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The New York herald., 1920-12-04
BUDGET TO GET FIRST
TRIAL IN CONGRESS
G.. o. P. Leaders Decide on
New Plan for Appropria-
tiOns at Short Session.
ONE COMMITTEE OF 35
Bills Will Be Passed On by
Single Group Instead Of
Eight Committees.
specia, Despatch to THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau, J

Special Despatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. C., Dec. 3.
Republican leaders of the House de-
cided to-day to put into effect one of the
main principles OF Federal budget sys-
tenn in the framing of appropriation bills
at the short session of Congress opening
Monday.
This is, that all appropriation bills
shall be considered by one committee
instead of eight. as for many years. The
action means that the much talked of
budget system will be used by at least
one branch of the Government next week
for the first time In the history of the
country.
Last session of Congress a bill was
passed providing for the establishment OF
a budget system in the executive depart
ments. Soon afterward the House ap-
proved n resolution applying the budget
principle TO its work and providing that
all appropriation bills should be con-
sidered by one committee of thrty-five
members. The resolution was passed n,
anticipation of the budget bill becoming
law and OF budget being submitted at
the short session.
But President Wilson vetoed the bud
get bill because the director of the
budget was made responsible to. Con-
gress instead of to the Executive The
House amended the bill to meet the
Presidents objection, but the Senate did
not act AS a result no budget. will be
submitted Monday, but the House had
provided for budget committee to con-
slider It.
The task of framing the appropriation
measures is a big one and some House
members thought it would be advisable
to postpone forming the budget commit
tee until the special session. Hopes of
Congress leaders are that all the money
bills can be passed at the short session,
| and 1t was argued that a new committee
| might delay action. Some members on
committees that previously had appro-
priating powers also objected to the
action.
In these circumstances the Republican
| Committee on Com mittees. composed OF
| the ranking member of each Republican
State delegation, was called to meet to-
| day. The decision was reached that to
postpone framing the budget committee
would be considered a step backward in
the fight to obtain 2 budget system.
The committee will meet again to-
morrow to choose Republican members.
The House resolution provided that
| twenty-five of the new members shall
be Republicans and thirteen Den'oora Is.
but II is probable that this will be
CHANGED so that fourteen mem c~s---scven
| Democrats and seven Republicans--can
| be added to the present Appropriations
! Committee This would give the Repub-
! licans twenty members and the Demo-
| Gratis fifteen. The new members in all
probability will be taken from the seven
/ comm ttees which previously had appro-
priation powers.
Representative Good Uowa) will con-
tinue as chairman of the enlarged COM
mittee. To speed up its work. subcom-
mittees for each appropriation measure
probably will be appointed.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
EVENTS TO-DAY.

vice-President-elect Calvin Coolidge will be
the principal guest at victory dinner given
by the Business Mems Republican Associa-
Up. N. " " ." '' ''0'e' 0'''"O'''
The United States Senate Committee on
Reconstruction and Production win hold n
hearing on the anthracite coal situation. in
the Engineering Societies Building. beginning
at o:30 A. NJ.
rison will speak on '.Brooklyn's Transit Sit
uation," at a forum luncheon OF the Brooklyn
Chamber of Commerce. 80 Court street. IL go
p NJ
Dr. Arthur r. Gray, James W. johnson
and Judge Otto Schoenrich viii discuss 'Our
Caribbean Policy" at luncheon OF the
League of Free Nations Association. In tho
Hotel Commodore. 12:45 p. NJ.
County Waterford Mems and Ladies' Asso-
citation, annual entertainment and ball, York
Vile Casino. 2lo East Eighty-sixth street.
Benefit Christmas sale for st. Elizabeth's
Home for Deaf Working Girls. at the home,
23G EaH Fifteenth street, all day.
The Socicte rEtoile viii give an entertain
ment and ball In the Palm Garden. Fifty
eighth street and Lexington avenue, ,. u.
Behind the Scenes" al the Saturday cam,
araderie at the Civic Club. IA West Twelfth
street. 4 p. NJ.
Fcathered Nciehborp." Mt the American Mu-
Yeunn OF Natural History. Seventv-soventh
street and Central Park West. 1o;so a. N.
tion. az Park Theatre. II A. NJ.
Gireia NJ. A. Richter viii lecture on Fur
niture Of the Greeks" nj the Metropolitan
Museum OF Art. r. NJ.
The Camp Fire Club Of America viii give
n dinner at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 7 r. NJ.
Public School f01 will rive luncheon NJ
tho Hotel Commodore. 80 p. NJ.
Maine Women. meeting. waldorf-Astorin.
2 +. NJ.
There win he a Globe concert under the
direction Of Charles n. 1saacron, Mt the
American Museum of Natural Hi-tory, Sev-
/ enty--eventh street and Central Park west.
s:15 p. NJ.
Sons OF the Revolution In the State of New
York. annual meeting, Fraunce's Tavern
IL 40 p. M.
Little Mothers Ala Association. bazaar.
waldorf Astoria all day and evening.
scuddrr School Alumni. dinner. Hotel
Astor. g r. NJ
Prof. william II. Guthrie win lecture on
"America's Physical and Material Leader
shin" Mt Cooper Union, S;fJ p. NJ.
Theta Delta Chi Frater rnity, dinner. Cafe
boulevard. p. NJ.
''IyeII, or God in His worid.' lectuv by
Prof Samuel c. Schumacher. at Townsend
Harris Hall. c. C. N. ", Amsterdam avenue
ard 1ssth street. s:1b p. NJ
Prof. william Bradley Otis VIII lecture on
THE First National Era" AZ Harlem
branch, Y. M. G. A.. West i2oth street
2.1b y. M.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
Help Europe and Help Ourselves.

What is more important in q broad
sense than anything else in the ST.
500,O00,O00 loan to central Europe
urged by the farmers through their
various organizations Is their WILLING.
ness to challenge the assertions that
Europe is bad business risk.
In Europe alone to-day there are
100000 idle cotton spindles, and OF
this number 100000 are in Germany
and Czecho-Slovakia The total ac-
tive spindles in the last named coun-
tries are only about 6.000,000 In
Austria there are 100000 splndles.
of which probably fewer than 1000
are working. All Europe exclusive of
Russia has 73.000,000 active spindles.
The idle spindles. therefore. amount
TO more than IL per cent. of present
active spindles, and nearly all the
inactivity is in central Europe.
Our exports Of cotton to Europe
amount roughly to $3.50, 100000 a year
at the present rate. If the II per
cent. additional capacity Of European
splndles were revived by a credit to
central Europe we should be able to
dispose of an additional $57,0O0,000
Of cotton.
Before the war Germany imported
about 300,O0O,0O0 pounds OF AmericaE
copper a year. She is now unable to
buy more than 1OO,O0O,0O0 pounds.
Italy took an average around 10000,
600 pounds. but is buying scarcely any
now. Total exports to Europe in 1918
were 026,000000 pounds, but this year
they will not be more than 600,000,.
600 pounds, If they reach that figure.
There Is a surplus Of copper IN this
country amounting to about 900 0000,-
0CO poun'is. Europe could very likely
use the whole surplus II IL could be
obtained on reasonable terms aud
conditions.
In textiles. in the metal industries.
In materials and manufactures gen
orally, MS we'll as In agriculture, there
are surpluses. larger in some cases
than in others. and in nearly all cases
these surpluses could be used to great
advantage on the other side.
Observers coming back from Europe
do not believe the peoples over there
have any intention OF casting Oft the
restraints Of civilization or their
old habits Of eating. living in dwell
ings. riding on railways. Rather
49, ,i,~~e -~'---ol .rr~oilo-c '~c'i~nf
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
Soldiers and Sailors ami Nurses in
Modern DOtheboys Halls

In an article on the notorious fail
ure Of the Board for Vocational Edu-
cation to put into effect the desire of
the people Of the United States that
men and women disabled in defence of
their country shall receive the best
treatment and training the New York
Ecening Post of yesterday said of
conditions at the Botanical Garden
In this city:
To-day disabled soldiers who ap-
piled for landscape architecture and
kindred pursuits are pulling weeds,
and even disabled army nurse is
spending much of her time pushing
around a wheelbarrow
"The nurse. in fact. is so disgusted
that she has lodged a complaint with
her Congressman"
When this woman's Congressman
demands an explanation of the ex-
traordinary treatment to which she
has been subjected, ana asks IL the
millions of dollars the taxpayers
gladly pay for rehabilitation Of sick or
wounded soldiers and sailors are be-
ing spent to create a chain of Dothe-
boys Halls, we have no doubt he will
be accused of an effort to Inject pol
itics" into the problem.
Let him not be disturbed by this
charge when It is brouTht against
him. Politics which will take from
between the handles of wheelbar-
row disabled woman army nurse
supposedly studying landscape garden
ing and landscape architecture under
the protection of. the United States
will be politics of the right kind. poll
tics any man should be glad to inject
into any public enterprise.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
MUSIC LESSON METHODS.
A Teacher Opposes DIR. Davison's Plan
for the Public Schools.

To THE NEW YORK HERA1D: do not
agree with DR.. A. T. Dawson of Harvard
respecting the way music shouM be
taught in the public schools.
In my opinion the piano Is power
ful medium, both in singing and in play
ing. TO assist the child in developing the
ear because It has a set accurate tone
to refer to.
In my thirty-fivc years of teaching I
have discovered that children rarely pos
sess the sense of absolute pitch. and a
very small percentage possess the sense
OF relative pitch. Thus the question
confronting the educator is by what
training It is advisable to develop the
musical ear of the greater number OF
children VINO do not possess the sense
of absolute or relative pitch.
To follow DR.. Davison's advice is not
acoeptable. His language is misleading
in his reference to technical instead OF
theoretical knowledge. A Theoretical
knowledge OF the intervals when prac
tically applied Is essential to develoI
n musical ear. and this Theoretical
knowledge Of music as taught in public
schools should not be eliminated.
There has been an evolution in thu
art OF piano teaching by which the sing
ing instinct is cultivated. Modern teach
ers use form Of graded studies. doinl
away with the old time dry methods AM
substituting for them melodic studie
which by means Of tone production OF
in other words. practice In tonal blend
ing tend TO Instil this singing instinct.
The whole subject Of the revision
musical instruction In the public school
is very important and should be ap
preached with great care.
j. FRANK LEvE
NEW YORK. December 3.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
TOO MANY BOOKS,
PUBLISHERS ASSERT
Brentono Says Average Fam
lily Buys TWo a Year.

The yearly crop Of books Is much too
large. and authors must cut down their
outrut II they expect the literary market
10 continue In good health, Lowell Bren-
tano. publisher and bookseller, said yes
terdav at n luncheon OF the Authors
League of America i'm the Cafe Boule-
ward grill. The number OF new books at
present appearing is 80 great that II Is
impossible to give them proper adver-
Using, Mr.. Brentano thinks
The American Publishers Association
Is TO make an effort to remedy the sit
uation, he explained, through fund de-
voted to advertising which Is to be
raised by subscriptions from publishers.
wholesalers and many of the retailers.
An advertising campaign which will
cover three years has been planned Mr..
Brentano said that census OF the read
ing public had been taken by the pub
fishers, and that II revealed that the
average American family bought 600
newHpapcrs In year. and but two books.
Haywood Broun said he felt sorry
that the newspapers didn't get more ex-
cited over new books and treat their
appearance MS a news event. He said he
believed book reviews to be as impor-
taut and as interesting az those OF
dramatic events and he hoped that tho
newspaper editors would come to think
so too
Geiett Burgess was the toastmaster
and Charles Dana Gibson also spoke
The luncheon was under the supervision
of the newly appointed fellowship com
mittce of the league. which Is made uf
of Mrs. Maravene Thompson, Mrs Kat'
Jordan. Mrs. Wilson woodrow. Miss
Rita Weiman. Miss Josephine csuirk
Miss Jane Murfn and Miss Lillian Lau'
ferty (Bcatricc ,Fairfax).
The New York herald., 1920-12-04

praise Europe for its strenuous 81
orts to reconstruct the damaged sec
lions and to get back on normal
basis.
What the foregoing figures on cot
ton spindles and copper show is that
ON this country rests the responsi
bility for idleness of great part of
Europe's vast industrial machine be-
cause we have failed to furnish raw
materials even in pre-war quantities
when they should have been sent in
still larger bulk. The excuse has been
that we did not have enough capital
to lend to Europe. AS capital is goods
and services as well as gold, and we
have plenty of these, we lhave the
capital.
1t Is well also to understand just
what Is necessary to make Europe n
good risk. Bankers have pointed out
time and again that it would be fruit
less to keep sending food to Europe,
for credit or for cash, in the hope
that reconstruction could be carried
IN with food alone. This is an inn
portant point for the farmers to re-
member. The job of reconstruction
is slow and must be balanced With
nicely. Human beings must be fed,
but general industry must have n lib
eral ration of raw materials to give
he workers employment to pay for
ihe food.
What we need to do is to avoid en-
tangling theories'and go ahead on the
principle that for Europe's good and
in our own enlightened self-interest
the best thing we can do IS to give
credit to the Continent Out of this
credit we can restore Europe's indus.
trial machinery, and with industry
going full speed the notions now
classed as q bad business risk will
have buying power enough to relieve
us of our millions of bushels of sur
plus wheat. corn and other products.
and this will all be done on Il bust
ness basis, without making Euronn th0
object of charity.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04

cution of the Jews wherever he got
the upper hand forms blot on his
character. He fled to eastern Galicia
with his troops and was disarmed on
entering Polish territory. With him
was General PERMYKIN, whose White
Russian army Is reported TO have been
virtually destroyed.
At present the red flag of Bolshe-
vism waves over the whole of the
Ukraine from the Dniester to the Don,
including the Crimea and the Black
Sea coast from Odessa to Novoros-
sysk. How long this fertile land viii
remain under Red domination no man
can tell, but collapse from within
seems rather more probable than con-
quest from without.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1920.
WI on and HARDIN 10 Meet.

Since the election President WILSON
has shown personally a very fire
American spirit and officially a vefy
judicial appreciation of the meaning
or tne country's vote. His party re-
-s'a'" FED, his own policies reversed
by that colossal vote, he could not
press them further without a cha
ssnee of the nations decision. On the
other hand, -"hile he can drift he
could not of his own s.2gle initiative
shift from his negative to a positive
course. If he did this merely of him
self it would not get him or the
country very far.
Yet when there Is so much to be
done in response to the verdict at the
polls, when it is so Important that
start should be made at doing it, when
the country is so impatient for some
of 1t, like taxation changes, to ger
under way, it is not good public bust
ness and it is reflection on our po-
litical system to have the Government
merely marking time for months
while Mr.. WILSON is ON the way out
and Mr.. HARDING on the way in.
1t would be, therefore, graceful
act for President WILSON to confer
with Senator HARDING about the Gov
ernment's affairs between now and
the fourth day of March. 1t could be
as well a useful and practical act.
Perhaps, with the possible exception
of taxes and revenues. great deal
could not result as work actually
finished and delivered Nevertheless,
legislative programmes could be put
In motion and administrative conduct
could be so shaped, with cooperation
between the two branches of the Gov.
ernment, that something really big
and worth while could be set going.
Every inch of headway made now
could quicken the speed to'be attained
after the Inauguration. Every stro'.e
of achievement could help to clear the
track for the main advance and the
big transformation to come later.
President WILSON and President
elect HARDTNG can get together only
to the credit of themselves and TO the
advantage of the country.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
The Bull Sing Grafters Cannot Flout
Ten NJ II on Indignant People.

The sessions Of the Lockwood Com
mittee's housing investigation have
resulted in two great shocks to the
public.
The first shock was the revelation
OF crookedness in the methods of
both labor and capital.
The second shock is the cold de-
fance with which representatives of
the building material organizations
greet the investigators.
A stranger unacquainted with the
law Of the land and the purpose OF
the Lockwood Committees investi-
cation might be led to think, from the
brazen attitude of the men whose
methods are being investigated, that
the committee was intruding upon
somebody's legitimate private bust.
ness. But he would soon see, from
the very tactics of the men whose
business is being inquired into, that
their ways cannot stand the light
Into the light, however. their ways
must be dragged. 1t is not LOCKWOOD
or his committee that these fellows
are defying. 1t is not UNTERMYER, the
untiring investigator, that they are
treating so contemptuously. 1t is the
people Of the State of New York that
this clique Of price fixers are holding
so cheap.
The people of New York are the
ones who have suffered because graft
ing capital and grating labor have
prevented the building Of houses at
rea sonable cost. The people of the
State through their Legislature, au-
thorlzed the Lockwood Committee to
solve the problem of finding houses
for the homeless.
And it is the people of the State
who are going through with this graft
scandal to the finish.
Evidently the only means of escape
visible to the big grafters Is to de-
stroy the evidence of the conspiracy
by which they made the public pay
two prices for every stick, brick and
stone. But even If these men, some
Of them hiding behind the skirts of a
woman, succeed in destroying the evil
1ence of their plot there is still the
evidence Of their contempt for the
sovereign authority of the State.
The conspirators in the building
business seem to have a delusion that
it will he only few days until their
sly tricks with card indexes and loose
leaf books are forgotten. But the
show is just beginning. The people
are aroused to a knowledge of what
has been done to them. The Legisla
ture meets month hence The Lock-
wood Committee will be supported
unanimously, we think-by the Legis-
lature in its attempt to get Mt the
bottom of the gangs crooledness.
Some OF the smooth gentlemen who
I.have been destroying their private
agreements to gouge the public may
find TINT they have been tearing up
their freedom.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
HOOVER PLEADS FOR
CHILDREN OF EUROPE
Opens Drioe for SIS, 900, 900
to Fight Starvation.

Bosror. Dec. s.--'T would rather have
the American nag implanted In the
hearts of the children OF Europe than
fying over any citadel OF victory" said
Herbert Hoover to-day in presenting 70
n gathering of business men and women
here the obligation upon this country to
supply the needs Of 100000 of Youthful
sufferers by the war in eastern ami cen
trail Europe The occasion marked the
formal opening in New England ot the
nationwide campaign for $23.0oo.o0o
which IL is estimated will be required 20
keep the children alive until the next
harvest.
"rhese are children OF friend and
enemy. OF Jew and Gentle, OF Catholic
and Protestant" said Mr.. Hoover mo
matter what conflict there may be as TO
our views on our international relation
ships. this mass OF children Is no part
OF our contentious
'"The war collapsed among both Allies
and enemy In the face Of the greatest
famine In 200 years The food supply
for all that 100000, 900 people east Of
the old western front was largely ex-
hausted by poor crops and destruction"
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
Rocntrcn RAY Helps the Shoe Filter.

From the Popular Mechanics MoOd-ine.
Radiogrephy. the science to which the post
opaque Of substances reveal their inmost Sc
crets has scored another triumph: this time
not n the field " pathology but In that OF
the very common every day service OF Sc
ectng and correctly fitting proper shoes.
An X-ray apparatus has been brought out
for use In shoe stores, by means OF which
the purchaser and the sales person can see
whether or not the bones Of the foot are
distorted or restricted by tho shoe being
tried on. The device win not only settle
any controversy which may arise as "a
proper size II VIII also show. without ieav-
Ing chance for argument. whether = shoe Is
~ no rorrcct design md shape.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
The Price OF No Immigration VIII
BE Famine Food Prices.


Congress cannot suspend immigra-
tion either through Il temporary or IA
permanent exclusion measure without
cutting the ground from under Ameri-
can agriculture. Congress cannot en-
bafsNss, hinder and cripple the Ameri-
can farmer without delivering Il body
blow against the American public.
The American farmer cannot pro-
1uce profitable crops TO sell at rea-
sonable price unless he can get labor
that will work hard at reasonable
wages. He will not try. American
labor will not work on the farm at
any price. Even alien labor which
has been long enough in this country
TO be lured away from farm and day
labor to industrial jobs at short hours
nd easy money will not work on the
farm at anything but top wages.
The American farmers only chance
to get the labor which is an imperative
requirement of abundant crops at q
reasonable cost is through the nations
immigration gateways. The Ameri-
can consumers only chance to get
plentiful breadstuffs and other food
products at a reasonable price is from
the same source. Either the farmer
must obtain such immigrant labor TO
enable him, under present market con
3itions. to produce an adequate supply
70 feed this country and himself make
profit or he will cut his crops. When
he cuts his crops because he cannot
nay the inordinate labor costs imposed
upon his efforts to raise full crops
there is going to be no surplus TO feel
the hungry of Europe. There is going
to be for our own people right here
Mt home short supply at famine prices.
The Congress which brings back such
calamity to the American public is
doomed to defeat at the next national
election.
Congress must not shut the nation
doors against the English, the irish
The Scotch, the Germans, the Italians,
the Scandinavians, who. upon reach
ing our shores. are willing to go TO
the farms, willing to work on them
and willing to produce the fundamen-
tal support of all our industry, all our
business, all or wealth, all our pros
perlty and power.
Congress ought ~ ma'-n ri~id 70.
strictions against CRIMINAL or other.
wise undesirable immigrants no mat.
ter whence they come. Congress
ought to provide that these restric
tions shall he vigorously enforced.
However few the bad immigrants may
lie or the immigrants that win not
work where they are needed or the
immigrants that cannot be assimi-
lated sooner or later into our political
and social system, they are far too
many. In letting our country be the
dumping ground for the outcasts OF
the Old World, whether we need day
labor or don't need day labor, we
threaten our American institutions
In showing Indifference TO the over
crowding Of our cities with immi-
grants that are essential elsewhere
we neglect the cardinal needs OF our
country. But when we contemplate
barring out immigration altogether VIC
contemplate economic suicide.