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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23
What Cassidy Might Have Ee,n.

Lay sermons over JOE CASSIDY are
not necessary; the circumstances OF
his rise and fall are too fresh in the
public mind. Yet everybody, friend
and foe alike, who knew CASSIDY
must ponder upon what JOE might
have been.
No man in borough politics, not even
McCARREN. knew his particular field
better than CASSIDY knew Queens. II
had grown up around him from his
boyhood. He knew not only the PEG.
pie but their variety of needs. AS a
Borough President. familiar not only
with his own constituency but with
the whole structure of the {ity's gov.
ernment, CASSIDY brought to the
Board of Estimate about as shrewd q
mind as has been observed in that
important body.
CASSIDY knew what Queens needed
physically but not what it needed
morally. He could see the want OF
new subways, new streets, better gen.
eral development for the borough, but
he failed TO realize that in politics he
and his system were behind the pro.
cession. His first setback, when he
was defeated for the Borough Presi-
dency, followed the exposure of the
padded payrolls and general graft
that prevailed under his administra-
ton. The people Of Queens, always
easy going, had become weary OF a
government run too brazenly for the
convenience of the poolrooms, gin
mills and cockpits.
There was a chance for CASSIDY to
come back even after that, but he neg
lected TO learn that the ancient po-
litical sins were no longer in fash
ion. Once more in power, he was
caught selling Judgeshlp. 1t was
the final delusion of a boss who be-
lieved that everything political in the
borough belonged to him, even the
bench. With all the intelligence which
he had displayed as pleader for
Queens In the Board OF Estimate,
with the popularity which he SO often
proved, he might have retained the
leadership of Queens and won an hon
orable place in the city's history. But
he succumbed to an evil tradition.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23
General Pershing's Pay AMI His
Future.

General PTRsHTNG's salary is fixed
by Congress at S13.500 n year. and
in the act creating his Office the Presi-
dent is authorized 10 FIX his allow
ances In lieu Of quarters, heat and
light and for travel. transportation
and forage These have been set ut
$500 a year, making General PEE
SHINES total income from his service
in the army $4,000.
Compared with the money rewards
given by the Allies TO their victorl-
Gus military commanders this annual
compensation is modest. and General
PEEsHING will get it only as long a.
he stays on active service Yet we
believe Ii is n more substantial in
come than the nation has ever before
conferred on man for military SER
vice ~ stands ont couspicuously
when Il is recalled that none Of the
naval officers who fought for us has
been promoted to rank corresponding
with that given to General PERsHrNG.
In the distribution Of rewards for
services in the war army men got
much the better Of 1t as compared
with Uncle SANS sailors.
General PERsHrNGs future IS nat
urally interesting to all his fellow
Americans On June 9 II was an.
nounced that he had sent a letter to
Secretary BAKER In which ne said
that i, seemed 20 him his duties as
General were mot likely 10 be Of n
character that will require more than
In portion Of his time, and that he
felt that without dctrlment 10 the
service he might retire when the
army reorganization was complete
ana he free 20 engage in something
more active" This decision was con
tingent upon the continuation of the
conditions then existing. General PER
suiNC declaring that. unless stu
alton should develop to justify his
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23
A Foreign Trade Choice.

Some time the romance of the world
reconstruction will be written by some
body. 1t will be written in figures.
1t viii begin by saying that of the
1000. 100000 Of the earth's population
fully one-half Suffered needless priva-
ton and fully one-sixteenth. if not
more, died for lack of food and medi-
cine. These figures will have nothing
to do with the war
AS the story unfolds IL will reveal
the lopsided condition of world wealth.
The Western Hemisphere and the Far
East will be revealed as possessing
two-thirds of the worlds gold and not
knowing how to use it. Europe will
be shown as gasping invalid, crav-
inG, help and getting little. but finally
climbing to her feet. girding up her
loins and pluckily struggling through
to salvation.
This nation will be pictured "a hav-
ing piled up trade balance of seven
billions in the two years after the
armistice. The figures will show that
while we sold billions to Europe and
bought billions from the Far East we
had the opportunity to become the
worlds clearing house.
The irksome subject of foreign ex-
change will be set forth in compelling
style to show that with us lay the
choice of strangling our own best Gus
toners by refusing credit to them and
letting their exchanges fall to pro-
hibitive discounts so they could buy
from us no longer, or extending to
them helping hand and an encour-
aging word and putting them the
more quickly on their feet.
The glittering opportunities knock
ing ut the door of America to-day will
appear from the cold perspective of
the future ms well nigh unbelievable.
This and more will all come out in
infinitely detailed figures Of trade bal
ances, national wealth. industrial pro-
ductiou and international buying
power ms reapportioned in the proc
asses OF reconstruction.
We know the world requires credits
and goods of us to-day. We know
there are other older and more expert
enced nations burning for the oppor-
tunity which the world now thinks
we are going to throw away. Let il
not be recorded that we allowed fool
ish theory, false reasoning or pro-
vincial timidity to stand in the way
of selling the greatest opportunity
for commercial supremacy ever Of
fered To any nation in the whole
history of the world.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23

A delegation Of Georgians Who are touring
Industrial centres In the interest of the
by Mayor Iiylaa at City Hall, 9i5 A. NJ,
viii lunch at the Biltmore Hotel as guests OF
the .Jerchants Association and attend the din
ner of the Georgia Society OF New York at
the Hotel Aston. 80 p NJ
Traffic Club, annual meeting and dinner.
Waldorf-Ast =. NJ
Tank Corps Post TO and Barbara Frietchie
Post 40 of the American Legion will hold
da ice in the Hotel Pennsylvania. r. NJ.
Fraternai Association of Musicians. meet
Ing, Steinway Hall. 100 East Fourteenth
street, S:15 2. NJ
Guy Emerson and Samuel Brill will discuss
Business Conditions OF To-Day" at an open
forum of the Park Community Council. Public
School 81. Eighty-seve 18th street. between
Pa X and Lexington avenues. T. NJ.
Lady Archibald Hamilton will lecture on
The World and It's Table at tho Waldorf
Astoria. IL A. NJ.
The New York Fire Department Band Will
hold Its annual ball in Central Opera House,
2oa East slxty-seven,h street, this evening.
Peoples Singing Class. meeting. Public
School 80, Fif,y-seventh street between Sec
Edward J. Lauterbach and Edward J.
Wheeler VIII spehk at a meeting Of the
Leas1e Of Foreign Born Citizens, Yorkville
branch, 40I East Seventy third street, T. NJ.
Prof. Louise NJ. Kueffner will lecture on
The city in the Poets Vision: Moods If
MM a,,isa, m; at the american Museum Of
Central Park West, SIS z. NJ.
New York City Federation Of women'8
Ms rpa aprt 81 ;i ,snr t9'e, as ~ a ~;
Temple Second avenue and Fourteenth street,
: 80 y. NJ.
Linnaean Society of New York, ~-fneotinc
American Museum of Natural History, Sevea-
ty-seventh street and Central Park West, s
y. NJ.
New York Academy OF Medicine, section OF
obstetrics and gynecology, presentation os pa
pers and nomination OF officers. II West
Forty-third street, s 30 7. NJ
Council of National Retail Associations,
meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, 10 A. NJ
Employees of New York Stock Exchange,
dinner, Hotel McAlpIn. L. NJ.
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A Vain Attempt to Buy Tickets for
the Opera Concert.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: ! made
an unsuccessful attempt on Sunday after
noon TO obtain tickets for the concert
at the Metropolitan Opera House in the
e7ening.
Shortly after 80 1 went TO purchase
two S2.20 orchestra seats, as advertised.
and waited IN line behind possibly fifty
others, who in turn apparently received
the reply given me when 1 reached the
box Office, namely. that only single seats
in the gallery and dress circle were on
sale When I received this reply proba-
bly, fifty more were in line behind me.
On reaching the main entrance on
Broadwav without tickets | was held up
by three gentlemen who informed me
they could readily furnish me with two
orchestra seats for $3.50 or SIS each. Ny
purse and frar1e Of mind both forbade
the payment of this price.
l observed several electric signs an
norncing opera tickets for sale. and on
vicinity OF Th.rty-ninth and Fortieth
streets I found seats on sale from $40
to SIS each. While I was at one place
man came in and threw down bunch
of tickets and announced to the person
in charge that the package contained
for.y tickets for the evenings concert,
which he could have at 40 cents adj
vance, and they were promptly taken
with the comment ITS a cinch.'
I then visited several ticket agencies
to learn II this boasted limit of only
so cents advance was a fact and was
greeted with the apparently complacent
announcement that they had no tickets.
as the entire house was sold out. AS l
had just come from the box office and
knew this was not the fact I told them
so, without, however. making the slight
est dent in their nerve.
UNsopHIsTrcATEp NEW YORKER.
New YORK, November %.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23
Mr.. Wizards Irish Inquiry Has No
Omcial, Governmental status.

Probably great many other per
sons are perplexed by the circum-
stances which have moved the author
of the subjoined inquiries:
ITO THE NEW York HERALD: In
to-day's Issue of THE NEW York
Herald you publish a report by the
Associated Press OF an investigation
carried on by the Commission of
Seven Of the Committee of 100 inves-
tigating the Irish question.
please tell your readers what this
committee is. who appointed It. why
they head their articles Washington.
why Senator WALSH IL connected with
the matter
'Is not the whole thing gotten up
to implant the idea that this com
mittee Is appointed by Congress. and
sits in Washington? This committee
= selects whom it pleases 70 appear
before it. WILLIAM w WEIGH.
PATERSON. ~ j.. November 10"
The Committee of 100 whose Com
mission of Seven has been listening to
reports OF conditions in Ireand is a
strictly non.ofiicia body called to.
gether by OSWALD GARRISON WILLARD,
editor of the Nation, weekly re-
view printed in this town, TO investi.
gate conditions in Ireland
The Commission of Seven has sat
in Washington; consequently the re-
ports Of what goes on before IL are
properly printed under n Washington
date line.
Another commission representing
the committee Is expected to go TO the
British Isles to gather information
regarding the situation which inter.
ests It's members.
We do not recall the names Of oil
the members Of the Committee Of 100.
Among the names we have seen have
been those Of number Of persons
friendly TO free Ireland. Senator
WALSH is one Of these; he undoubt.
cdly believes he Is advancing the cause
Of the irish faction with which he
sympathizes by taking part in this in
qulry. That there Is deliberate plan
to deceive the public about tho q.ar.
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remaining he contemplated retiring
within the next few months.
& Since this determination was made
public there has been no further an
nouncement of General PERsHING's
plans. The reorganization of the army
is well under way, though by no means
completed. 1t has been suggested that
General PERsHING would make a tour
of South America, lead the Inaugural
ton day parade in Washington on
March 4, have a seat as Secretary of
War In President HARDING's Cabinet.
General PEgsHING has contributed
nothing 10 the discussion. lie has
borne himself with the same engag-
ing modesty which has been notable
throughout his interesting career, and
dispositions of his energy made by UNI
authorized persons have apparently
been accepted by him for what they
are: nelshhorly and good natured ex-
hibltions Of real affection and respect
for him.
or course, General PERsHING could
get much more than $4,000 year
in private life, but if he carries out
his intention of last June and quits
the army it viii not be for the sake
of money alone. He is man TO whom
idleness IS distasteful. He does not
want to rust out He wants to work
hard at something worth while.
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acter of the committee seems improb-
able. Only the stupidest and least at
tentive reader could be misled into the
belief our Government is behind it
Being a voluntary body, the COM
mittee and its commissions may, of
course, hear or refuse TO hear any
body as its judgment dictates. SO
far it has not been reported that audi
epce has been refused to any person.
The British Embassy was invited to
be represented in one way or another
AT the hearings now in progress, but
on the ground that it was the I'M
acknowledged purpose OF the COM
mittee to circulate anti-British propa-
ganda it declined.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23

Financial Adventure OF a Visitor at
Morris Costs Theatre.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Theatre
goers are not interested in the cost OF
production OF plays. They want to know
why they cannot buy good seats at the
box office at prices printed on the
tickets.
On October % at Morris Gest's the
atre was offered three seats for
Mecca" in the seventeenth row. An
hour later I obtained an order. at a
ticket agency for three seats in the third
row for S4s5 apiece. The tickets were
at the theatre all the time. You will
note the difference of s1.55 between the
regular price OF each ticket and the price
I paid
Personally ! have been great booster
for the theatS. but experiences Of hold
ups have cured me. FRED SCHwARz.
NEW YORK, November %.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23
RECITAL ny NINE. NERO.

Nine. Yoanda Nero, who had already
been heard here this season as soloist
with the National symphony Orchestra.
gave plano recital yesterday in Aeolian
HALL She began with a seldom heard
organ concerto" in y minor by Wilhelm
Friedemann Bach. the most gifted OF all
the great masters sons. II Is work
cf much musical interest. and In Il Nine.
Nero did some generally fine plano play
ing The Introductory passages afforded
OF power.
In Beethoven's sonata, opus 100, there
was dignity and sentiment but some
blurring OF tone. Other numbers in
cluded weber's "Rondo Brilliante" and
selections by Brahms. Grieg Debussy
md List
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Rain to-day:
tomorrow probably fair; east shifting
to northwest gales.
For New Jersey--Rain to-day; tomorrow
fair; strong westerly winds.
For Northern New EngianG-Snow or rain
to-day: Tomorrow clearing: easterly gales.
For Southern New England-Rain a., day:
tomorrow probably fair; east shifting 10
northwest gales.
For Western New york-Raln to-day: to-
morrow cloudy; fresh east TO north winds.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.-The Western dis
turbance was central Tonight over western
Lake Erie. and secondary disturbance was
then developing over Virginia, These dis
turbances have been attended By general
rains east of the Mississippi River and snow
and rain in northern New England. Michigan
and the upper Mississippi Valley Rains
also were reported III the north Pacific
States, Idaho and Utah The temperature has
fallen considerably In the Ohio and Missis.
sippi valleys and the Gulf States and 1t has
changed little In other regions. The out
look is for rains and SHOWS tomorrow and
clearing weather Wednesday In the north
Atlantic States. the reSicn OF the great
lakes and the upper Ohio Valley. In the
middle Atlantic States rains will be fol-
lowed by clearing and cooler weather to-
the south Atlantic and east Gulf States the
weather will be fair and cooler tomorrow
and fair Wednesday. Storm warnings are
displayed IN the Atlantic coast at and north
Of Sandy Hook.
Observations at United States Weather T.a-
y p M y.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23
French Coal supply Improves.

After two years of the bitterest
struggle against every conceivable
L. -aicap, political and physical ,
Fra,rce has attained so per cent.
increase in home coal production,
bringing it up to 100000 tons n
year, or an average of about 100000
tons n month, which is still 100000
tons n year below theT913 figure. Her
receipts of coal from Germany under
the Spa agreement add approx
mately 100000 tons year to this
and her purchases from England and
America make her total yearly supply
at this time between 100000 and
55,000,000 tons.
Although this is still 20,000000 or
30.000,000 tons below the estimated
T5.000,000 tons required for full OPP
ation of French industry, it is Il
gratifying improvement over the sit
uation which existed last year. when
the total supply was not averaging
much more than 25,00O.OO0 tons n year.
At that time the fuel shortage in France
as in all Of Europe looked hopeless.
Transport, labor, foreign exchange,
diplomatic and political problems COM
blned with scarcity of materials. and
the run down condition of mines still
in operation created what appeared to
be insuperable difficulties in the way
of rapid increase in the national
coal supply.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23

Far from warrantlug the happy Nc
lief that the League nc Geueva -
iunctioning for peace, the reports Of
unimpassloned observers Of it's daily
proceedings make it seem more and
more as if IL were functoning for
war; and not only war IN various
quarters OF the civilized ana unclvil-
lied earth but also internecine war.
horrible to contemplate. in the League
Of Nations Itself.
Some Of the presages are impossible
co overlook.
Between the Council and the As
sembly the jealousles Of jurisdiction
aud potency are already manifestlng
themselves in n most distressing fash
ion. The Assembly, embodying the
more democratic principle Of repre-.
rcntation. In which big Powers and
little are supposed to operate With per-
feet equality Of voice and vote. Is con
cerned over what is very naturally
regarded as an assumption of supe-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23

GEORGE NJ. SMITH. who died yester-
day after brief illness, translated
into his success as a newspaper man
the qualities OF uncompromising hon
esty, sound judgment and good com
mon sense which marked him us a cit
izen and friend. and which lay at the
bottom OF his interesting and engag-
ing personality. Before going to the
New York Tribune as managing editor
Mr.. SMITH was for many years a mem
Der Of the staff Of this organization.
and nowhere Is the loss good journal
ism has suffered from his death better
understood than It is here.
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The Session at Geneva 1.-TWO Radl-
caliy Different Views OF Its PROM
ise and PerfOr nance.

= The first meeting of the League OF
Nations has gone far enough to make
possible something like reasoned
survey of the conditions developed,
the inherent difficulties of the situa-
don, the vital mistakes of the Cove
nant, the persistent cussedness of Old
Human Nature and the dangers the
United States has escaped.
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Others in the Audinece.

Mr.. and Mrs Lewis l.. Clarke's guests
in box 4 we're DR.. and Mrs. Preston Pope
Satterwiite, Mrs. George A. Pope of San
Francisco and Messrs. James 3. Clews
and William n. Davey.
With Mr.. and Mrs. w. Willis Reese in
box i6 were Mr.. and Mrs. 7. Tileston
Wells and Miss Elvine Neeser.
Among others in the audience were Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Wise Miller. Mr. and
Mrs. Gano Dunn. Mr.. Louis f. Doyle.
with whom were Nine. Scotney and Nine.
Peralta . Miss Antoinette Martin. Mr..
George Ledlie. Mrs. Peter Larson. Mrs.
Henry Payne Whitney. Mrs. Payne Whit
ney, Mrs. WILDER Bloodgood. Miss Rosalie
Bloodgood Mr.. and Mrs, Henry Seligman
and Mr. and Mrs. +. Mcneil Bacon.
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CzECHo-sLovAKIAN HEARD.

vasa Prihoda, a young Czecho-Slovak
violinlst, gave his first recital In this
country at Carnegie Hall last night He
had played with much success in italy
and South America. The concert was
given under the auspices OF the Camp
fire Girls. In Tartimis 'Devil's Trllr'
and Paganinrs concerto In d Mr.. Pri-
hodas playing showed seriousness and
musical feeling. His tone was small and
his style gave an impression OF super
ftrtoiity
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23
The Turkey.
raised a little turkeykin

I raised a little turkeykin
Upon the fire escape,
And every morn and every night
measured him with tape.
I went without my scrambled egg.
My daily loaf Of bread
And even oatmeal porridge that
The turkey might be fed
He grew so very big and plump
Beneath my constant care,
] Grated him and sold him 90
a multimiilionairc,
And with the money bought a car.
FITTED w with coal my bin.
Ana dined Thanksgiving nay upon
E0ast duck and terrapin.
MINNs tEviNo
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-23

We have on the one hand the de-
voted theorists and idealists whose
natural and entirely respectable APP
petite for visible results is satisfied
by the mere spectacle of Il formally
organized institution. Behold ye
doubters," they are saying. Here is
our League of Nations actually in eX-
istence, with forty-one member Gov
ernments cooperating, with the giant
wheels Of the machinery for safe
guarding the peace of the world ac-
tually in revolution, with its Council
and its Assembly and its Secretariat
actually functioning as the Covenant
intended them to function. The ideal
has become the real And yet the
United States is not there"
That is what they are saying. in
one form or another, Wherever zeal
for an idea which has become a men
tai fixture obscilres in the mind thus
occupied the essential distinction be-
tween Experiment and demonstration.
The attitude and the eXultation over
The reports of proceedings at Geneva
recall that similar attitude and eXul-
tation on the part of the sincere
friends of peace after the conventions
Of The Hague had been signed and
tSe Palace of Peace built and opened
in token of the surcease of the mis-
cries of war.
So we find Mr.. TAFT'S League to
Enforce Peace issuing as recently as
Yesterday "a joyful proclamation of
fulflment. exhibiting the very low
cost of what it describes as "the new
form of insurance represented by the
League of Nations is, inSur-
ance of the world against war. Mr..
TAFT's league points out the crafty
ing fact that the rate Of this new
form of insurance against war is in
considerable. "As the figures now
stand" says its bulletin, at seems as
If the premiums would prove surpris-
ingly small" The share Of the United
States in the expenses Of the League
II we had belonged to the organiza.
tion. for the fiscal year 1927 would ht
hut 5000. 29G-that is on the basis OF
league activities being confined to tho
present debating society phase. W.
then get this naIvely complacent com
parison:
belonging to the League next year
would cost us exactly one-tenth Of
per cent OF what we spent on
ornaments during a single year be-
fore the war. while II would amount
TO something like two-thousandths OF
per cent Of what the direct cost OF
our belligerency reached in 1918"
Surprisingly small premium, in
deed. for insurance against war
Dirt cheap. we should hasten to nd
NIT N we could conscientiously and
automatically accept this lngcnuou:
method Of computation. assuming
with these estimable enthusiasts that
the INSURANCE Is valid and arma
ments therefore unnecessary for M
future tine.