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New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
The Cult of the Different

In most circles of radicalisn,
honor and glory arise as incense be.
tore the member who is different
are, indeed, exactly apportioned ac-
cording to this degree Of difference.
Following out ones vagaries, with
out self-criticsm or restraint, usual.
~ produces enough peculiarities Of
appearance and conviction to earn
an honorable post. But if not, con-
scious effort to differ does the rest,
Upon this score Of resemblance to
The herd and Of a will to be queer
is founded the cult of the different.
The war developed whole
philosophy of the cult. Roughly
speaking, all the different joined
hands in their own defense and en-
tered plea for protection on no
less ground than that they were the
most sacred possession Of the race.
Such a trim, complex and highly
intellectualized different as Mr..
Herbert Cro]y would launch long
and fervid demands in The New Re-
public for respect and care and pa
ticnce toward simple and backward
and long-haired differents, as the
Amish Mennonites. The theory be-
hind this contention was that since
much progress has come to man
from the conscientious objector, the
protestant, the peculiar, the fanatic.
therefore all the different are to
be cherished as the hope of the ages
at whatever cost to the conformers
end the helpers and their genera,
welfare.
Of course, there is nothing in his
tory or philosophy or the theory of
evolution or anything else to justify
such extravaganza Of admiration
for the extremes of fanaticism. It
is only the protestants who have
enough relation to the stream of
progress actually to influence it's
course that matter. 1t is highly
important that the mind of nation
should have free play, but it is much
more important that it's mind should
remain a continuing, organically
functioning unit. To guard and
foster vagaries bordering on insan-
ity at peril to the success Of the
immediate common cause would be
a close parallel to the Chinaman's
burning down his house to roast
pig.
The jaw-breaking definition of
evolution put together by Herbert
Spencer comes to mind as a clew to
the common-sense Of the problem.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

for tastes in the theater Thus Keith
Preston, of Chicago, feels that our
cwn Mr.. George Jean Nathan is pro-
vincial. Under the heading "Harkl
Hark! The Borzoi Bark" Mr.. Preston
writes of THE Theatre, the Drama,
the Girls" in The Chicago Daily News:
"The famous cynic bark has a per-
sistcnt local echo in George Jean Ma
than. Nathan is the most urban of our
critics and consequently the least
urbane, if urbanity means, as we as
sumo it does, more mellow humor
and broader horizons than anywhere
appear in Mr.. Nathan's astute acerbi-
ties. Nathan lives according to his
lights, but they are mainly footlights,
and to be at the core of Manhattan's s
sophistication is to be a long way
from any wholesome illumination. No
one can put anything over on Mr.
Nathan without his being there to see
that it is done properly. Not a boob
trap can be sprung in a Broadway
theater till Mr.. Nathan has sagaciously
shifted the bait. He wriggles his way
out of the trap after the first curtain,
diminished by a segment Of his eve
ming, but with the proud conscious
ness, SO coveted by the sophisticated
that he has not been hoaxed in
absentia.
This book, like most of Mr.. Nathan's
TRADES, entertained US, for Nathan
calls names we'll, with sense as well
as sound and fun along with fury But
the Rialto patter becomes little
shrill. and the aesthetic which Mr..
Nathan asks Of the stage appears less
and less in his own style. True, he
may pause in a rodomontade to recall
golden evenings in the theaters of
Moscow, Munich, Timbuctoo, evenings
far away and long ago and
Sweet remembered cocktails after
drouth.
But we have heard of these same
evenings many times before They
have become property evenings. Mr..
Nathan needs new enthusiasms. The
only distinctly new enthusiasms that
we note in this volume are, item, one
enthusiasm for James Branch Cabcll
POSSIBLY second hand) and, item, one
enthusiasm for Sidney. the brother Of
Charles (Chaplin), who, in fantasy
called "The Plumber" has dug himself
into our critics affections. By all odds
the tenderest note in the book is a
prolonged lament for the famous
beauty chorus of "Wild Rose" That
old question "Where are the cutics of
yesteryear?" moves this cynic to pickle
his cynicism in briny bathos. Diogenes
takes his tub.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Stupid Heckling
Sim Fein Disturbance Out of Place
at a Legion Meeting

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | was present as visitor at
the special meeting of Manhattan
Naval Post, American Legion, held at
Public School II last night. As a
member of a post which had already
passed resolutions demanding. that
Colonel Anderson be called to account
for his indscreet assertions, | was
interested in hearing what other posts
had to say upon the subject
The various speakers kept strictly
to the subject of "Tne Horror on the
Rhine" meeting and to the insults
heaped upon the "heroes of Pelham
Bay" Captain Blackwell quoted
Father Duffy as admitting that Colonel
Anderson had made foolish speech
at n foolish meeting"
The Irish question was never touched
upon by the speakers, yet they were
continually interrupted, almost to the
point Of breaking up the meeting. Sew
eral of the speakers allowed the in
terrupters to speak, whereupon they
proceeded to talk about Black and
Tans and similar matters foreign to
the matter under discussion. One
woman was finally elected. AS q re-
suit they gathered In groups after the
meeting and bitterly denounced the
American Legion and everything con-
nected with it, because they had not
been permitted to heap abuse upon one
of our allies and exhibit their intense
hatred of England at a meeting called
for an entirely different purpose.
My reason for writing is to give the
unbiased Impressions of one not
member of Manhattan Naval Post. It
would be a great mistake if the Legion
were condemned as "anti-Irish." Manv
Of the members Of the post who pro-
tested most vigorously against the
rude Interruptions were themselves OF
Irish descent. But 1t was made very
plain by the officers Of Manhattan Post
that meeting called for the purpose
of conducting business connected with
the Legion, could not be turned into
demonstration for Sim Feiners.
am not "anti-Irish." Coming Ct
race which has been prosecuted for
centuries by nearly every nation on
earth. l could hardly be antagonistic
toward any people struggling for re-
ligious or political freedom. But 7
must say that fair-minded Anne ericans
or American organizations cannot
be won over to the cause Of Irish free
dom by such tactics, and the sooner
they are abandoned the better the i'm
preston Irish sympathizers will make.
HAROLD B. SILVERBURGH,
Commander Judson l.. Weinand
Post, GIL, American Legion.
New York, March 10. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Upper Silesia

Minister Simons attached to his
very meager rcparation offer the
condition that Upper Silesia be al.
lowed to remain German. Tho
Versailles treaty provides for
pleblscite and the election is near
at hand. The calculated insincerity
Of German policy is shown by the
Berlin governments wish to kill
two birds with one stone at London
getting off with an absurdly low
reparation penalty and at the same
time withdrawing self -determina-
tion from Upper Silesia.
The German argument for reten-
tion-plebiscite or no plebiscite-
has been adroitly tied up with the
dispute about German ability to pay
war damages. 1t has impressed
soft" peace advocates like Mr..
Keynes, who hold that German re-
cuperation is the first requisite to
economic restoration in Europe and
shat Germany ought to be helped to
her feet, regardless of her inclina-
ton to pay. According to the
Keynes school German industry
reeds the Upper Silesian coal out
lut. Therefore the mines there
ought to be left to the Germans,
But how about Poland? TIL.
soft peace propagandists dislike
reminders of Poland's existence.
But the Polish state, a creation Of
the war and Of the unquenchable vi
tality of race which has refused
to be absorbed and denationalized.
deserves consideration ahead of any
of the accomplices in the Polish
partitions. Poland is an allied bull
wark in eastern Europe-a check
at once on German aggression and
on Bolshevist infiltration.
The American-Polish Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of this city
has prepared a pamphlet challeng-
ing the Berlin and Keynesite view.
The substance of it's findings, based
on study of the economic relations
of Upper Silesia to Poland and to
Germany, is that "for Germany Up
per Silesia would be only a source
of greater wealth, while for Poland
it is a fundamental basis of eco
nomic existence" 1t is shown that
Germany has coal resources outside
Upper Silesia amounting to 132,-
100000 tons year and that before
the war she used only 12,00O,-
600 tons from Silesia. She is obli-
gated to deliver 24,000,OOO tons a
year under the Spa agreement. But
there remain 120,O00,0O0 tons for
domestic use, which is 86 per cent
OF her pre-war consumption. Yet
Poland Is getting along with only
90 to 65 per cent of her pre-war con-
sumption. Upper Silesian coal con-
stituted only 8.9 per cent of Ger.
nany's pre-war consumption, but
4O.4 per cent of Poland's.
That the loss of control Of the
Upper Silesian coal fields will pre-
vent Germany from fulfilling her
obligations to the Allies is an ex-
treme assumption, manifestly prop
agandist in character. But even
II Instrumentation should incommode
the Germans somewhat Poland IL
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Team Work

When the Donnelly act against
combinations in restraint Of trade
was passed its authors assumed that
economic antagonism between en-
ployers and employees would prevent
them joining hands to raid the public.
So the penalties Of the act applied
only to makers and venders of ar
tlcies In common use. The prohibi-
ton did not extend to articles not in
common use, though they enter into
the production of articles that are. It
was queer oversight, but there it
was, and courts, properly enough,
construe criminal statutes strictly.
But the spirit Of combination Is
cunning and has developed tech
nique by which there is unholy union
IN many cases between employers
and employed. The Lockwood COM
mittee and the trials of Brindell and
Hettrick have shown how the busi-
ness is done, and full advantage is
taken of the hole in the Donnelly act.
The conditions that exist in the
photo-engraving industry of this city
show what can be and Is done. The
union Of photo-engravers tells It's
employers exactly what they must
charge for their products. The en-
ployers agree to the arrangement,
contending they have no choice.
WHEN objection is made to wage
scales or To- prescribed working con-
disons tho employers ara tolds ~It
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
The Railroad Predicament

Senator Cummins, Joint author
with Mr.. Esch of the railroad law Of
1920, promises speedy investiga-
tion of the railroad situation. There
is need of it. The public has been
nonplussed at the failure of the
Esch- Cummins law to give the rail
roads adequate relief.
Tho law aimed at stabilizing rail-
road operation and earnings, guar
anteeing fair return on the capital
employed in operation. Under it
freight and passenger rates were in
creased sufficiently, it was thought,
to put the carriers back on their feet,
But the rate increases have served
only to reduce traffic, or at least have
co5perated with other causes, like
the general slowing down Of bust
ness, to reduce It, while an enor-
mously increased operating cost Is
carried over from the era Of govern
ment control.
1t is natural that Congress should
try to find out why the Esch-Cum-
Minis act, passed with the best pos
sible intentions, hasn't done what 1t
was expected to do. What elements
in the equation we're overlooked7 1t
is apparent now that Congress didn't
make sufficient allowance for the
havoc done by the Federal railroad
administration. That body's mis-
takes have lived after it. 1t upset
balances established by long usage
and experience. 1t worked on a
theory-that Of rapid preparation
for government ownership - which
proved mistaken.
But the vices Of government ad-
ministration had eaten deep. The
Federal directors had camouf1aged
the evil results Of their experiment
by refusing to balance their books.
They ran the roads at loss and
drew hundreds Of millions Of l O US
on the Treasury. They inflated op-
Grating expenses-especially wages
but declined to raise rates CORE
spondingly. They worked in a nim-
bus. They granted outright 81 $780,
100000 in wage increases, and the
United States Railroad Labor Board
added $606,50O,0OO last year. The
pay roll of the carriers has expanded
from S1,134 100000 in 1915 to
$500, 100000 now.
Income to meet this staggering in
crease was not provided under the
war regime, as it should have been,
and isn't provided now. The roads
we're turned back to private opera
ton, tied hand and foot by the rail
road administrations spend-hrst-
and-earn-later policy. That is why
they are now loudly demanding some
measure Of economic freedom. That
is why, in nutshell, private opera
tion under the Esch- Cummins act
has been so far patheticaly disap-
pointing.
The Senate committee should make
all these things clear to the public.
1t should also suggest a remedy.
If the wage fund swamps earnings,
and would swamp them even were
business normal, then either rates
ought to be further increased-a du-
bious expedient-or the wage fund
be debated so as to bring it within
reasonable limits.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
The Viviani Mission

The French Foreign Office has let
It be known that, in a recent eX-
change of notes, President Harding
expressed approval Of the proposal
of the French government to dis
patch Rene Viviani to this country
to discuss Franco-American rela-
tions and European affairs in gen.
eral.
French craftsmanship, Is realistic
as we'll as idealistic. More than any
other nation France is vitally con-
cerned in the future peace of the
world. In the event of another
great war her frontiers would be in
the most imminent danger. This con-
sequence of her geographical posi-
tion makes her, Of all nations, most
IN need Of an effective league of
peace. Some shallow persons credit
the propaganda slander that France
is militaristic and revengeful. The
charge crumbles when subjected to
the slightest examination.
So it is fitting for France to take
the lead in an effort to reestablish
close relations among the four par
ticular nations which now are, and
for a long time promise to be, the
only powers in the world able to
command peace. TO secure this
union, which will protect her and at
the same time protect all, is the CEN
trail idea of French policy.
= Mr.. Wilson could not see the
simple truth. He shut his eyes to
realities. He could not see, if
France, Great Britain, Italy and the
United States were divided in feel
ing, that it was idle to talk of any
league of peace. An agreement to
urge special alliance among
France, Great Britain and the
United States was finally pried out
Of him, but Re never showed any
real interest in the project.
M. Niviani's labors, it may be
taken for granted, will be directed
toward re-creating the conditions
which existed in November, 1918, be-
fore discord came into the peace
conference. What form the re-
established union shall have is a
matter of small concern. If it were
understood that it is the settled pol
icy of this county not to be indiffer-
ent to repetitions of the crime of
1914 it would probably be enough.
The Monroe Doctrine was never en-
bodied in treaty or an agreement
CONSISTED merely Of declaration
by President. Yet for nearly
one hundred years it has achieved
its objects. A Harding doctrine
might be its complement and be
equally effective.
France is beloved of all Ameri-
cans. She stands for freedom and
for valor-proves by her mere exist
ence that beauty and strength may
be united. She was the wars chief
victim, and now as she comes to us
and asks some sort of assurance that
not again shall she be condemned to
walk in our behalf through the val
ley of the nadow the American
heart responds to the appeal.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
If the Coat Fits
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The opening sentences Of your
editorial "Russia's Experiment" apply
with equal force to Americas expert
ment in tnoculatng our Constitution
with the unwholesome virus Of the
Eighteenth Amendment. I quoto from
the article in question: "Its system is
opposed to established habits of the hu-
man animal and to the most primitive
conceptions of morality. 1t is the enemy
Of freedom end of the enhancements of
personal life, which are tho ever-ascend-
ing detectives Of democracy. It would
stine the spirit Of enlightened volun-
tary cooperation. whose growth meas.
ures human progress, whether of the
individual or the mass" c. l..
New York, March 9, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Drivers Not Always at Fault

Drivers Not Always at Fault
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: AS an automobilist I noticed
Ding's cartoon in The Tribune. March
Z: "Too Late to Begin Being Care
full"
In Justice to tho automobilists, the
big majority of whom I feel are care
full drivers, won't you ask your car
toonist to draw a cartoon warning the
boy and the girl, and particularly the
daredevil boy?
We are not always at fault and we
do our level best to avoid accident.
Nothing would grieve me more than
to hurt little child, but an expert
ence I had the other evening in which
l came near hitting a little girl, where
it was not my fault, brings forth this
letter. w. j. WITTE.
New York, March 8. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Sir Richard Burton's Centenary

TO the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Wasn't Sir Richard Burton a
big enough man to have his name put
IN the list of prominent people born
in 1921? His hundredth birthday will
come along on the 10Th of this month
of March. F. H. LANGWORTHY,
Warren. Pa, March 8, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

The statement about tho birth Of the
eighth Muse, credited to Miss Fannie
Hurst, was, an unassailablo authority
informs US. Typographical error. Our
apologies to Sehor Ibaiez, Miss Hurst.
and all tho Muses.. To what depths
will not the daily merry-andrew plunge
to bring up wheezel And poor one,
like "Fillumel"!
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

~ sas ssrehaas merchandise atvsrsissd IN YhE
TRIBUNE v!th a5ssuts safsty-ser u dissatistas-
den resuits In any sass THE TRIBUNE suaraa.
tsss t. pay your msnss back upsn rsquest No nd
tapA No auibhIius. We make seed promptly II
the advertiser does not,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
urnnrx OF TIE .ssoc1Arxp PRESS

The Associated Press - exclusively entitled TO
tie for republication OF all dispatches
credited 10 Il or not otherwise credited in this
paper ard also the local OF spontaneous
origin published herein.
All rights OF republca,,eo es all ether matter
herein also are reserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Memories OF Trip Down the Nemasket

Memories OF Trip Down the Nems.ket
River
lFrom the Middleboro. Mass, Gazottol
wonderful stately birch tree
Is lifting its head over there.
And from OF its outstretched branches
Golden robin is looking around.
The air is filled with the music Of birds
Never concert go sweet
AS rises and falls on the soft balu,y afr
AS we drift down the river complete,
And now we pass under a high bridge;
ponder while as I think
OF the many who'vs passed over this high
bridge,
Some weary of feet and lifes tourney.
while others tripped gayly along.
Then | catch an odor OF sweet fern,
And back to the beautiful river
Come my thoughts.
As we Journey along.
In the distance I see a green pasture
FILLED with cows standing idly about
Calmly munching the grasses
Here perfect contentment il found
Against the blue sky In the distance
Rise the church spires, lofty and grand.
Like sentnes doing their duty
For tho sleepy old town tust beyond
'ris hard to drink In all tho beauties.
This trip down the river reveals,
For the wonders Of nature, its grandeur
and splendor.
L. picture that's patnted bv God
Now we've reached the end o. tho tourney
Down tho heau ufift,1 rty.~ - <,t.
But the beauties revealed rs we traveled
along
Will remain as q picture most rnre
So there's really no end to the Journey
On that wonderful morning In June.
Down the river 80 filled with such beauty
That in memory will aver remain
II killed her-you can now kill me.
1t was all my fault" he said before
losing nscientiousnes..-The Globe.
Stetl
When MIR. Ford says business Is i'm
proving, we believe him; and hops he
Isn't honking in the dark.
Never, as all editorial writers and
after dinner speakers keep telling US,
was there so important a time in the
history of the worlds progress. And
what, therefore, more momentous to
record than that the resolution to ap-
point committee to investigate
bucketing was introduced at Albany by
Senator Pitcher, Of Watertown7
This Hacienda Of Hilarity is in re-
ceipt Of nine letters rebuking it for
referring to him as Finley Peter Dunno
instead Of Peter Finley Dunno. His
name is Finley Peter Dunno, the ini-
tiala, like Father Francis P. Duffy's
being arranged, II We do say so, In
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

This Should Havo Been Printed on
Birthington's Washday, Said Dull
cinca, Alighting from a Tabbycax
know a man
Named Eddie Pope
Who talks as fast
As Swerbert Hope
And there's a girl
Named Anna Gibbs
Who always says
Sir Clip Phibbs
The worst Of all
Is c. J. Boyer
Who calls your fob
The Tonning Cover.
7. q.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

Nor again are We able to journey
with the Professor when he says Of
John Galsworthy: "His novels and
his plays have no tricks" We are
thinking of the auction scene in "The
Skin Game"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
A Civil War

(rron, TIE Baltimore Sur>
And SO Clemenceau has killed ~
tigers. This seems strangely ike fss'-
yicids. aD.a.-.. s.-ss II
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

still entitled to chance to profit
by decision Of the Upper Silesians
to reSnter the Polish community
and to help restore Poland's ancient
unity and culture.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

Doubt hereby is expressed as to
whether Mr.. Prince Freezing, prose-
cutor in the Hamon murder trial, was
entirely right when he said, "They
had lovers quarrels, the usual result
Of illicit love-" Are they? Or are
they one Of the by-products7 And how
characterize the quarrels-for this is
an imperfect world-that legal love is
not free from7 But there we 60 again
dipping into subjects ignorance, as
Mr.. Octavus Roy Cohen's heroes might
say, Is what we have nothing but Of.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
The Coming ower

Elcgy Unwrittcn lii u Country Club
Full many dub Of purest ray serene
--0rantoldrice.
Slicng his drive will Rnaah his toeth
and swear;
Full many player is born to push
obscene
And dreadful words into the am
bient air.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

"Perhaps the most intelligent at
ttude to take toward the plays Of
j. NJ. Barrie is unconditional sur
RENDER" writes William Lyon Phelps
in Essays on Modern Dramatists"
(Macmillan). Professor Phelps may
lay down his arms il he chooses, but
there will remain in the fortress a
small band Of irreconcilables who have
seen Mary Rose and are determined to
sell their lives dearly.