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New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Marshal Foch's Wildcat
We feel that Marshal Foch CO.

We feel that Marshal Foch could
have no more fitting reminder of the
American fighting man than the
wildcat which he is carrying proudly
home to France. We use "carrying'
IN fgnrative sense. Dauntless and
unafraid as is the valiant old soldier
we doubt that he would care to tote
about a wildcat under his arm.
The wildcat has for years been
absolutely the last word in wildness
Nothing is wilder than wildcat
neither the fierce Numidian lion, the
royal Bengal tiger or the leaping
leopard of the Himalayas. These
creatures are all craven when they
meet their match. The wildcat will
fight all comers, asking no odds of
any of them. The highest praise
that can be bestowed on an Ameri-
can citizen is to say that he can
click his weight in wildcats" 1t is,
indeed, extravagant praise, for no
living human being could lick tenth
part of his weight in wildcats.
In this wildcat, therefore, General
Foch has a symbol of the army that
under his supreme command crum-
pied the st. Mihiel salient and
mepped up the Argonne. They were
men who asked no odds, who fought
any enemy they were shown, who
having found and quelled trouble
always went out looking for more
of it.
We trust the Marshal will fire.
quently visit his pet when it is safely
disposed in the Paris Zoo. And we
hope, for the sake Of the memories
that it will awaken in the brave old
Generals mind, that it stays just as
wild in Paris as it was in the noun
tain Businesses of Montana, from
which it was snatched to carry out
it's high mission.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

but it was the New York orgsniza-
tipn that gave an impetus felt
throughout the world. We may
modestly make q like claim for the
Fresh Air Fund, and there are many
other excellent works Of national and
even international scope which had
their origin in New York. With all
its reputea passion for wealth and
luxury and pleasure seeking, the
metrepolis has 2 big, warm, tender
human heart,
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Roston's Election

For years, according to impartial
report Of oil manner Of citizens, Bos-
ton, under Mayor Peters, has had q
most excellent city government-the
best of all cities in the country.
Economy has been introduced, taxes
have been lessened, the law has been
enforced, a difficult traction question
successfully handled and the city
cleansed morally and physically,
Moreover, an active practical SYM
pathy for the interests and welfare
Of the humblest citizens has been
displayed.
Vet at the first opportunity Bos-
ton rejects Peters's good government
and once again elects James M.
Curley as Mayor, though fully ad-
yised as to the sort he is. No person
in the city is SO ignorant as not to
know he is a former jaIlbird, q
mountebank politician, that his po-
litical club is impudently called Tam
many, that he is in politics with the
avowed purpose of helping his
friends. Mayor Peters was not a
candidate, because Of charter pro-
vision which forbids q second term,
but his best assistant was selected in
his stead and is soundly beaten.
But it is not necessary to take the
reversion to Curleyism too seriously,
even though Boston heads to-day
hang heavy. The American city
dweller has an inyeterate levity, an
unconauerable kiddishness that leads
him to pluck merit by the beard and
to shake the head of responsibility
until the teeth rattle. So Curley and
so Hylan.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Floyd Horton's Tablet

Yesterday bronze tablets bearing
the names Of Lieutenant Floyd Hor-
ton and six other police heroes who
lost their lives in the performance
of duty were added to the enduring
scroll of hpnor which gives glory to
the main corridor Of Police Head
quarters.
Few can have forgotten the story
of Floyd Horton's death a year ago.
He was off duty, when he encoun-
tered a group of bandits. He volun-
tarily threw himself into the breach
against them, and in this unequal
battle received a mortal wound.
Lying on the ground, he did not give
up until a bullet from his automatic
lessened by one the number of the
city's murderous criminals.
But there is another feature it is
fitting to remember. It was Floyd
Horizons misfortune to be the right
hand man Of Dan Costigan, and
Commissioner Enright, for reasons
that the Meyer committee never ade-
auately inquired into, was moved to
rusticate Costigan and THUS to stop
his anti-vics activities. Lieutenant
Horton shared his chiefs fate. In
the height of the crime wave this
magnificent officer was removed as
far from the center of detective ac-
tivity as Commissioner Enright could
dispatch him. When the Commits
sioner, on his return, looks at the
Floyd Horton tablet he will scarcely
be able to avoid queer feelings.
And New York, in view of it's
large vote to continue Enrightism,
may also feel q little queer. It has
made no effective protest against a
policy that since has forced Dan
Costlgan to retire from the police
force. Would Floyd Horton, now
honored with tablet, also have
been driven out had he survived the
bandits bullet? We honor the mem
ory OF a brave and honest man. but
we also dishoner it. We do not end
a system which makes rough the
path Of police officers who, like him
would be true to themselves and to
the public.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
The Rule Of Common Sense

When It became apparent to the
workmen on American railways that
their proposed strike could result
only in . desperate, costly and in
decisive struggle, the strike was
cailsd off,. That was common sense,
The atrike would have settled moth
ing. It would have inconvenienced
millions of people, paralyzed reviv-
ing industry, engendered hatred and
bitterness. and perhaps caused riot
and destruction of property.
These were all avoided by the de-
cision TO continue the railroads in
operation. Employers and en-
ployed were both the gamers. In
cidentally, the general public, al
ways = factor in every strike, be-
came better disposed toward both
parties to the dispute. At last, they
felt, their interests were being con-
sidared.
What the railway men did can be
done by the members of the build
ing trades in the present labor stu
ation in New York. Nothing can be
gained by going out on the first of
the year. The housing situation, al
ready bad, will become worse. Rents
will rise once more. Workmen in
many industries other than building
will be thrown out of employment
because there will be no market for
their product. Large sums of
money will cease to circulate and
business will suffer in consequence.
It is not to the interest of the
building trades to strike at this time.
Their future prosperity can be in
sured only by increasing productiv-
ity instead Of hampering it. Con-
tinued and increasing demand for
labar establishes a market for it.
IT the market is active wages rise.
That was plain enough during the
war, when big wages were paid be-
cause anly by the offer of big wages
could enough labor for the war Job
be obtained.
Throughout the country labor eff
heiency lately has been increasing,
with q resultant decrease in unem-
ployment. Activity in one line
brings about activity in other lines.
Prosperity, fortunately, is epidemic.
The difficulty is in giving it a start.
II the 100000 workmen in various
lines of building will stick on the lob
they will be the gamers. 1t is natu-
raj that they should consult their
own interests. Capitalists, profess
slonal men, all people do that. If
they consult their own interests they
will not strike. Present wages for
carpenters, painters, plumbers, brick
layers and masens are high-far
higher than the salaries Of clerks.
shoe statesmen and most of the So
called white cellar people. They will
go higher with increasing prosper
ity. They will fall with hard times.
And the surest way to bring about
hard times is to cause stagnation
Of productivity.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

anant have a special affection for
Maine In that she has endured .
drought Of seventy years. Since
Neal Dow made Maine "dry" much
water and much other liquid have
flowed under the bridge. For the
study Of prohibition and its circum-
vention tho Pine Tree State is the
great American laboratory, And they
do say that the Canadian conduit
still gurgles audibly.
Canada even now has the feeling
that Names spearhead should be
hers. 1t looks 50 on the map, On
the other hand, Maine is aggrieyed
because Daniel Webster in settling
tho boundary dispute with Ashbur-
ton over the cups was the loser In
the convivial bout. The story goes
that Daniel traced the boundary with
his finger on table wet with what
is now called ''hooch" and thus in
adyertently gave away a good bit Of
what is now New Brunswick.
Summer visitors who contribute SO
handsomely to Names pockethooll
wonder what the natives do in the
bleak winter besides planning for
the next summer campaign. Perhaps
the country folk hibernate. The
cities, however, arc very much alive.
And who can name 2 more delightful
city at all seasons than Portland,
Maine? State Street, from Longfel-
low Square, with its double arch of
century-old elms, is worth going a
long way to see.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
The State of Maine

Neighbor Munsey and all the rest
OF the home folks ssfrom Kitterv
Point to 'Quoddy Head" who arc ex-
lied IN these parts are foregathered
at the dinner of the Maine Society.
The State of Maine-the natives
usually give the full title in their
pride of emancipation from Massa-
chusetts, Of which the District of
flalne was a parts not much ad-
vertised in New York, but "there are
those who love it," and the states
motto, "Dirigo," is justified.
The Maine stock is gritty and
tenacious, as il has need to be to ex-
tract q living from the rocks and
woods and the salt sea. And it's sur
plus energy is remarkable, for it has
sent out its sons and daughters to in
filtrate the whole Union with q
saline "Down East" tineture. Maine
mas gwen, for example, twenty-five
governors to her sister states. Still.
she has kept enough of brains and
character at home to retain for her.
self an Importance and an influence
in the national life quite dispropor-
tlonate to the number of her citizens.
There is a certain indefnable
angularity of speech and habit that
you will find nowhere but in Maine.
Purest Yankee, the Maine dialect is
unmlstakable. Having heard it, you
can detect it over the telephone from
San francisco and quite safely ask
DO you come from Lewiston or
Bangor?"
Friends Of the Eighteenth Amend
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Free and Unlimited Speech

The United States Senator IN era
terieal fight is "tameless and swift
and pFeud." He doesn't want to be
hampered by limitations. He knows
that speech is silver, and he believes
in the free and unlimited coinage Of
ii. Senator Jpnes's effort to force
by rule his colleagues to confine
themselves to the subjsct before the
House will not succeed.
Nor IL there any reason, in these
times, why it should succeed. The
Senator who talks all around the lot
frequently gives his hearers new
ideas-ppens their minds to thoughts
and PHILOSOPHERS hitherto unknown
to them. Time is wasted, Of course,
hut the greatest deliheratiye body on
earth usually gets through its work
On schedule. Those who have meas
ures to hurry along work on them in
committee rooms. There is no law
which ccmpels them to listen to their
khrethrep in the Senate chamber.
During the war cloture, long the
ahAerrence Of the Senate, was insti-
tgtsd, and with very little trouble.
When big matters were under dis
susGen there was 40 straying off
into the Elysian fields of fancy.
AeRaters who didn't talk to the sub
ject were called to order.
But the war is over now. MANY
e4 the topics of Senatorial debate
een hN discussed in a leisurely fash
Ign without delaying the progress of
the ship Of state. Even Tom Wat
san'e imagination can he allowed
fseA play. BY making loose charges
hs ut least gives his opponents an
opportunity to establish once and for
sll that they are not true.
aepster Jones, the author of the
HTesent plan to limit debate, is a
man Of comparatively few words.
eRFeseHt, Mr. President" is rather a
long speech for Senator jones. But
ne II exceptional. If the Hinety-ive
ether Senators were reduced to
his level Of taeiturnity the public
waqld find out very little about what
r gang en- in Washington. AS it is,
avsFYthing is discussed till it's inner
Mest details have been exposed to
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

you may think that Wilson was not
sufficiently warlike; that ne was at
heart Q mere pedagogue at Princeton,
shrinking from debate and differences
when expressed by the clash Of arms
and the cannon's roar. at is not gen.
orally known" writes Mr.. Tumulty,
"that Mr.. Wilson, who has constantly
read and loved the philosophic poetry
Of Wordsworth, has also been an in
tense admirer Of Shakespeare's war
rior-hero, Henry the Fifth, and has
frequently read aloud, to his friends,
with exclamations of admiration, the
stirring speeches Of Henry in the
Shakespearian play"
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That sycophantic observation Is a
keynote to Mr. Tumulty's characteriza-
tion Of great President of a great
Republic in great time of international
crisis. One wonders, as he reads these
minutes by a good friend, il Mr.. Will
son really was so sappy a monarch as
they picture him to be. Turning to
Mr.. Tumulty, after the declaration of
war, Mr.. Wilson is reported as saying,
word for word: "Tumulty, from the
very beginning saw the end of this
horrible thing; but could not move
faster than the great mass of our peo-
pie would permit. Very few under
stood the difficult and trying position
! have been placed in during the years
through which we have just passed.
Honestly, this is q verbatim quotation. ]
tn the policy of patience and for
bearance I pursued I tried to make
every part of America and the varied
elements Of our population understand
that we were willing to go to any
length rather than resort to war with
Germany. AS told you months ago,
1T would have been foolish for US to
have been rushed off our fee. and to
have gone to war with Germany over
an isolated affair like that of the
Lusitania. But now we can be certain
that there will be no regrets or looking
back on the part Of our people,"
"A Ae" AAlHuteS taeFeaI1er Mr.. Wilson
buried his head in his hands and
sobbed.
X X r
"The only thing I've got now or ever
did have against Wilson," writes
correspondent from Peoria, "is that in
the early days of his Presidency he
sulkily walked off golf course in
Washington because an Ohio Com
gresham drove into him before he
took his SECOND shot. That told me
that he was tiny man, and nothing
in Mr. Tqmuly's sycephantic memoirs
can explain to me that he is other
wise.'
y \ 4
Mr.. Tumulty's book is an earnest, IL
not q persuasive, ballyhooing. a beat
ing of the big drum before deserted
tent. Mr.. Wilson deserves, and no
doubt he will get as time proceeds, "a
cooler and DETER Boswell. The split
milk of his career demands some one
more skillful than his best friend, Mr.
Tumulty, to salvage it.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
The New Unemployed
(From The Konsas Or, q,n,.,

fFrom The Kansas City Tsmes)
PROFESSIONAL agitators for any change
always regret to see the change ac-
complished. 1t means SO often that
their jobs are gone. There is no rea-
son for surprise that many die-hards
in the United States opnose the Irish
settlement. With the Irish question
out at the way, they will have to turn
elsewhere ser occupation.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
A Necessary Feature
fFrom The Chicago Daily Neps)

fFroms 7he Chicago Daily Neavs)
Lenine, Tretzky and their associate
dictators in Soviet Russia assert that
they are remodeling that country on
the Western pattern. In that case they
will do we'll not to omit the detail of
constructing cyclone cellar.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
The T'oDer


TiMeo Danaos ct nona Ferentea
High ] ascend the great substantial
throne.
In an ohsequious file they come to me
Murmuring secret words INCREASINGLY
And calling each to each In monotone.
Unguents and Tyrian dyes ono kneel-
ing slave
Lays at my feet, and implements a-row,
And with measured rhythm, to and
fro,
Anpnta my sandals, silent a. the grave,
! gaze upon that oily, wine-dark hair,
Those humble shoulders bent before
my chair,
(oh lliuml Hellaal oh long-vanishod I'd
timely
why should ! fear YOU, Creek" ]
softly muse.
"ahe gifts you bring are neatly-shin-
ing shoes.
Your sole reprisal bit q silver dims'
ANCHusA.
Perhaps It is Harvard copy reader
who makes the adored American tell
People Who Think that "Jordan has
already captained one Yale athletic
team, and his election as varsity foot
ball captain makes his second disap
pnintmenf
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
The Traffic Cops Honor Roll


The Traffic Cops Honor Roll
caracas estados unidos de venezuela
december first dear fpa con referencia
to your lista de honor of the agentcs
de policia de trafco wont you ,er-
meteme to enter the little lad who Tolls
against the wall at the corner Of pepe
aleman and cochero in his faded un-
pressed khaki uniform and his london
bobby helmet about two sizes too large
for him smoking the policeman and
not the helmet the eternal cigarette
and waving a nonchalant hand nowhere
in particular when you honk according
to law which means that you are free
to cross the street or turn up or down
or stop or stand on your head depend
ing on what you had decided to do be-
fore asking his permission to do it
which is my idea Of police regulation
# you ask me which you didn't but
anyway he's my entry for the honor
roll of traffic tyrants gracios amigo
adios pues iorje clairek
Speaking Of traffic cops, our favorite
heavyweight boxing champion of the
State of New York is the editor of
traffic at Lenox Avenue and 125th
Street, Policeman Frank Adams. ,.
The Source of a Cosmic Jest
F. P. A.: note in Life, under "Plati-
tudes," the following:
Gas rule women who do fancy work
don't fancy work"
This is an old friend. In tho "say-
ings of Sis Hopkins" Of 1911, which
were written by Frank Wilstach, the
fellow who got up "A Dictionary OF
Smiles" I find the following:
Ma says q good many women who
do fancy work dan't fancy work"
F. r.
None of the men had obtained their
college dearees.--The Tribune.
Our play makes it possible for
every one to have this library in their
own heme,-Gharles Scribner's Sons.
Nobody cares q whoop about their
English any more.
According to an A. P. dispatch from
Buenos Ayres, the Peruvian dogs of
war have been unleashed, and contribs
who think their Peruvian bark is
worse than their bite hereby are per-
mitted to say so.
Speaking of ambitions, Old Ben
Huebsch's is to be windew-dresse
for the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
"The next conference, gentle Amer
lean Easy Aarks." Mr.. Arthur Bris-
hane addresses his readers, But The
American isn't gentle F. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Book Reviews

urge, as enc who jolly tidings tells,
a reading of "Ptomaine Street." by
Carolyn Wells.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

But "ptomaine Street" like "a
Parody Outline of History" is rather
a rollicking, bread burlesaue than q
critical parody.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
TAuRsDAY, nEcEMRER Is, 1921
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New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague

Signs Of Improvement
A High Apostle of the Pure
Quite recently has stated
That all our English litertoor
Has much degenerated.
He says that fictionists today
Are evil-minded blighters,
Who far have wandered from the
way
Of sterling early writer's
Yet in my youth I used to gloat
q blush now to admit it,
Upon the tales that Chaucer
wrote,
Till father made me quit it.
A pen that was uncommon tough
Was this mis-spelling tossers,
And while our fiction may be
rough,
It's not as rough as Chaucer's.
The man who Shakespeare's writ
ings CLEANS
With rigorous attention
VIII fall on sundry lines and
scenes
He later may not mention.
And so, although this Purist lad
May wall and prate and rave
on,
Although we're bad we're not as
bad sAs
AS was the bard Of Avon.
Though sometimes with excessive
zest
We make our novels torrid,
Old Smollett, Fielding and the
Were absolutely horrid.
We may offend the moral law.
AS earping critics chorus,
But though we're raw. we're not
as raw
AS those who wrote before US
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

Nobody continued, with anything ap-
preaching success, Orson's "Oft in
the Willys-Knight," but Mr. George s.
Chappell retennysons as follows:
The spender falls for gilded halls
And purple widows bold in story,
The red light shakes among the rakes
And the wild Cadillac leaps in glory.
What we want for the Motorists
Bartlett is q line leading into "Were
t'other dear Chalmers away!"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Give and Take

{Frons Lifel
The rate of exchange on Christmas
presents will remain about the same.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

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er06tte6 to It @'or p8 6tn@utse credited u .thM
rse{k snd tssa tbs ioSM nsvs Of spontsnsMeu,i ~ !,
Ri ugAN s Hsusl;essiea z ~ esam mas.tss
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpys

December 13-Early to the dentists,
and SO to the office, where at my stint
TIL a, and so to play at kelly pool with
K. Irwin and NJ. Duncan and A. Thomas
and others, and had fair success, win
ming a double-header. much to the
discontinue Of all. So to H. Harri-
sons, and he tells me he hath all but
finished the writing of his novel, which
Is good news. So to meet nv wife.
and to dinner with her and A. Hill and
Mabel, end NJ. Connolly come in and
showed me handkerchief his mother
had embroidered for him, it being his
birthday, So home, and showed my
wife the pictures in H. M. Bateman's
book, and we laughed greatly, in
especiall at the pictures Of the man
who made tho false income tax return
and the man who filled his fountain
pen with the hotel ink. So to-bed.
14-Up, and j. Belden the farmer
come to see me, and we rode down
town and to the Office, where all day
and SO home to supper, where I found
Katie.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

pitilsss publicity. And publicity is
essential to popular understand
ing OF the problems OF government.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
From Abe Martins Almaneck

II g tsomHn's lips ara thin an droop
at tn corners it's sigp Asr husband
belongs e eN w lodges Ae kin gis iiato.
Jake Bentley wuz poisoned an par-
n'sh remouer this 'nornifs' sOhilo Gipi1,s
g ts9!er permtssipu t. hunt on his farm.
Emmy needs shoes, but / reokon
re ought t. have th' values gYound,n
said Bosko Mqon t'dav. - :
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

"Whatever," rhetorically asks The
New York Herald, Hbecams Of the man
who predisted failure for the Washing
ton Conference7" We are not certain,
but we believe he still is writing edi-
toEials Tor Tho Call.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Economy

The nations would save money by
scrapping subm arines because they
are able to sink themselves.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
Strange She Never Thought Of 1t

Germany's greatest need right now
is lot of ersatz marks.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15
What Are We Coming To?

The Washington conference is
using so much space that none OF US
have yet heard how cold it is at
Medicine Hat.
Copyright by James J. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

"The next conference, gentle Amer
lean Easy Aarks." Mr.. Arthur Bris-
hane addresses his readers, But The
American isn't gentle F. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

Speaking Of traffic cops, our favorite
heavyweight boxing champion of the
State of New York is the editor of
traffic at Lenox Avenue and 125th
Street, Policeman Frank Adams. p.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

Speaking of ambitions, Old Ben
Huebsch's is to be a windew-dress
for the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-15

At any rate We get some fertile side
lights on Wilson from the near-nalvete
Of Mr.. Tumulty's memoirs. Many Of