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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-10

sorrow and the love felt by their fell
lows for the thousands who, though
their names be but traced In water on
the parchments Of history, survive in
deeds written In letters of fire on the
hearts of grateful humanity.
To him who sleeps in a splendid iso-
latlon there we may say:
Common man, common soldier,
mere unit in a vast aggregation of
common men and common soldiers,
thou art the firm foundation of all
human States and Powers, the creator,
guardian, defender of Civilization.
Little regarded and little regarding in
life, mt death but an entry among The
Unknown Dead, to you human under
standing, heir of Learning, Insight,
Experience and Divine Inspiration,
proudly dedicates the lasting me-
mortal of al its glory.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

c,a Annual rn dinner q the Fifth Avenue Asso-
ileid day for those interested in farming
In all OF its branches, State Institute of
applied Agriculture. Farmlngdale L. l., all
Board of Education. meeting. r,f,v-nin,,,
street and Park avenue, 4 =. NJ.
Ann i meeting Of the Woman's Board
OF Missions. Montclair. +. NJ.
Monthly meeting and luncheon OF the New
6 aork board OF Trado and TRANSPORTATION.
ton, IS Park Row. 1915 =. NJ.
Pen Chung Chang will lecture on '"rhe
Hopes OF Young China under the auspices
OF the League for Political Education, Park
Theatre, II A. NJ.
Meeting of the Life As Fine Art Club
Commodore Hotel. ? p. NJ.
The Mining and Metallurgical Society,"
dinner, Commodore Hotel, p. NJ
The Rev. Joseph NJ. Mcmahon will deliver
the first OF his 1920-f02f course of lectures
Under the auspices of the Catholic Library
a., s. on Fact and Fancy About the
motion picture entitled For the Free
dom OF ireland will be shown at the Brook
yn Academy OF Music In the evening and
again on Thursday erening.
New York Lumber Trade Association.
luncheon. Waldorf-Astoria. M.
National Garment Retailers Association
meeting. Waldorf-Astoria, 10 AN.
New York Browning Society. meeting,
Waldorf Astoria. . 7. NJ.
knickerbocker Relief Club, meeting Wal
dorf-Astoria, T.. NJ.
Forum meeting of tho New York Credit
Mems Association, Hotel Aston. 1:4J p. VI.
British soldiers night entertainment under
tho auspices of the New York Port Society
168 Eleventh avenue, s:f5 Y. NJ.
Address by Il. W. +. Alexanderson before
Joint meeting OF the Radio Institute and
New York Electrical Society In New York
city. p. NJ.
Kiwanis Club. luncheon, Hotel McAlpin.
IL 80 +. NJ.
optometricel Society. meeting, Hotel Nc
Alpin. . p. NJ.
Hat Lining BOARD of Trade meeting. Hotel
McAlpin, s T.. NJ.
New York City undertakers. meeting, Hotel
McAlpin, . 80 7. NJ.
order of Railway Track Foremen OF
America. convention, Broadway Central
Hotel. all day.
New York State Hotel Association. conven-
ton and exhibition. Grand Central Palace.
all day.
National Association of Women Painters
and Sculptors. Architectural League, 10 A. Nj.
Horse Assertion of America, meeting of
the board of directors. 1880 A, NJ; iunch-
con, IL 80 7. NJ. annual meeting. . =. NJ.
Society OF Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers. Engineering Societies Building,
council meeting +. NJ.
Luncheon OF the Long Island Real Estate
Board. Cafe Boulevard, I +. W.
National Association OF Ladies' Hatters.
dinner, Hotel Aston. J.. NJ
Luncheon. 1890. Hotel Aston 20 members
Of Hotel Mons Association OF the United
States and Canada.
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
1.-THE Book OF the Hour by Prof. j. a.
Library. Forty-second street and Fifth ave-
nue..
''rrend Of the Times by Henry H. Klein.
at Cooper Union, Eighth street and Fourth
avenue.
Mead, Pm. D.. at Townsend Harris Han,
@ C. n, v, Amsterdam avenue and f39th st
Tho Relation OF Panama Canal TO Trade"
by Arthur w. Wyndham, at Public School
iOi, 1ifth street, west OF Lexington avenue.
stercopticon views and motion pictures
PERU" by Miss Annie s. Peck, II. II. @. a.,
at Central Jewish Institute, f2J East Eighty
fifth street. Stereopticon Views.
American Music for the Plano" by Miss
NJ Josephine Wiethan. at Hunter College.
SIxty-eighth street and Lexington avenue.
illustrated by instrumental selections.
IAN Andcan Tour Through Three Zones"
with commercial relations intersperscd, by
Mrs. NJ. Claire Finney. at Y. NJ. G. A..
Harlem Branch, West i25th street.
Problem Of Land. Labor. Transportation"
bv Mrs. Mary Il. Lease. Mt Public School 70.
Prospect avenue. Jennings street and Ritter
place, The Bronx.
"Iistoric Flags" by Capt Telfair NJ. Min
ton. y. 9. ~, at Public School AZ. Brown
place and i3Gth street. The Bronx.
How Life Begins" by G.. Clyde Fisher.
NJ ~, at Public School "a. fp6th street, be-
tween cambridge and Briggs avenues. This
Bronx.
Some American Composers and Poet,.''
by Miss Sally Hamlin. az Public School ~.
Randolph street. Lawrence and Beach nrs-
nues, The bronx
'.Nicxico--Commerci and Industrial" Nv
Mrs. Ada y. Talbot. az Public School .. Til-
''Trndo Opportunities IN Portuguese Africa"
by Miss Ida " Simonton. at Training School
for Teachers. Park place, west OF Nostrand
avenue. Stereopticon We've.
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MR.. WHALEN EXPLAINS.
Reasons for the Removal OF an Ele-
waited Railroad Stairway.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: On the
editorial page Of THE New York HER
AID of November appears the follow
ing paragraph:
Tho city has removed one OF the stair.
ways at the uptown Canal street station
OF the Third avenue elevated railroad as
n development OF dispute with the oper-
ating company. II is Characteristic OF
rows between city officials and public
utility corporations that the dear people
always get the worst Of Il.
The reason for the removal Of the
stairway was TO relieve traffic conditions
at he Manhattan entrance of the Man
haitian Bridge The number of vehicles
crossing the Manhattan Bridge each day
of twenty-four hours has doubled In the
last four years. the number having in
creased from approximately ! II, 900 in
1916 TO over % 1000 at the present time.
This great increase has resulted in
congestion OF vehicles at the Manhattan
entrance OF the bridge. and had plans
prepared to widen the roadway about
Canal street and about twenty-five feet
on the Bowery.
The foot Of the stairway which was
removed was located In the part Of the
street where the roadway was widened.
A count of the number OF people using
the two stalrways TO the elevated station
on the east side OF the Bowery at Canal
street showed that the stairway which
was removed accommodated only one
fourth as many people as were using the
stairway on the north side Of Canal
street. There are three stairways re-
mining which lead to the elevated sta.
ton ut Canal street. two on the west
side Of the Bowcry and one on the east
side.
In view of the great need OF the Wild
ening Of the roadway 10 relieve vehicular
traffic conditions the removal OF this
stairway was absolutely necessary, aud
was for the benefit OF the public IN gem
eral by improving traffic conditions in
that vicinity.
GROVER A. WHALEN, Commissioner.
New York. November ..
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OLD STEAMBOAT BELLS.
Many Were Scrapped During the
Civil War.

j. H. Curtis IL Memphis Commercial Appeal
Owners of steamboats, fifty years ago
had great pride in having fine bells that
were used in announcing the time of de-
parture of the steamers. The captains
generally rang the big bells half an hour
before leaving time. and their deep tones
could easily be heard for two miles and
further on quiet. clear days OF nights.
In old days to have fine boat minus
a special DELL was like attempting to
operate a circus without an elephant
Some of the famous bells of the Missis-
sippi River boats were on the j. NJ.
White, Robert T.. Lee, Natchez. James
Lee the First, Imperial, Pennsylvania,
after the civil war there were fine ones
on all the Anchor Line steamers.
The Lee Line followed this custom.
On their steamers in the early days and
until recent years they had some OF the
finest bells. Many of them are said to
have had a finer and deeper tone than
some of the older ones. The Kate
Adams. now operating in the Memphis
and Rosedale trade. possesses a very
Practically all the bells used on the
big steamers prior TO the civil war were
taken from the boats and scrapped by
the Governments. The North as well as
the South needed the copper in them.
For many years there was small
bell foundry in Louisville, operated by
man named Kay. In it were moulded
the most famous bells heard along the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Kay is said to have come to the
United States from Scotland. He had
some experience In casting bells In his
home country and established his little
place in Louisville before the civil war.
He designed ali the big boat bells and
charged about dollar pound to mould
one. He used a mixture Of material that
gave them a splendid tone, but the
owner of the bell usually put in several
ounces of silver, often dumping into the
melting pot so many ounces OF silver
bullion.
The weight of these bells averaged
from 1900 to 1000 pounds. They We're
placed on the hurricane roofs of the
boats with cord extending to the
pilot house and another dropping down
TO the lower deck, so that the crews
could ring them when necessary.
\ few OF the bells were removed
from the boats and used after the war
Several FELL into the hands OF wealthy
planters and were installed on planta-
lions. II is said the bell of the J. NJ.
White. until few years ago, was used
on Louisiana plantation.
In days when steamboating was good
at Memphis it was a great sight 10 visit
the levee at time when the boats were
getting ready TO depart. The captain
began tolling the bell in time TO notify
shippers and passengers that the
steamer was getting ready TO leave. The
deep tones we're easily heard up town.
II a passenger was late, or IL there was
a late dray load of freight for the
wharf. both went heller SHELTER down
the levee Some shippers knew the
tones of different boat bells. They could
distinguish them as easily as they could
whistles. All steamers use big bells to-
day. 1t is necessary when the pilot
desires to have the channel sounded or
when he wants TO call the captain from
his room in the texas to the forward
deck.
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lance but also the very different idea
of self-importance. The distinction
need not be dwelt upon here. If it
never fairly reached the sensitive in
wards of the Mugwump himself 1t
was because his type, as a rule, is
not overprovided with the sense of
humor.
All the same, the great American
public does not lack that blessed and
antiseptic ingredient. So there grew
steadily in the popular comprehension
a secondary and half humorous and
even derisory meaning of Mugwump-
cry. The word Mugwump came to de-
note not only the responsibility of
personal Independence Of partisan die
tation and the willingness to go to the
stake for this or that detail, however
Insignificant. of policy prompted by a
high concept of duty, as Mr.. Balm
BRIDGE Colby would say. 1t came to
denote a more or less Irritating as
sumption of moral and mental SUI
periorlty; a superciliousness of atti-
tude toward those who held different
opinions on the particular subject
then uppermost in the Mugwump
mind; an intellectual pharlsalsm, II
we may be forgiven the unpleasant
word. This development was by no
means the fault of the -Mugwump
community.
So it happens that if we take up at
random the contemporary lexicon
nearest at hand we not only find
Mugwump in the dictionary in the
original political sense but we also ind
imbedded in the English language the
secondary Specification of which we
have been speaking; thus:
'2. [Local, U. ST. conceited or
sef-consequential person.
This dictionary definition would DO
injustice to great many Of our ex-
cellent friends who are now getting
ready to go to the stake for Article
y. and the Wilson Covenant. Never
theless, it expresses with almost bru-
tai directness quality or tendency
of mind which has characterized va
rious earlier divagations and excur-
sions of the Republican Mugwump
and which promises to be equally con
spicuous in his latest enterprise.
We say Republican Mugwump be-
cause the Republican party has al
ways been the principal breeding place
of Mugwumpery. There have been
Democratic Mugwumps, no doubt.
but their census is relatively unim-
portant. The bitter end Leaguers.
the irreconcilable Covenanters. the
Mugwump defiers of the verdict of
the solemn referendum by themselves
invoked. come chiefly from the party
whose fortune it has been to be fore
most in the glorious work of preserv-
ing American Independence AMI SOW
ereignty from foreign entanglements.
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair and
much colder to-day; tomorrow fair and
continued cold; strong west and north
west winds.
For New Jersey-Fair and much colder to-
aay tomorrow fair and continued cold.
for Northern New England-Clearing and
much colder, with a cold wave to-day; to-
morrow fair, continued cold.
For southern New England Fair and
nuch colder to-day tomorrow fair and con-
tinued cold.
For Western New York-Partly cloudy and
much colder, with probably snow flurries. TO.
day; Tomorrow fair and continued cold.
WASHINGTON, Nov. e.--The disturbance
that was central tonight over Minnesota
intensity. Tuesday night its centre was oveg
the St Lawrence valley. 1t has been at
Tended by west and northwest gales and
ram turning to snow in the region OF tha
Great Lakes, and rain in the middle At
lantic and New England States, the Ohio
xaliey, tennessee, Arkansas and northern
sippi valley.
The weather has become much colder over
me upper. Mississippi valley, the plains
states and the northern Rocky Mountaip
1ssions' While moderate temperatures corr
tinued to-day In the East and Southeast
states s,e and on The Pacific coast.
storm warnings remain displayed on Lakes
Huron, Erie asd Or 1870. and have been
ordered for the = s--fc coast from Delaware
Breakwater TO Eastport. and cold wave
warnings are displayed over the Southern
plains States. the central Mississippi and
lower Ohio valleys, Tennessee, northern New
ENGLAND and extreme northern New York.
The outlook is for generally fair weather
Wednesday and Thursday In tho States east
OF the Mississippi River. but with snow
ilurries near the Great Lakes Much lower
temperature Will overspread the East and
Southeast States during Wednesday and
thursday and cold weather will continue
over the middle West
observations NJ United Sta ties Weather Blu
reau stations taken at s =. NJ. YESTERDAY
SEVENTH fifth rnoridian ,i,,,a. -
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The OUTLAW I'm the Cellar.

"The man who makes home brew in
his Northern home,' says the Prohi-
bition Commissioner, Mr.. KRAMER, sis
Just as much lawbreaker as the
Illicit distiller who makes his moon
shine in the mountain Businesses of
the South
Solemn words for sinners, JOHN,
but we fear they will not turn the
hearts of the wicked.
More than Il quarter century ago
it was written into the Constitution
of the State of New York that gam
bling was neither authorized nor al
lowed and that the Legislature must
pass laws 10 prevent gambling.
There probably has not been one
single second since gambling was pro-
hibited that gambling has not gone on.
Every night there are more poker and
bridge games in this city than there
are trees in Central Park.
There have been professional gam
blers who have been punished for max
ing n living out Of gaming, just as the
moonshlners are locked up for making
living out of their stills. But the
man who makes beer in his cellar has
no more conjunction about It than
his wife has about the poker game
she is playing in the dining room.
The y. VI. G. a. members who heard
Commissioner KRAMER warn against
the wicliedness Of home brew must
have grinned as they thought Of tho
booze graft.
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The Appeal of the Hospitals.

Tho annual collection for the United
Hospital Fund begins next Monday,
November 10. One thing about il
which will appeal specially TO New
Workers is its purpose to make suce
of the S1.50o,0O0 needed to provide
for the sick poor in the hospitals.
OF the 17S,302 patients cared for
last year in tho fifty-five hospitals
which will benefit by the collection 40
per cent. were treated free of charge.
Then there Is another aspect of the
work of the hospitals which deserves
consideration. Authorities declare
that the average length Of human life
can be extended fifteen years I'm n
single generation by adequate appli-
cation of curative and preventive
measures. The hospitals represent
the scientific knowledge and the prac-
tical application Of it's teachings by
which better health and added years
may be given to mankind.
These reasons and others equally
convincing have induced New York
ers in past years to make the Unitei
Hospital Fund the recognized institu-
ton 1t Is, and the same generous sup
port of the fund will doubtless be
continued this year.
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MiIady's stole for Next Year May
Ne Trapped To-day.

To-day Is the opening Of the season
in New York State for mink. sable,
skunk and raccoon. There Is no open
season for beaver. The Inst Legisla-
ture, trappers should know. short
ened the season twenty days on musk
rat in the northern counties Of the
Adirondack region by making It open
December I instead Of November 10.
1t also shortened the season forty
days in the rest Of the State by pre-
scribing an open season from De
cember TO March 81.
Recently the supply OF peltries has
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-10
A LITTLE ECLIPSE TO-DAY.
The Moon VIII Step i'm Front OF the
Sun This Morning.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: on
Wednesday, November 10, our sun will be
partially eClipsed by our moon. Around
New York city this partial eclipse will
begin about 8 A. NJ, reach it's maximum.
about one-third OF the suns diameter.
shortly after TO- and end at IL :22 A. NJ.
And not only will this eclipse be visible
from New York city but also from q
large part Of the United States and Can
ada, as we'll as the western portion of
Europe and the northwestern part OF
Africa.
The diameter of our sun approximates
sec, 900 miles. whereas that of our moon
only 2,163 miles. and were the moon as
far distant from US as the sun. an aver
age distance of 93.000.000 miles, there
would. of course. be no noticeable solar
eclipse. However, since the moon Is at
an average distance of only $4,000
miles her diameter appears TO be about
the same size as the suns. and accord
ingly our moon can totally or partially
eclipse or cover the suns surface.
What we speak of as an eclipse is
really a shadow, east upon certain parts
Of our earth by the moon coming be-
tween us and tho sun. When this lunar
shadow falls upon any of us we see our
sun more or less eclipsed. Owing to the
movements of both moon and earth this
shadow travels rapidly across the terres-
trial surface; II at the equator about
1000 miles an hour.
The year of 1920 exhibits the most
two of the sun and two of tho moon. the
least possible number being two. both of
the sun. and the largest number being
seven. 1--WE solar and two lunar eclipses
or four solar and three lunar cclipscs.
CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES.
NEWTON. Mass. November o.
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rs HOME BREW cRrMINALs
II II Is, There Is No Way for the Law
TO Reach the Malefactor.

TO THE New YoRK HERALD When
the Prohibition Commissioner calls
home brewing criminal he reflects on
the Volstead act. That law specifically
prohibits the issue Of warrants for res
licences except on information that liquor
is being made to sell. The inference
from that is that home brewing carried
on for the householders own thirst Is
not criminal.
Perhaps Mr.. Kramer, like many OF
his temperament. confuses words.
Maybe he meant that home brewing Is
immoral. OF course IL is. so are
coffee and tea drinking, smoking. I'M
necessary talking and reading of light
novels. All pleasures-except minding
other peoples business-are wicked.
BASIL JAGMoRE.
DuNELLEN, n. J.. November 8.
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Relief Urged for Irish Sufferers.

To TIE New YORK HERALD: want
TO thank Miss Margaret Klrwan for her
letter in regard TO the Red Cross help
ing the Irish. who are suffering just as
our forefathers suffered in 1915. Miss
Kirwan says the Irish here always alive
helping hand to all In need and are
tho first TO enlist when We are IN tro;hle.
and we should give q helping hand now.
WILLIAM c. HENNEssY.
New YORK. November 9.
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President EliOt's Censure Of BOs-
ton Women.

Unlike good many censors of
feminine dress and department. Presi-
dent ELIOT Of Harvard does not
charge the women of to-day with a
deliberate intention to clothe them
selves in an improper manner; he
holds them to be victims of the auto
cratic authority of fashion. The re-
suit shocks President ELIOT. He told
the Unitarian women of Boston the
other day that:
1--WE can see the way women dress
on any Boston street.
"Our mothers would call it an in
decent way.
''These young women don't want
to be indecent
They merely want TO be fashion
able and pretty.
But the clothes are immodest
And they have a psychological effect
They tend toward immodesty in
manner"
Undoubtedly the women Of Boston
clothe themselves about as other
American women do. In the past the
feminine population of the Massachu-
sets capital was composed of women,
young and old, of good sense, good
appearance and good manners; pop
ulation fully entitled TO classification
on the same plane with New York S
in wholesome and attractive qualities.
We never encountered the jokesmith's
fayorite bluestocking Boston girl we
don't believe she ever existed. DR..
EIIoT's assertion that these women
and their daughters have come to
dress in manner which might be
described as indecent" and that their
dress makes for "loose morals" is
hard to credit.
If Boston morals are loose il is a
mighty serious thing. 1t is not thing
TO jest about. We are thankful to
say that New York morals are not
loose; the men and women of this city
maintain themselves in self-respect
and mutual respect, following the
fashion when it suits them, disregard
ing it when it doesn't suit them. On
Fifth avenue and on what Mr.. DEvEIY
called douh'e Fifth avenue, and on
all the cross streets and other ave
nues, the good taste of New York
women is disclosed in their dress
their independence is revealed in their
demeanor, and their virtues are dis
covered in their bearing. Some of
them wear long skirts and waists cut
high; others wear short skirts and
expose their chests like athletes; but
all of them carry themselves modestly
and properly.
\ great deal of nonsense is talked
about women's dress and womens
manners and women's morals. The
facts are spread before everybody who
cares to examine them. The stand
ards of American women have always
been high. and they are as high to-day
as they ever were. Changes i'm indus
trial conditions have brought changes
in women's environment, have thrown
them into daily contact with men in a
manner not known to their mothers
and grandmothers, but these changes
have not impaired their ideals OF low
cred the excellence of their habitual
good conduct.