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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1922
Call the Troops Home.
The claim of the United States of
$241,000,000, filed against the ac
count of German reparations ami
presented to the allied Finance Min
isters now sitting in Paris, came as
a shock to the Allies. It Is causing
wide discussion among them, but not
sufficient disturbance to have swerved
them from the scheduled distribution
of the one billion German gold marks
to England, France and Belgium.
Before the American claim was pre
sented the Finance Ministers had
made their distribution plans and
they went straight through without
change and without regard to or con
stderatton for the American claim.
Apparently the Allies had accepted
It as a matter of course that Amer
ica would present no bill for the
services of her troops on the Rhine,
though why thiB view isn't clear. The
burden of comment, both officially
and from the press, is that, while
America's position with regard to this
matter may have a measure of jus
tice, yet the way for her to collect
the money on her claim is exceed
ingly obscure.
One suggestion Is that America
collect it from sequestered German
funds in the United States, hut one
of the highest diplomatic and legal
authorities In the French Govern
ment has pointed out that Germany
cannot pay out a single mark with
out consent of the Reparations Com
mission and that should the Vnitcd
States seek to collect this claim from
Germany the Allies would protest.
In view of the general attitude of i
the Allies with regard to this $241,
000.000 claim it looks, on the face of
it. as if America's contribution to
the military forces on the Rhine
hasn't been very good business for
her; Iboks as if a continuation of
her troops on the Rhine in this situa
tion would be worse business: looks
as if the sensible thing for America
to do is to bring her troops home j
without further delay.
This would have the effect of elimi
nating discussion and misunderstand
ing as to future charges for their I
services. They have been there three !
and a half years and there is no con
vincing reason why they should re
main there any longer, there is no
convincing evidence that they are
performing any worth while service ;
by remaining there.
Buying Power of an Acre.
When all is said the problem of
the farmer comes down to the ques
tion of how he can exchange the
produce of liia acres on something
like a fair basis for the products of
mills and factories. In simple prac
tice this means of course that the
farmer seeks to get a fair price for
what he has to sell, and then to buy
at fair prices the things he cannot
supply for himself.
The Department of Agriculture has
compiled a table showing the aver
age purchasing power of an acre of
farm crops for the years 1909. 1920
ind 1921, showing on what basis the
exchange of goods and food between
city and country took place in these
periods. It Is surprising to And In
this table a direct contradiction of
the widely accepted belief that the
farmer got the best end of the bar
gain when he was selling his crops
during and after the war.
In a list of eighty-nine different
articles commonly bought in the city
markets by farmers the buying power
of an acre of crops for 1914 stood
at 100 per cent., while in 1909 it
was only 97 per ccnt. In 1909 the
average cost of the articles, reduced
to percentage, was 95. while in 1914
it was 100. Between these two years
there was only a minor change In
the buying power of an acre of crops.
Tn 1911 it was as near true as it
probably ever will be that a dollar
in farm crops exchanged on an even
and fair basis for a dollar in city
goods.
Working up from the 1914 base
the Department of Agriculture shown
that In 1H20, when farm prices were
nt the peak, the purchasing power
of an acre had declined to 65 per
cent, of the 1914 level. In 1921, with !
the recession in all prices in the
city as well as on the farm, the de
cline in the value of an acre of
crops outdistanced the drop in city
prices. Ijast year an acre of crops
declined in purchasing power to only
52 per cent, of the 1914 figure.
The search after methods to fur
nish the farmer credit to carry his
crops is revealed by these figures as
futile unless the larger credit is ac
companied either by enhanced farm
prices or lower prices for mill and
factory products which the farmer
has to buy. Higher farm prices can i
come only with an increased demand :
for farm products. This demand,
fortunately for the farmer, has al
ready begun to appear in the larger
purchases for export. The buy ins
power of an acre of crops in 1922 will !
show a marked improvement over j
both the Inflation years of 1920 and |
earlier, and the deflation year 1921.
Petty Graft in Seed3.
The House of Representatives has
yielded once more to the free seed j
graft. It has put an item of $360,(MM)
in the agricultural appropriation bill |
to pay for another distribution of the
little parcels of seeds.
It is the general opinion that these
free seed3 do nobody good. However,
the Congressman thinks that they
help him by calling his constituents'
attention to the fact that he is still
alive. They are free advertising.
Your real farmer, of course, has no j
use for the seeds. When he wants
seeds he wants those of which he is
certain and he goes or sends to his ,
seedsman. A good farmer declines
to take the chance of wasting his
labor on doubtful seeds.
As for the cost, what's $360,000 )
when legislators long since stopped
talking or thinking in millions and j
are using billions generally? An
item of $360,000 for free seeds is such
a little thing when you compare it
with $40,000,000 for the pork barrel j
bill or five billions for a bonus.
The waste of $360,000 a year in
this free seed advertising for Con
gressmen means Just the burning.tip
of a thousand dollar bill every day
for twelve months!
The Unity of Islam.
The demand from India for a re
vision of the Treaty of Sevres which
would bring more advantageous
terms to Turkey and a sense of se
curity to the Sultanate of the Otto
man Empire and the Caliphate of
Islam, startling and interesting as
it is to the Western world, is in
reality but one of the manifests !
tions of the unrest throughout islam, j
The Spaniards hgve been compelled
to send large bodies of troops to
Morocco in a final effort to put down
a long drawn out revolt of native
tribes; the Italians have met an
armed Arab resistance in their occu
pation of Misurata in Tripoli; the
French have only recently compro
mised their difficulties with the Mo
hammedans of Syria, and the British
with the Egyptians, while the Greeks
have found a defiant enemy in the
Moslem forces under Mcstapha I
Kkmai, Pasha in Anatolia.
All this does not mean that Islam
has risen against Europe. Neither
does it indicate that a new jehad.,
or holy war. has begun. The jeha 1
lost its force as a threat half a cen
tury ago, and the signal failure of
Mohammed V. in the world war to
arouse the Mohammedans of Aai i
and Africa to- the defense of Turkey
was a striking instance of its ^ack
of appeal in the present times. But
to those persons who have made
the present conditions a study it
means that there is a renaissance of
Islam and that the Orient is in a
state of transition and ferment.
"The world of Islam, mentally and
spiritually quiescent for almost a
thousand years," says LoxHRor
StoodAnn in his recent work on the
new Moslem world, "is once more
astir, once more on the march."
Europe is in a large measure her
self responsible for this situation.
In the nineteenth century, when the
Moslem world sank into decrepitude,
?he partitioned the Islamic world
to suit herself. By her own aggres
sion she awakened the conscience of
that world and she stimulated by
her own development and improve
ment entirely new and compelling
ideals. The Mohammedans have in
reality tnken advantage of European
domination to build up their coun
tries. The facilities for communica
tion afforded by the mails, the tele
graph and the telephone have been
employed to create a better feeling
i among the followers of the Prophet
and to bring them into a closer
union. The railroads which the Eu
| ropeans built have made distant
! tribes neighbors and cemented friend
ships. The newspapers which have
sprung up in imitation of the Euro
pean press have carried into the re
mote corners of Islam the preach
ings and teachings of leaders at Con
stantinople, Angora and Cairo.
In the meantime the doctrines an
nounced in that wonderful Waliabo
revival in the heart of Arabia have
been slowly and surely spreading
from China to Morocco, from Tur
kestan to central Africa. The East
has realized that it must protect itself
or be destroyed by the West. The
revivalists' cry was ever: "As the
flcsort Arabs have been welded into
a politico-religious unity such as the
Prophet sought, let all Moslem peo
ple follow thHr example and find
strength In union." The effect of
this teaching hss been to reconcile
the fierce enmities of different
branches of Islam and to lead them
to face more confidently a common
foe.
Europe Is swakening to the situa
tion; she understands It perhaps bet
i
ter to-day than ever before. The!
question Is: How shall she meet this
great Islamic power, a power that j
extends from the Congo to the Pa
cific, from the Black Sea to the In
dian Ocean, and that holds in its
grasp 250,000,000 followers of the
Prophet? Can it be controlled and
at the same time led into the paths
of amity and peace?
The Gentle Gorilla.
Man's idea of the gorilla was gen- j
erally that he was a peculiarly fe-1
roeious beast whose savage onrus": |
a rifle bullet could scarcely stop and '
whose r&le in his jungle home was
carrying African natives to his lab
or swooping down from treetop;
upon unsuspecting hunters. He was
the picture of violent savagery; the
very embodiment of brute ferocity.
Dr. Carl E. Akeley, who has just!
returned from Africa with five skins
of the biggest of the gorilla family!
for the American Museum of Natural
History, says this is all wrong. The j
so-called maneuting gorilla is a verv
tame creature, .eroeious only if cor
nered, timid and rather gentle; aud
it is no sport to shoot one of j
his kind. ?
With all the opportunity that man i
has had for studying this big simian,
he' seems to have found out little
about him. The hunters of ancient
Carthage described the gorilla much
as the modern hunter does, but the
world has gone on confounding him
with the chimpanzee and the orang
utan. Pavi. nv Chatllu brought
back some pretty tall stories of the
gorilla's incursions on native villages
and his ferocity. Rut. even accept 1
ing as a fact that the creature ap
proached the villages, the most of
the really authentic information re
garding his behavior was to the effect j
that he ate the fresh grain and then
mussed up a cane patch by making
his bed in it. It was his destructive- j
ness rather than his ferocity that
made the natives hate him.
The natives say that they seldom 1
see a gorilla: he is too timid to come
often out of his forest shelter. This
timidity may account for the fact
that naturalists have always had
trouble in fixing the real extent of
his habitat. The natives, too, give
him credit for being a rather faithful j
head of his family. If he goes out i
for a walk in the woods he fakes his j
mate and young ones with him. {
When he returns he puts them to'
sleep in a leaf nest in the top of the j
tree and he watches at the foot for
his slyest and most formidable en
emy, the leopard. Tf ever the two
meet it is a battle royal from which
only one comes out alive.
Dr. Aket.ey says that he saw a
group of four or five having a frolic
in an opening In the woods. They
were playing as children do and fled
only when they heard the click of the
camera. It is said that all of the few
gorillas in captivity were geutle
and docile, and showed the chim
panzee's traits and ability to learn.
But these captives \?ere all young.
An adult gorilla might be expected to
object to being imprisoned and made
a show of. That is a privilege to
which he is entitled.
The gorilla is a monstrously big
fellow. One of those killed by Dr.
Akei.ft weighed 360 pounds, was
five and one-half feet, in height and
measured sixty' inches around tlip
chest. Such a creature was built
and trained by nature for fighting.
Many men with the same equipment
might have been more quarrelsome
and troublesome. It is his looks
which have been against the gorilla
and which have given him his bad
name. We are glad Dr. Akkley has
put us right on the matter and we
have no regret that he brought back
the skins and not the wild timid
creatures of the forest themselves to
be captives.
Shad.
On or about the first of April shad j
are due In New York waters. Even
now fishermen are looking for them
in Delaware River and Bay. From
Charleston, where they arrived in
January, to Norfolk, where they were
running in late February and early
March, fishermen have been follow
ing them up the coast.
But, alas, the good old days of j
wholesale shad catches are gone, pre-;
sumably never to return. The pollu-1
: tlon of rivers and estuaries by waste
from factories started the work of
destruction. Then came the oil from
steamers to complete it. The num-1
, ber of young shad killed by these;
agencies is estimated to run into tht> ;
millions, while the adult fish havo
been driven from their old spawn
ing places in the upper river reaches,
i At the rate the destruction has been
going on of late years it will be only j
;? comparatively short time before ,
! the shad will be all but extinct.
It is from the year 1!K?0 that the (
shad fishing Industry fpoma to date
i the boginning of its decline. In that j
! year Delaware fishermen alone
caught 500.000 of the fine fish. How i
swift has been the pace of tlielr din-!
appearance is Indicated by the fact
i that last year's total catch of these
same fishermen was only 50,000.
As the catches diminished prices
went up. Otherwise the fishermen
could not have made a living, And
1 as the prices went up shad, which
once were so cheap as to bo within
the reach of everybody, became ton
expensive for all save those to whom
cost was a minor consideration.
Thirty years ago shad were sold at
three ccnts apiece and the catches
were so enormous that the fishermen j
were satisfied with the money they
1 made. This year It is predicted that,
they will cost $2 each. Even at the
hlcib prices which prevailed lar?
year so small wan the catch that
many fishermen would have he*n out
of pocket had they not made up the
shad deficit by large sturgeon
catches.
Following action by the lower
house of the New Jersey Legislature
the State Senate recently passed a
resolution urging Congress to enact
without delay the Appleby bill, under
which coast and river waters would
be protected from the pollution by
oil and chemicals which latterly has
made such strides toward the ruin
of bathing beaches and of the fish
and oyster industries. For years the
shad lishermen fought the pollution
of rivers almost single Handed. It
was a losing light. But now that the
forces of destruction have been re-.
oruited by the nuisance of oil waste
from steamers the attack has taken
on a renewed vigor.
It comes none too soon. The harm
already done Is very great, but with
proper legislation vigorously en
forced the damage may be arrested
where it is and possibly much of the
lost ground in time recovered.
France's Eight Hour Law.
For three rears, dating from April
23. 1919, France has tried the experi
ment of a mandatory law compelling,
an eight hour day and applicable to,
labor in all branches of industry.,
in operation it has proved unsatisfac-;
tory. More than twenty-five chambers !
of commerce and other similar or
ganizations representing the coun
try's whole business community arc
demanding that the law be repeald
or so modified as to permit free con
tractual engagements between em
ployer and employed. Raphaki
Georges I.kvy of the Institute of
France, one of the highest French
economic authorities, discusses the
question at length in the Rrru< art
Deux Mondes. reaching the conclu
sion that a change is imperative. ;
The law prohibits more than eight i
hours as a day's work for "laborer?
and employees" in all industrial anc
commercial establishments. It ap-1
plicfl to both sexes and to all ages.
That the law was too rigid was rec
ognized soon after its enactment. A
number of interpretative modifica
tions followed, with results that in
some cases are confusing. But how
ever split up and rearranged, the
eight hour day and the forty-eight
hour week remain the limit for work
ers to go beyond which is illegal.
The motive back of the enactment
was admirable. The purpose of the
authors of the law was to protect
wage earners from injustice at the
hands of employers and to protect
them from themselves as well. It
was Insisted that they must have
sixteen hours out of the twenty-four
in which to do anything they chose
except work for their regular em
ployers. Theoretically they were
supposed to devote this time to rest
and recuperation. Theoretically, thus
invigorated, they would do more
work and increase the output in the
eight hours of their employment
Theoretically the time limit would
Increase the number of jobs open
and relieve unemployment.
Actually not one of these advan
tages has been obtained. If the wage
earner was industrious he went to
work somewhere else as soon as his
eight hours were over in one place.
Salaried men in one industry became
competitors for jobs in other callings,
thus throwing so many out of em
plovment that loud complaints were
made Moreover, the excessive cost
of production and the crippled rail
road service resulting from compli
cations caused by enforcement of the
'law compelled many establishments
to lose their markets. Increased cost
of production all along the line re
sulted In increased cost of commodi
ties Then began the vicious circle of
demands for higher wages, followed ,
bv more living cost rises. Instead of
greater vigor on the part of workers i
resulting from the shorter hours of
toil, precisely the,reverse has been
the fact. Mr. Lett's statistics show
that the output has been uniformly
smaller In quantity and poorer In
quality. ...
All this has culminated In a de
mand for a change that has become
too Insistent to go unheeded. Abso
lute repeal or the law is not now
urged. Modifications of its terms and
abandonment of its inflexible rigidity
to relieve Industry from Its cramping
restrictions are what is sought.
If. row develop* that the bomb
thrown Into the unoccupied winter
garden of the American legation at
Sofia, Bulgaria, Saturday, followed a
letter threatening harm to Minister
Wn.soN because of the Sac< o-Vanissettl
cane. But under the operation of Mas
sanhusetts law Sacco and Vanizktti are
Ft ill alive, protected In their struggle
for a new trial. The way a of radical
plotters pass the understanding of sane
men.
The Doukhobor leaders in Canada
who recently announced that they con
templated k:i1lng their grandparents
and their babies as a protest against
the enforcement of the Dominion stat
utes have now nought to placate pub
lic opinion by explaining that the
slaughter they had In mind was theo
retical only. It Is to be hoped they
have learned that even theoretical
murder Is not approved in the old
fashioned communities that make up
most of the civilized world.
J-.-.. . ??
AIM
The Marrh Ttarc?I may be mud, but t
Haven't proponed miv bonus scheme.
Appraisement.
The world Is but a Punching Hag
For those who pars Its way.
1 Pilgrim, botlnd you know not where,
Get ell the strength you may
From battering at the swinging globe.
That gives you energy!
But as for altering its shape,
For good or evil? Nay!
Tls only a. great Punching Hag
And meant for use that way.
M K. Btiwi.m,
Resisting Bandits.
Hoot of Holdup'Men by a ??
in liio Old l*ays.
To Thh NEW YORK The
holdup, that ?eem to be
rtno to the aupinencss of the vi?un? ??
wetl as To the Sullivan law, which make.
a criminal of every reapectable cltl.en
who darea to provide means for bis pro
tcctlon. I recall an Incident which oc
"Uredlfr: "amelT H.eaWeeS whose
""frrr?aT,
located at the extreme eastern end o ,
lhHethe' ownlf of an extensive!
tract of land comprising a large P?rtlon
of the present Camp Upton and em
ployed many men In cutting cord wood
for fuel for the engines of the railroad
company, of which ho ?>"*
moter, director and president.
in September, 1866. when he WW ?
nea'ing the age of 70 years, he sold
for cash a farm of .some 160 acres,
within his tract. He at once deposited ,
,he money in his hank. 1-ate one _at- ,
urday evening, several days artorward
while seated with his aged wife In a
small front room of Ills residence a
knock ?t the door was heerd. As he
rose his wife opened it. disclosing four
men standing without. .
Two of them with faces masked rushed ,
in one pointing a pistol at him and the j
other a similar weapon at my grand-1
mother, and demanded the money re-i
celved for the farm with threats to kil
on failure to comply. Without a mo-1
ment's hesiUtion or uttering a word my
grandfather grasped the pistol arm o ;
the nearest ruffian, hurled him violently ,
backward and instantly thereafter grap
pled with the other, whom he partially
forced through the window sash, and
the next moment he threw them both
out of the door, the rear one falling
heavily backward as he tripped agains.
the foot scraper on the stoop.
Apparently amazed and terrified at j
this unexpected resistance, the bandits
-ted precipitately, their speed being at- ?
(derated by the blowing by my grand-,
mother of a horn which was kept_at
hand ready for such emergencies. The)
man who tripped lost his large felt hat
?is he fell and ? was recognized as be- i
Ivnging to a fellow who was a noted,
pothunter, game hog. poacher and trcs- (
passer. The next morning my father,,
William J. Weeks, trailed his tracks and
those of his associates along the dirt!
roads to their respective homes.
No action was ever taken or com-j
plaint made, but the hat was duly pre
served as a trophy. Neither my grand
parents, my parents nor anybody else n .
the village has ever since been similarl>
troubled. Archibald C. Weeks, i
Brooklyn, March 14.
The Wife and the Hyphen.
Her Mnlden Same Useful as a Rcc
ord of Family History.
To The New York Herald: Regaid- i
ing what your correspondent writes |
about the practice of hyphenating the j
maiden name and the married name of .
a wife, let me say that In Spain and
South America this point was settled ?
centuries ago.
Say for instance, Alice Astor marries j
George Grey; she then becomes Alice
Astor Grey and signs herself as such ,
is likewise Introduced; appears so In i
all legal documents; and !? so referred
to in the accounts of social doings.
In this way a woman preserves her
family's Identity and one can keep bet
ter track of family connections.
'Hie children of this union would sign
themselves Alfred or Mary Grey Astor.
giving precedence to the paternal name,
the daughters, however, dropping the i
name Astor on marrying.
It would seem a very simple matter
for women here to adopt the same
method without the fuss that Is be nc
made For Instance, they could sign
themselves Alice Astor-Grey. that Is.
cmnlov a double hyphen, denoting double
u FxLSTArr.
harness.
Nsw Tonic, March 14.
Of the Class of 1855.
Mr. Levey's Course of Reading Has
Lasted Sixty-seven Years.
To Tub New York Herald : Writing ,
to your paper C. Stegmann says he has
! been a faithful reader of The New York
Herald for sixty-three years and an-;
[ticlpatofl that if he lives to be a cen-|
[ tenarian you may award him a casfli '
| bonus.
Now, I have been a faithful New
, York Hekauj reader for sixty-seven
I ywars, beating him by four years. I
think I will owe a cash bonus to you ;
if I live to be a centenarian Instead of ;
reeofrlntf one. The New Yorw Herald |
wait first delivered at my home at 24 I
Seventh avenue In 1835.
Clauencb D. Levet.
Arunoton, March 14.
Public Floggings.
This Form of Punishment Given Cp;
In Two Delaware Counties.
To The New York Hrrald: Replying
to "Damocles's" contention that public
flogging of criminals would serve as a
] deterrent to the younger malefactors, I
submit that this method would not
achieve its purpose any more than public
1 executions of murderers in France pre
; vent murders In that country. The plc
| tures of highway robbers serving terms
i of twenty years Imprisonment at lianl |
I labor should have the effect of dlscour- j
! aging would he bandits and forcing them
i into honest livelihoods.
Any prison warden will agree that it
j Is th? lo#s of personal liberty and not
; physical punishment that reckless crim
inals fear. For Instance, every bandit
I knows that arresting officers always
make free use of their nlghtstlcka in
subduing" lawbreakers ; yet this thought
does not make them hesitate In their
purpose. However, imprisonment is
dreaded.
Itr two counties In Delaware, Kent |
and Sussex, floggings no longer take
place and some yeara ago the State Leg
islature passed a bill abolishing the lash
throughout the State, which failed only
through Governor Townsend's veto.
Faddists favor the revival of flogging:
practical men oppose It. In this caac
the facts rule. Charms* M. West.
Brookt.tn, March 14.
. Helling the Cat.
To The New York Hkrai.ii : I have
a heniitlful large sevon year old Maltese
cat that is treated ns a member of the,
fnnilly. He has a studded collar with
?. heavy diver bell so as to worn the
birds of his approach.
If bird lovers would keep a heavy
i metal bell on Puas and give lilni his
AMll regularly both birds and cats
i <iould live and be happy.
Mrs. K. F. T,inrn.
i Brooki.TN. March 14.
Philadelphia Men in Varied Program
_ * J
John Aid en Carpenter's 'Pilgrim Vision' Among Works
Played?Gabrilowitsch at the Piano.
Br IV. J. HENDERSON.
The eighth concert of the Philadelphia
Orchestra In Carnegie Hall last evening
brought with It a program of far spread
horizons. John Aldeu Carpenter, an
American composer, who dwells by the
side of the great white sea in Chicago,
was represented by his "Pilgrim Vision."
Wagner contributed Ills river and for
est sketches, namely, the "Entrance of
the Gods Into Walhalla," the "Waldwe
ben" from "Siegfried" and the Rhine
journey from "Goetterdaemmerung." In
the midst of these dreams and visions
and pictures stood the B flat piano con
certo of Brahms, without whose music
there is neither Stokowskl nor Philadel
phia. The performer of the piano part
was Ossip GabrllowUsch, conductor of
tlie Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and
!thus there was yet another picture for
the audience, that of conductors dwell
iing together In brotherly love and mak
ing all things reverberate for the honor
lof art. And finally Liszt ocered his first
^Hungarian rhapsody.
It seems unnecessary to enter Into
analysis of the Interpretation of the
Brahms music "by these two conductors.
Mr. Gabrilowitsch is one of the most
satisfying pianists of this time. Perhaps
the burdens of conducting have weighed
somewhat heavily on his technique, but
lie has sufficient beauty of tone and
'fleetness of finger to publish the mes
sage of Brahms. He and Mr. Stokowskl
were in sympathy In their presentation
of the composition. It was a. very beau
tiful performance that they gave and
the audience rejoiced greatly.
It ta not required that words should
be marshaled about Wagner. The real
consideration of this day should be for
Mr. Carpenter's wark, written for the
Philadelphia Orchestra's celebration last
season of the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers. But. alas! Mr. Stokowskl at
tiie eleventh hour rearranged his pro
grant so that Mr. Carpenter's piece,
which should have begun the concert,
caine near to concluding It. Wagner
was placed flr.*t and Brahms second, and
the American's panorama of the voyage
of the Mayflower had to make what im
pression it could after Immortal cre
ations by two of the world's first mas
ters.
In the circumstances the best tliat can
he done is to reprint Mr. Carpenter's
own outline of Ills work. "In order that
ihe purpose of the composer may be
made clear, we are asked to imagine
the grim little Pilgrim band in a last
religious servico in England, thr march
to the sea, the embarkation. We are
asked to -watch their ship as it sails
away and disappears under the edge of
(he sky. Surely an extraordinary ad
venture! And surely, at the moment
when the sea seems Us most tremen
dous, and the Pilgrim ship its most
forgotten, it Is easy to think that In
that moment the eye of God rested
upon them and smiled. For the sea
speeds them on their way and they
come at last to the shore of their hope.
We can share In the exultation of their
landing, in the Joy of their discovery,
and we can feel with them the thrill of
the future America."
When this composition is begun at an
hour which will permit It to be heard
and considered properly something more
important may be said about it.
PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.
MImh Emu R11 hinsteln, Violinist,
Delights us Soloist.
The Philharmonic Society's Tuesday
concerts at the Metropolitan Opera
House ar<> not prone to Indulging in
soloists, but they had one last evening
when Miss Krna, Rubinstein appeared In
the second number of the program and
played Bruch's violin concerto in G
minor. Aliss Rubinstein made her debut
here with the society early last month
and later she gave a recital, playing the
concerto heard last night.
Many delightful things have been said
aibout this young player and her re
peated performance of Bruch's score
must only add to the full measure of
praiso already accorded her as a vio
linist. She was not hpard to best ad
vantage In the auditorium where she
played, perhaps, but she gave neverthe
less a very beautiful reading of the
score. Admiraibly supported by the or
chestra's accompaniment, she Infused
each measure of the hackneyed yet
musical score with rare feeling, a beau
tifully pollehed tone and a seemingly
perfect technical finish. Her playing
aroused great enthusiasm and she mod
estly took, many recalls at the close of
the work.
Mr. M-ngelberg, as guest conductor,
began the program with Mendelssohn's
overture to "A Midsummer Night's
Dream," which was brilliantly played
by the orchestra. Following the inter
mission came Strauss'a tone poem, "Ein
Heldenleben" ("A Hero's Life"), which
completed the list. The poem?dedicat
ed by the composer to Mr. (MengetbeTg?
is ever a favorite work In his program
schemes. The splendors of the score he
delights In unfolding, and, moreover,
with a supreme authority, at may well
be said.
DUTCH TENOR PLEASES,
Louis Dornay, Dutch tenor, was heard
In his first recital here yesterday after
noon in Aeolian Hall! He gave a good
progrnrn. It Included German lieder,
modern French songs, Colerldge-Tay
lor's lyrics, "Life and Death," and a
group of old Dutch folksongs.
Mr. Dornay is an Interesting singer,
although the resources of his voice are
limited. Of a barytone rather than
tenor oualiVy, there was much throati
ness of timbre In certain songs, while
th" breath was often poorly used.
In producing sustained head tones he
was succcssful and the effect was musi
cal. He showed an admirable under
standing of text and phrasing. His dic
tion in several languages was praise
worthy.
His French songs, as, for Instance,
Fourdrain's "Aux Fortes de Seville'1
and the "Dansons la Gigue"?at the
close of this song he himself applauded
the composer, who was in a box?w?re
given with much intelligence of style.
Too impassioned at times, his expression
of feeling went oter Into the senti
mental. But this the audience seemed
to like.
Moonrlse at Sea.
There Is a subtle and pervasive scent 1
From some far land upon the port or
lee;
?Rests on the waves a vast tranquillity
As though It were through God's arbl- |
trament.
The gulls fly high as though their wings
were bent
Toward airy bourns to which we may
not flee.
Those happy havens of the Blest which j
we
Have dreamed of. some aerial continent.
The harper of the sky evokes no tune
From any chord that mortal ear has ,
heard;
If word bo breathed It Is God's holy j
word?
Silence?as when the earth first
came to be,
And out of the wan east crept up the '
moon,
A great Are opal on a stiver sea.
Clinton Scollard.
Loss of the Cyclops.
Sudden Destruction in the Puff of
a Tropical Squall.
To This New Tork Hf,rau>: The dls- i
cusslon regarding the loss of the United
States collier Cyclops has been especially
Interesting to me. as I have made n
number of voyages over the Caribbean
Sea and south Atlantic Ocean and have
been In some of the worst storms and
West Indian hurricanes on record.
I was on a steamship off St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands, In the great hurricane of
October, 1916, when our wireless was
stripped off by the wind which was
blowing at the rate of 132 miles an
hour; a great wave covering the ship
broke the electric light wires and the
blackest darkness reigned the night j
long. Before our wireless was carried
away we were In communication with a
Danish cruiser In St. Thomas harbor,
but after the wireless failed wo were re
ported lost with all on board. Every
vessel In St Thomas harbor was lifted j
high and dry on the rocks by the wind.
Strange things happen In tropical seas
and fierce squalls spring out of a clear
sky and calm sea, but from whence they
come no man can tell. These squalls
come and go in the flash of a few min
utes. and it has always been my opinion
that one of these quick, terrific puffs of !
wind 1s what sent the Cyclops and all
on board to Davy Jones's locker with-1
out leaving anything to tell the talc.
These colliers, the Cyclops, Jupiter and
Hercules, stand high out of the water,
and this with the heavy cranes which
stand above their decks for coaling ships
at sea. mn'tes them very topheavy, and
a sudden squall hitting the Cyclops
square abeam probably toppled her over,
and her cargo of heavy manganese iron
ore shifting off the level sent her to the
bottom In the flash of an eye, before
anybody or anything could get clear of
the ship and before her wireless could
be operated.
I was leaving the Island of Trinidad.
British "West Indies, for New York,
about the time the Cyclops was lost,
and a few days out one of these squalls
came out of a smooth tropical sea.
struck us a terrific biff on the port
beam, heeled the ship away over to
nearly 45 degrees, and stripped every
stitch of canvas awning from over the!
deck In the bat of an eye.
With their wireless out of commis
sion and even when In good working or
der ships can still be lost without leav
ing a tmce of what happened.
Jambs O. ClUa
N*w ToM, March 14.
Travel in Italy.
An American Complains of Hotel
Hates and Taxes.
To Tub Nkw York Hun ami : As an
American travel ing in Italy I foe) It
my duty to place before the American
traveling public the exact conditions
they v ill And here, and not Ifet them
come blindfolded as ?o many do.
In the first place, with the present
rata of exchange. Hie dollar around
eighteen lire, and the exorbitant demands
of the hotel keepers, tlie rates at the
smaller hotels are from 50 lire, at the
large ones from 100 to 1H0 lire, plus
five extra taxes. This makes living as
expensive as in America, or more so,
without cither the comforts or the food.
The five taxes are: Service, from 12 to
15 per cent, of one's hotel bill; tax for
tourism, which means you pay ttielr
advertising bills; taxe do. luxe, 10 per
fent.: tax for crippled soldiers and taxe
de sGjour.
One is completely at the mercy .of a
strong, organized body of hotel keepers
and servants, who dictate and impose
prices for accommodation and service
out of all proportion to what la given.
Originally the service tax was levied
to wave the dignity of the personnel. ,
This seems to have been forgotten and
when one leaves there Is the game old
line waiting with outstretched hands,
and unless one tips extra one gets tio
service. If one has the moral courage
to refuse the extra tipping one hears
all kinds of side remarks about cheap
travelers and the like.
Unhappily thrre are many snobs and
moral cowards who are frightened Into
extra tipping. The time is now at hand
when an international association o"
tourists should be formed to combat
certain evils and cope with th<-> organi
zations already formed of hotel keepers
and their personnel. If we are to travel
at all, the traveler must find some way
to protect hi-mself. A Reader.
Milan, February 28.
Spanking With Each Bath.
Finns Tse Cedar Bonfrhs on Bodies1
With Wood Results. .
From Mimicaiiolis Journal.
"Our cedar boughs guaranteed Im
ported from Boy River, A! inn."
Such might have been the advertise
ment that drew 11.183 bathers last year
to the Finnish baths at Wells Memorial
House, the only guaranteed Finnish
baths in Minneapolis.
Though Finland, like Minnesota. Is a
land of lakes and forest, the true Fin
lander when he bathfs goes at It with
all the artifices and technique one might
expect of a person born and reared In j
the subbasement of a skyscraper.
It's a good bath to take. Miss Mar
garet Chapman, head resident of Wells
Memorial House, said the other day.
Confirmed Finnish bathers, she ex
plained, (beat themselves vigorously
about the body with fresh cedar boughs
which hava been steamed. Only cedar
boughs will do.
A Finn doesn't ferl clean until
soundly spanked from head to foot, she
explained. To Finns goes the outstand
ing credit for solving the bathing enigma
of how to wash the human back and
make It feel washed.
The baths are open to men twice a
week and to women once a. week. The
Flnlanders assert their native mode of
bathing is responsible for their splendid
physique and healthy families. "We
would rather pay for baths than doctor
bills," one Flnlander coninifiited. Rheu
matism Is practically unknown among
the JPInlandert because of their attention
to bathing and exercise, Miss Chapman
said.
Bonus Cycle.
Tti? nay
The say
Th* par
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.
For Kastern New York?Unsettled.
Probably rain. and somewhat colder to
morrow ; fair, fresh north and north
wast winds.
For New Jersey?Rain and coldor to-da>
to-morrow fair; fresh to strong northea"t
to northwest winds. ,,
For Northern New England?Generally fair
to-day and to-morrow; somewhat colder to
day ; moderate to fresh northwest winds.
Kor Southern New England?Cloudy
polder, probably rain to-day; to-morrow fad
fresh northeast to northwest winds.
for Western New York?Fair to-dny and
to-morron ; little change in temperature.
WASHINGTON. March 14.?The disturb
ance that w&.i over Ontario to-night mov^s
rapidly eastward to the Canadian maritime
provinces, while the southwestern disturbance
ha* moved directly eastward, and its center
was over Tcnnexsee to-night. "Hie latter ha*
been attended by light rains in the iniddlr
Atlantic States, heavy rains in the Ohi".
middle Mississippi and lower Missouri vai.
leya and eaatern Kansas, and showers auq
thunderstorms in Tennessee and the tv^dd!"
Gulf States. Tliere were also rains to-dny
In the north Pacific States.
The temperature was somewhat lower t
day iti the lake region and the Ohio Valle\,
but It continued considerably above normal
over all sections east of th<? Rocky Moun
tains. An area of abnormally high pressi'.v
and extremely lower temperature ha* over
spread the interior of Alaska. Eagle report
ing a temperature of fortv degrees bal??
zero this morning.
The Tfnnessee disturbance will continue tu
move eastward, and it will be attended hi
rain to-morrow in the extreme upper Oliln
Valley, the- middle Atlantic and South A<
lantlc States, and probably southern New
England. Otherwise fair weather will pre
vail during the next two days east of th?
Mississippi River. The temperature W1U be
somewhat lower to-morrow in Tenno??e'
the cast Gulf States and In the Atlantic
States north of Florida. The temperature
will not change materially east of the Mis
sissippi River during Thursday.
Observations at United Btafes Weather
Bureau stations, taken at 8 P.. M. yester
day, seventy-fifth meridian time:
Temperature Rainfall
last 24 lira. Baro- last 24
Stations. High. Low. meter, hrs. Weather
Abilene 68 52 80.12 .. Clear
Albany 62 42 29.94 Pi. Cldjr
Atlantic City 62
Baltimore ... CO
Bismarck ... 46
Boston 62
Buffalo 46
Cincinnati ... .*>6
Charleston .. 74
Chicago no
Cleveland ... SO
Dapvtr 64
Detroit ISA
Galveston ... 80
Helena 42
Jacksonville. 7S
Kansas Cily. 52
Los Angeles.. 68
Milwaukee .. 64
New Orleans. 80
Oklahoma .. 60
Philadelphia.. 58
Pittsburgh .. 54
Portland, Me. #2
Portland, Or. 48
Salt L. City.. 52
San Antonio. 84
Pan Diego... 60
San Francisco 58
Seattle 40
St. I.ouls 56
St. Paul 46
44
68
46
41
48
34
8*
82
54
29.98
29.98
30.30
29.84
30.04
Rain
Rain
Clear
Pt. Cldy
Clear
29.96 1.54 Rain
311.08
80.12
.'10.00
30.12
30.08
29.98
30.1O
:;o.o8
20.14
30.06
30.18
30.01
30.14
29.96
30.02
29.82
29.90
30.12
30.00
30.06
30.08
29 91
29.92
30.26
Pt. Cldjr
.. Cloudy
.08 Cloudj
.. Clear
.. Pt. Uidy
.. Clear
.. Clear
.. Clear
.50 Clear
.. Cloudy
.18 Cloudy
.10 Clear
.. Cloudy
.02 Cloudy
.42 Rain
.. Clear
.34 Rain
.. Cloudy
.. Clear
.. Clear
.. Cloudy
.26 Rain
.04 Cloudy
Clear
Washington... 60 44 29.96 .02 P.nln
I/5CAL -WEATHER RECORD.
8 A. P. M.
Barometer 30.06 .9.94
Humidity 8.'? 72
Wind?direction S. W. W.
Wind?velocity 15 18
W'eat.ier Pt. Cldy Pt. Cl<iy
Precipitation None None
The temperature In this city yesterday, a?
reccTdcd by the official thermometer, .(
shown In the annexed table:
8 A. M...44 1 'P. M...51 6 P. M..
9 A. M... 17 S P. M...54 7 P. M..
10 A. M...48 3 P. M...55 8 P. M..
11 A. M...49 t P. M...56 9'P. M..
12 M 54 5 r. M...55 10 P. M..
1912. 1921. 1922.1291.
9 A.M.... 47 46 6 P. M 54 12
11 M 51 51 9'P.M....53 I".
3 P. M 55 49 12 Slid 51 Iff
Highest temperature, 58. at 3:45 P. M.
Ixwest temperature, 42. at midnight.
Average temperature, 50.
i
EVENTS TO-DAY.
"Quiet Day" for women. Episcopal Chur'i
of tiie Resurrection, 115 icaat Seventy-fourt,
street. 10:30 A. M. to a P. M.
The Rev. Dr. Frederic J. Berg will *peak n|
a Community I.rntwn service. Church of the
Holy Trinity. Montotgue and Clark streets
Brooklyn. 12:0j r. M.
Associated Manufacturers of Electrical
Supplies, meeting, Olrl Colony Cluh. lIot?l
Blltmore and ;{fi lOast Forty-second street,
morning and afternoon.
Flower Show. Crand Central Palace.
National Association of Waste Material
Dealers, annual meeting, Hotel Aster, JO
A. M.
National Association of Talking Maefclro
Jobbers, meeting, afternoon. Hotc! Commo
dore. theater party In evenlne.
New York Mlneraloglcal C1nl>. rnetUnH,
American Museum >f Natural Hl-ton s-f,
?P. M.
Civic Club, meeting to urge the Immediate
release of politlc.-il pi isoners. M West Twdfth
street. 8:15 P. M.
Chamber of Commerce of the Rorouah of
Queens, meeting. Bridge Plaza, l.ony Idatid
City, 4 P. M.
Sanitary Exhibit, New York t,ndiin" Hair
dressers Association, Hotel Pennsylvania, nf
ternoon and evening
Phi Bet.i Kappa Hay. Cohioibla Hnlvi rsltv,
meeting, Room *.01. Philosophy Hall, r. ::;o p.
M.. dinner, Westminster Hotel. 4'Jf> West
116th street. 7 P. M.
Aswiatlon Opposed to Prohibition, organi
zation of bran.'h, Car.iegie Hall. 8:lu I' m.
1'.astern Penns> J\nnla mine owre-v and
union delegates, wage conf> reiicc, Tefel
Pennsylvania, t :.'iO P. M.
Prof. Hunt, Wttirr, "At .'wi
Landscape I'aln'ers," main bulldlnj.. C'liy
College. 4:lo I*. M.
American 8'iotet.- of Mechanical Kngif.re-. *.
Joint forum on "The Port of New Vorl ."
Hnglneerlns Societies Building, 20 West Thl -
ty-nlnth street, S:15 P. M.
Sectlo'i of Genlto-Url.tary Surgery, Acad
emy of Medicine meeting, 17 West Fort???
third street, S:.T0 P. M.
Hr. .T. n. Riycroft of Pi inc< ton Fnl<?rslty
will discuss college athletics, Psl L'lisllon
Cluh, i8 Hast Thlrty-nlnlh street. 8:1."? P. M,
Dr. Will Durant will speak on "Social
Psychology," I,ahor Temple, Fourteenth
street and S >cond avenue. 8 :,';n P. M.
Euncheon In honor of President Harding's
Commissioners to the Brazilian Centennial
Kxpokltlon, Hotel Astor, Ji:20 P. >1.
Reception to the Republlenn leaders of
lire iter New York by the Women's National
Republican Club, '10 West Thirty-ninth street.
Purlm Masque in aid of the Institutional
Synagogue building fund. Hollywood Hull, .IT
West 111th street, 8:30 P. ST.
Transit Commission bearing on orders f.ir
better service on the Interborough and B. R.
T.. 10:30 A. M.
One hundred and sixty-fifth Infantry, re
view, armory, ?8 E?xlngton av., 8:40 P. M.
Republican Nclg?1l>orhood Association, meet
ing. home of Mrs. Orayson M. 'P. Murphy, 11
East f-eventleth street.
The Rev. Sidney Ussher will speak at the
noonday meeting. Trinity Church.
First National Corporation, dinner and
dance. Hotel Commodore. 7 P. ST.
Westchester County Chsmher of Commerce,
forum meeting and luncheon. Hotel Commo
dore, noon.
Society of Independent Artists, Exhibit,
Wald irf-Astorla. all day.
Manhattan Matinee Cluh. luncheon. Wal
dorf-Astoria. 1 r. M.
Andrew Jacl.aon Chapter, Daughter* of
1812. meeting, Waldorf-Astoria, 1? A. M.
Association of the I.acedsemonlan, play and
dance. Waldorf-Astoria 8 P. M.
Jewish War Relief Fund, bridge. WaMorf
Astoria, 2 P. M.
New York Restaurant Owners' Association,
dinner and dance, Hotel Pennsylvania, "
P. M.
Phi Alpha fligma, meeting. Hotel Penn
sylvania. 8 P. M.
Bankers' Porum, dinner. Hotel Pennsyl
vania. 8 P. M.
Memorial Crafts Institute, dinner. Hotel
Pennsylvania. 8 P. M.
New York Florists' Cluh, dinner. Hotel
Blltmore, 8 P. M.
Klwn.nl* Club, luncheon, Hetel MeAlpIn,
12 no P. M.
City Hospital Alumni Association, dinner,
Hotel M' Alpin, 7:30 P. M.
New York Medical Club, dinner. Hotel Mc
Alpln. 7 P. M.
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