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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-14
SMITH GIRL MEETS TESTS

Northampton, Mass, Jan. a.
Results of the army mental tests re-
Gently taken by 207 members out of
i25 of the senior class at Smith
College show actual numerical
scores ranging from c. plus to A.
Eighty-two per cent of the group
made A 90 and 80 per cent either a
OF B The seniors made median
score of 155. Of the three members
Of the junior class elected to Phi
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-14
Until they do this, Smith told dele,

Until they do this, Smith told dele
gates attending meeting Of the
State board of agriculture, and
take steps to regulate the flow OF
erair to markets, their business
would always be on the brink Of
ruin"
Smith, who is a prominent attor-
ney, compared the board OF trade
operations with crap shooting ana
poker playing and urged that i'm,
mediate steas be taken By the legis-
!cturc 10 eliminate the, grain trad
ing gambling evils
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-14

Wieringen. He was unable to come
during the Christmas holidays be-
cause the island of Wieringen was
icebouDd.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-14
Crap Shooting" Grain Gambling
Methods Charge

Topeka, Kans.. Jan. 14.-kansas
farmers Yesterday were urged ny f.
Dumont Smith, Of Hutchinson ito
form a calling organization similar
il that used BY the stee! trust to mar
ket their grain"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-14
Seven Perish in Wreck
OF n. S. Tug in Gu

Galveston, Texas, Jan. 14.-Ihe
United States Engineering Depart
rnent tug; Captain Aalfour has been
wreckeaE 4mlsitsis believed seven men
of the crew persisted. The tug left
Sabine Sunday morning for Calves
ton and rcthEng was heard of the
craft until today, when her deck
house and other wreckage were wash
ed ashore ON Galveston beach.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-14

BETA Kappa last raar two Who took
the test were bctn in grorp A, while
more than hal .: ths o.hers who
stood in A or B hold ores OF I'M
portance in the student organlza-
tons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-14
Ice Famine Causes
Distress in Iceland.

Distress in Iceland.
London, Jan. 14.-For the first
time ON record there is an ice famine
in Iceland. Cablegrams from Rey-
kiavSk, the capital of the country, APP
peal to Norway to rush shipments Of
ice to- Iceland TO save the herring
harvest from putrefaction.
The r=rl;ra : hue to the mild Win
ter ard q de&r.:ll of local supply.
The nearest Sr'ppIy of ice IS said
r. oe o. Graen5aads icy mountains,
l.ut ala. -ro!.tst2aa facilities are lack
ing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-14
Cigarettes Insurance
Against Wood Alcohol

Chicago. Jan. 14.-Gigarestes are
insurance against effects Of wood al
cohol. Dr.. Frederick c. Hanmncre, tes-
titled in Judge Brothers court Thurs
day. .
DR.. Hanpmote said that cigar sHnok-
ers become death y sick from the ef-
fects of wood alcohol, and nonsnok-
ers often become blind, but snok-
err Of cigarettes Gid not seem liable
to the dele:erio,ls effects Of the poi
son.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-14

MEMS and BOYS
SUITS and OVERCOATS
at
DRASTIC REDUCTIONS
All Of the very latest and most
uD-to-date models for men,
young men and boys are incIud-
ed in this final clearance Of ali
cold weather garments.
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
A Theory. il Not the Hunter, Con.
fronts the Squirrel.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Theoreti-
cally, an object describing a circle
around an object describing a smaller
circle, the one on the larger circle mais-
ing a revolution goes around the o.
ject travelling around the smaller one.
Theory Is all necessary, otherwise we
would not have demonstrated that the
world turns on its axis, also that it
gees around. the sun. But theory that
cannot be applied is useless.
The proposition of the rim OF a wheel
going around the hub has similarity
to the hunter and squirrel, yet in fact
very different. as the hunter and squir-
rel move together in the same relative
position around the tree
Suppose a wheel Of six feet in diam
eter with hub of one foot diameter
turns OH an axis.
Let the wheel rest on a plane with a
spoke perpendicular there to. Secure a
nail there at the rim of wheel, also one
on the hub at point in n line of sight
passing close to the hub. Turn the wheel
one revolution and it will have passed
over % space of about 1884 feet while
the nail at the hub will have travelled
the Same distance according to their
relative positions, yet. iu fact how far
does it travel through space? c. e.
NEW YORK, June 81. --~-
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
Duse on the Stage Again.

After an absence of thirteen years
ELEoNoRA DUsE has returned to the
Italian stage. Recently she reap
peared before her countrymen at
Turin, selecting IBsEN's "The Lady
From the Sea" as the medium in
which to resume a profession def
nitely abandoned so many years ago.
During her retirement she lived in
Rome. In accordance with one ro-
m3ntic account of her life, the actress
devoted herself to the welfare of
home she had founded out of her
private fortune for her less fortu-
nate sisters in art. The return of
the foremost Italian actress was the
occasion for an enthusiastic welcome
to her.
How many other favorites Of the
theatre would be sufficiently courage
ous to make such an experiment.
There has been no explanation as to
the cause for the step. Whether the
impulse was need or irresistible de-
sire to follow again an art which she
had so distinguished has not been
told. SO far there has been no inti-
nation that she may be seen else
where. Certainly the foreign stages
that welcomed her in the past will
eagerly await her return.
Signora DusE more than any other
eminent actress of her day could at
tempt such a departure from the
usual experience of the stage. She
ignored some of the most deeply
rooted prejudices of the actress. Any
woman who dared to play Marguerite
Gduthier with gray hair may be said
TO have emanclpated herself from
some OF the old conventions OF her
professionalism only hers but as well
the heroine's of DUMAs's play. Yet
Signora DUsE scorned the aid of cos
metics and the wig that would have
concealed her own white lock years
before she ceased to act Concerning
her appearance as Hildd Wdngci
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
A Test Which Forest Conservation
May Net Approve.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Assume
the hunter, in a great rage at having
been thwar.ed for SO long n time TO
make an end TO the matter by getting n
sharp axe and cutting down the tree
about waist high. Then, just for the
sake of really knowing whether he per-
formed an enclroling movement about
the squirrel or not. let him get a pole
or piece of two by four, and, laying II
across the fiat stump so that some part
of tho pole covers the centre OF the
stump, spike the pole 20 the stump so
that II can be rotated with the centre OF
tho stump as its centre OF rotation.
Let him then place the dead squirrel.
or something to denote the squirrel, on
tho pole where 1t bisects the circumfer-
ence of the tree. Then. always holding
the opposite end OF the pole. let him
attempt to go around the squirrel He
may even come rs close as he likes to
the tree. provided he stays on his own
side. We believe it cannot be done.
SQUIRREL F'oop.
WEST SoMERvrLLE, Mass. June 81.
The New York herald., 1921-06-22

Special Despatch TO THE NEW York HERALD.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 21.-Harvard
is tagging behind. not fulfilling her OBJ
legations to society, said William S. Hol-
brook. Jr., of Davenport, Iowa. orator
of the senior class addressing several
hundred participants in the class day
exercises to-day. The meeting was held
in Sanders Theatre. and while Holbrook
glorified the Harvard achievements Of
the past he asserted that in failing to
teach subjects dealing with the problems
of the day the university was amlss IN
the duty il owed to society
els the relation of the college and the
COLLEGE men we know TO the rest OF the
world the correct one?" asked Holbrook.
Are we graduating men at Harvard to-
day who can take their place in the
world as the undergraduate OF 1870 and
1875 did in theirs? BY this l do not
mean that Harvard should be a Puri-
tanical seminary or school OF political
theory.
',rhe twentieth century asks neither
for theological disputants nor for revo-
lutionary philosophers; it desires men
who can and will take their proper
places as men of influence in the gov
ernment of our cities, States and ma
ton. Is the Harvard that we know
meeting the demand Of the twentieth as
well as she met that of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries"'
The members of the senior class gath
cred in the yard little before o'clock,
the time set for the Ivy GRAFTON in the
stadium, and cheered their famous
buildings and favorite professors. and
then stopped at the old class tree TO
hear the Tree Grafton given by John
Cowles of Des Noines. They then con-
tinued their march to the stadium.
where they were greeted by the large
crowd OF alumni who had marched 10
the field before them.
The class poem was read by Francis
w. MacVeagh OF New York.
After the grafton the colors OF the
class Of 1921 were presented to Daniel
S. Holder OF New Orleans president of
the freshman class. by Henry II. Faxon.
first marshal of the senior class. The
crowd IN the large horseshoe sang. with
their heads barred Fair Harvard"
Then the stands rose and hurled colored
paper and streamers down on the un-
protected senioJs in the battle OF con-
fetti.
Early in the evening the yard activi-
ties started with the dances In Memo
rial Hall and the Hemenway Gym
nasium which lasted we'll into the night.
AS the Glee Club. which is now touring
France, could not observe its time hon
ored custom of singing on the steps of
the Widener Library, the Harvard
alumni chorus carried out that part of
the programme at 8 o'clock.
At midnight the seniors, according to
custom, received an informal bath UNI
der the fountains in the college yard.
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
Sell Now.

It may seem like carrying Goals to
Newcastle for the Sell Now League
to be urging producers, wholesalers,
jobbers and retailers everywhere to
sell now. What merchant or manu-
facturer will not sell now to anybody
with the cash and the desire to buy?
Yet it is up to him to sell-to get
the buyer to buy.
Buyers have nothing in common
with poets. They are made and not
born. And they have had no de-
sire recently to charm the world with
the music of their dollars dropping
into the till for the profit OF some
body else.
For a long time it had been the
fashion for the seller to waylay the
buyer and knock him down with
high prices, fog him with hard
terms Of payment and then drag him
in and force him to purchase bed
on which to endure his sufferings.
But the buyers wounds have healed
and he has locked himself in and
double bolted the doors.
1t is therefore a wise counsellor
who says "Go, find a buyer. Rea-
son with him. Deal honestly with
him. Sell to him. And sell now,"
The New York herald., 1921-06-22

there is as yet no information. The
white lock may, like the panache OF
Navarro, still be visible.
Mrs. FIsKE retired from active
work in her profession for a period
of five years. Signora DUsE's COM
patriot. the great ADELAIDE RIsToRI,
returned to this country after she
had ceased to play for some years,
and had in this time devoted herself
to acquiring the English language
well enough to act her repertoire in
this tongue, without SURPRISING, how
ever, the enthusiasm that attended
her introduction to this country.
CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN was criticised
from some quarters when after
farewell more or less positive she
came back to the theatre for a brief
period. Nobody regretted the return
OF JULIA MARLowE, who was greeted
so cordially as to enjoy an epoch
making tour in some of the most
beloved of her Shakespearian roles.
Nine. HELENA MoDJEsKA never ex-
pected to act again when she emf
grated with a colony of her compa-
triots to settle in California. Surely
it would have been loss to dra-
matte art had the score of years she
later devoted to her profession been
spent in retirement. Thirteen years
Of inactivity on the part of an actress
might be dangerous IL not fatal to
popularity here. What American
actress would dare attempt it? Mrs.
FIsKE and Miss MARLowE success
fully tried the experiment. They are
not, however, of the present genera
tion. Thirteen years form an i'm
portant part OF career founded on
beauty. They might readily be de-
structive of such fame
The New York herald., 1921-06-22

as soon as the public had time ia
look into them and detect their in
justice.
The process of popular education
was speeded up by the great increase
in the number of college trained men
in business which has been charac'
teristic of the last generation. A
college graduate to-day is not as
sumed to be destined for one of the
professions which so long in this
country absorbed by far the greater
number of those who had attended
higher educational institutions. A
college graduate nowadays is as
likely to go into steel mill as the
law, settlement work as medicine;
the ministry cries in vain to attract
the diploma bearer, sbut a good many
Of them are going TO work on the
stock exchange, and that without any
illusions as to quick mastery of the
securities market either.
Wherever men are working-in
shops, Offices, retail groceries, on
farms and on railroads, in mines
the young men whose brains have
been well polished are buckling down
to hard labor with intelligence and
with vigor and with becoming mod
esty. 1t is impossible for their as
sociates to meet them every day and
not to recognize the libel in any
description of them which attributes
to them demeanor and cocksure-
ness they don't display.
With the young women it is much
the same. When a girl straight from
college puts her trained mind at
work on the homely and everlasting
problems of everyday life; when she
seeks to buttress her theories and
expand her laboratory experience in
the kitchen or the garden: when she
appears at work and at play cheerful
and lively and becomingly gowned,
full Of good spirits and mighty easy
to look at, sensible in her speech and
in her behavior, nobody who sees her
is going to believe college makes
dowds Of girls or transforms them
into unattractive bluestockings.
The impact of fact on fancy. the
exhibition of truth in it's most attrac-
tive form in the persons Of boys and
girls OF college, has destroyed the
misconceptions the joke mills set
afloat, and we now have fair pic
ture of the manly men and womanly
women the colleges turn out.
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
What "The Thinker" Thinks.

According to the Paris newspa-
pers, the raging mental pastime Of
France just now is guessing what
RoDIN's 1.-THE Thinker" is thinking
about. The great sculptor never said
and never can say.
AS marble masterpiece like 1.-THE
Thinker" has no nationality, it is
perfectly fair to imagine that the
hrooding stone man is an American.
That makes it easy to guess what
he is thinking about
He is wondering how he will meet
the thirty-day note he fioated to pay
his last income tax instalment.
He is considering how he can
finance the annual expedition Of
mother and the girls to the Wild
wood, the mountains or the beach.
He is trying to decide whether he
will resign from five of his six clubs,
or from all of them.
He is hesitating between the over
tapping and the common or garden
golf grip.
He is thinking Of the Hylan ad-
ministration and the tax rate and the
next lease he will have to sign.
ROBIN, the old fox, didn't have tc
tell people what they think about
when they think with the elbow on
the knee and the chin on the fist.
They know what they think.
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
This Years Graduates.

1t is an interesting fact that the
college commencement season in the
United States generally is no longer
marked by the appearance Of car
toons and jokes representing the
young men who have won their
sheepskins as conceited know-it-alls
or the young women as unattractive
bookworms. Not many years have
passed since it was customary to pic
ture the new alumnus as an often.
sive braggart, whose first impulse
was to teach his grandmother to
suck eggs, and the new alumna as
wallflower; a learned wallHower.
perhaps but nevertheless wall.
flower.
The changed attitude which has
RENTED TO neglect the once familiar
gibes is not to be accounted for by
saying the jokes grew old and were
therefore pensioned in honorable re-
tirement. a good joke, founded on
truth and illuminating human weak.
ness, never grows old, never is put
out of service. 1t is only false With
cisms based on unjustified assump.
tion or on malice which crack under
the strain. That pretontious. unjus.
tilted self-confidence was the hall.
mark of college trained men and
that dowdy gown and silly affecta.
tion of profundity distinguished col
lege trained girls we're untruths a
quarter Of century ago, just as they
are untruths now, and the jokes de-
pendent on them fell into disuse Just
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
Leviathan Is Shipshape.
Marine Engineer Says She Was NOT
Neglected. nj Her Berth.

yrarrirer johnson i.i the National Marine.
The I.eviathan, the worlds second
largest ship and the largest vessel under
the American flag, is not u neglected
hulk. a prey to rust AID rot. sinking
into a muddy grave at her berth at the
army piers at Hoboken.
An eminent marine engineer who re-
Gently examined her has this to say OF
the Ieviathan's condition:
'T have never seen n ship when laid
ND better maintained than the Levia-
than. She has been magnificently cared
for. Her condition. especially with refer
ence to her boi7ers. engines and auxiliary
machinery. is far better than when she
was turned oucr to the Shipping Board
BY the Army Transport Service following
her employment as a troop carrier
THE ship is clean and bright through
out. Her lighting plant has been oper-
ated steadily. and there arc no dark
corners aboa1si where dirt could collect
unseen. Her. heating plant has been
operated throughout the winter. and by
proper use of steam heat dampness has
been excluded from all parts of the ship.
"None Of her plating has been al
lowed to rust. and practically the whole
of the painted surfaces of the hull, In
eide and out, aggregating several acres
in extent. have been scraped. Clipped.
PAINTED with red lead, and given a final
coat of paint In this way rust has
been eliminated. an important item in
the upleep OF a ship. as every sailor
engineer knows
"The care OF the ships machinery
throughout the sixteen months that she
has been laid IIp has been faultless. At
this moment she could put to sea under
her own power at short notice. Her
engines are perfect They have been
frequently turned over as she lay in
dock. There Is not a spot Of rust on
them as big as q pin bead
"The ships BOILERS have all been thor
cushly clsanedaand ovcrhaulod. and are
The New York herald., 1921-06-22

Star Shoot, an imported son Of Ison-
omy and Astrology by Hermit. while
her second dam was Maribel by Hin
doc and the next dam Pure Rye by
imported Billet.
Belle of All was in play during the
greater part of the game. She must
have given ample testimony of her
speed and gameness, yet she is one
of the many American thoroughbreds
which are ineligible for registration
in the English and French stud books
because they have the blood of the
renowned four miller Lexington in
their veins. Mr.. SToDDARD's mare is
in good company, however, for Man
o War and other great horses have
the same strain.
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
Calvaryes Daughters.

From The kunsas city Star.
Along the river pies a group of lrills
Barren of cottonwood, wild plum or
grass
Yellow and stark, and bald they lift their
heads;
No little living things across them
pass.
The tearing prairie winds go shrieking
by
And lift and shift and blow their loos-
ened sand
Into a cloud which rises up like smoke.
And hangs its pail above this weary
land.
Wind torn and aIivering, tortured souls
they seemF
So gaunt so pitiful; they long for
rest
And tender rootlet feet OF growing
things
The touch Of prairie grasses on their
breast.
WHY has an unktlnd Nature cursed them
Fated to ever change and shift and
Daughters are they of shamed old
Calvary
Who bore cross against a darkened
sky.
Yet when the twilight winds her soft
sSay veil =.
And stills the wild winds to a quiet
Groom
The changing hills find peace and rest
at last
Night grants their tired souls one slen-
der boon
Shadows OF clouds paint little darkened
spots =.
Like growing-things, beneath the prai-
rie moon.
NELL LEWIS WOODS.
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
Flower. Fairies.

On! do you scoff at fairy tales?
Then come along with me
When on my leafy garden falls
The moons pale witchery.
And Puck. the mad, mlschicvous sprite
VIII greet us mortal folk
Attired in velvet rich and rare
The pansy's purple cloak.
You'll see the Queen Titania In
The roses crimson gown,
And wearing on her golden head
a diamond dewdrop crown
And dainty Ariels at play
With moonbeam, moth and breeze,
Dressed UP in pink and lilac caps
Exactly like sweet peas.
Wen find the little firefilos
Not hreflies at all.
But Chinese lanterns small TO light
The elves and pixies ball;
And 10 the fairies having danced
The summer night away,
Before our eyes will change again
TO flowers at peep Of day.
MrNwA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1921-06-22
Our Polo Mounts.

Reports of the first polo game of
the series at Hurlingham commented
on the superior condition of the
American mounts. For this credit
must go to HENRY V. CoLT OF Cen
eseo and those acting under his or
ders. The selection of this veteran
conditioner of hunters to have
charge of the American mounts was
a wise one.
One of the best OF the thorough
breds used in the first game was the
chestnut mare Belle of All. She is
perhaps as. fine a polo mount as can
be found in any country. She was
foaled in Kentucky in 1912 and is a
member OF Mr. SroDDARD's string. and
nothing but an accident will keep her
out OF to-day's game and that OF next
Saturday, should q third trial be
necessary, as she Is bred to stay to
the finish. Belle or All is registered
in the American stud Book. She
was sired by Cunard. handsome
son of the imported sire Goldflnch,
whose dam was Lucania by the New
Zealand horse Sir Modred. There is
nothing but winning blood in the
female line Of Belle OF AIS family,
as her dam, Black Mary, was by
The New York herald., 1921-06-22

Meeting, Eronx Board of Trade, Third ave-
nue and 13Ith street, p. NJ
Block party. Richard j.. McNally Post,
American Legion. 1s3d street and st. Mich
olas avenue. Il. NJ.
Meeting, Board OF Education. Park avenue
and Fifty-ninth street, +. NJ.
fremont Tenants Association. mass meet
ing, Morris High School, 156tli street and
Boston Road, =. NJ.
Meeting. Lockwood Legislative Commit
tee, City Hall, 10 A. NJ.
Memorial meeting for Stephen Collins Fos-
ter. Bowery Mission. p. NJ.
Convention, National Association of Waste
Material Dealers, Hotel Astor. all day
Meeting, Unity Society Hotel Astor. p. NJ.
Convention, Water Power League. Waldorf
Astoria. all day.
Committee luncheon. Fifth Avenue Asso-
citation. Waldorf-Astoria, noon.
Carnival and bazaar, Israel Orphan Asy-
lum, Schiff Parkway, afternoon and evening.
DIR. VIII Durant will lecture on Modern
Developments in Psychology" Labor Temple.
Fourteenth street and Second avenue, S:13
l.. NJ.
Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, Hotel McAlpin.
IL 30 Il. NJ.