arranged
Tor this great day-one may wonder
just how large part any one inf1u-
ence has counted. Was there per-
haps a time-spirit which ordained
that here in the first quarter of the
twentieth century the theater should
achieve new beauty and exercise a
new sway? Perhaps. But time
spirits seem to help ages that help
themselves; and let us give credit
and support to every courageous pio-
neer who fought the fight. The
Greenwich Village Players seemed
to arrive nowhere in particular; yet
the Theater Guild, which gave US
John Ferguson" and "Jane Clegg,"
the high-water mark Of the theater
in America to-day, was the indirect
descendant Of these experimenters.
: We think an especial word Of
praise is due the Drama League,
which was never so fourishing as
to-day and never offered so many op
portunities for spreading the light.
1t is now eight years old. 1t offers
it's members drama calendar, a
theater bookshop, children's per-
formances, lectures; it provides "a
little theater exchange of informa-
tion and advice, and it plans for next
year course on scenic design, light
ing, ETC., with laboratory perform
ances by way Of illustration. will
some one perhaps provide labora-
tory theater some day?) If you like
good plays well acted go to them.
That is the best way to help create
q "great audience" You can do an
added bit If you will by supporting
the Drama League, which seeks in
an open-minded way to organize the
friends Of the theater in behalf of
their faith.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
The War Memorials

1t is good news that the Mitchell
Memorial is making headway, but
we hope that the project of a road
way across Central Park at the
lower end Of the old Croton reser-
voir will be held open until the
larger plan Of general war
memorial is decided upon. A review
of the ideas and designs exhibited in
the City Hall shows that,no satisfac-
tory submission Of ideas has yet
been obtained-that it will largely
rest upon the Imagination Of the new
committee Of architects, artists and
sculptors to devise a fitting plan.
In this labor Of imagination and
creation the question Of sites is para
mount. The Victory Arch at Madi-
son Square was damned by its loca-
ton, wholly aside from its artistic
status considered as a work apart
from Its surroundings. The project
to remake Madison Square to SUBJ
serve this new element only shows
how impossible it is to remake this
hugely upbuilt town of ours. The
Battery offers strong imaginative
appeal, but the architects who have
proposed this site have found it nee
essary to draw their design with the
elevated eliminated-a triAing alter
alton Of the city's transit facilities
which unquestionably adds to the
beauty Of the Battery, but which it
is exceedingly difficult to accomplish
as practical matter.
Ultimately it seems probable that
the comiaittes will be driven to Gen.
tral Park as the one open area in the
city ample enough to yield proper
background for ar1reat war monu.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
Poor Germany!

An unfortunate feature Of any dis
cussion Of reparation is the chance
it gives to the tireless pro-German
propagandists to renew their falsi-
flying activities.
The reparation question is most
complicated. No one not an expert
can be expected to carry in memory
it's data. Here is a condition to the
liking Of those of Teuton SYM
pathies. 1t is safe to say anything
and to charge on the basis of bogus
figures that the Allies are plainly
cormorants.
The stuff, most of it not true and
little of the remainder relevant, put
forward in the German interest
should be ignored and minds focused
on only few considerations. One
is that no crushing" indemnity has
been levied; another is that the sum
fixed is not greater than Germany
can. pay; still another is that there
is no prohibition on German trade
and industry.
The reparation bill, so far as fixed,
is not that Germany must pay $780,
000,0O0,000, as is arrantly said, or
even 100000 100000, but $15,OOO,-
000,000-a sum it is agreed Ger,
many is able to pay. When this
amount has been paid over then the
international commission may, if it
deems wise, demand more, but only
when there is unanimous agreement
that 1t IS qOithi7a Ge,many's ability
to pay interest and sinking fund on,
the additional bonds are the same to
be distributed. All the reparation
articles of the Versailles treaty in
dicate solicitude that the burden laid
on Germany shall not be greater
than she can bear.
The Tribune, of course, has no
hope Of silencing the newest form
Of pro-German propaganda. 1t has
too often failed in other instances to
have hope. The agreed-on tale will
be circulated and be believed by those
who want to believe it and by those
whose gullibility is experience-proof.
The Keynes book and similar COM
pilations Of mistruths and half
truths are having large sales, and
in certain quarters are spoken Of as
authoritative.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
The Unchoked Male

Rumors that the long choked male
is about to throw off his shackles Of
linen and starch bear out what the
professor would call the economic
Interpretation Of fashion. Neither
art nor comfort ever availed to free
mankind from the stiff linen collar,
but the last raise in price has set
the spark to rebellion. Rather than
pay 35 cents for a scrap of linen
men are threatening to take up the
despised and comfortable soft collar.
For these crusaders we suggest
the motto: "What woman hath done.
men can do again." Let them look
upon the army Of woman arrayed
in unrelieved blue serge and take
courage. 1t is only in the most con-
servative circles that women to-day
cling to the white collar. Fashion,
of course, made the first suggestion,
but the battle was won only when
the great conscript army of economy
took the field.
Not only has the white shirtwaist,
greatest thief Of a working girls
time and money, been relegated to
the ragbag, but even the white
organdie frill and the "bit of lace at
the throat" have been sacrificed to
the cost Of living and laundry.
There will be few stenographers
to sympathize with masculine walls
over collars which cost 35 cents.
Women's collars cost so cents for
the most f1imsy and worthless scraps
Of cheesecloth, and from that mini
mum soar swiftly to $5, or $25 for
a small piece Of real linen hand en-
broidered. If one wanted collar
and vestee, something not elaborate
but bit dainty, last summer, the
cost was fifty or sixty dollars in the
best Fifth Avenue shops. A million
aire husband or faithful grand
mother at home Is essential if one
is to be freshly organdied and en-
broidered each day.
The complete emancipation Of the
woman from white collars has come
about, then, in the twenty-five years
since the bicycle and the Gibson girl
first brought in the mannish shirt
waist and the stiff collar for woman.
With the stiffness woman made short
shrift. With the whiteness she dallied
longer. But it is now vanished.
With all due Difference to the slow
moving processes of masculine psy-
chology, and yet with a vast awe for
the high cost Of living, one dares
prophesy that men, too, will yet
breathe the air Of freedom unchoked.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
Heir. to the Mantle

Mr.. Palmer and Mr.. McAdoo seem
to have designated themselves tenta-
lively as heirs to mantle Of leader
ship whose clasps are still fastened
tight. Each Is willing to be the
next Democratic nominee for Presi-
dent if Mr.. Wilson doesn't decide to
cast his hat far into the ring for the
third time. Their candidates are
therefore both conditional and defer
entail. Their hats are only on the
top rail Of the fence surrounding the
ring.
Mr.. Palmer comes from Pennsyl-
vania a-an immovably Republican
state. His nomination would vio-
late all the tenets Of the political
strategists. Yet his urbanity and
the comparative colorlessness Of his
political record give him certain
availability as campaigner for del
egates. He is working ostensibly
for himself. But everybody knows
that the President will always have
a reversionary option on the Palmer
vote.
This situation is neatly suggested
in the Attorney Generals answer to
the Georgia Democrats who asked
him to enter their primary. He ac-
cepted the invitation, but tactfully
put his acceptance on this ground:
II deem it highly important that the
Democrats Of Georgia should have
the opportunity to directly pass
upon the record made by the present
Administration and the candidacy of
ono who supports that record in
every phase"
Mr.. Palmer's finesse exceeds Mr..
McAdoo's. When the latter was in
vited to run in the Georgia primary
ne wrote a voluminous letter ex-
planning why he thought it highly
important that the Democratic dele
gates from Georgia-and presum-
ably from the other states-should
go to the national convention unin-
structed. Mr.. McAdoo is native
Georgian and would probably have
been more acceptable to Georgia as
an Administration ca2didate than
Mr. Palmer IL. But What critics Of
,is IN Washington call his "vacilla-
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
Clemenceau and Heaven
fFrom The London Mornsrs Post)

tfTont me London M0rnfNg post)
The latest Clemenceau anecdote that
IS going the rounds of the bouleva rds
is to the effect that the Premier was
annoyed because a tree in the neirh-
boring garden overshadowed his. The
tree was the property of some Jesuit
fathers, on whom M. Clemenceau
called, politely explaining that his at
tltude to the Church was unchanged.
but he would regard it as a personal
favor If the Jesuit fathers would cut
down the tree. because it prevents me
from seeing the heavens" The Jesuit
father who received him was verv cour-
teous and was much fattered bv the
Premier's call. He promised that the
offending tree should be speedily re-
moved, but he added, with the suave
smile Of the ecclesiasticS'T am afraid.
Mr.. Premier, that, just the same. Won
will not SEQ hsaver."
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
Unchasfened Germany
Another Example of the Teu-
tonic Mind in Action
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir, The letter in to-day's Tribune
about the unchastened German and the
editorial thereon make me think that
a recent article in a German paper
may prove of interest as another ex-
ample Of the working of the world re-
nowned Hun mind. 1t appeared in the
"Wochen Ausgabe des Berliner Tage-
blatt" on the 21st of January, this year.
1t is entitled "Why America Entered
the War;" and the author is given as
DR.. C. Dencker, of Chicago. In part, it
is as follows:
"Does any sensible man believe that
a great country declared war because
a few citizens Of another state ever
stepped the law? America was driven
into the war (1) because President
Wilson is heart and soul an English
man, (2) because the ruling class in
America is Anglo-Saxon and English at
heart, (3) because of widespread
propaganda going back as far as 1898,
by which England stirred up inAamma-
tory feeling against Germany.
"Ihe Yankee, that is, the Anglo
American, rules the country. President
Eliot Of Harvard University said at
the outbreak Of the war between Ger
many and America: Wilson had al
ready determined in August, 1914, to
go to- England's help in case she
could not manage Germany
"And Wilson, who is Wilson? Born
in America of English parents, edu-
Gated in English kultur and during his
whole calling teacher of English
history. 1t is. said that Wilson has
spent twenty-seven summer vacations
IN English lands. His every fiber is
English; he is no American. What
does it mean to be an American?
During. the war | have observed
Geffnan-Americans whose forefathers
had been in the country for three gem
eratlons and who were just as German
IN feeling as any Of their countrymen
at home.
Wilson was and la just as English
~ am German. Just recently he said
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
The New Audiences

There Is no question that the new
theater has arrived. For one indi-
cation, try to buy seat for "Jane
Clegg," If you have any doubts.
Here Is tragedy, Of wisdom and
beauty, presented off the beaten
track by a company largely un-
known; and 1t plays to crowded
houses. This in New York, where
the tired business man was supposed
to sink exhausted into parquet seat
at the theater as at an intellectual
Turkish bath, to be rubbed and cod
died into forgetting the stock market.
How did this miracle happen?
How has the theater of ideas thus
suddenly become a thing of popu-
larity and success? Many collabo-
rators must unite in such produc-
ton. There must be plays and play
wrights. There is the modern notion
of scenery as an integral part of the
idea Of the production. There must
be new naturalness Of acting. All
these elements united to create
"John Ferguson" and "Jane Clegg"
on the stage; yet one further essen
tial was needed, an audience to at
tend and understand. ITO have
great poets there must be great audi
ences, too," wrote Whitman. The
assertion Is peculiarly true of the
theater, which cannot exist at all
speaking artistically, not economi-
cally-without audiences.
1t Is these audiences which the last
year or two has added to the theater.
Looking backward, it is easy to see
somewhat in perspective certain out
standing milestones. The Irish play
ers were forerunners so strange in
their methods and matter that they
were a storm center from the hour
Of their arrival. They gained audi
ences more out of curiosity than
anything else. Since then the move
ment has broadened and discovered
itself in untold quarters. The little
theaters have made chiefly special
appeal to small groups; but their In
fiuence has unquestionablyx been
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
Substance and Shadow

In his letter to Senator Hitch
cock President Wilson admitted that
the Senate reservation to Article
x was sound in essence. He COM
planned that it was unsympathetic
in form. On Thursday Senator Glass
was charged with carrying a modi-
fed reservation to the White House.
Its substance is the same. Is there
a saving grace in its wording? The
Presidents long dispute with the
Senate has been over phrases rather
than over ideas. He knows and has
several times acknowledged that no
obligation under Article X can be
discharged by the United States
unless Congress consents to that dis
charge in any particular case. He
seems to hold, however, that in some
mysterious metaphysical sense obli-
cations may be and should be as
sumed without any promise whatever
to discharge them. Apparently that
is the theory on which he stands in
wanting to modify the language of
the reservation.
But what value would such a
subtle refinement of phraseology
have in the practical working out Of
the conceptions Of the covenant?
Even were it possible to retain the
substance of the Senate reservation
while "softening" it's form, how would
the league be strengthened thereby or
its relations to the United States
altered? Our form of government
inhibits a sweeping acceptance of
obligations such as Article X con-
templates. The right Of Congress to
interpret any responsibility put on
this country by Article X cannot be
abridged. It may be that in any
particular case Congress may be as
eager as the President to accept
recommendation from the council in
which our own representative has
joined. But this country's partici-
patton cannot be automatic. Our
dualistic system prevents that.
Wrangling over the phrasing Of
the reservation is, therefore, hardly
more than a metaphysical exercise.
The country wants to see the sub
stance Of the present reservation re-
tanned. The President is insisting
on a shadow Of form which practical
minds cannot regard as of any con-
sequence.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
A Coalition Government

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: II this country should adopt The
proposed plan Of a coalition government
l would venture to suggest tho follow
ing names for tho leading ofticas Of b.
administration:
President Herbert Hoover Ind.
pendent.
Vice-Presidsnt-William q. Ts4s b.
publican.
Secretary ef etste--Elfhu Root B..
publican.
Secretary Of the Treasury-0ner'l
Charles Dawes, Republican.
Secretary Of War-JThecsors Rooss.
velt, Republican.
Secretary Of the Navy~-F. D. Roose-
velt, Democrat.
Secretary of Agriculturs-seeretsu
Meredith, Democrat.
Attorney General-Charles e. Hughe'
Republican.
Postmaster General--Tranklin D'0Eer
of the American Legion.
Secretary Of the Interior-Frankhr
Lane, Democrat.
Secretary Of Labor--Raymond Robins
Independent Republican.
Secretary of Commerce-Secretary D.
r. Houston, Democrat.
The people respect ex-President TAFT
His experience and judicial mind would
be helpful to q President willing to tsfs
counsel from his equals. Elihu Ro''
has, above all prominent public men, t''
experience and prestige a real See''.
tary Of State should have. Genera
Dawes, as banker, ex-Comptrollef Of ts
Treasury and purchasing officer OF s's
A. E. r, Is the most logical man I''
the Treasury. Theodore Roosevelt W.
younger, has had extended war esps
rience on she firing line and was r.
markably efficient as well as . bFs"
commander. He has, Of course, trs''
ing few have had in the inner WORKING
OF the work at Washington. T.
Roosevelt has apparently been the nv
capable Assistant Secretary Of the NJ"
we have had since his more fah0s
namesake left the position. As az !"
torney for the public interest, no lss'1
approaches the record Of Justice Hnsass
Franklin D'oter is capable busl's. s.
man; he had q wonderful record IN -
Quartermaster's Corps of the A. B. :.
he might put the Postal Depart~sa.
again on an efficient basis. The GU
proposed appointees are equally s'r
rienced and capable in their lines
ROBERTS WILLIAhH
Wilkss-Barre, Penn, March :, is
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
Why Take a Chance?
, the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is it not about time the authori-
ties took steps to check the mad en-
thusiasm of aviators who risk their
lives daily, not for any worth while
reason that can be discovered, but
simply in the silly effort to ''break the
record" in speed or in height or dis
tance made by some one else?
What purpose is served by this folly ?
We ask, in all seriousness, why should
not an aviator deliberately risking his
life for no useful object be arrested d
and put under restraint as a would-be
suicide? Human lives are worth more
than this. E. Fl. CLEVELAND, NJ. D.
New York ,>Feb. %, 1920.
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AEMBER or rH1 ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitled 70 tho
use for republication of all dispatches credited
70 1t or not otherwise credited In this paper and
herein.
All rsghts Of republication Of all other matter
horein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
Only a Compromise

No one can mistake the fact that the
whole Turkish problem Is being dealt
with on the basis of expediency rather
than principle. The great powers are
trying to close up the war settlements
with as little friction and as great
speed as possible. The possibilities of
clashes between France, Britain and
Italy in Turkey are obvious, there have
been difficult moments already and any
arrangement now seems more attrac-
tive than prolongation Of the tension.
But any compromise now can be only
a compromise, dodging of the real
problem, postponement. The Turk
will massacre Armenians, the dangers
of rivalries at the straits and in Con-
stantinople will remain and, If Russia
regains unity and strength, Russian
policy will certainly resume its old
pathways. Not to reach sensible and
permanent settlement now. based upon
actual conditions rather than tempo
rary complications, is to lay up new
trouble for the future and for future
relatively close at hand.
Necessarily the bargains in Turkey
bear little relations to Mr.. Wilson's
fourteen points. There is justification
in the fact that the United States did
not enter the war with Turkey, but Mr.
Wilson can, If he chooses, find good war
rant for intervention in the name of
world order and his principles, and
there Is, therefore, fair possibility that
after Fiume his next declaration to Eu-
rope will be over Constantinople. Such
a declaration would enlist much British
approval, but would necessarily arouse
fresh bitterness in France and Italy,
provided it is not accompanied with a
promise that America will undertake
responsibilities in the East while in
sisting upon being consulted.
copyright. 1920. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndcate)
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New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
Pro-Anderson
Anti,Saloon League and Its Head
Officially Defended

UeS'ete.S Nv CuACu
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: read what you had to say ir
your editorial of this date regarding
Mr.. Anderson. 1t is nothing new to
have editors wish he were out Of the
way. He Is everything which the liquo,
traffic does not like.
New York City, being called by the
"wets" the Liquor Gibraltar of Amer
ica," needed just the fearless type OF
man which you know him to be. In
your opinion he is "rowdy" and a
"vulgarian," "boss" and "dctator."
Reduced to It's simplest terms, he has
been just rough enough to jar things
loose in the metropolitan center, and
because he was just about to force the
retirement of the big "wet' champion
In the United States Senate, James
Wadsworth jr, lot of Republican ed
itors are Joining with German -Ameri-
can brewers to furnish an alibi for the
Republican party if it fails to pass an
enforcement law and insists on Offend
Ing the temperance forces by jamming
through the candidacy Of Mr.. Wads-
worth.
Mr.. Editor, if Mr.. Anderson has
seemed to hit hard enough to be called
a rowdy, it is because only strong licks
would break the strangle hold of the
liquor men on the Wadsworth wing of
the Republican party; and if he has
used the word "liar" any too frequent-
ly for the refined taste Of our good city
1t is not at all due to his fAndness for
the name, but to the commonness OF
the variety.
ANDREW B. WOOD,
Assistant State Superintendent Anti
Saloon League Of New York.
New York, March 8, 1920.
To the EditSr Of The Tribune.
Sir. The statement Of James o.
Tryon that the persons "who are active
In tho Anti-Saloon League are in it
for what they can get out Of it finan-
cially and politically" Is untrue. Of
course, we all eat and we eat we'll. The
liquor men have realized that from the
energy with which we prosecute the
work. But there is none of US after any
political job. 1t has been one of the
principles of the league for a great
many years that its workers will not
accept political jobs.
The shock which Mr. Tryon expert
enced when he overheard the remark of
some person that he was in the employ
of the league as collector and making
more than ever. would not have Jared
him so If he had known that we have
overheard similar jocular remarks from
persons not at all connected with the
league, and alnong persons who are
employed by the league 1t is a standing
Joke between them and their friends
that they are getting big money. And
even If they are, who says they haven't
earned it? A. B. WOOD,
Assistant State Superintendent.
New York, March q, 1920.
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Presidents personal physician.

Well, II the bonuses are granted
there will be jobs in Washington for
lot of civil service clerks, who will
work with intelligent conscientiousness
verifying the service records Of
100000 men, getting the present ad
dresses straight, and figuring the
amount of the checks. This, for few
Washington civil service clerks, will
be the work of few days.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
Examination in journalism

Q.-What does person do when he
advocates, desires, is mildly in favor
or wishes, Graves for, wants, fails to
oppose, or thinks that perhaps he might
not object to, certain thing?
Ale urges.
Q.-What is the money asked in a
breach Of promise suit?
A-Heart balm.