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Tbe President went before Con gress yesterday and delivered his promised message on the labor situ rtion. covering especially the trans portation and coal strikes. He went into the historical side of the prob- j lem at length. He made certain recommendations. He pointed out the weakness of the Railroad Labor Board law in respect of its power to ! settle disputes between carriers and their employees, and he declared that the decisions of the board must be made enforceable and effective, but he did not offer a concrete program for | such legislation. The President explained his point | of view on the seniority question. The New Yokk Herald did not in | dorse his stand at the time and can-! not indorse it now. It is true that ? great emergency existed, but it is equally true that the railroads were under sacred promise to the shop men who had kept them running? 1 the shopmen who did not go out on strike and the new shopmen who came in. The President recommended a thorough investigation of the coal in-: dustry with a view to preventing future strikes and stabilizing the business. This is a very important recommendation and one on which Congress should take immediate ac tion. The present chaotic condition of coal mining is grotesque, intoler able. The President dwelt on the sound principle that the right of men to work must he sustained, adding that ha is resolved to use all the power of the Government to sustain that right. Candor compels The New York Htiui.n to say that the message as a whole is not representative of Presi dent Harping at his best. It lacks definiteness; it lacks fire; it lacks the quality and spirit that arouse a nation in time of war?and this sit uation is w^r. The Late Genevieve Ward. Success in two branches of the theater's art was achieved by Genevieve Ward, who died yesterday In London. She was a singer first and won eminence under the name of Mme. Guerrabella, wliTbh she adapted for use in professional life from the name of her husband. CONSTANTINE DE GUERBEL. As a SO prano she sang in lyric and dra matic operas at the Academy of Mu eic in this city shortly after her dlbqt at La Scala in Milan in 1856 and after her triumphs as a singer iu opera and oratorio in London. Then illness ended her progress toward the lyric honors for which she had sedulously prepared herself by study In Italy. But Miss Ward was not the sort of person to droop under such a stag gering setback. 8h# went to work at the task of imparting to others what she had learned about the art of 6ong and simultaneously studied the rdles in which she planned to conquer the dramatic stage. No such laborious process as climbing the lad der from the bottom round was in cluded in her plans. She boldly be gan at the top. ? H,r d?but as Lady Macbeth seven teen years after she began her ca reer as a singer was just as success ful as she had meant it to he. For six years in England she acted the classic and modern repertoire with out finding that sensational popu larity which she won later. Then,, on August 22. 1S79. at the Lyceum Theater, she played Strphanie de 3/ohrivart in the famous "Forget Me Not" hy Herman Mebivale and F. C. Grove. Mies Ward acted the leading rftle in this popular play more than two thousand times. She carried it over the world, and although she did many more notable parts it was with this character that her fame as an actress is chiefly associated. She even played Lady Macbeth in French at the Porte St. Martin in Paris and she acted with Sir Henry Irving. She took part in many un usual Shakespearean revivals in Lon don. She appeared during the war in the London performance of "The Basher," which Cyril Maude gave here at the Empire Theater. Mi>e Ward was 64 at the time of bar death. Her interest in her art and , her industry were unflagging to the 1 end. Such qualities are indispensable lequisites for a career so full of i achievement as hers. j Keep It Sacred, Mr. President. It, of course, rests wholly with President Harding to say whether i the Governorship of the Federal Re serve System shall become a political office or not. The term for which the present Governor of the Federal Reserve System, W. P. G. Harding, was appointed expired several days ago. i The feeling with bankers, with busi-1 ness men and with all men opposed to the spoils system is very strong ? that the Governorship of the Federal Reserve System should be kept out of j politics and be free from the spoils system. The New York Herald holds | to this opinion. The New York Herald knows nothing against Mr. Harding as a man, nor against his administration of the important office of Governor of the Federal Reserve System, that should call for his dis missal from the service. On the con trary, it is the belief of The New: York Herald that Mr. Hardjng has shown himself well fitted for the great work he has carried on, excep- j 1 tionally well fitted ir. temperament, i in freedom from partisanship and in | faithfulness to duty. The Federal Reserve System has; been created under his administra- J tion. He guided it through the most critical financial times in our history. As its head he cooperated with the banking interests of the country in providing the vast means, tc prosecute the war. He has coop- j erated with the banking interests of the country in the yet more critical period of deflation since the war. But beyond the poise and inherent ability Mr. Harding has displayed as the head of the Federal Reserve Sys tem is the enormously valuable ex perience he has had. which the Gov ernment of the United States might well conserve to its advantage in our j great money system. So, on the assumption that there is nothing against W. P. G. Harding j as a man. and nothing in his record that should call for his retirement j from public service. The New Your j Herald holds that his dismissal in i the interest of the spoils system i would stand as a colossal mistake of the Republican party. The responsi bility resting on President Harding j ir respect of this matter 4s no small one?the responsibility of tur><ng the i Governorship of the Federal Reserve: System over to the spoils system to satisfy the greed of the hardboiled : politicians of his party or to defy J" the hardboileds and treat the Gov- j ernorship of the Federal Reserve! System as an office that is sacred from political menace. Enver Pasha Dead. According to advices received by! the Soviet Government at Moscow I and forwarded by the Associated | Press Enver Pasha, former Turkish J Minister of War and the Young Turk ; leader who aligned the Ottoman Em- j pire with the Central Powers, has j been found dead on a battlefield in j eastern Bokhara. Despite the fact that j Moscow would be more or less pleased ; just at present to publish the death ot this enemy of Soviet progress in ! central Asia there appears no reason j for doqbting the truth of the report. ; With Enver's death there passes j the most picturesque and at the same j time the most interesting character | of modern Turkey. It was but one i of the contradictions of his career; that his end should come while en- i gaged in carrying on a war against; Soviet Moscow, whose cause he had once seemed so earnestly to espouse.! After his flight from Constantinople with a price on hi4 head and a sen tence of death passed and only wait-, ing Enver's presence for execution , he appeared at Moscow with a plan for the spread of Bolshevism into the Caucasus and the Caspian region with himself as ruler. Next he announced himself King of the wild Kurds, and with this as a start be undertook a pilgrimage into Asia for the collec- j tion of the Moslem races into a pan Turanian kingdom. Another throne1 was added to his honors when he he- j came nominally King of Turkestan j and a defender and supporter of Kemal Pasha's Angora Government. Then disavowing all connection with Moscow he appeared in central Asia gathering Islam |p a holy war! against Bolshevism. These adventures form merely the I latest chapters in his remarkable life story. He was the son of a carpenter of Stamboul who did odd jobs around | the Yildez .Kiosk. As a reward for hiB faithfulness old AnnrL Hamid promised that the boy should he ed-. urated as an army officer. The Sul-1 tan kept his promise, and Enver was 1 later the chief actor in his over-' throw. Enver rose to he a leader of^ the Young Turks and was recognized j as the real head of tha Committee of I Union and Progress. He studied war in Germany and he became the close friend and ad | viser of General Liman von Sandbbm. | the officer sent by the Kaiser to train the Ottoman army. He came easily j under German influence and was Ber- j lin's man at Constantinople. It was he undoubtedly who ordered the horn- j hardment of Russian ports which forced Turkey into open hostilities i at the beginning of the world war. ; He became supreme commander of' tha Ottoman Empire; even the Rultan | did his bidding. He took a princess | : of the Sultanate family for his bride and he moved Into a palace on the Bosporus. When the Turkish army crumbled and the Ottoman Empire collapsed I I Envbr disappeared from Constanti nople. He left an empty treasury. The provisional Government, which took over the management of affairs, reported that Enveb carried away flO,000,000 of national funds and a lerge sum amassed in war contracts. The indignant Government charged him not only with theft and war peculations but with being the au thor of the Armenian atrocities and of the murder of princes of the royal house who stood in the way of his advancement. It sentenced him to death, together with his two chief Ministers, Talaat Pasha and Djkmai, Pasha. Talaat pas killed on the streets of Berlin and his chief coun selor, Said Ali Pasha, was assassi nated in Italy. D.iemal Pasha, after twice escaping assassins, was re ported murdered last month in Tiflis. No Spltan had more power over the lives of his subjects than had this carpenter's son. His Btory is a romance of Oriental life belonging rather to the days of the Arabian Nights than to the twentieth century. Three gallowses, it is said, were built in Constantinople when the death sentence was passed on him. On two of them perished friends of Enver; the third was pre served, the Turks said, for the former War Minister. It was fate that he should die on the battlefield. "Fate," he is said to have exclaimed when he fled from Constantinople, "is all powerful! Had it ruled otherwise I would have been the hero of Islam, the successor of Mohammed, and not a fugitive. Kismet." Isn't Mr. Hearst a Ety Careless ? Mr. Hearst is quite definite in regard to the circumstances under which he would accept a nomination on the State ticket this year. He would not care to run at all, he says, unless Mayor Hylan were nominated for Governor "and he should wish me to run in some capacity on the ticket." Mr. Hearst continues: "Under those circumstances I would run for any office he wished." We have Mr. Hearst's assurance, j therefore, that if Mayor Hylan were nominated for Governor he could call upon Mr. Hearst to run for Lieuten ant-Governor. Secretary of State, Comptroller, State Treasurer or At torney-General. There is another State office to be filled this year?that of State Engi neer and Surveyor?but as the Con-1 stitution requires that the incumbent < shall be a practical engineer we are not sure of Mr. Hearst's eligibility. ; It would be a strange spectacle to 1 "See Mr. Hylan as Governor and Mr.; Hearst in the rather negligible post of Lieutenant-Governor. Mr. Hearst as Comptroller, with his large busi ness vision, rather intrigues, as the young novelists say. And Mr. Hearst as Attorney-Gen-1 eral?the Constitution does not de-j mand that that officer shall be a member of the bar?suggests a sphere of activity in which the publisher could attempt some of the reforms I he has so long advocated from the side lines. At any rate. Mr. Hearst has given Mr. Hylan carte blanche with regard to himself. The Coal Emergency. Govenor Miller's call for an extra. session of the Legislature to consider the coal situation is warranted byj conditions. If all the miners were back on their jobs to-day thfcre would not be the usual supply of hard coal for the coming winter. The emergency, as Governor Mil ler says, is not great enough to ex cite alarm, but it is great enough to keep the State Government on the aiert. The State must see that it receives from the Federal Government its rightful quota of coal. Then the State must see that this coal Is prop erly distributed among the consum ers without hoarding or gouging. After five months of strike in the anthracite regiona the United States; will bo compelled to economize In coal this winter. A fuel adminis trator. clothed with authority by the Legislature, should be able to direct the saving and distribution of fuel! so that all citizens will be treated alike. Meanwhile the prudent will con eerve coal wherever It is possible. : I The Army Polo Team's Victory. It is fitting that the current polo season, which tSida fair to be the I most interesting and important in the history of the sport in this country, should be marked hy tho! rise of an army four to the national junior championship. For more than a score of years it was the hope of Henry L. Herbert and William A. Hazard, as well as of other pioneers In American polo, to see a service team gain high honors, but that prlvl lsg? was denied them. Both died be fore they could see their hope attained, and attained so, brilliantly as ft was by Major A. H. Wilson, Major L. Beard. Lieutenant-Colonel L. Brow.n and Major W. W. Erwin at Narrs ganBett Pier the other day. It was an epoch making event In polo on this side of the Atlantic, that triumph for the army, an event the importance of which will not be real ized fully for the next few yeAs. The progress of polo in the army has been rather slow and at times the situation has been discouraging, hut a quick change came when the high est officials in the War Department, with Secretary Weeks perhaps the most enthusiastic, began to push the movement vigorously. And now an American champion four la composed of army officers. In England a champion polo team made up of army men is the natural thing. It was the army that brought polo to England from India and it was the army that developed the sport to its highest plane and de fended British laurels against Amer ican challengers. It was the army that produced 4h gallant and able'a player as Captain Leslie St. Oeoboe Cheape, whom those who witnessed the international matches at Meadow Brook in 1914 will remember as the greatest master of the game ever sent over here by England. But a great army four in America has been a rarity. Now that we have one it is a prom ise of greater things to come. Some day we may send into the interna tional polo arena an American four composed entirely of army officers. That is the new goal toward which I the Polo Association is striving. The Veto of Separate Items. What a pity, it sometimes seems, that the. President of the United States does not possess constitutional power to veto particular items in a general measure while approving the measure as a whole; power of sep aration such as the Governor of New York possesses in the case of a bill appropriating; money. No more effective instrument was ever devised for the protection of the people against the enterprises of greed, folly, selflBh interest or wild extravagance in the legislative body. It is true that the power of separa tion here referred to applies in this State only to proposals of expendi ture, that is, to outgoing funds from the Treasury. But in the philosophy of honest government it is hard to see why this final safeguard should not apply wltjj equal force to money! raising proposals, to the inflow of the | people's cash into the Treasury. Tl\pre is difficulty in making a clear distinction between the people's right to protection against profiteering and logrolling statesmanship in the outgo and the people's right to pro tection against profiteering in the inflow. Fraud or folly in either di rection has the same predatory effect upon their pockets. A most beneficial influence would be exerted if, for example, Senators and Representatives now voting in defiance of the rule in Jefferson's Manual, and now warily dodging the dreaded impact of Pat Harrison's searching resolution, knew when they so voted that the particular item of selfish interest could not ride through safely on the back of the general measure but was likely to return to the Capitol with a veto requiring a two-thirds vote to override. An amendment bestowing upon the Executive this power of separation and veto in the-case of money bills has more than once been suggested and advocated in the Congress itself. In Oneco. Connect&ut, the ther mometer recorded 120 degrees in the sun yesterday, and proud citizens of the Land of Steady Habits now sneer at the climatic rigors of Death Valley. Five girls, summer students at Penn sylvania State College, with an in structor have demonstrated by actual experience that they can live on 4P cents a day each. But as some of them grew fat during the process it is not to be expected women generally will fol low their example In economy The inequalities of life are manlfe In Brooklyn rivalry between Iaundi men has brought the charge for was i n or a ocl 1 o ?. ing a collar down to one cent wi ir Tarrytown labor troubles and holler blowup have made clean lit an unattainable dream. And this w the mercury at 90 degrees! For many a worker bound by cir cumstance to his job these hot days the most tantalizing news that his come to New'York is the afcounco ment from Albany that fishing Is un usually good in the Adlrondacks -his year. Ebb Tide of tbe Year. Do you not see and hear Already la the ebb tide of the year. Though it should seen-, no more Than a first wave retreating down th? shore* "No, no," you say, "for still Noon empties his hot arrows on th? hill; ' And many are the flowers And ardent hued to mark the sun bright hours!" I answer: Though the moon Flamee on the hill, when has night brought such boon Of cooling drink outpoured Deep Sleep?the oldest vintage ever stored; While the tree cricket plays. Moving his slender wings of chryso phrase. And searching is the sigh Of the low wind through leaves grown crisp and dry! And, as for many flowers. Look how?like ladles from their win dowed towers, The bloom creeps ever higher On foxglove and on evening primrose spire Until the la at flower bell With kisses tells aloft Its world fare well 1 . No birds In nests: they fare In flocks afar?no mated loves are m thera. Silver yon stubble field* VVher# her swift shuttle the gray weaver wields. Red gold, the jfreat orb'd sun Leans yearningly toward earth, day be ing done. Some beauty?past all guards, Each evening will be slipping heaven wards ! Summer's old heart 1s tire 1, Bents fitfully, hut Time cannot be hired. You Will not have it so? Too young! These aging signs you will not know! More wise?or tad, am I: So many a year has bidden m* Oood by 1 Bwih M. Th?$ias< Law Not Enforced!. Would Mattero Be Better if There Were a Non-Union Party! To The New Yobk Herald ? How can such a situation arise as that on the Santa Fe Railroad, where the passengers were marooned? There la sufficient law to govern com binations in restraint of trade and of interstate commerce to give anybody the right to work; but why is not the law ; enforced? Why Is not something done to the man who orders a strike which Jeopard izes lives, ties up industry and stops the malls? Is it any excuse that he controls votes? It is time that one of our parties be came non-union. Akos Moutons. Saratoga Springs, August 17. That Junkman's Copper Find ' Chemistry Applied to a Tale of the Parly Days of Montana. j To The New York Herald : Under I the title of "Waste Copper Recovered" j you print a letter from Archie Rice de I scribing how a juuk dealer was made rich by the discovery that on dumping [scrap iron into a rivulet emanating from the copper smelters in Butte, Mont., it became thickly Incrusted with pure cop per. which he melted off and sold to the tune of $34,000. Will Mr. Rice kindly explain how this deposit of pure copper became so inti mately associated with scrap iron with out the help of the electric current necessary to produce any kind of cojd coating of copper on iron or steel? Again the purity of any such deposit when melted off Iron or steel is not to be depended on. as while the melting point of both Iron and steel is higher than that of copper the copper will ab sorb a small percentage of either when treated together In the melting furnace, thus necessitating further refinement, which In the nature of things would make the junkman a poor but honest speculator $34,000 in debt If he stuck to the game tang enough. That the pieces of scrap Iron and steel would become coated with a green col ored scum In the course of time is un deniable. but If this scum was treated | by the most approved methods in vogue to-day I doubt very much If It would render more than 1 per cent, of its weight in pure copper. William H. Parry. Brooklyn, August 18.' A Railroad Man Replies. He Thinks Conductors and Brake men Are Not Overpaid. To The Niw York Hsrald; jAst a few words In reply to "R. A. C.," whose letter wan published August 15. He says railroad men exact rates of pay ^disproportionate not only to the character of their work but to the rates of pay reodtved by other classes of labor, who work harder and at tasks demand ing In many instances greater skill and ability. In this he is mistaken. A freight brakeman gets $4.48 for eight hours work, or 100 miles. On a straight day, which 90 per cent, get, six days a week, that is $26.88 a week. He is on the other end of the run three nights a week. Paying his own ex penses, what will that leave to support a family. Is he getting too much? Alio, in all kinds of weather he Is out in it. I've known flagmen to be out flagging behind their train In a blizzard for four to twelve hours. Is It too much pay for that? In regard to skill. It takes from two to nve years to make a good brakeman and some never can make good. A a superintendent said to me the other day. It takes about Ave years before a con ductor is any good, and he has to brake and flag probably four years before he Is a conductor; then he gets $5.80 a day. Are these rates of pay disproportionate to those received by other classes of labor? , I often remark when Instructing new men: "Keep your eyes open, your ears open and your mind on where you are and you'll live a long while, but If you don't you won't last long." Would the public want to take these chances and hardships for such wages? I trust thta will open "R. A. C.'e" eyes, alio the public's. I have been on the railroad eighteen years and a con ductor fifteen. J. A. W. New York, Auguet 18. Railroad Presidents Praised. To The New York Hbuald: Will you allow me as one of the many to express my highest admiration and regard for the railroad presidents and their execu tive committee for the stand they have taken in this uncalled for strike and against the restoration of seniority rights of the strikers? Men guilty of conduct like that of the strikers do not deserve to have their old positions. All honor and praise to the railroad officials. They are right and the publio Is behind them If they will only stand firm and be true to those who hav? served them faithfully in their hour of emergency. Justice. Asbury Park. N. J.. August 18. Wood for Fuel. Tons of It Vow Wasted Available Eke Out the Coal Supply. To The New York Herald: Hu deeds of tons of wood boxes, boan barrels. &c.. are annually ^swept up the street of New York, carted off the dumps, l<?ded an scows and tow out to sea to be dumped overboard. This wood could all be collected a turned Into kindling by the city or some organisation for hslplng the po< or It could be given to anybody w would take the trouble to go after and carry It away. Now that we are facing a coal fai lne might it not be well to agitate t subject and stop this wanton, will waste of furfl? George Foster Howell, New York, August 18. Misfit* in Boh?mim. Objection Made to the Names on Nlgns In Kreenwlch Tillage. To The New York Herald: In Green wich Village there are numerous cafe terias bearing auch silly names as the Black t'at, Blue Horse, Pig and Wbletle, and Blue Bird. For a bohemlan neighborhood such as this one would expect to find more ap propriate names such as The Quill, Par nassus, The Raven. The Bells, Hia watha. Evangeline. Shakespeare, Long fellow. The Lyre, Jenny Llnd, Bee thoven. Mozart. Handel. Re Koven. Tha Eaael. Melaaonler. Michelangelo. Raphael. Albert Purer, Benjamin Weat. George Pentrick. New York. August IS, ? Wisdom of Arms Parley Questioned Blakeslee Praises Naval Treaty, Crosby Calls It Sham, Rodgers Defers Judgment in Williams Debate. Special Diapale* to Tug Nsw York H?bai.b. Williamstown, Mass.. Aug. 18.?The merlta and defeats of the Washington arms conference were debated by lead ing members of the Institute of Polities this afternoon at the round table on pacific problems, the chief divergence of opinion resting between Prof. George H. Blakealee of Clark University, who praised the achievements AT the confer ence, and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Oscar T. Crosby, who maintained that 4'the nations of the world gave up oniyx that portion of armament which by its clumsiness ceased to be of vital Importance." Admiral W. L.. Rodgers, ehalrman of the executive committee of the general board of the United States Navy, op posed this view with the declaration that the battleship was still the ultimate arbiter of naval warfare, and was not, as Mr. Crosby affirmed, destined for a minor position in naval strength. Although agreeing In the main with Prof. Blakesleo, Admiral Rodgers took exception to a statement that the con ference had overthrown British su premacy of the seas and placed the British Empire and the United States on a naval equality. "The absolute terms of the treaty, so far as they go," he said, "loqk to equality. But the naval strength In certain types of shlpdNremalns open 03 before. We may fairly expect the spirit of the treaty to cause the cessation of competitive building in these types also. But in Its merchant fleet the British navy, with its business support, as yet remains unapproachable. Until the United States has a merchant marine of its own, carrying Its products to all the world, without fear of or reliance 1 upon foreign shipping, the British posi- ; tlon upon the high seas will be un- ^ rivaled in peace and war." Prof. Blakealee <mened the meeting 1 with a summary or his views on the Washington conference. "As a whole," he said, "it has saved | the world some billions of dollars dur ing the next few years by reduction in naval skips. It has achieved for the first time (n history a substantial inter national limitation of armament. It has overthrown British supremacy of the seas and placed on a naval equality the British Empire and the United States. It has strengthened and solidified Ameri can-British-' friendship. It has adjusted the Yap mandate issue. It has settled many controversies In the Par East, and placed the others on the road toward settlement." Mr. Crosby minimized the results of the conference, saying the battleships August Fields. These are the fields of light, of tranquil air. Of butterflies "knd breezes warm and sweet As honey: here the heavy bloomed buckwheat Riots with blossoms which the gold bees share; The corn Is in full tassel, everywhere - Faint Bhlmmerlng sunlight and the green earth meet To mtnsle In caresses soft and fleet; The far flung hills a purpling mantle wear. Here have I found the place of my d? v sire. Here life Is lovely as some ancient lay. Here beauty and simplicity conspire To All quiet hours with joy, here would I stay Finding from every care a glaa re lease As nature lends me something or her peace. Elisabeth Scollard. Tiere's the Water Wagon? hn Philip Sonsa Put? In a Call for in Old Institution. To Thk Ntw York Herald: An old ; end has written asking if I can give n the whereabouts of the well known d beloved water wagon so much in idenco during the day" preceding pro iltlon. He says ?s disappearance is great a mystery as the identity sur inding the Individual who struck Bil > tterson. . ... . During the greater part of his life he mid get on the water wagon and ride metlmes a month, sometimes two. ree or six months, and on one nccas.on liked the going so well he sat by the Iver on that aqueous vehicle from New ar's Day to the following Christmaa . Since the Eighteenth Amendment went 10 effect he sadly misses his periodic le He has been so busy sampling. rlous kinds of home brew, battling th boose, hobnobbing with hooch, tlp ig synthetic brandies and gins, mon ying with moonshine. guxallPK swlsxles id concocting all sorts of cocktails out all sorts of things he feela run down id badly needs a ride on the water With tears on his pen he writes the ?ter wagon was a great refuge and irrler against the demon Rum. for lien that fiend nosed in. exhibiting his coholic antics, he would give the old ak the merry ha! ha! by mounting the ater wagon. He aim writes that in his ilnion the Jitney of prohibition might i safe riding for some, but he believes 8 a rotten carryall, for It often skids 1 slippery placag. Is a poor hill climber, id you can't depend on the clutch going >wn grade. Can you tell my friend where the ater wagon Is? Johv PHILIF SOUSA, Willow Grove. Pa., August 17. To Improve Reindeer Herds. rem mental Experiment to Bo Mode In Alaeko. ,m Depart,net at ABrtr..ltvr. BuHettn 'he possibility of Improving the grade I weight of the reindeer In Alaskan ds bv crossing them with caribou is ng considered by the Biological Sur r. United States Department of Agri ture A reconnaissance has been rte In Mount McKlnley National Park determine the best locality for cap Ing later In the season a supply of jrig caribou bulls to ba ueed In the leding experiment?. The average dressed weight of several maand reindeer carcasses shipped from iska was about ISO pounds each. In ?tnln parts of Alaska, Including Mount Vllnley National Park, there is a form native caribou the bulla of which are ported to attain maximum dressed lghts approximating too pounds, and Is claimed that some are even heavier. Relationship le very close between our tive caribou and the Alaskan rein #r. which are descended from stock ;parted from Siberia. It la believed, erefore, that crossing the two will re It In greatly Improving the grade of e reindeer, perhaps doubling their that had been "scrapped" were l'Vce the armor that proved too heavy for the ancient knight to bear. "I regret to say that I cannot agree I that we have 'acrapped' the competi tion." he said, "because there U ever around us the inventor?the spirit of the age?he never sleeps, and after all that has been done regarding the dread noughts. h? is already at work flndtng means of making weapons to conform with the agreements." Mr Crosby declared that it was the United States that surrendered the mastery of the sea. 1 Replying to Mr. Crosby's statement. I Admiral Rodgers said that it wasi the consensus of responsible naval ties of all the world that the battleship Is still the backbone of the fleet, and although^ot often used. It holds the ultimate decision. , "As to the Washington conference, continued the Admiral, "at that ence the United States made all the ma terial sacrifices in strength. We hoped in reward therefor to gain correspond ing advantage in the moral imponder ables. While It is now certairr as to what we sacrificed, what we hope we have gained lies In the future. We shall not know for ten years. ' "As Mr. Lodge said In the Senate, it Is a great experiment. The lntponder ables of the future, on which we have based our experiment, were not worthy of confidence before the war. Before the war the world did not estimate highly the Idealism or the potentiai strength of the United States. The United States was inclined to be very civil and for bearing Internationally, and other Powers thought they might presume on our for bearance. "The war Vet the world,know that the United States was great and power ful. and her anger, when aroused, was "These are the Imponderables which justify our sacrifice of material naval strength. But we must not sacrifice a full measure of rhaterial naval strength, as our first line of defense, behind which we- may develop our potential force into actual force to make righteousness Pr-'jlr. Roosevelt urged that we "Go softly and carry a big stick." W e did carry a big stick in the war and swung it easily, and the world knows It. Henceforth we may carry a, stick less than the biggest, because the world knows we can swing the biggest and will do so if occasion arises, and so our limitation of naval armaments Is justi fied. but. as Mr. Hughes pointed out. the conference was to limit only, not to abolish armaments." Pay of Fire Marshals. In View of Their Duties They Ask Rating With Detectives. To The New York Herald: In the city of New York at present there are seventeen assistant Are marshals and two special investigators, all engaged in the same duty of Investigating the cause, circumstances and origin of flres. They are now petitioning the Board of Estimate to Increase their pay. In 1921 more thao 16,000 fires oc- j curred. all of which were Investigated. - resulting in sixty-seven persons being arrested in connection with incendiary fires. Of these forty-saven persons were , convicted and others are still awaiting trial. t The salaries of these employees vary from *1.830 a year to $2,967 a year, j fourteen of them receiving less than $2,500. In addition to their daily as- j stgnments three of them are on duty j each night in the year, Sundays and, holidays included. They respond to all incendiary flres. suspicious flres. second , and greater alarm flres and other im- j portant fires. They receive these calls I through the commanding officer in j charge of the fire and through the Police Department. There Is an average of two auch calls a night. Frequently these calls necessitate calling out of addi tional members of the staff not regu larly assigned to emergency duty that particular night. From the nature of this work It will be readily seen that their duties are above comparison with those of any other civilian employee of the Fire De partment. Their houra are Irregular and each call or investigation muat ba carried through to some definite conclu sion. This frequently requires continu ous duty of twenty-four hours or mora. To facilitate these emergency calls prac tically all of them have telephones In their homes at their own expense. The work of the assistant Are mar shals has greatly increased since the termination of the world war, there be ing a tremendous Increase In business flres. and although platoons and other systems have been established in other branches of the city's service to lessen tours of duty the asatstant fire mar shals' time of working is the same as It was twenty-flve years ago. These men are specially trained and their duties do not end with tbo mere investigation of flres; they are empow ered to take testimony under oath, and they prepare briefs for the trial of par sons charged with the crime of arson, and assist the District Attorney in the prosecution of these cases. There is an unusual hazard attached to their work, as there is to the work , of members of the uniformed force of the Police and Fire departments. They are compelled to enter buildings while | the Are Is in* progress and Immediately after the Are has haen extlngulahed. the latter a very dangerous time, as sta tistics of tha Fire Department will show that more men are injured after a Are Is extinguished than during the prog ress of the Are. They are also required to patrol neighborhoods In which pyromanlaca or other Incendiaries aro at work. For these reasons the Board of Esti mate is asked to Increase the salary of assistant Are marshals and special Investigators to the salary of a first grade ditective, with whose work their j duties favorably compare; that Is, to 98.SOO a year. Assistant. New York, August 18. Good I.nrk by Wholesale. Frnm the Trenton (Jt/o.) Times. Oren Holmes, a Trenton bleckt-ml'h, wilt not rely on one lonely horseshoe for happi ness and lurn in his new home. Mr. Holmes dumped three loads of old horseshoes Into tho foundation for the house. The Bird That Ceased Singing. From the Notion and the Athenaeum. What proud bird sings in this tall tree. But halts to hear my foot approach, His very silence a decree Bidding me hence who dare encroach | On his demesne of melody? How shall so gross a serf entreat My lord In high green slate aloof. ffould he but know hti silence bent About me like a king'* reproof He would ting ewlM IdOlTIS VjtOLDINQ. Daily Calendar THE WEATHER. ' . * For Eastern New York?Partly cldudy and cooler to-day; to-morrow fair, with moderate temperature; fresh westerly winds. For New Jersey?Partly cloudy and somewhat lower temperature to-day; to-morrow fair, with moderate temJ perature; moderate westerly winds. For Northern New England?Partly e>oudy to-day; cooler in New Hamp shire and Vermont; to-morrow fair, with' moderate temperature; fresh westerly winds. | ''?r Southern New England?Partly I flo? coo,er to-day; to-morrow .. . w!'th moderate temperature; fresh westerly winds. !^r?r u^eBtern New York?Fair and f.^h .C??ler to"da-Y; to-morrow fair fiesh westerly winds. anceAZ7??' 18??e disturb lakes Tliiir^"8 c^ntral over the great lakes Thursday advanced eastward and of" the St''I C<,n,<?r WR8 "ear ,he nlol'th or the St. Lawrence River. It has attended by local thunder showers along the northern border from Michigan ^re ward. and in the Ohio Valley. Shower, have also fallen m the south AHantlo Nehr6^?1 BUlJ S,ates- Iowa. Missouri, Nebraska, and at widely scattered pol.-ts in Texas. Oklahoma, Arkansas and ale In V val|"" and plateau regions. J" . England the weather will he partly cloudy to-morrow, with somewhat fa7rCw ?mperature- except in Maine, and day n the mm terTlpera,ure Sun clay. in the middle Atlantic States tha ower lake region and in the Ohlo Val. whk weather will be partly cjoi/dy with somewhat lower temperature tte morrow and fair on Sunday south Atlantic and east gulf States Ten nnrff^ ^ Keptucky the wLVher wJU. be shower ? 011 y wl,h mattered thunde? showers to-morrow and Sunday. Bureau stations "r'aken a^S p'm' w??ther seventy-fifth meridian ,*m? y,SUr?Ja*? TTa'm ?5t|Ure Rainfall Stations Hleh f ' Baro" last 24 Abtlene ' ... *98 H?' hrB Weather. Albany on 7n o2Sl ' c'?u<ly Atlantic ci,;:: so ? 04 *t,n Baltimore ....92 72 29 86 " S '** " " l!lsn-arck 90 no 29$ " Boston oo ?w; on * ? CI $ j- II1 cj|| Chicago gO 7H mm I., d* Cleveland 92 74 "9 go ri?Ii gS 8 ?! II * 8 8? :: i?L Jacksonville ..82 72 on s. roiClay. Kansas City.. 00 7^1 20.&3 " p^fdy J*1**" 78 60 2984 ?? Clear Milwaukee .... 84 72 29.02 .. c eaf 00 78 29.80 .. Cloudy Oklahoma ....100 74 29 90 Pt ri der Ph'lad?'ph'a ?? B0 72 20.88 t liar II Sjft ?? Portla.tci Ore.. 86 58 2IL94 .02 Chfuciy a". .Clty 90 70 2882 ? ? Cloudy San Antonio... 76 76 J San Diego 72 64 20.84 Pt.Cl'dy San Francisco. 64 r,4 20.94 .. riear "faVle( v 04 '">? 29 04 .. Cloudy tl n?U, 04 70 29.90 . 08 Pt-Cl'd* gj- ^ 82 60 29.96 Cleai- ' ' Washington ..92 72 29.88 Clear LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS. Barometer 8'^ in' Humidify 93 -?8j Wind-direction ...... ' g w ? ?? Wind-velocity .....15 eg Weather Clear cfc* Precipitation The temperature In thla city yesterday, as recorded by the official thermometer, Ir shown In thg annexed table: oam" H IS?1"--84 ? P.M..-.. 88 ,? A. M 75 2 P.M. ,,.85 7 P. M 8.7 !???'????? i2 3 P. M.... 86 8P.M.... M' 11A.M.... 82 4 P M.... 87 9 P.M ... 61 12 M 83 3 P.M.... 87 10 P. M..?i 79 o a ac 19??- lf^1- 1822. 1921. B A M 75 71 8P.M Sfl ,.,8? 12 *?? , 83 78 9 P M 81 ?-fS 8 p M 8<i 82 12 Mid 70 70 Highest temperature, 87 at 5 P. M. ? ? , . Lowest temperature, 73 at 7 A. M. Average temperature. 80. EVENTS TO-DAY. ..Th National Retail Dry Goods Association Merchandise Fair, Grand Central Palacd, 11 A. M. Rock of the Rfarne Post, Veterans of For eign Wars, excursion to Rear Mountain. Park play ground, children of BrooMvn field day and exhibition. Long Meadow, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2:30 P. M. Public band concerts, Pelham Bay Park. The Bninx. 3 P. M.; Prospect Park, BrtPk-, Dr. M. A. Hows, lecture on "The Sea weeds of New York and Vicinity," Botanic*! Garden. Bronx Park, 4 r. M. National Garment Retailers' Association, style show. Seventy-first Regiment Armory, evening. TCHATALJA NEUTRAL ZONE IS PROCLAIMED Linm for Military Purposes Only, Not Political. Constantinople, Aug. 18.? Tha agreement drawn up by the mixed com mission for a neutral gone betweun the Greek and allied force* along the Tfltat alja line becomes effective Aug. 19. The line is solely for military purposes, political considerations being excluded and the commission not taking into ac count whether or not the line corre sponds with that mentioned In tha treaty of Sevres. A message from Athens stating that negotiations have started between tha Greek Government end a g;-m:p of Brit ish bankers, headed by Sir Basil Zahar off, for the foundation of a bank rf.Is sue at Smyrna under the uamc of "Na tional Bank of Ionlg," caused a sensa tion here. Sir Basil's representative In Athens, the message states, has snude financial support contingent upon the return of banking and railw-ty conces sions. 1 STAY DENIED IN STEWART CASE Gnsrdlins Mnil Give Property* .9n Speedometer King's Daughter. River head, L. I.. Aug. 18.?Leander IT. La Chance and Martin Taylor, who recently were directed by Surrogate Pelletreau to turn over to Mre. Martnn Stewart Honeyman her share In the estate of her father, John K. Stewart, the late speedometer king,, were to-day denied stay of execution of the order by Justice Cooley of the Appellate Di vision La Chance and Taylor w?re guardians of Mrs. Honeyman untli'sha becama of ago and also of her sister, Jean Stewnrt. 10, who died in Chicago last year. They alto have been directed to turn over to the administrators of the estate tha asset* of Jean Stewart After tho stay had been denied the former guardians announced that they wftuld comply with the order of the Surrogate and render an accounting at an early date. ALBRRTA BIRD EA1VCTUA RIKS. Caloary, Alta.. Aug. 18?Seven bird sanct-uarles have been establish In tha Pro* tnce of Alberta by the Federal Gov ernment in cooperation with the provin cial authorities. 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