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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17
Up With the Times
Dy IT q. II.

Dy IT. o. II.
Mr.. Nolstcad is certain that search warrant
provision OF antibcer bill will destroy his
wcll-known act. hut most of us will find a
measure OF consolation in the fact that II
saves tho Constitution.
Those Washington reporters who aspire
10 golfng honors likely to come Il croppcr
h"cans" Of their lack of practice in hitting
tho high balls.
America would better slowly in the
matter OF naval disarmament until We find
how biz fleet will he needed TO protect us
from Invasion OF the booze armada,
II De Valera really wants to die for his
principles ii is not unlikely that Lloyd George
will afford him the opportunity.
Bin Haywood's legacy of $500. 600 from his
first wife may be the result OF a romance,
but rhc fact that he jumped his bail and now
must choose between collecting his fortune
and spending twenty years in Jail partakcs
of the nature OF tragedy
Detroit a, last has become famous for some
thing besides nivvcrs. and Milwaukee looks
on with pardonable envy.
Boston girls said have transformed
old schooner into a tea room II must have
hccn OF those ''higgest in town for
cents" of happy memory.
President Harding has been convicted OF
matching pennies TO decide who should pay
for the lunch. Is it possible we haven't
some reform association that can curb such
evils this!
The Health Department apologies to the
South. What II meant that We are dying
"f scientific famine" and not OF hunger The
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

WEDNESDAY,. AUGUST II, 1927.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

oVereating nils the doctors wallet il has
pcen said. and it may be well 10 say It over
'Ralh now that the Watermelon and green
apple season is well upon us
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

mere are said to be $500 900 people in
Japan VINO look 10 the sea for their livcli-
""on' ana 'hey don't have to slip out be-
!ohd inc thrce.mi!e limit TO find 1t.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

SILVER dollars are now being coined for
the first time in seven ycars-pcrhaps 10
make That much-talked-of lining for some
OF The clouds that arc alleged to be hanging
about.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

The final report OF the experts shows that
Nirglnians always live we'll if not altogether
fiHht' ana as consequence Virginia is far
and away behind her sister CONFERENCE.-The
in pellagra production
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

After thrc" years of exposure of Mich
ryan election wckcdncss the United States
senate has decided that Ncwberry Is en-
uii"d 10 his seat. Heaven knows he paid
enough for it.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

fTDLlsHEn every day In the year at 10 r South
dispatch pn...ishing Co, Inc.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

Detroit NJ last has become famous for som,
thing besides nvvcrs. and Milwaukee, look
on with pardonable envy
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

Boston girls said 10 have transformed
old schooner into a tea room. II must have
hccn OF those "higgcst in town for s
cents" of happy memory.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

Recalling some of MIR. Wilson's witty sallics
a Paris journal is led 10 inquire IL Mr.. Hard
ing never jokes. Perhaps not. consciously
but his party does occasionally--Raieigl
Times.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-17

President Harding has been convicted OF
matching pennies 10 decide who should pay
for the lunch. Is it possible haven't
some reform association that can curb such
evils as this.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
Sailoring in the '7Os.
The Dead Horse an Institution on
Passenger Ships Then

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Luxury
and hotellike conditions prevail nova
days on ocean steamships and yet the
mail service between this country and
England Is inferior TO that Of twenty
Campania and the Lucania left Liver
pool on Saturday and arrived here the
following Friday evening. Five day pas
sages were frequent, and few years
later no less than four fast steamships
would leave New York for Liverpool and
Southampton IN one week. The good old
times are not entirely mythical.
My recollections of American and
British ships go back to 1878. when I
sailed before the mast in a bark rigged
auxiliary screw steamship from London
to Melbourne, Australia. The outward
passage took forty-eight days via the
Cape of Good Hope and we broke the
record. The return trip was round the
Horn and took sixty days.
We used to raise the propeller when
sailing on or before the wind. thinking
we did exceedingly well IL we made four
teen knots an hour. The food was very
bad. Bread or soft tack was a luxury
that the sailors had to beg or steal The
biscuits or hard tack almost required
q sledge hammer to break them, and the
'salt horse was indescribable. The lat
ter was fetched from the galley In small
wooden tubs. placed on the floor OF the
fo'c'sle and the sailors hacked at It with
the, sheath knives they wore In their
belts.
The plum DUR was boiled In a three
cornered bag made OF sail canvas. In
this mixture Of -four and suct lucky was
the man whose portion contained more
than ono raisin. The pay for able sea-
men was f3 los. a month, or about SIT.
Every sailor was entitled to draw a
months pay before sailing and this hav-
ing been spent the first months work
was looked upon as dead horse" To
make up for this the sailors would stuff
gunny bag and shape it like horse.
with bottles for fits eyes and unravelled
rope for Its name. This they mounted
on a board and all hands hauled IT
around the deck. singing the chantey.
''Foor old man. your horse Is dead"
There was very little in those days to
relieve the tedium of the voyage on a
passenger ship, and the sailors usually
collected enough to make up the months
pay they had spent. The horse was then
hcisted up to the main yardarm and
dropped into the sea while blue light
was burned. HowARp.
NEW York. April FL.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22

there seems to be little that their edu-
cation lacks from the moment they
abandon the barnyard for the mat.
What a good professional fighter
can do TO a good amateur was demon
strated at New York bathing beach
ten or twelve years ago. Kid MCCOY
was the pugilist. He looked slim In
a suit Of blue serge and seemed an
easy mark for rugged youth some
fifteen pounds heavier with grow
Ing reputation as boxer. He got
into a quarrel with MCCOY and struck
the first blow. MCCOY has never had
superior in science, and he was
taking care Of reenforcements when
the police stopped the battle. An in
ventory of the injuries showed five
young men had broken noses.
Whatever the reason. boxing Is one
sport In which the best OF our anna
teurs are not equal In skill to third
rate professionals. Just what proc
ess is responsible for this is a matter
OF speculative interest. Perhaps the
fact that it is one mans trade and
another's recreation Is the answer.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22

pr James a. WATSON will speak at the
ninety-fifth anniversary memorial service ~
the Old Guard at st. Thomas's Church, Flttn
avenue and Fifty-third street. 4:30 r. M.
Princeton Club, meeting. Yale-Princeton
Major-Gen. John It. Organ will review The
Slxty-niith Regiment, ~. III N: g.. armory'
6s Lexington avenue, $40 r. M.
Is Progress and Who Is Fit TO Participate
In It?" Cooper Union, p. M;
New York alurnnae of Wilson Coilege.
luncheon, Hotel Astor, IL 80 r. M.
ton: viii be held in the Engineering So
cieties Building. 20 West Thirty-ninth street.
p. NJ.
Washington Heights Taxpayers Association,
meeting, Broadway at f57th street, r. M.
New York county chapter OF the American
Red Gross, meeting and rummage saIe' I" AZ
dorf-Astoria, 2 p. M.
The Classical Association OF the Atlantic
States, annual meeting. Hunter College, Lex
ington avenue and Sixty-eighth street. begin
The Society of American Fakirs. annual
masquerade dance, Hotel Commodore, 3 p. m.
F'uiop voros win give demonstration IN
mental telepathy and hypnotism. Hotel Nc
Alpin, $50 p. M.
Miss Grace Cornell will conduct study hours
for practical workers, metropolitan Museum
Of Art. 10 A. NJ.
q. X. Noble will lecture on life Stories OF
Our Reptiles and Amphibions," American Mu-
scum Of Natural History, Seventy seventh
Phi Psi Fraternity, convention. Hotel Penn
sylvania, opening at p. NJ.
.Hasty Pudding Club OF Harvard Univer-
sity, entertainment and dance. Waldorf
Astoria, 8 p. M.
United States Lawn Tennis Association.
dinner, Hotel Biltmore, 7 y. III.
Western Union employees, entertainment
and dance, Hotel McAipin. p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
The Investigating Chairman.

State Senator SCHUYLER Nj. MEYER
did such good work generally In the
Legislature and in particular took so
important part in bringing about
the investigation of the affairs of New
York city, being in fact the author Of
the resolution providing for the in
quiry, that 1t Is not surprising his
friends and supporters are urging
him for chairman Of the investigat-
ing committee. On his fine Albany
record they have the right to feel
confidence in his convictions, purpose
and courage.
THE New York HERALD does not
conceive that 1t is its business to offer
its selections for appointments to
office. This is the duty and function
Of the appointing powers selected to
do that thing. 1t Is proper to say,
however, that Ii choice be available
from among men of equal ability and
merit the legislative investigation of
New York city would be more wisely
conducted under the Craftsmanship of
a citizen Of this community, under
standing thoroughly it's problems and
conditions, than under the chairman
ship Of a resident Of distant part Of
the State having had little experience
In matters vital to Greater New York
and knowing, perhaps, nothing at all
about the temper and bent OF this
public.
BY all means let the committee be
headed by the man best fitted for the
job by capacity and character. But,
other things being equal, let the chair
man, whether he should be Senator
MEYER or somebody else, hail from
New York city.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
More Pay for Policemen.

The Legislature has voted an In
crease Of $500 year for the first
grade patrolmen and firemen who
have been in the service from three to
five years, but Mayor HYLAN wants
to know where the city will get the
money to pay 1t.
Well, for one thing the salary In
creases do not go into effect until
January /, 1922. and BY that time
the city can make 1t it's business to
cut waste here, there and everywhere
and get the money for the police.
For another, the S3,0O0,000 with
which the Police Commissioner wants
to put ON 1000 extra patrolmen to
enforce the dry laws can be much
better spent in giving suitable pay
to those already In the department
for doing their hard, responsible and
dangerous work.
If the 10000 policemen now under
the Commissioner do not enforce the
prohibition law 10000 under the same
policy would not enforce It, For the
matter of that, If for any reason the
force had to be reduced a thousand
men instead of increased a thousand
the remaining number could and
would enforce the dry law If the
Mayor and the Police Commissioner
were sincerely and permanently de-
termined to enforce 1t. The Mayor
and the Commissioner are showing
now that they can make the life Of
the Illicit liquor seller a terror; and
they can go on showing the same
thing as long as they want to.
Policemen In this city work eleven
hours day, with only one day off
In twenty-seven, and they must make
up that day Off with extra time. Fire
men work twelve hours day, with a
twenty-four hour leave OF absence
every sixth day, but the price they
pay for that leave Is putting in a
full twenty-four hour day in the
week.
And as matter of fact. the pay
now prescribed by the Legislature
was put into the city budget as far
back as a year ago by order of the
Mayor himself, but later omitted be-
cause the city's finances were so mud
died that it could not meet the esti-
mates for the teachers. 1t will be
none too soon for those first grade
patrolmen and firemen to begin to get,
eight months from now, the pay which
they have long deserved and which
the public heartily wishes them to
have.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
Fewer Dollars, More Wealth.

Bank resources, according TO the
report of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency. dropped $l.060,0000O0 in the
months of January and February.
The decline was largely in the loans
10 general business, which were $11,-
CSC, 100000 ON the date Of the Febru-
airy statement OF condition. or $414,-
45S,00O smaller than In December
last. At the same time there was a
scaling down of deposits, which
dropped to $15,47S,000,000, lower by
$799, 100000 than the deposits re-
ported in December.
The reduction in national bank re-
sources has been about 7 per cent.
since the December call and about II
per cent. since the peak Of last year.
In the latter period the cost OF living
has declined more than 20 per cent.
The money and credit of to-day are
smaller in volume, but the smaller
volume will purchase more than the
larger volume last year.
With its huge crops and its i'm
mense productive power the United
States Is richer to-day than ever be-
fore. 1t has fewer dollars, but 1t has
more wealth. But we must give that
wealth chance to work.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
Stadium Concerts Open July Z.

Arrangements were announced last
night for the summer concerts at the
Lewisohn Stadium. 1S7th street and
Amsterdam avenue. There will be eight
weeks of concerts.I the first one on
Thursday. July 7, with q concert each
night in the week. Henry Hadley, con-
ductor of the New York philharmonic.
and Victor Herbert will conduct, Mr..
Hadley taking the first four weeks and
Mr.. Herbert the second four weeks. The
concerts again will be given under the
auspices of the Music League OF the Peo-
ple's Institute,
Adolph Lewisohn Is to be chairman
OF the executive committee and Mrs
Charles s. Guggenheimer chairman OF
the maintenance committee, with Mrs.
Louise Ryals de Cravioto vice-chairman.
An active figure In the committees work
will be Mrs. Newbold Le Roy Edgar ana
Edward s. Sanderson, director OF the
Peoples Institute. AS last year, the
highest artistic standards only will be
attempted. In addition to q full ana
complete orchestra there will be many
operatic and concert stars on the pro-
grammes. Provision also will be made
for Instrumental nights.' which met
with great approval last summer. no.
tably the Wagner Nights" Arthur
Judson, manager of the Philadelphia Or
chestra, will be the Stadium Concert
manager this year, with Loudon Charl-
ton associate manager.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
Inwood Is Pleased.
Action Taken by the Police to Stop
Sunday Crap Game.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Residents
in the neighborhood of the high school
al Broadway and Academy street. In
wood. were gratified when detectives
recently raided the crap game which has
been the regular Sunday diversion of a
group of young men and boys. The
raid netted six or seven OF the shoot
ers, who, no doubt, will profit by their
experience. 1t also will serve to dis
courage others who have formed the
habit of gambling with the dice on
Sunday.
The Inwood crap game has for months
been the subject Of complaint, especially
on the part OF parents Of the boys who
INDUCED in It. The game was carried
on in the rear of one of the frame build
ings forming the high school. From
time to time policemen have made half
hearted efforts to break 1t up, but imne-
diately after the officers turned their
backs the gamblers came back and re-
susned operations.
Usually the crap game was an all day
affair, beginning in the morning and
lasting until it became too dark to con-
tlnue shooting, at which time the game
would break up and the gamblers would
go away In groups, counting their money.
Boys were permitted to gamble as well
as older persons, and 1t was for this
reason that law abiding residents thought
II was about time for the police to step
in and break up the game. RESIDENT.
NEW YORK, April 81.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
Central Park Traffic.
Willis Holly Would Bar Motors
Merely "on Their Way"

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: ''R. D."
makes the valuable suggestion that auto
mobile traffic In Central Park should be
curtailed. After the first reaction OF
either amuseme or resentment, second
thought will bring the sane query. why
not?' 1t is possible and very desirable
Make restrictions TO discourage the
use OF the park as a mere thoroughfare
Those who are simply ''on their way"
Just to 90 somewhere. do not need to-use
the park drives. They should be kept
out as business traffic In kept out. No
hardship In that.
The winding roadways were intended
for the wheeled counterpart OF saunter-
ing. so that the beauties OF the park
could be seen and appreciated. A speed
rate TO suit this purpose would be to
the advantage OF everybody who wishes
to enjoy the park as park. whether
on foot or awheei. AS deterrent to
the hurried mixers II could be supple
mented by some one way trafic restric-
tions that would be irkscme 10 them.
WILLIS HOLLY,
Secretary Park Board.
Nryy YoRw Aprii 21
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
"The Manufacture OF Cotton Cloth" by
nnss msrcs VI i5s oSS West @ Sse1s stree. Illus
"Joan of Arc" by DR.. Harry Webb Far
rinsten at w1sasE sesensn hgh yonue sch'0 0'h
Scottish wit and Humor." by J. II. II.
Muirhead. at Public School ~. Forty-second
street. near Third avenue. Illustrated.
Prof. Samuel @. Schmucker, at Public
School sc. Eighty-eighth street. east OF First
avenue.
riette Weems, at Public School 1872, 1920
street and Wadsworth avenue.
New Elements in the Labor Probiem." by
James r. Hooley. at Public School loi, 81.
Nicholas avenue and Firth street.
"The Tavern" by DIR. Henry n. Rose, at
Public School II. Fordham. street. near City
Island avenue. City Island. Illustrated.
American Ideals Must Prevail by Jonas
Lipprnan, at Public School IS. Anthony and
fremont avenues, The Bronx.
BROOKLYN. QUEENS AND RICHMOND.
..Trend Of the Times" by Prof. William H..
Guthrie, Ph. D., at Girls High School, Nos
tro nd avenue and ITalsey street.
''The Open Road" by James #. Morton.
Jr.. at Public School o., Van sicklen street.
".Ig Folk I Lore leNf OF the American Indian" by
Miss Mabel +. Knight, at Flushing High
school. Broadway and whitestone avenue.
"a bay In Lahore" by Asa ID. Dickinson,
at Public School so Pacific and Union Hail
streets. Jamaica. T. J.
n, public school So, Elm avenue and Fresh
Pond road Rfdgewood Heights.
1.-THE Sun. Moon and stars by Miss An
tonia Maury. at Public School %, Rockaway
road and lincoln avenue. South Ozone Park.
..webster, the Founder OF American Ma
ticnaiity" by Thomas McTiernan, Mt Public
scheoi 20, Heberton avenue. Port Richmond.
Staten Island.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
The Laborer's Dollar.
Purchasing Power of More Impor-
tance Than the Rate of Pay.

To THE New YoRK HERALD: A real
service could be rendered to wage earn
ers * they could be taught to see that
1t would be to their interest to reduce
wages.
Roughly. so per cent. of the cost
Of everything that is produced is paid
for labor. Thus, IL you reduced the
cost OF labor one-half you could reduce
the cost Of everything accordingly. Then
the laborer's one dollar would buy as
much as his two dollars buys now.
Right here Is where the fallacious ar
gument of the laborer comes. The
laborer says. Give me the two dollars
and will take a chance on buying more
for my two dollars than / could for my
one dollar IL costs were reduced one
half. The fallacy lies In the fact that
this country can consume only a part of
what 1t produces, and. therefore, our
production can run only on part time
unless we can obtain a foreign market
for our surplus production. Labor will
be only partly employed unless we can
find foreign market for our surplus.
We can find a foreign market for our
surplus only IL we can produce more
cheaply than other nations. In order to
produce more cheaply we must have
lower cost of production and lower
wages.
1t requires no serious argument to
prove that a wage Garner would be
much better of working on full time for
lower wages and with steady employ
ment than he would be working n few
days a week for the same amount OF
money a week and then have to pay
perhaps twice as much for his living.
JOHN M. SHEpp.
New YoRK, April 81.
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
Roger Bacon's Secrecy.

1t may be assumed, from the manu-
script Of ROGER BACON which now ex-
cites the attention of scientists, that
BACON used the telescope and the mi
croscope. This Is not a genuine sur
prise. 1t is evident from his previ-
ously known works that he knew
somewhat of the possibilities of the
telescope; he described method Of
constructing 1t. What more natural
than that he, one of the most practical
OF men, should have made one for his
own use? He knew more than any
body in his time Of the laws of re-
Election and refraction and of the
construction of lenses. AS for the mi
croscope, burning glasses were in COM
mon use before BACON was born.
Why did BACON hide under cipher
the knowledge he seems to have ac-
quired with his telescope Of the ma
ture of nebula? Probably because
ROGER knew what the world knows
now, that he was in advance Of his
time. There are modern devices
which have not been put on the mar
ket because the people have not been
educated up to their use. Or perhaps
BACON was restrained by the feeling
that kept European sea captains from
using the magnetic compass centuries
after its discovery. Their sailors
would not ship with such a devilish
thing aboard; BAcoN's public, or a
large part Of Il, wanted their sky
MS It had always been. Just as the
ignorant wanted their earth fiat hun.
dreds Of years after ARISTOTLE had
proved It was round.
AT any time in the six years pom.
tificate of CLEMENT ". the English
scholar could have had respectful
hearing, In Rome or at Oxford, on
any great discoveries or theories
CLEMENT, who as Papal legate to Eng
land had understood BAcoN's worth,
gave TO him freedom of uttcrance
which was respected ten years after
CLEMENTS death. III In those sixteen
years. from 1868 to 1882, BACON hid
any revolutionary discovery in cipher
It evidently was not through fear.
There were, however. preceding and
following periods when BACON was
In disfayor and sometimes In prison.
Ii may be that the cryptographlc man
uscript now under discussion was
written after the protective influence
OF CLEMENT had faded.
In his works with which the world
is familiar BAcor often speaks Of his
The New York herald., 1921-04-22
Nine. Yaw In Recital Here.

Nine. Ellen Beach Yaw an Ameri-
can coloratura soprano. who was last
heard here at the Metropolitan In the
days of the Conreld regime. gave a re-
cital with her husband, Franklin Cam
non. pianist, yesterday afternoon In the
Town Hall before large audience. In
former days Mime. Yaw's fame rested
largely upon her amazing ability for
reaching high top notes which included
e, not to say @. Her range was of rather
uneven power and her tones without
much color. Her voice as heard yester-
day did not wholly bear UP her former
reputation for aerial flights, while some
of her lower tones have gained, per-
haps, in warmth and power In such
music, for instance, as Mozart's air. III
Re Pastore," sung with a violin OBJ
bligato played by Andre Polah. her de-
livery had ease and knowledge of phras-