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New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
The Strength Of the Army

The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee has increased the appropria-
tion for the support Of the army so
as to provide for strength of 175,-
900 in 1922. The House voted
money enough for only 10000.
Secretary Bakers inflated esti-
mates and his defiance of an implied
notice in the last army appropria-
tion bill that the enlisted strength
should be kept within 175,000 great
ly helped the case Of those who
wanted to see the allowance for the
army reduced.
Mr.. Baker ran up a deficit of more
than $40,000,000 by launching an in
tensive recruiting campaign. Con-
gress had to hobble his activities by
resolution repassed over the Presi-
dents veto. Thus the Administra-
tion itself powerfully stimulated the
natural impulse of legislators to
keep the regular establishment skele-
tonized for the sake of protecting
the Treasury.
The next Administration will not
need to be hobbled, for it will have
no incentive to try to embarrass
Congress by way Of showing resent
ment at the reputation of an over
ambitious postwar military pro-
gram. The authorized strength of
the army is 275,0O0. AS the Treas
ury's present difficulties are sur
mounted the army will be gradually
built up to that figure. The ques-
tion now is between an od interim,
force of 10000 or one of IT'S, 900.
The latter figure provides better for
an equalized distribution of men
among the various arms and the
initiation Of the nine-department
system, with a division (below war
strength, Of course) to each depart
ment.
The chances are that if the Sen
ate accepts the committees amend
ment the conference will compro-
mise on strength of about $4,000.
The country could get along with an
establishment of that size, for we
have a vast reserve of trained men
and officers in sight. But within a
few years real effort will have to
be made to apply the lessons of the
war and create an auxiliary national
force, Of which the authorized regu-
lar strength of 275,oO0 is to serve as
the training nucleus.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Labor's Bill OF RIGHTS

The title "Labor's Bill of Rights"
chosen for the document which is
put forward by the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor is not altogether a
happy one. 1t creates an impress
sion, not justified by the subsequent
text, that special privileges are
sought.
What the Federation at bottom
asks is merely respect for old, old
principles-the warp and woof of
accepted public policy. The Rights
Of Men, rather than the Rights of
Laborers, are the burden of the dec
laration.
The Federation's chief present
complaint is of a conspiracy to
deny to men the right to organize to
do together things relating to COM
mon interests that they cannot do
separately. 1t regards the "open
shop" movement as one aimed at the
very existence of labor organiza-
tions.
AT the threshold of dispute as to
this is a question of fact. A
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
The Yap Protest

The State Departments protest to
the League of Nations Council
against the Yap mandate is based
on equities which the Entente powers
have strangely ignored. The United
States entered the war against Ger
many when German invasions of our
rights on the high seas became intol-
cradle. We brought the Entente a
reinforcement, material and moral,
without which, in all probability.
Germany couldn't have been de-
feated.
We have right and an interest
in the disposition Of the overseas
possessions which we helped to take
away from Germany. The fact that
we are not now represented in the
Allied Council or in the Council of
the league cannot nullify our status
as a joint belligerent, entitled to be
consulted in the disposition of the
territory which was transferred to
the victors! Title to this territory
cannot be equitably given without
our assent, actual or implied
The United States hasn't yet had
a real chance to make peace. 1t was
tragically misrepresented at Pari-.
The Versailles Treaty was burdened
with provisions unacceptable to our
people. They declined to ratify it in
the form in which it was presented
to them. The other powers know
perfectly well why America has been
prevented from cooperating with
them in imposing a settlement on
Germany. The real voice of Amer
lea is just beginning to be heard.
Comfy and sense of partnership
with an ally embarrassed at Paris
by a leadership which was Fictitious
and on-representative should lead
the Entente powers to welcome a
genuine American participation in
the peace adjustments.
The United States doesn't seek
mandates over transferred German
territory. 1t is willing to subscribe
to the theory that mandates are ad-
visable for the protection and devel-
opment Of backward peoples. But
Yap is not being taken by Japan for
the purpose of developing back
ward people. 1t is a rock in the
ocean. 1t is valuable because it is Il
vital communications center. Pa
cific cable base. We don't ask for con-
troll there. But we do ask with reason
that on this barren rock all ma
tions fronting on the Pacific have
equal use Of its cable facilities. On
these points there is no division OF
opinion in this country.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Shackles

The groans touching the state of
the world emitted by Mr.. Theodore
Dresser in a letter to The Globe
might darken our gloom more were
it not for one saving touch. Things
are in an awful way in America is
the burden of his plant. "The
American as l encounter him. young
or old, is the same old American,
thin-lipped, narrow-minded, money
centered, interested in the Ten Com
mandments as they apply to the
other fellow" etc, ETC., for half
column.
But then comes the welcome phrase
that permits US to breathe again.
Says Mr.. Dresser, his own lips stern
ly pursed, Il see 10 least sign of
those postwar activities which
threaten the hampering and unnec-
essary shackles" We read no
more! Mr.. Dresser was evidently
writing IN the vein of an unshackler,
and there is no philosophy so de-
pressing-or SO negligible.
A whole volume would be neces-
sary to do justice to this shackle
theory. Briefly, it holds that the
whole trouble with man is the
shackles which have somehow got
locked about his ankles and his
wrists. File through them and man
would instantly burst out into song
and leap around like a Pavlowa.
Holding this theory, there is obvi-
ously only one duty in life--to file
away at the shackles, or, better yet,
persuade just as many other humans
as you can to file away also.
Naturally, if you are looking for
shackles you see them every
where-big corporations, politicians,
churches, what not.
Now, there are restraints upon US
poor humans, heaven knows-mil-
lions of them. But shackles are quite
the worst metaphor in the world to
describe them, for shackles mean
something outside, imposed, remov-
able by key or file. And the re-
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25

straints upon us are nothing more
nor less than our own inmost limi-
tations Of head and heart and hand.
They can never be removed by mere
ly turning key or unlocking any
thing. No such swift escape is pos
sible from ourselves. We can and
should grow, very slowly, :. little bet
ter, a shade freer, trifie more gem
erous and open-minded. But, alas,
no unshackling! Not until a way has
been found for operating on the
human soul and adding cubits to it's
stature and otherwise amending and
repairing it while you wait.
Mr.. Dresser, for instance, has one
egregious linlitation--a shackle, by
his own language. He is probably
the worst writer that ever wrote a
good novel in the history of all lit
erature. Critics have been tactfully
or ruthlessly advising him of the
same for many years. What simpler
than to get file and be rid of this
shackle? Yet, we regret to say, Mr..
Dreiser's latest book shows the same
turgid, involved, cumbersome style
as his first. Even his letter to The
Globe on shackles clanks with the
same old limitation.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25

worker in an open shop is at least
in form granted the privilege Of
joining or not joining union. How
can this be held to imply purpose
TO close the shop to unionists? The
Federation does not establish the
legitimacy of its deduction. 1t
merely asserts it. In many in
stances open shop employers have
Disseminated against unionists. But
in many open shops there is no dis
elimination. Moreover, when dis
elimination occurs employers often
defend themselves by saying that
they have no choice--that a steady
effort is made to close their shops
to non-unionists. The evidence that
the unions work for shops closed to
non-unionists seems stronger than
the evidence that employers close
their shops to unionists.
The great majority of workers are
non-unionists. Hence it seems vio-
lative of right to say unionists shall
have a monopoly Of employment.
The sounder rule would seem to be
"that unionists and non-unionists
should alike be unmolested in their
freedom, with the unionists per-
mitted to convert their non-unionist
brethren and non-unionists per-
mitted a like freedom.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
The Place for the Snow Pile

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The congestion in traffic ate,
snow storm is due largely to the
method Of cleaning the sidewalks
The standard street is sixty feet
wide, of which thirty feet is in the
roadway.
The snow from sidewalks is tn own
in the roadway, thus doubling the
amount of snow. If the buildings rave
a setback, then all the snow in areas
and on stoops is also thrown on the
roadway. Then q gutter is cleared.
which adds more snow to the roadway.
If the snow from half the width of
sidewalk and the snow from the gutter
were thrown temporarily upon the re-
naming half OF the sidewalk there
would be room for pedestrians, and the
roadway would be much less congested.
S. Z. GAGE
New York, Feb. 23, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Regarding Veterans Preference
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: With reference to veterans a.
preference bills in force and in pros
pect, what veterans deserve they de-
serve from the people as q whole. They
defended all Of US. If they had de-
Tended only the men who obtain the
highest standings in examinations for
civil service positions it would be
proper to consider forcing these men
to hand over these positions to veter-
ans who receive lower standings.
Consider the SO per cent man forced,
through q veterans preference law,
such as now obtains in the Federal
civil service, to step aside for 65 per
cent veteran. 1t is not grateful coun-
try which sacrifices to bestow this
civil service position upon this veteran.
The SO per cent man unwillingly and
swearfully endows him with it.
If public school teachers were selected
on this plan of turning down those best
qualified to teach, defects in the plan
as method of rewarding our war
veterans would be called to the atten
tion of many who now take the desir-
ability of any veterans preference bill
for granted
MINNIE WELLS PIPER.
Manuel, N. Y. Feb. 21, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
To San Francisco in IL Hours

The achievement Of the Air Mail
Service III spanning the continent in
thirty-three hours is q pioneer effort
that forecasts the actualities of the
future. The flight of Tuesday night
along the trail made famous by the
Pony Express is the forerunner of
twelve hour mail service between
New York and San Francisco, even
as the Pony Express was the fore
runner of the iron steeds which re-
duced the mail time to four days.
The record established is the be-
ginning Of transcontinental service
which will be accelerated from year
to year, until it finally reaches
speed that will deliver mails in San
Francisco twelve hours from New
York. All air experts agree that
this is no dream, but an actual pos
sibility based upon known facts. At
high attitudes airplanes can take ad-
vantage of the trade winds that blow
at 200 miles an hour in the atmo-
sphere between thirty thousand and
fifty thousand feet above sea level.
To take advantage of these winds
the airplanes will be of remarkable
c0nstruction--a construction which
will be reached after persistent and
methodical experience. They will be
of metal and completely inclosed, and
equipped with oxygen tanks to per-
NIT the pilots and crew to breathe
the rarefied air Of those attitudes.
Their engines will probably be chem
ically propelled.
The feat completed Wednesday
was by the very service which GER
tain elements in Congress have Just
fought desperately to destroy. Can
antagonism be continued against a
service with such a record, and is
there still blindness to the fact that
1T keeps in training young men who
can be readily transferred to the de-
fense of the nation and sustains the
aircraft industry, one of the key in
dustries in national defense?
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Cordage Tariff Essential
Lest Home Industry Be Strangled b.
Manila Rope
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Cordage Institute desires
to reply to a letter of Fidel A. Reyes,
Director Philippine Bureau of Con.
merce and Industry, published in The
Tribune recently, on the subject Of tbs
proposed tariff on Philippine-made
cordage.
The eordage manufacturers in the
United States have petltioned the Gu
gross of the United States to place
tariff OF two and half cents poGnd
on all foreign-made cordage and dl,o
upon Philippinemade cordage; aIs' 70
prohibit the importation of any pisca
made cordage from the Philippines
While Mr.. Reyes brings out the iSst
that 67 per cent of the total imrOls
of the Philippines for the year 1sa
were from the United States, Ii
neglects to state that 69.6 per cent
the total exports of the Philippina
came to the United States.
Manufacturers of rope and binder
twine in the United States buy ntr
than half Of the Manila hemp produci
Of the Philippines, In 1920 tho value
of total exports of Manila hemp from
the islands was $35, 1862 600. The United
States purchased STA per cent OF this
or $20,614,026. We are, therefore, one
of the best customers of the Philip
pines.
Mr.. Reyes states that only 1411l7
kilos (311,1o6 pounds) of rope entered
the United States in 1919 from the
Philippines. This is incorrect if the
statistics of the United States DeDart
ment Of Commerce are correct The
Department of Commerce reports or
imports entered for consumption, 1915
! page 447), show that 1,1I9,8G1 ponds
OF hard-fiber cordage and 2S3,lS
pounds of soft-fiber cordage came into
the United States from the Philippines
The price of this cordage was three
to five cents below the American mar
ket. A comparison of the labor costs
will show the reason for these eii'
ferences.
In addition to private manufactures
now operating and ab"lt to operss'
the insular government. tas under way
plans for the manufacture Of eordsg
on large scale. This project is 70 %
financed by the government, and i
proposed to use prison labor from 'R
Bilibid prison in the operations.
The same reasons which make sa-
visable the exclusion of eonviet-haoV
goods from foreign countries and
protective tariff tariff on tofe.sn
products Of cheap labor apply V''"
equal force to such goods and pfod'es.
Of the Philippines. The develOpnsI;
and furtherance Of Philippine ''I
merce is commendable, but the weils''
Of American commerce, empi0s'%
American labor and paying Ameri'SN
taxes, is clearly paramount.
J. S. M'DANlEI'
Secretary Cordsge instIta"'
New York, Feb. q, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
A Correction
New York, Feb. II, 1921.
, the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you allow me space to
correct an erroneous statement about
me which appeared in your issue of
February 13?
An article on the right to woman's
maiden name has just been called to
my attention and I find it contains n
portrait of me and quotation from
me. / would like to correct the i'm
preston which the article gives that
am a member of the club called The
Woman Pays Club, of New York. I
have never heard of this organization.
do. not know the personnel and GER.
tainly DO not care to be advertised as
a member Of it. I would like to make
the further correction that there has
never been any question about nv US
ing my married name of Sandersou in
private life. / am, and always have
been, Mrs. r. J. Sanderson, and keen
my professional name for professional
purposes only.
NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.
(Mrs. Il. j. Sanderson.l
New York, Feb. q, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Army Air Service Is Ready
Prepared Even With It's Lite Crude Equipment to Attach
Anything AfoQe-Cipe 1t Trial
Copyright. 1921. New YORK Tribune iuo

other organization in this country ha:
had the experience. The navy appear:
to resist the idea of this attack, because
it is afraid of the great impression
which it will make on members of Com.
gress, thereby giving il an inordinate
place in their minds and possibly reduc-
ing what they consider would be other.
wise more effective force.
1t is quite evident that the matter
ought to be left to the judgment of Con-
gress, which is charged with the weigh
ing of evidence as to what our national
needs should be and then enactine laws
to carry them out.
# for no other reason than the proper
organization of an economical admins
tration Of our government, the Army
Air Service should have turned over to
it by the Navy Department the vessels
it asked for, and if this is not done,
then Congress should pass law author
izing the Executive to set aside these
ships. No expenditure Of money is re-
quired in the carrying out of this mod
est request.
The Army Air Service stands ready
to attack anything aAoat, even with the
little, crude equipment that it has now,
and even after not only the demobiliza-
ton but the virtual destruction of our
Air Service since the war. Let us not
destroy this service further. but give it
the equipment it has asked for for trial
and let it carry its tests out in its own
way. This not only is due this service
but it is due the country
If any other service desire to carry
out further experiments the Air Serv-
ice is always willing TO cooperate with
them, and to show them, without stint,
any OF its arrangements, equipment
methods of operation and ideas.
The Air Service is always ready to lay
all of its cards on the table, and il
should not be deprived of its proper
place in national defense by any narrow
conception, by people who do not know
what it should be or shoild not be.
ARMY AIR SERVICE.
New York, Feb. II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Efettrick

The conviction Of Hettrick is fit
corollary to the conviction of Brin-
dell. One grated on contracting
concerns as the other on organiza-
tions of labor, but they united in
expressing the general public, their
chief victim.
The two were noxious products
growing on single poisonous stem.
AS they were partners in their
crimes SO in their punishments they
should not be separated. Their cells
should be side by side, and as far as
possible they should be forced to en-
JOY each others society.
Singularly cruel and callous are
criminals Of the type of Hettrick
and Brindell. 1t was nothing to
them to bring building almost to a
stop in city where thousands were
seeking to lay their heads. AS long
as they could extort their filthy
blackmail they did not care how they
raised rents to the poor. In their
makeup was no trace Of pity or
compassion. They disregarded claims
burglars are seldom hardened enough
to ignore. 1t is not strange that
even Sing Sing cries out against
the indignity of being compelled to
house such libels on the human
species.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
A WORD TO THE NEW WOMAN
HGneid Book VII.

What though she led a troop of horse
All panoplied in brass!
So fair she was the people turned
To see the maiden pass.
And if she scorned the needle fine
Nor piled the distatf we'll,
So light her step, she might, it seemed,
Have trod the ocean swell.
And though she slept upon the ground,
Tasted the soldiers fare
She took thread of golden wire
And interlaccd her hair.
And if her arrows sped like Death
Finding their fatal place,
She bore her Lycian quiverful
With slender, swinging grace.
And if her dainty feet outran
The winds, by tempest driven.
They might have skinned the standing
corn
And left its sheaves unriven.
And while her thrust stretched many
brave
Upon his battle bier,
She twined the myrtle vine about
The steel that tipt her spear.
And as she rode, with lance at rest,
Her country's foe to seek,
Men watched the purple mantle brush
The bloom upon her cheek.
T, rr
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
The Complete Letter Writer

[Received by lunchorium company
Gentleman:
With your permission allow me to refer
the subject concerning the folowings
Unasmush l consider myself appropriate to
relate the question to our company because
its approved by the evcdence which l have
in my occupance are sufficient to retain
my promotiva satuation in which your com
prehensior, will be consider capable
Moreover for the obvious expIication YOU
my observe my recorda which the extence
prolongs to be workman in to your famous
place, 725, 9Th Avenue. Also as a matter
of college student and with deterrent
language consider to disapprove me, and
analogous you criticism you might succeed
better to Offering me the opportunity &C
cording to my EXPERIMENTS, And for the
results Confidentely ] believe you will not
neglectey to Answeri immediately.
your Truly
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Early Risins Alternative

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Being a constant reader OF - :,
Tribune, and having its success
heart, I wish to take issue with ~
on your article in to-day's paper, :" y
the Cities Demand Daylight" !,
The whole question could be se'''s
without interfering with the far i :,
city individual by the simple ea'ls .
in the hour of work. For example, "
go to work at 9 q. m. and quit az :
M. present time. Let Us set ourseN.
back (and not the clock) and 90 :
work at 8 a. M, and quit at p :
That accomplishes the same thing 81, :,
lets the clock tick in the same W
way. j. E. MARBLE
Brooklyn, Feb. 23, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
A Tardy Defense of Ye Deacon

New Years Eve Of seventeen-eighty
(Thus unimpeached traditions tell}
AS Deacon Davies came home late, he
Tumbled headforemost in his we'll
How, is not said; at any rate, he
Uttered blood-congealing yell.
From all directions rushed the neigh.
bors,
Reused by that sudden, sharp halloo;
With axes, squirrel guns, and sabers
With ropes and lanterns, swift they
few.
Thanks to their expeditions labors
The Deacon rose ere long to view.
He said he'd been to Watch-Night
Meeting
Before his mishap came to pass
A dictum that needs no repeating
Is, in profundo ueritas.
Fie on their gibe, "Who did the treat
ing?"-
Fie on their cachinnations Grass!
G. S. B.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Yes, 1t Seems So

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I see you refer to the "late"
Senator Smith, Of New Jersey. But
met the gentleman to-day walking
spryly. Is not the report of his dscth
Slightly exaggerated? L. ].
Newark, N. j., Feb. "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25

Our gratitude goes to Mr.. Francis
Wilson, who has sent us a first edition
OF Eugene and Roswell Fields Echoes
From the Sabine Farm" printed in 1891.
1t contains poem not in the regular
edition, which we shall print to-mor-
row
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25

We usually argue, when wa have to,
that there is considerable justice in
the world, but when we read the re
ports of tennis tournaments at Palm
Beach and golf tournament at Belieair,
pure envy sufuses us and W. rejoice
that we voted the Socialist ticket last
November
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25

If New York City fails to adopt
Daylight Saving this summer, a lot Of
goling and tennis conscientious OBJ
jectors will come home an hour late
for dinner.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Upstate Gaicty

tFrom the Albany Knickerbocker Pressl
the Central avenue crowds, which
displayed decidedly good natured holiday
spirit, had full sway and for more then
an hour and a half stoned each car that
passed
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25

If the kind of newspaper a man
runs is any indication of his character,
the editor of ou. bucolic contemp,
Wallace's Farmer, will male an excel
lent Sec of Ag.