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New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
future in a rosy light, we should b
delighted To do SO.

future in a rosy light, we should be
delighted to do SO.
The task is, however, beyond us.
There are those in this country, in
cluding Mr.. Harding and Mr..
Hughes, and even Senator Lodge,
who would consider the total de-
struction of the British Empire as
something bordering closely upon a
calamity. Yet the Judge will re-
fuse to be comforted SO long as one
stone stands on another in England
'--as long as vestige of power is
left in Downing Street. 1t will be
hard living with the Judge here
after if Ireland is only half free
say, as free as Australia or Canada.
But we can't help it. Unless we are
prepared to wipe all the land be-
tween the Lizard and the Hebrides
from the map, we must stand pre-
pared to brave his stern displeasure.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
The Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize for 1921
is divided between two recipients,
as it was several times before,
half of it going to Hjalmar Brant-
ing, the Prime Minister of Sweden,
and half to Christian l.. Lange, of
Norway, Secretary Of the Inter-
parliamentary Union.
Mr.. Lange has long been known
for his activities in the Interparlia-
mentary Union and at the second
Hague Congress, and is a rep
resentative of Norway in the AS
sembly of the League of Nations,
At the last meeting in Geneva he
sharply arraigned the council of
the league for it's failure to take
action toward disarmament and
cordially commended President Har-
ding's course in calling the confer
ence at Washington. He made it
quite clear that hevand, in his opin-
ion, most of the nations of the
world-looked much more hopefully
to this conference than to the
League of Nations. Though ardent
league supporters regarded his
words as little less than treason, the
Norwegian storthing, did not con-
denim him, at least not sufficiently
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
The Business Woman

The announcement that Mrs. Nor
man de R. Whitehouse, long promi-
nent in equal suffrage work and
strong personal influence in winning
in New York the victory that led
to victory in the nation, is to become
leather merchant is bit of news
significant to those interested in the
further development of women.
Women who felt an urge "to do
something" first captured large
part Of the great teaching busi-
ness. Then they were moved to
take part in philanthropic activities.
The fields of literature and art
were next invaded, and perhaps a
majority of our writing folk and
art workers now are women. The
professions were cntered-great
success being achieved in all except
perhaps the law, whose spirit is
alien to feminine psychology.
But though many came into gen.
eral life, the forward-pressing army
behind, waiting and anxious tc
come in, has steadily grown. The
conditions of modern life have
stolen, as Olive Schreiner estab-
lished, traditional jobs from women,
and the better sort wholesomely
objected to idleness. But what were
they to do? Many have vainly
sought the answer. In view of this
it is a matter of some mystery why
the intrusion into business-that is,
in the organized making and selling
of things-has been so small. Op-
portunity beckoned. Through in
heritance and otherwise women pos
sess a great part of the worlds
capital. They are free to manage
their own property affairs. Yet in
the higher executive positions women
are few, and when they own direc-
ton is placed in masculine hands.
In countries more backward than
ours, where feminism is less of a
cult, the woman shopkeeper is more
common.
But business is real and stimu-
lating. To flourish in competitive
enterprises one must have an educa-
ton deeper and more practical than
can be gained from books. Should
group of women arise and demon
strate their capacity to hold their
own against all comers they will
probably do more to push down
bars than all the words, good as
they are. Nothing is better than
coming into primary contact with
practical affairs. 1t makes for a
hardening of faculties. 1t is not
secondhand usefulness. Enter the
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
The Yap Treaty

1t was foregone conclusion that
American claims with regard to Yap
and the inundated islands of the Pa
cific generally would be recognized
by the four other principal Allied
and associated powers. The Ameri-
can case was clear and indisputable.
Its soundness was conceded months
ago by France, Great Britain and
Italy. Only Japan held out.
The German overseas possessions
were transferred to the five prin-
cipal belligerents. The United
States was not represented in the
Allied Council which subsequently
distributed the former German ISL
ands in the Pacific. 1t didn't give it's
assent to the distribution. Mr.. Will
son had previously entered specific
reservation as to Yap. Secretaries
Colby and Hughes both held that no
assignment Of these Pacific posses
sions could be valid without the as
sent Of the United States.
What our government wanted was
right to the free use of the cable
and radio communications centering
in Yap. 1t also objected to being ex-
cluded from the commercial privi-
leges to be granted by the man
datory power to all other members
of the League of Nations. Article
% of the covenant binds the manda-
tory to secure equal opportunities
for the trade and commerce of other
members of the league" 1t would
be gross discrimination against the
United States, one of the powers to
which these Pacific holdings were
ceded, to deny American trade and
commerce advantages guaranteed to
the minor belligerents, to neutrals
and to some of the former enemy
states.
The settlement with Japan re-
moves this inequality and takes ac-
count of the American stipulation at
Paris as to zap. 1t thus supple
ments the four-power Pacific treaty
and abolishes the unwarranted dis
tinction sought to be drawn in the
Pacific area between all members of
the league, on the one hand, and all
non-members, on the other. The
United States had belligerent rights
antedating the organization of the
league. What America asked was
practical acknowledgment of that
fact.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
Higher Postage the Remedy

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: l have just read Mr.. Havs,s ad-
mlrable report on the last years on.
eratlon of the postoffice, showing a
loss of $167,oO0,OoO for the twelve
months. This loss had to be met bv
the overburdened taxpayer.
1t seems to me ridiculous idea n
run department such as the postofice
at loss. Why not charge to the users
OF the mails at least the cost of the
service?
If the cost of sending letter to
Chicago or San Francisco is moro than
two cents, why. not charge three cents
etc, etc? Then take any surplus there
is at the end of the year and divide II
among the poorly paid postoffice en-
ployees. You would have better and
more economically conducted depart-
ment.
Every day l receive dozens of letters
of no earthly value, that immediately
consign to the waste basket For these
letters | am taxed to make up the de-
flciency in cost of delivery, which the
senders fail to pay.
FINE BUSINESS.
New York, Dec. 8, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
Comfort for the Sorrowinp

These are times of conference and
compromise. Cancellation has be-
come epidemic. Indications multiply
that even the most contentious and
expensive divorce suit in the history
Of mankind may be patched up with
a few shreds of honor still clinging
to both plaintiff and defendant. We
therefore find grounds for the hope
that our national hero, Mr.. Babe
Ruth, may possibly appear in the
public ball yard before the expira-
tion of the Term of suspension
fixed by Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Lands, to wit, the first of next May.
We make this statement as con-
tribution of Christmas cheer. For
thousands of American homes would
find the holiday meaningless if they
had to look forward to a whole
month Of Ruthless baseball next
spring. Observing readers will re-
call that when Mr.. Ruth visited the
White House recently the following
conversation took place:
The President of the United
States-What was Judge Lands do
ing to you, Babe-having fun with
you?
Mr. Ruth guess that was
about it.
That is our guess too. Judge
Lands holds two jobs at once.
Surely he cannot be so heartless as
to deprive Mr.. Ruth of the same
privilege-Mr. Ruth, who is as
great, if not greater figure in the
game than the judge himself. He
will, in our opinion, relent. He will
revoke his prescription. The Babe
will be in the game early in April.
AS to the fine Of all of his post
season pay, there is no cause for
gloom among his admirers. If the
judge does not remit it, and Cap
tain Huston, reputed to be of great
wealth, does not pay it for him,
what would be more natural than
for the fans themselves to pay it?
Heroes are heroes, and this is not
a country to see them suffer when
few dollars would make every
thing square.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
Women and Letters
On the Exclusiveness of American
"Immortals"

On the Exclusiveness Of American
lmmortals
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Isn't it rather absurd that an
American Academy of Arts and Letters
should be an exclusively male Acad-
envy Of Arts and Letters? Isn't it
rather absurd that Edith Wharton, for
instance, who is without question the
most distinguished American in the
realm Of letters, should not have been
invited to join a self-constituted body
Of "immortals"?
There is rather more excuse. per-
haps, for an authors club preferring to
be male authors club, IL that is what
seems good to it, but as soon as q group
Of writer's and artists arrogate to them
selves name Of such special connota-
tion as academy" the situation is diff
ferent, and they show themselves lack
ing in good taste at least if they ex-
clude women. This very academy, in
fact, did better than this at its begin
ming, for Julia Ward Howe was a mem
Der of it until her death.
1t is long time since other organi.
cations have found any reason for not
admitting women. The scientific socie-
ties, for instance, have not only ad-
mitted them but have treated them
with all deserved honor. Professor
Calkins, of Wellesley, has been presi-
dent Of both the Psychological Associa-
tion and the Philosophical Association,
and this very month the Psychological
Association meeting at Princeton will
be presided over by Professor Wash
burn, Of Vassar. Does not the Acad-
emy Of Arts and Letters (Which ought,
if anything, to be further advanced in
the humanities than the plain scien-
tists) feel that it is rather old
fashioned?
CHRISTINE .LADD-FRANKLIN,
Columbia University.
!, New York, Dec. 10, 1921. !, +
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
Irreconcilable

1t would be inconvenient just now
for the United States to annihilate
all the British Empire save Ireland.
A movement to conquer the British
people and give them into the hands
of Judge Cohalan and his associates
among the Friends of Irish Free
dom would find but few supporters
IN this country. The present gov
ernment at Washington is more dis
posed toward peace than toward
war. And, judging by the election
returns, it has the support Of quite
tidy majority of the people.
1t appears therefore extremely
difficult, if not impossible, to please
Judge Cohalan, Mr.. Dewey and
other Irish patriots who, from a
very secure distance, have been
battling to make Ireland free and
independent of any other nation on
earth. The difficulty becomes the
greater because, as condition
precedent to the qualification Of
their desires, we should now have to
fight not only Great Britain but a
very considerable majority Of the
Sim Fein.
Most Of the residents Of New
York as well as America would like
to see Judge Cohalan made happy.
His ,nhappiness has not only been
acute, but extremely public during
the last five or six years. If we
could find some way to mollify him,
Il we could fit to his eyes a pair of
glasses that would present the
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13

villages without ono house standing;
no one who has seen, as have seen,
French peasants working in the fields
from o'clock in the morning until 9
o'clock at night; no one who has seen,
as have seen, the little huts and holes
in which the people live who loyalty
returned to the shattered homes of
their childhood, but can feel that it
is the duty Of the American ally, who
has not suffered in this way, to con-
tinue to hold out her hands to the
stricken country, and BY helping her
children, who are the promise of her
future, make still stronger the ties
Of friendship between America and
France.
CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON.
New York, Dec 8, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
The Lost Opportunity


I never hear those Wagner tunes
(If tunes they may be styled,
In which the oboes and bassoons
And fiuegelhorns run wild,
With that rapt-visaged reverence
And warm, responsive glow
Which better educated gents
Than / are wont to show.
Alas, far other thoughts are mine
AS the prodigious din
Romps, roaring, down the noisy
line.
From drums to violin.
/ hear the harsh tympani clink,
hear the 'cellos Groom
Amid the rumpus, and I think
That Wagner lived too soon.
Poor chap, he died in '88;
He piled his simple art
Full twenty years before the date
GThat music got its start.
Had he been with us here to-day,
In 1921,
And written tunes, ah, who can
say
What he might not have donel
For zip and go and dash and
swing
His harmonies displayed;
He knew the use of everything
BY which a noise is made.
He would have made a greater
roll
Than Irving Berlin has
If all the sounds that thronged
his soul
Had been turned into jazz.
Copyright by James ]. Montagus.l
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13

to disqualify him from receiving the
Nobel prize, and the achievement Of
the Washington conference in
agreeing upon reduction Of naval
armament and in making the
quadruple Pacific treaty is a strong
vindication of his judgment.
The other recipient has long been
the leader Of the Socialist party in
Sweden, and is the first Socialist to
become Prime Minister of that coun-
try. He was presumably deemed
worthy of the prize chiefly because
Of his course during the World War,
when as party leader and journalist
he used all his influence for the
maintenance of Swedish neutrality
and sympathized with the Allied
cause. He successfully combated Ger
maninf1uence in the important Social
istorganizations of the Continent and
since has been conspicuous in the
Assembly of the League of Nations,
as chairman of it's committee on
disarmament.
The peace prize has been awarded
to three Americans, three French
men and three Swiss; twice it has
gone to Swedes, twice to Danes,
twice to Belgians and twice to
Austrians; once to an Englishman,
once to an Italian, once to a Nor
wegian; three times it has been
awarded to institutions, and in four
years, during the war, it was not
awarded at all. The United States
thus stands in the foremost rank of
recipients, and perhaps just a trihe
IN advance of all others in view of
the indirect tribute to President
Harding which is implied in the
choice of his eulogist as one of this
years winners.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
Russia S Way Out
10 End Famine 1t Is Necessary to
End Bolshevism
0 the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to express my appre-
citation of the editorial "Really Help
ing Russia" in which you so justly
point out that Bolshevism is the real
cause of Russia's present terrible
plight. You rightly point out that
Russia will little recover as long as
Bolshevism rules her." and that "every
word spoken in behalf of Bolshevism
tends to encoffin Russia and increases
the probability of recurrent famines."
In support Of this statement it may
be we'll to quote the words of no less
an authority than Nikolai Lenine, the
competence Of whose testimony can
hardly be questioned. l quote from his
recent speech, delivered before the
Second Russian Assembly for Political
Education:
"The requisition Of the surplus
system in the country districts and
the immediate communistic taking
up of the task of construction in the
towns-this policy hindered the in
crease Of the productive forces and
proved to be the fundamental cause
OF the profound economic and politi-
cal crisis which we encountered in
the spring of 1921"
I do not know how any statement
could be more explicit as a confirma-
tion Of your charge and verdict than
this declaration by Nikolai the Third.
1t is all too terribly true that, no mat
ter how generous the charitable relief
extended by this and other nations NAV
be, if Bolshevism continues to rule
even in its relaxed and modified form
new victims will be turned out ten
times as fast as rescue work can be
accomplished For every one that is
saved from starvation by these char
liable efforts Bolshevism will provide
at least ten new victims.
Only the liquidation of Bolshevism
can make possible the redemption of
Russia. The proper answer to make
to the appeals of Krassin, Radek.
Gorky and all the rest of the Bol-
shevlst tribe is this: eve cannot sit
with folded hands, doing nothing, while
millions of people, your innocent vic
TINS, perish from starvation, and
therefore we shall send what food.
clothing and medical relief we can.
We know quite we'll, however. that
your infamous rule will mean famine
for Russia as long as it lasts, To end
the famine it Is necessary that Bol-
shevlsm be brought to an end. Onr
AID otherwise can be only temporary
ana OF relatively little avail. Yon
nave admitted, through your chief
spokesmen, the failure of your expert.
ment and its tragic cost. Abandon #.
convoke constituent assembly upon
terms which will make it possible for
all Russia to be adequately and fairly
represented and free to choose tho
form and the manner of it's own gov
ernment' Upon that basis, and unon
no other, will the recovery of Russia
be possible." John cpApco
Old Bennington, Vt, Dec. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
why Can't Germany Payp"

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: have read F. A. Henry's letter
to The Tribune under the above cap
ton. Let me try to explain the mat
ter as it appears to me.
Germany can't pay because she won't
pay. The rich won't pay, meaning BY
the rich the men who control the
money, real estate, factories, shipping
and finished products. The large COM
bines control in Germany the bulk Of
the wealth Of the country, and these
big men, aided by clever lawyers and
probably backed by a large class of
the less wealthy, are simply putting
up bluff.
The Allies could call this bluff, but
SO far France is the only country
that has persistently tried to show the
world, through her statesmen ana
publicists and her most eminent mill
tary men, that Germany is as danger
Gus now as ever. Germany has her
factories intact and men enough 20
man them; her engineers, chemists ana
business men work together and are
turning out goods day and night.
At the time of or just before tho
armistica plans were perfected by tho
French commander in chief for liking
things so that Germany would have 70
pay. But the opportunity was lost.
As a result of this delay and evasion
the German people, in the aggregate
have less tax burdens than the Euro
pean allies. Whether the Allies VIII
sit on the Germans or keep stringins
along, time alone can tell. b.
New York, Dec. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
MARTHA w1LCHINsKY.

Satiric observation, by an ancient
paragrapher, on the younger genera
tion: A prominent and gifted poet of
the younger generation was so en-
thralled by Mr.. Lee Wilson Dodd's
poem, "To the Younger Generation," in
Saturdays column, that he promised,
on Saturday afternoon, to write re-
ply to it; but his nonwriting activities
took so much of his time Saturday
night and Sunday that at the moment
Of doddcring to press we had not re-
ccived his verses.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
Americas Restored Prestige

"Never since the summer of 191S,"
says the Paris "Temps" in it's COM
ment on the Pacific treaty, "when
American soldiers landed on French
soil. has the prestige of the United
States been so great"
America has come back. She is
once more before the nations as she
is. Her historic policy, which she is
once more seen to be following, has
escaped from an envelope of fog. A
course which no one understood be-
cause it was n-understandablc has
given way to one which adds COM
mon sense to it's ideality. Surely
wisdom has taken President Harding
and Secretary Hughes by the hand
and guided them into true paths.
The crooked has been made
straight, the vaporous has become
solid, the complex has been reduced
to simplicity. For in truth nothing
is more simple than the Harding
Hughes policy. 1t assumes that
nationalism and internationalism, in
stead of being opposed, are compile
mentary 1t looks to cooperation
rather than to the erection Of
super-state, and this satisfies inter-
national need without assailing ma
tionalism. Some say they can see
no difference between league and
an association of nations. Let such
look again.
AS there is nothing mysterious
about the Harding Hughes prin-
ciples, so there is nothing recondite
about the method. It's peace MAX
ing is on the commonest of models,
exemplified in every household and
every partnership. When there is
dispute between two persons and
both are averse to fighting what do
they do? They try to reconcile diff
ferences, compromise when there is
a deadlock, tell one another cit won't
pay either of us to quarrel" So
Mr.. Hughes emphasizes communities
rather than oppositions of interest.
He is a composing solicitor rather
than an attorney seeking to hammer
the other side into submission.
And when common interests are
in good faith searched for the
number discovered is astonishingly
great Why should a japanese
wish to fight an American or a
Briton to fight Frenchman? All
are reasonably decent fellows. The
so-called interests of nations are
artifcially placed, false perspectives.
A penny is made to look like a dol
lar. In a homely Lincolnian spirit
the discussions at Washington have
been conducted.
And behold! American prestige is
increased by the application of a
diplomacy of mere common sense.
This may not suit those whose
vanity leads them to attitudinize as
it jousters in tournament or as if
scholastic champions to whom dogma
Is the breath of life, but it suits
the plain people of every land.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
Courtesy at the Library

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial in to-day's is-
sue "At the Library" overlooks one
thing that stands out by itself as an
educational feature not to be ignored
amid the erudition Of the ages. re-
fer to the delightful courtesy ex-
tended to the public by its personnel.
Whoever is responsible for the selec-
ton Of the library STAFF must have
most discriminating judgment. This
feature of the library is one Of the
things that New York may we'll be
proud of. w. 7. D.
New York, Dec. 10. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
The Tower
The Traffic Cops Honor Roll

The Traffic Cops Honor Roll
AS for me,
sing the praises Of him
Who stands at the corner Of Fort and
Beretania streets
In Sunny Honolulu:
Big, bronzcd Kannka--
Stern son Of ancient Polyncsan kings,
With arms outstretched to North and
South,
Or East and West,
Under the shade Of his huge sun um-
brella
Like q great sequoia--
Who stopped the traffic for three
whole minutes ono day
AS he left his post
And graciously and majestically es-
corted me
Half way up the street
To the little half-hiddcn shop Of Moto
San,
For which l had been looking for half
an hour.
MARTHA W1LCHINSKY.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-13

And perhaps, years after he is dead,
tho lofty critics will speak, as they
now do of Artemus Ward, of the great
and American satire Of Kin Hubbard.
Kin's new Abe Martins Almanack is
out and, to us at least, it is an oc-
casion for hat-throwing and salutations
Of JOY. We quote:
Ike Lark stopped IN tH Strictly Cosh
Grocery this mormsn' t. light his pipo
an found th proprietor lea1an' o'er
the counter dead. tn Coroner savs
he's prob'ly been dead 1veek or ten
days.
President-elect Hardin havs,., his
picture taken avith a fish sort o. bears
out President Wilson'S charge that
tn Republican party haven't had
me1o idea IN thirty gears.
Mr.. Lemmaie Peters, aohoss oraduo-
ton essay. "We've Left th' Boy an
tn Ocean Lies Before U.s." back in
1918, IS fresh IN tn memories Of on,
people, has accepted position a.
landscape gardener for th' Acme
film station.
# theirs any Literary ubisty IN
Teller, gettin' fred out of q good aov-
crment job'U bri1,o It OFT.