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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Is the World Growing Worse2

fFrom The Providence JournaU
Some people say the world is steadily
deteriorating. They think civilization
is in imminent danger. They are
shocked by what they regard as the
exceeding immodesty of women's
dress. They see in the social ex-
cesses of the time a plain reflection
OF Rome in its degenerate days. They
say we have lost our Soul" But
they shut their eyes to the cheerful
facts of twentieth century life.
Let them note that since the war
the sum of $loO,ooo,Ooo has been given
to American colleges Surely altruism
is not dead when that huge amount is
contributed to such q cause. Nor are
the benefactions to hospitals, schools,
Libraries and other institutions for the
public welfare falling off. Every few
days brings the announcement of some
gift Of this kind.
The world is not growing worse. 1t
is simply unsettled, chiefly as re-
suit Of the war. Years will be re-
CURED to bring about a pre-war con-
dition of mental and moral -eeuilih-
rum. But we have every reason 20
expect that when the present time of
unrest is over the world will be found
to be right side up and better than
ever.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
The Right Man

NO other American is as we'll
equipped to be Governor General of
the Philippines as General Leonard
Wood. 1t is good news if, as our
Washington bureau announces, he
has been persuaded to stay for a
while in the islands and help the
FIllplnos to recover from the effects
of eight years of sentimentalism and
laxity in the Governor Generals pal
ace. Mr.. Harrison, whom he is
said to be willing to succeed, became
more and more a shadow executive,
letting the insular administration
drift away from the high standards
OF earlier years, encouraging native
siisaffection and allowing power to
slip into the hands Of independence
agitators, who were far better poll
ticians than they were public SER
wants.
There has been marked de-
terioration in the insular education
and health services. Latterly there
have been scandals in financial man
agement. The after-the-war de-
preston has borne heavily on in
dustry and business. There is need
Of a man of General Woods broad
training and practical sagacity to-
set things right and to bring the Fill
pino people back to clearer concep-
ton of their political relationship to
this country and of their inability to,
stand alone.
The western Pacific is a storm CEN
ter in world politics. The Wash
ington conference is to examine into
the causes of unrest and friction
there. The Philippines are our
furthest outpost in this region, play
ing an important role in our POLITICAL
and economic association with the
Far East. To think of cutting them
adrlft is childish. They need us
e@iAA we AlCCU CIlCIils - real \IOV0rnOT
Generals task is to demonstrate the
mutually of their interests and ours.
and to prove by works as we'll as by
words that the safety and welfare of
the islands are bound up with the
acceptance and maintenance Of
American sovereignty.
General Wood is our greatest colo
NAL administrator. He has spent
many years in the Philippines. He
knows their many races, those of the
south as we'll as the north; appreci-
ates the good qualities as we'll as
the weakness of the native character.
and has an expert military knowl
edge of the archipelago's problems
of defense. He is the right man for
difficult place. If he accepts it.
one of the Administrations most
vexatious problems will be happily
solved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01

Electron, and hints plainly that the
end is not yet. Is there sub-elec-
tron? 1t looks as II there might be.
We knew that there was smallest
thing which took part in chemical
reactions and we named that thing
the atom, leaving its iHsides to the
future" Then these insides were
measured: they are, SO to speak, sin
habited' by electrons, positive and
negative. And now, declares Pro-
lessor Nillikan, evidence has been
presented which purports TO show
that electric charges exist which are
much smaller than the electron."
In short, the utmost exertions of
the most scientific and highly dis
ciplined minds in the world have
COMPRISED up to datc--W What? Moth
ing but the Threshold Of an ever
recurring Interrogation. Cried job:
Naked came / out of my mothers
womb and naked shall ] return
hither; the Lord gave and the Lord
taketh away"
Undisturbed by the ardent specu-
lations of philosophers and scientists,
the soul Of man goes marching on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
The Ostfriesland Bombing

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Siri Commander Cummings, In seeks
ing to give credit to the navy flyers for
their part In the sinking Of the Osts
frissland in his letter to The Tribune
has inadvertently created the impress
sion that the navy flyers dropped 2soo0-
pound bombs. During the first days
ordnance tests the navy flyers did sonis
excellent bomb dropping, but on tho
day Of the real sinking test with 1000
and 1000 pound bombs the army flyers
alone participated.
The navy flyers sank the submarine
U-ll7. All the other ships were sunk
as the result of army bombing.
Both the navy and army sviators
showed great skill in bombing sccu-
rscy. The navy preferred the V forma-
ton flying for their work, while the
army dropped their bombs in column
formation.
The conclusion reached by those
civilians who witnessed the tests wss
that all flying operations should be una
Ger one head, and that head a flying
officer. EYEWITNESS.
New York. July 80, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Listening

Mr.. Harding appears to be much
better listener than Mr.. Ford or Mr..
Edison---who, indeed, may be ex-
cused on account of his deafness.
While Bishop Anderson read aloud
from William Allen Whites Henry
and Me Mr.. Harding was quite in
tent, but Mr.. Ford and Mr.. Edison
wandered away. Reading aloud is a
lost art. Bishop Anderson was in
trepid when he ventured on it. Only
Mr.. Harding remained.
If Mr.. Harding really has this gift
cf listening to others while they read
he should tell others how to acquire
it. We have been told in textbooks
how to listen to music; we should
like to know how to listen to Bernard
Shaw or Arnold Bennett. In pri-
vate, when we read books in these
days-assuming, Of course, that we
dove can, so to speak, touch the
ground in high places. We are all
Ct necessity skilled in skipping, SO
that later on, when questioned, we
iced only exclaim: Dear me, yes;
what master Of style is Conrad;
how his sentences thrill one!" when,
IS matter of fact, we have really
been obeying DR.. Johnson's injunc-
ton about writing-that is, to leave
cut every other word.
And is it not, after all, what Mr..
Harding has been raised to his high
office for-to listen, and that SUBJ
consciously he was aware of this
when he stayed to listen while Mr..
Ford and Mr.. Edison strayed off.
The President of the United States,
if he is sincere and honest--and in
this case his sincerity and honesty
may not be observation-disclosures more
about what is going on than anybody
else. Better than any other he knows
what to withhold and what to i'm
part. If everybody learns from him
how to listen to him in the right way
during the next few years we shall
doubtless all be better for it.
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to improve the general standard of
health the South will join with the
North and West in welcoming it.


The latest report OF the death Of
Vera Sassuliteh may, like it's prede-
cessors, turn out to be untrue, but,
true or false, it recalls the beginning
Of the downfall of the Cars forty
three years ago. In the days Of Alex
ander Ii, the "Liberator," who in the
closing years of his reign had fallen
away from his early Liberalism,
the Cars project at st. Petersburg
was Trepoff, father of the Trepoff
responsible for the "Red' Sunday of
1905. This first Trepoff brutally
logged student who had not sa-
luted him, whereupon Vera Sas-
sulitch took it upon herself to avenge
the wrong. She shot him, though
not fatally.
Then came the striking feature of
the case. At her trial she admitted
it and gloried in her deed. The jury
consisted Of six members of the I'M
perial civil service, two merchants,
nobleman, a school inspector, stu
dent and an artist. To the surprise
of the court this jury promptly
agreed, and it's verdict was "Not
guilty." 1t ignored the evidence and
the charge of the judge. But the
verdict stood and was greeted with
a nationwide outburst Of exultant
approval. That incident, much more
than the assassination of Alexander
II few years later, marked the be-
ginning of the end of Czarism.
1t is noteworthy evidence of the
integrity with which justice was at
times administered in Russia that
this verdict was respected and Vera
Sassulitch was released. Thereafter
she lived chiefly at Geneva; she was
for many years active in revolu-
tionary propaganda; she lived to see
Czarism swept away and supplanted
by the still more savage and brutal
tyranny of the Soviets. But at more
than seventy years of age her days
OF action were over, although, like
pioneers of the Russian revolution.
she did not hesitate to say that the
new Czarism was worse than the old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Purpose of the Conference
The Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is your cores pendent Benja.
min c. Kee1er, whose letter you heat
Preparedness undebatable," wholly
correct in his criticism of the proposed
conference on armaments? Is it not
called for the purpose Of limiting arma-
ment for the future by the nations
called to confer? Each of these now
possesses sufficient means for making
war to repel invasion by nations other
than themselves, and not wishing to
conquer Others, as they profess. Mr..
Harding has called on them to make
good their profession by agreeing to
make no further preparations or addi-
tions to present ornaments. J. o. B.
Englswood. N. J. July 80. 1921.
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The PelIagra Threat

'Damning," casting reflections
on the South" propaganda" seem
to be the replies of the Southern
States to the Presidents call to help
stem an incipient plague of pellagra.
Semi-famine conditions and signs of
an epidemic are denied, and the re-
port Of the Public Health Service is
regarded somewhat in the light OF a
reflection upon the honor Of the
South.
All this is encouraging to those
who were alarmed by hasty read
/ ing of the summary of the. report.
They had mistaken a warning of
possible trouble for a statement of
present danger. But the South's
protest does not make the Public
Health Service withdraw it's warn
ing that unless conditions are i'm
proved there will be many deaths
from pellagra, owing largely to i'm
poverished diet.
Whoever has eaten meal on a
small white mans farm in many
districts of the South and West can
testify to the generally badly bal
anced ration which forms the COM
mon diet. That this is worse in bad
times and that conditions are no bet
ter among the negroes is evident.
And malnutrition naturally weakens
the power Of resistance.
This state of affairs is no ref1ec-
ton on the South. It's agricultural
development during the last two
decades has been extraordinary, and
this has been in no small measure
due to strong sense of local pride.
Loyalty to state is still supreme,
and there is an attachment to a
given section that is only little
known in the North. Ask North
Carolinian, for example, whence he
comes. 'I'm from Buncombe Coun-
ty," is his reply. And to the usual
greeting, WHARF you fromw he
generally receives in answer the
name of some other county or Sec
ton.
If the pellagra scare will result in
starting campaign of nutritional
education it will have been worth
while. In such work the Public
Health Service and the Red Cross
can participate. Scmi-starvation is
frequently only malnutrition, and
this on our farms and in our homes
generally means badly balanced
ration, badly cooked.
Mr.. Harding didn't intend to cast
aspersions upon Southern ways. But
II as result anything can be done
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Please the Admiral
A sidehght on Promotion by selcc.
ton in the Navy
e Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With Admiral Fiske, I concur
heartily in Quarterdeck's arrangement
OF promotion by selection in the navy
a vicious scheme of personal selfish
ness which | have opposed strenuously
ever since it was first mooted, predict
ing the evil results which have fol-
lowed upon its adoption. In this con-
nection [ quote the observations OF an
admiral OH the active list:
1.-THE cry of secrecy and subordina-
ton in the service, coupled with selec-
ton, has been the main support Of
policies that, to my mind, are sub
versive of discipline and destructive
of morale. This was brought to my
attention by the remarks of an officer
first move was to ascertain my per-
sonal idiosyncrasies. He did not feel
that he could approach his work ON the
basis of what he could do; the right
way to favor now is to please the
senior. This is just as injurious to
the senior as to the junior"
This episode, be it remembered, is
one of experience, not Of theory.
CASPAR F. GOODRICH,
Rear Admiral. U. S. Navy.
Princeton, N. j., July 20. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
The Unnaturalized Resident

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent "Patrioti-
Gus" has said, straight from the shout
der, something which has long needed
to be said in behalf Of the unnaturalizsG
resident Of the United States. The at
titude taken in this matter by the ma
jority of Americans is most provincial
and exceedingly difficult to compre-
bend. Most CT them prefer the foreign.
born naturalized citizen of doubtful
allegiance to one who is merely loyal
guest.
l know numbers of Americans who
spend large part of each year in
Italy, England and France because they
love the life there, without giving q
thought to becoming naturalized. H.
one instance an American amassed q
fortune in England and settled down TO
enjoy it there. He purchased an estate
and had his children educated at a
famous English school. Not once did
that man consider giving up his Amer
lean citizenship, nor was he ever asked
to do so.
In the spring of 1915 I was living
with family, American citizens by re-
cent acquisition, yet all entirely in &C.
cord with Germany's ruthless act in
sinking the Lusitania, and they were
not Germans
am not naturalized because I desire
to familiarize myself with the great
cities of the world by living and work
ing in them. No douhs there are others
who intend to do thai, too.
No matter how high the esteem in
which / hold my friends mother, she
can never call forth the love and rever-
ence feel for one who was the author
OF my being; and so with a country.
FROM MISSOURI.
New York, July 80, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Combating Ill;teracv

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your Issue Of to -day there is
an editorial entitled "Illiteracy," en-
phasizing the need for a uniform edu
cational standard throughout the coun-
try and closing with the statement:
"All sensible people know this; nobody
does anything about it,"
The tacts of the situation cannot be
denied, nor can the seriousness of our
educational crisis be overestimated,
At the same time, hewever, there are
a few hopeful signs. Not only is
something being done about it. but
there are individuals and organizations
working along the very line suggested
in this editorial--the Standardization
of school conditions throughout the
country. The Children's Bureau at
its Washington conference in 1919,
the National Educational Association
and the National Child Labor Commit
tee are all working to this end and
have as their goal a definite program
of standards to be made nation vide.
GERTRUDE H. FOLKS.
National Child Labor Committee.
New York, July 20, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Pedestrians Plight
Contributory Negligence an Offset to
Reckless Motoring

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Something that one Of your
spondents said a few weeks ago
about the hazards to which pedestrians
are subject leads me to complain of the
unfair laws now and for many years ia
force in all, or most, Of she states re-
garding contributory negligence. The
law is that if am injured by the neg
ligence of another man, and would not
have been injured except for his neg.
ligence, yet l cannot recover damages
if in any way contribute to the injury
myself.
Let me illustrate: Suppose on dark
night motorist speeds at sixty miles
an hour without lights and gives no
warning. That man is grossly negli-
gent. Suppose that l, a pedestrian, am
slightly negligent myself. He runs me
down. / have failed perhaps to stop
at the curbstone and look and listen. Il
had looked / would have seen his car;
If l had listened l might have heard it,
My slight negligence might not have
exposed me to danger from any car
properly run. Yet my slight negli-
gence defeats me and generates him.
bear the entire burden Of perhaps
very serious injuries that may take
away f6sever my ability to earn live
lihood; he bears not dollars worth Of
those damages. This seems unfair.
/ ana told by q lawyer that in the
United States courts the damages are
apportioned in accordance with the
negligence, so that one pays his portion
and the other bears his portion. A
rule Of this kind should be adopted in
state courts. The present situation is
so peculiar that if q claimant who has
been injured by a motorist or trolley
car, whose negligence can be estab-
l;shed, tries to advance his claim fos
damages, he is regarded almost as a
criminal by Investigators and insurance
adjusters if it turns out that he con.
tributed in the slightest degree to the
accident. No matter how reckless the
driver, the injured man in such cir
cumstances finds hims self remedilesss
frowned at, looked down upon. Can.
not all this be changed?
DISTINGUISHED.
New York, July %, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Better Sounding Boards

The only criticism to be made of the
Institute Of Politics at Williams Col
lege is the place where it is held. Not
that Wiiliamstown is not one of the
most beautiful towns of New Eng
land, with an atmosphere leaving
little to be desired, but not many live
there, and the audiences gathered to
hear are largely on the same intellec-
tnal level with the distinguished
speakers. 1t still remains true-and
through nobody's fault--that they
will be tinged with exclusiveness.
Lord Bryce, because of the dis ~
of his life, his utter removal from
all partisansasp, his great learning
snd his intimate knowIedga of our
institutions commands the utmost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
And Now the Sub-Electron

Up to 1897, when Professor Town
send, Of Oxford, made his expert
ments, the existence of the electron
was not generally known, although
hundred years before Laplace and
Lavoisier had revealed the mathe-
matical possibilities of such source
of energy. The world of electrons.
as Professor Millikan, of the Ua.-
versity of Chicago, puts it, was "un-
dreamed of twenty years ago" Up
to that time the atom was the
smallest thing known. The discov-
cry and segregation and measure
ment of the electron-so much
smaller than the atom that within
one atom there may be hundreds OF
electrons---have created a revolu-
ton in science, and it's possibilities
raach out into the uttermost con-
fines of thought.
1t is, however, Upon the basis of
SiiS S1SS@i oiio tiieit ScitiSe has I1Lu-
erto rested. All things have been
referred back to the electrons. The
visible and invisible universe, this
stuff Chat dreams are made on" the
tangible and intangible, matter and
thought, planets and suns, gold and
silver, envy, hatred and malice and
love and loyalty, big and little, "nlice
and maggots''--have all been re-
solved into combinations Of electrons.
so Infinitely small that their pres
ence can be detected only by mathe-
NAUTICAL formula.
And now comes Professor Millikan,
in his latest fascinating book, The
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ness campaign without changing his

ness campaign without changing his
shirt
In The Mirrors of Washington, pub
lished by Putnam's, the anonymous
author has something to say about
the literary style of Warren G. Har-
ding and picks the inaugural as Har-
ding at his best. With this judgment
we cannot agree The speech seemed
to US to be formal without being fin
ished. In none of the prepared adj
dresses of the President which we
have read has anything leaped out at
US. And yet, he is not without a talent
for turning phrase at times when he
lets himself go. One of the few strik-
ing remarks which came out of the last
campaign was attributed to Harding
when ne was quoted, Immediately al
ter the Chicago convention, as saying:
I'VE drew to a pair of deuces and
filed" This was the language of the
casual and natural Harding. The
speeches are filled with set phrases
which he remembers from his editorial
writing days on The Marion Star.
The author of The Mirrors Of Wash
ington attempts complete character
izer Of Mr.. Harding by quoting a
Marion neighbor, who said: "The best
fellow in the world to play poker with
all Saturday night"
We yoirhf hava xyo4,J
II we had heard this slogan before the
campaign. 1t seems to us evidence
much in his favor, particularly since
"all night" is mentioned. Many a per-
son who seems good fellow in some
short session lasting from $3.50 to 1
will crack under the strain and reveal
himself in his true eoIors if the game
goes on. Sooner or later your sup
posedly splendid fellow will break out
with: "Well, don't care what the rest
OF you do, Pm going to quit sharp at
5 o'clock" Mr.. Harding, if we may
judge by his Marion friend, was of
those who stack without a whimper.
And yet we feel that there is a
weakness in the makeup of the man
no matter how splendidly he came
through the all-night poker test. We
have at least suspicion that after
the game was cashed in he went up
stairs, changed his collar, and walked
down the road TO sing bass in the
choir of the Baptist church at the
morning service.
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respect from all Americans. IL It
We're possible for him to 60 person
ally from one end of the country to
the other and talk to the plain men
OF the nation, here would be educa-
tlon worth while. The pres will do
It's part by reporting, but the printed
page IS cold and is no substitute for
the speaking voice.
Educational missionaries must
humble themselves, forget exclusive
ness. The harvest field that calls
Tor workers is where men arc as
sembled in numbers.
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IN CASE OF MURDER, CALL
CIRCLE 1880

By our oa0n DR.. BerthoM A. Beers
frankie is calm now and no
longer hysterical. In fact, she is
away on her vacation in the Cat
skills.
At the hour Of Johnny's death
this poor girls nerves were on edge.
She thought that life would never
be the same again.
But when frankie saw the won
derful way we handled the demised.
and after few days in our rest
room (where relatives are welcome).
surrounded by sweet smelling lilies
of all description, she felt thor
oughly at Home.
He done me wrong" she said.
but how natural he looks"
Just Before Passing Away Call:
Circle 1900.
'Freckles and Morrie.
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Speaking Of which, we wrote para
graph six or seven years ago that cost
this newspaper $4,000. In advertising,
OF course. And not SO long ago, an
other that cost, we believe, $4,000.
And it may interest Mr.. Upton SIN
clair and others to know that we were
not threatened with the loss of our
job, nor even adlnonislled to be Bet
ter Boy in the Future.