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New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Very Thin Whitewa.h

The whitewash which Mr.. Meier
Steinbrink---appointed by Mr.. Hylan
to investigate Mr.. Hylan's admins
tration-has splashed over the forms
os Mr.. Grover Whalen and former
Street Cleaning Commissioners Mac
Stay is not likely to give anybody
much satisfaction.
1t is conceded that the courthouse
site, for which the taxpayers had
paid good money, was filled up with
ashes by permission Of Mr.. Mac
Stay-and that one Of the dumping
companies benefting thereby was
that in which Mr.. Grover Whalen
had terminated his partnership by
word of mouth. Yet what does Mr..
Steinbrink do?
He slaps Mr.. MacStay on the wrist
by calling his order "a grave error
Of Judgment" and he states quite
openly that Mr.. Whalen's account of
his retirement from his dumping
firm sounded incredible" But does
ne suggest that anything be done
about this juxtaposition of ian error
OF Judgment" and an incredible"
explanation? Not a thing. Prob
ably not a cent can be recovered by
lawsuits, he declares. Besides, see
how small is the sum which could
DO recovered from Mr.. Whalen's
former firm in any event-only
S6,694, he says. What's a few dol.
lars like that? one might infer to
be the amiablc hint to Taxpayers.
Mr.. MacStay shortly after the cpl
sode came to light resigned his Office.
But tho taxpayers are still paying
him a salary, for Mr.. Hylar at once
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Army Policy Now and Later

The Senate wisely reconsidered
it's vote to discontinue recruiting
until the army reaches strength Of
10000 men, and both houses have
now passed the resolution fixing the
recruited limit-as distinct from the
legally authorized limit-at 175,-
600. Under the reorganization act
passed last year we are to have
eventually standing army Of $780,
600. The condition of the Treasury
is a sufficient argument against en-
listing up to the maximum just now.
Irritation at Secretary Bakers
maladroit stimulation Of recruiting,
which has already created deficit
Of $40,000,000 for 1920-'21, pro-
voked the Senate last week into cut
ting too deep into the projected or
ganization by divisional depart
ments. 1t was gesture of rebuke,
fully justified by Mr.. Bakers willful-
ness and extravaganza. But 15O,-
600 men is an awkward minimum if
the building up of the new regular
establishment is to proceed. 1t does
not furnish enough infantry for the
localized divisions and it over-skele-
tonizes the other service. A better
distribution can be effected With
175,000 men for the limit. The real
question at present is not one of
numbers, for our military situation
is secure. 1t is one Of rebuilding
the army and adapting it to future
needs.
Millions Of dollars can therefore
be saved in army pay and other
costs for the next few years without
disadvantage to the army, if there
is competent direction in the War
Department. Mr.. Bakers postwar
policy has been obstructive; it has
aimed, for political reasons, at mere
expansion. In the next Administra-
tion construction must replace win
dow-dressing and indulgence in ex-
penditure for it's own sake.
The Secretary Of War in Mr.. Har
ding's Cabinet will need in an es-
pecial degree experienced and per-
sonal familiarity with army prob
lens. He will have great deal to
do in shaping our permanent mill
tary policy, which must look to pre-
paredness on a much broader base
than heretofore. A large standing
army will not be required if it is
to act as training school for short
term recruits, receiving intensive
instruction and then going back to
civilian life. The relations between
the permanent element and the
transient element can be best de-
termined by a man who. has studied
them at first hand and has the
breadth Of view Of civilian as we'll
as the technical competence Of
soldier. An army officer uniting
these qualifications would be an
ideal Secretary. Under him no such
obstacles would be encountered as
have kept army reorganization al
most at standstill since the arnfis-
tice was signed.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Maturing

If, as now is apparently planned,
Senator Harding, under the author
ity conferred on the President in
1916, summons an international con-
ference to meet in Washington, it is
probable that the gathering will do
more than to consider scheme for
the limitation Of ornaments.
1t may be guessed that it will also
consider new codifcation Of inter-
national law, the creation of world
court and the elimination or safe
guarding Of Article x so that neither
this country, nor any other, for that
matter, will be under obligation to
defend every national frontier, and
thus to take part in every war.
1t may also be surmised that the
gathering will not sickle over
names--will not insist on calling the
new international organization an
association rather than league,
and that in the repaired league there
will be more emphasis on the Assem-
bly, and less on the Council than un
der the Wilson plan.
Since election, both at home and
abroad, maturing Of ideas has oc
Cured, and what is likely to be the
final outcome of the league discus
sion begins to emerge.
But that the British Ambassador
is returning home to discuss with
his home government the Harding
peace project is doubtful. 1t is
hardly yet definite enough for this.
1t Is moro probable that he took ship
to get fuller instructions as to the
policy to be pursued toward the ap-
proaches of the Canadian and Aus
tra1ian governments with respect to
the Japanese emigration problem, as
to which the two British dominions
and the United States have a CON-
mon interest.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Highbrows and intellectual.

Simeon Strunsky, in Vanity Fair,
pursues to some purpose the battling
mystery of what is an intelligentsium
or self-called intellectual. He finds
that the intellectual is not a high
brow, although there is a relation
ship-as If sired by highbrow out
OF the savage woman the young
man in Locksley Hall thought in one
mood he would mate with. The high
brow, remarks Mr.. Strunsky, is
serene as we'll rs high. He is con-
tempiative and static. The intellec-
tual is passionate and dynamic. TO
mere intellection he adds the spirit
Of revolt. He is not Of the true
type unless he is revolutionary.
When reason and emotion issue con-
trary mandates he obeys emotion,
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Our Rearning Mavor

These are dark and gloomy days
around the old ash dump Of the
Terra Gotta Contract and Country
Club, where the last embers Of hone
have faded out. No outsider is per
misted to enter those sacred nre-
cincts. But the solemn scene is easv
to conceive. Mr.. Enright is az cross
az vet hen in public and his pri-
yate efforts at hilarity must be
tragic. Mr.. Hettrick-~author OF the
famous saying, II care not who is
Mayor provided ! can write his let
ters"-sits silent and letterless. Mr..
firavAx Whaien, back to the ash
dump, is moody and distraught.
Even Ar. Brisbane has no word Of
esnshinA.
hut who II this that dances in
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

instinct, intuition, and goes war
whooping about to get what he
wants when he wants it. His rev.
erence for reason or scientific ascer-
tainment Of facts is only pre-
tended. He merely uses, like the
Philistines of old, the holy symbols
Of the 1sraelites to serve his own
gods with.
But the intellectual is not always of
pure quality-that is to say, in some
moods he reverts. AS Mr.. Strunsky
notes, Bertrand Russell was an in
tellectual when he went into Rus
sia but "a non-intellectual when he
came out. Amy Lowell as a free
verse writer, is an intellectual, but
Amy Lowell penning accepted
meters is a familiar Boston high
brow. It might be added that when
Max Eastman is discoursing about
something he knows about, such as
poetry, he is non-intellectual, and
becomes revolutionary only when
addressing himself to themes on
which he is non-expert.
AS the perfect flower of the intel
lectual Mr.. Strunsky mentions II. G.
Wells, on the ground that his books
are not only the perfect expression
of revolt, but because each of his
books may be said to be revolt
against the preceding book. This
preference for Wells is hardly fair
to Shaw. At times Mr.. Wells has
been accurate, pragmatically So;
whereas Mr.. Shaw is always con-
trolled by his instinct for perversity
and is sure he is wrong when anv
considerable number agree with
him.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
The Coming Tower
THEN 1 DIPPED INTO THE FUTURE

THEN DIPPED INTO THE FUTURE
When l sit on the side of my bed.
And watch them build the new Ritz-Carlton,
Which is now fifteen floors Of steel and
wooden cubes,
say, Now, that is fine,
because, that good trades union man
Is putting in a board to-day
Which two years from to-day
viii be all that will protect some other man
From the eyes Of his neighbor
And there is an inevitable future meeting
Between the other man and the board"
Then l say. What makes you so sure?"
And l say back, Because two years from
will go to the Ritz-Carton and
Look at the register, and he will be there.
will know his name for the first time.
But l will have known for two years
That he existed.
ana that because he was there then
lie had spent these two years coming.
Whether he knew it o. not,
10 tie his tie in peace behind that ho.rs, ;,
SO hll my hands with the
lall feathers of the future
But then have to say. How about It
II the Ritz-Cartop is bust
And the register has nothing
On 1T but the names of the cIcrks' far,;,;o,
VINO all live at home?
Then where will be?
Well, l will be just where was
Before | started this piece;
But it will be tough
Oh those poor union men
VINO are putting up boards in all this wind i"
RUTH HALE
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
In Aid of Baby Talk

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: A crusade against baby talk
What next? A crusade against mote,
in the sunshine, against dancing shad-
ows, against dimples. The old lady who
nags little child for not talking like
man should bid him walk like a
man IN the same breath. This reminds
one of the protest. some time ago,
against dolls.
DR.. johnson disliked baby talk as
heartily as he liked his twenty cups Of
tea. One hot, dusty day his neart moved
him to give a peasant woman and her
heavy baby a lift in his comfortable
carriage. But when the delighted
mother told the cooling infant tha.
"Tootsie" was having "a ridy-pidy in
the coachy-poachy, to see the wheely-
pealy go roundy-poundy,' the lexicag-
rapher dumped his fare and proceeded in
solitary state.
In recent pleasant story book lit
tie fellow in toy shop wants "booful
yabbit" for his sisters "birfday'-but
with every slip of the kind his nurse
eorrects Teddy austerely for talking
"baby talk"
/ knew little boy who always said;
do yidin in the team tar" But he out
stripped in correct speech another child
OF the same age who rarely made
mistake, and now he of the baby talk
pleads at the bar with elegance and
eloquence.
DR.. John Fiske writes that the slow,
natural development Of human Of
spring is the greatest contrast to the
quick unfolding Of the animal young
and that the patient care of the child Is
the pledge of civilization.
GLAD MOTHER GOOSE.
New York, Jan. Is, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

appointed him Deputy Commissioner
Of Public Welfare. Mr.. Grover
Whalen is still Commissioner Of the
Department Of Plant and Structures.
Here surely is interesting matter
for legislative inquiry that would
not come armed with pail of white
wash and that would be willing to
dig clear to the bottom of the Mac
Stay-Whalen ash pile, if necessary,
in order to find what lies beneath.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Hollands Tainted Guests

Reports that the Dutcn govern
ment has wearied of the ungracious
task Of sheltering the ex-Kaiser and
his son from prosecution as war
criminals are not surprising. The
Hague Cabinet may well wonder at
its own credulity in assuming that
the two Hohenzollerns would not
abuse the right Of asylum granted
them. Both these exiles had al
ready shown an utter Interpretation
of the obligations of international
law or even Of the rules of war as
established by international conven-
tions and usage. Both pretended to
be soldiers, but neither ever had the
slightest comprehension Of the code
which is supposed to govern the con-
duct of "a soldier and a gentleman" !"
To suppose that they would repay
the great service which the Dutch
people did for them by accepting the
restrictions of internment and alb
staining from plotting to overthrow
governments on friendly terms with
Holland was to credit them with
wholly imaginary personal virtues.
The deposed Hohenzollerns have
shocked even the subservient loyal
lists in Germany by their eagerness
to save the last scrap of property
which had come into their hands
even to realize for their private use
on property really belonging to the
Prussian state. They are eaten up
with selfshness which is as CAL
lous as it is unheroic. Why should
they recognize any duty to mis-
takenly indulgent foreign govern
ment when they recognize none
whatever to their unfortunate for
mer subjects?
Holland took to her bosom two fugi-
tives from justice whose natural in
stipct was to repay favors with in
gratitude. In so doing she defed
the twenty-eight powers which signed
the Treaty of Versailles. That
treaty arraigned William II "for
supreme offense against the sanctity
Of treaties" It created a court to
try him for that offense and called
on Holland to surrender him. The
Dutch government invited tho risk
of economic blockade, even Of war, in
resisting that demand. The least it
could expect in return was scrupu-
lous observance Of his refugee status
on the part Of her tainted guest.
But that was not in him or in his
son.
If Holland now turns these two in
CRATES loose they may, after all, face
the accounting which the Versailles
treaty contemplated. After Hol-
lands experience no other neutral
will be likely to shelter them from
the judgment which the Allied gov
ernments have too long postponed.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Celestial Calm
fE,om III. r

Fro"' Tho London Aorniao Pos.)
The aerial post between Pekinr and
Shanghai, just authorized by tho Chi
nese Cabinet, may astonish the natives
but there Is a doubt. General Sykes
tells OF certain mandarin Of pekinp
TO whom an English officer proudly
pointed out an aeroplane flying over tho
city. Don't you think that's wonder
lui?' he asked. "Well,' said the China
man calmly, after glance at the ma
chine, "thc thing is meant to do that,
isn't it7'
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
General Wood
His Statesmanlikc Qualities Urged
Upon Mr.. Harding

Upon MIR. Harding
10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l hope that President elect Hard
ing has seen. your editorials of the
9th, 10th and 18th inst. in regard to the
appointment of General Leonard Wood
to the Cabinet and as to the construc-
ton OF the Cabinet. The press of the
country and the people who favor Cen
eral Wood for the position should make
that fact known publicly, as was done up
to election time, when hundreds of
thousands Of voters went to the polls
with the belief that he and men Of his
callber would be selected, not on their
political affiliations but because of their
eminent fitness for the position, both
in an advisory and executive capac;tv.
and had faith in Mr.. Harding that he
would make such selection.
These voters naturally feel a deep in
terest in this matter because of the out
come OF the policy Of the new Admins
tration in causing a normal condition
in public affairs Of this country and an
assurance of the Republican party re-
naming in power. We have been wait
ing to hear if General Wood would be
called to Marion for consultation about
army matters and reconstruction poll
cies, but so far his name has not an
peared in the news from Marion for
consultation or as Cabinet possibility.
The New York Evening Post of June Is,
1920, said: wood ends the campaign
gallant, likable figure to millions of his
fellow citizens, and by any standard
you choose one Of the big men Of his
generation" The Tribune of June IA
1870. said, in regard to Leonard Wood
"A big man, about the biggest the coun-
try possesses, has no need, though
standing among the rejected to trouble
himself with respect to the esteem in
which he is held by his fellow Ameri-
cans" And these opinions seem to be
the universal sentiment Of the country.
When ex-President Taft said to the
next President, "Mr, Harding. how arc
you getting along with your selection
of Cabinet?" he could have added: @!
Will relieve your mind as to one an
polntment, and that is make Leonard
Wood Secretary Of War. l knoy all
about his wonderful constructive and
statesmanlikc work In Cuba. I was
associated with him in the Philippines.
he was under me when ! was Secretary
OF War and President, and | have never
found him wanting in any work he has
been called TO perform or has under
taken to do"
ii Theodore Roosevelt were alive ne
would undoubtedly testify even more
strongly as to General Woods fitness
and capabilities to fiji a position in the
Cabinet of the new Administration be-
cause OF his personal and intimate rcla
tons with this great soldier, eminent
physician and noted statesman
The man of our choice is an eminent
speclailst on all matters pertaining to
the war Department, even to it's medical
branch; technical adviser in every
sense of the word, and wise coun-
sellor, suited to the task of advising and
recommending to the President and Con-
gress, relative to all matters pertaining
to his particular department, as we'll as
to the general policy of the government.
FREDERIC A. GRANT.
Brooklyn, N. Y, Jan. 1s, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
A Very Full House
1ew York, Jan. Is, 1921.
(From Tho Manchester ousrdsan)

no 1uEt7EtSTtY
In an address before a British medicsl
organization Lady Balfour of Burleigh
once told of case where a man, hav-
ing been presented on three consecutive
occasions with twins. gave much consid'
Grafton to the selection of appropriate
names for them. Very ingeniously nc
called the first pair both girls - Kate
and Duplicate. The next pair were boys
who were duly labeled Peter and Re
peater. Aud the third pair--also beys-'
were named Max and Climax.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

In Prexy Lowcll's annual report he
asks why high marks in college courses
are so poorly rated by the world in gen.
cral. They are rated poorly in the
United States of America because prof.
cheney in any branch of study is con-
sldered, by majority of us, as some-
thlng unworthy of red-blooded Ameri-
canlsm. 1t is like taste for music or
pictures or poetry. Anybody admittedly
interested in such things is rated
cftemlnate. The man who has been
expelled from college, for inability to
keep up his studies, is more commended
ehan the Phi Beta Kappa man. And yet,
somehow, our bets, for successful
varieties of it-are with the Phi Beta
Kappas.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

ment comes by any chance to the atten-
tion Of II. Sd, we want him to. know,
that we aren't absolutely pledged to the
policy.
i would like to contradict the
rumor," writes Floyd Dell, chat nv
novel, Moon-Calf, is to be extended into
trlology like Beresford's Jacob Stahl:
also the rumors that it is going to con-
slst Of four volumes, like Nexo's pelle
the Conqueror, of five or six I bave
lost count like Dorothy Richardson's
Fllgrlrnage, or of ten like. Rolland's
Jean-Christophe; and also, and finally
the rumor that it is going to go on for
ever. The sequel to Moon-C Calf. which ;s
to be called The Briary Bush, is getting
along toward completion, and will an
pear next fall; and with that volume
the history of Felix Fay is finished and
done with, so far as am concerned 1ts
successor will be the story of modern
young woman. Thank you."
we never care much for children in
plays because they say so many bright
things in the course of a single act
lhis IS to distort the whole fun of being
with children, which consists in watch
1ully waiting through weeks Of "How
Goes the bear go?" or "What does the
table Go p" until suddenly, almost as if
by inspiration, out comes a CLEAN of
fantastic humor or Of profound philoso-
ply. Hunting white elephants in India
or needles in haystacks doesn't begin to
be half so exciting.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

About to frivol away the radium
minutes on last line, we thriftily
thought again Of Benjamin Franklin.
What said the sage?
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Entertainment on Long Island

From The Forest Hills Gardens Bulletin1
DR.. and Mrs. r. w Waddel. Groton
Street, are entertaining DR.. Wadders
mother, Mrs. ]. M. Waddell. of Green
field, Ohio. On Monday afternoon she fell
and injured her foot and fractured her arm
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

We shall look. eagerly at to-day's
Washington papers to discover whether
they will print the news that Mrs. Har-
ding is buying her White House ward
robe in New York. If they do, it will
prove again to US that the press is free
from the control of advertisers. Also
we shall look at The Marion Star. If we
were its editorial writer, we'd assail the
boss's wife for buying her stuff in nom
Marion stores "Do the New York shops
pay Marion's taxcs?" we'd begin "Does
New York pave our streets 2"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

But things being as they are, we
welcome Mrs. Harding to our busy
midst, and commend to her the shops
advertising in this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

Bust Of Jenny Lind given to N. Y.
Geological Society.
Daalias lnscinia Scandinoviensis, or
the Swedish Nightingale.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

If Mr.. Sinclair Lewis wants to write
another small-town book, we hope he
will concern himself with the country
hotel. A possible title would be "Thc
Commercial House," or "Tree Bus to
the Commercial House."
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
H1CK. HICK! HOORAY

Sir; II business has gone where the story-
tellers would have us believe, the Steele &
Torrance Company, hardware dealers. Bata-
via, N. Y, are right behind it. In The
Batavia News cf January is the S. E. #.
advertisement says: 1--WE shall consistently
follow the market downward And then,
too, if you have read thus far you might
be j. to k, tie up-stately revercd Democrat
and Chronicle of Rochester u. d. of January
L. p. TO T.: 'The scandal, the earliest and
simplest shoe, was known by the most prini
tive races Some sort OF racy kick. one
might aver, if one knew how. And, oh, yes.
Mr.. A., you might Re g. to k the black wal
nut oval-faced table with the tidy on if.
you know the one in tho east room. in ON
MAN Street living room has banishcd The
SRtevepost The Nationa. Geographic. and
Inc American. The table will sit ONLY seven
so they can't see over one mothers shoulders
TOO expensively. and isn't strong in the legs
yet 1T has been able to stand since Christ
mas under the combined weight OF Moon
Calf, The Age of Innocence, and Main
Street. And we're just about as much gosh
earned, sr,all-town. upstate stuff as we ever
"N'c' "n'ch - g. s. LARRY.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

"Dost thou love life? Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff life
is made Of"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

They are going to present "Robin
Hood in Syracuse, which will give resi-
dents, take it from The Post Standard,
opportunity to enjoy one of the oldest
and best of Gilbert and Sullivan operas"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

IF the flexible fare strikes the sub
way thinks T. f. NJ, "the 8:Oo express
from Seventy-second Street possibly will
be called the Flexible Flyer"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
The Standing Army

sir: There is no other city wherein j,
happens. True, other towns than New Yorl
exhibit the scssic male in the strec,c.,
filled with standing women. But the mr..
ticular refinement of this boorishness tha,
d'ssuades woman from taking immediately
seat vacated by one leaving the convey.
auce-that's New York's
Study the lamcntable maneuver. Note the
laoy's deprecatory glances at standing men
who experience has taught her are but too
iikely to hurl themselves before her. Posi-.
lively she seeks permission to sit! She WIN
should by title subside unobstructed will
crave with her eyes indulgence and thank a
man, ten feet away, for not contestins the
niche physically with her. Obviously. she has
known collisions
In New York It's Quot homimes squa, no.
mines. alright. S. K. wusov
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

Our janitor has been influenced, we
believe, by these Chesterton lecture
titles. Yesterday he gave demonstra-
ton on "The Frigidity of Steam Heat {"