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wickedIy Active Principles.

The leading figure In a recent story
by MELVILLE DAWSON Posr offered
$5,O00,O00 for the discovery Of the ac-
tive principle of alcohol. He wanted
to make 1t public and thus destroy
prohibition.
There are several active principles
that ought to be isolated and then
destroyed.
The active principle Of official ex-
travagance, If II had been killed In
1917, would have saved the United
States billions. 1t Is active yet.
The active principle of industrial
laziness Is still at work and may not
subside until 1t encounters the fumes
Of q soup house.
The active principle Of graft is be-
ing exposed In the test tubes Of DR..
SAM UNrERMYER's laboratory and Is
about to undergo prophylactic treat
ment Mt the hands Of grand juries.
The offer made by Mr.. PosT's hero
was trlfling in comparison with the
value Of doing away with these other
active principles.
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PISTOL PERMITS.
Except in New York q Traveller Finds
Them Easy to Obtain.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Allow me
to supplement with facts what DR.. Bev-
erley Robinson put before your readers
so well on the subject of pistol permits.
travel by automobile. From every
State in which / travel hold a permit
to carry a weapon. excepting only the
city Of New York. In each State those
permits were readily secured from a
mayor Of a city, chief Of police or
superintendent OF State police. Unques-
tionable credentials and statements of
facts were, Of course. necessary, but. the
scrutiny having been accomplished, the
official has sometimes commented favor
ably upon the advisabilIty Of the pre-
caution.
In New York city one executes two
forms and delivers them to the captain
of precinct. Those forms go ever the
red tape route to Headquarters. No one
!nterrogates the applicant. He may be
Red Mike or the Rev. DR.. So and So.
AS reason for his request the first
might cay that he carried huge suins
upon his person. md would secure
permit. The second might say. For self
protection" and he would not.
Arizona. where bad men are supposed
to come from. is about as safe place
as there Is. because every one Is sup
posed to carry gun. At any rate.
every one Is permitted TO: therefore.
courtesy on the road is supreme and the
occasional trouble hunter finds what he
Is looking for. TRAVELLER.
EAST ORANGE, ". J.. December z.
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Shotguns Instead OF Pistols for Home
Protection.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Privately
than a score OF years throughout the
United States have not tended to pre-
vent crimes Of violence or appreciably
or effectively to deter or cripple holdup
men or burglars. Rather have pistols
carried by private individuals been most
used by those criminally inclined or
temperamentally unsdited for carrying a
deadly weapon. so instantly responsive
TO the impulse Of anger or of apprehen-
sion.
In a space OF thirty years. largely
having to do with investigating and
writing news and incidentally studying
crimnology and its phases, especially in
the Far West. where many Fasteners
innocently suppose the toting Of a gun
Is custom. can recall absurdly few
instances where one householder's pos
session of pistol actually defended a
city home. or Of any respectable citizen
afoot attaining the slightest protection
by carrying a pistol. A hundred times
more often the presence of a pistol in
a house has In community life resulted
In its use either as a ready agency for
suicide or murder or for accidental or
child caused fatalities.
The protection OF the home against
criminal entry might far more effectively
be achieved by the possession and use
Of a shotgun. and with rarer chances of
missing the intended mark and infiict-
ing injury upon some distant innocent.
ARCHIE RICE.
NEW York. December z
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Meeting Of the New York Board of Trade
and Transportation. address BY DR.. l.. 3.
Rowe. 38 Park Row. IL 10 Il. M.
An iual stampede to raise money to pro-
vide for poor children by the Christmas tree
committee Of New York Lodge No. !. B. p:
o. e.. clubhouse. los West Forty-third
Stated meeting OF the Board of Education,
Park avenue and Fifty-ninth street, p. M.
State Reforma'ory for Women of Bedford.
Metropolitan Building, 2 East Twenty-fourth
Alfred W. Martin Will lecture on 'spirItu-
alism and Its Cardi ial Claim under the
auspices of the League for Political Educa-
tion. at the Park Theatre. Columbus Circle,
The semi-ann convention Of the InternA-
tional Association OF Garment Manufacturers
will open at the waldorf-Astoria in the morn
ing and continue through Friday.
The New York Wonen's Publishing Com
pany Will give luncheon In honor of Mrs.
Margaret Sanger at the Hotel Commodore.
Judge g. T. crai1 and John ". Elwood wiz
women's Club at the Hotel Pennsylvania,
Gov. Cornwell of West Virginia and Clark
Howell, editor OF the Atlanta Constitution"
ern Society at the waldorf Astoria, at 7 p. NJ.
The Rev. DR.. John Haynes Holmes will
speak on Religious Needs of the Children OF
Liberals" at the Ethical Culture meeting
house. 2 West Sixty-fourth street. at 8: rs
p. NJ
Concert and ball under the auspices OF tho
Honor Legion of the Police Department, Hoo
tel Commodore, evening.
Address by Michael J. OBrien on 'Tre-
lands Part In Americas Struggle for Lib
erty." before the American Irish Society.
Inc, X. Of c.. Institute. 81 Hanson place,
Brooklyn, y. M.
Life a Fine Art Club. meeting. Hotel
Commodore, 80 r. NJ.
Annual meeting OF the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers. tribute TO Henry L.
Can't by Fred J. Miller, presideit of the
ciety. 20 West Thirty-ninth street.
National Association OF Brass Manufactur-
ers. meeting. Hotel Aston, 10 A. NJ.
Annual meeting of the Association OF Life
Insurance Counsel, all day, ~ West Forty
fourth street. dinner. waidorf-Astoria. 1880
r. M
Oscar s. Straus will speak ons American
ISM at forum meeting Of the Educational
Alliance, East Broadway and Jefferson street.
y. NJ.
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BEST AMERICAN NOVELS.
An Editor and Statesman Votes
Against "The Bread Winners"

To THE New YoRI HERALD: AS q fell
low editor I want to express a word
OF appreciation Of the editorial article
on THE Bread Winners Delusion."
Your elimination OF THE Bread Win
ners" from the great novels Of American
life is clever and unanswerable. 1t Is
about time that this fiction OF THE
Bread Winners" being one of the great
est of our novels was exploded. John
Hay wrote great stuff. but not when he
wrote this novel. and Just because John
Hay did write 1t is no reason for It's
unwarrarted laudation.
But why did you not eliminate "A
Hazard OF New Fortunes" from the list
too? 1t does not belong there. THE
Scarlet Letter" does. It's the best OF
all our novels. But as a great novel
Of American life "A Hazard OF New
Fortunes does not compare In my opin-
lon with 1.-THE Damnation OF Theron
Ware" Ramona" or THE Rise of Silas
Lapham." l move the substitution of
these for THE Bread Winners and "A
Hazard of New Fortunes" In William
Allen Whites list Of the best American
novels. MARTIN H. GLyNN.
ALBANY, December z.
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MARTENS HEARINGS IN
DEPORTATION CASE END
Counsel Denies He Aided
Move Against Government.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Hearings on
the deportation warrant against Ludwig
c. A. X Martens. Russian oviet repre-
sentative in the United States, were
ended to-day with the presentation OF
oral and written arguments before Secre-
tary Wilson. The Labor Department
head took the case under advisement
and Is expected to announce his decision
within few days.
During tho proceedings. the contro-
versy between the Department Of Justice
and the Department of Labor concerning
the proceedIngs. against radicals gener-
ally came to a head with the exclusion
of the Department of Justice representa-.
tive from the hearings. which we're Sc
cret. The Justice Department was rep
resented to-day, however. the Govern
ment's argument being presented by J.
Il. Hoover of that department
Mr. Hoover contended that Martens
was unlawfully In the United states. and
that he had participated In the move
nents OF the Russian Communist party,
OF tho Third Internatlonale. and Of the
so-called Russian Socialist Federated
Republic for the overthrow OF the Gov
eminent of the United States by force
and violence.
Counsel for Martens argued on The
other hand that Martens. as the "diplo.
matte representative" of foreign gov
eminent. was lawfully In the United
states. and that he had not participated
m any movements against the American
Government.
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Mr.. HARDrNG's visit to HIS friends
in the Senate, fellow members Re-
publican and fellow members Demo
cratic. made one of the pleasantest
Incidents that it was ever the fortune
OF daily newspaper TO record. His
torically 1t was unique, for no Sen
ator has ever left that chamber to 20
on his way to occupy the White House.
Scntimentally and psychologically. 1t
indicates things for which every
American should be glad.
In this hearty, human attitude of
the new Executive toward that Legis-
lative Department which he knows so
we'll by actual participation and not
merely by constitutional theory, and
which knows him affectionately for
what he is as well as respectfully for
what he says and thinks, are the
promise and presage of blessed re-
turn to the orderly workings of CO
ordinate government; the end Of alOof-
ness and strife, the. resumption Of
mutual confidence and cooperation. -
Senator HARpING's little speech to
his fellow Senators from the Vice
Presidents desk is model Of good
taste, good will and understanding of
the fine art Of saying what ought to
be said under the circumstances and
nothing less or more. For all time to
come 1t will glow like ruby inset In
the gray pages Of the Congregational
Record. In conception and in ex-
preston it affords true portrait Of
a modest, sincere gentleman standing
without pose or affectation at the
threshold Of a new career Of high
craftsmanship, neither inundated
nor OVERLOAD, and asking the patriotic
help Of all.
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Whore the Price Ffxcrs Hurt Hon
est Business.

Resides the general public indigna-
ton ut the conspiracies In the build
ing industry, there Is particular
rage among honest business men.
In the first place, the collision be-
tween contractors and labor kings and
the price fixing deal among the build
ing material concerns have tended to
make the public Suspicious Of business
in general. Often there has been
whispering about price COLLISION In
lines Of business which really were pro-
ceetiing In genuine competition. But
the public now discovers that an un-
suspected industry really was taking
advantage of 1t. Every honest busi-
ness man is sore because Of the
shadow thrown on business In general
In the second place. the price fixers
struck a severe material blow at the
manufacturing business. They pre-
vented the building Of homes by keep
Ing the costs too high for the average
buyer. Thus, naturally, they pre-
vented the furnishing Of homes. Every
new dwelling that Is built means the
purchase Of Just so much furniture,
rugs, carpets, linoleum, books. pic
lures, china, glassware, cooking uten-
sils and heating devices. These are
items upon which Americans spend
their money freely. They are proud
Of their homes and to furnish them
well they will stint even on food and
clothing.
Tens Of thousands Of people have
been waiting to build houses until
building materials and labor should
come down to something like possible
figure. The making Of the furnishings
for these homes would keep factories
going that must eventually close IL
the situation is not relieved by re-
turn toward normal costs. But the
hogs In the building business deter
mined that there should be not only
no return to the normal but peg
ging of prices at the height they found
80 soft and fat.
And yet 1t is likely that some Of
these slick masters of secret card in
dex systems went around talking
about the importance Of their business
to the economic life Of the country!
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I fell in love with Milicent
And almost told her no.
was entrnnced with Gladys. too,
And called myself her beau.
For Mabel. Maud and Madse my heart
Endured distressing aches,
Until I met Janet and her
Ambrosiai buokwheat cakes.
All smoking hot aad feather light
And dsiicsteiy browned.
Well buttered and with honey drcnched
She brought the tasty mound.
I ate and ate and asked for more;
Henceforth for chops and steaks
had no wish. my appetite
Demanded buckwheat cakes.
II she had been less young and fair
II would nave been the same.
The hand that Tipped the buck~heats was
The and I yearned 20 claim.
I welded her, aiacki aissi
How Oft we make mistakes.
II was her mother. not Jansf,
ZINC baked ne euctwheat CARES.
MfrNA Ixv1~e
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MAY DEDUCT LOSSES,
EXEMPT MORTGAGES
Revenue Act Revision to Be
Taken Up To-day.
Special Despatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c., Dec. z.


Washington. ID. c., Dec. y.
Representative Fordney mich. /,
chairman, In issuing the call of to-mor-
rows meeting of the Ways and Means
Committee stated that the meeting was
TO be an informal discussion of what
the committee could do before March 4.
One Of the first proposals considered
Is the suggestion by former Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue Roper and
others that the section Of the revenue
act providing that net losses may be
deducted from income and excess profits
tax returns be reenacted. This provi-
sion expired in December. 1919, the be-
lief being at the time OF the enactment
of the revenue act, early in 1918, that
the readjustment would come in 1919. A
strong demand exists for this legisla-
ton. The deferment in the December
payments may be mentioned. but II is
realized nothing can be done to relieve
interests which have suffered big losses
recently.
A third proposal that will be con-
sidered is that receipts from mortgages
be exempted from taxation. provided the
mortgage holdings of a taxpayer do not
exceed $4,000. This plan has been sug-
gested as q means of encouraging loans
for building purposes to relieve the hous-
ing shortage, which is general.
1t was learned the committee was df-
vided on whether revenue and tariff re-
vision should be It's first task, II of
course being understood that little more
than the holding Of hearings can be ac-
complished before the special session Of
the new Congress. One group of the
committee. led by Representative Long
worth (Ohio). believes revenue revision
should come first. The other, led by
Chairman Fordney. thinks tariff revision
must come first.
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ROW DEVELOPS OVER
COMMITTEE INCREASE
Democrats Announce 2 Mem
bers on Appropriations.

WASHINGTON, Dec faction of the
House at the last session In deciding to
refer all money bills to an enlarged ap-
preparations committee showed signs to-
day of developing into an open row.
Rumblings were heard from several
quarters, and committee chairmen par
ticularly were represented by their as
sociates as now feeling that the move
had been in the wrong direction.
Inasmuch as most of the legislation
which finally will get through the
House at the present sc ssion Is expected
to consist of appropriation measures,
committee members who for many ses-
sions have aided In formulating these
bills were said to see no opportunity to
assist In this work.
Chairman Butler of the Naval Affairs
Committee declared the House action
means that "thirty-fve men. the MEM
bership of the enlarged committee can
now run the House for this session and
the rest of us can go home"
"The change" said Representative
Rntler, has simply made useless about
$50 men who have worked hard on these
-mmittees. They might as well be
given time table and told to go home
and come back to vote. Maybe the
thirty-five men on the Appropriations
Committee would take their proxy and
they wouldn't have to come back at all"
The Naval Affairs Committee chair
man Indicated that various members of
the House were preparing to voice their
objection TO the plan. and the whole
question might BE brought up again for
caucus action by the Republicans.
The seven minority members to be
added to the enlarged committee we're
named to-day by the Democratic eau
Gus Members selected and the commit
tee from which each comes follows:
Representatives Small North Carolina.
Rivers and Harbors; Dent, Alabama.
Military Affairs; Rubey. Missouri. Agri-
culture; Holland Virginia. Post office !;
Hastings, Oklahoma, Indian Affairs !:
Ayres, Kansas. Naval Affairs. and
Smith. New York, Foreign Affairs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-08
BRITISH WAR PLANES
BARRED FROM u. s.
Injunction Blocks Move to I'm
load 1856 Machines Bought
at Small Cost.
PERIL TO INDUSTRY HERE
Order Granted by Judge Mayer
Holds Aircraft Infringe
Wright Co. Patent.

American aircraft manufacturers sue
ceeded yesterday in obtaining q pre,im-
mary injunction restraining British in
terests from unloading In the United
States thousand of surplus British war
planes at prices so low as to preclude
competition.
The Handley-Page and Aircraft Dis
posal companies. which bought 10000
aeroplanes from the British army for
an amount reputed to be / per cent.
of their cost. were about to export 2,365
planes to this country to be sold at
less than $4,000 each. American manu-
facturers asserted this would ruin the
industry as well as flood the United
States with an obsolete typo of battle
plane inferior to those being built at
home for peace purposes.
The injunction was granted to the
Wright Aeronautical Corporation. owner
of the American patent for heavier than
air flying machines. by Judge julius M.
Mayer In the United States District
Court. on the ground that the British
planes infringe the Wright patent In
rendering his decision Judge Mayer
said:
THE American manufacturer may.
however. be trusted to make up his mind
as to what Is best for him. and his Bit
ter opposition shows that he considers
that II these machines are brought here
and, as defendant states, are laid down
duty and heavy transportation charges
paid, in New York city. or In fact. any
where In the United States. at price
which Is but q fraction Of their actual
value, such importation will destroy or
gravely impair American Industry In
this regard.
whatever may be the economic View,
the fact Is that the plaintiff Is the owner
of the patent; that the patent has been
adjudicated that the courts have given
IL high place, and that defendants
have thus fnr brought int. this country
only few planes. and have rot, In any
sense. established an industry here.
Defendants acquired these planes
from the British Government with their
eyes wide open and took their chances
on their legal rights. They state that
II preliminary injunction goes through
against them they will lose the market
and thus suffer great loss. This was
their hazard"
T. B. Rensselaer,, vice-president of the
Wright company. said last night:
1.-THE British Government had on hand
at the close of the war thousands OF
planes and engines which are now obso-
lete, and which they wished to dump
into the United States at prices which
were not commensurate with the actual
cost of production. The United States
Army Air Service attempted to aid the
industry by getting an anti-dumping
measure through Congress at its last
session to prevent the sale Of these
planes and material, but it was held up
by other legislation"
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Easern New York-Cloudy to-day
and Tomorrow probably rain OF snow
tonight and Tomorrow not much
change In temperature fresh to shifting
north and northeast winds
Fer New Jersey-Unsettled weather to-day
an '1-'N--ov ~~o@aNis rain ~ osv r'ot
much change In temperature; frean 70 strong
tor Northern NV Engiand-ChIus'y to-day
80 ' ''''' to-r' rrnw . ~'rc1 chance
In temperature: fresh northwest to north
southern New ENTHUSIASTICALLY to
'av nr0'nh'v followed hv nov ~. - y or
tomorrow: not much change In Temperature
fresh to strong north and northeast winds.
-,'orrov 'oir =, ,.,.,Ss - mpsra
ture; fresh north and northeas, winds.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7-p,s,urbance. werr
central over Newfoundland, the south At
lantic States. the plateau region and off the
north Parific coast tonight. and prcssure
was high over the region Of the great lakes
and thence southwestward to Texas. This
pressure distribution has resulted In cloudy,
unsettled weather over much OF the country
during the last twcnty-four hours. and rain
fell in the Southern States and the Pacific
States and light snow in northern New
England and northern New York.
The temperature was lower to-day In tho
while there was little change in other re-
gions The outlook Is for mrain. IN the mid
die and south Atlentalc Stotes tomorrow,
States east Of the mississippi River except ers
that snow L. probably along the i.orth Al
lantic coast. The temperature wtll be lower
In the south Atlantic States tomorrow. and
II viii rise somewhat In Michigan and the
lower Ohio Valley and the cast Gulf States
Thursday.
Observations at United States Weather Du.
reau stations. taken at 8 y. M. yesterday,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-08
A Citizen Seeking 10 Protect Himself
Encounters Police Rule.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: DR.. Bev-
erley Robinson is exactly right. The
Sullivan law removes the means of self
defence, whereas the crook being al.
ready a criminal has no hesitancy what
ever in becoming Illegally possessed of
q pisto..
! have had no end OF trouble in Sc
curing permit not to carry but to
possess a pistol. / have not such a per-
NIT now because the Police Department
insists uron the signing OF an agree
rnent by which at the expiration or
revocation OF the permit the pistol is to
be turned over to the department. and
could not see my way to spend twenty
FIVE or thirty dollars for an automatic
which was TO be presented to the Police
Department. c. V. S.
NEW YORK, December Z.
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From ::

Average remittances before the war
amounted to about 5O0,000.0OO lire
annually. In 1917 the amount was
only 25o,0OO,O00 lire and In 1918 only
237, 100000 lire.
In terms Of italian money the re-
mittances for last year were about
equal to pre-war years. But the de-
probation Of the Ira has robbed Italy
of the benefits OF the increased re-
mittances. This Is true not only be-
cause the higher prices In Italy make
the larger remittances the equivalent
of a smaller number Of lire when
prices were lower, but also because
Italy's purchases Of goods abroad
have inflated the trade balance against
her to eleven times It's size before the
war began.
Italy's trade deficit was 1,134. OO0,-
600 lire, or about $500, 100000. In
1913, and the 5OO,OOO,OOO lire remit
tances covered nearly half the deficit.
In 1919 the remittances. although the
same number of lire as In 1918, COW
cred less than 5 per cent. Of the H.
30O, 100000 trade deficit.
Italy's sons already may have
thought they were equalling their
former record by sending home 404.-
OOO, 900 lire In 1919. but these lire cost
them only s49,0Oo,0OO as compared
with a cost, Of s100OO0,O00 to cover
the money sent home in 1913. To
equal their pre-war remittances in
value and to bring them up to the
1913 ratio Of the trade deficit Italy's
citizens abroad would have to send
home at present rates Of exchange
more than five billion lire.
Italy's Finance Minister does not
expect any such receipts, but he
hopes that with more normal condi-
tions the remittances of Italians
abroad will be more nearly measured
in terms Of gold or Of dollars.