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New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Cherchez les Femmes

Everything that is 100 per cent
virile shudders at the thought of
afternoon tea at Harvard.
American parents, of course, have
long since accepted the red-blooded
theory which accords athletics the
first place in an institution of learn
ing and ask no more of a son than
that he spare the family the dis
grace Of flunking out. So what
place have marmalade and tea in the
curriculum Of great university?
1t Is not by crumpets and jam that
true academic triumphs are achieved.
The explanation of the authori-
ties is that the festival of afternoon
tea is to provide the students with
afternoon relaxation from their
books, taking the place of the out
door sports which Cambridge winter
forbids. The explanation scarcely
satisfies. Is it not more likely that
this latest mark of decadence, like
all others from which the higher
learning suffers, is due to the in
fluence of the coed? Radcliffe, it is
true, is not strictly part of Har-
ward University, and is removed two
blocks from the heart of the campus
where the tea parties are to be
staged; but what are two blocks
when tho enervating influence of
woman gets in it's deadly work?
Men who would, if left to them
selves, spend the winter afternoon
in SNOWFALL fights and honest
slaughter Of hot dogs and doughnuts
at some quick lunch counter have
been poisoned by co-educational prop
agandists with false love of
warmth and lolling wicker chairs
and sweets.
Just as the women Of Cornell have
ruined their college by their skating
and flirting, so the women of Cam
bridge are the ones rightly to be
blamed for the tea fights which will
presently disgrace fair Harvard.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Our Interest in Mandates

America has no direct interest in
the dispute between the league
Council and Assembly over man.
dates and mandataries. Yet she has
an indirect interest. Germany ceded
her overseas possessions to the five
principal and associated powers
Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan
and the United States. They were
to allot mandates under certain linn
itations laid down in Article XXI of
the covenant.
This article says that tutelage
over backward people is to be exer-
cised by the mandataries "on behalf
Of the league" But the Council is
the only body named as having i'm
mediate supervision over the opera
tion Of the mandates, as Mr. Balfour
pointed out when he said that the
Councils jurisdiction wasn't shared
by the Assembly. The Assembly
may volunteer advice, but there its
function ends-at least for the pres
ent.
What concerns this country is the
sort Of government that is to be
given under mandates. The United
States has declined to be a manda-
tary But it wants to see the trus-
teeships assumed by other powers
discharged fairly and for the gen.
eral benefit. The Council has made
public the mandate provisions for
areas in Class c, which are Ger
man Southwest Africa, New Guinea
and the former German islands in
the Pacific. Article XXI allows these
to be administered under the laws of
the trustee state cas- integral por-
tions." In this class there can be no
demand for the open door for all
nations, except so far as the man.
datary's own door is open. These
possessions are practically annexed
for administrative purposes.
But in the case of Glass B. or
Central African, territories the COW
enant explicitly pledges equal oppor-
tunities for the trade and commerce
of other members Of the league.
The United States isn't member Of
the league. But it is one of the
powers to which the German Cen
tral African colonies were ceded.
Its joint interest hasn't lapsed.
Without It's consent 1t couldn't now
Justly be deprived Of equality Of
commercial privileges.
The Class A mandates apply only
to dismembered Turkey. Our gov
ernment wasn't at war with Turkey
and didn't sign the Sevres treaty.
But since the Turkish provinces are
described in the covenant as entitled
to provisional recognition as inde-
pendent states, and the mandataries
are merely to give their advice and
assistance, the spirit Of Article XXI
would be violated by an attempt on
tho part Of mandatory to obtain
special or exclusive commercial ad-
vantages.
Mr.. Colby's recent note with re-
! gard to the Class A mandates re-
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

fected a natural desire to prevent
anything like a selfish exploitation
under the mandate system. This, too,
is the purpose Of the non-mandatory
states which form so large major
ity in tho Assembly. From an en-
tirely different angle they, too, are
working for q mandate solution
which will assure the open door and
put all other nations on a relative
equality with the ,mandatary.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
The Reorganization of the
Napy Department
By Quartcrdeck

Captain A. S. Crowinshield and Captain
A. I. Mahan, and was constantly in ses-
sion at the Navy Department. 1t was
equal to every demand, and, through it,
proper control was exercised by the
department over all movements in the
field"
Speaking Of the Secretary's limita-
tions, Mr.. Long says: "Untrained in the
art of naval warfare, without profess
sional knowledge of the technicalities of
the service, he is at best only the di-
rector of the general progress"
In the autumn OF 1908 President
Roosevelt actively promoted the reor-
ganization of the Navy Department by
appointing a commission to consider
and report upon new system.
R0Oserelt's Commission
The commission was composed of the
following members:
Justice William H. Moody, of the
Supreme Court.
Judge Aston G. Dayton, Of West vir
ginia.
The Hon. Paul Morton, formerly Sec
retary of the Navy.
Rear Admiral S. B. Luce, U. s. ~,
founder of the Naval War College.
Rear Admiral A. 7. Mahan, U. S. N,
historian and naval strategist.
Rear Admiral R. D. Evans, u. S. NJ.
commanding Atlantic Fleet.
Rear Admiral W. M. Folger, U. S. N.
Rear Admiral W. S. Cowles, U. S. N.
Commander w. F. Fullam, U. S. N.
secretary.
This commission condemned the bu-
reau system and advocated the aide
system, by which the bureaus and
other agencies were simply coordinated
without wrecking any existing machin-
cry. The report of the commission was
based upon General Principles Gov.
e1ning Naval Organization" written by
Admiral Mahan at the request of the
commission and unanimously adopted as
cornerstone. The first and last para
graphs of Mahans principles should be
studied:
Il. The Office Of the Secretary of the
Navy being executive in character
nothing should be admitted into an or
ganization Of the department which
would qualify MS authority or diminish
his ultimate responsibility. He has been
IN the past, and in the future should be-
civilian.
IT, In conclusion, it should be dis
tinctly laid down as a cardinal princ;-
pie that no scheme of naval organization
can possibly be effective which does not
recognize that the requirement of war
Is the true standard Of efficiency in an
administrative military system; that
success in war and victory in battle can
be assured only by that constant pre-
paredness and that superior fighting
efficiency which logically result from
placing the control and responsibility in
time of peace upon the same individuals
ana the same agencies that must con-
troll in time Of war. There should BE- no
shock or change Of method in espondino
from a state Of peace to a state of scav
This is not militarsm-it is a simple
business principle based upon the fact
that success in war is the only return
the people and the nation can got from
the investment Of many millions in the
building and maintenance of a great
navy"
The dignity and soundness of these
"principles" are in strong contrast to
the rattlebrain rawlings Of those who
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Repeal the Sullivan Law

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Sullivan pistol law was
written on the statute books at the
instigation of the burglars and holdup
men.
Tho people should demand its repeal.
1t has always been in favor of the
criminal element to protect their lives
ana crooked detectives who have used
1t to frame up innocent people.
HENRY A. JONES'
New York. Dec. 2l, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
The Root of All Evil
(Trom Tho Ph,rade,ph.o lncuirer)

tFrom Tho Philadelphia lndairer) 4
A drink of whisky used to be mere
ly a drink of whisky. Now. however
1t seems to be the highly concentrate
extract of murder, arson and rape 70
combination with double distillation
of newly discovered and unchafss'
crimes that are keeping he'll working
overtime to think up.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Hylan. Swami and Enripht

10 tho Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For moro than two years our
city has becn In the grip Of the Grim
'nal elemcnt-proteoted by high. In
fiuencos In Tammany Hall.
The only way to stop the crime wave
10 10 get rid of Hylan, Swami and En-
right. Tho good Offices of your great
newspaper are invoked to this consum-
nation. CHARLES W. DINSMORE.
Now York, Dec. 90, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
The A.rticulatc Sex

Sir: I asked the trained nurse at the
toilet goods counter whether she knew Of
any way of rending rubber gloves.
YES she said get some rubber cement !:
wash off the glove with benzine, and spread
cement around the hole. spread cement on a
patch and then press the two together. The
directions say to sandpaper the glove but
never do that, as I think it wears the rub
Der out. Just wash off the glove with ben
zine. and spread cement around the hole,
then spread cement on the patch, and press
the two together. I never sandpaper the
glove, as l think that wears it out. I just
wash off the glove with benzine, and spread
the cement around tho hole. then spread the
cement on the patch and press the two to-
gether. 1t isn't necessary to sandpaper the
glove, as that wears the rubber OUT
Isabel. B. T.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
''Creat Adn,irols''


But 1t was unnecessary for Admiral
flske and his fellow "disciples' TO de-
fend themselves. Admiral Benson, chief
OF operations during the World War,
declared, as a result of his experience
on the spot, that the chief should have
authority and responsibility over the
bureaus, that he should be consulted in
the appointment of bureau chiefs and
that he should sit at Cabinet meetings
when war measures were discussed
Captain Pratt, assistant to Admiral
Benson, testified that the Office of oper-
ations had 10 be reorganized after the
war began, and that he would decline
to accept the position of chief of oper-
atoms in another war under the condl-
tions existing in Secretary Daniclss
office to-day
But to cap the climax, the officers Of
high rank who were counted upon 10
screen the Secretary, and whom he had
praised as great admira!s' and naval
statesmen" unanimously condemned the
existing organization and advocated the
identical principles outlined by Mahan
and Fiske. In this respect at least these
great admirals" deserted their friend
and chief and wens over bodily TO tns
disciples of Won Tirpitz". Their wef
come in the new camp, however, IS oef
cidedly cooled by the memory Of tne's
tardy repentance!
The time has come for Congress ana
the people to decide between organlEa'
ton and chaos at the Navy Department.
The latter reigns to-day.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
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herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

I did not want to tell any one about
my affairs. I shrank then as do now
from exposing, either in myself or
other people, the secrets and sensations
of life.-From "Thc Intimate Diary Of
Margot Asquith," in the January
Metropolitan.
For shrinking anemone, Mrs. AS
quith has done fairly we'll. What her
stuff would have been like If she had
been able to overcome that reticencc is
difficult to determine.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
The Coming Tower
De Anicitia

DE AmiCitia
Dear friend, whose merry Christmas
Came yestermorning to my view,
Wishes this weary daily bard
The same to you.
You put me on your annual list
AS though you wished me to recall
The simple fact that you exist
On earth at all.
I hold that lying is a crime;
I haven't thought of you, old bean,
A single thought since Christmas
time
Nineteen Nineteen.
Perhaps our lives have gone askew;
The town is full Of lights and lures.
1 have my various jobs to do,
And you have yours.
Why not take up, old friend Of mine,
The threads? Or, if you like,
old son,
Ignore each other till Christmas
Nine
Teen Twenty One?
The first heavy snowfall will divert
somo Of the attention from the Police
Department to the Department of
Street Cleaning "And please, dear
Santa Claus" the Commissioners orr
son may run, "send me white Christ
mas"
"Come Over Hero Whore the Chancellor
Can't Hear Us"
lFrom The Portage (Wls) DemocrntJ
Miss Lulu Bett" dramatized by
Zona Gale from her own novel, with the
authors permission.
AS thieves and thugs done read che
newspapers, r. F. D. wonders how they
are to know that tho Commissioner Is
making all these precautions against
~. l..
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srsscr1rrroN RArEs-py mall. Including
CHA EANTY

Yau can purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute safety--for II dissatisfae-
zion results in any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
10 pay your money back upon request. Ne red tape.
Ne quibbng. We make good promptly II the
advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

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New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Presidents and Secretaries

In 1885 President Cleveland in
his annual message to Congress, said:
Il deem it my duty to especially direct
the attention of Congress to the close
of the report of the Secretary of the
Navy, in which the humilating weak
ness Of the present organization Of his
department is exhibited. and the start
ling abuses and waste Of its present
methods are exposed.
After the Spanish war Secretary
Long reported: "The Naval Board. as
finally constituted during active opcr-
ations in the recent war, was composed
OF Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Songs Of tho Stock Exchange

On Famous when tho price WAS low
l wngcrcd nll my hard-earncd dough,
Now dark as winter Is tho flow
or Famous rolling rapidly. ]. W. G.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

Getting in on the ground floor in tho
stock mnrket-or. as the Copy Desk
s,angily terms it, Stock Mart--is one
thing, but getting out Of tho cyclone
cellar is something else again.
II u
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

AS thieves and thugs done read che
newspapers, r. F. D. wonders how they
are to know that tho Commissioner Is
making all these precautions against
CT ime. Inform the crooks, his sugges-
ton is, by using lot Of sandwich men.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

A navy exists for purposes Of war
not for peace. A navy that is not or
ganized for war will never be ready for
war, nor will it succeed against q navy
whose organization anticipates war. The
material, tho ships, the personnel may
be good, but the machine as whole
will not work quickly or effectively
when war comes.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Adn,iraIs Luce and Mahon

This subject of organization has been
under discussion in the United States
for more than thirty years. Rear Ad-
mlral Stephen B. Luce, U. S. NJ,
founder and first president of the Naval
War College, condemned the existing or
ganzation, which provides no co0rdina-
ton or control of the bureaus. Rear
Admiral A. I. Mahan and Rear Admiral
Henry c. Taylor, who followed Admiral
Luce as presidents of the War College.
took the same stand, and maintained 1t
as long as they lived.
Succeeding authorities, Secretaries Of
the Navy and Presidents of the United
States, strongly condemned the bureau
system and sought reorganization as
follows:
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
The Senate Investigation

The Senate investigation of tho con.
duct of the war clinched the evidence
that the Navy Department was, and
is now, unorganized for war. The aide
system of Secretary Meyer was wrecked
by the present Administration. The
Flske-Hobson plan, excellent in prinei-
pie, was disastrously modified by Secre-
tary Daniels, leaving the chief Of oper-
ations with no defined authority to CO.
ordinate the bureaus. With this fatal
defect in organization the navy went
into the World War. AS a result chaos
reigned. Admiral Fiske and other off,
GERS pointed out this defect. They were
gratuitously insulted and stigmatized
by the Secretary as "disciples of voa
Tirpitz" and advocates Of "Prussian-
ISM!
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Well. as we observed herein unde,

Well. as we observed herein under
date Of December 20, 1916:
Selling, selling everywhere,
And all the stocks did shrink,
Selling, selling everywhere,
OF Copper, Steel, and Zinc.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
oppose an effective organization Of the
Navy Department.
The aide System.

The aide system Of the Mahan- Moody
commission was practically adopted by
Secretary Meyer, who fought for it As
long as he lived. His attitude has bean
misconstrued and falsifed recently by
quoting him as pointing to his desk and
saying: "Power lies here, and it should
remain here" Of course, power 'lies'
with the Secretary, and it always
Will under any organization, good et
bad. That Is what Secretary Meyer
meant to emphasize. An efficient or.
ganization does not deny or restrict
the supremacy of the civil power
On the contrary, it strengthens
and helps the civil power 1t is au Insult
to the memory Of Secretary Meyer to
quote him as an opponent Of efficient
organization.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
The Russo-Japanese War

There are numbcrless examples prov
ing the vital Importance of organization.
One will suffice. We find it in the COM
ments Of the Russian naval officer
Filotovski, In his story of the voyage
of Rozhestvensky's fleet:
"Our army is acting independentlv.
and tho fleet does not combine 4yith
tho movements Of the arnav. The
self-same fleet is split into little
pieces, which do not act in con-
formity with the movements of the
others. Three Cor now, perhaps, two)
ships are doing something, or more
probably are lying at Vladivostok. Our
fleet is moving east, and the third re-
mains behind somewhere (where, we do
not know; and they are collecting some
remnants at Cronstadt and Libau. All
these parts do not knoao 4Uhat the others
are doing. Can there be success under
these conditions? I think that there are
many disorders in the army. There is
no method of organization anywhere.
Among our enemies, however, all is
worked out, foreseen, and guessed be-
forehand. They conduct war on a
scientific program. Is success hkelv to
be on our sidea No."
Pilotovski lose his life In the Battle of
Tsushima.
The Russians lost the war not at the
Battle of Tsush:ma, but at St. Peters
burg, aOhere their Macy Department aoas
unorgGni~ed for 1Uar.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

Conversation
If you were here, I'd talk Of things
Mundane cabbage5 and kings,
While from your gravely smiling lips
Would fall remarks Of shoes and ships.
But worlds of meaning to my heart
Such commonplace would impart.
And now. although with zeal I spoak
Concerning crises OF the week,
Condemn the Senate. weep and wall
For that Democracy should fail
Each current topic l pursue
Is nothing but a thought of you
SQUDGA.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
A Song

"A song
Amdcrconta: XII. 2a
The angry gods turned Niobe to stone,
or Phllomela made a singing bird,
If they would mako me for nv sin,
atone,
I'd pray these changes be on mo con-
ferrcd:
A mirror-thus you'd ever gaze on me.
a robe-that you might wear me all the
day,
Water, oil, spices-so that I could be
A comfort to your body, worn with play;
A girdle at your waist, to clasp you
tight,
Or else the necklace, golden, heavy
gemmed,
That clings about your slender neck, so
white,
The very snow Of blackness is con-
demned
But most Of Heaven I would crave this
boon,
That be made your tiny, little shoe,
Thus through the morning, night and
afternoon,
I'd lie between the earth you tread and
you. N. S. P.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

AS we envisage it from a consid-
cradle distance, King Constantine ad-
vanced ten parasangs to Athens, where
was situated park.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

A Contrib Blackjacks His Way In
Sir: I think I should be allowed to
attend the Contrbs' Dinner because /
am unique citizen of New York. I
haven't been robbed of anything-and
haven't robbed any one myself.
What more can you ask? ARMAND.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Teen Twenty One?
Come Over Hero Whore the Chancellor
Can't Hear Us"

[From The Portage CWs,) DemocratJ
Miss Lulu Bett" dramatized by
zona Gale from her own novel, with the
authors permission.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

Perhaps our lives have gone askew;
The town is full Of lights and lures.
1 have my various jobs to do,
And you have yours.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

To fellow travellers in the subway
B. NJ. S. wishes a Merry Chrushmuss.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-24
A Greed

So brave man as Premier Glenn
enceau abruptly told complainers in
the French Chamber of Deputies that
1t is harder to make peace than to
make war, and in a somewhat SINH
lar vein the poets remind us that it
is not enough to memorialize those
who fought and fell for the free
dom of the world, but even more i'm
portant so TO live as to be worthy of
their supreme sacrifice. In the
Detroit Free Press this need is set
down as an act of faith in these sim
pie yet strong lines:
Lord, let me not in service lag,
Let me be worthy of our flag;
Let me remember, when I'm tried,
The sons heroic who have died
In freedoms name, and in my way,
Teach me to be as brave as they.
In all 1 am. in all 1 DO
Unto our flag 1 would be true;
For God and country let me stand,
Unstained of soul and clean of hand
Teach me serve and guard and love
The Starry Flag which flies above
We have reasons to be proud of
all We did in war toward making a
huge army at top speed. On this
glorious record the one blot to be
found, we are told, is that of the
"hard-boiled" officers whose exist
ence has become known outside the
army only since the peace was sign
ed. The author of the following
is himself in tbs Army and his verse
therefore, possess something more
than the mere requisites of poetry.