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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
Grant and Lee
Recalling in Grants Own Words the
Scene at Appomattox

KNCCdIIIIB TT vi dIIt OWH WOIQ5 tIIC
Scene at Appomattox
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sire In Mr.. Drinkwater's drama
Lincoln" General Lee is pictured as
Offering his sword to General Grant.
We should not criticize Mr.. Drinkwater
for this mistake, for histories in use
in the public schools throughout the
North mention just that.
But General Grant says in his per-
sonai lAemoirs, Chapter LXVIlI:
"No conversntion-not one word
passed between General Lee and my
self, either about private property,
side arms or kindred subjects.
When we read over the part of
the terms about side arms, horses
and private property of the Off
GERS he remarked with some feel
ing, | thought, that this would
have happy effect upon his
army The much talked-o surren-
dering of Lees sword and my hand
ing it back-this and much more that
has been said about it is the purest
romance. The word sword or side
arms was not mentioned by either
of us until l wrote it in the terms
There was no editation, and it
did not occur to me until l wrote it
down. If I had happened to omit it,
and General Lee had called my at
tention to it, I should have put it in the
terms precisely as l acceded to the
provision about the soldiers retain
ing their horses. Lee and l separated
as cordially as we had met, he re-
turning to his own line, and all went
into bivouac for the night at Apo
mattox Staten"
That General Grant did not take to
himself the credit for what would have
been magnanimous act had he, in
deed, returned General Lees sword to
him, becomes really the more mag
unanimous by his denial that it had
been offered; and by reason Of this
denial, still more magnanimous in it's
courteous consideration for General
Lee, whose pride thereby was left
unimpaired.
General Grant, on the occasion of
the surrender permitted no demon
straton of triumph on the part of his
army; for, said he, they are now our
countrymen.
Politicians, however, endeavored to
change some of General Grants agree
ment with General Lee, but General
Grant would not permit it.
J. C. HORTER.
Nutley, N. j., Sept. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
Monroe Doctrine and Covenant

Bolivia has brought before the
league Assembly her dispute with
Chile over the execution of the treaty
of 1904 between these two countries.
She found warrant for doing this
in two paragraphs of the covenant
The first--a part of Article Nj
reads: ut is also declared to be the
friendly right of each member of the
league to bring to the attention of
the Assembly or of the Council any
circumstance whatever affecting in
ternational relations which threate-
ems to disturb international peace
on the good understanding between
nations on which peace depends"
The second--Article XIX-says:
"The Assembly may from time to
time advise the reconsideration by
members of the league of treaties
which have become inapplicable and
the consideration of international
conditions whose continuance might
endanger the peace of the world"
Chile doesn't want the league to
advise her to reconsider the Bolivian
treaty of 1904, or to have the Tacna-
africa problem discussed at all at
Geneva. She has made the counter
claim that the league has no au-
thority to reopen territorial settle
ments between American powers, on
the ground that Article XXI of the
covenant disavowed jurisdiction in
American disputes when it recog-
nized the validity of the Monroe
Doctrine.
Article XXI is a masterpiece in
the way of teXtual confusion and
legal ambiguity. But Mr.. Wilson
assured the world that it completely
"safeguarded" the Monroe Doctrine.
and the Chileans have taken him at
his word. They assert that Euro
pean powers are not entitled to
send American territorial contro-
versies to adjudication or to par
ticipate in any way in their settle
ment.
The league Assembly is reluctant
to construe Articles XII, XIX and
XXI Of the covenant. 1t has re-
ferred Bolivia's appeal to commit
tee which is to say whether or not
the Assembly is competent to enter
tain it. This committees report
will be awaited with great interest.
There is already an element in the
Assembly which favors breaking the
league up into groups, European
questions to be handled by the Euro
pean members and American ques-
tions by the American members.
The Monroe Doctrine must be recon
ciled with the covenant, since the
former is Incorporated into the lat
ter. Much depends on the interpre-
tation arrived at, for Chile, follow.
ing Argentina's example, probably
will withdraw from the league if
Bolivia's prayer is granted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
They Will Not Learn

The "Staats-Zeitung" has ex-
pressed relief that Mr.. Root has de-
clined to become a member of the
International Court. 1t devotes an
article to his unftness, the burden of
which is printed in heavy-faced
italics German style), and which
translated reads as follows:
Mr.. Root was one of the most zeal
Gus supporters of the Versailles Treaty
of Shame, the ratifica ton of which
by the Senate he bitterly regretted"
1t then goes on to point out that
he favored forcing Germany to &C.
cept all the wrong and inhuman
conditions" of the Treaty of Yer
sailles. Further still he favored sup
porting all of Frances hateful and
revengeful plans.
In other words, Mr.. Root sup
ported America against Germany
Therefore, he is unfit to be a mem
Der of the international Court To-
gether with Colonel Roosevent he
was blacklisted by the German editor
just before the Republican conven-
ton of 1916, and the boycott is not
lifted.
Will the German press file the
same objections to his selection as q
member of the delegation to the con-
ference on the limitations of arma-
ment?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
China at Odds

All is not serene in the former
Celestial Empire. The Canton gov
eminent, controlling South China,
protests against the selection of dele
gates by the Picking government to
represent the Chinese Republic at
the Conference on the Limitation of
Armament. In fact, it resents the
attempts of the North China govern
ment to enlist the aid of the South
ern Chinese.
The State Department recognizes
only the Picking government as the
head of China and has not admitted
South China's claims to recognition.
This is in spite of the fact that DR..
Sun Yat-Sen and the so-called Young
China party, which dominates South
China, have long been the particular
friends of the United States.
But our official acceptance of the
Picking government as representa-
tive OF the Chinese Republic has not
impressed the Cantonese. They per-
sist in their demands.
Insist upon direct invitation for
this government in Pacific confer
ence," the Southern government
cables to Washington. Picking is
too committed to Japan to make a
strong case. The Canton govern
ment, if it Joined the Peking delega-
tion. would be tainted Cap+o,, ,o,,sf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
Ulster
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Thomas Kennedy's letter of
September IL is just another illustra-
tion of the course of reasoning re-
sorted to by Sim Fein sympathizers
in their efforts to discredit England
in American eyes and to coerce Ulster.
In pointing out that there are Sim
Fein sympathizers in Ulster, who, he
admits, however, are in the minority,
Mr.. Kennedy fails to point out, on the
other hand, that there are strong Ma
tionalist and Unionist factions in
southern Ireland, totally at variance
with the Sim Fein agitators, factions
at the present moment inundated by
Sim Fein violence.
How dare Mr.. Kennedy deny the
statement Of The Tribune that "Ulster,
as is we'll known, has not wished for
Home Rule? Ulster before the war
was armed to the teeth to resist Home
Rule, and laid down her arms only
when she was promised that the Home
Rule question would be deferred until
after the war was over. This is mat
ter of common information.
May l at this time express to The
Tribune my personal appreciation of
your splendid stand not only on the
Irish question. but on the Philippine;
your fine loyalty and clear vision
during the war, your whole-hearted
championing of Theodore Roosevelt
and Leonard Wood and your generous
attitude toward women?
AN UNHYPHENATED AMERICAN.
New York, Sept. II, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
Nathaniel Myers

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: The death of my beloved friend
Nathaniel Myers is a great loss to the
community. Mr.. Myers, almost single
handed, built up a wonderful structure
by establishing the Hebrew Technics
School for Girls, which has been ire
mendous benefit to a large number o.
deserving girls whose parents 0'
guardians are of moderate means.
By the splendid education they ~
ceive in this post -graduate school tne3
are not only materially benefited Dr.
in addition are improved in character
and refinement They have the riea.
example and guidance, material sh'
ethical, so that when they leave 'h'
school they arc not only able TO 'sA'
care of themselves but in most cases
! to help their families and Others wiz
may be dependent upon them. The "
porting graduates of the schoo' o.
earning annually over sS,Ooo,oOo' vs.
the benefits they receive IN the gym
Improvement which takes place IN 1'''
are of much greater Importance.
Mr.. Myers was devoted to this eau''
Aside from his interest in the senV',
he was q man of great intellect ~.
ability and was interested IN ali TO-
is good and noble. He was g,se.
interpreter of Shakespeare, an af0'1
admirer of Lincoln, an eloquent ois,s'
one of our best citizens ana wins" :.
man of great modesty, who did no' w.
to have his good work known cav.
in so far as it might be Of benehs :.
others The world is better for hsvi's
had Nathaniel Myers in 1t.
ADOLPH LEWISoHN
Upper saranac, N. Y, Sept TO- W."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

HOKKuss
(By Our Own Amy LOVELY

(By Our Own Amy LOVELY
Robert Frost
What use mcnding wall,
When both fields are long sterile,
Spouting mere powders
Edtoim Arlington Robinson
Dusk on New England,
Dusk over Tilbury Town,
Dusk in Camelot.
III
Carl Sandbur0
Billy Sunday, drunk
With Keats's beauty, cursing
Drunk Billy Sunday.
w
Vachcl Lindsay
Bill Bailey married
To a Congo witch doctor
Voodoo jubilee!
V
Sara T'easdale
Poor me--he hates me!
Poor me--he doesn't hate mel
Poor me-he hates me!
vi
Edloin Markham
The man with the hoe
Uses farm tractor now,
Rhymed Harold Bell Wright!
Ezra Pound
There was a poet
Who died in ondon-on-Thames
Of modernism.
Mary Carolyn Duvies
am just sixteen,
Not fifteen or seventeen
Always just sixteen.
TX
Louis Untermeyer
Love, you got no brains
Life, I'm your arrogant lord!
rweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweetl Tweet!
K
Hilda Conklng
Daddy love mamma?
Mamma love daddy? Fifty
Seven editions.
XII
The Poetry Society
We have with US this
Evening, memories; dusty,
Dusty memories. BINO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
Too Palpable Taxation

To the Editor of The Tribune 49,,
Sir: In your editorial An ih'' r.,
Sales Tax" you say: "The oblee',oa :
the Canadian type Of sales TAX = -
course that tax should be see" ~,
felt and thus develop sense o. p'
responsibility. lind
Is there not such thing az hs 80,
a tax which is too much seen a"' -,
and would it not be better at sass 80 -,
of our existence to reduce the s'
as much as possible?
New York, Sept. 10, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
In the Land of Plenty
the Editor Of The Tr;hune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the September Literary
Digest" The Tribune is quoted as
stating that "the presence of the Amer
lean relief agents in Russia will say,
We are from land of plenty"
To benefit other people you will
surely advise the men who are paid
S2.4O day for real, honest-to-g goodness
work how they can get their share of
this plenty" to which they are entitled.
Coal costs SIT ton here.
CLARENCE A. MILLER.
DalHths Ainnv Seet. z. 1924.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

United States Senator Wesley L.
Jones, Of Washington, assisted, ac-
cording to our Washington dis
patches, by the National Merchant
Marine Association, has filed with
the Shipping Board a long report
or memorandum which, eff Needed"
will compel our idle Yankee fleets to
give over idling and betake them
selves to sea
The Senator is not the sire Of the
report or memorandum. He vouches
for it and bespeaks the boards most
earnest consideration IF it simply
as its stepfather. 1t is the child of
"an experienced railroad man ire
mendously interested in the upbuild-
ing of the merchant marine"
In word, this Experienced rail
road man." as we understand it, sets
up the non-enforcement of the pro-
visions of the merchant marine act
of 1920, or the Jones act, so called,
as being responsible for the present
pass Of American shipping!
Had Section % of the mercha mt
marine act been put into operation it
may be confidently stated that few, IL
any, Shipping Board vessels would
now be tied up for lack of cargo"
That assertion is based on the allie
cation by IAN experienced railroad
man" that nothing else than secret
preferential rate agreements be-
tween American railroads and for
eign-hag ocean lines or American
ocean lines controlling foreign-f flag
bottoms brought the governments
owned vessels to their anchored
sequestration.
In the light of that astounding
statement The Tribune desires to
join with the Senator from Wash
ington in bespeaking the Shipping
Boards most earnest consideration
of what the experienced railroad
man" has to say. We are moved to
do this not only because he is "tre-
mendously interested in the upbuild-
ing of the merchant MARINE" but be-
cause of an abiding belief that the
United States is not going to achieve
her rightful place on the seas until
experienced farmers, experienced
physicians, experienced surgeons anC
even experienced policemen begin t.
think in different Germs than those
of this experienced railroad man.
Let the Shipping Board see to il
that 1T retains and does nothing tt
destroy this gentleman's interest ir
Yankee merchant marine. Mr.
Lasker, the chairman of the board
has on his staff any one Of twent,
experts who in five minutes or less
can reveal to Senator Jones'.
protege the fact that the law O.
supply and demand is as inexorablt
in the world of shipping as it is else
where. With that for beginning
it might then be indicated to tn.
student that, all things being equal
cargoes follow bottoms, not flags
and, by the same token, that the ma
jority Of passengers prefer wet
ships to "dry" ones. 1t is the
boards task, however, not ours, and
here we shall stop.
But may we not commend "an ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

send an independent delegation to
come to court with clean hands"
And now DR.. Sun Yat-Sen an
nounoes that unless Canton delega-
ton participates in the decisions
concerning the Far East none Of
them relating to China will be recog-
nized as valid. DR.. Sun must have
been reading the speeches and
papers of De Valera.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

perienced railroad man." likewise
Senator Jones and the National Mer-
chant Marine Association, to the
kindness of the chairman of the
Shipping Board and his colleagues?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

~ enemy Of fixed defenses. Airplsrss
circling over fort can deluge it Wit.
{. veritable rain of liquids which upas
falling will turn into heavy poison
gas. Such an attack, supplemental by
bombs, cannot be resisted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

After two miles in a Ford, thirty on
the New York, Susquehanna & West
ern and eleven hokkus, you begin to
wonder wistfully if there isn't any
iambc pentameter left in the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

Still, our favorite paper says that
industry is speeding up, and it's our
humble prayer that the whirlpool of
activity wells up sufficiently to wash
over a tennis court somewhere and
drag down an eminent linesman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

After looking with a longing eye at
racquets at $3.50 and canoes at $50, we
are seriously considering drowning
our coming vacation in three bottles
of $40 hootch.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
New York, Sept. 10, 1921,

THE Hudson River is the au-
thentic name of New York's great
waterway. 1t was called the North
River to distinguish it from the
South River, the Delaware, and that
designation has persisted locally for
the river below Spuyten Duyvil.-
Ed I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
The Hudson

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Could you please inform me
whether or not the Hudson River is
known by that name for it's entire
length, or, as l have been told, is it
called the North River below Spuyten
Duyvil and the Hudson above that
point? ALBERT P. RADICH.
New York Sent 10 1921
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

We bo,C, tUhile farmers rise and shout.
We Uent and broke New Jerseys
drought
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
The Passing of Coast Forts
They Have the Same Weakness the Balcship: They
Cannot Resist Air Attack
By Quarterback

1t could throw its Compound charge
to distance of only 1,40O yards.
IT was fixed in position in the Vesuyius
and could be aimed only by the ships
rudder. About this time the range and
accuracy of ordinary guns were
tremendously increased, and the Vesu-
vius could not get close enough to the
enemy to utilize her gun 1t was used
by Admiral Sampson in night attacks
upon the Spanish batteries at San
tiago. The Vesuvius went in every
night under cover Of darkness and
fired three heavy shells. There was no
blast from its pneumatic gun to be-
tray its whereabouts in the darkness,
and the discharge was muffled. When
the she'll struck on shore it dug big
pit. The Spaniards dreaded it. They
afterward admitted that they "never
slept at night until the Vesuvius had
effect of these shells was slight, be-
cause the Vesuvius never knew the
range with sufficient accuracy to land
a she'll near Spanish battery. Had
would have been terrific.
AirPlane attack
The airplane succeeds where Zalin-
skis gun failed. 1t can carry i'm
mense charges of high explosive to a
distance Of ion ~, los nv r,oro opJ Jro,,
them with accuracy upon the target.
, 1t can attack by day or at night under
favorable conditions. Thus it secures
all the advantages of plunging or NOR
tleships, are pitifully vulnerable. Can
they resist such bombardment from
above? They must be rooted over!
What will that cost?
An inspection of our coast forts, with
their heavy guns and acres of shells
will demonstrate their helplessness
Every gold dollar put into such defenses
might just as we'll be thrown into the
Atlantic Ocean. We have no money ia
waste in that manner.
But even if we admit that the fort
can be rooted over to survive air at.
tack, we still face the fact that forts
and heavy guns along the coast do not
defend the country. The maximum
range of their guns is only fifteen OF
twenty miles. No enemy fleets will
ever come within that range. Why
should they? They will attack with
air forces from point far beyond the
range of the forts guns. They may
I choose base where there are no forts
he fort cannot move
And the projected railroad guns fol
coast defense are equally HELPLESS and
( useless They can be bombed off the
| earth. Money appropriated for such
weapons is buried
Defending a Coast
Reviewing the whole subject, it must
be evident to the layman that the only
effective weapons for coast and harbol
defense are mines, torpedoes, subma
rines, air forces. and possibly some
kibu OF HoatiHg battery Win neaVy
guns that can move from point t.
point along the coast. Even these float
ing batteries may be quite unnecessary
Fixed forts and railroad guns will bs
useless, even if we spend upon then
all the money in the United State.
Treasury.
In uncovering the weakness of fort
to air attack no mention was made O.
poison gas. But if we consult th,
Chemical Warfare Service of the United
States Army we will find another dead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

A committee of battle-scarred citi-
zens, it is reported, will present the
problem of the city's cops and thugs
to the Disarmament Conference.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
You and Me Both!

I'm tired Of F. F. of Virginia
And The Tower as it is to-day;
am going to change my paper
If l don't hear from F. P. A.
c.. C.. D.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

Heard by G. ]. S., the we'll known
Fifth Avenue bus rider:
"No, dear; sit over here. This is
the shady side.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

Russia, it appears, is insisting that
neither crow nor humble pie be in
Guided in her rations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13

The bombing Of the German ships
was not q contest between the army
and the navy Not at ALL 1t heralded
the birth of new weapon that menaces
the old army quite as much as the old
navy. The battleship and the surface
fleet are seriously threatened, to be
sure. but SO are the coast fort and the
coast artillery. Billions of dollars
have been spent on battleships. Bill
lions of dollars have been spent upon
forts and big guns mounted along our
coast. And it is planned to spend much
more. Before doing so it will be we'll
to review the situation. We should
look before we leap.
1t is admitted that we must have a
surface navy. There will always be
lighting ships--some kind of battle
ship-upon the sea. The design of the
battleship may be changed, to be sure,
but there will be battles at sea until
the oceans become dry. The navy still
lives.
Are Coast Forts Useless?
But how about coast forts? Are they
necessary? Can they survive heavy at
tacks from the air? Can they defend a
coast? If so, how?
Like the battleship, the fort has sur
vived many attacks, many revolutions"
in warfare, many new weapons. It's
doom has been sounded more than once.
And yet it has continued to live
But have recent developments finally
sounded taps over the coast fort? 1t
would appear so.
Coast forts nearly always have won
against fleets. In gun duel the ship
has usually yielded to the fort. The
latter has had great advantage. 1t
has successfully resisted terrific bonn
bardment from high-powered guns
that fire approximately in horizontal
plane. But it's new enemy attacks
from above. Under modern conditions
the fort will be subjected to fire in
the vertical plane. This is quite an
other matter.
| The forts great weakness is to be
found in it's unpreparedness against
plunging or mortar fire. 1t cannot so
we'll resist attack from above as it
can the attack on the horizontal. In
this respect it has the same weakness
as the bettleship. Armor protects the
ship against straightaway gunfre
but the upper deck will succumb to
plunging fire, and the ships bottom
cannot resist heavy explosion from
mine or torpedo. The battIeship and
the fort are in the same predicament.
They have common weakness. They
will have the same fate
Plunging Fire
Thirty years ago Captain Zalinski,
of the army, invented the so-called
dynamite gun. In reality it was a
big air gun, which projected an aerial
torpedo, or bomb, containing a heavy
charge Of high explosive
1T is Plain that an ordinary high
powered CUR cannot project big charges
OF high explosive to great distances
The walls of the shell must be so
thick TO resist the pressure of dis
charge that there is little room left
for the bursting charge. Penetration
with destruction by augmentation, is
the mission of the gun she'll. 1t is only
at great ranges where these shells
fall at big angle that they may Sc
cure some of the effect of plungine
fire. But even then the destruction
may not be SO widespread as that from
lmmenso charges of high explosives
! Ialinski's gun was of. limited range