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New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
Milton II. Smith

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: By the death Of Milton Il.
Smith, president of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, America has lost
one OF her great men.
The achievements Of his life work
will endure for the benefit OF genera
tions to come. The industrial develop
ment of the South, particularly OF the
State of Alabama, was largely due to
his genius. He made the Louisville
Nashville what it is, and the in
dustrial enterprises Of countless com
munities which his cooperation aided
so powerfully to develop are too nu-
merous to mention. He saw r.ore
clearly perhaps than any other railway
executive the ultimate effects upon the
transportation of the nation Of the gov
ernmental policy Of railroad rate regu-
lation without equal responsibility ss
expressed through the various inter
state commerce acts.
Mr.. Smith was a plain and simple
man in his tastes and daily life. He
was not good copy" for the news
papers and writer's, but his personality
influenced the thousands of men com
posing the organization OF his company
to an extraordinary degree.
Our country was made by men Ike
Milton H. Smith and his death deserves
moro than passing notice.
CASTNER BROWDER.
New York. Feb. 26. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
By
Heywood Broun

except costumes and scenery. After
seven or eight seasons a reviewer gets
so used to having the comedian say
omething about having been to the
opera house TO see The Shirttails Of
Hoffman, that the effort to protest is
beyond him. Mr.. Mines friend Gals
barrie is much easier. The reviewer
often has some notion of what the au-
thor set out to do. The dramatist has,
as like as not, attempted superb leap,
and if he falls short the fact that he
has landed upon his nose is easy to
note. But the musical comedy pro
ducer, as 4 rule, isn't going any place.
There is no spring in him He stands
stock still. Shooting at his show is
about as much sport as cunning in a
hennery.
In the same volume Milne has some
amusing observations on Nat Gould,
the late English novelist, who was
voted the most popular author in the
British army during the war. Gould
had some one hundred and twenty nov
els to his credit and many of them
went as high es a million in circula-
ton. Curiously enough, when the ex-
pertinent was made of introducing him
to the American public his book went
no higher than two or three thousand.
Though | have never read a racing
novel," writes Milne, 81 can imagine it
quite easily. Lord Newmarket's old
home is mortgaged, mortgaged every
where. His house Is mortgaged, his
park Is mortgaged, his stud Is mort
gagged. his tie-pin is mortgaged; yet he
wants to marry Lady Angela. How can
he restore his old home to its earlier
glories? There Is only one chance He
must put his shirt (the only thing that
isn't mortgaged) on Fido for the Port
land Vase. Fido is rank outsider
most of the bookmakcrs thought that
he was fox terrier, not a horse-and
he Is starting at a thousand to one.
When the starting gate goes up Fido
Will carry not only Lord Newmarke et's :
shirt, but Lady Angela's happiness.
Was there ever such race before in
the history of racing? Only in the
5000 other racing novels"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
No Budget Yet

Federal budget legislation will
probably be thrown over into the
first session Of the new Congress.
This is not the fault Of the Con-
gress just ending. 1t passed at the
second session budget act which
President Wilson vetoed because of
what he considered a slight technical
defect, although that defect could
easily have been remedied bv an
amending resolution. Budget re-
form was thereby set back, and
caught therefore in the final session
jam.
Undoubtedly q new bill will 20
through the next Congress. The Re-
publican party is strongly committed
to simplification of the govern
ment's business and Capitalization
rof responsibility for expenditure.
The demand for clearing up in ac-
counts is too strong to be ignored.
Congress will certainly insist on the
presentation Of consolidated budget,
balanced by plans for producing
the needed revenue. 1t is essen
tial that the Executive should as
sumo accountability for the cost Of
administration and the tax burden
involved.
On its side Congress ought also
to recognize the full implications of
the budget theory. If the budget is
to be treated as an entirety control
of appropriations in the two houses
should also be unified. The House
of Representatives of its own accord
created last year an enlarged Ap-
preparations Committee and put it in
charge of all the supply bills. That
is the logical method of control. But
much dissatisfaction has been shown
by members of the committees for
merly reporting out appropriation
measures. These committees are
properly concerned with legislation
regulating the operation of the de-
partments. But they haven't yet
given up the idea that legislation
and control Of department accounts
may be advantageously mixed.
Progress toward economy and or
der lies in the other direction. The
budget system will work the better
the more completely legislative
tinkering is divorced from mere
checking up of estimates, which in
cludes reduction, and the greater
the limitation put on individuals or
outside committees seeking to modify
budget proposals.
This discomfort in the House is
natural enough. 1t only shows how
hard it is to shake off old habits
of thought. But Congress will adapt
itself in time to the new method.
And when it does members wil,De
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
Between Seasons

The usual scores Of Volstead viola
tors are daily raided and arrested.
Spooning on busses is upheld and
admired. p. T. Barnum addresses
the world through John Armstrong
Chaloner. And the jazzcd morals
OF the hour are deplored--by DR..
Henry van Dyke of Princeton ct al.
There arc other and moro tragic
items in the days news, but the tone
of the season seems to vibrate in the
foregoing.
Fortunately, other and larger con-
Germs are scheduled soon to take pos
session of the stage. An Inaugural
tion speaks as the prologue. The
training camps assemble against the
return Of baseball. There is talk Of
an overturn at Petrograd. There
may be an invasion of Germany by
Allied troops. The fight for the
Davis Cup sends preliminary echoes
around the courts of the world.
Things are brewing even if not al
ready doing.
So we suggest patience by the pes
simists. In such tween seasons
there is always temptation to view
the world as a squeezed orange and
to waver over the proposition of
tossing it out the window. But there
is no other world available for our
purposes, for one thing: and the old
thing has an amazing capacity for
coming back, for another. If we
may be permitted to revert to the
perllous metaphor Of brewing again,
the world, in its capacity for fer
mentation and the ultimate produc-
ton Of fresh kick, bears close re-
semblance to the discarded orange.
Such, indeed, seems to be it's regular
method Of achievement-reriods of
kicks being interlarded between dull
periods of waiting wherein to the eve
there is nothing save perhaps a
scarcely audible sizzling of bubbles.
Spring itself possessing the
highest percentage of intoxicant
known to science) is utterly invisible
under the ruin and blackness Of
winter The optimistic might have
thought to catch faint Whit of it's
bouquet IN yesterdays mildness. But
only through imagination. This is
between seasons, and the good wait
ers have all the best of it.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
Berlin in New York
German Poison Gas at the "Horror
on the Rhine" Meeting

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; AS reader Of your paper and
knowing the pure Amcricanism for
which it stands ard its fairness on all
national and international questions
take the liberty of addressing you.
Last nights spectacle at Madison
Square Garden furnished scene that
might we'll have been staged in the
city of Berlin, except for the number
of American flags that were constant
ly in evidence. The permit for this
meeting was granted by the Mayor
over hundreds of vigorous protests of
patriotic, al-American organizations.
including the American Legion, with
membership in New York County
alone OF over 10000.
a thousand extra policemen were
detailed to preserve the peace of the
meeting American citizens were ar
rested for trying to voice their pro-
tests against the meeting.
That Garden, which has been the
scene Of countless worthy meetings,
was last night filled to capacity with
poison gas of Hun extraction and
mixed with all the art Of German cum
ming. The chief speaker said our
papers were suppressing facts concern
ing the Rhine. But he would loosen
the bonds Of truth, set free the vir
tuous German facts and compel the
American people, as body, to pro-
test.
He said: ave must stand togedder
until We have Won. God helping us, We
can do no oddcr"
Their propaganda is subtle, inten-
sive, putrid. 1t was made Inter
den Linden and must be ombated.
Liberty and freedom do not guaran-
tee to people with poison in their
hearts the absolute right to cast their
venomous hate into the teeth of
healthy citizens.
Must the loyal citizens Of this great
city be thus humiliated or will our of
tcials discharge their duties accord
ing to the will Of the people whom they
are supposed to represent, preventing
license from supplanting liberty and
Hun propaganda from shooting up
under the guise of humanitarianism
G. A. HOLIDAY.
Veteran Of the World War.
New York, March I, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
Boosting Gas Prices

Now it is the price of gas, in
creased in August so per cent to
s1.20 per thousand feet, which is
boosted.
If Judge Hands decision is under
stood the gas company is authorized
to go as far as it likes. And what it
likes is collection of $3.50 per
thousand feet, or nearly double that
provided for by a duly enacted and
never annulled statute of the State
of New York.
The decision is based on affidavits
submitted by the company making
er porte allegations that the $1.20
rate Is not compensatory. Few de-
tails are given-the public must be
oarlent with general statements
c ON officers of the company.
1t is declared that operating re-
suits during six months experience
with the S120 rate show the COM
pany made but 5.38 cents per 1000
feet on its investment, whereas it is
entitled to 3243 cents.
But it is not shown whether or
not the operation is efficient. Report
has it that the Consolidated Gas
Company is largely controlled by
men who in other investments are
interested in marketing fuel oil, and
that the oil makers sell to themselves
as gas makers.
And, finally, the fuel oil prices
used as the basis of arriving at gas
costs are those which prevailed some
months ago, while prices of fuel oil
are much lower now.
Yet, on the basis of such a meager
showing, the company is in effect
told that the only limit it need con-
slider is its own sense Of moderation.
In the statement announcing the
$1.50 rate William L. Ransom, in
behalf of the Consolidated Gas Com
pany, says: "At the present time
the cost exceeds S1.49.47 per 1000
feet"
How the latter figure is arrived at
is set out in the affidavit Of Robert
A. Carter, president OF the COM
pany, in the proceedings before
Judge Learned Hand in the follow
ing table:
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
Our Own Boys F irst
Disabled Soldiers in Need Of Hos
pitals and Homes


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The thought comes to ME every
day, when reading Of the relief WORK
fer sufferers in European countries
How about relieving the dreadful sui
fering OF "our own"-of the ones who
went across and fought for the glorious
cause. and do not sleep in Flanders
Fields" but are here in their own coun
try, physical and mental wrecks, unfit
for work, even if they could get IL.
What is being done for them? How
bout the shell-shock cases, gassea
cases, cases whose wounds have never
cutie healed, when the doctors t.G
them: Rest, fresh air, quiet amuse
ncnts, light work-this Is what you
need to get your health and strengtA
back? Where are they going to ees
them? A hospital was to be established
for our men who lost or partly lost
their mental faculties, but the bill was
not passed.
These men OF ours must often envy
e'-O0S ~ iSot W4lcA6 pOppie5 grow
Start big fund for the ones who came
back unable Through no fault Of theirs
to begin again. Buy land, lots OF
it, in the North, the South, the East
and the West and al of the in-be-
tween. We sent them from there
Build comfortable, sanitary homes
and don't call them institutiors). we
shall need doctors and nurses, not nee
ssarily graduate, but women. with
sympathy and understanding. Doctors
and nurses were ready to help while
our men were fighting for US. Why
not now?
There may be many who DO rot need
these homes, but let Us find those WAC
do. We found them all right when we
needed them to go across" did we
rot? Now let US "come across" and do
some reconstruction work on human
lives. 1t may not be too late Es.S.
Danbury. Conn, Feb. 2s, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
The Labor Temple Meetings

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sit: Referring to the report Of the
National Civic Federation on Socialism
III the Churches" and TO the criticisms
made upon it by Dr. Coffin and Professor
Brown, let me say that the report did not
relate to the religious meetings held at
tho Labor Temple. The religious work
OF the American International Church
which is done there we are glad to
commend. 1t is much needed and of
great Importance.
AS to the evening forum and lecture,
our information is different from that
which our critics have received. In
the nature of the case their opinions
must also be largely based upon infor-
nation and upon their judgment as to
the character Of the teachings for
which Christian church should make
itself responsible. Here also our iudg-
ment differs in some respects from
theirs, as fully stated in the report.
We had no intention OF criticizing the
good faith or Christian spirit Of the
committee which has the general charge
of these evening meetings; on the con-
trary, we admire the Christian pur-
pose expressed by Professor Brown
IN his letters on the subject.
The object of our report was to call
attention to what we believed was an
abuse and to secure careful personal
investigation BY those charged with
the general responsibility of the work
at the Labor Temple.
EVERETT P. WHEELER.
New York, Maieh I, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
$1.49.47
Great is the cost-plus systeml The

Great is the cost-plus systeml The
public is to pay not only for a high
price for fuel oil and all the taxes,
local, state and Federal, levied
against the company or its income,
but, in addition, 8 per cent net on an
estimated value Of the investment.
Many a concern, struggling to
make both ends meet, would be de-
lighted to have per cent net on an
investment that could be shown by
its books. Interest rates are high,
but few lenders of money are able to
get 8 per cent above all expenses
and charges.
Yet the Legislature is apparently
unable to understand why the city is
nervous over the proposal to have
three unnamed gentlemen fix its
traction rates. Let it study the gas
case and gain a clew.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
Cooling Their Ambition
New York. Feb. %, 1921.
(Fro,r Ths ToIedo B,nas)

(Frons Tbs Toledo Blade)
For the next forty-two years Ger
many will be paying her indemnity. In
the years TO come, as each annual pay
ment falls due, it will recall TO each
German citizens mind the fact that his
country lost the last war and will in
terfere with his natural inclination b
start another.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
The Tribune Short Stories

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have been thinking for some
time OF adding my word, as one of
many, no doubt, in praise of taose
French stories in your Sunday issue,
The choice is perfect, and the trans
lator is very unusual and makes them
entertaining in English. cut them out
and read them more than once.
L. PETERS.
New York, Feb. 2s, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
The Diary of Our Own Samuel pcpvs

February 26-Lay late, and for q
walk, and Mistress Julia TO luncheon.
and to Mistress Irene Cibson's for tea.
but had none of it, only two cakes,
and some talk of an auction, and a
lady named Nancy told of Il mirror
that sold for $1,000; but how any one
could pay that for mirror, unless.
haply, some cherished person had
looked therein on if one were undulv
vain and it were the only mirror in
the world, | do not fathom. Home TO
dinner, and so to J. Toohcy's. and
played at poker, with vast good for
tune.
27~-My cozen Irene come from Chi
cago, so to see her, and she as merry
as 70 years ago; SO to Mistress Hilda's
with my wife, and found A. Samuels
tho piano player there, but no piano
in the house, so he was sulky and in
articulate; and Jane there too. And
the rain making it unpleasant to be
out, said, why not stay for dinner?
so we all stopped, albeit there were
SIX OF us, and provender for but three;
yet ali gay enough, save the Japanese
gentleman who served the dinner, who
resigned his position SO we all
gloomy, and ! home, with a sense Of
deep guilt.
28-Hilda tells me The Japanese
gentleman hath returned, so to my Of
nee, full Of zest, where all day With
my wife to dinner, and met Miss Car
roll .McComas, and she gave me fair
white flower, and R. Kirby and Estelle,
and Mrs. R. Benchley at our table.
and had some clans and piece Of
Sarah's blueberry pie, very fine. To
the Garrick, and saw "Mr. PIN Passes
BY, with some fine satire in it, and
Miss Laura Hope Crewes a lucid joy.
Home by omnibus, and read two pages
more in "Dcbatablc Ground" and to
bed.
March 1-~Early up, and all morning
at my office, and SO to see Miss Kun
mer's four playlcts, "The Robbery" be-
ing especially fine. To the office to
finish my stint, and so home where
r. Barton and Anne are come to dinner.
Perhaps Prof. Einsten would like
to demonstrate The Journal of Com
merce proposition beginning Before
the current depression in shipping had
reached its peak Maybe The
J. Of c. means its peak halyard
Well, New York City probably will
declare for daylight saving under the
bill providing for municipal local op-
ton; SO it will be possible to sec the
ball at S:45 in June and July.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
A Common Amiction
(From Tho Washiroton stor,

There Is an impression that the ex
emption of high government officials
from the income tax might deprive
them of that close intellectual and tenn
peramental sympathy with the common
people which is regarded as most
desirable asset in constructive states
manship~
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
sCBscRrPrIoN RArEs--By man. Including
Postage IN THE UNITED STATES
GUARANTY

veu can Rurchase merchandise advertised In THE
fHtBUNE with absolute safety--for II disaat.sfae.
toa results In any the TRIBUNE suaran.
tesa to pay your meney back upen request. No RID
taps No oubhlIns. We make good promptly II
the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
MrAfsrn OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The A0ociated Fress Is exclusively entitled TO
the use for republication OF all dispatches
credited to 1t otherwise credited in this
paper. and also the local OF spontaneous
svisin published herein
All rights Of republication u all othsr natte<
eerein also are reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

A thousand policemen to protect
Won Mach and no game laws to safe
guard Gibbs. Great are Hearst,
Hylan and the Hohenzollerns,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
JOURNALISTIC JINGLES

4. "COpy,'
Woman Sits Her Husbands Neck"
Babes Are Burned IN Great Disaster.
Happy Once Now Human Wreck"
Kelly Proves Kid Sluggcm's Master"
"Yegg Caught After Al-Niah, Chase"
49,. Three Are Named in Garbage Scandal
Throws Carbclc on Her Face
"Six-Month Term for Garden Vsndal.'
Kidnapped Girl; /, Doing Time
'Robs His Kin of Coin and Glory"
Some folks say tha, thi, is crime:
Editors. a darn good story"
CH1cor.
The clause of the Lever act against
profiteering is void; so if that is what
has been keeping President Wilson
from writing that $l50,000 article. LET
him proceed.
Well, gas may cost the public what
the company wants to charge, which
to public that would get it free if
1t could, seems equitable enough.
1t is our opinion that most Of Mr.
Upton Sinclairs charges in The Brass
Check are-if not without foundation
founded on sand. Yet it strikes us
that The Times's story OF Prof
j. M. Lees denial of those charges
occupied more space than The Timcs's
review of the book. But, as Mr.. Sim
clair himself might say, we may be
wrong.
Man and boy we have been receiving
weekly salaries from the capitalistic
press for eighteen years. Nobody ever
told US to avoid any subject or men
tion OF any person; and nothing we
ever have written has been edited
And at times we have walked on the
Sacred Grass.
Not that we never have been in
structed. Mr.. Bill Mckay, who gave
US our first job, said: "say, never
use the word -" and he uttered
naughty name. "You see," he said
some of our advertisers are. and
they're sensitive about it," Mr.. Selah
Merrill Clarke of The Sun told us we
could say anything we wanted to, as
long as we remembered that we avoid
ed the locution "claim that"
And the only rule we are forced to
adhere to by our present Boss is to
have the last line in in time.
And that is easy enough.
AS 8 rule.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

surprised at the mechanical facility
with which the supply bills pass and
at their new freedom to deal with
the real legislative problems.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

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New-York tribune., 1921-03-02
The Coming Tower
On Her Untrustworthiness
Cntuflus: Carmen Xxx

Null 10 dicit muiior mea nnbcrs naNs''
My sweetheart says that she would
plight
Herself to me, though high Jove
sought her.
Those are her words-but what are
they?
The solemn words that women say
10 eager lovers. one should writo
Upon the wind and tho wavy water
l.. L. S.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

Perhaps, ns II. l.. Mcnckcn would
say, the yokelry likes nothing but
pishposh. but Old Bert Taylor. COM
mcnting on the comedy by George s.
Kaufmanand Marc Connolly says: "The
appreciation Of tho audiences Of so
Intelligent play as 'Dulcy,' in which
the jests are not diagrammed, con-
firms our suspicious that the public
is not such O fool as 1t lonkan
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

This is just score against news
paper criticism, but there is much to
be said in defense The difficulties Of
rising to heights of denunciation against
poor musical comedy are enormous.
Generally there isn't anything to punch
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

Well, New York City probably will
declare for daylight saving under the
bill providing for municipal local OPP
tion; so it will be possible to sec the
ball at S;45 in June and July.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

Still, 1t was contemplation Of the
taces behind steering gears that in
splred us, some years ago, to the pur-
chase of an automobile
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

And the only rule we are forced to
adhere to by our present Boss is to
have the last line in in time.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

The clause of the Lever act against
proiiteering is vod so if that is what
has been keeping President Wilson
from writing that $l50,o00 article. let
him proceed
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

And that is easy enough.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

AS q rule.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

Perhaps Prof. Einstein would like
to demonstrate The Journal of Com
merce proposition beginning "Beforo
the current depression in shipping had
reached its peak Maybe The
J. Of c. means its peak halyard.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

Now it is the price of gas, in
creased in August so per cent to
S1.20 per thousand feet, which is
boosted.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

Well, gas may cost the public what
the company wants to charge, which
to a public that would get it free if
1t could, seems equitable enough.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-02

y. P. A.