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tional Grand Jury, one OF those SO oc-
cupied at the present time
Justice McAvoy directed that the
work OF impanelllng this Grand jury
begin January 3. 1t will be known as
the January Additional Grand Jury. and
win be at Mr.. Berger's disposal.
A motion for the inspection OF the
minutes OF the Grand Jury which in
dicted sixteen members OF the Metallic
Furring and Lathing Association for al
legged destruction of records wanted by
the Lockwood Committee was argued
before Judge Mulqueen.
Jeremiah Mahoney of counsel for the
indicted men said that II was their de-
sire to move FOR dismissal of the indict-
ments He was opposed by Mr.. Berger.
Judge Muloueen gave counsel for both
sides until Wednesday TO file briefs.
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MILLERS ARE GUESTS
AT EXECUTIVE MANSION
Couernor-EIect and His Wife
Stay OUer Night.

sDecial Despatch TO THE New York HERALD.
ALBANY, Dec. e.-Governor-eiect and
Mrs. Nathan L. Miller were the guests
tonight Of Gov. and Mrs. Alfred L.
Smith at the Executive Mansion. This
afternoon Judge Miller argued q case
before the Court OF Appeals in which
former Gov. Charles E. Hughes was on
the opposite side. The incoming Gov
ernor and his wife took dinner at the
mansion and remained there overnight.
They will return to New York tomorrow
morning.
Mrs. Miller, accompanied by the
newly appointed Military Secretary,
Major Compton, visited this afternoon
several Albany girls schools. one OF
which will be attended by her six young
est daughters The Milers viii not take
I'D their residence In the mansion until
two or three days before the Inaugural
ton on January l. They will spend
Christmas at their Syracuse home.
1--WE always have a tree" said Mrs.
Miller land the Judge Is undignified
enough to play Santa Claus. You see
our baby Is but : years OLD and we do
no; feel that she should go without the
Toys of n Christmas tree. Then there Is
NV little granddaughter Mary Eliza
beth, who although but months old,
must be initiated into the spirit OF real
Miller Christmas"
Mary Elizabeth is the daughter OF
Judge Milers eldest daughter. Mrs.
Dennis Mccarthy of Syracuse. 1t Is not
expected that the Millers viii entertain
extensively in Albany.
although a large family said Mrs.
Miller 1--WE are home loving. and l do
not want 10 plan a gay social season.
will of course entertain with the cus-
tomary receptions and dinners. given by
the wife of each Governor"
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exerted behird the effort made by that
association year ago TO compel the
members OF the Iron League to employ.
in the erection OF structural steel work,
only such men as were recognized by
Mr.. Brindell.
THE nefarious agreement between
Mr. Brindelrs Building Trades Council
and the Building Trades Employers AS
ISOLATION would have prevented hun
dreds OF structural steel workers from
earning their livelihood in this city and
further limited the number Of available
workmen in the steel industry at time
when the entire supply was woefully In
sufficient 1t has afforded the founda-
ton upon which Mr.. Brindell expanded
his grating operations, which I'M
doubtedly would have been carried TO
much greater lengths had he not been
checkmated as regards the iron workers
by the action OF the Iron League.
1.-THE members of the Iron League
called the attention OF the Employers
Association 10 the probable results OF
the execution OF the contract referred
to. protested against It. refused to sign
1t and, as result OF the determined
effort OF the Employers Association to
force It upon them, resigned from that
association.
There are several hundred union
iron workers employed by members OF
the Iron League in New York city to-
day. but the league has at all times
refused to become a party to any closed
chop contract.
The further impression which the
testimony IL calculated to convey &c
the public-that there is a combination
to control prices existing between the
structural steel contractors OF New
York city and the shops and mills fur
nishing the material used by them--is
discreditable to Mr.. Horowitzs intel
ligence. The agreement dated December
III. 1919, between the Building Trades
Employers Association and the Build
ing Trades Council OF New York city
has been the greatest single factor in
the stimulation of graft in the building
industry Of the city during the current
| year, and the action OF the Iron League
in resisting the closed shop demand, as
administered by Mr.. Brindell In the
other trades. has kept the conduct of at
least one branch OF that industry above
! reproach."
The committees hearing viii be con-
tinued to-day
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SECRET INDICTMENT
ON HOUSING CHARGE
Defendants Identity With
held Until Arrest and Ar
raignment.
1926, 900 BAIL FOR BACKER
New Grand Jury in January TO
Help in Following Up
Lockwood Cases.

The filing of a fresh indistment
against an individual whose name has
not yet been made public. arraignment
of Joseph Moran, a member of the
Dock Builders Union. and Peter Stadt-
miller of the Housewreckers' Union, on
indictments filed Monday, and the Is
suance OF an order for another Grand
Jury to investigate graft and conspiracy
charges marked the continuance yester-
day OF the criminal action growing out
of the Investigation conducted by the
Lockwood Legislative Committee on
Housing
The new indictment was handed I'D to
Justice John V. McAvoy in the Supreme
Court by the Extraordinary Housing
Grand Jury. which was impaneiled last
week and which previously had in
dicted two members OF the Builders
Supply Bureau, an employers organi-
cation. for refusal to answer questions
relating to their business 1t is ex-
pected that the person named in the
new bill will be arraigned before JUS
tice McAvoy for pleading this morning.
hacker Furnishes New Bond.
Incidental to the proceedings, George
Backer the builder. whose trial on a
Lockwood committee resulted in dts
agreement OF the jury Wednesday. APP
peared before Judge Otto A. Rosalsky
in General Sessions and furnished a
new bail bond for $25,
The arraignment OF Moran and Stadt-
miller followed the appearance of both
men at the District Attorneys office
where they surrendered to Detective
Bernard A. Flood. They said they had
hA1 x-d .t,,1t
against them. Stadtmiller already was
under 100000 bail. which he had fur
| nished when he was indicted for at
tempted extortion, with Robert p. Br!n-
dell. president OF the Building Trades
Council Judge Joseph F. Mulqueen
held that this bail was sufficient.
In the case of Moran Judge Mulqueen
fxed bail at $500 against the protest
| of Moran's attorney. J. j. O'Connor who
called that amount excessive.
The indictments specifically charge
that on August 81. 1920. the two men
extorted $500 from Jacob L. Kamen.
| president OF the Front Street House,
wrecking and Lumber Company, saying
| they would cause a strike on work in
which he was interested TO be called
Off. The strike affected premises at
| sos, 306 and so7 West Fiftieth street
The call for a new Grand Jury was
made at the request Of Samuel A.
| Berger, Special Deputy Attorney-Gen-
| eral, who is directing a phase OF the
| investigation begun by Samuel Inter
myer before the Lockwood Committed
At present the two Grand Juries are en-
| gagged exclusively in this work. 1t Is
understood that the new Grand Jury will
| take the place OF the November Addi-
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DOUBTS SOLDIER WAS A SPY.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. Dec 99.--John A.
willers. army captain and deserter. who
was arrested in New York December Z
and is alleged to have confessed being
German spy, is believed to be insane
bv Frank Dose of this city. an uncle OF
willers Mr.. DOSE, in statement to-
day said Willers came to America from
Germany when he was IA years old and
that to his knowledge, had never re-
turned to Germany, although his mother
still resides there.
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TWO CENTS OUT.
The Gentleman From Missouri and
the Cheating Slot Machines.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Philadel-
phia has taken the lead in declaring war
on vending machines that fail to deliver
the goods. A number of inspectors have
been sent out by the Bureau of Weights
and Measures to tag all cheating ma
chimes and warn the public that they
will not give full value for the money
put In them.
There are a good many persons in this
city of the opinion that New York should
follow the lead Of Philadelphia and take
means to eliminate defective peanut,
chocolate. chewing gum and weighing
machines. There are too many of these
cheating machines now imposing on the
public.
Take the case Of a weighing machine
installed in a public place which prom
Uses that IL the customer guesses his cor
rect weight his penny win be returned
by the machine. What explanation can
be offered when a gentleman from Mis-
souri, deposited a penny in the slot. noted
the weight indicated by the machine,
then stepped off, turned the Indicator
around to the figure recorded by the
machine on the first trial, then stepped
on the platform again and discovered.
according to the indicator, that he
weighed seven pounds less than he did
before? Having lost those pounds OF
course ne didn't get HIS penny back.
NEW YORK, October %. CHEATED.
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necticut who are fighting Senator
BRANDEGEE to vote for these two men.
Neither WADswoRTH nor BRANDEoEE
needs the votes, but these protesting
voters to be true TO themselves and
true to their party need TO vote for
them.
It is no longer a question of de.
feating Senator WADswoRrH, for that
can't be done. and It is no longer a
question of defeating FRANK BRANDE-
GEE, for that can't be done. Isn't 1t a
question, then, for consideration with
ones self, in ones own conscience. 1t
1t isn't wiser and better to stay on
the reservation than to find ones self
without party or in transit to some
other party? Within ones party there
is chance for good work, a chance
to lift the party to higher STANDARD
Outside Of it there is no chance to do
worth while. s4t
FRANK A. MUNsEY.
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moderation gives a measure Of the
hard bargains fences drive with those
who deal with them. ~ al
Leaving aside all considerations Of
honesty, of comfort. OF the important
matter Of self-respect, putting honest
dealing and straight living, on the
most sordid basis, the lawbreaker is
shown to be fool in dollars and
cents. The testimony of all police
authorities, the records of the courts,
the biographies of burglars. sneak
thieves, pickpockets, iorgers. all unite
to tell the same story. The way Of
the transgressor is not only hard but
Improbable.
If there were no other argument
against crime as career. the business
argument would turn sensible men
against it. Crime does not pay. But
IL this were the only reason for hon.
esty the world would be dreary,
desolate place. Fortunately. most men
do not ask whether crime pays. They
avoid it for higher reasons than those
which affect their pocketbooks.
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Yes or MOI

Governor Cox's fondness for this
formula Of direct interrogation makes
it proper to address to him a question
suggested by Secretary CoLBY's admo-
milton to the candidate yesterday to
keep at one with the master mind
regarding Article *:
Do you believe with President VII
SON that, independently of any Jut-
side or explanatory declaration of q
fact clearly set forth in the United
States Constitution, Article ~. constL
tutes an absolutely compelling moral
obligation to send American troops to
Europe, at the cnli Of the League, in
certain contingencies of foreign dis
turbance-an obligation superior TO a
merely legal obligation under the
treaty? .s. ...4s ,..
Yes or no? ~. s-.l Il,
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Hapsburg Chests of Mysteries.

Nine chests filed with mysteries
enough to furnish material for score
of old time royal romances have been
dragged out Of the secret archives of
the Hapsburgs and are now awaiting
the decision of the Austrian High
Court as to their final disposition.
These chests contain, according to
the Vienna correspondent of the Lon
don Times, "the highly important
deeds, documents and notes that be-
longed TO the Archduke FRANCIS FER
DINAND, and also his political and
military diaries and his correspon-
dence with exalted persons ut home
and abroad"
One of the first acts Of the Haps-
burg family. after the assassination of
francis FERDINAND and his wife at
Sarajevo In 1914 was to seize all OF
the Archduke's correspondence and
official papers. Emperor FRANCIS
JOSEPH himself took charge OF them
and he was the only person who ex-
amined them. When he discovered
how fruitful the contents of the
chests were Of trouble he had them
sealed up and stored away with the
express order that they we're not to
be opened for fifty years and then
only by imperial consent.
lose Vvoc knoun NJ I'm ,f,ra Trpn,
NANp by the Austrians the court as
we'll as the people, than Of any other
member of the Hapsburg family. His
early training, his secretiyeness aud
the strlctness Of hts life caused him
to be styled "tlIe Jesuit" his aiister-
Ivy made him unpopular with the
viennese court and this feeling was
reflected In the attitude toward him
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of the Austrian people. He was a
puzzle to the Hohenzollerns. and WILL,
lam apparently, made a strong effort
to court his favor 1t was he who first
gave royal recognition to the Arch
dukes wife, Countess CHoTEK, and
who asked that she have the same
recognition In Vienna. 1t is said that
despite this FRANCIS FERDINAND hated
Prussia, and 1t Is also said that had
he lived he would have sought some
other alliance than with the German
Empire.
A militarfst himself. he was mis-
trusted by the military cliques Of both
Germany and Austrla-Hungary. He
professed q great fondness for the
Slavs of the empire, and one of tire
reforms which 1t was believed he
would effect when he came to the
throne was the formation of South
Slav State and its Incorporation as a
third member of the monarchy. He
was nevertheless mistrusted by the
Serbs and met his death at the capital
Of Bosnia, South Slay State. Even
the circumstances attending his as
sassination have never been fully I'M
derstood.s 1t was reported, and with a
considerable degree of authority, that
he was sent to. his death at Sarajevo
through the workings of a plot against
him and his wife at Vienna and
Berlin. p
When the Austrian Government dis
covered these nine chests it had curl
osity enough to have them brought to
court and opened. The Hohenbergs, the
family Of the Archduke's wife. entered
a protest to this, and, while the judge
could overlook the Introduction placed
upon the opening of the chests by
FRANCIS JOSEPH, he was compelled to
consider the Hohenbergs' right of
ownership and took the case under
consideration. To the writer, histo-
rian or novelist these papers, docu-
ments and letters should throw an in
teresting light upon the character of
the mysterious Archduke and reveal
many of the secret intrigues and dip
lomatic expedients of the Central EN-
pires in the, period Immediately pre-
ceding the world war. .fs
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From the Atlanta Consultation. siiti
sigh.
But yonder is a rainbow a-runnin' round
lc, the sky! t..,
Sunshine is sayin': 1--WE been away SC
long 2
But heard the darkness sighin'. an I'm
comm with a song! +
"A song that echoes sweet
Where lights an shadows meet:
II you listen you'll be hearin' ia.
The heart o. Heaven beat!
The valleys. lost an lonesome; we heard the
hills complain |,1
To the shadows o. the dark day an, the
drippin' o. the rain;
We couldn't glimpse the Mornin' beyond the
cloudy bars,
But we knew the sweet Sun, somewhere, was
lightin' lonely stars. c.s~t
An we heard the Sunshine say:
IN make a brighter day
Than ever yet the world knew
Since Heaven made tho May!"
An so. the shadows faded. an not heart
but knows a. r.-,, ,....
The rain there. in the darkness. was dream
Light was On the world way. an. sorrow was
In flight;
The sunshine is .Life's sweetheart, so kiss
the dark good night!
Along the way. we meet ,.,e
With song that echoes sweet,
An we listen, an we're hearin'
Tie heart o. Heaven beat!
Ets. ~ FRANK L.. STANTON.
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Money, Brother, Not wealth.

Our neighbor the World in one of
its headlines tells its leaders:
per Capita Wealth, of United z
States Fixed at $51.O6."1 nal "a
OF course the World knows that the
per capita wealth of the United States
has not been fixed, or estimated, or
calculated at $51O6. The Federal Re-
serve. Board has simply counted the
money .in- circulation-gold, silver.
paper, nickel and copper--on October
l, and found 1t comes to $51.06 for
each Of Uncle SANS nephews and
nieees. But this is not the measure
Of the wealth Of the United States.
Tie World headline is the result Of
thoughtlessness, overhaste, inadvert-
ence, one Of the thousand servants OF
error which lie in wait for the hurry
ing newspaper maker. .
The wealth. Of the United States is
not in the metal and paper tokens
which jingle and rustic in the pockets
Of its people. 1t lies in the fertile
farms, the rich mines, the racing
streams, the inexhaustible fisheries
which bless this especially blessed
land, In the giant industrial plants and
transportation systems which serve us,
the collateral. and subsidiary x struc.
kgres, the homes, factories and ether
useful buildings of the land. 1t is
made available by the toll of men
and women with clear heads, strong
bodies and stout hearts who labor
diligently to collect the livings the
world is popularity believed to owe to
them and their dependents.
In 1912 the wealth Of the United
States, as figured for the Statistical
Abstract on the true valuation of
real and personal property" the totals
being those of the Bureau of the Cen.
sus, amounted to $1S7, 739, OH 900, or
$1,955 per capit,,. The World Alma
nae Of 1920 quotes IN unofficial esti-
mate of our national wealth which
puts it at 100000, 100000.
How many dollars the nations
wealth amounts to might be the sub
ject of unending discussion. Each
estimator would use his own judg-
ment In computing 1t. That wealth,
created by nature and made available
for mankind's good by the ingenuity
and industry Of men and women, is
certainly vast; far, far too great In
amount to be staked against the in.
ternntlonalism Of the Wilson League
OF Nations or risked in the quarrels
Of the Old World. - ~
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TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT.
New York's Money Wasted I'm Sup
porting Unnecessary OfIiees.

To THE NEW York HERALD: New
York city has the most expensive gov
eminent Of any city in the world. The
expense per capita for Chicago Is less
than one-half Of that OF New York.
London's per capita expense is one-quar-
ter of New York's. 1t is fact, am
Informed, that this city has men In its
employ whose only business is to think
of ways of spending the peoples money.
To start with. we have too much
government. We have five separate and
distinct governments In one. Such a
form Of city government should be abol-
ished It is unwieldy, wasteful. unneces-
esry and extravagant beyond measure.
and only useful for place holders and
political plunderers.
The charter should be changed as soon
as possible. The tremendous army of
commissioners. deputy commissioners.
secretaries, assistant secretaries, private
secretaries, chauffeurs, coat holders and
rolitica, harnacles, made up OF district
leaders. their captains and heelers,
should be disbanded and I'm their places
sufficient intelligent and up to date
young business men and women should
lie employed at reasonable salaries to
10 the city's business.
The educational department of the
city should be reorganized. Hundreds
of thousands of dollars are wasted every
year in the educational work of the
city. The rudiments of necessary learn
ing are neglected and time and money
wasted in fads. Men and women are
actually employed and paid large sala-
res to watch school children at play.
And, by the way, much of the time given
20 play could be used TO better advan-
tage. Ask the class teachers about this.
The most ornate and expensive kind
of school buildings are erected, the slo.
gan being Hang the EXPENSE" 1t is
the opinion Of many builders that vast
sums of money have been squandered in
fancy looking school buildings in the last
five or ten years. "a
Extravaganza and waste in city ex-
3endltures may be controlled and les
sened by simpler form of government.
RENT PAYER
BROOKLYN, October 20.