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New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

Wilson regime was more thoroughly
resented by the people than the COM
blnatlon of monarchical tyranny and
soclallstic inefficiency which character
lzed the Burleson rule in the Postof-
tce Department. 1t doesn't seem to
me to be carrying out the rather en-
phatlc mandate of the people at the
polls to allow $4,000 Democratic post.
masters to hang on till they die. pro-
tected by a fraud.
Or course, on the score of efficiency
1t may not mean so much in manv
small places. But in the big cities
where for eight years postal service
has stood still or even greatly deterio-
rated, so that Postma ster Patten Of
our own long-suffering metropolis re-
Gently confessed to the joint Congress
sioral committee that millions of dol
lars day are lost to the business
community by the administration he
gives and which he has defended for
years-in the big cities, surely. relief
cannot be denied
New York had the best postal ad
mlnlstration in the world until Edward
M. Morgan was removed. If memory
serves Correctly, Mr.. Morgan actually
had and has civil service status enti-
thing him to reappointment. Probably
the same is true in other cities with
respect to former efficient postmasters
summarily removed. When will the
Administration cut the moose of Burle-
sonism, which is still strangling bust
ness in the great cities where business
centers and where it is entitled to
have its mat properly and promptly
forwarded? EDWARD P. PARKER.
New York, April 26, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

Yesterday was not happy one for
the 1856, ,445 stockholders who own the
Pennsylvania Railroad. 1t brought
news that dividend rate which has
been maintained or exceeded for
twenty-five years had been cut 33 per
cent. A great army of thrifty savers
and investors, a majority of them
women, must pinch little more.
According to the caricaturists
railroad owners are fat capitalists
who wear clothes tattoocd with dol
lar marks. In fact they are COM
monty old maids, widows or men
who have put by something to give
comfort to declining years. When
the cost of living was mounting they
received no offsetting gains, and now
their dollar income is less.
Railroad property, even when SO
carefully managed and honestly
financed as the Pennsylvania, is the
enc species of property which has
had no share in the unearned incre-
ment. Taking the valuation Of
twenty-five years ago and adding
thereto actual investments since, the
railroads are worth to-day less than
two decades ago.
National and state laws and regu-
lations, eliminating in the rules and
orders of McAdoo days, have confis-
Gated railroad property Let us no.
be afraid to use the blunt word. The
process has been confscation--noth-
ing else. Not only has there been no
profiteering, but year by year securi-
ties have shrunk in price. Formerly
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
Grammar in Schools

Less technical grammar-all of
it omitted below the grade of IA
is among the recommendation
of the New York Principals Asso-
citation submitted to the Board Of
superintendent. Instead, it is
stated, the children should be
habituated to correct structure and
grammatical forms.
This means, we hope, not less
but greater emphasis on grammar
in the curriculum of what have
been known so long as ."grammar
schools" For grammar, despite
all protests of the untutored, is the
basic study. 1t is more important
that it be mastered than that the
student learn to figure correctly.
There are two reasons whv
grammar should be given greater
attention in the elementary schools
than any other study-its para
mount Importance and it's super
tlclal appearance of unimportance.
Before man needs to know how to
count money, to define an archi-
pelago or the Mississippi water
shed, to repeat the context of the
Magma Charta and the Declaration
OF independence, to hum a tune. it
is essential that he be able to con-
verse correctly with his fel-
lows, since he cannot communi-
cate the facts of his hunger or
his unemployment readily without
the equipment of common lam
guage. If he does not speak the
language correctly it is not com
mon. A mother understands the
babblings of her baby, but another
person does not. A Kansan abroad
in our East Side must have it's al
legged English language translated
to him. Regional jargons are
great impediments to the advance
of Americans in polite callings as
they shift their homes, in the ma
tional way, from state to state
Probably large percentage of
parents do not see the prime value
of grammar, and purposely or un-
consciously they discourage their
children in mastering its principles
of proper pronunciation, spelling,
word infection and syntax. this lat
ter including what the educators
describe as technical Grammar. But
parents unite in emphasis on
mathematics. A good head for
figures" is supposed to forecast a
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
Germany s Haggling

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The latest German note apain
lays stress on the point concerning
which there has already been far too
much talk by Germany and German
propagandists (and also too much heed
given to such talk): viz, the question
of her ability to pay for the ruin she
caused.
Germany's ineradicable notion of
what constitutes right and justice and
duty is and always has been that thew
are incidental matters dependent on
and subservent to the interests and
convenience of Germany. If she had
been victorious in the late war how
much consideration would have been
given by her to the question of her
enemy's ability to pay whatever trib-
ute she might see fit to demand?
Hex impudent haggling over terms is
only one degree less astounding than
the protracted tolerance of her con-
querors in permitting it. This is only
one of the many evidences showing how
far we have been led afeld from the
real issues by stubborn insistence upon
the untimely adoption of the League
of Nations
Germany's ability to pay is second
airy to the main question of the amount
OF damages she is liable for. Her case
is analogous to the celebrated one of
the shoat which circumstances com
PEELED to climb a tree The question
of whether or not shoat can climb
tree was ruled out. He had to climb.
There was nothing else to do.
Furthermore, Germanys plea that
payment of the amount demanded would
ruin her is not only unconvincing. but
it also is of secondary Importance. We
are confronted on the other hand by
the fact that her failure to pay will
ruin France. AS between these two
courses the choice presents no Difficult
ties whatsoever
GEORGE WESTERVELT.
New York, April 81, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
The Reparation Total

The Reparation Commission. full
filling its duty under the treaty, has
fixed the amount due from Germany
at 132,000,000,000 gold marks. or
$33, ,000,000,o0O on current value
basis. This total excludes German
repayment of Belgium's war debts
to the Allies and restitutions made
or still to be made of property
sequestered or stolen by the Ger
mans. 1t also excludes the main
tenance cost Of the Allied armies of
occupation.
The Allies agreed at Paris on
January 20 last to let Germany off
with $21 ,000,000,OO0 or $4,000, ,O00,-
600 on reparation account, plus a
12H5 per cent yearly tax on Ger
man exports. The Germans rejected
this advantageous offer, which had
to be submitted to them because it
altered in some respects the terms
OF the treaty. Berlin made a counter
proposal at London for the payment
OF something like $4,000, 900 900.
Thereupon the Allies broke off nepo-
tiatlons and turned the settlement
back to the Reparation Commission.
In his recent communication to
Washington Minister Simons re-
newed the London offer with certain
variations. He said that Germany
would undertake total engage
ment" for reparations Of 5OOO0,-
100000 marks gold, roughly $12,-
OoO,O00,000 on present value
basis. But he made that payment
conditional on a sweeping revision
OF the treaty. He demanded, for in
stance, the release of German pri-
vate property abroad-the property
which the United States holds as Sc
curity for its war claims. He re-
quired aid through an international
loan f1oated under Allied auspices,
freedom of German trade and pro-
duction, the restoration of Upper
Silesia and the practical annulment
of ali political and military sane
tlons for the enforcement Of the
treaty.
These proposals are unacceptable
to France and Great Britain. They
are impudent and derisory. If Ger
many should say "We made war
OF conquest and were beaten; we
ought to pay and will pay; we think
we can pay so much, but we leave
it to you to fix the total and the
conditions" then the Allies and the
neutral world as we'll would listen
with some respect and sympathy.
But in her present temper of rancor
and self-justification Germany in
spires no confidence anywhere. 1t
seems almost a waste of time for
any one to discuss her treaty obliga
tions with her.
The Teuton mind bows only to
force. Germany has invited action
by the Reparation Commission in
accordance with the treaty. The
sensible thing to do is to allow her
the strict execution of the treaty,
which her policy has made in
evitable.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

the railroads may have robbed the
public. We have evened the score.
The railroads are not functioning
well. The reason is plain. No ono
wishes to invest in losing venture.
So improvements are not made.
equipment is not bought and service
deteriorates. The reduced "Pennsy"
dividend speaks loudly to those who
listen and intelligently seek s,lu-
ton of the railroad problem. The
solution is simple: Let the railroad
owners run their own property and
give them an equal chance to make
money.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
Dishonest

The fatal objection to the Ger
man reparation offer is that it is
visibly and palpably dishonest. Only
few experts are able to weigh the
various clauses, but the simplest can
see it is not what it pretends.
Germany names $12,000,000, 900
present value. But the payment is
TO be in "stage" money, the Allies
subscribing for the bonds whose pro-
ceeds they are to get if Germany
feels like meeting the obligation.
The interest rate is to be per
cent. This would mean the bonds
would be worth so cents on the dol
lar. This proviso alone would cut
off one-half of the offer.
Moreover, Germany under the plan
is to recover former German-owned
property. How much this deduc-
ton would call for is not stated,
but it would be large.
Finally, there is no machinery for
enforcing payment. The repara-
ton safeguards of the Versailles
Treaty are to be annulled. One
imagines the Germans quickly ar
ranging a Bolshevist revolution, and
as its first step, following the Rus
sian example, repudiation of the
debt. The only way to collect would
be by another war, and the chances
are Germany, once her territories
were evacuated, would go scot free.
After the March parley Lloyd
George remarked that if the Ger
man delegation had stayed a week
longer it doubtless would have ap-
peared that Great Britain owed Ger
many money. The British Prime
Minister has even greater reason to
apprehend such result now. 1t is
doubtful whether the new German
offer nets as much as the one of six
weeks ago.
W. does Germany mention 50,-
900 900 300 marks gold in her first
sentence? To suggest that she has
raised her bid She counts on no
close reading of the fine print of her
conditions. The trick, a common one
OF propagandists, still works. Hence
the favorable reception by some
American newspapers Of the Simons
figures.
Germany schemes to emerge from
the war with a small debt and thus
to have an economic advantage. The
French external debt is $4,000, ,00O,-
900 francs, or $21 900, 100000 at par
of exchange. Germany, with double
the population and undevastated ter
ritories, would owe less per capita
than France should she meet the
Allies terms.
The Allies have no recourse but to
order another advance, as the Yer
sailles Treaty provides for. Per.
haps when Germany's chief indus
trial region has passed from her
possession she will cease maneuver-
ing and get ready to pay.
And if America really wishes to
make common cause in the interest
OF a peace of justice and permanence
our troops should form a part of the
posse as the international sheriff
levies on the property of the default
ing debtor.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
Helping Sim Fem
Drive for Relief Funds Not Unre
lated to Political Activities

An Opea, Letter to the .4mericcr
Committee for Relief in ireland
Sirs: 1 observed in the newspaper.
not long ago your advertisement, a.
dressed to the American public. Ma,
/, as non-Irish and otherwise un-
hyphenated American, reply thereto
You state that your executive CON
nittee have read with astonishmsn;
the statements credited to the British
Embassy in Washington and refer to
these statements as 'nlisrepresenta-
tions" and as being Inaccurate and un
founded. The gist and crux Of the COZ
tention OF the British Embassy, as
read it, is that every case Of distres.
and destitution is directly due to the
effect of the Sim Fem rebellion'a
fact which every fair-minded and IN
prejudiced American must recognize
and know to be true
Your statement that there was ne
Sim Fem rebellion in Ulster is sn
evasion, for there were active Sim
Feiners in Belfast and elsewhere in
Ulster. You state that the work q.
your committee is OF purely human
tartan and non-political character. I'll.
same element in this country, who
were so active in selling Irish repubie
bonds" and in forming branches a
the Friends of Irish Freedom, and late,
owing to the inevitable disagreement
between themselves, Of the Associs-
ton for the Recognition of the Irish
Republic, are precisely the people VIZ
are to-day working for your commit
tee and its objects.
1t is impossible to ,--.socatc theif
former political activities from ther
present charitable efforts. 1t may not
be The intent of your committee to
use the present drive for funds as "
means of fomenting further polites'
agitation IN favor Of the Sim Fem
rebellion, but it is producing that ie-
suit none the less.
There are millions Of Americans, O.
whom the writer IS one, who feel tha'
they cannot be in deep sympathy VII"
your appeal and we can find no anaios'
between the misery Of the people oi
war-invaded Belgium and Poland and ta'
largely self-inficted suferngs OF Inc
Sim Fein Irish We think at least tn"-
if succor must be sent It should be COZ.
tributed by those who have subscribed
to Irish bonds" and who have othei
wise done so much to create the dis
tressing conditions that exist IN Ire
land. Had it not been for the persls'
ent encouragement they have receive
from the Irish Of this country, tos
Sim Fein leaders would never nav
been emboldened to take the utter}
untenable position they have assumed
and which has resulted in the oiooc
shed and murder in Ireland to-day
We deplore the interference Of t0e
Irish in America in the destiny G.
country that they or their foreoeS''
have abandoned, and we resent tne''
efforts to embroil US in a difcu'.f
with Great Britain-our valiant az
in the late war-in the interest O. "
revolutionary party in Ireland wn'''
aided and abetted our enemies in tn~s
great and victorious struggle
GEORGE RANDOLPH
New York.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

these same soldiers were received
with open arms. The best was
scarcely good enough for them. To-
day they must fend for themselves.
while politicians haggle over local
appropriations and the people go
about their personal affairs in COM
plete oblivion Of the service and sac
rifices of 1917 and 1918.
Such ingratitude is abominable.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
Educating the World
fFvom The Wash;noton s,c,

tF Tont The Washington Stcr)
If each Of the fourteen persons who
understand Professor Einstein's rela-
tivlty theory can teach fourteen other
persons to understand it, and so on.
the endless chain system will make
a wonderful contribution to human
knowledge.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
An Abused World
fFrom The Cincinnati Eno,,

from The Cincinnati Eaquirer)
A Chicago professor says some
thoughts are not thoughts at all. We
agree with him. Some of the alleged
thoughts wished off on the public are
merely brainstorms.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
Blue Laws for Blue Points

(Trom a bill adopted Tuesday by tho Con
necticut Sonate)
Providing that oysters with the bone
Of the nose broken or mutilated may
be taken if they measure at least three
and one-eighth inches at the shortest
distance from the back of the top Of
the opening in the she'll through which
rear end Of the body shell.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
They Never Would Be Missec
New York

(Frons The DeKalb. III. Chronicls)
Russia is in urgent need OF all tnl"S'
used in railroading. We can spare h'
few controversies that show HTS
signs of wear.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

"Dr. Mott" says the palpably anti
legal Yale News, chad intended to take
up the study of law; but his Y. M. c. A.
work, while a student at Cornell, in
huenced him to follow Christian pur-
suits"
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

Germany, it occurs to us, ought to
ask, in addition to guaranteed cash val
ues at the end of the third year, that
after the first payment the policy be
made incontestable
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

No heights were reached by us in
some verses, printed herein a year
or so ago, beginning "She gazes across
at the Palsades"; and for the life of
us we can't see why the Champaign,
ILL.,, Daily Illini should consider them
worthy Of stealing
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is cxclusively entitled 70
'hs use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to II or not otherwise credited In this
PAPER and also the local OF spontaneous
origin published herein.
Al rights of republication OF ali other mater
herein also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
CATULLUS: CARMEN XIII

CATULLUS. CARMEN XIII
"Cenabis bsne. mi Fabuuus. apud me-
At my home you will dine
On all that is fine,
If you bring good dinner along;
And Falernian wine
To reinforce mine,
And a maiden to give us song.
That I ask you to bring
Stuff that's fit for a king,
May sound odd from man such as I
If the truth must be told,
I am lacking in gold,
And my throat's mighty dusty and dry
In return for such fare,
| shall give you rare
Bit of ointment as sweet as a rose.
When you smell it, you'll pray
Without further delay
That the gods kindly make you all nose
LATINUS Y.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

Known in insurance circles as the
suicide Clause. f. P. A,
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

fsu can purchase mcrohaadss advertIssd In THE
TRIBUNE with absolute safen--tcr = dlssat'sfac.
flon results In any case THE TRiSUNE suaran-
tees 10 pay your money back upon request. No rcd
tapA No ouibhiinc. We make good promptly II
tae advertiser not
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

Tennis Hymns of Hate
A man l loathe
Is Lemuel Bett;
He always calls
A "let" a "net."
Another tramp
Is Philip Leach
When you pass him, he
Yells "OUT-of reach"
TACK
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

"There should be-" said the Atha-
letic Young Man, mo dimuntion in the
reparition renumerations."
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

Tho Passionate Contrib to Her Colyumist
1Being closing lines from tho Poems OF
+. =. A.
You've made an awful splash with me,
And that's no Barnum lie:
There's nothing like you in the West
Which nobody deny.
r.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

Probably Mr.. Wells is tho only per-
son who could make us listen through
the second sentence Of reply to the
query, "Well, old kid, how do you
feel?"
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

"Well." man says, "I think III take
a walk" or "I think III get shaved"
Some Of us do these things without ex-
pressing our intentions; but others of
us, as though anybody else cared, new
a largo category, the second one, and
its only interesting member, in the pc
riphery of our experience, is Mr.. H. G.
Wells. We doubt whether he ever has
thought ho doesn't transcribc; and
we doubt whether he ever zines any Of
his transcriptions.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

First Lines From the Golden Trcasur,

First Lines From the Golden Trcasur,
My heart leaps up when I behold
A sweet disorder in the dress,
When as in silks my Julia goes.
(The lovely Lass o. Invcrnessl)
She dwelt among the untroddcn ways
She was phantom Of delight;
She is not fair to outward view;
She walks in beauty, like the night.
Fair daffodils, we weep to see
That which her slender waist con
fined.
0 lovers eyes nre sharp to see
Tell me not, sweet, l am unkind!
VAUGHN HANNINGTON.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29

Frances rejection of the German
proposals implies lack of everything,
including literary merit.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
The Complete Letter Writer


[Received by e. London cinema corporation ]
Dear Sir,
Herewith are recent photos of my
self, taken within minute of each
other. Ono is my natural self: the
other shows what I can instantly do
with my face even without the help
of makeup. Whoever sees it goes into
uncomfortable fits of laughter. Is an
ability to do this sort of thing, and to
keep it up for any time, required in
"character-acting" likely to be of any
use to you? If it always causes in
stant mirth among my own acquaint-
ances, Ono matter how melancholy they
may have been feeling) possibly it
might be worth while introducing to
the wider circle Of the "public". But
may l be allowed, from the beginning,
Off such should be my fortune) to bar
having blanc-mange thrown at it, or
myself being dropped in the mud or
rolled downstairs, as I nm not a GYM
mast in any form. Seriously "face"
like this might be just such as you
require for some quiet and quaint
really-humerous character study.
Also is the Lardnerian influence
manifest in these excerpts from The
Underwood Mystery:
"a man like he with his
wealth
"The time was lorg enough for Bent
ley and I to recognize him"
Mr.. Saltcenas Loss
(From The Tirnes)
LOST-Half gentlcmans heavy gold cuff
link, Amsterdam Theatre, Saturday night,
or taxi to 9 East 56th; reward: no ques-
tions. Plaza 71o0.
It's just p sible that Venus mightn't
New-York tribune., 1921-04-29
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