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parently the first information that the
Emperor had OF the actual conditions
In his realm. He refused to accede 10
the demand for his abdication and he
did nothing more, according to the
Count, than to withdraw for the time
being from public affairs. This, the
Count says, did not signify the EN-
peror's abdication, but merely indi'
Gated he was in no position to set UP
Government that would insure law
and safety. Commenting upon the
circumstances, Count ANDRAssY says
that while rulers had often been de
throned they had never before been
treated in the same way as CHARLES
was on that night at Sch0nbrunn.
The revolution, he says, was nothing
but a revolution Of hysteria, the off
spring of war neurosis. Its success
was not due to good organization or
military strength but ito the nervous
state of the entire social body and the
failure of the guardians Of order"
The next few days which were spent
at the Foreign Office he describes as
the most frightful period Of his po-
litical existence:
Each minute brought tidings Of a
fresh collapse. Croatia had fallen
away, Bohemia had made itself inde-
German and Socialist elements had
won the upper hand. The power Of
the revolution was growing daily.
The street was restless. the Foreign
ONCE guarded by police. the republic
can idea beginning TO spread. In
Hungary the Government had COM
nitted the folly of disarming the SOL
diers. In the midst OF the most vio-
lent attacks and the bloodiest car
mage our army received the coup de
grace in the back at the hands OF the
Hungarian Government"
The deliberations at the Foreign
Office were interrupted by the clamor
Of street demonstrations and the de-
mands Of the revolutionaries for
control Of affairs. The person of the
Emperor was in great danger; his
bodyguard dwindled to q few men
and Sch5nbrunn was guarded only by
boys of the School Of Cadets. "The
Imperial and Royal Court, so power.
full and brilliant but few days be-
fore, melted away like snow in spring
time" And thus, according to an
actor in the tragedy, there passed
from existence the great Austro.
Hungarian monarchy and from power
the once mighty Hapsburgs.
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ITALY MAKING PROGRESS.
The National Budget Helped by the
Reimbursement Of Taxes.

To TIE NEW YORK HERALD: shall be
greatly obliged II you will bring to the
attention of your readers the following
information Just received by the Italian
Government Commission In New York
from the Royal italian Ministry OF Com
merce and Industries. which is another
tangible proof of how courageously and
smoothly Italy is gradually approaching
normal conditions after the great blows
sustained by her. just the same as all
other European warning nations, In her
financial and economic structure.
The very clever settlement reached by
the italian Government of the serious
metallurgical workers agitations. coupled
with the recent adjustment of the Adri-
attic questions, Is to be recognized as a
great stride OF my country toward rap
idly approaching normal conditions.
The Italian Ministry OF Commerce ana
Industries IN a recent cable advises that
an urgent bill has been submitted to the
tain increase in the price of bread es-
tablIshed by the Government which will
have the effect OF reducing to a good
extent the financial burden so far caused
by the political price OF this essential
commodity, the difference between this
price and the actual high cost having
been absorbed for long time entirely
by the Government
In order to cover the heavy amount
which will still continue for some
time, due to the reduced difference be-
tween the purchase price and the actual
cost OF bread, the Ministry has advised
that a reorganization Of taxes and other
financial arrangements has been pro-
posed---such as an increase In the taxes
on numerous articles of luxury; on wine
and bottled liquor: payment one year
in advance Of the levy on capital; In
creased prices OF tobacco, cigars, &C.,
established by the special Government
monopoly-which will undoubtedly have
the effect OF relieving the financial
budget Of about 400, 100000 lire
The above is a courageous step, which
will have the most favorable results as
far as the financial and economic situa-
ton Is concerned
For ITALIAN GOVERNMENT COMMISSION.
DIR. V. CANTALupI.
NEW York, November IS.
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GOLD NEEDS NO HELP.
In the Course Of Time Its Purchasing
Power Regulates Itself.

Power Regulates Itself.
To THE NEW YORK HERALD: What
would be thought OF a man who at
tempted TO reduce his apparent girth by
taking his waist measure with tape on
which were printed longer inches7 Quite
as absurd are certain current fallacies
with respect to the purchasing power and
production of gold.
Those who would increase the amount
Of gold in a dollar or pay a bonus out of
the public treasury to miners OF the
precious metal with view to increasing
production may be compared to the man
who to his own satisfaction reduces his
girth through measuring It In longer
inches.
Natural economic forces II not inter
fered with inevitably restore the normal
relations between the purchasing power
Of gold and the prices of commodities.
Imitation and an advance in labor costs
have restricted the mining OF gold
through rendering II Improbable. Given
a stationary gold reserve expansion OF
currency. loans and credits based thereon
soon reach n limit. Defation enaues
and the resulting contraction expresses
itself In reduced ability or willingness to
purchase commodities. rise in the price
OF fixed return investments and an In
crease in the power OF a fixed amount of
gold to commandsiabor and fits fruits.
Ultimately labor measured against the
Increased purchasing power of gold viii
again make II profitable to mine the
metal, the worlds stock Of gold will In
crease and a new period of imitation and
rising prices loom on the horizon.
ALBERT r. GALrArrr.
NEW York, November Is.
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TAXING CHECKS.
A Plan Whereby the Banks Would
Act rs Revenue Collectors.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Since in
vour editorial article on taxation you
suggest the revival OF the stamp TAX
on checks. let me say that two cent
s.arnn on each check. the tax required
for q short time after the Spanish
American war, would bring relatively
small revenue The tax on as many as
1Oo. 0O0. 900 checks created only *2,ooo'-
900 revenue.
A far larger revenue from taxing
checks could be obtained by taxing &C
cording to the amount of each check
doing this by the levy of a specified frac-
ton Of I per cent on the amount OF each
check; one-fftieth OF l per cent. for
instance, would result in $500 revenue
from each million dollars Of checks.
Further, with some ixed uniform rate
Of check tax, the public could be en-
tirely relieved of the trouble of attach
ing a stamp to each check; the banks
could levy the tax monthly on the total
value of the checks paid from depositors'
accounts. charge the individual levy to
each individual account, total the items
levied monthly and remit the grand
amount to the Government.
BY this method every account in a
commercial bank would pay a tax on
checks issued and banks throughout the
country would become tax collectors.
There may be a question OF the fair
ness of applying the tax to payments
made by savings banks to their patrons,
but the system could be made to cover
savings banks and trust companies also.
II would seem that such a tax. apply
ing to both commercial and savings
bank payments. would about reach every
one worth taxing. and that an enormous
tax could be collected IN this way.
There are, no doubt, available banking
statistics whereby a fair fraction of /
per cent could be established for the
levy, and such fixed rate could be in
creased or decreased annually to con-
form with the Governments annual re-
quirements.
With one-fftieth OF per cent. tax an
account issuing say $4,000 in checks
each year would pay only $40 check tax,
yet the same account would not pay $40
check tax under the system OF two
cent stamp on each check unless II issued
500 checks In a year.
ADoLpH OPPENuEIMEH.
NEW YoRK, November IS.
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OIL Truths by Mr.. Teagie.

AS an open confession is sometimes
good for the soul, so is candid criti.
cism of the oil policies Of certain for.
eign Governments particularly oppor.
tune at this time and especially when
the critic IS an authority Ike Presi-
dent TEAGLE Of the Standard Oil of
New Jersey. His speech before the
American Petroleum Institute will be
Endorsed by everybody who has any
interest In the future welfare OF Amer
lea so far as 1t depends on oil supply
sufficient to meet the increasing needs
ofthe nation.
Mr.. TEAGLE is not muck raking or
trying to cast aspersions on the am
billions Of Britain, France, Italy, Hol-
land or Japan when he questions the
propriety of the three party agree
ment dividing Mesopotamia and the
Near East, including what is left Of
Turkey, among England, France and
italy; the complete domination of Per-
sian oil lands by an English COM
pany the Dutch oil monopoly In the
East Indies, or the restriction Of JAP
anese oil fields to development by
japanese subjects.
This country has been warned re.
peatedly by foreign governments that
America will pursue to her own peril
any other policy than mo fear and
no favor" in regard to oil fields, mer-
chant marine, tariff, and the use of
the Panama Canal. But It is becom-
ing more and more evident that such
warnings are only intended to draw
our attention away from the discriml-
natory measures that are being taken
against us in increasing numbers and
with growing Indifference as TO what
we may think or do about It.
Mr.. TEAoLE Is not diverted by the
familiar argument that America
should be satisfied because she pro-
duces 20 per cent. Of oil the oil con.
siimed to-day. He counters with the
argument many times set forth by
THE NEW YORK HERALD that much OF
this American production is for the
benefit Of foreign nations which have
amajor share Of future potential pro.
auction sealed In the ground against
The day when American reserves will
have disappeared.
Nothing but approval can be added
10 the Standard OF presidents asser
don that this country must look :,
the development Of petroleum outsid,
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
Economic Lighting by Gas or Electricity. .
by Frederick ]. MCGUIRE. Stuyvessnt High
School. Fifteenth street and First avenue
illustrated.
How Old. the Now" by James J. walsh
wadieigh High School. li5th street. west Of
'',The Human Side Of Municipal Activities.
by Miss Agnes s. Ward. Public School q
Torty-second street. east OF Third avenue
Discovery OF South Africa GOO II. c.. b.
Mrs Helene Craven. Public School G6. Eighty =
eghth street east Of First Avenue e., +.
South Africa illustrated.
Tho Scientific Principle, Mathematics ia
School 1872. 1921 street and wadsworth ave-
''Taies of a wayside Inn" by Mise Mary
Phelps. Public School 1877, st. Nicholas ave-
Poems. Rough and Brown" by Dr. Harry
w. Harrington, Public School H. FordhaIa
street. near City Island avenue, City lslan'
Journeys About Home, Roadsidcs. Fields
and Forests" by Ed~sr, i. Bigelo y. Public
school 2s. Anthony and fremont avenues
The Bronx. Tie first Of course OF three
lectures on Education and Recreation In Ma
lure -
"A New American Philosophy, Tho DO.
at New York Public Library. Woodstock
Branch. 100 East 16oth street. The Bronx.
BROOKLYN AND QUEENS.
Trend OF the Times by Cleveland Rods
ers. Girls High School. Nostrann aNenus'
Halsey and Macon streets.
Nova Belgca." by william u. Griffis.
Bay Ridge High School, Fourth avenue ana
sixty-seventh street. Illustrated. :,
Usher, Public School III, RidEswood. LIN
coin and Nicols avenues. Illustrated
lfc-iernan public School 40. Pacific and
Union Hail streets. Jamaica, y ]
beautiful Ireland by Miss hathiee,
Fresh pond road. Ridgewood Heights. Illus
trated -, ~, S,.u..~s
With a Camera by Miss Nina L. Marahaii.
to,,hiio School 90 Rockaway road and Lincoln
avanue' south Ozone Park, l.. I. Illustrated.
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Dignified and Informing Replies of
witness Hylan.

I'm not going to let you put me in
false position !"
Anything you have got on me
anything-give it out, and give 1t out
quick!"
IF you've got anything, prove 1t
and shut up!'
"Now spring anything you like!''
Anything you have got, produce 1t,
but do not make wrong impress
sion !"
This is Just political attack on
mel"
you are not going to put me in
hole for politics or political pur-
poses!'
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Mayor Hylan's Duty.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: So Mayor
Hyian is going to investigate himself
Well. well 1t is to laugh.
What Mayor Hylan should do--and
do quickly--is resign. His administra-
ton has been the most wasteful. the
most extravagant. the most incompe-
tent and the most ridiculous since that
of Tweed's creature. Oakley Hall.
Let the slogan OF New York's out
ragged taxpayers be "Hylan must goi'
CHARLES CoATEswoRTH.
NEW York, November 49,
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the United States. That foreign ma
tons have seen fit 10 place obstacles
in the way of thoss whs would like
10 assist in the deveiopment OF new
sources of supply Is deprecated by
Mr.. TEAGLE; It is deprecated by Amer
lea as whole, and some day it viii
be deprecated by the foreign govern
ments themselves.
Americas river Of oil Is not like
TENNYsoN's brook. 1t will not flow
on forever.
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Says Callahan to Csilahas

The Bulldog in his kennel and the Tiger in
his lair
Were dreaming of the morrow and . very
dainty scrap:
The Bulldog and the Tiger are an entertain
Ing pair.
Each Jealous Of the others presence on tho
football map.
Says Callahan the Eli
To Tiger Callahan:
We're coming down 20 Tigertown-
And heaven help you. mani
Says Callahan the Tiger;
We're ready for you, Tim
Bring on your crew of pirates blus!'
And heaven did help him.
Then forth from old New Haven there went
a shouting throng,
with banners and hosannas and q con-
quering hero's stride.
They stormed tho Tigers stronghold. fun
twenty thousand strong:
They storrned the Tigers stronghold, but
alas for ELI pridsi
Twas Callahan OF Princeton.
And Callahan Of Yais;
And Callahan the ELI
Would twist the Tigers tel.
But Callahan OF Nassau
Was strong a. twenty men
While Callahan the Ell
Had but the strength % ten.
Then up and down the Stadium the tide Of
battle ran,
And round the end and through tina line
the Tiger backfield ieept;
Brnvs Lourie lodged and Murrey kicked, and
Reck. the wonder man,
Made hash Of ELS dearest hopes. while
ELS rooters wept.
So when the game In over.
Says Tiger Callahan;
I'VE showed you how--lick Harvard now
wish you luck. old msni''
And Callahan the Ell.
He roundly swore he would.
God bless the clan Of Caliahsn--
The good old fighting blood
cxAs&xon.
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1t can be flashed In English, Italian,
Yiddish-in all the principal languages
Of the melting pot.
There is no sure prevention of
panic, but education will go long
way toward stopping senseless rushes
such as that which crushed six chill
dren to death.
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High Costs Driving Us out OF
Foreign Markets.

ANY American can talk till the cows
come home about capturing foreign
markets, but nobody can sell the
goods abroad unless he makes a right
price. He cannot make a right price
If his labor costs are excessive either
because Of too high wage scale or a
too low production by the wage Garner
working under that scale.
Cuba is only few miles from our
Florida coast. Compared with Ham
burg 1t is no distance at all from our
Atlantic ports. But in the Cuban
market, according to the Iron Age
German wire works are undertaking
American mills. The same thing is
happening in South America.
Taking another part Of the world on
the opposite side of the globe, an Illl-
nois mill bid for a 5000 ton tin plate
order from the Dutch East Indies,
but German exporters underbid the
American house and got the business.
In the same way a European mill BID
ding on 10000 tons of steel rails from
the Dutch East Indies captured the
order from American competition.
The American bidders for all that
business which they didn't get couldn /
have cherished any hallucinatfcn that
all they had to do was to make their
own price and bring home the bacon.
They know business isn't done on that
basis. They know that, other things
being equal, the lowest price gets the
business on any article of commerce
anywhere in the world. And, with
American mills going on half time or
shutting down for lack Of business, no
doubt they would have been glad to
get the orders on the very thinnest
margin Of profit so as to keep the
wheels turning Undoubtedly also
they couldn't go any lower with their
bids because their production costs
were too high-too high because
everywhere in this country labor
costs, which are the big percentage of
production costs, are too high.
With our wage scales too high and
our labor efficiency too low, 1t isn't
merely steel business that we are los
ing and are going to lose in foreign
markets of the Occident and Of the
Orient. IL our labor cost of anything,
whether 1t is steel or shoes, textiles or
toys, is higher than Germany's or
England's or Hollands or Japan's or
anybody's, either we must haul down
our excessive labor costs or surrender
our export business.
Right at this minute Canada is not
only underselling US on wheat in Eu-
ropean markets, but Vnderselling US
on wheat here in our own home mar
ket. The American farmer says and
says truly that the labor costs OF his
1920 crop of wheat were SO heavy that
he cannot sell his wheat under 81
bushel and make profit. But the
man who is buying wheat isn't think
ing about the sellers profit. He is
thinking about getting his wheat on
the best terms he can make. When
he can buy Canadian wheat in the
Chicago market for S1.s5 he isn't GO
ing to pay anybody else $3.50.
In any intensely competitive field
farmer or miner. manufacturer or
merchant must equal or better his
rivals price with the same quality Of
goods or quit. American business is
not going to quit in our own markets
or In foreign markets that naturally
belong TO us II labor will give 1t
chance. II labor will not give 1t
chance il must shut up shop.
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LABOR STAFF RESIGNS.
Clothing Manufacturers Lose DR.
wiIIitts and n. II. GftcheII.

Irving Crane. secretary of the Clothing
Manufacturers Association. announced
yesterday afternoon that the association
had accepted the designations of Byres
III. Gitchell. DR.. Joseph Willitts and the
members OF the labor staff OF the asso-
citation.
Neither Mr. Crane nor Mr.. Gitchell
would explain the reason for the resig-
nations. A committee representing the
clothing manufacturers will meet with a
committee OF the workers to-day in an
effort to evolve a working agreement.
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair weather
ana rising temperature to-day-and to-
morrow; moderate southwest winds.
For New Jersey-Fair weather and rising
temperature to-day and tomorrow; moder-
ate southwest winds. !
For Northern New England-Partly cloudy
weather and moderate Temperature to-day
and tomorrow; moderate westerly winds
For Southern New Enthusiastically fair
weather and moderate temperature to-day
ana tomorrow: moderate southwest winds
For Western New York-Fair and warmer
To-Day and Tomorrow; fresh southwest
winds.
WASHINGTON. Nov. tS-The Atlantic
coast storm has moved rapidly northeast
ward and It's centre has passed beyond the
tieid or observation. The centre OF the Pa
cific coast storm remains off the north coast
and rains continue generally In the Pacific
states except South California and over
the north plateau region. There has been a
general rise In temperature throughout the
Gulf States, the great central valleys and
the plains States. and moderate temperatures
continue in Far Wesh districts and through
out the East. There were frosts, however,
this morning as far south az central Florida
The outlook is for fair weather and rising
River tomorrow and Saturday.
Observations at United States Weather Blu
reau stations taken at Il. NJ. yesterday,
seventyfifth meridian time:
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The word cumshaw. brought into
prominence In the Shipping Board In
quiry. is used as a marine euphemism
for the harsher word bride or the less
dignified word tip. 1t is an ancient
seafaring noun, derived from kan
hsieh," term OF gratitude used by Chi
nese beggars. II In interesting to record
that it describes a practice solemnly
punishable by the statutes OF the State
OF New York, and it would be eniight-
ening to know how many individuals
by breach of this enactment daily lay
themselves open to prosecution.
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G. ". ROAD TO Close SHOPS.

ST.. ALBANs, VT. Nov. ls.--All shops OF
tfo Central Vermont Railway will DO
closed during next week, putting 60l
nien out Of work. Tho announcement
nLde to-day said this action had been
decided on In preference TO a cut In the
working force, and that employees wou.
10 returned to full time at presen
wages after the weeks lay or.
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WRIT AGAINST PREsSMEN.
Printing Firm Seeks 10 Force The m
to Work Despite strike.

SPRrNorIELp, Mass. Nov. 18th /,
Pfelps Publishing Company, one Of the
concerns against which strike OF the
Typographical Union has been directed
for two weeks to enforce demand To- :
a minimum wage OF $40 n week, TO-DAY
filed in Supreme Court here petition
for steps to compel the pressmen's union
10 fulfil the terms of its contract VIA
tho company.
The pressmcn recently refused -
handle work done by non-union print
ers and as a result the National 'trdn0'
Na0asine, which is printed IVY thu
I't clips company, went to press win
:wC blank pages and was so distributed
20 the National Grange convention in
Boston.
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CLOTHING LABELS URGED.
VIII Help in Lowering Prices, 3
n. shiIIady Argues.

p1rApErpHrA, Nov 1s.-John II
srillady. executive director of the Ma
t,onai Consumers League. IN an address
before the annual convention of tbs
league to-day advocated labelling clot'i
ing 30 that the consumer Will knor
wi at It Is made of as a step toward
lowering prices.
lie said he would require manufactu'
Gre TO label the fabric OF cloth Just Al
products are labelled under the pur-
rood and drug act
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1000 AUTOMOBILE MEN
PUT BACK AT WORK
Wiliys-OUerland Resumes
Parts Department.

TOLEDO. Nov. 1s.-Two thousand men
have been put back at work in the
parts department OF the Willys-Ove--
land Automobile Company, according to
announcement made here to-day by
e-President fitzpatrick in charge OF
production.
The announcement also carried the
statement that there has been no re-
ductlon, purporting to correct n rumor
that some of the men accepted 35c an
hour with a maximum of orc an hour.
The company In normal times en-
ployes about six thousand men and
women, It Is said. The entire plant was
shut down recently.
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rELEcRApnERs GIVE BENEFIT.

The New York Photographers Aid So
cIety will hold It's fortieth annual enter
tainment and reception this evening in
Palm Garden. Fifty-eighth street. be-
tween Third and Lexington avenues. a
vaudeville programme OF seven numbers
will be presented. The proceeds will be
devoted 70 the telegraphers' relief fund