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France Owes Us Nothing"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: M. Viviani must know the sen
timent of the people of France, and ws
have only to accept his assurance OF
, their determination to pay all war debts.
But long before the French shall be abe
to bear the heavy taxation which would
be necessary in order to collect money
for US, the American conscience will
wake up to a realization of the truta
that France owes US nothing.
In 1915 and 1916 many Of US wanted
the United States to enter the Weird
War, but we stayed out until April
1917, and did not even prepare to hcnt
The delay was enormously profitable for
us and enormously costly for our friends
1t was in this period, when VIC should
have been helping, that our friends haa
to send us their gold and then had TO
borrow heavily to pay for goods and for
munitions, mostly at very high prices
We were due to fight not later than
May, 1915. If we had declared war then
our friends would not have had to boz
row so much from us, for the war wouiO
have been won much sooner than it WAS
We cannot bring back to life the men'
women and children who we're sIaugn-
tered while only Great Britain was rem
dering assistance, but We can insist fhas
the people of France and of Belgium
shall never tax themselves to pay u
money which our own slowness was tns
cause of their being obliged to borrow.
J. HOWARD COWPERTHWAIT.
New York, April Is, 1921.
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Into that new excitement about
our past largely born Of Mr.. H. G.
Wells's latest and most absorbing
novel that he cleverly disguised un-
der the title An Outline of His
tory) John Daniel, of the Congo and
Madison Square Garden, came at an
opportune moment. This "almost a
man" was the center of circus thrill
in his life. And, as if some sense
OF drama reposed behind that fiat
and receding forehead, he chose to
die, with the eyes of whole city
upon him, of nostalgia and pneu-
monia, like any temperamental, con-
ventional human.
The almost" in John Daniels
case is truly little enough if we are
measuring man by the littleness of
his life in relation to the millions of
years Of other life upon the earth
preceding him. Only some 100000
years ago human being stood erect
upon the earth for the first time: it
is millions Of years back to the first
Jellyfish-perhaps hundred millions
is as good guess as any. The
gorilla missed being a man only the
day before yesterday, speaking in
terms Of evolution.
But the separation between man
and the highest type of simian is as
deep as any abyss of time, however
narrow. The most imaginative of
the archeologists-and why should
we not prefer them where science is
still so largely matter of ingenious
yuess!-picture striking scene in
he period just before the dawn of
nan. Somewhere in the Iranian
plateau, south Of tho Caspian Sea
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19
Specialists Language
Simple Words Rather Than Tech.
meal Terms Preferred by Laymen

meal Terms Preferred by Laymen
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial specialists
Language" in to-days issue strongly
supports a contention that have
been steadily maintaining for several
years-that technical terms contribute
nothing to a layman's understanding
OF q given proposition. Yous might
very we'll have added other points from
almost every field. I shall cite one
example that bears out your areum emit.
Recently / attended a session of the
Superior Court. The lawyers made
their pleas in language betting ad-
dresses before the members Of a bar
association. Although they offended
grossly, the judge in his charge went
them one better. The thoughts that
ne intended to convey were couched in
long, complicated, periodic sentences
fhraseology.
Although equipped with college
EDUCATION, I had considerable difficulty
in catching his meaning. One look at
the jury would have convinced any,
body, believe, that the points charged
passed far over their heads. And one
juryman even admitted that he couldn't
get into military service because of
inability to pass the intelligence tests.
In the educational field might
mention that textbooks for secondary
schools are too frequently edited by
college professors who seem to over
rate the average ability Of high school
pupils to comprehend Latin derivatives.
advanced logic and what not. Sim
plieity Is much more desirable than
technical precision.
Again, fancy that some Of the past
Tribune editorials might have been
made clearer to the laity by process
II simplifcation.
Finally, we are all more or less
mortal" Even this very communica-
lion could probably stand a little re-
vision. EGG.
Danbury, Conn, April IS, 1921.
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Not Inseparable

az tHe metropolitan opera
House, just before his return trip
to Europe in 1919, President Will
son boastcd that he would entwine
the league covenant so completely
with the rest Of the peace treaty
that 1t would be beyond the skill Of
his critics to disentangle them. At
that time, rs Mr.. Lansing has dis
closed, the President was under the
delusion that he could make a pro-
visional treaty and put it into ef-
feet, League of Nations and all,
without submitting it to the Senate.
Some of his followers still maintain
that the United States cannot sever
the covenant from the main body
Of the treaty, approving only the
expurgated parts of the latter.
This irreconcilable view is not
shared by Mr.. David Hunter Miller.
one of the chief legal advisers of
the American Peace Commission.
AS he modestly says, he chad some
part in bringing about the union of
the covenant with the treaty and
the treaty with the covenant" Yet
he admits that severance is en-
tirely practicable. In his view two
of the thirteen treaty parasitic
covenant and the international Ia
Dor section--may be eliminated en-
tire by two-line reservation. OF
the other parts five-including rep
arations-are executable without
reference to the league. Part &
containing the economic clauses, in
which the United States has a d.
rect interest because Of its bearing
on commercial relations, contracts,
copyrights, patents and private
debts-provides for league action
only in few negligible con-
tingencics.
The league was tied up with the
execution of the treaty chiefly in
the matter of territorial settlements
In Europe, the control of German
rivers and ports and the assign
ments of German overseas possess
slons to mandataries. We are not
greatly concerned in the rectifica-
ton of European boundaries or in
the administration Of European
ports, waterways and railroads. In
few special instances a reserya-
ton of American interests would
be sufficient.
Only the overseas dependencies
and the mandate question remain.
On this the United States holds that
it possesses belligerent rights which
cannot be impaired by it's failure
to enter the league or to sign the
treaty as an entity. 1t doesn't de-
rive its rights from the treaty and
cannot be dispossessed of them
whether it ratifics or not.
An adequate reservation cover
ing the mandate problem, Mr.. |
Miller believes, would make the
United States an equal supervisor
with the League Council over the
execution Of mandates.
If the chief powers in the league
want to cooperate with us in en-
forcing the treaty there is no OBJ
stacle to such concert. But our
cooperation must depend on their
acceptance Of ratification by us of
q treaty from which the League of
Nations has been effectually dis
entangled.
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DAGhCuS duO OLSVcu6UH III tItSII Q0yS
and the flood Of new English writer's
who are the despair Of their Ameri-
can co-workers have kept the Ian
guage undivided rather than Shake
spearc or Milton. 1t is current in
terfiow that keeps a liquid the same
throughout.
Few educated men, either in Eng
land or America, ever adopt from
choice what grammarians describe as
solccisms. But when under high
voltage congressional urge they
sometimes neglect to pause and con-
slider a treacherous phrase that con-
ceals it's baseness behind hypocriti-
cal cuphony. Without suzcrain to
dictate, without prosecuting critic
who can quote a statute made and
provided for the literary offense, the
would-be purist neglccts all else to
put his thought across. The blemish
comes not by intention. Even DR..
Matthews, in his carefully written
page, left behind him:
ITO read this is to raise dreadful
doubt as to whethsr Dickens was
really accurate.
"Thc number Of Americanism is
far, far less than has been believed"
But there are fewer solecisms
among literate folk, as education has
spread and the burdens of syntax
have been laid on an enlarged public.
In the old days grammar and law
were subjects, among others, that one
read with practitioner who prob
ably was lax specialist. But, de-
spite all the assaults of the seeming
ly privileged, despite mass attacks,
the citadel of English syntax has re-
NAMED impregnable. Not a solecism
of magnitude has crept into accept
ance by the majority of grammari-
ans, the "It-is-me" educator Of Chi
cago being an almost invisible mi
nority.
1t was wrong in 1921, 1921 and
1921, in England and America. to
say:
1t depends upon him being here.
Either she or are wrong.
Each have rights.
Between you and I.
TO slowly eat Is healthful.
This is different to Cor thsn) that
They talk like We do.
He couldn't scarcely reach 1t.
The English who founded this
country, unlike the Portuguese who
settled Brazil and the Spaniards
who colonized other Latin-American
states, kept the language practically
immune to Indian and foreign cor
ruption, and it to-day is no cleft
tongue. There are more dialects in
England than in America, but the
true form Of the language is world
wide the same, as it's source is the
same.
Words, Of course, are being bent
and trampled out Of old shape daily,
but an adverb is always an adverb
and will never qualify noun, even
without the guardianship of a high
like the French Acad-
envy. The common law Of syntax,
FOR the guidance of literary and Law
public alike, finds unofficial WAYS to
make it's mandates effective.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19

to prevent the use of arms in a case
where the nation concerned is merely
charged with increasing it's debt.
In our relations with our sister re.
publics on this continent, as indeed
with all other nations, it behooves our
country to respect all of it's treaty OBJ.
legations, not to violate international
law and to uphold the principles and
objects Of the Monroe Doctrine. In
the case Of Santo Domingo 1t seems
that we have violated solemn treaty.
international law and the Monroe Doc
trine.
Very soon after his nomination
President Harding sensed the wrong
the Wilson Administration had done
and was doing that small and helpless
nation and in one Of his greatest cam
paign speeches he pledged himself. if
ne should be elected, to rescue that
little country and restore to it it's
sovereignty and self-government.
Our wrongful and unlawful action in
Santo Domingo has aroused not onlv
the sympathy and resentment but thu
suspicious of all Latin-American conn
tries, which have been protesting
against our action and appealing for
1air treatment for their little s;star
republic. Such protest and An anpea1
nave been received at WASHINGTON oven
from far-away Spain.
All Latin America is TODAY "con.
nected up with the United States md
listening intently and with sbidino
confidence to what President Hard;ra
at the monument to Simon Bolivar
VIII say to them and to the world nm
the subject Of Santo DOMINGO. the
Monroe Doctrine and his policy to-
ward Latin America,
Principle at Stake
SO far as our seeking the confidence
and good will Of the Latin-Amer;can
countries is concerned, it is thou-
SAND times more important that .-e
right this matter with Santa NJ
minso, where great principle-re-
sPec1 Tor our treaty obligations and the
sovereign rights Of friendly nation
IS ut stake, than to pass the Colon
Dian treaty, which involves merely mr.
yielding to an insistent demand for
money where there is grave doubt as
to whether we owe it either legally or
1t was under the Roosevelt Admins
tration that practical and successful
endeavors were made to establish Pan |
Americanism. 1t was Colonel Roose- |
eeit's construction Of the Panama |
(soon, let us hope, it will be the |
Roosevelt) Canal, his sending Score
Eary Root to South America, his own
wonderful trip of exploration into the
Interior Of that part Of tho continent
hat did so much to reduce the dis
ance between the Southern Cross and
he North Star.
Where Roosevelt and Taft, Root and
Knox left off their work in Latin
America, SO splendidly begun and con-
inued, President Harding, Secretary
Il State Hughes and his Latin-Amer-
can expert, Under Secretary Fletcher.
i'm to begin. The great setback
aused by the Wilson Administration
vill soon be counteracted, and the
lew Administration will go forward
With all our sister republics toward
he establishment Of useful. happy and
ndurtng relations. L
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His Salvation

fFron The Charlesson Nsos and covr,
maybe MIR. Lloyd George really well
comes these crises. At any rate, when
eney come along lot Of the people
WAC have been hammering him put
away their hammers because thew real
'ze that he is the only man who can
save them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19
They Will Learn
Prom The Philadelphia inquirer

fFrom Tbs Philadelphia In1uirer)
When the German newspapers find in
President Harding's message the proof
tnat Germany need expect no help or
sympathy from the United States and
urge their countrymen to work out
their own salvation. much has been
gained.
The idea that Germany will have to
pay has been very slow in penetrating
the German mind. Now that it has OBJ
tanned lodsment there it may stick.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19

No more propitious time could tn,
Harding Administration have selected
for announcing, as it did on Saturday
that after having carefully looked int,
the Santo Domingo situation 1t is con
sidering q reversal Of the Wilson Ad
ministration's policy in that country
and restoration to the Dominican peo
Pile OF the sovereignty and self-gov
eminent that were unjustly taken from
them about five years ago.
A study Of that unfortunate affai,
discloses the lamentable fact that with
out cause or justification the United
States proceeded to overthrow the gov.
eminent and occupy with American
arms the territory Of friendly nation
The Dominican Republic is, or was
just as much sovereign nation IS the
United States, Argentina, Great Britain
or France, and we had no more right
to violate her territory than that of
any ono Of these other countries.
Treaty Obligations
In 1867, a short time after the
Caucasian Dominicans ended victori-
ously fifteen years. struggle with
the African Haytians for their liberty,
we made treaty Of amity and COM
merce with the Dominican Republic
and recognized the sovereignty of the
nation, as did about the same time all
the sovereign nations Of the earth.
That treaty, together with the accented
purposes Of international law, obi
gated the United States to commit M
unfriendly act or in any way violate
the sovereignty or territorial integrity
Of that country.
Not only was that our plain obliga-
ton, but we set up the Monroe Doc
trine for the express purpose of pro-
hibltlng and preventing European
countries from any infringement of the
sovereign and territorial rights of that
or any other republic on tho American
Hemisphere. In addition to these plain
and natural obligations that We volun-
tarily assumed toward the Dominican
nation, on our initiative and at our re-
quest at the Hague peace conference
IN 1907, which was composed Of all
sovereign nations of the earth. in
Guiding especial representative Of
the United States and the Dominican
Republic, resolution was unanimo usly
adopted pledging all tho contracting
powers, which, of course, included the
United States, not to use armed force
Tor the recovery of contract debts"
from another country.
This resolution was adopted very
soon after the Roosevelt treaty Of 1907
With the Dominican Republic went into
effect, and therefore became, in fact. q
BART OF that treaty. The excuse given
~ the Wilson Administration for the
armed occupation of the Dominican
Republic was not that that country
lad not paid its debts but that it had
increased it's debt contrary to pro-
lslon OF the said treaty Of 1907. If
ne resolution precIuded the United
states from using armed force to col
ect debt it surely precluded 1t from
lsing such force to punish the nation
merely because 1t had increased it's
'ublic debt, and even that charge the
)omlnicans resolutely deny.
1t surely needs no argument to |
emonstrate the fact that law broad
nough to prevent the ase Of armed I
orce to coileet Z debt 10 broad enough
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tests with minimum of loss to all
and as speedy return to general
prosperity as is possible. The sec
ond duty should be to supplement
this income tax with minimum
sales tax, prudent and promising
experiment we'll worth the trial.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19
Masterpieces

From The Detroit Free Pyess)
Considered from the art standpoint
as word paintings, Mr.. Hughes's notes
are decidedly non-Cubist and non-ra-
turist. They are intensely realistic, the
drawing is superb and the coloring' u
severe, is impeccable. They are well W
to the standards of the old masters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19
The Diary Of Oar Own Samuel PEW,

April 1e-With Marion to Enel.wood
and played five sets Of lawn tennis. and
50 home, and with my wife to e. Devo1
the chyrurgeon's for dinner, where was
birthday party for Mistress Margaret
wilson, and I sat next her, and she
mad on fine blue dress. Thence to
the Bramhall Playhouse, and saw "The
Playboy Of the Western World" and
albeit, save for Mr.. Thomas Mitchell's
acting, less we'll played than when I
saw it years ago, with Miss Sarah
Allgood and j. Kerrigan and Mr.. O'Don-
ovan' yet is as fine play as ever I
saw. Drove j. Toohey home. and 30
to bed, and read H. Aikman's The
Groper, book with some fine things
in it, but weak finish.
l7-Lay late, and to the office. and
thence with my wife and Marion to
Watch Hill, and stopped to see Mistress
hilda, and so home, very pleasant rid
ing. To tho Astor and heard an ANA
teur operetta. l.. Gensler's musick be-
ing far the best part. So homo in a
metered cab, costing me $1.75.
lS-Early up, and to the Office. and
had some pleasant letters to read.
which put me in a high humour. s.
Adams the tayle-writer como to see me.
and tells me he hath wrote a new novel
With c. Riegelman the barrister to
luncheon, and all afternoon at this
task and that, and so with my wife to
Ut. brilFs for dinner, but told him
mono Of my dreams, forasmuch a.
know already what they signifed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19

Non-seQuitur from the Satevano.+.
within few months the stock be-
came almost worthless, although at the
time Of its purchase the owner had
thrown into his waste basket an offer
OF shares in local building and loan
association whose operations he per-
sonally knew to be successful and
whose directors were cid acquaint
ances."
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Questing an exit cue, one read. all
the papers. And, reading all tho
papers, one takes up the reyered
American. "Now that the piping days
OF spring are here" 1t counsels. "tals
4 walk!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19
More Subway suspecta

Nearer and nearer he edged toward
his goal. His victims were unsusp.ct.
ing. Little by little he drew closer
lurching at intervals to ono side or
another. de passed the last lady
: Then, as the elderly person
succeeded in collecting his bundles and
arose Tor his station, the crook slipped
triumphantly into the only vacated
Seat' D. T.N.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19

AT the recent intercollegiate fencing
matches Snipe overheard an athaletic
Columbia contestant say that the stu
alton reminded him Of the part in
Hamlet" where Laoites annernted tn.
pernt OF his ferl with perzon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19
The Coming :77o0er
iE STAR-SPANdLED BLUES

THE STAR-SPAN0LED BLUES
O cay. can you see. can you see. can you
General Grant. General Lee. General Lee,
General Lee,
And Mr.. Lincoln brsvsly Minkin'
OF our liberty,
O say, does il wave. does i, wave, does il
wave.
Tho flag of the brave, Of the brave, Of the
brave,
Is General Per.hins br.vsly marching
or to Pic.rdya
I'm feeling lonely Tonight
If there WA only fight
Where we nigh.
Bravely smise
Schrecklichkei.r
I'm feeling down hearted, too
I'm feeling red. white and Blue
! want a drink-of vic,oryl
CHORUS
Anywhere! Anywhere
want to get right in a scrmmaae,
For vexations, Leagues Of Nations. only
fools will choose;
See me rare Spit and tear!
| want to be the living image
Of the good old-fansled,
Free. untansled,
Great star-spansled
BLUESl
Andy Jackson was an Anslo-Saxen,
Look away! Look awayl
Yankee Doodle's soin' to cop the Doodle
For the u. s. A.
Anywherel Put me .herel
Your Uncle Sans . grizzly bear.
Well let the rest get mansled,
Tangled, s,ransled.
BY the old .,ar-spansled
BLUEsl
CLEMENT WOOD.
Speaking Of sources, va wonder
whether tho first instance Of interlock-
ing lyricism in popular songs isn't
found in the chorus Of 1.-THE Blue and
the Gray" which, you may recall. he
gins:
One lies down in Appomattox
(South in the land of cotton)
Many miles away
(brlng the good old bugle, boysD
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yi,e AssciAteh Press s euclusively entitled 10
s,,e uss FOR republication Of all news dispatches
credited TO It or not otherwise credited In this
rager. ard also the local news Of spontaneous
origin published herein
All rish.s Of republication Of all ether matter
herein also are reserved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19
A Poor Market

fFYom The Washington Stsy)
Bolsheyism is no longer Regarded ~
Trotzky as best-seller laaterisl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19

~ cen ssrehsss merehaadlss edvsetlsed Ia tn
rAieuME with absolute .afsN-sse 4 dissatisfsc-
tess 10 eay ysur msusy hack upea resusst Nc red
taps. Ne suibhtins. We make soed prsmetiy II
tAe advertiser doea not.
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"Sinx, Heavenly Muse r.

IFrom The Tribune)
AoSl--Paradisc, Sixth ave.. Tuesday; lib
ersi reward ITS Hewes st.. Brooklyn.
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Tho Polyandrsus Cuban

ROOM for several young fellows also n,rl
would share room; room and board; Amer
lean cooking. Obrapia, 81 altos. 40
For the benefit Of Mr.. Edward C.
Lowry and the rest Of that portion
Of the public that depends upon this
Fulcrum of Frivolity for information,
we are privileged to announce that
President Harding does read the dailv
newspapers. He has them clipped and
pasted for him. The classifications are
news, editorial, cartoon and features.
and financial. Tho last classification,
our informant says, doesn't interest tho
President much.
What he hasn't Tina to finish read
ing in the morning he takes to bed
with him. Which may be one reason
the Grand Rapids concern sent him
that oversize bed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19
Santo Domingo
Approaching End of Military Occupation
By Horace G. Knowles

ties Minister to the Dominican RepubZ;c q,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-19

In the Japanese notes on the zap
mandate stress is laid on the tech
nicalities on which Japsu's t;tle to
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GUARANTY

Battered a. the Pcstntace At New York a. seccn
Class Mail Matter.