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New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
No Need to Farley

The new German reparation offer
is so enveloped by provisos, condi-
tions and reservations as to conceal
its effect. To form a judgment it is
necessary to have second sight and
almost a table of logarithms. Elm
stein may be able to assess it in the
scale of relatively, but probably no
one else.
Germany seems to tender 100000
100000 marks gold, which is only
$4,000, 100000 fewer marks than the
Allies offered to accept, but against
this is the declaration of Herr
Simons that Germany has not ma
terially increased her March offer.
This statement may be only for Ger
man ears, but it has leaked out and
sounds like boast.
Nor is confidence born when the
eye falls on the section, basic to all
others, that the world is to lend Ger
many the money with which to pay.
AS working method of apprais-
ing the proposal probably nothing is
better than to note the behavior of
John Maynard Keynes. If he is
pleased it is a safe deduction that
there is no reason for pleasure else
where. Mr.. Keynes has an unerring
instinct for the German interests and
his nose is to be trusted.
The French view is probably cor
rect that Germany is merely indulg-
ing in another fishing expedition in
the hope of hooking the United
States. That Washington is not to
be so caught is shown by the consul
tation of the ambassadors of the
Allies. 1t might have been better if
Secretary Hughes, when appealed to
by Berlin, had told the Germans to
apply to BRAND and Lloyd George
direct and that they could not use us
even as telephone, but so far NO
harm has been done.
The average American can see ne
advantage in dickering with Ger,
4 many. Her purpose is so plainly tx
wriggle out of her obligations ant
her bad faith is so evident that it is {
negation of the wars results to par
ley with her as if an equal.
The course that best BELTS thi
country and which will most effec
lively contribute to an early settle
nent is to withdraw as soon as pos
sible from anything savoring Of
mediation, letting it be known at the
same time that we are in accorc
with our allies and intend to give
full support to them. To foster
German hope of finding friend or
this side Of the water is to postpone
real peace.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Warfare in Fulton's Time

The sale of letters and MSS. Of
Robert Fulton affords an apt sug-
gestion of the change, or lack Of
change, that there has been in CEN
tury and more in methods of war
fare and, perhaps most Of all, in
both popular and official conceptions
of propriety in those methods.
1t is now nearly century and a
quarter since Fulton invented and
constructed submarine torpedo
boat, the practicability of which he
demonstrated by himself remaining
submerged in it for hours at time,
causing it to submerge and emerge
at will without extraneous aid !;
cruising about for considerable dis
tances under water, and approach
ing, unperceived, the hulls of other
vessels so as to affix torpedoes to
them.
That formidable invention, the
more formidable because antedating
the introduction of steam navigation,
was offered by Fulton to the British
Admiralty and was rejected by it
ON the ground Of inhumanity. There
was little question of its efficiency.
But it was held to be an abhorrent
thing, unworthy of civilized ma
ton, thus furtively to strike an
enemy unaware.
It was some years later that the
great Dundonald, the "Almirante
Cochrane" of South American lib
Grafton, laid before the British gov
ernment his scheme of waging war
fare, which would infallibly assure
tho triumph of the power that used
it, even against an overwhelmingly
greater force. The British War and
Admiralty Offices examined it, admit
ted that it would Go all that its in
ventor claimed, and then hid it
away as too terrible ever to be dis
closed or practiced; SO that to this
day it's character remains a mystery.
What would the war moralists Of
Fultonss and Cochrane's time have
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Einsteirs the Guesser

Professor Einstein is guessing, ac
cording to DR.. Charles Lane Poor,
fellow of thu American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and fellow Of the
Royal Astronomical Society. He is a
"perfectly-in-earnest scientist who
thinks he has proper theory, but
he lacks proof His theories of the
universe "are based on two or three
pure assumptions or guesses as to
the fundamental constitution of
nature. They are so broad and gen
eral in character that they cannot be
directly tested"
1t is generally understood that all
scientists are guessers when it comes
to "the fundamental constitution of
nature" the world trusting in their
accumulating competence. One CEN
tury the preponderance of opinion of
the competent guessers inclines
toward the atomic theory. The next
century the atoms are voted down in
favor Of electrons. Whole faith in
guess by one person or a group Of
persons does not change the nature
Of the guess so far as the world is
concerned. Sir Oliver Lodge, the pre-
eminent physicist, guesses-that is,
he chooses from several explanations
that spirits have actually moved
tables in his presence and have COM
municated tidings from the Beyond
through a suitable medium. The
world is skeptical, though Sir Oil
ver's great position has won him at
tention.
Professor EinstsA cam. bsfor.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

name and all that sort of thing.
Now a son Is only burden and an
expense--a male Cinderella Of the
future. 1t is daughter who may, If
tho gods grant her tilmablc face,
go into the movies, wax famous, lift
the family mortgage and lend luster
to the family name for generations.
Every Lulu is a potential star of the
screen. Who would take chances by
making her a slave Of the kitchen
sink
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
'Baneful Rot"
Oldtimer Iorri6ed at Trend oI
Theaters and MAGAZINES

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: You say you do not believe in
a censor. You say if the movies arc
to be censored, why not other things
such as magazines, theaters and art.
Well, why not?
I am fifty years old. Possibly I am
behind the times, but is it not also
possible that 1 am right, at least to a
degree? | declare that I am horrified
at the progress CD of the theaters and
magazines in the last quarter of q
century.N If no check is applied, where
is it to end?
The check will not come from the
people at large, for the people at large
like it. 1t will not come from those
who are making money from it, for
evident reasons. If the older people
who are not interested pecuniarily, dc
not stop it all, it will not stop and
will progress-where
Now, I try to be reasonably broad
| do not believe that the young should
be kept in darkness, as in the past. But
it is one thing to have them know
natures laws, etc, and another thing
to keep pumping them full of the bane-
full rot some magazines print nowadays
Allowing that the old standards were
too high and strict, have we not gone
altogether too far in the other direc-
ton? Can it be shown that we are
more decent, less criminal and happier
under the present Freedom?
OLDTIMER
Rockville Center. N. Y, April 26, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
To Germany's Advantage
Adverse Comment on the Govern
ment's Present Course of Action

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | desire to place before your
readers the outstanding fact that the
exact situation created by the last Ad-
ministration by it's procedure in re-
gard to the aI,nistice has now been re-
created literally and exactly in regard
to the reparations. would also call
to attention that the course followed
by the last Administration as to the
armistce was but the beginning of a
course which has wrecked the world
If dhe course at present undertaken
to be pursued by the United States is
one which htV been requested by the
Allies the sponsibility for the disas-
next ten years by reason of this repe-
tition Of the policies of the last Ad-
ministration rests upon them, but If
it be the result of action on our part,
if it be Of our initiative, then the re-
sponsibility which haa rested upon the
last Administration is now transferred
to this Administration, and there will
be the same result.
If the latter be the case let US hope
so many protests will be received that
radically different counsels may pre-
vail. We have been precipitated again
into the midst Of entangling foreign
alliances, with an indication that our
alliance is with Germany and our quar-
rel is with France. The American note
agrees in set terms to mediate on be-
half Of Germany, while purporting to
refuse.
CHARLES STEWART DAWSON.
New York, April "a, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

open door. This is the experience Of
all cooperative savings and loan asso-
Citations.
There are also more than 1000
savers, who are getting nest-eggs for
t1s rainy days. These savings run
from 50 up to about $25 a month The
Edison Associations fine upIift work
attracted the attention Of the social
service branch of the Eastman Com
pany of Rochester, with the result
that a savings and loan association
has been organized by che employees.
Of that corporation.
ARCHIBALD W. M'EWAN.
New York, April 26, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
The Traffic in Plumes
Most Drastic Law to Protect Wild
Rirds-Imitations Legal

Birds-lmitations Legal
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In reply to David 'Paine's letter
in your issue of April 49,, and in justice
to the millinery trade and to those
societies whose purpose is the protec-
tion of wild life, beg you to publish
the following:
The law against the traffic in wild
birds plumage is by no means a dead
letter. The plumage committee of the
Millinery Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, realizing that there is
considerable traffic in prohibited plum
age, reasonably supposed to have been
smuggled into the country, has intro
duccd an amendment to the present
law.
This amendment, which has the in
dorsemens o. DR.. W. T. Hornaday, of
the New York Geological Park and the
Permanent Wild Life Fund, and of Mr..
T.. Gilbert Pearson, president Of the
National Asso citation of Audubon So
cieties, is now under consideration by
Congress. 1t makes the law more dras-
tic than the present one, putting the
burden of proof of legitimate owner
ship of prohibited plumage on the pos
SCISSOR.
This, however, does not apply when
the plumage is in actual use for per-
sonal adornment, but the dealer must
be in a position to prove to the Fed
eral authorities that it was imported
into the United States prior to Octo-
ber 3, 1918, the date when the present
law went into effect, under penalty
of seizure and confiscation.
1t would be useless to deny that a
certain quantity of prohibited plum
age is smuggled into the country. AL
though the New York State laws pro-
hibit the sale of egrets, they are, never
theless, traded in by those whose re-
spect for the laws is subservient to
their regard ior pecuniary gain. 1t is
with the object of putting an end to
this illicit traffic that the amendment
has been introduced.
I must, however. question Mr.. Paine's
statement regarding the number of
genuine egrets seen on hats.
The very fact of the prohibition of
importation of the plumage of wild
birds has created new industry in
both the United States and Europe,
namely, the imitation of certain
plumes most desired by women. These
limitations are made from the plumage
of domesticated birds which may be
legitimately imported and in appear
ance are so natural as often to deceive
even experts. 1t is possible that Mr..
Paine has mistaken the imitation for
the genuine article.
RUFUS DAVIS,
Chairman Of the Pluhaage Committee
of the Millinery Chamber of
Commerce of the United States.
New York, April 26, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
We Stand With France

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: This is to express my heartfelt
gratitude to The Tribune for Uphold
ing the cause of France and insisting
upon our duty to support her claims.
Will not our government put an end
once for all to any communication with
the Germans and give them to under
stand that we stand with the French
and share their determination to en-
force the settlement Of their demands
F. A. HENRY.
Morristown, ~ j., April 25, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

said to Tirpitz's policy Of Fright
fulness," to "spurlos versenkt," to
the use Of poison gas and to the
other belligerent practices which
have become commonplaces after
century Of further progress in hui
name and Christian civilization?
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
The Complete Letter Writer

[Receiyed by manufacturer OF toilet
articles
Manager Saheb,
New Yourk.
Dear Sir:
the undersigned most respectfully
beg to say under your kind considera-
rtion.
am very much anxious to get your
Saving Cream Toilet Soap for my great
family.
So kindly send it soon the both sam
pies, and after tasting I shall order for
a lot of it.
Hoping excuse for the trouble and
oblige
1 remain yours
truly
N. d. Makwana,
c o Sayajr Gange Baroda
Mr.. Dub's Bungalow, Baroda.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Still Speaking English

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The American language! 8Ir.
Mencken has written ponderous tome
upon it; but in this book not one word
to the thousand is solely American.
l doubt # he could construct one
sentence in "American"-without the
use of English.
PARALLEL O'PIPEDON.
New York, April 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

Taxi -chauffeurs doubtless have lot
on their minds; but among the things
that clutter up their intellects is not
the knowledge on which side Of the
street the odd numbers are situated.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
The Book Borrowers

The Book Borrowers
On Harry D.
| have turned sour;
He won't return
My Schopenhauer.
And Mrs. L.,
Of morals f1oppy,
Still hangs on to
My second copy.
While little Bob,
Who hadn't ought
Just walked off with
The third I bought!
C. w
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
ar,fsrn OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES,

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled 10
tie for republication OF all news dispatches
credited 10 1t nos otherwise credited In this
paper. and also the focal news Of spontaneous
0rig'n published herein
Al rights Of republication cf all other matter
besen also feserved
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
A Natural Mistake

fFrom The Washington Post)
The reel and the real are often mis-
taken for each other.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
Au Prince Lointain
Well,

Well,
Pm waiting.
I'm waiting and I'm not worrying,
Although
1t wasn't you who wrote mo the finest
sonnet sequence unpublished in the
language,
And it wasn't you who played satyr to
my nymph running through the park
half moonlit night, and tickling the
sleeping policemen's noses with pus-
sywillow,
And it wasn't you who found my mouth
with yours after a swan dive race,
eels under Walden pond, on a still,
red twilight in June,
And it wasn't you whose shoulder I
wept on for the first time since I
was knee-high to an ammba, on dis
covering to my surprise that life was
not what it seemed,
AND 1t wasn't even you who periured
your soul to say that the biscuits
were great that I made for our kit
chen-tub supper
But what I am rather concerned about
Ihat you may be doing all these things
With some other girl.
TklSClLIAA.
Nor can we trek along with Governor
Allen when he speaks of "the un-Amer-
lean principle of putting as little as
possible into life and taking as much
as possible out of life" That princi-
pie, our opinion is, is as American as
1t is un-American. To put nothing in
to- life and get something out of life is
considered shrewd trade. But it is
not possible; it contradicts the law of
spiritual economics or physics that
you can't get more out of life-or a
job--than you put into it.
Nor can we singlefoot with Mr.. Girls
singer when he says the law Of supply
and demand is dead. We hear differ
ent. When Foreman Old Clint Ball
from the composing room, demands one
more paragraph, what do we do?
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28
The Coming Tower
Thoughts on Spring
Horace: Book /, Ode 4

Horace: Book J., Ode
"Solpitur acria hfems 0rata vics reris et
Favons'
Gone the days of ten below;
Melted all the winters snow.
Night and day-boats sail the river;
Chugs again the farmers flivver.
Grazes now the lowing COW;
And the rube resumes the plow.
Now, by lunar lumination-
Venus leads a gay saltation.
Twine the flowers, the myrtle green,
Round the redolent, shining bean!
Bring, regardless of the prices,
Lambs or kids for sacrifices.
All, the knock of Death is sure
At the door Of rich and poor;
AS the shades of life grow deeper,
Comes the celebrated Reaper.
Life, my Sextius, is too short
For lot Of grief or sport.
Darkness, chilly and pneumonia,
Whelms you in the house Plutonic;
Where shall be no merry throws
Of the Galloping Dominoes;
Nor shall Lycidas, the cherished,
Glad the vision of the perished.
Hoover, whom everybody knows has
been Chief Of the White House Staff
William Crawford in The Worlds
Work.
WhOn1's HoovnrP
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

GUARANTY
ysu caa purohass msrohandfse ADVERTISED In THE
Tribune with absolute ssfety--tor u dfssatisfao.
.'en rssuls In any cass ThE TRIBUNE suatan.
tees to pay your money back request. Ne rcd
tape. No oulbbIne. We make good RremptH "
the adsertlter ooNs not.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

Ent~cd At ths Pcstofacs at New York n .6seond
Class Mali Matter
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

We don't mind when r. Ford, a con-
trib to Bill Prices "Heard and Seem
column in The Washington Times,
signs his name to our verses "The
Double Standard; but when he signs
Chicot's Journalistic Jingle, "Help
Wanted" with his name, we object to
him as thief; and suggest that he be
blacklisted by the Column Conductors
Protective League.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-28

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We supply it
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-08-04
YOUNG GIRLS DARING CLIMB
Memory Of Heroic Deed Has Been
Treasured for Years In Little
English Village.

A daring climb was accomplished at
Repton, In Lancashire, England, some
years ago, the exploit being kept In
memory by a frayed fragment Of cord
that used to bangle from the cross
surrounding the lofty spire Of the
village church, and which was known
locally as Little Bessie's Rope" Bes-
sic was the daughter Of a Repton
steeplejack who one day, in spirit
Of bravado and In order to win bet
Of few shiIlings, undertook to climb
to the top of the spire and there don
a suit of clothes with which he had
been presented.
True to his word, he fixed his lad
ders on the day appointed and
climbed by their aid as far as the
bottom of the big copper bali which
upheld the cross. Over one arm Of
the cross he then lassoed a rope,
up which he climbed, and afterward
proceeded to don the clothes. Next,
standing upright, he started to throw
into the air, one by one, his old gar
ments. Suddenly, however, there was
a cry of alright from above, followed
my a great hush below. The foolish
fellow had somehow managed to
loosen the rope, his sole connecting
link with terra frma, and 1t slipped
down and hung suspended from the
topmOst ladder, 80 feet below. Two
or three men moved hesitatingly to-
ward the church, but child-woman
Of sixteen, his daughter, was there
first
Rung by rung she mounted until
she looked no bigger than doll. Then,
after three failures, clingnig mean.
while by one hand-and that one the
left-she succeeded in throwing the
noosed cord over the cross once more.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-08-04
A Generation.

A generation Is a single succession
in natural descent the children Of the
same parents; In years three genera
lions are accounted to make century.
The term generation Is also applied
to the whole body Of persons Of the
same period or living at the same
time, as the present generation. The
term is sometimes used with reference
to the average lifetime Of all persons
or synchronous age. The historical
average, or that Of all persons who
pass the stage of infancy, is commonly
reckoned at about thirty years, while
the physiological average, or that of
all who are born, is only about seven
teen years.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-08-04
soIomon's Temple.

The temple was the religious edifice
Of the Jews In Jerusalem. There were
three buildings successfully erected in
the same spot, and named after their
builders-the temple Of Solomon, the
temple of ZOrubbabel, and the temple
of Herod. The first was built by Solo
mon end was destroyed by Nebuchad-
nezzar about $50 B. G. The second
was built by the Jews on their return
from the captivity (about 537 B. c.;
and was pillaged or partly destroyed
several times. especially by AntiOchus
Epiphanes, Pompey and Herod. The
third. the largest and most magnifi-
cent Of the three, was begun by Herod
the Great, and was completely de-
stroyed at the capture Of Jerusalem
by the Romans "a. D. TOY. Various
attempts have been made toward the
restoration of the first and the third
Of these temples, but scholars are not
agreed in respect to architectural de-
tails.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-08-04
THE ROMANCE or WORDS
"sLAckouARp..

TN OLDEN days the palaces Of
i kings and the palaces Of mo-
bles were by no means as well
furnished and as clean as they
are at the present day. and 1t
was customary when members
of royalty or the nobility visited
each other that the guest should
bring with him all his kitchen
utensils, pots, pans and even a
certain amount of coal. The
sculliOns and lesser retalners
had charge Of these goods, rode
among them, were smutted by
them and received the contemp-
tuous appellation Of the "black
guard" In time the word came
to be understood as meaning
any troop or company Of raga-
mullins, and finally, when its
original application had been
buried In the lore Of centuries.
it was applied to single per-
son as an epithet of opprObri-
um-as being synonymous with
a rogue or rascal who would
stop at nothing in order to gain
his ends.
1t was In the earlier sense,
however, that Dryden used the
term as stage-directiOn Id his
play Don Sebastian" ENTER
the captain of the rabble with
his black guard at his heels"
and Fuller likewise spoke Of the
devils black guard" in the Cru
sades as meaning the number
of thieves, debtors and runaway
slaves who Joined in the Holy
war.
(Copyright.)
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-08-04
Guided by LIaht on Cloud.

In the night, when low clouds float in
a thin veil above the river, where
searchlights on battleships throw their
beams upon them, curious round
patch Of light can be seen on cloud.
Airmen flying above these clouds would
also see the patch of light and, in
clear weather, the long beams cast up
ward into the sky.
The suggestion has been offered that
air-lighthOuses should be provided with
vertical searchlights of great power.
Even in moderately foggy weather the
light would penetrate the cloud of mist
and be visible from above.-Popular
Science Monthly.