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New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
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ffroas this Westminster Gazette,
THREADING amongst the quiet trees,
Brushing the flowers that had lain
so still
Was it only the footsteps Of the breeze
Or-was it yod that came over the hin7
Was it, TOO, only the sudden blue
a harbor of hope in the .riven gray
Just remembered glory to you
Or was it your spirit that came thar
way?
Was it the evening naists went by
busting across the corn-goid land
Yelled and trembling with mystery.
Or, your hand in passing, that touched
my hand?
To the lettering lanes and brackened
heath,
Your heaven OF old OF sun and rain,
Back by the conquered road Of death
Did you come over the meadows again.
MARJORIE WILSON.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
In Honor OF Lieutenant Horton

The New York police force, fine as
1t is individually, held no Drawer
ADLER officer than Police Lieutenant
Floyd Horton, who died from the
bullet of highwayman-and, dying
got his man. The last message which
Lieutenant Horton left is crushing
indictment of the Hylan- -Enrieht
regime. AS The Evening World well
says in making public these accusa-
! lions. The case is closed"
twas Lieutenant Horizons misfort-
une to be the right-hand man of Cap
tain Honest Dan" Costigan, a post
OF honor which he had gained by his
expert knowledge, his courage and
his rugged honesty. Commissioner
Enr-ght, for reasons which he will
Rave an opportunity to explain to a
legislative committee, dispensed with
Costigan's services in responsible
position, counting actively in the re-
preston of vice, and sent him to a
remote precinct. Lieutenant Horton
shared his chiefs fate. In the height
Of the present crime wave this inval-
liable officer had been removed as far
from the center Of detective activity
as Commissioner Enright's ingenuity
could ship him.
1t is a tragedy that Lieutenant
Horizons career should have ended.
The loss to the city is a real one.
But it is splendid testimony to the
innate spirit Of the force that his
end should have come so gloriously.
Lieutenant Horton was off duty at
the time. He voluntarily threw him.
self into the breach. In the UNEQUAL
battle with gang of bandits he was
mortaIy wounded, but lying on the
ground he gave one Of the enemy
mortal wound. To the end, despite
encouragement and false leadership,
he was true to the highest traditions
of the force.
New Workers will wish to do honor
TO this hero whom Commissioner En-
right sought to .dishonor. Sympathy
for his widow is profound. A public
fund for her benefit will express the
city's attitude. We print in another
column the offer of the Fidelity In
ternational Trust Company to re-
ceive subscriptions. The Tribune will
be glad to act for its readers. The
response should be prompt and gen.
erous.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
A Week of Verse
Misgiving
iFrorl Tbs Yo,. -

tFrora Tbs Yaie RcsScsc,
"A LII crying, ave will 60 with vou. n
Wind,'
The foliage follow him, leaf and stem
But sleep oppresses them as thew po
AND they end by bidding him stav
with them.
Since ever they flung abroad In spr;pe
The leaves have promised themselves
this fight,
Who now would fain seek shelt.r;rs
wall,
Or thicket, or hollow place for the
night.
And now they answer the summon,,r
blast
With an ever vaguer and vaguer stir
Or, at utmost, little reluctant wh;yl
That drops them no further than
where they were.
only hope that when am free.
AS they are free, to go in quest
OF the knowledge beyond the bounds Of
life,
1t may not seem better to me to rest
ROBERT FROST,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
The Next Apportiopment

Mr.. Siegcl and the Census Com
mittee won their fight in the Repub-
hcan caucus, and the House of Rep
resentatives-already large enough
will be materially enlarged. The
Siegel bill adds forty-eight members
carrying the total from 435 to
483. This is the biggest increase
but one since the first apportion-
nent. In 1878 there was a jump of
fifty; but that represented an ad-
justment going back four decades.
Between 1888 and 1873 the net gain
in members had been only ten In
1911 forty-seven new seats were al
lotted, but these included eight for
Oklahoma. New Mexico and Ari-
Zcna, admitted after the apportion-
ment, brought in two more mem
bers.
The best opportunity to check the
overgrowth Of the House presented
itself in 1901. Mr. Hopkins, chair
man Of the Census Committee,
wanted to hold the membership
down, and he had the support of
nearly all the Republican leaders.
They argued that the House was
getting unwieldy and losing its eff
cheney. The opposition won by a
naked appeal to good fellowship. 1t
persuaded q majority that it would
be unneighborly to inconvenience
any state delegation by reducing its
size.
This accommodating principle
was accepted in the 1911 apportion-
ment. 1t has now been accepted
again. AS consequence, a House
Of 356 members in 1900 will be re-
placed in 1921 by a House Of 483
members. If the same rule con-
tinues in favor, we shall have a
House Of about six hundred .mem~
bers in 1911.
Under the S1egcl apportionment
Republican states will make the
largest gains in the House and the
Electoral College, Ten votes will go
10 states which supported Cox; three
10 Texas. two to North Carolina and
one each to Alabama, Arkansas
Georgia, South Carolina and Vir-
ginia. Tennessee, Oklahoma and
Montana, normally Democratic, will
gain vote apiece. Arizona will
also gain one. Maryland, doubt
ful statc, viii gain one vote.
The other thifty-three votes will
70 to normally Republican states
five to California, four apiece to
New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan
and Ohio, two apiece to Massachu-
setts, New Jerxey and Illinois. and
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Enrighs and After

The demand for the removal Of
Commissioner Enright is overwheln-
ing. His administration is utterly
discreditcd, his assertions fiatly con-
tradicted by the Mayor. BY the
charges of Commissioner O'Grady
and Lieutenant Horton he stands
gravely accused. The sooner he is
ousted the better.
But after he goes, what next?
Suppose Governor Smith acts; or the
Mayor, himself. plycks up courage
and Gusts his pet and agent. Is
there any reason for hoping that
conditions will be permanently or
materially improved so long as
Mayor Hylan occupies the Mayors
Office"
And what Of the justice of such
discrimination? Is it right that En-
right should SO and Hylan remain?
The record is long and unamb gu
Gus touching this point. The Mayor
announced his resolve to be his own
Police Commissioner when Commits
siorer Bugher showed evidences of
mind of his own. He picked Mr.. En-
right because Mr. Enright was the
kind of man he wanted. He has
been familiar with the successive
steps by which Mr. Enright has car
ried his policies into effect Unless
Mr.. Hyan wishes to pose as a COM
plete idiot he cannot deny realization
Of what the police force was becom-
ing. st any time he could have
stepped forward and said, "Politics
shall not enter the force" Instead
ne sat by and watched the demorali-
cation Of the police go from bad to
worse. He cannot escape the conse-
guences.
Thus the stubbornness with which
Mayor Hylan backs Mr.. Enright-in
the face of grave charges and notori-
Gus conditions Of crime and disorder
is not without it's reason. Mr..
Hylan may be driven to action, but
ne plainly realizes that he must
stand or fall with his Police Com
missioner.
That is the justice of the situation.
1t offers the only hope for the city.
Emergency rule of the police can be
set up from Albany. But safety and
efficiency can only come through hav-
ing in the Mayors office an efficient
and competent executive.
Both Commissioner Enright and
Mayor Hylan should be the subject
f prompt action by Governor Miller
On January /. An emergency d.rec-
non Of the Police Department should
be set up, and the investigation of
The Mayors official career should
Oegin forthwith. After Enright,
Hylan.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Europe, 1919

tFrons Tbs Athemq.um)
I'HE sea, crag-manacled, confined,
Challenged the land to graphing
fray,
And urged by Deaths tumultuous wind
Wrapped her in night and binding
spray;
And boring through each harbor and
cave,
Fanged and relentless, lord of Doom.
Sought under the dark luminous wave
To whelm the world in azure gloom.
And lo!-A wonder, Heaven -bidden-
The land advanced to meet the sea:
And slumbering peaks in cloud -girth
hidden
Moved down upon her silently.
"Victorys Victory!" sang the wales
The wounded hills woke from their pain
For 10, beneath those swinging fails
The dragon sea rolled East again.
Wild dawns have trembled on her bosom.
Sunsets of rose enchained my view.
have culled many an odorous blossom
That touched her waves to heavenly hue
Beware. o crags, and leaning hills!
Take heed, SCARED rocks of towering
fame.-
Peaks which the glacier torrent chills.
Lest the deep skies dispute your claim;
Lest from those springs that gave her
birth,
Those cloudy scrolls Of frowning Heaven,
greater deluge whelm the Earth,
A mightjer ravage be unriven
HERBERT E. PALMER.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

the gallows were once deeply priced !;
they tended to cdification by reason
Of their protestations of penitence,
their solemn warnings to other sin
ners. The newspapers offer a much
wider opportunity for posturing in
the eyes of the public than the old
broadsides ever did. Yet the role Of
repentance is seldom played. The
modern criminal is full Of self-pity
has read modern sentimental liter
aturc.
A youth who has just confessed to
a brutal murder took his arrest in
a jesting spirit, proclaimed his inno.
ccnce with a plausible air of assur-
ance and broke down only when the
girl who was with him at the time
and who ran away with him admit
ted the truth. She herself is another
curious Illustration of this insensi-
bility to the emotions of pity and
terror that crime evoked in the old
poets or dramatists. She jested with
the detectives and the newspaper
men, she proclaimed her affection for
her companion, she described herself
as "jazz baby" and gloried in
what to normal mind would have
been intolerablc publicity. Both
these derelicts Of the underworld are
seemingly as immoral as the beasts
of prey; it would be almost too much
Of compliment to call them im-
moral.
The interest which society is COM
PEELED to have in them arises mainly
from the fact that the class to which
they be]ong-a class always potcn-
TALLY criminal, though not always
actually-has become so large that
the menace to the public welfare is a
very serious matter. 1t infests all
large cities particularly, living upon
it's wits and quite without scruple as
to the means Of exercising them. The
reformers have here a much bigger
problem than most Of those they
tackle so cheerfully.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Save the Holly

Christmas hcl!y. that laeryiest and
most beloved Of ali growing bushes,
Is threatened With extinction, accord
ing to a warning sounded by lovers
OF q red Christmas. Once growing
protusely in southern New JERSEY
and Maryland, it has been swept
from those states by the ruthless
cutters for the city markets, and
must now be sought in the swam,,s
OF Virginia and North Carolina.
where already the supply is growing
less bountiful eaci: vear. The Gull
States have been similarly shorn to
make holiday for New Orleans, St.
Louis and Chicago.
Within another generation, bota-
nists say, holly will be as rare as
nlstletoe, which used to grow in
abundance on the Atlantic seaboard.
as far north as Rarican Bay, but las
ncT practically ceased to exist a. :.
Christmas decoration. When will the
American people learn that the
bounty Of their fields and woodlands
is not limitless?
With sinking hearts nature lovers
have long since recorded the disap-
pearance Of the delicate trailing
arbutus, flower Of the Pilgrim, maid
ems, from all woods near large cities
The mountain laurel, which once
swept the hills cf June with pale
pink drifts like naughty clouds run
Ming away from the sunset. has now
retreated to the remote mountain
sides. New Workers who wish to see
it growing in it's natural glory can
find it only in the Hartman Inter-
state Park on the protected hills boz
dering the Croton water system.
So long as these treasures OF the
woodlands are sold in unlimited
quantities SO long will the servants
OF commerce ravage the source OF
supply. They are not to be held re-
sponsible. Some day, however, the
American people themselves will
choose between curbng their fond
ness for these most precious bits Of
their inheritance from the forest or
seeing them become totally extinct.
Why not apply the spirit of the game
laws to protect the poetry of the
hillsides?
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

'essors and writer's, has filtered
down to those of evil tendency. Such
are of course, not fully conscious of
the philosophy, but they understand
enough Of it TO feel an impulse to 80
and grab and to use guns and black
Jacks on those who resist. Lawless-
ness has been stimulated and the
monStrous egoism which is one Of the
characteristics of the criminal mind
has been developed and energ zed.
New York has been especially q
victim Of this spirit Of lawlessness
because here an ignorant and cor
rupr administration has weakened
the protective sorces Of society.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

O tNc raulLOr OF The lilDune.
Sir: Those of us VINO are fortunate
enough to have lived in two genera
tions naturally long for return to the
oldtime Sunday peace, the Sundays of
the "long ago. when the workaday
noises were hushed and we revereNtly,
with glad anticipation, wcnded our way
through shaded lanes and sunlit fields
on 10 the little "Brown Church" on the
hill, hand clasped in hand Of n dear
parent who taught US TO think intimate
ly OF God as our loving heavenly
Father, from Whom all blessings
flowed, leach neighbor the other in
good preferring.'
Alas! never having tasted Of the peace
of an oldtimc Sabbath. the children of
this generation have no taste for it.
In this electrical age the movies, motor
ing and violent games of sport are
needed to satisfy their abnormal ape
tites Cor, as l should say, craving for
strong vibrations). doubt if it is
within the power ,of ministers to change
this state Of affairs
1t is in the home that children should
be taught to respect aud observe the
Lords Day. Surely. parents can set
aside a half hour in the morning for
spiritual instruction. 1t is true that
people lie in bed too long Of Sunday
morning" This bad habit neccssitates
hurrying the preparation for church,
for dinner (if eaten at midday, for the
afternoon recreation; thus evening finds
them worn and irritable instead Of
happy and refreshed, both in mind and
body, as they should be after a sweet
day o rest spent rightly.
Too many people, including ministers,
have the mistaken idea that to keep the
Sabbath holy is to keep it lazily; when
in reality keeping it holy is to keep it
free from hate, anger, greed and glut-
tony. And not only should we keep the
seventh day free from all these dread
full things, but the preceding six days
also.
The ministers are but wasting time
and energy by trying to compel folks to
attend church. Does not the Good Book
say that Except the Lord draw him,
those who labor. labor in vain7"
BECKY TABOR.
Yonkers, N. Y, Dec 2, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
From an Ode by I1afez

(Fron, The Nelc Statesnaa,D
W7HAT madness twas know not, thai
thus enchanted me;
What wine, nor who the bringer. nor
wherefrom enter'd he.
Lament no more, o full heart, thy love
so close coniindi
O rosebud ope thy glory. thy beauty
nought shall bind!
Look on the flower filld meadows, Thou
TOO 0 wistful dear,
Take in thine hand the goblet and lend
to me thine cart
Isc, for our wintry sorrow I hold the
certain cure!
Lo, fierce fate kneels before US. Lo,
rapture .evermore!
What madness twas I know not, that
thus enchanted me;
What wine. nor who the bearer, nor
whittier vanish'd he.
ELIZABETH BRIDGES.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
The British Offer

The British House of Peers hav.
ing passed for the first time in its
history a Home Rule bill for Ire.
land and an agreement having been
reached between the two houses Of
the British Parliament, the measure
becomes law, although 1t is not to
be put into effect until Ireland be-
comes sufficiently settled to permit
the holding Of elections.
Mr.. P. w. Wilson, the American
correspondent Of The London Daily
News, gives the following list of set
tlement proposals which have been
rejected by the Sim Fem:
% Asquith Home Rule as passed
1914.
(2) The plan of the Conference of
1916.
(a) Lloyd George Home Rule, az
passing, 1920.
(4) Dominion Home RAle, as ad
vocated by Sir Horace Plunkett.
(b) Dominion autonomy, as now
proposed by Mr.. Asquith.
(6) Dominion autonomy as advanced
recently by Viscount Grey.
CD Cuban independence, as hinted
by Mr.. De Valera.
In view of these reflections the
likelihood of an early acceptance of
the new act does not seem good. The
maximum Of British concession re-
quires recognition Of the empire S
sovereignty and special treatment of
northeast Ulster. The minimum de-
mand of the Sim Fein is recognition
of the absolute independence Of all
Ireland as single political entity.
1t is unbelievable that Great Brit
ain will ever voluntarily agree to the
creation of probably hostile power
on her exposed flank, or the aban-
donment of the loyal Irish minority.
SO the only reasonable hope Of peace
is for Irishmen of moderate views to
promote settlement on terms such
as Redmond, Mccarthy, Parnell and
practically every Irish leader Of the
past would have. deemed a great
victory -
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
From a Descendant
Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: SO the indigo of Mondays wash,
th2t used to color that day, is beginning
to seep back into Sunday! AS de-
, scendant of those whose Sunday rest
consisted in listening to seven-hour
sermon, feel privileged to express my
se'I on the subject of the Puritan Sun
day. The trouble with reformers is
that they do not reform far enough
do not carry their reforms to logical
conclusion. 1t is for the encourage
rnent Of the extreme wing Of the body
that append the following tale:
1t was with sigh of relief that a
prominent member of the Lords Day
Alliance settled himself in bed. He could
sleep now the last reform was put
through. Soon his sweeping measures
would be in operation. He grew
brewster and brewster.
When he awoke he rang for his valet,
but no one came. He wandered through
the house and came upon Mrs. L. D. A.
experimenting her children's dressing.
One little rebel had just said: "I'll re-
port you, mother, for making me work
At dressing myself on Saturday."
"Saturday," cried his father "Why,
yes, dear" said his wife. Don't you
remember that they have changed back
to the original rest day Of our Lord,
Sunday being only the day OF the
coffee and cold oatmeal and cold eggs
downstairs, but cook and nurse and all
the help are resting" Mr.. L. D. A.
looked glun. "I'll go to restaurant"
"All closed Then to hotel" mo
meals served and guests look after
themselves on Saturday." "I1l tele-
phone" Telephone girls all resting"
He threw up his hands in disgust
Isn't there another town where I can
go and get square meal?" "Why you
were the one who wanted all trains and
trolleys stopped"
"Well, can't you make me a cup of
cotfee?" His wife eyed him coldly.
"And get reported for working! No.
indeed! l am dieting; so fasting on
Sunday is good for me, and the chill
dren fill up on apples and shredded
wheat. On! obi Obi" she screamed.
"Now see what you have done, John
ny; nearly put out your eye with those
ecfssors, and no doctors working on
Saturday; no hospital nurses working!"
WHAT" cried Mr.. l.. D. A. "Dont the
nurses take care of their patients on Sat
urday?" "No, and lots die on that day
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Giant Forces. etc.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Crime waves, prohibition and
blue laws have given The Tribune indi-
gestion. 1t is not we'll. Criminals and
fanatics feed upon notoriety. 1t sells
well. This is law OF some unseen par
lament.
Rebels and tyrants began performing
when the first bugs arrived on earth.
They always make commotion, in their
raw state; they always perform we'll
when united. The commotion sells we'll.
gets rich and gives indigestion; the per-
formance does not sell we'll, but is
healthy.
Tyranny and rebellion, blue laws and
crime are little manifestations of the
two great giant forces of evolution.
Philosophy cannot think them together
(sce Euchen in The ,oblem of Human
Lifc). Education caniht bring them to-
xether lsee Jacks in Hibbert's JauYusl. i.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Why the Crime Wave?

In his limping de rense Of the ad-
mltted inelic ency Of his administra-
non Mayor Hylan attempts to lay re-
soonsioility for the city's crime wave
On the war. GAS The outgrowth of
'he war;" he says, many persons of
criminal tendencies have been edu-
Gated in the use Of firearms and have
n1s'e regard for human life"
The excuse Of the Mayor, as he
formulate it, is, Of course, absurd.
rev nafauders, when arrests have
'Sen made, are found 10 be former
servc &c men. And only service men
were fanlliarized with the use Of
arms. No; the new criminals for the
'noSt part are recruited from the
ranks VI tncs draft dodgers-from
among those who did not register,
ara II they did are Of the 173, 900
1ao#n By official figures 10 have
eYaded army duty.
me psychological roots Of the
'aonstrous crime growth, 30 far as it
uafkfns the world, are in the post-
war period rather than in the war
psfi1d itscf. While hostilitieg con-
s'hcso all remarked how we'll men in
Uniform behaved, whether at home
" abroad. Whist, then, effected "a
"'a"gel For one thing, a steady
p'saenifZ n the disinteyrating doc
sf'he that In the main all existing
.s"s and inetitutions are wrong;
s'as po1session of property is akin
- "'s''t; that thrift ~ . fraud; that
- WORK hard js N serve only the
~,sf'ficn, and that tbe direct action
~ are half way right.
ms poison, sabtly distilled and
= k1xs1 reapectabillty by radical pro.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
The Old Time Sundau
It's Vutuc Are Praised the Course of Final Blue Lam Debate


The police cannot jam them together
(see The New York Tribune. But
quietly and unbeknownst to the noted
folk there is distilled out of the raw
material of evolution product that is
both old and new, tyranny and rebellion,
security and surprise
Jesus Christ had it. He had the for
nua of how to make it, and those who
aim toward this kind Of goods approach
His formula
You crown the criminals and fanatics
with club and the magic wand of
notoriety changes the bumps into
crowns of gold.
G. W.sH. MACNISH.
Cleveland, n. Y, Dec 3, 1920,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
In Honor of Lieutenant Horton

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In view of the serious crime
conditions prevailing in New York at
this time, the Fidelity y-International
Trust Company feels that the action OF
tPolice Lieutenant Floyd Horton, who
gave up his life yesterday to preserve
fthc city's peace, should be recognized
and that fund for Horizons family
should be started at once.
We very willingly will contribute
500 10 such fund and have already re-
ceivcd a contribution of S25 from one
Of our customers, who desires to thus
commend the action Of such n brave Of
ficer.
The Fidelity International Trust
Company will be glad to receive other
contributions TO this fund and turn the
same over to Horizons family.
SAMUEL S. CONOVER,
President.
New York. Dec. 18, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Listener
tFron Poetr.

tFyon. Poetry,
TIVE been with old men
Shadowy and slow,
Men dead and buried
A long while ago;
But the songs that they sang me.
Grave songs and sweet,
Held me the whole day
Stretched at their feet.
Fire danced, and water
Whirled to the tune;
Laughter went ringing
Down the long noon.
But oh, what I loved most
Was not song at all!
Not the rich cadence,
The slvery fall
OF passionless voices
Kept me in thrall;
But the unquenched ardor,
Plying. wise,
That lit their frail features
And famed in their eyes
With fame that transfigurea
Starlight and dew
The deep peace OF old men
When singing is through,
4. BERNARD RAYMUND.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

one each to Connecticut, Minnesota,
Oregon, Washington, West Virginia
and Wisconsin. The Republican
gain in the Electoral College will be
at least eighteen, Snd may run be-
yond twenty.