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The Latest Indictments

While Albany debates Mr.. Whit
man acts. The indictments found
against the chief Of the Bureau Of
Fire Prevention, two members OF
his staff and the owner of building
charge crime alleged to have been
committed in January, 1920.
The facts alleged in the indict-
ment are of a particularly shocking
character. The Triangle fire is many
years old, but it's horror, the terrible
sacrifice of life, the appalling lack
Of individual conscience and public
regulation, are all fresh in the pub
lie mind. 1t was hoped that re-
currence of such a tragedy would
be impossible. Yet in the Maiden
Lane fire, it is alleged that neces-
sary precautions were not taken and
that as a direct result lives were
lost. The charge as contained in
the indictment describes official
neglect, permitting an owner Of a
factory building to postpone for
nearly two years building changes
required by the law.
After this alleged neglect and
after these lives were lost nothing
was done. There is the recital of
a condition already familiar to New
Workers through Mr. Whitman's in
vestigation. His work is necessarily
restricted to criminal negligence
and other crimes. How far-reach-
ing is this decentralization of the city
government will never be known un-
til legislative inquiry, with full
powers, undertakes the task Of in
vestigation. Behind and beyond
these specific crimes now charged in
formal Indictment lie what ineffi-
cheney and political favoritism?
Every honest citizen of New York
wishes to know, and it is certainly
to the interest Of the Republican
party in the state and city, in so far
as that party is an organ Of honest
and efficient government, that every
citizen should know.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

sharing honors with the sofa ont
finds that another sofa brought
$1,000, and 80 on.
Now, there is, Of course, no reason
why a sofa---it was n James III affair,
with walnut frame and uphol-
stored tn just the right kind Of
needlework--sfould not fetch any
thing anybody wants to pay for it.
And it Is, OF course, quite proper
that Y. c., once the war is safely
over and we are all peacefully at
work again, should 60 to work like
the rest Of us. And since, as every
body knows, selling ones self to Job
ia quite the most basic and essential
part Of all work, why should he not
hunt job along Broadway?
As matter of fact, heroes have
always been a drug on the market in
tho piping times Of peace. Mr..
kipling once commemorated the fact
in a poem. And a period sofa is a
period sofa. Obviously it is Of far
more value-until q war bombs it
and its sitters out Of existence, that
is. The only extraordinary thing
about O'Leary and the James III
piece of furniture is their juxtaposi-
tion; and to explain that we can
recall the Homeric gods, who enjoyed
a good laugh quite as much as any
mortals. Is it too utterly pagan
a notion to suppose that once in q
while they break through our mod
ern science and religion and solemn
pretenses and have a good chuckle
at our expense?
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Health Education
Prime importance of Physical Train.
ing in Our Schools

ing in Our Schools
10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Does it take war to mako ns
realize that we must care for our chill
drcn?
ls 1t only to make soldiers that laws
are passed to insure them the exercise
and health education that will make
for sturdy manhood?
Must che reports OF the draft medi-
cal examinations demonstrate again
that so per cent and more OF our vonnc
men are not fit to fight because thew
were not properly trained in their
school years?
1heso questions would all have been
answered in the affirmative IL the
Hutchinson-Mullin bill introduced at
Albany had been allowed to become q
law unchallenged.
because OF the raliying OF patriotic
and far-seeing individuals and groups,
the clause requiring every school in
New York State to give physical exer-
else and health education for twenty
minutes each day to every pupil has
been retained, but the Hutchinson bill
(No. 95S in the Assembly, has been
reported out Of committee back To the
house with the omission Of the clause
Which requires that a special physical
education teacher be provided for every
school having ten teachers or more.
This Is q compromise. Are we prepared
to compromise the future OF our chi1-
dren?
Seventeen other states have followed
the Empire State with legislation sjni-
lar to tho law as it now stands. Ma
tlonal legislation is contemplated.
Japan has had supervised compulsory
physical education in its schools for
eight years. CZecho-Slovakia made this
its first official concern, and the French
Chamber Of Deputies has within the
last week passed al act patterned after
the one we are about to weaken!
The early years are the most plastic.
Neglect mars bodies. The discerning
physician may trace the malign effects
Of preventable weaknesses and diseas.s
in his patients Of to-day who come in
their early forties and fifties for re-
enforcement against losing struggle
with waning vitality and slow conquer
ing chronic disease.
Without instruction and body-build-
Ing activities the children Of this pen-
Grafton may rightly curse their fathers
for an enfeebled, diseasc-ridden ms
turity. CIVIC
New York, March 81, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Germany's Obsession

Germany lost the sympathy even
Of the "soft peace" elements in Allied
and neutral countries when she made
her ridiculously marked-down rep
aration offer at the London con-
ference. She justified again what
Poincare, Foch and the other advo-
Gates Of coercion, rather than COM
promise, hadlons been saying about
Teuton bad faith.
A few German statesmen have adj
mitted gloomily that not since the
Versailles Treaty was signed has
Germany stood so low in the opinion
OF the outside world as she stands
to-day. Her action at London blasted
whatever prospect there was was of
an immediate separate peace with
the United States. 1t chilled the
Labor party in England and af-
frighted the Manchester radicals. 1t
committed Lloyd George to a pro-
gram Of military occupation beyond
the Rhine.
But the Germans are SO psycholog.
ically perverse that though they real
ize dimly the bad effects of their
policy of obstruction they cannot
bring themselves to alter it. They
are piling one defiance on top of an
other. Two weeks ago they refused
to pay the 1,oOo,ooo,oOO gold marks
delivery Of which was set by the
Reparation Commission for March
90. Now they have declined to carry
out disarmament orders which should
have been complied with by April I.
The Berlin government not only
ignores the demands of the repara-
tion and disarmament commissions
but contests the meaning Of the
treaty articles on which those de-
mands are based. Arbitration is in
solently suggested. But what ma
ton would want to pull German
chestnuts out Of the fire by serving
as arbitrator? Who but the Allies
could undertake to enforce decision
against q loser who has been DEM
onstrating for months not his in
ability but his invinciple unwilling
ness to pay?
Germany is tempting fate. Her
arrogance in defeat will solidify the
world against her and make it look
without compassion on a military oc-
cupation and possible partition Of
her territory such as the makers of
the Versailles Treaty never had in
mind. Penitence and good faith
might have soon won Germany %
place again in the family Of nations.
But her heart and mind are still
hardened. She accepts the foolish
maxim Of 1914-'1S: "The more
enemies the more honor" She
seems to prefer destruction to an
acknowledgment Of her crimes and
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

TO the Editor Of the Tribune.
Sir: You place on the first page to-
day the news that letter travelled
only twelve miles in four and a half
years. Do you consider this news Of an
unusual nature?
On March %, 1921, about 70 NJ, I
received a receipted bill which had
been mailed at Station Y, l16o Thiro
Avenue, near Sixty-ffth Street, on
March %, 1917. at 4 p. m., a. proved
by the postmark on the envclope. II
took four years to a day, minus fonr
hours to get to me from Station Y to
Fltth Avenue and Thirty ninth Street
The address ON the envelope was en-
tirely correct. H. O. OScOOD
New York, March 81, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
A Qualification

In his Crawford letter Governor
Miller clears up some matters left
obscure by the traction act.
The fare question, it is to be
gathered, is to wait until divers pre-
liminary questions are settled.
First, it must be determined what
properties arc to be included in the
reorganization.
Second, the included companies
must deposit the consents necessary
to clothe the commission With au-
thority to act for them.
Third, the value Of the merged
traction units must be ascertained.
The fare is to be the result of
dividing the sum Of operating ex-
penses and capital return by the
number Of passengers carried.
Hence it cannot be fixed in advance
or tn advance Of the deposit Of COM
pany consents.
So the Governor truly remarks {:
"The task before the commission is
not an easy one" He might have
added, cor one that can be quickly
performed, even though every effort
is made to avoid haggling delay"
Will the companies voluntarily
come under the commissions yoke?
Some undoubtedly will, for to some
the commission may prove saving
spar while all else is raging sea Of
financial ruin.
But will the essential systems
come in? 1t is commonly assumed
they will. But some may not. They
are now sheltered by protecting
contracts. The Interborough and
the B. r. t., for example, have a
first lien on the pooled incomes Of
the lines they operate.
There is belief thai the companies
will make the concessions required
Of them, because in return they will
get assurance Of fair return. But
will there be such assurance?
What one Legislature does an
other may undo. Suppose control
should pass to Tammany-Hearst
commission!
+ 1t has been the practice Of Amer
lean public service corporations to
insist on contracts. The constitu-
tional provision against confscation
alone has not been deemed ade-
quately protective. Yet, as the
Governor explains his measure, it
means nothing less than that fran
chises, as they are commonly un-
derstood, shall no longer exist in
New York and that utility COM
panies shall be tenants at will, prac-
tically forced to accept any order
that legislature, or commission
exercising its authority, may address
to them.
His explanation much clarifies
the Governors traction policy. 1t
is revealed as radical against the
traction companies rather than as
radical in their favor.
1t is obvious the public can afford
to pay handsome price to rid itself
of its past franchise mistakes. But
as obviously it is by no means cer-
tain that the companies, to meet a
present emergency, will consent
to surrendering their contractual
rights.
1t is not impossible that soon a
shift of opinion will occur in regard
to the traction act-that we shall
see it assailed by the interests which
have been charged with promoting
it. At any rate, in the light of the
Crawford letter, it is no longer to
be asserted seriously that the public
has been sold out at Albany.
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New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
NoEsrIE.

Silver lining: Telephone rates have
advanced % per cent, which may cause
a reduction in tho number Of inform
ants who call us to say that G. Hunger
runs a delicatcsscn shop in Brooklyn,
and did you read The Times this morn
ing, and can you send nue. copy of
The Tribune in which that poem about
When the War Is Over Pm Going to
Buy . Jellyfsh?
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

FORTY. To-day

Four decades gone. Have T done
aught
On which to look and call it good?
No. Shall I, in the years to come,
Have one thing on the credit side
Which merits even faintcst praise :?
I doubt it.
Once, in my cpltaph, thought
Some seeing friend might choose to
pen
a kindly line: "She never wrote
When she had not thing to say"
This hope has fed, for now you sec
I've done it.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

Of her duty to repair them. She
risks outlawry and ACKNOWLEDGMENT
because she clings obstinately to the
obsession that the Allies were in the
wrong and she was in the right.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

Beauty and Mary Blair, by Ethel
NJ. Kelley (Houghton Mifflin), is a
rather amusing piece OF what William
Alien White has called literary boot
logging. III q recent article in The
New Republic Mr.. White points out
that the American novel of to-day is
studsously bone dry as far az senti-
ment is concerned and that an author
IS allowed to bring in tear only
furtively. Mis- Kelley has taken the
old story OF the little child who re-
unites Daddy and Mummsy just as
they are on the point Of di~or g BY her
innocent but pertinent prattle: "Why
doesn't Daddy kiss Mummsy any more ?"
Miss Kelley is wise enough to realize
that all such yarns are contraband, and
so she has been ingenious enough to
make her little child q sophisticated
>happer Of eighteen or whereabouts. and
to allow this young person to be the
narrator Of the story. Miss Kelley
does fapper talk very we'll indeed. It
seems to Us much more convincing
than Mary Roberts Rinehart's much
broader excursions in the same field.
Moreover, the deftness Of tle humor
III Beauty and Mary Blair serves for
long time to conceal the fact that the
tale Is loaded with great deal Of ar
rant and conventional sentimentality.
The humorous disguise is not quite
sufficient. To our mind, Beauty and
Mary Blair is the sort Of bool, which
IS likely to be nabbed just at the bor-
der. 1t is something to an authors
credit, however, to get as far as that.
There are humorous possibilities in
Stella, the advanced and emancipated
sister of the fapper. "I always expect
Mother to peel off some little anecdote
about her having prepared her own
baby food according TO formula at the
age OF thirteen months. It's awfully
hard to imagine her ever having let
Mother do it. But Sister isn't much
help to me because she's an idea can
nlbal. II she can't get her ration of
raw human theory to gorge on every
day she isn't quite the same girl. If
you won't be psyci,o or read
hooks about Russia, or try to get up
SOME little private system of solving
labor questions, why, Sisters interest
in you ceases. l hope her unlucky in
1ant will be born lisping the Einstein
theory Of relatively. I don't know
what it IS, but that infant will have
to be informed on it if it expects either
one of its parents to take an intelli-
gent interest in It,"
Unfortunately, before she has done
with Stella, Miss Kelley has drawn the
burlesque too broad to be very funny.
Rather more than the portrait seems
to get entirely on the wrong track
Any one who has ever stroked radical
on the head with nice radical, nice
radical" and been bitten for his pains
will have some little difficulty in recog-
nizing Miss Kellcy's portrait Of ad-
venced feminisn, as cold, bloodless and
ispassionately mental.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
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An EQUAL Failure

ffTons The Chicago Dolly Ne,ssi
1t is little early to ask the forn.r
Kaiser whois just crying authorship. II
ne thinks the pen is mighter than tho
sword.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

When the evidence was presented to
William McGeeh n he expressed him
self as both surprised and pleased ard
said that we might stay on.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Justice With Reservation

(Frons The Cincinnati Encuirey)
What great many people who de-
mand justice really desire is y coat Of
wh!teYasn.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

OF course, as matter of fact, we
know our Twelfth Night" as we'll as
the next one.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
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New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

Your book column is getting pretty
bad" said William McGeehan, the
managing editor.
We agreed with as much heartiness
as we could command.
II don't believe there are enough
people reading it to justify our using
up all that valuable space on the edi-
torial page" he continued, and gave
Us some figures on the price Of paper,
which wa have forgotten.
People write in about it every now
and then" we protested.
"How many?" he asked aggtessively.
"Siix or seven in week." we said.
He took q pencil and paper and multi
piled six or seven by fifty-two and then
divided the total daily circulation of
The Tribune into it. Then he rem m
bered that there were two weeks Of
vacation, and he had to do it all over
again. Anyway, it came to very small
decimal. ITS not enough" he said.
Now we were fighting for our life,
and we explained that people didn't
write when they were pleased or
happy about things, but only when
some mistake gave them an opening.
"All right" he interrupted, all give
you chance. Make some damn fool
mistake and see what happens"
We looked doubtful.
''You can do it," he said encourag-
ingly, and we went to our desk and
wrote a paragraph about Rosalind, in
IA Midsummer Nights Dream" It
didn't seem quite fair to US, and we
said as much to the managing editor.
cts no test" we complained; "the
readers Of The Tribune will know it's
joke. Mr.. Woollcott, Of The Times,
tried the same thing once and spoke
Of Lady Gregory's Riders to the Sea,
ana nobody paid any attention"
"If you please" said Mr.. -McGeehan,
"let's have no comparisons between
the readers of The Times and The
Tribune And he turned to his desk
again to indicate that the interview
was ended.
Fortunately, the readers Of The Tyib-
une came forward to our rescue in
way which VIC had not believed pos-
sible. Better dust off your "A Mid
summer Dream telegraphed Harold
Stearns from Baltimore, "Oh, Mr..
Broun!" wrote Ruth C. Lord, by special
delivery. "Obviously Arthur Kopkins's
production of Macbeth has mixed you
Up in your knowledge Of Shakespeare"
contributed Lulu Bett. at seems
shame after all these years to deport
the best Of Williams heroines from
the Forest Of Arden" wrote K. p. S.;
"these tyrannical cvictions are getting
altogether too prevalent and rather
answer the question as to why girls
leave home" what about the legs
Of Falstaff in 'Hamlet'?" inquired Edwin
II. Reeder Blame it on tho proof
reader" advised E. Dunwell, "Does
q dramatic critic have to be an idiot"
queried Roscoe Ensign. "Why not take
a course IN night school?" suggested
Lawrence Taylor. Before this I mere
y suspected that you were an ass"
added Montague Lane. and this is
modern dramatic criticism ! !"
exploded An Actor For Thirty Te,.rs.
Just what I expected from baseball
wrote Frederick Chamber
lin.
We also wish to acknowledge thanks
to A. 4. K, Disguised, Charles the
Wrestler, N. P. D., F. T. W., Veteran
Playgoer, Orlando. More In Sorrow
Thsn in Anger, A. Il. B., Horace
Nathan, Mrs. John 7. Scott, Z. D.,
Titania, Solid Ivory, O., Who's Looly
Now, Dwight r. Van Dyke, Simple
Simon, w. II. c.. and Janet Hoyt. f.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

IE:3u

p. A. SAYS that we may draw upon him
for thirty eight others.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Como and Call for Your $1,000, 900

Sir: May ] suggest an instance in
which Every" is necessary? My broth
ers name is Albert Hines. Now IL we
were both to sign ourselves just "a.
Hines" don't you think it would be con-
fusing? AVERY HINES.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

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Probably If ono man in the Socialist
College eleven did more than, enc
eleventh Of tho playing, the team'd
disband.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

With the plan to found a Socialist
College we are in utter concord. We
shouldn't mind accepting the chair, or
stool, Of journalism, for that matter
But we warn tho faculty that as soon
as the quarrel about fraternities bs-
gins, we resign.
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With obeisances to Mr.. Chesterton's
poem: "King Charles of Hungary is
spelling for war"