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PLANS TO EXTEND
ITS MEMBERSHIP.

believing that the citizens of Indian
apolis desire to have as the five members
of the school board officials who are
equipped and who have the will to carry
out the big constructive program that
will make indianapolis schools what they
should be, the Better Schools League has
been organized. Its membership will be
extended to every school district of Indi
auapOlis
I'VE believe that citizens and taxpayers
" Indianapolis should know and are in
terested In the splendid progress that
has been made and will approve the work
that is contemplated. We heartily COM
mend the work that has already been
done, and We indorse the plans for the
future.
ITO that end we strongly commend the
work OF Mr. Crippin, Mrs. Tutewiler and
Mr.. Gadd. They have been identified with
the program for more and better school
buildings from its inception. We recon-
mend also to the citizens of indianapolis
for members of the school board Mr..
Willis and Mr. Pierce They are in thor
ough and hearty sympathy with the
plans of the board. They have the ini-
tiative and the vision and the qualifica-
tions to work in harmony with the other
three members of the board.
Every citizen is interested in the pro-
gram that will give indianapolis better
schools. These five are pledged to the
consummation of our task
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merit, for the Russian masses asso-
ciated the existing order with czar-
ism which they hated. Moreover, the
population was one of singular do
cility, with local institutions OF a
primitive socialistic type. Perhaps
socialism would work, perhaps the
results in Russia would be 80 good
as to lead the world to initiate. Ono
may suspect that pretended Glib
erals" in this country and others
have been impervious to facts be-
cause they are the victims Of the
common human infrmity Of baAng
opinions on wishes.
So it is the economic collapse,
rather than the political degenera-
ton, that is the most significant
feature of Russian conditions. And
this collapse, in spite Of modiflca-
tons of communism, still sweeps on
with destroying power. Russia has
been put back about two centuries.
Through the suppression of Russia's
managing brains no longer is
enough produced to meet even Rus
sia's old low standard of living.
With so per cent decrease in pro-
duction has come, of course, a cor
responding decrease Of what the
average Russian gets. The depriva-
ton naturally hits workingmen Of
the cities hardest. The Red army is
first at the feeding trough, and
Lenine's bureaucracy next, and the
peasants cling to enough to live on.
When the preferred classes are
meagerly filled little is left for any
one else.
The spectacle is once more re-
specially commended to self-styled
"intellectuals" who have thought it
noble and liberal to affect socialism.
Socialism has been put to practical
test under favorable conditions. It
has been shown that it Stays more
than famine or war. To urge it's
adoption in any revolutionary way
seems in fact to be to advocate the
starvation Of fellow creatures. When
Lenine was recently asked by COM
mittee of Spanish Socialists who
stick to evolution how long what he
called the period Of transition Chat
is, OF short rations) would last, the
autocrat responded: II should say,
with US, for from forty to fifty
years. Rather long time to go
hungry.
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An Example Still Pertinent

Since the subsistence Of imme-
date dangers to the world from
Bolshevist Russia, subsistence
marked by Lenine's abandonment
of strict Communist principles and
the relaxation of aggressive efforts
to bring on world revolution, news
from or about Russia is little pub
lished. If the disease is stayed and
Bolshevism is dying, why worry?
This Indifference is not shared
by William English Walling, an
American Socialist of the better
sort. He regards it as still worth
while to lay before the American
public incontestable facts relating to
Russia. In his latest book, in whose
preparation Samuel Gompers col
Elaborated, Out Of Their Mouths, he
applies the method he has convinc-
ingly used before. Assuming that
the Bolshevists do not falsify against
themselves, he turns to Bolshevist
sources for his data. He assemblies
from Bolshevist newspapers, official
reports, speeches, etc., series of
quotations Of what the Bolshevists
say or admit about themselves, with
crushing result.
Bolshevism is revealed as in an
advanced state of DECAYS no
longer even dictatorship of the
proletariat, but rather of a self
appointed committee which is
headed by man who is half Tartar
khan and half Ivan the Terrible
But though this is established, Mr..
Walling deems the Russian expert
nlent worth study in other respects.
and would keep interest in it alive.
For fifty years the world has heard
the insistent preaching of a dog
matte social philosophy which loudly
proclaims that it's prescription
will usher in the millennium.
Many weak minds have been colored
by this doctrine. Sentimental al
TRUSTS have conceded that there is
something fundamentally wrong in
the existing social order--that more
than improvement or abatement of
specific evils is needed; that new
start on new principles is demanded
by justice and mankind's growing
moral sense.
Now Bolshevism, in so far as it
was sincere, represented a large
scale attempt to apply the new
philosophy. Conditions, On the
whole, were favorable to the expert
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-16
New York's Housing Need

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Senator Calder is doing great
work in advocating additional housing
and, as he says, unless something is
done there is bound to be trouble.
SO far as industrial cities like New
York are concerned, multiple family
housing alone can supply the def
cheney. Build and own your own
home" was and is all right in the
smaller cities, but in New York a
worker would be fool to build and
own his own home unless he is guar
anteed continuity of employment and
fixed minimum wage.
What Senator Calder should con-
tlnue to advocate is the creation of a
Federal urban mortgage bank along
the lines of the Federal Reserve sys-
tenn and the Farm Land Bank system.
STEWART BROWNE.
New York, July ii, 1921.
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Double Freedom

Having had an interesting private
conversation with Mr.. De Valera,
who spoke in behalf Of southern Ire
land, on Thursday, Mr.. Lloyd
George, the British Prime Minister,
yesterday exchanged some equally
private and equally interesting
words with Sir James Craig, who
spoke in behalf Of north Ireland.
1t is not indicated whether 1t is yet
considered safe to bring the two Wis
ting gentlemen together in the same
room. But probably it is.
What did De Valera say? What
did Sir James say? Every one in
London seems optimistic, but the
specific reasons for the feeling are
not revealed. The representative
of Ulster has declared in manner
that betokens finality of Judgment
that Ulster will not agree to be-
ing put at the disposal of south
ern Ireland-that he is too much
a believer in the right of self-deter-
mination to consider such thing.
Is it to be understood, then, that the
basis Of the optimism is some sort of
intimation from Mr.. De Valera that
he will recommend to his followers
an abandonment of the Sim F6in
tenet that the one and only Ireland
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On Behalf of a Russian Boy

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | am taking the liberty of writ
ing to you in regard TO small Russian
boy for whom I am trying to find a
home. The boys parents are dead and
he is at present being cared for by
some American sailors in CONSTANT
nople. My husband. lieutenant on
duty there. is very much interested in
the boy. He says that he is a splendid
boy, good looking and finely built. He
speaks English, is thirteen years old
and wants to go to America
In case a home isn't found I am
afraid that he will be thrown upon the
streets of Constantinople, as the ship
where he is now is to be sold. In case
home here is found for him my hus-
band will see to his transportation.
HELEN B. HoYT.
(Mrs. A. C. Hoyt.)
Norwalk. Conn, July u, 1921.
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the avowed purpose Of protecting in
dustry has been as moderate in rates
as this one, considering world condi-
tions, even with the American valua-
ton clause. At the most it may give
many industries a fighting chance to
compete. Without this clause no ad-
vance in rates which a timorous Con-
gress is likely to enact will suffice to
protect many industries. The only al
tentative course would have been a
measure providing for an adjustment
of exchange rates, and this would not
have been effective against the cheap
labor Of the Orient.
THOMAS H. HALL.
Jersey City, N. j., July IS, 1921.
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The Short-H Girl
She Has Come to Stay. and Older
Women Will Follow Her Example

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The short-haired girl has come
to stay-it Is only necessary not tic
call her the bobbed-hair girl. The
style has most important advantages
as your correspondent r. H. has
pointed out, and it has no disadvan-
tages. Girls look just as we'll with
hair short as long. In my business of
flee it. is perfectly easy, if the man
ager wishes it, to exclude the chorus
girl looking type without rcsorting to
the length of the hair as a test.
Not only girls but older women as
we'll will soon, 1 predict, see how
desirable it is to wear the hair short
Many of them do already. The present
fashion of wearing an invisible net has
the effect of making even beautiful
nair look too set and stiff and in
artistic.
An investigation made lately as to
how the Cornell students spend the
hours Of the day disclosed the fact
that women spend one more hour than
men In what one may call 'lost mo-
tion"-in doing things that one can
not remember nor account for. Doubt
less good fraction of this time is
spent in keeping the hair tidv. But
women have now been given the re-
sponsibility of voting, and hence of
keeping up their knowledge of the i'm
mediate political situation and of
underlying political principles. 1t fol-
lows that they must economic their
time to the greatest possible extent.
c. L. F.
New York, July IA, 1921.
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Recornrritted

The Senate needed President Har-
ding's warning on the soldiers bonus
bill and recommitted that measure
yesterday without instructions. Mr..
Kenyon tried to attach to the motion
provision that the bill should be
reported out again next January.
That would have meant holding the
measure in suspense over the head
Of this Congress and renewing the
fight for its passage at the regular
session. But the conditions in the
Treasury which make provision for
cash bonus inadvisable at this
time will continue through the life
Of this Congress. Everybody knows
that the fiscal situation cannot be
stabilized until the tax laws are re-
vised and the floating and immedi-
ately maturing war debt is funded
or otherwise taken care Of.
The President had the courage
and candor to say that economic re-
adjustment ought to precede recog-
milton Of the services of uninjured
soldiers. The latter is duty Of
peace, not Of war, and we are not yet
economically back on peace basis.
To commit the country now to an
expenditure which may run to 49,
000,000,000 or over would risk all
the slow and painful progress we
have made toward deflation and the
resumption Of normal trade and pro-
duction. In doing a benefit to the
soldiers Congress would be doing a
vast injury to the community.
The veterans recognize this as
we'll as other citizens do, for they
are also citizens with stake in gen.
eral recovery from the derange-
ments Of the war. The fact that
only seven votes were cast for the
Kenyon amendment shows that the
futility Of the easiest-way-out COM
promise which it offered was fully
recognized.
President Harding performed an
unpleasant duty-one which Con-
gross would probably have lodged
but for his willingness to intervene
and take responsibility off it's shout
ders. His plain speaking in defense
of the public interest at time when
Congress was holding back will
greatly strengthen him with the
country. Reluctant as it is to seem
to withhold any just dues from those
who followed the colors, it is still
more reluctant to engage in an en-
terprise which would wreck all ex-
listing plans for economic restora-
ton.
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strengthen the alliance or entente
idea, whose recognition seems essen
tial to effcctual peace maintenance.
Authority TO Negotiate

The Senate Finance Committee
has endeavored once again to induce
Secretary Mellon to outline his plan
Tor refunding the debts Of the Allies
to the United States, but with i'll
success. AT his first appearance the
Secretary plainly declared that he
had no plan--could not have one, in
asmuch as no plan could be matured
except after negotiations into which
he has no authority to enter. But
the committee apparently wished to
have restatement of this obvious
truth, and the Secretary obliged.
What the Treasury Department
seeks is authority to act. 1t is, of
course, willing to report back to
Congress. but, with all due defer
ence to the legislative branch of the
government, it cannot see how it can
possibly tell in advance what offer
or proposal it can secure from the
nations creditors. The only con-
ceivable way to resolve the dead
lock, the legislature being constitu-
tionally impotent to negotiate direct,
is to grant the Treasury Department
the authorization it seeks.
Secretary Mellon, by the sobriety
and reasonableness Of his course
thus far, has given the country the
impression that President Harding
was most fortunate in the selection
of his Treasury chief. Washington
is saying that it looks as if Mr.. Mel
lon were to be the ablest Secretary
Of the Treasury the country has had
In long time. This being the case,
there would seem no special risk in
empowering him to discuss the debt
question in the hope of arriving at
settlement Of mutual advantage.
The assets will not shrink by this
procedure, although it is probable
that they will if nothing is done.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-16
Leaderless Boy Scouts
A Call for Volunteers to Head Fifty
Troops in Manhattan
To the Editor of The Tribune.

U CIe EulCOE OF me tribune.
Sir: In the Borough of Manhattan
it is conservatively estimated there
are 5000 university graduates and
10000 ex-officers of the army and
navy. Probably this is understated.
But it is fact that there are fifty
Boy Scout troops in this same borough
(each containing from eight to sixteen
boys) who are without leaders. The
time required of such a leader is one
night week-say two hours. What
ever training he needs is provided for
him free of charge. The work is such
as appeals to all red-blooded men. 1t
is the most direct and personal means
of influencing the future men of this
community which has yet been devised.
The responsibility of leaving these
boys, who are asking for guidance,
without help is grave for-the COM
munity in general; but the burden
must rest on the young men twenty
one to thirty-fve) who, fitted by edu-
cation and training for leadership, are
too busy to note this opportunity for
public service.
During the war men almost fought
one another in volunteering their serv-
ices; highly honorable men did not
hesitate to conceal deficiencies which
initiated against them or to claim
qualities which favored them in their
anxiety to help their country.
Yet here, at our elbows, are fifty
groups of boys asking (thus far vain
ly) these same young men (many Of
them with greatly increased capacity
for leadership to give few hours a
week of their time toward helping to
train the future manhood of this great
city,
If Americans who are qualified to
lead their younger brothers are too
busy to do so there is foreign ele-
ment in this city which probably will
profit by the sorry situation.
The Scoutmasters' Committee, Room
3o2, IS Wall Street, viii be glad to
give all information to any man inter
ested IN volunteering to give the guild
ance for which the Scouts of Manhat-
tan are asking.
FREDERICK TREVOR HILL,
Ex-Lieut. Col. and Chairman.
New York, July IA, 1921.
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is one which is bounded by the seas ?
Il this Is the case, then many
Irish lives have been unnecessarily
lost. For long time southern Ire
land has been conceded the privilege
of writing what charter she liked,
provided she did not insist on seced-
ing from the British Empire or on
the right to be lord Of unwilling
Ulster.
The next meeting in London is
scheduled for Monday. Perhaps then
it will be declared that the Irish
question has been settled by the
guaranty Of self-government to both
parts Of Ireland.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-16
Federal Renovation

The joint Congressional commit
tee on executive reorganization is
said to have agreed to recommend
consolidation Of the War and Navy
departments. Such a recommends
tion will jar those who believe that
the two services ought to be kept in
violably apart down to the last de-
tails Of administration and who
even regard as sinister the fact that
the heads Of the two departments,
with their immediate stats, are
lodged in the same building in
Washington. But the reorganiza-
ton Of the executive branch Of the
government cannot be satisfactorily
accomplished without some revolu-
tionary jolts. And who can say con-
fldently that the army and the navy
wouldn't be administered as we'll
under two sub-secretaries as they
are now under two secretaries?
A common complaint during the
war was that purchasing boards Of
the navy and Of the army competed
for supplies, thus forcing up prices.
Each tub stood on It's own bottom.
1t would be better business to lump
the purchasing functions and get all
military supplies through a joint
agency. Even at the end of his
term Of Office Secretary Baker was
buying coal at inflated prices. The
committee has the courage to recon-
mend the creation Of a central pur-
chasing and sales agency for all the
departments. This would end diff
fusion Of contract-making authority
which has been highly confusing
and wasteful.
As for the hodge-podge distribu-
ton Of bureaus and agencies among
the departments, it has long cried
for amendment. Under the commit
tees plans the Department of the
Interior is to be recast and now
department, Public Welfare, is to be
established. The Treasury is to be
freed from duties which have no re-
lation to fiscal management or the
collection of the revenues. The nu-
merous secret service and detective
agencies now working separately are
to be grouped under the Department
Of Justice.
Conservatism and tradition may
rebel at these startling surface
changes and Washington otficialdom
may be thrown off its bearings for
time. But the Encouragement
couldn't help being an Improvement
on the present arrangement. The
dead weight and back pull in the
Federal machine to-day are tremen-
dous. What is needed most Of all
is that each department shall con-
fine itself to its own work and shall
coordinate that work with the work
Of the other departments.
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Training Disabled Soldiers
Good Work Of the Federal Board for
Vocational Education
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir' l think it is time that the pub
lie began to realize what the govern
ment Is doing for It's wounded soldiers,
The letter published in The Tribune on
July IL, signed Martin Sprague, al
though acknowledging the writer's ig-
norance on the subject, is certainly e
libel on the splendid work done by the
Federal Board for Vocational Educa-
ton. If Mr.. Sprague and others would
only take time to visit Federal board
office and get some real first-hand in
formation much sentimental, harmful
heckling might be directed into real
constructive criticism.
Following are few facts concerning
the government training which I feel
every American citizen ought to know.
Every man in Federal board training
is paid, If single, 500 a month; if
married, s135 a month, with additional
allowances for other dependents. Every
man who has disability directly due
to his service in the army or navy
which handicaps him in carrying on the
work in which he was trained before
entering service is given the oppor-
tunity to choose training in a line
OF occupation to which he is physi-
cally and mentally fitted.
These opportunities range from the
privilege of finishing course at COL
lege to entering tailor shop and be-
coming a finished tailor, from serving
an apprenticeship in surveyors Office
and becoming a first class surveyor
to learning the art of tool making.
A training officer talks with each in
dividual, attempting to find out what his
capabilities are, what his training has
been and what his occupational pref
erence is. A factory, school or office
is found to suit the case as near as
possible and the man is placed in
whichever it may be and paid as stated
until his course is completed.
| think it is safe to say that every
man who has recognized handicap
which is without question due to serv-
ice has by this time been given chance
to enter vocational training. There
are, of course, an innumerable number
of unsettled claims where the real cause
Of the disability is SO intangible that
questions arise as to it's connection
with the service, and there are DELAYS
which are bound to come with such a
huge undertaking, but the United States
is taking care of its wounded soldiers
with more constructive and far-reach-
ing plan than any other government a
Tar as know, has ever worked out.
Basket weaving is taught to men con-
valescing in hospitals-men who are
physically or mentally incapable of en-
tering any real, line of workout to
say that this is the. work which the
Federal board offers to men in training
IS statement of tho greatest inius-
tice.
am not an employee of the govern
ment or the Federal board. but an, in
a position to know the facts given and
trust chat you will have space for this
explanation, which appears to be so
much needed.
MARGARET BREARLEY.
Rahway, N. j., July ~, 1921.
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The Coming Tower
FRANKIE AND Johnny

(As George A. Cnrlin thinks Brotoning
might hare pavcd with tho themeJ
Hold! You need not twit me with 1t
or say
killed him. What then Lets sit
here on
My balcony and talk the matter out.
But hearken first to yonder fishers
song;
It tineles through me as when first
heard
The 'Talian--what's his name? Twas
in New York
And fevered thousands shouted, bravo!
Bis!"--
Ali, yes, Caruso sing.
The quiet Eve
Envelopes Capri-No, you need not hold
My hand, my dear. Just pluck that
rambler rose
from Off the vine and Irvine it in my
Your breath Ia warm upon my temples
Well
'ScSiSV--A Kulp Oh tnaC rlcn BurEundy
And all's come we'll again.
His name was john
The same as yours, my love. He done
me wrong.
A woman--Maybe men would call her
Her name was Lisa. Johnny sang:
FloVer O. tho ounce,
I let Lisa 90,
And What good is life since?
I smiled.
Then all smiles ceased-Youll find his
grave somewhere
In Greenwood.
Oh! A crime, you say? But you,
Who are SO noble with that brow serene
and calm
AS soma lagoon in airless land where
not
A living thing can penetrate, you,
Who are all virtue, how strive you?
The way
killed him Find Lisa Of your own
And you shall see--Come kiss me dear,
you'll find
That love is best-How cold your kisses
--- arei
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Thoughtless Sunday Motorists

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t seems to me that the finn.
mas come to inform the Sunday motor
ing parties of their absolute ind;fer.
ence toward and disregard for property
rights. They trespass in spite Of
FENCES and signs, desecrate the places
they select to picnic by leaving food
paper bottles, etc, and finally, as a
parting blow, steal flowers, plants and
even trees. r. r RARnMn
Woodbury., L. l., July II, 1921.