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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
The Alien Ebb-Tide

Inc allen-born census figures for
1920 destroy one of the arguments
which have been made against the
House selective immigration act. 1t
was complained that the House bill
disseminated against eastern and
southeastern Europe because it
based admissions up to the 3 per
cent limitation an the foreign-born
resident total Of 1910.
The strongest protest came from
those who thought that the entry of
Russians, Poles and Rumanians
would be materially restricted by
ignoring the 1920 figures. But this
was a mistaken assumption. The
Rumanians and Polish foreign born
have increased in number since 1910,
but the Russian foreign born have
decreased 100000. Taking the resi-
dent alien-born group as whole, it's
expansion in the last decade has
been only 2.6 per cent~-an extraor-
binary falling off. The net increase
was 358,442. But the Mexican born
alone increased 254,761, so that,
Mexico apart, the foreign-born en-
croachment on the native-born ele
ment, SO conspicuous in recent dec
AIDES, has come practically to a
standstill.
Northwestern Europe will not
benefit at the expense Of the rest of
Europe by the adoption of the 8
per cent measuring stick. The great
est change brought to light in the
1920 census is in the German-born
total, which decreased 819,O35. The
Irish-born total fell off 316,571. The
English, Scotch and Welsh totals
also diminished. So did the Nor
wegian. For the rest Of Europe the
Austrian-born total was cut in halves
the loss being 608,014. Italy, Rus
STA and Hungary also were losers.
so that the European balance is only
slightly disturbed.
The war and European conditions
following the war have made our
immigration and assimilation prob
lem simpler for time. There are
many who think that the central
and southern European states will
prefer to keep their nationals at
home to help work out their own
destinies. Certainly the national
istic feeling in that region has had
a new birth since 1914.
For the first time in many years
the alien-born census figures ought
to quiet somewhat the fears of those
who have seen in the rising flood of
immigration a menace to American
solidarity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
Daylight Saving Wins

1T any one had any doubts re-
specting the popular success of day
light saving the smoothness and ac-
claim with which the time shift has
just been accomplished should clear
his mind. Even localized and ham
pered by state Legislature it has
prevailed in the larger centers of
population. with only petty incon-
venience suffered.
The smaller towns in the state.
serving large rural districts, face
more Of problem. Wrangling is
already on, and it is safe to guess
that the halfway measure enacted
in the late Legislature will be
roundly damned by farmers and vii
layers alike. In the long run there
can be no question that day
light saving must be applied on a
larger scale, state wide or through
out time zone. Just how firmly re-
solved upon the measure the cities
are is shown by Hartford, which is
denying a state prohibition in order
t. obtain the benefits of extra day.
light.
The truth is that more daylight
means saved health and lives to city
jewellers. It is an issue we'll worth
r.
lighting for. The sooner the rural
districts come to understand the
gravity and urgency of the time
shift for densely populated districts
the hettnr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
Frances Coal Mines
Germany Should Be Required to
Restore Them Completely

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The German note to Britain
expresses complete willingness to I'M
dcrtake reconstructioa of devastated
France. Why not insist that Germany
also restore the coal mines in north
ern France? AS described by Stephane
Lausanne, editor of lie Matin, in The
Outlook for April 90, the deliberate
and systematic charactes of the de-
struction shows "the most frigh FULLY
refined program which men HAYS ever
conceived"
Not satisfied with inundatine the
galleries, thus rendering 220 pits
utterly unfit for use, the Germans cast
all manner of materials into the shafts,
among them bombs and cases of dyna-
mite, so as to render the salvage work
more difficult and dangerous. All the
surface installations were methodically
dynamited, room after room, machine
after machine, having been first care
fully PLACED
1T will be ten years before the mines
OF Lens can recover their pre-war pro-
duction. Should not the Germans be
required to complete this restoration
and return the mines to France IN as
good condition as they were before
their devilisn destruction, in the mean
time supplying an equal amouua of
coal from their own mines?
If punishments were made to fit
crimes, both small and great, they
would have much more deterrent
effect. Cannot American influence in
sist on this just reparation?
New York. April % 1901 N
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26

Byron'a Mighty First Lines

Byron's Mighty First Lines
She walks In beauty like the night
Der the glad waters Of the dark blue
sea.
ALL gentle, aeeting, wav'ring sprite!
Remember thcel Remember thee!
I cannot talk Of love to thee;
l wish to tune my quivering Tyre.
Ono struggle moro and am free.
On! might kiss those eyes of frel
Why should my anxious breast repine,
Dear object Of defeated care.
Whene'er l view those lips Of thine.
Thine eyes blue tenderness. thy
hair?
saw thee wecp--the big, bright tear.
oh! had my fate been Joined with
thine,
On forever loved, forever dcarl
rame' wisdom, power, apd love were
mine. JEAN
AS to whether Mile. Suzanne Lenp-
len, the French tennis player. could
beat Mr.. W. T. Tilden, the notion is
not worthy discussion. Many unranked
men players can defeat the top-ranl,-
ing women; and there are probably
dozens of men in this country who
could play Mile. Lenglen match and
not allow her a set.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
German Faulty

In making new PREPARATIONS offer
through the United States Ger
many is pursuing her old policy of
cultivating possible causes of fric-
ton between this country and the
Allies. Her offer is due to them.
But she persists in trying to fasten
on us some political and moral re-
sponsibility for it by making us the
intermediary of the concessions
which she should have submitted at
the London conference.
The Germans blundered into a
trap at London. Minister Simons's
response was rejected as made
quafe and insolent. In order to
avoid going back to the Allies with
confession of folly, they now seek
to save their faces by dragging in
the United States as a sort of
arbiter and buffer between them and
the powers which are parties to the
Versailles treaty and have under
taken to enforce it. YET Germany is
still at war with us and at peace
with them
Teuton psychology is mysterious.
Does Berlin believe that it's purposes
are not perfectly understood here?
The latest offer, whatever it's merits.
cannot be properly construed as an
offer for our approval, except in so
far as we choose to consider it in
cooperation with the other powers
who fought the war. When will
Germany comprehend that she cam
not repair her errors and salve her
pride by asking Czecho-Slovakia,
Switzerland or the United States to
help her find way to beg off on
the enforcement of the treaty sane
tons without going, hat in hand, to
the powers to whom she owes and
to whom she has solemnly pledged
Preparations payments?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
To Moderate Their Transports

1t is not surprising that President
Harding has been obliged to curtail
his hospitality to chance visitors at
the White House. A friendly man,
he has learned early that promiscu-
GUS handshaling interferes with per-
forming the heavy duties Of his Of
flee. Every President has made the
same discovery, and, however re-
luctantly, has been forced to take
measures to protect himself.
The American people are given to
killing with kindness. More than
one of their heroes has suffered
more from running the gantlet of
their enthusiasm than from the adj
ventures that made him heroic. This
generosity of appreciation is an adj
mirable quality. But when a Presi-
dents time and energy are wasted
by irreprcssibles that nothing less
than personal contact will satisfy he
must urge them to moderate their
transports.
1t is not idle curiosity alone, Of
course, or even office-seeking, which
actuates the throngs Of American
citizens who longest the White
House. They mean to pay respect to
the office as we'll as to the man. But
there is great lack of consideration,
none the less, in such visitations. No
one would have the President a her
mited, inaccessible figure. A Presi-
dent with imagination, like Roose-
welt, learns much from merely meet
ing all sorts and conditions Of men;
but no President ought to be at the
beck and call Of every one who
wishes to see him. Mr.. Harding's
chief allegiance is to his duties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26

such settlement in the suburbs would
be permanent solution of the prob
lem. Even a wooden bungalow is
far better suited to be permanent
home in the country than in the city,
and at the same cost it would be a
larger and better structure there
than here.
Not temporary makeshifts in a
congested city, but permanent homes
in well developed metropolitan dis
trict. will afford the best solution
OF the housing problem.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
Our Many Races
Good Words for Americans From, Other Lands

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Reading The Tribune of April
10 at my Western breakfast table this
morning, my attention was arrested bv
the letter signed IAN American Teach
err and bearing the title Grace Empha-
SIS in Schools" The writer decries the
plan on foot under the auspices of the
ASSOCIATION Americas Making. Inc,
whereby this autumn the schoolgirl
dren of New York are to show wh If
raclal groups of peoples have done to
make America what it is to-day. "Arner-
lean Teacher is alarmed. She says:
10 revert all Americans again to
race Will awaken new race preiudices
VIII create rivalries in the activities
OF the various groups; it will imnlant
IN the minds of the children race con-
sclousness which it has been the sacred
duty OF every teacher to keen o,,ies-
cent"
This view is the narrowest Of tbs
narrow. An Armenian friend of mine
mas told me that in her cultured home
IN Smyrna every scrap of music and
every songbook containing the folk
songs of the Armenians had to he de-
stroyed or the Turks would seize and
destroy them and in addition cruelty
torture by insult, Imprisonment or
worse the people in whose homes such
music was found. AS for singing the
old songs of Armenia, whether thew
mad any relation to former wars or
old enemies or not, that is punishable
Carried out to its logical conclusion
the thought of American Teacher
rings strangely in accord with the
thought of the Turk.
Men, women or children who do not
honor and rejoice in the land of their
nativity, so far as they see it at it's
best, will make mighty poor citizens If
any adopted land. I who am writing
know, for I am naturalized citizen
OF the United States. I came here
when l was nineteen. Repression of
my first love" never could have
awakened in me the love I now have
for the United States.
For years l sang the home songs
and still sing them. l still salute the
old colors when see them and thrill
at sight OF them. should be "base-
born" did l not. 1t is because my
loyalty for mother country was clean
and fine that my loyalty for this coun-
try has the same quality. How could
it be otherwise?
The plan laid down by Americas
Making will, ! believe, do great thing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
Daylight Saving Zones
Doubts That Congress Can Fix Tins
for Part of the Country

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In answering some Of the state
ment made by Marcus N. Marks, pres
ldent of the Daylight Saving Asso-
ciaticn, it is not the writer's intention
to enter into any argument as to the
merits Of daylight saving but only {.
to the method of obtaining 1t by Con-
gressional action.
Congress undoubtedly has the power
through its control of interstate com
MERGE to fix the time of the running
OF railroads. 1t hiss done SO in d.
vlding the country as to time for that
purpose into zones. Congress, how
ever, cannot legislate or legalize
standard time for a part of the coun-
try. The laws of Congress are the
supreme law of the land, covering the
whole country and not a part
1t would be an anomaly Of lcgisla-
ton to have one-half or two-thirds OF
Congress vote on a measure which
did not affect or interest the states
which they represent even remoteis'
1t is within the power Of the Eastern
states to have daylight saving by TIE
act Of their own state legislatrres-
that is, by home rule. Massachusetts
has adopted It. New York, New jersey
and Connecticut have rejected it. EoH'
then, can Congress by an act enfores
daylight saving in those states VINCE
rejected it?
Mr.. Marks states that uniform la"
may carry out the wishes Of fui's
80 per cent Of the men and women o.
the community" Why doesn't TINS "
Fer cent have sufficient influence 10
get the law passed ~ its own sta''
legislatures? 1t is rather strsih'hs
democracy that Congress should DC
asked. even if it could, to compel sss''
action which the majority of the sss's'
evidently does not approve Of.
Should not the efforts of the Day
light Saving Association bs dIree'e'
toward securing this law throus-
state action rather than through ""
gress? If Congress could legisla'e =
this matter for part of the couns1y
could legislate equally to make y"
Eastern states wet and the rest y
the country dry. 1t can't be done,
|. II. B.
New York, April %, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26

for the children of all races. It will
show them the interdependence of ma.
tions-and, therefore, of individuals
that the individual nation is to the race
what individual brothers and sisters
are to the whole family; that the good
characteristics Of each help the whole
and that the weaknesses of each lessen
the total strength; that people are not
great and good because they are born
here or there, but because greatness
and goodness are given to generic man
and are our common possession.
Out here "where the West begins
we owe tremendous debt to the in
iiux OF Scandinavian thought and
work. Let the children--all the chill.
dren-know it. Let them bring out
their Swedish and Norwegian GUS
toms, sing the songs of the North, tell
the ancient history. display the char
acteristic work of their hands.
What WAS it they brought with
them? Thrift, vigor, stanchness. hor-
esty, determination, vision. These
they put into the common lot, adding
theirs to what others had brought from
other lands, and it was the combina-
ton that has made the group of
states of which Minnesota is proudly
one what they are.
How shall Pot call Kettle black?
How shall Kettle forbid Pot to steam
and bubble and "sing" according to its
own fashion? Is it not the content of
Pot and Kettle that concerns us-the
quality of the thought of those who
come to US from Serbia and England
and Russia and Canada and France
and Germany and Italy? Let them
pc as Serbian and English and Rus
sian and Canadian and French and
German and italian as they will. lust
so that they are nobly so. Let them
be straightforward, clean-cut, honest,
Woodworking, sober, home-buildine,
crop-raising, family-raising, money!
saving, money-investing, God-fearing,
school-attending.
Kettle may bubble its bubbles in
any shape 1T pleases and sing the
songs peculiar to its contour and par
ticuiar vibration; Pot may do the
same; all we ask is that they hold
clean water and BOLT / believe this.
IS thel spirit Of genuine Americanism
genuine brotherhood rather than
the spirit of fear which watches to
smother in the breasts of children
admiring love for the homeland
MRS. ADA MELVILLE SHAW.
st. Paul. MINI, April 81, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
Makeshift Housing Schemes

The latest emergency proposal fol
relief of the shortage in housing is
put forward by Edward Polak, the
Register of the Bronx, and is to the
effect that vacant lands owned by
the city or held by it under liens
should be leased to all who wish to
build thereon, for payment of taxes
and water rent, for a term of ten
years, renewable for a second like
term. There is, he reckons, land
enough for bungalows for $4,000
families, costing, say, $4,000 apiece.
Well meant as the scheme is, and
attractive as it may seem from some
points of view, it is open to several
serious objections. In the first
place, it is inadequate, since, unless
reports have been grossly mislead-
ing, homes for $4,000 families, or
$4,000 individuals, would go only
little way toward relieving the hous-
ing shortage.
Again, it would mean the building
up of parts of the city with undesir-
able structures. At present prices
of material and labor a $4,000
bungalow big enough to house de-
Gently a family of five persons
would be a rather cheap and rattle
trap affair of lumber and paper,
disregardful Of fire regulations and
also, it is to be feared, Of sanitary
laws.
Such structures would doubtless
afford shelter in an emergency, but
nobody could regard them as desir-
able permanent homes. Nor would
it be profitable to the city to have
large expanses of its area covered
with such buildings. Yet Mr.. Polak
speaks of ten and twenty year leases
Of city land for such PURPOSES:
which. though not perpetual, is a
pretty long time for this age of
rapid changes.
ihere Is certain irony in the |
circumstance that while such coun-
sa's. almost Of despair, are put forth |
IN this city there are, in accessible
and attractive suburban regions not
as far from Broadway as the length
Of the city itself, thousands of acres
OF Idle land for sale at bargain
prices. Building lots are there OBJ
tainable in fee simple at cost scarce
ly If any greater than the charge
for taxes and water rent which the
city would exact from it's leasehold-
ers. The time required for conf
'nuters to get from those places to
the city and back again is no greater
than that required to get from the !,
upper Bronx to lower Manhattan,
while the comfort Of the trip is in
;ompazably greater. Above all,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26

We do not wish to insult. Mr.. Com
pers by supposing that he meant his
remarks touching the open shop to be
taken seriously. Certainly not many
of tho American people will be
disposed to take them seriously. To
call the open shop industrial autoc-
racy" and accuse it of excluding
union workmen and comparable to
the achievements of Kaiser Wilhelm
is to talk just absurdity.
Practically everywhere that the
open shop prevails no applicant for
a job Is asked whether he is a union
man or not. The union man works
side by side with the non-union man
that is the theory of the open
shop and that is its almost universal
practice. 1t is the antithesis of au-
tocracy. 1t we'll deserves the title
of the american shop"
If Mr.. Gompers is looking for an
industrial autocracy," almost any
plain American citizen can point
one out to him in local union of
the autocratic type. The workings
OF these organizations in restricting
output, in closely limiting the num-
bers Of apprentices and members, in
keeping nOn-members ont of iohs
whether they starve or not--are
familiar story now to every one.
Every word that Mr.. Gompers
sought to apply to the capitalist fits
these tyrannical unions accurately.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
Why Ii IL Scarce

IRON The Charleston Ne,os and Courier)
we are told that with the ending of
the war would come the end of the
paper shortage. but nobody foresaw
that everybody connected with the
peace conference would write a book
about it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26


April 23-With Marion to luncheon
and so to the train with her, she going
TO Chicago, and 1 home, and found
young VIII White there for dinner. and
we talked of many things; and so to
j. Toohey's, and played cards, not with
out some success,
z4--Up, and to the office, and so To
Weehawken, and thence to Englewood
and played at croquet, E. Davis and
against A. Woollcott and Neysa, and
they beat US two games to three. and
some talk in the evening, and late tn
bed, but l could not sleep till near G
in the morning.
25-Early up, and had fine break
last, and the day so bright we all were
1or another game Of croquet. and
played two and each team won one.
and to the city with my wife, and to
the office, very late, and so to see "June
Love-" to hear B. Hookers songs, which
have seen and which are writ with
wit and skill
Rlver-arson continues to be an in
frequent thing; and a petition in bank
ruptcy has just been filed against the
llluminators Of the World, Inc.
SO strong is the cinema influence
that Wid's Daily speaks of "Than-
houser's Thou Sublime Sweet Eyening
STAR"
There are those SO cynical minded
that to them the only demonstrable eff
feet Of the war is the permanent chang
ing OF the name of Hamburger Steak
to Liberty Hash.
Probably it will take GERMANY fortv-
two years, rather than thirty. to nav
the indemnity. Such, however. il tho
habit of procrastination, that we are
going to postpone, for a year or two.
doping out last line for the oav Ger
many makes the final payment.
Still, if contrib wants to 90 to the
1868 dinner, here's his chance.
E.P. A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26

A navy is either prepared or un
prepared for war. A fleet Ia cithel
prepared or unprepared for battle
There is no permissible halfway sta
ton.
The conditions of preparedness car
be briefly stated in simple Language
that cannot be misunderstood.
In order to prepare fleet for battle
tho following steps are absolutely
necessary:
!. Man it.
2. Organize It.
3. Supply it with up-to date weapons
4. Mobilize it.
8. Drill it as team.
9. "Indoctrinate" it.
Z. Coordinate all it's "forces."
s. Provide it with a commander in
chief and staff skilled in the
game of modern war.
8. Give it the support of a navy
department organized for war
10. Create enthusiasm and a feel
ing Of perfect confidence on the
part Of its personnel.
If these conditions are fulfilled the
fleet will be ready for battle. If any
one of these conditions is not full
filled the fleet will not be ready for
battle. The strength Of a chain is
measured by the strength of it's weak
est link. There must be no weak
links and no missing links if feet
is to be ready for battle.
Unprepared for World War
Before discussing the unprcpared
ness of the navy to-day twill be in
teresting to show by the sworn testi-
mony of Admiral Benson, formerly
chief Of operations, and other naval
officers of high rank, SIS given before
the Senate investigation on the con-
Duct OF the war, that the navy and the
fleet were unprepared for the World
War in 1917, although war had been
threatened for three long years:
Senator Hale-Would you say that
the statement in the Secretary's an
nual report that The navy was from
"stem to stern ready" for war in.
April, 1917, was justified?
Admiral Benson-Not from NV
point of view; no.
Senator Hale-Was its personnel
adequate?
Admiral Benson-No.
Senator Hale--Were all the sh;ns
ready?
Admiral Benson~No, they were not
all ready.
Senator Hale = Were they fully
manned?
Admiral Benson-They were not fulIv
Senator Hale-Was the navy mobi-
lized?
Admiral Benson--It was not.
Senator Hale-Was our feet in 1917
IN a condition to meet the German
fleet, constituted as it was at that
time?
Admiral Benson - Theoretical no.
Mr.. Chairman; it could not be.
In addition to the above Admiral
Benson testificd:
Q That the fleet was not properly
screened with scouts and cruisers.
CD That scouts and screening yes
sells were important, but were not with
the fleet
CD That battle feet should be pre-
pared at all times, in peace.
(4) That our air force was made
quate, etc
This testimony of the chief of oper
atoms was confirmed in every detail
by the sworn statements of many ad-
nirals and officers Of high rank.
Despite this overwhelming evidence