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New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

tanned as her counsel the famous young
ottorney, Benjamin Harris o'Dell, while
Mr.. ZeIls lawyer was a fat little man
whom the boy identified in his mind
as the Mad Halter. After the Mad
Halter had presented his side of the
case it was O'Dell's turn.
"Mr. 0'Dell," writes Aikman, "proved
no disappointment. "A tissue of lies,'
he began, with not scintilla of truth
in i'll This word 'scintilla' he en-
ployed again and again; it was evil
IDENTIFY q favorite of his; he rolled it
out grandly, and each time he shook
his head earnestly, so that the cowlick
of heavy black hair on the front of his
lead fell down over his forehead with
fine forensic effect.
"'Where is the man who makes these
dastardly charges against my client-a
woman whose reputation in this com
n.unity is as spotless as yonder snow 2?
he Numbered. Avery remem-
bered other pithy phrases: "A crime to
take these helpless little tots'-that
was his one grievance against their de-
fonder-'away from their God-given
guardian and give them to this beast!'' -
Presently the lawyers were having q
spat and the Mad Halter was resenting
one of his colleagues tnsinuations
"Mr. ODell countered with SO fierce a
look that physical exchanges seemed
imminent. The two attorneys had all
100 clearly become enemies for life.
Later, after the case had been de-
cided, Avery saw them meet in the hall.
"Then an astounding thing happened
Rather had it on you there, Benny
said the Mad Halter, amicably, just
outside the courtroom door-quite as
if nothing hads happened. Mr.. ODell
smiled weakly. Can't win 'em all, you
know. Cot a match %"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
Saving Daylight, Lives and
Dollars

If the Legislature at Albany re-
jects statewide daylight saving, re-
pealing the present law and leaving
only local option with the individual
cities, it will be acting on behalf of q
small minority and against the
health, the welfare and the earnest
desire Of four-hfths of the state.
The country districts can adjust
themselves to q new time schedule
with but little inconvenience. The
cities cannot adopt local daylight
saving without constant confusion.
In effect, such a decision by the Leg
islature would sacrifice the lives and
health Of the many to the prejudice
and relatively minor convenience Of
the few.
We hesitate to believe that Gov
ernor Miller and the Legislature
will take such stand. But if this
decision is reached at Albany the
battle-ground should be shifted to
Washington without delay. The
proposal of the Edge-Ackerman bill
now pending in Congress is to apply
daylight saving to the entire East
ern time zone. 1t can and should be
passed without delay. The over
whelming demand for a continuance
of this sound reform, saving dollars,
lives and health, cannot be ignored.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

Sir: And why should young Helton,
one OF the winners OF The Nations
poetry prize, divide his winnings with
Vachel Lindsay, as you suggest? Hell
toms influences, am sorry to record
are not 1009o American. If he owes
anything-either in rhythm or refrain
it Is to the visiting G. X. c. Hell
tons prize-winning:
May Jones of Filbcrt Street Is walking
into town!
is, accent for swinging accent, bor-
rowed from Chcsterton's "Lepanto,"
with its:
Don John Of Austria is going 70 the
warl l., u,
The similarity pointed out by L. y.
is, to our notion, only a surface like
ness. 1t was the body and spirit of
the poem that struck us as Lind
sayesque.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
on-Progressive's Warning

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I hold no brief for the So
called Progressives. have never
been an adherent of that wing of the
Republican party, but I recognize the
fact that a large number of Republi-
cans are still loyal to it. It is there
fore with great regret that read
that of the men supposed to have been
chosen to Mr.. Harding's Cabinet there
IS not one who can be classed with
that wing of the party. That way lies
dissension and the possible failure of
the incoming Administration.
Of the fifty-nine Republicans In the
new Senate the following can be
ciassed as Progressives: France. La
Toilette, Lenroot, Kenyon, Norris.
johnson, McNary, Poindexter, Borah,
Gooding, Capper, Ladd--twelve in num-
Der. Add these twelve to the thirty.
seven Democratic members and the Ad-
ministration is wrecked. Is it expedi-
ent to incur that risk?
j. j. JACoBI,
New York, Feb. 8, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

But fickle public in old Greece dis
missed him and invited Constantine
to come back and rule over the new
Greece which the Cretan statesman
had created. Now the irony Of that
decision Is becoming apparent even
in Athens, with Venizelos the only
voice Greece can depend on to pre-
serve the settlement --- immensely
beneficial to her--which the other
Allies consented to in the belief that
Greece would be constant to the
Venizelist policies.
The Athens government Is so
worried that it Is thinking of order
ing an attack on Mustapha Kemal,
whom the Allies have also invited to
discuss the Turkish resettlement
That is Tino's last card. But whether
he fights Kemal or not, he cannot die
tate his own peace in Turkey. Greece
is entitled to the Sevres treaty
compensation only in so far as
she is willing to continue her accord
with the Western Allies. Constan-
tines recall broke that accord. He
is pariah in Allied councils-and
justly so. If the Greek people want
to enjoy the fruits Of their partici-
patton in the war their first duty is
to oust the royal intriguer who
worked to keep them out of it, with
the expectation of ruling thereafter
as a Hohenzollern satrap.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
Barrett Wendell

In the department. of English at
Harvard Barrett Wendell won high
personal distinction. He impressed
himself on his students as few
teachers do, for to his originalities
in manner was added refreshing
independence of view. AS a profes-
sor he was unprofessorial; as
scholar unscholastic. He appealed
through queer mixture of intel
lectual fastidiousness and demo-
cratic candor. In the heart of New
England he was not a conforming
New Englander. Probably no teach
er at Harvard, enjoyed greater
popularity and yet made fewer con-
cessions which interfered in any
way with his idiosyncrasies, temper
ament or modes of expression. Re-
Gently the graduate body paid him
the exceptional tribute of electing
him to the Board Of Overseers.
AS an author Professor Wendell
worked under some restraint. His
novels, essays and closet plays made
little stir. AS a critic of literature
his qualities found an easier vent.
His History Of Literature in Amer
les Is a standard work, full Of
shrewd dispraise rs well as praise,
and avoiding the prejudices of pro-
vincialism. He knew European lit
erature as well as English and was
welcomed as an exchange lecturer at
Berlin and Paris.
His literary monument will re-
main and his quality as q literary
historian is not to be challenged.
But to those with whom he came
In contact his works will never ex-
press the exuberanca and ingenious.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
lreland's Hone

Real friends of Ireland the world
over note with great satisfaction and
renewed hope that the influence of
the Sim Fein extremists is waning.
Even De Valera, the Sim Fein lead
er, no longer insists on the absolute
independence of an Ireland as
bounded by the seas. He now talks
of dominion Home Rule.
Independence has been the sticking
point For England, Scotland and
Wales to grant this to geographic
Ireland plainly meant not peace but
civil war in Ireland. There would
be two Irelands, for Ulster is as dis
tinct from southern Ireland as Nor
way is from Sweden or Belgium is
from Holland. Ulster is industrial.
Southern Ireland is not.
Separate Ulster from the British
Empire and allow Dublin to put
tariff around the whole island, as it
probably would, and Belfast, de-
pendent on imports for raw materi-
ais, would be dead city with grass
grown streets.
Back Of the religious, cultural and
psychologist differences between the
two Irelands is the fact that the
northern one is linked to Great Brit
ain by economic interests. So in the
last election the industrial area Of
north Ireland voted almost unani-
mously against the Sim Fein.
Even though the safety Of Great
Britain were not menaced by the
establishment of a power hostile Co
her, under the leadership Of men
Vho wanted Germany to win in the
great war Ireland's insular inde-
pendence would apgravate rather
than end Ireland's troubles,
But Great Britain would not, of
course, consent to independence, for
the same reasons that led Abraham
Lincoln to refuse to consent to the
independence of the Confederacy.
So the effect of futile insistence on
absolute separateness has been to
bring in murder and anarchy. The
Sim Fein by guerrilla tactics can
make beautiful land a desert one,
but this is all, unless Ulster and
Great Britain ara satisfied
The present Prime Minister of
Great Britain has long been an
ardent friend Of maximum Home
Rule. He was such when support of
Home Rule threatened to bring his
political career to an end. His only
conditions were the preservation of
imperial unity and reasonable pro-
lection Of Ulster. Otherwise Ire
land could write the terms. There
IS no evidence he has essentially
changed his views. He still vigor-
ously fiourishes the olive branch.
The seven-century problem of Ire
land Is now apparently nearer to
practical solution than is commonly
believed. If the Ulster extremists
and the Sim Fein extremists can be
relegated for a time sensible Irish
men and sensible Britons will doubt
less be able to get together.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
The American Partnership


The most significant item in a ma
tion's character is often the least
noticed by its own people. Take the
boy and girl equality in America, for
instance, which Rudyard Kipling was
so struck by. 1t is based on coedu-
cation--which prevails throughout
the country except in a narrow and
unlmportant Eastern fringe-and it
develops into that partnership of the
home, much maligned and much
jeered ct, but sound and genuine
none the less, and quite the most
vital fact in the American social
organism.
Mr.. Harold Spender, visiting
English journalist, is the latest OBJ
server to comment upon this equal
ity. Writing in The London Tele-
graph he says, after discussing
the varied activities of American
women:
behind all these shifting phases
OF the women's movement in Amer
lea there is always the solid fact
that on that continent men and
women are brought up together, both
at home and at school. England is
the land Of the boarding school and
America is the land of the day school.
That means that brothers and sis
ters are not separated, as they are in
wellto-do English families. But far
more important is the fact that in
practically all the big secondary
schools boys and girls are educated
together"
In visit to q public school at
Bridgeport he was much impressed
by the beauty and fineness of
the equipment provided absolutely
Free" but even more was "the fact
conspicuous to British eyes that in
almost every classroom the boys and
girls sat side by side, learning and
studying together"
This fact explained the atmosphere
Of the American home, Mr.. Spender
thought. The one prevailing note
was "the equality of the sexes" In
the English home, he continued,
there Is TOO often rivalry between
man and woman, the boy and the
girl. Sometimes the brother rules
the roost, sometimes the sister. But
the struggle for mastery is continu-
Gus. In the American homes that
Mr.. Spender visited he saw nothing
of such rivalry. The common Euro
pean notion that the American hus-
band Is the slave of the wife he re-
flutes fatty. The American hus-
band is kind and courteous, and
gives his wife a wide freedom of
work and play; he treats her, in
short, as "an equal. with equal
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
Germany s Just Duty
Fullest Reparation Warranted IN d
Light of Christ's Teaching

light Ol Aili 49, > i NdIIlulH
To the Editor of The Tribue.
Sir: Russell j. Clinchy, in your D
sue Of February 4, states that the vi.
indemnity levied by the Allies sgalnt
Germany challenges the spirit ssI
principles of Christianity in (il 81
it is an act of revenge, (2) 1t condsa
to punishment the future generahti
of German children and go it plae|
the Germans in economic slavery.
But while we have clung to the tesaI
ings OF the Christian faith we hle
labored carefully and painstakingly \
build up a system of law which vuuls
tring those who offend the public cor
science to account and subject them q
punishment and which would afford b
the individual who is injured by I'd
unlawful actions Of others a means 4
redress and compensation In imglI
ing punishment upon criminals II NJ
| doubtedly throws great hardship uE'
their families. In commanding perss.I
whose csrelessness or casual disrsgt
of the rights Of others causes iniuF|
to indemnify the injured we often aE|
from their children the advantage
which they might have by the use e
that money which must go to pay III
injuries to strangers Have we N'i
mistaken? Is our theory Of lsw SH'
the responsibility Of individuals q
abide by the conscience of the pe'9
hideous error which offends sgsaFI
the laws of God? Are those who ar
made to pay their hard-earned dollar
to indemnify the losses caused r
their breach Of contract, their frsHa
or the injuries which they careless
inflicted upon the person and pfop'F'
of strangers unjustly treated in ~
light of Christ's teaching? Yet tho u
demnity which the Allies propose \
! impose upon Germany is based uF''
these same theories Of right and iS'
tice which we enforce in cur courts !,
thousands of cases throughout u
country every day.
Perhaps it will be objected that 90
indemnity is not imposed by al u
partial court but by the arbitrsr! W
Of the party to be Undermined. !b
is so. 1t is hardly the fault Of the .
lies that there exists no impsf~
court before which they can of'
their case. And if we believe ths' !"
Allied cause was right we cannot
lieve that the Allies should go "lsae'
such reparation as Germany can ns1'
If Germany could rebuild every s0p
repair every road and restore everss.
/ den which her armies destroyed
could in no sense compensate the
lied peoples for the great loss Of !.
and love which they have sacrifeeo
maintain their freedom, In the ns.
urement of this irreparable INJURY
the great task Of forgiveness, Az
will hope that the Chistian fam :.
meet that task. But let not eS's
tianity be embarrassed in tins ~
nifcent undertaking by sentlnSN,
Confusion between the just duH
I Germany TO heal so we'll as she can :.
material injuries which she has
and the duty of the Allies to eA@
/ the hand of help AM mercy TO
graced people. MURRAY 7. GUN"
New York, Feb. z, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
inns to development and to hap

claims to development and to hap
pincss,"
Perhaps Mr.. Spender Is little
overgenerous and romantic. But
his words are welcome and signifi-
cant. Nothing less than "a new
idea Of partnership between man and
woman" he sees in process of de-
velopment in America, and it be-
hooves Americans to appreciate and
further this best achievement of
their national life.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
Mr.. Chesterton' OverpoIiteness

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: notice that MIR. Gilbert K. Ches
terton says nothing but "nice things"
about US. Now, don't you think it
would be to the advantage of the Amer
clan people and the English people
alike if distinguished representatives.
Of theirs when travelling would express
their impressions frankly. am greatly
afraid that we and the English are apt
to hug delusions about ourselves, and
if we could only see ourselves, once in
while, as others see us am sure it
would do US good. STRtNUS.
New York, Feb. z, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
The Martial NTnyies

Sir: If you don't think the war is
over, visit the Rivoli Theater this week
and see William S. Hart In "O'Malley
Of the Mounted" salute, do a right face,
ard start off on his right foot. E. S.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
Two Sentences

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t does not seem to snos
proper proportion that James sa.
should receive from Judge Ress'@
twenty years for the theft Of s0s
the same day that the judge p e,
fifteen years to John Holt for sssss'
$1,000. e. STILES hS'
Lyme, Conn. Feb. 8, 1921. .--'
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

ness of his moods and the sincerity
and friendly warmth Of his charac-
ter. He put his heart into his asso-
citation with others. He was a true
man as well as an admirable and
original teacher.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
MxNsrn OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tns Associated rress In exclusively entitled to
che we for republication Of all dispatches
errditez 20 II or not otherwise credited in this
paper. and aisa the LEGAL Of spontaneous
ssikin published herein.
All rights Of repuhliestisn Of all stAss as,tsT
ssrsn also rswerved
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

Sorne OF the members Of the Para
giaphers' Union (Inc. 19o7) have been
forecasting stormy weather for Ger
meny, but our guess, "a far as the in
demnity goes, Is Unsettled.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

"When you say 'We haven't heard
"bughouse" for ten years. you lie,"
writes j. N, Lewis, of Atlanta, Ga,
"for you heard it in Grant MitcheIps
Tho Conqueror few weeks ago and
snarled about it then in the same way.
l have long suspected you Of being OF
the ilk which Don Marquis designates
as Our little group of serious thinkers
the kind that have made Greenwich
Village such joke and recruited the
parlor Bolshevists. But you must in
deed have been kept in cotton wool
if you failed in ten years preceding
The Conqueror to hear this perfectly
good bit of American argot. If you
would condescend to trail around for
q little while with few he-men, with
hair on their chests, you would not
fail to hear 'bughouse' as frequently as
ever. The word is not out of date,
but you are, and as you spread your
self out thinner and thinner by writ
ing at least three times as much copy
as you ought, l suppose you will get
sillier and sillier."
IT Is easy enough for resident Of
semi-troplcal city, such as Atlanta,
blithely to recommend he-men with
hair on their chests to a Greenwich
Village serious thinker, but how is an
out-of-date New Yorker t. discover
them7 Atlanta is not only warmer.
but more neighborly. l live In the
same apartment house with ninety-five
other tenants and ] know not a single
chest but my own. Here in the
frigid and inarticulate Northland reti,
cence Is tradition, perhaps a pose
At the first sign of excitement on the
part Of any member Of my own par.
tlcular little group of thinkers some
one Is sure to remark coldly, "Keep
your shirt on!" Down in the land of
mangoes, and cotton, and alligators.
where each sovereign citizen of the
State Of Georgia sits in front of his
cottage in the coolth of the twilight
strumming on his old banjo, there are
no high collars or chest protectors,
In such community he-men are easv
of Identification for the eager argot
seeker. Here l can only chance it, and
seem to have failed.
Still more taunting is the state
rhent of Mr., Lewis that l am spread
ing myself out thinner and thinner.
Again can only sigh and wish that it
were within the possibility of accom-
plishment.
AS matter of fact, I am not entire
iy convinced that the Georgian critic
has furnished data quite sufficient for
the Identification of he-men even IN
city as close to nature as Atlanta.
Ga. One might still be deceived. as
was Robert Edeson, upon an occasion
when he played The Faun," or some
other such play of the primitive for
H. films. Coming to the location at
dawn, clad in the conventional leonard.
skin, he observed that .arge num-
Der Of supers had gathered who were
to play the part of assisting fauns.
Something in their appearance seemed
to him peculiar, and he remarked Ito
the director, "Why have you put black
jerseys on all of them?"
"Jerseys!" said the director, deeply
panied. They're not jerseys That's
crepe hair to make them look manly"
One Of the early tragic surprises In
the life of Avery, which Henry G. Ak
man records in his fine novel, Zell, oc-
Cured during the divorce action Of
zell versus Tell. Mrs, zell had re-
= Il
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
We'd Probably Telephone

/. II you were a press agent,s and
2. If you went to the Public Library to
find some books on advertising: and
8. If on adjacent shelf you found 20
volume, Masters of Space" and
4. II you eagerly opened It, saying, "At
last some one has officially recognized the
mghtiest press agents l'--and
5. If you discovered it to be all about
Marconi and Alexander Graham Bell and
such
Would you or would you not writa a
letter to The Tower about 1t?
Mas. GRAocHus.
"For "Heartbreak House" the Shaw comedy
now at the Garrtck
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

vev eea s1rehass merchandise advertised In vAS
YHt80AH With shseipse safets--fes II stssansfae.
tisa resatts is sry casa THE TRteuNE susran.
tses to Ess ssur meaes back upea request. Ne RED
tsss. NE suibblns. We make good srsmstis N
ths aavesfiasF esas nat
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
MAIN STREET

with apologies to the dim memory of =
half-forgotten old song.)
l admit am not a Main Street fan.
don't love TO read how Main Street
man
In his Main Street home with his Main
Street wife
Took Main Street outlook on his
Main Street life.
At his Main Street table ate his Main
Street meals;
In his Main Street office made his
Main Street deals;
Telling Main Street stories. cracking
Main Street jokes,
At the Main Street parties of the Main
Street folks.
While his Main Street wife, thinking
Main Street gay,
Tried to uplift Main Street in her
Main Street way;
And the Main Street neighbors, with
their Main Street souls,
Went on blindly burrowing like Main
Street moles.
Now, the Main Street workings CT the
Main Street mind
May be quite enthralling to the Main
Street kind;
And the Main Street manners and the
Main Street ways
Thrill the Main st eet victims Of tho
Main Street craze.
But the Main Street premise of the
Main Street book
Is an inexpensive viewpoint from which
TO look.
And you may be sure that q Main
Street fan
Is Main Street woman or a Main
Street man.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

If Herrick had tuned his lutte TO d.
vorce, he might have written
Gather yc rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-coursing,
And this same wife that smiles to-day
To-morrow'll be divorcing.
OR Lovelace;
! could not love thee, dear, 80 much
Loved not Anna more.
Or Burns;
My luve is like red, red rose
With verdure fair and frondent;
Il looks to me as though she'd be
A luyelie correspondent.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

At the risk Of agreeing with Prof.
Broun, we sound the concertina's mel
ancholy string in praise of Henry G.
Aikman's "Zell," first rate story of a
first rate-even if he does use gotten"
and "none but he"--writer.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

According to Dr.. Richard P. Strong.
tho total costs OF the war were
$348, 100000 900. This excludes, prob
ably, the xylophone we lost in storage
and the two 1915 suits that the Bel
gian kids probably are still wearing.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

1t is offered by NJ. A. B. that If, as
a composer suggests, o group Of di-
vorce songs, as relief from the eter-
nal love music, be written they be
pitched in A fiat containing many en-
harmonic dissonances, an occasional
sharp note, and ending with a chaage
OF keys.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

Latin Quarter Drops. -. EVENING
World headline.
Add foreign exchange depression.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

That Congressional subcommittee
shouldn't wear it's head upon its sleeve.