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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-19

Homer Saint Gaudens OF New York has
been chosen assistant director of the de-
partment of fine arts at the Carnegie In
stitute. Pittsburgh. and will enter upon
his duties at once. He will help the
director. John w. Beatty. in assembling
and arranging the international exhibi-
tions and all other displays of pictures
and works Of art at the Institute, and
will have general charge of the depart
ment in the absence of the director.
Mr. Saint Gaudens is son of the
late Augustus Saint Gaudens, who was
enc Of the greatest of American sculp-
tors. He has always been interested in
artistic criticism, writing for various
magazines and newspapers. and has
spent much of his time in the produc-
ton of plays. He served In France as
Captain of Engineers in the First Cam
outage Unit He also has travelled ex-
tensively. Mr.. Saint Gaudens married
in 1906 Miss carlota Dolley of Phila-
delphia Pa. and they have two chill
dren. He will take his family to Pitts
hurgh in the autumn.
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Tobacco Taxes.
Ont Of Each Dollar Spent by the
Public Uncle Sam Gets 30 Cents.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Accord
ing to a college professors detailed
figures of $4,000, 900, 900 spent for lux
uries last year in the United States,
$500, 000,0 900 went for cigars and $780,
100000 more for other tobacco products.
Possibly the professor neither exag-
gerated nor overestimated. but he did
not mention the fact that of the ST.
800, 900 900 spent for tobacco products
Uncle Sam in the fiscal year ended June
80, 1920, received about 1926, 900 for
internal revenue taxes on the industry,
besides many additional millions for du-
ties on imports thereon.
Internal revenue taxes. plus duties,
gave Uncle Sam about 80 cents out of
every dollar spent for tobacco products,
and he then got his income tax besides
from such as had taxable incomes In
the industry.
In 1868 he received about $500, 900
from the entire industry, so that he now
receives 100 times as much from 1t in
fact, this one line is made to give him
over per cent. of his total income
Nevertheless, one frequently reads
that some legislator in Washington or
scme prominent merchant or other citi-
zen makes a public statement recon-
mending increased taxation on tobacco
as means of decreasing other taxes,
and likely the same individual will say
when buying cigar to the man who
sells it to him. ut is about time you
fellows came down in prices
Then again one frequently reads OF
the indignation of Southern tobacco
growers at the low market prices--due
to conditions of supply and demand
for their product, but these growers en-
tirely overlook the. fact that were the
tobacco sold to manufacturers as low
as one cent a pound and were 1t made
up Into paper covered cigarettes with
the maximum weight of three pounds OF
tobacco to the 1000 cigarettes the
Government would collect SO tax on
each 1000 cigarettes. If the tobacco
were prepared for SNUFF, chewing or
smoking the tax would be eighteen
cents a pound.
Is 1t fair or right to call those in the
industry profiteers when Uncle Sam
brings home the bacon?
ADoLPH OPPENHEIMER.
New YORK, July IS.
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Courtesy in a Cage.
Bankers Consider Politeness In the
Transaction Of Business.
t,rom thc Barkers Homo Maonsil

From the Bankers Home Ma0dsinc.
The tellers of the bank. are the points
of contact with the banks customers,
where the nerves are most sensitive.
But there are tellers who care nothing
about 1t, and there must be great
many of these, otherwise there would
not be so much preaching about courtesy.
The matter came up In a recent confer
ence of bankers in Philadelphia, where
the question was ASKED whether better
results might not be achieved by sub
stituting women tellers, especially
women paying tellers. Will the line at
serves at the other end? And is fem
ininity less subject to these spells OF
uppishness and surllness that we have
to submit to so frequently?
AS a rule the people who so to the
tellers' windows are the employees of
the customers and not the customers
themselves. Tho discourteous or peev-
his temper toward any of these. The
latter are likely to swallow their re-
sentiment and say nothing about II. On
the other hand the mental and nervous
strain under which so many tellers are
compelled to work should be allowed
for. The line should realize that this
Job is not a soft snap. A cross word
or a sharp retort may be a mere symp-
tom of strain and should be regarded
as the manifestation OF a physiological
rather than a moral condition.
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The statement that we have been
suffering from a wave of crime has
been made so often and so persist
emily that 1t takes pretty strong
array of statistical evidence to con
vince the average person that crime
is actually decreasing, not increasing
And this is precisely the kind of evil
dence which SANFORD BATES, Massa-
chusetts Commissioner of Correction,
has just produced.
In the early days of the war, on
September 80, 1914, there were 6,s7S
prisoners in the Massachusetts penal
institutions. On May 81, 1921, there
were 1890, a net decrease of 1855.
This falling off, so far as the war
years are concerned, is easily ex-
planned. With business of all kinds
running at capacity output, and
wages at peak never before known,
there naturally would be a reduction
in criminal activity. And to be added
to these influences there was the
direct moral effect of the war itself.
Therefore the statistics of prison
population in the war years are OF
comparatively little value as applied
TO the measurement of criminal ac-
tivity under normal conditions.
But as between 1920 and 1921 IL
is quite another matter. In this in
terval several influences calculated To
promote an increase of crime were at
work. To begin with there is tho
experience OF the past. which has
shown crime increase following on
the heels OF every great war as the
direct result on human nature of
war itself. In our case, this influence
was accentuated by a sharp business
depression, much unemployment and
descending scale of wages. The
effects of these causes are shown in
the Massachusetts prison records.
Between September 80. 1920, and
April &c. 1921. the state prison pop.
ulation increased from 1852 to 5000.
This apparently Is high water mark
for a time at least. On June 1, 1921,
the total number OF prisoners was
1890.
Densely populated and highly in.
dustrialized Massachusetts, very likely
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That 80 Per Cent. Clause.
C0lnsurance and Full Insurance Ex-
planned by a Broker.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: You pub
lish letter from Samuel Smith asking
what right has fire insurance COM
pany to insure a man for one sum and
pay him a lesser sum In case Of a bona
fide loss?'' i would answer this by say
ing that an insurance company has a
right to do whatever it has agreed to
do by the terms of the insurance con-
tract entered Into with the assured
II Mr.. Smith insured his property for
its full value, or even for so per cent.
Of the full value. IL the policy contains
an so per cent reinsurance clause, he
would receive the full amount of any
loss he might sustain, but of course not
more than the amount of the policy
On the other hand, IL under a similar
contract he insured for less than so
per cent. of the value OF the property
he would by the terms of the coinsur-
ance clause become coinsurer with the
company for the difference between the
amount insured and so per cent. of the
value.
1t might interest Mr.. Smith to know
that not only Is IL possible to enter into
a contract with an insurance company
TO pay the full amount of any loss sus-
tanned. but he can obtain reduction
OF 10 per cent. In his rate 10 he agrees
to insure for the full value and accepts
a 100 per cent. coinsurance clause in his
contract. WILLIAM A. RoNArps.
BROOKLYN, July IS.
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MRS. HARDING GETS
FILM OF CAMPAIGN
She and the President Are the
Star Performers in the Picture

Special Despatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
WASHINGTON, July 1S.-Mrs. Warren
G.. Harding to-day received from the Ma
tional Association of the Motion Pic
turc Industry pictorial record of the
Presidential campaign, which resulted
In the election of Mr.. Harding as Presi-
dent 1t Is a two reel picture. in which
the President and Mrs. Harding are the
star performers In a series of scenes
which start with his nomination and
end on the White House lawn. William
A. Brady. president OF the National AS
ISOLATION. presented the film to Mrs.
Harding.
The screen review will be preserved
by President and Mrs. Harding as a
family record of the historic events
which led to their occupancy of the
White House. There Is one print only
i'm existence--the one that was presented
to Mrs. Harding. In II she is featured
almost as prominently as the President.
In fact. they share star honors in the
film, while eminent statesmen play the
character roles"
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MR.. r. E. PENNOYER
GETS POST IN CHILE
Appointed Secretary of the
American Embassy.
Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
| New York Herald Bureau.
% Washington. ID. G. .JuIy IA

~.
Washington, ID. c., July Is.
Mr.. Richard Edmunds Pennoyer of
New York and San Francisco. who for
some time was attached to the American
Embassy to the Court of st. James's,
has been appointed secretary of the en-
bassy in Chile. and soon will start for
his new post with Lady Winfred PEN
noyer. st
Mr.. Pennoyer Is one Of the few Amer
lean men who have married titled Brit
ish women. In 1917, while attached to
the American Embassy in London, he
married the Viscountess Ingestre. whose
late husband at the time of his death
In 1915 was son and heir Of the Earl
of Shrewsbury. Her young son. now
years old, who then became Viscount
Ingestre, succeeded to the family hon
ors last May upon the death of his
grandfather. the twentieth Earl of
Shrewsbury. fifth Earl Talbot and one
Of the greatest mobiles in the British
peerage.
Mr.. Pennoyer therefore has become
the stepfather of an earl. Lady Wini-
fred Pennoyer Is a daughter of the late
Lord Alexander Paget and sister OF the
sixth and present Marques of Angle
sey. Mr.. Pennoyer Is a brother of Mr..
Paul @. Pennoyer. who married a daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Pierpont Morgan.
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eign markets. the duty on that Amer
lean valuation of imports must go as
low as it can safely go--to the very
point of an intensely competitive
challenge of American goods in our
own home markets. If it does not
domestic prices to our own consum-
ers will tend to rise under what
would be equivalent to the piratical
cost plus" system.
Any tariff that starts costs and
prices up again on the American
public when its return to prosperity
hangs upon costs and prices getting
further down through natural read
justment from war conditions will
dynamite the political party respon-
sible for that economic crime.
There are members a-plenty of
both branches of Congress who know
these fundamental truths as well as
they know their a b c's. But many
of them, panic stricken when they
hear any organized clamor for spe-
cial favors at the expense of the I'M
organized public, will be as spineless
on this crucial issue as they have
proved themselves to be on the other
vital questions that have come be-
fore Congress. Once more it must
be the giant statesmen, the fearless
representatives of the public, the
patriotic men Of iron who will serve
the country and, serving it, save
their party.
The Fordney tariff, sound in prin-
ciple but in its possibilities as dan
gerous to the country as subma-
rine torpedo to ship, must be made
not merely technically safe but fool
proof. In this Congress, the Repub-
lican party may thank its stars, there
are men who have the brains and
have the CUTS to do the job.
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AMERICANS IN PARIS.
Special Correspondence to THE NEw Yon
HERALD

Special Correspondence to THE NEw YonK
PARIS, July 1.-The following Ameri-
cans have registered at the office of The
Nelo York Herald of Paris:
Mrs. Louis B. Chesbrough. the Misses
Gladys and Lois Chesbrough, e. Burton
Steene. Mr.. and Mrs. S. Freezer, Miss b.
Blanche Freezer, Lawrence J. Smith
Mrs. Denis A. Harrington, Denis A. Har-
rington. Jr Mrs. d. c. Haggerty, G. J.
Mayer. Mrs. Zetta O'Neil. Miss Rose
Shulsinger, Eduard Pirnay, Mr.. and Mrs
Louis Vilk, August A. Goetz, Mrs. Rich
ard Deever. Mr.. and Mrs. William Nc
Nicel, Bruno RESELL, c. Arnaud del
Garcia, Mrs. Alfred H. BeIo, Miss Helen
Belo, Miss Jane Belo, Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert J. Erdmann.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Dettelbach,
f. F.. Fitzpatrick Miss Virginia Fitz-
patrick, Miss Maude Saunders, Kathryn
Carroll, Nine. Gerhardt, Mr.. and Mrs.
e. l.. Simpson, Mr.. Ernest A. Simpson,
Mrs. James d. Brown, Lester Donahue,
Sidney Lehman, Max Greenfeet. w. p.
Abbott. Mr.. and Mrs. d. H. Green, Mrs.
0. r. Caucheis. Mrs. v. Anderson, Rus
sell M. Smith, Lieut.. Robert e. Orr, r. L.
Friedler, F. l.. Bueslee, Mrs. Mary J.
Bueslee. Eugene Blum, Mrs. Julia Cir
vim, Rhea Drummer, Mrs. Irene l..
Adams. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur NJ. Meyero-
WITT. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Sutro. Mr..
p. r. Slousch, Mr.. and Mrs. w. B.
Duryea and William MARS Duryea OF
New York
Also DR.. and Mrs. Louis c. Loewen-
stein, A. j. Oeltinger of Boston. G. #.
Schmurle of Forest Hills. Miss Emma
w. Braine, J. Hubert Gaynor and Mrs.
A. e. O'Brien of Brooklyn, Mr.. and Mrs.
John w. Cook of Denver, Robert Lee
Morton, G.. NJ Greene. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles l.. Morlin Of st. Louis. Mr.. and
Mrs. George X. Seilert Of Baltimore.
Mrs. c. Percy Read Miss Read and Miss
Rosalind Warwick of Chicago.
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Assessing the Duty.
Basis Of Valuations of Imports Un-
der the Fordney Bill.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: In re-
gard to the American valuation clause
in the proposed Fordney tariff bill, we
import thousands of articles not Compel
tive with American made goods on
which the duty is TO be assessed on our
wholesale selling price. Take an article
for which we pay 81 in Czecho-Slovakia.
Purchasing expenses. ocean freight and
insurance amount to 20 cents; duty at
present As per cent, equal TO 45 cents,
making the total cost OF the article
$40 landed in New York. We sell this
article to wholesalers for s2.25.
The proposed rate of duty on these
goods in the new tariff Is 40 per cent,
which will be assessed on our wholesale
price of S2.25. The article instead OF
costing us $40 will cost us s2.15, and
We shall be compelled to sell 1t at Sass.
The duty on the following importation
of that article will then have to be
figured on the wholesale selling price
OF $2.S5. raising our cost again and
necessitating higher selling price. This.
as you will realize, puts an effective
stop to all further importatons.
GEORGE NJ STIEGLER
NEW Xopr T,,rx, 10
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stand-stewards were unknown In
those days. and the judges, Colonel
r. w. SIMMONS of Louisiana and
CLARENCE MCDOWELL of Maryland.
served as arbiters in all disputes and
melted out discipline in addition to
placing the horses.
Mr.. CROKER had started for the
clubhouse as the horses went to the
post. his usual black cigar showing
through the fringe of his closely
cropped grizzled mustache and beard.
Close behind him followed Mr.. KEENE,
and it happened that one stood on
each side of the judges box as the
start was made. In their eager in
terest they went no further. Both
were silent through the early stages
of the race, but as the pair hooked
up at the top of the stretch and
desperate contest for supremacy began
Mr.. KEENE fidgeted his nervous fin
gers busily on his long mustache.
Nearer came the horses, with both rid
ers giving the game colts whip and
spur. First one head was in front,
only to succumb to the desperate rally
of his rival, then the other to be
passed in turn. As they made the
last fifty yards Mr.. KEENE threw off
all restraint, and. jumping up and
down like a schoolboy at a football
match, shouted at the top of his
lungs, "Hornpipe! Hornpipe! Horn
pipe."
And when Hornpipe passed the
post a short nose in front of Dobbins
RICHARD CROKER was apparently the
coolest man in the throng which had
been frenzied in it's appeal to riders
and horses At his feet, however,
wa, the black cigar, the end having
been bitten off in a final effort at
self-control when Dobbins was beaten
by Hornpipe.
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Partly cloudy
to-day; showers tomorrow; no change in
temperature; fresh southwest and west
winds.
For New Jersey-Partly cloudy to-day;
thundershowers tonight or tomorrow; no
change in temperature. fresh southwest and
west winds.
For Northern New England-Locai showers
to-day and tomorrow; no change IN tenn
erature. fresh south and southwest winds.
For Southern New England-Partly cloudy.
followed by local showers to-day and to-
morrow; no change in temperature fresh
southwest and west winds.
For Western New -Thundershowers
southwest and west winds.
WASHINGTON. July IS. = High pressure
and the Eastern and Southern States. and
the pressure IL relatively high and rising
over the northern plains States, and a wide
Bay southward 70 the Mexican border with
the centre OF minimum pressure north of the
great lakes. This pressure distribution has
been attended by local showers and thunder
Mississippi Valley, the middle plains States
and the central Rocky Mountain region and
In the south Atlantic and east Gulf States.
upper lake region and the Mississippi Valley,
and 1t has risen over the far Northwest.
temperatures remain near or above the
seasonal average throughout the country.
The outlook Is for considerable cloudiness
ana local showers over much OF the country
east of the Mississippi River within the
next thirty-six hours. The temperature will
ern portion of the region of the great lakes
and the Ohio Valley. 1t will change little
elsewhere east of the Mississippi River dur
ing the next forty-eight hours.
Observations at United States Weather Blu
reau stations, taken at p. M. yesterday
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SEA COAST RESORTS
. GAIN IN POPULARITY
Social Register Reports 1892
Families at Places on Shore.

An increasing number of the prom
inent families of New York and the other
twenty-five cities of the United States
that are represented in the various vol
umes of The Social Register, are show
ing 2 growing propensity to be on or
near the sea Collected in the summer
issue of the Register, which has just
come from the press, are IL ,268 families.
1882 of whom are passing the summer
at sea coast resorts and 6.1SS at inland
resorts but the sea coast seems to be
gaining in social prominence over the
mountains. when last summers statistics
are compared with those of this year.
Bar Harbor and other New England
seaside resorts lead in popularity, with
1924 families from various parts of the
country. Those along the north and
south shores of Long Island, exclusive
of the Hamptons, come next with 1,157
families. Southampton and it's allied
places at the extreme eastern end of the
island claim 315 families which is a
better record than Newport and Nara
gansett Pier can show with 275. There
are only fifty-six socially registered
families at Lenox and immediate vicin-
ity. but the smallness in numbers is more
than recompensed by their high social
standard. In New Yorks committing
district along the Jersey coast there are
sos families.
OF the families who are passing a sea-
son on board their yachts there are 1913,
which is thirteen less than last summers
record of the floating population. Yacht
ing is gradually. reaching Its old pre-
war standards, with 651 yachts in COM
mission. OF these 371 are steamships, rs
are schooners and 202 are sloops. The
persons who are summering on board
their craft may be reached through the
yacht clubs under which the boats are
registered.
Society also has figured In the rush to
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Sayings of Statesmen.
Tim Campbells Primeval Forest and
Tom Reeds Advice.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: One al
ternoon in the middle eos was, sitting
with three friends in the famous Room
No. l Of the Aston House. New York.
They were Congressman Amos j. Cum
mings, Colonel John A. Cockerili and
Colonel Augustus G. Paine. This was a
long time before prohibition
Among other stories were two by
Cummings, one Of which is timely to-day
in view of the "reminiscences respecting
former Congressman Tim Campbell that
have appeared in your paper.
Cummings said that Campbell had
made a typically fiowery speech to the
House and In 1t used the expression
''primeval forest" Amos, whose sense of
humor was of the highest, promptly hur-
ried over and inquired with apparent SIN
certify and certainly proper dignity:
Judge, what is your understanding Of
the meaning Of primeval forest?"
Amos" instantly responded the
pleased Congressman. "primeval forest
means a country where the hand of man
hath never set foot"
Colonel Paine. who was lifelong
Maine friend of Speaker Reed, kept
Cummings talking as much as he could
about this eminent statesman, who was,
as was well known. Cummings appre-
ciative and close friend, though Of oppo-
site political beliefs. Cummings related
that on one occasion 1t had fallen to his
lot to father bill on which the discus
sion took an unexpected turn, and caused
him TO wonder whether 1t would be best
to make another speech further indors-
ing the bill or TO keep entirely quiet
With his head between his hands and
elbows on his desk. he was doing his
hardest thinking. when he felt the floor
shake around him and glazing I'D saw
the huge form of Speaker Reed towering
above him.
GO away from me-" he hurried to say.
You'll compromise me coming over here
at this time"
Amos" replied Reed in that broad
Yankee drawl OF his; Amos. I was
about to do for you the kindest thing
one man In this body can do for another
You are considering whether to make a
speech or not have come over To say
to you. don't you do IT," and Reed there
upon swayed away with a broad and
unctuous smile on his cherubic face.
Cummings followed this advice and
came out with flying colors.
CHARLES w. PRICE,.
NEW YORK, July is.
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The Courier.

he Is VaBrdnI Oh the udy
He is a vagabond Of night:
Now In the vale, now on the height
He is eternaliy astray.
His feet are light upon the sea;
He treads the pathway of the stars
There arc no bonds. there are no bars,
To stay him if he fain would flee.
Though none may see his face or FORM
Yet every one may hear his voice,
Now loud. now low-hark him rejoice
To ride the pinions Of the storm.
AS old is he as Is the earth,
Yet young as is her youngest flower
For Borrowing re has his hour:
He has his hour for boisterous mirth.
And now at peace, and now at strife,
He moves as one who has no plan,
Though he has been, since time began
To man the very breath of life.
Though laundering he seems and blind
He sees. and bears from pole to pole
A vital message for each soul.
Gods winged courier, the wind.
CLINTON SCOTLAND.