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New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
Scared

The request of the Meyer commit
tee for the services of Captain
Dan Costigan is met by refusal
and venomous attack. He is ac-
cused by Commissioner Hirshfleld
of having labored most vigilantly to
get evidence against a police cap
tain who was suspected Of grating.
1t appears that, with the knowledge
of his superiors and in conformity
with their orders, Captain Costigan
established dummy" saloon to see
whether or not the suspect would
try to hold it up for protection"
For this offense, because of the
zeal and vigilance he displayed, the
city administration does not regard
it as safe or wise to allow him to
assist the Meyer committee.
The Hirshfeld revelation throws
light on one of the mysterious rea-
sons why Dan Costigan was reduced
from an inspectorship to a captaincy.
It is revealed that the Hylan police
management felt there was no tell
ing what the fellow would do next. He
needed curbing. So he was not only
denoted but sent to lonely post to
listen to frogs.
Some curiosity has existed as to
what the Hylan administration
snows about itself. A sort of an
swer was given when the Lock-
wood committee struck hot trail.
His Honor conceded the need Of an
inquiry, but held that he, and no
other, should control the inquiry.
Then he tried to head off the Whit
man grand jury inquisition. He since
has thrown every impeachment his
legal advisers could think of in the
wsy Of the Meyer committee. Now
he won't lend Dan Costigan to the
connmittee--feels the need of keeping
rim closely confined.
All those things are symptomatic
and indicative. They are sympto-
matte of the fear that shakes His
Honor and. are indicative of his
knowledge of what may be uncov-
cred in his administration.
Is The Tribune unfair? Then what
IS the reason for His Honor's aversion
to ullpadlocking Dan Costigan, whose
incorruptibility he does not question,
whose special ability and knowledge
ne does not challenge, and whose
vigilance he strikingly certifes?
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
Anti-Red Fernent In Siberia

The Far Eastern Siberian Repub-
lie, a subsidiary of Soviet Russia.
is faced by two revolts- in the
west, at Omsk, the other in the
Maritime Province, along the Pacific.
Toxic reports an anti -Bolshevist
revolution III western Siberia, which
If it lasts will cut off conlmunica-
tions between Russia and the Far
Eastern Siberian government, with
headquarters at Chita, east Of Lake
BaikaI.
Vladivostok is once more in the
hands of White forces, which have
recently cleared large part of the
Maritime Province toward the Amur.
Semenoff, the former Cossack and
anti-Red leader in eastern Siberia.
has left Harbin and tried recently to
land at Vladivostok. But the local
White commanders there, with the
backing of the foreign consuls,
wouldn't allow him to come ashore
To the new rulers of Vladivostok
all banditry is alike, and they OBJ
ject to the White variety as much
as to the Red.
There are illusions in the dis
patches from the Far East to a
project to transport Wrangel's
army from Gallipoli to eastern
Siberia. The French government
for a long time provisioned this
army, but at last grew weary of the
expense. Nothing would please the
Allied control in Constantinople
better than to get rid of Wrangel's
followers. And the only open door
for them into Russia just now is
Vladivostok. But, considering the
distance to be covered, the project
seems fantastic.
Japan and China have refused %
recognize the Chita government in
spite of many appeals from the
latter particularly for lifting of
the embargo on trade and the re-
opening of the Chinese branch Of
the Siberian railroad. Japan still
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
Liue Naval ToJoics
Mem English Dreadnoughts- An1phibious Airplane
By Quarterback

England stopped the construction of
big ships and scrapped many battle
ships Immediately following the armi-
stice. This was sound policy. 1t was
dictated by the necessity Of economy
and because of doubt as to the design
of capital ship that could resist sub
marine and air attack. British admi-
rails who differed from Sir Percy Scott
as to the uselessness Of battleships
freely admitted that present-day dread
noughts are so vulnerable that they
should be modified and strengthened If
possible and that future ships should
be specially constructed to resist mod
erh weapons.
1t Is pity that the United States
did not follow England's sensible ex-
ample in 1918 and begin over again
with new ideas in building new navy.
To be sure, the plans of our dread
noughts and battle-cruisers may have
been in some measure modified as a
result Of the World War; but we are
justified in saying that completely new
designs and a careful revision of the
1916 program would have been far
wiser. Such a policy would have pro-
.vided 1922 navy instead of 1916
navy.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
Misers of Intellect

If the mind is greater than the
body the discovery of a new mental
characteristic may easily be more
important than the discovery of
new disease. SO the recent declara-
tion Of Dean Mackenzie, of Detroit,
that university professors are Elm
tellectual misers" is highly signifi-
cant, and proper analysis of it may
enable one to put finger on a spot
Of weakness in our educational
system.
The passion for collecting things
is inherent in every human being. 1t
generally takes the form of dollars
and cents. But not always. 1t is
not uncommon for men to forego ma
terial comforts in order to satisfy
their cravings for collections. Henri
Fabre, the French naturalist, lived
all his life in abject poverty for the
privilege of collecting insects.
The Indictment that Dean Mac
kenzie brings against our university
professors is precise and understand
able. The choice is presented to
them Of devoting their lives to serv-
ice and teaching on the one side and
to the selfish accumulation and ex-
ploitation of knowledge on the other.
They often yield to the pressure and
choose the latter. The Dean, who
has had opportunities for close OBJ
servation, declares that the univer-
sity professor Of to-day "has no hui
man interest in his students. To
him they are mere automatons. He
is an intellectual miser, not a
teacher"
An interesting confirmation Of this
indictment is seen in the increasing
passion for publicity shown by uni
versity savants. Indeed, there is
scarcely any depth to which the col
lege professor Of to-day will not de-
scend to attract attention. He will
become the editor Of weekly literary
reviews. He will make after-dinner
speeches. He viii build books on
psychology. He will even write let
ters to newspapers.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
The Real War Criminals

The German Supreme Court at
Leipsic has acquitted the U-boat
commander, Lieutenant Neumann,
who sank the British hospital ship
Dover Castle. The defense was that
Neumann had not exceeded his or
ders or shown any personal barbarity
IN executing them. On this showing
the court held that no individual
responsibility for violation of the
rules Of sea warfare could attach
to him.
We're this principle logically ap-
piled 1t might bring punishment to
the chief German war criminals. So
far only officers of minor rank have
been prosecuted, and these under
lings, according to the German Su-
prene Court are not to be punished
II they can quote instructions. 1t is
held that it was not their business
to consider whether the commands
given them were or were not in
conflict with international agree
ments and recognized usages gov
erning the conduct of war.
1t follows that real responsibility
Tor ruthless submarine warfare, the
sinking of hospital ships and mer-
chant ships, neutral or Allied, carry
ing non-combatant passengers; for
the bombing Of unfortifed towns
and land hospitals, the slaughter
OF enemy civilians and the wanton
obstruction of property outside the
zone of battle rest with the Ger
man higher-ups who determined
that war should be waged on new
basis. The German policy was de
hberate and cold-blooded. 1t was
predlcated on the assumption that
The fighting was to occur mainly
on foreign soil and that Germany
would be fairly safe from reprisals.
She had no merchant marine on the
high seas. The Germans could
afford therefore to commit atroci-
sies, though, with characteristic in
ability to take their own medicine,
they shrieked aloud to the world
about the Cossack atrocities in East
Plpssia--most of them proved after
ward TO have been sheer inventions.
VIII the court go after the high
command which framed the Ger
zaan policy Of guthlsssness on Land
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
The Sexes in Athletics

Mile. Suzanne Lenglen has main
tanned her repute as the best lawn
tennis player of her sex by defeat
ing our Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt NAL
lory rather easily in the tourna-
ment at st. Cloud. In the surpris-
ing renascence Of French athletics
the victor is the preeminent figure
Some Of Mile. Lenglen's admirers
have boasted that she could hold her
own with a first-class man player.
But Mr.. Tiiden has dispelled this
notion and says he would be glad to
try another match, giving any odds
she might ask. Feminine athleti-
cism is young, and it may be that an
Amazon will some day arrive who
can swing the racquet like a Tilden
or Johnston. But to-day probably
no woman entrant would last be-
yond the second round in an open
tennis championship.
The extraordinary play of Miss
Cecil Leitch on the links indicates
that golf is perhaps a less mascu-
line game than tennis. Her medal
scores compare favorably with those
OF men at championship meetings.
The finalists in the New Jersey title
event on Saturday showed nothing
so good as Miss Leitch's ordinary
game, yet one Of them had beaten
jerome Travers the day before.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
Sea and Land Plane

An amphibious airplane has been in
vented. It is success. 1t can alight
upon and rise from the sea or the land,
as the case may be.
The amphibious plane meets an i'm
portant military and naval require
ment. The so-called seaplane cannot
ailght upon land and the present-day
army planes cannot remain long afoat
if they drop into the sea. This Is a
serious handicap to the air forces of
the army and navy.
All nations are building airplane car
riers for their navies. They have an
ticipated the use of land planes for
general naval purposes at sea, and it
would be necessary for such planes to
fly from and land upon the upper deck
of the carrier. Under many conditions
when the carrier is rolling or pitching
in heavy sea the landing would be
very difficult. In such case it would
rnanifestly be better for the plane to
alight upon the water under the lee"
of the big ship and be hoisted on
board in the same general manner as
lifeboat. This is not difficult mat
ter. 1t is perfectly practicable.
Moreover, the army will gain by the
invention of the amphibious plane.
Army aviators must frequently fly over
large bodies of water. Landing upon the
water is often much safer than landing
upon terra frma.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
The Coming 7,ou,er
JULY 4, 1862
THE springing breeze brought in tt

SpLI ~ i0V@
THE springing breeze brought in to
a me
breath of May. tang of sea,
Waiting my wits away, fear
From Kent and Blackstone and Bouvier:
And then the formal message came,
Signed with an old-time neighbor's
name:
Would not be, he wrote to say,
Their speaker Independence Day?
For twenty dollars? Brethren, yea!
So, honored in my native land,
/ rode in pomp behind the band;
And DER the hills where once he flew
| made the old eagle scream anew.
On benches ranged among the pines
Goshen folk sat In serious lines,
While with great palm leaf fans they
beat
Against the slow tSfpor Of the heat.
Closing, our year of doubtful war
! viewed; then / looked with hope be-
fore.
God grant" said !, "the slave be free!
Yet If not, still this flag must be
The flag of Union-at the cry
Of Union still we choose to die!"
Or somewhat thus; for my eager youth
Looked through Abe Lincoln's eyes at
truth.
I ceased. Hot anger in his
face,
Father stood shouting in his place
| saw him through kind of mist,
The unbending Abolition;st.
"Who could predict" words |
caught
"That to such pass should be brought,
That my gray heirs would know this
shame,
That young wretch would here pro-
claim
Such brutal sentiments, and dare
In Goshen town my name to bearw
He glared about, but none replied;
In the bewildered stir, spied
My mother, and gained her side.
Henry" she sobbed, "goodby-you will
Just make the train at Wolcottville."
came away then. pledged
my breath
To keep that Covenant with Death.
In three months more I lay in bed,
With pillows heaped beneath my head,
Listening to what they said was best
For certain bullets in my chest,
When curiously it flashed on me
had come away without my feel
G. S. B.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07

and sea and place tho guilt where
it belongs, even if the trial leads
to Tirpits, Falkenhayn and Luden.
dorff and to the once Aller-H0chste,
now a crestfallen, cringing exile in
Doom? Or will it be solemnly
adjudged, should they be brought
into court, that they We're not guilty
because they took no personal part
in the atrocities? The fact that the
court did not, as it's first step, sum-
mon the higher-ups before it is not
likely TO subdue slepticism. The
plan seems to be to let the little fell
lows off on one plea and the big fell
lows on a contradictory one.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
listers Parliament

With listers new Parliament
about to be opened at Belfast with
great ceremonies, the time seems fit
ting to intrude on the American de-
bate concerning Ireland, conducted
with great heat on both sides, but
little pretense of knowledge, with a
brief description of the new system
whose double acceptance would AUTO
inatically bring peace.
The bottom principle of the new
Home Rule act is that there are two
peoples in ireland: but closely asso-
ciated with this is recognition that
at an early date they may become
one, and in the mean time have many
common interests which can be ad-
vanced by joint action. SO there are
to be two Parliaments-one for six
counties of northern Ireland and the
other for the remainder Of the island.
Each Parliament includes a House
of Commons and a Senate. The
House IS to be popularity elected un-
der the proportional representation
system and the Senate is to consist
of lord mayors, church dignitaries,
peers, representatives of business or
ganizations and the like.
Each Parliament, within the limits
of the act, has complete power with
in its territory. But form of union
is provided by creating for all Ire
land council Of twenty members,
ten elected by each Parliament.
This council is to have control of
railways, fisheries and contagious
diseases Of animals, or any other
matter transferred to it by the two
Parliaments.
To share in part the burden of the
imperial debt it is provided that pro-
visional!y s90,ooo,ooO shall be an
nually paid; but the proviso con-
spicuousiy favorable to southern Ire
land is that Ulster, with one-fourth
the population, shall ray ID per cent
Of the sum. Nothing is asked on
account Of the vast sums contributed
by the imperial treasury to establish
peasant proprietorship, practically
all of which went to southern Ire
land. Ireland will continue to have
representation in the Imperial Par
lament, but the number of seats is
to be reduced from 105 to 46-that
is. made about the same on a popu-
lation basis as the present repre-
sentation Of England, Wales and
Scotland. When the act is accepted
by either section it is to go into
effect in the sections. or section as
senting.
The Home Rule devolved is
broader than that carried by the
Gladstone bill, or by the bill of 1914,
whose non-application after enact
ment has been matter of southern
Irish complaint.
Under Sim Fein influences south
ern Ireland has not availed itself of
the Home Rule offer. But the offer
is to remain indefinitely open, and
there are reasons for hoping, if the
new system works fairly we'll in
northern Ireland, that it will be
adopted by southern Ireland, leaving
the question Of closer insular union
to future developments.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
Fifth Avenue Traffic
Signal Towers Called Unsightly Oh.
structions-Another Plan

structlons-Another Plan
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: James A. Douglas In this morn.
ing's Tribune expresses the right ides
about those Fifth Avenue towers. They
are a series Of monstrosities, and are
interesting only as showing how many
different waya can be concocted for
spending money needlessly.
They are no moro needed than would
be a row Of posts to guide the ferry
boats across the open waters Of North
River. ,s...
If the object is to synehronize the
cross-street traffic and permit up-and-
down traffic to ego through" without
frequent stops Ga desirable object. OF
course)s it could be done by one
traffic manager located at, say, Twenty
fifth Street, who would press button,
lighting signal on all lamp posts up
to 59th Street. This would do away
with these unsightly towers, which sre
an obstruction on the most beautiful
avenue in the world-to say nothing Of
their cost and operating expense.
The traffic on Fifth Avenue may be
likened to a stream of water passing
through a pipe; a man at Twenty-ffth
Street opens g valve and the stresm
flows uptown for, say, two minutes, at
brisk pace. When the tail Of this
stream passes any given cross street
the cross-town traffic IS opened auto
1natically. 1t remains open for tive
minutes, until the stream is turned on
again, and the whole system works
automatically. The same operations
to apply to the downtown stream.
Why the need for any towers, much
less more towers? J. L. TINDALE.
New York, June 4, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
The Sinful Village
Coings-On Within a Stones Throw
of WASHINGTON Suuare

of Washington Square
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is indeed worthy movement
that is afoot to cleanse the city of an
immoral plague spot refer, of
course, to the heroic campaign which
is being waged in the courts and pub
lie prints against that most exotic and
bizarre haunt of curious evil Green
wich Village.
At last our stolid citizenry IS aroused
to the peril south of Fourteenth Street,
where art has planted its flaming ban
ner in the very midst Of most re-
spectacle metropolis. Our indomitable
gendarmerie are awake to their duty,
and windsor tie and smock have become
as red flags to these legal bulls.
May I tell you something of the evil
that my own eyes have witnessed in
this bohemia of the Western World
of the sinful sights that have seen
within stones throw Of Washington
Square?
In the Commercial Restaurant, one
night, | saw poet eating steak !
wept, to think that poetry, in addition
to its intrinsic immortality. should bear
the stigmata OF being profitable. Oh,
that ever poet should be able to eat
a steak!
In the Demon Bookshop I saw a
woman of sixty-hve smoking cigar
cite at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Note the time we'll, gentle reader, for
therein lies the kernel of the sin. In
the Ghostly Cavern saw youth of
barely twenty-five playing a ukclele in
most abandoned fashion, with q
short-haired girl slapping his knee to
accentuate the rhythm.
have seen some hundreds of col
lege youths, Western buyers, suburban
rakes, teachers delegations, high school
girls, clerks, soda water fountain
Ganymedes and hashhouse Hebes, all
dashing about the Village, convinced
that they we're seeing Life with a capi-
tai l., making the night hideous with
their gigglcs and their bohemian shout
ings, with their uptown jazz souls
thrilling to a great adventure.
1t is too much~-too much for the
honest failures and third-rate artists
who for years have found a haven of
peace and quiet in Greenwich Village.
The Village has been exploited by some
clever real estate dealers and few
restaurateurs, but there is one con-
ISOLATION. After Harlem and the Bronx
have moved to Greenwich Village per-
haps the old villagers will be able to
found new bohemia in deserted Bronx
and Harlem. ABNER Y. MADERN.
The Village, June 4, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
Modern Features

Following a thorough discussion,
after making experiments for three
years with air and torpedo planes, and
with intelligent appreciation of the
submarine menace, England has be-
gun the construction of four new capi-
tai ships. Nobody knows the exact
details of their design. 1t is reported
that they will carry 18-inch or 2O-inch
guns; that they will have an upper
deck with six OR seven inch armor to
resist bombs, and that they will be
protected against torpedoes by
"macaroni tubing" under water.
This design is no doubt intended to
provide elasticity in the underwater
hull and a distribution Of the effect
Of explosion over wide area to pre-
vent puncture of the inner skin. We
can only imagine how this is done. It
has been suggested that there will
be successive layers of plates and
tubes so that when the blow comes
upon the outer plate it will be trans
mitted to an inner layer of tubes and
by them to another skin of plates and
so on, the final explosive effort being
distributed over such a wide area that
the inner bottoms may no. give way.
This will be a difficult and expensive
construction, even if it is effective.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
A Passage From EIazlitt
tho Editor of The Tribune.

To tho Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: After the recent popular rsvi-
val Of John Gays "The Beggar's Opera
produced originally in November, 1727,
the following comments of William
Hazlitt may be interesting to your
readers. The quotation Is from "on
Reading New Books" written at Flor
ence, May. 1925:
SIS it not provoking with US 70 see
the 'Beggar's Opera cut down to two
acts. because some of the allnsions are
too broad. and others not understood
And in America this sterling satire IS
hooted off the stage, because, fortu-
nately, they have no such state Of
manners as it describes before Their
eyes and because, unfortunately, they
have no conception of anything bas
what they see. America is singularg
and awkwardly situated in this respect
1t is new country with an old Ian
guagc, and, while everything abou'
them is of days growth they are con-
stantly applying to US to know Whist %
think of it, and taking theie opinion.
from our books and newspapers wita
strange mixture of servility and OF
the spirit of contradiction. They sfs
an independent state in politics; IN lls'
erature they are still colony from Us
not out of their leading strings ana
strangely puzzled how to determine oe'
tween the Edinburgh and QuarteFy
&eviews. We have naturalized soms
of their writers. who had formed them
selves upon us.''
W. CLARK DURANT.
Dobbs Ferry. N. ". June 5, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
y. S. Ships OutcIassed

Whatever the features of these new
British ships, of one thing we may
be sure-they will be up to date as
far as possible and they will outclass
anything in our 1916 program. England
would never at this time begin the con-
struction of ships that were not su-
perior to anything afoat.
1t is interesting to note Sir Percy
Scott's comments upon these new
ships: "The four ships will prob
ably not be completed until the spring
of 1924. If the weapons of
to-day are not good enough to sink
these ships we have, at any rate, three
years to invent and perfect devices
that will sink them. The poor battle
ship, her death is predicted before
she is even born"
No matter whether Sir Percy Scott is
right or ,wrong-the United States
should keep up to date in battleship
design and should supply our navy
with strong submarine and ak xexsGs.