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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Massachusetts City Elections.

In two aspects the outcome OF the
city elections held In Massachusetts
this week is of unusual interest. They
are notable for the fact that women
candidates, except for office as men,
bers OF school committees, were gen.
orally unsuccessful and for the fur
Their fact that a number Of cities
voted to accept the new State law
putting boxing under control Of a
State commission and permitting
amateur sports on Sundays.
A generation before woman suf-
frage became a nationwide issue
Massachusetts admitted women to
vote for candidates for the school
committees and to serve on those
bodies. Therefore the success of
women in these contests this year
presents no novelty. They have
proved themselves faithful and valu-
able public servants. The non-suc-
cess Of a number Of women candidates
for other offices sustains the impress
sion created at the national election
in November, that women do not In
tend to vote for women candidates
merely because they are not men.
Principles and policies, not sex, will
determine their course at the ballot
box.
The acceptance of the Sunday sports
law appears to Indicate that the senti-
ment In Massachusetts, is not IN favor
of blue Sundays. The Old Bay State
does not lead of as a champion OF
restrictive and repressive legislation.
1t will be instructive to watch the
course Of this sentiment hereafter, for
vigorous effort is now making to
enact statutes greatly curtailing legal
labor and sport on Sundays.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
A Roosevelt for the War Department

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The con-
sensus of expert American Legion opin-
ion, together with an ever increasing
general public opinion. points directly
to Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt as logical and very essential
member of Mr.. Harding's Cabinet. and
every outward indication tends to con-
firm this growing feeling that, apart
from family considerations. he has the
necessary qualifications, the military
capacity gained in the trenches lover
there" during the late world war. to be
highly valuable adjunct to the Presi-
dents official family as Secretary of
War. FRIENDSHIP GLOUCESTER.
New YORK, December 16.
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Retail Price Dehation.

In Chicago wholesale pork, with
hogs at nine cents pound, has gone
back to pre-war prices. Although the
wholesale trade does not agree with
the retailers Of that commodity 1t
declares its prices are also down to
normal levels. Maybe for that par
ticular article In that particular mar
ket for the moment they are; maybe
not. But in either event retail prices
under existing economic conditions
cannot generally go down like whole
sale prices. If special prices do GO
down they cannot stay down until the
fundamental conditions of the retail
business are corrected.
The cost of doing business for the
retailer depends in nearly every field
on other Items than the article itself
In way that does not apply to the
producer or the wholesaler. The cost
of wheat in the bakers loaf may be
cut In half; but the big cost OF get
ting his loaf Of bread into the hands
Of the ultimate consumer is not the
flour In it but the wages of the clerks,
bookkeepers, wagon drivers and the
rent, fuel, taxes, &c. The same thing
is true of the retail butchers meats.
It Is true of the retail merchants
goods.
Whatever the cost changes in fac
tory and jobbing houses where wages
and rents are not of such oyerwhelm-
ing importance, the retailer in any
line has not chance to get the prices
of his articles back to normal levels
as long as he has to pay those highly
inflated wages and highly inflated rent
bills, fuel bills and tax bills. Those
swollen figures have not come down
one bit for him, and the consuming
public might as well face the cold
truth that there cannot be genuine and
permanent defation of general retail
prices without dedation of these in
flated wages and other items that GO
to make his costs and therefore his
prices.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Hotcllxiss Alumni Dances.

Alumni and undergraduates OF the
Hotchkiss School and their friends VIII
meet at a Jolly dance at Delmonlco
this evening arranged by the Hotchkiss
Alumni Association. Mr.. Artemus L.
Gates IL chairman OF the committee
which includes Messrs. Henry l.. ID.
Forest. Charles 70. Merrill, George +.
Baker Jr.; Thomas A. Howell. Morris
X. Parker. Walter N. Stillman, Harold
M. Turner, Harold Stanley, Robert Nal
lory. Jr.; Edward III. Coy. Morgan D.
O'I,rienl Harold w. Carhart, James II
Bryan. Melville d. Truesdale. Bertrand
Campbell, John w. Lasell. Edward w
L. Taylor, Clifford II. Mccall, douglas
Power, Thomas j. Robertson everett
N. Case and John Ewing.
Among the patronesses are Mrs; D.
Howard Audrey, Mrs. George y. bakeF,
Jr.; Mrs. Herman M. Biggs, Mrs James
II BRYAN. Mrs. Huber q. Buehler, Mrs
ceorra w. Carrington, Mrs. Carrie G.
Conway. Mrs william G.. Cooke. Mrs
Edward II. Coy, Mrs. Henry l.. De
Forest Mrs. Edward f. Dwight. Mrs
Thomas A. Edison, Mrs. w. b. Osgood
Field Mrs. Allen n. Forbes, Mrs.
charles M. Heminway, Mrs. Ernest
IopSinson and Mrs. Thomas A. Howell
Also Mrs. Warren J. Hoysradt, Mrs.
Francis u. johnson, Mrs. Darwin J..
JSinRsley. Mrs. Charles IL. Lord, Mrs
Elgood g. LuflSin, Mrs David l.. Luke
Mrs. Robert Mallory, Mrs. John A. Me-
Call. Mrs. s. Stanwood Menken, Mrs.
Homer Il. Sawyer, Mrs. Nathaniel G..
scoville. Mrs. Origen $. Seymour, Mrs.
Frank j. sprague. Mrs. William IL.
Truesdale, Mrs. George l.. Vincent and
Mrs. James ID. Voorhees,.
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Herbert Hoover will speak on Manage
ment In Coal Mines" at n dinner of the
W sd City Club. Hotel Pennsylvania
S. K. Ratcliffe will speak on Changes IN
the Social Structure, under the auspices OF
the the League for Political Education, Park
Army Transport Post Of the American lie
gion will meet for its annual election OF
West Nineteenth street. between Fifth and
Sixth avenues, S:f5 p. M.
Francis II. Slsson will discuss 1.-THE Credit
situation, It's Causes and Cure before tho
brotherhood of the Fourth Presbyterian
Church, West End avenue and Ninety-first
New York Camp Fire Girls will give a
Christmas party 60 their parents and friends
in the auditorium of the Russell Sage -Four
dalton, $50 East Twenty-second street, s:15
The Tennessee Society In New York Will
hold dance. Waldorf-Astoria, 8 p. M.
Guy Emerson and 4. j. Cattell win speak
at luncheon OF the American Association
Of Advertising Agencies. Hotel McAlpin'
Margaret Sanger will speak on 'sex
Problems OF the Unmarried" In Parkview
Palace, 10th street and Fifth avenue. S:iJ
DR.. Carl Lumholtz viii give an Illustrated
lecture, Through Central Borneo." under
the auspices of the Rocky Mountain Club at
the International Cinema Centre, 729 Seventh
Everett Dean Martin will lecture or
'Nietzsche and Darwin" Cooper Union s
7. NJ.
The Dickens Fellowsh OF New York win
hold its annual Christmas party In the Ma
tional Arts Club. 119 East Nineteenth street
S:15 p. NJ.
The Bankers Club of the Bankers Trus;
Company will hold an entertainment anu
dance, Waldorf-Astoria, 8 Z. NJ.
The American Criterion Society will hold
a dinner and dance, Hotel Commodore. :
p. NJ
pedic surgery, meeting, II West Forty-third
street. 8 80 =. NJ.
Playwrights Club. meeting, Hotel McAlpln.
8 T. M.
Bellevue Medical School will hold dance.
Hotel Pennsylvania, II. NJ.
New York Commercial Photographers. din
nor Cafe boulevard. 4. NJ.
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Daily Calendas
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Cloudy and
unsettled to-day. probably snow fiurries
Tomorrow partly cloudy, fresh ana
strong southwest shifting to northwest
winds.
For New Jersey--Cloudv and unsettled to
day. Tomorrow fair fresh to strong south
west and west winds.
day and Tomorrow, with light snow to-
night; colder tomorrow; fresh southwest
and south winds
For Southern New Ensland-cloudy. ana
unsettled to-day tomorrow partly cloudy
and somewhat colder; fresh to strong south
vest and west winds
For Western New York-Snow flurries To-
Day and probably Tomorrow; not much
changs IN temperature; fresh southwest
winds shifting to northwest.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16-The storm over
the region of the great lakes has decreased
IN intensity and the gales have subsidized.
Light snow has fallen within the last TWEEN
ty-fcur hours in the region of the great
lakes, the Ohio Valley and the middle At
lantic I'D north Atlantic States, and rain In
the north Pacific States. In all other
gions the weather was fair. The tempera-
ture was somewhat below normal tonight
in the middle Atlantic and south Atlantic
States. above the middle West and approx
matey normal elsewhere.
The outlook is for snow flurrles to-mor-
row and Saturday in the region of the great
lakes and the upper Ohio Valley and In por-
tons of the north Atlantic States tomorrow.
Elsewhere east of the Mississippi River tie
weather viii continue fair. There will be no
ma terial change in temperature except that
somewhat colder weather Will overspread tho
middle and lower Ohio Valley, Tennessee
Observations at United States Weather Blu
reau stations taken at p. NJ. yesterday,
seVenty-fifth meridian time:
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Blue Crabs and Your Pocket.

The Government has three branches.
The executive branch has ten depart
ments. One Of these departments, Com
merce, has at least nine bureaus or
divisions. One Of these divisions is
Publications. Now we come presently
to the Blue Crab.
The annual report of the chief Of
the Division Of Publications Of the
Department Of Commerce was made
public yesterday. 1t contains list Of
about $50 publications issued by the
Department Of Commerce during the
fiscal year 1920 Most Of them were
printed and distributed free. The
copies printed ranged In number from
/ 20 100000 From the list Of the
books and pamphlets issued by one of
the bureaus-that Of Tisherles-we
have chosen one item:
"Lifo History OF the Blue Crab;
by Il. y. CHURCHILL, Jr. 90 D. 1
pl. s p. Of pl text fig. TAXI In"
We did not choose this item Mt ran
dom, but rather because It is the most
interesting title among the $50 listed
and because its distribution and cost
WINS rather below the average. Fif-
teen hundred copies OF It we're printed
Mt a cost Of SGTS37.
We have not read the life History
Of the Blue Crab 1t may be one OF
the most fascinating books ever writ
ten. And when we discuss Il we are
thinking Of its possible successors
rather than Of itself. But more par
ticularly we aye thinking Of taxpay-
ers' pockets. For on these the blue
and other crabs Of enthusiastic bu-
reaus Of enthusiastic departments
have fastened with enthusiastic and
expensive claws.
In suggesting that the blue crabs
Of governmental bureaus be laid on
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Saving High Bridge.
An Engineer Tells How to Preserve q
Beautiful Structure.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The pro-
posed entire removal OF High Bridge
over the Harlem River, one OF the few
monuments In this country OF beautiful
stone viaduct architecture, is meeting
quite properly, with numerous and strong
protests which should be needed. The
order of the Government for larger
passageway through that bridge for
navigation on the Harlem River does not
necessarily require the destruction OF
that structure, nor its dissertation with
horrible looking patchwork trusses
which would be an everlasting disgrace
to the city.
over a year ago called attention
to this matter In letter to DR.. Scholer
of the washington Heights Taxpayers
Association. dated June "a, 1919. and
from which beg to quote here In sup
port OF the public demand for preserving
the structure.
In general the plan of reconstruction
should provide:
4. The removal OF two river piers and
OF three stone arches over the river
That would give, as understand. all tho
desired greater accommodation for navi-
cation at this point.
2. In place Of the three removed arches
a single Bemi-circular stone arch can be
built OF about 200 feet span and having
the same clear height above the water
as at present.
g. The two piers and foundations. one
near each shore, 70 be strengthened to re-
slst the additional weights and thrust OF
the stone arches. The form and archi-
lecture OF the strengthened shore piers
and of the new large semi-circular arch
shall conform TO tho design OF the old
structure.
4. Built over the present deck wclu-
Bively used by pedestrians a second deck
60 be used exclusively by road traffic
and automobiles, the floor TO be OF struc-
tural steel resting on an arcade Of small
semi-circuiar stone arches. This second
deck can project out WITH cornice over
each vide, so as to give a clear width
of twenty-six feet on the roadway, which
would be ample for the meeting OF two
big motor trucks or moving vans.
6. Tho architectural appearance OF the
reconstructed arcaded viaduct can be
made as beautiful as the present stone
arch structure and will be more useful
for travel by reason Of having two decks.
O. the stones from the two piers and
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
A Christmas Proposal.

What shall I give you at Christmas
dear7
Tho fairies visited you at birth
And lowered you as you lay asleep
With all the riches OF all the earth
Your speech Is silver, the virgin gold
Goloonda boasted is In your curtis.
Your brow Is OF marble pure and fine
Your lips are rubies. your teeth ar,
pearls.
Your iashes long are OF softest elk
Your eyes are sapphires OF deepest
blue,
Your head Is crammed with a thousand
books,
NO bon-bon ever was sweet az you.
To give you anything have named
Would be a superhuity,
And 20 send you my heart, fair maid
To hang. behold on your Christina,
tree
MrvrA THyrvo.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Rebuilding Constantinople.

Rear Admiral BRISTOL, United
States High Commissioner at Con-
stantinople, who has studied the prob
lens of the present and future welfare
Of that city, shows in a recently pre-
pared map that one-fourth Of STAN
boul, the heart Of Constantlnople, and
large areas in Pera and Galata have
been destroyed by fires In the last
twelve years and that these burned
over districts remain practically I'M
restored and desolate.
Seven great fires have occurred
since 1908 in Constantinople. -Four
years ago /, 400 buildings in Pera we're
burned and in 1913 more than 5000
dwelling houses and small shops were
consumed in the great Stamboul fire.
The appearance of these burned over
sections is that of the war wrecked
towns of Europe, except that in most
OF these towns walls are still stand
ing, while in Constantinople ''there
were whole blocks In which so little
stone or brick was used in construc-
ton that one looks across an almost
open space"
The fire in STEAMBOAT, which swept
away quarter almost entirely Turk
ish, was attributed by the Turks to
their enemies. There was as much
justification for this belief as for
the report that the fire In Pera had
It's origin In the determination of the
Germans to get rid of a mlserably
poor quarter which lay between theft
embassy and the waterfront. An in
surance adJuster is probably right
when he says all these great fires were
due to accident and that they spread
because the old wooden houses burned
like finder, the water supply was in
sufficient and no efficient fremen were
at hand to fight them at the start.
The Turkish fireman took the Mos
lem view Of n fret was the viii
Of ALLAH or It would not have hap
pened; the property he saved was
his, since 1t had been deserted by its
owner, and besides he needed 1t be-
cause he could not get enough to live
on in any other way. If the struc-
ture in danger was n public building
1t would very likely be saved; If It
was private building sufficient
bnckshish and the will Of ALLAH were
its only salvation.
To remove the possibility Of a recur-
renee Of these destructive fires and TO
rebuild securely and substantially
upon the devastated tracts Is Con-
stantlnople's great problem. Writing
about this condition Francis W. KEEL
say In Art and Archaeology says that
"from the point Of view Of the future
the burned areas Of Constantinople
are an asset Of Incompatible value
and interest" This centuries old city
In n situation Of almost unrivalled
beauty Is virgin soil for city planning.
The work Of rebuilding, however, must
be from the ground up. Almost price
less monuments Of the past which the
Turks permitted to decay or fall In
ruins must be properly preserved. And
the scheme OF public utilities would
have TO be remodelled.
In the twelve years in which II
has suffered 50 severely from fire
Constantinople has increased In popu-
lation by third. From being one Of
the cheapest places in the world to
live It has become more expensive
than any other capital OF Europe.
The housing situation Is nowhere. per-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT

',The Book OF the Hour" by Prof. ]. G..
Carter Troop, at New York Public Library,
Forty-second street and Fifth avenue.
"Agassiz. or The Sacredness Of Truth,
by Prof Samuel @. Schumacher, Pm. D., AT
stuyvesant II. s., Fifteenth street ana firs'
avenue. -, -
WEBSTER. the Founder OF American Ma
tionality." by Thomas McTiernan, at y. -
I57 81 Nicholas avenue and Firth street.
..iIaunts OF Nature" by Edward II. Bise-
low. at p. s. 49, Anthony and fremont ave
nues. The Bronx; illustrated.
"Dicfion and Poetry" illustrated by read
,ngs by Mr.. Louis Leakey. at New York Pub
lie Library, Woodstock Branch, 1os bast
16Oth street, The Bronx.
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Coined Wisdom.
Advice for Buyers Of Silk Shirts Who
Are Looking for Jobs.

To THE New York HERALD: Speaking
OF notices on coins Of long ago I have
ono issued by waish's general stores in
Lanslngburg in 1895. On one side it
has plough and the-sentence speed
the Plough, It feeds ALL"
This should apply TO any number OF
able bodied Americans who during the
world war fiocked into the cities for
more lucrative employment, but who now
find themselves minus Job after spend
ing their easily gotten money for silk
shirts and kindred finery. II conditions
then warranted the speeding of the
plough how much more now is the need
of It when starving millions OF humans
are crying. for succor from us? J.B.
BROOKLYN. December 16.
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Caruso Sings Samson Cautiously
No Trace of Recent Injury in His Voice He Appears
With Mime. Matzenauer

Enrico Caruso sang to his second great
audience at the Metropolitan last eve
ming since he had the misfortune to
burst blood vessel in his throat while
singing in "L'Elisir d'Amore" in Brook
lyn last Saturday night. Cast with Nine.
Margarete Matzenauer in the title roles
OF Samson ct Dalila," the famous tenor
received much applause during the eve
ming. His superb voice was again in
good condition although he seemed to
spare 1t somewhat, especially in the first
act. His impersonation of Samson on
the whole was, as ever, one of his most
artistic achievements.
Nine. Matzenauer repeated her fine
vocal presentation Of DdliIG and received
much applause. The other principals,
well known in their parts, were Mr..
Rothier as the OLD Hebrew, and Mr..
Whitehill as the High Priest. Mr. Wolff
conducted an artistic performance.
The Belgian Ambassador and Baroness
de Cartier de Marchienne, who have just
returned from Europe, were in box ID,
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Oren Root
and Mr.. and Mrs. G. Oliver Iselin. With
Mr.. James B. Clews In box II were the
Right Hon. John C. White and Mrs.
White of Belfast, Ireland; Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert e. Tod and Mr.. and Mrs. LIE Roy
w. Baldwin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour Johnson. Mrs.
Grace Chaplin Rogers and Mr.. and Mrs.
Beverley Bogert were in the Aston box.
Mrs. William Post and Messrs. George
Ledlie and Alexander Phillips were with
Mr.. and Mrs. George Henry Warren In
box 10. The party with Capt. Warren
C. Beach included Miss Emily Norrie,
Mrs. Joseph Todhunter Thompson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Welsh.
Mrs. William Alexander and Mr.. and
Mrs William Adams Nissan were in
the Webb box. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert l..
Livingston and Mr.. William T. Eldridge
were with Mrs. William Watts Sherman
In box 5. In the party with Mrs. Charles
Mather MacNeill were Mrs. George
Howard, Mr.. and Mrs. John Clinton
Gray and Mr.. Franklin A. Plumner Mr..
and Mrs. Oliver Hartman were guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis G. Kaufman In
box 23 Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, Miss
Edith Wetmore, Capt. Mario francesca
Guardabassi and Mr.. Chester Alan Ar-
thur were in box 8.
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER IT. 1920.
The Dead Hand in Government.

The constitutional amendment pro-
posed by Representative CLIFTON n.
McARTHUR Of Oregon Is in the line of
common sense and also Of modernity
Of procedure.
Mr.. McARruUR would shorten the
:,bsurdly long interval between the
vote of the people at a Presidential
or Congress election and the resultant
change in the Executive or Legislative
department Of the Government. BY
the amendment which he has offered
for submission to the States he would
advance inauguration day from March
4 to the second Monday in December,
that is, by nearly three months, and
would also expedite by whole year
the opening of the first regular SEES
sion Of Congress chosen In any
November.
There is no good reason why the
political changes decreed by the peo-
pie at the polls should be less
promptly effective in the Federal sys-
tenn than in the States of the Union.
IL Governor elected in November
and Legislature elected at the same
time can assume their duties at the
beginning Of the year without Jolt in
the machinery Of administration or
legislation the same celebrity and
smoothness of transition are desirable
at Washington.
Perhaps no greater anomaly, no
longer ranged nuisance exists and per-
sists in the practical workings of a
generally admirable system OF repub-
lican and representative government
than that which prescribes a mora
forum of at least four months and
possibly Of thirteen months in the case
Of an overturned partisan majority in
the Senate or House of Representa-
tives. This is equally true OF the
suspension OF execution of judgment
In the case of an administration con-
demned to retirement by even so en-
phatic an expression Of the L-tion's
Will as was registered by the ballot
of six weeks ago.
The sluggish chronology Of change
that is still observed, be It borne in
mind, was suggested In great part by
the conditions of communication and
transportation existing in 1887. With
no telegraph or telephone to report
election results, with no steam or cleo
trlc locomotives to assemble the newly
elected at the seat Of Government, the
trainers Of the Constitution felt the
necessity of n wide margin Of time for
merely physical movement. This ne
cessity, from their point Of view, was
rendered still more imperative by the
cumbrous mechanism Of the electoral
colleges as originally designed; fac
tor that Is now practically negligible.
Both the electoral colleges, In the
primitive conception OF their impor-
lance, and stage coach or saddle horse
travel are obsolete.
THE New YORK HERALD favors such
changes In the fundamental law as
will loosen the clutch Of the dead
hand upon the management OF the
nations affairs; as will eliminate the
ridiculous and pernicious short ses-
sion of the Congress in which, per.
haps, the controlling majority has
been voted, months earlier, out Of
power; and, as to the Executive, rapid
transit between the ballot box and the
White House.
There should be a very much
shorter interval between the light
ming and the thunder.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Root and Hoover Demanded.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Mr.. Har-
ding stands at the door of opportunity {;
his selection Of Cabinet is the key.
The inclusion of those two outstand-
ing world figures Mr.. Root and Mr..
Hoover would mean a great future for
the country and for him; their rejection
and the formation of Cabinet of medi-
ocrities would mean comparative failure.
This is as certain as death and taxes.
A. J. d. DIXON.
PHILADELPHIA, December I6.