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Ninth Street Christian--Rev. George
A. Miller. Sunday morning. subject:
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
A Mans Size Job
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: While I do not want to take
away any of the credit from Mr.. Will
son on account of the responsibility he
was laboring under during the recent
war, yet l can safely state that Presi-
dent Harding has to confront greater
questions and problems than any that
have fallen to the lot of any other
President in the history of this coun-
try. Here are some Of them:
A substitute for the League of Ma
tions, American interests in the Island
Of zap, the Havtian situation. the Co.
lombian treaty, anti-Japanese laws, the
trouble between Costa Rica and Pana-
ma, the long-standing Mexican ques-
ton, peace with Germany, relations
with Sovie. Russia, high cost of liv-
ing, tariff revision, revenue problem
railroad adjustment, capital and labor
problem, the reorganization of the gov
ernment departments on a business
basis, question of the unemployed,
Quite mans size job. but President
Harding, from the way he has started
out to tackle it, has given evidence
that he is equal to it.
HENRY A. WALLACE.
New York, March 9, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
Democracy, but Not Enough

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. McBurneys disgust with
the lack Of responsiveness of the gov
crnment of the United States to the
wishes Of the people, as expressed In
letter to The Tribune, is quite JUS
titled, but his conclusion that "democ-
racy is mess" is beside the mark. The
trouble with democracy is the fact that
it has not a free enough hand: in other
words we have not enough democracy.
The remedy is not to turn the gov
ernment over to a minority, represent
ed either by a monarchy or a soviet,
but to endeavor to change the structure
of our present government in such
particulars as will make it nearer to
our claimed ideal-a government Of,
for and by the people. We claim that
as our ideal, but large part of our
machinery Of government is based on
distrust of the people rather than
trust in them. If we really believe in
government of, for and by the people,
then it is up to US to express that ideal
more accurately in our governmental
machinery. GEORGE Y. PAYzANT.
Isle Of Pines, West Indies, Feb. "a,
1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
Restoring the Soviets

Direct news from Russia being
unobtainable because the Soviet au-
tocracy has sealed, as far as pos
sible, every avenue of communica-
tion, the information that leaks out
from the dark land is naturally frag-
mentary and contradictory. Helsing-
fors hears and forwards the tales
OF refugees, but refugees are so oc-
cupied with the business Of fight
that they have little time to observe
and report general conditions.
So the outside world finds it diff
cult to form an opinion of the exact
nature of the struggle now going on.
There is no sign that it is czaristic
or reactionary. On the other hand,
there is yet no convincing evidence
that it represents liberal move
ment which has for its object the
setting up of democratic republic.
Scattered bits of news suggest that
the struggle is perhaps one to get
rid of the tyrannous Bolshevists
rather than one to overthrow the
soviet form Of organization.
Since they seized power Le-
ninc and Trotzky have rapidly
changed their program. They first
to favor q measure Of
home rule through the local soviets
and the management of industries
through workmen's committees. But
hey have more and more departed
rom this policy and have destroyed
he authority Of the soviets or local
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11

neously. In that way the cost OF war
reparations could be neatly sad.
died on the United States.
Our general attitude toward the
Versailles settlement hardly can
fail to be affected. for a time at
least, by tho outcome Of the Lon
don conference. Germany would
renew the war X she could. She
has renewed 1t In a passive form.
This attitude Of defiance on her
part becomes a factor In world re-
lations, In disarmament discussion
and many other problems. Natu-
rally, the development Of America e
peace policy must In large measure
await a clearing up Of the situation
on the Rhine.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
We, Too, Are Concerned

The Allies have occupied more
territory on the east bank of the
Rhine in pursuance Of their treaty
rights. Paragraph 1s Of the second
annex to the reparation section says:
Tho measures which the Allied and
Associated Powers shall have the right
TO take, in case Of voluntary default
by Germany, and which Germany
agrees not to regard as acts Of war,
may include economic and financial
prohibitions and reprisals, and, in gen.
eral, such other measures as the re-
spective governments may determine
to be necessary in the circumstances.
The United States is directly con-
cerned in the collection Of repara-
tions due the Allied powers. These
powers have received large advances
from our Treasury--something like
$10,O00,O00,00O in all. If they can
recover what Germany owes them
they will be in better position to
pay what they owe US. We are,
therefore, creditor Of Germany
once removed.
American policy at this juncture
apparently will be directed--and
ought to be directed--toward an
avoidance Of an appearance of non
cooperation with the Allies. France,
Great Britain, Belgium and the
United States undertook to garri-
son the west bank Of the Rhine.
The troops of the first three powers
have now passed over to the east
bank. To withdraw our small forces
at Coblenz would encourage Ger
many in the idea that the United
States doesn't care whether Ger
many pays or not.
The same factor weighs when
considering steps to end the exist
ing state Of war. If there is no
way out except to make a separate
peace the terms Of the peace need
to be such as not to prejudice our
reversionary interest in Gesmany's
reparation payments to the Allies.
We're we to seem to acquit Ger
many Of that debt by ignoring its
existence and Withholding moral
support to its collection we should
vastly accommodate the Germans,
who would be delighted to see their
debt to the Allies and the Allied
debt to Us written off simulta-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
The Things That Matter

AS the war that never altogether
snded begins again, and the process
of settling the affairs Of the world
rumbles on without pause, and great
affairs OF state and commerce sue
ceed one another breathlessly and
portentously (in the general fashion
whereby Margery Daw rose and
fell), we come upon a quiet little
paragraph in the London papers
reading as follows:
"The Clarendon Press is completing
a revised edition Of Liddel and
Scott, which, it is explained. has
been rendered necessary by the dis
covery since the last edition was
issued Of a large body Of Greek liter
ature, including the poems of Bacchy-
lides, the mines Of Herodas, tho
Constitution Of Athens and many
pApyrus fragments. Professor Fl.
Stuart Jones, the editor. has been at
work on tho edition for nearly ten
years. The cost Of the edition is ex-
pected to amount to 100000, and it
will be issued to subscribers in not
more than ten PARTS Of about 200
pages each, At half guinea a part.
or four guineas Tor the complete
work"
Of course, there is not much fod-
der here for hungry people de-
manding the blessings Of civilization
while you wait. A man might know
all of Liddell and Scott and not be
able to sell single bond. All its
wisdom from Alpha to Omega would
not frame tariff or end war or
organize league of nations. None
of the most active engagements Of
the hour would be assisted by ref
erence to this best of reference books
one of the really great volumes in
any tongue or tongues.
Yet we like to read of Professor
II. Stuart Jones and we like to think
of this admirable labor going for
ward, wars or no wars, peace or no
peace, while the decades futter past
the study window unnumbered and
unnoticed. 1t was in 1843 that the
first edition of this memorable work
appeared. Both Of its authors were
Oxford men, Henry George Liddell
being dean Of Christ Church and
Robert Scott master of Balliol, inn
mediately preceding Jowett. 1t was
a nine-year job creating it, and edi-
ton after edition has appeared since.
Few books have been more thumbed;
few more abhorred. Despite its solid
and laborious associations it has
long ranked with the best hated
books-among which, incidentally,
The Gallo War must be awarded an
easy lead. 1t is perhaps impossible
to hate any Greek volume with the
same deadly hatred that the non
believer can concentrate upon a
Latin text.
AS between great war and old
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
Tho Colombian Treaty

It is the misfortune Of the Color-
bian treaty that it cannot be con-
sidercd except in connection with the
argument used in behalf Of its rati-
fication.
The World yesterday morning
stated what this argument is. It is
that it is conceded in principle that
the United States owed the South
American republic substantial CON-
pensation for the taking Of Panama
in defiance of solemn treaty obliga-
tions." And further, says The
World in regard to the treaty as
negotiated by Mr.. Bryan in 1914,
that rs "a primary condition it pro-
vided for the payment of SIS, 100000
to Colombia, as soell as frank cx-
precision of regret fo, the disturb
ance Of friendly relations due to tho
part taken by the United States IN
the Panama revolution"
We congratulate our neighbor on
its candor--on it's unwillingness to
pretend that the ratification of the
treaty would be less than repudia-
tion as dishonorable Of the course of
our government. Others would
screen the transaction, saying that it
is an act Of largess to quiet the
Colombians, though they have no
just claim. The World disdains ca
mouflage. 1t speaks plainly. 1t is
interested in having it written in the
official record that Theodore Roosc-
welt acted dshonorably.
The opponents of the treaty will
not shrink from debate along these
lines. In defiance of most primary
human and constitutional rights Co.
lombia had refused to consent to an
arrangement for digging the canal
through Panama, when it was obvious
that her veto, if effective, meant
the canal would be dug through
Nicaragua. Panama, her whole fu-
ture thus menaced with destruction,
seeded, as was her right, and set
up an independent republic, which
our government Justly recognized.
This is q record of honor, not of
dishonor. To acknowledge the su-
periority Of Colombia's title to the
isthmus was to do cruel wrong to
the people of Panama--was to ap-
prove the principle of conquest and
to condemn that of self determine
ton.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
Synthetic Milk
A Chemist Refuses to Take 1t So
Seriously as Mr.. Ford

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: DR.. Elmer Lees support Of
Henry Ford's synthetic milk" fallAcy
in The Tribune's magazine section
last Sunday is quite impracticable,
and am sure the chemists Of the coun-
try will give it as much weight as they
do the transmutation Of lead into gold
and other equally impossible schemes.
DR.. Lee claims that this "synthetic
milk" has the same qualities, with re-
gard to nutritive value, vitamines, ETC..
as real milk. He gives no comparative
chemical analyses showing the per-
centage of butter fat, etc, in his
synthetic milk" and cows milk. A
comparative analysis such as this
would doubtless show some very in
teresting facts as to the relative
merits of the two milks.
The term "synthetic" means the
bringing together Of two or more
simple, chemically different substances
to produce third which Is more COM
plex and has none of the chemical
properties of any of the constituents.
The Synthetic milk" which Dr.. Lee
produces is nothing but a mechanical
mixture of the soluble products con-
tained in the oats and peanuts used in
his "process," which can be separated
by mechanical means.
Milk is direct result Of life process
and is dependent upon life for its pro-
duction. The COW assmilates corn, oats,
grass and other life-giving carbohy-
drates which, by chemical changes
within the body Of the cow, are con-
verted into milk, in much the same
way that the carbon dioxide of the air
and the nitrogen Of the soil are assim-
Hated by plants and converted into
chlorophyll and plant tissues.
This is indeed an age of miracles,
and if DR.. Lee persists in his dis
coveries we shall soon have synthetic
eggs, synthetic fruit, synthetic meats
in fact, we shall soon be able to syn
thcsize everything which eminent
chemists, surgeons, etc., have hereto
fore held could be produced only by
life processes.
A CHEMICAL ENGINEER.
Scranton, Pa, March 8, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
A Notable Old Paper
Ulster County Gazette of January 4.
1900, and Its Reprint

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of March you had
a very interesting item from q Chicago
correspondent relating to the reprints
of The Ulster County Gazette Of Janu-
ary 4, 1900, containing an account Of
the burial Of washington the Gre.t,
the Father of his Country and the
Friend of Man"
Away back in the 1905 I got copy
Of that paper from an old gentleman
who lived not so far from Kingston, in
Ulster County, N y, where the originsl
was printed. He had priced it for
years, thinking it genuine issue Of
1900. l didn't know any better until one
day read in small typs IN v is title,
copyright by RS - N " Budd,
1880 Broadway, N. .. That settled it.
The name is in plain letters FIVE
sixteenths Of an inch high Under the
title is published at Kingston (Uls.er
County, by Samuel Freer and Son. Vol.
II, Mum. 8S. Saturd y. Jan 4, 1900"
No state is mention y
1t carries faitN = wood cut Of
Washington's face eA,u bust on the front
page. On the blank space Of the right
hand side of the first page. in shaded
fancy type, is printed "Gen. Geo. Wash
lngton's Death, and Funeral Of Our
First President 1900 1t has no par
ticulars of his sickness and death, but
quite a detailed account Of his funeral.
The first and fourth pages are
heavily bordered with black, the bands
on the top, sides and bottom being
four-sixteenths of an inch wide and
those between the columns three-six-
teenths of an inch. On the front page
Is poem of six stanzas, four lines
each, ION the Death Of Genera! Wash
ington," by q Young Lady.
Does any one know the name of that
young lady? This paper was published
just three weeks after ngton's
death They didn't have tclegraphs,
linotype machines or power printing
presses in those days.
Many years ago it was SAID that
Washington died in the last hour Of
the day, the last day o: the week, the
last week of the month and the last
month of the year. People thought it
very remarkable, but were ready TO
accept any unusual statements about
that great man.
Half of that was true. He died be-
tween 10 and IL O'Clock, Saturday
night, December Il. 179s
ELIAS VOSSELLER.
Corresponding Secretary Hunterdon
County On j. Historical Society.
Pennington, N. j., March 9, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
Louis Watien Speaks Out

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir; have been shown copy Of
the official program Of the mass meet
ing held in Madison Square Garden OF
February % to protest against the
presence of Moroccan troops on the
Rhine, and find that it includes my
name in the list of honorary VICE
presidents.
Will you permit me through your
paper to state emphatically that no.
only was the use of my name entifef
unauthorized, but | have absolutely 10
sympathy with the object Of the meet,
ing or the sentiments expressed tnere
On the contrary. I consider the who''
affair disgrace to the city and co"h'
try. LOUIS NAlJtN'
New York, March 10. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11

One expected him as voluminously
bearded Jew, with vast forehead,
bright, sparkling eyes and a certain
obscurity Of manner, for this, accord
ing to the conventions of the light
literature which mods our views, is
the successful Continental professor
from anywhere east of the Rhine. In
stead there walked on to the crowded
platform a rather tired looking school
master in middle age, clean shaven but
for mustache, and indifferently
dressed. An easel and blackboard had
been arranged on the platform. The
professor picked up a piece Of chalk
from the table and began to talk in an
unenthusiastic voice. Not once during
the course Of the lecture did he make
use of either the chalk or the black
board. believe they were provided by
sensible committee to put him at his
ease.
The vast Concert Hall was crowded.
week before the date Of the lecture
had ransacked Vienna for ticket to
Relativitatstheorc, and though the
lecture hall was to be the large Con-
cert Hall, with capacity Of nearly
5000, neither love nor money could
procure mo ticket. In the end I OBJ
tanned place through the courtesy Of
an inter-Allied commissions box seat
close to the platform, so that I could
watch the audience at first and then
hear the lecturer without difficulty.
The opening remarks of the professor
were a disappointment. He seemed to
deliver them with an Indifference begot
partly Of familiarity with his subject
and partly of contempt for his audi
encc Then, as he advanced into the
argument, himself exhibiting only the
mildest interest in it, change came
over us. We were aware, to our as
tonishment, Of q sudden capacity for
thought; we were actually able to un.
derstand him; we were following him
through bewildering intricacies, and
masters of ourselves, firm in our
sanity. We began to forget ourselves.
81 strike my hand twice against the
table," said the professor, zone, two.
What is your description of these phe J..
nomena? You are inclined to say that
two knocks, at different moments, have
been delivered on the same spot. Is this
true? You are aware, Of course, that
this room, placed as it is on the earth,
is moving through space, firstly be-
cause the world is turning on its own
axis, then because the world is revolv-
ing round the sun, and then because
the solar system is itself moving
through space. 1t was, therefore,
wrong to have said that two knocks were
delivered on the same spot at two differ
ent times The samencss of the spot
was only relative to the room in which
we were placed. And if we wanted the
spot to remain the same in an absolute
sense we should have to annihilate the
sense of time-that is, the two knocks
would have to take place simultane-
ously."
This is perfectly clear; is this Elm
stein the Incomprehensible? He con-
tinues:
"You therefore see that identity of
place is only possible when the sense
of time is absolutely annihilated and
that place is only relative to time. But
the converse is equally true; that is to
say, there is no time-sameness except
when the factor of space ceases to
exist"
An exhilarating illusion of clarity
comes over us. We understand the
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11

Hearst's Journal evidently has the
same feeling as to the weight Of MIR.
Whitman's blow that Levinsky had
for Carpenters. In a wo-column
appeal it pitifully begs the ex-Gov-
ernor to stop hitting the Hearst
Mayor so hard. Not since the Becker
days has Mr.. Whitman's energy and
skill as graft exposer been more
emphatically testified to.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
How Einstein Lectures
Is Actually Possible to Understand Him He TALKS on the
Theory of Relatively in Vienna
1921. New York Tribune ina
Bv Maurice Samuel
From The Manchester GUARDIAN

professor even before he explains. He
continues:
"The simultaneity of two events is
purely relative. For instance, suppos-
ing that at two points equidistant from
you two flashes of light were to be-
come simultaneously visible. You
would be inclined to say that since
light travels with uniform speed, and
the two points we're equidistant from
you, the outbreaks of light occurred
simultaneously. But were you and
were the two points of light stationary
at the moment Of the outbreaks of
light until the moment Of the arrival
Of the light at your eyes? Of course
not. for the very earth is not stationary.
And your motion with the earth neces-
sarily affected the relativity of the
speed of the light to yourself. You
were going toward one light and away
from the other, and, therefore. one
light came faster toward you and the
other more slowly. Hence what YOU
saw simultaneously did not occur sinul-
taneously'
We become almost delirious with the
Joy Of perfect understanding.
We went from the lecture hall as in
dream. In the vast cloakrooms.
where after concerts there is bedlam
and pandemonium when the audience
comes for its overcoats, there was ST.
lence. In silence and dazed thought
fulness the crowds waited for their
clothes. And we went forth into the
lightless streets Of Vienna like ghosts.
For the earth was not under our feet,
and the sense of time and space had
been taken from US; and like impos-
sible and intangible distractions we
remained immovable and unchangc-
able in void which had not even mag
nitude or duration till the
tram came out of the meant and with
out conviction we offered the conduc-
tor three kronen.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11

Liddell and Scott, which IL the more
important? Mr.. II. g. Wells, who
would put perspective into his
tory, would undoubtedly snap back
"Neitherl" For he holds TO science
lin the narrow, modernist sense OF
tho word, whereby telephones flower
upon every desk and "civilixation" IL
made synonymous with "nachine. "
But, applying little perspective to
Mr.. Wells himself, we wonder. Even
a telephone Is Of not much signifi-
cance unless something Of moment is
to be said over it. And in that slow
growth Of permanent wisdom which
tho few great people from ono
thousand years to another add to our
small atoll of truth such labor as
this upon Greek lexicon IL surely
not to be sneezed st.
Wars break over It with trernen-
dous pother, and it is unaware Of
their rampaging. Generations uprise
who learn little and care less about
these Greeks thus laboriously trans
lated. What Of it? The race never
was to the swift. II our atoll is In
deed built Of that hard, white sub-
stance, the truth, It need not worry.
1t only grows solder with the centu-
ries, and sooner or later the bustling,
battling, excitable human race must
come back to it. We cast q confident
vote for Liddell and Scott as against
anything upon the contemporary
horizon, however huge or expansive
or ingenious.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-11

councils. Their system is now a rep
lica Of czarism, with orders coming
from the top to the bottom, instead
Of from the bottom to the top.
Thus. it may be that the rallying
cry Of the anti-Bolshavists ia for
a restoration Of the soviets, and that
the revolt is not primarily to set up
a democracy as tho Western world
understands the term; and that
hence, even though successful, Rus
sia must so through other convul-
sions before she reaches stability.