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New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
The Light That Flickers

Subway riders will heave an ex-
pectant sigh now that lighting con-
ditions in the cars of the INTERIOR
ough are being investigated. The
maddening flicker and frequent
eclipse of the lights are always TAX
ing the joy out of life.
A subway journey, especially a
long one, is not in itself a lovely
experience. The regular patron
turns to his newspaper or magazine
for forgetfulness. The casual rider
finds himself impelled to read the
snappy advertisements or the opti-
mistic Subway Sun. For some
months past these diversions have
been denied. Reading has been i'm
possible. Instead passengers have
blinked and scowled and speculated
on trip to the oculist.
The Public Service Commission re-
ports many defective lamps and IL
regular contact with the third rail.
The company's electricians reply that
only an infinitesimal number of
lamps is defective, but offer no
remedial suggestions. Whatever the
trouble, and it is comparatively re-
cent, subway travellers are hopeful
that it may be discovered sad re-
moved.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
The Glory That Was the
Ataenaeu,,

There is fine old musty flavo,
about the word Athenaum, a speci.
men of which, several generations
old, was burned on Washington
Heights one day last week. II
harks back to Boston and Beacon
Street, where the most famous OF
American Atheneums began ex.
istence in 1907. Time was when
the word ruled America, culturally
speaking. Those were Hellenic
days, it would seem. Academy was
the honored title of the superior
schools. The Atheneum was the
reading club, the library, the lecture
hall of the period. The classic touch
was upon architecture, and it ruled
the high thinkers of every art and
community.
The classics have declined from
their high estate. No one names q
club or building an athenarm any
more. Community house is the new
name for the old thing, a phrase
born of the war and stressing, in
stead Of culture, that new ideal of
democracy which everybody be-
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Irnpereinent and Insulting

Mayor Hylan has been appealed
TO by the American Legion and nu-
merous other organizations to stop
the scandalous demonstration to be
staged tonight at Madison Square
Garden by an organization which
impudently styles itself "The Hor-
ror on the Rhine Committee. The
purpose of the organizers is to give
currency here, under the veil Of a
protest, to outrageous charges
against the Allied forces now occu-
pying German territory. Most of
these charges have no substance.
They are mere propaganda. Even
if there had been a basis of truth
it would not become Germans or
other persons who deplore the AL.
lied occupation to tear passion to
tatters over them. There was a
real four years "horror in Belgium
and northeastern France" when
those regions were under the heel of
the brutal Teuton invader.
We are still at war with Germany.
| American troops are on the Rhine.
They are serving there as allies of
the French, the British and the Bel
gians. Agitation here which tends
to hold the Allied occupation up to
scorn as barbarous cannot but COM
fort our enemies. 1t is, to say the
least, an indecency to organize a
meeting in New York to express
sympathy with people who fought
foully in the field and Systematically
despoiled and maltreated enemy
civilians, who are still unrepentant
in defeat and under the military
rule of the victors are enjoying q
regime miraculously mild compared
to that which they imposed when
they were conquerors.
Mayor Hylan should realize the
insult to patriotic sentiment and the
violation of propriety involved in
such propaganda and clamp the lid
on the Madison Square Garden
meeting. To permit DR.. Won Mach
to carry through his project would
inevitably excite popular indigna-
tion and probably lead to violent
counter protests and serious dis
order.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
The Patriotic
An Appropriate Name for the Biz.
gcst Ship of All
To the Editor of The Tribune


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ''To buy the biggest ship in the
world" is what the international Mer.
! camille Marine Company has just done,
according to an interesting news item
in The Tribune, and incidentally it is
noted that the ship will be given
White Star name ending with 'ic' snd
will be operated as team mate to the
Olympic,
If the public may be taken into CEN
fidence and allowed to suggest, what
more applicable name could be given
to the new acquisition than Oceanic?
Then we would have two Os embracing
the two biggest ships in the world.
The name would honor the previous
Oceanic, which was one of the earliest
victims of the German escapade.
Arabic might also have applied, hut
that name is already chosen for an
other requirement, Failing in these
two, what could be more appropriate
than to rechristen the biggest ship
the Patriotic-the biggest quality and
the finest which the Mercantile Marine
Service manifested throughout the war
period? l respectfully submit the name
Patriotic to the new White Star Steam
ship Company T. NJ. MARSON.
New York, Feb. %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
eve Did Np

Only a handful of women will
travel to Washington to attend the
inauguration ceremonies, although
OF course, the eyes of women the
country over will be turned to the
Capitol on Friday with something
of maternal pride. Politically
minded women have been interested
IN elections before this and have
contributed to the glorious results
but never before has the entire
womanhood of the nation looked OH
and seen its own handiwork.
For this reason it is pity that so
few women can attend the inaugura-
ton. The drama of the occasion
almost demands parade of women
voters carrying banners inscribed,
"We did it," or a new kind of White
House picket saying, "1his is our
house. Come in, good sir"
Eight years ago, the day before
Mr.. Wilson'S first Inauguration, oc-
CURED the famous "riot-parade, {"
when Pennsylvania Avenue seethed
with mob that hooted and struck
at the marching women, and the
President-elect, arriving at the rail
1oad station and asking where all
the people were, was told "Over on
The avenue watching the suffrage
parade" Four years later the suf-
frage pickets held the spotlight,
marching around the White House
in a sleet storm.
This is history in one of her
humorous moods. In the years
when women were of no i'm
portance politically they held the
front page with the incoming Presi-
dent; but now, when they have won
.verything, not one of them will be
starred in the drama. One can
visiting anti-suffragist
from Mars reporting to her friends: /
My dears, the suffrage movement
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
The Navy We Aim Al

The Senate Committee on Naval
Affairs is in accord with the House
committee and with opinion gener-
ally in Congress in holding firm for
a completion of the 1916 building
program. In reporting the House
appropriation bill, however, it has
repaired some incidental omissions.
1t has increased the amount for the
aviation service from $10,000,000 to
$18,720,000, very moderate al
lowance, considering the vast i'm
portance of the role which the air
arm will play in future naval war
fare. More could be spent to ad-
vantage on the air service. The
committee also voted to authorize the
construction of two airplane car
riers. These are, in effect, capital
ships, preferable to capital ships of
the super-dreadnaught type at the
present stage of our naval develop
ment.
Congress still faithfully reflects
in the main the country's wish to
have an adequate navy as the first
line of national defense. That wish
was embodied in the construction of
the new navy, begun forty years ago.
1t hasn't been modified. Discussion
of building programs has turned on
the merits of one class of ships as
against those of another or the value
of one arm as compared with an
other. There is no real demand for
naval disarmament for the sake of
disarmament.
Those who advise stoppage of bat
tleship construction and the diver
sion of money thus saved to strength
en- the flying arm or the sub-surface
arm do not want a weaker navy, but
a stronger and better one. Economy
is also advisable for the moment.
Building submarines and seaplanes,
which we need most, delaying sur
face capital ship construction, will
help to tide the Treasury over it's
present difficulties. But economy is
desirable only in so far as it doesn't
sacrifice sound military policy. The
agitation for naval holidays and
naval liquidation, as ends in them
selves, is a mere survival of pre-war
little navy pacifsm, which the
country in its present mood has little
use for.
AS the pressure of war debts less
ems we shall build and maintain
the navy we have had in mind for SC
many years. 1t will correspond in
strength to our national needs. The
balancing of types is technical de.
tail. We want the best of all types
to protect our shores, for the only
war which is likely to threaten us
in the future will be essentially q
war at sea.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
A Mistaken Assertion

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Please permit me to correct =
misstatement in the news item rela-
tive to an Independent Christian Sci
ence Church in The Tribune of Febru-
ary 25. The assertion that the Chris
tian Science delegates of the various
states have submitted "a questionnarc
to members of the denomination
throughout the country in an effort to
weed out those disloyal members Of
the Mother Church" is entirely without
foundation, not alone in relation to
the delegates of New York State but Of
all states where delegates committee
has been formed.
Similar attempts to establish inde-
pendent Christian Science churches
have been undertaken by dsafeeted
persons in different parts of the coun-
try, but none has ever reached a posi-
tion of prominence or Importance.
ALBERT F. GILMORE.
New York, Feb. %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

on the earth is as dead as last years
styles. | didn't see one of the
creatures"
This is the law of growth, how
ever--and, incidentally, the law of
news, which is one and the same
thing. 1t is the first umbrella and
the first railroad train which at
tract the crowd and the women
out of harmony with their environ
ment who make the news. When
every person carries an umbrella
and every woman votes there is no
news.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
The Trade Winds
v 1orK, Feb. y, I92I.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: found the editorial in this
mornings Tribune, "To San Francisco
in Twelve Hours" very interesting. It
is my understanding that the trade
winds referred 70 blow from San Fran
cisco to New York.
We all know, of course, that the earth
revolves from west to east, and bear
ing that fact in mind it would natu-
rally follow that these trade winds
blow from east to west, but according
to my information they blow in the
same direction that the earth revolves,
which is phenomenon that air experts
have been unable to explain.
C. A. BUTLER.
New York, Feb. 25, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Labor Temple Meetings
Denial of Report That They Are a
Forum for Radicals
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In a recent issue you had re-
port of the meeting of the National
Civic Federation, at which a commit
tee of which Everett P. Wheeler is
chairman, made certain statements con-
cernlng the Labor Temple, church
now operated under the control of the
church extension committee of the
Presbytery of New York, which are not
IN accordance with the facts.
Mr., Wheeler's report makes the fol-
lowing incredible charges:
/. "An examination of the advertised
meetings held at this center discloses
that the vast majority of the speakers
have been identified with one or an
other of the radical or revolutionary
groups"
We advertise seven meetings every
Sunday, of which one is Sunday
school, three are religious services held
IN foreign languages, one is a religious
service IN English, one is lecture upon
some great spiritual teacher and one is
public forum Of these seven there
mas been no criticism of any but the
forum and lecture. We are we'll as
sured that our lecturer is in no sense
teacher of sedition, and the forum is
presided over by one of our own staff
! charged with the duty of seeing that.
whatever views may be expressed from
the platform or fooc the Christian
position shall be stated before the
meeting closes. During the week one
evening is occupied by the Board Of
Education, one by the Y. M. C. A.. one
by religious meeting and two by lee
lures or debates where radicalism in
any form could conceivably be intro
duced. These are our "advertised meet
ings"; and by what use of arithmetic
the extraordinary charge is reached
that "the vast majority" of them are
addressed by radical or revolutionary
speakers we cannot imagine.
| z. "The funds of conservative and
aW-abldlng citizens and members of the
church are supporting a platform from
which seditious and revolutionary doc
trlnes are constantly being dissent
mated"
In view of the action of our church
extension committee excluding all out
side organizations from the use of orr
platform, and requiring every speaker
to be passed upon by subcommittee,
OF which the Rev. T. Guthrie Speers of
First Church Is the chairman, this is
an amazing charge.
Mr.. Wheeler has disclaimed respon-
slblllty for this portion of the report on
the ground that he had left the inyes-
tIgatlon of Presbyterian enterprises to-
Archibald f. Stevenson "as n Pres
byterlan." We have not been able. how
ever, to discover any PRESBYTERIAN
Church with which Mr.. Stevenson is ar
present connected; and, further. he
himself has admitted in public that he
personally has never visited the Labor
Temple.
HENRY SLOANE COFFIN.
President of the Church Extension
Committee of the Presbyterv of
New York.
WILLIAM ADAMS BROWN.
Chairman of the Subcommittee on
Home Missions.
New York, Feb. 25, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
For Prizering Reform

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l have made several ATTEMPTS
within the last year to arouse a
healthy opinion regarding the enor-
nous prizes that that are offered by
fight managers for brutal encounters.
The great sums the bruising champions
command for matches have probably
a most demoralizing influence on the
tough class of young men. A youth
who shows some boxing skill among
ms associates at once becomes imbued
with the idea that there is a fortune
waiting for him in the prizering; when
ne arrives at this point he abandons
all idea of mechanical or clerical use
tulness, the country thereby losing the
needed services he would most like
ly contribute to the Utilities. A learned
professor rarely receives $4,000 a
year, yet the ring ruffian, after he has
acquired little fame, may win $4,000
IN single battle.
Boxing is a healthful and develop
-AS HpoiI' II professionals were paid
a reasonable fee and the rounds were
limited to, say, six at the most the
injurious features Of the prizering
would be measurably overcome aad
the spectators get just as much salts
faction out of these milder exhibitions.
We now have reform Governor; he
seems like man to take hold of this
matter if it is brought wisely before
MN. T. E. KEMP.
New York, Feb 81, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

wages must be balanced with due re-
gard to the public's ability and will
ingness to use the roads. The union
leaders seem to be still suffering
from the delusion of the Plumb plan
promoters-that the railroads ought
to be operated solely for the benefit
of the workers, whatever the conse-
quences to the owners or the rate
and fare paying public.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
The Cadcnces of Galsworthy

(From ''rhe Country House." p. 221.)
So, when the morning came of age
And it was time to rise, by no
Action, look or sign, did she betray
The presence of the unusual in her
soul.
If this which was before her must be
done,
IL would be carried out as though it
were
Of no import, as though it were daily
action;
Nor did she force herself to quietude,
Or pride herself thereon, but acted thus
From instinct, the instinct for avoid
ing fuss
And unnecessary suffering that was
bred in her,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Our Own TraveIogues

Sir; In the library of James Branch
Cabell is Included complete first edi-
tion set of the Rollo books, fourteen
volumes. Do you suppose Mr.. Sumner
knows this? SAM JANNEY.
Dumbarton, Va.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

Perhaps, as every Freudian knows, it
was careful study of the Rollo books
that caused Mr.. Cabell to write Jurgen.
We remember wanting to chalk up q
fence the day we finished reading Sand
ford and Merton.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

YOU can purchase merchandise advertised in tn E.
TRIBUNE With sbseIuts safsty--for II dissaS.sfae-
sioa results In any case THE TRIBUNE guaran-
tees to pay your money hack upoa rsaucst No red
tspa. No aulhhiiHg We make aesa promptly II
,hs advertiser does ret.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Commodore Mayer Club
New York, Feb. 25, 1921.
a Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of February 20
under the heading "Acro Club VIII
Give It's Members Lifts to Offices,
you mention Commodore Francis r.
Mayer as being the commodore of the
New York Yacht Club.
am directed by Captain Francis r.
Mayer to cali your attention to the
fact that he is not the commodore OF
the New York Yacht Club, but comm9-
dore of the Atlantic Yacht Club.
A. NELIDow.
New York, Feb, 25, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
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the use Tor republication Of ell dispatches
credited TO It or not otherwise credited in tins
paper, and also the local news of spontaneous
origin published herein
All rights Q: republication Of all other matter
hsrein also are reserved
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

He is an efficient man, Mr.. Henry
Ford, and probably he wouldn't ami
hilate the COW. He may be at work to
have that estimable animal produce
gasoline.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2s, 1924

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New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

Will the gentleman who picked up
lady who fell Tuesday morning in
E. Granite st. by Hennessy's store
please. call at II E. Summit ST., Cen
terville,-Butte, Mont, Miner.
Many novel begins with less prom
ising material.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Well Known
(From rhe Boston Traascrinl

tFro'n The Boston Traasccp)
Concerning the new Secfetary Of
State, there is at least nobody in the
United States who needs to ask who's
Hughes 2"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
The Coming Queer
JOURNALISTIC JINGLES

JOURNALISTIC JINGLES
2. The Cubs Lament
| wrote him a pagcl
And he printed line.
| flew in rage.
| wrote him a page.
It took me an age
And | thought i. was fine.
| wrote him 8 page,
And he printed line.
CHICOT.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

If the copyrcader were Broadway
ite, he'd probably retfse the line to
Gear not, till Al II. Woods do come
to Dunsany."
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

What Mr.. Henry Ford can't do is to
synthesize the milk of human kindness.
f. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

"Id like to put a New York copy
reader on Shakespeare" writes Winchell
Smith, in a piece called "The Blue
Pencil of Dialogue" And Rupert
Hughes, in an Endorsement of--was
it Mack Sennett ?-says that new
"movie" is as important to art as a
Shakespeare play. To Mr.. Smith we
say arrogantly that the copyreader
wouldn't do Shakespeare any good; and
to Mr.. Hughes, we say modestly that
it isn't so.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

Perhaps the copyreader would make
Julius Cesar of Rome was murdered
here tonight by an unknown hand.
The police have arrested William J.
Brutus, who was released on his own
recognizances." The head would be:
Roman King Stabbed.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

Truetalk from The New Republic:
Barrett Wendell, who was an ultra
conservative, was great and inspiring
teacher, and John Dewey, who is An
advanced liberal. is a great and in
spring teacher. But one could name
others Just rs conservative as Barrett
Wendell, or Just as progressive as
John Dewey, who are not good teach
ers because the beginning of wisdom
is not in them. They try to convert
their classes. They insist that their
opinions stand four-square upon the
floor of the universe" which is equal
ly true of reactionary and radical
writers, artists, statesmen--of all who
deal in opinions and convictions. For
such men all are teachers, and the
less didactc they are, the more they
will teach. 1t is the old question of
the oil of art not mixing with the
water of propaganda.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

Wells is willing to forgive the Huns
and the Vsndals, but not the vampires.
Honoria, the granddaughter of Theodo-
sus II, Emperor of the Eastern Empire,
is set down as zone of those passionate
young ladies who cause so much trouble
in the world" None of these Young
ladies will receive tickets of admission
to the world when Wells has made it
over.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
GUARANTY

Entered at the Pos,oa,cc at Ntw York "a Second
Glass Mail Matter.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
By
Heywood Broun

stead of killing, they enlisted and in
termarried with the peoples they in
Vsded. They had that necessary gift
for all peoples destined to political pre-
dominance-tolerant assimilation"
Hereafter when a poet rushes in to
declare 'The Hun is at the gate" the
nation at home, instead of springing to
arms, may remark, "Tell him to take
off his hat and coat; the young ladies
will be down in minute"
This new notion about the Huns was
little surprising, but it came with
hardly as great a shock as the kind
words which Wells has for the Van
dals. Here, at any rate, we thought, was
people genuinely abominable and
disgraceful. We had been told that
IN the old days they sacked Rome and
hacked the statues, and since that day
their record has been none too good
what with blasting the Palisades and
leaving picnic lunches in Central Park
and building huge advertising signs in
every beautiful spot along each motor
highway. There seemed to be not a
thing in the world to be said for them
until the coming of Wells, who writes:
"Manifestly the Vandals came in as a
positive relief to such system. They
exterminated the great land owners,
wiped out all debts to Roman money
lenders and abolished the last vestiges
of military service. The eultivators
found themselves better off; the minor
officials kept their places; it was not
so much conquest as a liberation
from NJ, an loD I1..1-,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
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Looks like more snow today.
Walt Trumbull is 0. K. again
after his illness.
Bob Benchley has quit working
for the Pulitzer boys.
Harvey O'Higgins left Friday
for the Pacific, or Movie, coast.
Art Sullivan has been confined
to his house with the la grippe.
Newton D. Baker is going to
Cleveland next Friday.
Hiram Johnson spent last wle.
in Gotham.
Mrs. G. w. Colby had birthday
party last Monday eve'g.
-Bingo Wells was a pleasant cali
er Thurs. getting stuck for four
lunches. Come again, Bingo.
H. S. Harrison and Mrs. Ralph
Barton were pleasant callers at
lunchtimc Friday.
Seems like the mail service is
pretty poor.
Mrs. Julian Street is contcm-
plating taking harmonica lessons.
Mrs. T. w. Wilson is busy NOV
ing from her Pennsylvania ave.
house in Washington this wk.
Miss Harriette Underhill left for
Bermuda Sat. Miss y. is sentimental
about Bermuda that being the place
where she first came into ye scribe's
life.
Chuck Towne, the w. k. rough
diamond whose book, "The Bad
Man" is now out, was to a party at
Judge Ingraham's Wednes. eve. Sir
?. Gibbs being another of the
guests.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

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