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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
PURCHASING AGENTS
FIGHT HIGH PRICES
Delegates to Chicago Conven-
ton Expect Pre- War Level
in the Spring.
ALL BUYING .ADyIsEDLY'
Men Who Spend 10 Billions a
Year Predict Wage Drop
With Decline in Costs.
Special Despatch to TIM nrun


CHICAGO. Oct. 11.-Fifteen hundred
members of the National Association OF
Purchasing Agents opened their annual
convention to-day at the Congress Hotel
The slogan for the three days gathering
Is Up. A. meaning Purchase advis-
edly."
Opinion among the delegates is that
by spring prices will have skidded close
20 the pre-war level. Wages too, will
drop but the decline will keep step with
prices.
II don't care what the price of an
article may be-" said F. A. Marish, the
dean of all American purchasing agents,
who spends about 100000 annually,
"if I know that on that price ! can
form an intelligent opinion Of what
future prices may be. There are per-
sons who talk panic The essential ele-
ment OF panic Is surprise. an element
which Is lacking to-day. A crisis may
ave the effect Of panic. but we are
not going to have a panic: that is. we
will not have a panic If the sellers of
commodities, the manufacturers and the
retailers and jobhers do not actively
oppose the gradual price decline that
now is IN effect"
There is not the slightest doubt that
the peak of high prices has been passed
and the era of extravaganza is over"
said A. Fl. Reinhardt. another delegate.
81 have conversed with great many OF
the delegates and they are unanimous in
the opinion that two tenets guide the
merchant to-day. First, shorten the in
ventories and liquidate the stocks, sec
ond, don't make purchases beyond your
immediate needs. This attitude is mute
evidence of the trend of the markets.
The pendulum is swinging back to the
centre point.
''The labor situation affords another
encouraging factor With the element of
competition returned TO the labor market
employees are going to work harder to
hold their positions"
Prices of most commodities will have
dropped at least 20 per cent by spring"
said J. p. Davis. vice. president of the
association. 1.-THE decline in prices will
come gradually. and there will be no
financial panic.
ct is not to be expected that prices
will reach the level of ten years ago,
but they will drop to the scale which
prevailed in 1915. AS might be expected,
wages also will drop. This will, how
ever be merely in keeping with the de-
cline in prices and should create no hard
ships for the consumer"
The associati ton comprises 1000 menu
bers in the United States and Canada.
who. altogether. spend $4,000, 900, 900 a
year.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
SEWARD DEFIED A LEAGUE.
A Civil War Incident That Might In
terest Mr.. Wilson.

To THE New YORK HERALD; Sine
President Wilson in his endeavor to oh
tain votes for his League of Nation
chooses to refer TO himself as one VIII
has spent his life in famillarizing him
self with the history, traditions AM
policies Of the nation il seems fttin
to inquire what degree of familiarity h
shows in his historical writings with tn
attitude of the United States towar'
former leagues Of nations.
In the Life OF William H. Seward,
by Thornton kirkland Lothrop, In tn
American Statesmen Series" the au
thor says at page 299:
Stewards first serious anxiety as to our
foreign relations was caused by learning
through Russia, that the French En-
peror had proposed to England that they
should act in concert In their course
toward this country. and that England
had assented that Russia had been in
vited TO Join this league and had de-
clined; but that II was confidently ex-
pected that the smaller European Pow
ers, and those having less interest In
the matter. would follow the lead OF
France and England.
This Intelligence showed him that our
quarrel was not considered only our own
affair; that we were not to be permitted
TO settle It In our own way, but We're pos
sibly 10 be threatened with a combined
pressure from the European Powers which
we could not resist. aud which might
ultimately force us to acquiesce in tho
breaking up of the Union.
Upon learning this arrangement Seward
Immediately took the only means in his
mower of averting the difficulty. by no.
tifying our Ministers that this Govern
nent would not recognize any such un-
derstandng between France and England
and would decline to receive any conf
munications as joint proposals from these
two or any two or more countries.
He adhered TO this resolve when the
British and French Ministers called to
present a Joint offer OF mediation. He
insisted on receiving them in separate
interviews at different times and dis
cussing each proposition as II 1t were
distinct matter. wholly unconnected with
the other.
The reader. Of Mr.. wilson's History
of the American People" will look IN
vain in that work for any allusion, how
ever remote, to this most interesting
episode, notwithstanding that 1t Is well
authenticated.
Frederick w. Seward pronounces the
scene at the State Department wher
his father declined to receive together
the two Ministers, Lord Lyons and Nj
Mercier. to have had more influence upor
the affairs of the nation than an
pitched battle.
mo, no, no this will never dor ex'
claimed the American Secretary of state
the verdict which the Amer
lean people will render November
upon the present proposal to subject the
United States to foreign control
BROOKLYN, October II. A. L. d.
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SLAVERY AND THE LEAGUE.
Another Attempt to Get Mt the Mean.
ing Of Article XIII.

To THE NEW York HERALD May l
have space 10 reply to an interesting
letter published in THE NEW YORK HER-
AID under the caption Another Dis
crepancy"?
The disparity exists in the two ver-
sions of Article XIII. but It does not
lie In the word 'traite." This positively
means traffic. trade, the buying and
selling OF women and children" La
traite des blanches" Is the white slave
trade. ia traite des noirs." or jocularly.
"traite e'ebane," is "blackbirding :"
Treatment" is "traitement," as used in
clause b. The regulation of children's
working conditions is provided for else
where in the treaty--in Part 10 (Laboi :.
The English reads: "Wil entrust the
League with the general supervision OF
tho execution OF agreements with regard
to tie traffic In women and children"
The italicized words are omitted In the
French version-"contr6le general des
accords re,atifs g Ia traite des femmes ct
dos enfants" (irspection and verifcation
OF agreements relative to the slave trade
IN women and cnildren).
According to IAttre: In political and
administrative language 'eontrole' is the
opposite OF action. Hence, in the French
the League merely verlfies and records
such agreements whereas by the Eng
lish II supervises their execution. Is not
this discrepancy radical and does It not
substantiate the statements made by
Mrs. Livermore7
The agreements among the moro ad-
vanced nations contemplate the restric-
ton or regulation OF white, brown. yell
low and black slavery. But in China.
india. Siam. Persia--all League menu
bers in good standlng--as also In Tur-
key Arabia, Morocco and other Moslem
countries. including our own sulu ISL
ands. the sale OF women and children,
especially in times of famine or dearth.
ard not necessarily for immoral pur-
ioses. is legal anc customary. and the
League must take oognizance also Of
their peculiar conventions.
IL the covenant be not relegated to the
scrap heap would It not be prudent TO
have the French and English versions
checked throughout by competent and
patriotic jurlsts before we touch it7
NEW York, October IL. A NJ. r.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Cows smith and Edwards will break ground
TOT the yehicular tunnel under the Hudson
Canal and Washington streets 2 p M
spanish concert under the auspices of the
Spanish Society of New York. Carnegie Hall.
Z. NJ Dinner. Hotel Actor. Z 80 p. NJ
FRANK a. Munsey AMI Paul E. Derrick win
speak at the Sphinx Club dinner. Waldorf
Astoria, : +. NJ.
Senator Joseph r. Robinson and Elon IT
Hooker VIII debate political issues before the
New York Chapter of the American AssocIa-
ton OF Engineers, Engineering Societies
building. 20 West Thirty-ninth street, this
evening.
National Order of the Daughters of rss
bella, annual memorial mass, St. Patrick's
Cathedral. 10 A NJ.
Association OF Manufacturers of Chilled Car
Wheels. meeting, Waldorf Astoria, II A. M.
Archbishop Patrick j. Hayes and Martin
Conboy VIII speak at the Knights OF Column
bus celebration of Columbus Day, Carnegie
Hail. $3.50 r. NJ.
high mass will be celebrated for Lord
Mayor Terence MacSwiney In the Church OF
81. Francis de Sales, 1875 East Ninety-sixth
street, $50 A. M.
Anna G. Chandler will talk on mighty
Kings Of ASS, ria" before teachers In ele-
mentary schools. Metropolitan Museum OF
Art. 1880 p. NJ
New York Electrical Show, Grand Central
Palace, II A. NJ. to II II. M.
State convention Of the Order of the East
ern Star. Masonic Hail, 46 West Twenty
fourth street. opening day.
Prof Ian G. Hannah win lecture on Japan
To-day" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Si5 p. NJ.
The Italian Benevolent Society. Sons of
Columbus, annual charitable festival. Star
CASINO. 10Th street and Park avenue. this
evening.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
The Mlsappiied EpIthets of Gov
ernOr Cox.

Is JAMES nj. Cox of Ohio really
friendly to WOODROW WILSON of New
Jersey, whom he hopes to succeed as
President of the United States?
If he was, would he speak of the
President as "the stricken man In the
White House"2
Has "a stricken man" been admin
istering the government of this great
country as It's Chief Magistrate for
more than year past?
Was it "a stricken man" who turned
Robert LANSING neck and heels out
of the State Department because the
Secretary Of State tried to prevent
the public from thinking that the Pres
ident might in fact be disabled from
discharging the duties of his Office?
Is it "a stricken man. who has been
sending messages to Congress, making
important nominations to Office and
issuing political statements to the pub
lie to induce them to support Gov
ernor Cox for President?
Such suggestion, coming from
such source. is remarkable incl
dent even in Governor Cox's remark
able campaign.
Governor Cox has made another
mistake of kindred nature.
He calls Colonel THEODORE RoosE-
WELT, the son Of President THEODORE
ROOSEVELT, "a misguided youth"
This epithet If used at all, should
be applied to quite different RoosE-
Welt, namely, FRANKLIN DELANo
ROOSEVELT, the Tammany candidate
for Vice-President on the same ticket
with Governor Cox. Indeed, the term
misguided youth Is capable of a
wider application and includes any
young man or woman who is unwise
enough to think of supporting the Will
son ticket at the coming election.
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"rm ready TO assert" peys Fl.
Now. listen 10 your uncle telling
I'll bet a COW that Jim and
Can down the lawmakers at spelling.
So. we need education bad7
Maybe VIC debut we're hair triggers
When the tax columns quick we add
And balk Mt the surprising figures.
There's lots Of college timber now
Going 10 waste; it's no more charming
To have Yale grad tell VS. how
To do the proper sort Of farming.
n cost a pile Of money, too.
stuf1ng Medors fuii OF knowledge.
Say, tween the stovepipe. I and you.
Dish washing isn't learned at college.
IAN educated farmer. say,
II apt 10 baik at his positions
Instead OF saving wood he may
Dream he's highbrow politician.
lie keeps his sheepslin polished clean
And talks about his alma mater.
while all the fences sag and lean
Owned ~ this learned educator.
ny accident he riay become
A famous figure at iawmaking.
And while his logic strikes you dumb
To us It's only Josh and taking.
To vote the dough away he's quick
Canals, good roads. meath graft they labor
For easily he learns the trick,
Does our educated neighbor.'
HorAcs SEYMOUR Km1xs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
TESTS FOR CITY POSITIONS
Civil Service Boards Announces
Work and Salaries.

It was announced by the Municipal
Civil Service Commission yesterday that
examinations would be held in the near
future for the following positions:
Probation officer. salary 1880 year (;
junior chemist for asphalt work, S1.420 !;
foreman of asphalt work. 81 and $3.50 n
day; assistant inspector of combustibles,
salary not specified; bookbinder, $3.50 !;
junior engineer familiar with heating.
Lighting, cleaning and ventilatlng schools,
salary dependent on size of schools !;
typewriter copyist $500 and upward !;
tabulating machine operator familiar
with Powers machine, si.0l4 to S1.56O !:
tahulating machine operator familiar
with Hollerith machine, $3.50 to Sl,56o.
and tahulating machine operator familiar
with Hopkins machine $3.50 TO s1.560.
Applications to compete In the tests
should be made Immediately to the
Municipal Civil Service Commission.
fourteenth floor, Municipal Building.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12

-crncifixfon and built the Church Of
the Holy Sepulchre.
Besides being the scene of the LAST
Supper the room, according 70 sacred
history and tradition, was also the
place where CHRIST slowed Himself
after His resurrection, where the eiee-
ton of MATTHIAS to the apostolate
took place, where PETER came after his
liberation from prison and where the
first Christians assembled to break
bread.
The room, which was on the second
floor Of the house, has been described
as "a hall of goodly proportion"
Some of the drawings of the Last
Supper in the catacombs at Rome, 1t
has been asserted, picture this room.
1t has been represented too in early
Italian mosaic and marble works.
LEONARDO DA VINcI in his famous
painting at Milan and Won GEBHARDT
in more recent canvas have gwen
w 40 lAhNiA NOhhNtptAciiS VI tlflS, per
haps the last, meeting place of CHRIST
with all His Disciples.
While the building survived the
ravages of the Romans in the early.
Christian era, it was partly destroyed
by the Saracens in the eleventh cen
fury. 1t was restored by the Cru
saders and turned over to the care of
the Augustine monks, but later it
was again demolished and rebuilt.
When 1t was taken by the Moslems
in the sixteenth century it was In the
hands Of the Franciscans. After nav
ing been held by the Turks for almost
four centuries II is finally turned over
to Italy, a tribute from the Sultan to
italian interest In Turkeys fate The
building will be restored again to its
place as holy shrine and as one Of
the important Christian memorials in
Jerusalem.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York - Generally
fair to-day and Tomorrow little change
In temperature; fresh south to south
west winds.
For New Jersey-Fair to-day and prob
ably tomorrow; little change In tempera-
ture; moderate south to southwest winds
For Northern New England-Partly cloudy
to-day, with showers in New Hampshire and
west Vermont; tomorrow unsettled, probably
showers; little change In temperature; mod
crate winds. mostly east TO southeast.
For Southern New England--Fair to-day
and probably Tomorrow; little change In
perature; moderate to fresh south TO south
west winds.
For Western New York-Unsettled to-day
and Tomorrow. probably showers; not much
change In temperatursi moderate shifting
,WAsHINGToN. Oct. 11.-Pressure con-
tinued high to-day over the Atlantic States
and the Southern States and II was low
over practically all other sections There
were local rains within the last twenty-four
hours In the region OF the great lakes the
mlodie Missouri Valley, Wyoming northern
Gtah and In the Pacific States from central
Salliornia northward. The weather was fair
In all other regions.
observations at United States Weather Blu
s soau stations taken at s p NJ yesterday.
'e'ehty-titth meridian time
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
Are Men More Exact Now Than
They We're In COlumbus's Time?

Nobody knows when COLUMBUS was
born, or where. Nobody knows what
he looked like he may have been the
thoughtful, smooth shayen man whose
picture Is in the Ministry of Marine
at Madrid, or he may have been a
bearded, piratlcal looking person. No
body knows where he was buried.
Nobody knows where COLUMBUS
landed. Even he never knew, ex :ept
that it was on an island off what he
believed to be Cathay.
Isn't it stranger" says the school
boy when he discovers how inexact
history is in regard to the Discoverer.
But is 1t strange? COLUMBUS had 40
stenographer, no typewriter, no dupli-
eating machine. There was no copy
right Office, no museum of natural
history, where he could file his story.
1t is fortunate that LAS CAsAs saw 1t
and rewrote parts of 1t before 1t dis
appeared. There were comparatively
few educated men at that time.
More than four Centuries after Co
LUMBUs's time group Of men met
in France armed with all the fnstru-
ments of exactness that Time has
piled up. Geographers, photographers
ethnologists. etymologIsts, clerks, sec
retaries, translators end Interpreters
swarmed about the statesmen. The
clerk hire was many times the entire
cost of the Columbus expedition.
And yet these exact modern wise
men could not so word Article X. Of
their Covenant that Its meaning should
be beyond shading. They could not
put Article XXI. into such English
and such French that the TRANSACTIONS
must agree. They could not frame
Article XXIII. In words that would
not invite controversy.
Looking at Versailles, old CHRIS
TOPPER seems to have been rather an
efficient cuss. He did get somewhere !;
and even If 1t wasn't just where he
aimed, it was good pie e and upward
of a hundred million people bless him
for the job he did.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
A Federal Offlcial's Deep Thoughts
on Raisins.

We find the Prohibition Commits.
sioner, Mr.. KRAMER, quoted as fol
lows on the subject Of raisins and the
like:
DRY fruits, such as raisins, may
not be legally used in the manufac-
ture Of misunderstanding fruit juices
exclusively for use in the home.'
Supposing that one citizen, or q
million citizens, decide that they will
pay no attention to Mr.. KRAalEB'a
ukase about raisins, what can he dc
about it?
Under the Fourth Amendment TO the
Constitution mans house is his
castle and may not be searched with
out warrant.
Under the Volstead act no warrant
shall issue for the search of a home
unless 1t Is being used for the ur.
lawful sale of intoxicating liquor"
Sale, not use.
Maybe Mr.. KRAMER, with his chat.
ter about raisins, is trying to- make
the public laugh. That public has
stopped laughing over the scandal Oh
the whlskey running.
If KRAMER is joking he ought to
talk about forbidding the stewing OF
prunes. The dried prlne is much
more comic than the dried grape.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
E,akeiey Coughiin Murdered.

II the confession made yesterday
to the Pennsylvania State police by
August PAsQUALE, "A prisoner In the
Norristown jail, is true, the kidnap-
ping on June of BLAKELEy CoUGHLLN,
son of Mr. aud Mrs GEORGE III. COUGH
LIN of Norrlstown, and the subsequent
conduct of the criminal constitute u
series of crimes amazing in coldblood-
edness and sordidness.
PAsoUALE now says that he took
the infant from the crib where he lay,
put him under his coat, and buttoned
that garment tight. When the kid
napper unbuttoned his coat BLAKE
LEY CoUGHLTN was dead, smothered
by the man who stole him from his
home.
Notwithstanding the death of the
infant, who was stolen In order that
his parents might be forced to pay
for his restoration TO them, PAsQUALE
did not drop his scheme Of blackmail.
Knowing that the son could never be
returned to his parents alive, the alb
ductor wrote the letters signed THE
Crank" in which demands We're made
for pay for the return of the baby
and promises Of his restoration were
held forth. and apparently he obtained
the $4,000 which Mr., CouGHIfN,
against the advice of the authorities,
put in designated spot. PAsoUALE
was ultimately captured. by the po-
lice and has been in jail for several
weeks. 80
In this tragedy there are two cir
cumstances which must not be over
looked. One Is the extreme unlikeli-
hood that PAsQuALE conceived and
executed the crime without confeder-
ates The othal is the fact that one
who In the commission of crime
commits crime of higher degree nay
be prosecuted and punished for the
more serious offence though he had
no Intention of committing It.
AUGUST PAsQUALE murdered BLAKE
LEY CoUGHLIN when he smothered
that infant: AUGUST PAsQUALE and
his confederates, II he had confeder-
ates, should be put on trial for the
crime Of murder.
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The SuItan's Gift to italy.

A gift of peculiar interest to the
Christian world Is the cpnaculum,
or the room OF the Last Supper,
which. according TO La Tibuna OF
Rome, has just been presented to the
King OF Italy by the Turkish Sultan.
The house In which this room Is stu
ated was place Of pilgrimage In the
ancient Church as early as the begin
ming OF the second century. 1t was
for many years the only church In
Jerusalem, being known In religious
history as the Church Of Sion. or the
Church of the Apostles. II fell into
the hands of the Moslems In the six
teenth century and. transformed into
q mosque, It has, since been closed
to Christians.
This house, according to tradition,
belonged to MARY, the mother of Saint
MARK the Evangelist, and reference Is
made by ancient writer's to Its exist
ence I'm 100 a. ID. 1t was the one
holy site open to the FIRST Christian
pilgrims to Jerusalem, for the hin Of
the cruclflxion was inaccessible 10 the
pilgrims, while the place rHRsrs
burial was concealed Ivy piles Of earth
and stone. the mound thus created
being crowned with statue Of
Venus. 1t was not until the fourth
century that CONSTANTINE the Great
uncovered the cave where the body
OF Jrsus had been lnid by JosEPB Of
Arfmathea, marked the site OF the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
TO ADVANCE GAS CASE
Corporation Counsel Would Put
Arguments Ahead.

John p. O'Brien. Corporation Counsel.
announced yesterday that he will move
in the United States Supreme Court to
advance for argument the city's appeal
from the order Of the Federal District
Court keeping the city out OF the litlga-
ton brought by the Brooklyn Union Gas
Company 10 have the so cent gas act
declared coniscatory and, therefore, UNI
constitutional
Mr.. OBrien says In his petition, fled
with the Supreme Court yesterday, that
neither tho Attorney-General, the Dis
trict Attorney nor the Public Service
Commission represents the private con-
sumers OF gas In the litigation. He also
asserts that the city. as n municipality,
should be made a party to the action. as
the rs cent rate to the city is INSOFAR
able from the so cent rate and both must
stand or fall together.