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The New York herald., 1920-01-11

Of shore. with his strength almost gone.
ana not knowing but that there would be
another struggle. he brought fourteen
year-old boy safely to shore. Later. de-
scribing tho rescue. he said - was all IN.
~ Claude had fought me We would both
have gone down"
Boy Scout Troop No. $50 % Manhattan
was organized early in 1912 by its present
scoutnaster Jacob a. King. who was as
sisted by his son, Harold :. King, as as
sistant scoutmaster. 1t was then known
as Troop No. 100 Harold $. King Is now
scoutmastcr Of his own troop, No 80 of
Manhattan
Troop No. $50 in all it's years OF orsaniza-
ton has lived up to the scout motN of BE
Prepared" It's scoutmaster attends all
It's weekly meetings, which are given to
teaching scout work and activities; hence
all its members have been and are ready
st all times for examination by visiting
scout officials At such times they DO
themselves and the troop credit.
They are always ready to answer all
calls made by the local headquarters for
service along scout lines.
At their meeting on Halloween, the
members were surprised to find that after
the opening they were marched TO their
emily and drill room to find Hallow-
cen party awaiting them under tho super
vision ot two Of It's older members scouts
P"rimar and Sloss.
81 the meeting on November y, Patrol
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IL. The Climate of Manhattan.

1t is treble one, think. First the
subterrenean part Of II, which is stuffy.
rainless and with a rather equable tenn
perature, draught is the only wind there,
it is down in the subways (tubes) and the
underground floors of the skyscrapers.
Number two as we climb along the per-
pendicular is the middle climate at the
bottom of the street canyons and reach
ing as high as the tenth or twelfth floor,
its temperature is greatly influenced by
the warm biood-stream OF millions of
people. Then there is the top climate
around and Immediately between the sky
scrapers' vertices freely exposed to win
ter blizzards and the hot hammering of
the summer sun. it is the most extreme of
the three, and the air is purer than in the
underlying two Nowhere in the world
children, but in \. Y. can you travel be-
tween three climates in a very few min
utes by means of lifts, slowgoing and ex-
press going ones.
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4. The Writer'S English. a
Foreign Language.

My English dictionary is very small
but Of course some words really know,
and those know 1 love. Therefore, dear
Editor. I-referring to the smallness. not
to the love-am quite convinced You will
find my English very bad. lacking correct
ness, being chippy, sometimes mayhap
like the globes surface during an
giving the readers a giddy
feeling of uncertainty. My English is not
fluently, not gliding amicably as fairly
machinery. Partly it is home
spun, self-taught. and partly bad imita-
tions of good educated English. And as a
peasant in his language creates new words
to express thoughts unusual 10 him and
mains and nisuses old good ones-he him
self being unconscious. OF the process-so
perhaps do l in the maltreatnent l give
your monstrous mother tongue OF nearly
half a million vocables. At least that may
be expected.
Well dear Editor. you and your readers
assuredly will excuse. All my linguistic
irregularities and blunders do not matter
in a country like yours. that every day
is coming new values and revalueing old
ones, that every day is witnessing armies
and crusades of words from all languages
going into the melting pot
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land only known in its contours And as
!, the teacher was the most experienced
Ta'eher and the only one knowing a' olt
ot the country's native tongue so !
was appointed chief of the expedition
penetrating the HERALD vastnesses We
then round extensive territories, different
provinces, all with varying vegetation.
Forests there were. some of thu n so
dense, difficult and entsngled 'iat we
could not make any way into uem. L
thlnk they were called Find1ct1i NetUS
situated in the region of Wall street. one
nuge eXpanse we detected teemlng Win
motor cars of every description, they
seemed to be just as common-thoush In
some places pronounced scarce-as horses
are IN old Europe. but apparently DONG
better work.
Immense tracts OF land were set apart
for sporting (second section five pages),
and in the neighborhood there was
great talk about ships, especially those
ploughing the transatlantic lanes Ana
10! between them a couple OF Danlsh
greyhounds. Then we came 10 district
where if we only had possessed some
millions OF genuine American dollars we
could easily. have bought unlimited lots
or real estate, houses, hotels and gardens,
but as none of US were homeseekers 1T
was or no Importance that we had not
that money. A province we passed
through had the wonderful romantic name
of Texas, and there was a piercing smell
OF oil+geysers and cowboys. We came TO
school-land, where languages, music and
every branch of science were taught poth
in morning and evening schools. we hau
a lesson in English, quite little wee one.
One tract of the HERALD continent looked
80 inviting, there was a great lure about IL,
but as before remarked we had empty
pockets, so we could not get inside any
of the theatres or movies. We admit with
sorrowf full hearts that To taste "Ihe JhHc
Kiss" to sit in the knickerpocker Tor
"Just Minute" and to have some Happy
Days" at the Hippodrome would nave
pleased us to a colossal degree.
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Ii. New York the Resplendent.

New York at night. children, I have
heard something of it. 1t is said to be the
most radiant spot set in the dark hemi-
spherical expanse of the globes western
night. The millions OF lights in streets
and houses are the stars in the f.rlna-
ment of \. Y, and Broadway and the
avenues the milkyway therein. The
American coal, so expensive to us Danes,
once hundreds of thousands of years ago
Towering in hot swampy woods, now are
coming forth and for the second time are
blossoming, but now in the wonderful
shape of the coloured nightly lights of
N. Y. The big cities in the European night
are like brilliant fire-flowers too, but not
one of them can rival with n. New
York is, think the most splendid mate
rializaton and the most beautiful yibra-
tion of human thought and energy, mar
vellous creation.
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blocks in each direction from the entrance
to the Cafe des Beaux Arts.
Thomas Healy will usher in his winter
season tomorrow night with thepremere
OF his new winter ice show In the Golden
Glades, at Broadway and Sixty-slxth
street. From all indications this latest
and greatest of Healy productions all go
farther than all predecessors. and will
boast a cast that will include foremost
skating stars and musical comedy favor
ties Mr.. Bealy is giving the production
lavish mounting and is crowding into il
every known variety of entertainment
Gladys Lamb and Norval Baptie will be
the particular stars. They will offer a
series of artistic feats on the ice. Elsie
and paulson, May Judels and the Golden
Glades Quintet will be among the others
featured in the ice carnival. In addition
TO this there will be a new edition OF the
musical melange, Cheer Up, New YORK,
which will enlist the services of Art swan
strom, Dorothy Clark. Helen Hardck.
Yvonne Darle. Swan Wood and the usual
bevy of sprightly choristers.
The Cinderella ball. which is to b. given
In the Futurst Room of the Cafe de Paris
(fornerly Rector's) on Wednesday night,
Is attracting wide attention The ball
fashioned after the famous one when
Lord Northcliffe sponsored last summer IN
London, Win Dapnne fOidIus Jc"He
American star as the triumphant prin-
cess. is creating great interest. There will
be the Cinderella contest in which com
mittee Of judges will endeavor 20 fit to
the feet OF the fair contestant a pair Of
gold slippers especially designed and made
for the occasion To the owner OF the
feet which most gracefully Fit the slippers
the valuable prize will be presented.
Additional interest in the event is lent
by the fact that Miss Pollard herself is
now in this country and will in oil prob
ability be among the contestants. In adj
dition 20 Miss Pollard, Frances White,
Yvette Rugal and many other foremost
artists OF the theatre have been invited to
take part In the contest.
The fashion pageants In connection with
the Palais Royal Revue Of 1870 are one of
the sensations along Broadway these
nights. This spectacular combination OF
song and pretty girls Is one OF the most
pleasing entertainments staged for many
weeks, and is the result of efforts NJ
Andre Sherri and A. Baldwin Sloane. The
revue IL presented In n series Of episodes
that satirize tho current Broadway hits
and poke good natured fun at the fads
and foiblos Of the young women of the
different shows. Among tho artists ap-
pearing arc Joan Tennyson, Ten Byck and
Wcily Natalie and Mons. Fcrrari Nile.
Gorhada and Kirk Bride.
! There IL a chorus, termed the Peacock
Cock girls, presenting beautiful girls in
striking costumes = l. NJ
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II. Dear Editor!

On behalf Of my school children thank
you for the copies of the HERALD. beg TO
excuse that girls and boys and I myself
are eagerly looking forward to some
more-Sunday's we prefer. Your paper
is excellent TO the children, kind OF
movies, appealing to their imagination and
also per me giving them instruction about
q distant world, viz, L. s. A., that have
now attained an unparalleled magnitude
and importance in the Globes affairs. And
if, sir, you ask me of what use your paper
can be to me, let me give the following
answer:-A paper like yours is a current
history of all human things. present
geogra ply a medium of fluid life, a never
ceasing chapter about everything extant
Of what was and what is coming into exist
ence. Such a paper is an enormous excite
ment for the mind and thought. q mental
stimulus. So you see, what it means to q
teacher IL keeps him in contact with life
and the world. without which touch he
will be a dead and dull teacher. It fur
nishes him with knowledge. blows against
him as he is turning it's leaves. a whirl-
wind of gigantic problems. makes him
alive. listening, looking, keeps him on tho
alert-is joy TO his heart and power
to his brain. This is what your paper ir
centuated by the circumstance. that the
HERALD is a paper from land of youth
a country living intensely in the present q
country of acts, whereas +, the reader, be-
long to old Europe. that is rooted to much
in the past. therefore full of impediments
of tradition, of antiquated things and
ideas. of crumbling castles and cities-and
of more or less crumbling courts too.
Allow me here a parenthesis some
what out of the way remark; Denmark is
going to have the last court with a tall
king a tall queen and princes of genuine
blood-as you see in the near future OF
common Boshevik upheaval a fairy land.
You Yankees will flock to see-if, Of
course, we in the eleventh hour do not
make Denmark a republic and choose our
beloved King Christian y. as a president
for the rest of his life. He would have
all the votes.
Excuse me, Sir. this little gone astray
apropos. And in the case my article here
find a place in your esteemed columns
kindly post me some Sunday copies for
the benefit of my school. l like to open
the parcels in which such copies are in
closed They involve me in the wild,
strong and dzzi fragrance of the worlds
most bulky and most tremendous metrop
oils
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8. The volume or Cubic.I Content.

The children were struck by the i'm
mense quantities of small types, by the
big number OF pages, in short by the
volume of the paper, and they asked il
all this represented one single copy only.
We compared the American and the
Danish press-comparisons are essential
in science. Well, we found there was a
little difference even when we chose the
biggest Copenhagen paper. We would not
say you beat US: because you simply
crush U.S. Yes, this Is the real difference,
1 explained to the children, the HERALD
covers a broad continent swelling with
energy and makes its influence felt in the
rest OF the world, whereas the best Danish
paper only covers some small, on the map
of the globe nearly imperceptible, yet not
flowerless and unhappy islands.
To count all the letters in Sunday
copy Of the EIERALp-we found it impos-
sible it would rob us OF too many weeks
OF an expensive life, but we loosely reck-
oned the mass OF letters of such copy
TO be quite smashing in comparison with
the letter-contents OF the Bible, and we
tried TO imagine the cyclopic machinery
vomiting and splitting all that paper out
into the world. AS to the daily press.
said. the Americans can only be surpassed
and eclipsed by themselves. That is what
might be termed TO break the record non
plus ultra. For instance, as to advertis-
ing On that field the Americans have
come forth to full daylight, gigantic
Towering art Most OF our advertisements
remind too much OF moles in the dark un-
derground. Or they may, with a very
few exceptions, be said still to remain in
an embryonic state. And, to return to a
Sunday copy Of the HERALD, we saw that
we had to amalgamate some OF the most
known Danish papers, dailies, illustrated
weeklies, fortnightlies, monthlies, and SO
on. If we had to establish a paper of the
bulk, dimensions, size, contents, colors
and lines Of the HERALD-no. to tell the
truth, we came to the result the amalga-
nation would not at all be sufficient,
would not do
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IL. A Possibility.

Listen to me! You must not think, kids,
New York is quite perfect as to sky
scrapers. AS far as l know there Is not
a single slzyscraper church to be found in
all Manhattan and thereabouts. Let US
tell the Americans to build one, so high
as to catch the stars on its spires. it must
be made entirely of steel. granite, glass.
bronze or any such durable stuff. for in
stance all the trunks OF the pillars of
glass-and there must be a jungle OF or
gan pipes. Let us give the Americans
this little hint. perhaps then milliardair
will make the idea nlaterialize in the limit
less future y. Y. AS We can not have
our invention. the skyscraper church.
copyrighted the milliardair and his archi-
tects may have the idea free OF any
charge.
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n. Wide Awake While.

The comic section was successful of
course with my school-children all
through. But they did like Willie best, he
had quite a roaring and delirious success.
When he is sitting in the easy chair
cloudmaking pipe in right, speaking:
thing I'm eettin' sick; when afterwards
being .thrashed by and crying to his
father: won't do it any more; and still
later in the school handing the awful
ugly teacher (of the she-sex) note from
Mamma Dooley begging to excuse thae ne
can not sit down that day-then ne Is an
alright tiptop hero OF adventure ana
He went right into the hearls
of my children.
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5. A Bit Afraid.

After some hesitation l answered back,
Yes, sir; shall certainly try to write
you an article" And now here, before
grasping with the article itself. let me ex-
plain TO the editor and the readers the
reason why hesitated Not because want
ing enthusiasm. but for want of courage,
and for being afraid not to
be able TO WELD with satisfaction and suf-
fcient easiness that mghtiest instrument
OF human thought, the enormous English
language. rougher and finer than any
other idiom spoken and written on the
earth.
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S. The Face to Face.

I took the children up to my desk which
you know Is placed excentrically in the
room on platform at one Of the walls,
that the teacher may have his eyeless
back free" and an unhindered view of the
class before him. The masters desk is
sort of throne Of INSTRUMENTATION may be
microscopic--or as the high seat in hall
of the old Scandinavian vikings-the once
masters OF the world. first discoverers Of
your America. pithy Norsemen whose blood
is still pusating in the Yankees arteries.
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,. The Real Beginnins of this Article.

But. as our Hans Christian Andersen
says in one Of his best stories, let us
begin with the commencement The war
ceased and the postal tide. rather the
civil-postal spring-tide, set in again roll
sng it's waves across the good salt Allan
lie. and thus we in a little school situated
on the old side of said ocean, quite near
Copenhagen, got some copies of the
HERALD rolled to us from omnipotent New
York. And just as the real watery waves
bring some wonders. shells, conchs, TO the
shore. forever with the ocean swell and
surf laundering in them, so the HERALD
came to US with the roar Of Manhattan,
of America; yes, echoing half hemi-
sphere.
And a letter there came, the circulating
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10. The Manhattan skyline.

The HERALD brought New York and L. >.
A. there behind to US, two power1ul names
sounding in European ears as though they
were trumpeted across the Atlantic.
Through the HERALD we looked INTO an
endless perspectivity, 1t widened-the big
and Great paper it is-our mental horizons,
it drew our souls into foreign regions into
visions. This is a very important thing
this sign.ficates education this is lifting
The HERALD made us especially and natu-
ally speak Of New York, and l tried in a
little lecture TO depict some very few
Of the city's outer dimensions
streets are like straight canyons between
mountain houses. the rivers that wash
them are floods OF human flesh. streams of
mems fates. New York is record Of
cities. now leaving old London far behind.
The skyscrapers are reaching the blue
vault of the armament, in places termi-
mating in alpine pinnacles. in other places
there are plateaus above. that are NOT al
ways deserts, but sometimes as we mag
inc and like to think oases with palm gar
dens.--The biggest OF all the canyons is
Broadway, I explained, fed by innumer-
able and yet numbered tributaries. r.
showed the children picture of Herald
Building, which happened to be in the copy
of the 10 September. Round this building
as a cliff, I said are day and night rag
ing the indomitable eddies and currents OF
Broadway.
Now one Of the boys asked me ques-
tion full of joke:-Is it true, he said, what
have heard, that some of the sky
scrapers are SO high as to be covered with
perpetual snow and that iridescent glaciers
are gliding down their sides, that ava
lanches come down? have heard, he con-
tinued, of man entering an express ele-
vator diff dressed in fur. midsummer, as
was he starting for a polar expedition.
] smilingly had to give an answer in the
negative, but seized the opportunity and
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So I think OF it. but am sorrow to tell
have never In my life seen 1T. Yet an
to depict ii TO you, children, in lessons OF
geography, to depict it in words clear and
plastic, that you may get real and vivid
idea of this same indescrbable New York
Yes, a teacher has difficult task. he IS
thought to be able to do the Impossible
nearly thought being creator-and he 10
paid a thousand d.0O0) dollars n year-oid
dollars, not the modern skyscraper dollars.
now worth $40 Danish crowps apiece.
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And II II Wasn't

Home Sector:-Thc man who had served
throughout the war a private in the
base hospital az Angors was loud in bis
scorn of o noighbcr who hadn't gone
into the service ut all. \ friend let him
rave on till the Anglers soldier had USED
the word Stacker. Then he said:
That's right give Ct 10 him. All he
did during the war was hang on to a
nice safe Job as testing pilot for the
Curtiss people. An he had to do was 10
fly each machine long enough to sec II
il was safe for ope Of our aviators."
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BY N. SORENSEN,
Taastrup Station, Denmark.
1. The ChiIdren's Introduction 10 AN
American Paper.

40 A rich american, Gordon
BENNETT, publisher Of Neio York
Herald. one of the cords biggest
papers, millions Of readers, aeos from
all countries, then concei0ed the idea
that his paper should be the first m
bringing reliable intelligence about the
renocned discorerer's fate. Stanley
tcos the man able to trail the track o.
Livingstone through all the African
darkest jungle, rir9in forests and
spoamps. And Bennett gare Stanley
much money and promised him more
and still more money should he need
H. Only find Livingstone he SAID to
Stanley. Help him, bring as all pos
sible intormdtior as to his discoveries,
and if he is dead, let as hare an en-
dence that can not be doubted.
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DANISH SCHOOL TEACHER USES THE HERALD AS HIS TEXT BOOK

Well, I took the children up TO my high
seat and expanded the leaves OF the
HERALD for sightseeing a Big paper They
stood there closely thronged, hearts in
their eyes. souls in their mouths, swallow
ing with all their senses. II was one of
those moments too rarely occurring. when
some invisible flower OF poetry and beauty
shoot up between poor children in the
dusty barren desert of a school-room.
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After thus having made out the outer
structure Of the HERALD we soon dis
covered that the paper in its articles, ad-
and pictures concealed quite
a whole world of an endless variety which
was to be thoroughly investigated and ex-
plored would we taste and know all its
wonders and secrets. The HERALD was
to us very much like the African conti-
nent before Livingstone and Stanley-a
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Leader Sturt1 suggested that the troor
live up to The motto. do a good turn
daily by making some poor family happy
on Thanksgiving with a basket filled by
tho members
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manager therein promising more HERALps
for my girls and boys and wishing for
little information as 10 the use OF his New
York paper in a Danish school.
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began telling the children something abou
another feature OF Manhattan.
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"HE words quoted here are taken
and translated from a school book
called "rhe Children's Danish Read
ing Book" that is used all over lit
Tie Denmark in primary schools, In
towns and villages. Now my school chill
dren, thirteen years of age. the other day
through the very same words were intro
tiuced to this paper, the HERALD. of New
York. And so we. dear editor, as true
Europeans, gave the glorious tradition of
your paper what indeed belongs TO it..
Yes, this most fascinating, this dramatic
chapter in the history OF African discover
tes surely will live and be remembered as
Song as the African continent itself.
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why not. girls are girls even in small
doll-sizes. We saw beautiful Irish Castles
and many other splendid and gorgeous
pictures, as the roto section on the whole
is a very fine one.
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2. TIE Continent OF the Herald.
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saved Two Companions.

Malvin first reached a boy much older
and hcav vier than himself, who seized him
and drew him under in n death grip In
the struggle which followed the hold OF
the drowning boy was finally broken and
Malvin, almost utterly exhausted, came
TO tho surface and started for the shore.
Then there ca me another cry for help, and
he turned back. within stroke " Two