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The New York herald., 1921-05-30

aristocracy which imbued PORTER
was not merely that of inheritance
carrying forward the noble tradition
Of an honorable family. 1t was
the aristocracy of intellect mingled
with a real democracy of spirit. His
own words In giving up his post at
Paris splendidly exhibit this combi-
nation: Il am glad to return to a
country where it is disgrace to be
idle and where it is dignified TO
labor" This same attitude was seen
in PoRTER's political principles. He
stood for conservative progress; not
conservatism without progress, but
progress with conservatism. The
world moved and he with 1t, assisting
in its advance.
AS an orator General PORTER en-
joyed popularity responding freely
to his talents and graces. He was
a speaker of singular charm, versa.
tility and culture, who depended
rather on the thought conveyed than
on the power of delivery.
Soldier and statesman, orator and
builder, patriot and diplomat, wit
and business man, all his days HoR-
ACE PORTER devoted himself to the
labor he praised. His deeds, his
words, the very spirit of his exem.
plary and distinguished life, all were
gift to the country he loved so
devotedly.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
From Cold Harbor 10 the Marne.

On far Memorial days he trudged beside
His granddad clothed again in Union
blue,
And heard how Grant had stopped tae
ebbing tide
At Shiloh and Cold Harbor: tender,
true,
He lisped In boyish treble how he too
Would be soldier In the coming days.
And while the calling bugies thrilled
him through
Ills thoughts adventured in the futures
haze.
Again the flag swept day OF memory
comes,
And town and country honor them
who tossed
Their lives afar. and TO the munled
drums
Bedeck the tombs OF all who won
and lost.
The granddad walks alone In slow adj
vance,
Tho boy sleeps IN a grave In rescued
France.
THOMAS J. MURRAY.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
Oil on the Waters.

The destruction of the old naval
vessel Granite State from the ignition
OF oil spread on the river waters gives
point to THE New YORK HERALD's re-
cent remarks concerning the grow
ing necessity for modern protection
against fuel oil fire. The fire which
destroyed the Granite State was
caused by the bursting OF an oil SER
vice pipe under tho Hudson, but
broken oil pipes are not the only
sources of similar danger.
The practice of pumping bilge from
OIL burning vessels is pernicious one
unless under stringent regulation.
When this oil bearing liquid is spread
over the surface of navigable waters
near docks and shipping the danger
is obvious. The destruction OF the
Granite State is sufficient warning.
Naturally, just the dictates Of plain
common sense ought to suffice in par.
aliel cases. Unhappily they seldom do.
Generally there has to be a demon
stration. often a costly one, of similar
verities which common sense has
been crying from the housetops be-
fore the warning voice is heard and
needed.
That demonstration always in
wolves a sacrifice. and in this instance
the historic Granite State was tne
victim. The money loss was small
there was no loss OF life. The cost OF
negligence might have been much
heavier. 10 might have been piers
and warehouses and shipping, one
unit OF which would have been worth
dozen Granite States. II might
have included invaluable lives
Now II the burning Of the ancient
naval relic leads to precautions in 9
field where such precautions ought
to have been taken long ago wei
and good III the loss OF this vesse
brings about o suppression OF the
spreading of highly innammable ma
terial around property OF great value
that loss may be charged off with
thanks.
Philadelphia has not been low &
heed the Granite State lesson. AL
ready her Chamber Of Commerce has
petitioned the Secretary of War e
make an order requiring all oil burn
ing vessels to pump their bilge al
points below the piers and ware
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
MRS. WHITE GETS
FRENCH SYMPATHY
Ambassador Extends 1t on Be.
hof Of Government.

A letter from Ambassador Jusserand.
extending the sympathy OF the French
Government to Mrs. Edward Douglass
White. widow of the Chief Justice. was
forwarded yesterday to Marcel Knecht.
special French representative, who made
1t public here. The letter follows:
DEAR Mrs. WHITE:
Not in my name to-day. but In that
of my Government, come to express to
you the deep regret with which they
learned of the great loss suffered by you
and by this country, by all those indeed
able to appreciate the splendid combina-
tion Of qualities and virtues which made
of the Chief Justice such an admirapie
man.
"A cable received by me this mor ming
instructs me to say to you that France
mourns with America, having lost In
Edward Douglass White friend whose
sympathy during all the years OF the
war was deeply appreciated by all Of us
and. given what he was. confirmed us In
our faith as to the Justice of our cause.
'I have tire honor to be, dear Mrs.
White with renewed expressions Of our
united condolences,
Respectfully yours.
"JUssERANp."
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
Guards of Honor.

The guards of honor bivouac
Where daisied grasses wave,
In uniforms OF blue and brown,
The loyal and the brave,
The sturdy veterans who marched
With Sherman to the sea,
The valiant and immortal dead
OF Pershing's soldiery.
Salute them with uncovered head
On this Memorial Day.
They are the saints of Liberty
Who kept her foes at bay,
And they are clothed in glory now
Although their swords are rust,
For 10 the staff which bears the fiai
Is rooted in their dust.
MINNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
General Horace Porter.

In the death of General HORACE
PORTER this country loses an able
and distinguished American soldier,
statesman and gentleman. He was
among the now few men of very
rare quality remaining from his own
important generation. He was Of the
flower of the memorable strain that
stretched between civil war times
and our own.
1t is necessary to glance back to
Revolutionary times to find consid-
cradle groups Of the Horace Porter
type. These were the aristocrats who
turned from what might have been
lives OF idleness and served their
country successively in war and in
national construction. in statesman
ship and in business. HORACE PoE-
TER was, from his earliest manhood
to his last years, an active, outstand-
ing and most useful figure in the
national drama.
AS a soldier it is only necessary
to think of PORTER as DANA saw him
at Chickamauga, reforming the STAN
peded Union lines and facing unde-
tered the bayonets of his own men
as we'll as the cannon balls Of the
enemy; or to think of him as one of
GRANTS staff applying his West Point
training and his natural intelligence
to the intricate problems of a des-
perate campaign.
The end OF the civil war found
HORACE PORTER with as much accom-
plishment to his credit as most men
of to-day would be ready to rest con-
tent with. But for him life was only
opening up. He applied his trained
mind and his well directed energy
to the assistance Of the President In
GRANTS first Administration. Then
he became one of the country's rail-
road executives at a time when men
Of that kind were sorely needed.
Next to his patriotism and his
craftsmanship, the admirable mark
OF HORACE PORTER was his bent and
capacity for doing things. The
present generation may have forgot
ten what he wrought In war and
other fields, but every time 1t passes
GRANTS tomb in this city IL can re-
call that IL was through the energy
- r,or,r.-r t1,at thto r,auooIaup, ra q
built. Every time it sees the honest
American dollar it can remember
that II was HORACE PORTER who or
ganized the great sound money pa
rade OF 1896. Every time it speaks
of rapid transit IL can remember
that HORACE PoRTER's energy went
far to start New York's transporta-
tion system; even the ticket chop
ping machine was the invention OF
this intensely practical man.
There is no danger that the
thoughtful of his generation will for
get HORACE PoRrER's history in di-
plomacy. There were exhibited the
riper and finer intellectual qualities
of the man. II all the rest OF his
public career should be eliminated
the record OF his service az Ambas-
sador to France through two Ad-
ministrations would remain as a
shining monument to his wisdom,
his tact, his grasp of international
problems and, above all, his fine
Americanism. II was typical of that
important period of PoRTER's career
that he should have searched out and
brought to the United States. at his
own expense, the body OF PAUL JoSEs
that It might rest forever. and APP
propriately, at Annapolis.
We have referred to General PoR-
TER as resembling n type the aristo-
cratic patriots Of the Revolution, but
let there be no mistake about the
use Of the word "aristocratic.' The
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
Gladstone Explains His First Budget.

From the Monchestcr OuordIdN-
We owe to the late Duke of Argyll an
account OF the Cabinet meeting In 1883 at
which Mr.. Gladstone. then 43 years Of age,
explained the proposals Of the first OF his
series of famous budgets. He came into
the ROOM writes the Duke, with a large.
flat. shallow official box. very old and
shabby. covered with drab colored leather.
He sat on a chair nearly fronting the win
dow, whilst we all sat In a kind of loop
around him. Opening the box on his knee,
so that Its lid stood upright and afforded
a rest for any paper placed upon its edge.
he began a conversational exposition, which
endured. without a moments interruption.
for moro than three hours" Tho speech In
which Mr.. Gladstone laid this budget be-
fore the House lasted close upon five hours.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
MOntclair Art Exhibit.

Special Despatch to THE NEW York HERALD
MoNTcLAIR. n. j., May 29.-The
hundred and twenty-three pictures by
artists of Montclair and vicinity are
shown in the annual exhibition at the
Montclair Art Museum. Among the
mere famous artists represented In the
exhibition are F. Ballard Williams. who
is president of the Montclair Art Asso-
citation; Charles Warren Eaton, George
Alfred Williams and Thomas r Man
ley. Natalie Mazzeo, a seventeen-year-
old italian boy. is the youngest ex-
hibitor
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
Either or Either"
DR.. Holiness Inscription for a Me-
mortal In Boston.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The letter
OF inquiry as to where credit belonged
for the discovery of ether as an anas-
thetic recalls a clever saying OF the
brilliant Oliver Wendell Holmes.
On the Boston Common there was
nearing completion a statue to the dis
coverer of ether. and 1t was intended as
memorial to a certain celebrated
NJ. d. Many OF the medical profession
were of the opinion that another was the
discoverer. This caused such wrangling
and ill feeling that II was decided the
statue should remain nameless.
This suggestion OF an inscription was
offered by the witty Oliver Wende.
Holmes: Erected to the memory of
Ether or Either" M. M. w.
New YORK, May IS.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
Censors of the Dance.

queen MARY Ol EuEidIu hdS bC
slowed her royal sanction on two
now popular dances, the fox trot ana
the tango. She has pronounced the
opinion that they are better suited to
youth than to maturity. In this she
may possibly give greater considera-
ton to weight and rigidity than to
the cold requirements of British mo-
rality. Nor can it be supposed that the
Queen for one moment had in mind
the pleasing injunction of HORACE,
"Nec dulces amores
sperne. puer, neque tn choreas
Donec virente canities abest
Morosa,"
which may be translated: Don't cut
out the gay song and dance and the
gentle filtration, young chap, as long
as old age does not get a grip on
you" The significant fact is that the
Queen has found 1t necessary to set
the seal of her official approval on
these dances, which are In themselves
wholly innocuous If any dance is.
Whatever censure can be applied to
them can be applied with equal ac-
curacy to the polka, the schottische
or the mazurka, not to mention the
waltz, so bitterly denounced cen
tury ago.
The waltz has held it's place in the
social life Of nations for a century
and is resorted to even to-day as an
occasional change from the modern
dances. For generations no one has
thought evil of the waltz except those
who find all dancing wicked. But 1t
was neither the embrace nor the step
which evoked excited comment in
1912. The essence of the subject was
exposed by BYRON in his poem "The
Waltz" in which he said:
mot decent DAVID, when before the
ark
His grand pas seul excited some re-
mark;
Not Iovelorn Quixote. when his
sancho thought
The knights fandango friskier than
it ought;
Not soft HERopIAs, when with win
ming tread
Her nimble feet danced of another's
head:
Not CLEOPATRA on her galiey's deck
Displayed SO much of leg or more OF
neck
Than thou, ambrosial Waltz when
first the moon
Beheld thee twirling to a Saxon
tune"
What the author of Don Juan"
and other poems might have said
about the dances of to-day may be
gathered from the nature Of the COM
plant embodied in the foregoing lines.
He would have observed them with
equanimity, for he could not have
walked two blocks in Gotham without
seeing in the broad glare of the sun
and the idle promenades of leisure
more OF the exposures of physical
beauty mentioned by him than thou
sand British moons looked down upon
in his waltzing days.
Queen MARY has done well In
calmly accepting the inevitable. De-
cent people will find nothing objec-
tionable in the fox trot, compound
of the polka and the schottische, or
the tango, which most dancers find
too difficult to learn. Some dancers
execute them in an Objectionable man.
ner. Let the blame for this fall in
the right place.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
AMONG THE sEAGoERs.

Among those sailing for Europe on
Wednesday aboa-d the iceland OF the
Red Star Line will be $. Sasald, the first
Consul appointed to represent Japan TO
the new nation Of Lithuania Melville
Davisson Post author Dr. Frank Crane,
author and editor; Mrs. M. 4. Huffman
and Miss Maud Huffman OF the faculty
Of Columbia University Daniel Little
ton Mccoy. painter; Mr.. and Mrs. Col
gate Hoyt, Jr., and three children, and
Or. Dieudonne Van Hove of the Belgian
Department of Agriculture.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Memorial Day parades and patriotic exer-
ciscs under auspices of veteran organiza-
tons: In Manhattan. Riverside Drive from
Seventy-third to Ninety-second street. begin
ming at D A. M; In Brooklyn. Bedford ave
nue. and Ninth street to the Oval. Prospect
Park; In The Bronx. Grand Concourse and
l61st street, beginning at 10 A. NJ. Other
memorial services In suburbs of the city.
forenoon and afternoon.
The United American War Veterans, naval
parade, North River, beginning at III 40
A. M.
National consultation OF the American Cot
ton Growers, manufacturers and affiliated
interests. Hotel Pennsylvania. beginning 10
A. NJ
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
A Puzzled Minnesota Town.

From the Grand Rapids Hsruld-Reuieio.
The curiosity OF the Bigfoik citizens was
aroused on Tuesday last. when George s.
Campbell was seen coming into town, back
ward, with his car. We wonder why he
wouldn't look the town IN the fscor
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
StiII on the Market.
ON the Commerce Poport

From the Commerce Report
Consul James q. Carter at Tananarive
has been Informed that the total quantity Of
cloves produced in Madagascar during the
ie2o-2i season amounted to twenty tons. II
appears that tho outiook for the ie2f-22
crop N very GOOD.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30

III the theory that wornout Connec-
ticut soil weakens Yale athletes is
accepted, how shall Harvards record
against the victorious Californians,
representatives of comparatively
new land, be explained
The New York herald., 1921-05-30

The Industrial Workers of the World
under arrest at Denver for stealing a
train will probably defend themselves
by saying they are merely making
practical application of the Plumb
plan.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30

The Associated Press IN exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication OF all news des-
patches credited TO Il or not otherwise
credited ~ this paper. and also the local
news published herein.
All rights OF republication OF special des-
patches herein are also reserved
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
just Ask Her.

From The Minneapolis (Ran.) Better way.
a farmers wife. according TO some stat
istician, earns s4.00i a year. We ar,
waiting for some other statistician to tel
US how much she gets.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30

The threat Of an Indian uprising,
such as comes from Utah, is a novelty
to present day American citizens, who
think of Indians as rugged football
players or soldiers In khaki.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30

Highest temperature. so, at p. M.
Lowest temperature. 90, at A. NJ.
Average temperature, 73.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30

The English coal strikers are prac-
dcal daylight savers, They have let
London learn what the sun looks like.
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
LOCAL WEATHER RECORD.

The temperature in this city yesterday. a.
recoraen by the official thermometer, II
The New York herald., 1921-05-30
NEW YORK HERALD

Directors and officer: Frank A. Munsey
President; Erwin Wardman- Niee-President
VIM. T. Dewart. Treasurer; Il. IL. Tither-
ington. Secretary.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-07

delegates present at this meeting.
The Spartansburg degree team, one
which has an enviable reputation over
the district for the excellence of it's
work, will be present and put on the
work of the Rank of Page.
Eagles.
Letting the contract for the bronze
memorial tablet that will commcmo-
rate the names of Eagles who were in
the World war. was the chief feature
of the meeting of the Eagles lodge
held Wednesday evening. The tablet
will cost over $1,000 when finally
erected, and will bear the name Of
145 members of the lodge.
Consideration of opposed improve
ments was brought up by the building
committee but no definite action was
taken.
Eagles and their families will be
entertained at a dance to be given in
the hall Thursday, Jan. 10.
The Eagles degree team captain is
still looking for new team members.
it was stated Friday. 1t is believed
that if the degree team is recruited to
the proper strength it will have an ex-
cellent chance to win honors at the
national convention. AS soon as the
team is raised to it's required strength
it will be sent out for trips over the
country.
Ben-Hur.
Members of the Ben-Hur drill team
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CUPID IN The Street;
MUNICIPAL COURTINC
PARLORS SUGGESTED

CHICAGO, Ill.-America's housing
problem has thrown cupid out in the
street.
Dams plight is becoming worse
daily. AS the housing conditions be
come more acute, American courtship i
takes on, more and more. the aspects
and privacy of the gentleman goldfish
wooing his '1ady friend" in a nice.
shiny bowl before street window.
Never have American girls been
forced to meet their sweethearts in
hotel Hobbies, the corner drug stores.
the postoffice and other public places
to the degree that they do today.
This condition. brought on through |
the necessity OF entire families at
tempting to live in tiny, cramped
apartments, is the cause for thousands
of girls finding their romantic dreams
ending in unpleasant affairs in ju.
venile courts.
And, to help Miss Mary Bartelme,
chief of the staff of social workers IN
the Chicago Juvenile court, If the hous-
ing problem isn't solved soon, cities
will simply have to inaugurate mu-
nicipal counting parlors.
Has Heard Thousands OF Stories.
Miss Bartelme has watched the va
carries of city counting for 10 years.
Che listened to thousands of girls tell
their stories; how they happened to
go wrong" why they met young men
clandestinely outside their homes, and
what they would have done II conol-
lions had been different.
1.-THE housing problem is at the bot
tom of hundreds of the cases that
come to me-" she said. cit has got to
the point where, unless family Is
rich, a girl practically has to meet her
boy friends outside the home. Instead
OF sitting in the parlor with the gas
turned low, they are now forced TO
meet in cabarets, where the electricity,
and life, is turned on high. What we
need is public counting parlors. Schooi-
boards should turn over the buildings
to young folks. Churches should be
open every night to help girls enter
tain their friends"
And why not, this gray-headed wom'
an pointed out. Cities are building
great municipal garages to park mo-
tor cars that clutter up the streets
Department stores and theatres check
babies so mohers can be free. why
not municipal counting parlor, where
girl can park her sweetie?'
TOO much of our moc.ern city court
ing is done in dark moving picture
shows and in some corner OF noisy
dance hail." she said. This leads 10
hasty marriages, for the young folks,
despairing of having any privacy, de-
eide to get married and find place
they can call their own. Everyone
knows what happens in many hasty
marriages.
"In the summer time girls can take
their friends to the parks. That is all
right, but not as 1t should be. They
.bould r,aet in the home This may
sound old-fashioned, but it is the prin-
ciple on which happy marriages are
based. But with no home to go to.
unless a tiny apartment can be called
home, a girl is forced to resort to
other methods. -.
sThat fact is the reason l am busy
She was busy.
The cases of nearly so girls, in some
rnaios- or minor trouble for some dance
hall, cabaret or joy ride escapade,
we're on the afternoons docket.
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and. in spite Of the guards, entrance
was easy"
Gels said he passed through the at.
tic with a workman, who had been
employed to repair the roof several
months ago, and on their way the tin
ner called his attention to an over
turned water bucket on which was
the stump of candle. Gels said he
did not know of anyone who would
need candle in the attic.
Report Not Ready.
State fire marshal Horan who is in
vestigating the fire, said he was not
yet ready to make his report, neither
was he willing to change his opinion
that defective wiring had been the
cause.
The state board of control today
awarded a contract for a temporary
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City Lodges
knjohts of Pythias.

A county meeting of the KNIGHTS of
Pythias order will be held at Green's
fork, Thursday, Jan. 49, it was an
rounced Friday. The Greensboro lodge
asks that all lodges coming to the
meeting bring any new candidates
they may have. This is one of
series of county meetings designed to
promote acquaintanceship among the
lodges of the county. About four
more of these meetings will be held
before the Richmond meeting.
A special request was made that
lodges that had not been represented
before would make an effort to have
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East Main Friends
Haze Pleasant Epening

Musical numbers. recitations and a
social time were enjoyed by members
OF the East Main Street Friends
church at the annual supper Thursday
night. There were 221 persons pres
ent.
During the supper instrumental
music was played by Mrs. Roy Camp
bell, Flora Parks and Miss Jones.
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west VIRGINIA fire
CAUSE NOT REPORTED
(By Associated Press)

CHARLESTON, w Va, Jan. T.
That the attic nf the state capitol.
which was destroyed by fire last Mon
day, was frequently used by "crap-
shooters" was the statement today of
James j. Gels, chief janitor of the
building, who expressed the opinion
that the fire was not caused by de-
fective electric wiring.
Anyone could go into the attic at
any time" said Gels, 1.-The doors of
the capitol were open day and night,
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capitol, which is to be built in month
at cost of 100000 Meantime the
state officers have taken up quarters
IN different parts of the city and the
business OF the commonwealth is pro-
ceeding as usual.