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The New York herald., 1921-05-28

,ound cashier is to surety company
| thing of beauty and JOY forever.
Now for justice in this matter. We
have never heard Of surety COM
pany reducing the rate on mans
)ond because the man was fat. On
the other hand. when the fat trusted
employee goes to the life insurance
company to get policy he is often
told that on account of his over
weight he must pay an extra pre-
MUM. The life insurance people do
not count the fat mans honesty at
all. Overweight, he Is bad risk that
must be penaIized until the fatness Is
corrected.
There is a subject worthy of the
most morose Russian novelist: the
fat and honest man of small salary
reducing his weight in order that
he may protect his family with life
insurance and thus reducing his hon.
esty, or the evidence thereof, so
much that in the end he loses his
Job through theft or the refusal OF
surety company to bond him. With
muffled cry he throws himself over
the parapet OF a bridge across the
Vodka River: parapet which in his
old happy state of extreme fatness
he never could have surmounted.
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Short Wills of Great Men.

When the will of the late e. H
HARTMAN was filed in 1909 its brew.
ity was the subject of comment. The
flnancier had left everything to his
wife in a document so short, yet SO
indisputable. that 1t was regarded as
a model. Stripped of the attestations
1t read as follows:
'I. EDWARD H HARTMAN OF Ar
den, in the State OF New York. do
make. publish and declare this as
and for my last will and testament.
that is to say:
II give, devise and bequeath all
my property. real and personal. Of
every kind and nature to my wife.
MARY w. HARTMAN, 70 be hers abb
solutely and forever. and I do hereby
nominate and appoint the said MARY
W. HARTMAN to be executrix or
this will"
The will of the late Chief Justice
WHITE, who, like Mr.. HARTMAN, left
all to his wife, proves to be even
shorter than Mr.. HARRIMAN's. In
five words, This is my last WILL" II
says what eighteen words are used
to express in the Hartman instru
ment. The Chief Justice did not
think it necessary to bequeath his
property absolutely and forever
but he made it plain that the owner
ship was to be complete and per
feet" The White will reads:
This Is my last Will l give,
bequeath and devise TO my wife.
LEITA NJ. WHITE, in complete and
perfect ownership all my rights and
property of every kind and nature.
whether real, personal or mixed,
wherever situated. appointing her ex-
ecutrix OF my estate without bond
and giving her seisin thereof"
We find in the White will one i'm
portant direction which does not ap
pear In the hartman document
This is the clause declaring that the
wife, as executrix. need not furnish
bond This point is one which
most lawyers are careful to make
when drawing a will. even IL II bt
an instrument In which there is but
one devisee.
While the will OF the Chief Jus
tics may be accepted as a model OF
clearness, the person who wishes q
use it as such must remember that
the attest is one of the most impor
tant parts of any will and that this
must be drawn in accordance with
the law OF the State of which the
devisor is resident.
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Wheat.

From the Kansas City star.
Smiles with promise the young green
wheat.
Under a sky of tender blue
Whispering hopes of harvest great;
Oft has 1t promised, and failed us,
too.
The careless ones can never know
The hopes and the dreams, the black
defeat!
The labor. the prayers and the bitter
tears
That lie in the loaf Of bread they eat {!
The sunrise beams on the fresh green
That glows and CLEANS with emerald
flash
The sunset bleeds for blasted field,
Dead Of the hail or the winds hot
lash.
Agonized women; disheartened men;
Acres shriveling in the heat,
Shall all their labor be in vain?
Sometimes / feel that / hate the
wheat!
The long, hot days with their weary
watch
For the rods Of the silver, slanting
rain:
That wand that touches the thirsty
wheat
And changes II to golden grain
The golden grain, and the watch Is done
With the harvest song comes the knowl-
edge sweet
or tolls reward and the hard fight won,
And the world shall have its bread to
eat!
NELL LEWIS WOODS.
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Bach Music Festival.
Thousands Assemble ut Bethlehem
to Henr lannon's Choir.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. May 27.-Several
thousand music devotees from all sec
tons OF the United States to-day at
tended the two opening sessions Of the
annual musical festival of the Bethle-
hem Bach Choir in Packer Memorial
Church at Lehigh University. the choir
OF nearly 800 singing a number of the
shorter works OF John Sebastian Bach.
A section Of the Philadelphia Orches-
ira, as 1t has done for the last ten fes-
tivals. played the Instrumental accom-
paniments and also gave several of
Bachs orchestral compositions. DR.. J..
Fred Wolfe. who founded the choir In
1900, conducted.
The miscellaneous programmes, ap-
pealing to a catholicity of musical tastes,
were given at and s P. NJ, preceded
by the playing of old Moravian and Luz
theran choral tunes by the Trombone
Choir of the Central Moravian Church,
Bethlehem, on the tower of the univer-
sity chapel Tomorrow the great Bach
mass will be sung at two sessions, at
/ 80 and P. NJ.
The soloists this year are Miss Flor
ence Hinkle and Miss Mildred Faas So
pranos; Miss Merle Alcock and Miss
Mabel Beddoe. contraltos; Nicholas
Douty, tenor, and Charles T. Tittmann,
bass. Mr.. Douty has the distinction Of
having sung at all OF the sixteen festi-
walls given In the twenty years of the
choir's existence. There were no festi-
walls from 1905 to 1912, DR.. Wolfe dur
ing that period having relinquished the
work to accept the chair of music at the
University of California. Emil Schmidt
is concertmaster of the orchestra.
DR.. Wolfe has announced that the
1922 festival viii be held May 26 and
27. the st. Matthew Passion being sung
the first daY
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Haul Down This Flag!
Displayed by the Shipping Board, 1t
Has, Nineteen Stripes.

To THE NEW York HERALD Who -
responsible for the version of the Stars
and Stripes displayed in the three-quar-
ter page advertisement of the Ship
ping Board steamship services which Is
headed Keep Our Ships on the Seven
Seas Under the Stars and Stripes?
Surely Admiral Benson and the other
members OF the Shipping Board know
that Old Glory has only seven red and
only six white stripes. The flag dis
played conspicuously In the Shipping
Boards advertisement has ten red
stripes and nine white stripes. What is
the purpose OF displaying such flag?
IL our ships are carrying such flag
to all parts of the world no wonder We
are losing business. Let's advertise our
flag as 1t is. Haul down that carica-
turet p. A. ELLIOTT.
PLAINFIE1p. n. j., May 27.
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
DIR. Sabine's Refusal.
Why He Did Not Conduct Funeral
Services Over George Holland.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: You print
n letter which by inference attaches TO
Or. Sabine. rector of the Church cf the
Incarnation. the ignominy of refusing
to conduct funeral services over the
body OF George Holland. the actor.
The facts substantially are as fol-
lows: At the time of the request DR..
Sabine was delivering course Of lee
lures in his church. II so happened
that one denunciatory OF the stage was
scheduled for that evening and he felt
in view of that circumstance It would
be Ill advised to ofliclate at the funeral
OF one whose life had been a part of
the stage.
These data are substantiated by n
statement of the clergyman. indorsed by
members of the congregation and gen.
orally published in the press of the time.
HOPPER STRIKER MOTT.
NEW YORK, May 27.
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Heart Disease Not Common.
Statistics Unreliable; Often Based on
SympfOms Not Understood.
From me London Times.


That great many people suffer :rnx-
iety on account of supposed diseases OF
their hearts is very certain. That the
current statistics OF heart disease are
exceedingly unreliable is also most prob
able. They are founded on single signs
and symptoms which have been de-
tected, and the meaning of which has
often not been understood.
in view of this. great public impor-
tarice attaches to a statement made by
Sir James Mackenzie in the Lancet as
the result of his extended research work
at the new st. Andrews clinic. It is:
ITO begin with. to be able to UNDER
take an inquiry into prognosis, It Is
necessary to have n knowledge of the
symptoms of heart failure and so far
very little has been done to discover
what these are, for a great many signs
which have no relation to heart failure
have been mistaken for signs which
gave that knowledge. An investigation
into this subject has revealed the fact
that no physical sign or popularity or
the heart itself can ever give the in
formation as to It's functional efficiency
so that one can say that no
abnormal sign is of itself basis for
prognosis."
This statement OF fact should be
widely known. SO that alarming fore
casts of dissolution and also doubtful
or mysterious suggestions OF evil TO
come may so far as possible be avoided
The truth Is that until we know more
OF the manner in which symptoms are
produced we cannot afford to stress in
terpretations which may have been put
on them. Disease OF the heart itself is
not common. but infrequent---in spite
Of statistics TO the contrary. Until we
know on what evidence these statistics
have been produced we should refuse
to accept them.
This is not to say that the heart does
not suffer In various general conditions
or infection or exhaustion. . IL assurediy
does. But II we see only the heart and
forget the general condition we see only
an effect and shut our eyes to the
cause. This Is one of the basal reasons
why the future OF health In this country
depends on the sinsght. and opportuni-
ties OF tho general practitioner.
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Golf as a Business.
Money to Be Made With the Right
Course Near New York.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Your
editorial article about our too expensive
golf courses is, / hope. the first CLEAN
OF light along a path that viii lead
thousands OF good golfers out of the
wilderness. The yearning for golf at
reasonable expense is widespread and
keen.
The root of the present high cost is
easily found. Go to any first rate golf
club to-day and one is overwhelmed
by the multitude OF quite unnecessary
accessories. from the hypertrophied and
flamboyant porte cochere through the
breakfast luncheon. grill. dining. music.
card. billiard and heaven knows how
many more extra rooms. all of which
are paid for by the golfer. He does not
want them.
Some man some day will make a
fairly good golf course. 1t need not
have shaven greens and marcelled rough
and subsoiled bunkers. but 1t should be
a fair. average course OF 5000 yards or
more. For clubhouse he will have an
old farm dwelling with simple food
showers and q locker room of decent.
not luxurious. accommodations. The
whole shall be within one hour of New
York city.
Let the man run 1t as a business. II
he runs 1t right 1t will make him rlcn.
He can easily get 500 a year now
with q decreasing sum as postwar
values are adjusted-from as many
golfers as he can find room for on the
course. Come to think of 1t he'd better
lay out at least two courses to begin
will and have ground enough In reserve
for two more. JAMES BRUCE.
NEW YORK, May 81.
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Lumbermen Hear Good News.

1t will be welcome news for all
workers in ash timber of both the
white and the black variety to learn
that kiln drying has been found to
be a remedy for the ravages of the
redheaded borer which sometimes
attacks ash when 1t is air seasoned.
The wider Importance of the discov-
cry lies In the fact that ash is one
Of the woods used as substitute for
chestnut.
A great proportion of our chestnut
trees are dead as the result OF the
blight which first showed itself in
the Eastern States in the last decade.
Dealers have had to turn to ash and
hickory for purposes for which chest
nut was formerly employed. There
is no more satisfactory timber for
some uses then chestnut. Ash has
always been fairly good substitute,
and the fact that way has been
found to protect it from borers in
creases it's usefulness. Kiln drying
protects hickory as well as ash.
At the same time there is better
news of chestnut trees. The blight
began on Long Island a dozen years
ago and killed virtually every chest
nut tree in the State within $50
miles of New York city, spread to
New Jersey the following year and
from that State crossed into Penn
sylvania and spread on through Mary
land into Virginia. 1t has left the
forests filled with gaunt gray wrecks
In the shape of dead standing trees.
Few owners of areas affected fol-
lowed the example of CLARENCE H.
MACKAY, who put up a portable saw
mill to dispose OF the more than 5000
trees which he lost on his Harbor
Hill estate near Roslyn, Long Island.
ct it is a mistake to permit dead
tree to remain standing among live
trees. The moment decay appears
the axe and the crosscut saw should
be brought into use. Millions OF feet
of the finest kind of lumber for ordi-
nary purposes could have been saved
IL stricken chestnut trees had been
cut when attacked by the blight.
A remarkable feature of the late.
history of the chestnut blight is that
the stumps of some of the stricken
trees are sending forth live shoots
this spring. A number of these
shoots may be noted along the Bal
timore, Washington and Annapolis
Railway between Baltimore and An
napolis. This same phenomenon has
manifested itself in Maryland In the
region of Havre de Grace, and the
question naturally suggests itself
whether the blight having run its
course has not left this hardy type OF
tree with enough vitality to attempt
~ oay,, ahoaE
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Tobacco Prices.
Four Reasons Why They Have Not
Yet Been Reduced.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Since the
prIces Of most other products of every
day consumption are going down. your
correspondent Smith Won Smith and all
other smokers are entitled to an expla-
nation of the rigidity of tobacco prices.
The facts are:
l. That no increases in the retail,
prices of any tobacco products were
made until three years after prices
began advancing on other commodities.
2. That prices of tobacco products
have not increased over ST per cent.
maximum. and on some types of tobacco
pro ducts not over 1s per cent. as com
pared with an average OF 900 per cent.
on nearly all other commodities. or with
Increases as high as 5SS per cent. on
leaf tobacco, and that in no case wero
these advances on tobacco products suf-
ficient to cover the increases in produc-
ing costs.
z. That prices OF cigars, cigarettes
and tobacco do not decline along with
most other products for the same basic
reason that they did not increase along
with most other products, namely. be-
cause the raw material. leaf tobacco. is
never suitable and Is not available for
manufacturing purposes until from one
to three years after 1t passes from the
growers hands, and also, in the case
of cigars, because the cigar types OF
leaf tobacco have not yet declined in
price.
4. And lastly, that a good part OF the
pui chase price OF every package of Gig
arettes. tobacco and cigars iss in the
internal revenue tax, Imposed by the
wa. revenue law. which Is still in force
that the taxes on cigars, plus the duties
on imported cigars or on the imported
tobacco used in domestic cigars. run
from about half cent to over nine
cents on each cigar: that the taxes on
cigarettes amount to three cents on
each package of ten. and six cents on
each package of twenty. while the tax
on tobacco is ~ cents on each one
ounce. or az cents on each two ounce
package.
When and II these facts become
known TO the man who uses tobacco.
az they are known to the man who
makes II. the great mystery OF why
tobacco prices have not yet hit the
toboggan will be a mystery no more.
CARL AVERY WERNER.
NEW York, May 81.
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
A village OF the vosses.

Like n jewel OF dull onyx
The village lay.
From my place on distant peak
Its buildings gray
Seemed couched in tho mountains arms
Through the mist veil's shifting fngers
The clustered homes
Huddled their heads. as a shepherds
flock.
which wayward roams
And shivers lost in closing darkness.
Thicker the fog hung It's mountain cloak.
TIL from my high place
All below seemed TO melt and vanish.
Within It's embrace
stood alone in lost white world.
Suddenly ray of pure light shot down.
with point Of fire
I. struck the village heart---fiaming on
The parish spire.
And chimes murmured a distant vhis-
per.
CHARLES BAMrrELD Hort
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York--Partly
cloudy and somewhat warmer to-day
tomorrow cloudy. moderate south and
southwest winds.
For New Jersey-Partly cloudy and soms-
what warmer to-day; to-morrow fair and
warm: moderate southern and southwest
winds.
For Northern New England--Partly cloudy
to-day; tomorrow local showers; mild teni-
peraiure; moderate southerly winds.
and somewhat warmer to-day; tomorrow
cloudy With mild Temperatures; moderate
south and southwest winds:
For western New forN-t'loudy to-day and
tomorrow, possibly showers; mild tempera-
ture. moderate southerly winds.
WASHINGTON. May 2T.-The pressure was
high night In the Atlantic States and high
and rising In the far Northwest. II was low
over a wide belt extending from the upper
Mississippi Valley west southwestward to
California. with centres of minimum Pres-
sure over Minnesota and Nevada. A marked
fall In temperature has taken place over the
Northwest States, but warm weather pre-
vailed to-day over the south Rocky Mountain
sipDi and Ohio valleys. the south portion OF
the region OF the Great Lakes and. the North
Atlantic States. There have been scatterd
showers within the last twentysfour hours In
the Carollnas. Virginia. the Upper lake re-
gion. the upper Mississippi Valley, the plain
States and the north Rocky Mountain region.
The outlook Is for unsettled weather and
possibly showers over the border States from
the Great Lakes eastward to New England
and for fair weather In other regions east
OF the Mississippi River tomorrow and Sun
day.
The temperature VIII rise tomorrow in the
Atlantic States and weather VIII pre-
van Sunday throughout the East and South
The weather will become cooler Sunday In
the upper lake region.
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Coal Bills in Maine.

In the State of Maine the house
holder has not only longer but a
harder winter than the rest of our
Atlantic seaboard in which to pay
coal bills. And the best he could do
early this year In converting his
money into coal, with not one red
cent included either for the whole
sale dealers profit or for the retail
dealers profit. will show every other
consumer as well as the Maine con.
sumner what it is he pays for now
adays when he buys his coal.
The average Maine cost in the
householder's bins without any deal
ers' profits at all, according to GEORGE
OTIs SMITH, Director of the United
States Geological Survey, is S15.17
a short ton. This is the way that
cost of s15.17 a ton Is made up:
Labor at the mine. inside. s3.Ss;
outside, "a cents: power house and
general colliery, IS cents; admins
trative, Z cents; total labor cost at
the mine. s4.27 ton.
Material at the mine. inside. 79
cents; outside. 81 cents: total. s1.36.
Reserves: Local taxes, IL cents:
compensation insurance and other
hazards, "a cents; depreciation. de-
pletion, &C.. 33 cents; total. SO cents.
Producers total mine cost, as by
the foregoing, S6.32.
To which must be added selling
expense. s cents: margins for Fed
eral taxes and dividends. 81 cents.
Buyers cost at the mine. as by the
foregoing. ss.s2.
on freight. 10 cents: total freight
cost. se.44
Cost TO buyer at railroad station
in Maine OF all the foregoing, s13.36.
Yard and Office expense of local
dealer. 2e cents; delivery in consum-
er's bin. s1.59.
Total OF all the foregoing. s15.17.
Note that about half the total cost
of getting coal to the consumers bin
is transportation, s6.44. which is
chiefly labor, and delivery. s1,59
which is chiefly labor. Mine cost
s6.32, is chiefly labor. Local delivery
including yard expense, S1.s1, is
chiefly labor.
Note that OF the total laid dowr
cost of $1517 full $1265-made uI
of mine labor cost, $4.27; compensa.
tion insurance and selling expense
32 cents; freight charges, S6.25, and
local yard and delivery cost, $1.S1-
chiefly goes in wages.
If there is no profiteering in the
coal business, II there are no profits
at all anywhere from the mouth of
the mine 10 the bin OF the consumer,
the American people cannot burn coal
and keep themselves warm at any
thing like a reasonable price until
the labor costs of mining, hauling
and handling coal come down to a
reasonable cost
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Combating Mental Diseases.

In the hundred years which have
passed since BloomingdaIe Hospital
was founded-its anniversary was
celebrated this week-there has
been marked progress in the treat
ment of the insane. The new spirit
Is expressed in the very nomencla-
ture employed by students OF men,
tai disease and weakness. There
ignorant restraint of the unfortu-
mates committed to them. restraint
that often degenerated into brutal
ity. Even the word asylum is now
avoided because of depressing sig
uificance which had become attached
to IL. The insane are nursed In hos
pitfalls where every influence is di-
rected to their cure.
If there are cases which are re-
garded as hopeless they are rela-
lively few in number, and science
can explain why they are so re-
garded. The word maniac, with it's
suggestion OF violence and hopeless
ness, has been relegated to merely
rhetorical use. The abuses OF pri-
vate homes for the insane have at
least been curbed by law; deplora-
BILE conditions which marked the
management OF county institutions
a generation ago have been elimi.
mated by making the State the sole
custodian OF the insane. II would
be foolish 10 say an ideal situation
has been brought about, but in hu-
manity and in science measurable
progress has been made.
There remains one great step to be
taken: II is in the application OF pre-.
ventive measures in all cases in
which a mental breakdown seems
probable or possible. IL is true of
mental disease as of physical disease
that early treatment may avert the
worst consequences, almost certainly
will minimize them. Therefore IL has
become the ambition OF psychiatrists
to bring the public TO an understand.
ing of the supreme Importance Of ex-
animation by competent specialists
whenever the slightest symptom Of
arrangement appears.
The principal obstacle to general
approval of this sensible course is a
morbid feeling OF cmbarrasInent.
even of shame. which prevents most
persons from acknowledging even
The New York herald., 1921-05-28
Friends of Soldiers Act.
Aid Offered the ex-Service Man Con
ylcted In st. Louis.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Tho
Women's Auxiliary OF the American Lee
Eon, Department OF New Jersey. VIII
be glad to assist the doughboy recently
convicted of robbery before Judge Hall
IN St Louis, as well az his family.
We will secure job for him In New
Jersey and help his family until they
get fair start.
l am glad THE NEW York HERALD Is
calling attention TO the lack OF u square
deal for the former service men. Keep
up the good work in their behalf
CLAIRE OLIPHANT,
President women's Auxiliary of the
American Legion. Department OF
New Jersey.
TRENTON, N. j., May ~.