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TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1922.
"Let America Pay!"
London bankers and London econ
omists generally have Insistently
stated that Germany never can pay
the one hundred and thirty-five bil
lion gold marks demanded of her by
the Allies?thirty-five billions of gold
dollars.
In sympathy with this idea Sir
Robert Horne, Chancellor of the
British Exchequer, a sound headed
Scotchman with an eye open to the
main chance, now comes forward j
with the ingenious suggestion that |
America shoulder one-third of Ger- J
many's burden and pay it to the A1
lies. This is handsome and entitles j
Sir Robert to high place among the j
best of his race in point of imagina-1
tion?such distinguished men of j
fancy as Sir Walter Scott. Rotckrt
Louis Stevenson and Sir James j
Barrik.
Sir Robert's invention would be a
good thing lor Germany and a sweet
thing for the Allies, but in the finality
it lacks originality. It is not new.
It is born of the same old attitude
now become so familiar to these
shores. "Let America Pay!"
If, however, this invention had
originated in America with regard to
America's own sacrifice it would
have had the merit of good taste
and generous spontaneity. But com
ing from a nation that itself would
be benefited to the tune of billions
of dollars by America's sacrifice, com-:
ing from a nation that would get
genuine gold for what it regards, in
large measure, as a worthless credit,
will not produce any considerable
thrill of delight in the hearts of the
American people.
If the Chancellor of the British
Exchequer had presented an argu
ment showing how it would work to
the restoration of economic world
stability and to the revitalizing of
commercial and industrial activities
if all the I O Us among all the allied
nations and the associated nations
were scrapped, and the indemnities
of the Central Powers were scrapped
as a part of the job, his argument
would at least get a receptive hear
ing in America.
It would get a receptive hearing
In America because it would furnish
real thought for economic discussion
and would be wholly beyond palpable
selfishness. But to put forth an ar
gument. or make a suggestion, that
would call upon America to pay one
third of Germany's staggering indem
nity, with England and the other
Allies making no sacrifice whatever,
is unthinkable and Intolerable.
In the judgment of Tin; Nkw York
Hesald Sir RoBMtT has not scored
heavily in putting out this feeler, and
in the judgment of Tut: New York
Hkra!.p America will never cancel
one cent of the indebtedness due
from the Allies except all slates be
twecn all nations be wiped clean.
What America would do In a situa
tion of thin kind Is entirely unknown,
hut that America would dig deep
into the economic heart of the mat
tar Is certain.
? Peach Crop Prospecti.
Peach growers within a hundred
miles or so of New York hope to pro
duce an uncommonly large crop this
year. All conditions are reported to
b? favorable for the peach. Con
tinued low temperatures, with several
timely sleet and show storms, hove
kept the sap back in the trees' lower
d?ptJJ>s and thus prevented premature
swelling of the buds. The rest th-i
crop failure of 1921 gave the tree
has proved highly beneficial. They
have grown in bulk and in strength.
Why fruit growers hereabouts
have not generally resorted to warm
ing their orchards with one or more
of the various devices that have been
used with more or less success In
Florida and on the Pacific coast is
not clear. In other fruit growing dis
tricts smudge fires have saved many
crops, and had thiB or some other
method of combating frost been util
ized in this vicinity last year there
is every reason to believe that the
wholesale destruction wrought by
the late frosts after the abnormally
warm January might have been in a
great measure averted. Records of
success in other parts of the country
should encourage the adoption 6f
frost combating devices here.
Eastern people are not generally
given to trailing in the rear of prog
ress, but in this particular they have
hardly kept up with the procession.
There are not many weeks now be
tween us and comparative safety for
the peaches. But these weeks are
treacherous for buds, full of high j
temperature lures Into freezing death |
traps. With the prospect now so
bright for an enormous peach crop
it would be a pity if growers should
fail to be ready with any orchard
protecting device that has demon
strated its value.
The Wage of Our Policemen.
The owner of The New York
Herald secured for our policemen in
1918 the first advance, but for a pal
try hundred dollars in 1916, they had
had in their wage in twenty-four
years. And the advance in the wage
of these policemen made way for a
similar advance in the wage of the
firemen.
Since this advance was granted to
both the policemen and the firemen
their wage has been further ad
vanced so that now the first grade po
licemen get $2,280 a year. The fire
men of the first grade get the same (
wage.
The policemen and the firemen'
are now asking that their wage1
?those of the first grade?be ad
vanced to $2,500. The owner of The
New York Herald is in complete
sympathy with this request. This Is
not too much, but, considered in view
of the fact that policemen are retired
on half pay after twenty-five years of
service and firemen are retired on
half pay after twenty years of ser
vice, it is fair and reasonable pay.
Up to 1918 first grade policemen
were getting only $1,400 a year. In
1916, in the midst of the war, first
grade policemen got the munificent
advance of $100 a year, carrying their
wage up to $1,600.
And this was the wage of the first
grade policemen when the owner of j
The New York Herald, in 1918, took
up their case with the citizens of New
York and got them an increasfeand
put them on the road to additional
increases.
Mazzirr and Margaret Fuller.
Fifty years ago last Friday Gin
flKPVE Mazzini, the Italian patriot
and one of the outstanding figures In
the revolutionary movement^which
brought about the present Kingdom
of Ttaly, died at Pisa. At Rome Sun
day republican associations paraded
under the red standards of Gaii
bai-di in a tribute to the memory of
Mazzini, his friend and coworker.
Other Italian cities hare undertaken
memorial services, the most notable
of which will be the observance to
day at Pisa of the anniversary of
his funeral in that city on March
14. 1872.
The bitterness of the political con
troversy over those stern revolution
ary days has been In fifty years
sufficiently forgotten for people to
recognize in Mazzini a national pa
triot who at the cost of many self
denials ungrudgingly devo?ed his life
to the cause of Italy's freedom. His
career was that of many other Ideal
ists and dreamers flred by patriot
ism; by his unpractical Ideals he at
times more retarded than advanced
the course of events to the goal
which he himself sought.
The insurrections at both Man
tua and Milan which he planned
were failures. He was twice sen
tenced to death, he was imprisoned
at Gaeta, he was frequently com
pelled to flee from Italy and seek
refuge in London or Switzerland.
When at last he was permitted to
return to Pisa he was broken in
health and spirit He was never
reconciled to a monarchy in Italy.
"I bow my head sorrowfully to the
sovereignty of the national will," he
wrote, "but monarchy will never
number me among Its servants or
followers." He lived to see Cavoiu's
statesmanship make Italian unity an
accomplished fact.
Ix>okfng back through these fifty
years It seems a strange coincidence
that the tragedy of the career of this
ardent and intense man should give
a tragic tinge to the life of one of
America's most brilliant women,
Maruarkt Fiiij.ro. She early took a
lively interest in the Italian struggle
for independence. To her Mazzini
arose as its most commanding and
attractive figure. He was to her the
only real prophet of the struggle.
It was their common devotion to
Mazzini and the cauBe of the revolu
tion that drew her and Marquis
Ossm.i Into companionship and even
tually brought about their mar
riage. She refused to leave Rome
when the city was besieged, and
while her husband fought on the
walls she, at MazhHi'h request, took
? charge of one of the hospitals and
performed heroic service. When the
city fell she and her husband fled
first to the mountains of Abruzel and
*h??n to Florence. Ma mini became a
fugitive with a p*4c? on his head.
They sailed' from Leghorn for
V
America in May, 1850. Ossoli's
spirit was broken by the failure of
the revolution, and when their ship
was wrecked off Fire Island beach
just as they were approaching New
York harbor he made no attempt to,
save his own life or- that of their
child. No one knew exactly what
happened as the ship was breaking
up under the pounding of the waves,
but it is said that his wife also was
lost through her failure to make an
effort to save herself. With her
sank too the manuscript of her ac-1
count of the Roman revolution, an ex
haustive work based upon her per
sonal knowledge and experience and '
her acquaintance with its chief ac-1
tors, a work which was an irrepar
able loss to the historical literature
of the period.
Brady and Hylan.
The charge was made by William I
A. Brady at a dinner on Sundayi
night that indecent plays are pro-'
duced in New York because of "rot-1
ten politics on the part of Mayor
Hylan'k administration." Mr. Brady
added that he would tell Mr. Hylan
"right to his face" where the fault
lay.
To this Mayor Hylan replies with
dignity that he will be glad to hear
Mr. Bkady at any time and that .he
will have the reporters present to
listen to the discussion. This is
much more sensible than denouncing
Mr. Brady as a Tool of the Interests
or a Plunderer of the Plain People,
titles which the Mayor usually con
fers upon those who criticize his ad
ministration.
Many persons will agree with Mr.
Brady's statament that the city ad
ministration is to blame because it
has the power to prevent improper
productions. PerWaps the Mayor
will b?*able to dissipate this idea.
The promised interview ought to
be intensely dramatic. The news
papers will do their best with it, of
course. But it really is an event that
calls for the radio. When two ora
torical thunderbolts like Brady and
Hylan come together their words
should ring to the very welkin.
Or would the ether crack under the
strain?
First Catch Your Plesiosaurus.
For an animal nobody is sure any
body has ever seen the jolly old
plesiosaurus of Patagonia is getting
publicity which a prima donna might
regard with envy. The Argentine
humane society which corresponds
to our own S. P. C. A. protests
agairu t the capture or killing of the
supposed survivor of a prehistoric j
species. The head of the society de
clares that the plesiosaurus might die
if it were brought north. Nonsense!
The creature's grandfathers and
granduncles, several ages removed,
lived in New Jersey, Kansas and
Wyoming. Coming north from the
southern Argentine would be like
old home week for a plesiosaurus.
Let there be no undue excitement
over the treatment of the monster, \
however. First catch your plesiosau-;
rus, but gently. He might be lured
to land with jazz, the strains of
which are notoriously liked by all
reptiles. Dr. Albarracin, the presi
dent of the Argentine humane so1
ciety, insists that the scientists study
the creature In its own habitat while
It is enjoying full liberty. We feel
sure that they will. The monster will
be kodaked, cinematographed, phono-'
? graphed and charted. Grave intelli-;
gentsia will report and interpret his
every gesture and snort. His meals '
will be weighed. ihaps he is eat-(
ing too much protein. What kind of!
diet will extend the life of a plesio
saurus another 5,000 years?
The Buenos Aires expeditionarles
| are determined to go after the oldest
i breathing relic of the past. They will
start this week, says Professor
i Ojtclm, "provided additional funds
j are forthcoming." There's %n idea
for the bucket shop men. Plesiosau
i rus Preferred; get in on the Cre
: taceous floor.
Another Disastrous Experiment
in Government Railways.
France has decided to sell her Gov
ernment owned railways, according
to dispatches from Paris, which
means that another experiment in
Government operation of railways
has proved disastrous. The French
j railways comprise six great lines,
j one of which, the Western system,
the longest in France, operating
6,212 miles of railway, is owned by
J the Government. The five other rail
! ways, all privately owned and oper
j ated, are: The Nord, 2,396 miles; the
Est, 3,133 miles; the Parls-Lyon
M^diterran^e, 6,061 miles; the Or
leans, 4,881 miles, and the Midi,
2,520 miles.
No fairer or more thorough experi
ment in government railroading has
| been made than the one carried out
I on the Western system in France.
| Nearly twenty years ago this system
I was consolidated with the Ancient
j Reseau, or Old Lines, which servo
; Paris as a s6rt of interurban rail
I road. Before 1004 the Old Lines had
; been prosperous. But within four
years after the Western Railway had
been taken over by the Government
a deficit was shown. The balance
has been on the wrong side of the
ledger ever since, although the rail
-ways under private operation earned
| profits up to the beginning of the
i war. Even these private lines were
i subject to Government control dur
ing the war. The State guaranteed
| their earnings. War time deficits of
all the railroads cost the Government
, more than 5,000,000,000 francs.
The abnormal war period does not
| furnish an accurate criterion by
? which to Judge French railway, con
I trol. The table below shows the re
suits of State railway ownership In
France from 1904, when the Western
Railway was taken over, until the
outbreak of the war. The figures
were contained in preliminary esti
mates of the budget of 1014, receipts,
expenses and profit or loss being
here shown in millions of francs:
Yoar. Receipts. Expenses. Loss
1904 245 242 ?3
1906 261 245 *6
190 6 263 256 *7
190 7 266 272 6
190 8 a<S 288 13
190 9 280 305 25
1910.. ? .292 340 48
191 1 301 361 60
191 2 313 383 71
191 3 319 401 83
191 4 334 410 76
?Profit.
The French experiment in railway ;
operation had cost the Government j
all told 365,000,000 francs in the ten j
years before the war. To this must
be added the amount of the Interest
on the purchase price of the rail-1
ways, which is not Included in the
earnings statements of the State
railways. If the capital charges had
been included the deficits would have
been more than doubled. In 1921, the
first full year under normal operat
ing conditions after the war, the loss
on the State railways is estimated at
100,000,000 francs, and this without
interest on the investment, in spite
of the poorer service and fewer
trains as compared with the pre-war
schedules.
England's Betting Code.
The betting practices followed in
England for many years made it com
paratively . easy for Captain Owen
Peel to defraud the bookmakers (
through the false timing of telegrams
placing money on a race. By long
distance telephone a confederate
learned that Paragon had won the
race for the Duke of York Stakes at
Kempton Park last October, and Cap
tain Peel induced an aged village
postmaster to put a false filing time
on telegrams addressed to bookmak
ers, so as to make it appear that
the messages were sent before the
race was run, not after it had been
won. In other words, he actually dhl
what wiretappers pretend to do when
they swindle gullible persons.
Another circumstance which helped
to make the fraud successful was the
fact that Captain Peel had good social
standing and a fine war record. The
amount won by him was $17,500.
When the first suspicion of irregular
ity was expressed by those who had
lost on the race he said that rather
than rest under a charge of wrong
doing he would return the money.
This action, English accounts of
the affair say, made friends for him,
and it is possible that he might have
escaped with merely a tarnished rep
utation had not the postal authorities
taken the matter up. The fdct that
he had made a tool of the aged post
master was an offense which the Gov
ernment would not overlook and his
prosecution was ordered.
The case came to trial recently and
attracted wide attention because it
was the first criminal prosecution of
importance which had arisen from
betting in a number of years. Cap
tain Pf.el pleaded guilty. Mrs. Peel,
who was accused Jointly with her
husband and who is a daughter of
one of the best known of English
racing men, Sir Robert Jardine, en
tered a plea of not guilty and will
be tried shortly.
Altogether the affair throws an in
teresting light on turf conditions in
England. Racing Is a fashionable
pastime there, though, its patrons
come from every walk in life. The
betting system Is founded on a code
of honor. Great sums are wagered
"on the nod," to use the English rac
ing term, or through the mails or by
telegraph. Settlements are made
every Monday.
Failure to settle a betting debt is
one of the most serious social offenses
an Englishman can commit, and
the man who can pay and will not
in ostracized. It is an offense that
carries the severest penalties and its
memory follows an Individual
through life. Under these circum
stances the shock caused by the dis
covery of the fraud carried out by
Captain Peel can be understood.
A passenger In a crosstown car
whose pocket was picked by a profes
sional thief turned the tables by pick
ing the thief's pocket. Perhaps the
public's protection against robbers of
this class may be found In teaching all
honest men to pick pockets.
On his arraignment on a charge of
sedition, Gandhi, the Indian agitator,
pleaded guilty. It Is hard for the
Government to tell what to do with a
non-resister. Gandhi In confinement
may present as difficult a problem as
Gandhi at liberty.
The Transit Commission wants to
convince New York women that the
early shopper catches the bargain.
Bnt Yesterday I Caught a Vision Fleet.
But yesterday I caught a vision fleet
As sunlight on the water, a faint trace
Of loveliness; I seemed to see your
face
Amid the passing throng, and the dark
street
Was of a sudden light and life com
plete ;
Rut only for a moment, then the race,
The mad pursuit of pleasure Ailed the
space
Where I had glimpsed your Image bright
and sweet.
My thought went back to vanished yes
terdays
When, if I sought you, you were al
ways there.
Your love and presence never were
wfth drawn ;
It Is not so here In the city's ways.
For when I think to find you you
are gone??
Swift am a anatch of song upon the air.
!5U 8ARCTH SCOIXARD.
Men, Not Cats, Blamed.
Puss's 8ins Attributed to Human
Cruelty or Sesrlect.
To The New York Herald: I demur
to the indictment against the cat.
Why not ask the compiler of statistics
to make a record of cats tortured, atoned
and shot by vicious boys, and another
one of neats robbed, mother birds killed,
birds killed out of season and general
mortality from human hands?
No cat lover would stand for cats
killing birds. Cats properly fed and
housed are no more attracted to birds
than to stray leaves in a breese. I hare
only compassion for the other kind of
eat. He comes without any wish of his
own and observes the first law of nature
while he is 'here. I don't blame him
for anything he does.
People allow rats to multiply without
any thought of the future, kick them
out and blame them for what they do
to sustain life. I've known people who
had time to throw a rock when they
didn't liave time to take the unwanted
cat to the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals or some* other in
stitution of like nature, where It would
be painlessly destroyed.
We don't need legislation against cats.
What we need is a greater understand
ing of nil nature. Let the legislation
be against owners and do let's enforce
the laws we have. A Cat Lover.
New York, March 13.
The Crucial Year.
Savonarola an Instance of the Rule
Confronting Lloyd George.
To The New YoRk Herald: In the
editorial article on Lloyd George's cru
cial year you say that the eighth year
has a definitely established reputation
ha a crucial one in politics. You point
to the duration of the influence of De
mosthenes In the councils of his coun
trymen, which reached Its climax in the
? ight years between the peace of Phl
locrates in 346 B. C. and the battle of
Chaeronea. You advert to the breaking
up of the coalition, eight years after it
had been formed, toy Julius Csesar, Pom
pey and Crassus.
Other instances of eight year political
periods suggest themselves. One of the
most notable* is presented in the sway |
of Olrolamo Savonarola as the absolute
ruler of the highly cultured city of'
Florence from 1490 to 1498. He drove
the Medici into hiding, ruled the man
ners, morals and politics of Florence,
and shook the very foundations of the
Renaissance.
Like Demosthenes, and In a degree
Csesar, Savonarola appealed to emotion
alism, touched the tieart and the con
science, while the very practical wizard
of Criccieth, whose breadth of vision
comprehends the interdependent needs
of all the nations and who dexterously
and with lightning swiftness adjusts
himself to the political exigencies of
the hour, holds power by a stronger
and more lasting grasp. He Is tfrie
statesman of world business and the
world has present and further need of
such a man. Frank Deedmeter.
Birmingham, Ala., March 10.
Palestine and the Jews.
A Prophecy Fulfilled by the British
t'aptnre of Jerusalem.
To Tub New YoftK Herald: If I may
add a word to my recent letter I would
say that as the volume of the restora
tion of the Jews Increases the United
States will inevitably play a prominent
part, not only in providing- transport but
in many other ways.
The restoration of the Jews concerns
the whole world. Just as the entry of the
British army into Jerusalem concerned,
the whole world. For In that hour the '
"times of the rientiles" were fulfilled.
Our Lord said: "Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles until the
times of the Gentiles are fulfilled."
That is definite language. When
the British army entered Jerusalem It
was delivered, it was no konger trodden
down, and in that hour the "times of the
Gentiles" were fulfilled.
We are now living in an Interregnum.
IIow long or how short that Interregnum
will be no man knoweth.
W. Stanlct Shaw,
Captain late Middlesex Regiment.
LONDON, February 28.
Evidence From a Cage.
Mountain Lions at a Wyoming Hotel
Did Actually Swam.
To The New York Herald: Ldlre
your correspondent Henry W. Shoe
maker X also have been much Interested j
In the discussion concerning the mouti- j
tain lion's cry and the various letters
you have published on the subject. Thf
evidence contained In these lettors only
confirms the fact, well known to many
of us, that the puma, or mountain lion,
certainly does scream. Why that fact
should be questioned by anybody Is not
easy to understand.
For myself, during twenty-odd years
In which I lived In the Rocky Mountain
region I hive not only often hoard that
peculiar snarling shriek but have also
on various occasions seen a mountain
lion in the act of uttering the cry. Many
persona who traveled over the Union
Pacific Railroad during the late '80s and
early '90s will doubtless recall the young
lions which were kept In cages In front
of the Union Pacific Hotel at Green
River, Wyoming. And some of these
persons will also remember having heard
the cry those lions used to give vent
to from time to time, most frequently
Just before their meal hour.
It Is also possible, nay, probable, that
a majority of the people who saw those
lions never hoard them scream and
would be Willing so to testify. This
lattef fact seems to epitomize the entire
evidence produced In this discussion. On
the one hand wo have a respectable
minority who have actually heard the
puma's cry, and on the other hand a
multitude who never heard It and do
not know anybody who has.
It all reminds one of the Western
Justice of the l'cnce who was trylhg a
man on the charge of stealing a pig.
The complaining witness and one other
testified positively to having seen the
defendant In the act of committing the
theft. Put the defendant produced
twenty reputable witnesses who swore
with equal certitude that they had not
seen him steal the pig. Whereupon the
Justice held that the clear preponder
ance of the evidence was In favor of the
defendant, and pcmrdlngly discharged
him. Gbotmjb Westfrvki.t.
New York, March 18.
Will Appeal to the Othi>r End.
jVeut Home rorrmprmdmrt in WoMron (Arte.)
Ailvnnrvtiivort'r.
Mr. J>mII* Abbott *?w he could not do
any ?R'?><l talking to Hllen while lie was
selling hosiery, so he has gone to teaching
at Pleasant Valley.
Mme. Casals in Beethoven Concert
Brahms Horn Trio Alto Part of Association's Program'
at Aeolian Hall.
By W. J. HB.VOERSOir.
The program of the fifth concert
I of the Beethoven Association at Aeolian
Hall last evening consisted of the
Brahms horn trio, songs sung by Mine.
Susan Metcalfe Casals with Mr. Casals
1 aa accompanlsrt, and the Schumann piano
quartet. The violinist was Alexander
Schmuller, Hugo Kortschak played viol*
and William Bachaus was the pianist.
Mr. Casals, besides being at the piano
when Mme. Casals sang, played the cello
part In the quartet. The horn player
was Xavler Relter, long the solo horniat
of the Philharmonic Society.
The horn trio, in which the other
two Instruments aro violin and piano,
is infrequently heard. This is to be
expected. In chamber music, as in
the orchestra, the horn, without being
intrusive, ie decidedly obtrusive. There
is no way ?f suppressing the aggressive
emergence of Its characteristics except
by relegating it to the useful but sub
ordinate office of sustaining harmonies.
As a solo voice it mercilessly dominates
any Instrumental body, and hence a
hom trio cannot be played often. To
use the horn to advantage a composer
must be on terms of Intimacy with it.
Rossini was always happy when writ
ing for the horn quartet, as witness
his successful passage in the "Semlra
mido" overture. "Weber was his su
perior in that he wafi equally at home
withone horn, as In "Oberon," or four,
as in *Der Fr?lsehuetss." Beethoven did
wonders with threo In the "Erolca."
Wagner sported with the horn as a boy
with a new toy and at least once, in
his "Phaeton," Salnt-Saens c-eated a<
model passage for the horn qua.'tet.
But no one else surpassed Brahms,
whose magnificent proclamation by
horns in the last movement of the C
minor symphony is unrivaled, and who
showed In the trio how perfectly he
could adapt the peculiarities of the horn
to chamber music. The instrument
dominates the thematic style of the
composition, which is nevertheless not
a mere horn solo, but a real trio in
which each of the other Instruments
speaks eloquently alone and in which
all three unite In beautiful utterances.
The work was admirably played last
evening by the three artists. They
steeped themselves in the spirit of the
music and successfully communicated
It to an audience, which received the
message with every evidence of pleas
ure. Mme. Casals delivered four songs
of Beethoven, "Adelaide," "Wonne der
Weihmung," "Ich liebe dlch" and "Neue
Lilebe, Neues Leben." She sang all four
with much sincerity and with plenty
of voice, but was not always happy in
her treatment of the music or the text.
She made the best Impression with the
second song. Mr. Casals Showed that
he was a distinguished accompanist
among cellists.
Harold Bauer, president of the Bee
thov#n Association, also appeared on
the stage at this concert, but confined
his performance to turning pages for
The Battle.
The earth has waged
The "Winter flght,
The foe engaged
By day or night.
On- vale and hill
?He met defeat.
His bugles shrill.
Have blown retreat
But wounds were borne
To hold the front,
The earth Is torn
With battle brunt.
Conies Spring with ways
Of wealth untold;
A bonus pays
Of crocus gold.
McLandburoh Wilson.
Near East Problems.
Turkish Rule and tJie Replmes Which
Have Succeeded It.
To Thb New York Herald: The
news from London that the Government
of India through Lord Reading has re
quested Great Britain for a revision of
the Sevres treaty cannot help but influ
ence the rather strained relations be
tween the Foreign Offices at the Qual
d'Orsay and Downing Street toward an
amicable understanding over the Na
tionalist question, if not to a permanent
and satisfactory settlement of the Near
Eastern problems. Such a revision will
materially aH the establishment of the
much needed peace in that part of the
world, will cement further the Franco
British Entente and assure the continu
ance of the loyalty of the people of
India.
It Is interesting to note that half a
century ago It was mainly through the
efforts of an illustrious Jewish states
man that the Treaty of San Stefano, so
disastrous to Turkish fortunes, was re
vised and replaced by the Treaty of
Berlin under the benevolentlnfluence of
Lord Beaconsfleld. If the Sevres treaty
undergoes a similar alteration, and there
is all the likelihood that It will. It will
probably be due to Lord Heading's re
cent telegram from Delhi.
And why should not the Sevres treaty
be revised according to the spirit of this
message from India? The issue Is be
tween the Turks, who are In majority
In the regions mentioned, notwithstand
ing the Hellenic Claims to the contrary,
and the Greeks, who should have no
particular claim to the allied support
in view of their desertion of the only
man who was identified with the allied
cause. It is patent to every thinking
person that It was mainly through the
efforts of Veniselos that Greece finally
aligned herself with the Entente, and It
was to hi* personality that various con
cessions to the Greek viewpoint were
made. Stripped of this, there Is no good
reason why Greece should be allowed
to hold territory which Is humanly Im
possible for her to digest without re
sorting to high handed methods. And
sirch methods are to be condemned Just
as mlich when perpetrated by the Greeks
as they are when practiced by the Turks.
In the Balkans we have the original
"agin" the governrr\fnt" policy deeply
rooted. While und : the Turkish rule
Bulgars, Serbian a wl Greeks protested
against the iBultan's authority and very
often w?nt Into open rebellion. After
the Balkan war this rule was substituted
by the Serbiai. Oreek and Bulgarian.
The same protest*. In many wises
stronger, beg,in to be heard.
The Oreek who happened to live under
the Bulgarian or Serbian rule found the
yoke much more unbearable ami the
Buigar who was allotted to live under
the Greek management prayed for the
return of the Turk. The spirit of dis
content and strife Is In the atmosphere
of the Neor East. And of all the meas
ures worthy of consideration the treaty
of Sevres Is certainly the poorest.
Turkish rule, like capitalism, may
have many drawbacks, but it Is a gov
Mr. Bachaus. He seemed to give per
fect satisfaction.
MMB. NIKOLORIC'S RECITAL.
Mme. Margaret Nlkolorlc, a pianist
new to New York, gave a recital yester
day afternoon at Town Hall. She was
heard by a large audience, which
waited at the end for encores. Her pro
gram, If not of most comprehensive
( scope, was unconventional in design and
of Interesting selection, it comprised
two "Intermezzi" by Brahms, Chopin's
nocturne In C sharp minor and two
etudes, the "Prelude, Chorale and
Fugue" of Cesar Franck; "Koechlin's
"Promenade Vers la Mer," two "Move
ments Perpetuels" by Poulenc, and, in
I closing, a group of pieces by Debussy.
| Mme. Nlkolorlc's performance showed
her as being a player of serious musical
purpose and possessed of a well poised
rather than Impassioned style. She
played always with a normal piano tone,
her technic was commendable and her
rhythmical sense and phrasing were
good. Her playing of Chopin's music
was generally pleasing if not always de
fined In character, and the same may
be said of her Brahms readings. In the
Cesar Franck composition there was lack
of breadth with some lagging of tempo;
the fugue had clarity and the whole
work no little feeling. The artist was at
her best In the Debussy "numbers, where
her tone coloring was always wol) varied,
her nuance finished and often brlitikant;
and her taste excellent.
MALKIX'S PIANO RECITAL.
Manfred Malkln gave hts second piano
recital of the current season last eve
ning in Carnegie Hall. His program
was an all Chopin one. It Included
the B flat minor sonfeta, a nocturne, the
ballade In F, the C sharp minor scherzo,
two mazurkas and the A flat polo
naise.
Mr. Malkln lrf a pianist whose color
palette is hardly rich enough to paint
the delicate or more sensuous tints of
Chopin's music. He prefers to draw his
lines clearly, sharply and with dynamic
force. His intelligence and fleet finger
work assisted him last night In a per
formance of incisive outlines rather
than in one which was marked by poetic
and Imaginative qualities. He was
warmly applauded by a large audience.
tADT MACKENZIE LECTURES.
L?ady Mulr Mackenzie lectured on
India in the ballroom of the Ambassa
dor Hotel, her topic being "In the Foot
steps of Buddha." Among those pres
ent were Sir Gerald Wlllafhlr?, Lady
Henry, Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbllt.
Mrs. Minturn Plnchot, Mr. Stuyvesant
Fish and Mr. Albert Morris Bagby.
Previous to the lecture Mr. Ragby en
tertained Lady Mackenzie and several I
friends at luncheon at the Ambassador, !
among his other guests being Sir Gerald
?\Villshire.
ernment that has the merit of contin
uity. Experiments in trusting the wel
fare of this region to Inexperienced
hands cannot hope to achieve any greater
success than the experiments of Messrs.
Lenine and Trotzky In disregarding the
time honored principle of continuity and
rushing Into revolutions and abrupt eco
nomic cihanges. New brooms might
sweep well, but most of us prefer to
trade with old established houses.
Djevad Eyoub.
Brooklyn, March 13.
Wet Storage of Coal.
It Is Practiced by Large Consumers
Willi Success.
From the Panama Canal Record.
Both of the coaling plants at the
canal terminals are provided with spaces
for the storage of coal under water as
well as in the dry.
No complaint has been made of the
combustible qualities of the coal stored
subaqueously, but In order to ascertain
If other plants had experienced any de
terioration from water storage the Gov
ernor requested the Chief of Office In
Washington to obtain the conclusions of
Mr. H. H. Stoek, professor of mining
engineering at the University of Illinois,
as to the relative merits of wet and dry
storage of coal. In his reply Professor
Stoek stated:
"I would report that several companies
in Illinois have used under water stor
age apparently with success. One of the
first companies to use this form was the
Western Electric Company in Chicago,
which has a number of concrete pits,
Also, the Illinois Traction Company has
used this method at several of Its larger
power plants. Several of the elnc com
panies In the State have used old sloughs
for temporary storage, and In a similar
manner a number of mines have used
these sloughs for excess production.
The largest under water storage plant
of which I have been advised Is that of
the Standard Oil Company at Whiting,
Ind.. where provision has been made for
100,000 tons. The Duquesne Light Com
pany of Pittsburgh also has a large
under water storage plant. In the ab
sence of negative reports from any of
these companies I assume they have
found under water storage satisfactory.
"Experiments made at the University
of Illinois on small quantities of ooal
under water havo shown practically no
deterioration,
"The two large plant* above referred
to, namely, those of the Standard Oil
Company and the Duquesne Light Com
pany, are of too recent construction to
have very conclusive results extending
over a sufficient period of time.
"Under water storage Is of course
best adapted for fine Rises of run of
mine coal where It Is necessary to have
a mixture of slses and a considerable
amount of fine coal and dust in the ma
terial stored. If the coal can be prop
erly slued and carefully handled I do not
believe it Is neressary to have under*
water storage, as the expense of the
plant Is of course materially greater
than ground storage."
No I,n*nry Tat Either,
From KmpnrUi flaeette.
An Emporia man In Topeka on hudneae
rerrntly, stayed all night In a Topeka hotel,
and took a rooni with bath. In preparing
for hla bath he automatically turned off
the water when the tuh was four inches
full and crawled In. When he wan about
half drcsaed ho remembered he wa.t not
restricted In the us* of water, and he took
hla clothes off again, filled the tub to the
brlmf crawled In and noaked for half an
hour. And In the morning he took another.
Free Ride for Dad and the Royn.
Shannon corre*pnndmre <n the Stuttgart
Free Prr??.
The Hplcer brothers are hauling rloa to
town, also T. Helen and aon*.
The Real Tragedy.
; Jack and Jill went up the hill
| To get?you well may ask;
Jack fell down and broke his cfown
i And, Mill wotse, broke his flask.
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.
For Has torn New fork?Increasing
cloudiness followed by rain this after
noon and to-night; to-morrow, probably
rain and somewhat colder, fre"?h to
strong south shifting to -west winds.
For New Jersey?Inerenslng cloudiness fol
lowed by rain this afternoon ami to-night.
to-morrow rain end somewhat colder, fi'eah
to strong south shifting to neat winds.
For Northern New England?lnr.jva.iing
cloudiness and warmer to-day, rain tills after
noon or to-night; to-morrow rain and som?
what colder, increasing south and southwest
winds.
For Southern New England? Dnoreasing
cloudiness and warmer to-day, rain this af
ternoon or to-night; to-morrow rain and
somewhat colder, increasing eouth and south
west winds.
For Western New York?llain. with mild
temperature to-day; to-morrow cloudy and
oolder, probably rain.
WASHINGTON, March 18.?The southwest
disturbance has moved slowly wortheastw t\\d
air. Its center was over Oklahoma to-night.
It has been attended by showers and thunder
storms In the middle Mississippi Valley, Ml*
sourl, Kansas and Oklahoma and the middle
anil west Gull Slates. The northwest ills
turoaiiee has moved rapidly eastward to On
tario and It has been attended by rains in
tho north Pacific States and western Mon
tana. Pressure was high, but fulling over
tho eastern States, while it continued low
to-day In the vicinity of Newfoundland.
The temperaturu has risen east of tho Mis
sissippi Hlver and In the plateau region nnd
It has fallen In western Texas. Unseasonably
warm weather peiavlled to-day almost gen
erally from the plains Stales and lower Mis
sissippi Valley eastward except In the At
lantic States.
The Oklahoma disturbance will move north
eastward attended by rains almost genorally
east of tho Mississippi Itiver within the next
twenty-four hours, probably continuing
Wednesday morning In tho Florida peninsula,
the extreme upper Ohio Valley, the lowor lalio
region and In the Atlantic States from Vir
ginia northward.
Observation* at United fltatee Weather Bu
reau stations, taken at 8 P. M. yesterday,
seventy-fifth meridian time:
Temperature Rainfall
last 24 lira. Baro- last 24
Stations. High. Low. meter, hrs. Woathor
Abilene 62 54 29.72 .. Cloudy
Albany 64 20 30.16 .. Clear
Atlantic City... 48 38 80.34 .. Cloudy
Baltimore 00 86 80.32 .. Ft. Cldy
Bismarck 60 82 30.10 .. Clear
Boston 62 82 30.24 .. Cloudy
Buffalo 68 34 K0.08 .. Pt. Cldy
Cincinnati.... 70 42 30.18 ?. Cloudy
Charleston..... 68 62 80.36 .. ....
Chicago 04 40 30.10 .. Cloudy
Cleveland f>4 40 30.12 .. Pt. Cldy
Denver 58 32 30.02 .. Clear
Detroit 00 36 30.08 .. Clear
Oalveston 72 04 29.92 .. Cloudy
Helena 42 32 30.00 .01 Pt. Cldy
Jacksonville... 74 68 80.30 .. Clear
Kansas City... DO 88 2H.H4 .12 Italn
l-ios Angeles... 64 44 30.20 .. Pt. Cldy
Milwaukee 04 38 30.02 .. Pt. Cldy
New Orleans... 80 60 80.08 .. Clear
Oklahoma 64 Clear
Philadelphia... 68 86 30.34 .. Pt. Cldy
Pittsburgh 66 42 80.18 .. Clear
Portland, Me... 88 26 30.24 .. Cloudy
Portland, Ore.. 46 88 30.08 .20 Pt. Cldy
Rait Lake City. 46 24 30.20 .. Pt. Cldj
San Antonio... 80 70 29.88 .. Clear
San Diego 60 44 30.20 .. Pt. Clity
San Francisco. 58 48 30.24 .. Cloudy
Seattle 46 36 30.02 .02 Cloudy
St. Louis 70 46 30 04 .62 Cloudy
St. Paul 52 34 30.04 .. Clear
Washington.... 60 32 30.30 .. Clear
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.
A.M. P.M.
Barometer so.51 30.28
Humidity 51 56
Wind, direction................. 8.
Wind, velocity. ................ 6 30
Weather ........Pt.Cldy. Cl'r.
Precipitation None None
The temperature tn this city yesterday, as
recorded by the official thermometer, Is
shown In the annexed table:
8 A. M 46 IP. M....64 6 P. M 41
9 A. M 47 2 P. M 64 7 P. M 46
10 A. M 61 8 P.M. ...63 8 P. M 44
11 A. M 63 4 P. M 52 9 P. M 44
12 M 63 6 P. M 48 10 P. M 44
, 1922 1921 1022 1921
9 A.M.. 47 67 6 P. M 47 57
12 M 63 61 9 P. M 44 50
12 M 63 CO 12 Mid 43 47
Highest temperature, 66 at 1:45 P. M.
Lowest temperature, 37 at 6:10 A. M.
Average temperature, 46.
EVENTS TO-DAY.
International Flower Show, Grand Central
Palace, 10 A. M. to 10 P. M.
Police Commissioner Richard E. Enrlght
will M|>rak at a meeting of the Harlem Board
of Commerce, 200 Lenox aven.ie, 8 P. M.
Lewis H. rounds will speak on "The Port
Authority rian," meeting of the Woman'!
Republican Club, Inc., Hotel Plaza, 10:30
A. M.
James G. McDonald will discuss "The
Problems of European Economic Rehabilita
tion," Broadway Tabernacle Forum, Broad
way and Fifty-sixth street, 8:15 P. M.
Prof. James Harvey Robinson, lecture.
"How the World Looks to a Historical
Student," Cooper Union, 8 P. M.
Mabel W. Cheel will speak at a meeting nf
the Get Together Club, Community Church
House, Tai k avenue and Thirty-fourth street,
8:15 P. M.
East Harlem Health Center, annual meet
ing, Health Center Building, 345 East 118th
street, 4:30 P. M.
A. C. MacNulty will discuss "The Revi
sion of the Greater New York Charter as It
Affects Real Estate," West Side V. M. C. A.,
318 West Fifty-seventh street, 8:15 P. M.
Gold Star Association, reception. Seventh
Regiment Armory, Park avenue and Sixty
sixth street, 3 to 0 P. M.
Llnnaean Society, annual dinner, American
Museutn nf Natural History, Central Park
West and Seventy-seventh street, 1 P. M.
Bronx Aerie, No, 401, Fraternal Order of
Eagles, public meeting, home, Third avenue
at ]42d hU ? t, 8:30 P. M.
Thomas Uonyngton will speak on "Funda
mentals of a Business Education," meeting
of the New York 8oclety of Accountants,
Uumford Hall, 50 East Forty-first otrce;,
8:15 P. M.
Magistrate W. Bruce Cobb will speak on
"The Wayward Minor," auaplcca of the
Women's Prison Association, Is.-iac C. Hop
per Home, 110 Second avenue, 3:30 P. M.
Prof. Edwin Borchnrdt will speak on "Cur
rent International Relations," Ethical Cul
ture Meeting House, 2 West Blxty-fourth
street, 4 P. M.
Giuseppe Aldo Randegger, lecture, "Mod
ern Composers," Bowery Mission, S P. M.
"A French Maid Who Crowned Her King,"
lecture talks for elementary school teac'iorf,
by Anna C. Chandler, Metropolitan Museum
of Art. 3:30 P. M.
B. R. Baumgardt, lecture, "The Arab, the
Analytic Mind," Town Hall, 123 West Forty
third street, 11 A. M.
Society of Independent Artists, exhibition,
Waldorf-Astoria, all day.
Grand Street Boys' Association, dinner.
Hotel Commodore, 7 P. If.
St. Stephen's College dinner. Hotel Mc
Alpln, 7 P. M.
National Metal Trades Association, dinner.
Hotel Astor, 7 P. M.
Sphinx Club dinner, Waldorf-Astoria, 7
P. M.
Confectionery Manufacturing Association,
meeting. Hotel Pennsylvania, 3 P. M.
Foreign Policy Association, conference,
Waldorf-Astoria, 4 P. M.
PUBLIC LECTURES TO-NIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND TUB BRONX.
"Trend of the Times," Prof. William B.
Guthrie, at Wadlelgh H. 3., 115th street,
west of Seventh avenue.
"Plays of the Hour," Miss Ada Sterling,
at N. Y. r. L., Woodstock branch, 75ft East
1 not11 street. The Bronx.
"Success with Ease." Geoffrey Morgan, at
P. S. 1(1, 208 West Thirteenth street.
"Is Popular Muslo Gon<l Music?" Adolph
Kugrl. at P. S. 6tl, Eighty-eight street ami
First avenue.
"Doubling the World's Efficiency." Mrs.
Lucia Ames Mead, at P. S. 132, 182d street
and Wndsworth avenue.
"Hamlet," dramatic reading, Miss Motw
Morgan, at American Museum of Natural
History, Seventy-seventh street and Centra)
Park West.
"Tho Music of Italy," Miss Marin Jo
sephine Wlethsn, at Hunter College, Lexing
ton avenue anil Sixty-eighth strest.
"Sons of Yesterday," Miss Esther Benson,
at P. R. 207th street and Hull avenui ,
The llronx.
"Calif":'!'!" and tlie Pacific roast." Rob
ert G. Weyl'. at St. Vnselm's Hall, Tlntou
avenue, near irc.th street, Tho Bronx. Illus
trated.
BROOKLYN AND QUERNS
"Trend of the Times," Miss Jennie M.
Davis, at Bay Ridge M, 8., Fourth avenuo
and Sixty seventh street.
"Book of tlm Hour." Prof J. G. t'srter
Troop, at B. P. L., I'nclflc Branch, Pourtli
>venue and radfic _Btrp?t. \
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