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The New York herald., 1921-04-29
Passing Song.
From the Arkansas Gasett

From the Arkansas Gdsette.
And at dawn they found him with his
sciTnitar red In his hand. lying across the
grave of his bride.-Ah ben Hussan, Kosh-
nirl TdIe.
Lie still, beloved, the shades are gath
ering fast
The palisaded mountains blaze with
light.
The color guard in rose and purple
massed
Bears through the sky the gonfalons
OF night.
So little time ago we watched the sweep
or royal pageantry when day was
But now beneath the crescent stars
keep
An olden well loved rendezvous alone.
The golden streamers fade against the
west
Lie still. o well beloved. lie still and
rest.
and blind;
Hark to the sand that whispers In its
haste
Across far spaces harried by the wind
Hark to the palm trees wailing IN the
waste
So little time ago the night was good.
Yelling our love lest any one behold,
Wrapping US deep in breathless soli-
tude--
Thine eyes rejecting back its stars
OF gold.
A thin moon climbs the sky with va
grant glean-
Rest well, o well beloved. rest well and
dream.
Dream on, beloved, the morning star
grows wan
Tho bulbul murmurs softly TO his mate.
And 10 the questins fingers Of the dawn
Reach toward me, tipped with pearl,
and roseate.
So little time ago they touched us two,
Weaving a web OF glory through the
glade.
SO little time--and now ! watch the
dow,
Dawn gilded, CLEAN along my sabre
blade.
The desert fushes rediy II Is day
And thou and /, beloved, shall dream
for aye. @. T. DAVIS.
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
A Tactful Appeal to Women.

Unlike good many reformatory or
ganiza6ons devoted to the rectifica-
ton 08 women's dress in the direction
Of less conspicuous display of femi-
nine charms, the Christian Women's
League Of the Province of Quebec has
not attempted to dictate what its
members and those susceptible to their
influence shall or shall not wear. In
this 1t has shown good sense. Efforts
TO impose on women a single style
of garment, to make all women in
Canada and In the United States wear
dresses Of a single pattern regardless
Of their varying tastes, their callings
and their predictions, are doomed to
failure. Women In these countries are
not built that way. They have minds
Of their own, and they exercise the
high prerogative of choosing their
own habiliments.
Not attempting the impossible, the
Christian Women's League does not
attempt TO put ban on low cut even
ing gowns, but 1t appeals to Its MEN,
bers to use common sense In their ap-
parel. and, while not ignoring the
fashion, to keep in mind that modesty
which is always becoming to inno-
cence. For church wear garments ap-
propriate TO the solemn and sacred
character of divine service are advo-
Gated; for street wear, such dress as
shall not render its wearer conspicu-
Gus, or give her the air Of seeking to
attract attention. In general the ap-
peal of the society is to the Innate
good sense Of those whom 1t seeks to
influence
This scheme Of approaching a deli
cate and difficult subject Is infinitely
to be preferred to the tactics of those
who begin by belaboring women on
account of their dress and end by per-
emptorily ordering them to do some
thing which everybody with sense
knows they would be reluctant TO do
under any circumstances and in their
opposition TO which they will be con
firmed by suspicion that they are to
be coerced into accepting II.
Tact will 70 much further in the
crusade than violence. Tact may not
get far, but violence will never get
anywhere.
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
Tricks Of the Prize Ring.

If the published conditions under
which DEMPSEY and CARPENTER are
10 fight for the heavyweight cham
pionship are followed TO the letter
there is hope that the battle will be
a definite test of the merits of the
men.
After the contest between WILLARD
and DEMPSEY at Toledo two years
ago, In which the former was cut to
ribbons by the present title holder,
there were rumors that WILLARD 5
condition was due In part to the
use Of bandages OF an unusual char
acter which had been applied TO
DEMpsEY's hands. Heavy wagering
that WILLARD would be knocked out
within a few rounds created bad
impression before the men entered the
ring. The plan put forward now to
have DEMPsEY's and CARPENTERS
bandages uniform and TO have a rep
resentative of the rival boxers present
when they are applied should prevent
the use Of unfair methods Of this
sort.
Every professional boxer In the
country is familiar with the practice
or working the padded hair away
from the back OF a glove In order
that the knuckles may play their part
in Furnishing m opponent Bon Fritz
SIMMONS had a bag of pugillstic
tricks that was MS deep ns Its con
tents we're vnricd. lie could felgn
weakness In order to draw the nre
of a boxer OF the impulsive type, and
more than one of his opponents who
rushed In to give the final jolts to
the staggering antipodean, apparently
- the verge OF collapse, found him.
self in the position of the youngster
who, when asked TO recount his ex-
periences OF the war, said that he
remembered two things distinctly,
'the summons to 20 over the top and
the voice which hesought him to try
and take little Or his"
Perhaps tie best blow used by
The New York herald., 1921-04-29

said. CUSTER fell, shot through the
heart By an Indian riieman. The
narratives OF the two scouts We're
perhaps as complete in details as any
furnished OF this memorable Indian
battle.
Sargint JIMMY was one of the ideal
non-commissioned officers of the old
Seventh Cavalry. men who stood for
high morale and fought for the
records and traditions of fighting
regiment. He was the kind OF man
about whom RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
liked 70 write, and Sargint jimmy
only thinly disguised appeared In one
or two OF his stories of army border
life. FREDERIC REMINGTON had his
thin, 1.-the figure and his square
jawed face In several OF his paintings
Of Western plainsmen.
When FLANAGAN went west with
the Seventh In 1870 he was first sta
toned at Fort Abraham Lincoln, four
miles south or Mandan, and when ne
was retired from service he went back
to this town to make 1t his home.
Everybody in the Dakotas either knew
Sargint JIMMY or knew Of him. For
mer service men from all over the
region came to pay their last respects
to him. There We're a dozen differ
ent uniforms-uniforms worn In the
civil war, worn by veteran Indian
fighters, veterans of the Spanish war,
the Boxer rebellion and the world
war-in the slow moving column
which followed him to his grave.
Nothing could have suited Sargint
JIMMY better if he had himself ar
ranged his own funeral.
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
The Return to Sanity.

Passage by the Pennsylvania House
of Representatives Of the Senate bill
repealing the so-called full crew law
of 1911. otherwise and more accur-
ately called the extra crew law,
marks the return to economic sanity
by States as we'll as by the nation.
Ten years ago mania fell upon State
Legislatures all over the country to
take orders from labor union politi-
clans, and it was with this extra
crew measure that the folly began
of pyramiding railroad payrolls to
topheavy heights.
The full crew mea sure did not mean
putting extra men to work where
there was work for them to do. It
meant putting extra men on the pay
rolls, although there was no work
for them TO do. 1t meant, as well,
diminishing the funds out OF which
must come the pay Of the men who
were doing the work there was for
them to do.
1t was behind this extra crew enter
ing wedge, driven home in various
States by political vote seekers truck
ling to threatening labor union lead
ers, that there came crowding along
all the other schemes for creating as
many jobs as possible ON the railroads
regardless of the traffic hauled and
the work done. Then followed the
wild scramble of rate increases and
new wage increases In turn, the trans
portation charges against the Ameri-
can public climbing higher and higher
as the railroad managers tried to keep
all their receipts from being deyoured
by the payrolls.
Lawmakers have learned now that
the American public Is in deadly ear
nest about getting back some of Its
rights, one of which Is to have the
public's good money paid out only TO
men who are willing to work for It..
And lawmakers have learned that
when the American public is fighting
mad about the way IL has been plum
dered TO make padded payrolls on
which men don't earn the pay they
get, ii is more dangerous to politicians
than are labor union or any other
browbeaters. And this lis why the OK
ira train crew abuse begins TO be cor
rected at last.
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Arthur II. Titus. Or. Enrique Gil ana f.
=. t1isinger Will speak at luncheon of the
psn-Amsriean Adyertising Association. Hotel
oeiden jubilee a. the woman's American
BAPTIST Foreign Missionary Society. Fifth
west OF Fifth avenue. 2:s0 p. M.
Prof: Albert Einstein win lecture on Car
Reiativity'' before the Zionist Society OF En-
gfneers and Agriculturists Engineering Soci-
eties Building, 70 West Thirty-ninth street.
Lip reading tournament for the deafened.
under the auspices OF the New York Leagus
for the Hard Of Hearing. 126 East Fifty
Gertrude Steele Chambers win lecture on
wess eonro Sl ToTH Hail. is
Norman Thomas WIN speak on "Free
Speech" Ethical Culture meeting house. .
West slxty;fourth street, s.ib ?. NJ
eng e Medicine. II West Forty-third street,
''Sietasche: is Reseneratlon Of ''ts the Spirit
OF Democracy Possible?" Cooper Union, 8
Bonwit Teller Employees Association. Ell.
tertainment and dance, Hotel Commodore.
Myran Louise Grant. lecture on ''Econoulc
Peace Society. Community church, Sis r. NJ
woodmere Music club, concert. stuyvesant
Neighborhood House. stuyvesant and Ninth
Catherine Street Merchants Association.
entertainment and ball, Webster Hall. it9
East Eleventh street, = r. NJ.
O.. X. Noble will lecture on South Amer
ica," American Museum OF Natural History.
Seventy seventh street and Central Park
West, S: 80 T.. NJ.
Cooperative committee of the New York
City Federation Of womens Clubs. meeting.
Hotel Astor, $50 p. II.
Miss Janet Richards will speak on Tho
harding Administration" Town Hall. 1i3
West Forty-thIrd street, $50 P. NJ:
Yale Musical Clubs, concert and dance,
wnldorf-Astorfa, 3 r. NJ.
Amateur Fencers League OF America,
tournament and dance, Hotel Astor, 3 Y. NJ
National Print Cutters Association of
America. meetings. Hotel Breslln, 10 A. NJ.
ard y. NJ.
American Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton, convention. Waldorf-Astoria, all day.
American Welding Society, meeting. En-
cheering Societies Building, 20 West Thirty
ninth street. 10 A. M. and .. p. NJ.
Fifth Avenue Association. COMMITTEES
luncheon, waldorf-Astoria. IL 40 T. NJ.
New York Physical Education Society.
meeting. waidorf-Astoria, s r. NJ.
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
Last Of Clusters Scouts.

The last Custer scout was as long
lived as the last servant of GEORGE
WASHINGTON the end Of the line, 1t
almost seemed, would never come. But
when they buried Sargint JIMMY
FLANAGAN last Sunday at Mandan,
North Dakota, In the upper Missouri
Valley, at the mouth of Sweet Briar
Creek. the last of his race undoubt-
edly passed john MCKENZIE, who
came to the Black Hills in the '70s,
fought the Sioux and secuted all over
the Northwest, died two weeks ago at
st. Onge, South Dakota, and left
Sargint JIMMY without a man in the
Dakotas TO contest his honor. Any
claimant now to being the last real
genuine survivor OF General GEORGE
CusTER's scouts had better be on his
guard, for he may hear Sargint JIM
MYs voice In his ear, Listen ter
me. 'Tain't So"
Eighty-four years ago FLANAGAN
was born in Greenfield, Mass. and six
teen years later he struck the gold
trail for California. When he reached
Ohio homeward bound, with more ad-
venture than gold TO his credit, the
civil war had begun and he Joined an
Ohio cavalry regiment. Mustered out
of service at the end OF the war he
found civil life dull and he enlisted in
the Seventh Cavalry. He found the
quick action he sought and plenty Of
II In the famous regiment, for he be-
came in course OF time one OF Gus
TER's chief white scouts.
ME luck was wit me-" he used to
explain in recountlng his narrow es-
care at the battle of the Little Big
Horn In 1915 when CUSTER and the
troops with him TO man were killed
I AS IS known the General split bis
command on the way TO the fight, and
short time after Major RENo's bat
tallon left the main body of troops
FLANAGAN was sent back by CUSTER
with a message to RENO. And that's
4 NOW 4 SiNtb ble 0NhtFs FaAN 0esshae
JIMMY. He returned to his command,
saw the battle in progress and has
tened to advise RENO a second time OF
, CUsrER's peril.
In the controversy which ragged
for years both In the army and out
regarding the conduct OF Major REro,
FLANHAGAN became a figure Of some
what the same Importance as the
Indian scout CURIEY the Grow. Cur
LEY was also sent to order RENO
and Captain BEHTEEN with their com
mands to attack the Indians In force.
RENO, IN spite Of the urgings Of BEN-
TEEN, refused to 60 saying that his
men could not cross the river. CuRLgY
arrived nj the scene Of the bnttle to see
CUSTER making his lone stand against
the Sioux; before he could tell him
Of RESo's refusal I. aid him. CrRLEY
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
Play of 1907 Brings S7OO.

Selections from the Arbury Library
and other purchases in London and
Paris OF the late George ID. Smith (part
sin of his library) went on sale at the
Anderson Galleries yesterday, and the
first days session totslled ss,361. The
sale continues this afternoon.
The first edition of play by John
Fletcher. The Woman Hater." dated
London, 1907, brought the highest price
OF the day, selling to the Rosenbach
Company for sT00. The autograph will
of George Frederick Handel, with four
ccdicils. signed by him, was purchased
by E. weyhe for $3.50. Gabriel Wells
paid 500 for a group Of relics OF DR..
Samuel Johnson, comprising the auto
graph manuscript Of a prayer composed
by him, lock of his hair and two auto
graph letters, together with a miniature
on ivory. A series OF five autograph let
ters OF Lord Byron, bearing on his early
life and literary work. were sold to
Order for S400. The Rosenbach Com
pany paid $400 for the autograph manu-
script of a hunting song by Robert
Burns 'Srhe Bonnie Moor hem" and j.
r. Drake. Inc, gave s235 for John Eve
lyn's 'Sculptura, or the History and Art
OF Chalcography ara Engraving in Cop
Ger, Sc.," a very rare first edition.
At the final session on Wednesday. in
the sale of manuscripts. documents and
autographs OF Robert Fulton at the same
galleries, the first edition of William
Woods New Englands Prospect
dated 1894, London. the first printed
account OF the Massachusetts, Colony,
with an important map, brought $500
from l.. c. Harper. A New York Item.
Manuals OF the Common Council for
the years 1s41 to 1870. sold to E. ]. Sha-
fer for s3o5. The days total was
s3.667.5o. and the total for the entire
sale s7.SS3.95
The New York herald., 1921-04-29

The Favorita Opera Company pre-
sented aida" at the Manhattan opera
House last evening. This was the sec
ond production In the series. The per-
formance was one OF singularly anaemic
quality and rude outlines. The cold
truth is that there was no singer who
revealed the slightest conception OF the
character OF Verdrs music OF vocal
art equal to the merest Indication of It.
All the voices seemed worn and weary
with long and hard usage, and In so far
as style was concerned the company
had only one general idea, which was
TO make the most of every opportunity
for pealing forth high tone.
Nicola Zerola who was discovered by
Mr.. Hammerstein some years ago, was
the Rhadonles. He retained some upper
tones. but whatever musical worth the
middle OF his voice may have had at one
time 1t was not in evidence last evening.
Nine. Darve sang Aida in remark
ably pinched ana pallid manner. finding
free utteranco only when she was able
to fling wide two arms, throw back her
head and address the gallery with a
note above the staff.
Nine. Frascani, who sang ADlne7is
with the company lately conducted by
Leopold Mugnone. was heard again last
evening. AS before. she was sepulchral
in voice ana depressing In general inter-
probation. Augusta Ordonez of the for
mer company was the Am0ncero, and
Mr. Picchi of the same organization tho
Rdmfs. The conductor was r.. Guer-
rieri, who had many original gesticula-
tions and rivalled Toscanini in that ne
conducted without IL score. The au-
dienoe. which was small. listened re-
spectfully and gazed with apparent won
der at the motley collection of costumes
and the sadly decayed grandeur OF the
Pharaohs.
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
Schwab's Message to America.

Let those who want to understand
the question Of readjusted production
costs In its simplest form listen TO the
economic wisdom and practical sense
of CHARLES NJ. ScHwAB, just returned
from Europe, where the best price gets
the business, whether American price.
British price or German price This
great steelmaker knows that a ma
TONS industrial existence depends on
the efficiency OF its labor. He returns
10 his own country, therefore, deeply
impressed if not alarmed over these
hard, cold facts:
Germany to-day can put q ton OF
steel in England at price $40 a ton
cheaper than what it costs England
to make II.
Germany to-day is selling pneu-
matte tools IN Detroit where formerly
we made such machinery and shipped
IL TO Germany to sell there cheaper
than she could make It. The differ
ence IS solely q matter OF labor
COSTS
This country's producers sold pig
iron once upon time at S14 ton
and made profit at that price. Now
the mere railroad freights that enter
into the making Of ton Of pig iron
are S14. But those freight rates are
Overwhelmingly eaten up by railroad
labor.
Mr.. SoHwAB realizes, as every clear
thinker and successful worker real
ICES, that part of the efficiency
OF labor, as Of railroads. industry
or any other productive agency de-
pends on its getting a sufficient re-
turn for the effort to assure good liv-
ing conditions. But he warns US Of
this truth: 1--WE talk of minimum or
living wage for the individual, but the
community itself must be allowed TO
live" II the community is put out of
business by excessive labor costs,
transportation costs or any other de-
termining costs, then all must go down
together.
If this country will not listen TO
men like ScHwAB, this country cannot
hold its own in the world economic
race.
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
Caught With a Carnation.
Fondness for Flowers the Undoing
of q Brooklyn Rat.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD; on March
1s we had a present OF couple of green
carnations which were very beautiful as
we'll as appropriate for ST. Patrick's
Day. During the night these flowers
vanished.
We had been troubled with a lone rat
which would put in his appearance every
once in a while. but we never connected
him with the disappearance OF the car
nations until a friend sent us a clipping
ot a letter printed In THE NEW YoRK
HERALD saying that Boston rats ate car
nations. Then we set trap with q car
nation and the first night / caught him
We had tried 10 catch him for months
but he would not be caught in the trap.
although set with the choicest OF bats.
NORMAN p. ROBERTS.
BRooKLYN. April rs.
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
Thrift Is Not a Lost Virtue.

Despite the thoughtless extrava-
gance of millions OF public and pri-
vate spenders during and after the
war, the evidence of Fl. #. CEILARIUs
given at New Orleans in his annual
report as secretary of the United
States League Of Local Building and
Loan Associations shows that the
thrifty are with US always. In the
period Of widest war imitation as in
the times of deep depression a vast
number Of individuals, chiefly wage
workers, kept their heads and salted
away their dollars In cooperative
building and savings associations,
which have multiplied until one or
more may be found in nearly every
city and town In the country.
The growth Of these building and
loan associations or cooperative
banks, all OF which have as their aim
the promotion OF home building on
the instalment plan. proceeded at an
unparalleled pace during the last six
years, but, what Is more noteworthy,
the record for 1920, In spite Of the
business reaction, indicates IL was tho
banner year of all.
Assets of the cooperative associa-
lions eached $2,51e,914,0 900 last year,
figure equal TO 10 per cent. Of the
total resources OF all the national
banks In the United States. In 1920
the deposits by members increased
S393, ,204, 4,5S1, which was S223,0o0,O00
more than the greatest previous in
crease, S17O,0Oo,0O0, In 1917.
Reports on the membership and as
sets Of building and loan associa-
tions were first gathered in 1898. The
following summary sets out the
growth up to 1914 and the increase
for the six years since then, which
was grenter than for the twenty
years before the war:
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
MIR. Wilson in Paris.
The Question OF His Legal Authority
TO Act rs He Did.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In his
review OF Mr.. Lansing's narrative or
the paris peace Conference which you
printed Or. Nicholas Murray Butler OF
columbia University lays appropriate
stress upon Mr.. Lansings references TO
the former Presidents impatience under
legal limitations and restraints. This
trait In Mr.. Wilson's character leads us
logically and inevitably to the consid-
Grafton of a question which has never
received the attention IL deserves, name
ly. the question OF the extra-legality, II
not actual illegality. of Mr. Wilson's
mission abroad In 1sis-1s, and further
as 10 the extent of his authority. II any.
TO bind or commit the United states by
his acts then and there performed.
The precise issues presented have
never before been raised. Not only might
a continued avoidance OF the question
be cited at some time with some degree
OF justification with the force OF prece-
dent TO support similar acts or more
ragrant usurpations of power by some
future incumbent Of the office. but In
view Of situations which might easily
develop out OF the pending controversy
over the island OF zap or other and
kindred questions which may arise under
the operations Of the League Of Nations,
this question might conceivably assume
no small measure OF present Importance,
Two salient points present themselves:
/. What legal authority, IL any. has
the President Of the United states TO
transact IN person any business outside
OF the terri. aOrial Jurisdiction Of the Unit
ed States
O. III such authority exists. how and
under what restrictions or within what
limitations must II be exercised7
Primarily Il W 70 ss borne IN mind
The New York herald., 1921-04-29
Mercy Asked for Cats.
A Protest Against Setting Traps for
Them as Bird Killers.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The ef-
forts to put stop to cruel practices
In trapping fur bearing animals sug-
gest the question how can any self
respecting civilized community counte-
nance setting traps for helpless domes-
tic cats? This is done on the theory
that the cats kin the birds. bot the fact
Is that birds are frightened away by
the automobile.
Thousands of intelligent and priced
household pet cats never see or harm
the birds and are innocent of all wrong
doing. yet they are exposed TO the dam
ger OF a cruel death. Living In the
country as 1 do. I assert that bird
killing cat is the exception, not the
rule On the other hand cats do their
share Of work in killing the rats and
mice, their natural game wherever they
may be: this is true even Of the home
less cats, which perhaps destroy the
most yeTmin. s.
RryERpALE on HUDSON, April rs.