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New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
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Queerful Widget which Horace
Liveright wrote in to recommend as a
children's book, is almost as good as
he said it was. Just how we'll it will
go with small readers Is a matter of
surmise to us. A little of it is propa-
ganda, and that, we think, they are
likely to resent. "And what makes you
queerful widget?" asks the boy in
the story after his conductor in the
magic land has explained "My ma was
witch and my pa was a midget" At
this point " B. Hawkins, the author
Of Queerful Widget, cannot resist the
temptation to good works.
"Oh, I always wash my hands and
face without anybody telling me to-"
explains the widget, "and never have
to be sent back to wash behind my
ears, and I don't go to sleep on the
floor at night and whine when they
tell me to go to bed, and l never think
my troubles are the only ones in the
world, and-oh, lot of things like
that. So, that's how I come to be
queerful."
Personally, we are very doubtful of
the efficacy of this method Of approach
toward cleanliness and the other ira
ditional good habits in the young. In
telling H. Sd about Jack and the Bean
stalk we eventually tried to slip in a
moral by winding up, "And then Jack
slid down the beanstalk just as fast as
he could because he knew it was his
bedtime and he wanted to go TO bed"
"He didn't want to go to bed" in
terrupted H. Sd rudely, and never
since has he asked to hear the story
Of Jack and the Beanstalk. The
propaganda has blighted it for good
On the other hand, some of the
propaganda set forth in Queerful
Widget Is much more appealing to the
notions of the young and some others.
Consider, for instance, the making of
laws in the Boundless Palace, as illus
trated by the Widget:
"He led Bob to circle of tail, shape
lv pines, in the center OF which was a
green grassy mound, frightened the
more by CHEEKY faces of nasrurtiums
and varicolored pansies. The top Of
the mound was softly cushioned BY a
deep bed of yielding pine needles, and
upon this sat large mechanical doh,
severely erect and stern of visage.
Your Serene Majesty said Queer
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
YaIe's New President

The accession of DR.. James Row
land Angel to its presidency marks
new epoch in the history Of Yale
University, completing the process
Of evolution begun with the election
and installation of his distinguished
predecessor. The accession Of DR..
Arthur Twining Hadley twenty-five
years ago was recognized as a sig
nifcant departure from the old rule
that Yale presidents must be Con-
gregational clergymen. But DR..
Hadley, though layman, was dis
tinctively Yale man, by tradition,
by paternity, by personal affiliation
and training and by experience and
practice. No man in all the honored
succession was more thoroughly
Identified with Yale than he.
Just as distinctively, his successor
was not, until his election, Yale
man and had not in any way been
associated with that university. His
father, one Of the foremost scholars
Of his day, was identified with
great Western university, which un-
der his administration was one of
the foremost "freshwater colleges"
to be recognized as a peer of the
seats Of learning on the Atlantic
seaboard. He himself was educated
at that same University of Michi-
gan. with postgraduate course at
Harvard and special courses at sew
eral European universities; had
taught at the University of Mime
sofa and had g long and distin-
guished career at the University of
Chicago. He had also been an ex-
change professor at the Sorbonne in
Paris; but in no way had he been
connected with Yale until he was
elected to be it's head.
Now, the choice of lay president
in DR.. Hadley did not at all signify
any remuneration or departure from
the essential principles of Christian
ethics and culture for which the Con-
gregational Church stands, but rath-
er a recognition of the vital fact
that they were the possession of the
laity as we'll as of the clergy. SO
the election of one whom we may
term non7Yale man does not de-
note any abandonment or decline of
the "Yale spirit" but rather the
fact that that spirit is SO catholic
and comprehensive as to be suscep-
tible of exposition by son of an
other alma mater as we'll as by one
born and bred beneath the elms of
New Haven. Some may regard it as
the conformity Of Yale with the gen.
eral principles Of American univer-
sity culture, some as the approxima-
tion Of that culture to the standards
of Yale-each to his own interpreta-
ton. The two are merely two views
of the same fact, and to-day's great
function at New Haven marks
Yale's complete Identification with
the American scholarship and cul-
ture Of which for more than tive
centuries it has been one of the fore
most leaders.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
Clemenceau's WanderIust

Clemenceau has the wander]ust
again. Recently returned from a.
tiger hunt in India, he is now plan
ming a trip to Holland and an out
ing in Corsica. In April it was re-
ported that he was going to Aus
tralia late this year, and he is said
to wish to revisit America, which
he left more than fifty years ago as
young doctor.
The old spirit still survives.
Nothing can queli the restless en-
ergy of this remarkable man. At
eighty he preserves the enthusiasm
OF eighteen, and despite his cyril
cism and disillusion he still has an
unquenchable zest for life. Moth
ing has dulled it. After a half
century of fighting--pulling down
one ministry after another-he
took up the battle of the French
soldier in 1914. His paper,
hHomme Libre, was suppressed.
He revived it under the name
L'Homne Enchaine. He fought
for better food for the soldiers. He
fought for proper postal facilities.
tie fought the fainting spirit of the
people behind the lines. He turned
against the civilians their timid re-
mark about the soldiers, "Ah, if
only they can hold out" and de-
clared that all would go well "if
only the civilians hold out"
His lsaaasshia in 1917 and his
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
Anybody Want to Work for Will White

tFrom The Emporla GazetteJ
The Gazette desires a stenographcr
to replace a capable young woman who
is quitting this Job for better one.
The steno's worl, will be to take by
telephone the Associated Press report
daily~-about three hours work all
told; then to take the boss's letters,
sometimes from the dictaphone, often
through straight dictation.
But we don't want no gum chewer.
And no earless wonder need apply. But
any old girl who will admit that she is
Is and looks 80 and isn't afraid Of 40,
who wants steady job and can work
in an office with Is men without nom
sense, who will take one last long
lingering look at her hand mirror as
she punches the time clock in the
morning and another as she checks out,
who can spell common words and
doesn't regard the dictionary as poison,
who knows about apostrophc IS" with
out having to blink and guess at it,
who keeps her hair combed and her
petticoat from showing without devot-
ing too much time to herself, and who
can laugh easily and then doesn't, may
find fairly good job at reasonable
wages. Apply in person. Do not write
or phone.
The high standard set by the present
incumbent probably is responsible for
the difficult nature of the above spec-
fications.
Among the things we speculate on,
these long days, Is whether the middle
name Of Miss Virginia Valli, the m. p
star, is Shenandoah
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
A Fact to Emphasize
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t cannot be too strongly en-
phasized that Admiral Sims has de-
nounced distinctly only tho disloyal
Irish; that 1t is tho disloyalty Of ono
group against which he inveighs. The
distinction which Admiral Sims was at
pains to draw between the loyal and
disloyal Irish Is one which all Just
Americans are eager to make.
The last word on this matter was
spoken over two thousand years ago
mo man can serve two masters"
EUNICE CURTIS.
New York, June 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22

hand, many sailors sf tie United
States fcet came back with kindly feel
ings toward the English and have ex-
pressed themselves so. One concludes
that their ilne feii In pleasanter
places.
] know that among tbs officers Of the
United States snips AMI the British
feet very friendly spirit generally
prevailed. c. R. PATTERSON
New York, June Is, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
AS General Bragg Said

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: As New Yorker. at present
in San Francisco, l appeal 30 all
patriotic fellow townspeople to give
Admiral Sims typical New York re.
ception.
AS General Bragg said of another fine
American. we love him for The enemies
he has made. ]. ]. JACKSON.
San Francisco, Calf, June 16, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
Surface Cars 'Obsolete"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "Onc Of the Hoi PolIoi" in to-
days Tribune is indignant at Mayor
Hylan, the "fva-cent-fare savior" be-
cause he pays Is cents fare on the
surface cars. Please tell him in the
future to take the III" from Ridgcwood
to Jamaica (if he must go to Jamaica>
The fare is five cents and he will make
letter time,, and on Election Day walk
to the polls with smile and vote for
John F. Hylan for Mayor. The surface
cars are obsolete. 1t is time they were
replaced by busses, doing away with
the tracks, hindrance to traffic.
NJ. L. LEWIS.
New York, June II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
Settlement of Mandates
Respective Powers ot Allied Supreme
Council and League Council


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: After reading Carter Fields
article from Washington in this morn
lng's Tribune l cannot escape regret
that an otherwise able article is marred
by a serious Misunderstanding of the
League Of Nations relationship to the
mandates. Speaking of the alleged or
possibly real inclination of the Allies
to make the return of the United States
to the Supreme Council an excuse for
permitting the League of Nations or
ganization to die from lack of use,
your correspondent says:
"Those who hold this view are all the
more convinced of its soundness now
that the league has virtually surren-
Gered to the Supreme Council the set
tlement of mandates, function which
not only was granted to the league
organization by the peace treaty but
to which the league organization had
already laid claim"
To ME, at least, the expression "set-
tlement Of mandates" means the dis
posal of mandatory territory, and this
is the very thing involved in the dis
pute about Yap. No such power has
been bestowed on the league by the
peace treaty and no such power has
been claimed by the League Council.
A careful reading of Article XXI of
the League of Nations covenant will
show that this document takes a pre-
vious distribution Of the mandatory
territories for granted and confers on
the council only the power to define
"the degree Of authority, control or
administration to be exercised by the
mandatory" In other words, the au-
thority of the league does not begin
until a certain territory has been
definitely allocated to a certain nation
as mandatory.
All the previous proceedings Of the
council have rested on this principle.
When the &C" mandates, covering also
the island Of Yap, were approved by
the council. this meant only that the
council approved the terms under
which those mandates were to be exer-
cised and not the disposal of the ter
ritories, which was a matter already
settled by the Supreme Council of the
Allies. At the time of the approval
nothing had occurred to make the
League Council expect a division of
opinion among the Allied and associ-
ated powers represented on the Su-
preme Council. When, through the
protests of the State Department at
Washington, such disagreement was
made evident the league had only one
thing to do-namely, what it has just
done by referring the question of those
mandates back to the Supreme Coun-
Gil.
The procedure in its entirety means
that, through no fault of It's own, the
League Council was betrayed into
premature action. Having discovered
this, 1t simply Cancelled it's action and
referred the whole matter back to the
authority where 1t still belonged. This
did not and can not have any particular
bearing on the future possibilities or
relative positions of the Supreme Coun-
Gil and the League Of Nations, or the
possible continuance or discontinuance
of either body.
EDWIN BJORKMAN.
New York, June 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22

moving the stuff which this city it.
self had dumped there.
It is time for all such things to be
foresworn and for the national,
state and city governments to CO.
operate in making and keeping this
a national port worthy of the nation,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22

full Widget, removing his bonnet and
making low bow, is it lawful that my
friend here shall have all the cake he
wants? He ascended the terraced
mound and gave the King sharp poke
in the stomach, whereupon his
majesty let out a kind of squawk.
with another obeisance, Queerful
Widget backed down the mound, thank
ing the King in courtly words.
"'See?' said he, rejoining Bob. 'The
King says it is perfectly lawful. So
now you can have all the cake you
want
GLOW could you tell what the King
said p Bob asked.
"'I couldn't. Nobody could. That's
the beauty of it. We used to have a
man for King, but everybody under
stood nearly everything he said, and
lot of US didn't like the laws he gave
us; 80. naturally, good many of them
were violated. Of course, that was all
wrong; so we drove the King out and
set up this one. Ever since that we've
been a perfectly law abiding people.
Everybody gets whatever laws he
wants, SO nobody ever needs to break
them.'"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
GERTY.
THE KING GOES RIGGING

| wish that some day you
Of vital, glorious strength
Would Glamour at my door
And say:
~ am so tired, hungry, cold;
My soul is Of the colour of gray waters,
Old-so old!"
| want to see you bent
In solitary questioning
Before the chilly CRATE,
With all
Your brave philosophy of life
Unvindicated, trampled, spent,
Conquered in strife
Your heart thing of dust;
You who were powerful
To be a frightened child;
You who sailed Justify
To be jostled spar.
Then I for once could do
The million, million things
Your cynic smile forbade:
Taking your sword, your spurs,
Your military cloak,
Your orders, documents
And seal
Unto my Jealous keep,
Saying in firm, authoritative voice,
"Now sleep"
Ia like TO see you reach
Your hand to find mine
In the gathering gloom
And cling to It in sudden fright.
I'd like to see you tired--tlred-
That night.
And though when trumpets Of the
morning
Brazen blared
You would arise a king again
And, debonairly smiling, 60
In spite of all your strength
I'd know
You'd crept one night,
A piteous, broken failure
Begging at my door. J.P.
Duncan, bare-legged, wearing his
Greek robes and scandals.-pittsburg
Gazette Times.
Stetl
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22

This, we think, would be propaganda
more grateful to H. Sd if he could
understand it, and probably he would
get the gist of it. And, to revert to
something mentioned earlier in to-
days discussion, doesn't it seem to you
that this business of making children
wash is being somewhat overdone? We
never could understand just why they
had to be so clean. Of course, we know
that it is always put down on the
ground of health, and probably a GER
tain scrupulousness is good for the
very little ones. But as they grow
older and more rugged it seems TO as
that they ought to be able to get along
with a little less cleanliness Gem
orally they are perfectly willing to
cooperate in the experiment. It Is our
notion that half these commands which
children receive 70 wash their hands
and clean their nails, and all the rest
of it, are meant not for the chtld's
health or good or anything on earth
but the glory Of the parent. How else
can anything so academic as "behind
the ears" be brought into controversy
between father ani soa!
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22

rca ssn purchase mssshsasiss savertssa Ii The
SRtRyNS with absolute safsts--tcr " dissnhsfas-
Hen resuits In any case THE TRIBUNE suaran.
teee to pey yous mensy back uncn request. No red
taps. No lelbbiins. We Eake fced promptly "
t6s ssvsrtlser dees net.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
While the Quitting Is Good

GFrom The Chicago Daily Netcs)
1t would seem discretion on their
part for Lenine and Trotzky to come
out of Russia while they can come
under their own power.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
urywxp or THE ASSOCIATED rnxss

the Associated Press "a ezciusissly entitled to
shs use for republication OF ell nswS dispatches
credited % It not otherwise credited In this
paper and slse the local news Of spontaneous
srtSin published herein.
AL rights of republication Of all ether matter
herein also reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
A Question Of Manners

fffom The Chicago Daily News)
OF course, Mexico could struggle
along without recognition by the United
States, hut it is awkward for next-door
neighbors not 10 speak.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
She was a vision Of delight,

She was vision Of delight,
If one may be bit Byronic.
S. E. Kiser in The American.
One might be a bit Rossettian, or
Chaucerian, or Masefeldian, or any
thing one likes. But if one wishes to
be bit Wordsworthian one might
quote correctly.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22

Both fighters are joyously confident,
Tex Richards motto being Happiness
in Every Boxer"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
The Bus Takers


"Isn't 1t a wonderful night, Tiger"
"Just great. Is my Baby happy?"
II should say-is my Tiger joyous n
"Ummmm."
Listen, Tiger. Don't the Hawleys
live on Eighty-fourth Street,"
''No, Baby, Eighty-third Street"
"Oh, no, Tiger, you're mistaken.
Eighty-fourth Street"
"Oh, no, Baby. Don't you remember
when we went to see them on Eighty
third Street,"
"But Tiger dear, know ii was
Eighty-fourth Street."
"Oh. Baby, you're mistaken. Don't
you remember how we even argued
about 1t at the time; and, finally, land
ed there at Eighty-third Street after
We had been in the house at Eighty
fourth Street and not found them?"
eyes, but Tiger, you have the thing
twisted-it was at Eighty third Street,
VIC looked for them, and finally found
them at Eighty-fourth Street"
wen, BABY, guess you're right"
"Gosh, Tiger, coming to think Of tt
it was Eighty third Street."
GERTY.
To Dean and Mrs. Robert Williams
at Chaplin, Conn, daughter, who
has been named Florence Ethel. Father
and daughter are doing well-Wil-
Transport, Pa, Gazette and Bulletin.
The repOrter did nrettv fair himself
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
The Coming ower
HaIlucination

What was it flew over me there
Over me lightly,
Darted, and left me to stare
After it Whitley?
Ghosts Of the long low moon,
Mlsts Of the meadow,
Dune, after dune, after dune,
You saw It's shadowI
Was it the love I sought?
Was it the love ] seek?
Or forgotten thought
Come back to speak?
GENEVTEVE TAGGARD.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
(Reprinted bu RenneatSl

Here, as we come to the end of our
tether,
May we remark It is glorious weather ?
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22

When George Cohan achieved "Nor-
folk" and ''war-talk," we considered
that the record, on the stage, for acetic
rhyming. But G. M. S. Mcclellan, who
was an accomplished writer, pulled one
in "She Is the Belle Of New York.
1t is sung in the revival at the Winter
Garden, and goes about like this:
l give It you straight, she's a regular bird,
And as dainty as ever you saw fly:
And since she's been round I'll give you
my word
That we don't read thing but The
War Crv
New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
sUBsCRrrTroN NATEs-By mail fnnsrdf
rcstsgs. IN THE UNITED sTATgS
euAsANr

Battered ss the rossstscs AZ Ssw Yosk ~ seecsd
Slasa Mail Mater.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-06
Announcements

The March party OF the wOman's
Dining club viii be in the nature Of
a formal dance az the Indiana club
this year, and the affair viii take
place Wednesday night. March 9.
The program Of dances will be play
ed by Fishers orchestra of Kala-
mazoo, which will begin at $50
o'clock
Members OF the Ladies' Aid So
ciety OF the Grace NJ. L. church viii
hold an old fashioned thimblc
Thursday afternoon in the church
parlors. Mrs. Ralph Harris viii
speak on "AmuSements for young
People" and the different depart
ments OF city civics viii We described
by Mrs. Earl Hummer.
y union meeting Of all the PhiIa-
thea classes of the city will be held
Monday night at $ o'clock at West
minister Presbyterian church.
The current event department OF
the Progress club viii meet Mon
day afternoon az $50 O'Clock in the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-06
Personals

Miss Virginia Roberts. $40 F..
Monroe St, is the guest of Miss Dor
othy Naughton of Walkerton, Ind,
while assisting in a high school en-
tertainment there.
Or. and Mrs. c. L. Geyer. 1902
Woodward av., are visiting in West
Baden. Ind.
Mrs. r. c. Morrow, sos s. Carroll
st. has returned from the Dress
makers style show and convention
which has been in session for the
past few days in Chicago.
Mrs. Sallio Cook Of Clinton, Ind,
who has been the guest of her sis
ter, Mrs. W. O. Davies. 917 W.
Washington av., left Saturday for
Indianapolis where she will visit her
son before returning home.
Mrs. Lucy Peck of Columbus. o.,
who has been the guest of her sis
ter. Mrs. Louis Berger, 1l13 Lincoln
way w, for the past two months
las returned home.
Mrs. J. A. Ashley Of Centeville,
Mich. is the guest of Mrs. James
Major. 229 E. Navarro st.
Mrs. Anna Crosby and Mrs Flor
ence Crosby. w. Wayne St. have
gone to Lincoln. Neb., where the
former will spend two months. the
guest Of her son, Robert Crosby.
Mrs. Florence Crosby has ACCEPTED
position at Lincoln and will make
her home there permanently.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-06
NOTRE DAME

The Writer'S club Of the depart
ment Of journalism met in the pub
lieity room of the library Friday
evening. Frank McGinnis read an
original short story. Tony Morgan
gave an interesting talk on The
Trials of a Much-loved Man" and
Murray Powers lead a discussion Of
the latest best sellers.
The Miners club met in Chemis-
try hall Friday evening for a short
business session followed by a lunch
and smoker.
Fourth Degree Knights of Column
bus of Notre Dame and South Bend
will enjoy a supper in the Kable
banquet hall Tuesday evening. An
informal program is being arranged
by the local knights who expect TO
entertain % visitors from the city.
St Thomas day Will be observed
Monday by the St. Thomas Asquinas
Philosophical society with religious
exercises and a banquet which will
be served in the evening, All jun
Tor and senior students in the Pm. B.
course will be free from classes for
the day. but freshman and sophie
more philosophy classes will be
taught as usual.
The University orchestra is re-
hearsing daily on a new program
which may be used TO accompany
the Glee club on it's trips to the sur
rounding territory. Interest in all
fields of musical activity has been
aroused by the issuance of credit
hours to be considered as electives
for work in the glee club. band and
orchestra.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-06

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