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New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
New Jerseys Dry Preference
Proud of Its Enforcement Activity
Edwards Was Elected
To the Editor of the Tribune.

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: One statement in "Jerseyman's"
letter on New Jersey prohibition was
true-that whether or not New Jersey
is for or against prohibition ratifica-
tion is merely an academic question.
Still there was only one reason why the
Senate failed to ratify as the House
had ratified. Two fine Senators voted
from convictions as to the safeguard
ing of state rights alone, wishing to
consistently uphold state rights on fol-
lowing matters to be brought before
the Senate. These Senators explained
their vote On the floor of the Senate.
The New Jersey Legislature ex-
pressed the undoubted sentiment of it's
constituents when it passed the most
drastic and radical enforcement act in
the United States, liquor dealers being
sentenced and convicted and on their
way to jail in fifteen minutes time
through the elimination Of jury trials.
This law simply places the liquor
dealer as "disorderly person" and
submits him to the same treatment as
the victims he makes drunk and the
same treatment as vagrant, who may
have committed no crime except to be
out of work and whom our laws NAV
punish, with no trial by jury, by sem
fencing him for six months, during
which time he may be hired out to
work on the road with ball and chain
to his foot. The saloonkeeper pre-
ferred the jury trial, in which evil
dence could be produced, the defendant
plead guilty and still the jury pro-
nounce mot guilty.
The sentiment Of New Jersey Is 40
strongly dry" that the New York press
as whole dared not openly condemn
the action~of the Legislature, and the
press knows its public Senator Run
yon and Newton Bugbee were the Re
publican contestants at the primaries.
The Old Guard Republican organization
wanted Bugbee. Runyon is an. avowed
dry" and suffragist-an independent
man. The organization manipulation
carried the day. The candidates were
Edwards and Bugbee.
The women tried to force Bugbee to
take q stand that he would urge New
Jersey to ratify the suffrage amend
ment which was then pending. He
would not commit himself. Edwards
promised ratification The women. in
dorsing no party until enfranchised
worked for Edwards and declare thew
caused his election.
FINALLY in despair, as neither candi-
date was dly, even the drys decided "a
vote for Edwards Bugbee was de-
cidedly not dry and would not state orr
definite policy. To-day New jersey
would vote dry on referendum. TO-DAY
New Jersey is proud of her enforce
meht act, and the election of Edwards
was not because he was wet hn+
because his opponent was not drv
ANOTHER JERsEY1TE.
Jersey, City, June II, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Austrian College Memories
Apropos of the Closing of Fordham
Medical School
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is coincidence that Ford
ham University Medical School closed
its doors on June 16 and my gradua-
ton from Jesuit college in Austria
took place the same day thirty i've
| was professor of histology, embry-
clogy and medical research of the
Fordham Medical School, and also
thirty years ago instructor in the same
sIbjects in the Austrian Jesuit school.
When we entered so many years ago
the famous Austrian Jesuit university
300 students registered with the sub
dean Of the first years class. Only
forty remained in the graduating
class. We had as students in other
departments Counts A. Apponyi and
Andrassy, who became premiers of
Hungary. and as professor of history
the late Cardinal Klausius Vaszary,
Primate of Austria-Hungary. AS pro-
fessors of medicine, surgery and pa
thology we had men like Hogyes, Rig
Ter, Krompecher, Won Gross and Huszar,
who besides pathology was great
writer on classical music.
During the great war all the forty
six classmates persisted in different
countries, fighting under Generals Arr,
Borowitz, Mackensen, Kepes, in Rus
sia, Italy and France. am the only
survivor
1t is interesting to know that our
men refused to fight against France,
after having been treated gently-po-
litically-by Napoleon III, the second
great Emperor of France. Count
Apponyi was lifelong friend of Gle
menceau, former President Loubet and
} Emile Zola. Huszar was many wears
ago editor of semi-weekly French
paper in Paris.
| am sorry to hear that the Fordham
Jesuits have had TO close their school.
Sic transit gloria mundi
Captain S. r. KLEIN, M. D., Phi. D.,
NJ A.
New York, June T, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
To fhe Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS to the red and white stripes
Of the national flag, Robert Allen Camp
bell is authority for the statement that
on December 13, ITS, dinner party
was given in Philadelphia which was at
tended by George Washington and Bell
iamin Franklin, together with other po-
litica leaders. In the course of this
dinner, the conversation turned upon the
question of the flag, and Benjamin
J. Franklin is said to have made the fol-
lowing speech:
"While the field Of your flag must be
new in the details of its design, it need
not be entirely new in its elements. 1t
is fortunate for us that there is already
in use flag with which the English
government is familiar, and which it
has not only recognized. but protected
for more than half century, the design
of which can be readily modified, or
rather extended, so as to most admi-
rably suit our purpose, refer to the flag
Of the East India Company, which is one
with field of alternate longitudinal
red and white stripes, and having the
cross of st. George for a union
AS the East India Company was
founded in 1899, this flag had been in
existence 176 years. When the union
between England and Scotland took
place, in 1907, the canton of the COM
pany's flag was changed from the cross
of st. George to the crosses of St.
George and st. Andrew. 1t was this
flag which, on January /, f776, was
raised at Cambridge, Mass, just twenty
days after the dinner referred to above.
The sixth annual report of the New
York State Department Of Education,
1910, page 10, contains a beautiful col
ored reproduction of this flag, which is
the flag of the East India Company in
every thread of its bunting, and the re-
port says: "This was the first distinc
tive American flag indicating union
of the Colonies. 1t consisted of thirteen
the combined crosses of St. George and
st. Andrew in the canton. 1t was a
peculiar flag, the thirteen stripes stand
ing for the union of the Colonies and
their revolt against the mother country,
and the combined crosses representing
the allegiance to her which was yet par
TALLY acknowledged. 1t was variously
designated al the Union flag, the Grand
Union flag and the Great Union flag,
and is now frequently referred to as the
Cambridge flag"
On August IA, 1777, Congress resolved
that "the flag of the United States be
thirteen stripes, alternately red and
white, and that the union be thirteen
stars, white in blue field, representing
a new constellation" This meant that
at first they were arranged in a ring
like a round robin, so that one should
have no precedence over the other, but
soon the flag had to be remodeled, and
in 1894, as there were fifteen states, Con-
gress, on January Is of that year, en-
acted that from and after May /, 1895,
the flag of the United States be fifteen
stripes and the union be fifteen stars;
1t was one of these flags that the Chesa-
peake flew ir her fight with the Shan
non on June 1, 1913.
By 1918, When five other states had
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Do Trained Nurses rofiteer?
Complaint of Reduction From Tweny-four to Twelve
Hour Day-More Nurses Needed
TO the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; While war is being waged on
rent, food and clothing profiteers, with
loud outcrics against the workngman's
eSer-increasing demands, has any one
given a thought to the traindd nurse :?
Has she or has she not taken advantage
of a bad situation in an overcrowdcd
city, with an r-percentage Of sick
ness and a shortage of nurses, to re-
duce her working hours--not the one
or two hours that the mechanic or the
sewing woman fight for, but twelve
hours, if you please which she
asks 81 and three meals day included
This price is prohibitive to all but
the wealthy who can afford two nurses,
for, IS every one knows, the patient
who is deserted by the nurse for twelve
hours out of the twentyfour may as
we'll have no nurse at all Much can
happen in twelve hours of her absence,
and at the critical moment, when the
patient may be lowering between life
and death, the nurse is not there.
Let the mechanics, teamsters or
talors' unions attempt to shorten their
hours and raise their wages and how
quickly the public will sit up and howl.
The President of the United States
may even be asked to intercede in order
that trunks may be delivered and the
new suit finished on time How then,
Goes the trained nurse double her
wages by cutting her time in half and
"get away with it," even though sick
ness and death from want of care may
result? | heard a nurse say recently
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

that she thought 1t great shame that
they should work more than eight hours
day. when other classes did not, even
though other women have to dress for
the public and pay for their board.
Now, since the only remedy for this
bad situation is more nurses, who
hr, told, are hard to get in this coun-
try owing to the poor food, drudgery
and long terms in the hospitals, why
not import few hundred able-bodied,
who would gladly exchange their dew
astated homes for hospital training
here, WHICH, at its worst would be bet
ter than what they left behind?
England claims two million women
without husbands or employment. Re-
ports from other countries are much
the same. Only by importing nurses
can the situation be relieved
We have health societies for the pre-
vention of this and that, bureaus for
the protection of something else funds
for research work and "drives" of all
sorts. There is even society in New
York that has "Save Life" for its
slogan, and yet hundreds of small-in-
come people will die for want of proper
care because nothing is done to break
the deadlock that the nurses hold over
the sick Of the country. However, what
| really want to know is just why the
nurses are exempt from criticism
when they double. their wages, even
without the high cost of living for an
excuse, since they get theirs gratis.
BROOKLYN.
Brooklyn, June II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
The Stars and Stripes
Work for Immigrants
The Flag S Origin
Stripes Copied From East India Company's Colors-
History Of the Starry Field

joined The. Union, Congress enacted =,
April 4. that the stripes should b. -.
duced permanently to the old Easz Ind;.
Coinpany's npmher-th;rteen and a..
union should then have twenty So.
and that star should be added foresc,
new state admitted. The new Gao vs.
first unfurled or the House OF penr,
sentatives on April 10, 1913. and II -.
canton of this banner the twenty s.s,-
had been arranged TO form a large 6ye
pointed star, but this was quickly, ab,r
doned, and the stars were then nla.,.a
In rows, with the result that to.dav NJ.
have the
Flag Of the free hearts hone ana
home,
By angel hands to valor given;
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome
And all thy hues were born in Heaven
FRANK H. VIZETELLY.
New York, June 16, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
A Globular Universe
Einsteinosque Theory Of Inhnity and
the Ultimate Atom
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: According to Professor Elm
STEMS rolativity theory the universe is
shaped like 81 globe This is verified
by the metaphysical conception of the
universe imposed on the mind by the
lcgic Of it's own operations
Let any one attempt to think of the
universe at large as to it's material cx-
tension in space and, if he post his
own mind centrally, as an abstract
potency of thinking with equal facility
in all directions, the universe will
necessarily assume in his thought the
form of a globe of apparently infinite
dimensions, for since his imagination
will go outward in every direction, and
since there is nothing to prompt 1t TO
go further in any one direction than in
all other directions, it follows that at
whatsoever distance the Imagination
may rest and give over the hopeless
effort to grasp the apparent irifnty Of
extension it will rest at the same dis
tance outward. upon each of the d-
verging radii; hence, the resulting
figure can be nothing else than an
exact globe.
The student beginning to think upon
sc vast subject as the universe can
not but DE struck by the circumstance
Of an exact conformity in shape and
figure between the great planetary
bodies-suns, planets and stars, each
of which, as we'll as the universe at
large, is called world-and the ideal
conception of the shape or figure of
the whole universe, or world Of matter
and space, as it rests by a necessary
law of thought in his own Imagination.
The universe has been virtually de-
scribed above as a point expanded in
all directions. At the opposite ex-
treme of magnitude, on the contrary,
is the ultimate atom, or least portion
of substance which the mind can in
given state possibly conceive. The
least atom is allied with the abstrac ct
point. This is likewise naturally and
necessarily apprehended in thought as
globe or globule and for the same
reason viewed inversely; that is to say,
in contracting more and more the di-
nensions of any imaginary object, the
universe itself for instance, its ex-
tension, in the absence of any motive
to determine the mind to an opposite
procedure, is diminished equally in
every direction until the least con-
ceivable size is attained and the result
is, necessarily, the globular form of
minutest extension.
Observe that with respect to the
globe representing the universe, and
the globule representing the atom, the
center point of each is the precise
standpoint of the observer, whose i'm
agination going outward and inward
equally in all directions has dictated,
by the law of its own operation, the
globular form of the whole universe,
as well as the least particle of it. The
conscious ego,. which thus prescribes
by its own potency the outline scheme
of a universe, is itself seemingly with
out extension, a unit of spiritual be-
ing, mere metaphysical or supersen-
sible point, corresponding not with the
sensible or visible point even, but with
the still finer abstract rational point,
which is theoretically the center of it.
HENRY l.. PHILLIPS.
Falls Village, Conn, June II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
The Universal Genius
fFrom The San Francisco Chronicle

TOM Tue San Francisco Chronicle)
Beng interpreted, the five media
through which Bryan thinks the Demo
cratic party might rise again to power
really signify: A national bulletin for
the dissemination of unbiased political
Eews, William Jennings Bryan. editor;
prohibition, William J. Bryan, national
director; reduction of taxes, w. Jen-
nlngs Bryan, chief slasher; curbing of
nonopolies, W ]. Bryan, reinsman; dis
armament, Willy Bryan, guardian of
the dove.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Aid to Pueblo Jugo-SIavs


TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t may be interesting to some
to learn that when members Of our
1oreign-born groups meet with mis-
fortune their own compatriots in this
country are usually among the first to
assume responsibility for their relief.
When the Jugo Slav section of the
Foreign Language Information Service
read of the Pueblo disaster and learned
that the district known as the "Grove y
which is largely inhabited by people of
Jugo-Slav extraction, had suffered the
most severely, it Immediately notified
all the Jugo-Slav national organizations
throughout the United States by wire.
advising them of the catastrophe which
had befallen the 1000 to 5000 Pueblo
Jugo-Slavs, giving information as to
how relief might be sent and pointing
out that immediate help would be
doubly valuable.
Within twenty-four hours the For
elgn Language Information Service
was notified that two Jugo- Slavs organi-
zstlons had already answered its call.
Inc National Croatian Society. of
flttsnurgh' the most powerful Jugo-
elav benevolent organization in the
united States, wired that it had dis
patched $1,000 to Pueblo, as directed
while the Slovene Progressive Re,aS+
society. of Chicago, promised help i'm
mediatcly.
r. f, HLACHA,
associate Manager Jugo-Slav Section
foreIgn Language information
Service.
New York, June II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
New York, June 16, 1921.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: Our admirable Admiral need
have no fear respecting his latest
venture in plain speaking. Oliver
Wendell Holmes hit the nail on the
head in the following:
Every real thought on every real
subject knocks the wind out of some
body or other. AS soon as his breath
comes back he very probably begins to
expend it in hard words. These are
the best evidence man can have that
he has said something it was time to
say." JOSEPH j. DE LONG.
New York, June 16, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In my opinion Admiral Sims's
recent speech is substantially in accord
with the policy of the present Admin
istration. 1t is to be noted that Mr..
Harding during the campaign stated
that he would no more think of taking
up the Irish question with the British
government than he would expect Eng
land to interfere in our Philippine pol
icy, or, he might have added. the negro
problem. This was quite at variance
with the ideas of Governor Cox.
1t seems to me that Admiral Sims
should not be censured for criticizing
hyphenated Americans who are using
the Irish question to jeopardize the
friendship between this country and
England, which is, according to the
important members of the government,
so essential. AS more or less con-
sistent Republican, have to admit that
the Secretary of the Navy is proving q
disappointment. C. S. TALBOT.
Brooklyn, June 16, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is not at all surprising how
many feet were fitted by the shoes of
Admiral Sims's speech.
None of US wants to take from Ad-
miral Sims the smallest fraction of an
iota of the credit for the speech, but it
does seem as if the spirit of Roose-
velt has found a spokesman.
All true Americans are listening to
hear him again. r. l. D. NICOLL.
Summit, N. j., June Ia, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir: Upon the return of Admiral
Sims why not welcome him with a
harbor craft demonstration and suit
able land parade?
If some one will lead off by calling
for volunteers for such parade we
can demonstrate that the spirit of '76,
81, '9s and IT is far from dead. Let's
go! A VETERAN OF '9s AND II.
New York, June 16, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
To the Editor of The Tribune

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
70 Sir: l have sent this open letter
to Secretary Denby:
will you be good enough to explain
to lifelong Republican with Irish
blood in his veins and who is proud
of both facts what part or parts OF Ad-
miral Sims's speech, as reported in the
New York papers, you so strenuously
object to and your reasons for such
objections?
"1s it possible that the present Ad-
ministration is resorting to the meth
DDS of an Administration which wss
wiped out by the largest majority ever
recorded in the history of this coun~
try? Can it be that the Republican
party is afraid of the Sim Fein vote ?n
W. j. FAITH.
New York June ia 1901
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
To the Editor of The Tribune

Sir: Congratulations on the Trib-
une's defense of Admiral Sims's truth
speaking.
Were Sims native-born it would not
take much Of this clanor to make him
prominent Presidential candidate in
1924. Perhaps this disability makes
him think he can afford to speak the
truth. Unless the politicians are
careful they will at least make a popu-
lar martyr of him. E. G. HOLDEN.
Tryon, N. c., June Ia, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
To the Editor of The Tribune.

I y tIIc 1@UIVVI VI Z I0 I IIUUHVs
Sir: The many fine letters, and es-
pecially that signed "a Brother Of
feer," in vindication of Admiral Sims's
attitude toward Sim Feiners, are just
tributes to the man, not only a brave
officer butr,-.e who is brave enough
to speak with force the truth that
should have been heard long ago from
those who are able to end the dig
graceful acts committed in this coun-
try by Sim Feiners.
Il trust he may be received with dem
nstrations of approval as he arrives
the country that should be proud
- him. AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
-sew York, June 15, 1927,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Admiral Sims
rained Nurses Hours
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
try are now holding an unconscious ref
erendum on the case of Admiral Sims.
When his picture is shown there seems
TO be almost universal and enthssi-
astic applause. 1t would be well for
Secretary Denly, before criticising Ad-
miral Sims, to attend one or two large
motion picture performances and see
what the temper of the American peo-
rle is regarding the Admiral as reflect
ed by his appearance on the screen.
JOHN B. CREIGHTON.
New York, June is, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
To the Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: OF late have been reading a
great deal of the so-caled "jackass"
speech OF Admiral Sims. If he is cor
rectiy quoted | cannot help being filled
with deep admiration for the man who
dares say what he thinks, only wish
taat we had few mose men of his
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
70 the Editor of The Tribune. !

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t Is all very we'll for Admiral
Sims to speak of the asses in this
country as having votes, but he should
have added that 90 per cent of these
asses voted for his friend Mr.. Harding.
The student of American politics
smiles when he recalls that it was
Wilson, not Harding, that sent that
telegram to 0'Leary. 1t was those
"asses" that elected Mr.. Harding, be-
yond doubt. I have always believed
that the Germans and Irish in this
country were law-abiding citizens and
they were misled by Republican poll
ticians. President Wilson was their
best friend. CHARLES COOK
Greenville, S. c.. June ID, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
To the Editor of The Tribune

-|S'"NVR VI I IIG ITIDUNe.
SIR: Admiral Sims has spent his
lite in the service of the United States
OF America, but he never did her a
greater service than his bold and cam
dld denunciation of the snakes coiled
within the folds of the flag. His words
make every leo per cent American
'hr''l with pride. and whatever action
'ne Navy Department may take, Ad-
mirai Sims may feel sure of the ad-
m1ratlon, respect and gratitude of every
unhyphenated citizen.
WILLIAM NEWMAN CHEW.
Brooklyn, June ID, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
A alse Bottom

Ffo"' The Washington Posn
us hard to believe the bottom has
fallen out Of business as long as prices
stay up so we'll.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
The Sims Reverberation
Echoes of the Spoken Admral's Speech on Sim
Fem EIyphenism

caliber as officials of our government
| am disgusted to think of the Sec
retary of the Navy calling him home
and trying to make him feel like
whipped schoolboy.
AS for the "lrish question: confess
that | do not know very much about
it, but | know that any clear thinking
American can see the real motive. Let
them get out of this country~those
who are spreading the rotten propa-
ganda and doing their best to bring
this country to war with our fellow
ally, Great Britain. | am not pro-
British; but simply born American,
and believe only in one country, one
flag and one cause, and that is America.
AN AMERICAN.
New Rochelle, N. Y, June Is, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am grateful to you for your
editorial of this morning, "The Good
Sims Has Done," as we'll as for other
similar recent utterances. I should
be very glad if the noisy and impudent
handful of Sim Fein agitators in this
country could be properly rebuked and
an assurance could be given to the
English people that the American peo-
pie are not in sympathy with their
propaganda. 1t seems to me matter
of immense Importance that the most
cordial relations should perevail be-
tween these two great English speaking
nations. w, w. CURTIS.
New York, June 1e, 1921.