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New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Pennsylvania Films the Flv

10 the Editor Of The Tribune,
Sir: For once. at least. penn,v1.
vania has beaten New York. Our
movies mere in our City and Borough
OF Pittston and West pittston
showed many wonderful pictures of tho
fly pest, in all its phases, last year. I
was surprised to read in your column.
the letter from Edward Hatch ir.. of
the Merchants Association OF New
York, asking "Why do not the movies
exhibit films showing exactly how and
why the house fly is dangerous enemy
to health and exactly how the fy can
be destroyed?'
This Is what was shown in our
movies, under the state, through the mo
dium Of the Child's Welfare Clinic, in
which was n worker as q surveyor of
conditions in the foreign quarter of
our borough. Please let the people
know that Pennsylvania and it's movies
have already done this good act.
ANNA N. A. LAW.
Pittston Pa, June IA, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
"Fair Tomorrow"

A succession of sunlit days that
would do credit to Pasadena is New
York's portion of June weather.
And now the garden-fed commuters
and the 100 per cent farmers are
complaining that this little rain
shortage is a drought.
, The beets and carrots may be
pindling, but Babe Ruth's home run,
crop is growing famously. Our
own Mr.. Pepys is playing faster
tennis than ever. The comet chasers
are exploring the clear ether. All
sport lovers are disporting in the
glad out-of- f-doors-Manhattan isn't
moaning eve need rain"
st. Swithin's Day is only a month
hence, and the thirsty vegetation is
likely to have some good long drinks
between now and then. It will sur
vive, and our country friends will
supply our provender in the usual
goodly measure. Eats are neces-
sity, but don't worry about them.
A stretch Of fair weather in this
vicinity is luxury. Didn't some
body say: "Give me the luxuries
Of life and I'll dispense with the
necessities?
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Good Roads in Arkansas

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In recent business trip to
central and southern Arkansas / had
occasion 20 ride for many miles by
automobile. What claimed my attention
was the method Of road construction.
From Little Rock I rode over some
twenty miles of as well laid road as
can be found elsewhere, but with this
superior feature: the road was curbed
the entire length with cement, holding
the surface by preventing the "shoul-
ders" from breaking or spalling off
from heavy traffic. While the curbing
may add to the first cost, it must be q
saving in the long run. This method
of construction may be used in other
states. have not yet seen it. Our
Eastern road builders should consider
the ultimate saving which is evident.
found Arkansas a much different
state than | supposed it to bs-a state
OF wonderful and varied resources. and
in the cities visited pushing, ener-
getic and hopeful lot of business men.
C. r. WEEDEN.
Providence, R, l.. June Ii. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
The Only WAY

President Harding is mild of speech
and temperament. He is averse to
the rough or the drastic. But he is
capable OF welding a big stick with
spikes on it when occasion requires.
The downrightness Of his warning to
bureau chiefs that they must desist
from interfering with the reorgani-
zation plans of the Administration
or get out furnishes gratifying evi-
dence of the fact.
Since the late Senator Aldrich, a
number OF years ago, startled the
country by saying that it was feast
bic to save $2o0,0oo,ooo a year by
discharging superfiuous government
employees sporadic attempts have
been made to econonize. President
Taft named commission which re-
ported a well-thought-out plan of re-
trenchment. But Congress is friend
ly to the place-holders-its heart
shrank from the inhumanity of
cashiering incapables who would be
unable to get other Jobs. Little was
achieved.
During President Wilson'S eight
years, although Mr. Wilson wrote
and spoke most eloquently Of the
need of economy, the number of
government employees rapidly In
creased. The war brought the climax
and the public revenues were regard
ed as an exhaustless reservoir. Ex-
cept for the reduction among the
civilian employees Of the War De-
partment, the number on the pay roll
was still near the peak when the new
Administration came In. To make
specific comparison, It may be said
that when President Wilson took Of
flee in 1918 the number of employees
at Washington was $4,000. In 1920
the number was 100, 900.
1t is impossible to deflate govern
n'ent employment without stiff and
bitter struggle. 1t can't be done by a
pussyfooted attack. President Har-
ding gees at the business in the only
way promising success. He may, be
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Out With Him!

James Fl. Thomas, British labor
leader, president Of the Interna-
tional Federation of Trade Unions,
and fraternal delegate to the an
nual convention Of the American
Federation of Labor, is nanifestly
most indiscreet person. Mr..
Thomas has venturcd to discuss
publicly the Irish problem and
to express views not agreeable to
the Sim Fein agitators Of America.
He should be asked to explain
and instantly ordered home.
This British agent has the i'm
pudence to suggest that the Irish
question is old and complicated and
to say if those in direct contact with
it have difficulties in solving It a
distance of 5000 miles does not
make it easier. Not satisfied with
saying this, he enthusiastically
warns-American labor unionists
against disrupting the labor move
ment by getting into quarrel over
an extraneous matter.
This is almost impious. The Irish
question difficult? On the con-
trary, it is simplicity itself. All
that is needed is for the United
States to recognize the Irish re-
public and then land two or three
million soldiers on the Irish coast.
The British fleet, of course, will
not interfere. When John Ball has
been chased out of southern Ireland
north Ireland will present no
serious obstacle. The Ulstermen
can be rounded up. shipped out in
chains and forbidden to return
all in the sacred name of liberty
and the self-determination Of peo-
pies.
There is but one way to answer
such as Thomas. Hit him with a
shillalah and shout that he jingles
British gold in his pocket. The
creature was obviously sent over by
Lloyd George to oppose the grand
simplicity of the De Valera plan of
settling the Irish question. Out
with him!
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
A Coastal Waterway

The Secretary of War urges that
the government complete the pur-
chase of the Cape Cod Canal. Acqui-
sition was authorized by Congress
nearly four years ago, and the value
Of the property was judicially de-
cfared in condemnation proceedings
to be $1S,651, 900. This judgment be-
ing set aside on appeal, an agree
n,ent was made out Of court for pur-
chase OF the canal for Sf1,500 900,
and that is the bargain which Con-
gress is now asked to approve.
The acquisition of the canal is the
first step toward creating q chain of
inland coastal waterways extending
unbroken from Massachusetts Bay
to the Gulf Of Mexico. Every mile
OF It has been surveyed and found
practicable, and large part of it is
even now navigable.
Beginning at Boston, the route
passes down Massachusetts, Bay and
Cape Cod to and through the Cape
Cod Canal, to Buzzard's Bay and
Long Island Sound; thence to New
York Bay, the Raritan River, and
the Raritan and Delaware Canal
across New Jersey to the Delaware
River. Another canal leads across
Delaware to the Chesapeake, from
the southern end of which bay a
canal gives access to Currituck.
Croatan and Pamlico sounds. Gov
ernment engineers have SURVEYED
and pronounced quite practicable a
route through the existing sounds.
channels and rivers along the re-
mainder of the Carolina coasts and
Georgia and Florida, with a canal
across the latter state to the Gulf of
Mexico. Nor would it be necessary
to stop there. The Gulf coast is SO
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16

generally provided with sounds and
inland channels that 1t would be pos
sible to extend the land-locked thor
oughfare along it, across Louisiana,
and down the Texas coast, which is
richly provided with sounds, to the
Mexican frontier.
The cost of such an enterprise
would, of course, be large. 1t would
not be large in comparison with the
losses Of ships, merchandise and
human lives along the coast. Besides
its utility as a commercial and pleas
ure route in time Of peace, it would
obviously be of incalculable value in
time Of war, for purposes Of both de-
fense and cffense.
Standing individually and alone,
the Cape Cod Canal is probably we'll
worth the governments purchasing.
AS an essential part of the coastal
waterway from Massachusetts to
Texas its acquisition is truly ma
tional.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Hughes and Harvey

Whatever meanings have been
tortured out Of Mr.. Harvey's
speech by those who cannot recon
cile themselves to November's elec-
tion result, it will scarcely be pos
eible for the most malignant par-
tisan to twist into something sin
lister the words that Secretary
Hughes yesterday delivered to his
fellow alumni of Brown University.
Mr.. Hughes, summing up the
reasons why this country entered
the war, enumerated: Because
we loved the institutions Of liberty
and intended to maintain them, be-
cause we hated tyranny and the
ruthlessness which found express
sion in the worship Of force, and
because we found our fate linked
with that of the free peoples who
were struggling for the preserva-
ton of the essentials of freedom.
With them we made common cause,
and as from one end of the coun-
try to the other rang appeals in the
name of civilization the whole ma
ton responded"
Those who have been dissatisfied
with the ambassadors interpreta-
tion will be more pleased, let us
hope, with that Of the Secretary OF
State. But doubtless it will be
said that there is contradiction be-
tween them. There is manifest
difference in approach and spirit,
but nevertheless the two statements
seem reconcilable.
The declaration of Mr.. Harvey
that we fought in self-defense and
were afraid not to fight comes close
to being the same thing as the dec
laration of Mr.. Hughes that we
found our fate linked with that Of
the other free peoples. If other
countries fought in self-defense
and our fate was linked to theirs,
did we not also fight in self-defense?
The term "self-defense," when ex-
amined, is seen to be a broad and
inclusive one.
Moreover, before a foreign audi
ence an American does well not to
boast and otto stress, as if supe-
rior, the country's altruism. At
home speaker is at liberty to be a
little less restrained.
Why is it not possible for why
observation-disclosures disputants to
agree that the debate is largely over
definitions. When one man speaks
of self-defense he may mean practi-
caily the same thing as another who
says that we fought to defend ideals
that must be maintained If we would
remain free.
The late Franklin K. Lane was
not rated an upholder Of national
selfshness, yet his conception Of why
we went into the war he expressed
by saying that we entered The con-
fiict in Europe to avoid being COM
PEELED to fight in America.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Keeping OFF the Grass
Restricted Freedom of Park Lawns
Hard to Draw the Line

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A correspondent wrote in Sun
days Tribune of the use and misuse
Of the grass in the parks. No COM
plant about the parks is longer estab-
iished or oftener repeated than this
one, that people are kept off the grass.
But no one acquainted with grass
can fail to know that, like any other
carpet, it will wear out under use.
Unlike manufactured carpet, il re-
news itself IL given reasonable
chance. But many people seem to
think that it ought to have the impos-
sible virtue of renewing itself no mat
ter how much it is trampled upon.
Now, the first use Of grass in park
ia to be ornamental, for even the great
est sticklers for freedom OF the lawns
insist on having grass. Without grass,
trees and bushes to look at our people
do not consider that they have a park
at all.
It seems clear that people must bc
kept off the grass before they have
stopped it's growth. The difficulty is
to know when the stoppage begins,
VIXEN to keep people off tho grass and
when to let them on again.
The problem varies in every park.
In small parks, where the population
is very thick, the grass must be re-
served entirely for decoration and peo-
pie kept off it altogether. In large
parks with comparatively small mum
Der of visitors per acre. people may
be allowed on the grass with few or
no restrictions. And there is every
stage of partial protection of the grass
from wear and tear between these two
extremes.
AS consequences of the lack Of IN
derstanding of the grass question and
of consistency in handling 1t. the pub
lie is at one time allowed too much
use of the grass in the parks and az
other times arbitrarily and even AFRO
gantly expelled from it; and it is no
wonder if the ordinary park user, sec
ing no reason underlying these mani
festations, gets sngry and writes to
the papers.
The park administration ought 70
stay in Office long enough to evolve
consistent policy of park management
and to carry it into effect. This means
that the executives terms Of ofhee
should be longer than four years. 10
accomplish results they need the aid
of corps of officials who specialize
in park protection.
HAROLD A. CAPARN.
New York, June IA, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Restoring Freedom

"Like the buccaneers Of old, and
without notice, feet of American
battleships came into The harbor at
Santo Domingo City," said Presi-
dent Henriquez OF the Dominican
Republic few months ago, describ-
ing M. Wilson's capture Of the
island in 1915.
4SWithout asking permission" he
continued, "the admiral, with an
armed force, landed on our soil.
Under the threat of the guns of his
ships. and the rifles and bayonets
of his marines, with courtesy and
the ordinary civilities and interna-
tional law all thrown to the winds,
I, the constitutional President of
the country, and the distinguished
men Of my Cabinet were forced out
of office. BY the same force our
Congress was dissolved, elections
prohibited, the press and every in
dividual mouth muzzled, the ma
tional treasury seized" etc.
And all this for some inscrutable
reason was camou1aged under the
pretext of a violation" of the
treaty Of 1907 between the United
States and the Dominican Republic.
Hypocrisy was added to outrage,
for the treaty of 1907 had not
been violated.
True to his promise, President
Harding has put an end to this act
Of international piracy. 1t is an
nounced in Washington that in
eight months, during which time
numerous specified details of ad-
ministration will be readjusted, the
American military governor of the
Dominican Republic will transfer
all his powers to the, duly elected
President Of Santo Domingo, and
that thereupon the forces of the
United States will be withdrawn at
once.
Mr.. Wilson's wrongful and un-
lawful actions in Santo Domingo
aroused justifiable resentment and
suspicion in Latin America. It was
ocular proof that we were bent on
the conquest OF our southern neigh
bors. To restore Santo Domingo
to liberty will do much more to re-
gain lost confidence among South
Americans than did the passage of
the Colombian oil treaty, because in
the case Of the Dominican Republic
respect for our treaty obligations
and the sovereign rights of friend
ly nation are at stake. By ignoring
them we did an objectionable
wrong to a sister republic and
seriously prejudiced our moral
standing in the Western Hemi-
sphere. BY restoring freedom to
Santo Domingo we put an end to
wrong. But it will take years to
recover from the loss Of prestige
for which Mr.. Wilson was respon-
sible by his extraordinary private
act Of war Of 1916.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Civic Publicity

Mr.. Henry Bruere, former City
Chamberlain of New York, has
joined Mr.. Schwab in urging
economy. Before the city officials
of New York State, at an annual
meeting held in Elmira, Mr.
Bruere said that the cities of the
Empire State should take the lead
in getting back to earth in the
matter Of expenditures.
What is the best remedy? Pub
licity. Until method is devised to
keep the people in cities informed
just what their government is cost
ing them we may expect huge
debts and mismanagement. 1t has
always been SO; that it is worse
now than ever before is because
there are more people. The
mysteries of municipal finance are
far beyond the vision, to say moth
ing of the thought, of the ordinary
human being.
The greatest medium of pub.
licity is the screen. If every eve-
ming there could be flashed upon
the screen just how much money it
cost to run the city that day the
totals might begin to go down. But
would the spectators stay unless
chained to their seats? There's the
rub.
The great trouble with any scheme
for enlightenment is that minds
capable of indulging in financial
orgies rarely understand what SIM
plicity means. The mathematical
mind, at it's best, is utterly inca.
pable Of producing results that are
plain to the unmathematical mind.
To large numbers of people rows Of
figures are meaningless. Never
theless, the thing is possible.
Great progress has already been
made in accounting. If in the case
Of large corporations it has become
possible to issue statements which
an ordinary mind can comprehend.
it can be done in the case of munic-
ipal expenditures.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Through With Sim Fem
Admiral Sims Is Right" Says
American of Irish Descent

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Admiral Sims is right. l know,
for I have been one of the jackasses.
For many years I brayed and kicked
about through the States at everything
I thought Great Britain wanted in
Ireland. / outlasted in zeal my home
community, which is the largest and
oldest Irish rural community in the
United States, and my family, all
the forcbears of which came from Ire
land before the Revolutionary War.
When I found myself huddled up
with German Empire propagandists
at the opening Of the World War |
began to try to show my friends their
error as Americans, with the result
that I barely escaped being mobbed
several times, and was squelched SO
effectually at other times that l began
to take notice Of what it was that |
had been boosting.
The discovery came very swiftly. Il
was once quite popular to say that
no one understands the Irish question.
1t certainly is very silly for any one
to make such a remark now. De
Valera and the Sim Feiners have cut
through our prejudice and ignorance
with unmistakable information. If the
Sim Feiners over there are as unrea-
sonable, untruthful and violent as
they are here, God pity Ireland and
the Irish.
To me the Irish question over here
has become so un-American as to
supersede entirely all l have had of
interest in the Irish question over
there. 1t is quite likely that this is
true of at least 100000 out of the
2o,ooo,ooo Irish descendants claimed to
be over here. I can quite confidently
assert. that Of the SO per cent of
Washington's army claimed as Irish
at least 81 per cent would feel now
just as I do
My chief interest now is to know
what the Sim Feiners intend to do
with the United States when they get
it. Believe me, there are several other
Irish in the United States that don't
intend to let that happen.
DESCENDANT OF JOHN DoucAN
SOLDIER UNDER MARION.
New York, June IL, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Is This Bill Nye ON the Wire?

The news from Peoria that the
shade Of Bill Nye has taken to
writing poetry will come as shock,
even to those of us who are in fair
ly good health.
Thirty years or more ago Bill
Nye was one of our most popular
humorists. Beginning his career on
The Laramie Boomerang, he rapidly
achieved repute for funniness.
Now this would mean the screen. In
his day it meant the lecture plat
form. He formed an oratorical
partnership with James Whitcomb
Riley. It was a great occasion in
the fremont Temple, Boston, in No
vember, 1883, when Mark Twain in
troduced Nye and Riley as the Siam
ese Twins.
I'm moral matters" said Twain,
"Mr. Chang Riley was always
dynamo, Mr.. Eng Nye was always
motor; for while Mr.. Chang Riley
had a high--in fact. an abnormally
Highland fine moral sense, he had
no machinery to work it with ;
whereas, Mr.. Eng Nye, who hadn't
any moral sense at all, and hasn't
yet, was equipped with all the nec-
essary plant for putting noble
deed through, if he could only get
the inspiration on reasonable terms
outside"
But Bill Nye, beyond few halt
ing stanzas that struck terror to the
eyes of his friends, never wrote
verse. Is it possible that Mark Twain
was right in intinating that Mr..
ENG Nye" hadn't any moral sense
at all and is willing, as he remarked,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16

words, three-plane navy Is strong.
a one-plane navy is weak.
The submarine and air forces Of the
United States Navy are pitifully made
quate to-day. 1t will require five years
of strenuous effort to make them ade-
quate. During these five years our
navy will be weak. 1t is our para
mount duty to make it strong. To 60
so we must command the air above and
the depths beneath our battle feet.
We must be strong on three planes
when we meet our next enemy on the
sea.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16

to try anything once? Otherwise
how can we account for the state
ment that Bill Nye has apparently
given UP humor and has added HIM
self to the number of the choristers ?
We don't need any more poets
the ease of free versing insures
this; but there never seems to be
enough humorists to go around.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
The Coming 7 ouer
A MEMORY OF MAC BOWEL

A MEMORY OF MAC DOWELL
In queer Brooklyn hall,
Upon shallow stage
Set in an angle of the wall
Absurdly like cage,
A young man OF graying hair
Head bent,
Eyes intent,
Brow crumpled; somber, spare
Brooklyn housewives, who would pre-
fer
Chaminade; their husbands, who woult
caro-
Mere for Jan Kubelik, when he drop.
A shower of his arpcggios and double
stops,
Much as d conjurer
Draws ribbons~-paper rihbons--from
hat;
And maiden Brooklyn, there
In cultures swe@ service Tn,
ushers' chat;
No magic lives that can stiae that
The piano singing OF marching kings
The shock of battle by misty shore,
Night that crceps from the sea ant
brings
The keening Of women for glory tina
is no moro
Then the song Is Of Jove's bird tha
braves
The sun out to its face
Risoluto-watchfu in his place
Far, far above the waves
Whose distant booming, subdued ant
blended,
Rises on the faint wind. splendid
Plunge to the deep
VolGnte--and vast sleep
Shut over all. The song is ended
Glory that wGs lost in might
Eagle that forevsv took flight!
AGRTCOLA STRONG.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
The Real Embarrassment

fFrom The Louisville Courier -Jo,sr'GD
The Canadian WHO says the Ameri-
cans are embarrassed by their wealth
should know that the neighbors' wealth
not his own, embarrasses the average
American husband and father.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Counter Attractions

fFrom The Toledo Blade
Congress is doing pretty well, cons
sidering that it has TO compete WITH
Babe Ruth.