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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

To the Editor OF The Times.
Sir: Admiral Henderson, in his letter
in The Times of to-day, makes the fol-
lowing important statement:
So far as am aware, no one who
thinks the days Of the capital ship are
over imagines. or has suggested, the
abolition OF the surface craft On the
contrary, they realize they will nave to
be maintained in large numbers, and
be adapted and developed both for anti
submarine warfare ard the attacE, and
protection of commerce.
With this statement am entirely in
accord, but there is another phase OF
the question that appears to have been
entirely overlooked, and that is, we
must possess sufficiently powerful YES.
sells to be able to carry the war into
the enemy's country, seek out and de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

won but for two special reasons. First,
the mercantile marine of the Allied
countries and Tic rest OF the neutral
world was 50 vast that the submarine
menace could not develop quickly enough
to cope with reserve Of ships which
to them proved inexhsustible; next time
this may not be. so. Secondly, at s late
stage of the var the authorities accepted
policy OF conveys, the delay for which
Was said to be q shortage Of light sur
face craft. A submarine, when attack
ing, had usually to take up Il position
ahead OF at approaching convoy sim
gle out ship, fire her torpedo, and dis.
appear; it was not to be expected that
size would be able to attack second
snip II the same convoy, for the surface
ships would be diligently searching the
area and the convoy would alter course.
Therefore, the rest Of the convoy would
get clear till another submarine was
met. With single combats. different tao
tics would be used, and ship was gen
erally attacked from the stern, and was
generally, especially ii unarrned, fairly
easy prey.
But during my command wha. struck
me most was the feeling Of utter help
lessness as submarine gently disap-
peared from view, scarcely with a ripple
on the water, and when you reached the
spot, however carefully you may have
thought you marked the position, there
was nothing Probably, for variety Of
reasons, she would not attack the
hunter. but she WAS there waiting for
her next chance. have seen them sink
great ships, under my very eyes, within
mile or two Of the English coast. with
out trace and with impuniay., If BY
care you could SO manage that you hit
one on the surface, Of course, she could
not dive and would be fair game. But
I believe, indeed / know, that the sub
marine fleet Of the future--organ ixed as
Admiral Bacon would organize the feet
would be very terrible weapon and
certainly a weapon to prepare all ready.
for the next war.
TEMP. AND ACT. LIEUT.-CoA..
r. n. r.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

To the Editor OF The Times.
Sir | think that yours is most un-
satisfactory newspaper. You do not
give me an answer to the question have
asked namely. What is the use OF a
battleship?"> A paper with a reputation
Ike that OF The Times ought 10 be able
to answer any question, especially such
simple one as that Is You nave prac-
tically at your command all the brains
Of England; you have agents in every
part OF The world; you must know
What is the use Of "a battleship p
Why will you not tell me? am very
mach annoyed with you. Why do you
not act up to the worldwide reputation
that The Times newspaper has always
enjoyed, and most justly earned? I am
yours. PERCY SCOTT.
% South Audley Street, Dee. IA.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
How Lenine Was Paid

As kautskyA~ one distinguished
German Socialist, established from
German official documents German
responsibility for the wanton launch
ing of the World War, so Bernstein,
another distinguished German So
cialist, has established that Lenine
and his associates were paid agents
Of Germany IN the Russian revolu-
ton.
The German imperial treasury ap-
propriated 5o,ooo,O0o gold marks
to disintegrate Russia in the Ger
man interest. General Won Hoffman,
who later appeared at Brest-Litovsk
and imposed the treaty to which
Trotzhy made a stage resistance.
personally went to Switzerland and
delivered part of the money before
the Bolshevist party was conveyed
through Germany TO Russia in the
now famous sealed train. Later in
stalfments reached the Bolshevists
through Banker Furstenberg, OF
Stockholm. as the Sisson documents
brought out, and through Lenine's
secretary. The last payment, Bern
stein says, came direct from the
German imperial treasury.
The revelations are completely in
accord with other known facts. Lee
nine possessed large funds whose
origin was undeclared. Inlpecunious
one day, the next he suddenly be-
came paymaster to an army of prop
uganda agents. His policy Of disin-
tegrating and demobilizing the Rus
sian army was palpably in the Ger
man interest. He fomented every
discomfort in Russia to take Russia
out Of the war, as Germany demand
ed. When Brusilof essayed his last
offensive it broke down through the
mutiny of divisions in which Lee
mines agents had been most active.
Moreover, Lenine has never seri-
ously denied that he was on the Ger
man pay roll. His defense, SO far
as he has made one, is that what he
did was to achieve his own ends and
that it was but incidental that his
program was one Germany wished
to have put through. He thus has
practically admitted the corruption,
holding as he has done as to other
matters that the end justified the
means. The Lenine philosophy is
that no act is moral or immoral in
itself-that murder as we'll as
bribery may be used by minority
to control majority.
The true nature Of the betrayal of
Russia is sufficiently Sttested by inn
agining what would have been said
if the Gar had received 100000
German gold marks for taking Rus
STA out Of the war and had replied,
when accused, that he had done so,
but that he himself also wanted to do
this for the sake of his dynasty.
Moral perverts and unclean casuists
would not secure acceptance Of the
defense as valid. Nor can they do
better in screening from eyecration
the conduct of Lenihe and his crew.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
Drafts in the Subway
To the Editor of Tho Tr;huna

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have an accumulation of seven
colds in the past two months. MANY
people have more, and if you ask them
where they were acquired the answer
invariably will be: "In the subway"
II I die Of pneumonia or pleurisy,
which is probable, shall certainly
bring a suit for damages against some
one, but whether it will be the Inter
borough, the B. r. T. or the Health"
Department. perhaps you can advise
me.
That the cars should not only be un-
heated, but that the windows should
be opened as we'll as the ventilators
above, the Latter all facing to the
froHt, is simaly mnsble--there is ne
other word. I. is ray misfortune to
have to travel daily from Bronx Park
to Bay Ridge and back, and when |
reach my destination hell would be q.
welcome. spot!
Last night on the B. r. T. there
was no heat. and the. front, rear and
AiSAA-S g. Si-S HioS "-.iOohS were open
as usual, and q nor'weste- was wnis-
ting through the car 7 got up in
the trent away from the windows, and
closed the front one when thought
the conductor was not locking. But
he had seen me and promptly opened
it again, saying tfat the orders from
the Health Department were that ali
tront and rear windows must be kept
open regardless Of anything or any
body.
This morning tae thermometer. out
side stood at 20 degrees, and struck
4 car. on the I. r. T. with the windows
closed. There was no heat except from
the bodies of the victims, and we were
getting real coy. with the temperature
around IS degrees, when along came
the conductor and slammed open half
q dozen Of the windows 30 one
dared say word, but simply huddled
| understand this insane ruling is
up to the Health OHeer Is not Dr..
Copeland q physician? We all be-
lie7e in fresh air, bu. does not he
know that sitting in constan. draft
is one Of the most dangerous and
foolish things that can be done?
This should be stopped at once. pro
bono puhlico. r. p.
New York, Jan. 10. 1921
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
Dark or Light

1t is what might be expected from
an optometrist addressing a con-
vention of optometrists to have him
condemn all blondes to live at
Moose Factory. That is just The
nonsense that~a certain kind Of SCI
enlist enits when he attempts to
apply his learning to the pragmatlc
business Of living. 1t need not be
assumed that this all-vise Dr..
Augustine, president of the Ameri-
can Optometric Association, has
personally had hard luck with
blondes. He is not seneralizing
from his own personal eYperience-
his generalization might be worth
something if he We're but from his
optonetrical knowledge of ultra
violet rays and all that sort of thing.
So the general public can go
right on pragmatically as before
ignoring the whole blue-eyed theory
except as personal taste and CON
venience uphold it in Individual
cases. That is the correct working
rule, we submit Blonde and bru-
nette alike start from scratch in any
wise view of human operations.
Each does as it does. There may
be all initial childhood prejudice.
just pinch, in favor of the one
with the golden hair hanging down
her back. The passage of q few
years, the equivalent of bare high
school training, brings the dark-eyed
beauties up to the level of their
light-haired sisters and enables the
veriest tyro to achieve the impair
TALLY Of Shakespeare.
That awful younger generation
that is so likable and Intelligent
when detached from the epithets of
It's elders and known individually
lays an instructive stress upon
qualities which it sums up under the
one word "pep." Why look further?
Here is matter which no optometrisl
can measure and which the learned
president in question would proba-
bly, not recognize if he met 1t on the
street. Yet it is so vastly more i'm
portant than irrelevant details of
fermentation or pigtails and any
matter of ultra violet rays, whether
of the sun or even more deadly
nrh..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

Isl Be abandoned or Radically Alererd British Navy
ErherfS 1rol.a
Experts. Argue

stloy his fleet, capture his coaling sta
tions, destroy his harbors, docks and
Notifications, and, if necessary, bring
about the capitulation of his important
coast towns. And for this, purpose we
must snossess vessels Of great power,
carrying The heaviest weapons and so
'protecfed that they can pass through
nlimefslds, be impervious to torpedo
attaekssana be protected from the effects
OF guthrie
This, of course. is the ideal. and It
viii be no doub. very difficult to obtain
all these qualities in one ship, but it
does net take much Imagination TO i'm
prove immensely on the existing design
OF battleships, which are undoubtedlv
very weak in al these points. have
myself q design in my minds eve that
would meet most OF these requirements.
and would submit it If called upon to do
SO. The German ships were undoubteS
~ much better protected in these re-
poets than ours. Their power of fots-
ton was much better, the protection Of
their ma gazines infinitely better. The
destruction Of TWO ships at the battle
OF Jutland can be attributed directly
to the "bare charges and poor protec-
ton OF magazines
1t Is admitted that we Shall require =
large number Of surface craft. What is
the design to be? And here we come
sack to The same problem that has faced
us for years. The destroyer was built
TO outrun the torpedo boat, the light
crulses to beat the destroyer, the ar
n,ored cruiser 10 beat the light cruiser
the battle cruiser to sbeat the armored
crliseaseand SO On. The same thing will
occur again, but the crux Of the whole
Situation IS that the nation that DOS
sesses the most power 7ul surface craf-
call them battleships, capital ships. or
what you Hke-will dominate the naval
situation. Yours truly,
A. ". WAYMOuTH. Admiral
'(retiredl.
December Il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
as merchant marine is to the sur

as merchant marine is to the sur
face navy.
In connection with the army and
navy air services, the postohice has
already rendered valuable aid in
providing all those adjuncts chat are
making aerial navigation safer. Ii
has aided in the improvement of
radio control and communication,
the development Of night flying. the
development of the wireless direc-
ton finder and field localzer, that
will have important bearing on fu-
ture air warfare.
To permit such an agency to die an
unnatural death would be to render
the country. a serious disservice. The
bill now GOES before the Senate. ans.
that body can remedy the ill-con-
sidered action of the House.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
Stairways
From Contemporary Verse;
WHY do l think of stairways

Ffont Contemporary Verse;
WHY do think of stairways =
W With rush OF hurt surprisef-1
Wistful as forgotten love
In remembered eyes,
And fitful- as the lutter
OF little drafts OF air
That linger on stairway
As though they loved it there.
New and shining stairways,
Stairways worn and old
Where rooms are prison places
And corridors are cold
You intrigue with fancy,
You challenge with lore =.
Elusive as moons light
Shsdowing b floor.
You speak TO me not only
With the lure Of STORED art
For wonder Of old footsteps
Lies lightly OH my heart;
More than the teminiscence
OF yesterdays renown-
Laughter that might haze footed ~,
Erhoes that should drift dorm!
HAZEL HALL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
A Week of Verse
Elan Vital

sFrozn The At'on;sc Keatb,v,
GONE days I tend with careful sun
and showers,
But hungry time demands their fruit
Of me,
And alo2e possess my wasted hours,
That are the children Of infnity.
dare rejoice that / haze offered gisss
To many deity OF wood and clay,
And many house have built where sea-
sand drifts.
And many ship lost Oh the ocean way.
l d.re rejoice at trespassing and tears.
And at the doomed Niagaras OF the soul.
That, flowing faster as ths chasm neavs.
Go down in thunder, knowing not Their
goal;
For by their depth Of wastage can tell
How deep the. source, how inexhaust;hle.
VIOLA c. WHITE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
amendment hating recruiting until
a strength Of 10000 is reached.

N"@&SA1AC SSNNh AALAAiE tiittA
strength Of 100000 is reached.
Plans for reorganizing the army
on regional division basis and for
developing the auxiliary services
will be interfered With by this addi-
tlonal restriction. An army of 49,
600 now and of 100000 when gov
eminent finances improve is about
the minimum desirable for peace
purposes. Yet it will take many
months to get the army down to
100000, and a limitation passed to
hobble the present Secretary of War
can easily be withdrawn under the
new Administration.
Mr.. Baker has outraged common
sense and worn out public patience;
and. worst Of all, the interests Of
The army itself have been unpleas-
antly prejudiced By his rabid and
untimely insistence on expansion
and excessive expenditure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
The Desert Has One God

(isronA The Sonnet)
THE desert has one god. the Great
Lord Sun.
Death is his servant, as the jackals
know,
That follow where the caravans dare
co.
With obscene rites TO claim what death
has won.
The desert asks no grace and offers
none,
Indifferent to withhold or TO bestow,
A yellow sea that has 10 ebb nor flow,
sG'here only light is ended or begun.
4 No one has ever heard the desert
speak.
The ocean has a voice and the wiidz
seek
To win some answer TO the word they
bring.
The hungry jackaron his lonely way
Behcids- the desert PROSTATE, worship
ing.
But never yet has heard the desert
pray.
LOUISE DEIsooLL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

Theros has been no discussion by
United States naval officers concerning
The future usefulness of great battle
ships III the light of recent Developments
in submarine and aerial warfare. Our
naval officers are not permitted to
speak. Yet it is matter OF vital I'M
porrance both economically and as af-
fecting our national security.
lnasmuch as our best naval minds
have been srnotnered, The Tribune OF
january II repub!ished letter on this
subject from Admiral Sir Percy Scott
to The London Times. which is now
welcoming discussion pro and con.
-Four more letters are published below:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
Reply

To the Editor OF The Times
Sir; In reply to Sir Percy Scott. on
the lines OF the we'll known nursery
rhyme [ would say the capital ship is:
The ship that sinks the enemys capital
ship, that protects the cruisers that sink
the cruisers which protect the destroy
erS, that sink the submarines that at
tack the merchant ships. that bring the
food that feeds the people who build
tbs ships that transport the army that
defends the house Mat Jack built-the
British Empire. Yours faithfully.
NAVAL STAFF OFFICER.
December IA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
From the A.fonsic Konthly)
THE HENS


TRE night was coming very fast;
It reached the gate as I ran past.
The pigeons had gone to the tower of
the church,
And all the hens were on their perch,
Up il the barn, and thought heard
A piece Of little purring word
I stopped inside. waiting and staying,
To try to hear what the hens were
saying.
They were asking something, that was
plain,
Asking it over and over again.
One Of them moved and turned around,
Her feathers made q yufiied sound,
A rufaed sound, Ike bushful of birds,
And she said her little asking words.
She pushed her head close into her wing,
But nothing answered arything.
ELIZABETH MADDOX ROBERTS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
The Costigan Episode

Whatever Commissioner Enripht
may or may not be convicted of when
q legislative inquiry has finished
with his department., he convicted
himself out Of his own mouth Of a
neanness of spirit. as contemplate
as it is cowardly, in his attack upon
Honest Dan Costigan.
If Captain Costigan was guilty of
caantenancing the conditions in his
district of which Mr.. Enrieht ac-
cuscd him he should have been placed
on trial and driven from the. force in
disgrace. No sach charges were
officially preferred against him. He
was simply denoted, so far as Mr..
Enright could denote BIN, and sent
to Coventry. After which mean and
undeThsnd attack upon a police off.
Ger Of high reputation and conceded
ability Mr.. Enright now takes ad-
vantage of his official position to be-
snirch Captain Costigan's name with
these vicious innuendoes.
1t is not perhaps fair to judge Mr..
Enright by all the wild lunges he is
making in his present mood Of bitter
ness and despair. BUT in an emer-
gency the quality Of mans inmost
nature is surely revealed Mean
ness and the underhand ways of the
cheap bully are the characteristics
displayed in this latest self-revela-
ton by Mr. Hylan's Commissioner of
Police.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
Lone

From The yeto Ree@s;.e9
GHRILL rang the squeak IN the empty
house
OF the sharp-noss mouse, the hunssy
mouse.
4sing, sing: here none doth dwell"
Drppsd the water in the veil.
robin on the shepherds grave
"histled . solitary stsvs.
And Lone ~aoae.e the curIew cried
Seeding HE sheep n,ounts;ns,x.
WALTER De La MARE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

From Tie Pittsburgh Gcssfte-rIneo}
Music will give the country the
eraotional stimulus formerly furnished
BY liquor" Now we know what the
rsfcrraers will mex. abolish.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
~o.v~rh~ gAYTs-By nal. inslxdas
a.1eefss.. r.ur IfNIIYQ STATXe.
GUARANTY

"a, r.s ,yrehsss rsrehandise adsssthsa In TN
ss,"nrr w;ss absolute ssfetyfsr IL dissatisfas-
1910. in su ssss THE TRiBuNE guarahtses
~ go ssnr Ecnsy back sron rssusst. No rea taes.
:. SSsihhiIrs. We make seed prtnPsiy II sss
~. .ssgssr dess ret
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
,r or rTx AssoCIArgp prrs.

..ae..sf Prcss 10 ssci9siyely entitled u uas
:. ~ recublicaeoa OF all asss dispatches
x.sS d. h or at< otherwise credited In this payer,
Ia slss re local nsv' o. sSoatansSus ofis'A ros
- - .sn. q, capitalization Q, al otAar matter
,vsSn also z.s r-ser7ed-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
gone hravely ahead and events have
generally indicated him.

V171St1Vs10cS1 -11II1I
Senator Harding has declared that
if Theodore Roosevelt had not been
cut down at the summit of his use
fulness ne would have been the
nominee of the Chicago convention.
II SO, would there be any doubt to-
day as to who would be Secretary
OF War?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

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-..,.r rss,ished daily. oscen Essd. rsai-
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
The Ideal Surface Ship

December IA.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-01-15
to
Public
! HAVE BEEN PRACr1CINr
oPTOMETRY 81 YEARS.

The development which has taken
place in ophthamologic equipment dur.
ing the last decade has brought many
new and imrovrdp apparatus INTO gen
oral use. No particular group Of in
straments have shared n this develop
mcnt more fully than those devoted to
eyes and muscle testing.
Therefore, spent the summer In
Chicago in order to acquire more
general knowledge of the modern Phor.
omeser aud It's applications WITH fhe
phorometeres application is discovered
all errors of refruction and all the En-
rors Of tae recti muscles as followsi
Binocuar test of the recti muscles,
Monocular test of the recti muscles.
Duction test Of the recti muscles,
Exercise Of tho recti muscles and the
proper axis Of aStigmatism.
procured me Of these instruments,
lad vas " Successful in testing and
.'tiut ptaut ,t..o. 10 m" PATRONS,
..ro "tr perfectly satisfied office that
zoe ln-trame.t rhorometer) is NOT
placed on the nose. while the old system
with the frame tires the person and
makes errors I'M refracting.
Hundreds Of people suffer from head.
ache, unknowingly from weak eyes. To
these I extend an invitation to try this
INSTRUMENT free Of charge. You will
be surprised at the instant relief of the
eve strain,
fou are mt required to BUY glasses
frcm me, only In the event TINT YOU
sh"ul1 decide 20 do 80.
rcu can depend Oil my skill and &c.
rurscy in testing ycur eyes aud fitting
%.nsses, end rest assured Tint my
charges IRE more than reasonable
Ny rrsidchcc apd office at r. G.,
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NEW SUITS FILED.

Jan. 7. No. 1887. farmers Ware,
house vs.. Ceajsr lscniarl Bertrand, ct
ais, o.ty;; Gc,as.ard \ Samson, a,tor-
nc..
Jaa. z y. aoS>. Farmer, Ware
baus, vs. isgay Nmcl, note; urnrs,.ud
IS, 'srs. o,t.n.e. 5.
yar T. Nc. $3.50, Louis Vale vs..
Whitscy }. Broussard, $2e125; Brous
sard a Samson, attorneys
jan. 7, Ne. $500 Alfred Baudoin
VS., Adam Aaar, cxccutoey process; J. (.
Kibbe, Jr., attorney.
Jan. :, NO, 5pal. Woodward Wright
Il Co. vs.. Numa Clostio aesaunt; Brous.
sard 4 samson, attorneys
Jan. 4, No 19a2, Bplma Menux vs..
Alplc Msaux ct al, eSecu,o,y troccssi
Edward, 4 Greene, attorney.
Jan. II, No. 5ap3. Dehaa Mraux V.
tcstia Mcau&, et.sooo0i Edwards 4
Greene, attorneys,
Jan. II. No. 5e9t Henry Co5se,.e
vs.. Whitney J. BrOuSssrj, 80 sJuo. 90 4;
Edwards a Greene, attorneys.