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The New York herald., 1920-12-06

Admission to the League OF Nations
has been denied 10 Liechtenstein.
This Is difficult TO understand. OF
ALI the Germanie States Liechtenstein
alone refused the call of the Kaiser
to join in the war. True, Liechten-
stein Is small, but II is a sovereign
state and the League was supposed
10 be especially mindful Of the rights
Of small States.
since Moresnef was absorbed by
Belgium there are but two European
States which are smaller than Liech
tenstein. They are San Marino and
Monaco. The fame of Monaco Is out
" all proportion to her size owing 70
her c;,ier attraction on the Riviera
Monte Carlo with its gaming. Mores-
net had an area Of two and one-nfth
saunre miles; Monaco has eight and
Sau Marlno thirty eight. Liechien.
.teln. with sixty-five, was larger than
nh three put together.
Taking New York areas for com
parison. Moresnet was not quite
twice the size OF Central PARK. 10
naco IS two-fifths the size of Manhat.
tan, San Mnrino little smaller than
The Bronx and Liechtenstein slightly
larger than Staten Island. Add the
ancient republic. OF Andorra. with 1si
square miles. larger than King
county and Queens county together,
sud we have an erea almost exactly
squsI TO that Of New York city
pnt principle Ia generally supposed
% be- more important than slze.
Liechf~nstan formerly had an army
~ nipesr -ens men irif 'hls vas ahol'
The New York herald., 1920-12-06
WOMEN DID 1T.
A Florida Town Where's . Non-PartI'
san Spirit Is Conspicuous.

To The NEW York HERALD; The
Democratic Equity IN the Republican
Victory" to which you call attention. is
not confined to the North. The Demo-
Gratis OF the South can claim a good
snare of that equity. In this part OF
Florida II was the first election in It's
history--coincIdent with the first woman's
vote--in which Republican organiza-
ton and ticket appeared. ST. Petersburg
in its short existence has ever stepped to
the front vigorously. 1t gave major
ity OF more than 200 votes for Harding
and Coolidge where no Republican cam
didate had ever shown before.
The women did 1t. They formed a
Republican club and an organization, the
first known In this part OF the State.
six weeks before election. Crowds
hocked to it's meetings. DEMOCRATS as
well as Republicans. men and women,
in a proportion not far from your esti-
mate Of onesp part Democrat TO two Re-
publican, the equity in the vote North
The outcome was surprise to both
parties, and Democrats are still puzzled
to find so many Republicans among them
who are Just like other people, and pretty
good company. But there Is good hui
NOR and no feeling over the situation,
and there are numerous indications of
entire satisfaction.
Many of the Democratic woman and
man voters have strong Southern SYM
pathfes going back to civil war times,
and they have been active in the local
efforts for the. benefit of the town with
the Republicans. One observed was
South Carolina woman always out
spoken with her States frank opinions !;
another was OF Tennessee Democratic as
sociaticns one Democrat is prominent
st. Petersburg banker
1t is not so remarkable when ii is
remembered that the Sunshine City's res
idents came down here from all States.
Ohio, Michigan and Indiana especially,
as we'll as from Kentucky and Georgia,
He and she founded and built up the
city from the sandhilIs of a few years
ago. ~rhey worked and voted side by
side In a frank. nof-partisan spirit.
never asking as to party. Each has done
his or her share in making the most att
tractive. prosperous and healthful tourist
city on the west coast with. promise for 1t
of rivalling Californian tourist centres
in the near future.
This is combination that makes for
home and country first, before party. 1t
means evolution, selection of the fit
test. American, progressive. tolerant, In
dependent, Northern energy, grated on
southern stock that is 100 per cent
American. st. Petersburg can stand for
itself, asking no favor, and It's future
Ia pretty clear and sure to be maintained
IL reasonable Democratic equity in the
result comes out of Republican victory.
IT. S. FULLER.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. December 3.
The New York herald., 1920-12-06
BRAVE FoOTHILL BOYS.
Men From the Appalachians Helped
Break the Hlndenburg Line.

To THE New York HERALD: It was
glory undying. though many died In the
winning. for the Foot IIill Boys OF the
Carolinas, Georgia. Tennessee and Ala
bana 20 be the first TO break through
the IIindenburg Line, but one who was
once a Foot Hill Boy from the Appala-
chians would give full share to the un-
beaten Twenty-seventh Division, which
on that day of days went through in
line with the Thirtieth.
Z j have learned from n source which. Is
without doubt reliable that these rest
less, unruly lads were SO resentfui to
discipline that at one period soon after
they we're In camp there was thought
of sending them back to their homes.
but some officer who knew fighting ma
teriaI when he saw II suggested they
be sent to France at once and tried out
on the Huns.
They did to the thoroughly drilled and
disciplined soldiers Of the Central Pow
ers Just what their Revolutionary an
cestors did to the British veterans at
Kings Mountain. Brave and reckless.
too often unwisely SO, these splendid
lads died by hundreds 60 win and. living
or dead, they won. May It not be said
of them. as was said Of one who fell
In the Crinea. "None died with greater
glory, though many died. and there was
much glory? j. A. W.
NEW YoRK December T.
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PLEA FOR STENoGRAPHERS.
Their Expenses Continue to De High
Though Their Pay May Decrease.

To TIE NEW York HERALD: During
the present period OF adjustment the
secretaries and stenographers are suffer-
ing on account of lowered salaries and
ever increasing expenses.
Prices for rooms and board are cer-
tainly not lower than they were, lunches
ara Just as expensive and clothes. shoes.
stockings and the like are still far
from inexpensive. We are finding II
hard to make ends meet on the salaries
we must take in order to get employ
nient at all.
J am speaking of efficient. experienced
young women, who have worked for ten
years and upward and are capable OF
rendering real assistance in an Office.
The beginners and those with less c|-
periepce are paid better than they were
five years ago.
From $35 to $40 a week should not be
too much for a girl with ten or more
yenrs experience. She could not live on
less even il she lives at home, as her
contribution, In view OF the enormous
rents to be paid. must be greater than
ever before.
So during this period of adjustment.
which will be hard for US all. business
men should keep the above facts In mind
when employing help. We must live
they want us to dress properly and
well: so why not give us half chance:
SECRETARY.
New YoRK. December, 4.
The New York herald., 1920-12-06
FIRE TRAPS.
A Fire Risk Inspector Wants Certih'
Gates OF Safety Issued for Homes.

To THE NEW Yoax HERALD: (: Let me
take issue sharply with your conclu'
sions in regard 10 fire traps.
BY holding officials responsible you
are opening the door through which
owners OF buildings not in compitance
with laws and ordinances can and Win
escape. AS long as some people can get
away with Violations just SO long VIII
they take chances.
Has the owner OF building no duty?
One OF your sentences points the drift OF
opinion toward target at which have
been shooting for years--the issuance
of a permit by competent authority Tor
the occupancy Of every building In or
der to regulate IT'S use, it's population
and It's safeguards.
Was the building to which reference
In made fire trap?N People have per-
ishcd In far better buildings, and people
have escaped from buildings neasurably
worse Greater individual care in fire
matters win save many lives.
c. ALBERT GAssER
NEWARK, N j.. December 4.
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|RADIUM PURCHASED
FOR INSTITUTE HERE
100000 Worth of Mineral
Will Be Used in Treat
ment of Cancer.
SUBSTITUTE DANGEROUS
Mesothorium Does Not Meet
Requirements for Treatment.
DR.. Field Declares.

The purchase OF FIVE hundred niilli-
grams OF radium, worth 100000. was
announced yesterday by pr. G. Everett
Field, director OF the Radium Institute
of 2O5 West Seventieth street. The ra-
dunn Is to be used in equlppins a new
department Of the institution, which
treats by radium cancer and other ma
lignant diseases
At the same time On. Field declared
that mesothorium, which some American
chemists have said is a cheaper material
having the qualities of radiurn, Is not q
substitute for radium. He quoted. to
prove this opinions expressed by several
English scientists. including Sir Ernest
Rutherford Of. Cambridge. Dr, +. III.
Glew OF London, Prof w. II. Bragg of
London University, Prof Frederick Sod
dysof oxford and Or. Irorslde Bruce Of
London. t
Reports recently spread stated that
mesothorium. newly heraided SUBJ
stance. not only presented superior prop
critics. but was cheaper" he said. Me-
|sothoriuIn cannot take the place of RAJ
dunn In the treatment of cancer. Dur
ing the war mesothoriun, by-product
OF thorium. which is produced from the
nonazite sands OF Brazil, was manu-
factured largely III the United States.
England and France offered no buyers.
a propaganda was therefore started to
create a demand for 1t here on the basis
that 1t is a superior and cheap substi-
tute for radium."
DR.. Field said that the mesothorium
lost half Of It's energy In Ave and half
.k.s. lx
In LOO years Mesothorium, he as
serted, Is harmful. because 1t disin-
tegrates three hundred and nifty times
faster than radium. Radium can be ac-
curateiy regulated and determined as to
dosage, while mesothorium cannot. Ra-
dunn can be introduced directly into the
veins for certain forms of arthrftis and
diseases associated with degenerative
changes In the heart, blood vessels and
Kidneys, while mesothorium is danger
Gus for that use.
DR.. Field quoted DIR. Glew, the tore-
most radio-chemicai expert in London,
as saying that one of the strong points
of radium is its eInanation. which takes
a number of days to die down to half
the value. while the enanation of n1eso-
thorium decays in one minute. Another
disadvantage Is that 1t Is possible to
use therapeutically the emanation OF
radtum, but not of mesothorium.
According to DR.. Field, the entire sup
ply OF radium-is now but five ounces.
One valley In Colorado about Ito miles
long, near the Grand Canyon. contains
mort OF the radioactive ore In the world.
The ore from which one gram or thin
bleful of the element can be obtained
fills eight forty-ton freight cars.
"We do not advocate radiunn as the
only cure for cancer or n certain cure
for cancer" DIR. Field said. Surgery
fails in twenty per cent. of the cases OF
the disease, and radium succeeds In
twenty per cent. of these cases surgery
cannot aid. When we consider that one
In every eight women and one in every
fourteen men you see walking along
broadway die of cancer this is no small
benefit"
The New York herald., 1920-12-06
LIauo- In Bond.

The report OF the United States In
ternal Revenue Commissioner for the
year ended June 80. which covered
SIX months of war prohibition and the
first six months Of constitutional pro-
hibition, shows that 2S,220,910 gallons
OF alcoholic liquor were withdrawn
from bonded warehouses In the
twelve months, and that 55.S69, ,745
gallons were in bond on July I. Il
this rate of withdrawal were main
tained all the liquor which lay IN
bonded warehouses when nationwide
dryness officially began would be with
drawn before July 1, 1922.
But ii Is unlikely that the rate will
be maintained 1t should be remem-
bered that under the war time prohi-
b;tion law liquor could legally be ex-
ported from the United States, and n
great quantity of American whiskey
was sent abroad between July and
the middle Of January, when constitu-
tlonal prohibition became effective.
This quantity is included in the 2S,-
22O91O gallons withdrawn from bond
in the year.
An effort is now being made to
have the Government take over the
55, ,S63,745 gallons Of liquor now In
bond, and the proposal to do this Is
likely to furnish one of the most In.
tercstine incidents Of the enforcement
Of nrnhihition.
The New York herald., 1920-12-06

esil In the exchange market The
English pound dropped from $4.76 In
the spring Of last year to $S.1s in
February OF this year. whence 1t re-
acted to $4.11 In April, declined TO
$3.50 last month and is at present
moving erratically between S3.45 and
1856, occasionally registering changes
Of as much as 8 or 10 cents a day.
French, Belgian. Dutch. German and
other currencies follow the same un-
certain course, making 1t hazardous
to sell merchandise forward in terms
Of foreign currency
With the proper trading mechanism
and a revolving credit Of very moder-
ate size there appears to be no reason
why funds to be needed by Europe In
this country in the autump should not
be purchased In the spring when pres
sure on exchange is at its minimum.
The exchanges would then And their.
level and move in general direction
rejecting fundamental conditions is
any given country instead of mirror
ing the temporary seasonal scramble
for funds.
Stabilization Of this kind does not
involve undue governmental interfer-
ence. All that it requires is voluntary
cooperation by private merchants and
bankers, with the Government furnish
ing its moral backing and perhaps the
requisite revolving reserve credit.
The New York herald., 1920-12-06
J. Fl. LOVE STATE HEAD
OF EUROPEAN RELIEF


Herbert Hoover announced yesterday
the appointment OF John III. Love, chair
man of the board of the Irving Trust
Company, and treasurer of the Mer-
chants Association of New York, as
New York state chairman OF the 1u-
ropean Relief Council which has been
formed OF eight national charitable or
ganizations to raise s23. 100000 for re-
lief OF children IN eastern and central
Europe during the winter
Mr.. Loves campaign pledge was that
mot one cont OF the contributions would
he used for administrative purposes
Guy Emerson. vice-president OF the Ma
tional Bank OF Commerce. Is vice-chair-
man.
The State advisory committee consists
of Felix warburg. Harold Hatch OF
Deering, Milliken & Co. John J. Ptlleyn,
president OF the Emigrant Industrial
Savings Bank Henry 70. Walbridge and
+. A. NJ. Burrell Of Brooklyn
Members on the state committee from
this city are Alfred T. white and Wal
ter jennings for tile American Rod
Cross; Dr. John q. Coyle knights of
Columbus Dr. Walter Laidiaw. L. Hof-
lingsworth Wood for the American
Friends Service Committee. Mrs. WIN
lam Fellowes Morgan for the Y. w. G.
A. and w. M. Kingsley. for the Y. NJ.
c. A. Allen Fox Is secretary OF the
state committee. Miss Florence Ward-
we'll Is chairman OF the women's divi-
sion. The campaign will begin shortly.
The New York herald., 1920-12-06
EVENTS TO-DAY.

congressman-eiect Ogden l.. Mills VIII dis
cuss f'The Immediate National Problems"
at meeting In the City Club. 90 West
Forty-fourth street. s:15 r. NJ.
,,rha United Real Estate Owners Assccin.
tion viii hold special meeting Ia the Hotel
The The American Society Of Refrigerasing En-
gineers. sixteenth annual meeting, Hotel
Astor. beginning at 10 A. NJ. l
risfsny ss nal sns +. s' Ia duaraia viii speai.
nt the annual meeting Of the League OF
Women Voters OF tive Fifteenth Assernbiy
District IN the home OF Mrs. Lewis L.. Della
field, 20 West Fifty-eighth street. 3 II. NJ.
DR.. +. Ernest Johnson VIII speak on The
Church and tho Labor Question In the
broadway Tabernacle forum. broadway and
Fifty-slxth street, s;f5 p. M.
The Eighty second Division Association OF
New York win hold a meeting and enter
Ea ct Twenty-third street. p. NJ.
Tho Associate Alumni Of the College cf
the City OF New York win hold their nnnual
banquet IN the Hotel Astor, C.S0 r. M.
Tho National Association OF Mercliar'
Tailors of America Will hod an exhibition
81 mems made to order clothes. WALDORF
There will be a business meeting OF the
New York Academy OF Sciences, followed hy
meeting Of the. section Of astronomy
Museum OF Natural History. sevcnty-seventh
street and Central Park West. S:15 =. M:
Third guest night concert OF the People
Liberty Chorus. Rosalie Miller, soioist, HiEh
SCHOOL OF Commerce Mrs. Henry II. Davi
son, hostess. Yvette C;uilbert. guest OF honor
Ridgewood Heights Improvement. Associa
ton. meeting at association headquartors.
Woodward avenue and Bieecker street.
Ridgewood, $50 p. M.
y Tho Eastern. Conference of the Church
League for Industrial Democracy WIN be held
in the parish house Of the Church OF tho
Ascension, ~ West Eleventh street. p. NJ.
Tho Public Service Commission win con
tinue the hearing pertaining 20 a potitioned
increase in the local telephone rates. 10
a. M.
7'Dhan Gopai MukerJ WIN lecture on 1.-THE
Ideal Of Freedom under the auspices OF the
League for Political Education at Park
National Association OF Sanitary Wood
work Manufacturers. meeting. Hotel Astor,
10 A. NJ
ChIid's Mutual welfare Association, an
nual entcri ainment and dance, Hotel Penn
sylvania. s 80 p. NJ.
meeting OF executive committee, Hotel A.
for 10 A M.
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ished In 1886. and not a single Iiech-
tensteiner enlisted in the forces of the
Teutonle Powers. Financially the
country is in excellent condition. II
has no public debt. It's population Of
lilo is fairly prosperous, with
neither poverty nor riches. vaduz
(Sweet Valley, the capital, has 1870
inhabitants.
The ruler and owner Of this domain,
JoHN H., was the oldest sovereign In
Europe after the death Of the EN-
peror of Austria. He was born in
1910. He levied no taxes, for he had
estates In Austria and elsewhere
which yielded an income OF $5o0,0O0
a year to him before the war. To
prevent any compulsion on the part
of Austria the Diet of Liechtensteln
on November z, 1919 declared Its alb
solute independence.
The New York herald., 1920-12-06
NOT AFRAID OF LEpROSY.
A Layman's Observations in the Phil
ippines and Chinese Cities.

To THE New YoRK HERALD: have
read your account Of the precautions
taken in shipping Filipino leper from
Albany to San Francisco, and your edl-
torial article headed I'm His Brothers
Keeping" wonder II any such pre-
cautions are necessary.
I have travelled extensively in the
Far East and come In contact with lepers
in many places and, like all other Eu-
fopeans ana Americans sojourning In
that part of the world. look upon them
as unfortunates and not as being In any
way dangerous as regards transmitting
the disease.
In 1908 was shown through the San
Lazaro HospitaI-in the, outskirts OF Man
la. One OF the buildings is given over
entirely to lepers. and was taken by
the American superintendent of the hos
pital through the building. talking with
the inmates and distributing cigars and
cigarettes TO them. There was no thought
ti.at hospital that I was in the slightest
danger OF contagion.
Travelling in China. especially in the
purely native cities, / saw thousands OF
pronounced lepers. some as beggars,
others as pedlers, often OF foodstuffs.
and no one, European or Asiatic. seemed
TO be in the least afraid.
/ am very much of the opinion that
Ieprosy Is very difficult to transmit, that
is, from q ieper to a healthy person. I
am under, the impression that of the
many thousands of Americans who so
journed in the Philippines as soldiers or
civilians, from the time we penetrated
the islands UP to 1905, but one Aincri-
can became a leper. My. observation. as
n layman, IL that leprosy is a painless
disease.
This letter Is not written in any spirit
Of criticism, but IL my observation of
leprosy during a period OF several years
in fifty or sixty Oriental cities has given
me wrong impressions would like 20
have them corrected. am OF the opin-
ion also that there are In the Southern
States several hospitals In which are
confined American negro iepers. Also
In North Dakota there are several hos
pitfalls or colonies in which Finnish or
Scandinavian so-called fish lepers reside.
II this is q fact and leprosy is SO con-
tagious that sealed compartments In
trains arc necessary are we not endan-
gering the health OF many people IN
various parts OF tho country
HOWARD A. NORTH
NEW YORK December T.
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Daily Calendar


For Eastern New York. Generally
fair and somewhat colder to-day; to-
morrow. increasing cloudiness. probably
rain by night; diminishing west winds.
becoming easterly by tomorrow.
For New JerNey--Fair today Tomorrow
noon or night: little change In temperature;
diminishing westerly winds to-day. becoming
easferly by tomorrow.
for Northern New England-Cloudy and
colder to-day. probably snow In northern and
eastern Maine: tomorrow fair west and
noranwest srd, yes. !. gales today. Diminishing,
what colder to-day; tomorrow probably fair:
diminishing westerly ~gales to-day.
For Western New YorE-Cloudy to-day and
row; little change in temperature; diminish
Ing west and northwest winds.
WASHINGTON. Dec: 5.-The storm that
was central over Lake Huron last night
moved eastward to north New England with
greatly increasing intensity, II was ATTENDED,
by general rains within tho last twsntv- four
Rs except ths ssss uf e sts..s shs Mss,ssrp sns S
gales along the niirAa Atlantic Ana NORTH
Atlantic coasts and in,portions Of tho lower
Another disturbance y 81 had To csntra
over eastern New Mexico n-night was At
tended by rain in Texas and by snow in the
Rocky Mountain region. The temperature
was lower in the Eastern States except New
England. and In the far Northwest; else
whore there was little change.
Tho outlook Is for generally fair weather
In the. States east Of the Mississippi River
Tomorrow. except that snow is probable IN
Maine. However. the southwestern ydisty.d,-
ance viii probably move east-noy thsastwa,s :.
attended by snow rain in the region OF fai-
Great Lakes Tuesday and rain over prac-
tically all other sections east OF the Miss,s-
sippi River except New England The tenn
perature changes win not be important ex-
cept that colder weather viii overspread New
Ensland tomorrow storm warnings ara
sdtsplayed on the Atlantic coast et and be-
tween Delaware Brealwater and Eastpor;
Observations at United States Weather
bureau stations. taken at s p. NJ. yesterday.
sOyoQfy-fi
The New York herald., 1920-12-06
MONDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1920.
How to stop Billion More OF
Government Spending.

4 The Sixty-sixth Congress meets to-
day to spend the money OF the Ameri-
can people We mean spend Ii in the
sense that Congress approprlates 1t
for the Administration TO spend.
y Senator SMoor says he is going TO
make it his special business to KNOCK
billion dollars out Of the present
estimates Of the ap-
appropriations wanted for the next fiscal
year. What these Administration es-
timates are we have been unable to
ascertain. 1t Is net easy, therefore,
10 judge where and In what details
lies the billion Of dollars which Sen
,ator SMooT says he aims to get out.
But he Is the kind of man who, with
the backing Of Congress, can do n job
like that II he says he can
For the present fiscal year the Ad-
ministration's estimates, regular, sup
elemental and deficiency, were S6,334,-
312, ,929.46. The amount actually pro-
vided by Congress was $4,S59, ,S90,-
y27. .S0---a cutting OF the Administra-
,tion's estimates by not far short of a
billion and half of dollars. As the
ainounts finally stood, the total regular
appropriation bills We're as follows:
The New York herald., 1920-12-06

scrapped The hundreds OF thousands
of useless names which, with the COM
ing of war went on the Government
payrolls, costing the taxpayers hun
dreds Of millions year. must, two or
three years after peace has come, go
Off the payrolls at one stroke.
The way for Congress to stop a
billion more of spending, however 1t
must be saved and wherever it must
be saved. Is not TO give it 10 the
spenders.