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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Printed, Not Published

Under the Duell act it is expected
The state will save hundreds of
thousands OF dollars yearly in it's
printing bills. Much greater SINH
lar savings might be effected by the
national government and at the
same time cause an increase in
the practical value of public
documents.
Yet never was there q time when
the need of better information con-
corning public affairs was greater.
The newspapers no longer find
it practical to give complete
reports. Other claims on their
space are too insistent; the vast
business Of government is too COM
plicated. What is needed is not
merely a reduction in the quantity
OF public documents, but an i'm
provement in their quality. Public
men with justice complain that their
constituents are not we'll informed
and often, therefore, Judge erro-
neously.
Brother Bryan was not alto
gether wild when he suggested an
official bulletin to be mailed free to
all applicants.
Over in New Jersey they once
tried the plan Of having a State
Editor of Reports. It is not re-
ported that he ever greatly JUS
titled his existence by results.
During the war the Wilson Admin
istration placed large sums at the
disposal of committee on public
information. But, unfortunately,
1t had in Mr.. Creel chief more in
terested IN propagating particular
IDEAS than in being fair and
:olorless reporter. These failures,
however, do not prove that the idea
. Impractical. An expert impartial
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Fabricated Education

Fabricated schools are the latest
invention from the fertile brain of
H. G. Wells. Fresh from his ioy
ride through the panorama of man
kind, he conceives the delightful idea
of educating all mankind-not Just
his own child and the neighbours
child and the children of English
men and Americans and Frenchmen,
but of all the world. This can only
be done on g. quantity scale, as
Henry Ford produces automobiles;
for education under the present sys-
tenn is so expensive that only the
richest communities and nations
have any sort Of education at all,
and even that is increasingly men,
aced by the high cost of living.
Mr.. Wells believes, however, that
by quantity production of books and
maps and by making the teachers of
genius serve the whole race, instead
of merely the best private schools,
the question of expense can be
solved, also the question of inferior
teachers. Almost any teacher can
turn on the educational film and the
French talking machine.
81 want to see," he writes in The
Saturday Evening Post, "the sort Of
thing happen to schools that has al
ready happened to many sorts of re-
tail shops. In the place of little, ILL
equipped schools, each run by it's
own teacher and buying it's own
books and diagrams and materials,
and SO forth, in small quantities at
high prices, | want to see a great
central organization, employing
teachers of genius, working in con-
sultation and cooperation, and pro-
ducing lesson-notes, diagrams, films.
monograph records, cheapiy, album
dainty, on big scs..e for a nation
or group of nations, or, if you like,
Tor all the world, just as America
produces watches and alarm clocks
and cheap automobiles for all the
world. And want to see the schools
OF the world run, so far as the intel
lectual training goes, not by the local
committees, but by that central or
ganization."
Mr.. Wells believes that by this
system of fabricated schools he can
eliminate waste, not only for the tax
payers but for the child. Given the
best and cheapest books and motion
pictures and maps, the child can
learn in the six or ten years of his
schooling not only his own language
but three or four others and the key
to several more, so that he can con.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Imports. Exports.
March, 1913 $114,6S6,00O $1O2,215, 600
" 1919. 162,716,0O0 135,4O5, 600
" 1920. 248,5S4,000 1G4,512, 600
1921. 174,1S4, 900 1f6.126, 900

This table is rather surprising,
especially it's evidence that the vol
ume Of imports is up more than the
volume of exports. The rest of the
world, particularly Europe, has been
presented as lacking goods to ship,
yet it appears that in pounds and
bushels so per cent more were sent
to us in March, 1921, than in March,
1913. That which has built up the
great export balances in dollars is
the greater relative increase in ar
ticles of American production.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Who VIII Sign?

The problem in Berlin to-day {:
to find Cabinet which will accept
the Allied reparation ultinatum
Germany hates to admit either the
fact of defeat or the consequences
of defeat. Ebert said to the Ger.
man troops when they entered Der.
lin after the armistice: "You have
come back unbeaten." At Versailles
Graf Brockdortf- Rantzau, the leader
of the German delegation, assumed
the role of the horse who was led
to the water but who couldn't
be made to drink. He threw UP
his commission and the obscure
Herr Muller signed in his stead.
Fehrenbach and Simons played
fast and loose with their repara-
tion policy. Simons made speeches
at home which justified the parties
of the Right in charging that his
ridiculous offer to the Allies at Lon
don went too far. From the very
favorable impression which he had
previously made on Lloyd George it
is evident that he knew that he
wasn't going far enough. He had to
contend with the German conviction
that Germany oughtn't to be asked
either to admit her war guilt or to
atone for it. He had also to con-
tend with the hard reality that Ger
many had pledged payment to the
Allies and that France, at least, was
prepared, in a military sense, to
enforce liquidation.
The Fehrenbach ministry has re-
signed in order to escape a disagree
able duty and maintain a show of
political consistency. German states
men are highly punctilious about
avoiding the appearance of adj
uniting the inviolability of the YER
sailles settlement. If the govern
ment must yield to force it prefers
TO camoufage the surrender little
by changing its personnel. A new
Cabinet will sign and probably try
to exculpate itself later in the eyes
of the German public by quarreling
with the Allies over the execution
of the agreement.
Who heads the new German min
istry is of little consequence, except
to the casuistical German poll
ticians. New names will be sub
scribed to the answer to the ulti-
matum. New German guarantees
will probably be given. But whether
the reply is an acceptance or a re-
fusal, German policy and the unre-
pentant mood behind it will remain
the same. The mood, not the sig
nature, is the basic fact with which
Allied policy will have to reckon.
Muller signed the treaty, but Berlin
began contesting it's provisions even
before the ink on the document was
dry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09

Wales, even az you are initiating his
globe trotting. You are going to
meet lot Of nice, interesting peo-
Pile. Listen to them, thoughtfully as
well as courteously. You are due to
acquire many helpful ideas that did
not occur to the tutors of the royal
household. But have good time,
too, for you are Of the vanishing sub
stance of pre-democratic days, and
you never can tell.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09

from headquarters behaves like an i'm,
beetle right up to the last chapter
This criminals fool him at every turn
Just when you have despaired OF hin
ne suddenly steps forward and shows
| that he knows everything about the
crime and the criminals down to the
most minute details. 1t seems that he
knew it all the time. Of course, it is
L Little ungrateful to complain of this
Apparently he held his peace in order t.
| give the reader run for his money. Il
he had been any more articulate the
yarn might never have progressed be
yond page 50, which would not do 81
all.
The only justified complaint which
we have against this particular detec.
tive, and others like him, is that he
never tells you in any comprehensive
fashion just how he discovered all his
facts. They came to him, for anything
more Illuminating in his explanation
by sheer intuition. The reader must
take them in the same way.
Arthur Ruhl has been away from &C.
tive newspaper work long enough now
to begin to feel sentimental about copy.
readers. We never knew reporter to
speak we'll Of living and active copy
readers, but he always has q good word
to say for those of yesteryear. Writing
In Leslie's Ruhl says:
"Six Irishmen are hanged In Ireland
while twenty thousand people pray for
their souls outside the prison walls,
"The task presented to the copy
reader who has to write a head for this
dispatch would seem to be simple. The
news is the fact that six men were
hanged; the dramatic angle that n vast
crowd gathered outside the prison 70
pray for the men about to be executed.
The most direct, as well as the OBJ
viously dramatic statement is Sig Sim
Feiners Hanged While 10000 PRAY
Yet we find the head writer of one Of
New York's most intelligent papers
Numbering something about sthrong
outside prison wallis and leaving out
the pray altogether
They ordered things better than this
in the days Of the old Sun, before
schools Of journalism were ever heard
of. The Sun once printed five-line
item about the overlooking of several
barrels of molasses in a sub-cellar in
the wholesale grocery section of New
YORK. 1t was headed simply-'Sweet
and Low
What has become Of the head writers
OF those days--men who went at their
work with an artists touch and an art
lists scriousness7 1t takes love and
care to think up heads like that and
then tuck them away in some all-but-
forgotten corner of the paper. Art for
arts sake"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Italy for Tourists

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: There still appears to be sn sle'
in America that travel in Italy 70 az
safe and uncomfortable. 1t is neitnel'
Italy at present is pleasant country TO-
tourists. It is not oyercrowded; Their
is plenty of food; the people are eN'
and well behaved. Americans sfs
warmly welcomed. and there are y
drawbacks to full enjoyment OF lIs',
ian scenery and climate. Exchsnge Z
tempting and prices reasonable.
WALTER PHELPS DODGE
AmaIh, Italy. Apsil Fl, 1871
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Railroad" E.xtravagance

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Like the good Homer, even the
astute leaders Of rail labor have been
caught mapping. When they accused
the managers of the roads of extrava-
gance they failed to cite an Instance
that is at once obvious and convincing.
Every line is designated as railroad
instead OF a railway. OF course the
supertfuous letter hardly signifies in q
single case, but the painting, printing,
drawing, typing and writing for all of
the roads must naturally run to astro-
nomicai figures. Perhaps the managers
may have side interests in painting,
printing and paper companies, and some
OF them may even have taken flyer in
stylographic pens.
HOWARD CoGHII.L.
Nsw York. May q, 1924.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Veterans Preference
Do American Legion Members Favor
Civil Service Amendment

>AN3A SN4 VIM
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The so-called veterans pref.
erence amendment to the civil service
article Of the constitution Of the stat.
received the approval of the Legisls-
ture for the second tins during the
closing hours of the last sessions and
now goes to the people at the next
general election for ratification or re.
lection.
It would be easy to demonstrate tina.
the veterans preference amendment
would discriminate against the very
men to whom all hearts go out~-ths
wounded and disabled soldiers. They
would be overwhelmed and forgotten
in the crowd of 100000 uniniured
veterans" many Of whom never got
within sound Of the guns and some Of
whom never got nearer the battle line
that students training camp.
1t was said that this preference in
appointment and promotion, without
regard to standing on an eligible list,
was demanded by the American Legion.
1t would be Interesting to know how
near the truth this ia. It certainly
will come as a shock to many people,
who have thought of those young men
who made up our national army, and
especially Of that fins body of Oficers
trained at the Plattsburg camps, as e.
employing the finest traditions Of
American spirit and sportsmsnsFip, 10
learn that they are insistent upon
purely arbitrary advantage over their
fellow citizens who, through no fault
of their own, were unable to fight Is
it conceivable that any red-blocdsd
young American would accept appoint
ment to a clerkship or q teachers po-
sition over woman who served IS
nurse in the hospitals IA France and
who stood higher on the eligible list
than he?
Are there very many 'honorably dis
charged" soldiers and sailors in the
State of New York who, having got 81
appointment TO the police force OF
New York City, would sccept promo
ton to higher rank over patrolmen
who had served faithfully on the force
for many years and had obeyed the
commands OF their superior officers
to remain at their posts during the
war?
Is there any member of the Legion
more deserving Of promotion than thai
brave patrolman John Il. Conk-ah
honor to himl-who died shis week
from injuries received while attempt
ing to stop runaway horse in Brook
Ign. which was jeopardizing the lives
Of score or more school children, sna
whose dying wish was TO be buried II
the Soldiers Cemetery, because he hsa
always wanted TO be q soldier. but hao
been prevented by his duty as e
liceman? 1t would be interesting 70
know how representative members o
the American Legion feel about fhs
measure. ELBRIDGE L. ADAMS.
New York, May 2, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Gotham Gleanings

--Geoffrey Parsons of Rye and
family will sail for France Thursday.
Prof. Broun is some better from
his bronchial indisposition.
Crosby Gaige was to Chicago
one day last week.
Geo. Harvey has gone to Lon
don.
Fred Keppel was pleasant
caller last wls. and sailed for Europe
Sat.
Grant Rice and wife and John
N. Wheeler and wife sailed for Eu-
rope last Tues.
Mrs. Sarah Victor the far famed
lemon meringue pie builder will
transfer her art to Sag Harbor next
week.
Burton Roscoe has made Gotham
his abode. Welcome to Our borough,
Burt.
Marc Connolly and mother have
uoVcu lntO Cnc1r TOWN mouse over
looking Central Park. "And that's
all it overlooks," commented M. c.,
who has his lighter side, too.
Herb Swope's Office no longer
looks into ours, Herbs being up on
the 18th floor. The World has had
this beat" since last November, but
as usual Gotham Glcanings prints the
big news first.
That day whose l. d. sun sees not the
word "spurn" used in headline may
be counted lost; but, though we listen
to dozens of conversations q week, we
never have heard anybody use it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
The Deficit Makers

I
Melons letter to the chairman OF
the House Ways and Means Commit.
tee forecasts "not less but more tax.
ation." 1t adds: s'He (the Score
tary) is confronting the certainty of
deficit which promises to be not
less than $5Qo,ooo,000 under the
naval and military policy now fast
developing in Congress"
That charge is without founda.
ton. If there is deficit of $780,
100000 in 1921-'22 it will not be be-
cause of ''the naval and military
policy now fast developing in Con-
gress." There would have been a
deficit for 1921-'22, not of $500, O00,-
600, but of 250,o0o,0OO, If the last
Administration had been allowed to
have its way. Mr.. Wilson'S depart
ment and bureau chiefs submitted
estimates totaling $3.50, 900.
Congress cut them down to $780,
0o0,0o0--a saving Of $1,453, 900, 900.
What is there to the accusation
that Congress is developing new
policy Of military extravaganza?
Secretary Baker put in an army esti.
mate for 1921-'22 of 5000, 900, 900.
Congress granted only $4,000, 900.
President Wilson killed the army ap-
preparation act by pocket veto, ap-
parently because it ran counter to
Mr.. Bakers inflated ideas. Secre-
tary Daniels asked for $4,000, 900.
The naval appropriation bill, as it
passed the House, carried only $780,
100000. The session ended before
this bill had been acted on in the
Senate.
I The army bill total and the total
of the naval bill, as it passed the
House, were included in the official
tabulation of appropriations made at
the last session. These amounted to
$3,806, 100000 - about 100000, 900
less than the revenue of $4,000,00O,-
600 estimated for 1922.
At this session the House has re-
passed the naval bill with slightly
reduced total. 1t is also pairing
down the army bill. Should the
Senate add nearly $10O,000,oO0 to
the naval bill, as it did last winter,
a compromise in conference will be
necessary. Allowing a probable in
crease over the House figures, the
net addition to the appropriations
for 1922 would hardly be more
than $50, ,000-leaving them still
100000 within the estimated
revenue.
II any deficit is threatened for the
next fiscal year the threat is due to
deficiencies which the last Admins
tration rolled up. President Har-
ding recently estimated these over
drafts on the Treasury at S216,000,-
900. Mr.. Baker defed Congress and
ran his department deeply into debt
Railroad Administration and Ship
ping Board Encouragement added
other liabilities. 1t is ridiculous to
blame this Congress mr. the last Con-
gress for deficits resulting from Will
SON Administration blunders. Con-
gress tried to pinfon the spenders.
But it had no aid from the White
House. President Harding has now
all department and bureau
heads to live within their allotments,
and one Of the waste holes in the
fiscal system has at last been
plugged. The budget law will be an
other restraint on extravaganza.
The World says, scornfully: "The
promise was reduced
taxation" That promise will be
made good. The chief remaining
obstruction to its prompt fulfllment
is the maturing Of the last Admin
unauthorized I o Us.
s4a<sn-sr~4=-sszs--ssap~.na
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
The Quantity of Trade

The Federal Reserve Board now
measures the volume Of foreign
trade, as contrasted with it's dollar
value, by system of index numbers.
Taking twenty-nine important rep
resentative articles, it figures out
the value of current imports and ex-
ports at 1918 prices. The COMPARE.
son for March, 1921, with the same
month in 1920, 1919 and 1918 is as
follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
A British Need
(From the Woshinoto,. o.,

fFroms the Washington Star)
his work would be wonderfully
facilitated if some of our great i'm
materialistic philosophers could devise
plan to enable Lloyd George to be
IN several places at the same time,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
The Coming 17'ower

mo moro substitutes. Tha cherry
made famous by tho cocktail" says
President Hutchinson, of the National
Association Of Master Pie Bakers, "is
now to be found In the cherry pie"
What, Prexy Hutchinson, do you mean
"no more substitutes"? If ever there
was synthetic fruit. It was tho cock
tail cherry. A pie made Of cocktail
cherries Ia even less edible than one
made Of cranberries and gslatine.
Doubtless wiser and more con-
scientious Photographer exists than the
anonymous gentleman who spills "Ths
States Survey" for The Columbia,
s. G., State; but the paper whose staff
has him doesn't come to our exchange
desk.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09

Ven can purchase merchandise advsrtssea In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute ssieS--for II dissatisfaos
ton rcsults IN any case THE TRIBUNE auaran-
tess to pay your meaey back upon request. Ne rsd
tape. No qubbilag. We make seod promptly IL
the &dfertiss< does rot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
MONDAY. MAY .. 1921

Owned By New York Tribune Inc. New ycss
Corporation Published daily. ogsnn Reid. Prosi-
aeas; @. Vernon Rogers. vica-President; Helen
Rogers Reid, Secretary; r. r. Marasld Treasurer.
Address Tribune BuildinAt Isa Nassau stresss Nsw
Tcsk Telephone. Beeknasn 5000.
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Mr,tRrR arc rnu Assf,rr Ar,ur, pnx.a.

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Presa Is exclusively entitled 70
tic for republication OF ali aeyss dispatches
credited to il or not otherwise credited IN this
paper. ard ssso the local news Of spontaneous
origin published herein
All rights OF republication Of all sthsr masssx
herein also arg reserved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09

editing of public documents of all
kinds ought to be able TO reduce
expenses and at the same time in
crease utility.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
MAY NASH.

When Miss Blanche Yurka, who may
be recalled as the only American ac-
tress who ever brought a. silver tissue
blouse, with high collar, to this coun-
try, attended the Ramsey Street School,
st. Paul, Mimi, she sang:
Old Jack Frost is roguish little fellow.
When the wintry winds begin to below,
He flies like bird right through the air,
And he nips little fingers everywhere,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09

From Army Orders: Smoke, Major,
S. A., to Kansas City Goals to New
castle, we'll t. the w.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
The Euphuistic Press

Sir: /, too, like to know the Presi.
dents taste in plays, but Will A.
Page can be thankful he doesn't have
to read the newspapers where I come
from. 1 won't mention the city by
name, as it is only 80 miles away,
but when Jim Benn, city editor of
The North American, was made public
service commissioner, the story 1 read
referred to him as James S. Benn, q
Philadelphia newspaper man." And
when an evening paper owned by q
W. k. magazine publisher there
won't mention it's name-printed the
story of Mr.. Shubert's thousand dollar
offer to Dorothy Miller recently, his
identity was concealed under ga
theatrical magnate'zthat is, until
Mr.. Shubert's representative protested,
after which his name was printed in
later editions. And only last Monday
L read about woman who, disagreeing
with her husband, was about to appear
in the chorus of "a musical comedy"
opening that night. Gilbert Seldes, in
hfs theater column in The Public
Ledger, told three Sundays in success
sion of various phases of the Drama
Leagues near-ban on Charles Gilpin,
but nowhere was it stated that he was
negro, from which gather the pa
rer's rule is never to use that word
perhaps they don't want to, give the race
free advertising. BAMBY.
Last year Mr.. Arthur Ellis, an official
hangman in Canada, made s12,5oo; and
the story says the income tax took
large part Of it. 1t occurs to US that
Ellis might have deducted most Of it
for nverhead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
The Nativity of Nine. Sarah Bernhardt

INC Nat1Vlty OF Nine Sarah RernTa rdt
Dear Sir: In your column of April
3Oth issue there is a letter by Mrs
7. F. Chatm&A, copied from Adrian
(Mich.) Telegram in which she speaks
of "The Nativity of Divine Sarah" as
happening in Struthers, o.
That was a big surprise to me. |
looked it up in Students Encyclopedia
they give the birthplace as Paris,
educated in Versailles convent.
| can't believe any one living in the
United States until eighteen years old
could ever forget the language as
Nine. Bernhardt did.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09

The Crimson Blotter is readable
and now and again spirited in its ex-
citement, but it follows a formula not
unfamiliar to readers of detective fic-
siaa. Ie Ia a tails In which the man
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09

Among our ambitions is one to play
poker with telephone operator, and
hold three tens against her th-r-r-r-rss
ay-uAs. r.. p. A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
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