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The New York herald., 1921-04-28

est soldier brought TO the Tricolor.
AT present, when the country is still
strongly possessed by the military
sentiment, he stands first In the pop
ular heart among the leaders OF the
national tradition. 1t is we'll under
stood, besides, that however auto
cratic In his own impulses, 1t was
NAPOLEON who gave form and per-
manence TO all that was good in the
theories OF the Revolution. 1t was
he who made freedom Of opportunity
and equality before the law the
heritage Of every Frenchman, whether
he were born in palace or the hum
blest hovel. 1t was he who carried
the principles OF liberty and equality
out into the other regions OF Europe
TO germinate and fructify.
So there are to be Napoleonic exhi-
billions at Malmaison and other places
some are already open-and pilgrim
ages are being organized TO various
points identified with the Emperor's
career from Ajaccio TO Waterloo. The
learned societies are to hold commem-
orative meetings. On May there
will be a great official requiem at
Notre Dame. Naturally, there will be
parades and reviews all over France.
Italy is to hold d celebration at Elba.
Even at far off ST. Helena II is ex-
pected the British Government will
make commemoration Of the passing
of the one time "Corsican Ogre"
The saddest thing about the closing
scenes Of the great mans life is that
they were embittered by futile humil-
iations and harasslng personal restric-
tions due to no real necessity but
simply to laundering officialdom. III
this respect at least the world shows
progress. Despite some wild talk at
the outset, the nations in the present
conjuncture have been content to pro-
vide for the safety and peace Of the
world without any display Of empty
rancor toward the fallen Kaiser.
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
The Bergdoll Affair.

Another chapter has been ended in
the Bergdoll case by the refusal Of
Judge DICKINSON of the United States
District Court for Eastern Pennsylva-
MIA to grant new trials to five per-
sons accused of assisting GROVER G.
BERGDoIL and his brother EDWIN in
evading the draft. GROVER was
locked up and got away by inducing
somebody in the War Department TO
let him 20 in search Of hidden
store Of gold. EDWIN Is doing time
In Leavenworth prison.
In behalf OF the accused in this
case II was contended that the Berg
doll brothers had not been legally in
Quoted into the army because Of In
adequate notice. Judge DIcKINsoN's
opinion declared while actual count
shows the brothers received nine days
notice instead Of ten, as the selective
service law provided. the fact that
the draft board made miscount does
not vitiate the inductions and as a
matter OF fact the brothers became
soldiers after ten days notice whether
the draft boards made a mistake or
not
This ruling win be of widespread
interest because It may affect the
cases OF others besides the Bergdoll
brothers. whose names are to appear
on the list OF slackers soon to be pub
llshed by the War Department.
GROVER c. BERaDoLL Is now in Ger
many. EDWIN has just made an un-
successful effort TO get his freedom
on a technicallty. Their confeder-
ates are on the way to punishment
All that remains now Is to recapture
GROVER and to learn, through the
committee OF Representatives ap.
pointed by Speaker GuLETT for that
purpose, who gave him permission to
roam about the country on a foolish
quest.
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
EVENTS TO-DAY.

TIE Chamber of Commerce OF the State of
New York will tender a reception to Charles
NJ. Schwab at luncheon meeting. 90 Liberty
street, IL 80 +. M.
Miss Winifrsd Holt will speak at a meet
Ing under the auspices of the Committee for
Lighthouses for the Blind. Town Hall. 113
west Forty third street, 1880 p. M.
Henry W. Taft. Miss Charlotte Della field
Ing OF the Bronx County Republican, Commit
tee, Public School IS. st. Paurs place.
washington avenue and roth street, S:i5
p. NJ.
Borough President Henry II. Curran will
speak at meeting of the West End Post OF
p. NJ
American Newspaper Publishers Associa.
ton. convention, Waldorf-Astoria, nll day;
luncheon, Il 80 p. NJ.
Homeless Dogs" iridescent costume ball.
Hotel Astor, 8 r. NJ
intermediate department Of ths Brooklyn
Christian Endeavor Union. annual entertain-
ment. Hanson Place Baptist Church. Hanson
Prof. Albert Enstein and DR.. Chain Wefx-
mann will speak on THE Proposed Hebrew
University Of Palestine" Great Hall. College
OF the City Of New York. Amsterdam avenus
Miss Josephine schain will speak on 'rhs
=. NJ.
81. Andrews Coffee Stand Society. thirty
fifth annual benefit concert, Carnegie Han.
National Society of Now England Women.
meeting, Waldorf f-Astoria, . r. NJ.
Veterans OF the 307th Infantry. Seventy
seventh Division, dance. Hotel Commodore.
s L. NJ.
Friends of Irish Freedom, meeting. Hotel
Astor, s r. M.
American Welding Society. meetings, Engi-
neering Societies Building. 20 West Thirty
ninth street. beginning at 10 A. N.
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
Napoleon's Death Centenary.

II was on May 5. 1921, that Ma
poLEoN died at st. Helena. The hun
dredth anniversary OF that strangely
pitiful ending Of fallen greatness and
dimmed glory is close at hand. II
affords grounds for comparisons and
contrasts with current history OF IN
common interest.
Another parsonage OF imperial rank
has Just died In exile at Doom, In
Holland, under circumstances Of deep
pathos, which have aroused general
sympathy for great misfortune In
Cured through no personal fault.
The tragedy Of the great Corslcan's
fate Is not so much individual, or at
least 1t + not upon the mere man that
the wondering pity Of the world ex'
pands Itself NAPOLEON stands In his.
tory as the very type and exemplar Of
the vanity Of human wishes and hu.
man ambitions. 1t was. In fact, only
his body that died amid the Loneliness
and hostility Of Longwood. The real
man, The Emperor, the conqueror, the
statesman. the fascinator Of men, had
left his soul behind at Waterloo six
years before.
The French people, naturally, are
making impressive celebration OF this
centenary. Confirmed as they are In
their allegiance to the Republic, they
thrill with the glory that their great
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
Another Turf Star.

When Man o. War was breaking
turf records last year the experts
we're halling him as the horse OF the
century. This was the language In
which British turf enthusiasts nc
claimed Ormonde when that son OF
Bend Or was invinclble thlrty-hve
years ago. Man o. Wars dam, Fairy
Gold, was by this same Bend Or,
Resistless speed was the heritage OF
each of these great horses.
With the retirement Of Man o. War
the belief was expressed that the
American turf would never see his
equal. His ability to run faster and
carry his speed further revealed q
development OF muscular and nerve
force that was extraordinary. His
lung power was remarkable; he gave
no sign of exhaustion on his return
to the weighing stand, no matter how
fast he ran. His record breaking
feats marked him as horse aparI
from all others OF his period.
Nature deals In surprises. however
md Mt the very opening Of the sen
son Of 1921 the turf has new sen
sation In Leonardo H., splendid biz
year-old by the Futurlty win
ncr Sweep, from Ethel Pace By Trou
badour. the conqueror Of great field
rsr the Suburban Handicap Of 1886
This colt, which IL unbcaten to date
winning the $4,000 Hopeful Stakes
and other events last year. ran .
mile and a sixteenth at Lexington
Kentucky, on Monday last, equallins
the American record OF 1:42A foi
the distance. lie was timed the first
half mile in 45 seconds and the full
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
An Eleven Billion Dollar Load.

| What is the matter with the Amer
lean peoples cost Of living? What is
the matter with the American peoples
industry and business? What is the
matter with the American peoples
jobs? Well, for instance:
The tax which the American peo-
pie are paying into the United States
Treasury to conduct the United States
Government. which is still on a war
| imitation basis, is, in round numbers.
FIVE billions of dollars year.
The tax which the American people
are paying to the railroads, which are
still on war imitation basis, to trans
port the articles they use and the
commodities they consume is, in
round numbers, six billions of dollars
year.
On just those two items alone, there
fore, each of them hitting the pub
lies pocket squarely and unescapably,
there is q tax of eleven billions of
dollars a year.
Eleven billions Of dollars a year is
an average charge Of about S110 a
year against every man, woman and
child in the United States. BY the
Federal census estimate Of an aver
age of five persons to family, eleven
billions of dollars year Is an aver
age charge OF $3.50 against every fam
lily in the United States. Just think
of IT. An average family charge Of
$3.50 year for only national Govern
ment and railroad charges.
The American people who foot all
the bills for everything cannot stand
load of $3.50 a year to the family
from Government and railroad
charges alone on top of all the other
charges they have to carry. Ameri-
can industry cannot become active
and buoyant again when the Ameri-
can public, which must support Amer
lean industry, Is SO overloaded with
Government and railroad taxes.
These war imitation charges against
the public are largely due, both with
the Government and with the rail-
roads, to war imitation labor costs.
The national Government costs Of
doing business must be cut to the
bone so that the tax burdens 1t piles
upon the public may be lightened.
The railroads cost OF doing business
must be cut TO the bone so that the
tnx burdens they pile upon the public
may be llghtened.
But the task Of cutting operating
costs must begin with cutting war In
fation labor costs. Then normal In
dustry and business will get chance
Then the public will get chance.
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
Consider the Onion.

Consider the onion, to pay for
which on April Is, the Rditicay Age
tells us, the Chicago consumer was
digging into his jeans at the rate of
10 cents Il pound or $500 ton.
Who was getting the opulence rep
resented by the onion at 5000 ton in
the Chicago market basket? Not the
producer, for on that very date his
price on the Texas farm was $42 a
ton. Not in this instance the trans
porting railroad, for at the same time
the freight charges on the onions
from Texas to Chicago were S29.64 a
ton. But who did get it?
The difference between the $40 a
ton on the farm, plus the $29.64 on the
train, or the S71.64 at the Chicago
freight yard, and the 5000 In the con-
sumers pantry Is S12836. The com
mission merchant couldn't have taken
1t all, for after him was the whole
saler and after the wholesaler was
the retailer with their labor, rent,
delivery costs and taxes to pay.
But how did the commission man,
the wholesaler and the retailer divide
up the $15S which the onion farmer
did not get and the $12S.36 which the
onion farmer and the railroad put
together did not get? Did they split
it even, each taking S42.78, or 7S
cents apiece more than the farmer
got and $13 apiece more than the
railroad got--or what?
Anyhow, with the public paying at
the rate Of 5000 ton for what was
worth $40 a ton to the farmer who
raised 1t, consider the onion which
brings tears to the consumers eyes.
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
Money for Housing.
If Loans Were Forthcoming 1t Is
Declared Building Would Revive.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: A quicl.
solution OF the housing problem will re-
suit just the day loans can be obtained.
There are plenty Of builders eager to
supply the great demand for suburban
homes. but they cannot get loans There
are hundreds OF people who would gladly
pay good prices for homes II they could
get them. II canvass were made of
the suburban towns around New York
doubt IL a dozen vacant houses could
be found. They simply do not exist.
represent two corporations and in
divIdually know several persons who
are ready to build II they can get loans
for even 40 per cent. or so per cent OF
present costs. for the reason that lot
prices have not advanced in the suburbs
and material and labor only are to
be considered in the possible decline
the loaning institutions fear. Why. then,
cannot money be put into dwelling
mortgages?
Having been in the real estate game
for forty-eight years and built hun
dreds of houses / may possibly speak
with some authority when / say that
in all that time l have never seen a
day when building would not be under
taken IL loans were available. Even
when the supply exceeded the demand
blocks Of houses were built in parts OF
the greater city for years when there
was no sale for them but money was
plentiful at 6 per cent. of value or cost
Solve the loan problem and the hous-
ing problem VIII be quickly solved, even
at present prices, for It is doubtful II
they ever viii be materially reduced.
FERDINAND FISH.
New YORK, April 81.
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANrArrAN AMID rHr RRoNx


Trend OF the Times" by Mr.. Arthur d.
Rees, at r. 8. 81. Hester and Esssx streets.
Trend of the Times" by Mr.. sydney
Neville ussher. at Labor Temple. Fourteenth
street and Second avenue.
Trend Of the Times by Miss Myran l..
Grant at Evander Chiids IL. g., fS4th street
and Field place, The Bronx.
THE Human Side of Plants and Anlna =
by Mr.. Royal Dixon. at 6tuyvesant II. s.,
Fifteenth street. west Of First avenue.
sy Sua yns n
s., Irving place and Sixteenth street.
''vesuyius.' by Mr.. Arthur y wester-
mayr at r. s. 80, Broadway and Academy
street; illustrated.
The Mexican Policy OF the United States"
by Prof: James Ballash. at r. 8. 80. 22s
East E'ifty-seventh street.
''Art In Relation to Life" by Mr.. Vim
cenzo Miserendino. at 7. 3. e3. Amsterdam
avenue and Ninsty-third street.
IAN Appeal for Simplicity In Music" by
Mr.. Giuseppe A. Randegger, at p. s. 115.
1I1th street. near Audubon avenue.
The Power OF the Playgoer," by Mr..
Roland Holt. at r. s. los. 225 West i0sth
street.
Modern American Indians" by Miss Ida
Josephine Rider, ~ Young women's Hebrew
Association, 81 West 10th street.
'Beethoven's Sonata pathetique." /" by Miss
Eleonore Payer at Morris II. s., lG6th street
and Boston road. The Bronx.
BROOKLYN. QUEENS AND RICHMOND.
Trend Of the Times" by pr. Alexander
Lyons. At Eastern District II. g., Marcy
avenue and Keap street.
Trend OF the Times" by Miss Jennie M.
Davis. at Erasmus Hall ". s.. Flatbush ave-
nue., near Church avenue,
Trend OF the Tinles,' by Mrs. Harriet D.
Waters. at Brooklyn Public Library, Green
point Branch, Norman avenue and Leonard
street.
''Trend OF the Times" by Mr.. Cleveland
Rodgers, at Richmond Inn IA. a., stoothoff
and Rideewood avenues, Richmond Hil. T.. !.
"Our Native Wild Flowers" by Mr.. Ed
ward G. Avery, st Bay Ridge IL. s., Fourth
avenue and sixty-seventh street; Illustrated.
The joys OF the Open Road" by Mr..
James +. Morton. Jr., NJ Bnshwick II. s.,
Irving avenue and Madison street.
The Housing Question" by DIR. william
u. r.. Bliss, at Manual Training H. g..
Seventh avenue and Fifth street
Australia by Mrs. Lillian 3. Fisher, Mt
+. 3. ~. Eighteenth avenue and sixtieth
street; Illustrated.
Lecture Recital. Songs OF scotla~i and
Ireland, by Mr.. George g. Flint, at r. 8.
30, South Third street and briggs avenue.
plays Of the Hour" by Miss Ada Sterling.
at J.. =. so, Clean street and Brtton avenue.
Emhurst, l.. I.
Burma, Java and tho Malay States" by
Mr. Harry g. Ostrander, at +. q. 49, penr-
syvana avenue. Rosebank, r. T.; Illustrated.
'Heeth--Success. by Miss Doris Doecher,
at r. =. 80. Fisk avenue, West New Brigh-
ton, s.. l.
fifty Great Short Poems of America" By
Mrs. Marian Leland. at Staten island Nh
scum OF Arts and Sciences stuyvesant place
and Wall street, Now Brighton, 8. l.
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
Tea Mt Women's City Club.

To bring it's members closer together
and to make strangers acquainted with
each other the women's City Club yes
terday gave tea at the clubhouse. 22
Park avenue. Invitations were extended
only to members. about 500 of whom
attended.
Tho hostesses included Miss Mary
Garrett Hay. president; Mrs. Willard
Straight. Mrs. John T. Pratt, Mrs. Ernest
c. Poole, Mrs. f. Louis Slade, Miss Vir-
ginia Potter. Mrs. Sidney c. Borg. Mrs.
Vladimir Simkhovitch. Mrs. Richard
Lewisohn. Mrs. Elon II. Hooker. Mrs.
Daniel Guggenheim. Mrs. Joseph Girls
void Deane. Mrs. Henry Bruere, Mrs.
James Lees Laidlaw. Magistrate Jean
Norris. Mrs. Learned Hand. Mrs. How
ard Mansfield, Mrs. Egerton L. Win
throp, Miss Ida Tarbell and Mrs. Charles
L. Guy.
Mrs. Straight sent the flowers for the
decorations from her country place. An
orchestra played on the ground floor.
All the other floors were open for In
spection. A palmist. graphologist and
horoscoper told fortunes and read char
acter
The New York herald., 1921-04-28

Yesterday afternoons session in the
Almoneda sale OF Spanish antiques al
the American Art Galleries concerned It.
self entirely with textiles of various de-
scriptions and ran up a total of S15.SS5.
A French needlework panel OF fifteenth
century workmanship. done in colored
woods ard in cross stitch. with foun-
tain in the centre fianked on either side
by a unicorn among leaves. flowers and
birds. sold for the highest price. OF $3.50
to Mrs. ID. Merriman. A fifteenth CEN
tury Italian embroidered cope of dark
blue velvet was purchased by Mrs. j. +.
Webster for $1.05o.
A sixteenth century Aragonese en-
broidersd velvet church hanging from
the collection OF the Marques de VAL
verde sold to Mr. Colby for s425. Mrs.
j. P. Webster paid $500 for a set Of
eighteenth century French silk brocade
bed draperies and $3.50 for Spanish EN-
broidered velvet church cushion Of the
sixteenth century. also from the collec-
ton of the Marques de Valverde.
A pair of sixteenth century Spanish
embroidered satin cushions were sold To
Miss Alice De Lamar for S34o Otto
Bernet, agent, paid s400 for two en-
broidered velvet banners of the sixteenth
century from the collection of the Mar
ques de Valverde, and w. w. Seaman,
agent. gave $3.50 for fifteenth century
embroidered banner from the same col
lection. p. w. French & Co. bought an
embroidered ecclesiastical banner. seven
teenth century. for $3.50. and Mr.. Colby
purchased pair of silk embroidered
ecclesiastical banners. eighteenth CEN
tury, for $500.
At the evening session in the same
sale a group of paintings, mostly Span
ish, sold for total Of s4,'92. A
fifteenth century retablo by Lorenzo de
Zaragoza was sold for s410 to Mrs.
Rothschild, and four decorative panels
of the eighteenth century Neapolitan
school went to Mr.. Hecksler for the
same figure. A retablo mayor of Fran
cisco ximensy. a Castilian artist of the
sixteenth century, was purchased by
Mrs. S. S. Auchincloss for 1925. A paint
ing of Architectural Ruins" by Clam
polo Panini sold to J. T. Noorian for
$3.50. and n Portrait OF Don Carlos,
Infante OF SPAIN" by Alonzo Sanchez
Coello. went to Mr.. Hecksler for $3.50.
w. w. Seaman. agent, paid $255 for
three symbolical paintings on copper OF
the Dutch school of the seventeenth GEN.
tury, representing "The Senses"
The total for the entire sale to date
is s20,67s. The sale continues through
out the week.
The New York herald., 1921-04-28

From the Manchester Guordiaa.
Thomas Dibdin tells in his "BiblIomsnia
OF German pedasogue who had for fifty
one years prior to his death superintendec
an institution in suabia with old fash
loned severity. From an average inferred
by means OF recorded observations one oi
tho ushers calculated that In tho course o.
his career his chief had given oil 800 can
ings. 121 900 fioggings, 100000 custodes
$780, 900 tips with the ruler. 10000 boxes OF
the ear and ZOO tasks by heart. II wa,
further calculatea that he had made boys
kneeI on peas roo times, kneel on a sharr
edge OF wood 5000 times and wear a fools
cop 5000 times,
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
THURSDAY. APRIL 2s. 1921
Pennsylvania Dividend Cut.

The greatest railroad property in
the world is the Pennsylvania system.
1t always has been the country's rail-
road model Of sound, solid BUSINESS
management and conservative finan-
cial investment. 1t always has earned
and paid ividends-earned and paid
them in the times of the country S
deepest business depression, earned
and paid them through the stress,
disturbance and dangers of the civil
war. And 1t has ploughed into the
property hundreds Of millions Of dol
lars of surplus earnings.
Yet, after Government operation
Of the railroads of the country,
with all the labor and other economic
abuses which Government operation
fastened upon them, this greatest
railroad property in the world, with
its billion dollars in the plant, with
its $4,000 small stockholders and
with fifth of the population Of the
United States largely dependent upon
its service-this Pennsylvania Rail
road cuts its dividend to the rate of
per cent. per annum.
There is no doubt, moreover, that If
the United States Railroad Labor
Board had not ordered the abrogation
of the Government operation working
conditions already, and If it were not
dead moral certainty that the war
imitation wages OF Government opera
ton would be cut by the Labor Board
in a few days, the Pennsylvania diyi-
altogether
This Is the fruitage OF Incompetent
irresponsible, reckless intermeddling
with the fundamentals of business by
political ambition trafficking with pro-
fessional labor union agitators.
The American transportation sys-
TEN is the very life blood In the arteries
OF this productive nation Govern
ment operation OF the railroads and
the dire penalties which 1t left TO the
country have all but thinned out that
life blood to watery weakness. How
much longer do the labor union rail-
road wreckers and their political allies
think the American people would have
stood for the ruin OF the American
/. transportation system, to the destruc-
tion OF the industry, the business and
the bread and butter Of the nation?
How much further does the United
tes Railroad Labor Board imagine
this railroad wreckage could have
gone without the party In control Of
the Government becoming known as
the Calamity Administration? And
how long does anybody suppose a po-
litical control Of the Government thus
becoming known as the Calamity Ad-
ministration could survive?
But, thank heaven! the country Is
now near the end Of this destruction
Of national wealth, this dynamiting Of
the very foundations Of the nationl
The New York herald., 1921-04-28
Bazaar for Russian Relief.

There will be Russian bazaar and
dance this afternoon in the Plaza for
the American Central Com.nittee for
Russian Relief. The saleswomen, patron
esses and members of junior commit
tee will appear In Russian dress. In the
booths will be found handwork and
Russian embroideries done by refugees
abroad. lamp shades, water colors and
oil paintings. the work Of artists who
are refugees in New York.
Among the additional patronesses are
Mines. Charles T. Barney, David F..
Barrows, Charles S. Burch, James A.
Burden, Henry Clews, Joseph G. Cole
man, Frederick Coville, John e. Cowdin.
Ralph Cram, Chauncey NJ. Depew. Harry
H. Duryea. Charles w, Eliot, Marshall
Field, Frederick d. Grant George Hig-
ginson, Jr Archibald Hopkins, Francis
T.. V. Hoppin, Charles Evans Hughes,
C. X. Hutchinson, Herman IL, kohlsaat,