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Census of Freemasons.
Increased Membership Found Every.
where Except i'm Germany.

According to a return just published
there are 40 Grand Masonic jurisdic-
tions throughout the world. forty-nine Of
which arc in the United States of Amer
lea thirty-iiyc in Europe. twenty-one in
Central America. fifteen in South Amer
lea nine in C1nada. seven in Austria
lasia. three in africa and one in Occania
(Philippines)
At the time of the completion OF this cea-
sus these Grand Lodges exercised juris-
dctlon over e6.S09 subordinate lodges
and 3.152,649 members. but both these
figures have since been considerably aug
mcnted 1t is not without significance
that. although from 1914 to 1918 the
nine Grand Lodges in the German En-
pire showed slight increase OF twenty
nine in the number of private or sub
ordinate lodges. there was decrease in
the total membership Of 500. the only
country In the world where a decrease
was recorded In all other Masonic jur-
lsdictons an increase was reported.
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billion dollar foreign trade for the
fiscal year 1920, the highest total ever
reached by any nation. 1t tells OF
the growth of our merchant marine
TO the second largest in the world
But these twice told tales, useful as
they may be in buttressing Yankee
pride, are not an insurance policy for
our future foreign trade.
Elsewhere the report sets out trench
ant facts which reveal that, while
striving to render service for which
American business has the greatest
need, the department has been handi-
capped In many ways. The admins
trative and field staffs in the United
States, which disseminate informa-
ton gathered from world markets,
are too small and are underpaid. Con-
suls abroad are too few and are con-
stantly being taken from the Govern.
ment by private concerns offering
higher salaries. Land and harbor sur
veys are restricted because the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Bureau has only
decrepit vessels, an underpaid staff
and inadequate administrative quar-
ters
These are only Il few of the obsta-
cles against which the department has
had to contend Some of the recon-.
mendati0ns made this year have been
put forward several times before with
out bringing any action. This is par
ticularly true with regard 10 the steps
necessary to increase the consular out
posts and TO provide for the proper
development of Alaska's resources.
Secretary ALEXANDER admits that the
department has not been able to de.
velop maximum efficiency in promot-
ing American commerce, but this was
due to circumstances wholly Within
the control Of Congress.
Lucrative trade will no longer coll
into the lap Of the American nation
without a struggle against competi-
tors. The Department Of Commerce
is, or should be, the most impor-
tant peace time administrative branch
Of the Government. 1t should be Il
virile, energetic first aid to American
commerce. as efficient and powerful
as the British Board Of Trade.
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&I.eOO.OOQ.O1.

The sum total OF the itenlzed expenses OF
President Wilson's expedition TO Paris. as
submitted 20 Congress.
The heart OF the word stops breaking
And its tears are mostly dried.
Though the Mugwumps still are talking
And the red tapes not all tied;
But that 100000 stencil
In November read mot me"
SO your Uncle takes his pencil
And figures to pay his fee.
And some will say that the tot I'D
In effect is a total loss
And the detailed statement got up
is incense burned for joss.
But others arc not so certain
"True, the sum is generous slice"
They say. but let's draw the curtain
And call the thing cheap at the price.
For" they say. az was worth all the
Nay. thousand times over, and
more
Tho nation to test In the FIRE
And find IL still sound at the coro.~
And when we think over the matter
And look at II In that light
we shall probably think these latter
Have just about hit IL right
MAuMcs MORRIS.
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EVENTS TODAY.

Mrs. Charlotte I'crlinf Gilman anu " ~.
Frank Bohn viii speak AT dinner given oy
TrIftecnth Senatorial District In honor or
Nathan straus. Jr., lIotol Penns%ivahia' :
p. NJ
The Marshan s,iiman Movement win bold
n boxing fiR ~ the Hotel C"niaiouo'u ''si"-
ming 81 $50 p. NJ.
The Fedora i'm Tor the support OF Jewi ~
philal throplc Societies haaan~. Hotel tchn-
sylyania, all da%
Dr Toyolichi Iy.naga win lecture on
japan and the Japanese fTopl-hi hi WV >
Union, L. NJ.
There will be meeting OF the New lor'.
city 1920 census committee at the AcadeinH
OF Medicine, IL West Forty-third street ti"'
p. NJ.
The sphinx Club dinner. waldcrf-Astor'a'
Prof. George r. Hastings will give an Illus
trated lecture on Floral and Scenic feat-
ures Of Chile" at meeting OF me norrsy
potanical Club at the American Museum OF
Natural History, Seventy-seventh street ano
Central Park West, S:15 p. NJ.
DIR. Jacob Mann will lecture on THE Genl-
zah--what II Means 70 jewish Leal ,in,es,e,
Seminary. 53t West 123d street. IL 80 y. NJ
The Building Managers and Owners Asso-
citation Of New York will meet at tho Advero.
Using club. u East Twenty-fifth street SO"
p. NJ.
The .wenty-fifth anniversary exercises oi
tho Jennie ClarlSson Home for Children VIII
no hold In the chapel OF the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Churc;l, S West Forty-sxth street.
7. NJ
Maurice casenavc viii lecture on The Ac-
live Forces o. France" before the French
alliance OF Sew York, Plaza Hotel, $50
lanes NJ. Inibrie m speak o. ''rhc Effec,t
of T,,ropsn Condi. IONS or American BuSi-
neas." Of the annual meeting o. l'ark CON-
munity Council nj y. $. 81, Eighty seNentn
street. between Park and Lexington avenues
S.t5 i. NJ. ,.t.,.
Til. pcntlarge viii speak on "Dcpreciat ion
at meeting Of the New YORK ~ - sos'e Tor, y.
Accountants IN Rumford ltaH, % East roFE-
first street. S:15 y. VI.
There viii be meeting OF the section OF
neurology and psychiatry at the Academy OF
Medicine. II west Forty-third street $3.50
p. NJ.
Dhan C;opai AIukArji will lecture on "rhc
Ideal of Life After Death" before tho
League for Political Education In Park the
atre II A. ~.
troll for workers." Mt the Manhattan Ly-
ceuin. GO East Fourth street. s:tJ 7, NJ.
Hanover College, luncheon. Hotel MeNpn'
. The Dramstists Guild OF the Authors
League Will hold n general meeting az care
Boulevard. $3.50 p. NJ:
Portland Cement Association. convention
meetings. Hotel Biltmore. 1880 \. NJ. and
. p. NJ.
dinner. Hotel NfcAlpin, T.. NJ.
United States Potters Association, meet
ings Hotel Aston. 10 a. NJ. and II. ".
The baseball clubs OF the National League
will hold meeting at the Wsidorf-As,or'n
New York CITY Federation NJ womcn's
Clubs. meeting. Hotel Aston, 10 A. ".
william w Ellsworth win lecture on The
Pilgrim Fathers" before the New YORK W..
iorical Society, 10 Central paris West. $50
y. NJ
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and sometimes their instruction al
most entirely through me pctures.
Reading Is the best way TO le I'm. bun
seeing pictures is easier As circu-
Eating medium the motion pictures
rank next to the newspapers. In a
case whore the life Of the motion pic
lure industry was at stake the screen
could he made very eloquent.
But il is unlikely that the motion
picture men will find it necessary 70
make a regular campaign against the
Blue Law Stiffness. The tight Sunday
Is backed by comparatively few per-
sons. There are too many millions OF
Americans who have Il
firm belief that they are going TO
spend Sunday, after the religious ser
vices, exactly as their cOnsciences tel,
them TO spend it.
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Must He Pay More Taxes!
A Man Who Is Worse on OH $4,000
Year Than He Was on 81 800.

TO THE New York HERALD: Refer
ring to Secretary Houston's report on
taxes, the question naturally arises as
to what we little fellows are coming TO.
Four years ago | was earning $1,000
year, dressing reasonably we'll and en-
ioying little entertainment. and by the
cooperation of a thrifty wife was able
to save about $3.50 during the year.
During the current year j have earned
more than $4,000. and while living in
the same house, renewing clothes less
frequently and with inferior quality, and
spending practically nothing for enter
tainment l find myself on the wrong
side of the ledger as the year comes to
close. In addition 1 have paid ar
income tax of more than $40, which has
had to be taken from the savings OF
other years.
Now we are told that the rate should
be increased per cent When we
read of the tragic waste OF our nations
funds during tho past seven lean years,
the all around incompetency of the
Washington crowd and the great deartn
OF their actual accomplishments NC
cal.not escape The conclusion that ii l.
tho old idea OF sending good money aftel
bad. and TO take amy more from tho
small taxpayer borders on confiscation.
Every dollar that | spend throughout
the year contains a certain amount OF
taxation, direct or indirect. and it Is a
liscoura ging and ranking feeling when
raalize that I am running behind In.
stead of progressing. II may be poor
economies to make such statement.
-. a.. ,,.i..
the idea that instead of taxing the mea
with salaries between $4,000 and $4,000
the Government actually owes them a
bonus for smiling through. keeping hon
est and Industrious.
Men who are decent. home loving cit
liens and who stick TO their jobs
through calm and storm require that
encouragement that comes from thY
knowledge and belief that honesty is an
asset and not an incumbrance and that
steadfa stness aud clean citizenship are
not q mistake, and it is The duty OF oui
Congress and our law makers to foster
that knowledge and belief so that eyes
with normally clear vision will not D.
taught to see red.
This H. not protest against taxation
within reason. hut VIE. the value of
dollar at about fifty cents there is I.
feeling abroad that tho exemption on
incomo taxes should be doubled. to-
gethe? with the thought that the in
dividual with Il small income is paying
plenty OF taxes i'm the direct and indi-
rect taxation which is included in all OF
his expenditures.
Can't we have law that will let US
pay one tax and avoid the hundred ami
one other taxes that eat into our .meagr
resources? II. NJ. +.
YoNREes. December 49,
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the colony and The State of New
York of the aboriglnes on her soil,
This may be said not only concerning
the highland Iroquois-the finest type
Of savage man-but also Of the tide
/ water or Algonquin Indians, 1t is a
citizen of New York also, RoDAlAN
/ WANAAiAKER, who. with unchecked
I enthusiasm and atfluence of money,
in memorials of art and the choice of
experts for exploration Of the hunting
grounds and reservations Of every tribe
i'm the United States, has sought to do
justice to the first Americans. These,
strange TO say, are not yet citizens be-
fore the law. even though floods of
aliens enter our gates. Nor, though
our flag waves over them and they
fought for us under 1t in more than
one war, is that flag theirs.
DR.. BOND, who arrived in this city
recently and Of whose coming and re-
port THE NEW YORK HERALD gave an
exclusive account, has visited every
Indian tribe in the United States OF
100000 natives on the continent
when the white man arrived to arrest
their evolution but 100000 now sur
vive. The old reports OF there being
rs many Indians IN America in the
nineteenth as III the sixteenth century
were based on estimates which COW
ered only the region east OF the Mis-
Sissippi River. Yet il the red man had
done nothing more To aid civilization
than to develop corn and its culture
the nations of to-day should hold his
name in gratitude. Our army in 1918
in France alone left thousands Of tons
Of cornmeal-to be fed to the pigs
Starving ireland in 1913 rejected a
shipload Of maize. And why does
not a band Of enterprising American
women do real missionary work In
Europe by teaching those nations now
in q state of semi-starvation to cook
and cat cornmeal? Nourishing and
delicious when made into breakfast
cereals, mush, bread, cakes, gems and
buildings, and an adjunct to Pennsyl-
vania scrapple and host of palatable
Dishes it is despised and rejected by
the hungry of Europe because its peo-
1 pie are ignorant of its value both as
vitamine container and n delicacy.
1t is a good sign that the Indian is
now properly set forth in art on our
coins, while the sonorous names which
delighted CoLERIDGE cling to our noun
tains and valleys and thus prolong
4 like an echo their grand story. These
1 sons of the forest not only prepared
rough nature for our fathers but also
taught them much of material benefit
and lasting advantage. Art. literature
and national sentiment have not yet
wholly repaid this debt, but there are
those who see brighter day dawning
of both justice and beauty. In that
era of developed American genius our
children may be equally proud of both
| Pilgrim and Indian.
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What Burleson Leaves.

The annual report of the Postmas-
ter-General takes up, among other
things, the postal problems of New
York. Mr.. BUmEsoN discovers that
this city needs three more post Office
buildings: one in the financial dis
trict, one near the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Station and one near the Grand
Central Terminal. These he would
connect with tunnel fifteen feet wide
and eight feet high, in which electric
ears would be run.
No recommendation by the outgoing
Mr.. BURLEsoN is of any great value
now It is interesting to discover,
though, that Mr.. BURLEsoN has at last
become acquainted with this city's
needs in the way of better postal
facllities-seven and half years after
he and Il Democratic Administration
came into power. If Mr.. BuRLESoN
ever did anything to the postal system
Of this town except to damage it we
have not observed il.
The need Of Il new post Office down
town has been obvious every day that
BURLEsoN has been in office. He could
not find money to help the situation.
but he could get hold of money with
which to indulge in his expensive fad
for the aerial mail
We are sorry for Mr.. BURLEsoN's
successor. He is in for thousand
headaches. He has in front of him
the worst mess that Postmaster Gen
eral ever faced. But he can bring
this great department back to elf
cheney by spending the money Con-
gress gives him on necessities and not
on fads. The telephone company has
brought its service. temporarily ruined
by Government misuse. back to nor
NAL. President HARDING's first Post
master-General will have harder job
than the telephone job TO do. for the
disintegration Of the postal system has
been going on for seven years,
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Just Lengthen Skirts.
A Simple Plan to Use Surplus Textiles
and Keep Mills Busy.

To THE New York HERALD: Some
years ago mathematician figured out
that if the people of China would add
one inch TO the length of their blouses
it would consume many thousand bales
of cotton. This leads the writer to take
up the question of short skirts.
With a surplus of woollens, silks, cot
tons and other fabrics. and the demands
of the mills and working people for
greater employment, possibly some of
your volunteer mathematicians will
tackle this question. A difference of six
inches or more would have wonderful
effect in increasing the consumption of
wool. silk. cotton. linen, &c. II.
NEW YORK, December 10.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-14
Vanderbilt Art Shown at Museum
Rembrandts "Noble Slav' and Holbein's Lady Guild
ford" in Recent Request.

Art bequeathed TO the Metropolitan
Museum of Art by the late William X.
Vanderbilt was placed on public view
there yesterday for the first time. and
there were also shown the William
Milne Grinnell bequest of Persian and
other near Eastern art objects; the large
tablet by Paul Manship in memory of
the late J. Pierpont Morgan. the fifth ex-
hibition Of American industrial art; a
collection OF Japanese prints, and many
recent accesslons intended for various
departments of the museum. These adj
ditions to the museum are the most
important that have been made IN some
years and will provide amateurs with
much matter for study.
The Vanderbilt group is headed by a
great Rembrandt. the well known Noble
Slav." The painting, In the familiar gold
en- browns depicts an old man of much
natural dignity vino is made more inn
posing by lofty turban and voluminous
rich cloaks. 1t belongs TO the master s
early period and it Is supposed that the
artists father posed for il. 1t was shown
III the museum at the time of the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration.
An important portrait of still earlier
date than this is the Lady Guildford.
by Hans Holbein. with all sorts OF in
tricate detail in il. worked out with the
characteristics care for which Holben is
famous. The companion portrait to this.
of "Lo"d Guildford." hangs in Windsor
Castle.
Other paintings m the Vanderbilt be-
quest include a Scene in a Courtyard"
ny Pieter dc Hooch: two sea pieces by
Cuyp and Van der Velde, the Toilet of
Venus" by Boucher, and LES Oeufs
Cases." by Greuze. The Vanderbilt
pictures will remain in gallery No. %
throughout the winter.
with this bequest came two pieces Of
furniture that are as precious as the
paintings. These are commode and
a secretary that were made for Marie
Antoinette and that bear her cipher.
They are superlative examples OF cabi-
netry and the museum experts are i'm
mensely proud of them. Both pieces are
of ebony decorated with panels OF black
and gold lacquer and deliberately orna-
mented with gilt bronze flora. orna.
ments These gilt ornaments are un-
questionably the work of the celebrated
Pierre Gouthiere, and it is thought that
the equally celebrated Riesner was as
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ISOLATED with Gouthiere in designing
these pieces.
The J. Pierpont Morgan memorial
tablet by Paul Manshp decorates one
or the supporting piers in the Fifth
avenue entrance hall facing the door.
II was erected" so runs the carved
legend by the museum IN grateful
remembrance Of the services of John
Pierpont Morgan from 1871 to 1913 as
trustee. benefactor and president. He
was In all respects q great citizen; he
helped to make New York the true
metropolis of America. his interest In
art was lifelong, his generous devotion
to II commanded worldwide apprecia-
ton. his munificent gifts to the museum
are among its choicest treasures. Vita
plena laboris''
The legend is framed by q series of
decorative panels that symbolic all OF
Mr. Morgan's varied interests. Figures
typify Commerce. Finance. Science.
Art. Literature and Archaeology. and
in the low relief there arc other fig
ures that repeat and expand the same
ideas. Altogether there are fifty fig
ures. large end small. in the compost
ton and they have been carried out
in the artists most finished style. 1t
will certainly take rank among the
most important productions of MI
Manship's career.
Among the many art objects shown
Yesterday for the first time an
unique and one of the most interest
ING was n Louis XVI. shop front, re-
Gently given TO the museum by j. Pier
pont Morgan. The shop front. which
L comnleta. formerly stood at No. ]
DUAL Bourbon. Paris. and there is moth
ing in it's charming design but winch
could be used in a shop ON Firth ave-
nue. Of to-day.
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Burlesonism in Practice.
A Moral i'm the Case of Van Drivers
Who Lose Mail Bags.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: AS to
the discovery in this city of 200 pieces
of mail rihed en- route from Japan to
England, l notice that the latest theory
is that they came from mail bag which
fell from mail truck while in transit
from one station to another In view
Of my own observations | should say it
was good guess.
ON one occasion | was walking down
Third avenue when 4 nail wagon rushed
by with both rear wire mesh doors
a-swnging. and a s.oping load of mail
bags within let sail full bag into the
street. l whistled and shouted and
stood in the middle OF the road and
yelled to the driver, and a block away
some one halted him. and the driver had
the nerve to lean out and beckon me to
bring on his lost mail.
Again, while on a train en- route to
Spring Lake, N. J., at station where
we stopped some bags Of mail were put
Off and a man with hand truck put the
bags on 1t and pulled 1t toward the post
Office, which was in view of the car
window I saw a full bag fall off and
opening the window yelled to the man.
He yelled back to me some know it all
stuff and went on in spite of my point
ing and gesturing toward the lost bag
We pulled out of the station and the
bag still lay in mid street
No doubt 1 have seen only one one
millionth of such occurrences. A poor
manager at the top is the cause of it.
Thank God, we stand a chance for real
business management in all our depart
ments after March !. f. U. POLLOCK.
New YORK, December 49,
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The CoIonePs Vivid Pen.

Colonel WATTERsoN is nothing if not
graphic and picturesque in his utter
auces. and sometimes at the expense
of soundness he INDUCES in ultra
vivid phrasing. His letter. printed
among other letters OF varying views
IN THE NEW YORK HERALD yesterday
morning. is Enthusiastically idiosyn-
cratic of his brilliant pen. but not at
all like the distinguished sweet souled
Colonel WATTERsoN himself.
AlarSe HENRY has the Imagination
Of the poet. the spirit of the warrior
and the heat of cookstove
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Senator KNOX. because OF the ele-
ment of time involved in the produc-
ton of a newspaper. was able yester-
day TO beat THE New York HERALD to
it in the correction of an error which
unfortunately occurred in an editorial
article headed "Our New Treaty With
Japan" printed yesterday. We said in
this article that our legation to Corea
was withdrawn in 1912; in fact it was
withdrawn i'm 1905. This mistake, re-
grettable though It was, did not impair
the argument of the article.
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The Screens Power to Hit.

Tic spokesman Of the moving pic
lure men. WILLIAM ~ BRADY. makes
no bones about WHAT The screen indus
trv Would do if 70 catn, to fight with
thc Eiuc Law folk. lie hays the cards
facc up on thc ipJlc II the %nd sun
Icy advocates 10 uoi retreat. hc says.
"wc VIII put our ease on the screen
n every nook'aud corner ~ this great
country"
This Is no small threat The eSti-
mate of the daily attendance NJ me-
tion picture shows is about 100000.
Many Of the persons who attend are
not reached by the best newspapers.
That IL, they are persons who have
not the inclination TO read good news
.Ipers They take their amusement
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Looking Backward.

In other days, before my name she TOOK
She gave up nearly all her time to
reading;
She seemed to care for nothing but
book,
And l could see her knowledge was
exceeding.
often marvelled at that brain OF hers.
And sat listening to her as she quoted
Things from the poets and philosophers
And essayists to whom che was dD
voted
She talked Of Pater Hegel and Mon
taigne;
Macauay, Hume and Emerson in
spred her.
She switched from Lowell, then to
Thomas Paine,
And told me how the thoughts or
Browning fired her.
All! as she talked my head was in a
whirl;
felt inclined her learning to dis
parage,
But after all. l thought no doubt the
girl
win sticl; to things more practical
with marriage.
She does. indeed. for there's not one day
goes
Bct that the tradesmen's bills she
quotes surprise me
She tells NE what her miliiuer she owcs ;
Her talk OF furs and dresses stupeGes
me.
No wond + for The olden days | long
When with Carlyle and Maeterlinck
she'd bat me.
When with Karl Marx and Kant shed
go IL strong
Or fling a line or two of Dante at me :.
NATHAN NJ. LEVY.