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New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
America 9 Discoverer
To the Editor of The Tr;buno

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l wish to thank YOU for vour
editorial 'It Was Henry Hudson" Its
emphasis on the necessity for accuracy
IN all matters historical is particularly
valuable to Americans at this bopr
when the mists of tradition are ranidlv
dlssolving and the radium of immpta- :
Die truth is forcing facts to the sur
face. You say:
THE intrepid and resourceful navi-
gator who first explored the North
River was not Hendrick but Henry
Hudson"
The intrepid and resourceful navi-
gator" who discovered America was the
Norseman Left Ericsson, not Christo-
pher Columbus.
In the year 1000, in his efforts TO
establish Christianity on these shores
Leu Ericsson raised his standard at
New Bedford on the Massachusetts
coast. Christopher Columbus. almost
nVe hundred years later, landed at San
salvador He never placed foot on our
America. rp1TTr,
New York, May 26, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
The Maid at Rheims

In front of the Cathedral of
Rheims has long stood the familiar
stone figure of Joan of Arc on horse
back, holding aloft broadsword.
In this same cathedral in 1929 the
Maid of France had taken part in
the coronation of Charles VII.
When the great war started the
Germans attacked Rheims and
dropped shells and bombs in and
about the cathedral. The roof was
destroyed, the wonderful carving
was shattered, the glorious stained
glass windows were broken into bits
and the church was all but ruined
Yet Joan of Arc sat unscathed on
her stone horse holding aloft her
sword. The bishops palace next
the cathedral was bombed. the
greater portion of the city was con-
sumed by fire, but Joan was un-
touched. The credulous among the
handful of inhabitants who pre-
ferred constant danger in their own
homes to safety and inconsistencies
back of the lines came to look upon
the statue of the Maid with new rev.
erence. Shells and bombs fell about
her, but Heaven protected her.
Then came March, 1918. The
morale of the world was low. Ger
man forces were breaking the Allied
lines and defeat was almost in sight.
Fearing that harm would finally
come, the statue was removed to a
place of safety. Rheims is doomed!"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

should be appreciated sufficiently for
the country to demand that the serv-
ice be made attractive to the best
men in the country.
Until it is adequately paid and Of
fers future this will not have been
done.
Mr.. Hughes summed up the situa-
tion as follows:
"If we want to assure n first-class
diplomatic service, with q certainty
that young men Of brains will Join
the corps, they must be certain that
by diligence and application they can
rise to the top in their chosen career
and that they will not be deprived of
accepting the highest honors that
can come to them because Of lack of
means properly to represent the gov
ernment"
The Secretary of State has an en-
cellent opportunity to make his hopes
come true, The time is here to place
the diplomatic service on the high
plane which it deserves.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
Buyir,g Talent

w. Jett Lauck, gentleman with
opinions seemingly fathered by his
wishes and prejudices, who is un-
fortunately looked to by the railway
brotherhoods for advice, recently
listed the exorbitancy of railway
salaries as cause of railway
deficits.
Daniel Willard, of the Baltimore
d. Ohio, veteran Of the railway serv-
ice, is moved to protest and reply.
For several years, he says, he has
noted a steady stream of resigna-
tions by railway executives who
find that other positions pay better.
Young men of the best quality now
tend to keep away from railway
employment. Mr.. Willard expected
his son to become railway man.
but the young man chose another
line of business because G) the
future status of railroading seemed
uncertain and 90 it wasn't pleas
ant to be in an employment where
success might be regarded as basis
for reproach.
Does it pay to go into the market
and hire special talent? Even
Lenine admits that the capable tech
nician is cheap at any price. The
director of the activities of others
saves or produces more than he is
paid or is not worth hiring. In a
large business the amount of his
salary is inconsequential. BY one
wise decision an executive often puts
his company permanently in his debt.
When real directing ability is buy
able it is bargain at almost any
quotation. 1t pays its own salary and
more. 1t creates conditions that
benefit all wage workers. Talent is
no parasite. 1t not only feeds itself
but others. These are truisms, but
unhappily there are many w. Jett
Laucks about who are so confused
or perverse that they can not or will
not see simple truths.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
Underpaid DIPLOMATS

In an interview published in the
June number of The Worlds Work
Secretary Hughes expresses an ap-
probation of the need of better paw
for our diplomatic service.
The duties of diplomatic secre-
taries are not generally understood
in the United States. People seem
to forget that as the official repre-
sentatives of the American govern
nent they must handle the routine
work with the government to which
they are accredited and at the same
time must gather information about
conditions in foreign lands and must
receive and be received by state off,
cials in varying degrees of formality.
They are looked upon abroad as the
representatives of the richest and
most powerful nation in the world.
and it is expected of them that they
will live and act accordingly. Ger
tain standards are thus imposed
upon them and must be accented
under pain of lowering the prestige
of the government which they repre-
sent. This need not imply luxury,
but it means that they must be suit
ably housed and able to entertain
simply any one from the Minister of
Foreign Affairs down.
The present pay of diplomatic Off
GERS is so inadequate that, to use the
phrase of Mr.. Hughes, "it has be-
come necessary for our missions to
dig deep into their pockets to meet
the deficiencies" Further testimony
to this effect is found in a speech by
Congressman John Jacob Rogers, of
Massachusetts, who has devoted
years of study to. the needs of the
service. "They 1.-THE Dip
lomatic secretaries" says he, center
the service at $1,000 or less after a
preliminary training that usually in
wolves six or eight years, and at the
end of lifetime of successful work
in the foreign service they may hope
to receive salary of $4,000 as first
secretary. The burdens of maintain
ing adequately an important and
dignified position in a foreign capi-
tai are financially very heavy. AS a
practical matter no man-certainly
no married 'man---can expect to make
both ends meet on the government
salary
+, Now that foreign affairs are
engaging public attention more than
ever the fact shat the diplomatic
service is our first line of defense
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
City Planning Upheld

Justice Mullan's decision forbid
ding the erection of a big business
building in the residential part of
lower Madison Avenue was based
not upon any private restriction in
title deeds but upon the city's zon-
ing ordinance, which reserves GER
tain blocks and streets for residence
purposes. Thus it is particularly re-
assuring. as promising a perma-
nency of protection which title deed
restrictions have not always af-
forded.
Apart from the merits of any in
dividual case the general principle
OF the zoning system in city plan
ming may be regarded as recognized
and established. 1t has been a
grave fault of American cities, per-
maps of New York above most
others, to permit excessive change
ability and helter-skelter building,
residence streets have again and
again been invaded and residents
compelled to ''move on" The re-
SUIT has been a disinclination of
people to establish permanent
homes and great economic waste
IN the destruction, generation by
generation, of costly residences
which might have served for CEN
turies. Another attendant evil has
neen the aggravation of the prob
lem OF passenger transportation.
Changes are, of course, inevitable,
but many that have occurred were
needless, The rule should be to re-
sist and TO avoid them. 1t is a mis-.
take to imagine that one-half of a
city must be given up entirely to
business and the other be entirely
~
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
The Budget Agreement

Inc conference report on the
budget bill satisfies everybody. 1t
has passed both houses and will
undoubtedly become law. The
Budget Bureau is to be attached to
the Treasury Department. 1t belongs
there, since it's functions are largely
fiscal. But the head of the bureau
is to work under rules and regula-
tions prescribed by the President
This is concession to those who
wanted to make the Budget Bureau
an independent organization outside
the departments.
The important thing is that the
budget submitted by the bureau
shall represent not mere alloca-
tion of guesses and padded demands
on the part of irresponsible bureau
chiefs, but coordinated study of
the governments needs, for which
the President accepts complete &C
countahility to the taxpayers. Here
after If there is any opprobrium at
tached to expenditure it should fall
on the Executive and not on Con-
gress. We shall not speak, as in
the past, of billion dollar or eight
billion dollar Congresses, but of
billion dollar or eight billion dol
lar Presidents.
The proper function of Congress
with regard to appropriations is
not to determine them, but to criti-
cize them and to keep track of the
use to which they are put. The new
Comptroller General and Assistant
Comptroller General are to be
agents of the legislative branch. 1t
was on this theory the Congress
originally wanted to retain sole
power of removal. The conference
report provides that they shall be
appointed by the President for
terms of fifteen years and shall be
removable only by joint resolution
Of Congress, which, of course, the
President may veto if he wishes to
do so. The Comptroller General
may not be appointed for a second
term.
The budget system clashes with
the loose, wrong-end first method
by which expenditure has been con-
trolled up to now. This fact will be
recognized more clearly after the
budget plan is in force. Congress
will have to limit itself more and
more in its consideration of esti-
mates. 1t will probably have to re-
nounce the right to increase them.
Appropriation bills will also be con-
solidated and the time spent on
them greatly abridged. This will
be material gain. For Congress
will then have much more time to
give to legislation proper instead of
doing work which the Executive
Department ought to do and be held
responsible for by the voters.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
Civil War Issues

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Francis B. Hays in lettes
published in your columns gives
new version of why the Southerners
brought on the Rebellion Of the 'OVs'
He says they did not fight against the
Constitution, "but really took up arms
to defend it from the assaults Of thoss
who denounced it as league Win
hell"
The attitude of the Southern leaders
was that the Constitution was nos
binding on any state that wanted !"
secede from the Union. How it vas
ever possible to take that position
and still be the defenders of the Con-
stitution may be apparent 60 Mr.. Hays
but is not in accord with history Lih-
coin and those who supported MN
fought for the Constitution, agalns'
the Southerners who were fighting 20
break up all that the Constitution was
for. 1t is a singular fault Of soms
wise persons of periods succeeding
grave contest to suppose that those
who carried it on did not know wnas
they were doing. E.R.D
New York, May rs, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
Mr.. Harvey's S Speech
His Statement of Historical Fact as
to Our War Entry
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Flood resolution in Con-
gress proposing an inquiry into Ambas-
sador Harvey's utterances in his Lon
don speech embodies either a total mis-
conception or a representation of
the nature and purport of these utter
ances.
How could Mr.. Harvey be "voicing
the sentiments and policies of the
(present) United States government"
when he said eve sent them our
soldiers solely to save the United
States of America, and most reluc-
tantly and laggardly at that? Mani
festly this could not be in any sense
an expression of the sentiments and
policies of the present Administration
1t was simply the statement of a his
torical fact, relating exclusively to the
acts and policies of the late Wilson
Administration. With these acts and
policies this Administration had not,
and could not have had, anything to do.
Nor has it any concern with them now,
except in so far as they relate to the
stupendous task of repairing the dam
age and waste and general chaos re-
sulting from the formers blunders and
failures.
The fact that eve" (as represented
by the party then in power) went
most reluctantly and laggardly" into
the war is amply borne out by the rec
ord of events in Washington during
the three long "drugged and doubling
years." and by the return of that
party to power on the shameful slogan
HE kept us out of war" That we
went into the war solely to save the
United States of America is clearly
and unambiguously set forth in the
declaration of war itself
1t is wholly immaterial whether il
was on his own initiative or under in
structions that Mr.. Harvey recited
these facts. That could not in any
manner alter the stubborn facts them
selves. We may blush for them, but it
is idle to seek to deny them.
GEORGE WESTERVELT.
Upper Montclair, N. j., Nav 26. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

residential. An intermingling Of
the two, under well-planned
zoning system, makes for the con-
venience of the people and for a
simplification of the transportation
problem. Hundreds of thousands who
are now transported at great cost
of time and comfort twice day
long distances could be within easy
walking distance of their employ
ment place. In the further develop
ment of the city coming should
be carefully observed and as in the
present Madison Avenue case, wher-
ever it already exists should be reso-
lutely safeguarded.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28


The Alien Property Custodian by
seizing the property of Grover Berg
doll, the apparently victorious draft
evader, shows that when there is
proper will way can be found to
serve decency and justice. No doubt
the loss of his worldly goods will
hurt this young man far more than
the loss of honor. 1t is probably
the only thing likely to make an I'M
preston on him. He will scarcely
laugh over the governments move
ment to confiscate a fortune used
by him to buy and bribe his way
out of the duty his citizenship
imposed upon him.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
Who Is Hunter

Hunter is an English postoffice
clerk who plays golf after office
hours. He is the pitch black horse
which has won the British amateur
golf championship from the strong
est field of contestants that two con-
tinents could provide.
This triumph of an obscure player
whom the experts overlooked entire
ly takes little of the sting from the
Americans defeat. What a mean
disposition this fellow must have to
take holiday from mail sorting for
the sake of trouncing the Oxford and
Cambridge boys, the grandson Of
Charles Darwin and several other
gentlemen of old Albion, not to men
tion the theoretically unbeatable
Big Three" the pride of Uncle
Sam!
Just why our golfers lost everv-
body is trying to explain. At bottom
it was probably a pure case of
nerves. Every one Of them felt that
the sporting fate of the nation was
in his caddy-bag, and the awful re-
sponsibility made him dizzy. They
made too dire a business of the
game. Hunter went about the Job
the same way he would postmark an
envelope. He certainly has stamped
an impression on the gclfng world
that will not be erased. And now
that Mr.. Hunter is a celebrity he,
too, will probably begin to develop
nerves.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
Relief for Russian ChiIdren

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The current discussion regard
Ing Russia has overlooked one fact
which 1 should like to draw to the at
tention of the public, namely, that there
is in existence q New York Committee
for Russian Relief, under whose direc-
ton workers are to-day distributing
IN Russia food to destitute children re-
gardless of race, creed or political af-
flllations, this work being done through
Committee of American Friends.
The treasurer of the committee is
Charles II. Sabin, president of the
Guaranty Trust Company, 14O Broad
way. 1t is interesting also to record
the fact that the Soviet government of
Russia has not attempted to interfere
with these relief activities. The same
attitude which makes the history of
William Penn's colony on this conti-
nent unique among all other expert
ences of the European colonists in deal
ing with the aborigines has produced
like effect in Russia to-day. Every
where the representative of the So
ciety of Friends-even though he does
not wear the familiar gray coat and
shovel hats received with respect
and treated with consideration, perhaps
because he has observed the Shake
spearean injunction:
"Still in thy right hand carry gentle
truth, to silence envious tongues"
GEORGE w. WICKERSHAM.
New York, April 26, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

We wish somebody would come out
with a novel about Harvard, so we
could prove that an attempt to josh
"The Big Year" or "The Guarded
Heights" is not necessarily an express
sion of malicious partisanship. 1t
never made us very mad to hear
"Brown Of Harvard" treated irrever-
emily. Actually we don't sec red all
the time. We admit that Harvard
ought to number it's players and that
Coy and Sam White both won victor
les over Harvard. And the plumbing
in Weld is bad, and Princeton has more
trees, and Yale is nearer New York.
No, we are by no means addicted to
the theory of Harvard right or wrong.
If she ever were wrong she should be
among the first to admit it. Even now,
we are willing to confess that there is
only one G. T. Copeland in the faculty,
which isn't nearly enough to go around.
Back in our day Harvard was addicted
to Gains heresy and was rather will
ing TO let student go to hell in his
own way. We might have been a diff
ferent man if we hadn't dropped into
the North Entry of Thayer that night,
early in our freshman year, and gone
into that game with the Gaekwar of
Baroda. Some one had told him that a
king and a queen were just as good
hand before the draw as a pair of
aces and he used to stand by them with
all the loyalty of the Swiss Guard. Ac-
cordingly, some of us young men who
were working our way through college
got the notion that the world owed.
and would pay, decent living to any
man who would consistently throw
away short pairs. Most of US came
to bad end and none of US got
everything out of Harvard which she
was ready to give.
1t might have been different if, the
Gaek had ever come to his throne
The Baroda Invasion Club still exists.
and each member has pledged himself
AS~NS AU4i peTlOQ OF twenty
years to drop whatever he may be
dong, slip a pack of cards into his.
back pocket, and ship for Baroda. We
only await the word that the young
Gaekwar is to be crowned. But now
the twenty years are nearly up and the
old rajah still lives and keeps the
crown jewels locked up. The young Gaek
we understand is kept short and is
not allowed to go into anything more
than q two-rupee limit game. Our
impression is that you ante one anna
Be that as it may, poker not onlv
restricted our college activities but
marked our life rather completely for
years afterward. 1t is onlv within
the last three months that we have
managed to reform completely. Now
the games come only once q week and
the quitting hour is IL O'Clock shayn
Well that's the time the last twelve
rounds begin.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
DR.. Mosher' $ Figures

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t was gratifying to read the
eo'tofial commenting upon DR.. William
l. Mosher's budgets for office workers.
IL would be interesting to know Just
now and where DR.. Mosher got his
tood' lodging and laundry figures. Can
ne tell man who works in Wall Street
where ne can obtain nourishing food
lof 30 cents day, room fit to live
IN 1or 30 week and laundry which
VIII charge but 81 a week for the
changes OF linen necessary to decent
appearance and decent hygiene?
HARRIS w. REYNOLDS.
New York, May %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

was the cry Of the inhabitants when
they saw the empty pedestal. And
as the German guns grew louder the
people felt ever more certain of their
fate.
The rest is history. And now,
492 years after Joan of Arc led her
army to Rheims, the statue is to be
put back in front Of the cathedral,
where the first rays of the morning
sun will shine upon it, the symbol Of
France victorious.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
frances Vindication

Brands victory in the French
Chamber of Deputies may be as
cribed to a general French apprecia-
tion of the fact that his policy Of
firmness tempered with moderation
has been strikingly successful. He
didn't ask for a vote of confidence
until he could point to two impor-
tant achievements. He had secured
Rn unconditional German acceptance
of the Allied ultimatum of May s..
He had also secured a disclaimer
from Berlin of any intention to send
German troops into Upper Silesia.
Germany's adhesion to the terms
of the ultimatum implied a settle
ment of the dispute over reparations
which had been dragging along for
nearly two years. This is a great
gain for France, whose stake in rep
aration payments exceeds that of
any other nation. 1t makes Frances S
financial position more secure. 1t
opens the way to economic reorgani-
cation in Europe.
The Silesian issue suddenly arose
as secondary but related one. The
French were greatly annoyed by the
suggestion that Germany should be
permitted to take a hand in the sup
preston of disorder in the piebiscite
region. Brands direct interposi-
tion at Berlin ended all danger of
such a complication, which doubtless
would have led to French reprisals
in Westphalia. The Premier stood
on solid ground. His enemies could
find no issue on which to dislodge
him.
Brands policy is to execute the
treaty through cooperation with the
other powers represented in the Su-
preme Council. He would go on
working in close association with
Great Britain, Italy and Belgium,
and welcomes American participa-
tlon to the largest extent possible.
He is ready to give the new German
ministry chance to prove its good
faith. He is in favor of using Ger
man labor in restoring the devas-
tated department wherever local
sentiment doesn't oppose that form
of reparation.
Brands acts and the support
given him in the Chamber of Depu-
ties would seem to dispose of the
charge that France would be master
of Continental Europe. She will not
go alone, if she can help it-unless,
in fact, she becomes convinced that
any other solution is impossible.
BRAND stands for a continuance of
the alliance, for self-restraint and
spirit of accommodation.
This program refutes the malicious
insinuations that French judgment
has been clouded by passion for re-
venge or by dreams Of a neo-Na-
poleonic imperialism. All France
regards this charge as most cruel
SANDER. Likewise she deeply resents
the accusation that she is scheming
to crush Germany, something that
would, of course, mean Germany
could not pay.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
A Nation So Powerfur'

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The President is right. We want
a nation $50 powerful in righteousness
that none dare provoke it's wrath"
Powerful in honesty. Powerful in
justice. Powerful in courage. Power
full in armament and powerfully backed
by the sword of the spirit.
MARIE HEMSTREET.
New York, May "a, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28
After You, Alphonse
From The Washington Star

7fTont TIC WASHINGTON Star
1t is upon decrease in the high cost
of living that the possibility of pain
less wage reduction largely depends.
And it is upon decrease of production
price that the reduction of H. C. L.
must be based. In the big game Of
economics the question of whose move
it is figures Importantly.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-28

To the German Ludendorff
are attributed the following words:
eve must submit and execute the
peace treaty. After her prosperity
Germany must know poverty. 1t is
the best remedy. Work at home is
our first need. Work abroad is of
secondary Importance. Doorn pa.
pers please copy.