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New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Biackwell's (Welfare) Island

u Is now three years and half
s'ace the Hylan administration took
vser the management of Blackwell's
sand from the Mitchell regime. In
.nae time practically the only notices
IS record there have won in the met
fopoiltan press were headed Black
weiis Disgrace and .sWorkhouse
Inc contrast between the achieve
neats Of Tammany and Fusion is as
marked in this field as in many
0sners. Mayor Mitchell took office at
me very moment when a sensational
'hyestlsation Of Tammany rule ON
8 sas island was in progress. Club
9''lg and the water cure were in full
swing and the cells were declared
Shlit Tor pigs. Commissioner Davis
asserted that conditions were $50
ssiie that the Department OF Corrcc-
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Practical Politics

Peru should be the envy Of prac-
tical politicians. Instead of stoop-
ing to ballot stuffing, repeating and
other comparatively involved North
American methods to control an
election, the Peruvians have adopted
a simpler and more direct expedi
ent. With that lucid logic attributed
by members of the Nordic races to
the Latins, the latest Peruvian Pres
ident, according to recent Secre-
tary Of State Of Peru, decided that it
would save much confusion if he
deported all the members of the op-
position.
SO the order went out to arrest all
available former or future Presi-
dents, Vice-Presidents, potential or
past Cabinet ministers and generals
and lesser political fry, and they
were bundled off to freighter
bound for Australia.
|, Once at sea, however, one of the
former Peruvian Presidents, recall
ing the tales of the pirates of old,
went to the ships captain and de-
tnanded that he land them at Punta
Arenas, in Costa Rica. The captain
protested that he had no papers to
Hand there and that the Peruvians
had no passports One of the for
rner Secretaries of State pointed out
that they had no passports for Aus
tralia, and that if they conformed
TO the rules of international juris-
prudence they would be condemned
to spend the rest of their lives on the
ocean
With shrug of his shoulders the
captain admitted the situation was
perhaps little out of the ordinary,
but---qate poaleS uous9--his destina-
tion wzs Australia, and thither he
would go. On hearing this one of
/ the Peruvian Presidents announced
! that there We're twenty-five of his
fellow politicians on the ship and
only one captain, and all twenty-five
were armed. The ship landed them
1 at Punta Arenas. Meanwhile the
President who had exiled them lived
| on in peace in Peru.
His is the sort Of direct action
] that ought to appeal to all good
American politicians. How simple,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
The Earth Will Stay khe Same

(Fvons The Nation)
THE earth will stay the same for all
our flying;
We shall come back to earth when we
are done,
And take gray streets again for air and
sun,
Give up the truth of space for dust and
lying.
A girls clear look will find US in a
crowd,
The western moon will die in soundless
dawn,
We shall live briefly then with what is
gone,
Riding our seas of light and wind and
cloud
But mostly we shall live with earth; our
hands
Shall keep her rhythm, eyes and ears
shall know
Her shafts of steel, the singing o. her
cars,
AS, far from rain-washed forests, sea-
washed sands,
Dreams in house upon a sleeper grow
Who made his bed for years beneath the
stars.
FRANK ERNEST HILL.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
More Houses

In every investigation, such as has
engaged the Lockwood committee,
there comes a time when it's mana
gers must elect between the real
and spurious-when it must decide
whether their inquiry is to be direct
ed to ends supported by common
sense or is to attempt to satisfy the
public opinion, such as the Hearst
publications find it profitable to de-
velop, which assumes that the inter-
ests of the poor and rich are in un-
conquerable antagonism-that ,one
class is always vicious and the other
always virtuous.
Even though an inquisitorial COM
mittee is composed, in the first in
stance, of poor stuff, it's members are
seldom stupid enough not to learn
early that mere undertaking does
little good and commonly positive
harm, and that the solution of the
problem before the committee is bit
complicated. But, unfortunately, if
there are weakness and demagogy
anywhere in the committee, its
morals break down even though its
knowledge increases and it plunges
wildly into the business of feeding
prejudice.
Under the leadership of Mr.. INTER
myer, skilful and energetic though
he is, the Lockwood committee has
not been wholly free of offense.
Much time has been wasted in bring
ing into disrepute lenders of money
who have charged high rates of in
terest. Those not lending at all have
escaped unwhipt, though it needs no
argument to sustain the proposition
that usurers have brought the public
more new houses than have the lock-
ers-up of funds.
In the latest statement of Mr.
Untermyer this fact is implicitly con-
ceded. He would repeal the usury
laws when the sum loaned exceeds
$4,000. But as if afraid of giving
this sound advice in an undiluted
form, he follows it up with an un-
sound recommendation. He would
compel institutions holding popular
savings to lend a specified percentage
of their deposits on real estate To
limit investments to secure safety Of
the principal is justifiable, but,
safety aside. what right has a Legis-
lature to farce the owner of $4,000
or less of capital to place it in one
field when perhaps ne can get more
in another?
The practice of imposing fines
rather than prison sentences on COM
bining price boosters, which Mr..
Untermyer condemns, is, of course,
absurd. To collect money penalties
which are treated as part of the ex-
pense of doing business, and thus
passed on to buyers, is to hit the
public. But the practical question re-
mains of whether juries will convict
when knowing verdict of guilty
will put defendants in the peniten-
tiary. Members Of labor unions are
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
A Week of Verse
kfiIton
lFra,r, Tha En-

From Tbs Eneiish Rsvssc)
AS ONE who coins in their endless
4 - kind
Should handle, darkly superscribed. de-
faced,
uneouth impressions upon ore dsbssed,
And thus perfect round Of soId should
Gnd
BY an artifcer OF old designed
In some great town, Greek and white
shining, placed
In the clear air, coin nebly graced
With simple head or shape cut In refined
Metal; SO in the heaps of English gpeeci,
Worn blank by vulgar use, or counter
felt,
Or charactered amiss, we meet the ring
Of thy pure verse, which glitters like q
thing
Ininitable, in thy brains fierce heat
Stamped with the highest art of modern
reach.
PETER E. WRIGHT.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

how straightforward, how thorough
is this method How much it would
have facilitated the work Of Mr..
Wilson, for example, had he been
able to deport Senator Lodge,
Colonel Roosevelt, General Wood and
Debs,s together with the host Of un-
Wilsonian Democrats whose minds.
like Mr.. Bryan's and Mr.. Lansing's,
failed to go along with his!
We commend this plan to all prac-
tical politicians.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
The DENLY Shift

The DENLY Shift
When Secretary Denby, on June 8,
csbled to Admiral Sims at London
the part of the Admiral's speech he
emphasized as exciting his concern
vas that which referred to the Sim
Fginers and advised the British to
ignore any resolution forced by the
%iackass" vote. The Secretary indi-
eated that he deemed it subversive Of
naval discipline for flag officer of
the navy to hurt the feelings of fel-
low citizens.
But now the interest of the Secre-
tary has apparently shifted to an
other center. He is no longer as So
licitous as he was about Sim F'ein
sensibilities. The statement which
precedes his reprimand does not men,
sisn the Irish question. One can
read all that the Secretary wrote in
bis letter without learning there is
an Irish question or that there are
Sim Feiners.
The fault Of Admiral Sims, the of
tense for which he was rebuked, is
that he urged closer relations be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States. This matter, says the Secre-
tary, is one to be commented on only
by "a high government official "to
whom the care of our foreign policy
isintrusted."
So the AdmiraPs sin consists in his
prophecy that he would live to see
the two English-speaking nations
working together, and that this
would mean the peace of the world.
As if to leave no doubt of the sole
basis Of the reprimand the Secretary
recalls that, eleven years ago, the
Admiral was rebuked for predicting,
Il Great Britain We're menaced, that
the United States would fight with
her--a prediction that was verified.
Why did the Secretary shift? At.
what time did he conclude that he
could better make out case by in
lecting new criticism? Why did he
rot suggest on June s that he was
disturbed by the Admiral's intrusion
INTO the work of the State Depart
ment? 1t was assumed that the Ad-
miral was to be lectured on his at
lack on the Sim Fem. The Admiral
himself obviously so understood, for
bis explanatory letter is confined to
statement of what he said and
what he did not say in relation to
Ireland.
But, somehow, the Secretary was
ed to forget the affront to Sim Fem
agitators in this country. Can it be
that the Secretary was swayed from
@id impartiality by the food of pro-
tests that swept III On him and sour
RED around to find another basis for
an attack?
Tatnall in Chinese waters once re-
marked that blood was thicker than
water and waded in. He was not
feprlmanded. In Cuba British
eafsul once threw the British
nag over Americans who faced
'rlng squad. lie was not reprimand-
g by the British government. But
now no officer of the government, ex-
eept expressly authorized, may say
&c hopes for closer relations between
sae United States and the foreign
country whose citizens he may adj
Ress. Surely a novel doctrine is
ms. What is an American abroad
. say if debarred from expressing
aopes for firmer friendship?
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
The Primrose Path

From The Louisville Couricr-Jovnal)
Road maintenance is even q greater
problem than road. construction. The
only road that remains smooth and in
viting without maintenance is the
broad road to perdition, every mile of
which may be coasted.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

- From The Liberdtorj
THEY wove for me little cloak
Of worsted brown and strong,
They wove it firm, these kindly folk,
That might wear it long.
I, who would dance in gossamer
With poplars on hill,
Or wander naked with the Wind
They clothe in worsted still
LOIS F. SEYSTER.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

Britain shall not be called on to fight
any country with which she. may have
in force a general treaty of arbitra-
ton.
In 1911 ouch a treaty had been nego-
tiated between Great Britain and the
United States, but the Senate refused
to ratify it because it impinged on the
sovereignty of the United States. In
1914 peace commission treaty between
Great Britain and the United States
was negotiated and ratified But it pro-
vided only for delay and investigation
and not for conclusive arbitration.
When the Japanese heard of an effort
to make it appear that this peace COM
mission treaty relieved Great Britain
of her obligation to enter a Japanese
American war against the United States
the Kokumin said: 1--WE are simply
dumb with amazement"
Nor has the United States ever had
any adequate expression from Japan
obligation to take up arms with Japan
against the United States.
In Case Of Modification
While the conclusion seems unavoid-
able that, as the Anglo-J apanese alli-
ance now stands, there is no adequate
safeguard against England being called
on by its terms to fight against the
United States, it would not seem impos-
sible to redraw this alliance in such
terms as to make it manifest that Eng
land would not enter a war between
Japan and the United States as the CO.
belligerent of the Oriental and against
the Anglo-Saxon republic.
Let US assume that the alliance has
been SO redrawn and renewed. Still,
there will remain the gravest reasons
on the part of the United States for
considering the thus modified Anglo
Japanese alliance highly inimical to
American interests.
The writer has been assured by an
Englishman fresh from the Orient,
governmental position, that if the
Anglo-Japanese alliance is renewed on
any terms Japan will seize the first
possible opportunity to make it incum
bent on the United States to declare
war on her. If Japanese-American
war were to occur, with England in al
lance with Japan though non-bel-
ligerent, Japan would be warranted in
counting at least on friendly neutral
ity from England.
1t is probable that during the first
year of such q war most, if not all, of
the Pacific insular possessions of the
United States would be taken by Japan.
1t is improbable that it would be before
the second or third year of such war
that the United States would be able TO
concentrate such power as to crush
Japan. But if England were in alliance
with Japan it is the intention of the
latter to so use England that she will
force the United States to conclude
peace, say at the end of the first year,
when Japan would be at the zenith of
her early successes, And with England
as her counselor at the peace table
Japan could count on retaining her CON
quests.
Command Of the Pacific
Th;s vynuId mt i,er in ,irtnsI cnr-
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Lullaby
(Fro7t Harper'sJ

IF, MY dear, you seek to slumber,
Count of stars an infinite number:
If you still continue wakeful,
Count the drops that make lakeful;
Then, if vigilance yet above you
Hover, count the times I love you;
And if slumber still rebel you,
Count the times / do not tell you.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
No. Danger
fFrom The Washiroson SIN,

fFrom The WASHINGTON siay3
A radical publication usually defeats
its own arguments in a manner ths.
makes it safe. and even desirable, sor
the PostofIice Department to give Il c:r-
cglaticn facilities.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

ootprlnts
fFrons The FORUM
ANLY yesterday Z
! traced your footprint
On the shore Of the sea;
But the tides fiow,
And the tides ebb.
To-day there is no track
In the sand.
Once you slept lightly,
Very lightly.
oycr ny heart.
Il was long ago,
Dut the footprint fingers.
EUGENE G. D0LSoE.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

ysa esa purchase merchandise advertised In THE
.e.etlSs wIsA absolute sa;ety-foT II dissati.sac-
a. r,uits In sny oass THS TRIBUNE gaaran-
- y. 70 psy sour aoney haes upeH request. No red
~ No auibbtiag. We make good promptly If
X advertiser Goes rot.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
British-American Friendship

But an end to Anglo-American
friendship, thank God, will not entail
an end to British-American friendship.
In the United States already there is
the sharpest distinction drawn between
the overseas Britannia world and Eng
land. Are not the United States.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand
and South Africa sisters of com
mon origin who have had quite
similar life problems, who face identi-
cal dangers and who are all more alike
in their characters and outlook than
any of them is like the home land
whence we all come?
Whether England renews the Anglo
Japanese alliance and ends Angle
American friendship or not, the
entente of the English-speaking peo-
pies overseas from England will keep
alight the torch of British American
friendship.
Would that England may see that
the Japanese problem is q thousand
fold more of menace to her realm
than it is to the United States--or to
Australasia with the support of the
United States. ii England can sse this
she will align herself with the great
majority of the Anglo-Saxon race. in
stead of trying to play lone hand
with the Japanese.
WILLIAM HOWARD GARDINER.
New York, June 5, 1924.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
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k,rein also reserved
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Back to Normal

tFrora The Proridenec Journal)
Our Mexican negotiations, having
reached deadlock, look strangely IA
miliar.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

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New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Armenian Verse

fFro7n The Contemporary Revtctrl
Translated BY Zabellc c. Boycjian)
ssEF l compare thee to brocade, twill
fray;
If to q plane-tree, twill be felled one
day.
All girls are likened to gazelles thourt
How then shall compare thee truly,
love?
"The violet is wild, and low of birth;
Rubies are stones for all their priceless
worth:
The moon itself is made of rocks and
earth
All fiame-thou shinest like the sun, my
love"
sAYAT NOVA, Seventeenth Century.
"Huntsman, that on the hills above
To hunt the deer hast been;
Tell me, pray thee. if my love
My wild deer thou hast seen.
"He sought the hills his grief to quell,
My darling love, my sun;
He wandered out upon the fell,
My flower, my only one"
Maiden, saw your lover true,
All girt with red and xrcen,
Upon his breast rose tree grew,
Where once your kiss had been"
"Huntsman, pray. who is the bride
Of my beloved, my sun?
Who tends him, watching by his side.
My flower, my only one5"
Maiden, / saw him with his head
Upon stone, st rest,
And for his love, bullet red.
Into his heart was pressed
THE mountain breeze caressangly
Played with his jctb!ack hair,
And blossoms wept Increasingly,
Your flower, your lover thera."
AVETIS ISAHAKTAN, Cemsomsosusy.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Iapan's Shield
New York. June 6. 1921.

There are three outstanding reasons
why the Anglo-Japa alliance is
anathema in the United States and why
it's definite renewal would be taken as
a deliberate act the reverse of friendly.
1t is generally held that this alliance
binds Great Britain to make war on the
United States in the event that the lat
ter and any other power, such as China,
made war on Japan. In the United
States the Anglo-Japanese alliance is
believed to have been the shield back
of which Japan has carried on her
amazingly successful conquests Of
Corea, Manchuria, Mongolia and Shan
tung and has become the most power
ful factor in China-all in less than
twenty years.
alliance directly responsible not only
for having enabled Japan to rise from
a third rate power to an imperialistic
menace of the first magnitude, but they
hold the Anglo-Japanese alliance re-
sponsibie for having made ineffective
the American doctrine of the open door
in the Far East, to which both Great
Britain and Japan subscribed officially
in 1899, and whereby the United States
sought to end imperialistic action in
eastern Asia.
AS to the possibility that the Anglo
Japanese alliance might bring ON an
Anglo American war in the event of q
Japanese-American war, it has been
asserted that there is no such danger,
because the treaty as redrawn in 1911
and as still in force provides that Great
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

lish Canadian and Australian quarters
The only criticism yet made to me
regarding II ts-that it states but some of
the objections to the renewal of the
Anglo-Japanese alliance
WILLIAM HOWARD GARDINER.
New York June "a, 1921.
New York, June 6, 1921.
To the Editor of The (London) Daily
News.
Sir: In England and in the United
States it is generally recognized that
peace and an orderly world depend
more on cooperation between Britain
and America than on any other one
factor. But it seems doubtful if there
is a general realization in England
that the decision as to the Anglo-Jap-
anese alliance will determine whether
England and the United States are to
follow converging or diverging paths.
Nor does it seem as though there is
adequate consideration given in Eng
land to the prospect, patent in the
United States and in the Britannia
dominions, that if the Anglo-Japanese
alliance is renewed, resulting condi-
tions beyond the control of the United
States and of the dominions may lead
the latter to fall into step with the
American republic, rather than to con-
tinue side by side with England. And
here it should be said unequivocably
that it is to the direct interest of the
United States that the dominions re-
main in closest association with Eng
land; for it is primarily through them
in such association that the United
States may hope for the potent support
of England in facing the drama of
which the early phases are now un-
folding on the Pacific.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

y,,xea at tho Foslanise e; New York as Second
ClaS stsil Matter.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
assurance asked .of England

Is it possible TO renew the Anglo
Japanese alliance so as to make it
manifest to the American people that
England will not be drawn into
japanese war against them? Is it pos
sible to renew the alliance on such
terms as to make it manifest to the
American peoplef that in the event of
a japanese American war England
would be at least IS friendly to her
blood brothers fighting for the rights
of white civilization as she would be
to the immediate enemy of the United
States who ultimately would be the
enemy of Australasia and Canada?
If these conditions can be met it may
be we'll to renew the Anglo-Japanese al
lance under such terms. Unless the
terms on. which it is renewed make
clear to the American people that Eng
land prizes their friendship above that
of the japanese and will support
American liberalism rather than
Japanese imperialism in the Orient,
England herself will be solely respon-
sible for having written "Finis' to
friendship toward herself. on the part
of America.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Of the Pacific

This would put ier in 7irtnal com
mand Of the Pacific, save for Britannia
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

Australasia. Against the latter Japan
might be expected to move only after
consolidation of her conqueHts from the
United States. In such eventualities 1t
would appear that England, by being in
alliance with Japan, would be forced to
play Japan's game, would be forced to
prevent the United States from win
ming, and would thus set the Pacific
stage for the ultimate conquest Of Bri
tannic Australasia by Japan.
In the autumn Of 1899 the United
States proposed the Hay doctrine Of
the "open door" and within a few
months obtained official subscription
to it on the part of Great Britain,
Japan, Russia, Germany and other
powers. Broadly speaking, the "open
door" set up the policy that, outside
the special spheres of influence as ex-
isting in 1899, there should be no more
acquisitions of special or exclusive
rights by any of the powers subscrib-
ing to it..