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New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
Hobbling the Deficit Makers

Secretary Melons letter took note
| Of the fact that the reduction of
government expenditure is unnec-
essarily impeded by the creation
each year Of department deficiencies.
Department and bureau chiefs spend
more money than Congress allows
them and then coolly turn in the
excess bills they have incurred. For
example, Secretary Baker defied
Congress by carrying on an inten-
sive and costly recruiting campaign
and running up the strength of the
army far above the figure on the
basis Of which the appropriations
for 1920-'21 were made. He sad
died debt on Congress Of from
$40, 900, 900 to $S0,000,000 without
authorization to do so. Chairman
Warren Of the. Senate Appropria-
tions Committee has just reported
to President Harding that the de-
ficiencies hanging over from the
last year Of the Wilson Admin
istration already amount to $215,-
O00, 900.
The Wilson Cabinet chiefs had the
wartime spending fever. No sense
Of responsibility to the taxpayers
restrained them. Congress some
years ago passed a law forbidding
department and bureau heads to
spend money not allowed them in
the appropriation bills except in
cases Of emergency. The war was
an emergency and all shackles on
executive activities were stricken
off. But at a time when we are
pinching to pay our debts and to
live within our income they ought
to be clamped on again.
President Harding is going to re-
introduce safe and sane bookkeep-
ing. He has warned all his subor-
dinates to live within their allow
ances and cease plaguing Congress
with overdrawn accounts. The in
stitution Of budget system will
cut off extravaganza in the submis-
sion of estimates. But the budget
system doesn't guard against the
wasters who try to put something
over on Congress behind it's back.
The anti-defcit law should be
strengthened by providing some
kiud Of court martial or damage
suit process for deliberate over
drawal Of credit. The last Con-
gress by heroic effort reduced ap-
preparations for 192o-'21 by nearly
a billion and half. Part of this
good work has been nullifed by def
cit hugger-muggering to the ex-
tent Of nearly quarter Of a
billion.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
No More Note-Writing

A public weary with diplomatic
notes learns with pleasure that Sec
retary Hughes has brought to an
end communications with. Berlin.
The German government il it has
any proposals to make is told not
to bother Washington with them but
to address itself to the Allied gov
ernments.
When the German government re-
Gently asked Washington to mediate
it was not seeking the services Of q
messenger. 1t did not need one.
1t well knew that the distance from,
Berlin to Paris and London is less
than to Washington, and that Bri-
and and Lloyd George for weeks
have been reachable at any hour Of
the day or night. The belief Ger
man propagandists have endeavored
to establish, that the Allies would
not listen, is wholly false.
The sole purpose of the appica-
tion to President Harding was to
trick him into support of Germany.
The application reeked with bad
faith. So palpably was it maneu-
yer to entangle this country that
many were Of the opinion that the
proper answer would have been
sCall up BRAND" But it. was pos
sible that at last Germany was sim
cere, and even if she were not it
was perhaps worth while to have
the fact further demonstrated.
But the Secretary has not ac-
quired the writing habit. He could
not see himself penning notes which
would stretch out like the procession
which appalled, Macbeth. So he
bruskly brings the correspondence
to a quick close.
The probability that on or before
May 12, the new day that the AL
lies have fixed for action, Germany
will submit to the claims of justice
Is sensibly increased. No longer
can she hope for American sym
pathys The delusion diligently fos-
tered that this country could be
cajoled into opposing the Allies is
shattered.
This country takes it's stand by
the side of its war partners. AS it
recognized the monstrous wrong Of
Germany in the war, so it now rec
ognizes the equally monstrous wrong
OF denying reparation to Germany's
victims. Those who contend that
France, Belgium and Italy should
remain broken and impoverished
while Germany is rich espouse doc
trine which is a stencil in the
moral nostrils Of mankind, and from
it the Administration turns with
proper aversion.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
The Encouragement of Obscurity

A humorous, philosophical citizen
Of England, Mr.. George P. Hodgkin,
lamenting the present multiplication
of celebrities and foreseeing time
when Who's Who will be too vast
to be printed and the store of facts
too great to be attacked by any mind,
has set about organizing a Society
for the Encouragement of Obscurity.
Mr.. Hodgkin is especially alarmed
by the talking movie-or the speak
ing cinema. He breads time when
family portraits, bad enough in
themselves, will be distanced by the
following:
$50 far we have had the family
portrait gallery. Will it be supple
mented, in the near future, by the
family gramophone, recalling an
cestral tones in various keys from
the childish to the senile treble; the
family cinematograph, with repre-
sentations of Sir Hugo playing golf,
Sir Ralph riding to hounds, Lady
Ermyntrude laying the foundation
stone of the local hospital? Will it
become the custom for persons of
Importance to gesticulate and ha-
rangue once week before the
cinema operator, just as they are
now painted for the Academy or
photographed for The Sketch?"
So he would have members in his
society pledged to live their lives
quietly, with no ostentation to at
tract the attention of contemporary
society or Of posterity. They must
hold no high Office in the state.
They must neither publish, nor
paint, nor play. They may COM
NIT murders Of, the quieter sort
but nothing sensational. And 30
on.
1t is a rather appalling SNOWFALL
Of fact which modern life, upon a
world scale, with new and ingenious
methods of recording facts during
every hour, is rolling up behind us.
The child Of 1921 might well have
a premonitory shiver if he could
foresee what knowledge he must
wade through in his studies upon
arriving on this aged and complex
and very knowing earth.
But we doubt if the result for
the plain people, the obscure peo-
pie, who really run the world while
the other folk get their portraits
painted and their movies Taken,
will be quite as calamitous as Mr..
Hodgkin fears. The historians
will have harder and harder time
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
The D. A. r. on Dvestuffs

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Your issue of April % contains
a telegram from your Washington
Bureau referring to complaint made
by Senator King, of Utah, that the
daughters of the American Revolution
are being used to spread propaganda
IN oehalf OF what he was pleased to
call "the dyestuff monopoly."ss4 n
Senator. King appears to be unduly
sensitive on this subject and, in fact,
to be almost "jumpy" about it, The
Daughters of the American Revolution
are patriotic body composed of wome n
who feel themselves at liberty to ex-
press their opinion about ANYTHING
which they feel to be or not to he
for the benefit of their country. In
the exercise of this right they express
themselves as being in favor of ade-
quate and proper protection for the
dyestuff industry. ~
They have just as much right to do
this as any other body has to pass a
resolution to the, contrary. If all or-
ganizations and associations passing
resolutions in support Of or opposing
certain legislation are to be charged
with spreading propaganda we shalt
soon reach position where the aver
age man or woman will be afraid to ex-
ercise the privilege Of free speech
guaranteed by the Constitution.
Senator Kings reference to the
dyestuff industry as mopopoly is out
OF date. The charge has been thor
oughly refuted.
NJ. j. C. GREENE.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04


idea Of letting them get hold Of the
specie which he had tten permitted
to draw out Of the Treasury. Pos
sibly 1t was more consideration OF
their prospects than Of Bergdolls
feelings that led tho, War Depart
ment to Be 80 easily made dupe Of.
The whole transaction was fantastic.
Bergdoll still has the laugh on
his lawyers, his credulcus custodians
and the American people. The bot
tom of the scandal will not be
touched until the department. is will
ing to publish the text of the release
orders under which Bergdoll made
his easy and comfortable escape.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
The OK and the Gander

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Noticing letters in your paper
relative to the OK and the gander of
Greensboro, Ala. / beg leave to state
that my SON, d. s. Hotchkiss, breaches
in the Presbyterian Church Of that
place and he writes me that his friends
there say the story Of their friendship
is true. The farmer who owned them
lives just short distance from the
town.
My son says he has seen pictures Of
the OK and gander going to and from
water, and one in which the OK is
lying down, the gander standing near
by on one foot with his head under
his wing. In another picture the
gander is flying furiously at = cow
that is going near the OK.
Please allow me to say how very
much enjoy your delightful and
true-blue American paper.
MRS. w. E. HoTCHKISS.
courtland, Ala, April 80, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
Park Vandalism

Complaints OF vandalism in the
city parks seem more numerous
this spring than usual. In any Of
the large parks on almost any pleas
ant day, particularly Sunday,
flowers are torn up, shrubs. and
trees are broken, lawns are tram
Piled and marred. The contrast be-
tween one Of the park meadows on
Sunday morning and in the late
afternoon OF the same day is
distressing.
What sis to be done? The people
cannot be shut out of the parks nor
confined to the asphalt walks. Three
things seem needed. One is that
children shall be instructed and
trained to enjoy things without
destroying them. A few minutes
spent daily in the public schools to
that end would doubtless have ex-
cellent results. Another is that
there shall be special police serv-
ice by men who shall not merely
stand along roads and paths, but
stroll about the meadows and
woodlands, where the mischief is
done. The third thing is develop
msnt of public spirit which will
make every citizen feel himself an
unofficial guardian of the parks
and give moral countenance to the
police. Too often if a policeman
interferes with boys who are despoil-
ing flower beds or breaking shrub
berry adult bystanders will remons
strate and cry, "Oh, let the kids
be" That is, not the way to re-
press vandalism.
And when the vandal spirit is
educated out or crushed out, as it
can be, good deal more than re-
spect for park protection will have
been inculcated. America suffers
from break down of the old knowl-
edge that liberty does not mean
license. We need to get back to
former decencies and the former
emphasis on the truth that no one
may do what he pleases if what he
pleases is destructive of general
interests.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
Canadian Prohibition
To the Editor of The Tribune.

v tuS I~O4tVT VI ne lTlDUue.
Sir: In q letter under the captisa
Canadian Prohibition" Hugh F. Fox,
secretary Of the United States Brewers
Association, refers to Canadian prohibi-
tion asd to ths Ontario law that per-
mits the sale Of beer having an alec
holic content of per cent proof spirit
Mr.. Fox's conclusion is that "the
Canadian, while protesting prohibition,
does not deem it necessary to give up
his beer, albeit he is careful that it
does not contain Sufficient alcohol -
be intoxicating"
Evidently Mr.. Fox's intention was v
convey the impression that what would
be known in this country as "2 per cert
beer" is authorized in Canada. There
is difference Of just 100 per cent
between alcoholic content" and "procf
spirit content" and in reality the =
per cent proof spirit" beer, which is
considered to be notwithstanding
liquor, is practically equivalent. in this
country, to / per cent alcoholic con-
tent by volume, proof spirit being
liquid containing one-half its voiuns
Of alcohol. In other words, tne
Canadian definition Of intoxicating
liquor is "a beverage containing =
much as per cent alcohol" and the
American definition Ia "a beverage eos-
tanning as much IS one-hsK Of ! pes
cent Of alcohol"
SAMUEL WILSON.
Assistant State Superintendent ANTI
Saloon League of New Jersey.
Newark. N. J., May 2, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
people still Is pure and undeflcd---I
our brethren born in the old |
IEatherland.


Stcphanc Lausanne makes the
charge that Clemenceau and his
ministers were warned on March 8.
1919, by the counselor Of the French
Embassy in Washington that the
Senate was unlikely to ratify the
peace treaty unless changed, and
that the message was ignored by the
French peace delegates. Clemen-
ceau when asked about it, declared
that he knew nothing about the re-
ceipt of such note. It certainly
would have impressed him, he ad-
mitted, if he had seen it. Lauzanne
hints at mysterious suppression Of
this important communication.
I Yet it is manifestly impossible
that Clemenceau and Tardieu didn't
know about the. round robin signed
by thirty-seven Republican Sena-
tors. Apress censorship on news corn
ing from or going to America had
been demanded in January, 1919,
by President Wilson, as M. Tar
dieu tells us in his book The Truth
|. About the Treaty. But there were
Englishmen and Americans in Paris
who did know about the round
robin, and it was the duty of the
French commissioners to inform
themselves on conditions affecting
the attitude of any one of the prin-
cipal powers toward the treaty.
Clemenceau says again what he
and Tardieu have said before-that
they were dealing with heads Of
states and couldn't take any notice
of the opinions Of groups within
those states. This rule could be
properly applied in the case Of
Great Britain or Italy, for the
heads Of these states were also the
agents Of the parliaments. But the
Senate Of the United States was q
part Of the treaty-making power.
co-equal with the President, and was
in no way represented by him at
Paris. The opinion Of the thirty
seven Senators was worth noting.
14auzanne is on solid ground when
he holds that the French commits
sioners were wrong in ignoring the
American Senate.
Failure on the peace confer
ence's part to give heed to the Sen
ate round robin led to the negotia-
ton of a treaty which the United
States refused to ratify. Mr.. Wilson
chose to defy his critics at home
and thought he could ride rough
shod over them. But Clemenceau
and Tardieu took perilous risks
when they assumed that they had
to deal with nobody but Mr.. Wilson.
They traded off their demand for
the Rhine barrier, as M. Tardieu
confesses, for an insurance treaty
with the United States which they
should have known was worthless.
because such treaty, too, would
have to obtain a two-thirds major
ity in our Senate Mr.. Lansing
COULD have told them this if they
had taken the trouble to ask him.
The French see now that the pol
icy Of their delegates in the peace
conference was lacking in foresight.
1t has left France insecure. That
is why the Clemenceau following
has dwindled in numbers and why
the ex-Premier and Tardieu are
now being pestered with highly en-
barrassing questions.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

Certainly it cannot be expected to sur
prise any experienced reader of ad-
venture tales. With what, we ask you,
was Morris Beiner stabbed? Yes, of
course, paper-knife. Mr.. Robert
Benchley in Life recently undertook a
campaign against this vicious weapon
as it figures in the drama Of our day.
He has pointed out that the man who
wants to cut the leaves Of q book is
lucky if he can find hairpin, but
only let murder begin to brew and
paper-knives will spring up from every
side ready for the hand of the slayer
"Is this right?" is the searching query
which Mr.. Benchley has propounded
We all know that it isn't. Representa-
tions ought to be made to novelists as
well as to playwrights about it.
BY this time we have certainly told
as much about Find the Woman as we
have any right to reveal. The various
dangers which threaten Clancy and
which she escapes, all except marriage,
are brought forward rapidly and
shrewdly handled. In spite of the
fact that Mr.. Roche is in a hurry he
has managed to find time to get some
little favor Of New York into the
story. His cabarets, and Offices and
Greenwich Village houses, although
sketched in rapidly, are faithful and
do help to put the story on its feet as
something more than a story of never
never land. Also, as good adventure
novelist should, Mr.. Roche under
stands that in tale of thrilling in
cident love may do we'll enough as a
device ia round off the story, but that
it can hardly offer the same thrills as
detectives and hold-ups and new clews.
He keeps his love scenes short. A
decidedly readable book is Find the
Woman.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
The Coming I 'o,Der
"A Man Of ! 8inrIe Purpose

A Man Of Single Purpose
knew Wilfred Wagh
When he was music student IN Paris
His was philosophy Of power,
OF strength.
He conceived the supcr-man
Before he ever heard
OF Nietssche.
As listened,
Last night,
TO the mighty throb,
The magnificent crcsccndoss
OF death and TRANSPORTATION"
looked back across s
The fiddles ~ Y
And the woodwinds and the brasses.
There saw Wi1fred Wagh.
He was beating the
Kettle-drums.
ARMAND.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

In glancing over the story again we
learn that we have done an injustice
to Mr.. Roche in suggesting that two
weeks was the period which he re-
quired to enmesh Clancy Deane in her
trihulations. On page 81 we fnd:
"She has como TO New York to achieve
success. Here within forty-eight
hours after her arrival she had not
only aroused the suspicious Of one Of
the biggest men in the profession
which she hoped to adopt, but was
wanted by the police on the charge Of
murder and had only 81 in the world !"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
ARMAND.

First Assistant Postmaster General
Work has issued an order fozAidding
postmasters to act as agents for secrst
services. Hereafter you may pour out
your soul, II any, on postal card. and
feel secure. s
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
The Pride Before the FaIl

fFvom The Cixcinrati Iwasissr) ~
New York is beginning to hs s0ls
she ever boastcd about how wet =
was.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

OF course, II you still feel uncertain.
the thing to, do ito add Personals TO
the postal cards supcrscription. 4
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

MEMBER or TIM. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ths Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to
the uss for republication Of all news dispatches
papss. Rnd also the local news df spontaneuus
erfs.r published herein.
"a All rights OF republication d al othse ust4eR
herein also arc reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

fFroms Tho Chicago Daily Nersl
Yap is little, but SO is a cinder IL
the eye.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
vIOLE.

AS to the inspiriting songs Of we'll
remembered childhood, none is repIeter
with joy than the following, recalled
and sung over the telephone--by Mr..
Marc Connolly, now freshman at the
Berlitz School:
There's little brown bird singing
high in tree,
And he's singing to you and he's sing
ing to me,
And what does he say, little girl, little
boy?
"oh. the worlds brimming over with
joyi
Tootle-ool tweeti tweetl tweeti
Tootle-oo! tweet! tweet! tweet!
Wake up, lazy girl, lazy boy!"
Themistocles said that he certainly
could not make use of any strinped
instrument; could only, were q small
and obscure city put into his hands.
make it great and glorious.-From
Plutarch's Lives.
/ Proving, Trumbull White offers, that
Themistocles was the Carol Kennicott
of his time.
Prohibition IS GROWN gin strength. .
The Tribune quotes Colonel (ret.) J
Bryan as saying; showing that even
our minion linotype will have its little
joke.
| Well, it's an Ill reparations story
that doesn't blow the Stokes yarn
from the front page. Compared with
the Stokes reports, the Stillman stuff
was altar Of violets.
In effect, Secretary Hughes asks Ger
many to rewrite the memorandum. and
ITO put in, in accordance with the tradi-
tional prediction Of the American
people, happy ending.
AS Representative Mondell says,
there is general sentiment in the
country in favor of reduction Of ar
maments. Nor is what to do with tho
money saved thus problem--not, at
any rate, to US.
We are putting in feet of citron-
ella bottles and an armada Of fiy-
sWattefes u. r. Il.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

Sir: Over here they call 'em cocks'-
tails, but they taste just as good
EDWARD HUNGERFoRD.
Madrid.
Sir: 1t may console you that the
Grand Caruso wine Cred and whitel
born in the vineyards over our head .
and served at our tabls in ~ quart
bottles at 20 cents bottle, received
the gold medal at the st. Louis Expo
sition "onee in the dear dead days be-
yond recall" It deserved IL.
JOE AND ZOE GOLLOMD.
Amalpa, Italy.
Those who believe poetry In Amer
lea is in bad way may be interested
to learn that the first printing Of Eddie
Guests new book Of verse, When the
Day Is Done, is 10000. Those who be-
lieve poetry in America is taking
Psrnassus on high may be equally in
terested.
In a world Of too much amiabiIity,
i. is sweet when the morn is gray, ETC.,
tc read the acetically just criticism Of
Miss Fanny Butcher in The Chicago
Tribune. "What David Did" she
writes, "by Helen S. Woodruff, is the
silliest, twaddliest, sloppiest, most
muddled sentimentality ever read"
Things are so much cheaper out
here than in New York." travelogres
Old Mont Glass from Pasadena, "that
you feel justified in spending twice as
much"
The Bibliophile
Upon the virgin pages of my breast,
With fingers dipped in consecrated
flame,
One sweet, hushed night when we
were doubly blest,
Having both youth and love, you
/ wrote your name.
You wrote your name, then for a
seal you set,
Firm on the white your lips YER
million brand,
Fearing, l think, that might once
forget,
Fearing an unknown others eye and
hand.
Dearest, you wonder long and long
wait;
4 am the we'll loved volume ever
shut,
That weeps at night lest you will
come too late,
And find upon my high and lonely
shelf
A yellow, withered ghost-tome of
myself,
My treasures ever stored, my leaves
uncut.
uInIr
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

We are putting in feet of citron-
ella bottles and an armada Of fly.
swatters. =. p. y.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04
Our Own Travelogues

Sir: Over here they call 'em cccks'-
tails, but they taste just as good
EDWARD HUNGERFoRD.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-04

In effect, Secretary Hughes asks Ger
many to rewrite the memorandum. and
to put in, in accordance with the tradi-
tional prediction Of the American
people, happy ending.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-08
COL. GEO. CRAWFORD TO.
SAIL FOR HOME June Il.
Commander of the kosciuszko
Squadron Will Arrive in New
York on June 20.

Harry Crawford of 1890 Washing
ton street, this morning received n
cablegram from his son. Col. George
Crawford, stating that he would sail
for home on the French Line about
June II and that he expected to arrive
in New York about June 90 Mr.. and
Mrs. Crawford will go to New York
TO meet him upon his arrival and will
accompany him to Wilmington,
George Crawford Is the American
and native of this city who attained
international fame as the leader of the
kosciuszko Squadron of airmen fight
ing with the Polish forces against
the Bolshevists.
During thes World War he dill
valiant work i'm the air forces of the
Allies and after the armistice. Joined
the Polish army. He has been repeat
edly cited for bravery and decorated
Tor his work with the squadron.
Mr.. Crawford sometime ago advised
his parents that he was planning 10
bring his fellow airmen home with
him IL they were all able To sail 20
gether He then intended TO entertain
them at his home here, but mis- cable
message today made no reference Ia
their accompanying him. He has been
IN Europe since September 1917.