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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Creeping Up on Moose.
An Experienced Sportsman on the
Ethics of Still Hunting.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your edi-
torial article about moose hunting in
Maine will have an excellent effect.
There is. however, one passage that con-
tains n little bit of possibly unconscious
humor for the moose hunter. The writer
gives as one of the reasons why the
kill of moose has been small: THE
woods have been so noisy that II has
been practically impossible to creep up
,on big game" AS a matter of fact IL
is practically impossible TO creep moose
unless the woods are noisy, hence the
misnomer: till hunting.
The hearing of deer and especially Of
moose is very sensitive. and unless
there is q wind blowing that will deaden
sounds, besides taking the scent to lee
ward. is next to impossible. even in
soft snow, to get near moose. In fact.
to my mind this taking advantage of a
noisy day to creep up to game. usually
quite Off its guard at this post mating
time, and shooting 1t Town. often with
out the beasts knowing what hit it. is
a trihe hard to justify from an ethical
standpoint
Certainly the man--and he Is numer-
ous-who AYERS that calling. at sea-
son when the beast is most suspicious
and on its guard. is less sportsman Ike
is probably lacking in experience. Given
the same expert hunter. and the moose
stands n far better chance to get away
with its life when the hunter calls than
when he still hunts.
AS for perfect sportsmanship, let us
not pirate too much about 1t until we
teach the bull moose to use repeating
rife on the hunter. And what chance
has a partridge or quail when n good
dog tells the sportsman just where the
bird is and pretty nearly when II is go
ing to get up?
EDWARD BROCK, d. M. II.
doctor of Moose Hunting).
WASHINGTON, December 10.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Miles O'Reilly.

Miles O'Reilly's dead, they say;
The old Celt has gone his way.
Let the town that knew him well
Stop to hear his funeral knell.
Tough as hickory was he,
Straight as Is the hickory tree
Straight for all the world may tide.
That was Miles O'Reilly's pride.
He was just a soldier man.
Warrior of fighting clan;
Soldier on the bloody field,
Soldier when he packed a shield.
There was just one thing he knew
Stick the job and see II through;
Rough and smooth, and bright and dim,
1t was all the same to him.
Fear nor favor ever dwelt
In the deck D'Reilly dealt.
Hard the game. but so he won
Won. and quit when he had done.
Now O'Reillys dead, they say;
The old cop has gone his way.
Let Broadway that knew him well
Pause and hear his funeral knell.
MAURICE Morris.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
We Want Workers.
An Employer on immigration and
the Public Schools.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Every
thinking man and woman in the United
States ought to read your editorial arti-
Gle OF November 26 entitled The CUES
ton of immigration" think 1t over and
help to bring about its suggestions
Our schools are spelling our boys and
girls for manual labor, and, as you say,
farmers are not born but brought up
from childhood to work and to think
about their work While in Italy re-
Gently I was agreeably surprised and
could not help admiring boys of from
eleven to thirteen working carrying sand
for masons, earning something to help
fill the dinner pail. putting into their
work the same energy they would at
play. Every little boy I saw was laugh
ing, looked happy and cheerful. many
of them without shoes, some wearing
wooden shoes, without stockings. each
having his two hours at noon to rest
and eat his pail of soup or polenta.
Here in our country we have had to
witness some sad facts. The amount of
disloyalty, the present growth of social
ism among public school graduates and
the inability of our manufacturers to OBJ
tain apprentices at an age when they can
and will learn something are sad symp-
toms of the results of too much book
knowledge, or perhaps / should say, too
little for the schools are teaching So
many things they cannot teach anything
thoroughly.
Nevertheless, at the very same time
Iipp
for more men Of the very same educa-
tion, and praying that the women with
the ballot will second his demands The
faults now common among boys and
girls between fifteen and twenty would
have little existence IL they were trained
to moderate work before the age Of
sixteen. Work brings them into harmony
with themselves and their surroundings
The money spent on Fairgrounds and
amusement parks should be saved for the
taxpayers.
In your article you say 1--WE need
immigrants, but not the undesirables and
breeders OF unrest and crime, which are
a curse to our country" Neither are
they wanted in their own countries. and
tHsH ldTeS are oilSH pau W ehaDic e'eHi
to be dumped on our shores for US to
care for and to upset our otherwise
peaceful country.
This country certainly needs men to
work on our farms and in our coal mines
There never was a time in the history
Of America when good, clear thinkers
and cheerful workers were so much
needed. HARRIET FISHER ANDREW.
TRENTON, N. j., December 10.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Fordham Needs Help.

1t is matter of pride at Fordhain
University that its doors have never
closed against boy because he could
not raise the modest tuition fee it
charges. That fact is one of the COM
pelling reasons why this school enjoys
the warm affection of New York.
The open door naturally puts an I'M
usually heavy drain on the resources
of the university, and that drain has
been increasingly severe since the
high cost of living hit the academic
groves. Now the institution asks for
help from the community it has so I'M
selfishly and so efficiently served. 1t
wants money to sustain 1t in its eff
forts TO serve the great community
whose growth has amazingly increased
the opportunity and obligation of edu-
cational institutions.
A dozen years ago there were 766
students at Fordham. This year there
are $40 students. Next year the
number will be larger. Provision musy
be made for them, and the money
must be raised at once. A Christmas
gift to Fordham would be an appro-
pirate Yuletide benefaction for any
man to make
Giving to educational institutions Is
making payment on account Of debt
the public owes to the establishments
which trained the leaders Of to-day
md which are to-day preparing the
leaders Of tomorrow for the tasks
they must face.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Keeping the Farms Going.

Naturally the Secretary of Agricul-
alarming rate ut which people are
leaving the farms. He does not make
the mistake which the Secretary of
the Interior made in attributing the
march to the cities almost entirely to
the lack of comforts on the farm
Secretary MEREDITH. as a publisher Of
form papers, knows we'll that farmers
have had modern convenences at
their call for ten years; and yet the
desertion of the farm has gone on as
steadily as it went before.
a century ago 81 per cent. Of all
American labor was employed on the
farm. In 1910 the percentage was
u; in 1870 ii was Az in 1890 it was
30. Now, although the census figures
are not complete. it is likely that not
more than 30 per cent. of the working
population is In agriculture. Part
If this fall in percentage, from one
1ecade to another, was natural and
proper, for, as Mr.. MEREDITH says,
Increased efficiency in farming oper-
ations, resulting from the use of new
and better machinery and the applica.
tion of scientific knowledge, has con-
sistently lowered the demand for labor
in certain kinds of farm work" When
Mr.. Farmer buys a tractor plough ona
or his sons may be free to go to the
city, where he perhaps goes to work
N tractor factory. When that hap
pens the farmers son is still working
for the soil.
But the main reason for the pro.
cession from the farm to the city is
the fact, as Secretary MEREDITH re-
marks, that "the increased standards
of living Of the American people as A
whole have caused great expansion
of all industries centring in cities /;
and the Industrial bid for workers.
accelerated by conditions during and
Immediately following the war, has
been strong magnet exerting a pull
upon workers in agriculture" The
war made fine jobs in machine shops
and shlpyards for young men. But
there was the wider and more per.
manent economic change to which
Mr.. MEREDITH refers: the great ma
tional demand for the Injuries that
have become necessities. If the farmer
and his wife wished monographs.
electric light plants. steam heaters
and porcelain tubs--and they are as
much entitled to them as anybody is
the factories had to have men to make
these things; so they called for the
farm boys to come and share the pros
porous farmers money.
The country, however. must have
its forms. and plenty Of them. when
American agriculture begins 70 lose
rround," says Secretary MEREDITH,
"the political stability of the nation
is endangered" The farm must not
lose its balance and that balance is
no easy trick to keep. Last year
there were planted in the United
States. for every head Of its popula-
ion, an acre of corn, half an mere OF
wheat, two-ffths OF an acre of oats.
What with minor grains and pots
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Life In ouantriIrs Old Stamping Grounds,

From the SO. Louis Post-Dispatoh.
Combining himself 20 an actual list OF com
munlty caIamities Mayor King OF Lone Jack,
Missouri. reasons convincingly that the blow
Ing up OF the local electric light plant. the
quitting OF his job by the jltney bus driver,
the departure from the midst OF them of the
sole barber and the robbery OF the local bank
all In n short space Of timc-indicate the
secret arrival OF ink In town and n high
pressure distribution OF his malign influence.
But Il In TO be observed that ~ per cent OF
Lone Jacks ills is due TO preventable acct
de1t and 2J per cent. TO crime OF unusual
magnitude and daring. while 80 per cent. IL
due TO labor troubles. Life within lone Jack
Is only typical Of the larger life outside of
Lone Jack. 1t Is n cross section OF status
prevailing In the entire country; indeed.
throughout the world. Lone Jack is just up
TO date.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
The Diminishing Labor Supply.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Years ago
labor excluded the Chinese and now SER
wants are a lost institution.
A few years ago the master plumbers
of New York resolved to limit the num-
Der of their apprentices, and now no
plumber will work unless paid $40 q
day and given bouquet and a box Of
candy in addition to a tip.
Labor demands restriction of immi
grafton so that common labor will be-
come extinct The farmers could obtain
labor last summer at about 81 a day,
but can only sell at a loss.
The United States will certainly be In
trouble next summer without any COM
mon labor. INA WURM.
NEW YORK, December 10.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Smart and Gripping
Plays Produced by
Penwomen's League
Four Works Selected Through
Competition Are Offered
at MOrOscO Theatre.

Four one act plays. ranging from the
smart to the gripping. were presented
yesterday by the League of American
Penwomen at special matinee per-
Torrance in the Morosco Theatre. They
we're the quartet of dramatic works
picked by the league from the twenty
five submitted in a recent competition.
and a crowded house that Included
many who were socially prominent en-
joyed them to the full. They were clever
entertainers, striving to please without
straining. Perhaps a good part of their
efficacy was derived from the fact that
their casts were largely professional and
that they were staged by Grace Girls
void and Jessie Bonstelle.
The first playlet. "P's and as" by
Annie Nathan Meyer was an agreeable
study of mother who sought to read
the character of young man counting
ner daughter by her handwriting, and
accepted him on the strength of the
calllgraphy--of another youth. Mrs.
Whiffen, Godfrey Kerr Leslie Howard
ana JOaH MCl<shhc uiu cASciiShe "SAN -
this niece.
THE Door of Miracles" was a modern
miracle play by Ruth Murray Under
hill. in which a husband is called upon
to decide whether he viii stand by
his wife in New York or his wife from
Italy--only to have the first vile de-
eide herself in favor of the Italian
woman because she has a baby Here
the feminism strongly evident In the
bill yesterday came most conspicuousiy
10 the fore. James Kemper, Teodore
Marcone, Margaret Fareleigh and VIZ
ginia Gary acquitted themselves We'll
"Euphemista," written in the French
high comedy manner by Matthew
craig" Mrs Elizabeth de Alaiga, under
her pen name centred about young
wife who is writing a comedy OF that
name. taking her lover for her model,
and then discovers that the HUSBAND
she has neglected should be the model.
sam Jaffe. Winifred wellington Merle
Madden and George Renavent were no.
ticeable IN this performance.
The final piece, white Tulips oy
Faith Van valkenburgh Villas, was
fantasy on the witchcraft theme OF
Colonial days in which an old crone, be-
lieved to communicate with tne ueViI
because OF her mutterngs. dies of
brol,en heart when ordered to leave
home. whereupon her innate goodness
&C. discovered in a will leaving all her
money to the poor. In the cast for this
core Grocc rriswold. Mona Bracken.
walter sherwin and May Arno.
IT also marked the stage debut OF
payid Shcsgreen, twelve-year-old son OF
James Shesgreen. general manager for
Wagenhals and Kemper. and OF Helen
shesgreen, business manager for the
league. The funds for the performance
were to be used TO promote the work
of the league.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Wisdom on an Old Coin.
American Notices of 1887 Which
Are Worth Remembering Now.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: I have
an old coin in my possession bearing
the date 1887. On the one side are the
words I'VE are one" and on the other
Mind your business"
l think these are good notices for our
country to-day. for one do not like
to see any other flag flying in the United
States by the side of our Stars and
Strir es. / don't think il Is a mark %
loyalty. I do not think II would be
allowed in England-unless there was
big loan back of 1t.
Let us have our own flag. and If
aliens come here let them come under
our flag and no other. Let each country
have its flag. When we mix them we
lose respect for any. Now let our Stars
and Stripes float over these United
States and allow no other flag to mar
its beauty. A TRUE AMERICAN.
OXFORD, December 10.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
The Christmas watch.

Save for the engines rhythmic beat
The ship Is wrapped in dreams.
Behind Il on the darkencd deep
A wake OF silver streams.
I walk my lonely watch, and hear
The voices OF the brave
Old vikings chant their sagas Wild
In roar of wind and wave.
God seems little nearer here,
Far out upon the grand
Blue sea than when used 10 keep
My Christmas on the land;
For--so II seems to me--the stars
Are shining angel eyes
That watch above the mariner
From stations In the skies.
NINA tRvIvo.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
EVENTS TODAY.

Gov. Alfred E. Smith has been invited to
speak at the annual luncheon OF the Citi-
zens' Union. Hotel Aston, p. NJ.
The pennsylvania Society will hold its
twenty-second annual dinner In honor OF
Coy William c. Sproul. WaldorfAstoria,
The shipmasters' Club of New York, Inc.
third annual dinner, Arkwrght Club. $40
The Police Band will give its annual con-
cert at the Thirteenth Regiment Armory.
Putnam. summer and Jefferson avenues,
The Alumni Association of New York Uni
versity Law School, thirty-seventh annual
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
will give concert in Commercial High
School: Albany avenue and Bergen street.
Pershing Club, dance. Hotel McAlpn.
9P. NJ.
The New York Classical Club will hold a
forum meeting In Students Hall, Barnard
College, Broadway and 117th street. 1890
A. NJ
Representative Isaac siegeI will speak at
the opening session of the twelfth annual
convention of the Federation OF Jewish
torium of the Educational Alliance. 1877 East
d. pr; 4. 3 Stout win lecture on Plant" Plant;
greenhouse OF the Botanical Garden. Bronx
The officers and employees of the HART
man National Bank will hold a dinner and
dance. Hotel Fillmore. this evening.
The Irish-Ame rican Chauffeurs Of Greater
New YORK VIII give tnfir annual oall IN tne
Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Lexington
avenue and Twenty-second street. this eve
ming.
G. Clyde Fisher viii lecture on How Life
Bcgins'' at the American Museum OF Nat
ural History, Seventy-seventh street and
Central Park West. S:15 +. M.
Woman's Press Club, meeting, Waldorf
Astoria, =. M
Naval Craftsmen Club. dinner. Cafe
Boulevard 8 30 p. NJ
The New York State Bankers Association.
Group VI. will hold a meeting and luncheon
at the Hotel Commodore, beginning at 10
A. NJ
DR.. Carl J. Wiggers will lecture before
the Harvey Society at the New York Acad-
envy of Medicine, II West Forty-third street.
$50 F. NJ.
s. X. Ratcliffe viii speak on Lloyd
Georges Leadership" before the League for
Political Education Mt the Park Theatre,
IL A. NJ.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Harold in Seasons First "Parsifap
Sembach Indisposed and Is Replaced by American
Tenor, With Mime. Matzenaur Kundry.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward j. Berwind in
box No. %.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Woodward Haven
and Miss Juliana Cutting were with
Mr. Charles T. Mathews in box No. 8.
In box No. IS, with the Rev. and Mrs
Henry V. h. Darlington, who were mar
ried on November "a, were Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Dunn Douglass. parents of
Mrs Darlington, and Mr.. Ferdinand
Frazier Jelke.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ellis Scull, Mrs.
III. Caslmir De Rham. Messrs. Fred
erick IL. Baldwin. Benjamin S. Welles
and George Ledlie were guests of Mrs.
Frederick Pearson In box 2.
Mrs Charles II. Childs. Mr.. Andrew
A. Bibby and Mr.. Percy Bramwell Were
with Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. p. Richardson
in box q.
Among others in the audience were
Mrs. George II. Bend, Mr.. and Mrs.
Percy r. Pyne, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
It. Frelinghuysen, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyd 6
Hoyt Mrs. w. Lowe Rice, Mr. and Mrs.
Stuart Duncan, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert G.
Jennings, Miss Mary Cameron. Miss
Dorothy Stevens, Mr.. and Mrs. l..
Chauncey McKeever and Mr.. Duncan
Cameron
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Philharmonic Concert.

The philharmonic Society gave q
Observation-Disclosures programme at
Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon. The
performance, in part at least, seemed to
take on of the dark and gloomy weather
outside. The orchestra played first In
rather dull manner the Tragic over
ture by Brahms. The same masters
violin concerto followed, with the solo
part played by the orchestra's concert
master Alfred Megerlin His perform
ance was one OF small outlines. The
Tschaikowsky numbers were the Fran
cesca ola Rimini' fantasy, repeated from
the societys Thursday concert the An
dante Cantabile" and ''Marche Slave
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Blue Turner's vouched For.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: ! have
read with great interest the articles
that have been published about the Boil
shevist propaganda being spread by the
Blue Turner's of this country. and now
wish to give my views on the matter.
wish to say in reference to these
remarks THAI they are not true, for the
reason that the Blue Turner's are COM
posed of Crecho-Slovaks who came over
to this country many years ago and
have pledged their loyalty to this coun-
try, as well as other members OF their
families. who are true American citizens
by birth. WIN L. KouR'
WOODBRIDGE. N. j., December 10.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Rash Friends Of Greece.

From friends whose signatures indi-
cate their Greek birth or Greek de-
scent we are receiving letters protest
ing against the restoration Of Cos.
sTANTINE TO the Greek throne. The
letters are exactly alike in their
wording and reasonable Inference
is that for the first time in the worlds
history conspiracy against mon.
arch, or an almost monarch, is taking
the form Of n chain letter
To this In itself there Is little oh.
lection. Obviously chain letArs ,Ase
infinitely preferable to bombs ysnd
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11

The British have been first to recog-
nize the potential usefulness Of So
called buffer States in the readjust-
ment of trade relations among the
former belligerents.
Examples of this important func-
ton of buffer States are found in the
Baltic States, which England fostered
as Offering a doorway into Russia !;
in Transcaucasia, In Denmark and
in Switzerland, but as a commercial
intermediary capable Of dealing with
all corners alike with equal advantage
to herself Holland transcends all the
others in Importance. Switzerland
probably holds second place as trade
buffer, but she is hampered as a trad
ing nation by lack of merchant
marine.
The opportunity presented by CEN
tral Europe, practically isolated and
Shorn of its merchant marine by the
peace treaty, was not overlooked by
Holland, and she at once prepared
herself to act as the channel of a trade
which has developed to large proper
tions between central Europe and the
rest of the world. The traditional
trading qualities Of the Dutch got a
chance to prove themselves anew and
they did not fall short Of expectations.
AS typical evidence of this new Dutch
function may be taken the manifests
of Dutch vessels coming into and
leaving our ports. Nearly all these
manifests list a larger percentage of
German goods than Of any other class.
Holland has become the entrance and
the exit for all who would trade
With central Europe.
1t was not to be supposed that the
shrewd British trader would fail to
grasp the significance of Hollands
strong position as trade buffer.
The understanding between the
Royal Dutch Company, which is Of
Dutch parentage, and the Shell Trans
port and Trading Company, with it's
English sponsorship, was one of the
first signs of the closer relations be-
tween English and Dutch business.
Another and even more important
development is the merger of the
Furness Shipping and Agency Com
rany of England and r. S. Stokvis &
Co. of Rotterdam.
This is the most important combi-
nation of powerful shipping and trad
ing interests effected in Holland in
many years and is so characterized
by the United States Consul at Rot
terdam. 1t is an ideal combination,
which will provide broad field for
the financial and trading genius of
both the English and the Dutch, and
through 1t Holland shows how buffer
States may make of themselves
something besides milltnry pawns.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
Lawrence Haynes, New Tenor, Heard

Lawrence Haynes, tenor, gave his
first recital here last night in Aeolian
Hail. His programme was not we'll
planned for display of knowledge of
different vocal styles. 1t contained only
songs by modern French writer's and
c'osng group of four songs by Rachma-
ninov. Mr.. Haynes disclosed a voice of
light volume and little musical quality
His vocal schooling was limited, but his
style in the French songs showed taste.
Malcolm Lang played the accompani-
ments we'll
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11

Thin leather pumps and cobweb
silk stockings worn by women in cold
weather never seem to injure their
wearer's health, according to DR.. WILL
lam T. WATSON of Baltimore, Mary
land. Here is one more exemplinca-
ton Of the great truth that what the
hardy sex endures for fashions sake
never seems to hurt It's members.