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New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
4 Soldier Speaks
Those Who BIed Their Country
while Others Bled for Ii

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: After reading the news for the
last few weeks there are several things
which before were inexplicable to the
ex-A. l.. 2. man that are now made
clear.
The men who served in the army in
France, particularly the ones who
served longest in the line, had been
accustomed to misery, discomfort, pain,
hunger and cold. A bad wound and
rest in the hospital were a luxury to
be desired and cherished. If he got
Glass d and was returned home as un-
fit for military service the happiness
of getting home, coupled with the eff
intelligent officials in hospitals, etc,
rather camouhaged the absurdity and
pompous self-importance of the aver
age official with whom he came in con-
tact The officer even smiled little
when his Sam Brown belt was pulled
All told, the world has never seen
better example Of close-mouthed
dignitied acceptance of governmental
neglect. He accepted and gave full
consideration to all governmental pleas
based on the necessity for economy
He was willing to bleed and suffer for
his country, hence he was not willing
that his country should be bled and
suffer for him.
Now he is getting a look into the
intricate machinery which before was
hooded down; he sees, instead of an
efficient machine, which, though it's cost
went into the billions, the able. though
lying, governmental propaganda made
him believe had paramount usefulness
toward winning the war-he sees what d?
That, first, he will be paying taxes for
years on billions raised for war pur-
poses, which were stolen by and for the
favored few.
He finds that, while he was killing
and being killed and manned in battle
against the enemies of his country in
France, at home traitors were holding
office IN the COVE ernment, using these
positions and governmental power to
protect traitors; permitting gun to
be held at the head of spineless Ad-
ministration. by labor leaders, in order
that inefficient labor might draw pay
for few hours work which amounted
IN dollars and cents to more money
than he received in a month; and that
while their pay checks came regularly,
his sometimes were four, five and six
or more months overdue.
Why continue? These are but few
of the things he sees. He says little,
but he thinks a great deal.
Many wonder at the overwhelming
vote against the present Administra-
tion. l venture the assertion that this
thinking ex-soldier and his direct in
fuence in family and among friends are
worthy of consideration in this con.
nection.
The outgoing Administration is, Of
course, no longer interested even a
little in this. But I beg of the in
coming that they give it due considcra-
tion, that they keep ever before them
the fact that he who is willing to
bleed and has bled for his country is
deserving of first consideration. as
against those who are willing to bleed
and have bled their country.
GRANT SHEPHERD.
New York, Nov. 90, 1920.
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committee, Mr.. Whalen told the story
Of his inheritance. His father,
nearly twenty years ago, left to him
his interest in the firm. of Holland &
Co.. which owned valuable trucking
equipment and had city street-clean-
ing contracts and other business
connections. Five months before he
became the Mayors private secre-
tary and confidential adviser Mr..
Whalen was moved to give to his
rartner, without money or price,
every dollar Of his interest. Not
penny came to him. He asked no
accounting. There was no writing
to show the transfer. 1t would seem
that he merely called in his partner
and said to him: Dear friend, it's
yours, all yours"
Subsequently, when this partner
began to use the courthouse excava-
ton as dump, and so effectively
llIltu up JIlt llOlG ClldC IL Will COSI LIc
city, if Mr.. Untermyer is to be be-
lieved, a half million to dig the stuff
out, Mr.. Whalen noted what was be-
ing done, but he regarded the dump
ing as good thing. What is a hole
for if it is not place to empty
ashes, tin cans and the like?
1t is perhaps just as well that the
Hylan bus system was not further
developed. With Mr.. Whalen in
charge, passionately devoted to CIV
ing property away, he might, in a
burst of generosity, have thrust title
to all the equipment and machinery
into the hands of some chance passer-
by. Of wonderful quality are the
agents selected by Mayor Hyan to
achieve his great purpose of serving
the people
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Bolshevik Patriotism

To the confirmed Red patriotism
is anathema. The new dispensation
scorns loyalty to ones native land,
race and mother tongue. Such is
either a superstition or devilish
trick to keep the exploited masses in
willing subsection. Nationalism is
humbug, says the Marxist, and when
a bourgeois says he loves his country
he merely means he loves his class
and the arrangement safeguarding
it's wealth and power.
Now comes Karl Radek, the super
Bolshevik, and throws off the inter
nationalist mask. Writing in Frei-
heit about the Russo Polish war,
Radek maintains that the attitude of
the Russian Communists toward a
Russia of which they form the gov
erning class ought to be radically
different from their attitude toward
the old Russian state. Toward the
Russia of the czars the Communists
were anti-patriots because the state
was their enemy; but toward the
Russia of the Soviets they must be
patriots because the new Russia
means themselves.
This argument puts into a glar-
ing light the intellectual dishonesty
Of the Bolsheviki, who pretend to
despise In their opponents the same
quality which they extol in them
selves If Lenine and Trotzky may ap-
peal to the patriotism of Russians it
is sheer hypocrisy TO pretend abroad
that the Bolshevik is an internation-
alist- The hypocrisy is similar to
that of the German militarists who
used to preach pacifism in and for
England, France and America while
whetting their own weapons.
The fact is, of course, that the
Russiap patriotism of the Radek
varietytis not patriotism at all but
aaere patrioteeririg. 1t would ex-
plo't for selfish, personal purposes
the patriotic sentiment in others.
Radek and his sort are out for
power, to feed their own vanity, are
controlled by motives of individual
aggrandizement. Such men are not
History records their
influence. Pretended pa
triotism at home and Marxism |
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Generous Grover Whalen

Grover Whalen, editor Of that in
terestlng tabloid publication, The
Buzz of the Busy Bus, and coinci-
dentally Commissioner of Plant and
Structures, and as such grand pam
jandrum of the Hylan transporta-
ton system which was to tear the
teeth from the mouth of greedy
monopoly, reveals himself as a man
of the most generous nature.
Testifying before the Lockwood
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The Real Ireland
lis Loyalty and Callantry Contastcd
With Sim Feiners
the Editor of The Tribune,

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With reference to a letter in
your columns of to-day, signed "a
Constant Reader" attempting to white
wash the Sim Fein in Ireland, may I
call attention to the fact that the
writer is arguing on fallacious ground
in several instances?
/. Sim Fein and Ireland are not
synonymous by any means. The real
Irish have been among the best de-
tenders and greatest devel~ pers in the
British Empire. They are part of the
backbone of every dominion and col
ony, and they have fought for that
empire they helped to build in every
war Every one honors the Dublin
Fusileers and other gallant Irish regi-
ments who gave their all for the
empire. But let us not insult these
gallant Irish, living and dead, by
identifying them with Sim F6in, the
"Irish Bolshevists" Sim Fein cannot
be credited in any way for the heroic
actions of their compatriots who really
serve Ireland.
2. There is a disposition in America
to credit Sim Fein with the acts of
good Irish citizens here. The Goth
Regiment is often alluded to in this
connection. The Irish here have moth
ing to do with the Sim Fein, and be-
cause many of them have been good
citizens and gallant soldiers in Amer
lca is not a point in favor Of Sim
Felnism by any means. The thinking
IRISH IN America naturally deplore the
murders now going on in Ireland-and
so Go Englishmen-but they feel that
America must not interfere in a
question which in no way concerns her.
3. Home Rule is passed. When the
murder gangs are wiped out Ireland,
with the same rule as Canada, Aus
tralla, New Zealand and South Africa.
will return to prosperity and will hold
up her head as a real shareholder in
the destiny of the great empire her
sons have helped to build. Russia
cannot live while Bolshevism rules;
ireland cannot live until the blight Of
Sim Feinism is forever driven from
the island
With "a Constant Reader" I pity
the real Ireland and feel that we
should help, if possible, by editorial
counsel. But to help the real Ireland
we must awaken her to the full realiza-
ton of the scourge Of Sim Feinism
which threatens her very life.
WILLIAM NEWMAN CHEW
Brooklyn, Nov. %, 1920.
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To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you kindly find space for this
item so that che who runs may read"?
An advertisement is inserted asking
for high grade qualifications requisite
to a position as either secretary or
stenographer. Before many days the
applicant is placed under the jurisdic-
ton of subordinate, who left school
many years ago and who knows little
in reference to Hp-to-date pronuncia-
ton, has limited knowledge of syntax,
abominable punctuation, and, in fact,
knows little of English in any of it's
branches. In spite of all this he un-
dertskes to call out Comma, dash, new
sentence, colon, PERIOD" and then
great glory to his brilliancy) "para-
graph" Then it is time for the old
cat to die.
Apparently such person is not accus-
toned to a high grade, competent
stenographer. And why ask for all
these qualifications if the dictator can
not depend for these trifes upon his
stenographer? Of course, in every case
where stenographer is with the very
head Of the department she never hears
all this oratory 1t seems the subordi-
nate must make good" and that is the
way he does it.
This is frequent complaint, and it
would be appreciated by the profession
generally if this question were given
publicity. 1t is an insult to ones intel
ligence. OF course, where beginner is
wanted the dictator may have a reason
for this; even at that the beginners
knowledge of English may not even be
so limited, either.
LILLIAN TANNER.
New York, Nov. 20, 1920.
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Naval Essentials

In his address to the graduating
class at the Naval War College Ad-
miral Sims named four essential ele-
ments without which a navy cannot
be efficient for war:
l. A fleet of adequate strength in
each type of vessel.
2. A thoroughly trained personnel
to man this fleet.
3. Thoroughly digested plans.
4. A logical organization of the
Navy Department.
The recent investigation of the
conduct of the war demonstrated
that all four Of these essentials were
lacking when we declared war. What
the navy did it did in spite of its
handicaps-in spite of the disregard
of Washington's wise admonition:
i. We should be prepared.
2. We should be trained~
3. We should have a plan.
Admiral Sims adds fourth essen
tial to the Washington list-namely,
logical organization of the Navy
Department. Without this navy
efficient in itself may not be prop
erly employed-it might be defeated
in war. The civil power, being
supreme, must function properly
otherwise there may be failure.
The testimony before the Senate
was overwhelming in it's condemna-
ton of the present organization. Ad-
miral Benson and other apologists
for the Secretary were unanimous in
favor Of reorganization. Captain
Pratt, the assistant chief of opera
tions, states that from his experience
in Mr.. Daniels's office he would feel
compelled to decline the appointment
as chief Of operations under similar
conditions in the event of future war.
Sophistry, the hysterical cry of
"Prussianism" and other devices Of
Mr.. Daniels cannot prevent a proper
organization of the Navy Depart
ment under the next Administration.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
Near the Turn

Mr.. Wilson vetoed the budget act
because two of the officials created
by it were made removable by Con-
gress instead Of by the President.
1T was a minute fault, which could
have been cured, if necessary, at
this session.
But Congress will not make an
issue with the White House on this
unimportant detail. The House al
tered the bill last summer to meet
the Presidents objections. The Sem
ate will undoubtedly concur when it
has chance to. Chairman, Good
contends Congress ought to have the
power to discharge the budget di-
rector and assistant director, but is
willing to wait until Mr.. Wilson'S
term ends before establishing the
power.
What is more important is to get
the new system working early next
spring. The Harding Administra
ton will aim at economy. Hundreds
of millions can be saved by control
ling estimates at their sources and
by eliminating duplication of GOV
ernmental agencies. Another leak
can be stopped by restraining de-
partment and bureau chiefs from
running up deficits. For some wears
past these care-free spenders have
laughed at Congressional restric-
tions on their financial operations
They have overdrawn their accounts
and then called on Congress to
square them with the Treasury.
With a real budget system this de-
moralizing practice will cease. The
present Administration was unwill-
ing to be hampered by accounting
methods. The new one will be of
different mind. The new system
Will be backed by a new spirit. and
the principle of scientific control
of expenditure will at last have a
genuine test.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
The Dangerous Movie
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In letter by Tamas Lane, en-
titled "Why Pick on the Movies ?" a
New York paper is scored for singing
out the motion picture for depicting
crime, when the same thing is done in
newspapers, periodicals, dramatic pro-
ductions, etc.
While not championing the news
papers in any sense for their depletion
OF crime (which does actually happen"
we are surprised that Tamas Lane can
not see that the scenes in motion pic
lures are absorbed by children and ig-
norant foreigners who can not and do
not read newspapers; and dramatic
productions are rarely witnessed by
either of these factions.
The motion picture, with its univer-
sal scope and direct contact with all the
masses, from the smallest child upward.
must be especially safeguarded and
built along lines that, while furnishing
good entertainment, are wholesome and
artistic.
1t is the flooding of the motion pic
ture field with worthless and sugges-
tive films that is directly responsible for
the organization of the Motion Picture
Theatrical Association of the World and
the NJ. P. T. League for Better Pic
lures, backed by all conscientious mem
bers of the motion picture industry and
prominent public organizations
The motion picture business is in
urgent need of "house cleaning" and
it is the duty of all the press who are
interested in the welfare of the people
to help put this medium, which is the
greatest OF all for good or for evil, on
the highest possible plane.
J. w. QUINN,
President M. P. T. Association of the
World.
New York, Nov. 22, 1920.
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A General Condition
From The Phtladelphia Ino.t,.y


10 the unpreJudiced mind that has
been following naval affairs for some
time past the statement that "academy
morale at Annapolis is at low ebb
Will not be surprising. As matter
OF TACT the morale of the whole navy
seems way below par, condition that
is entirely consistent with its manage
ment by fatuous, laundering and en-
tlrely self-satisfied country editor who
doesn't know a pinnacle from barna-
Gle, and who doesn't possess even the
saving grace Of ordinary common sense
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
Greece Needs Monarchy
Brooklyn, Nov. %, 1920.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the columns Of YOUR pauer. and
indeed, IN those of most of the great
Journals, I have noticed tendency to
treat the result of the recent election in
Greece as something of a misfortune to
'hat country and the world at large
rms, think, is mistaken point Of
view. 70 aly mind it represents the
healthful reaction from radicalism
which is taking place.
No one could regard King Constantine
as an ideal monarch Nevertheless he
Is the rightful King of Greece, and his
triumph Is not SO much personal as the
triumph Of ii great principle. The
honarchical principle has carried civil
izatlon through many trying cpochs. 1t
mas stood for peace and order in a world
of chaos. Even to-day in tho most en-
llghtened countries democracy leaves
much to be desired, and in those half
formed nations Of the Balkan peninsula
1t is as much out of place as it would
be in the nursery. They reach for it
merely because it is the fashion OF the
hour.
The most hopeful sign that the peo-
pie Of Greece may be trusted to tuke a
part in governing themselves lies in
their decision to. recall their PROPER gov
ernor. ALDEN X. HATCH.
Woodmere, L. l., Nov. %, 1920.
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Baking vs. Brewing
the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent, Mr.. Leon
ard, who compares home baking" with
home brewing" is in error The baker
is allowed to make anything out of
bread he desires. The brewer is barred
from making beer, which the "house
brewer makes. The brewer Cereal
leverage manufacturer) has to have a
brewers license, and if he saves the
slcoAeA Aa 1ust, have an industrial
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
The Coming ower
To Miss Lotus Robb

{. Lotus Robb, the April charm
of whose delicate performance seemed in
the confusion of last evening a thing
which only lyric verse could adequately
describe. Alexander Woollcott in The
Times.
Had we the pen of Woollcott,
Had We the brain Of Broun,
Had we turn for melodies, like Kern,
We're we a Herbert for tune;
Had we the gift of a Gilbert,
Had we the knack that is his,
Haply you'd vote us C wonder, but,
Lotus,
Amt this pretty good as it is?
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25

6istiller's license. To conform with the
law he must put his product through
three different processes in order to
produce beverage which contains less
than u per cent of alcohol.
The home brewer makes his product
with one brewing and there is no tell
lng how much alcohol it may contain.
Obviously the comparison is erroneous.
FRED SCHWARZ.
New York. Nov. 20. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
A Word for the Future

From The Chicago Daily NeseO
Rule for shipping boards-Take ca
of the millions and the billions W
take care os themselves.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
Pleasant is the calm that pervad

Pleasant is the calm that pervades
newspaper Office on legal holiday.
The ticker is mute, except for few
football games; the trucks in Frank
fort Street, with their noisy horns and
noisier drivers, have a day off; no.
body calls because it is generally sup
posed that morning newspapers are
not published on the day following a
holiday; nothing is heard but the
clicks of the typewriters and the tele
graph machines. Let us give thanks.
Dear! dear perhaps somebody will
try to prove that we have been selling
the contents of our zinc waste rekosi-
tory-seling them to a paper or a
linen concern. 1t would amount up, in
the course of decade.
The revenue on manuscripts telling
a "story" using all the names of the
current shows would be tidy sum
in itself.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
Commercial Candor; or Love Dis
Sembled

Il see that Friskem 4 Sinkem have
been showing you some houses down in
the Manor" telephoned the Larchmont
real estate dealer. "Now, Mr.. L., I've
been In this business thirty years and
I've always made it rule never to
knock competitor or his proposition.
1000 rule Never lost anything by it,
but | want to tell you, MIR. L.. that the
house they showed you down in the
Manor is built on swamp and the
cellar is wet six months in the wear.
It's q nice house, but the roof leaks and
you'd have to put in new heating
plant which, the way labor is now.
would cost at least thousand dollars
You'd also have to put on a new roof
this Fall
Now, I've got two propositions that
| think will appeal to you. One is a
good house and the other is new. etc.
etc. etc. etc, etc" J. w. l.,
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abroad, one or the other is empha-
sized in accord as to which course is
the more likely to bring personal
power.
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srEMBgn Oh THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEMBER Oh THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled TO the
ESQ for republication OF ali dispatches
credited It otherwise credited In this paper
and also the local news of spontaneous origin pub
iished herein.
All rights Of republication of all other matter
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
Songs of the Stock x

Songs of the Stock
l bought me some Butterck dear little
Butterck
Though | could never tell why.
But still I bought Butterick dear little
Butterck
When it was terribly high. MnrIApEs
the animadversions of Dwight Herbert
Deacon on the clocks accuracy are full
of interest Hardly less fascinating is
the following bus conversation caves
dropped by L. c.:
"What time you got?"
"Quarter t'eight."
"You wrong. It's thirteen Of"
"The right time s-sixteen Of"
"Listen: set my watch September
16, and it's been right since"
"This is Pennsylvania time, this
morning"
This is ------ watch. They make
the best watches. l got it wholesale
through friend"
"Well, jeweler told me that my
Was Che pest. IL hasn't been
regulated since | got it year ago last
September-no, October"
Il tell you my watch is right. I'll
betcha"
I'll take odds. What time Won got
now"
Il got i've or"
Il tell you it's eight Of"
They come to the Pennsylvania sta
ton as the hands on the big clock
show it to be exactly o'clock.
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Ysu can purchase merchandise advertsed In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safety--for il d!ssatistac-
tier results In any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
70 pay your money hack upon request No red tape.
Ne eubhiIns. We make GOOD promptly " the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25

Every time we tell anybody to cheer
up, things might be worse, we run
away for fear we might be asked to
specify how. F.P.A.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
The Lament of Percy Hauxhton

Give US back the crash plays.
The tackle-back, the smash plays,
Tho plunging, ripping dash plays.
The forward pass is tame.
The other days had fine plays
Like hurdling the line plays,
We need the AuId Lang Syne plavs,
To bolster up the game.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25

Another neglected bard many Of
whose poems appear in "The Book Of
Humorous Verse" is Wallace Irwin,
who needn't doff his bay-wreath to any,
body else III the vers1fying business.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25

The fight goes joyously on. We are
trying to raise a fund to equip the
proofroom with spectacles, and the
proofroom, we hear, is soliciting con-
tributions toward the purchase of a
typewriter for US.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25

I. r III.
If Miss Zona Gale has to have
collaborator our nomination is Ridge
ly Terrence.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
Accurate Enough

Sir: In a speech on Newspaper Accuracy
before the c. 8. of J. DR.. Talcott Williams
told of how he asked his plumber what
paper he read. The plumber answered "The
Trybune." 'Why?" asked r. w. Well"
said the plumber, 'of course there's a lot
of fool stuff in it" II suppose he
meant w. ?. A." T. w. added helpfully
DoNA.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25

The rebuke administered to Frank
Ward OMalley by us and credited by
him, in this weeks Satevepost, to US
was made substantially as quoted
Only we never said "Who the deuce"
in all our articulate existence.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-25
MAIN STREETS

Most of us at my age have lived or
them,
But we were not all Carol Kennicotts
Some of US really valued country
surgeon
And a few of us had some idea of
relativity-
For when I went from Main Street
To Yale University
Right into the faculty, too
One of the most serious of the lovely
women
Said to my husband, still more ser-
ously:
"You hast not let your wife get the
New York habit"
All because l went over four times
On the 10 o'clock fast express
To hear the "Nibelungenlied"-
This is a relative world. D. M.