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New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
A Happy Innovation

President Harding believes in close
contact and cordial cooperation with
Congress. To his mind personal as
soclation is the solvent of MANY diff
culties. 'Thc Presidents intimate re-
lations with the Senate as CO.
ordinate branch of the treaty-mak-
ing power and as a Joint agent in
commissioning Federal appointees
were stressed in the early days of
the Republic. Washington felt free
to visit the Senate, whether it was
IN open or secret session. But grad
ually an etiquette was established
which made official intercourse be-
tween the President and Congress
much more formal written COM
municatlons being preferred to oral.
Mr.. Wilson turned back to the
Older traditions when he decided to
address Congress in person. The
country took to the idea. Mr.. Har-
ding likes it and intends also to
read his most important messages
instead of sending them to the Capt.
tol by messenger. But on the first
day of his term he has gone a step
further. The President, after in
auguration, has always driven from
the east portico to the White House.
Mr.. Harding upset all precedents,
even those Of Washingtons and
John Adams's time, when the seat
of government was in New York or
Philadelphia, by going directly to
the Senate Chamber and personally
submitting his Cabinet nominations
in executive session.
The setting Of a new precedent in
the way of announcing Cabinet ap-
pointments is therefore more than a
mere innovation in etiquette, a sur
face dramatic flourish. 1t shows
how the new Presidents mind works.
1t was probably mere or less un-
conscious manifestation of the pur-
pose he has SO often declared to pro-
mote concert in leadership and to
enlist all branches of the government
IN common effort to liqudate the
legacies of the war.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
The Public Pays
the Editor. of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Wages on railroads were in
creased to correspond to the high cost
of living. AS this cost is reduced i is
as impossible to keep up these prices as
it is for a merchant to attempt to
maintain prices in falling market A
farmer who paid the equivalent Of ten
bushels OF wheat last year for trans
portation, as an equitable price can
not pay twenty bushels now, and this
fact is being forced on the railroads in
less demand for transportation. The
result is just as bad for employees as
TOR the owners Of the roads, as thou
sands of employees trained for this
particular business are without Jobs
and many will not be available When
better business requires their services.
1t looks like a show down and get
as the only practicable solution of this
most important problem, which cannot
be solved in any one-sided manner.
The public, which pays the bills, is
getting tired of the constant and
disturbing wrangling between the rep
resentatives of the railroads and labor
unions. Ninety per cent of this trouble
is caused by sharp practices, on one
side or the other, to gain temporary or
questionable advantages, in which the
public is the goat
SO far as the workmcn are concerned.
II they are assured jobs as long as the
business continues and promotion in
due order-in fact, a fair deal all
around-the majority would be loyal
to the roads and they would prefer
to deal with railroad officials rather
than with union leaders in any ques-
tions which might come up as to their
work on the road f. GILLETTE
New York, Feb. %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
That Single Little Island
A Tribute That Was Not Uttered
at the Garden Meeting
, the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: l see in to-day's Tribune that
at that meeting in Madison Squars
Garden one Otto A. Sticfc mad tn
magnanimity 70 refer TO our ally
England, or, accurately speaking. Grcs-
Britain. as that single little island
l do not think it probable that these
/ four words were uttered devoid Of con
text The opportunity to enlarge o.
the idea would be too great. II would
present temptation which know ths,
myself could not resist. That Nj
Stiefel could I doubt. Was that a.
he said in that connection? Your
story does not tell US We must sup
ply the possible context for ourselves
and draw on our imaginations for the
eulogy in which Herr Otto Stiefel ma
or might have set the trenchant trib-
ute of those words This, then. is
what he might have said (the quota
ton marks are mine, of course. and
indeed the words, too, all except the
four, for which I give Herr Stiefe.
credit:
That single little island, There IS
indeed but one, and altogether Eng
land is not twice as large as Pennsyl-
vania or New York alone. That single
little island-trst to come to France
and to Belgiums aid. That single
little island-whose navy at the very
first cleaned all the seven seas OF pi
rates and bottled up the German
fleet. That single little island-tha
rallied all the federated peoples Of he
empire Cor nearly alb to fight for
civilization, freedom decency and
right That single little island tia
transported more than half America
two million soldiers, with not a single
loss, across the seas to France, Tha
single little island-that bore for ful
three years the undivided Anglo
Saxon share of the war. though hal
that race delayed and seemed TOO
proud to fight. That single little
island-that all through those three
long years, with her English. Scotch
and Welsh, her Irish (some Of them
her Canadians, Newfoundlanders
South Africans, Hindus, Australians
and New Zealanders, by the side o.
the French and Belgians. held the
breach against the Boche in our be
half, protected us, until America awokc
and went to fight her own fight for
herself That single little island
except for which the Bochc would
now be spreading his peculiar AFRO
gance and filth through all the quiet
grateful homes of these United States~
All this, and more. he could have
said. He might, but did he?
WILLIAM CHAUNCY LANGDON.
Bronxville, N. Y, March 1921.
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OF his self-appointcd spokcsmen
make him out to be.

OF his self-appointcd spokcsmen
make him out to be.
Mr.. Macdonald is an experienced
parliamcntarian and a brilliant ora
tor. He is admirably qualified to
make the utmost possible capital out
of the mistakes Of the Coalition gov
ernment and the inevitable disillu-
sionments of the postwar period.
Yet he has been dccisively beaten in
labor districts in one by-election
after another. His constituents do
not forget his pacifist attitude in the
war. They know th&, &c betrA ed
democracy in it's hour OF trial and
need. They are not willing to trust
him again.
Mr.. MacDonald's repeated defeats,
eliminating in the Woolwich cleo
tion, should serve as wholesome
lesson and rebuke to the whole tribe
Of pacifiSt "intellectuals" who so fire.
quently speak without any warrant
in the name of labor.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
By
Hcywood Broun

ahead of its kcenest observer. 1t al
ways has had considerable torrential
quality, breaking through dikes that
showed the least trace Of wear and
spreading into everything the human
imagination could provide for it as
cOntainer
But Lawrence comes along and
smashes down whole dams. 1t is the
love that women have that has pitched
hlm to his highest endeavor. He ap-
pears to have said to himself: "Wo omen
love like this, and women love like that
and the other, but up TO now nobody
has told them about it. They have been
loving down deep ravine, because
they knew no better They must be set
right"
SO he draws three extraordinary
women. two in Women in Love and one
in The Lost Girl, who speak no lam
guage but their own. They lead a
great attack. They have certain mag
nlhcence of appearance. How they will
DO as missionaries is, of course, still
speculative. Missionaries have to have
a pretty clean line of communications
open behind them. The Lawrence women
have nothing. They have simply ap-
peared, at great distance from their
sisters, going in heaven knows what
direction. But they do tell new things
about women in love. most of them
shade scandalous, and as we have said,
having disturbing look Of truth. Prob
ably women really are a. Lawrence
Gays they are, or will be when they get
around to it. Then the stronger sex
Will have to say Take my strength and
give me fleetness." And we will keep
the Lawrence books around the house
so that II. Sd can never say Nobody
told me-"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05

cal culture as gained in musical
college can iron out ones intellectual
shirt front, as MIR. Turner puts it,
but it cannot, probably, do much to
change the substance Of the soul
that lies behind. The product of
such culturc-unless, of course, the
gifts and taste for great music are
innate in hin,-may know how to
conform and may pretend to like the
truest and most beautiful. But
essentially is he one whit better off?
Is he not, on the contrary, dullcd
and rendered artificial and unnatural
IN tho essential matter, direct re-
sponse to musical sounds?
1t is an interesting point, at any
rate, and by no means as certain as
the classicist would have us believe.
Jazz music has at least entered into
the fiber of our folk, joggled them,
swaycd them, swept them around our
dance floors. 1t is hummed and it
vlbrates far and wide. Not the best
music but a vivid, pulsing music is
filling our armament. There is not
the shadow of pretensc among those
who like it. 1t is as genuinely ex-
pressive of emotion as a negro
spiritual-if not as beautiful in mel
ody or representative Of as noble
emotions. In brief, it is alive. 1t
has blood in its veins. And we cam
not help feeling that this is some
thing, even a good deal, since what
IS alive can grow--whereas that
which is born solely of books, pen,
paper, crudition and an ambition to
be respectable, artistically speaking,
has not much more chance of devel-
opment than any other manikin.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
The War Upon Jazz

The war upon jazz by DR.. Henry
van Dyke and other apostles of the
classical at any cost, let the veins be
as bloodless as you will, has spread
to England. Sir Hugh Allen, head
of the Royal College of Music, has
emitted blast against the popular
taste for "beastly tunes" We are
especially interested in a reply by
W. j. Turner, music critic of The
New Statesman and a poet of abil-
lty. This observer Of popular music
along with human nature begs leave
to doubt both whether the music of
the theater and the music hall. and
OF the one-step, the fox-trot and the
waltz, in particular, is as awful as
Sir Hugh Allen charges, and whether
the Royal College of Music can really
do much to improve it. He argues:
"The music hall songs and rag
times may very we'll be beastly. SEN
timental and vulgar, but in so far as
they express the life of the people
and not their drawing room behavior
they are far more valuable and far
less vulgar than the carefully
trained, colorless inspidity of the
composer produced by the Royal Col
lege or the Royal Academy of Music,
who has been so remorselessly dosed
with Bach. Beethoven, Brahms, Wap-
ner and Tchaikovsky, and so combed
and f1atironed that he has no more
individuality than any other of the
starchcd shirt-fronts produced by his
musical laundry"
Getting down to cases, Mr.. Turner
expresses vast preference for "Mr.
Jack Jones's 'Tipperary' or the
'Rellquario' one-step" over sundry
solemn constructions of contempo-
rary London music, or even "Mr.
Percy Grainger's huge and elaborate
orchestration of pennyworth of
high spirits, which exhausted nearly
hundred musicians and nearly as
many machines" at recent sym-
phony concert.
The mere outsider will not dare
attempt any such bold ratings in the
hierarchy. But Mr.. Turner's
analysis Of the musical mind, it's ori
gin and development. has much to
commend it to the lay mind. Musi-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
The Hatred Delusion

In its elaborate defense Of the
Wilson Administration The World
attempts to preserve an impartial
tone, but it lifts little the cover of
its true intent in one sentence 1t
remarks that Mr. Wilson for six
years had $50 deftly outmaneuvered
his opponents in Congress and out of
Congress that they had nothing with
which to console themselves except
their intensive hatred of the man
and all that pertained to him."
Curious it is how the delusion per-
slsts that any one not able to agree
with the ex-President has been con-
trolled by unworthy motives. No
effort is made to present evidence
supporting this ugly charge. It's
rromulgators are satisfied merely to
mako it. The criticism complained
of has been, for the most part, re-
strained and respectful. But in
stead of hearing any answer, the
critics are angrily told that they are
mean and contemplate, creatures Of
malignant personal rancor and sple-
netic fury.
If the charge is true then the love
and reverence felt for the memory
of Colonel Roosevelt rest on false
foundations, and we should detest
rather than admire. Into the same
condemnation fall Mr.. Taft, Mr..
Root, Mr.. Hughes and President
elect Harding, and likewise an over
whelming majority of the American
people who have not been able to
keep step with Mr.. Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson is not and has not
been hated. Often he has not been
understood, and often, when he has
been understood, his course has not
been approved, but this creates no
presumption Of enmity. On the con-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05

trary, the discrimination and par
ticularty his critics have displayed
and their avoidance Of reckless de-
nunciation show his opponents have,
in many respects, great regard for
him.
If brickbats were thrown in the
treaty discussion, who began the
sorry practice? At Boston, on the
first return from Europe, instead of
being wrestled with in sweet reason
ableness, the disscntients learned
they were marrow, egoistic, provin-
cial spirits. incapable Of raising
themselves above the lowest hori-
zon." Similar information was con-
veyed to them in the Metropolitan
Opera House address and reiterated
during the tour across the country.
No one will claim all the breadth
of view was the exclusive possession
of either side or that partisanship
marked only one. But to say hatred
is the chief cause of Mr.. Wilson'S
discontinue is to betray the very
narrowness which is denounced.
Mr.. Wilson has left Office with the
good wishes Of his fellow-citizen
Their hearts go out to him in his
physical affliction, and, though his
leadership has not been accepted,
there is admiration for his proud
and indomitablc spirit. The general
rectitudc Of his intentions is con-
cedcd and there is no denial of his
great intellectual gifts. His person
ality is fascinating puzzle, for
though it may be true, as he has
said, that his mind is a single-track
one, his deeper psychology is many
tracked. One may oppose without
hating such an adversary.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Ancient Mariner on Trial
The Art of Reading Is SnappiIy
aught in at Least One School


TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial "The Art of Read
'ng" is based upon the assumption that
teachers Of literature are quite without
insight into the miracle Of literature.
They love to spoil Shakespeare for
their pupils by dragging in the sub
]unctive mood by the heels Analysis.
you say is the gravedigger of poetry,
and all teachers Of literature love to
analyzc.
The subiunctivc mood might very
we'll spoil Shakespeare for any regular
boy, but what makes YOU think that it
is permitted to do so? From The New
York State Syllabus quote the follow
ing:
Too long or too minute study of one
book duls the pupils interest and
thereby impairs his power to pursue
'he study Of literature"
Does this sound like an encourage
mcnt of the sort of small game hunt
to which you object? If there is any
teacher who does what you object to
the chances are that he will not remain
a teacher very long.
But there is something else to be
SAID. Your alternative to painstaking
and painful analysis is mere oral read
ing, without explanation or interpreted
ton. Such reading, by the teacher,
would flow over the student. who, sit
ting back and doing nothing. would
gain nothing. He might bask in the
warm beauty Of the sound, while the
thought and the inspiration and the
Meanlng would be nothing at all to
him. Imagine reading Paradise Lost
to fifteen-y -year-old youngster. Could
he, without study and help and the
solving of problems, get more out of
1T than the sound of the verse?
When ! teach Shake speare I never
even mention the subjunctive mood.
nor do | waste time on rare words. but
my classes do d great deal more than
listen to a flow OF meaningless words.
They learn what Shakespearean thea
ter looked Ike, and how it worked, and
they come as near to producing Shake
speare's play in Shakespeare's own
manner as the time viii permit. Parts
are distributed and read with zest. To
day my frst-term children became a
court and tried the Ancient Mariner
for the murder of the albatross. He was
ably defended on the ground of self
defense, for had he not thought the
bird a bird of evil omen? Yet the
Mariner at last broke down and CON
fessed. He was condemned by a jury
to suffer "life in death" and TO tell his
tale to all who might need it. Did
this analysis do any harm, and isn't
it better than mere reading?
j. NJ. D.
New York, March L. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys

Maych "A fine fair day and Mis-
tress Alice Miller came to luncheon,
and my wife too and at my stint all
afternoon and stopped to see Mistress
Mabel Hill on my way home, and came
late to dinner, but my wife washing
the cat and dinner not ready, any
way, all was merry; and all evening
played on the marmba melodies from
Songs of Two Savoyards, not very we'll,
but enjoyed playing them. l asked
my wife whether she would like to hear
me play Don't You Marimba Sweet
Alice? but she held it to be weak
piece Of iapery.
3-Early up, and all day at my desk,
and in the evening to J. Wise's for
dinner, and had much talk of this and
that with Mistress Julia Hahlo. So
home and to bed.
4-Mr. Harding is become Pre sident
this day. Did on my new blue crayat
this day, making a brave show.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
The Small Traction Investor

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is the owner o. bond or
share in any of the trans portation
companies in the City Of New York
entitled to a fair compensation from
his or her investment? That $ the
question IN nutshell. If he is not,
then there is no need Of changing the
present laws. Starve him and take
his property.
Why make a football Of this class
Of investors? Why not, in this our
land of the free and home of the brave,
treat all investors alike? That,
think, IS the real question for the real
citizens to decide on the transporta-
tion matter that is before our legis-
lators. JOSEPH II. ROSE.
Newburgh, N. Y, March .. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
ON FRUITLESS YEARNING

IOTdCc' doom !, OQc So
Abb. ne doleas plus mimic mcmor--"
Sigh not O Iibulus, in dolorous rhyme,
That Clyceras heart is of stone.
You think, it appears, ii is almost crime
hat she is a younger mans own.
The Lovely and low -browed Lycovis is keen
On Cyrus, but he doesn't care;
He harrows his heart and he bothcrs his bean
With Pholoe. sour and unfair.
But Pholoe feels not CULVER for Cy.
A wolf for she goat might fall
Thus Venus has fun with the marital iie)
Before she saw Cyrus a, all,
It's so with myself. Though lady on me
Has smiled, I'm as chill as the pole;
For Myrtale. bold as the lIadrian Sea,
Enmcshes mine innermost soul.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
What British Labor Thinks

The defeat in England Of the per-
sistcnt pacifist, J. Ramsay Mac
Donald, by Captain Gee, the Coali-
tion candidate, in the industrial con-
stitucncy of Woolwich does not sug-
gest that British labor is determined
to support the Germans in wiggling
out Of paying their debts to the limit
OF their ability. The British work
ingman 10 by no means the fool some
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Gotham Glcanings
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News are scarce this wk.
Art Hornblow is back from
Bermuda.
Ralph Barton is going to Cali
fornia this wk.
I. w. Wilson moved yesterday.
-Yc Ed. is giving a party for
Harold w. Ross this cve'g.
MIR. and Mrs. John Barrymore
are the parents OF young baby girl.
Miss Ncysa McMcin is still pat
ronizing that press clipping bureau
Its a girl named Elisabeth at
Jack Caldcr's house in Utica, born
Mar. |.
Mrs. !. X. Burgess had birth
day surprise party in Montclair
Wednesday cve'g.
Our idea of tough JOB is Wash
ington correspondent for The Marion,
Ohio, Star.
Suppose he gets beaten on a story 4!
l. y
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: William Randolph Hearst
prints letter which he has written to
the editor of The New York American
or the editorial page of The New York
American this morning. The letter is
entitled, ut Is Time for All Foreign
Propagandists to Go Home" 1t is a
'renchant attack upon Sir Philip
Gibbs, the war correspondent and
writer. Sir Philip is now in the United
States for the purpose of presenting
to the American people his views re-
garding various questions of interna-
tional Importance. Tie other NIGHT
he delivered lecture at Carnegie
Hall at which he discussed the Irish
situation despite the violent cpithcts
hurled at him by Sim Feiners. Sir
Philip did not try to defend the Brit
ish governments administration in
Ireland in all its activities Indeed, he
criticized the present British regime
with much severity. At the end OF
the lecture he was applauded by the
vast majority Of his audience.
Although meeting was held the
night before in Madison Square Garden
by German and Irish propagandists
which necessitated n police guard and
almost resulted in wholesale riot Mr..
Hearst has nothing to say about such
a demonstration.
Does Mr. Hearst realize that he him
self, except for the accident of birth. is
the most violent foreign propag gandist
of them all
ROGER SHERMAN.
Rye, N. y, March 2, 1921.