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The New York herald., 1920-12-29

Annual Christmas conference on Child We'll
fare Work, New York School OF Social Work,
Dinner for the benefit Of the European
Relief Council Fund for the starving children
of Europe. Hotel Commodore, p. M:
Womans mass meeting In behalf of tho
European Relief Council Fund, Metropolitan
Opera House. y. M.
Annual meeting. Henry L. Woodwork Pub
lie School II Association, S97 Gates avenue.
Brooklyn. s p. NJ.
Annual dinner and dance, Alumni Associa-
tion of Blair Academy, Blairstown, N. j..
Hotel Pennsylvania, p. M.
Reception. Centenary Collegiate Institute,
Hotel Astor, . p, NJ.
Dinner, American Association for Labor
Legislation, Hotel Astor, p. NJ.
Meeting. Unity Society. Hotel Astor, p. NJ
Dance, Phi Lamba Phi. Hotel Astor, 80
p M.
d JLsSnpcheOs; ~ Kiwanis Club. Hotel McAipin.
Dance. Sylvan Lake Club. Hotel McAlpin.
p. NJ.
NJ bsnes. s,n;s. Omega Alpha Pi Fraternity. Hotel
Dinner. Battery g. ;aoith Field Artillery.
Luncheon. Metropolitan Paper Box Manu-
facturers Association. Hotel McAlpin. II 80
Dance; Omega Phi v~nternity. Hotel Nc
Luncheon; Aroma Club. Hotel McAlpin.
All, day meeting of the Salvation Army.
First tree movie show for school children
by the Board OF Education, Washington Irv-
ing High School auditorium, 2:30 p NJ.
Dance, Omega Cana Delta, Hotel Pennsyl-
vana. 8 p. NJ.
Luncheon, Commercial Union Insurance
Company, Hotel Pennsylvania, 12: 80 p NJ.
Dance. Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, WAL
dorf-Astoria, 8 p. NJ.
Concert and dance, Cornell musical clubs.
Waldorf-Astoria, 3 =. M.
Benefit concert for the Stuyvesant Poly
clinic Hospital. Waldorf Astoria, 2 p. NJ
Dinner, Brotherhood of Commercial Trav-
ellers. Waldorf-Astorie. p. NJ.
Dinner. Universal Film Company, Waldorf
Astoria. p. NJ
Meeting and luncheon, Neurological So
ciety, Hotel Bltmore.
Meeting, the Friends of Irish Freedom.
Hotel Biltmore
Meeting. Century Theatre Club. Hotel Com
modore.
Dance and supper. Catholic Summer School
Of America, Hotel Commodore. p. NJ.
Lance, Kappa San Omega Society, Hotel
Ansonia, p. NJ.
There will be sessions OF the Eastern Divf-
sion of the American Philosophical Associa-
tion In room 301. Philosophy Hall. Columbia
University, beginning at $3.50 A. NJ. and
p. M. The associations dinner will be az
the Westminster Hotel In the evening.
The Intercollegiate Conference on Labor
and Radical Movements called by the Inter-
collegiate Socialist Society will open at the
Rand School OF Social Science, East FIJI
teenth street. AT 2:30 T. NJ.
The Harlem Council OF Women will give
entertainment to classes of the foreign
born az the library at 224 East 125th street.
p NJ \.
The New York herald., 1920-12-29
The Unbroken Line.
From the Toronto Globe.
We who have trod the border lands of

From the Toronto Globe.
We who have trod the border lands of
death,
Where courage high walks hand in
hand with fear,
Shall we not hearken what the Spirit
saith,
"All we were brothers there, be
brothers here?
We who have struggled through the
baffling night,
Where men were men and every man
divine,
While round us brave hearts perished for
the right
BY chaliced she'll holes stained with
life's rich wine,
Let US not lose the exalted love which
From comradeship with danger and
the Joy
OF strong souls kindled into living flame
BY one supreme desire, one high en-
ploy.
Let us draw closer in these narrower
years,
Before us still the eternal visions
spread;
We who outmastered death and all his
fears
Are one great army still, living and
dead. CANON ScoTT.
The New York herald., 1920-12-29
Palm Beach's Cocoanuts.
The Credit for Planting Them Given
to Ex-Governor SuIzer.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: read
with much interest the paragraph In
your paper copied from the Florida
Fisherman and entitled How Cocoa
nuts Came to Florida"
Many years ago my uncle and l hal
trading boat on Indian River and
Lake Worth, and 1 was told then the
names of the men who planted the
called Palm Beach.
1t seems that in 1881 n tall. slim, red
headed young man named William Sui
ger was camping out at Lake Worth
with an old Nassau fisherman named
Charley Moore. They had a shack on
the east shore of Lake Worth and a
trail across the land spit to the shore
OF the Atlantic ocean, where they fire.
quently went for surf bathing and surf
fishing. They were the only white
people then living In this part Of
Florida.
One day while they were at the ocean
shore they discovered that lot OF
cocoanuts had been washed ashore from
the deck load OF some schooner going
north from the West Indies. They gath.
eIcu up thest tOCOdnutS ana plleQ them
on the beach above high tide water ana
feasted on them until they began to
sprout. Then this young man Sulze-
suggested to old man Moore that they
plant them. and they were busy for sew
eral weeks planting them between the
ocean beach and the lake beach.
They are the beautiful cocoanut trees
now seen and so much appreciated by
so,many sojourners every year at Palm
Beach.
This young man sulzer became after
ward a member Of Congress and Gov.
ernor Of New York. You can rely on
this. as got the story direct from old
Charley Moore and others who knew ths
facts. I do not know whether Moore is
alive yet or not, but he lived at Palm
Beach for many years and sold a part
of his homestead to Mr. Flagler. and on
1t the hotels now stand.
GEORGE N. CHURCHILL.
New YORK, December 2s.
The New York herald., 1920-12-29
Toscanini Leads La Scala Orchestra
Audience Gives Famous Conductor Ovation He Gets
Brilliant Results With Ordinary Musicians.

Arturo Toscanini and an orchestra
bearing the honorable title of La Scala
appeared last evening at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House in the first OF series
OF concerts. The programme was one
OF heroic proportions 1t consisted of a
Vivaldi. arranged by Sam Frankie Bee
thoven's fifth symphony, Debussy's s
"lberia," Respighi's Fountains of
Rome" and the prelude and love death
from Tristan und Isolde"
Mr.. Toscaninis fame in this city rests
chiefly on his skill as an operate con-
ductor. but he is not unknown as a
director of symphonic compositions. A
remarkably fine performance of Bee
thoven's ninth symphony under his di-
rection at the Metropolitan Opera House
on April 13. 1918, fingers In the minds Of
music lovers. 1t was repeated a week
later. Mr.. Toscanini made his final ap-
pcarance as an opera conductor at the
Metropolitan on April IA. 1915. directing
Mascagni's Iris" This was In the next
to the last week of the season. In the
closing week illness prevented him from
conducting. He did not return to this
country in the following season and last
evening made his first appearance be-
fore New York audience.
None Of the music performed was un-
familiar to local concert goers, though
most of 1t must have been to that con-
siderable part Of the audience composed
of Mr. Toscanini's countrymen, who had
assembled to besrow upon him their
customary patriotic acc;amations Dis
cussion of the matter Of the concert
may be set aside as 1mmaterial. What
concerns us is only the manner.
That Mr.. Toscanini. knowing the con-
ditions in the musical world of the
United States. would come across the
western ocean with an incompetent or
chestra was, of course, out of the ques-
ton. But 1t was hardly to be expected
that he would be able to carry away
from Italy it's best orchestral material.
The organization heard last evening was
good one. but not one Of special dis
tinction.
The quality of the strings could not
be exactly judged in the Metropolitan
Opera House, which Is notorious slayer
of string vibrancy. In Carnegie Hall 1t
1t was chiefly excellent in piapissimo
Indeed, Mr.. Toscanini's orchestra pos
sesses a pianisslmo which reaches a
mere whisper Of sound, and from that
its dynamic scale ranges to a full
blooded fortissimo. which also was not
completely revealed in last evenings
audience chamber.
The wood wind is good, except the
bassoons. which are very heavy In tone.
None of the woods rise above the ordi-
nary level The oboe Is distinctly
Italian. and our ears are French trained.
The brasses are acceptable. the horns
The New York herald., 1920-12-29
Boxing Purses Too Big.
Better Sport Expected When the Pub
lie Stops Paying High Prices.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
editorial article under the title when
the Sport Came First" is none too early.
That the sport Of boxing is in the con-
dition set forth in your article is largely
owing to the indulgence of its support
ers. So long as those preposterously
large purses are provided by the gate
paying public. so long will the contest
ants fight and divide. Let the public
declare that the game Is not worth the
candle and the price will fall. Prize
fighting Is no more immune from the
law of supply and demand than any
other commodity.
1t is notorious that the whole sport
is tainted with unwholesomeness and is
under a cloud Of suspicion. Very few
men, whatever their position In their
little world. appear to be able to escape
the imputation of some policy or action
discreditable to themselves and dis
credting to the sport. However irnpor-
tant the battle, and whatever the result,
there springs up a crop of suggestions
and innuendoes that everything was not
on the square.
son of the sport to-day and as 1t was
generation ago is I'll in favor OF the
days which are gone. The exponents
now familiar to the world are inferior
in every way to such men as your
article mentions either in courage or
character 1 do not assert that those
men who no longer adorn the ring were
Of ocf 10 10
Of their reputation as sportsmen. as the
term is rightly understood.
It falls to the lot of the present day
artists to have the glory of knocking
down set-ups whosstitle to expectation
OF victory is impalpabie as air. Cham
pionshlps which are won and held by
such stricken fields as those which have
made the game farcical should be writ
ten down go per cent. 1 am not ex-
pert enough to know the difference Of
the rules which govern contests Of to-
day and what are known as Queens
berry rules, but doubt IL the latter
would allow the blow known as the
rabbit.
You could say nothing truer than that
with the departure of the greatest ex-
ponent went also the sporting spirit.
And nothing Is more regrettable. When
some sort of equilibrium of reward and
exertion is attained clean contests may
possibly be looked for 1t is scandalous
that such huge sums should be collected
by men who have nothing to lose. Let
the promoters realize that the public will
not pay and the inevitable slump will
soon send the prices rushing down.
Something will be gained when the pub
lie realize that they have been fooled
and will stand for no more.
w. L. ALLEN.
New YORK, December 2S.
The New York herald., 1920-12-29
Stricter Game Laws.
Amendments Proposed to Decrease
the Number of Gunners.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The
rapid dlminution of game and birds
generally in the State of New York. and
especially on Long Island, where the
closed five year period for quail does
not prevail, demands that our conserva-
ton law should be amended to meet
the exigency.
At meeting Of the American Asso-
citation for the Preservation of Game in
this city last spring DR.. w. T. Hornaday
said that 100000 hunting licenses were
issued at $1.10 each, and inasmuch as
there were only about $4,000 deer in
the state. had each hunter attempted to
kill the on deer to which he was en-
titled the species would have been to-
tally exterminated. while rs per cent.
of the hunters would have got nothing.
The same illustration holds true of all
other species of game, whether wearing
fin. fur or feathers.
The only method to obviate this de.
struction is to decrease the number of
gunners by increasing the license fee
to $40 for residents and S25 for non
residents This would eliminate vast
army of irresponsible persons, pothunt-
ers.. game hogs and vagrant youth, to
all of whom the term bag limit is un-
known, and who shoot mercilessly. reck-
lessly and with prodigality at every
thing that flies or creeps, In season and
out OF season. They are almost en-
trely responsible for disastrous forest
fires, fatalities. Sunday shooting and
every species OF criminal trcspass and
constitute dangerous nuisance.
The next step is to abolish oil re-
qurements for the posting and main
tenance of signs Often they are not
seen and, either through malice on the
part OF the gunners or weather coudi-
tions. they soon disappear, entaillag
much effort and expense on the part
OF the owner to replace them. The bet
ter plan is 10 prohibit all persons. from
shooting on the land OF another unless
written permission to do so be first
obtained.
There should also be ten years close
season for woodcock, grouse and quail,
as is now proposed In New Jersey. These
birds have been nearly externinated on
Long Island.
Another provision which would be
beneficial Is that there shall be no un-
protected birds, as otherwise the door
Is opened TO every person, licensed or
unlicensed, to carry a gun at all sea-
sons, and as opportunity offers. either
through Ignorance or intention, to de-
stroy many birds nominally protected.
Severe penalties should be imposed for
shooting from an auto or other vehicle
along the highway. A common device
is to crouch behind the driver of an
old horse and wagon and thus approach
and slaughter unsuspicious game at
close range.
The gray squirrel In a very destruc-
The New York herald., 1920-12-29
A Woman's Paradise.
Burma Has No Servant Shortage
and Men Are Far i'm Majority.

Dorothy BIack Of Rdn0oon IN London Daily
Mdii.
Here in Burma, in land of sunshine
and golden pagodas and gay silks and
flowers, is q woman's paradise indeed
We are not troubled by many political
worries, as in India. The Burman is a
country gentleman. easy-going, polite
and hospitable. besides being good to
look upon in his silk garments. His
wife Is charming person, who takes
keen feminine interest in her own
clothes as we'll as in other peoples.
Burma Is the nearest possible approach
in the East as one sees 1t on the musi-
cal comedy stage-attractive delightful
and-comic.
When you have landed under the
shad ow of the great golden pagoda from
the boat that has been your home for
four long weeks and steered your way
through an atmosphere of cocoanut oil,
betei and cheroot into the streets be-
yond the landing stage you move In n
world of soft bright colors and sun
shine and the fresh green Of the tam
arind tree.
Wnen inc street III anu lHc
firefiies nit from tree to tree in the
dusky roads come down to the gym
khana and see the men standing in
groups watching the dancing that goes
on to the music Of n military band. We
have never more than half n dozen girls
to boast of, and the men outnumber
them by several dozens. Girls marry
almost as fast as they arrive. and the
incoming boats are eagerly scanned by
the bachelor population much in the
same spirit as that In which ticket
holder reads the names of winners In n
rattle. wondering when his turn will
come to draw something.
In Burma n great many men are mis-
ogonysts and conhne themselves solely
to the bridge room. But this Is only
because there are not enough women
to go round.
Another desirable feature Of the place
is that there is no servant shortage here
Cooks jostie one another TO cook for
you. They will even go to the length
of poisoning each other in order TO step
into a lucrative situation, with a really
Big Master and a Memsahlb who does
not give too much trouble.
And II IL is hot. and II occasionally
one meets cockro2ches the size of mice,
and " ones boots do grow mushrooms
in night during the rains. well. what
of it? Complete perfection can never
be discovered anywhere, but ] doubt IL
anyone can find land with more to
recommend II to the fair sex than
The New York herald., 1920-12-29

Interstate Commerce Commission
reports show foJ the larger railroads,
again under private operation, from
January ] 70 October i a huge i'm
provement il operating efficiency.
Some of the extraordinary service
gains in round numbers are as
follows:
Freight train miles, 451 100000 as
against 395,0O0,0O0 for the correspond
ing period Of 1919-a gain of more
than fourteen per cent.
Passenger train miles, 409,0OO,OOO
as against 391 900 000-a gain of four
and a half per cent.
Loaded freight car miles, 11,00O,-
100000 as against 10,000,00O0, ,O00-a
gain of more than twelve and q half
per cent.
Gross ton miles, 669, 900, 600 900 as
against 593,OOO,000,OOO-a gain of
nearly twelve and three-quarters per
cent.
Net ton miles, 331 ,OOO,0O0,000 as
against 2S7,000,OO0,O00-a gain of
nearly fifteen and half per cent.
Car miles car day, 24.1 as against
22.3-a gain of more than eight per
cent.
Net ton miles a day, 4s6 as against
429-a gain of more than thirteen and
a third percent.
Nearly 100000 miles OF railroad
over which can be handled by more
efficient operation, say, fifteen per
cent. more traffic, are equivalent to
an increased trackage of fifteen per
cent, or more than 10000 miles.
Hundreds OF thousands of cars
that can be made to run, say,
two miles a day more than they
were running under less efficient
management, are equivalent to tens
and tens Of thousands OF more cars
and locomotives.
Twenty billion dollars of roadbed,
rolling stock and equipment that can
DC Hiaue w noAe eAucleHJ OpefdllOH
to do, say, ten per cent. more busi-
ness are equivalent to two billion
dollars of new railroads.
General business may be under the
maximum for while, to diminish
railway traffic, but higher operating
efficiency will count just the same to
get more results than before out of
less expenditure. Gross receipts may
fall, but net earnings, under the i'm
proved operation, may yet rise.
In any event the salvation Of the
roads and the interest of the country
hang on a continuation Of this
improving efficiency. Keep it up.
The New York herald., 1920-12-29

pOnents of the Government to ad
vance their own ends. The signing
of the treaty with Jugo-Slayia at
Rapallo had the effect, however, of
most successfully awakening the Ital-
ian people to the fallacy Of continuing
to support D'ANNUNzIo. They had
tired of the whole Adriatic con-
troversy and they welcomed settle
ment which offered the advantages
they sought and at the same time
left them at peace with their neigh
bors on the east.
D'ANNUNzIo's professions Of patriot
ism took on an appearance OF insfn-
cerity that they had not had before.
His reference to GARIBALDI brought
forth the memory that the founder of
modern Italy had hardened to the
advice of civil counsellors when he
wished to occupy Rome, and that
he had answered the order to return
from the Trentino by his historic
utterance, 81 obey" D'ANNUNzro be-
came to the Italians not an inspired
prophet but a nuisance to be abated..
The italian Government has credit
ably performed difficult and un-
pleasant task. What Italy will now
do with her poet-orator remains to be
seen; but she is not likely to award
him the triumphant return promised If
his patriotism would take the form Of
a peaceful surrender Of Fiume, to the
faithful fulhlment Of Italy's treaty
obligations.
The New York herald., 1920-12-29

tive rodent, especially as it devours the
ears of ripening corn. while the rabbit
does much injury to the garden, par
ticularly to bush beans. by consuming
the entire plant. pods, leaves and stems.
The owner of land should be permitted
to trap as well as shoot them.
A law was passed several years uso
permitting any licensed gunner to kill
a cat alleged to be hunting in the forest.
The cat is the most valuable asset a
farmer can possess as 1t not only does
not injure any crop but protects it while
growing and likewise when stored from
attacks by harmful rodents, including
squirrels and rabbits. Not the least of
it's virtues Is that 1t also keeps away
the birds. and the comparatively few
birds the cat catches 1t we'll merits as
a reward for the benefit it confers. A
cat Is more useful than all the birds
can possibly be, and really If the truth
were known the farmer would be better
off If not a bird visited his fields. The
English sparrow, however. in cities is
invaluable.
Public game farms should be abol-
ished at once as they are an unneces-
sary burden on the taxpayers. Extended
close seasons would restore the game
much better and more rapidly. The
crow as a destroyer of sprouting corn
is cipher. as 1 am Informed. compared
with the pheasants bred in those places.
Last but not least there should be no
Sunday shooting to disturb the quiet of
the day and its opportunity for peaceful
rest ARCHIBALD c. WEEKS.
BROOKLYN, December %.
The New York herald., 1920-12-29
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Generaiiy
fair and warm to-day: cloudy and
warmer tomorrow: fresh west inS
southwest winds.
For New Jersey-Far to-day; tomorrow
cloudy and warmer; moderate 10 fresh west
and southwest winds.
somewhat colder to-day: Tomorrow unset,
tied and warmer moderate shifting winds
For Southern New England-FaIr to-day;
Tomorrow cloudy and warmer; moderate TO
fresh west and southwest winds.
For Western New York-Unsettled weather
to-day and tomorrow, probably snow;
warmer tomorrow; fresh to strong south
west winds.
that was central off the New England coast
last night moved northeastward to New
foundland with greatly increased intensity
and the Alberta disturbance moved east
ward to Manitoba. Pressure was high Tues
day over middle and southern sections east
OF the Mississippi River. over the west Gulf
States and west of the Rocky Mountains
except over the north Pacific States. Light
hours In the region of the great lakes, New
England and north New York. and rain In
Florida, along the south Atlantic coast and
In the north Pacific States. In all other
regions the weather was generally fair
The weather became colder to-day in the
East States except New England whiio
there was decided rise in temperature
from the Rocky Mountain region eastward
over the Plains States, the Missouri and
upper Mississippi valleys.
The outlook Is for snow flurries in the
region OF the great lakes and the upper
ohio Valley tomorrow and Thursday and
mostly fear weather elsewhere east Of the
Mississippi River.
Observations at United States Weather Bu-
reau stations taken at p. NJ. yesterday.
a VT AEfsl L.. -
The New York herald., 1920-12-29
Italy at Fiune.

The Italian Government had little
heart in the military adventure which
was forced upon 1t by D'ANNUNzIo' S
occupation Of Fiume. The loosening
Of his grip upon this contested city
and the upper Dalmatian coast, how
ever, became a national duty OF Italy,
If she was to fulfil the conditions Of
the treaty into which she entered with
Jugo-Slavla at Rapallo.
The Italians have borne with signal
patience and forbearance D'ANNUS-
zIo's display of egotism and vanity,
which he had thinly velled under his
professions Of ardent patriotism. As
a poet and orator he had inspired the
nation to activity by his appeals for
the redemption of the lost Italian
provinces and his service as O soldier
aviator had shown him n man fear
less enough to support his words by
deeds. But his control Of Flume,
when he had once established himself
at the head Of It's affairs, proved his
inability as an administrators. His
Government was as fantastic as most
Of his utterances. 1t had all the ele-
ments Of a comic opera autocracy and
play at amateur piracy without an
observance Of the principles of state
control Of the rights of nations.
His protestatlons of patriotic devo-
tion to the ideal Of a Greater Italy
drew to him the loyalty Of many Of
the italian Irredentlsts. Any at
tempt to remove him from the head
Of Fiuman affairs was used by op-
The New York herald., 1920-12-29
The weavers.

Three ancient weavers sit alofi
Before a viewless loom.
And ply the shuttle tirelessly
Through winters cold and gloom.
one often let's us hear his voice
But never shows his face
One wears a frayed and sombre robe
And one a scarf Of lace.
They weave n cloak immaculate
The naked earth to fold,
A velvet mantle Of the snow
Thick starred with crystals cold,
The silent frost that works all night.
The wind we cannot see,
The cloud in tattered garments gray;
Behold the weavcrs threel
MtSNA IRvINo