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New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
Thrift at Waterbury
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: What few determined women q
Waterbury have done to reduce theft
living costs may be Of interest to coz
sumers in other communities.
Starting with few women who ve1'
members Of various societies, lodges
clubs, etc, we now have an organization
embracing thousands and our member
are saving thousands Of dollars . yess'
We receive q cash discount Of 10 Pss
cent on every purchase we make In Nv
OF our leading stores by simply showing
our membership card at the time OF pur
chase. This saving on meats and gro
ceries alone is usually enough in cn'
week to pay our dues in the organiss
ton for year.
We would be pleased to give the seeft'
taries or any active members Of organ
cations in other cities the benefit Of ous
experience, and If any one interested VII
communicate with our secretary. M's
Anne Denslow, 120 Grand Street, Wsfsr
bury, Conn.,, she will gladly give than
full information.
EeuTTASLE r1oN THRIFT AssoclA
ANArr rrxrsv An r..~.lsl; = "a
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
Fetch Out the Dirty Linen

tFrom Ihe Globe)
Probably the worst and most cor
rupt administration in its history" b
mild wording of the prevalent cor.
ception of what goes on in the NAM
of municipal government in New Yort
The officials so far implicated By
direct testimony in crooked dealing or
malpractice are subordinates who might
bear the blame away on their own
shoulders. But public tolerance of the
Mayor as good natured and well
meaning individual, more sinned
against than SHINING, is beginning ts
give way. An honest man doesn't sur.
round himself with aids who get them.
selves indicted, legally or morally. Com
missioner Enright, the most conspicu.
Gus example of an indefensible appoint
ment appears to have wrecked the
organization Of the Police Departnen.
deliberately, for reasons of his own.
Let it take as hong as it will, The
Investigation should be made ane
should start at once 1t should be made
from a non-partisan point Of view; no.
for political advantage, but to wash
some desperately dirty linen that will
never be washed in private. Certsin
Republicans have expressed themse
IN opposition to an immediate inqur!,
preferring, no doubt, to let the Hylsr
regime tester until it becomes too moi.
some for endurance, and hoping for
republican victory in the reaction from
IT, There is very little hope of purely
Republican victory in the city next
year, but there is an excellent chance
Tor defeating Tammany and electinf
men with clean hands If the Eepub'
llcans will join with Independents Of
every persuasion to achieve ,ha. enc
The proposed investigation Is almeE
prerequisite to such victory.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
Truth in a Balloon

Truth seems to be as hard to
come at when heroes or near-heroes
foregather amid the loneliness Of
Canada SHOWS far from the con-
tamination Of a vulgar world as any,
where else.
The version of the balloonists'
trip given by Lieutenant Farrell is
more detailed and matter Of fact
than Lieutenant Hinton's. Also it
quarrels with it on several intimate
facts, as Mr.. Farrell's fist had limited
it would do. Evidently such a wild
Irritation with death is no occasion
for the accurate notation of events.
The definition of history as an
agreed lie suggests the safer way
in which the report of such an ex-
pedition might be given to an await
ing world.
But safety is not what the public
wants, nor is it the best way to get
as near the truth as can be got. The
processes of reporting so efficiently
carried on in Mattice by the assem-
bled newspaper wisdom of the
world, reinforced by movies and
whole background of telegraphers
and guides, not to mention the dogs,
will develop host of contradictions
and conflicting observations. Out
of this mass of hsticuffs, actual and
verbal, the awaiting world will draw
its own conclusion. And that will
be history! One is reminded Of that
admirable, if somewhat confusing.
process aimed at discovering the
truth, French criminal trial,
wherein every one talks at once and
nothing is excluded except order
and out of which justice pretty gen.
orally flows.
Perhaps if these three blowaways
had used little more discretion
had hung on to that tree at Wells,
N. Y, for example-and kept we'll
within the movie belt, some contra
dictions might have been avoided.
If there is anything left to discover
generation hence no one will do
anything without bringing back a
complete film of everything done,
we suppose. Yet even such a film
would fail to record that dramatic
bark of the unidentified dog which
brought the three balloonists to
earth and by few minutes saved
them from death in icy waters. No;
truth filmed will be quite as hard
to discover as truth by word of
mouth and fist to the chin.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
Limits of Self-D Determination

Over and over history has demon
strated the futility Of the ancient
quest for single remedy for world
troubles. Yet with the blunders of
thirty centuries to instruct it human
ity jumps to adopt a new panacea
with youthful eagerness and credu-
lity. Then comes such a cruel dis
illusionment as the collapse of
Austria.
During the late war the principle
Of national self-determination was
brought forward as a universal cure
all. We were told that once all peo-
pie were allowed to achieve inde-
pendent political organization within
frontiers coincident with their eth
biographical area the millennium
could not be delayed any longer.
Doubters who pointed to the vague
ness of the definitions Of nationality
or suggested the Importance Of heed
ing economic and geographical con-
siderations were silenced by the up
roar Of the publicity agents of the
Fourteen Points.
Now, national self determination
as an abstract idea is admirable, and
no Continental settlement will last
in which its reasonable application is
neglected, but to attempt basing
such settlement on that principle
alone is to succumb to the fallacy of
the philosophers stone. Human
problems have a painful trick of
thwarting cndeavors to solve them
in vacuum.
The history Of the last two years
clearly proves that self-determina-
tion, although it may be useful in
many ways, does not go the whole
length Of European needs. AS a
remedy it stops where, economic ne
cessity begins. The dsbacle of Aus
tria crowns long series Of evidence.
Tie, conntxiss 81 The panubian
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
peded by the past as it turned to-
ward quantity production.

peded by the past as it turned to-
ward quantity production.
The results are vastly encourag-
ing to those who have at heart the
welfare Of the great body Of our
people. To other industries the
Standardization principle can be and
is being applied. We have pointed
out to us a way to have high actual
wages to workingmen and low
prices to consumers. Loud is the
talk Of politics and the like, but,
after all, it is men of a class who
seldom reach public office and who
too often are condemned as mere
profit-seekers by those that they
benefit who are now, as they always
have been, the leaders bringing
more leisure and plenty to the mil
lions of America.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
Investigation by the Legislature
Is Needed
{ (Froms The Evening POST

(From The Euening POST
of the Moreland act the Governor
should throw his influence behind
scme such resolution as that intro.
duced by State Senator Meyer provid-
ing for full Legislative inquiry.
Conditions in the Police Department
would alone justify such an inquiry
The public is convinced that there is
ineficiency in that department and it
suspects something worse. But behind
the breakdown in the Police Depart
nent there is evidence enough of in
competence in the entire municipal ad-
ministration. 1t is intolerable that
school administration should have been
brought to the point where the clos
ing of the night schools is threatened,
where taxpayers are calling f.. shut
ting the doors of the City College
and Hunter College. The Hylan rule
has been a record of mismanagement
against background of disgusting
squabbe. We have witnessed the spec
tacle of the two organs charged with
the enforcement of public order, the
Police Department and the District At
torney, engaged in civil war. An in
vestigation like that begun by Mr..
Swami and to be conducted by ex-Gov-
ernor Whitman starts out under the
suspicion that it is less actuated by
desire for the public welfare than
by the desire to "get" somebody con-
nected with Mr. Hylan.
We need thorough probing into the
whole unsavory mess. To be effective
such an inquiry must be conducted by
a legislative committee clad with full
powers, operating in the open, and Gre
ating, as it goes on, public opinion
that will sweep away all distractions
from the Hylans, the Enrights, and
the Swans. Such an inquiry would
take up the mass of evidence that has
been already accumulated by grand
Juries or revealed in the course of
the guerrilla warfare between DEPART
ments and officials.
That is what we need: on the one
hand legislative committee to find
out the truth about New York City. on
the other hand a grand jury to trans
late the committees findings into
action.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13

basin formed an economic unit
brought together by mutual needs
and complementary resources. Po-
litically the Hapsburg monarchy was
rotten and dangerous; economically
it was the product Of necessity and
the fulfillment of purpose defined
by centuries. It's disnemberment
was an act of political justice and
expediency, but the tribunal that
effected it without providing an
adequate economic substitute to
handle the needs Of the peoples in
volved acted about as wisely as
steamship company sending a liner
without engines across the ocean.
The breakdown Of German Austria
is the breakdown Of a purely politi-
cal settlement of the problems of
mid-Europe.
Not only does reliance on self-de-
termination as the one thing need
full mean starvation and misery, but
it sows the seeds Of war. England
was land of conflict during the
time of the heptarchy. A dismem-
bered France was a warning France.
A separated Germany was a snarl-
ing dog kennel, and so was divided
Italy. 1t is not probable that the
Danubian region will have either
prosperity or peace if the political
frontiers are also economic frontiers
and armed guards are stationed to
keep out trade from over the border.
Those brought together by centuries
of gradual interlocking are not
lightly to be torn completely apart,
as our fathers realized in Civil War
days and as intelligent friends of
Ireland and Great Britain to-day re-
alize.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
Investigate the City Govern
mcnt!
(From The World J

f0HS nc " O]tQ{
With reluctance, no doubt, but with
unanimity, thinking men in New York
will agree with Leonard M. Wallstein
in telling the Citizens Union that "the
best means of relief. from a govern
ment of "humiliating stupidity" and
costly incompetence" lies in legis-
lative investigation "of the whole struc-
turc and administration of the city
government.
One single promise of Hylan the
candidate has been kept by Hylan the
Mayor. He has got rid of experts"
in the city servicel He has not solved
the Death Avenue problem; OF sold the
Court House site-upon which he was
barely restrained from building with
waste of millions; or built schools;
or solved the garbage problem. His
promise of lower taxation is followed
by budget s1o7,ooo,oo0 higher than
the last Of Mayor Mitchell budget
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
Desolate Graves in France

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | request The Tribune to publish
my protest against the rulings prevalent
in American cemeteries in France. WHY
should we-the mothers and wives. who
ungrudgingly gave our best to the great
call Of humanity--be denied the crumbs
of comfort we find in placing our offer
nes upon the graves of our ever be-
loved dead?
Upon my visit to Thiaucourt-two
days before Christmas-I found a bare
white field, stripped Of all tributes OF
love, looking on that bleak and desolate
hilltop, as though swept clean by the
harsh prevailing wind and by the
harsheg hearts that deny US our last
privilege.
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind.
Thou art not so unkind
AS mans ingratitude."
ELEANOR BRADLEY PETERS
(Mrs. Edward Mcclure Peters.l
Toul, Meurthe-e ct Moselle, Dec. &c. 1920.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
First Aidl
(From The Evenino World

tHToW Inc EUenmS W0rLdJ
1t is for the Legislature to provide
special means for uncovering the mo-
tlves and methods of municipal ad-
mlnlstration that has set back twenty
years the standards of government in
the City of New York.
LET Hylan alone" is urged from
some quarters, $50 that he may supply
more campaign material that can be
used against him."
That is politicians talk.
Why should this great community.
which comprises half the population of
the state, be left at the mercy of Hy-
lan-Enright misgovernment merely to
give party leaders additional ammuni-
tion for campaign nine months hence -?
Must the decentralization of the city's
police force go on until it is comlete i?
Must municipal standards be fur
ther debased and degraded in the CITY
Hall?
Must both Hylan and his Police Com
missioner do their worst TO New York
before relief comes?
What this city needs is first aid
first aid that ought to be administered
by the summary removal of Hylan and
Enright.
The Governor can remove the Mayor.
The Governor can remove the Police
commissioner whenever in the Cover
nor's judgment "the public interest
shall so require
How does Governor Miller square En-
right at Police Headquarters with the
public interests?
First aid for the City Of New York!
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
Servers of the People

Statistics compiled by the National
Automobile Chamber Of Commerce
eloquently show how far the United
States is in the lead of any other ma
tion'in the production and use of the
automobile.
In this country there are approx
mately 100000 motor cars in use,
exclusive Of motor trucks, or an
average Of one car to every fourteen
persons 1920 figures). In Great
Britain the ratio is one to every 1870
persons and in France one to every
1913 persons. Before the present
year ends it is probable there will be
a motor car to each twelve inhab-
itants of this country.
A total of $4,000 passenger cars
was shipped from American ports in
1920. an increase of 100 per cent
over the 1919 export figures. There
we're $4,000 motor trucks shipped in
the same period, representing an in
crease of 60 per cent over 1919. The
total sales value of all American
motor vehicles, including parts, tires
and engines, exported in 1920 was
$338,000,0O0. The shipments went
to ia different countries.
Much of this world demand for
American-made cars is, Of course,
due to the late war. But it is highly
significant that the automobile ex-
ports Of 1920 were double those of
1919. The rate Of exchange and the
poverty of the war-disorganized
countries joined to diminish demand,
but it broke through all obstacles.
Motor vehicles have become a neces-
sity. They must be had first, and
ours are cheapest.
The showing is full Of cheer not
only to makers Of motor vehicles but
to all American manufacturers. For
many years America, despite her
high wage scale and standard of liv-
ing, produced cheaply through the
genius Of her inventors and her reli-
ance on mechanical power rather
than man power. But other coun-
tries learned and used our machines
Then, neutralizing cheap labor
began the movement, implying
superior and labor-saving organiza-
tion, which is lampooned as Big
Business. With extraordinary stu
pidity our people assailed this, but,
happily, not enough to kill it, and it
continued its work of benefiting the
American masses. But in time Eu-
rope initiated once again, and it
seemed doubtful if we could longer
keep America on her higher level Of
material mass prosperity.
But the American business man
revealed he had another card up his
sleeve. He turned toward what are
called Standardization and quantity
production. The American automo-
bills industry owes its growth and
prosperity 70 this--to the fact that
~ = nsg anduatEy & was little irs-
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
His Masters Voice


Messrs. Hearst and Brisbane talk
about when they met behind double
locked doors and surrounded by
sound-proof walls to take counsel
concerning the state of the city ad-
ministration and what could be done
about it?
One scans in vain the columns of
the Hearst newspapers for a clew,
and likewise the passionate declama-
tions Of the Mayor to the public
which he prepares while not engaged
in plugging up keyholes. The public
knows that Mr.. Hylan wanted to
hear the sound Of his masters voice
in his distress, and this is all it def
nitely knows. Of the confabulation
itself there is not whisper.
The Hylan administration is at
present entirely surrounded by in
vestigations. The Lockwood COM
mittee is to port. The Steinbrink
concern is to starboard. The grand
jury investigation is bearing down in
front. The smoke Of an approaching
legislative committee threatens from
the rear.
Now Mr.. Hearst is averse to in
vestigation if pointed in his direc-
tion. He likes the gridiron for
others, but not for himself. He re-
members Bolo. So it may be sur
missed that he may have asked the
Mayor what arrangements have been
made for his protection.
Also, it is within the range of
likelihood that Mr.. Hearst finds Mr..
HYlan increasingly difficult to de-
fend, and went to the City Hall to
suggest that certain changes in the
method of conducting the city's bust
ness might make the work of an
apologist less difficult.
Then, too, where Mr.. Hearst is
concerned there is always the chance
that he has soured on Mr.. Hylan, as
he has soured on every officeholder
he helped to elect, and that the pur-
pose Of his visit was to afix the
black spot to Mr.. Hylan's hand. But
this is not likely, for of all the men
Mr. Hearst has helped to elect Mr..
Hylan is most nearly man after
his own heart, and has been the most
humble and subservient.
One thing is clear, and that is
that neither Mr.. Hearst nor Mr..
Hylan likes the way things are going.
There is too much investigation, too
much public dissatisfaction, too
many indications of the disgust of
the people with Hearst-Hylan rule.
The facts may never come out.
Mr.. Hylan refuses to be interviewed.
Mr.. Hearst's method Of being inter
viewed is to write all the questions
himself and answer them to his own
satisfaction. And he never writes
questions about whose answers peo-
pie have the slightest curiosity.
We leave our readers to draw their
own conclusions, merely expressing
the guess that the object of Mr..
Hearst and Mr.. Brisbane in going to
the City Hall was not to extend to
Mr.. Hylan his annual invitation to
bask in Mr.. Hearst's smiles at Palm
Beach.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
THE FLEXIBLE FARE

The Subway Sun love to read
The fiexo-fare is what we need
Id charge one nickel for a strap.
And two to sit on some ones lap.
The guard politely. when 1 enter,
Says Push up further in the center"
The car cards pass away the time,
Some done in prose and some in rhv,ne
And when zap steps on my shoes
l smile and murmur: please excuse"
The guards are kind. I hear them shout
Please, wash your STEP" as I get out.
I got a present recently
And bought ten shares of I. r. IT.
CURB BBoKEp.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
A City Houseclcaning Too
(From The Herdld)

(From The Herdld)
There is no shadow of doubt tha,
Governor Miller will get from the Leg
lslature, and get forthwith, the full
powers he asks of examination and
investigation Of all county and munici-
pal officers and departments like those
he already possesses regarding state
departments, bureaus, boards and COM
missions.
1t is only a question of time, then,
until representatives of the Chief Ex-
ecutive of the state turn the affairs
Of this city upside down in search of
the reasons for ''the grave increases
IN crime, especially crimes Of violence.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
Naval Nerves
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Navy officers-even young navy
othcers like the three who, while up in
a balloon were swirled into deepest
Canada, are human, and allowances
must be made for nerves worn to a
FRAGILE, such rs the nerves Of Lieuten-
ants Farrell, Kloor and Hinton must
have been. Humans do not fight death.
and worse than death. for three days.
and then smilingly keep their tempers.
Let whatever hasty words and physical
outbreaks that have been charged
against any ono of these men be at-
trbuted to worn out flesh and blood. and
forgotten. GEORGE SERRrr
New York, Jan. II, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
A RHYMED REVIEW

C"Unaccustomcd As I Am," by Mor-
rio Ryskind. Kmopf)
Although I generally slam
Light verse, book that I admire
Is "Unaccustomed AS I Am"
Where Morrie twangs a nasty lyre,
Some Of his rhymes are lusty gags
Some are just screams-and some
are subtler.
like his rondeaux and his rags:
| like his crack at DR.. Butler.
I like his syncopated odes;
l like his amorous outpourings;
| like his merry movie modes, =
And some Of his more sober soar
ings.
like his-well, I like his stuff.
l hope the volume proves a winner.
lin fact, if it sells we'll enough.
The author II blow me to a dinner. )
IsosCELEs.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13

The volume, which is written upon
wellum.-The Globe.
AS 1t Is to be translated by DR.. Will
liam r. Ncwbold, a poem on "When
Willum writes volume on wcllum"
might rival "If. Wingo or the Congo Did
the tango"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13
The City Demands the Facts
Editorials Of Np York Press Insist Upon Prompt Abonu Of M
I7ym administration

failure to discover and apprehend til.
perpetrators.
In the municipal cleanup process b.
the Governor of New York not only
will the open streets and public park
be vacated by thugs and gunmen, bu,
some official berths will be emptied Of
sluggards and incompetents. Ninetee,
twenty-one promises to be a good ysss
for the public service-state, count
and city.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13

There is fair chance that the balloon
boys will be out of the navy by Christ.
mas.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13

1t will hae seatn capacity of $780,
Tribune.
Hootch, mon! or 100 proof scotch /,
the proofroom.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13

This disarmament thing can be car
ricd too far.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13

You have to tell the Secretary of
State this year what kind of lenses and
what candlepower bulbs you use in your
headlights; and our guess is that three
out Of four owners don't know offhand.
Ihat is what memory courses are for.
Just about.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-13

For maintenance ............s $40 900. 900
Grand total .................$ $62 900, 900
1t IS to be noted that in order to main
tain this number of planes from year to
year, and to provide for progressive expert
mental work, Items A and G would have to
be appropriated for yearly, $37, ,O00. 900.
Referring to this subject, an off,
GER Of high rank who has made an
exhaustive study Of modern naval
warfare makes the following state
ment:
"If we had the strongest battleship
fleet in the world it could not operate
against any other country that is
supplied with even a reasonable num-
Der of airplane carriers, with fighting
and torpedo planes. There are no
means of resisting an attack. from the
air except by air forces. The one
having the control Of the air over. the
field of action will be the first to get
its torpedo planes against its enemy,
and it is as easy to torpedo a battle
ship as it is to torpedo any other
vessel. No reasonable number of bat
tleships would be Of any use to us
unless they have their necessary aux
iliaries."
This statement challenges contra
diction. From abroad we have evil
dence of great improvements in
Admiral Fiske's torpedo planets
deadliness against battleships has
been demonstrated.
Manifestly another necessary
auxiliary" of the battle fleet is the
submarine force. The surface, the
submarine and the air forces must
be coordinated to form a modern
fighting feet-it means three
plane navy.
If the 1916 building program is
not revised to meet conditions in
1921, Congress will seemingly be
responsible for spending more bill
lions for a fleet that cannot fight
successfully under modern war con-
ditions on the sea.