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New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
Merely Another Safeguard

The bills just introduced at Albany
under which the Governor is en-
powered to conduct search into city
affairs are not intended as a substi-
tute for the MISUNDERSTANDING bill.
The latter measure provides for a
specific investigation into the con-
duct of the present city administra-
ton. The necessity for this becomes
daily more evident.
The Governors request for power
is born of the conviction that city
governments should be responsible
somewhere. To grant him these
powers will be to establish an addi-
tional safeguard against incompe-
tents or rascals who happen to be
elected to office. For this reason the
Legislature should comply with the
Governors request.
But neither the Governor nor any
other enlightened member of the
state government desires to delay
the passage of the Robinson-Stein-
berg bill, which relates to broader
matters and specific emergency.
Until that bill becomes law and the
legislative investigation is actually
at work the people Of New York will
have no assurance Of finding out
what is the matter with their city
administration.
The Whitman inquiry can run
down detached instances Of corrup-
tion and indict officials who may be
guilty of it; but against misrule, in
many of its aspects, it has no
weapons. Mr.. Whitman frankly rec
ognizes this and gives the adequate
reason that he can inquire only into
criminal ofYenses.
OF paramount necessity just now
is public investigation which will
force everybody connected with the
administration into the light and dis
close the exact nature of the disease
which has infected the municipality.
Following such an investigation the
Governor, by the exercise of his
power of removal, can bring about q
vast improvement in conditions.
Naturally, the Robinson-S -Steinberg
bill Is opposed. The entire Penal
Code would be opposed if it were in
process Of enactment at Albany to-
day, for it seriously interferes with
the activities of large and grow
ing class which is operating in New
York City.
But the chief opposition comes
from the enemies Of good govern
ment. And that is an opposition that
the Legislature cannot afford to con-
slider.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
Keeping Busy

During the period Of rising prices
the employers Of the country
showed good sense by accepting
higher dollar wage scales. They did
not enjoy the changes. In many
cases they worked grave injustices,
leading to individual bankruptcies.
But there was philosophic submis-
sion to Tho Inevitable.
Sine lily, with six months Of fall
ing pre-. employees have shown for
the mos part similar good sense by
accepting lower dollar wage scales.
Again, the process was not enjoyed,
but again there was bowling to in
exorable conditions.
On both sides of the pay check
our people have shown remarkable
restraint under trying circum-
stances. This demonstrates, despite
the discouragements sometimes felt
over results, that the common school
pays-that reflection and expert
"nce have opened the minds of our
.eople to the simplicities of sound
economics concerning production
and each PERSONS share therein and
to rejection of the false and pov-
erty-creating philosophy that mat
ters can be made better by making
them worse.
All of US arc engaged in a strug-
gle to retain relativities. We call it
maintaining a standard Of living. 1t
is not easy in a period Of rapidly
fiuctuating prices. Every one is
disturbed when the average purchas-
ing power of the dollar is disturbed.
One that swells is as bad as one that
shrinks. Stability is the major con-
sideration. The effort Of statesman
ship should have been more than it
mas been in the direction Of main
tanning price and wage levels. In
stead there was imitation, followed
by defation.
What Is the way to stop the
witch dance Of the dollar? OF
course, reliance must be in the main
on the working Of the natural laws
OF trade. Things that are over
valued tend TO be produced in
larger quantities, and things under
valued to be produced in lesser. The
farmers have found this out.
But other factors enter. Dur
ing the period Of war preparation
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
The German Ferment

Like the Bourbons, the German
ronarchists forget nothing, but, un-
like the former, they seem to have
learned thing or two in the last
year. The Kapp foray failed as an
attempt at restoration; as an object
lesson it fulfilled a mission. 1t has
taught the Prussian reactionaries
that under present German condi-
tions even an anti-democratic aim
can be most easily achieved by
democratic. or quasi-democratic,
method. The general strike which
frustrated the military dictatorship
striven for by LudendorfF under the
trademark of the Kapp-Luttwitz-
Trebitsch syndicate has proved the
vanity of trying to make Germany
safe for autocracy against the will
of the masses. The new leaf turned
by the Prussian royalists seems .
bear the text, "If you want to sad
die the people, first convert their
faith and peryert their judgment"
The old order worked it the other
way around. Recognition of this
educational necessity is the idea un-
deriying the formation Of bodies
ike the Orgesch, Orka and others.
Inc change of royalist tactics is
clearly realized by the friends of
snc republic. The New Year mani
festo of the Majority Socialists
warned that the reactionaries viii,
make the elections for the prussian
National Assembly, scheduled for
February, test of strength, and
viii pave the path for their further
undertakings by way Of a parlia-
naentary majority. The new course
~ openly advertised by the chauvin.
istic friends and press. A Pan
Germanist writer, Herr Geor9
Fortasch, writes In the Kreuz-
zeitung:
I'VE will wage this coming war
lagainst the republicJ under the
black and white banners Of old
Prussia. The rrussian elections
must and will bring us greas step
forward on the why to the goal !.
Tho Prussian soldier IL in the bone
OF every one Of us. He is accus-
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
General Wood in the Cabinet
Why Tribune Readers Believe Mr. Harding Should Appoint
Him Secretary of War
To tho Editor Of Tho Tr;bunc

To tho Editor Of Tho Tribune,
Sir: was in hopes that the influence
of The Tribune would have the effect
of offsetting the hidden, determined
opposition to the possible selection of
General Wood for high Office in the
new Administration in Washington
assuming that General Wood is in a
receptive mood for such a selection,
for the General so far does not seem
to be very persistent Office seeker.
There are two public Offices of great
Importance in our affairs, either Of
Which the General is eminently quail
fed to fill. One, at the head Of the
army, now great deal nearer to de-
moralization than the people can be
made to believe or that it has ever
bcen before and sadly needing clear
headed and sound guidance into the
paths of its former prestige and honor.
This would, Of course, be in a dis
tinctively military capacity, in which
he stands, par excellence, at the head
Of any now living among US and avail
able for this Office.
Tho other Office Is that of Secretary
OF War, for which ne would seem to
bc the incompatible choice. The Office
looms large on the horizon, and to re-
store it to its honorable rank will
tax the best Judgment Of the appoint
ing power and test the business capac-
ity, efficiency and high courage Of the
man chosen for the task.
1t is his extended, varied and unique
work as civil administrator in for
mer years, in which he earned such
deserved honor, and, in addition, his
military knowledge and experience
which so eminentlv fit him for the
office. If selected az Secretary of War
the General would honor the Admin
istration which thus happily enlisted
him in the service of his country.
JOHN Y. CULVER.
New York, Jan. II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
Turning to Root

If the predictions made by the
Marion and Washington correspond
ents concerning the makeup of the
new Cabinet are verified and the list
is as now described, few will be
moved to express complete satisfac-
ton.
If the new Cabinet is to be as
sketched it will be as noteworthy for
the men it omits as for those it in
cludes. Judge Hughes, despite his
high ability and character and de-
spite the fact that his preferment
would be next best to that of Mr.
Root, is no substitute at this juno
ture for Mr.. Root for the handling
of foreign affairs. A. Tobias Hert
is no substitute in the war Office or
elsewhere for General Wood, and
it is a strange thing that Mr..
Daugherty is regarded as a Ger
tainty, while Mr.. Hoover is not.
Thus it is pleasing to be told
from Washington that leading Sen
ators are coming back to the opin-
ion that Mr.. Root should head
the Cabinet. There never was any
basis for the attack on Mr.. Root be-
cause of his attitude toward the
League of Nations and related mat
ters. Probably more than any other
American public man he has seen
from the beginning all sides of the
international problem-both what
should be done and what could be
done. In consequence the Chicago
platform largely reflected his views,
and his policy, not because he advo-
Gates it, but because of its inherent
common sense, promises to be the
policy of the new Administration.
It is improbable that Mr.. Root has
any desire to return to public life,
and it is by no means certain he
would accept the trying post of Sec
retary of State, but if his services
can be secured there is every reason
why the new Administration should
want them.
Besides his special fitness for a
particular business MIR. Roots pres
ence in the Cabinet would afford the
strongest evidence that the new Ad-
ministration is determined not to
be satisfied with anything short of
the very best in each position. If
besides Mr.. Root there are included
Mr.. Hoover and General Wood, the
country will at once understand that
it is the coming Administrations un-
alterable purpose to subordinate all
litjeness and in all things to attain
as nearly rs possible the Lincoln
level
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
A Maximum Wage for Fighters

IL $5UU,UUU mas been dangled IN
front Of a pair of fighters or q pair
Of any other thrifty business men, all
smaller sums look very small indeed.
The mere suggestion Of them pro-
duces the profoundest boredom. So
it was to be expected that the ruling
which fixed SIS as the maximum
price for seat at a prizefght in
New York-and thereby fixed a max
imum wage even for world cham
pions far below the half-million
mark--should throw the Dempsey
Carpenter affair into the realm Of
doubt approximating a certainty
that it will never be on this side of
the ocean.
The market is here in New York
adequate to finance the bout upon
the Rickardian scale. The fighters
are ready. But, the boxing authori-
ties having intervened, the market is
gone, for it cannot be transported
upon any such scale to another
American city. Is it fair thus to
deny these experts the natural re-
ward Of their prowess? We think
it is-if prizefghting is to endure.
For an honest prizering with such
gigantic rewards in sight is utterly
impossible. The choice is clear. The
fighters can clean up while the clean
ing is good, and inevitably corrupt
the sport and condemn it to second
death, or they can keep their feet
out Of the trough and help to make
the sport permanent part of Amer
lean life.
Whether other countries can be
united in any such policy is doubt
full. Agreement among our states,
however, is not so far off. The
Dempsey-Carpentier bout may very
we'll be transferred to London, as
Mr.. Cochran suggests-it will un-
doubtedly land in any country that
can produce the half million in prize
money. New Workers. can regret
their loss, but the result for the
sport in the long run cannot fail to
be wholesome.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

foundation Of the case. More Of
anything-cigars, movies, candy,
what not-does not necessarily mean
more enjoyment. Quality Of appre-
citation, not the quantity Of anything
consumed, determines the extent Of
enjoyment. The child (or the grown
up) who goes to the theater once in
a while gets far more JOY than the
habitue who goes constantly. Gorg-
ing ones self with food spoils the
best fun Of eating.
Now, granted this preliminary
fact that one can hold back and save
without depicting the general JOY Of
living (even add to it, if you are q
gorger and squanderer), what is the
specific fun Of thrift? It is exactly
that Of any game in which you con-
sistently win. Obviously specula-
tion or gambling with savings can
not enter into such a program. The
thrift must include all that the word
implies-not only careful and intel
ligent saving but careful and intelli-
gent investing. Such a habit and
point of view won, the pile of chips
grows slowly, steadily, as in small
and friendly poker game when the
luck is all on your side Of the table.
Fun is exactly the word, we sug-
gest, for the chuckles Of seeing ones
pile of chips thus expand. None Of
the thrill Of gambling is there, con-
cededly; none Of the wild swoops and
excltements Of melodrama, but
rather the steady, enduring chuckles
OF good comedy. If you doubt, buy
q few chips, sit at the table and see.
At least thrift is one of the few
games in which you can be certain
of getting your money back with in
terest.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
Overwhelming Endorsement

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Glory hallelujah and power
to your grand old elbow! Your editorial
indorsing General Leonard Wood AZ
Secretary of War came like sunshine
after rain, or wholesome ocean breeze
on sultry day, to that great majority
OF Republicans who preferred General
Wood for the Presidency. General Wood
IS man of Roosevelt pattern-and
Roosevelt will always be honored as one
of the three greatest Americans. "; n
Lincoln and Washington
General Wood is the logical candi-
date for Secretary Of War, better fitted
for this position than any other man.
and 1t will be an affroEt to the millions
who desired him for President if Pres;-
dent-elect Harding ignores the man who
urged preparedness even at the sacri-
flee of his personal interests with the
picayunc Democratic Administration.
Senator Harding has promised the
people that his Cabinet shall be made
from the very best material obtainable
Roosevelt would have named General
Wood as his Secretary Of War had he
lived to be elected. Thank God that we
have a newspaper like The Tribune.
that is not afraid to hit from the shoul-
der and demand capable men for Cabi-
net places, as we'll as efficiency in
municipal affairs.
That multitude Of loyal New Yorkers
who not only Endorsed General Wood for
President but just as Loyalty accepted
and voted for Senator Harding will
voice an overwhelming Endorsement of
your editorial. GEORGE w, HILLS.
New York, Jan. 1S, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
TheConning ower
"Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My
Possessing"

Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My
Possessing"
<As ShoNespeore might hors eor.tol,y rs-
Dr1tten It after reading '. v. 4. Weaver's
"I~ An,erlcon.")
Good by! you're luxury I can't afford.
kid!
(And like enough thou kno.r'st thy sst;-
nsGts.)
I know I got no mortgage on your
evenings.
(My bonds in theo orc oil dctcvnsincte.)
You took fancy to me, that was all.
(And for that riches yhere is snv d.
sesving?)
I just didn't make good with you, it
appears like,
(And so my patent back again is swsrv-
ing.)
Maybe you didn't know what you were
giving me,
(Or me, to a0hom thou gooest It. she
mistaking.)
You were too darn nice for me. Here,
kid, your ring
(Come home again, on bettcr judonent
n,cking.)
(Th~s h0ve had thee, as dream
doth fatter.) \
I'm just & poor boob, and it doesn't
matter! +. ..
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

Is there to be no recognition of his
success in the great war and no tribute
paid him for his splendid restraint
under stinging provocation, such as
few men have suffered in history?
l say to President-elect Harding:
"What Of General Wood? Give him a.
place and put him where he belongs and
where know thousands and thousands
OK voters in the State Of Pennsylvania
want him to be-Secretary of War"
c. d. S. NARROWER.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Jan. 1s, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
A True Diplomat
tPron, Tho Los Angeles T.,

tFron, Tho Los Angeles 7.'neS
or all men At present in public hfe'
Warren G. Harding can come as near
walking on row of eggs without break
ing the shells as any man Of our ac'
quaintancs. He may not agree with
you, but will not use a club to empha'
size his difference of opinion. 1t useo
to be said Of William Mckinley that NJ
could turn down man who wanted
something with such kindness that the
fellow almost apologised for being TOO
presumptuous. Harding Is in the same
clasA
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
A Voice From Pennsylvania

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial in your issue Of
last Sunday, January 16, in regard to
General Wood, think was certainly due
General Wood. wonder SO little has
been said Of him, man loved and ad-
mired from the East to the West Of
this great country, by citizens Of every
class and station who much resent
the silence which up to this date remains
unbroken- concerning him. Save the
late Theodore Roosevelt, no other man
50 widely commands tho love and esteem
Of his fellowmen, and they are wondering
is he to have no voice in this great
government during this administration,
and are wa not to avail ourselves Of his
wide knowledge Of men and affairs.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
People Have Already Spoken

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: just word to ask you to keep
up the good work in regard to General
Wood. The editorial TO day Is excel
lent I am writing Senator Harding
and inclosing your editorial if by any
chance it escapes his attention.
Since the people have spoken so plainly
how can he hesitate? He surely realizes
that his nomination vas the result of
a deadlock Of powerful forces and not
the unanimous wish of tho people, and
that If it was not for the Wood fol-
lowers who voted for him. he would not
be President-elect.
He will make very grave error If he
hesitates longer.
MAY A. CARNEY.
New York, Jan. II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
THE CONTRIB AND rHB Song

CANro
tossed poem into the air
And sent It out--I know not where:
1t must have been a clever skit--
They paid me seven bucks for It,
CANTo II
sent an equatorial shower
OF whimsies 70 The Coming Tower.
I. cost me. foolishest of bards,
A dollar ten for postal cards.
CANro III
Yet which WAS more with pleasure frsuxht-
Those which you ran. though paying nought,
Or that for which garnered gold?
Reply: 1t WAS the one I sold.
BARON IlHLANR
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
A Changed Outlook

(From tho Detroit Free Press>
Have you noticed the new sympathy
mixed with curiosity, that goes out -
tho man who has somehow succeeded ~
getting that wsy"s
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
The Mad, Mad Wo9s

Sir: Nov that Mary Garden is at tho
head Of the Chicago opera bunch" said
somebody. Il suppose she'll want to sing
her favorite role most OF the time"
Yea" replied. most of the perform
ances will be Of the Carmen or Garden
variety"
NrxnrNYA Elnu
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

Ths Associated Press |. exclusively entitled to ths
fes republication Of ali nrws dispatches
sTsditec te II othsrwise credited In this papes
and aisU the local OF spontaneous origin pub
iished hsreir
All risats OF republication cf all sthes matter
asfetu alzo reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

We have just been reading, thanks
to the unthriftiness Of Miss Hildegarde
Hawthorne, the Bon Mots Of Samuel
Foote and Theodore Hook; and there
isn't giggle in barrel Of 'em. Either
Of those wits might remark to-day, on
reading that the Utah Legislature may
pass bill to prohibit high-heeled shoes.
that pretty soon they won't be able to
call their soles their own.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

From some who have heard him Sum
day night we have heard disappointment
concerning Mr.. Chesterton as q lecturer.
His delivery, they say, isn't good; and
his spoken stuff seems much more ten
uous than his printed pieces If you
like an authors stuff, it is q good plan
at least it is ours-not to hear him
on the platform; and if you don't like
him, 1t also is good plan. An author
should be read, but not heard. And sell
dom seen.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

Regarding the question Of Baby Talk,
which is now agitating some of the Ed.
page letter writer's, something might be
said by Booth Tarkington's Miss Lola
Pratt, William Sylvanus Baxter jr.'s
alluring young friend. "Fink Of that"
said Miss Pratt to her dog, Ickle Flop
pit, yesterday. "Nassy ole man says
Lola silly dirl."
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

REQ can purchsss merchandise auserstssd IN IHE
skiDuMr with absolute safety--tsr y dissatlsise.
70 pay v~ar money back upes request Ne rid tsos.
ss euIhbbe. We make sosd promptly u the
adveYtissr does not
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

But assailing the wheezes Of yester-
year is the favorite sport Of any gener-
alton. The thing has been stated by
Sir Owen Seaman, in the poem saying
that of al things on this terrestrial
ball, humor wabbes most Of all.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

Whoever-if any-Mr. Enright's sue
eessor may be. he can pose, in ais of
hours, as the hero Of Prof. Briggs's
usual Monday morning cartoon.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

The contest for the 1921 watch is on,
which reminds US that some day we are
going to edit volume Of contributions
to this Repository Of Ratiocination. The
only thing that has been restraining us
is the problem Of what to do with the
royalties. We don't deserve them. How
about founding a Home for INDECENT
Contribs7
ut is true" Mr.. Calvin Coolidge says,
"that as yet we see through q glass
darkly.'" Not so darkly as when tho
contents made it opaque.
More than eleven years axo-Oct, 9.
1903, it was-we printed our notion Of q
weather forecaster's notion Of Lonrfel-
low, thus:
The day is colder and partly cloudy,
It snow furries and the wind Is north.
erly;
The vine still clings to the mold'rine
wall,
But at every easterly wind the dead
leaves fail,
And the day Is colder and partly cloudy.
Why we didn't enlarge upon that
theme We don't recall. Frexamp:
April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter;
Then the moment after
Cloudy, with showers.
Up from the meadows rich with corn:
Clear and continued cool with light
northerly winds in the cool Septem.
ber morn.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

Our gay contemp., The Detroit News,
observes that Senator Harding shouldn't
worry about an automobile. "He may
walk" says The News, "and why not :,
He won in one"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

Thrifty certain Of finding q last line
IN the columnar wisdom Of Benjamin
Franklin, We sought last night a.ain.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

DR.. Harvey W. Wiley will speak on
"Do You Want to Love Longer 7"-The
Times.
Stetl
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

But" said he, "in this world nothing
10 certain but death and taxes."
r. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20

st. Agnes Evc--Ah, continued cold i,
was!
New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
GUAR RANYY

rs,sssed Al shr Postcfrce 1t New York a. Sst
Class Mall Mattse.
The Oakes times., 1921-09-22
MONANGO

Mr.. Smokey, our new principal, left
Friday for Storm Lake, Iowa, phere
he has accepted position in the Pres
byterian college. Mr.. Mateer Of Hur-
on, s. D., will take his place in the
local school. ID. 4,a',ss. 'a.-''
The Keeping Up club met Friday
night with Miss Enola Henry. Their
next meeting will be with Mrs. E.
Magoffin.
The State Federation of Clubs will
meet at Fargo Oct. 4, 5 and 6. Mrs
Vivian Moe and Mrs. j. B. Ford have
been chosen as delegates from this
club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Opie of Chicago
have been visiting here with relatives
for several weeks. Mrs. Opie will bt
remembered as Miss Jeanne North
rop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Streeter recently
moved into the John Morrow hous,