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Let America Be Modest
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Attacks are now being made on
Ambassador Harvey for saying in
effect that we entered the war be-
cause we were afraid to stay out.
While he might have conveyed his
meaning in milder language, the truth
Of his statement cannot be denied.
In the election of 1916 more than
one state was carried by the slogan:
He kept US out of war" Criticism
and abuse of Mr. Harvey at this time
come with i'll grace from those that
needed and followed that slogan.
Wanton destruction had caused mourn
ing in many of our homestead, in fact.
touched our shores-before the Admin
istration and many of its followers
discovered--so it appeared-that the
only way to save ourselves was to
fight.
Having ably assisted our allies to
end wicked war, we must not forget
that Peace hath her victories no less
renowned than war; We now need
To achieve moral victories over our
selves; that boastfulness, class and
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
One Chinese Scholar

New York University's bestowal
of its highest honorary degree upon
the chancellor of the National Uni
versity of Peking, China, is a re-
minder of a man whose work has
been of truly epochal significance in
the most populous nation of the
world.
DR.. Tsai Yuan-p'ei, called the
Father of the New Learning in
China, was one of the leaders of the
revolutionary Liberals as far back
as 1904, when he was compelled to
flee to Europe to escape Manchu
wrath. He already had mastered
the old learning, the Confucian
classicism, so perfectly that at the
age of twenty-four he had won the
Han-lin degree, the highest known
to Chinese scholarship, and was
famed as "the literary genius of
Kiang- man." Arriving in Europe he
was no idle refugee, but soon be-
came equally master of Occidental
learning.
He returned to China at the over
throw of the Manchu empire and
became the first Minister of Educa-
ton under the republic in 1912. He
effected change in the educational
system of the nation as striking as
its political change In 1915 he be-
came chancellor of the National
University, and as such has since
been the leader of the movement to
educate the Chinese people at once
to be loyal Chinese and to be
familiar with the Western arts and
sciences. In recognition of this
work European institutions of learn
ing bestowed upon him their honors,
and, coming hither, an American
university added it's tribute to his
worth.
The investiture occurred lust
after the decennial anniversary cele-
bratlon of the American Indemnity
College in China, which was founded
by the Chinese government with the
millions of our share of the Boxer
indemnity which our government re-
turned to China. That act of min
gled equity and generosity was
craftsmanship of the highest kind
and created in China feeling
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
The Coming Tower
THE woODpILE

John Bell was grave man and honest.
God-feartng and Just, law abiding;
Gave tithes to the church, as COM
manded,
And was friendly and kind to his neigh
bors;
But he boarded his wood like miser.
Each spring he cut trees In the forest.
Sawed the logs, and split them for fire
wood;
But he hated to burn them, and counted
Each stick that went into the woodbox
As If it were fine gold or treasure.
Not a cord would he sell, nor would
ever
Give an armful of firing
To the poor in the dead of the winter.
Year by year the great pile in the door
yard
Grew highcr--thc woodshed was burst
ing
With sticks cut in stove lengths and
stacked there;
But John Bell rested not from his labor
or saving and splitting and storing
The wood that to him was so precious.
His sons drifted off to the village
For the house was so bleak of an eve
ming
And learned there to drink and to
gamble;
And his daughter, grown into a
A beauty, and longing for pleasure
Showed spirit and fought with her
father
For fire In the best room of evenings
And young people coming to see her.
But he sternly repressed such wild
notions,-
Twas waste to thus squander his
treasure;
So the girl ran away with drummer,
And he blotted her name from the
Bible.
Then his wife died, and old John soon
after
Dropped limp, from stroke, in his
dooryard.
They raised him and sent for the
doctor,
But he died; and his sons sold the
homestead
And squandered his savings like water.
The farm tools and woodpi!e were auc-
toned;
And the townsfolk bid high for the
woodpile,
For they reckoned the cords of good
firewood
By the height of the pile in the door
But the buyer declared himself
cheated,
For the wood that so long had lain
covered
Had rotted. 1t crumbled to pieces
When were pulled from the pile the
top layers,
AS a mummy preserved through the
ages
In a closely sealed tomb of old Egypt
Will crumble to ashes and fragments
When its burial place is uncovered.
A
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race hatred may be less prominent in
our national life.
1t is not becoming that we should
be constantly telling the world what
great things we have done and how
powerful we are, but We should show
the world that the great principles
enunciated by the Fathers are being
respected and put in practice
A. T. F.
New York, June 10, 1921.
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The Treaty, but No League

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sll: Many men in this broad country
Who don't care hoorah for politicians
have wondered why we couldn't have
reached our present status of freedom
from foreign entanglements by the
simple process of ratifying the
treaty, league and all, with one very
important reservation, to the effect
that we would withdraw from the
league in two years. This time has
row about elapsed We could have sur
vived.
Has any reason ever been advanced
why this plan could not have been
honorsbly adopted? ROGO.
New York, Juns 9, 1921.
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terested in settlement or In being
able to boast that he has won "vic-
tory" over the United States, and,
therefore, all gringo-haters of Mex
leo should rally to his support?
Would he continue a wordy dispute
or end ito For ne must know that this
country will scarcely agree that by
mere fiat Mexico can confiscate the
$500, 100000 in wealth that Ameri-
cans of all kinds have honestly in
vested in that country.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Soapbox Propaganda
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The alleged persecution Of
Slim Feiners in Ireland and the gen
eral responsiveness of the English gov
ernment itself are being loudly
featured on various street corners of
this tortured city by both male sna
female soapbox orators, who make
night hideous for every one within
hearing except the few curious on
lockers who apparently have nothing
to do but listen. Incredible as It may
seem. some of these corner decla'mefs
are teachers in our public schools'
The spectacle is forbidding one 70
Americans, especially for visitors %
New York, and reflects litsle erea's
upon either the municipal authorities
or the Board of Education.
GEORGE W. HILLS
New York, June 8. 1921.
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A Worthy Public Servant

James w. Good, of Iowa, who re-
signed yesterday from the House of
Representatives will be counted
among the notable members of that
body. He had served for little
more than twelve years and been for
little more than two years the
chairman Of the Appropriations
Committee. But he was the first
chairman of the committee after its
enlargement to conform with the re-
quirements of genuine budget re-
gime and it's recovery of the powers
of which it had been stripped in the
revolt against Samuel J. Randall's
centralized powers.
In his brief term he accomplished
prodigies in the way Of reducing in
f1ated department estimates of which
Randall, Cannon, Holman and other
earlier "watchdogs of the Treasury"
never dreamed. They shipped off
tens of thousands here and hundreds
of thousands there. Sometimes they
slashed in millions. But, as Mr..
Good said in a speech he made in the
House on March last, reviewing
the appropriations: "In the three
sessions of this Republican Congress
we have reduced the estimates of
President Wilson and his Cabinet by
more than $4,163,000,000. Certainly
a wonderful record"
Up to 1919 the Appropriations
Committee had been relaxing more
and more it's grasp on expenditure.
Randall dominated the House when
he was chairman. Because he re-
manned a protectionist rather than
because he counted the pennies, the
| Southern free trade element decided
to discipline him. They took control
of appropriations for the army, the
navy, postoffices and post roads and
other services out of his hands and
vested it in rival committees. Multi
pie responsibility led to laxity and
extravaganza. The outside commit
tees formed alliances with the de-
partments and abandoned the criti-
cal attitude which the old Appropri-
ations Committee had always shown.
The House ceased to exercise its true
function as an accountant and audi
tor. Only the vast expansion of gov
ernment outlay in war time made it
realize the necessity of going back to
unified control.
Mr.. Good believed that the House
should be an agent to restrain ex-
penditure, not to stimulate it. He
practiced what he preached. He con-
tributed largely to persuading his
associates to return to budgetary
first principles. He made the en-
larged Appropriations Committee
true budget agency, although bud
get act was kept off the statute book
by President Wilson's veto. He was
ia reforming chairman, vigilant, con-
scientious and courageous. He cut
the estimates much deeper in two
years than they had been cut in all
the twenty or thirty years preceding.
He retires with record of brilliant
achievement and the gratitude of the
public which he so faithfully served.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
The Same Tarnmany

When Elon r. Brown was selected
as counsel for the Meyer committee
it was we'll known that neither he
nor the committee had any desire
to take part in a mere fishing or
undertaking expedition. The plan
was to lay a foundation for charter
revision and constructive legislation
against corrupt and inefficient ad-
ministration. To this purpose Mr..
Brown still clings, as his statement
of yesterday said.
But Mr.. Brown is too intelligent
to need brick wall to fall on him
TO get an idea. He is rapidly learn
ing. He finds himself and the COM
mittee mendaciously assailed and a
policy of deliberate obstruction
adopted by the city administration.
This is not because Murphy, Hearst
and Hylan fear a leisurely charter
investigation. 1t is because they
know the facts they are trying to
conceal-realize that Tammany and
Tammany methods will eventually
be drawn into the line of fire.
And they are right about this.
The persistent source of the city's
misgovernment is Tammany. So it
is now and SO it has been for nearly
century. All paths of corruption
in this city lead to Tammany Hall.
Start any sort of honest inquiry and
you reach the Wigwam. This con-
dition will continue if Tammany
rules though every line of the char
ter be revised.
Gladstone, praising American
management of public affairs, de-
clared that the men of Massachu.
sets were Of such quality that they
could make any form Of government
work well. Reversing this saying, it
may be said that Tammany is of
such a quality that it will wreck
any form of government. Improve
ments in governmental machinery
are proper, but new machinery will
not do much coed if Tammany works
it. Here is a fundamental factor
in the municipal problem.
The city's troubles are political.
Tammany puts in power men who
don't want honest or efficient gov
ernment. A hundred years of ex-
perience attests this. Tammany must
bs ended before the city's admins
tration can be mended. From dec
ade to decade the phenomena of
malfeasance alter, but it's origins
are always the same.
Beginning in 1897 the city's pub
lie began to realize that Tammany
must be ousted as the first step to
better government. Slowly but
steadily the public eye became fas-
tened on this main thing. 1t seemed
as If, a struggle of a century had
been won. But three years ago it's
foot slipped and Tammany came
back. Inevitably corruption came
back with it, and it has grown worse
as Tammany has become bolder.
So the Meyer committee, no mat
ter what its original desire, must
leap fer Tammany's jugular. No
other way is safe or practical. To
the degree that Mr.. Brown and the
Meyer committee would do some
thing for New York they must not
permit themselves to be DETECTED by
Tammany professions and protests.
The tactics Tammany is now pur-
suing show that it is the same old
Tammany.
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off when there isnt---if all these
mysteries and many more are going
to be explained, then nobody is safe.
But If these gentlemen who are
about to give us this information
really intend to say it, one may
mildly express the hope that they
will not say it with slate.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Admiral Sims s Candor
Truthful, If Not Discreet. in Remarks
on Sim Fein Hyphenism

on Sim Fein Hyphenism
10 the Editor of The Tribune:
Sir; Three cheers for Admiral Sims!
He has had the courage to saw what
millions of Americans are thinking all
over the country regarding the Sim
Fein and its sympathizers among So
called Americans. | am writing as one
whose paternal ancestors came from
the northern part of the Emerald Isle
and who is proud of the fact
The abomnable actions of the rebel
party in Ireland and their friends IN
this country are alternating the kindly
feelings that have always existed in
the United States toward Ireland. Of
course the part played by some of the
Irish in their dastardly attempt at be-
trayal of England and her allies during
the war will never he forgotten. 1t
will also be remembered how splendid
ly and Loyalty great number of Irish
played heroic parts in saving the world
from German dominion.
l realize that New York is not Amer
lea and that the excess of Sim Fein
ardor expressed here does not repre-
sent the sentiment of the rest of the
country. My travels through the other
states have shown me very plainly that
there is not much feeling one way or
the other about Ireland and her alleged
wrongs at the hands of England. But
to the greater number of English and
Europeans New York represents Amer
lea. Therefore it is the more enlight-
ening to them when a man like Sims,
of international reputation, states the
truth even to the point of applying the
perfectly correct, though hardly polite,
epithets which he did.
IDA WHITE PARKER.
Flushing, L. l., June 9, 1921.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Rear Admiral Sims may have
been indiscreet in his reported remarks
at the English Speaking Union lunch
con, but ooh, boy, amt it grand and
glorious feelin'" to have a 100 per
cent fellow American speak the truth :?
ARTHUR ]. MANN.
New York, June 9, 1921.
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Books u.,p.al By D,...

There were, we find, one or two
errors of tact in some comment which
appeared in this column recently about
the little rivers of Iowa. 81 note,
writes JOHN V. A. Weaver, chat you
say you never can tell when you get
out of Iowa or into it, despite the
fact that you have been through it
four times. Now, with all due respect,
| suggest that you must have come out
of it, eastward, at night, because there
is a small stream, the Mississippi
River, to be exact, which prevents one
from walking over to Illinois, except
on a very noticeable bridge, nearly
two miles long.
Davenport, at the Iowa end of the
Rcck Island bridge, was the jumping
off place of your favorite best selling
author, the Moon-Calf, as he turned
his eyes eastward and uttered that
famous cry: Chicago, Chicago, Chi
cago go!' signifying that he had en-
rolled in Mr.. Rockefeller's educational
Oil cam"
A. M. Adams, whose protest is for
warded by F. P. A, feels even more
keenly the slur on Iowa. He writes
"What's the matter with Hey. Broun
There are, admittedly, many persons
who know little or nothing about Iowa
but he is the first to make bareface ed
confession of his ignorance in public
There he stands, leaning on the Con-
ming Tower, as it were, almost glorying
in his shame. He has, according to his
own statement, passed through Iowa
four times, yet the only impression it
made upon him was of green-he does
not say whether verdure or people-and
white houses with green shutters, of
big barns and little rivers In fact,
to his unframed and uncultured eye
he couldn't tell the difference between
Iowa and Illinois or Ohio.
"In the name of Iowa | rise in my
wrath. He didn't even notice the
colossal porkers whence comes his
morning bacon, the cattle grazing on
several thousand hills serene in the
consciousness that they would shortly
provide him with butter, the automo-
biles cluttering up the highways like a
Fourth of July parade on Merrck Road
every day in the year. They may pay
Haywood good money to report conven-
tions in Chicago and San Francisco,
b,,t bon nj h tN
port Iowa
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New York, June 9, 1921.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.


Sir: The Tribune's editorial of this
morning "The Sims Furor" hits the
nail on the head. Admiral SIMS S
speech is appropriate and will crystal
lize opinion in this country as to our
duty TO a friendly nation and COM
paratively small band of conspirators,
which would rather have seen the World
War lost than England saved. Ninety
per cent of Americans are squarely
back of Sims. Let the demagogues
take notice. G. ST. JOHN.
New York, June 10, 1921.
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To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: After reading Secretary Den.
by's comment thereon, l read over Ad.
miral Sims's remarks at the Londor
luncheon, as given in The Tribune, anc
doubt if he should be officially repri-
manded. What he had to say does not
apply to the Irish here who are loya1
to America, but is condemnation of
the Sim Fein here and seems to be
true as to fact and warranted by their
conduct. Especial care should be taken
to avoid any official action capable of
misconstruction into a sympathetic at
titude toward their activities, as g
public rebuke of a faithful United
States officer with a fine war record
might be in this instance.
AMERICAN.
New York, June 8, 1921.
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tses to eV your meaos back upon request. No red
taas. No auIbblIne. We make good promptly II
the advertiser does net
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ths for republication OF all dispatches
credited 20 (. otherwise credited In this
yaper. and slso the local OF spontaneous
eekin published herein.
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Aeretr also reserved
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A Chastened Spirit
fFrom The Baltimore Sam

F'rom The Baltimore Sun)
In his campaign to lick the world
Lenine is beginning to show a COM
mendable disposition to begin with the
boots.
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SATURDAY, JUNE IL, 1921

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Corporation Published daily ogdea Reid. Prcsi-
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This week We are recommending to
readers Sir Harry Johnston's "The Man
Who Did the Right Thing" Sir Harry
maintains his reputation as an ex-
plorer even when engaged in writing
novels. He keeps, mostly, off beaten
paths. Yet in one respect we find him
faithful to an old tradition Whenever
the lovely Lucy is threatened by
danger she promptly faints.
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By

Iowa IS not unlike any other state !
Is the face of his sweetheart unlike
that of any other face? Say, the smiles
of the Iowa prairies are like the love
glances of an affinity to those who have
souls attuned to nature-they are like
the smiles Of our own Betty compared
to those OF the Marys and Alicias ana
Delias of others. Furthermore, from
Iowa came Frank Gotch, and me and
several of greater or less fame whose
names l do not at the moment recall.
Some others still remain there.
by heck! we wonder how Hey.
Broun gets that way"
William McFee also has a protest to
make, but this time it is the city room
and not the book department which is
at fault. Mr.. McFee forwards clip
ping in which he is described as evil
liam McPhee, novelist" and is further
identified as having just become a
chief engineer on the steamer Toloa.
II observed in Mondays Tribune the
inclosed clipping writes McFee. 81
would appreciate if you could find the
young gentleman who turns in these
trifies and spank him. I don't mind
being described as budding chief, al
though it is now, alas, eleven years since
[ first took a ship out, because it
makes hit with the girls to be de-
scribed as a possible youth. But I do
want my name spelled right. have
the highest regard for the Scotsmen
and the marvellous dew of their noun
tain distileries; but I have not the
slightest desire to be mistaken for one.
We are humble folk and can claim no
kinship with the savage clan Of Mac
Phees who figure in song and story.
Indeed, I am informed that when those
same clansmen were more like wild
beasts than human beings in their
craggy haunts our ancestors were re-
spectacle burgesses in the grand old
City of Cork"
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To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: More power to Admiral Sims!
He only expresses what hundreds of
real Americans think. G.
Brooklyn, June 8, 1921.
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THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEpYs

June 8-All day at my office, and so
for ride in Mistress Neysa's new blue
potrol-waggon, and we called to see
II. Harrison, and had some chocolate
at an apothecary's; and N. asked me
to take her to dinner, so l did, with
a good grace, and R. Benchley with us,
and he and l thence to the playhouse
to see "The Broadway Whirl," wherein
Mr.. Carrie and Mr.. Winninger were
diverting some of the time, but nought
else; and meseems these plays do have
toe much dancing in them. So home,
and read in L. Strachey's Queen Vic
toria, whose dispassionate, non-wor~
shipping style cnthralled me.
9-Early up, and to the office, and
| finished my stint betimes, and so to see
Mistress Lola Fisher, whom | had not
seen in so long time she gave me a
| fair kiss, very pleasant. So to Mistress
Clare Sheridan the sculptresss, and
found her amiable, and thence to B.
Baruch's for dinner, as good a one
as l have had in a sevennight. So to
call on H. Swope at his beautiful office,
and talked there till near one, and so
home and to-bed.
10-Up by times, and with a zestful
feeling | am whole again and restored
to health for which L thank Heaven
All day at my desk, and with NJ Glass
to dinner, and home, early, to~bed
There are a good many spurious lit
terateurs in Greenwich Village, and
few first class writer's. This is true
also of Morningside Heights, Chelsea
matter of geography than is popularity
supposed.
Labor in Germany is said to be alb
surdly cheap, but we are willing to
bet that every man over there who
handles a trunk looks reproachfully at
the owner and says, "What "a ye got
in here-lead?"
Her father says that Peggy Joyce,
as little girl, was always trying to
please everybody; and our astonish-
ment is great that she didn't grow up
tc be an unsuccessful journalist.
Among the rumors is one to the ef-
feet that Dempsey will marry again
shortly after July 2. Jack is doing his
best to dispel that Stacker myth.
Five Brides of Society Set on Honey
Tribune headline.
Cluck! Cluckl r. p. A.
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The fire insurance companies were
extravagant in 1900, too. When we
we're supply clerk for the North Ger
man and Transatlantic companies, 1T
was our job to number and wrap for
mailing policies for out-of- town
agents. We got $40 month, but the
expressman who used to call for the
packages told US that he didn't know
how much we were paid, but that it
was too much.
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GUARANTY

rHtercd the Postotnco at Ncw YORK sesud
Clsss Mali Matter.
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Her father says that Peggy Joyce,
as little girl, was always trying to
please everybody; and our astonish-
ment is great that she didn't grow up
tc be an unsuccessful journalist.