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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
New York's Most Depressing and Most Cheerful Spots

down, that can pretend to all the citys de-
preston.
pleasanter object to seek for is the most
cheerful part of the city. 1t is a well known
and almost invariably successful prescrip-
ton for the blues to put on hat and coat
and, in the old phrase, take the air. But
even after doing this one must choose an
agreeable place to take 1t in.
There are women, countless numbers of
them, who find their nepenthe, fabulous
flower of Homer. growing luxuriantly on
Fifth avenue Ills. imaginary and real, fall
away as soon as they join the great daily
procession that treads this pavement, star
ing at the we'll and fashionably oddly
dressed people they pass, for this crowd is
also motley. To these the so-called Library
plaza that couple of blocks to the north
and to the south of the Public Library, is
by all odds and at all times and in all wealth
ers the most cheerful part of New York.
Passing motor carriages, shop windows
picture shops. photographers displays are
features that combine with the human ele-
ment 20 bring the mind to realize that when
all is said by the pessimist. the good things
of this world outnumber the bad and sad
ness must be deeprooted indeed to keep at
arms length the joy of living
Bright and ChangefuI Scenes
In the Central Park District
The same thing is to be observed on upper
Broadway. where II has ampler room. Start
Ing from Seventy second street II is pos
sible to walk for twenty or even thirty
blocks surveying meanwhile Kaleidoscope
ally bright and changeful human scene.
Central Park would seem to be the place
where cheerful feelings easily gain ascen-
dency over the spirit 1t serves such pur-
pose to many. but IL may be questioned II
its various walks and drives really rival the
streets where there are people and shops.
Yet of morning, when the Mall is running
full of pretty and happy children and again
OF afternoon when the procession OF
motors seems unendng, It should take
very short time TO cure the worst case of
depression i'm the park.
Washington Square I'm the opinion of very
many persons, is even better adapted than
the Park to drive away the blue devils 1t
is not too big IL is slightly. nice" people
sit on its benches to the exclusion of loafers
ard tramps, who feel here out Of place; the
children that play about are pretty and
healthy and beautifully dressed there is
interesting sculpture to see, and in fine the
square, with it's slightly faded old World
air and the modern life that has clustered
on the fringes, is not only civic beauty spot
but IL is also a place OF rest and good cheer
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
By FRANK II. SIMONDS.

THERE is a certain exquisite irony in
the fact that at the precise moment
when the League of Nations was
assembling in Geneva to formulate the plans
for the reorganization of world peace, Boil
shevism should have won one more of those
victories which demonstrate how unstable
and incomplete are all the arrangements so
far made from the Peace of Paris to the
Treaty of Rapallo. Nor is it less significant
that at the same moment a political revolu-
ton in Greece overturned Venizelos, the pill
lar of the Eastern policy of the two dominant
nations In European combinations.
The defeat of Wrangel historically parallels
the crushing of the last Vendee rising in the
French Revolution. 1t represents the SUI
preme and final effort of the survivors of old
Russian control to regain the reins with the
aid of outside support. Kolchak, Denikine.
Yudenitch, all have gone the same way.
Russia may not accept Boshevism. may not
permanently tolerate it, but Russia will not
rise to the wish of the outside world TO
restore an ancient regime More than that.
as the Polish episode demonstrated Russia
will rise inenectIvely perhaps, but unmis-
takably with determination against an alien
invasion. Thus one may find at least faint
echo of 1892 in the Polish campaign of 1920.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Peace With Russia at Present
Still Is Unthinkable


To-day the world discusses soberly the
prospect of new Russian attack upon
Poland in the spring Such a campaign is
logical and may be inevitable unless Europe
makes up its mind as it will not, to fight
Russia or concludes, as it may, that the
fighting game is up and that there is nothing
left to be done but to seek to make a truce
with an enemy who will frankly and OBJ
viously use the truce to organize more
effective attack. Peace between Russia and
the rest of the world is still unthinkable
because between the two there still exists a
fundamental cleavage. Russia of the present
hour is a state of war; condition of revolu-
ton against all our Western notions politi-
cal and economic.
But like the French Revolution the Rus
sian has fortified itself at home by the dis
tribution of the land. The French Revolu-
ton survived all external assaults, persisted
until Napoleon arrived and organized the
nation because all the existing evils of the
revolution seemed more tolerable to the
millions than the return Of the old owners
of the great estates And against this solid
fact each effort to rescue Russia has broken
Russia will not be rescued. The fact is
there written in the defeats of each sue
cessive savior, backed by Western nations
and equipped by Western arsenals.
And each failure has supplied the Boil
shevists with new weapons. The tate OF
Poland was nearly decided last summer by
the munitions and machinery of war pro-
vided for Denikine and Kolchak and Yude-
mitch by the sanguine conquerors of Ger
many If new army attacks on the Polish
frontier in the spring, it will find its re-
sources solely in the booty captured from
Wrangel Thus in a strangely fatal FASH
ion the Western nations seeking to disarm
Bolshevism have again and again succeeded
only in providing it with weapons for a new
attack
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
eneva Can Offer No Real Policy to Handle Boshevism

quiescent, and thereafter to concentrate
against the greatest of the border tribes.
namely Poland, and almost crush it. Finally.
with Poland in 1920 as with Germany in
1918, Bolshevism made costly peace to OBJ
tain the opportunity to dispose of danger
GUS domestic rebellion.
To-day We are back where we were in
1918. with this important difference, that
the last visible foundation for domestic
deliverance of Russia has been removed
Bolshevism can turn against the border
tribes, if it chooses now against the Poles
on the Pripet, against the Rumanians on
the Dniester and the prospect of another
Wrangel is remote. And unless we under
take to defend Rumania and Poland, who
were our agents in our war against Boil
shevism they must surrender or succumb.
1t is essentially dishonest TO blink the fact
that the war between the border tribes and
the Bolshevists was in its origin our war
We the western nations deputized the border
tribes to fight battles, we paying in
money and they in blood. If they had
natonalistic and even chauvinistic objects
in mind, far from criticising them in the
winter of 1919. welcomed them as supply
ing the incentive for that attack upon Boil
shevism which the Paris Conference, the
nations gathered at Paris desired but did not
dare to make directly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11
CALLED THE SPEED KING
BY SENATE COLLEAGUES
Senator Curtis Earns New Title
for Fast Work With
Important Bills.

Senator Charles Curtis Of Kansas has
earned new tile recently. conferred
by his colleagues. the speed king" be-
cause Of the successful ma nner in which
he has handled the District appropria-
ton bill and the Indian appropriation
bill. In recent years these mea sures
have sometimes caused long debate in
the upper house. particularly the Indian
bill. But under the management of the
Kansas senator the measure was put
through in short order. As for the Dig
trict appropriation bill, he put it over
the jumps in just forty-five minutes by
the clock.
But the title speed king" while new
to his colleagues, is by no means new
TO Senator Curtis. In the days when he
was slender youhgster ne used to
pilot the ponies on the race track. and
usually. when he was up. he brought
homo the bacon. Today he has lost that
slim figure. and bears a striking resem-
blance to President Grover Cleveland,
though he is many pounds lighter than
the late President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11
BE AUDACIOUS,
WITH NO PRUDENCE,
WILSON BID NAVY
Continued from First Paee.D

and stimulate America. America is
world. Germany is the prize profess
sionai nation Of the world. Now
when i, comes TO doing new things
and doing them well. I will back the
amateur against the professional
every time He knows so little about
it that he is fool enough to try the
right thing. The men that do not
know the danger are the rashest men
Forget the Word "Prudent."
please leave out Of your voca bu-
larry altogether the word prudent.
Do not stop to think about what IL
prudent for a moment. Do the thing
that is audacious to the utmost point
Of risk and daring, because that n
exactly the thing that the other side
does not understand. and you will
win by the audacity Of method when
YOU cannot win by circumspection
and prudence.
II think that there are willing ears
to hear this in the American Navy
and the American Army. because that
is the kind of folks We are. We get
new ones.
II am not discouraged for a mo-
ment. particularly because we have
not even begun. and. without saving
anything in disparagement OF those
with whom We are associated in the
war. do expect things to oeKln
when We begin. II they do not
American history will have changea
it's course; the American Army and
Nayy will have changed their char
acter. There will have to come q
new tradition into service wn1cn
does not do new and audaclous ana
successful things-'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11
AMPHITHEATER OPENS
TO CONFEDERATES
If RESOLUTION PASSES

Names Of some of the great Con-
federate generals. including Lee and
Jackson. would be included in the in
scriptions on the Arlington memorial
amphitheater within the discretion
OF the amphitheater commission UNI
der joint resolution pending in Con
xresS
The measure was introduced in the
House by Representative Sherwood Of
Ohio. one OF the few veterans Of the
civil war remaining in Congress. and
it was offered in the Senate by Sena
tor Overman of North Carolina.
Senator Overman explained that
while members of the commission
desired to include the names of tho
southern generals and Union veteran.
wanted their names on the inscrip-
tons, the commission was without
authority The amphitheater is to be
dedicated Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11

Roy S. McE.lwee. assistant director
of the bureau Of foreign and domestic
commerce, was nominated today by
President Wilson to be director Of tle
bureau to fill the position made va
cant by the resie nation OF fEIip
Il. Kennedy Mr.. Nc Elwee. If his nom
nation is confirmed, will take up his
new duties July ].
A native Of Michigan. Mr.. McAlwee
received his education in the Indian
apolis public schools, the Hudson
River Military Academy. the Overlook
Latin School and Columbia University
in the United States. the University
OF Marburg, the Royal Technical Col
lege at Charlottenburg. the University
of Halle and the University OF Berlin,
In Germany.
He was employed as clerk in the
Berlin headquarters OF an American
camera company at seventeen. later
serving two years in Paris and three
seasons in Germany. selling American
products He later became sales man
ager in Berlin for an American ele-
vator company and was al Hamburg,
in charge Of "A branch of the concern,
when the war broke out.
On his return to the United States
he Joined the teaching stan of Column
bia University as a lecturer in eco
Monies and foreign trade. He was an
officer in the railroad transportation
corps at Camp Merritt during the war
and was stationed at Washington for
a time. He entered the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce from
the federal board for vocational edu-
cation. He is the author of Ports
and Terminal Facilities and a num-
Der OF pamphlets on foreign trade sub
jects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11
BOGUS" WAR SAVINGS
STAMPS IN CIRCULATION
Counterfeit Copies Watched for by
Post Office Clerks, Despite
Many Protests.

DO you think the United States
Treasury would see me counterfeit
stamps" snapped the woman at the
cashiers window at the Washington
city post office, as the cashier took
out his trusty magnifying glass to
scrutiniZe the blue war savings
stamps. series of 1919. which she had
presented for payment.
The cashier was merely acting in
accordance with instructions from the
Post Office Department to watch out
for some clever counterfeits. but the
woman, as many others. it develops,
became irate when the stamps were
examined.
Close scrutiny of one of the counter
feits. of which about 100 have been
palmed off in New York and Jersey
City. shows that the fact of Frank
lin on the stamp is much longer than
on the genuine. and the eyes are very
''stary," as il Franklin had posed for q
flashlight
Attention also has been called to the
very crude work. comparatively
Speaking, of the perforations around
the edge. Employees Of the bureau Of
engraving and printing who have
seen the counterfeits declare that the
faulty perforations would give them
away quicker to the experienced
stamp eye" than perhaps anything
else.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11
HIGHER EFFICIENCY
FROM SHORTERD DAY
Public Health Service Gives
Comparison Of Ten-Hour
and Eight Hour [ ays.

An eight hour day results not only
in increased efficiency. but in greater
economy in industrial plants than the
ten-hour day.
After three years' study upon details
OF problems relating to the length OF me
working day. experIs OF the pune
health service today announced that
this was the decision of the survey
Large Modern Plants studied. {.
The investigation was of a broad
scope. Care WAS takento select mod
"rn plants employing Sufficiently
large number of workers /" make
conclusions of general application
Machinery. manufa ctured products
and processes were taken into con-
sideration in comparing eiRht-hour
plants With the ten-hour plants. SINH
;aritE in conditions was sought in or
der to make r fair comparison.
The main conclusions. summarized
are:
The outstanding feature of the
eight hour day s a steady mainfe-
nance of output. The outstanding
feature of rh- t-n-hour system is
decline of ipu'.
Il nd.r h" Eight hour system work
'."@i"S aId EMS o. s,h"dul" time un-
der ful. power. Los, :lm- IS reduced
I" mininunl. FINDER ;h- ten-h hour
system work ceases regularly before
tht .u,i of The spell. Lost time is fire.
quent
Under the ten-hour system work
ers appear-Io artifcially restrict their
. forts and TO keep pace with the less
efficient workers. Under the eight
hour system the output varies more
nearly according TO the individual
apacity Of the workers. That is.
each is more likely TO do his utmost
rather than an average days work
regulated by a low standard"
Number 0f Aeridents.
The report also states that fatigue
from long hours causes rise in the
number of accidents.
IF for any reason production is
speeded up in the last hour when the
workers are tired" the report states.
the rise in the number of accidents
mounts so rapidly as TO leave no
room to doubt that the higher acct
dem, risk accompanies the decline In
working capacity Of the employee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11
SAYS PRISON SENTENCES
WOULD CHECK H. c. OF [,
Representative Welty Critics. Pun
ishment Imposed on Violators of
Sherman Antitrust Law.

High PRICES would decline greatly
il prison sentences were imposed upon
v1olators of the Sherman antitrust
Law. Representative WeIty, democrat,
Ohio. declared today before the House
judiciary committee. Criticising Su-
preme Court decisions under the law.
he urged amendment of the Constitu-
ton 80 that Congress would limit the
tenure Of Office Of all federal judges
TO a period of years. instead Of for
life. Unrest in this country. he as
serted. was largely due to the court >
not being more responsive to public
sentiment"
Not a single person has been sent
to prison. except a few labor leaders"
said MIR. Welty. reviewing cases
brought under the Sherman antitrust
law. I'm all 217 cases were filed, but
only fifty eight prosecuted by indict-
ment. while the soft equity proceed
ing was applied to l59 cases
Out of the ffty-eight indictments.
in thirty-six cases the defendants
pleaded guilty, in thirteen cases the
defendants were found guilty. while
in six cases the defendants were
found not guilty. and disa greement
in only two indictments"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11
SOC|AL|STSF|GHT
0vERPLATFORM
Victor Berger and Others
Rail at HiIIquit's Party
Plan,

NEW YORK, May IL (by the Asso-
ciated Press).-Demanding limita-
tons Of. citizenship and Dictatorship
OF the laboring classes. the Illinois
delegation Of the socialist party's ma
tional convention today opened an az
gressive minority fight for the "radi-
cal principles" of international soviet
ism in the 1920 platform. STRUGGLING
to defeat the conservative" forces Of
Morris Hillauit. four Chicagoans-J
Louis Engdahl. Samuel H. Holland.
William F.. Kruse and Irving st. John
Tucker-battled to substitute their
program Tor that given the convention
yesterday by Hillquit and his plat
form committee.
Victor Berger Heard.
sentative in Congress from Milwau-
kee. under twenty-year sentence
Tor violation of the espionage act.
urged adoption of the Hillquit plat
form unchanged. He declared that
for forty years the socialist party had
n ,s talked a language the people of
the country could understand
don't believe in any Dictatorship
Berger said. II don't believe in the
dictatorship of Attorney General Pal
mer, Postmaster General Burleson or
the mobs in the northwest. or any
dIcfa torship of the proletariat.
Why. outside of Milwaukee and
New York's East Side. nobody knows
anything about proletariat Maybe
he steel trust and Sammy Gompers
know about it. but the American peo-
pie IN general haven't got any prole-
tariat"
kruse attacked the Hillquit .decla
ration OF principles as non-socialist
| IT its statement that the partys "ulti-
mate aim in politics is to secure a ma
Jority in Congress and in every state
legislature, to win the principal exec
utive and judicial offices. to become
the dominant controlling political
party in the country" When Kruse
ridiculed this paragraph as non-so-
clalist in its Conservatism" Hillauit
slammed his fist down on the table
and shouted:
"Oh. read the whole platform-be
honest. You don't know what it saws
yet
Speaker IL Kissed.
Irving r. Weiss of Buffalo was
Kissed by the galleries when he Joined
with Berger In opposing the principle
of the dictatorship Of the proletariat,
Il am not in favor of this dicta-
t"'" % he prn,"tariat as it is in
Russia" Weiss said. Conditions in
-....>-I,ca are dinelent from those in
Russia and those who hiss opposition
to the dictatorship of the proletariat
are ignorant and don't know what
they are doing
a. Dreifuss of Chicago denounced
Hillquit and Berger as playing to
the gallery" in pre-conyention
speeches favoring the advent to pow
er of the Russian soviet government.
but had discarded their high sound :
ing talk to become conservatives
here"
The platform itself as drafted by
the ChicaSoans resembled closely that
already suggested by the Hillouit
forces. excepting its Introductory de
ma ndS.
Lee Becomes Chairman,
New York won the election of Al
Gernon Lee to be chairman of the
convention for today. Lena Morrow
Lewis OF California was elected vice
chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11
URGE GRAIN SHIPMENT
MINIMUM BE RESTORED

ST. LOUIS. May 11.-Restoration OF
the Al. 000-pound minimum for carload
shipments Of grain and grain products
was urged by representatives of grain
interests from throughout the United
States who attended an informal con-
ference called here yesterday by the
Interstate Commerce Commission. The
hearing was conducted by w. v. Har-
die, director of the bureau of traffic
for the commission.
The present minimum of $4,000
pounds. it was asserted. works a
hardship on shippers. in SO far as it
affects the small buyer. who is I'M
able to make purchases in such guam
titles. The present minimum went
into effect October 20. 1919. and is
scheduled 10 expire August 81 Of this
year.
Director Harxdie explained that the
hearing resulted from complaints Of
grain men who are seeking immediate
relief.
Railroad traffic men who attended
the conference said that the condi-
tions which brought about the appli-
cation Of the present minimum still
exist and justify its retention.
Director Hardie stated the results
OF the conference will be laid before
the commissioners on his return tc
Washington Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-11
MR.. HARRISON ASKS
LAW TO HELP FARMERS
Bill Would Allow Treasury to Buy
$l00.O00,000 Worth of Farm
Loan Bonds.

Senator Fat Harrison Of Mississippi
today introduced a bill authorizing
the Secretary Of the Treasury to pur
chase from time to time. during the
fiscal years 1920 and 1921. 100000
900 of farm loan bonds. In explana-
ton of his bill Senator Harrison said;
THE bill I introduce is designed to
meet a situation which has arisen
with respect TO the operation of tie
farm loan system due to the institu-
ton of a suit last July in the circuit
court of appeals at Kansas City. con-
testing the constitutionality OF the
farm loan act. The case was brought
at the instance Of the Farm Mortgage
Bankers Association. and represents
the desperate effort Of the old-line
mortgage companies to destroy this
court dismissed the case and an APP
peal was taken TO the Supreme Court.
where it was argued early in Janu-
airy, but recently the court ordered
re-argument Of the case, which cannot
take place until next October.
The money which the federal land
banks loaned to farmers through the
local associations come as the result
OF the sale of farm loan bonds based
on farm mortgages. With this case
pending challenging the legality OF
these bonds. the farm loan board has
wisely refrained from undertaking to
sell them. l wish it understood that
SO far as the banks are concerned
in fact as far as the entire system is
conce rned-everything is perfectly
safe and sound. and no relief is neces-
sary in this direction. The difficulty
grows out of the fact that many
farmers have made application to the
various banks for loans. and have
made all their arrangements with the
idea that they would get their money
from these sources. With farm pro-
duction threatening to be less this
year than has been the case in dec
ade. il would seem that Congress can
well afford to take steps which will
make financing as easy az possible