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New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

mis-, by William Tilden jr., we find the
comforting information that civilian
A. Larned won the singles at past
forty. Men of sixty are seen daily on
the clubs courts Of England and
America enjoying their game as keen
ly as any boy. 1t is to this game, in
great measure, that they owe the
physical fitness which enables them TO
play at their advanced age"
Yet after &ll this is not quite 30
comforting. We know one or two of
tl.ese iron athletes who have outlived
their generation and they are among
the bores Of the world. After one of
them has captured the third set by
dashing to the net and volleying your
shot off at sharp angle he invariably
rubs it in by asking you to guess how
old you think he Is. We always
answer "ninety-six," but there is no
discouraging him or stopping him be-
fore he has gone on to tell you about
breaking the ice in the tub for his
morning plunge.
There is an unearthly air about these
men whom God has forgotten. They
are like those Prussian soldiers of
Frederick who continued to stand after
swords and bullets lad gone through
them and required the services OF some
one to go about the field and push
them over so that they might be de-
Gently buried. There were men like
that in enc of the lands which Gull
liver visited. They never died and
probably they played a sharp game of
tennis and later in the clubhouse thew
were accustomed to sit around and sav
how much better the actors used to be
fifty years ago. Everybody hated
them and stayed away from their com.
pany in droves.
No, we set no store of hope on be-
ing II sixty -year-old prodigy at lawn
tennis. We dodder about the court al
ready. We had just as soon be gray
and bald and all the rest of it If only
we can ever grow young enough tc
write bold and slashing novel anG
be suppressed by Mr.. Sumner.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
The Best Sea Training
Supplied by Our State Nautical
Schools, Which u. S. Should Aid

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The system Of training officers
for the merchant marine carried on for
over thirty years By the states Of
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, aud
for over forty-6ve years by New Yors
has stood the severe test of the Werti
War By supplying highly trained End
qualified officers to fill positions Of
great responsibility, both in the navy
and in the merchant marine, and has
proved without a doubt the wisdom Of
our forefathers who passed a law In
Congress in 1874 authorizing the Sec
retary of the Navy to furnish vessels
to the following cities to promots
nautical education: Boston, Philadel-
phia, New York, Seattle, San Francisco,
Baltimore, Detroit, Saginaw, Norfolk
and Corpus Christi. Recently Senator
Hale, of Maine, has introduced bill
in Congress to have Portlsnd, Me-
and Tampa, Fla, included.
At the present time there srs few
recommending that the national gov
ernment establish an Annapolis for the
merchant marine. This would cost mil"
lions of dollars and. after all, would
be only an experiment. This is not the
time to start new systems or ex"end
large sums of money in further expert
menting with our shipping.
Let us get down to a real, practical
business basis, encourage and help Cur
state nautical schools as they are now
maintained, and, if our shipping war
rants and there is demand for more
officers than the ships are now gradu-
ating, start up schools in the other
cities mentioned. In this way we are
obtaining the best results at mimi
mum cost.
The states that now maintain these
schools take pride in educating theiE
sons to represent them in all parts 0t
the world and have not compliance
of appropriating the lions share tor
operating expenses, but 1t is beieVee
that the national government shouid
Increase its appropriation to 5O per
cent of the cost of operating these
schools.
The opportunities of adgancemeh'
to graduates of these schools are ~
great to-day as ever, because there y
always room at the top for qualihea
men, and especially so In our shippnS
world. MARCUS II. TRACY,
Chairman Board of Governors, New
York State Nautical School.
| New York, Feb. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

The pro-Debs propaganda is get
ting academic, IL not practical, re-
suits. The boys of the class in eco
nonics at Emory University, Geor-
gia, have been led to ask that Debs
be allowed to talk to them. The
crocodile wailing of the intelli-
gentsia has persuaded them that this
uoble-souled man is barred and pad
locked because he spoke out the
truth as he saw it, because he would
not be traitor to his convictions,
and all that.
Not his convictions, but his con-
uction, is the salient fact to keep in
mind regarding Debs. A jury of
twelve average men, after hearing
the evidence, unanimously found
that he fought--in the only way he
flghts--with tongue and pen against
his eonntyy In tima Of war. He had,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
That Hampstead Express
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your account Of the Long
Island accident has caused quite a dis
cussion among railroad men as to the
speed of an express train. Who ever
heard of an express train running less
than sixty, seventy or seventy-five
miles an hour? Your paper said that
the Hampstead express came thunder
ing along at twenty miles an hour.
We do hope that you will retract that
statement and not call it an express,
when in the real sense of the word it
is not. We will give you a comparison
right in your own city.
The Interborough express between
Times Square, Seventy Street,
Ninety-sixth Street and 10th Street
does better at times than fifty miles an
Four, and at times has made sixty on
long stretch.
That's what you may call an express
train, B. OF R. r. ENGINEMEN,
Local 1856, N. Y. C. R. r. Per P. D. S.
Grand Central Station. New York,
Feb. Is, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

does not know to what degree unfit
cation Of service with one fare is
feasible; that he does not know
whether the owners Of the securities
of thirty-five companies with con-
tracts will agree to reorganization.
What is dark to the Governor is, of
course, dark to all others.
So while it is possible to approve
the Governors proposal to create an
investigating commission which is
empowered, if SO inclined, to convert
itself into a traction dictatorship, it
does not seem possible at this juno
ture to be for or against any con-
crete plan with which he Is iden-
titled. To do this one would be re-
quired to read not only the Gov
ernor's mind with respect to matters
whereof he has not spoken and as to
which it is not likely he has any
fixed opinion, but also the minds of
commissioners not yet named.
This places too great a strain on
psychical powers. The truth is no
one knows what plan, if any, the
commission, if appointed, will give
birth to. 1t may be good. It>may be
bad. 1t is to be hoped, therefore,
that the debate will be confined to
the issue now before us, and not
wander off into the realms of specu-
lation and surmise.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Anti-Arnerican Mandates

Mr.. Norman Davis, Under Secre~
tary of State, is clearly justified in
predicting that the new Administra-
tion will back up Secretary Colby's
protest against League Of Nations
mandates which ignore American
rights and interests. There is no
room for a difference in policy on
this question.
Mr.. Colby sharply criticized the
form Of the Mesopotamian mandate
and asked that it be transmitted to
our government for examination be-
fore going to the league Council for
approval. 1t wasn't submitted, and
both the Mesopotamian and Pales-
tine mandates, though giving nations
which are members of the league
equality of economic privilege, deny
equality to non-members.
The exclusion is defended by g.
phrase in the fifth paragraph of Ar
ticle XXI of the covenant, dealing
with Germany's central African pos
sessions. This pledges the mandatory
to secure equal opportunities for the
trade and commerce of other mem
bers of the league" But the whole
mandate article is hazy. 1t con-
templates, with respect to states Gre
ated out of the former Turkish En-
plre, that the mandatory shall merely
give administrative advice and as-
slstance until independence can be
recognized. But the Palestine man
date starts out with this declara-
ton: "His Britannia Majesty has
the right to exercise as mandatory
all powers inherent in the govern
ment of a sovereign state save as
limited by the terms Of the present
mandate"
SO far as the United States is
concerned, it is not matter of twist
ing the language Of the covenant one
way or another. We were a part
ner in the war. 1t is no exaggera-
ton to say that our participation in
sured Germany's defeat. The mere
fact that we haven't ratified the Yer
sailles treaty cannot put us in the
position of non-belligerent. To
class us with Germany and Russia
and to deny US privileges in mandate
regions granted to neutrals which
didn't lift finger to save the world
from German domination, and even
to Austria and Bulgaria, involves a
colossal misappreciation of Amer
ica's services.
We have asked for no territorial
acquisitions and sought no man.
dates. But we cannot be crowded
out OF ordinary economic privileges
IN the enemy holdings which the
peace council divided among it's
more powerful members. Great Brit
ain, France and Italy are anxious to
have us define our relations to the
league. They would be glad to per-
suade us to cancel the loans we male
10 them. 1t is a preposterous ac-
compartment to such urgings to dis
tribute through the league mandates
which treat US as interlopers in war
trust territory.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

village watches Amina in LA Son.
nambula" as she sleep-walks. Even
Mimi, of far later and more real
lstic era, has an entire group Of lit
tie play1nates conveniently at hand
to sob and adore as she coughs. All
this we dull Americans have been in.
clined to put down as just the way
of grand opera, which could afford
no privacy for its principals.
Now it is revealed that all this
drama is simply the good Italian
way of being gravely i'll, and we ap.
plaud with will. AS against the
aseptic sickroom give us the oper-
attic sickroom every time. 1t passes
the time, it cheers, it cures-as wit
ness the steadily improving bulle-
tins from the Caruso physicians.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Some Food for Thought
the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR; Few Americans realize the over
whelming size of their glorious coun-
try in comparison with other coup-
tries, Russia excepted The area Of
the United States is over 1000 0oo
square miles, or three times as large
as the combined areas of Great Britain.
Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Hun
gary and Belgium, which total 897. $50
square miles.
Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and
Wyoming, only four states, have more
area than Great Britain, France, Ger
many and Belgium combined.
New Mexico is AS large as Great
Britain.
Vermont is about the size of Bel
gium.
Colorado and Wyoming are as large
as either France or Germany.
Germany Is twenty times the size Of
Belgium, which speaks volumes for the
resistance of that gallant little coun~
try to the German beast--.s resistance
that gave France and England chance
Tor defensive preparation and practi-
eaily saved this country also.
America, England and France, with
combined fleets and armies, could po-
lice the world and produce the only
logical League of Nations TO assure
world peace and safety against future
attack by the treacherous Hun.
| GEORGE w. HILLS.
Maw Yoghs Tshy no. le2a.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Knox, Grant, Wood
Since When Have Soldiers Been
Barred From the War PortfoIiop

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Report has it that President
elect Harding, recognizing the eminent
fitness of General Wood, contemplates
dlsposing of him by banishment to the
Philippines as Governor General of the
islands. The consummate artfulness
of this scheme to get rid of the most
popular man in the Republican party
is seen in the fulsome laudation of
General Woods great executive abil-
ity and peculiar fitness for this
(alleged) difficult position, it being
understood that General Wood as a
soldier must go where ordered. nolens
uolens.
At the same time it is stated that
Mr.. Harding would be glad to appoint
General Wood as Secretary of War,
but that no army officer can be put in
that place! Since when have army
officers been barred from this Office :?
General Grant was for time Secre-
tary of War at the close of the War
of the Rebellion, and when he became
President he appointed his old adiu-
tant, General John B. Rawlings, Sec
retary of War. The first Secretary of
War under Washington, mcst naturally.
was one of his best generals, Knox.
The idea that only civilians should fill
the portfolios of the War and Navy in
the Cabinet is absurd. Common sense
would Indicate that the man who has
professional knowledge OF war is best
fitted to head the War Department
of the government and so of the Navy
We certainly have had quite enough
of civilian knowledge in the Bakers
and Danielses of the present admins
tration. F. L. HITCHCOCK,
Veteran of the Civil War.
Scranton, Pa, Feb. II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

Margaret Fuller's father was thirty
two when she was born" writes
Katharine Anthony in her biography
Of the great feminist. "a self-madc
man, he had been obliged to postpone
marriage and family life to g COM
paratively advanced age"
The paragraph came to US like q
blow in the face. For years and years
we had been going along buoyed up by
the comments of readers who wrote in
from time to time to say: "Of course,
you are still young man. You will
learn better as you grow older" And
now we find that we have grown older.
We have reached comparatively ad-
vanced age, and the problem of whether
or not we have learned better is pres
ent and persistent. 1t can no longer
be put of as something which will
work out ali right in time.
Some day says the young man TO
himself, 'l'm going to sit down and
write q novel, or the great American
drama, or an epic poem" Then some
day comes and the young man finds
that his joints are stiff and he can't
sit down.
However, we are not quite prepared
to admit that thirty-two is the dead
line. 1t seemed old age to us for g
|
baseball the players used to call Roy
Hartzell, over on third base, "the old
man." because he was all of twenty
nine, and veterans of thirty were con-
stantly dropping out because OF ad-
vancing age and the pressure of re-
cruits Of nineteen and twenty. Yes,
thirty-two was q comparatively ad-
vanced age at that time. But then We
got on to plays and books, and Bernard
Shaw was doing all the timely hitting
in the pinches, and, to mix the meta
phor, breaking loose and running the
length of the field, putting a straight
arm into the faces of all who would
tackle him. De Morgan started to blaze
was the keenest of all the critics to
hail anything in any art which was
new and hitherto unclassified. And he,
too. wrote his first novel, "Painted
Wells" long after fifty. 1t was novel
which we did not like very much, but
all its faults were those of youth. Some
of it actually sophomorc 1t was more
like the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald
than any living author. We felt that
it was first novel by a promising"
man, and thirty and twenty-nine and
all those ages seemed to US mere
verdant days in che hatchery.
We remember sweet girl reporter
going to Major General Sibert, COM
mander of the 1st Division In its early
days in France, and asking: General,
don't you think this is 8 young mans
war?" Sibert grinned behind his gray
mustache, and said: when was in
West Point l used TO bear in mind
that Napoleon won some of his great
est victories while he was in his
thirties, but now find my attention
turning more and more to the fact that
Hindenburg Ia seventy-two and Joffre
is seventy"
Time, we know, is fieeting, but there
Is always a little more left for the
man who can look senility and destruc-
tion and all that sort of business
straight in the eye and remark calmly
I'm too busy this afternoon; drop
around tomorrow" Thirty-two isn't
comparatively advanced age. Some
day we are going TO write that epic
Eoem, and the novel, and the great
American drama.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

a fair trial, as he himself is square
enough to admit. He was put in Jail
for his defiance, and there he should
stay without Iecturing interludes
until his time is up, or until his petit
tion for release is backed by peni-
tence.
If the college boys are determined
to hear Debs there are ways, alas
which ingenuity may suggest of get
ting into the Federal prison at At
lanta after due court formalities.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Out Of Date
{ From The seattls post-frtr,

tFron Tbs Sedttss Post-fnteIt0snoer)
Old King Cole would have a hard
time to-day. Democracy would knock
over his throne, the Eighteenth Amend
ment would put the jinx on his bowl,
the Musicians Union would order his
fddi%rs out on strike, and Lucy Page
CASTOR would probably write and ask
him to give up his pipe.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Third Parties

Is there a future in our politics
for woman's party? Those who
think SO seem to have their minds
fixed either on changes in the laws
which will equalize the economic
and personal status Of men and
women or on measures which will
force larger recognition Of the
class and group interests of women
voters. The question is whether
these objects can be better attained
by attack from without or by pres
sure from the inside on the existing
major parties.
Multi-partyism has never taken
root in the United States, and for
reasons. Our constitutional forms
are all against it. Where executive
power is lodged in a legislative body,
as under the parliamentary system,
government by combinations of par
ties is easy. Coalitions are frequent
and ministries represent various
shadings of political opinion. But
with US the plurality vote becomes
the majority vote. We have plu-
rality presidents and governors
Power goes to the leading party,
whatever percentage Of the popular
vote it may obtain. And it's only
available rival is the next strongest
party.
A major party, established in
forty-eight states, is hard to over
throw. The old Federalist party
died of dry rot. The two-party sys.
tenn was suspended in a measure
from Jefferson's days to Jackson's.
But with the popularization of cleo
tions and party machinery the Wing
party arose to replace the Federalist.
and when it, too, died of inanition,
the Republican party took over it's
general point Of view and many of
its functions.
Many ambitious minor groups
have tried to break into the major
circle. Before the Civil War we
had the Anti-Masons, the Know
Nothings, the Free Sellers and
the Union party. Since the war
we have had the Greenbackers, the
Populists, the Socialists and the
Prohibitionists, and, for very brief
period, the Progressives. Those
third parties which grew fastest
the Popuists and the Progressives-
quickly faded away. 1t is not in the
American temperament to back out
siders for very long. The Socialist
organization has persisted largely
because it was organized by alien
elements and was nurtured on non
American ideas.
If all the women voters were
brought together they would form
a major party. We have no Labor
party, as the British have. Yet if
all those who labor could be brought
together they, too, would form a
major party. The class, or group, in
terest here isn't strong enough for
such unification. Our government
rests on anti-class principles. 1t
would take something like an intel
lectual revolution to shatter these
and to bring in class politics.
Women and men, moreover, have
too much in common to make a sex
division in politics practicable. No
such division occurred in the states
which gave womel. the ballot years
ago. There is no motive powerful
enough to-day to fuse women into
one group or freeze men into an
other.
The old American habit will prob
ably hold with the new voters. They
are likely to try to get what they
want through established agencies
that is, the two major parties which
have conducted the government
practically since it's start.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
World Unemployment

Speaking loosely, Lioyu ~George'
the British Premier, attributes the
general business stagnation and lack
of employment to the war.
This is an easy and convenient ex-
planation, and in a secondary way,
of course, true. But it is more ac-
curate to say that unemployment is
more Immediately due to what has
happened since the armistice than
before it.
If the war brought losses Of eco
nonic power it brought gains. Men
speeded up. Women entered new
occupations. The war was waged
with one hand, as it were, while with
the other more things were done
than had formerly been done with
two hands. Even as to peace goods
the worlds product in 1918 was we'll
up to the level of 1913-in this coun-
try large increase occurring.
The main damage came after the
stoppage of hostilities. A vicious
and ignorant spirit spread noxiously
throughout the world. There is rea-
son for believing that the working
of this spirit has taken a heavier
toll of human life than the war
monster.
The miracle Of at once readjusting
all things to peace conditions in the
lwinkiing of an eye could not, of
course, be achieved. 1t was a task to
get the peace machinery once more
IN place and in operation. Time was
required to reorganize and to recruit
new working forces. Discomfort
was thus unacceptable. But it would
soon have passed had it not been for
the arrival Of new foe of the
human race.
A destructive agitation developed
everywhere whose rallying cries
were distrust and hatred. The doc
trine was inces sanity preached that
the leaders in industry and public
life were inherently enemies of the
masses. 1t was proclaimed a glori-
Gus thing to strike, to loaf, to reduce
the total of things produced, The
human family was to become hap
pier by destroying The material
things needful to its happiness and
oy refusing to make moro.
The underlying cause is shown by
the striking circumstances that,
with the exception of China, where
special causes are at work, human
misery increases in the proportion
that particular peoples have lis
tened to the apostles of destruction
and diminishes in the proportion
that peoples have been deaf to it. At
one pole is sodden Russia and at the
other our own country. Belgium is
more prosperous than Italy, Serbia
than hungary, and so down a double
list.
The Hoover method of relief is
noble. 1t evokes the beautiful in
stincts of charity and altruism.
Nevertheless there is reason for
thinking that if one-half the effort
which has been devoted to saving
life had gone to removing that
which sapped the bases of life the
worlds reconstruction would now be
achieved.
The need of the hour, in this coun-
try as in all others, Is the uprooting
OF every vestige of the propaganda
OF destructiveness. When this goes
there will not long be reason to
lament the woes of mankind. Fear
ful has been the havoc wrought bv
those who have sought and still
seek to lure mankind further down
--1D.l
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
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New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ls, 1921

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New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Those Vain Regrets

tFrons The Toledo Biade)
1t is when a man makes out his in
come tax return that he wishes he had
given more 10 charity.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

Germany in Bold Reparations Stand.
Public Ledger.
Here's headline that should have
been set in Berlin Bold.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Let the Heathen Rouge
Germany in Bold Rer

Sir: The lips that touch lip-stick shall
never touch mine. w. 8.