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New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
Paper in the Park
Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Is there nothing which can be
done to remedy the deplorable condi-
tion which exists in Central Park from
the scattering and throwing broadc asst
OF waste paper? Around the play
grounds especially the lawns are un-
slightly and [ have avoided this year
walking through some former favorite
portions of the park because of their
present defacement. Even the Ramble.
usually safely secluded spot, has suf
fered
While riding the other day along the
Fifty ninth Street end | was frequently
obliged to pull up and walk my horse
for some distance to avoid his shying
at the news sheets and paper bags which
disfigured the ground in every direction
There are provided in convenient
places an adequate number Of waste
paper receptacles, and if the beauty OF
our park is still to be enioved by
every one | think offenders who will
not use them voluntarily should be
made to do so by the police.
SYLVIA HOLT.
New York, June d, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
"A Great Law''-And Its Test

Senator Lodges praise Of the
Esch- -Cummins railroad law was
thoroughly deserved. He spoke of
it as "a single great law which in
any period would be sufficient to dis
tinguish a Congress as one of high
accomplishment"
The law has not had time yet to
show results. And to show results
it must be applied by the Interstate
Commerce Commission in a helpful
and intelligent spirit. But, as SEN
ator Lodge pointed out, it declares
national policy and, SO far as any
law can do it, establishes that policy
as a rule of action" Congress has
assumed virtual control of the rail-
roads. 1t will regulate them pri-
marily in the public interest. Such
regulation implies a development Of
the transportation system which will
insure uninterrupted service and en-
larged facilities in transit and de-
livery. 1t ought to exclude tie-ups,
embargoes, insufficient terminals and
unproductive rates. To bring the
carriers up to par in efficiency their
credit must be restored and their
earnings made sufficient to retain the
private capital invested in them and
to attract new capital.
The national policy announced in
the Esch-Cummins act involves
fair and reasonable return on the
value of property used in the op-
Grafton Of the roads That is all the
owners Of railroad securities ask.
Their capital is serving the public
1t is entitled to fair return-not
the clipped return which the Inter
state Commerce Commission has for
years been inclined to allot it.
Congress cannot execute the act.
Its execution rests with the commits
sion, whose membership has now
been filled out by three recess ap-
polntments. Congress has done it's
part. The reorganized commission
is now on trial. 1t must show
within the next six months what it
is capable of doing in the way of
broad and liberal application of
law which at last clearly declares
the governments railroad policy.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; In your issue of June Mr.
Robert w. Leonard characterizes the
Turk as brave, honest and industrious
and rather dull and kind hearted. he
also goes on TO question the Christi
anity of the Armcnians because the
majority of them do not belong TO the
Greek or Roman Church.
Now, the meaning Of Christian Is 10
relate to or derive from Christ or HIS
doctrine, or manifest the spirit O.
Christ or His teachings. The Arnaenl'
ans have upheld those principles ana
have died for those convictions. Ihe
penalty paid by the Armenians fof
those convictions was one million people.
AS for the Turk, he slaughters one
million with dull and kind heart. HAD
they not been so lenient they would
have obviously slaughtered the whole
world. n
MARK ]. SHAHlNlAN.
West Hobokcn, N. j., June 4. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
4 Perfect BmZeson DAY
Demonstrating The Ingenuity of Our
Repered PostoHce

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have noticed-just casually
in passing-that The Tribune is dis
posed at times to be rather severe on
poor MIR. Burlcson. Now l am here
to say that though the mails be late
now and then (and usually) Mr.. Burle-
son handles these DELAYS with rare
tact and adrotness. For instance:
My mother wrote to an old friend in
Los Angeles a week ago, inviting her
to come to lunch on Friday, bring her
sewing, spend the day, and see the
flowers and the ocean. She dated the
letter just an ambiguous "Tuesday,"
making special trip to the postoffice
with it to make sure that it got off
promptly.
My mother is some cook, believe me!
And she spent all day Thursday and
Friday morning preparing a delicious
luncheon, getting out the company
linen, picking the flowers and arrang-
ing them and planning the mint ,cst
detail-"a perfect day" SO, naturally,
she was tremendously disappointed
and considerably hurt when noon came
and went and no friend came or sent
any word. 1t proved anything but a
perfect day" for her, though the rest
of us enjoyed the delicaces for the
next day or two.
But 10 and behold. the following
Wednesday her friend, some twelve
long miles away, received the note,
merely dated Tuesday, and, not MOTTO
ing the date Of the postmark but
merely thinking how miraculously
prompt Mr.. Burleson was, arranged to
accept the invitation. In due course
she arrived Friday noon, entirely un-
expected but none the less welcome.
Or course, mother was temporarily
mortified not to have one of her mas
terpleces ready, and her friend was
temporarily embarrassed to find that
she was just q week late, but l am
sure that the "pot-luck" food was
really just as good, the flowers just as
beautiful, the ocean just as blue; these
two old friends had delightful visit,
the contretemps added spice to the
conversation, and it finally came to
an end, after endless explanations and
apologies on both sides"a perfect
day"
Now surely you must admit that
MIR. Burleson arranged the affair with
discrimination and cleverness So
give the poor devil his due, for alls
well that ends well-Q f. D. ad nau-
seam. A. B. GRAHAM.
Santa Monica, Calf. June /, 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10

Is It's bit Of life. The tiredest slave
Of a desk can get not only relaxa-
ton but fresh start from such a
show. We doubt if any other play
Of the season has bestirred as much
talk, has set as many minds to
turning.
Thus we come out at what we
suspect is the solid truth of the
whole controversy-that there is
just one thing in the theater that
is really gloomy, and that is being
bored. And, goodness knows, neither
tragedy nor comedy, nor even the
bedroom farce, has any monopoly on
this terriblest enemy of man, be he
fresh or tired, or what you will.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10

comparably poor and paltry and sor-
did in comparison with the perfec-
ton that is attainable in art"
Pessimist is not perhaps the COM
plete description of this type of
mind; for hope is the more constant
phase, and despair interrupts only at
intervals. The general type is COM
mon enough and by no means res
stricted to practitioners of the fine
arts. Almost equally, we think, are
the academic scientist and all
students and observers of life whose
turn of mind is toward generaliza-
tion and theory prone to a similar
idealism. The British philosopher
Bertrand Russell, for example, seeks
to apply to social affairs much the
same outlook with which he pursues
his path in higher mathematics
an ideal world of the imagination, if
there ever was one. In general, the
WcdhIlcSS \lLOIu Vic pIdCClSdI POiiiC
Of view of the minds described by
DR.. Edman holds good for all the
sundry types of intellectuals whose
main interest is in an ideal world
of the imagination and whose expert
ence with the Illustrations of a life
Of action is limited and secondary.
The strength Of such minds and
their use to society are, of course, in
their ideals. The world needs all the
charts of Utopia that it can get
whereby to plot its future. 1t is only
when the idealist sets himself up as
possessing a superior practical abil-
ity and an immediate remedy for all
ills, that needs only to be swallowed
to effect an instant cure, that he
arouses opposition and bestirs scorn
The Utopians who stick to Utopia un-
questionably accomplish more prac-
tical good, for their wisdom oper-
ates exactly where it can do the most
good-upon the heart of man.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
Reindeer Steak
NFrom The Toledo Hlnde


Twelve years ago there were 1900
reindeer in Alaska; now there are
100000, and an Alaskan capitalist plans
to ship 5000 frozen reindeer car
casses to America this fall. The meat
is sad to be as good as beef AID Is
expected to find ready market. AS
only the surplus mcles are picked for
slaughter, the herds .re growing rapid.
ly, and within three or four years il
is expected that the number will have
grown to Il million. Alaska is said to
be capable Of providing forage for un.
limited numbers of reindeer, and the
natives find tho raising Of the animals
easy and profitable.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
The urk's Estimate
HoW 1T Contrasts with the
Facts of Armenia
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: once heard the distinguished
and quite adorable Bishop Whipple tell
that when on one of his beautiful mis-
sions to remote Indian tribe he
asked the chief if it was safe to leave
his belongings unprotected in the tent
"Perfectly SAFE the Indian said
There isn't white man within twenty
miles"
feel that I should humbly ask par
don of the Bishops memory for being
reminded of this incident by your cor
respondent of this morning-the one
who accepts a Turks estimate of an
Armenian's or any ones morality.
Ii the Armenians excelled in Chris
tan virtues they would certainly be
fit for wholesale canonization, after
the horrible atrocities to which they
have been subjected by the unspeakatN
Turk year in and year out. They
have also witnessed and suffered from
the selfish supineness of the Christian
nations IN regard to Turkeys cruel
murders and outrages, too dreadful to
print. Retelling their acts, well proved
as any facts of history, or of yes
terday's local news, seems void Of i'm
preston on certain minds as long as
committed by "the honest" brave"
tolerant" ''kind-hearted Turk" as
your correspondent estimates him.
The Christianity of Armenia need be
no mystery. The country was Chris
tianized by Gregory, "the Illuminator."
early in the fourth century, but traces
of Christianity are found in the first
century. They accepted modified forms
of the creeds of the Greek Church.
They have primate, patriarchs and
bishops. Some of their liturgy and
prayers have been translated into many
languages. After the fifteenth century
numbers Of Armenians Joined the Ro-
man Catholic Church as "the United
Armenians {
No nation has ever borne persecution
and martyrdom with drawer heroism
than Armenia; for It's heroic adherence
to Christianity it deserves all praise
and appreciation. The attitude Of all
the so-called Christian nations, un-
happily including our own, is source
of wonder and shame and regret. At
the end Of the Crimean War-that
war out of which shines but one gleam
of light-Florence Nightngale's lamp
the Ottoman Empire was granted by
"the powers" new lease OF life, after
the Ottomans had given their pledges
at the peace of Paris TO institute re-
forms and treat Armenia and other
weaker nations with justice. These
pledges, as usual, were all broken. Bis
marck and Prussia upheld Turkey to
the discredit of civilization
BIB.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
The Utopians

Always small and interesting
fragment of society, the Utopians
have been especially vocal in the last
few years of stress Graciously ac
cepting the tag of "intellectuals,"
they have conceded that they DOS
sessed the wisdom and virtue to tell
the rest of the world how to behave.
The world has disappointed them
again and again. But their faith in
themselves, their theories and their
panaceas has revived after each dis
aster.
What is the psychology behind
this Utopian cast of mind? How is
it that such thoroughly educated and
we'll meaning souls Gas The New Re-
pubic editors, for example) get
wholly out of touch with reality and
live in their world of ideals as if it
were a practicable thing of to-
morrow?
An interesting clew is given In
Columbia textbook on philosophy in
discussing one particular type of
the Utopian character. Human
Traits is the name Of this singu-
larly clear and readable volume,
and its author is DR.. Irwin Edman,
to whom is largely due the latest col
leglate method of initiating the
freshman mind to philosophy by as
sembling in one preliminary course a
general survey Of human achieve
ment.
DR.. Edman is contrasting the
world of art with the world of ac-
ton. He points to the significant fact
that in the world of action, wheth-
er political or industrial, there are
"lncomparably greater hindrances
to the realization Of imagined goods
than there are, at least to the gifted,
IN the fine arts" When a man tries
to find fulfllment for an ideal in the
world of action he is subject to "a
thousand accidental reflections of
circumstance" Social movements
have their courses determined bv
factors beyond the control Of their
originators. "Statesmen can start
wars, but cannot define their even
tual fruits" The founder of politi-
cal party may live to see it wander
far from the ideal which he has i'm
agined for it. In the fine arts, on
the contrary, action and intent can
go hand in hand:
Language to the poet, for exam
pie, IS an immediate and responsive
instrument; he can mold it precise
ly to his ideal intention. The enter
prise Of poetry is less dependent al
most than any other undertaking on
the accidents Of circumstance.
In music even so simple an instru
ment as flute can yield perfection
OF sound The composer of a sym
phony can invent perpetual uncor-
roded beauty; the sculptor an i'm
mortality of irrefutaby persuasive
form. This explains in part why 40
mnny artists, Of reflective turn OF
mind, are pcasimiBtic in practical ar
fairs. The world Of action. with its
perpetual and pitiful Illustrations.
failures and compromises, seems In
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
Applying the Budget Idea

Although the Federal budget bill
was killed by the Presidents veto
the theory of economy and efficient
organization which it embodied is
coming into its own at Washington
Congress has declared for it. 1t
cannot be frostbitten for any length
of time by apathy in the executive
departments.
Congress has shown in q striking
way its willingness to accept the new
system. The House of Representa-
tives made what was to many men,
bers a great personal sacrifice by
voting to take control Of appropria-
ton measures away from seven of
its leading manifestations on
Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Indian
Affairs, Military Affairs, Naval AT
fairs, Post Office and Post Roads,
and Rivers and Harbors. An en-
larged Committee on Appropria-
tions is to have jurisdiction over all
the supply bills. Thus an error is
repaired which encouraged extrava-
CANT expenditure by dispensing re-
sponsibility and melting each one
bill committee to build up it's own
prestige and influence.
The Senate has initiated the
House in simplifying committee
machinery The Knox resolution,
adopted just before adjournment, re-
dnces the Senate standing commit
tees from seventy-fve to thirty
three. This reduction amounts to a
revolution in the attitude of the SEN
ate toward it's methods of doing
business. Committee chairmanships
were formerly regarded as perqui-
sites, and an array of minor commit
tees was maintained for the purpose
of providing quarters, secretaries
and messengers for junior majority
Senators and senior minority Sena-
tors. Some Of these bodies were
purely ornamental, functioning in a
state of suspended animation-such
as those on corporations organized
in the District of Columbia, on the
disposition of useless papers in the
executive departments, on Pacific
railroads, on Revolutionary claims,
to investigate trespassers upon
Indian lands, on Indian depreda-
tions and on the University of the
United States.
The ten committees to investigate
expenditures in the departments
are now to be consolidated into one
committee. All the Indian commit
tees are merged in the Committee on
Indian Affairs. The committees on
Enrolled Bills and on Engrossed
Bills are combined A considerable
reduction of overhead expenses in
the Senate Is thus effected and
much red tape is cut away, Prob
ably the Senate will soon follow the
Houses good example of restoring
control Of all appropriation meas
ures to the Committee on Appropri-
ations.
Congress has accepted the budget
idea in generous spirit. 1t remains
to be seen whether the heads of the
departments and bureaus will con.
tinue to fight it by again initiating
the annual estimates 5O0,0O0,o ,ooC
beyond the real needs Of the gov.
ernment.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
Francis Hendricks

Francis Hendricks had figured for
many years as one of New York's
elder statesmen. His power in Onon-
daga County dated back to the re-
tirement of the redoubtable James
j. Belden. He was a leader Of more
persuasive methods than Belden and
spread his influence through the
state both by his sage counsel and
his reasonableness and amiabilitv
he was an organization man, but he
had broader ideas and more adapta.
biiity than most Of the Republican
state politicians who had received
their training under the Plat
regime.
Mr.. Hendricks was already a sue
cessful business man when he en-.
tered politics. He became Mayor of
Syracuse in 1880, and served in the
Assembly and Senate from 1884 to
1891. He had no hesitation in break
ing with Platt when his own judg-
rnent inclined him TO do so. He had
a conspicuous part in clccting Will
lam NJ. Eyarts United States Sena-
tor in 1885, and also In electing
Frank Hiscock, his fellow townsman,
who won in 1889 az compromise
anti-Platt candidate. He is agree
ably remembered in this city as Col
rector OF the Port from 1891 To 1893.
Az State Commissioner OF Insurance.
appointed by Governor Roosevelt In
1900, no passed with credit through
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
When Is a Play Gloomy?

OF all the great American fallacies
none probably had quite so little fact
to support it as the convention that
all plays not intensely frivolous are
gloomy and depressing and, vice
versa, that the sure road to cheer
fulness lies in attending a show
denominated funny" There is a
plenty Of tired business folk of both
sexes who, still express this view.
But these are only the slow-but-
sures, who always lag a decade be-
hind the times. The intelligent view,
fast becoming the fashionable view,
is far nearer the truth.
The truth varies with each race.
and producers who will make no
allowance for national temperament
for the gaiety that a Russian can
take and an American cannot take
from unmitigated gloom, for in
stance-are destined to disappoint-
ment. There is no use trying to
persuade American audiences to at
tend the Russian play of unmixed
shadows. Ours is not a land of
primitive cruelty and Oriental fatal
ism, and art which speaks only of
these peculiarly Russian matters
cannot speak to many Westerners.
Touching such efforts of the Ameri-
can highbrow to be different, our
sympathy lies wholly with the tired
business lowbrow.
But between this gloom and the
frivolities of music and bedroom
and tea party stands large field
Of art. Just how potent the prod
ucts of this field have lately become
it is amazing to reflect. In the
past season Miss Zoe Atkins fur
nished tragic theme for one Barry
more. The author of "The Jest"
and the author of Orchard III"
yielded tragic themes for another
Barrymore. Every one went, and
was gloom the emotion installed in
the audience? Not for minute. So
far from being depressing, the gore
Of "The Jest"-seen as it was in the
gorgeous light of the Jones settings
was positively gay. The sheer
beauty Of Miss Barrymore made
"Declassee" thing of joy, death or
no death.
In plain fact, the conventional
: theory is just bosh. There is moth
ing so sad as funny show that
1alis to come off, nothing so de-
pressing. There is nothing so wear
ing and deadly as a perpetual diet
/ OF humor. The effect is that of the
perpetual sunlight Of Southern Cali.
fornia, where one longs for cool
shadows and dark days. The modern
lighting Of the stage offers good
; parallel. Time was when the com.
mon effort was to illuminate every
portion of the scene, fully and
equally. Now shade is recognized
as quite as essential as light; it is
by contrast that the new artist of
the stage gains his best effects.
1t is by just this mingling Of light
and shade in the action of his
characters that st. John Ervine
triumphs. His Jane Clegg" has a
plenty Of tragic moments. But it
has equally It's humor and its lift
Of spirits at the end when a COM
mon enough tragedy yields fresh
chance and a new deal TO all hands.
such play is poles apart from
Russian gloom, real and poignant, III
"a
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
A Hunting Ground

These and many other proposals ex-
lst, but there is lacking any real power
to enforce them. Presently the Greek
may obtain Epirus complete, the Serb
may come to Scutari, certainly the
Italian will stay in Valona. but despite
all three the Albanian remains uncon-
quered; he will defend his rocks as
long as possible. Now that Montene-
gro has disappeared in Greater Serbia.
itself part of Jugo- Slavia, Albania
remains the last Puritania in Europe.
without railroads, telegraphs, most of
its roads a survival of the Roman era.
AS for d'Annunzio's landing at Du-
razzo, he will not get far beyond the
coast. William of Wied hung on at
this town for certain time, the Serbs
visited it in 1912 and again in 1915.
Sometime Europe may become con-
cert again and then the Albanian cues.
ton may get settled, but to-day it is
the hunting ground of three other
races, and the only aspect of the prob
lem which appeals to no one is the AL
bantam. Even the Armenians have n
better press.
Copyright. 1920. Mcclure Ncwspape,
Syndlcata.)
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
Albania Again
By Franz H. Simonds

The announcement that troops of
D'Annunzio had been landed at Durazlo
served to call attention once more to one
of the most astonishing circumstances
in world filled with amazing situa-
tions at the present hour Albania,
faithfully bounded, would be described
as lying between a quarrel with Serbia
on the north and fight with Greece
on the south. 1t is sub-divded into three
domestic disputes, between the Roman
Catholic, Mahometan and Greek Catholic
tribes, and it is further under the
shadow of an Italian mandate, which is
as welcome to the Albanians as the
British flag is to the Sim Fein faction
of Ireland
New-York tribune., 1920-06-10

the stormy period of the Hughes in
surance investigation.
Mr.. Hendricks was leader who
inspired respect and friendship. His
death breaks one more link between
the politics of to-day and the politics
of the fading Conkling- Arthur War
ner Miller-Platt era.