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New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
Exit Golf Widows

BY the defeat of Cecil Tollev
British amateur golf champion, by
Miss Leitch, enter the woman
athletic champion. Let not the
nostrils Of diminished masculine
heads sniff at the glory of Miss
Leltch or our own Miss Stirling
Nay, men should face the prospect
with good grace, for Miss Leitch
and Miss Stirling deserves more
than sportsmanship at the hands of
the male golf world, more than
chlvalry-a genuine vote of thanks
for something else.
1T wasn't long ago that the
divorce courts were resounding
with the sobs of gols widows. He
had been a good husband. He had
never gone to clubs at night. He
had been kind and considerate and
generous and entertaining at con-
versation. And then he took UP
golf. He frequented the nine
teenth hole. He not only neg
lected the children, but would
not allow the family dog to follow
him. Now the missus has taken
up golf--in trim attire is to be
seen on every course, and is allow
ing the old man stroke hole.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25

the explanation will not be wholly sat
ls1actory from a fctional standpoint
Probably it will be much too simple
No facts can ever have the same hold
upon the imagination as mystery.
While man is missing you may con-
Jure up any ono of hundred fearful
things which may have happened to
him. When he Is found all these are
promptly swept away in favor Of Just
one which cannot possibly be as grip
ping as half hundred. Authors of de-
tective yarns should get together and
resolve that hereafter they will not
kill and tell. Like conjurors. thev
should mystify their audiences and
leave them that way. If novel tells
you that Colonel Blake was found
alone, dead, in his library at the stroke
OF midnight with fearful cash in his
back, with al the doors locked and no
weapon to .s discovered, your imagi-
nation is stimulated. You begin to
conJure up various ways in which this
strange occurrence might have taken
place. Not one is entirely satisfactory
but in the aggregate they offer solace.
Then, much to your CONSERVATION and
dlsappointm the author steps for
ward in the last chapter and explains
that, as a matter of fact, the murder
was committed by Joe Gish, the gar
dener, and that he entered the room
and left it by means of the waterpipe
AS for the missing weapon, the author
explains that all the time the pruning
knife has been just few feet I'D the
chimney, only that nobody thought of
looking there.
We recommend The Chestermarke
Instinct cordially, but we suggest that
at the point where Mr.. Fletcher begins
to explain how and why it all happened
the reader would do we'll to drop the
book and begin another detective yarn.
possibly one of Fletcher's many others.
BY leaping thus from one mystery to
another the reader may gallop gavly
and never touch the ground of disap-
pointing facts.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
Hopeful News
New York April %, 1921.


from The Des Moines Register
Here are the headlines on the mar
ket page of The New York Tribune Of
recent date. We give them in The
order in which they appeared:
PROSPECTS FOR TRADE REVIVAL
EXCELLENT, SAYS JUDGE L0VETT.
COTTON GOODS FIRMER. IN
CREASED BUSINESS LOOKED FOR
IN GRAY GOODS.
DENOUNCES TREND HERE TO KEEP
PRICES HIGH.
OUTLOOK FOR RUBBER SHOE
TRADE PROMISING.
BUSINESS TO BE HAD II FOUGHT
FOR, VIEW.
MORE COTTON UTILIZED THAN
SINCE SEPTEMBER.
FUR PRICES HIGHER.
s2,041 ,423 OF DIAMONDS SHIPPED
HERE IN FEBRUARY.
LUMBER PRICES LOWER.
In all, some two or three columns
of news are published under thess
headlines.
1t would seem, # the situation is
hopelessly bad, that some reflection o.
it would appear ON the business page
of great New York daily.
There must be some reason fof cor
fdence when every item of business
news in The Tribune is of the ho2eiu'
sort
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
The Cable Settlement

The ALLEGATION of the German
cables was one of the most delicate
problems left over from the peace
conference. 1t was committed to an
international Communications Con-
ference in which the United States
was represented and, fortunately,
continued to be represented, in spite
Of President Wilson's general policy
IF withdrawal from the work of the
treaty commissions.
The other Allied powers had seized
Germany's cables early in the war
and wanted to hold on to them. The
United States had taken the attitude
at Paris of asking for nothing in the
way Of German property which it
didn't already have in it's hands. But
with our shortage in overseas COM
munications cable lines were prize
of war which even the Wilson Ad-
nninistration couldn't afford to re-
nounce.
The nations which were in posses
sion were naturally inclined to sup
port one another and 20 contest our
claims. The conference was dead
locked for many months. At one
time it was close to disruption. But
by patient insistence on fair treat
ment the United States seems at last
to have carried it's point.
1t Is reported that the German |
cable from New York to Brest will be
given to America, and also the Ger
man cable from Guam to Yap. Some
other adjustments are to be made in
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
The Holmes Disease

The Rev. DR.. John Haynes Holmes
= by common repute man of
many personal excellencies. Hc
does not, on the claim that his per-
sonal liberty is absolute, beat his
wife or, under the same sanction.
throw stones at every window he
does not like. Not only this, but he
gives the impression of being ami
mated by sincere moral purpose
In his parlor Bolshevisnl--of really
believing that he seeks to make the
world better.
So, debared from holding forth
IN a public school building, DR..
Holmes feels outraged and dons the
robe OF martyr, and even suggests
putting on black cap. He says:
"If l am silenced there ! hope +
may have the courage to bear wit
ness in prison or on the gibbet. l
am in this fight to a finish. I have
no intention of being made afraid"
Like so many others of his class,
DR.. Holmes sees his own rights so
wildly that he has little time to con-
slider the rights of others. Thou
sands Of years have been consumed
in building up a social organism
that is still sadly imperfect, but it is
the best we have and is part of the
common estate Of mankind. But he
acknowledges no validity in the title
of each of us in this whole. He
would destroy. When other per-
sons, defending what they deem is
their own, object to destruction he
feels greatly aggrieved.
Much has been said in disparage-
ment of Socialists. But the real
objection to most of those who call
themselves such is that they are
anti-Socialists. They dimly see the
sanctity of individual rights, but
have not progressed far enough to
recognize that the right to an un-
disturbed possession of the bless
lngs that flow, and can only flow.
from the social whole is quite as
sacred
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25

OUR STAMPING GROUND


I've made little chatty list of things
that the phlatclist
OF high school days would highly
praise and prize beyond expires.
sion;
The klng's-heads Of Nigeria, the
pictures from Liberia,
commemorative stamps-Ill say
that these were an obsessioni
Then '61 Sardinia and surcharped
Abyssnia
And French and Dutch and Brit
ish~-such you'd see would never
miss you;
We'd even seek Australia and
aptest name--Stampalia:
But how we'd love examples of a
Venczu "a issue!
The boys would not feel scorny over
picture stamps from Borneo,
Alsace Lorraine and early Spain
divided with Tahiti;
While war times from Esthonia,
Livonia, Ionia,
For days and days were all the
craze from Nome to Jersey City.
Lithuania, Rurrania, Ukrainia. AL
bania,
And Portuguese and japanese on
thin transparent tissue,
The falls from far Rhodesia, Siam
and gay Zambesia,
we'd swap, plus Crete, could we
complete that Venezuela issue.
We'd rather own United States than
enemy indicted states,
Or Martinique, or Mozambique
with fancy cancellations;
Each tiniest variety was sought
with deep anxiety,
While there were thrills from all
the grills and changing perfo-
rations.
NO wild orang- -otangulars or rare
Capetown triangulars
Passed jackson 2s or revenues;
yet, after all, it's this you
would bargain for most cattily, as
pearl of all philately,--
The choicest prize in boyhood's
eyes--that Venezuela issue.
CLEMENT WoOD.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
Forbidden Feathers
Bird Of Paradise as Well as Egret
Plumes Restricted

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: l note in yesterdays Tribune two
letters relating to the wearing Of wild
bird feathers on womens hats. sub
Ject in which | am very much interested.
In answer to "Appreciative Reader
! would say Yes, there is law agains.
the sale of egret feathers. The harm
done by wearing those one has on hand
is that it sets a bad example and strs
within the breasts Of many women VINO
see them desire q he plumes
Farther or see 4" .etter from c. 4.
Merivale, which seems to imply that the
writer can see 10 reason why women
should not wear bird of paradise feath-
ers, against the use of which there are
no legal objections"
There is law against importing par
adise feathers into this country. but
dealers were permitted to sell those on
hand. Unscrupulous dealers may have
taken advantage of this to purchase par
adlse feathers that have been brouga,
lnto the country Illegally.
Whenever the feathers of am bird
become the vogue for millinery puf-
poses that particular species is Sc re-
lcntlessly prosecuted that it IS in dan
ger Of becoming extinct.
Paradise birds are becoming very
scarce, and unless something is done
to stop the smuggling it Will be Only
question of time till there are none. II
women would only refuse to buy the
feathers smuggling would cease ]
think they would if they realized how
sickening the sight of d hat loaded
with wild bird feathers is TO many
people
NO one can possibly admire them i
he stops to think OF the cruelty tha-
such hat represents. And when the
last exquisite bird OF paradise is sac
rltced to ornament some woman's hat.
never IN all the ages to come will such
a creature inhabit this earth again.
MRS. CHARLES CYRUS MARSHALL
Of Conservation, New York
City Federation Of Womens
Clubs.
New York April %. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25

Mr. Wilson's Attempt to Disregard
Senate Told of by Mr.. Lansing
From The YIln.


NFrom The Vliooer)
The apologists for Mr.. Wilson have
urged that, however wise or foolish
you may have considered his course
You Will find on close scrutiny that this
outcry about "Prcsidential usurpation'
mas no legal underpinning; in the
whole tenure of his Office there was no
act which was in excess of the Presi
dents Constitutional power. 1t is
about the last of the argumets in SUD-
port of Mr. Wilson, and now two PAGES
IN Mr.. Lanslng's book on the Paris ne
gotations make themselv busy with
1t. Save for these two pages, Mr.. Ian
sings book is only conf rmation of
what most felt anl many guessed:
these two pages are news. For when
Mr.. Wilson the second time sailed
away for Paris, smartng after his en-
counter with the Senate opposition, the
public thought only that he would en-
doavor to do what he said he would do
entwinc the League of Nations so in
extrcably with the treaty that the
Senate would be constrained to ratify.
Every one knew that Mr.. Wilson pur-
posed to force the Senate's signature.
but no one entertained the suspicion
that Mr.. Wilson purposed to dispense
with the Senate's signature. Yet Mr..
Lansing testifies that on returning to
Paris Mr.. Wilson put forth plan to
negotiate preliminary treaty which
would not be treaty; it would contain
the covenant Of the League Of Nations
entire and the principal settlements.
but would be only sort OF modus
vlvendi which would absolve the Presi-
dent from the odium of keeping peace
IN suspension. clinch the League. and
yet not require the signature of the
pygmies.
When Mr.. Wilson advanced this "ex-
traordinary theory" to his Secretary
OF State. the latter told him fatty il
was wild. and that no matter what YOU
called the document which changed the
status from war to peace it would be
treaty and would have to be
ratified by the Senate. "At this
statement says Mr.. Lansing. "thc
President was evidently much per-
turbed. He did not accept it as
conclusive, for he asked me to OBJ
tain the opinion of others on the sub
ject. He was evidently loath to aban-
don the plan that he had presumably
worked out as means of preventing
the Senate from rejecting or modifying
the Covenant before it came into actual
)eration. 1t seems almost needless
say that all the legal experts agreed
with my opinion, and upon being so
informed the President abandoned his
purpose"
Mr.. Wilson did not exceed his Con-
stltutional powers, no; but the reason
now appears to be that he could not;
1T is patent that he made the endeavor.
Mr.. Lansing shows that Mr.. Wilson
hated lawyers. Because the lawyers
were forever immersed in little tech
nicalities? No, because the lawyers
would not bring up all the horde of
those technicalities and show him how
to get around the law
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
The Civil Service Army

If all civil service employees in
the United States were marshaled
IN one body, how great an army
would they make? Who would guess
that it would be larger than the
A. n. F. in the World War?
Yet that estimate would be no ex.
aggeration, reckoning from the st
tistics in the State Civil Service
Commission report for the year
1920. In New York State alone
IN Federal, state, county and village
service, 286,459 public servants are
working and being paid on the
basis of merit and ftness, under
conditions mutually fair to them
selves and to the taxpayers.
The report shows that few loop
holes are left in the system for in
competence or fraud. The provision
OF the law requiring certifcation of
pay rolls has proved to be valuable
The service has been stabilized bv
carefully kept records. The exam
nations now take full account of
training, experience and education.
Durlng the probation period there is
careful supervision for the purpose
OF wedding out appointees who NAV
be unfit. 1t is apparent that dill
gent effort is being made in this
state to carry out the spirit as well
as the letter of the civil service
laws.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
Modern Teaching

L
Sir: On april ls you published 4 let
ter from "An American Teacher" who
resents the request OF the state and
city d Dartments of education that we
all jo,-i in mutual admiration move
ment celebrating the racial qualities
we have Inherited from our ancestors
across the sea. The writer of the let
ter objects because he doesn't want to
stop hating Germans.
Oh, pshaw! To assume that your for
elgn born brings nothing but what
should be obliterated is as stupid as
the old-line teachers constant calling
his children blockheads. Modern teach
ing knows that it must get founda-
ton by looking for some merit. recog-
nlzing it and fostering it, We could not
be quite honest if we Americans con-
cealed the debt we owe our fellow cit
1zens OF Teutonic lineage for bringing
US the kindergarten, school gymnastics,
school music, the magic tales of child
hood. the joyful Christmas tree and the
wonderful wealth of popular song.
For years educators have been pro-
mitigating as an educativc process the
tracing of things to their sources. For
centuries leaders have been proclaiming
the Lucrative power of truth.
1T looks to me as though the study
ali the schools are urged to do in prep
aration for Americas making is di-
rect!y IN line with the aims of progress
sive education everywhere.
ANOTHER TEACHER.
New York, April %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
CALIFORNIA; Intellectual.

Los Angeles, charming city that
quakes and rocks hourly with pub.
Ilclty tremors, announces to wait
ing world that it has introduced
another cinema innovation-namelv
a theater that presents between
screen diversions one-act plays pat
termed after the productions of the
Theatre du Grand Guignol of Paris. F."
Moving picture actors are appear
ing in these plays, which, according.
to Los Angeles dispatch, "are be-
ing written by such we'll known plav-
wrights as Oscar Wilde, Maurice
Maeterlinck, Preston Peabody, VIII
liam c. De Mile, Bernard Shaw.
j. M. Barrie and others of equal
fame"
Interest is inveigled by the names
OF four of the we'll known play
wrights and by the possibility that
it platoons of movie actors were
subjected 20 the discipline of the
rigorous art of the stage more might
learn to act. Then hope expires
when we read brief outline of the
plot of Fancy Free" the first art
playlet to be staged by the innovat-
ing theater:
"The setting is the lobby of hotel.
A young girl, who has come to be-
lieve she is unhappy, is sitting with
he whom she believes she loves. She
Is writing letter to her husband
telling him she is leaving him for
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25

John Farrar entertained at tea
Thursday.
Ted Madill's mother is here from
Ogdensburg.
Dean Fales was in town owe,
Wednesday.
bred Gruger gave ye cd. pic
ture one day last week.
Pred Keppel now OF Paris. Fr
is III town for brief sojourn.
w. c. Harding and vile were
over from Washington Tuesday.
Mrs. Lydig Hoyt OF Woodbury.
l.. L., was in town Wednesday on
business.
Charley Riegclman is home
from Katonah looking as they say
~ yrs. younger.
Miss Marion Strobel left for
Chicago Saturday after subscribing
for the N. Y. Tribune.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles G.. Norris
"'N SOihS ~ NdlilOTIild next wee h.
Charlcy's birthday was Saturday.
The Young Mems Thanatons;s
Club met at John Tooheys Satur-
day evc'g. Sandwiches were served
and debates and repartee were in
dulged in until late hour
Chuck Towne the far-famed
rough diamond writes from Los An
geles that he is having a wonderful
time. Il am having he writes. to
quote him directly, "a wonderful
time"
Gotham Glcanings is able to in
form the reporters who asked us
last tuesday who the young woman
with the all-weather tread earrinas
at the Bolivar statue unveiling was
that she was Miss Catherine Calvert
Perhaps the United States is right
In refusing to act as umpire over the
Indemnity settlement. If the batter
Kicks on the decision, it would be i'm
possible to send him to the clubhouse.
+ p
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
What Germany Can Paw

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your reasoning on the above
question is most interesting and con-
vlnclng. 1t goes to show that what
is asked of Germany by the Allies is
no heavier comparatively than what
France paid to Germany after the
war Of 1870. Moreover, as you saw,
Germany even after paying this in
demnity will be better off than
France, considering the enormous
burden resulting from the war
which France has to bear.
And there is another item which
weighs heavily on the side of France.
Germany, not France, was respon-
sible for the war of 1870, as Bis
marck alterward acknowledged. In
fairness Germany should pay back
that indemnity, in addition to what
she owes on account of the great war.
Taking it all in all, Germany. in
stead of growing and delaying,
should consider herself most for
tunate and everlastingly indebted to
the Allies for making the terms Of
PREPARATION so mercifully easy.
M. c. ROBERTS.
New York, April 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25


our allies to collect from Germany?
Why is it our affair? What are the
reasons that, though we ask little for
ourselves, we would not have other
nations remit the debt owing to
them?
Because such remission, especially
ny France, would outrage our sense
If fair play. 1t would be psyche
logical atrocity almost equaling in
horror those committed when the
Belgians were carried off as slaves
and the women of Lille were sum-
moned at midnight by German Off
GERS to go to unspeakable fates.
Mercy is beautiful, but justice has
It's due claims. Every sound person
is injured in his moral estate when
tiagrant wrong goes unwhipped and,
in effect, is honored.
Because to allow Germany, in
view of her blazoned non-repentance.
10 go scot-free would lessen the like
lihood of the general peace which is
Ct vital concern to US. Upholding
the reparation demands giving them
the highest moral sanction, is the
ceiling that there must be clear
demonstration that war-making does
not pay. Should Germany somehow
emerge better off in comparison than
IN 1914. then, sooner or later, some
ether mad ruler or people would be
likely to initiate her.
Because of sympathy with the
broken and the dispossessed. France
has bled herself white to restore her
ruined territory. A great debt has
necn created that it will take the
abor Of generations to discharge.
What would the future tax-paying
Frenchman think of American gen
erosity and fairness when he remem-
bered that at the critical time Amer
lca did not lift finger to place the
burden where it belonged?
Because the only practical hope of
q better world is in re-cementing the
honds which united the Allies in the
war. Clemenceau was right anc
Wilson wrong There is no rationa
prospect Of better world organiza-
ton unless true friendship exists
among Western democratic peoples
Every good thing flows from this
center. What chance is there of a
union of hearts if the United States
says it does not care whether or not
the wrongs of it's partners are
righted?
Every consideration of national in
'erest and world interest adjures us
TO be no mere looker-on in the pres
ent crisis. Our sympathy should be
as active for France now as it was
for Belgium when the command that
we should be neutral in thought lost
force and died from it's inner rotten
ness. 1t is much our business to see
that Germany pays. We entered the
war without any formal treaty of al
lance, and again without any treaty
our flag can testify by the places
where it is planted that we are still
with our partners and that MT with
our consent can Germany be allowed
TO break her express agreements.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
1fw,,prR OF THE AssocrArEp rRuss

Tic Associated Press Is exclusively entitled 70
Tie rss for republication OF all news dispatches
oreGi,rd 10 I, not otherwise credited n this
'aref. ard also the local news of spontaneous
s.iS'a published herein
Al rights Of republication OF all other matter
iersn also reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
Hard to Suppress

From The Cincinnati EnQnireJ
Lloyd Georges sun is setting, as
cording to his enemies, but what oo'h,
ers them is that it appears to set ans
rise again with the regularity of o'
Sol. It just will not stay set
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25

GUARANTY

10Y can purchase msrehasdIse advertised Ia THE
TRIBUNE with absolute satesy--ss< = atssatfsfae-
,cn res9tts In any The TRIBUNE euaran.
tres to pV money back upon REQUEST Ne red
tape. Ne oulbbiina. W. make GOOD prompty II
the advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25

AT the top of his column in the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, Old Jav
House, whose ability to erect a read
able Plinth of erspicaciousnes with
out resorting to the device of proaodi.
essays is something we envy him. saws
that he envies us our faculty of say
ing exactly what he likes so pleasantly
and so craftily that he wounds no SEN
s'tive soul and stirs no rancor in any
human breast At the risk of wound
ing your soul and stirring rancor in
your breast Jay, you arouse in US To-
calized lethnrgy. There are souls to
wound which is our consccrated lob.
there are human, so to speak, breasts in
which to stir rancor is our holy task.
l. we have failed, Jay, we are weak
and Intellectual.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25

"lf," Mr.. House writes a para
graph or two later. "a writing man
cannot frame a thought in stunning
and becoming physiological verdure
when it first flashes upon it, he never
can so frame it," Our megapAoned
comment on that is "Rotl" If writ
ing man cannot frame thought as
we'll, as clearly, and as briefly as pos
sible when it first flashes on him, he
should keep planning and vanishing the
frame until he can. Even then the
likelihood of his saying 10000 of what
he wants to say is scant; but the
harder he works-app as Grant
oldrice would say, to 154 games-the
better his stuff will be; and the easier
it will be for his readers, ii any
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25

We know the existence of wounded
souls and rancor-stirred breasts be-
cause their possessors are letter
writer's. They write letters to the
Boss, suggesting that we be fred, and
then drawn and decimated. If the Boss
won't fire us, they write, Stop My
Paper.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-25
A Long Voyage
New York, April %, 1921.


50 far as the crime wave is concerned
the country is still at sea.