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New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
What Readers Are Thinki7g

says that the foreign nations which
owe US money should pay US he
reaches the acme of demagogic idiocy
and political insincerity, for he knows
that they cannot if they would .
" nat did say, commenting on Mayor
HyianS statement about money owed
TO us by European nations that With
1t we can wipe out the stain which
rests upon the government of the
united States so long as single
soldier is in want or Distress" was this:
10 advocate committing the American
people to policy of caring for every
able bodied eN-servicc man who han
pens at any time. whether on account
OF ms military service or not, to be in
need or distress is the acme of dema-
goglc idiocy'
GEORGE BROKAW COMPTON.
New York, March l6, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
Major Sport at Colby

Colleges are topheayy with ath-
letlcs-not enough mental gvmnas-
tics there, say eminent thinkers, in
cludlng chief justice. What about
the story from Waterville, Me. of
the student body of Colby College.
headed by the college band and the
faculty, parading to the railroad
station to give a send-off to the de-
batting team bound for a forum
storming expedition through the
South and middle West? Forensics
is evidently a major sport at the
little seat of learning on the bank
Of the Kenncbec.
Colby can boast Of alumni who
could put up convincing argument.
Few were eager to cross tongues
with Ben Butler. George Horace
Lorlmer persuaded millions that the
classics had better be neglected than
the magazine founded by BENJAMIN
Franklin. When Jack Coombs wound
up on the pitchers rostrum his logic
in more than one worlds series was
full of sockdolagers. Clarence E.
Meleney New York school admins
traitor, is still at his desk weeks
after the Hylanogram from Palm
Beach with orders to kill" him.
The Colby orators are out to dis
pute against the spouters of eight
other colleges the resolution that
the principle Of the closed shop is
justifable.' Do they really believe
the negative? Theodore Roosevelt
was down on college debates, because
they encourage insincerity. He was
sorry that he did not study elocu-
ton in college, but glad that he did
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
The Observation-Disclosures of Youth

The morals and manners Of the
young are topic that inspires al
most as much Of our social conver-
sation as does the Nolstead act. In
deed, the art has developed to as
fine a point as the whispered dis
cussion of the German atrocities in
the earliest days of the great war.
There are, in one case as in the
other, stock stories and standardized
horrors.
Headmaster Stearns of Andover
Academy, as The Tribune told yes
terday, brushes through this screen
Of scandal. He admits enough hor-
rors to suit any tabby cat, but he
goes back Of them to pin his faith
ON the clean-heartedness of youth.
He asks only that youth shall have
fair show: that age. if it cannot
now contribute the old helps of dis
ciplne and religion, at least refrain
from stuffing Scotch whisky TASKS
into the pockets Of its fourteen-year-
old sons.
The doctor seems to us to be talk
ing sound sense. If youth were half
as bad as it is painted, it would be
the unpleasant duty of this news
paper to devote a column or two
daily to chronicling its smash-ups.
As a matter of fact, though, the
smash-ups go pretty largely to more
mature beings Forty is the Dan
gerous Age twenty-one is not. With
the Youngsters the predicted crop
pers fail to materiallze in the public
prints
And why? Or. Stearns has it
when he speaks of the clean-hearted-
ness Of youth. There is in youth. for
all its freedom, d certain chaste
reticence that middle age has long
forgot Il is the protective device
Of nature. substituting now for the
safeguards that were the reckoning
virtues Of the old Puritanism.
We agree with DR.. Stearns that
parents, if they cannot strengthen
Youths cards in the lone-handed
fight, certainly might refrain from
purloining all the aces If we are
to abandon our young at the battles
edge, let's at least see to it that they
have far field for the contest.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20

heels Of Mr. Tllden. anl o that star
spangled, aquiline and ed. white and
blue American champion. Mrs. Mallory.
Il Scandinavia Ar Kenns.h Nc
Gowan. the dramatic cr'-i.. raves ssnsly
about the works Of Eugene ONeil. and
Mr. v. L George contributes airy cs-
Elections uper MS favori.e topic. wh..i
IS wome Paul Rosenass
takes between his fast.d.ous thumb al
foreangsr the water-cel5rs Of Jo:,
Marin; and Mss Bella Utz writes q.
ecchings ln the modern manner.
There is much advice ior The Well
Dressed Man. and Nj Megryl.
Stanley Rakeyser. devo..ag himsel: e
investments, speaks favora5ly Of COZ
per, which he has nie5ramed as NJ
Lardner would say. the red metsl'
Nh Ralph Barron eloquen.ly
caricatures in q two-page picture the
habitual arst-n ghtsrs q the New Yo's
drama. The cartoon Of Miss Elsie
Janis IS especially interesting -.
Movies. james joyce. the Flspper mex
ties. Aldous Huxley Chrome YsleF.
MI Herees sneimers opinions Of char
waistcoats. sonnet 5y Miss Edna St.
Vincent Nillay. derby RATS and "Ths
Seven Agains. Athens" BY mat n'''
winning q the d.gn'aei twinklsrs, NJ
Simeon Stransky
Deems Tayior's surps siag discoFsH
that John Alden Carpenter IS 'n'
greatest Of the American composers
Also an intricate chart in wh'''
are scored the impressions OF Americas
most eminent critics. on this, that aa'
the other. The result of tie yaiua's
poll shows that Shakespeare, BAH
Goethe. Charlie Chaplin. Netzs'as'
Oscar Wilde and Wal. Whitman are
among the favorites Those not hign''
regarded BY VANITY Fairs" jury ar
Ruskin. Marshal Foch. Theodore R0'is'
velt, Ibanez. Coningsby Dawson, ne
Unknown Soldier and The New l'''
Tribune. The well known critics ~
VOWED in the JUDGMENT include Hem!
Mcbride. Edmund Wilson i. anu
Willard Wright.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
The Hounds of Spring
Have you written your Spring e,

Have you written your Spring Ed
torial yet?
AS for ourselves we hereby an
nounce our intention Of foregoing
this journalistic rite, already so
solemnly celebrated in most up-to-
date news shops. Perennial expert
ence has taught us that it is, at base,
mere subconscious reaction-not a
process Of cerebration at all, but a
symptom Of the delightful rabies so
contagious when the hounds of
spring are on winters traces" A
hoarse shout Of pleasure, a few
paragraphs of pretty pif'lo, AIN ago
nized little nosegay of poetic odds
and ends followed by a bit Of writ
er's cramp. and the mysterious I'M
pulse is accomplished,
But why delegate so primal a
function to your favorite news
paper? Before the first Druids in
vented the first runes our Neolithic
ancestors at seed time gathered in
painted hordes to watch some super
fluous aunt or cousin writhe in the
smoke Of the sacrifcial altar. This,
undoubtedly, was their Spring Edi-
torial, and, judging by somewhat
similar family impulses that still
persist, a good time was had by all
except the victim.
The young gentleman who, the
other day, suddenly found himself
transported to all the front pages
from the floor of the subway where
he had fallen on his ardent knees to
pop the question to a perfectly
strange young lady was merely
writing his Spring Editorial. 1t was
his expression of opinion regarding
the advent of the season. The no
torious roosters Of Winsted Conn,
which begin to lay eggs about the
middle Of March, the tot who glec-
fully fings himself into the first mud
puddle, the sedate cid gentleman
fondly displaying the earliest rose in
his buttonhole. the miss who slips
YOU a shy, cosmetic smile on the
avenue as she hurries by are all do
ing the same thing writing their
Spring Editorials Even the stock
market, cenotaph to the saddest Of
arithmetic, obcys that impulse and
starts a-bounding like a gambling
lamb.
Naturally, YOU will develop your
own method for your own editorial.
Some do it with a bottle Of ink,
others with a bushel of fertilizer
spread among the spring onions,
and still others, alas, with a quart
OF "hootch." But try at least to do it
for yourself, and don't depend on a
newspaper.
Those who still expect to extract
their Spring Editorial from us are
the hopelessly civilized people who
spend their time poring over calen-
dars and adding up the signs Of the
zodiac in their almanacs while their
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20

brands away, into the wastcbasket
or on the floor or on dry leaves or
anywhere else, as it may happen,
without regard for consequences.
The fire damage from that sort of
recklessnoss amounts to good
many million dollars every year.
The anti-cigarette campaign has
made httle Roadway ON hygienic
grounds, but cigarette users should
take note of one valid complaint
against the abuse Of their habit.
The red slip which a tobacco firm
puts in every package of cigarettes
bears good reminder: "Please
don't throw away a lighted cigar
cite See that it is dead out"
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
Court Control of Officials

The scheme of removing on recall
ing unsatisfactory ofliceholdcrs by
popular vote at special elections has
never been greatly favored in Massa-
chusetts In its place there has re
Gently been put into practice an al
tentative which seems more de
sirable That is an appeal to The
courts
Last fall the District Attorney of
Middlescx County was charged with
serious Official misconduct He was
summoned to answer for it before
the Supreme Court of the state, as
private citizen might have been for
misconduct. A trial ensucd, the Off
cial was found guilty and removed.
A little later similar charges were
preferred against the District At
torney Of Suffolk County. Similar
procedure was taken and a similar
result has been attained
This is preferable to removal by
popular vote. 1t is probably Just as
expeditions, and it involves less agi-
tation and disturbance, while its re-
suits are far moro impressive. Re
called by popular vote, the official
would pose, and would be exploited
by his friends as a victim of politics
or prejudice or baseless clamor.
Dismissed by the judgment of a
court after trial, he could make no
such plea
1t is logical that official oflicehold-
ers as well as private citizens should
thus be subject to the jurisdiction Of
courts. 1t is consonant with the
American system, which never con-
templated eXalting any man or class
Of men above the common law. 1t is
also logical that the courts should
take cognizance of malfeasance or
mlsfeasance or nonfeasance in pub
he as we'll as in private transactions
The example of Massachusetts is to
be commended to other states.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The labor chiefs at Washing-
ton, lamenting the disregard of law as
shown in the extensive violation of
the Nolstead act, seem to have reached
the limit of absurdity in suggesting
the authorization by law of the sale of
beer and wine
Such law would be unconstitutional
But, assuming that it were not. it
would mean the reopcning of some
5000 saloons in New York City alone.
There is no difficulty in seeing what
5000 beer saloons would be able to do
IN dispensing distilled liquors. Every
regular client would have no trouble
IN getting what he wanted. 1t would
mean continuous food of violations
which would submerge the whole pro
hibltiou amendment
CHARLES Z. MANIERRE.
New York, March 16, 1922.
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More Truth Than Poetry
BY James j. Montague
Good Measure

We have met many very nice
As we've stohdly journeyed
along,
Who we're mostly inclined to be
honest and kind,
And rarely did anything wrong.
But all-undcr certain condl-
tons
Would make, now and then,
some small slip
Grow angry and swear. or per
oxide their hair,
Or carry a flask on the hip-
The only impeccable persons
That through all our lifetime
we've seen
Didn't quite have good sense
they were ladies end gents
In the good plays You see ON
the screen.
We also have met many scoun-
drels
Whose hearts were the color of
coal
Who would stab or garrote for a
two-dollar note
And would shoot their best
Friend for his roll.
But all Of these dread despcra-
dos
We're gentle and kindly at
times;
They would laugh and crack jokes
when at home with their
folks
llf they were not too busy
with crimes)
The only unlimited rascals,
Whose hatred no love could a.
suage.
We ever have found ere The sort
that abound
On what's known as the up
and-down stage
We are rather addicted to movies.
We see them whenever we can.
We sit there and gaze in the kind
Of dazc
That only can come to the fan.
The characters always do Just as
they should,
And that is what makes our
heart glad
For when thcy are good they're
iWpossiblv good.
And whom bad they're impossi-
bly, bad.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
lncendiary Subs

Careless smokers set hundred
forest fires last year in Oregon and
Washington. Reports from other
forested states no doubt would tell
The same story. Lighted cigarette
and cigar stubs thrown away are the
incendiaries.
The cigarette is the worst offend
er. A cigar viii not burn many sec
onds without draft. The cigarette
ash, On the other hand, retains the
spark tenaciously. Cigarette smol-
ers ought, therefore, to take pains
meyer to leave stub alive. But no.
goriously most ef them do the con-
trary. They toss the little fire
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
THEM WAS THE DAYS
Nh0ppdH9

Nh0pplH9
The loft workers who hurry through
West Twenty-third Street and along
Sixth Avenue at dusk do not sec the
ghost Of little boy, the boy YOU used
to be He drifts along the sidewalk
holding tight TO a spectral mothers
hand a mother with wasp waist and
loe-of-mutton sleeves.
Nor do they see the lights of day
before yesterday kindle in grimed show
ndows. The roar Of the city smothers
the rumble OF the wraiths Of electric
hansoms Yet the buildings see these
ghosts and look out on the darkening
street as though ashamed Of the signs
they now bear All all are gone, thc
old familiar department stores.
Whore is Siegcl-Cooper's where one
could meet her at the fountain? Where
is the rest of what was the cty's shop
ping center when Tooth Street was far
up town? Simpson, Crawford & Simp-
son, O'Nein's, Adams's, Enrich where
arc they?
Where is the Eden Musce that used
to display its glaring arc lights Just
across from LIE Boutlliers? Remember
! the wax cop in the vestibule, the rulers
of the world and Mare Antony in the
main hall and the crypt, filled with
sufficient horror to furnish dreams for
whole new hook by Freud?
Just below whore the Flatron Build
ing was to stand in later years lIuonut
sold soda for ten cents d glass. II was
expensive, but it was the nearest hu-
/ man approach to nectar ever devised.
And if thereafter YOU hungered for
ambrosia the windows of Purcell's,
diagonally opposite, were filed with it.
When You got tired gazing in the
shop windows the curb takers were
there to spread their entertainment be
fore you--tin beetles that ran round in
circles, tin gentlemen sitting in minia-
lures of those ncwfangled horseIcss
carriages and lifting their - ats with
mechanical courtesy as the vehicles
rolled round.
Fifth Avenue? BAH Never was
there such a place of wonders as Sixth
Avenue from Siegel-Cooper's to Bcst's
and Twenty y-thrd Street from Bests to
Dcrlan's Look at it now and then
dare to say the world is getting better.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20

than fact, let alone being greS'
suit to the Chinese people. Every l''
ture IN the series reminds US s''0ps'
OF the distorted "Chinatown' sea
tional fiction that has now become ~
10 shreds.
The stage and screen, being . ~
potent factors for molding and gun
public opinion, can be better empiV'.
TO promote genuine mutual c0Hf, =.
hension OF each by The other an'a' 's
the nations Of the world. Al any ''. :.
it is high time 10 call halt to US ,,s
dignities and abuses that the thea's, ..
have been hcaping upon the .p' nd
people in the "First Born" "lAs
Lantern and what not -.
Take little pains to unders'sn' "a
Chinese mind and feelings as Fens. .,
in Chinese art and literature anu "a
will nave plenty OF good nia'ei'a ms
weave into your dramas and scene ~.
James Bryce says somewhere '"' .sr
tions live by moral force. Oni"3 *
tainly furnishes the most excei'eA' IN,
ample in that respect. That = ',sit,
explanation for the unique i0"e ;,;,s
and solidarity of the Chinese '' ..so,
ton. And that is one valuable ~ ma
for the intensely industrial Al" +
'sarn 'ssr~'''''' ''' ''''~' J. D. BUSH
Director Chinese News ba's'"
New York, March 10, fsaa.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
Riverside Drive for Parades

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Most people cordially SYM
pathize with the st. Patrick's Dav
celebration. The establishment of the
Irish Free State is just cause for re-
joicing not only by those of Irish
heritage but by all who believe in
democracy, whatever their nationality.
But is it not time that the use of
fiIth Avenue for paradcs be definitely
abandoned?
1t is not fair that section of the
community, however large, should para
lyze for half a day the business
of this great thoroughfare and hamper
the movements of several hundred
thousand citizens. The use of the ave
nue.. which is the middle artery of the
city, seriously interfercs with all east
and west traffic
On Riverside Drive, with its grand
outlook, non-business street of ample
width, New York has an ideal avenue
for parades, six miles in length
The normal traffic of the Drive can
be readily handled by West End Ave
nue. and Broadway, and as the Drive is
the extreme west highway there is no
crosstown traffic to be nterfcrcd with.
IRVING PUTNAM.
New York, March ~ 1922
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war unless they are goaded 20 d. so,
as Mf. Balfou4 was in Washington by
NJ BRAND alea oatesies They
simply know taat chaos e.ists. and
their emblem IS the ancient al Europe
saved and G.ea1 Britain not betravad.' -
Mr.. Lippmapa is eharg IN giving
credit 20 tine baromatic Nr. Lloyd
George for registering this shifting
of traditions. But ne says, IN con
cluding his deep feuilleton:
1T is not true that the British alone
have an Interest in the restoration
Of Europe. Nor : it true that they
have a special interest Nor is It tr4e
that the exchange Of goods by n.oans
Of trade is d peculiar device for the
benefit Of the British. What is true
is that the British are the first VIC
torious nation TO see clearly their in
terest in the restoration OF peace. and
the first nation to begin acting on what
they see. They are the first to ap-
proach realistically the settlement OF
Europe. because they were the first 70
make settlement in their own souls
with the memories of the war Much
more slowly the rest of Europe Is
demobilizing IS mind. extricating its
judgments from its memories and
learning to face the facts OF Europe
without concentrating on its pains ana
its fears There can be no real settle
ment until this process is far more ad-
vanced than it is to-day. No doubt the
continent IS more deeply involved ard
no doubt America is too abstractlv IN
volved to make so quick an adjust
ment. have no wish to force ccm-
parlson. But the fact remains that the
British have made the quickest
spiritual adjustment, thanks. 1 suppose,
to their insular tolerance, their i'm
perlal experience and their imagina-
tive inheritance."
!: =
Other contents of the April VANITY
Fair are interesting. Mr.. Fred naw-
thorne, for instance, discourses ami
ably about the Weaknesses Of the
eminent tennis experts-the vulnerable
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
China on the Screen

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Permit me to bring to your
attention great injustice inflicted
upon China in the moving picture and
other theaters in this city.
The most recent grievance of this
nature is in the series called THE Mis-
tress of the World" the first episode
OF which purports to depict Chinese
vlisainy of the most exaggerated form
The entire plot is more lurid fiction
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
The 7oWer
NY NEART AND |


my HEART amt 1ootchcd n'y
~ tore as he 'cont,
sand mn mistfui bcort 10 nc.
"H'hy must nee suBcr2 VIM W1st
he qo2
WIG ngtst yo,e polt mhc" he tones
you so.
and the lamp of vou' soui is stW
o9iow,
And go,p' tore IS as yo'"g as
buddiug rose
That is bI'shjug tcndcyIy2'
So / foId my heort and ! b'cd to
be jcjao
wan It misdon beyond my yeors;
yhol this ,cas the 1caU that ii
must be.
We miqht hccp our dreams, 6ot nee
ncyc not free,
And the highest and hlecst de-
mondcd that zee
lIohc Of ov. tore n socridcc
ON the altar of secret teors.
All this / sojd to mn ochia9 heart
As co stood and 7cotched him 90;
Bat all oV arguments were as
0aa9hL
The peocc Of my 1eo't could not be
bou9ht.
Fo}' IN o1slco,' to oU Of D'Y carct'd
Mou0ht
Ny heart cried ont 1cith the ooicc
Of pain:
"Pe,hops loped him SOL"
MURIEI IVES
Something might be done toward
raising the bonus for the soldiers BY
taxing the incomes of przedghtcrs.
Mr. j Throckmorton Cush believes
that the money the government saved
on him while he was dolar-a-yeal
mai. at Washington would go long
way toward meeting the demands of
the former warriors.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
A Correction

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My attention has been directed
to an alleged quotation in your issue Of
March 10 from remarks made by me at
meeting of Caduceus Post, 8lS. of the
American Legion on the preceding
evening.
Referring to Mayor Hylan, did not
use the following sentence: "When he
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20

The respectable rctcence of The
Mount Vernon Daily Argus" is cited by
Ii. b. D., who submits as witness the
following excerpt:
"Theodoro. sardous immoral drama,
rated ass the World's greatest production.
is booked for showing 1T the Playhouse
for three days. commencing IT, morrow.
This production is So great as 10 be .e
most impossible for description
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
DOOPS BY Percy Hammond


Walter Lppmann has some thought
ful things to say about England in the
April Vanity Fair Ordinarily you
do not look for serious news of the
statesmen in so peacock a publication
as is Mr. Crowninshield's monthly
communicate from the lip-stick world.
You turn to "Vanity Fair" for nforma-
tion of the puff and-powder life
haberdashery, sculpture, the so-called
drama, etchngs, satires, finance, modes
and the recent fiction Opening your
copy of "Nanty Fair you say to your
self: Here is where I meet some swell
authors, and while perusing them what
shall wear?' 1t is rather function.
samovarious, orange -pecoed, brightly
small -talkative and super-urban CYAN
ity Fair has been called enormously
the corsetiere of literature, an
epithet which resent The top-hat,
perhaps, of the magazine, it is worn,
like the haloes, little rakish and
askew. But beneath that glossy helmet
is sometimes to be found noble bean
IN the process of illuminating cerebra-
ton. Mr. Lippmann, in the April issue.
Tor instance, writes with graceful pro
funditY of the tiptoeing revolution in
England, the silent, stealthy, almost
unobserved progress of the empires
setting sun, and of the means adopted
by It's efficient governors to embalm
forever It's solar glories in a lasting
memory. Ireland gone, Egypt gone, the
cosmic navy gone and India on its way.
Mr.. Lippmann tells how sagaciously the
British accept these changes and
realize that the "traditional technique
OF Imperialism" is now utterly anti
quated
* !; X
Like the bees they excel in govern
ment Emerging victorious from the
war, they regard its results with no
elation. They contemplate the sub
marine, the bombing plane and the
poison gas, and they know that the
'o'd order Of things is crstwhiic. They
do not squawk about their losses in the
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
A Verbal Distinction

ffrom The Phfiodofplia Nnomro,j
We're not ruled by the Kaiser it
is true, but personally we can't see
much practical difference between
''verboten" and "dont'
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
| Ioodoed

There must be something the mat
ter with Genoa Columbus got ou.
Of the place as soon as he could.
Copyright by James j. Montague)
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20

mates dance for Joy in Gods glad
sunshine on the green banks and
bonnie braes of natures own con
triving
New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
Gone Forever

President Harding may be right in
prophesyine that his income tax
blank Will be returned but the check
ne sent with it viii not.