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The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Shakespeare Was an Earl.
All About the Authorship of the Plays
Told i'm a Book.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD Mr.. VAL
lentine does not seem to know that the
Shakespeare controversy is now entirely
settled. There Is a book out that iden-
tifles the authorship of the thirty-six
plays, dramas and sonnets. I do not
intend TO advertise the book. therefore
/ do not mention tho title.
The poet was an earl. page at
court during his childhood; was higl-i~
esteemed during his youth wrote poetry,
which was inserted in the weekly papers.
Then he created his first plays. During
his manhood he travelled to distant
countries; thus he gained first hand
knowledge Of customs in Italy. which he
introduced in 'Shylock" and other plays.
He also was musician OF considerable
proficiency.
Shakespeare was the earl's nom de
plume, as In those times it was not well
regarded in nobleman to be an author.
The earl was an egolst. He thus took
the word Shakespeare. implying II shake
the spear of mastery in defiance to the
gods and my fellow men,"
And he proved that he was master.
LOUIS M. EILsHEMIUs.
NEW York, April 2.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Curiosity and knowledge.
Schools Accused Of Teaching People
to Think i'm Grooves.

To THE NEW YORK Herald: Tho
theory set forth in your editorial article
on Curiosity and Knowledge" namely.
that great accumulation or knowledge
should not stile curiosity, is sound, but
in a large majority OF cases In actual
life applied curiosity Is totally lacking.
The normal frame of mind is that "if
II is written In the book IL must be so,
and IL the book says 1t can't be done
1t can't" Let us assume that 1t Is the
result OF our system OF education by
which tho curiosity OF the child of five
Is completely annihilated by the time
he leaves the high school and he Is
turned out as a standardized product
as nearly like his schoolmates in his
habits OF thought as 1t is possible to
make him.
Machine made machines make for
large production OF standardized prod
ucts. They, however. cannot create new
products in themselves. A research or
ganization made up OF carefully stand
ardized human units thinking In conven-
tional grooves Is hopeless. This is tho
opinion OF one who thinks be knows.
c. X. Downs
NEW YoRK, April :.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Spring Song.

This Is the theme. unchanginS sweet
All singers mind the mark repedti
Only the tempo. quick or slow.
Alters while yeartides ebb or flow.
When the high sun Of equinox
The brooks gray fretted door unlocks.
The brook has but those things to tell
1t knew ere Winter built its cell.
When April fills his crystal urn
And all the wandered birds return.
How like last years their carols seem
Voices from some dim walxing-dreaml
In very distant skies the bird
Has scared since last that song was
heard;
Yet, who is there would chide his note
That seems from other time to float?
New-old. that note Is dearer far
Than any all-strange measures are
1t runs, like a bright thread, to string
This. with some immemorial Spring!
I. too, have been somewhere away,
Absent and silent, many day:
l have returned. with birds, to sing
Some little glamour may bring
If but reiterance you find,
Still, lend an ear-to me be kind:
This is the theme unchanging sweet;
All singers mind the mark repeat.
EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Too Much for Cooper Union.

The trustees Of Cooper Union are
not merely within their lawful rights
in barring certain Socialist meetings
from the hall. They are doing their
duty by their trust.
Cooper Union is one Of the finest
institutions of its kind in the world
1t has done wonders in the advance
ment of young people. 1t has repu-
tation which its trustees must guard
with jealous care. The auditorium
which bears the Unions name should
not be made a spouting place for the
disloyal.
The particular Socialists who
wanted the auditorium for a Debs
meeting profess to be shocked because
they cannot get 1t. They utter the
conventional stuff about free speech" !"
But they are not kept out Of Cooper
Union hall because there is any de-
sire on the part of the trustees to
throttle free speech. They are barred
because their committee contained the
names of men notoriously disloyal
during the war.
Old PETER COOPER was for genuine
freedom of speech, but he would be
the last man in the world, If he We're
alive, to lend his name and his prop
erty to the uses of copperheads.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Uncle Sam Stops a Leak.

A gentleman in business in New
York city who has received every day
through the mails from the United
States Department of Agriculture "a
manila card on which the weather
prediction was printed sends to US
ali encouraging document bearing the
announcement that with the issue of
March 81 the daily weather forecast
card will be, at least temporarily,
suspended" The information these
cards bore is now and always has
been available in all large towns in
the newspapers.
Thus sensible economy puts an end
TO n bit OF Government waste for
which no individual, but a wretched
system, is TO blame. Under the old
practice n name once enrolled on a
Government mailing list was there
for keeps. Bureau chiefs pointed
with pride to the enormous number
Of documents they mailed every day
The Public Printer gloated over the
stupendous consumption of paper and
ink in the Government Printing Office
and the staggering total of its payroll.
The facts that documents were not
wanted by their recipients, that their
production meant nothing except
waste of paper stock, OF printers ink,
Of the time Of con positors, proofread-
ers and pressmen, and that the mat
ter imposed a back breaking burden
Of free official mail to be handled by
the post offices have been ignored.
Now there are evidences Of gravely
needed reform.
The Department of Agriculture is
not alone in this good work of re-
tienchment. Several other depart
ments are cutting their mailing lists.
Publications are to be sent TO citizens
who need and use them, but not TO
those who never glance at them and
10 whom they are d nuisance. In
this way great savings can be made ::
savings OF money, Of materials, Of
labor. Nobody will be deprived Of
any needed thing; all of us, as tax
payers, will save something. The re-
form is a move toward sound business
administration, deserving praise In
itself and encouraging as a promise
OF other reforms to come.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Central American Union.
Our Support a Factor in a Movement
just q Century Old.

To THE NEW York HERALD: I wish
to say something about the five repub-
lies Of Central Observation-Disclosures, Sal
vador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa
Rica. This year is the hundredth of
their cropping through good many po-
litiCal, moral and social mists toward
some clear field where there is union.
They have failed OF this attainment
above dozen times because Of spirit
of locality. lack OF men strong enough
to bear the definite burdens of federal
government and no desire to fight for
their union when is was threatened with
dissolution.
In the fall OF 1920 a movement was
begun once more to further union. This
was done after the most peaceful decade
1 dare say, in their history. And with
their good compulsory education and
their growing public opinion their great
expectations seem possible at last of
fulflment They have planned since
fall for a congress which is to meet
May 10 in place still to be designated.
The successful functioning OF the new
government will be to some appreciable
degree dependent, as others have been.
on the moral support of the United
States. Moral support wins many games
besides football President Roosevelt
showed this in 1906 and 1907 by his en-
couragement OF a Central American con-
vention in Washington, which was sue
cess partially. and has got these years
Of peace.
1t seems to me that the United States.
by her policies in this hemisphere, by
her comparative proximity to these ma.
tions, and by her basic idealism. is really
bound to support this movement so long
as 1t is in itself feasible, and to help
the five republics procure permanent
union. Certainly, I say, though we may
approve the movement but fail to make
that approval manifest, we contend
against 1t. ROBERT +. RAYNoLDs.
PRINCETON, ". j., April 2.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
To Those In Town.

The fairy piper's calling
Come out and greet the spring"
Come leave your toll and hurrying,
Give over fret and worrying,
The eltin pipers calling
"Oh. come and welcome spring"
Look on tho hill in mist OF green
Stand vestal birches. clustered, shy,
And naples launt their flaming buds
Against the soft blue OF the sky.
Down In the glen tho grim rocks hem
Waters that singing. sunward flow,
And shadowed SHOWS still melt ard drop
To quicken violets below.
Come out upon the meadows. there
Winds dance. SO tiptoe on the grass,
only the bending flowers show
Where they press lightly as they pass
The fairy piper's calling,
"Come out and greet the spring"
This Is no time for pondcrlng.
Now set your feet a-waudsring,
Follow the pipcr's calling.
Away to welcome spring.
ANNA CAMPBELL.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
ES.e British Coal Strike.

British coal miners stand about as
much chance Of enforcing the demands
for which they are striking as they
do Of grabbing a pot Of gold from
either end or the middle Of an April
rainbow.
The miners want an incSease in pay
at a time when the British coal in
dustry is running at deficit of S25,-
100000 a month, q shortage repre-
sented by high wages, jacked up again
and again until they are three or four
times as high as in pre-war times.
While the Government continued in
control of the coal industry it was
possible for the fuel administrator to
get the money out of the public treas
ury to pay this deficit But the Gov
ernment has quit.
Now that private control has been
reestablished the miners ask that a
special subsidy be created for the coal
industry, so that the high wages may
be continued ana mines may keep on
operating at loss. The miners want
the coal industry nationalized also,
50 they can drain the public treasury
for their own benefit, but in a less
conspicuous fashion than by sub
sidy.
This foolish strike and the foolish
demands which can never be met are
not the result Of the sane majority
opinion among British miners. They
know they cannot hope to prosper at
the expense Of all other kinds of Brit
ish labor and the rest of the British
public. The railroad men tried the
same programme and failed. The
strike is simply evidence that British
labor leaders are still drunk with war
power.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03

persons not to send checks or TO be
less generous than their personal in
clinations prompted.
Now, however, facing a threatened
shortage, the committee makes a new
appeal for help in every form from
one to four figures. Subscriptions
should be sent at once to the Marie
Curie Radium Fund, in care of the
Equitable Trust Company, 81 Wall
street, this city. Every dollar will
add dollars worth of radium to the
gift; there are no overhead charges.
1t is hoped that both women Of
means and others of smaller means
will now unite in making good the
promise to the worlds greatest wo-
man Of science which accompanied
the invitation to her to visit the
United States. Naturally, for the
credit Of American women, there must
be no failure. One suggestion is that
neighborhood groups be formed in the
coming week to canvass for funds. 1t
must be remembered that the gift is
being made to humanity as well as
to Nine. CURIE, for she expects to use
it for experiment to solve the mys-
teries of radioactivity as contribu
tion to knowledge and TO improve the
technique of the use Of radium in
curing disease.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Medical Legislation Blamed.

To THE NEW York HERALD: There
Is no doubt a shortage of medical men.
not only In the rural districts but in
the city as well. The reason is plain.
First of all. before a young man can
enter a medical college he must show
from two to four years preliminary edu-
cation; then he must spend four years
in a medical school, following with an
interneship in hospital for one or two
years. in all matter of eight or ten
years time given before he is qualified
to practise medicine. The expense in
volved is around $4,000. not to speak
OF the ten years loss Of time and the
cost of maintenance during that time.
Does a young man then appreciate an
offer of the magnificent sum of $500 a
year to practise in rural community?
In olden times the family doctor would
educate his son to follow In his foot
steps, but this Is not so to-day: rather
the old practitioner advises his son to
enter other lines of work.
This condition Is mainly due to legis-
lation requested by social uplfters and
granted by our legislators. For instance.
Senator Davenport and his friends are
trying to pass the bill for health insur-
ance. which would bring the medical
profession down from its high standing
in this country
The bill to establish health centres In
this State is nothing more nor less than
an entering wedge for State medicine.
There is no objection on the part Of
medical men to letting a local commu-
nifty hire It's physicians, as they are doing
in Massachusetts,. but there is serious
objection to the passage OF a bill to
have that man hired by the State De-
partment of Health.
Unless our State Legislature stops
harassing the medical profession the
altruistic doctor will have entirely dis
appeared within ten years and the State
will be compelled to offer scholarships
to attract young men to enter the pro-
fession of medicine.
l would also like to point out that a
false impression might be conveyed by
phrase in your editorial article about
country doctors, namely. "the retiring
age of 65." or course a physician Is
not obliged to retire at 65 or any other
age unless he wants to.
A. II. LENT. NJ. d.,
Executive Secretary the Professional
Guild of Kings and Queens Coun-
ties.
BROOKLYN, April 2.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
State Clinics Opp0sed.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
clinics and dlspensaries which the State
Board OF Health proposes to establish
in rural districts are likely to prove a
huge Joke.
Board of Health clinics were tried
last summer, a number Of them being
held in Orange county. The State Board
CT Health sent large staff OF $500
year medical men to Goshen with a
big blare OF trumpets and used the news
papers TO tell the public and physicians
what wonderful things they were going
to do and how they we're going to as
sist the physicians to diagnose their
most serious cases.
The local physicians supported them
and gave them the chance. with the re-
suit that DR.. Young said at the last
meeting Of the Orange County Medical
Society that out of seventy-eight cases
submitted in only seven cases did they
suggest anything that might be of SER
vice to the patient. The other clinics
held In the State did not produce any
better results.
The citizens OF this State are paying
too dearly now for State medicine. There
Is no shortage Of medical men in this
State; they may be unequally divided !;
but let the rural districts offer reason
able compensation and the conditions
will right themselves. JAMES I,oNG.
GOSHEN. April 2.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Cheating Cheaters.

There Is a lesson in the death Of
WILLARD POLLARD. the "Waco Kid"
who was shot by members Of his own
gang Of swindlers In the dining room
of one Of the great winter resort
hotels in Florida few days ago.
POLLARD was conspicuous example
of a man with talents which would
have made him a great salesman of
legitimate merchandise who deliber-
atcly misused the gifts nature be-
slowed upon him. For years he was
the leader OF one of the two gangs
Of 'pay Off, swlndlers which operated
fake pool rooms at several points in
Florida and for d time in Havana.
He fattened on a game which is so
planned that the squealer is put in
the position of having been willing
to engage in a questionable method
TO obtain money--the pretended brib-
ing Of the supposed telegraph oper-
gtor I'm the poolroom to give ad-
vance information on the winning
hCrSe being the basis Of the entire
scheme. The cupidlty of the dupc Is
excited by the winnings of the steer
ers, and when lie himself is permitted
10 pocket gains Of n few hundred dol
lars the rest Is easy. and individual
losses running to as much as $4,000
are shown In police records.
The openness with which the swim
tlers have operated in Florida for
years has excited the comment Of all
those familiar with their nefarious
practices. Some Of the men and
women engaged in the game were
widely known by sight, They were
conspicuous In the evening crowd in
tha restaurants and the various
places OF amusement, and appeared
4, have more money to spend than
anybody else. The best tables Of the
chain OF restaurants on the Parquc
Central in Havana were occupied by
thcm nrsht after night. and tIrey were
apparently tourists enjoying them
selves President MEvccsL's etten-
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Mime. Curie's Gram Of Radium.

The sum Of 100000 needed to buy
one gram Of radium for presenta-
tlou to Nine. CURE upon her visit to
America next month Is not vet In
sight. Only 100000 has been raised
50 far by the appeal to women. Sub
scriptions arc coming in SO slowly
that unless there be spurt IL is
possr.'e the balance win not be forth
coming In time for the gift
Nine. CuRrE is to start from Paris
the first week in May; the presenta-
tion y 10 be made about the middle
of the month, and President HARDING,
departing from tradition, has prom
iscd to grant the use Of the White
House FOR tho ceremony. But 70 have
the wonderful metal ready certain
time Is necessary to allow testing and
certification BY the Government Bu-
reau Of Standards at Washington.
The fun price should therefore be
in the hands Of the managing com
uttec not later than April -.
No doubt the delay IN getting the
money Is due &C. tic universal feeling
that II Is So easy, that every woman
viii want 10 contribute 10 the limit
of her power Perhaps, also, in the
desire 70 make this tribute from the
women of the country Ut large TOO
much emphasis was hlid on the idea
Chat large individual subscriptions
we're not wanted from wealthy women.
--,t ts rnatfo,anf mar have cau~cS aovn~
The New York herald., 1921-04-03

ton was called to them after a few big
coups had been made, and for the last
two years they have been conspicuous
by their absence from Cuba.
A despatch to THE Sun on Wednes-
day told of the luxurious furnishings
OF the Pollard headquarters at Day
tona. Every sense Is appealed to by
swindlers of this type and one of them
will spend thousands of dollars and
months of time to gain the confidence
of his victim. Each and every man
and woman In such an organization is
a specialist, from the supposed jockey
who would have heart failure If he
mounted horse to the gray haired,
pink checked individual who poses as
a retired banker with nothing to do
but pursue pleasure. The Suns des-
patches also told of one man having
lost 100000 to the Daytona crowd.
The surprising part of the story is the
apparent assumption that men with
sufficient business acumen to accumu-
late so much money could be be-
guiled into stalking it all even en-
"sure thing"
The general public may ask why
this sort of swindling was not stamped
out long ago, for its existence has
been well known not only to the State
but to the Federal authorities. The
fact that those who hive been swin-
died would rather suffer their losses
in silence than expose themselves to
the ridicule of the world makes it ex-
tremely difficult to get the dupes into
court. The "pay Off man has no
sympathy for any Of his victims, all
Of whom are accused of having grand
larceny in their hearts,
Out Of this particular type of
crooked game has come a reflection
on the telegraphers profession ami the
racecourse. 1t is a matter of fact,
known to all familiar with the pay
off, game, that never has bona tide
operator been connected with any of
the outfits in Florida or Cuba. nor has
a jockey with any experience on the
racecourse been associated vita the
swindlers.
The death Of the "Waco Kid" may
bring about the end Of what has for
years been source Of annoyance to
tourists in Florida and Cuba.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Let the Work Leaders Try Work.

A little way outside the pleasant
village of Katonah a group of self
styled labor leaders has taken an
old Colonial house with the avowed
intention of making it the birthplace
Of "A new social order" The minds
that will meet in this impressive un-
dertaking include those of WILLIAM H.
FOSTER, leader Of the 1919 steel strike
and several regional labor bosses of
lesser fame.
Whether the open spaces Of West
chester are particularly suited to the
invention of new social orders we are
not sure. Greenwich Village has been
considered the ideal production place
for new social orders But glib talk
on slippery theories can be made in
rus as well as in urbs.
What we are sure Of concerning the
Katonah region is that it would be
good place for Mr.. FOSTER and his
colleagues to learn the old social or
der. Farm land is to oe had at pos
sible prices in that neighborhood. The
soil is still better than much Of the
country from which the American
farmer wrings the living Of us a..
Let Mr.. FOSTER and the leaders of
the various Workers get down to the
work that keeps the world going. Let
them plough, harrow, sow, cultivate,
harvest and market enough crops to
keep them alive. Let them be up
with the first light. Let them clean
barns, take care Of horses, cattle and
poultry, fight insects and prune and
spray trees.
thoughts Of Mr.. FOSTER, who talks
about slavery in the steel works, after
he has come In at the end of thir-
teen hour day spent in spreading lime.
We should like to hear a speech by
Mr.. SCHLossBERG, OF the ''dowhtrod-
den" clothing workers, after he has
felled and cut into stove lengths a
cord and a half OF wood. We should
like to listen to remarks by any Of
these great thinkers at the end Of
DAY cutting and stacking corn.
We cannot believe that new social
order can be founded by any man or
set Of men not familiar with the foun-
dation of the old social order. The
beginnings Of all things social are at
the soil. Mr.. FOSTER and his associ-
ates and all their followers could dis
appear from the scene and the human
procession would go on as long as
men continued to hold ploughs straight
In furrows.
There will never be any change In
the social order, much less complete
revolution, until the farmer sanctions
Ii. He holds society In the hard, warm
palm Of his hand. The Fosters, big
and little. talk as IL social advance
ment could come through speeches and
shirking. The farmer knows what old
Father ADAM knew, that it comes with
sweat
The New York herald., 1921-04-03

priced plough lands reported by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture are in Iowa and Illinois. the for
mer State showing only small de-
cline, with the average price $210 for
1921, as against S219 for 1920.
The top figures are recorded in
States long famous for stock produc-
tion. Much Of the corn grown in
Iowa and Illinois finds its way back
TO the land through fertilization. To-
bacco Is crop notoriously hard on
land. Kentucky, still big breeder
Of fine horses and once one of the
largest producers Of fine cattle, sheep
and hogs may find that her road to
lies through the safer chan
mel Of diversified farming.