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Ennght's New Policemen. Commissioner Enright asked the Board of Estimate yesterday for 1,192 more policemen an/J got them. No body will fairly question that if the department needs the additional 1,192 men it ought to have them? ought, If It needs them, to have twice that number of new men, or three -times as many. But also nobody will fairly ques tion that if Commissioner Enright has not shown that he knows how to lead and handle the 11.500 men he already had, he i3 not likely to show that he knows how to lead and han dle the increased force of 12,692 men. This has been the trouble with the police situation in New York from the beginning of the Enright admin ? lstration?that while the rank and file of the force have been good po licemen, capable, under the right leadership and direction, of hunting down criminals and of stamping out crime, the Commissioner in control of them has not been the man for the place. With 11,500 members on the rolls of New York's police force, but only I,600 of the 11,500 ever on patrol duty at any one time, there is a sorry prospect that the additional 1,192. men, disposed of in the same propor tion and to the same effect as the II,500 have been, will make this great city under such police manage ment air tight against the bold defi ance of the bandits and gunmen that have well nigh terrorized its finan cial, business and residential sec tions alike. On the record of what the crimi nals have been doing and are now doing to New York and on the record of what Commissioner Enright has not been doing and isttot doing to the criminals the Judgment of this city must be that however many new policemen New York needed it very much more needed and still needs a new Police Commissioner. $45,000,000 for What? The Board of Aldermen has before It a report from its Committee on Buildings recommending the adop tion of an ordinance which would re quire the installation of a $100 auto matic gas shutoff valve in every on* of 172,000 buildings in this city. These valves would cut off the gas If fire came in contact with them, and by their use the gas might be cut off from the street in case of need. To install one of them would cost from $150 up. The cost of equipping existing buildings with them would be from $40,000,000 to $45,000,000. The Aldermen's committee which recommends this tax on real estate owners in New York declares that it "is deeply interested in any scheme tending to lighten the burden on real estate," but it considers there "is nothing to do but to unhesitatingly recommend" the adoption of the ordi nance because Fire Chief Kexiok has testified "that not only physical in Jury but considerable loss of life could be avoided by the installation of a safety gis valve." Chief Kf,:*mWh opinion is entitled to the highest consideration. No New Yorker will want to spare any reasonable expense to safeguard hu man life. But before this $ 15,000,000, more or less, ordinance Is adopted the Aldermen should ask certain per tinent questions. They should find out what per centage of fatalities in fires might have been prevented had such *as valves been in use; they should find out what the pii-k and death rate-* among firemen have been from gas explosions, gas flames and inhalation Of gas; what reduction in thes" rates may be expected from the use of ?*fety gas valves; and they should find out how many gas shutoff valves with automatic attachments comply ing with the terms of the ordinance are on the market, and whether these devices are patented; and will the gas valves work? 1 Forty millions of dollars or forty Ave millions of dollars is not too great a sum of money to dig out of the pockets of the real estate owner** nf New York city If the expenditure i* necessary to safeguard life. But If the expenditure is not necessary, and if installation of the appliances for which it la proposed to make it means principally graft for somebody even in the politest significance of that word, it is an expenditure which should not he compelled. Secretary Davis'# Strike Facts. Is Secretary of Labor Davis en tirely fair when he leaves uncor rected on the record his published declaration that the mine operators refused to confer with the mine workers before the expiration of the old contract on March 3t and the calling of the nationwide strike by | the United Mine Workers of Amer ica? Secretary Davis's statement was as follows". "It has be mi my steady purpose as Secretary of Labor to be fair to both sides In any trade dispute laid before me. m that spirit of fairness I am obliged to say that In this dispute In the eoft coal Industry the miners have been willing to meet and con fer. Most of the operators likewise have been willing. A few Important operators have refused to confer and so have kept the entire number from the necessary united action. "I have always found that If two parties to a trade dispute get to other and talk It over they can al ways work out a satisfactory settle ment and maintain peace. I also contend?and every good American will agree?that any set of men who sign a contract or agreement are morally bound to carry It out to the letter." But Secretary Davis knows, for he has so been informed by an letter from B. M. Claek, president of the Association of Bituminous Coal Operators of Central Pennsy - vania. that on March 6, 1922. the association headed by Mr. Claek re quested a conference with John Brophy, president of the United Mine Workers of America, District No. 2, for the purpose of negotiating a new scale, but that Mr. Brophy. the union leader, declined to have hls^ scale committee meet the operators' scale committee until after a settlement should be effected between the \ nited Mine Workers of America and the 1 operators osf the central competitive ^Secretary Davis knows that those are the facts, for in a telegraphed reply to Mr. Clark he said his state ment had referred "only to that section of the central competitive States that failed to carry out the obligation entered into on March 31, 1920," &c. Secretary Davis knows that those are the facts because in another letter in response to the Secretary's tele gram Mr. Clark showed that it was a majority of the miners that refused to negotiate with a majority of the operators because a minority group of operators and United Mine Work ers of America could not agree to negotiate. Secretary Davis must know too that it has been testified before a Congress hearing that coal operators in the States of Indiana. Illinois. Ohio and Pennsylvania offered to meet their employees at any time and any place, but that the mine workers refused. Yet Secretary Davis has not publicly corrected the mis leading statement he gave out to the people of the United States. It is true that the operators of the whole country declined to meet as a joint body in a joint session with the miners, both the operators and the operatives having been enjoined by court action from so doing and still being under Indictment in a Federal court for having so done. But the majority of the groups of op erators would have met the miners unions if the miners' unions would have met the operators. Whatever the merits of the scale controversy and whatever the cause of the breach in the specific central competitive field, the wane issue it self and the strike issue itself in this Kreat industrial conflict should not be clouded with misleading facts by Sec retary Davis or by anybody else. Business Men and Humor. President Vm?ce5t of the Rocke feller Foundation suggests that the great trouble with the American busi ness man Is that he talks shop all the time, feels that the weight of the world Is on his shoulders, and rather needs the development of a sense of humor. There ts a good deal In this. If some business men could attain to a sense of humor which would enable them to Bee themselves as they really are much of the shop talk would dis appear. We should hear less of the lingo, the cant phrase, of men who think they are talking business. We should see less of the pose which goes with that sort of talk. As that very sensible business man E. N. Hchley recently said, business men have fallen into the habit of going through useless motions. They spend on the dictation of compara tively useless letters time which should be employed In seeing that their factories are turning out prod uct. They employ In so-called con ferences the hours which ought to be devoted to the main purpose of business, which Is selling goods. The fashion of hold^g long lunch eons nt which business men hear about the Ills of Europe, the Valuo of Cooperation, Ac.?and then go sleepily back to the office?is one of j the things that put the weight of the world on the pool4 business man's shoulders. His mind wanders to the < urrency problems of Esthonia at a time when It should be fixed on the hardware needs of the Mississippi Valley. Ho far as humor In the ordinary 8ense 18 concerned, your bu.iness man has enough of it. Those "con ferences? which keep earnest men with business proposals sitting in the ?re ,o<> eoir ^ I rec,tal 0f exP?r^n?s in golf and hooch. There are some very efficient conference of C0l|rge; thQge at which the material men were fix >ng prices until Sam Untebmyeb stopped them must have been models of diryt action. What the business man needs is plain, fashioned business in office 1ST,hi "f" """??< fts.lt ? \? "?rlt '* d0??- HU,?? ' ' n<" "MWj to enjoyment. Some temperaments find the most Pleasant reaction in gloom. A genu inely tired business man scarcely 2 T 8nythln? soothing^ SY-fflCVe",,ng th8n TH0MA8 Heath dascription of Egdon h?^rhaPa a h0bby 18 than lon? a? itJ!0?* CaQ be aDythin* so ong as it diverts the brain from tir ^8 or unpleasant courses. A banker may be a fisherman^ a flsh dealer may collect coins. A furniture manu facturer may find solace In writing a no e. h,,0 (he Th,?el'J" amateur Z?. 7 S1Week ln Par,s an anony mous American paid $39,000 for a Pos^ge stamp, if he ls a buslne88 he win i8fUr,o?U dly confldent that o^'XLr ?worth ?f comf The Flapper Goes to Court. Not in the effete East, not in the '? ?'1 'aehloned Ar apper has called for a Dleas.* ?,?!/ / dreS3 as 8he ,h. ?d 10 powtor "?? ??? ? The title of the case which every w,? next to that of Drkd Scott in the judicial history of 1Lblrty 18 Peakl Puosley versus the School Board of Knobel. oZrTU\y- The Board l38Ued an order barring students from classes if they used rouge or face powder or | re short skirts or peekaboo waists. Some of the pupils meekly yielded, Pu*.r,y '? P""' "" b0a" ?< the Clrcult Cmn she ent with a plea for a writ of man damus against the School Board. She backed it with affidavits relating to her cosmetics and her peekaboos. She laid down the preat broad Amer ican principle of the freedom of the powder puff; ?f the rlght Qf WQman to adorn herself as she sees fit within the^ limits of respectability. For three hours, we read, Missl T'VRL ProsiEV'? case was heard by Judge Bandy. Three rears wouhll not be too much for so important an i issue. If the decision should be' against the young woman let her' press on to the Supreme Court of the United States. That great tribu has had less important questions P?t to it; surely it has heard few questions so interesting. Arkansas has not had a really na tional figure since Colonel Archibald! Yell. Miss Pearl bids fair to win a niche in the Hall of Fame. She is the Joan of Flapperdorn. Chairman Lacker's Ship Plan. Tiie question which Chairman L.v..;;er of the United States Ship ping Board has put to Congress re garding a subsidy for our merchant marine is not a Chinese puzzle and it is not an economic contradiction. He does not maintain that there 1b anj^difference in principle between paying losses on the operation of the Government's ships out of direct taxes from the public and paying losses on the operation of the same ships if privately owned out of in direct taxes from the public. Taxes are taxes, whichever way they go; it is the amount that counts $jid the final result. What Chairman Lasker asks Con gress in the blunt way of the hard tense business man is whether it wants the Government to go on mud dling along with the operation of the ships at the maximum of disadvan tage or whether it wants the Gov ernment to get rid of the ships; whether it wants the Flag to con tinue flying on the principal trqde routes of the world or whether it wants the Flag gradually to disap pear from the high seas; whether it wants the Government to get back something for the tonnage which cost it billions of dollars or whether it wants the Government to give that tonnage away or let it rot as idle hulks. Chairman Laskkr has no doubt, trained business men have no doubt and Congress can have little doubt that competent private ownership management can give a better han dling of the ships and at a cheaper cost than the Government is doing or ever will do. But responsible owner ship management will not buy the ships from the Government at any worth while tonnage price when there is no chance to make anything but losses on them. Responsible owner ship management under such circum stances will not touch the ships on p charter proposal based on the war inflation costs of building them. Private capital will go into the ven ture, however, if there is a sufficient subsidy In one form or another to assure Its getting out "With some thing of a profit on efficient manage ment of the ships. And by as much as competent private ownership man agement does any business betfer and more cheaply than the Government i does It, the operation of the Ameri can merchant marine, while still cost Ing the American public in taxes: whatever the subsidy amounts to, will almost certainly cost it very much lem< in the long run than the fifty millions of dollars a year now drained out of the national Treasury to cover the Shipping Board's deficits. That is all there is to the plain, straightforward business proposition of Chairman Labkeb, yet it is all there need be to convince clear headed people in Congress or out of Congress that he is sound. Mr. Denby Sees a Red Hat. Mr. Denbt, the Secretary of the Navy, has succeeded in calling atten tion to himself by issuing a proclama tion in which he appeals to the com missioned officers and enlisted men of the navy not to be swerved from th^fr allegiance to the United States by communists, anarchists, bolsheviki or other enemies of the Republic. Mr. Weeks, the Secretary of War, says that all sorts of nuisances rep resenting strange undemocratic po litical doctrines are at work all the time on the men in the army trying to get them to do something foolish but not succeeding. Mr. Weeks has not issjied any proclamation, but like a man of sense has left the familiar pests of revolution and disloyalty to the ordinary processes of army dis cipline and civil prosecution when ever either is needed. Mr. Daughertt, the Attorney-Gen eral, head of the department which deals with foolish folk who pit the lunacy of their misguided ideas against the good sense of Americans in uniform and out of uniform, re marks that there are folk who see danger of revolution whenever they see a woman with a red hat walk down the street. Mr. Weeks obviously can gaze on a red hat without trembling for the future of the Union. Mr. Denby ought to learn to do the same thing. The bonnet rouge does not always mean that society is endangered. Hazard* of the Air Lanes. The collision yesterday between an airplane bound from Paris to London and an airplane bound from London to Paris seems at first glance inexplica ble. "With all the air in which to navigate," will be asked, ''why should the pilots have brought the planes together?" But the lane in which commercial machines operate is not all the air but a very restricted portion of it. They are kept to the most direct route between the cities they serve. They fly at a certain altitude. Even with the most delicate and depend able apparatus available they cannot escape the obscurity of fogs. The accident over a village sev enty miles north of Paris yesterday cost the lives of three passengers, two ijlots and a mechanician. The pilots caught sight of each other too late to change the course of their machines. Collisions of aircraft have been com mon in war and have not been infre quent in military and naval training, but in commercial service they have been practically unknown. Yester day's accident reveals the fact that they constitute a hazard against which provision must be made by fix ing non-interfering routes, if instru ments to reveal nearby planes cannot be perfected. Representative Blanton of Texas has got into nnother row in the House of Representatives. Mr. Blanton may have a pacific disposition, as some of his acquaintances declare he haa, but If such is the case he is mighty unlucky. Thirty-five thousand respectable New Yorkers have obtained pistol permits from the police, and their neighbors are wondering how many of them know how to use the weapons. The city elections held thfs week In Missouri appear to have resulted In the fashion most likely to encourage and sustain political discussion. "Both Democrats and Republicans won suc cesses," according to the news from Kansas City. Consequently each party may extract hope from the re turns and use them to support its con fidence in the outcome of the contest next fall. It is reported from Paris that a hand of international spies, hoping to obtain diplomatic correspondence con cerning the Genoa Conference, stole thirty sacks of mall bound for ItaJy. If they are captured they will prob ably plead immunity from prosecu tion on the ground that diplomats are not subjcct to the laws of the lands In which they operate. Spring In Montana. I mind me how the spring cam? up across Montana's mountains. The smiling spring, the ardent spring, with sunlight In her hair, She freed the prisoned brooks until they laughed like living fountains And flung their Joyous messages upon the amber air. I mind me how she wove (A scarf of blades and tufts of grasses To veil the barren foothills and the rolling reaoh of plain. And how the crystal winds blew down the rugged peaks and passes And whispered through the caflons that her feet had come again. I mind me how she called the feather^V folk to slope and vajley, And how the wild duck skimmed along the river's silvern edge, And how the grouse went drumming down the wood's dim lighted alley, Or flocks of wild geese cut the sky, a silent winged wedge. I mind me how Ldike Sellsh, like a mir ror In the highlands Caught from the eyes of April some thing of their astire hue. And like a srlant sapphire that had dropped from out the skylands Lay shimmering and glimmering and wavering with blue. Oh, I have seen the spring come up with all her shining booty, Where'er her footsteps touch the earth her wander ways are fair, But no land save tho west land catches half her golden beauty-? Oh, I mind tne of Montana and I( would that I were there! RuSAnrrM .Icot.lasd. No Argentine Bullfight#. An Early Defense Against a Possible Misconstruction. To The New York Herald: I would like to congratulate' your reporter for the really excellent report of the boxing contest between Flrpo and McCann on last Tuesday evening at Newark, which gives a true impression of the interest ing event j but I would like to correct en erroneous Idea to which the same might give rise In the minds of some readers: bullfighting does not exist and never has existed In the Argentine Republic, being quite aa foreign to the spirit of the Argentines as it Is to that of the Americans. As a patriotic Argentine citizen I would appreciate It very highly if you would find room in your columns for this letter, which favor I beg with the object before mentioned, namely, to pre vent this grievous mtsconception from taking ground in this country. New York, April 7. S. Lbjtik. ^ Sober Men Dine and Sing. Augustus Thomas Informed of the Harmony Due to Mr. Volstead. To The New York Herald: I must protest against the interview with Au gustus Thomas you printed under the title "Orating at Dry Banquets More Hazardous Task Than Haranguing the Irrigated." I have written to Mr. Thomas a letter of remonstrance. Mr. Thomas describes a modern din rer and says the committeemen "hire cheer leaders to stand In a balcony above the speaker's table and badger the merrymakers below Into singing,' and that "the diners sing In self-de fenso." I have yet to find any man or group of men who are not willing to indulge In an old familiar song and who have to be ballyhooed into letting their voices harmonize with their fellow clubmen's. And furthermore, I have yet to find any jellyfish organizations that can be induced to sing If they are not so Inclined, regardless of how many cong leaders,, speakers and orchestras try to Inveigle them Into it. In my four years experience In song leading I have never heard any singing In "cold blood," as Mr. Thomas calls It. It just ain't being done, and never will be. But I have seen many a meeting that would otherwise have been more or less like a funeral made interesting through the medium of mass singing. This is a fact. It seems to me some after dinner speakers don't know upon which side their bread is buttered. Sing ing breaks down the frozen atmosphere and puts the audience Into a receptive mood for the usual speeches. Mr. Thomas makes reference to the singing at dinners before prohibition and after. I too have noticed a big change. Before prohibition the average singing at a dinner was more like bed lam than singing?a group of men sit ting at one table would have their fa vorite song, another group of men In another part of the room would have theirs, and any effort to try to get them all to sing one song at a time and get musical effects was impossible. Now that prohibition Is in effect and men come to the dinners in a sober state of mind It is possible to get an organ ised effort afid accomplish some real singing, and which furthermore they en Joy. People living in 1922 are getting away from the grand stand bench more and more, and mass singing is Just one way they are showing It. Frank Hatek. | New York, April 7. Bad Habits of Snakes. They Ar# ?nilty of Eating Birds and Yonn? Chickens. To Thb New York Herald: I feel called upon to reply to Everett D. Carl son's defense of snakes. It reminds me of the man who claimed to bo a past master as a taxidermist. Upon seeing an owl perched on an Im provised limb of a tree In a store win dow he made a close examination and concluded the work had been poorly | done?the breast too full, legs not full enough, wings too drooping and eyes not set Just right. To his surprise, as he was about to leave, the owl blinked his eyes and got down from his perch. "The proof of the pudding ia In the ! eating" ; an ounce of experience Is worth I a pound of theory. Your statement* were In accordance with the facts, the assertions of specialists to the contrary notwithstanding. While there were plenty of gophers, chipmunks, red squirrels, flying squir I rels and other small animala. the snake* chose the robins in my garden. I was fortunate In clubbing one snake, meas uring six feet, from the limb of the tree. On killing him I found two robins Inside. I have on two other occasions saved birds from the spell or charm of the snake when nut driving and see ing the bird fluttering helpless over the snake In the grass. | I caught a white throated chaser or a black wateranake fastened In the meshes of my hen coop after it had taken one of the chicks and because of the fury of the hen was trying to escape. I have upon several occasions delivered toads and bullfrogs from the mouth of snakes. No matter what kind of aerpent or anako it waa that entered the sacred precincts ^f the Garden of Eden, there has come down the age enmity between our aeed and their seed. Statistics show that more persons die in India from snake bites than are killed by tlgera, lions and leopards. They aay give th? devil his due, and so aay I give tha snake your heel. Hex. IU nodes, N. J., April T. Brooklyn Cream. A Consnmer's Thought* on the Ap proprlntenpftN of "Extra Heavy." To Thb New York Herald: There is a law or an ordinance which requires that milk sold In thJs city shall be at a certain degree of richness. Cannot you Inform us whether there la not also some regulation that specifies how far a milk dealer can dilute his cream and I still soil it under the name of cream? The cream we are getting nowadays is getting thinner and thinner. It is practically nothing more than what In many places would be called rich milk. | To call it cream is bad enough, but ; tbey term it extra heavy, wli:< li Is a | travesty and an insult to the purchaser ' and an imposition as well. If they would apply the term "extra ] heaVy" to the nerve they exhibit In charging the price they ask for this ! stufT the designation would be a little more appropriately used. More legisla tion In this line Is what Is needed. Stuart O. Wood. Brookltk, April 7. ' Opening of the Connecticut I>l Season. /Bgi mCnglillll comipondsncc Hlrlge/irld Vrtn. [ Eel feast* have been Indulged In by some i of the neighbors. The best way to oook . eets ts with parsley. Casals Conducts Symphony Orchestra Cellist in a New Role Acquits Himself Well as Guest Leader in Mr. Damrosch's Place. By W. J. HENDERSON. Pablo Casals la a cellist, whether by birth, education, Inclination. er sheer whim no one knows. But that he la a cellist was long: ago settled and the world was glad of It. People admitted that he was a great cellist. Many, in deed most, declared thak Tie was the prince of cellists. But he sighed for more worlds to conquer. In the sea son now ending he has appeared as a chamber music player and has given general satisfaction. He has also of ficiated as pianist, playing accompani ments for his wife, Mme. Susan Met calfe, an excellent soprano. Lately, however, lty began to be made known that In Spain and particularly In Barcelona. Mr. CasuU was celebrated as a conductor of orchestral concerts. And then It was announced that he would conduct one such concert here, and he did It last evening at Carnegie Hall. Just why he did It no one seemed to bo able to tell. He had at his service the New York Symphony Society Or chestra and Walter Damrosch sat in a box and applauded. But all arrange ments for the conducting of that or chestra for next season are'completed. Mr. Casals was not undergoing a test as to his fitness to aselst Mr. Dam rosch. The Philharmonic already has a corps of conductors. There Is no opening there for Mr. Casala. Can it be possible that New York Is preparing to return to Its former concert glory and harve three orchestras? Certainly he had enthusi astic admirers last evening. The whole house applauded him vociferously for af least two mlnutca when he appeared on the stage. He was perhaps a guest conductor, but he needed no claque. Mr. Cabals tackled his Job like a little man. He conducted Beethoven's "Corio lan" overture and "Pastoral" symphony, Brahma's first symphony and the vor fvpiel and llebestod from "Tristan und I?olde." It was a tall order. There was no telling what Mr. Casals would have done with that program If he had had fifteen rehearsals. But doubtless he did not have so many. So he showed that he was temperamental ana not fhcllned to dally by the wayside. Everything moved with vivacity. Even Beethoven's brook had been affected by the recent rains. The long program was not too long. It sped on the wings of song and the audience was plainly delighted. BARYTONE GIVES RECITAL. Richard Hale, barytone, was heard in a song recital last evening at Aeolian Ho.ll. He gave a comprehensive pro gram, which comprised German lleder, Scandinavian, Russian and French songs and a group of English lyrics. He used his good voice with much skill and his style had admirable Intelli gence and musical feeling. His enjoy able work was heard by a large audi ence. TO PROTECT WILD FLOWERS. Meeting to Re Held at Horn* of Mrs. Robert Bacon. Special Dispatch to Tub New Yobk Hekalv Westbury, L. I., April 7.?In a oam palgn In the Interest of preserving the native wild flowers on Long Island from destruction by careless motorists Mrs. Robert Bacon has arranged a meeting to be held at her home here this after Opening the Ball. The Yankees say they'll win the flag. The Giants say they'll win theirs too; The Dodgers, though, by no means lag In telling what they mean to do. The Cardinals smy they're the birds. The Cubs aver that they are bears. The Senators vote full two-thirds. The Tigers fierce spring from their lairs. The Braves are on the warpath now. The Pirates say they'll cop the loot, And all the others tell you how Right to the top they'll promptly shoot. Quite properly they play their parts. Although perhaps the skeptics grin, For now before the season starts Is when the whole sixteen can win. Mauricx Morris. Drink of the Poets. -r?? Slionld It Be the Jnlce of the Urape or J nit Plata Water? To The New York Herald i Mr. Myers In stating his negative position in re gard to alcohol and art quotes Emerson, but his quotation 1s scant. The Intelli gent reader gats a smallish opinion of Kmerson, who was intellectually broad and generous, as his essays on Shake speare and Ooethe will show. Note his quotation from the poet In his prelim inary essay on the swift passing of good men: Kven their phantoms arid* before us. Our loftier brothers, but one In blood; At bed nnd table they lord it o'er us. With looks of beauty and words of Rood. By pinching an author to our use we might by the same token cull this from the ninth chapter at Judges: "And the | vine said unto them. Should I leave my wine which oheereth God and man?" In fact, "the gift of the sunlight" of th? essay on the poet may have been slyly noted In Emerson's mind in a poetic moment as being the grape. From the grape comes the symbol of the resur rection and the life?a symbol that will not be lightly put aside; for, as has been said. If we look at the height reached by the European nations In art and compare It with the non-alcoholic achievements of the Mohammedan peo ples It will be as the great pyramid to an ant hill. John Milton, I take It, was a tee totaler, being a Puritan ; but Emerson quotes him as saying the lyric poet may drink wine, but the epic poet must drink water out of a wooden bowl. This flg uro points to a life of austerity, and as we have produced no epic as yet, even though we have made gallant use of the lronbound bucket, the figure does not apply to us who love our personal lib erties so much. Now our good friends the prohibition ists seem to think that life, to ha up to date, must be carried on according to fixed formulas, and what ethics and education cannot accomplish laws will I compel, and they, while the great mass stand Indifferent, try the stampede. But to the ovensealous comes a day of reck oning always. It Is one of the inevitables of politics that the present hysteria Is followed by the future reaction. Who can tell what the secret balloting may do? The art and literature of a thousand or mnr* years cannot be dented. If all that the vine has Inspired should drop out of our literature nothing would be left but a cask of sounding rhetoric. Maybe Walter Pater ?ald something like this or George Moore, and some (here be who might place Moore above Meredith. All Puritans appear to be opposed to art, and this Is what Joseph Pennell understands, for art Is sensuous and appeals to the Imaginative reason snil noon. A group of lioy Scouts and school children are to be anion* those present as an initial start in the education cam paign which Mrs. Bacon, as one of the members of the North Country Garden Club of Long Island, hopes to wage with Buccess. The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America is cooperating In the project ana Dr. G. Clyde Fisher of the Natural History Museum of New York will speak on the native flowers of Long Island. There will also be lantern views. - TO WELCOME BRAZILIAN. Women Voters to Meet Arriving Delegate to Convention. One of the distinguished delegates to the Pan-American Conference of the National League of Women Voters, to be held in Baltimore April 20 to 23. will arrive In New York to-day. She is Dona Bertha Lutz, official delegate from I Brazil, who holds a responsible position there as secretary of the National Mu seum. She is also a biologist and au thor. She will land at Hoboken in the afternoon from the Huron of the Munson Line. A reception committee from the league will meet Dona Lutz to give her both a floral and a verbal welcome. Mrs. Leslie J. Tompkins will head this com mittee and other members who will ap pear are Mrs. Huntington Adams, Mrs. John Foster Dulles, Mrs. Charles Nool Edge. Miss Elizabeth Babcock, Miss Sally Peters, Mrs. Pierre Jay, Mrs. Will iam A. McLaren, Mra Charles L. Tif fany and Mrs. Samuel Straus. Miss Hay will also try to dodge ?ome engage ments and Join the welcoming party. TO AID SALVATION ARMY. Jesse L. Lasky, first vice-president of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, has been added to the citizens' commit tee of 160 in charge of the Salvation Army's home service appeal for $500,000 to bo raised In Greater New York May 1 to 10. Will H. Hays is also on the committee. COMING ON FRANCE TO-DAY. The French Line steamer France, which has not been in this port since last October, will arrive at Quarantine early this morrlng, according to a radio re ceived from her commander. Among her passengers are Cardinal Nazairo Begin, Mr. and Mrs. F. Willis, Miss Mary Scovllle, J. A. Messenger, Henry Roberts, C. F. Dayer, K. G. Campbell. Arthur B. Wing, W. B. Raymond and Mrs. A. T. Henderson, wife of the pas senger traffic manager of the French Line. TO LECTURES FOR ORPHANS. Through the courtesy of Miss Marie La Montagne a lecturo for the benefit of the building fund of the French Or phan Asylum of St. Vincent de Paul, In Tarrytown, will be given to-morrow afternoon in l^he ballroom of the Colony Club by Mile. Marguerite Clement, who was a member of the French High Com mission to Washington. Her ?ubject will be "Polncare, Briand and Miller and and their roles in recent French Political Events." Tickets may be ob I talned from Miss La Montagne, 670 ark avenue. r.ot to the Intellect: but the art of a nation represents its aspiration, the striving for beauty Its virtue. O swift days of gool men ! The world was once "an Inn where men did live; now only a hospital to die In." Pittsbl-roh, Pa.. April 6. Lucius. The Knight JBill. The New York Psychological Asso ciation Opposes the Measure. To The New York Herald : In behalf of our organization with more than 100 members we deslr^to protest against the Knight mental deficiency bill, which Is to have a final hearing before Governor Miller in Albany to-morrow. Our rea sons are: It contains several un-iAmerlcan fea tures and therefore is unworthy of our type of government. It Is a definite Infringement of per sonal liberties, particularly of those we should seek to foster. It possesses several railroading possi bilities and loopholes which the present well constructed law"does not contain. It provides for retention for an In definite time of Indefinite or only sus pected cases. It will cause needless anxiety and dla ' tress to families already heavily bur dened. It behooves us all, as enlightened citi zens, to bestir ourselves lest we se?? visited upon us again a more enlightened yet nevertheless a more severe type of ?lavery. Legislative Committee, A. CoRiflTV, Secretary. N?w York, April 7. The Parrot's Age. From the Field. In 1800, April 10 and 24 anrl May 8, three letter* on how long parrots live appeared In our columns In which the ages of seventy and seventy-two were reported, and Mr. J. H. , Qurney of Keswick Hall, Norwich, vouched for two cases of fifty and eighty one years respectively. In an article on "The Ages to Which Birds Live," published In the /Ma for January, 1891), he referred to these, and gave details of three or four Other cases. Including one vouched for by a well known I.*>ndon dealer In torn birds Mr. Abrahams?of an Amazon parrot which was believed by him to have lived In cap tivity to the age of 102. This Is the greatest age reported of which we have any note. In the majority of cases of long lived parrots the statements made concerning them are purely legendary, owing to death of owner or change of ownership, and when there has been no registration of dates by successive owners It must always be difficult to obtain direct and satisfactory proof of the alleged age. Felo de R<\ From the Spectator. If I were atone dead and burled under, Ik there a Part of me would still wander, Shiver, mourn and ory Alack, With no body to lis back? When brain grew mealy, turned to dust, Would lissom Mind, too, suffer rust? Immortal Soul grow Imbecile, Having no Brain to think and feel? ?Or grant It be as priests say, And Growth coma^on my death day: Suppose Growth came: would Certainty? Or wojld Mind still a quester be, Frame deeper mysteries, not find them out, And wander In a larger Doubt? ?Alas! If to Mind's petty stir Death prove so poor a wllpncer; Though veins when emptied a few hours Of this hot blood might suckle flowers; Krom spirtual flames that scorch me Never, never were I free! Back, Death! till I calt thee! Haat come too soon ! . . . Thou silly worm, gnaw not Yet thine Intricate cocoon. RICHARD Hl'OHKS. THE WEATHER. For Eastern New York?Showers fn|. lowed by clearing and warmer to-dav to-morrow probably fair, fresh and strong southwest wlpds. For New Jersey?Partly tfoudy and warmer, possibly showers to-day to morrow clogdy and mild, moderate to fresh southerly wlnd?. For Northern New England?Showers and warmer to-day; to-morrow prob ably fair, fresh southeast winds. , ;for Southern New England?Showers followed by clearing and warmer to day; to-morrow probably fair, fresh and strong southwest winds. For Western New York?Partly and cooler to-day; to-morrow local ahowera, fresh southwest winds. Washington. April 7?Pressure re. mains high off the Atlantic coast and off the south Pacific coast and It la low in much h?r dl8Tr,ets- Temperatures are Unite*'n?rmal -enpr'llI>' over th? ?nH t f*0?*1 th0 Northwest and New England. There have been showers within the last twenty-four .ours In the Atlantic States, the Ohio, the upper Mississippi and Missouri va' leys, and the region of the Great Lakes. In New England and New York the wea her will be cloudy and warmer with . local showers to-morrow and i?rol>ably St?t??,nt?Unday;u ln the m,ddl? Atlantic States the weather will bo partly cloudy warmer, preceded by showers to. morrow, and cloudy and mild on Sunda\ ",?Uth At,V?c the cast Gulf States the weatlTer will be generally fair and warm Saturday and Sunday i i the region of the Great Lakes tho I'tfi W<11 be fa,r and un settled on Sunday, with a continuation or moderate temperature. n,?r^:,rV.V'?,r,S "t,tJn,t0d Weather fifth merldfan t ime ;Pn at 8 P" M" "8ven" Temperature Halnfall last J4 hrs. Baro-last 24 Abuir.. '" JS1- ,,luter- Weather inT^* R- ?!2 20.W1 .. Clear ^ V- 4* 44 L'U.Pt .. Cloudy Mom Cl,y- 4S 42 30.10 .. Cloudy SSSEK-r S & 8? ?? &1"" SSSaS.-;::;; ? i! ?% ii H'*; ni'nrlMtOT*" -1 r- Cld'p aSSR:v ii SI ?? 5;.?"" Cleveland.... 78 M "o sn nk r'-IZ 5 Denver r,8 *2 "9?? ^oucy SSfe: S I I B " J* % a && * &k, Milwaukee... 72 42 "o 79 y & 80 S ? Portl'and." Ore. % % ??? gloudj Calt Lake C'y ,%2 40 -o's'. " ?an Antonio . 8J i;a oS'm " ?ol,dv S?n Diego.... 60 48 So 08 " ?)?2?y ban Pranciseo r>4 48 ion*! " r>! j Seattle .... 48 UX'2" ? ? Cloudy Kt. Louis 7Q 2JM '*2 Snow st. Paul.:::;, is 4* "o? 06 ,(:!oudy Washington.. 04 44 aoff ^ LOCAL WEATHER ItECOBDS. Barometer ..../. 8P.M. Humidity 30.06 Wind?direction a .? Wind?velocity 12 So",h Weather p1? ? Precipitation ig Cloudy re^ed'^by'the6 ?" shown in the a^eieS taSle: ^'""0'"^"- ,s Ua'm'"1! 1EJJ-*46 6P.M... 48 -M .*?!??? 2 P. M 4? t v> Tvr in a * \r *" Ii 2 P.M... 46 7 P.* M.'# "7 J? 4' M ? ? ? is 3 P. M... 47 8 p. M :Jt !?> m i1; 4 p- m... 47 9 p. m nt 44 3 P.M... 47 10P. jriilfti 1922. 1921. io'..> iu.li n A. M,... 41 44 B p M 48" v. ~ '.V ?' ? *t 40 9 P. M :.l 4:, 44 s p. m.... 47 47 12 Mid..:::: 50 Highest temperature, 61 at 7 P. M Lowest temperature, 40, at 6 A* M Average temperature, 40. EVENTS TO-DAY! James M. Cox will epeak at the Jefferson . auspices of the National Demo cratie Club, Hotel Commodore, 7 P. M. Assooiatlon of State Law Instructors, meeting. Bar Association Building, 42 West tr.rr.rth A. M.s luncheon. Hotel Astor, 1:30 P. M. ?^lb<!,^,.M^sb':ldBe- PauI Blanshard and Miss Hilda W. Smith will discuss "Workers' Education-luncheon of the Womens Citv Club. Hotel McAlpln, J P. M. AMoTTa'"" PPm" C'Ub Me*t,nc Mayor Hylan will bs chief guest at the of ,h" N',iW Bastclieater Bronjt 3PM "ni1 Boston road. The National Institute of Inventors, meeting. 8 East r ourteenth street, 2:30 P. M. ,?nr- A;. How?. Illustrated lecture. ?'Tron. v?ii, ,cs'UrRl display gteenliouse, N. -r P M Garden, Bronx Park, 3:15 ?w*n? lecture. "Psyrliolr.LV and Personality,?' Carnegie Hall, 3:1!i p. M, ??wL.C?ar,'A L"v'rmor' will speak ?... r,i?? iiv"*vth8 League of Nations Aceotn n ,l wN'.w, Y?Jk Camaradarle. Civlo Club, 14 West Twelfth street, 4 P. M. Cooper Union Rtudents' Lengue, entertain ment, Waldorf-Astoria, 8 P. M. Y.,'rk Building Superintendents A-?n- ? elation, dinner. Hotel Commodore, 7 p. m 8ociety of War Veterans of the Kevenrli Keglment, dinner, Hotel Astor, 7 p. M. | Board of Supervisors of Westchester count v. | dinner. Hotel Commodore, 7 P. M. ' Pr.'. Ra>",on'' Pearl, lecture, "The Inter relations of the Blometrle and Experimental | Methods of Acquiring Knowledge; With , Special Reference to the Problem of the i.u. ration of T.lfe, before the Harvey Skx-lcty iew, York A ademy of Medicine, 17 W. it ' Porty-thlnl street, R:,10 P. M. [ Miss Mellnda Alexander will discuss "Bfo resentatlve Oovernmsnt" before the 8hiclr< pR^(Po,',"n. -01 West Thirteenth street. 8:.".0 PUBLIC LECTURES TO-NIGHT. MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX "Trend of the Times," Dr. Nelson P. Mesrf. at Townsend Harris Hall. C. C. N. T., Am sterdam avenue and 138th street. "Book of the Hour." Prof. J. 05. Carter Troop. 3:30 P. M., at Hotel Majestic, Sev enty-second street, at Central Park West. "Dante In Science," Dr. James J. Walsh, at American Museum of Natural Hlstorv. Seventy-seventh street and Central Park West. "The Supremo Need In' American Life," nr Alexander Lyons, at t'ooper Institute, Eighth street and Fourth avenue. MANY GIVE TO WILSON FUND. All Walks of Mff Representril Amonur New Donor*. A partner In J. P. Morgan & Co. and a $22 a week laborer, a General In tho United States Army and a buck private and hundreds of persons In every walk of life yesterday Joined the Woodroxv Wilson Foundation movement for a na tional tribute to the former President. Among the contributor* were Henry P Davison, Gen. Samuel McRoberts, Frank M. Patterson, John T. Harrison, Paul Hansdorf, Dr., L>. A. Mlkleska and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Tom Oreen Chapter of Texas.' Contribu tions should be sent to 17 East Forty second street, Room 604. INGERSOLL RECEIPTS $13,000. Further sale of furniture and house hold ornnments from the collection of Mrs. Robert H. Ingersoll brought $7,752 yesterday afternoon at the American Art Galleries. Tho entfre sale to date has brought $13,007. A satin wood Stelnway baby grand piano drew the highest price yesterday, going to Mrs, L, Hardy for $1,400. A carved mahogany china cabinet in Chinese Chippendale style was sold to L. V. Bennlngham for $S60. The sale will be concluded this after I noon. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitle! to the use for r?pt|li|leatlon of all news ill nnd'hrs credited to It or not Atherwl" credited in tills paper, and also tho locut !te?* published herein. Alt rights of republication of special il? patclir:' Iwrfih arc alsm reserved.