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Acknowledgements

Some mention has been made of
those who think there. is need of a
leQislative investigation of Hylanism.
II is but fair to test those of con-
rary opinion-of those who see no
reason why the Mayor should be
bothered in such a manner. Here
,re some who are not friendly to an
Investigation:
William r. Hearst.
Charles F. Murphy.
Richard Enright.
Robert Brindell.
John T. Hettrick.
David Hirschfeld.
Joseph A. Solovei.
The catalogue might be heightened
md carry the names of divers and
sunday contractors, gamblers, ban
dts, automobile thieves, etc. But
perhaps it is long enough to indicate
10 the Legislature whom it will
please if an investigation is denied.
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80 fSSA - sAsS S@oSV, IA su1Hy SSUW20O
communities, Of four families being
obliged to live in three rooms. As
many - Eve persons have been report
ed to the Health Commissioner NJ
being in one room, without window or
light! Many Of the lately arrived Inn
migrAnt children are tnbercular, as
This disease is raging in Europe.
Europe is ravaged by diseases six
million have died. In some Polish dis
tricts there remains but one physician
to $4,000 inhabitants! < In Egypt, alons
the Mediterranean, is bnbonic plague,
and nearby countries are swept by
cholera and typhus. Two Of these dis
eases have very recently made their
appearance in this country. Is the na-
tional health Of America to be threat
ened by immigration In the name Of
the principles which are our heritage
we must seek protective legislation
against indiscriminAte n immigration.
Let US not tarry till the seeds Of de-
structiop are sown, until disease and
unrest shall have despoiled our ma
tional serenity. Deportation comes
too late to undo so vast an evil. We
must act before the sword thrusts shall
have become effective.
Washington, in one of his last let
ters, admonished the American people
to preserve, above all, the personal
ity" of their nation in independence
OF all others. And we cannot heed his
words too deeply at this hour, when
millions Of Europeans are waiting to
descend upon our shores.
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Jamaica

Whatever the motives of Senator
Reed in advocating the acceptance of
the British West Indies as part pay
ment of the British war debt to
America proposal by no means
orlginal-it is not because of his
sponsorship to be dismissed from
consideration.
Only the. professional Irish and
the Germans believe that war be-
tween America and. Britain is pos
sible, and Britain, for this reason,
contrary to the implications of the
gentleman from Missouri, has no
particular military object in holding
the islands. Their advantages to
her are mainly economic.
To America, however, the islands
are of strategic as we'll as economic
value. Even granted the hypothesis
that war with England is impossible,
a day may some time come when
at least q part of Great Britain's
possessions may pass into other
hands.
Had the Germans won the war
there is little doubt that among the
conditions of peace would have been
a clause transferring Jamaica and
other West Indian islands to Ger
many. The fatherland had previous
ly been ambitious for q footing in
the Western Hemisphere. Why not
again?
The key to the understanding of
the West Indies is the Panama
Canal. Built by American engineers,
financed by American money, oper-
ated by American men and defended
by the American Navy, the canal
is essentially part of the United
States. America owes it to the
world to keep the canal open. This
implies the right and the duty to
defend it in time of war. No other
nation has an equal interest in it..
No other nation can be SO affected
by its existence ard operation. As
Great Britain has d keen interest in
Ter road to India, so we have in the
islands commanding our road to the
Pacific Coast.
While working to increase the
fruits of peace, diplomacy must al
ways keep weather eye open to
the possibility Of war. It appears
ito be the curse Of nations that q
time comes when rulers Neat the
bread Of wickedness and drink the
wine of violence 4 Against these
crises statesmen must ever be on
guard. AS the navy and the army
are the weapons Of war, it conse-
quently behooves the makers Of g
country's foreign policy never TO
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Two Leaders

The City of New York lost two
creators of civic ideas, two leaders
in municipal progress, in the deaths
|. of Calvin Tomkins and DIR. Ernst
]. Lederle.
The conception of the Port of New
York as highly complex organiza-
tior1 of traffic, rather than SO many
unrelated docks and switches and
what not, is due largely to the brain
and energy of Calvin Tomkins. In
Office and out of Office he labored to
get his conception understood and
accepted. A dock was not just a
dock; it's chief value could b..
achieved only as it was related to
the larger problem of transporta-
ton; and this was single, involving
every clement Of conveyance lay land
and water in and out Of thA port.
Ii, as now seems probable, this con
ception is at last to be applied upon
a thorough scale through the initia-
tive and intelligence Of Governor
Miller-the city will owe much Of
it's future success to this pioneer
labor Of Calvin Tomkins.
Not less Of pioneer was DIR.
Lederle. It is not too much to, say
that he was the originator of the
conception of municipal health serv-
ice in the modern American city.
Appointed to the Office of Health
Commissioner by Seth Low, he ac-
complished much in the develop-
ment of the city's constructive
agencies for protecting the health
and lives of it's citizens. His ex-
ample lived on beyond his term of
Office and controls to-day-as much
as any expert labor of science can
prevail under such an administra-
tion as the present.
1t is to men of the type Of Tom
kins and Lederle that Che city must
turn for it's salvation. Let it honor
the memory of these leaders in the
way they would most appreciate
by electing to office an administra-
ton which will make government by
such honest, farseeing experts a
practicable and present hope.
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B. l.. L.

The death of Bert Lesion Taylor
makes a large void in the daily
-sustenance Of many thousands
of Americans. They counted his
"a Line-o-Typc or Two" column
in The Chicago Tribune one Of
the few essentials of life. They
drank it in with their breakfast. And
for those that understood. it was
probably richer in calories than any
other equal area Of type in the
world.
Every so often America is be-
rated for its lack Of humorous mag
azines worthy of the country that
produced Mark Twain. The COM
plete answer lies in b. L. T.-and
in Ted Robinson, Of The Cleveland
Plain Dealer; Don Marquis, of the
old Evening Sun and the new Sun,
and our own F. P. A., of The
Tribune. OF these Bert Taylor was
the honored dean. He it was who
succeeded to the mantle of Eugene
Field, and not only wore it worthily,
but with new effects and an increas-
ing sway upon the popular mind.
The best hunois in the country is
unquestionably appearing in such
columns to-dayand much of the
best verse. Probably there is some
fundamental reason for this. Our
national character is all for the inn
promptu Jest, the daily repartee, the
paragraph born Of the days news
rather than the more elaborate, full
dress hulnor. Yet the newspaper
column as developed by B. L. 4. and
his fellows is anything but cheap
and lowbrow II appeals quite as
much 70 the scholar and purist as to
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Poor Russia!

That the Soviet autocracv has
been able to snuff out the Cronstaf1t
revolution does not surprise those
who have followed the recent news
from Russia. When it appeared
that Petrograd had not been cap
tured the collapse of the movement
was foreshadowed. A revolution
that does not spread quickly is likely
to come to sudden end.
Under modern conditions a civil
lsn population is helpless unless the
soldiers sent against it refuse to fire.
What the people think is Of little
consequence to military tyrants. Le-
nine and Trotzky still command the
services OF an army which is partly
fanatic and partly mercenary, and
through it monopolize all available
weapons.
Yet though the Cronstadt rising
was foredoomed to failure, it is sig
n-ncant. It marks a new phase in
the Russian struggle for freedom.
This time it was not possible to make
q plausible claim that foreigners
were being resisted. Moreover. to
COW the populace it was necessary to
use measures of extreme terrorism.
The bloody scenes will not be for
gotten, and it is probable, accord
ing to the Russian habit, that the
oppressed will commence to- use
bombs and assassination. The re-
Rsistance to the new czarism will more
and more take on the character of
the resistance to the old czarism.
with an intensification of bitterness.
for the new czarism is less humane
and less buttressed by age-long in
stltutions and national habits.
But Russia by no means ap-
proaches an early end of her
troubles. She will continue to be a
land of horror. The Bolshevik
group will cling to power with des-
perate tenacity and their Red agents
will exceed the Black Hundred in
savagery. The world lost it's chance
to do much for Russia by not effec-
lively intervening when the Boil
shevik grip was weak. To use
President Wilson's phrase, the out
side nations--he being largely re-
sponsible for the conduct Of one
did not endure the acid test of
friendship for the Russian people.
But there is one gain. Nowhere
will any one not wicked or insane
longer contend that Bolshevism is
an experiment in progress, or that
it differs in any material respect
from the bloody despotisms whose
atrocities have darkencd human his
tory. Poor Russia!
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any one else. Learning is worn

any one else. Learning is worn
lightly, but it is always there.
1t is thus as a, running commen-
'tary upon life, a daily philosopher
and friend, that the columnist goes
deepest into the hearts of his read
ers. A high defender Of the truth
was Bert Taylor against all dullards
and Philistines. No wonder his
readers loved him and revered his
word. He was our contemporary
Rabelais and can i'll be spared. The
world he jested at and for will miss
him sadly. And all American thought
is the poorer.
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lose, sight Of the strategic factors
underlying defensive warfare.

lose sight Of the strategic factors
underlying defensive warfare.
The map shows that there are
only few bases which may serve
as points Of attack against the canal.
These include Cuba, Jamaica, Porto
Rico, Hayti, st. Thomas, Santa
Lucia, CURACAO, Cartagena and the
Chiriqui Lagoon, On the Caribbean,
and the adjacent Pacific ports Of
Colombia, Ecuador and the Central
American states, including the Gala
pagos, belonging to Ecuador.
Cuba, Hayti and Porto Rico guard
some Of the approaches, while Ja-
maica, lying in the very heart Of
the region, outfanks practically all
approaches from Europe, America
and the South American coast. In
fact, Jamaica in hostile hands would
be 9 grave menace to the safety of
the canal, as its position with rela-
tion to Cuba makes it possible to
strike easily at any expeditions or
lines of communication passing
around the ends bf that island, and
at the same time enables it to flank
any attempted passage to the south.
There are numerous precedents
for acquiring foreign territories by
purchase. Only four years ago the
United States acquired the Virgin
Islands, with the consent of their in
habitants, from Denmark. No cry
was raised about selling the birth
right of free peoples. In 1867 Amer
ica purchased Alaska from Russia.
In 1919 Florida was bought from
Spain and in 1903 Louisiana from
France, both very large and profit
able transactions.
That the United States will event
ually possess Jamaica is probable.
Why not now?
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Moon-Moth

fFrdM Colour. London
REYoND the sun, beside 4 crystal -
She rules her isle Of lapis lazuH.
Her palaces Of marble, agate, jade
Rose like shesf Of savage flowers And
laid
A splcndor on the waves that only
night could fade.
And for her nameless sins and cruel
ties,
Murders Of lovc-mad men and lu.ts
and lies.
Her sentence fell and she was swer+
away
From flaming pomps and crimes ana
royal sway,
Hurled from. the joy Of life, rapt fron
the light of day
Yet y being xaifsst and loveIiest
OF any m woman'y body drest,
Fate banishsd not her beauty from ths
"s-' earth, - ss -sfte.-~v
Only her evil happiness and mirth,
And SIT her liyisg dead, doomed e.
eternal dearth.
Invisible thus. byt when returning
night sss 81
browns with a purple torrent all ~
light.
She rises woman h;sh and sprssds her
wing,
4 rare. unparagoned, unearthiy thing
Beyond the dream of joy, or griefs
imagining.
Her body, like the heart Of white ross.
Shines in che petals Of her wings an1
siows:
Her pipions azure, liiac, msrigoid-.
Wide on the dsrk dslieiousiy unfsla
A. aily rsinbow bright. As any slseisr
cold
EDEN PHlLLPoTTs.
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economic situation and increase un-
employment. Poverty and misery will
surely spread as the new entrants
usurp positions which could be oc-
cupied by our own needy countrymen.
Many of the unemployed are returned
soldiers, and we cannot break faith
with the brave lads who shed their
blood for US on the battlefields of
Europe @
Steps should thus be taken to pro-
hibit the entrance of all unfit foreign
ers. A thorough examination of each
individual as to the health, literacy and
moral integrity should be made at Euro
pean ports. Thus violent or criminal
persons would be prevented from join
ing our ranks Of Americans, and the
country would not be menaced by a
renegade population of radicals and
illiterates. m example Of the ratio
of foreigners which clutter our educa-
|. tional SYSTEMS, i was told by public
school teacher that Nout Of a class Of
TWENTY-FIVE children two were Ameri-
cans! ~ i'',s @ss
,Sas ser -:
a German, Dynasty
Thousands Of foreign immigrants re-
side in. this country. for the period of
their lives without acquiring our Ian
guage or compfehendihg our principles
Of government. This condition is
nurtured by the foreign-language'
press, where much is exploited that is
un-American. Instead Hof amalgamat-
ing ideals, the great melting pot Of the
United States fosters within itself
multitudes who secretly controvert the
principles and traditions which are;
sacred to the country.
We should also awake to the fact
that there is threatening in our midst
German dynasty. Teuton propaganda
has been so active sof late that the
American Legion has sent out gen
eral alarm to its members. Twenty-Five
cities have been chosen for large
demonstrations of Germans who openly
seek the dissolution Of what they call
<1HSIO-OaAouiSm neSE TatlleS are
part,of nation wide scheme Of propa-
ganda. The exploitation of German
made toys, dyes and chemicals, mask
ing under the name of necessary
trade" is only disguise for whole
sale invasion Of German goods. The
output of German industries is being
widely advertised in the press. Sew
enty-ive thousand Germans are to be
allowed entrance into America in the
next twelve months to spread seeds Of
'discord among English speaking races,
Snd' after that looms the menace of
waiting millions to snatch from our
countrymeh their labor and daily
bread.
Two more important factors in
favor Of legislation to restrict indis-
criminate immigration are the housing
shortage In most of the large metro
politan centers where foreigners con-
gregate Gin preference to doing farm
labor, which is much neededJ, and the
peril to our nation BY the Introduction
Of the diseases which are Devastating
Europe to-day.
The shortage Of accommodations for
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F aulty Humanity,
An Interpretation by Mrs. Norris oi
Christ's Teaching

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
I Sir: My fifst knowledge Of the little
Forget and Forgive" controversy
among your readers came with John
W. Loveland's answer to Mr.. .Clinchy's
letter in Sundays Tribune.
hope it will be rebuked in far
more eloquent manner than is possible
to me, but at least let me protest.
against Mr.. Loveland's extraordinary
Interpretation of the acts and words
of Jesus Christ. He turns them into
a justification of revenge and indemni-
fication, proceeding that, coming
from deep student for thirty years"
Of the Bible, is as astonishing as it is
liscouraging.
Mr.. Loveland naturally does not
quote the separate and definite COM
mands to love your neighbor, to for
give your enemy and them that de-
spitefully use you, to forgive your
brother unto seventy times seven. He
| ignores the promise that blessed are
the meek, that Jesus Christ's disciples
shall be known because they love eseh
other, and that in the love of men for
Cod, and men for men, is contained al
the law.
But what is astonishing. is to find
Mr. Loveland quoting in defense of his
position the warning Of Jesus Christ
to the Scribes and Pharisees. the blind
guides, ETC.. This-was no threat of hui
man revenge, this was no hymn of
hate. This was the solemn notification,
from one who knew more than they Of
the life to come, that for what they
did amiss. they must pay; not between
faulty humanity and faulty humanity
not here, visibly, on earth, but in hat
region Of which he knew, where he was
familiar and at home, and Of which
they obviously knew nothing.
/ The meaning is so clear, the solemn
warning that they know not what they
are doing is so unmistakable, that
even without the words blind =, SO
often repeated by Jesus when he sd-.
dressed His listeners, one could not
misread it. His followers were not to
judge; they were ito love, forgive; God
was to have from them mercy end
not sacrifice" So much for this w.,-ld
that Vas all their law 1t was for. a
higher tribunal, and for an infinite
justice, to mete out to them what they
had earned.
That purgation for every jots snd
little of misdoing is apportioned to
the soul before it can be free is q
common belief among many creedss But
that it is ever right for man to revel ge
himself upon his brother, to punish
and to Cypress, is none Of the teach
ing of Jesus Christ.
Mr.. Loveland's attitude, humanity
speaking, is entirely logical. Theyhurt
us--lct us hurt them, is the natural
law. Though it means s"the. placing of
nation of men and women and their
children in economic slavery. there is
nothing in history to deter us from
doing it, or to make US feel that we
are wrong. But surely there is bias
|phemy in attaching to this course the
name of Jesus Christi
The so-called Christian world does
not live by the law Of Jesus Christi
perhaps. humanity never will be able to
do so. But at least we need not Law At
His door the revengefnf and rcscnttui
actions Of our pitiful human nature
KATHLEEN NORRIS s
New York, March 10, 1921.
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The Menace J Immigration
Are pseofd Dseaye 2repingi ou ching otp-sha4
americans Be Outnun1bered BIZ the Motley Throne2
By Blanche Shoemaker Waestaff
Copyright, 1sal. Now York Tribuue Inc

When the German armies challenged
civilization by invading Belgium there
awoke in the hearts of all nations a
laundering answer. The contamination
was the successful rescue of helpless
nation. But are we Americans to- day
in turn threatened with an invasion 2
During the war there was a; cessa
tion Of immigration from Europe, and
the Anne rican people stood, united in
great common aim.s, But conditions
are now different. thirty or forty
thousand foreigners arrive monthly,
while millions in Europe await trans
portation. 1t is said $ eight million
Germans are seeking departure from
their own country. America is pic
tured in agrotesque posters and pam
phlets as an @Eldogado. The floating,
renegade population is particularly at
tracted An scmincnt Dutch official
said recently that America rarely re-
ceived the better sort, but the failures,
cx-criminals or radicals. Nations owe
their strength and security (witncsa
Great Britain) to RACIAL unity, but in
America to-day we are surrounded by
a. turbulence, born of mixed races and
ideals, creating fcrmcnt unknown a
hundred years ago.
No real American can picture without
feelings of trepidation the mpltitudes
waiting to descend upon our shores.
The immigration bill, recently passed
by the House and Senate, has restricted
the number .of foreigners entering to
365,00o in one year, or per cent Of the
nationalities of the various countries
who were in the United States in the
1919S census. But fanatics of liberty
raised an outcry against the bill and
President Wilson killed it by pocket
veto. So the law is as it was.
The Influx of radicals, with their dis
quieting propaganda of the Sim Fein-
German-Soviet sort, spread through
public speaking and theS foreign
language press, must eventually affect
the national consciousness, Labor
falls an easy prey to such dis
turbing influences, and equal suffrage
is no barr So unrest and dissension
occur, resulting in outbreaks and OUT
RACES upon social life such as have
been occurring.
americans Outnuntbered
1t is safe to predict that il the in
lcreasing 0opd of immigrants is NOT
checked the American people will bs
outnumbered, and outvoted within The
next hundred years. The descend {
ants of sthe. original settlers Of this
country, the Hugaenot, Dutch and
English, are yearly decreasing since
50 many Of these are dying without is
sue, whereas the foreigners have
noticeably large families.
The arrival Of vast numbers of un-
skilled workers from abroad is an
affxont to our millions Of unemployed.
Unable to provide for our own labor,
is i justice to them that employers
should accept foreigners at q lower
wage! Their presence in our midst
can only complicate ths present
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The Gardens Answer

There is nothing like great pop
tlar gathering to dissipate confusion
and to keep simple truths simple. So
those who organized and partici-
Psted in Friday nights loyal out
tSouring contributed greatly to the
sdueation Of all of us. It was a
mighty baptism and rededication.
4 vicious and malignant propa-
ganda had ventured once more to
faise its ugly head. 1t was cloaked
With careful artifice, and with
streaming eyes hulhbly asked for
sympathy. But the boys who wore
thekhaki were not fooled. They saw
lhe forked tongue and they smote,
and slnote hard. . For some time the
Dsutschland- go Bragh alliance is
likely to be quiet.
But even more of value than the
rsnuke was the inspiring testimony
q the clear perception of what
pfghted the peace and prevented a
npening of the expected fruits of
victory. Every speaker, every bit of
APPLAUSE, the expression on every
LEG, bore witness to one thing. 1t
- a
Athat the peace is dissatisfying be-
uase those gloriously together have
hsn driven apart.
What brought on the war? The
NAef Of the Kaiser and the Prus-.
Mn mllltarists that the creation of
y ehective coalition against them
ss impossible. They did not think
aeat Britain or Belgium or Italy
YOU'D come in--llever dreamed of
sng compelled to meet 100000
americans in the Argonne, along
as Alsne and in Picardy. Had they
y y counted on divided opposition
asy Would not have dared.
slnee, German hope has had a
@'lar basis and every German
ansuyer has been to incite division.
me armistice appeal went to
resident Wilson, and he was adroit-
invited to captain cause which
N'0'ne way was not the cause of
soantry's companions in arms,
y % the discredit of his intelli-
s ne listened to the lure. Then
.sgSed the protracted parleys,
ignorant pacifsm disintegrat-
Me grand alliance. Who can
sare the harm done when little
Spates are allowed to breed for
s'aalfless of the one supreme need? !?
n'0 what does Madison Square
'psn answer to this? What said
~ Gold Star mothers whose
PRIDE conquered their grief?
answer is there in full popular
OF who and what have in
as'y labored to lose the peace,
saus to lay foundations for
3. s vars. Wrath deservedly de-
Is On all, whatever the excuse.
would separate those brought
$ aer IN noble union by a benefi-
& ssovidence. 1t matters not that
~. sllat egrators may have good
'9ns' Or think they have. This
ss not the blistering fact that
sequence of their work IS evil.
M People care little for paper
as''ts. They are not friendly
estate. They would reserve
oerty Of action. But any and
Is emphasize disunities rather
atles, dislikes rather than
qrds rather than concords,