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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
From The Passing Show, London.

dividuals; the deepest, almost uncon-
scious movements Of the national
soul rather than brilliant theories, un-
answerable arguments or wild en-
thusiasms. Qualified individuals (of
whom I am not one) ought to, and,
indeed, must, speak with some effect.
"Any given crowd may be stupid and
even wicked. Yet I, who am no politi-
cal democrat, have deep-seated con-
viction that in simple morality, self
control and courage the people in
the mass is always better than its
leaders"
This is wisdom as fresh as mod
ern psychology and as old as Abra-
ham Lincoln. The imponderable ele-
ments-the latent sagacity of a
race, or its lack of sagacity-always
control history. A brilliant leader
can advance or retard, can make and
unmake, decades, centuries. In the
long run the race prevails, has al
ways prevailed, and always must
prevail.
That is one reason why we. must
preserve our American race against
too swift inroads of different races.
Fresh blood is welcome, but it must
be fused in our national strain. We
can never substitute theories, how
ever brilliant, for these ancient
racial instincts, the highest and most
precious Inheritance we possess.
Their vitality is our life's blood as
nation. By them we shall live
or die.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
Not Easy Naturalization
Citizenship Requirements Never So
Hard to Meet
To the Editor Of The Tribune.


10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent writing on
Too Easy Naturalization in to-dav's
issue ignores the fact that each appli-
cant for citizenship, as we'll as his wit
nesses, undergoes personal examination
by the Federal examiner, whose in
qulry covers every point suggested by
your correspondent and others quite as
germane.
In my twenty years practical expert
ence with the Naturalization Bureau
the requirements for citizenship were
never more difficult to meet than now
nor involved such expense of time and
money by the applicant. Merton A.
Sturges, chief naturalization examiner
Tor New York. urges that the present
routine for wouldbe citizens has been
rendered 30 onerous by special re-
quirements and subjects the applicant
and his witnesses to such unwarrant-
able delays that numbers of desirable
aliens give up in despair their efforts
to become citizens of our country.
On one side the alien is berated be-
cause he fails to seek citizenship, and
when he attempts to do so he meets
with varied and unexpected dificultie s
which tend to dishearten him and less
en- his respect for the government
with which ne seeks Identification.
WILLIAM E. DAVENPORT
Secretary Italian Settlement Society.
Brooklyn, April Is, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
A Week of Verse
Iron Had |
From Contemporary Veysej
H6N h~JY L~x

fFYom Contemporary peYseJ
IRON had /, beaten to endure,
Stone had /, hard and sure.
MY Iron has melted like the snow
That on white feet will come and 20:
My stone has broken ike the rain
Whose gray feet pass across the plain.
Stone and strong black iron, farewell!
| melt, flow, where white snow fell.
l fall, flow, where rains gray feet
Break and beat, break and beat.
Shall / forever river pass,
Bearing only mirror-glass,
Shall forever river flow,
Forging never an iron PROV?
Shall I wind and wander and run. :
And build no bulwark under the sun?
Stone and strong black iron! A river
Carries, calls, but builds-ah never,
Shall l forever a river rise
When storms break the trembling skies.
Laugh and sing-then silently
Bear my stars far out to sea,
GRACE FALLOW NORTON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
The Fallow Fields
From Contcnpororv Yerse

From Contemporary verse; -
I EFT the fields lie fallow
Bare and brown.
Let the great winds stride over them.
And the snow come down.
Let them lie open to the sun
To the patient rain,
And the dews Written them
Fer they yield again.
Plow in the sturdy weeds,
The common flower.
Let their wild vigor yield
A lusty dover.
Then after sun and snow,
After dew and sleet
From the earth will spring the green
Flame of the wheat
LETITIA STOCKETr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17


spoke in part as foILoaUs:
We are here to greet an old friend
now our close companion and trusted
councillor in the tents of victory We
welcome back this excellent spokesman
of France, bearing his message of brave
cheer and OF good will, and recall
with admiration and gratitude the
moments when the lightning flashes
Of his eloquence stirred our souls and
our minds and our hearts, when the
clouds Of war hung darkest over the
world.
To those among US who from the
beginning saw the full meaning of the
German attack on civilization in 1914
came slowly to be added the great
body of American public opinion.
America entered the war, and NJ. Vivi-
ami, in words never to be forgotten,
told US the full meaning Of that under
taking. and laid bare to US the ends
that were to be sought and the great
purposes that were at stake in series
OF addresses-and surely that before
the Senate of the United States
touched the highwater mark of mod
ern eloquence. He stirred our people
until they came fully to understand.
as they had not understood, that
France and Belgium and Britain and
Italy were fighting an American bat
tie, and we fastened to their side to
do our share.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
Presidential English
fFron, The Springfield Republican,

fF rom L ne SpTeT0Fetd RepUOttcurJ l
President Hardng's adoption of the
practice, revived by his predecessor,
Of addressing Congress in person has
naturally inspired comparisons of their
speech as we'll as of their literary
style. Observers agree that whereas
Mr.. Wilson is inclined to the broad
"a" Mr.. Harding follows the more
usual American practice except in u
few words, like "advantage"; it is q
point on which most speakers are not
entirely consistent.
Another point at which the Presi-
dent follows the American manner is
in the deliberate emphasis given to
unaccented first syllables, as in pro
foundry" compatible" complete, "
considerable" confusion" control"
undue "entirely," proclaimed,
maintained" In a public address,
however, it is not always easy to dis
tinguish this American drawl, as Brit
ons call it, from mere effort to be un-
derstood distinctly at distance; the
latter no doubt fully accounts for the
emphasis put on each syllable of heed
less-ness," which comes under q diff
ferent category-the American pecu-
liarity referred to is we'll illustrated
in Theodore Roosevelt's dee lighted"
which corresponds to 'vee-locity,"
noted by an English novelist in re-
cording American speech.
1t is not always easy to distinguish
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17

oy the appointment of George Nc
naeny, Leroy T. Hardness and John
: to compose the city trac-
aon commission Governor Miller re-
asems his pledge to select residents
y the city and men possessing the
fullest measure of popular conf
dence.
Mr. McAneny, who was the chief
.usnor of the dual contracts, may
Justly be regarded as the city's fore
eosf traction expert. His tireless
aoor in behalf Of the public and his
Ns'ssence on bargain which it is
.'v said was too severe on the COM
) ssa'es showed that in one negotia-
s'a az least the city's agent was a
.sen for the highly paid represen-
As'ves Of private capital. His ac-
Hance Of the commissions chair
asnip negatives the Islander that a
PIRACY is on to betray the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17

ly and that deposits are less active
appears to be merely another way
of saying that goods have not been
moving-less money used in buying
things because things are not get
ting marketed or are marketed at
lower prices. When the one thing
is true, the other is. When prices
are falling fewer men buy, and
those that buy pay less. Buying
less and paying less, they borrow
less. Similarly with the holders of
goods. Selling less and not replen-
ishing their stocks, they pay off
their obligations at the banks. The
contracting credits have been a mat
ter of declining prices-the declin-
ing prices both the cause and the
result of the diminished buying.
So these conclusions seem justi-
fled:
% That the present depression is
not due to lack of buying power or
to lack of credit facilities.
CD That as trade has contracted
in advance of credit, so the revival
of trade will precede the expansion
of credit.
(3) That nothing is requisite for
the revival Of trade but the return
of the disposition to buy, to employ
the actually existing supplies of pur-
chasing power. -'
(4) That as the restriction of buy
ing set in with the conviction that
prices would go higher, so the re-
vlval of buying now setting in with
many commodities is an expression
of the conviction that prices ara on.
ing no lower.
(5) That great speculation for the
rise IN certain of these commodities
IS hkely-is probably now organiz-
ing.
(6) That as to commodities trade
IN which is still dull, the cause is
the belief that these commodities
have still to participate in the gen.
eral reduction of prices.
CD That in certain fields of raw
materials the stubborn resistance to
any readjustment of prices is serving
merely to prolong the stagnated sale
and production of these modities
and is the determining influence to
retard the recovery of the allied and
consuming trades.
80 That iron, steel, lumber, &C.
ment, brick and coal have still to
accept their relative fall.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17

I1tdidIlCIlC Lilies
From The PG0anJ
an a mountain-side
I found a crowd of lilies
Dancing and holding
Their little white skirts out wide.
listened long.
But could hear no music
Yet there must have been music,
For the lilies danced SO gaily.
Holding
Their little white skirts out wide.
They danced as sunlight dances
On sheet Of windy water,
Or as the stars, when the night ID
frosty,
To keep their white feet warm.
Ny body went to swsying,
And out | caught my skirts.
danced, too, but oh! so badly!
For / couldn't hear the music
Tho held my skirts out wide.
HILDA L. NORMAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
Own Your Own Home

Can the homecoming instinct be
revived in New York? Those ba-
nand the Gown Your Home" exposi-
ton, which is now open at the 23d
Regiment Armory, at 16sth Street
and Broadway, think it can be. At
Chicago the exposition was a great
success. People stood in line for
hours waiting to get in.
Homecoming is economic. but
that's not all. A home is q material
possession; but it is even more-it is
spiritual one. 1t is a shelter. but
1T is also an expression of thrift and
character that makes for self-respect
and develops better children, better
citizenship and better government.
1t wholesomely Identifies family
with community in ways nothing
else does. A great defect of New
York is that it is city Of renters.
The reasons its people have sunk
INTO tenants are familiar. With
vast population detached housing
means too impossible distances from
working places. The multiple house
Is an essential, yet cooperative own
ershlp has never been adequately
promoted. Our people have largely
come from lands where homecoming
is not social habit. Moreover, laws
and customs inappropriate to urban
conditions survive here from DAYS
when Americans were country dwell
ers and villagers.
For example, an insurance COM
pany recently offered to lend s1O.-
oOO,coo through. the building and
loan associations. But the law allows
insurance companies to lend only so
per cent of real estate appraisal.
and the average homeseeker cannot
pay for half at the beginning. The
restriction needs loosening, and like
wise there is need for more clear
~ recognizing and safeguarding
what may be called horizontal titles.
Realty law is too vertical-too much
assumes that the only ownership is
the one which extends from the
earth's center to the sky. Building
societies have not been sufficiently
encouraged; yet they number 10000.
and the mortgages held by them
total two and one-half billion dollars
and 100000 home purchase loans
were made by them last year. They
are doing more to relieve the housing
shortage than all other agencies
combined, despite the anomaly that
the small savers have on deposit in
New York State alone two and
half billions at per cent, while the
same people are paying per cent on
the value of the houses they rent.
The Gown Your Home" move
ment is solidly based on the sound
principle that the best way to get
thing done is to do it yourself. 1t
does not lean on subsidy. A family
can well afford to borrow money at
high rate to own a home. Such an
ownership beats the landlord, for
there are no vacant periods and the
repair bill is kept at g minimum.
Last year Philadelphia added $4,000
to its already large list of home own
ers. The record is calculated to
make New York ashamed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17

accent, in the sense Of syllable stress,
from emphasis due to context, aud the
latter presumably explains the force
given. by Mr.. Harding to the first syl-
liable of indirect; when it closely
follows direct" such accentuation of
the distinguishing syllable is custom
airy, but should not be taken as the
norma! accentuation of the word. On
the whole, President Harding's speech
seems to show high percentage OF
normally, and he deviates from hiz
predecessor in pronouncing either"
and neither" as most Americans and
nearly all Ohioans do.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
The Epilogue of "A House.
Modern Morality Plav

From The Chapbook)
THE House Itself:
Il am their Housed
I resemble
The drawing Of child.
Drawing "Just q House" a child
draws me
With cowstall beside it, maybe.
or willow tree,
Or aspens that tremble.
That's as may be.
But all the other houses, Of all na.
tons,
The simple houses Of the country:
the grand houses of the Town
All, all the houses beneath the far
stretching sky
Shall have much the same fates asI
And they that dwell in me.
All, all shall mark the pressing Of
generations
On the heels of preceding genera
tons;
Shall bear with folly;
Shall house JOY and melancholy;
At seasons shall be hung with holly:
On given days they shall have the
blinds drawn down.
They pass into the hands Of genera
tiOns
New. These shall remain
For short space or long,
Masterful, cautious, strong:
Hardy, confident or overload.
But strong hands falter:
F'rosts come; great winds; drought:
The tiles blow loose; rooftrees wear
out;
Rain
Percolates down by some rafter.
SO their youths wear out;
Until they may become very gentle
and mild;
For certain they shall become rat
ridden and very old,
Having stood too long;
So they go down to the ground.
The circle comes round
All over again.
Over and over againi
And if You rise on this earth !. thou
sand years after
| have fallen to the ground
Your fate shall be the same 7
1t is only the name !
That shall alter.
FORD MADDOX HUEFFER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
NV PRAYER

fFron The L0ndom Mercury
n GOD. ray God, where'er thou art,
Keep my beloved in Thy Heart:
Fold in Thy Heart that heart so bright
Heal him with Thy most gentle light.
And since Thou mad'st forgetfulness,
Forget whate'cr Thou findst amiss;
And since Thou mad'st remembering.
Remember every lovely thing.
And then, my God, lean down and
And, plying, remember me.
NINA GUST.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
Backsliders
From The Toledo Blade

fFT0m ne I 0Eed0 HIddeJ
The potency of prayer will receive q
test if the 100000 members of the W.
c. T. T., responding to the appeal
from Chicago, ask heavens aid in the
movement to abolish tobacco The "if''
must be kept carefully in mind. 1t is
our humble opinion that out of the
100000 there are probably $4,000 who
are uncertain in their hearts that to-
bacco is what it's enemies paint it to
be and question the advisability of
bringing the Divinity into the affair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
Personal Memory of lincoln

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l read in your good paper this
morning the letter about Abraham Lin
coins death at Ford's Theater. in 1866.
During the war l shook hands with
him. | feel the inspiration of it now,
and will always regard it as the great
est honor OF my life. l am in my eighty
seventh year. JOHN H. ALLEN.
Yonkers, N. y. April Is, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17

Few legislatures have been as
ambitious and competent as the
legislature of 1920. Others have
been, perhaps, as capable and we'll
mentioned. Yet this years Legisla-
lure stands out with a record unique
h our time, not only for doing things
but for doing them with a new en-
rgy and in a new spirit.
This year the Legislature didn't
drift, didn't malinger, didn't try to
play lone hand. 1t cooperated IN
reservedly with the Governor in
carrying out we'll defined program.
The Governor led, and the Legisla-
ture acknowledged his leadership.
Albany has been a changed place
aimee Governor Miller arrived there.
BE went into Office with no idea of
accommodating himself to the old
Jungle life there. He wanted to rae
and slash and let in orderliness and
modernity. He energized the Legis-
lature and charged it with much of
bis own reformatory zeal. It's
achievement is, therefore, his in a
very large measure.
Until this year there was only a
distant and vagrant recognition at
Albany of the fact that the first
duty Of a state government is to
operate efficiently and economically
Expenditure had steadily increased
and service had been wastefully ex-
banded and pyramided. This Legis-
lature has been the first in a long
time to call halt on the spenders.
It has appropriated S10,00o,000 less
than the last Legislature did, cutting
s65, 100000 or more out of the est
mates. 1t also has passed many
laws simplifying administration and
making future operating saving pos
sible. This sharpening of a long
blunted sense of public responsibility
Is the greatest gain of the session.
Governor Miller's broad program
Of reconstruction has excited opposi-
ton. That was inevitable. But few
will deny him the credit of having
tried sincerely and fundamentally
to solve the many difficult problems
which reconstruction has presented.
The traction laws are a long step
toward the solution of local Difficult
ties. The highly desirable port
treaty with New Jersey has been
approved. An investigation of the
dylan administration has been au-
thorized. A concurrent resolution
mas been passed submitting an
amendment to extend the Governors
Term from two to four years. This
opens the way to further admins
trative reforms which may eventual
y put New York among the states
with modernized governments. The
amendment of the primary law may
even prove step toward curing de-
iects in the primary system and
lodging party control more satisfac-
1or1ly with the voters, for the nomi-
natlng convention will go for all
time If it shows the old defects.
1t isn't necessary to indorse
everything that the Legislature has
oone IN order to give unqualified
praise to its industry and devotion
70 duty. 1t has made mistakes. But
N the main it has kept faith with
the voters. Through it's manifold
ana helpful activities it has recov~
sfea much of its lost prestige as
Huiy representative body.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
The Real Reds

fFrom The Louisville Courier-Joarnal)
The real parlor Bolsheviki are the
miscreants who, having had nip Of
your diminishing private stock before
going in to dinner, ruthlessly accept
your perfunctory invitation to have
their glasses refilled.
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~ eas purchsse merchs ndise advertised In THE
seiSuNE with absolute safery--fsr = uissatisfac-
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- b ssy your money back upon request No red
~. Ne uuIbbns. We make sooc promptly Il
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w,rsrn OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ne Associated Press Ia exclusively entitled to
a us for republication Of all news dispatches
rrcted 70 II not otherwise credited in this
pspe ard also the local ncws OF spontaneous
sir.r published herein
All nights Of republication OF al other matter
k,rsin also are reserved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17

tFrom The Cleveland Plain Dealer,
The Naval Academy at Annapolis
has abolished hazing. They are think-
ing OF making such abolition an annual
event there.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17

That Is one way. Can it be possible
that the world has learned so little of
the meaning of the last seven years that
it would sentence France to that awful
doom?
Then there is another way, and that
way is by such consultation and asso-
clatlon of those who have Just now
been engaged together as shall build
every known barrier, every barrier
which law and reason and justice and
the power of great combined force
of liberty loving people can erect
against an attack like that of 1914.
Of course, there are differences
among US, wide differences as to how
that should be done; but, gentlemen,
believe me, it is easy to exaggerate
those differences, and easier still to ex-
aggerate their significance, because if
there is any one thing on which the
heart and mind Of the world is set it
is that the combined authority of the
free nations shall make 1914 forever
impossible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
The Field Of Ideas

Now we find new names-strange
names-on the lips of American chill
dren. BY the side Of Vicksburg we have
written Verdun, by the side of Ante
tam we have written Chateau Thierry,
by the side of the Wilderness we have
written Belleau Wood, and by the eide
of Gettysburg we have written the
Marine.
But the end of the war is not vet.
hostllities are over, but the great
struggle carried out on the field of bat
tie is now going on in the field of ideas.
There are those who whispered to US
that perhaps we have been too cx-
IRENE; perhaps we have been too
severe; perhaps We have been unjust.
NO, gentlemen, we have not. If we
have erred it is in falling short Of a
full appreciation of the tremendous re-
sponsibilities that still rest upon the
people of the United States.
The American people change at inter-
walls their Presidents and their policies.
but they do not change their principles
or their patriotism They do not pro-
pose to allow any form of insidious
propaganda, whether it originate in
Moscow or in Berlin, or in some nearer
spot, to separate US from the great
peoples with whom we have just now
fought.
1t Is our set purpose-we of America
and we of the English speaking world
generally-to cleave to France, and to
make secure in the field Of ideas those
great purposes that were just now de-
Tended and mplished with such
awful slaughter and loss on the field
of battle.
Security for France
Let no one mistake-a real Ameri-
can, in passing upon the policies of
France, may try to be just, but he can
not be dispassionate. He loves France.
France asks security. Why not
why not? That soil, every foot Of
which is sacred to modern civilization.
every town and village of which is the
seat and center of some precious as
ISOLATION in the world of achievement
of letters or of art-there it lies, the
home of the most agile minded. the
most manysided and the most cult
waited people in the modern world. Why
should they not wish to be secure ?
Why have they not the right to be
secure!
There are two ways in which France
may perhaps be secure-two ways. at
least. which may be tried One of them
is the old way, tried so often and failed
so often-the old way of leaving her
to stand alone to face potential enc
mics of greater population, separated
from her by no natural barrier and
therefore compelled against her will
and her desire to be armed to the
teeth and to bear the awful burdens
of huge ornaments in order not to be
caught again unprepared.