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New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Why Not Ask?

At the Foch luncheon yesterday
General Tasker II. Bliss, with sol
dierly directness, said that he trust
ed, if France were again assailed,
that American forces would be found
fighting over the old battlefields.
Spoken not cnly as soldier but as
statesman. If there is to be peace
in this world it must be thoroughly
understood that if another attack on
France is made it will meet the same
answer that came in 1918. In 1914,
if Germany had known whom and
what she would be called on to meet,
even her crazy Kaiser would have
shown sanity.
Whence comes the paralysis that
inhibits the giving of the one assur-
ance that would end anxiety? 1t is
the habit of our public men to say
that they see the simple truth, but
that the people are less clear of
vision. Who has the right to assert
this? Who is authorized to indict
popular intelligence in this manner?
The people have never been asked to
give their opinion. Why not ask
them?
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
More Communist FRENZY

Anatole France, winner this wear
of the Nobel prize in literature.
shows that he can be as hasty and
ignorant in judgment as the commu-
nists who recently tried to bomb
Ambassador Herrick because a Mas
sachusetts court tried and convicted
Sacco and Vanzetti of murder. Most
Americans never knew of the exist
ence of Sacco and Vanzetti before
the communist outrage in Paris.
They were convicted of having had
part in the killing of shoe factory
paymaster, held up for the money
which he was carrying.
But M. France says in a letter to
the American people: "In one of
your states two men, Sacco and Van
zetti, have been condemned for a
crime of opinion. 1t is horrible to
think that human beings should pay
with their lives for the exercise of
that most sacred right, the right
which we ought all to defend, to
whatever party we may belong" It
seems to be the idea Of M. France
and his friends that a communist is
immune from prosecution for any
crime whatever, inasmuch as his
right Of free opinion shelters him.
In the Massachusetts court the
issue of political opinion was not
raised by the state. The prosecution
resisted all efforts to introduce it..
The question it submitted to the
jury was whether the two men were
implicated in the paymaster's mur-
der. The judge instructed the Jury
that the prisoners were entitled to
the protection of the law, without
regard to their political theories or
affiliations. And so guarded is our
system Of criminal justice that re-
hearing was granted for the produc-
ton of any later evidence which
might conflict with the jury's YER
dict.
The communist mind puts all COM
munists among the blameless. Soci-
ETY. is condemned if it calls them to
account for what they do as citizens,
and not as political theorists. This
is the attitude of the Lenines and
the Trotzkys. M. France seems to
vote himself into their class.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Red Cross Brooklyn Classe.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In connection with its health
activities the Red Cross conducts edu-
cational courses for the benefit of the
public. The Teaching Center of the
Brooklyn chapter is now registering
pupils for it's winter classes in Home
Nursing" and "First Aid"
In order that every one may be bene-
flied by this instruction only small
fee for each course will be charged to
help cover the cost Of textbooks, equip
ment and clerical expenses.
Instruction in "Home Nursing" is
given by trained Red Cross nurse, in
fifteen lessons. The First Aid" course,
in which instruction is given by a
physician, consists of ten lessons.
Glasses meet once and twice week
at the Red Cross Teaching Center, 100
Montague Street, Brooklyn, and are
open to women and girls sixteen years
of are and over. The First Aid" course
is also given to men. There are day
and evening sessions and each lesson
lasts about one hour and half. Ger
tificates are awarded to all those who
complete the courses satisfactorily.
HELEN M. FRENCH,
Brooklyn Chapter American Red Cross.
Brooklyn, Nov. II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
tuberculosis Control
Necessity of Knowing Where tie
Scourgc is Most Prevalent
To the Editor of The Tribune.


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "More than half Of them an
not under medical care"
This is the rather startling answer
OF our statistical department to a
query just made regarding Tuberculosis
conditions in the east Harlem health
district of this city-having q populs-
tlon Of ,233, largely composed Of
families either of Italian birth or in
mediate descent, and extending from
East Ninety-ninth Street to the Har-
lem River between Third Avenue and
the East River.
To be exact, there were in this ARA
on August l last 965 known cases Of
tuberculosis, of which 81 per cent $3.50
cases) were either remaining at home
without known medical care or had
recently been lost track of, and had
been reported by the Health Depart
ment as mot found" cases.
While investigation shows that the
tuberculosis death rate of the east
| Harlem health district, considered as
a whole, is even slightly below that for
the entire city, yet in Sanitary Area
2O2, which lies between East 124th
Street and Harlem River and Third
and First avenues, the tuberculosis
mortality was more than three times
as great as that of the area between
l09th and Hath streets. In the former
sanitary area it was at the rate Of 343
deaths per 100000, whereas in the lat
ter it was only SO per 100000.
These findings sufficiently point out
how absolutely necessary it is in New
York City-if we are really to control
tuberculosis--to know definitely where
| it is most prevalent and to increase
the anti-tuberculosis measures and
! work in those areas.
1t is to the prosecution Of precisely
these important activities throughous
! the city that the funds that shall be
raised by our sale of Christmas seals,
which is to begin directly after Thanks
giving, will be devoted
The plain fact is that, strictly sneak
ing, there should be no tuberculosis ~
all. To arrive at this result means long
and hard work. However, the deaths
from this needless scourge in New
York City have lately been cut down
from an average of 10000 year be-
tween 1910 and 1920 to figure that IS
now around 1900, even in the face o.
an increase of million in our populs'
ton.
Hence the simple truth is that sns
more money we can raise through our
coming Christmas seals campaign fns
more human lives we can save durins
the year 1922.
NEW YORK TUBERCULOSIS AS
ISOLATION.
10 East Thirty-ninth Street, No"
York, Nov. Is, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Dollars Not Saved

A Washington statistician reports
that as against $418,OO0,O0O the
country spent for the army $780,
100000 has gone on candy and chew
ing gum. Sweetens the discomfort
with military expenditures, does it
not?
And $834,0O0,00O for soda and
other soft drinks and $959, 1000, 900
for perfumery, jewelry, silk stock
ings and kindred luxuries. And the
pin money pleasantly expended on
theaters, concerts and baseball was
$897,000,000. And, above all, the
tribute to My Lady Nicotine cost her
devotees $1,151, 100000!
Doubtless. these figures tend to
prove something, one knows not
what. They certainly show that
Americans are not excessive hoard
ers and ought to bring little more
sense of proportion to indignant tax
payers. 1t is not fair to assume that
people are unduly self-indulgent.
Yet it does make one dizzy to think
Of billion gone up in slnoke-not
the smoke Of the battlefield, however.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
"Road of Remembrance"

New York's "Road of Remem-
brance" is not to end as a dream.
With the waning of spring, planting
will be started along the forty-mile
stretch of state highway lying be-
tween Syracuse and Utica. Two
thousand elms are to be set out.
The college of forestry of SYRIA
cuse University has pledged itself to
the State Highway Commissioner
and the State Forestry Superintend-
ent to supply the trees for the first
ten miles out Of Syracuse. That is
an example worthy of emulation on
the part Of every institution of
learning in the state, every school,
public or private. We're they all to
follow Syracuse Vniversity's lead
and inspiration itAwould not take
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Rcconstituting China

| China's rather vague ten sugges-
tions to the Washington conference
are to some degree clarified by the
response Of France in the six Sar-
raut proposals. Three of them are
general, but the others are hopefully
specific.
France favors open dealings with
China and is against any secret ne
gotiations. In other words, France
would have the powers treat with
China hereafter as a principal and
not with one another, ignoring her
on matters affecting her sovereignty,
independence and territorial In
tegrity.
| France offers to relinquish extra
territoriality rights as soon as the
Chinese Republic can give guaran'
ties of adequate security and JUS
tice for foreigners. In her separate
peace treaty with China Germany
recently abandoned extra-territo-
rial privileges. AS to French Indo-
China, after pointing out that titles
to this come from AMMAN and not
from China, France says she is
ready to rectify the present boun-
dary line. But most important of all,
France offers to give up her lease
hold on Kouangtcheou, obtained
in 1898, if Great Britain will give
up Weihaiwei, and Japan Shantung,
leased at the same time to Germany,
and the Port Arthur peninsula,
leased at the same time to Russia.
The French proposal contemplates
wiping out the leaseholds obtained
by the four European powers fol-
lowing the Japanese Chinese War.
At that time Russia was preparing
to take over most of Northern Man
churia. At her instigation Trance
and Germany had Joined in an ulti-
matum to Japan compelling the
restoration to China Of the Liaotung
peninsula, ceded to Japan at the
close of the Corean War. Then, in
1898, came the Russian lease of
Liaotung, the German lease of Kiao-
chau and the British and French
leases. Japan inherited Russia s
rights in Liaotung at the close of
the Russo-Japanese War.
The French view is, apparently,
that all these encroachments ought
to be annulled together. 1t is a
long step in the right direction.
These leaseholds are an abridgment
Of China's sovereignty and lessen
her proper territory. They are OBJ
stacles in the way of the open
door. France has made a welcome
gesture Of restitution. Will the
other powers concerned adopt the
same generous policy?
Great Britain has already offered
to do so, for in September the Brit
ish Foreign Office announced its
Willingness to give up Weihaiwei if
the other powers would make SINH
lar restitutions. So Japan is the
only power which has not defined
its policy.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
The Weapon Of the Weak

Touching submarines, the Hughes
plan provides that Great Britain
shall be allowed 10000 tons and
Japan 10000 tons. This limitation,
if accepted by the three naval pow
ers and if respected in principle by
other nations, would, of course, con-
fine the sneaks of the underseas to
defensive use. There would be no
more Lusitania horrors.
Noting the Hughes proposal, Mr..
Balfour, in behalf Of Great Britain,
has suggested that the limitation be
made even more drastic; that per-
haps an agreement could be reached
establishing submarine prohibition.
This is not surprising. Both human
ity and self-interest urge the sea-
divided British commonwealth to ask
for such an outlawry.
On the other hand, particularly
from French quarters, come intima-
tons of opposition to submarine lim-
itation. 1t is said again that the
submarine is the weapon Of the
weak. Here in slightly disguised
form is the Prussian doctrine that
military necessity knows no law.
The weapon of the weak! This is a
chief reason why there should be
limitation. Is every little power to
be allowed to have a harbor full of
corsairs? An alliance for defense is
perhaps justifiable, but surely not
enough to permit preying on COM
merce in distant waters.
The American attitude toward a
piratical craft which by it's nature
cannot respect sea law is clear. We
would have submarines scrapped. If
this is not feasible, then the next
best thing is limitation. Even though
some nation were secretly to build,
it is worth while to force that ma
tion, when it uncovers it's treachery.
to confess itself treaty breaker
and as such deserving to be pursued
and punished.
Will any responsible statesman Of
France stand forth as an apologist
of the submarine with which the
name of Won Tirpitz is UNANIMOUSLY
identified?
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Germany's Arranged Bankruptcy

The German Minister Of Finance,
speaking officially, announces that if
Germany is asked to pay the $685.
100000 reparations sum due on JAN
uary Is and the export tax due on
February Is she will refuse and de-
clare herself bankrupt.
Thus is prophecy fulfilled which
Premier BRAND made to the French
Parliament on October 81. He pre-
dicted that at an early date Germany
would threaten to default and plead
inability to pay. He had reached the
conviction because wealthy German
manufacturers, who control the
present German government, had
conspicuously neglected to levy taxes
and had countenanced the issue of
paper marks to balance revenue
deficiency.
On September Is the paper marks
outstanding were 82,000,0 100000.
Now the total is nearly 20 per cent
more. The marks were to be thrown
on foreign markets to be sold at any
price. The German treasury had
successfully induced foolish mark
spectators to buy when the first
reparations payment fell due and
hoped to repeat the trick But it did
not work a second time and another
plan for lodging payment needed tc
be devised.
If Germany goes bankrupt it will
of course, be necessary to appoint 9
receiver to take possession of the
estate of the bankrupt. The court
of civilization will doubtless nam.
Marshal Foch for the place and, like
n good receiver, he will look for the
hidden property Of the bankrupt.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19

ment, rather than the newspapers,
would determine the course to be
pursued" Further he outlined, with
lucidity Enthusiastically Oriental,
how he would regard any such ac-
ton as the correspondents proposed
When the baron finished it was
announced there would be no mass
meeting and, Of course, no round
robin.
How many an American in public
life would delight in dealing with
our newspapers after that fashion
Which brings one back to the be-
ginning and resignation to the fact
that the West is not the East.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Narcotic Drug Regulation
Report of American Public Health
Association
To the Editor of The Tribune

NSSOCl6tlOn
10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: The report Of the Joint COM
m'ttee on narcotic drugs of the
American Public Health Association
made at the meeting yesterday after
years study of the subject, is Of great
interest to New Workers. This report
was made at joint meeting of the
section on food, drugs and public
health administration. 1t was read bv
the chairman of the committee, DR..
Roger G. Perkins, of the Western. Re-
serve Medical School, and before it's
adoption discussed by DIR. Haven Emer-
son and DR.. Ernest S. Bishop, Of New
York, and by DR.. James r. Rooney. Of
Albany, president Of the Medical Society
OF the State of New York. Oth.r
speakers whose names were not on the
program were DR.. Royal s. Copeland,
Commissioner of Health; DR.. Jacob
Diner, professor of pharmacoloky in
Fordham, and Judge Cornelius N. COL
Inns, of the New York Court Of General
Sessions.
The findings of the committee were
IN effect that the narcotic drug situa-
ton is not public health problem. In
the opinion Of the committee it IS a
matter for medical and police supervi-
sion and control and not one that
should be administered under rules
and regulations laid down by Law and
legal officials and bodies, with no
scientific knowledge of the disease of
drug addiction.
All this is important to citizens Of
New York, where for the last two
years drug addiction has been declared
by the health authorities to be a
"pestilential disease" with all that this
implies in the way Of registration, en-
forced disqualification and form Of
police supervision exercised only over
smallpox, cholera and other pestilen-
tlal diseases Of an undisputed char
acter. JOHN P. DAWN, Nj. D.,
Executive Secretary New York Mcdi-
cal Association.
New York, Nov. 1s, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Reckless Driving on the Drive

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | think it is generally agreed
that the motorist who drives in the
wrong direction on one-way street
IS deserving of the severest penalty
possible under the law.
One of the most dangerous snots in
the residential section of this CITY is
Riverside Drive, on the easterly side
Of Grants Tomb. Here the Drive is
exclusively one-way thoroughfare
(northbound only), and the traffic is
OF tremendous volume. It requires all
ones activity and clear-sightedness to
watch the passing stream of motors so
as to cross in safety, as it is. What is
to be said, therefore, of a tAxicab or
other motor that suddenly bears down
on the pedestrian from the wrong di-
rection?
The police have put plain signs in
position at the point where 122d Street
enters the Drive, also at other similar
points, SO that even strange motorist
need have no doubt as to what is ex-
pected of him. Yet it is within my
personal knowledge-and doubtless
within that Of many others-that taxi
cab drivers and others violate the po-
lice directions and turn in the wront
direction.
wish clothes officer could
be set to watch the spot have in
dicated, properly equipped to run down
these offenders and taks them into
court. CLAREMONT AVENUE.
! New York, Nov. IS, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Still the East

Kipling put as much truth as he
did lilt-we will not call it poetry
in the lines which, twenty years ago
or thereabouts, first challenged the
world to believe that
For East is East, and West Is West,
And never the twain shall meet"
Which is to say that the couplet
contains some truth and some lilt,
as demonstrated In this instance by
what has happened to the japanese
newspaper correspondents in Wash
ington at the hands of Admiral
Baron Kato, chief of their coun-
try's conference delegation.
The young gentlemen of the
japanese press, feeling that they
could render the world no greater
service, than by urging Baron Kato
and his associates to subscribe to
Secretary Hughes's proposals. with
out reservation, decided upon a
mass meeting. They planned at that
meeting not to pass or adopt resolu-
tions expressive of their opinion,
which is the Occidental way of doing
that sort Of thing, but to sign a
round robin. Evidently they knew
what they were about.
Baron Kato, hearing what was
afoot, issued a summons command
ing every Japanese correspondent in
Washington to report forthwith at
his headquarters. The dispatches
say that the summons having pro-
duced the potential round-robiners
in the baron's presence he there
upon proceeded to tell his writing
countrynen "withssome fiuency and
emphasis that ths Japanese govern
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Simplihed Milk Delivery

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: They say that out in Chicago
milk consumers are paying four cents
a quart less for milk than in New York.
What is the cause Of this difference I?
What is the cause Of the big difference
in price paid by the milk companies to
the farmers and the price charred the
consumer?
One cause is the wasteful system of
milk delivery. II one driver represent
ing one company made all the deliv-
cries in particular apartment build
ing there would be great saving in
the cost of the distribution. Apply this
simplified form of delivery to all Sec
tions of the city. The companies would
save money, so would the consumers.
Costs could be cut in the accountinv
and collecting department., the collect
ing of empties would be facilitated and
loss from breAkage reduced.
WILLIAM W. HISCOx.
Brooklyn, Nov. IS, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
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natural that certain comrades are
very much depressed in face Of this
fact and that they are allowing
themselves to be seized by panic.''
Lenine went on to compare the mill
tary and the economic defeats of the
Soviet Republic, and remarked that
economic strategy is more difficult
than military strategy. He said:
THE attempt to introduce commu-
nism brought on us in the spring of
1921 on the economic front a defeat
much more grave than any that we
had formerly suffered from Kol-
chak, Denikine or Pilsudski We
then recognized that our economic
policy, as it had been formulated by
the organs Of government, did not
at all correspond to what was going
on among the masses and was in
capable of restoring the forces of
production. That restoration had
been hindered by the acquisitions in
the villages and the introduction of
Communist methods in the towns.
1t was this policy that provoked the
profound economic and political
crisis that was so acute in the spring
of 1921. We have effected our re-
treat, not without certain amount
Of disorder. 1t is true that the
positions in the rear were prepared.
1t is only necessary to look back to
the decisions Of our party in 1913 to
be convinced Of that. But it must be
admitted that even at this moment
we are falling back in a disorder
that is sometimes too marked. 1t is
that disorder that must be striven
against"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19

long to line the 440 miles Of high
way between New York and Buffalo
with the trees which arc to live for
those Of the warrior sons Of the Em-
pire State who went forth in the
World War and did not return.
OF all the forms Of war memorials
none seems to have such q searching
appeal as the "Road Of Remer,-
brance." In Great Britain the idea
has taken hold Of the public imagi-
nation, and the project of lining with
trees the ancient roads Of England,
Scotland, Wales and some parts Of
Ireland is being carried on system
atlcally. In tho United States tho
Lincoln Highway Association is con-
sidering a transcontinental planting
plan. In Louisiana memorial tree
Is being set out every forty feet
along the Jefferson Highway.
It was through some tree-lined
road in France that every man who
played a mans part had to march
to keep tryst with his destiny. One
among them was Joyce Kilmer, turn
ing over in his mind, perhaps, as he
slogged along, his own tender
thoughts Of trees:
A tree whose hungry mouth Is prest
Against tho worlds sweet flowing
breast.
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray.
a tree that may in summer wear
a nest of robins in her hair:
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me.
But only God can mako a tree.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Pedestrians Bad Manners
"a Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l don't know when anytni"s
has tickled me as much as the ies's'
of Z. II. Valentine in reference to 'ps
bad manners of pedestrians.
had supposed / was rather alone ~
my irritation at the man who psss0'
you and then steps directly IN tsops
inviting you either to step on his Hss''
and take the chance of fight OF "
pause and go around him.
It's a great comfort to know sn'.
this irritation was not the evidences y
an unusually Grabbed disposition p0'
that others share it with me.
New York, Nov. IT, 1921. Lib ,
New-York tribune., 1921-11-19

eralities, Mr.. Hughes has a great
lawyers distrust Of obitcr dictu. Mr..
Wilson proceeded on theories, while
Mr.. Hughes has had years of practi-
cal experience with affairs. While
Mr.. Wilson was leading a clustered
existence Mr.. Hughes was making
history and learning public service
by practice.
So it is most unfair to Mr.. Hughes
to assume that he will cling to his
ideas with such desperation that,
like his so-called parallel, he will
wreck all hopes Of positive achieve
ment.