New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
B. L. T.'s Greatness

B. l.. T.'s Greatness
Dear Pisa: Let's suppose--just let's
that the Bosses are all perfect, giv-
ing you the leeway to be dull, sad, silly
anything: how many of you who run
use of your privileges as Bert Taylor
made? What l mean is, how many
would fail to substitute for the timid-
ity of the Imperfect Bosses a worse
timidity-a meaner, lower, it-is-me,
peace without victory, the war's-all-
over, let-Debs-out grovel? B. L. T
knew what to do with the freedom
vcuchsafed him by his Boss, who, in
turn, knew that such freedom was the
life and vitality of the Line. And, now
that he is gone, the realization comes
to me that that was why we all worked
for B. L. T., did our daily stint to
we saw our stuff in type: his sanely
used freedom animated his readers no
less than it served him as the prin-
cipal among the media wherethrough
to display his greatness. For great
ness was the attribute Of the man who
described US as "the so-called human
A'~S' ~ F. DoNAGHEY.
Our notion, precisely. Few are the
writers who may be trusted with free
dom; who regard it more Of RESPONSE
bility than a privilege. But the
colyumist who doesn't deserve freedom
doesn't deserve column.
LOST-Diamond frog going from seth
St. west to Broadway to 82d ST., or to
Keystone Theater, returning seth St.
bus; liberal reward. Eugene Friedman,
$3.50 Broadway-The Times.
Calaveras County papers please copy.
What the stories do not tell Is
whether, after Mr.. Harry Black paid
his $500 fine and those-$50o each-of
his two servants, he was permitted to
keep the sixty OTIS sixty now) cases
Of liquor.
Our private car is only 4 small
petrol-waggon, and it would not con-
tain sixty cases Of anything. But, in
the event that anybody wants to put
anything aboard without our knowl-
edge and consent, the information is
vouchsafed that the car will stand near
the curb adjacent to our demesne on
March 80, between 7 and p. m.
And in none Of the long stories from
Washington about the dedication in
Central Park of the Simon Bolivar
statue, which the President himself
and Mr.. Hughes will attend. has ap-
peared the name of the person who
spent good many years sculping the
statue. 1t is, if you must know, Mrs.
Sally James Farnham.
Vigorous search is being made for
young woman whom the police are
confident will soon be in their hands,
From "This Suspense Is Terrible" by
Royal Brown in the March Cosmopoli-
tan.
Whom are your" said Cyril
The revered Columbia State speaks
Of "the we'll known policy Of Ko-Ko,
who purposed beginning with mosqui-
toes and gradually working up to a
human being" If Ko-Ko's policy were
better known, The State might know
the the gradation was from guinea
pig to a second trombone.
Mr.. Alvin Macauley, President of the
Packard Motor Car Company, is of the
conviction that the income tax law
should be repealed. Wonder how Mr.
Macauley'd like to live in Washington,
beginning, say, March 4, 1925.
Those who still have misgivings as
to whether all's right with the world
may as we'll dispel them. Mr.. Nicoll,
for example, says the plaintiff, Mr..
Stillman, has no desire to be anything
hut fair and generous.
Something is wrong with the movies.
The title of the screen version of Sem
timental Tommy is to be Sentimental
Tommy. ERA !,