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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22
The Olympics.

From the Seattle PoSt-TntelIigencer
orange and gold the sunset banner
Stretch against the western sky;
Bright the heavens with it's colors,
Flaming clouds that blaze and die !;
While amidst the glowing riot
Rainbow colors piled on high.
Sharp against the surging glory
Etched in blue, the Olympics lie.
Breathing mystery and magic.
Rise the peaks, an azure line.
Clad in majesty and silence,
Deathless snow and sturdy pine.
Giants Of the vanished ages,
Playmates In the long ago
OF the elder gods who loved them,
They have watched the cycles go.
How the shadows reach and beckon,
How the shining peaks allure,
Cleaning in the light of sunset,
Clearly blue and whitley pure.
Fading now into the twilight,
As the light begins to wane.
Full of mystery and silence.
Still the magic peaks remain.
ERMA NORTHERN
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Lightest Known Wood.
Balsa Is Displacing Cork i'm Many
Instances.

From the Popular Mechanics Mdod-ins
Recent successful commercial applca-
ton Of balsa wood where cork has been
thought indispensable brings to attention
one of the strangest of natures prod
ucts. Not only Is IL the lightest of all
known woods. Weighing less than half as
much as cork, but IL possesses as well
remarkable elasticity and strength, is
unexcelled as an insuistor against heat
and has microscopic structure unlike
that of any other wood.
The wood comes from a tropical tree
found all over the northern part OF
South America. IL is likewise album
dant in Honduras, Costa Rica. Colombia,
Jamaica and Panama. Some years ago
the cultivation OF balsa on another of
the West Indian islands was undertaken
on a large scale, but was not successful
because of the natural limitations of
the wood
The tree Is easy TO cultivate and there
is no doubt that the wood i'm any guam
| tity demanded will be available for
future use. IL Is entirely second
growth tree and is found only where
the land has once been cleared, except
Ing for few scattered trees found
throughout the tropical forests.
Tests made by the Bureau of stand
ards and by Cornell University show
that. in spite of the extreme liehtness
OF the material. II is about half as
strong as spruce. The present process
of preparing the wood for market COM
pleteiy coats the interior walls of the
cells with parafiin without clogging Their,
and without adding any appreciate
weight to the wood. 1t is thus rendered
waterproof and immune to warping or
splitting.
1t is now used chiefly in the making
of life preservers. ring buoys, RATS and
other life saving equipment for the sea
Constant experimentation. however. is
enlarging its field of usefulness. Dur
ing the war the wood was used as filling
for the wings of flying boats, TO give
them buoyancy in case the machine
dropped into the sea
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22

yate express business and the loss of
an important cog in the machinery
of commerce. This would not be COM
patible with either the interests Of
the shippers or of the public at large.
The case would be no different II
the express merger were not nat
ural result OF conditions, but had
been built up as an unnatural monop-
oily. The paramount consideration
would be the public interest IL better
service could be obtained by combina.
ton so long as there was no restraint
of trade
The suggestion that the railroads
should run the express business be-
cause it constitutes a large item OF
transportation is no more valid than
would be a suggestion that the rail-
roads for similar reasons should run
the coal or the steel business or the
parcel post. Neither does 1T square
with the court decisions, which tend
more and more toward limiting rail.
road operation within definite boun-
diaries and not allowing the trans
portation lines TO acquire control of
tie sources of traffic.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, in approving the merger, does
not secure the utmost perfection In
the express traffic; but 1t does pre-
vent the elimination Of a very neces-
sary transportation and delivery
service otherwise understandable.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22

At the American Art Galleries yester-
day books, manuscripts and letters from
private collections, including that of II
S. Marion of New York city, sold in the
afternoon for total of 1897 and in the
evening for S3,129, making the grand
total for the entire sale S21,254.
The highest price of the afternoon
and Of the entire sale. $4,000. was paid
by John Adams for the original manu-
script. entirely in the handwriting of the
author of 1.-THE Professor at the Break
fast Table" Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The manuscript covers 437 quarto pages
and In bound In three volumes IL Is
said to be the most important manu-
script by Holmes ever offered at public
sale. Other notable items OF the af'
Moons sale were a manuscript copy or
the bible in small early Gothic charac-
ters. date 129O-1300, sold to John Adams
$3.50 a rare missal. the 'Missale Magde-
burgense," sold to the same. $3.50; an
autograph manuscript OF Philip Melanc-
thon, "De Supputatione Motus Soils
sold to the same. $3.50; a medieval
manuscript missal written in Gothic
cbara cters. sold to l.. G. Harper, $3.50;
Martin Luther's copy of Horace, sold 70
John Adams, S31o: Petrarch's DE Con-
temptu Mund.." printed at Strassbure
about 1873, sold TO the same, $40.
At the evenings sale Gabriel Wells
maid 1925 for "A copy of the Third Folio
OF Shakespeare. John Adams gave $500
for an original unpublished manuscript
by Horace Walpolc, entitled "Misccl-
laneous Thoughts Anecdotes and Char
acters of Books and Men," a kind OF
notebook OF this writer's earlier jottinge.
which was drawn upon for aomc Of his
later writings.
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for the conquest of the Turkish Ma
tionalists. To the thinking Greek
il must appear that this was VESI'
2ELos's policy and that il would have
been accomplished much more sue
eessfully with the allied aid which be
was able TO secure. And, again, II
with the assistance of the French aud
British the Greeks were able TO make
little progress against the Turkish
Nationalists, they might make still
less when thrown upon their own re-
sources. He spoke, too, Of revivlng
the sacred treaty" with Serbia; but
it takes two to make such O contract,
and Serbia's memory is long enough
to extend back to the perilous time In
Serbia's history when CONSTANTINE
pronounced the treaty a scrap or
paper CONSTANTINE also declared
that he would cultivate good relations
with the Allies. This promise must
appear as coming rather late. Had he
adopted the same policy during the
world war he would not have reduced
the country to bankruptcy and i'm
perilled its national existence.
The founding Of Greater Greece
and the collection Of the Greek peo-
Piles OF the lEgean shores into the
Hellenic kingdom was one OF the
ideals of the Entente Powers. While
IL is true that in so doing France and
Great Britain were serving their own
ends it is also true that they were
endeavoring TO fulfil the
wishes OF the scattered Greek ma
tionals. There is now no opposition
TO the growth of Greece as Power
or to the unification OF the Greek
race, but in view of recent develop
ments in Greece there must naturally
exist some doubt of the Greek politi-
clans ability to accomplish either OF
these purposes. If the Greeks have
forfeited the friendship and protec-
ton of the Allied Powers they have
indeed paid dearly for the luxury
of restoring the deposed head Of their
royal house.
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In his dissenting opinion of the
Interstate Commerce Commission on
the merger OF the four express COM
panies into the American Railway
Express Commissioner MCCHoRD opens
again the broad field for discussion on
the merits or dement's of natural and
unnatural monopolies. 1t would be In
teresting TO know how Commissioner
McCHoRp squares his belief that CON-
petition should be maintained among
the express companies or that the
railroads should run the express bus
mess themselves with the Supreme
Court decision on the United States
Steel Corporation or the Governments
operation Of the parcel post system.
Some shippers, and especially those
who have claims against the old COM
panies which will now have to be
threshed out in the courts, undoubt-
edly would like to see restoration OF
the same kind OF competition in ex-
press shipping as existed before the
war. And the general public may
believe that the ultimate perfection
has not been reached by turning the
express business into monopoly, as
the dissenting Commissioner charac-
terlzes It. But competition, ordlna-
rlly the life of trade, would have been
the death Of the express business
had the different companies chung TO
their separate ways after the advent
Of the parcel post.
When the Government launched
into the express business the pri-
vate companies were forced 10 com
bine IN order 70 compete with the
Government monopoly. To eliminate
the private monopoly while permit
ting the Government monopoly to ex-
ist would mean the end OF the pri-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22
Help for the Farmer.

There are two separate and distinct
problems now before the American
farmer, and they are alike the very
own problems OF the American peo-
pie. There is first the immediate
problem of the present huge surplus
Of products, especially wheat. The
farmer raised his wheat at inordi-
nately high labor costs, extremely
high prices of supplies and unusually
high interest rates at the bank. he
cannot sell part of it at any price
because there is more wheat than
the markets can absorb. If he cannot
sell any Of it for as much as it cost
him to raise it, be isn't merely go
ing to take staggering loss; he is
going ia heavy numbers to get out
of the business. Nothing could be
worse than that for the American
consumer.
As for the second problem, nobody
is going into American wheat farm
ing TO take the places Of the thou
sands that quit If when there is a
natural surplus, as there always Is,
foreign wheat can come pouring into
this country to underseIl the Ameri-
can farmers wheat in his own home
market. Right now Canadian wheat
is flooding the American market be-
cause the Canadian who sells his
product in this country has, because
of exchange rates, strangle hold
on our market
In Chicago wheat has been around
SLIGO a bushel. The Canadian who
/ ships his product there and sells at
that price really gets, as compared
with his own market, $1.90 He
gets that price because he can
take the SLIGO Of our money which
\ he receives for bushel In
American markets, carry it home and
change 1t at present exchange rates
into more than $1.90 OF his own
Canadian money with which he pays
his home labor and all home bills.
As long as such a situation obtains
the Canadian wheat grower or dealer
is going TO sell all OF his wheat he
can, not in Canada, not even in Eng
land, but in the United States.
1t happens that about the same rate
applies here to Argentine exchange, so
the wheat grower or dealer Of Argen-
tina can make the same sort of trade
here to his own advantage and to
the disadvantage of the American
farmer, who is thus between the devil
AID the deep blue sea.
And these exchange conditions, to
a greater or lesser degree, are going
to continue for nobody knows how
long. because the world owes us from
fifteen to twenty billions of dollars
which cannot be paid of for many
a year.
There is only one remedy for this
situation. 1t is a tariff that will
protect the American farmer in his
own market, whether he has a fight
ing chance In foreign markets or
none at all.
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Reason Advocated, Not Blue Laws.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
Guardian of Little Rock. the official
organ of that diocese. comments on the
report of the Rev. DIR. Manning's re-
marks on Sunday blue laws.
Can Americans be made good by law?
All men of experience and wisdom deny
II.
VIII young people go to church more
frequently when the blue laws are
passed? To create respect for the
Lords day people must be told the rea-
son for doing so. namely. that It is n
duty which we owe TO our Lord and
Master, who is above.
All can see the RESPONSIVENESS of this
when 1t is explained TO them, but force
the American people detest.
RAYMOND vERNrMoNT.
Catholic Priest.
DENTON. Tex, December 10.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22
Philadelphia Men in Unusual Concert
Flonzaley Quartet Performs the Individual Parts Of
Remarkable Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra

The concert of the Philadelphia Orr
chestra in Carnegie Hall last evening
was OF an unusual type The soloist was
the Fionzaley Quartet. At any rate,
this distinguished organization occupied
the front of the stage and performed the
individual parts of composition called
concerto for string quartet and orches-
ira. The writer of this remarkable work
was Emanuel Moor. whose creations in
trlgue musicians and astonish laymen.
There were some fathers named Bach
and Handel who used to write concert,
grossi or otherwise, for orchestras and
solo instruments. and doubtless Mr..
Moor conceived the brilliant idea OF
bringing their form down to date. He
fashioned piece in which the quartet
figured as the concertina did in the
works of the fathers and the orchestra
as the ripieno He alternated orchestral
tutti with passages for the quartet as a
whole, or others in which its separate
instruments sang solos.
The composition was well made and it
had some pages of real beauty. The best
Of these was heard toward the close of
the slow movement. But for the most
part there We're prodigious labor and
mouselike results. This was the case
particularly with the first movement, and
also. though in less degree. with the
scherzo. The Instrumentation of the
composition was generally good. But
not shadow Of a doubt is there that its
effect with tho audience was largely due
to it's admirable performance. This in
deed was an artistic achievement of high
order. In which the members OF the
Flonzaley Quartet and Mr.. Stokowsky
and his men had equal shafes.
The concerto was preceded by Mozart's
Jupiter" symphony. which occupied less
time and had considerably more to say,
and was followed by Richard Strauss's
Death and TRANSPORTATION" The au-
dience was of the brilliant and repre-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22
The Mandate Row.

From the Worlds editorial com
ments on the first session OF the
League of Nations we learn that the
bitter fight between the Council and
the Assembly over the distribution OF
powers ordained by the sleazy Cove
nant was really a most encouraging
feature of the proceedings. Our neigh
bor says:
mo matter how acrimonious the
debates at Geneva were a sign OF
health and vigor."
One of the signs of health and vigor
which give joy and encouragement to
the World was thus described last
Friday by the correspondent of the
New York 7imes-another Of the
faithful:
"A really serious controversy.
which may deeply affect the future
Of the League OF Nations, has broken
out through the refusal OF the big
Powers to permit in the Assembly Of
the League q discussion OF their
rights. privileges and obligations as
manufactures"
These mandates, which the seltishy
interested big Powers represented IN
the Council insist are no business or
the Assembly of the League, in whose
name the mandates are to be issued,
are believed to amount TO practically
perpetual leaseholds and monopolies
of the territory partitloned. 1t took
the committee of the Assembly q
month or more to get sight of the
documents, and even then it was OBJ
tanned only under pledge Of secrecy
No discussion In the Assembly was
permitted by the Council, no pub
Lefty was tolerated. And this at the
millennial headquarters of open COW
enants, openly arrived att
The Worlds theory that this signifi-
can't breach in the organization and
the acrimony thus developed are a
sign of health and vigor is beautiful.
IT is both ingenious and ingenious.
1t almost deserves a place in immor-
tnfity alongside Of the same esteemed
newspapers explanation Of Demo
cratic defeat in the Maine election
two years ago. We mean the ceie-
brated election when the Dirigo State,
according to our neighbor, went anti
WILSON for the very reason thai
the Democratic campaign was SO
efficiently conducted.
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Rain to-day
and tomorrow; not much change IN
temperature increasing east to south
winds becoming strong.
For New Jersey-Raih to-eay and prob
ably Tomorrow; warmer to-day; colder To-
morrow; increasing east TO south wiafs
probably becoming stTcH7.
For Northern New England-inc-essi
cloudiness and somewhat warmer to-day
probably followed By snow tomorrow snow
or rain; increasing easterly winds.
For Southern New Ensand-Unsettled
and slightly warmer to-day probably rain
or snow; Tomorrow RAIN increasing cast
erly winds.
For Western New York--Rain or snow
to-day and tomorrow: somewhat warmer
to-day: colder tomorrow; fresh to strong
southeast and south winds shifting to east.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-The southwest
disturbance has moved northeestward 10
Missouri, and a secondary depression has
developed over Southern Texas. Rain has
fallen within the last twenty-four hours In
ana the middle and North Pacific States
rain and snow In the region OF the great
lakes and snow in the plains states ana inc
Rocky Mountain region Pressure continued
high to-day over the Eastern states and the
Northwest. The temperature was nigh III
the region OF the great lakes ana the CEN
trail valleys, while much colder weather over
spread the plains States. and the tempera-
ture continued much below normal through
out the Northwest.
Inc outlook Is FOR snow or ram IN nofth-
ern and rain in middle and southern sec
tons east OF the Mississippi River to-mor-
row. probably continuing Thursday in the
region of the great lakes. the upper Ohio
Valley and the middle Atlantic and north
Atlantic States.
The temperature will be somewhat higher
Tomorrow In the Atlantic States and the
upper Ohio Valley, and 1t will fall in the
lower Ohio Valley, Tennessee and the east
Gulf States Wednesday and over practically
all sections east Of the Mississippi River
Thursday.
Ohsnl.ta tinr. a Ir.,itnd staLne weather R,i-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22
A. They Tell I'm Up state.

From The PotsddDs Courier aud freeman.
Charles Hunt. q caretaker on a preserve
In the vicinity OF Pulaski, had lively bear
hunt few days ago Hunt was walking
through the woods swinging his rifle when
he spied a good sized cub perched on the
large limb of a tree and fired at the cub,
wounding II. and the animal fell to the
ground, followed in quick succession by three
more real big black bears. At this critical
moment the caretaker being without smmu-
milton, he beat II for the clubhouse. some
distance away. secured plenty OF ammunition
and retrnced his steps 10 the vicinity of the
bear tree, but the quartet OF animals, seem
ing 70 realize that he was crack shot.
made FOR their haunts.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22
Constantine Back in Greece.

Restored to his royal palace at
Athens, CONSTANTINE, the deposed
King Of three years ago, had yester-
day an intimation Of the full mean
ing of his return to power when
Premier RHALLIs submitted to him
The resignation Of the Greek Cab
met. With some OF the Ministers this
was political courtesy due 60 the
returned monarch, but with RHAIIIs
il was an evidence OF the desire to De-
relieved of the reconstruction OK the
Hellenic kingdom.
VENIzELos left Greece at the height
Of its power and with an extension
in territory and an increase In pop
ulation which fulfilled the Greek
dream Of a Greater Greece. with
his eminent qualities Of statesman.
ship VENrzEIos would have SUCCESS
fully finished the work Of unifying
the new lands and peoples and Of
solidifying tire kingdom but to a
new man confronted with the pres
ent conditions this Will be tremen-
deus task, and there now appears to
be no man among the Greek politi-
clans equal to its accomplishment.
CONSTANTINE, according to all re-
ports from Athens, received an ON.
thusiastic reception upon his return
TO Greece. lie was carried TO his
cnrriage by crowd apparently gone
mad with excitement, ana In his
progress along the streets tho people
~evinced the greatest enthusiasm,
frequently breaking out Of bounds
sad rushing UP and kissing the har.
ness Of the horses drawing the royal
cqlnpage. How much Of this was
due to Greek temperament or after
election spasms and how much To
The belief that he would be able tt
solve Greece's national problems viii
appear later But CONSTANTINE him.
self must have compared " with ,ho
rejoicing three years ago WHOM hg
left this same Athens
In his address CoSsTASrryE de
cared his intention Of re;alnln. u,
territory gained by The treaties and
81 carrying on the war in Asia Min0'
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Wien JUN ~. oSuLIy, Lie Out-Jlulc
champion pacing stallion, with rec
ord Of 2:00lS, died recently at the
age Of 80 there were many familiar
with the history Of the horse who re-
called the part he and the trotting
stallion STEAMBOAT, :071a. played in
the life Of EDWARD II. HARTMAN, the
railroad man.
STEAMBOAT, like Gentry, had worn
for brief period the laurels of a
champion. and it was In driving them
that the great financier found recrea-
ton and renewed vitality which had
tremendous drains upon it. AS in the
case of ROBERT BONNER and many
other men of affairs, the horse was a
stimuiant and joy to Mr.. HARTMAN.
1t was his delight to get up behind
Stamboul and engage John r. Cen
try, driven by the professional reins-
man ANDREWS, In sprints that were
as flercely fought as any of the races
on the Grand Circuit. These took
place over the half mile course at
Goshen in Orange county which Mr..
HARTMAN bought for his own pleas
ure but unseifishly shared with his
neighbors, giving each year 4 two day
meeting which attracted throngs from
all over the East. These meetings
are continued as sort of memorial
by Mrs. HARTMAN, with a purse Of
$1,000 for each event and special
awards to drivers who win their races
in straight heats.
When STEAMBOAT was bought by Mr..
HARTMAN from the Hobart estate for
81 900 he was so savage that col
ored boy familiar with the horse went
along as condition of the sale. Tt
took only few months for Mr.. HAREr-
MAN to tame the fiery son of Sultan,
who yielded to the magic of his mas
ter's personality.
When STEAMBOAT died Mr.. HARRI-
MANS affections were transferred to
Gentry, for whom he had paid $12,-
600. After Mr.. HARTMAN died the
little pacing stallion lived on under
the loving care OF RENSSELAER, IVES
TON, a close friend Of the financler,
who managed the race meetings at
Goshen. Mr.. WESTON. man of taste
and refinement, had been secretary to
the historian BANCROFT. He had a
great admiration for Gentry, and
when the horse was sent to Tennes-
see some years ago he made IL a
practice to spend his winters in Nash.
vile, dividing his days between visits
to his favorite and discussing the
merits of the light harness horse with
congenial spirits at the Hermitage
Club.
RENSSELAER, WESTON died last Feb
ruary and the black boy who came
from California with STEAMBOAT and
later assumed charge of Gentry is
now, his hair touched with silver,
alone with the memory Of men who
found recreation in the company of
horses totally unlike in gait and dis
position but possessing the qualities
which made them the greatest Of
their types when at the zenith OF
their powers.