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The New York herald., 1921-06-27
COAL FAMINE IMPENDS,
FRELINGHUYSEN WARNS
National Organizations of In.
dustry Assailed.

WASHINGTON. June 26. A warning
that tragedy In the nature of coal
famine" is impending over the United
States, and an assertion that all ma
tional organizations in the coal industry
have united into one big union to con-
tinue their strangle hold on the neclls
and purses of coal buyers by defeating
Federal legislation intended to cope with
the problem. were issued to-day by SEN
ator Frelinghuysen On. j..
The statement referred to the contro-
versy over the Frelinghuysen bills. now
on the Senate calendar. one of which
would facilitate granting of freight rates
on coal lower in summer and higher in
winter. while the second would establish
Government supervision of coal price
production, stocks and movements.
Naming the National Coal Assoca-
ton, the Anthracite Operators Associa-
ton. the American Wholesale Coal As
sociation and the National Retail Coal
Merchants Association. Senator Freling-
huysen said these combined organiza-
tons have unmasked their batteries and
are attacking with violence almost un-
precedented the very practical piece OF
legislation before the Senate" and were
endeavoring by "misstatements and mis-
representations" to throw dust in the
eyes of the Senate and the public"
The New York herald., 1921-06-27

such as subgrade, drainage, and pres.
ent and prospective traffic which vi
tally affect the determination Of the
standards of construction to be used"
This Is at least conservative.
The question now arises as to how
much money the Federal Treasury
is going to be able to contribute in
the future to road building. 1t was
confidently predicted when the sys-
TEN was adopted that the appropria-
tions would grow until the whole
country was provided with good
roads, and that these would ulti-
mately be maintained by the nation.
Since then the Federal Government
has had back breaking debt i'm
posed on it, and it must practise
economy. Aid to local improvements
may not be forthcoming according
to the spending programme once so
blithely urged.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.

Special Despatch to THE NEW York Herald
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. W. Va.
June 26.-Mr and Mrs. Arthur Russell
Jones entertained six guests at a din
ner and dance at Hates Mountain
Lodge last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B. Donohue
are here from New York with their
daughters, Miss julie Donohue and
Miss Barbara Donohue. They will oc-
cupy Casino cottage.
Mrs. j. X. Wise has returned to
Colonnade cottage, after brief stay in
New York with her sister. Mrs. Graz
ham Kenan, who sailed for Europe
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. a. Preston of Mans
field, Ohio. after a honeymoon visit OF
fortnight, are returning home.
Miss Mary Louise Bahnsen has re-
turned from Passaic. n. j., TO join her
mother. Mrs. Christian Bahnsep
Mrs. Oliver c.. Recketson has Joined
the Pittsburgh colony and will be here
for several weeks.
Mrs. William Haywood has Joined
the Washington colony and will be
here until autumn.
Among those golfing to-day were w.
s. Battle, Jr., and J. y. F'ishburn of
Roanoke, Walter G.. Hardy. J. Bliss
McCrum and David G. Howard of
Charleston, w. Va; Mr.. and Mrs. Vic
tor II. Kaufman and Mr.. Howard III.
Marbleston of New York.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
An Excess of Gold.

Last weeks Federal Reserve Bank
statement reveals classical example
Of how gold should not be boarded.
The New York Reserve bank reports
a gold reserve of $S4S.601 900, sum
equal to 1O3 per cent, against the
$675, ,424, 900 Federal Reserve notes in
actual circulation as a demand liza
bility of the bank, and after setting
aside gold reserve Of 35 per cent.
against deposit Liabilities.
Thus when this reprrt was COM
piled every dollar of paper money in
this district had S1.03 in gold behind
it. Practically it had no more value
than dollar with less gold behind
it, and it represented at least SO
cents of idle credit which might be
extended against the gold and still
leave the safe margin of SO per cent.
behind the currency.
This great gold hoard might be
working for the benefit of trade. 1t
is lying idle not through any fault
of the banking system. 1t is here
ready to do it's part as soon as the
business world finds itself able to
get back to work on sound eco.
nomic and industrial basis.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
Our Trade With Canada.
Menace of Legislation Affecting Our
NeighbOr and Customer.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: was
recently in Canada and talked with
a number of lumbermen. One man b,
particular Is predicting a more unfa-
vorable rate Of Canadian exchange
that is, a greater discount on Canadian
money here--and he said it would even
tually mean the cessation of buying of
American goods by Canadians, whether
they had any retaliatory legislation or
not He said the present emergency
tariff on agricultural products had al
ready had a serious effect and that
things were certainly working to force
Canadians to make their purchases of
manufactured goods from England and
to sell their products there.
JThe emergency tariff did not affect
lumber, but if another law is enacted
which cuts out lumber to any considera-
bic extent the present tendency will be
greatly accelerated. and certainly we
can look for a large loss of trade In
manufactured articles with Canada
That country was the second largest
customer of the United States last year,
buying half again as much from us
as they sold to us.
SHEPARD & MORSE LUMBER COMPANY,
T. II. SHEPARD, Treasurer.
BosroN, Mass, June %.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
What's This From Tahiti!
Is It Possible That There Are Skeet.
ers as Well as Princessess

To THE NEW York HERALD: Our most
popular writer has written another book
ON the South Seas and we are glad.
We were fearful that. after what hap
pened to him In Tahiti in July. 1920.
he might not love US any more and
would neglect us. But It is all right !:
he has forgiven us and we have an
other lovely book about ourselves. He
has painted a wonderful picture OF
beauteaus princesses and embowered
glades haunted by star eyed hourls
eagerly awaiting the advent of the god
like white man of broad acres of cocoa
nut groves, the rich dowry Of daughters
of mighty chiefs. ready to be hurled
into the receptive lap of the pale faced
stranger.
Now. IL we had only known of this
before what life we could have led
Instead of wasting the precious years
of our youth in the plebeian pursuits or
buying and selling and planting we
might have been reclining on 6owery
beds of case while the daughters of
kings grilled peacocks' tongues for us
and fed us nectar from golden spoon.
But then of course 1t is quite pos
sible that We have been numbed all
these years with lotus honey and have
not been competent to see what has been
going on around US and it has needed
the fresh, bright eyes of the author to
see the islands as they really are.
Anyway, he has written so enchant-
ingly about our isolated abode that any
number of old drunks. Bolsheviks,
I. w. W., tourists and fat old satyrs
from Long Acre Square are coming to
our shores. relieving us OF one OF our
most pressing problems. We have long
felt that our mosquitoes urgently needed
q. change of diet. They have subsisted
40 long on our diminished bodies they
have begun to look thin and scrawny
and anamic and we were quite wor-
ried about them. And too our heas
need a tonic.
But now with this new immigration
In progress our fears are at rest. We
thank our distinguished author-friend.
His works delight us. They recall the
long vanished days of our youth when
we used to burn the midnight oil read
ing the travelogues OF that fascinating
old Dutchman. Baron Munstein or Mum
bauser---or some such name as that
JoHN l.. STEVENS.
TAHITI. Society Islands, June Q.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
MONDAY. JUNE - 1921.
The Shipping Board Wreck.

Chairman LAsKER OF the Shipping
Board gives the public bird's-eye
view of the way the affairs OF their
nation have been managed as bust
ness proposition.
There are some 900 lawsuits
against the Shipping Board, scat
tered all over the country. They
involve some $50,000,0O0. There are
some 900 claims before the claim
department of the Shipping Board
involving between $5o,000,00O and
S1OO. .0O0,00 There are some LOO
admiralty cases pending against the
board. Nobody knows who is suing
the Shipping Board, nobody knows
how much it is being sued for. no.
body knows where the records OF the
suits are.
And these vast legai cases of car
dinal rank. involving perhaps hun
dreds OF millions of dollars, are in
the hands of stripping Government
payroll lawyers on small salaries,
who have to defend the Shipping
Board against the ablest, the most
successful and the most highly COM
pensated legal experience and genius
in the country. The Government in
war might as well send a rowboat to
fight a battleship.
A single suit lost for the Shipping
Board might cost the United States
Treasury $4,000, 900, and yet it may
have been entrusted 10 callow
youngster who has not won his spurs
in any case in any court!
For a business man to take one
look into the business management
of what has become the vastest in
dustrial and financial wreck in the
business .world-the United States
Governments shipping business--is
enough to turn that business mans
hair gray.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Partly cloudy
to-day and tomorrow, with scattered
thunderstorms, not much change in tenn
perature; moderate TO fresh southwest
and west winds.
For New Jersey--Partly cloudy to-day and
Tomorrow: probably local thunder showers
to-day; moderate TO fresh southwest and
west winds.
For Northern New England--Partly cloudy
to-day and tomorrow; probably local thun-
der showers to-day; moderate to fresh south
west and west winds.
For Southern New England-Partly cloudy
to-day and tomorrow; probably local thun-
der showers to-day moderate to fresh south
west and west winds.
For Western New York-Partly cloudy to-
day and tomorrow; probably scattered
thunder showers: in south portion little
change In temperature; moderate southwest
and westwinds.
WASHINGTON. June 27.-Pressure was
relatively high Sunday from the lower Mis-
sissippi Valley eastward to Bermuda and
along the Pacific coast and low over all other
regions. Local thunder showers have
Cured within the last twenty-four hours at
scattered points in the Atlantic States, the
Ohio, the upper Mississippi and middle Mis-
souri, valleys, the lower lake region. the Da-
kotas and the west Gulf States. Warm
weather prevailed yesterday in practically
coast and on the immediate Pacific coast.
There will be little change in weather con-
ditions during the next two days in the
States east of the Mississippi River. The
weather will continue warm with some
cloudiness and widely scattered thunder
showers.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations. taken at p. M. yesterday,
seventy-fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1921-06-27

mother had cost him exactly $22.3e.
but the mystery was where this
money went The Distribution Com
mittee did not get it. 1t was not
left in Poland. IT was not lost in
transit. Did the Bolsheviks. by the
sinister workings Of their bank
magic, manage TO confiscate the
s22.39 and to use it in promoting a
world revolution which would make
Tom and all his friends, and the citi-
zens of New York and Of America,
residents of territory which would
be inaccessible" to folks wishing to
obey the promptings of human kind
ness and filial love?
Technically the Bolsheviks did not
do this. Practically they did. First
they tried to turn the world upside
down by turning Russia upside down.
When they failed of their world pro-
gramme they subjected their own
people to the rigors of insane Sc
questration, took away their food
and property and even prevented
them from obtaining help from sym
pathetic outside peoples. The $22.39
was lost in the decline of Polish ex-
change. But the decline of Polish
exchange would not have robbed Tom
of his money II the Russian authori-
ties had permitted it's delivery to
TOMS mother. Polish exchange would
not have declined il there had been
honesty and common sense instead of
sham. hypocrisy and madness in the
Government of neighboring Russia.
Tom LAIKUND is not alone in the
regret that his mother did not re-
ceive the money. The experience
cost him s22.39 and deprived his
mother Of the food and clothing the
5,40O Polish marks would have
bought. 1t was another of the crimes
Of Bolshevism which has left trail
of blood and suffering among it's own
people and filled the civilized world
with anguish.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
Bolshevism Robs a Mother.

They are going to have hard time
Of il trying TO convert JACOB LAI-
KUND. whom everybody calls Tost. to
the cause of Bolshevism. Tom is a
grownup newsboy who, the World
tells us. has sold papers at the Man
haitian end Of Brooklyn Bridge for
twenty-five years. This long time he
has made the surrounding atmospher
rattle with n noise like that OF break.
ing crockery as he cried his mer.
chandise and passed the news on 10
his clients. But the cryptic head.
lines which he scanned for his sales
mans slogan never furnished any
thing as full OF human interest as hts
own experience in his efforts TO send
money TO his aged mother in Russia.
A year ago Tom took $50 from his
not too abundant savings and sent IL
through the Joint Distribution Com.
mittee OF the American Fund for
Jewish War Sufferers to his mother
in the town of Slutzker. Russia. a
year of silence followed. Then came
letter-on June S--from the com
mittee's remittance bureau saying
that the town Of Slutzker was not
| accessible. The bureau returned
s7.61 to Tom. with the explanation
that the $50 had been converted into
Polish marks last year at the rate OF
1S0 to the dollar, but when It was
found the currency could not be 10
! livered to TOMS mother in Russia
the Polish mark had been converted
tack into dollars at the later rate oi
exchange, which netted only tn,
s7.61
TOMS effort to do his duty by his
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
Hunter and Squirrel.
A GeOmetrical Slant Of the Non
Circling Theory.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD. This be-
ing, so far as our limited senses know, a
three dimensional world. the hunter does
not circle the squirrel. The geometrical
figure which best describes the evolu-
tions Of squirrel and hunter is trun-
Gated cone, since the squirrel is always
several and sometimes many feet above
the hunters head. It's axis is the centre
OF the tree. The circles described by
any selected portions or points Of squir-
rel and hunter are not concentric but
parallel. The fact that the centre OF
each is in the axis of the cone does not
mean that one is included within the
other.
Could a man who has merely walked
around the block containing the Wool
worth building say truthfully that he
had ''circled the top Of the woolworth
tower? c. W. Dopps.
BROOKLYN, June 25.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
Cynical Remarks From the Heart OF
SquirreldOm.

To THE New YORK HERALD: I have
read the tree and squirrel argument with
a good deal of amusement but cannot
for the lifc of me decide whether they
are all kidding or whether there is really
somebody who believes that 1t is pos
sible to go around in a circle. q square
or any other figure and not go around
or encircle everything inside that plot.
II there is such a person advise him to
spend his vacation here at the fountain
head of nature study.
He will return with a true knowledge
and conception of the problem and its
solution. It will be shown him (not
demonstrated) that you can encircle a
bottle of volsteadite in your own hip
pocket by simply turning around. keep
ing the bottle in the centre and tx the
pocket MORT POND.
WINsTEp, Conn. June 25.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
HOT SPRINGS.

Special Despatch to THE New York 1IEnAIr,
Hor SPRINGS, Va June 26.-Mrs. John
II. Whitaker of Philadelphia motored
to-day with Miss Blanche d. Frazer of
New York to McLalghlin's. where they
were Joined for luncheon by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas III. Kelly OF New York who
went on horseback.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Cowper AID
Mr.. John w. Cowper, j., have arrived
by automobile from Buffalo.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. Cs Milholland and
Mr.. II. c. Milholland, Jr.. of Pittsburgh.
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Thirtie OF
Springfield, Ohio; Mrs. F. M. Da.e OF
New York, Mrs l.. II. Coburn and Mrs.
o. II. Swan of Chicago and the Messrs.
Thomas II. Gates, Thomas H Gates, Jr.,
and Jay Gates of Philadelphia and Rob-
ert s. Brookings of ST. Louis were ar
rivals of to-day
Mrs. T. Kirkpatrick Parrish and Mr..
Russell Kirkpatrick are at the Home
stead from Richmond.
Miss Frederick Watriss, daughter of
Mrs. Charles d. Wetmore of New York.
was among the younger riders on the
trails to-day.
Miss. Dorothy Stevens left to-day for
New York. where she will join her
mother Mrs. Richard Stevens, at the st.
Regis Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney c. Guthrie left
to-day for Detroit. Mr.. and Mrs. H. C,
Sheridan left for Washington and George
w. Elliott and George w. Elliott. Jr..
for Wilmington. Del.
Among those at tine concert this eve
ming in the Homestead were Mr.. and
Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Dep,w. Mrs. Will
lam p. Payne and Miss Alice v. Payne
Of New York, Mr.. and Mrs. James &.
Candy. Mrs. John Reilly and Miss
Marion Reilly of Philadelphia. Mrs.
Otho Fisher Ball OF Chicago and Mr..
and Mrs. Walter II. Fry of Baltimore.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
Librarians in Convention.

The American Library Association
has been holding its forty-third annual
convention in Swampscott, Massachu-
setts. Custodians of great public and
private collections of books all over
the United States and Canada have
been in session day after day ex-
changing data and suggestions on all
'kascs Of book guardianship, book cir
culaHon and book production. Repre-
sentative HORACE M. TowNER of the
righth Iowa Congress district dis
aagesd broadly the Libraries of the
nation and their influences; DR.. KEN
Yoy L. BUTTERFIEIp president o. the
Massachusetts Agricultural College,
spoke on the influence Of rural libra
ries on rural life: GLENN FRANK
talked about the present temper OF
the reading public, while HERBERT S.
JENKINS of Little Brown G. Co. had
some interesting remarks to make on
the nations consumption of fiction.
II was not an occasion, this gather
ing of the men and women OF the
American book world, which had the
absorbing public interest OF the Car.
Dempsey discussion. There
were no special trains run from the
Pacific coast and other points east,
west. north and south. The hotels OF
Boston and vicinity were not crowded
to capacity. Yet the Swampscott gath.
ering's reactions on the country will
be of the highest importance.
Since it was incorporated in Mas
sachusetts in 1879 the American Lii
brary Association has spread its in
fiuence over the continent. IL has
held an annual convention as far
north as Ottawa, Can ada. and an.
other as far south as Louisville. Ken.
lucky: one as far east as Boston ana
others as far west as Colorado and
California. II has had and still has
on it's roster types OF much that is
best in American and Canadian citi-
zenship, for librarians to-day are not
mere VI bOOh hhtiNtc UuN
highly trained instructors Of their
fellow citizens. Mr.. ANDERSON of this
town, Mr.. DANA of Newark, Mr.. BosT.
WICK OF st. Louis, Miss CoUNrRYMAN
OF Minneapolis, Mr.. DANIELS of Riv'
erside, California; Mr.. JENNINGS of
Seattle and Mr.. PUTNAM of Washing
ton are constantly called on to ad
wise moving picture queens as to the
details of period gowns, to decipher
code messages for business men, To
help historians, plumbers. jewellers
and authors in their work. They and
scores of other librarians are live
wires, whose work is anything but
more indexing., ns
1.-The conventions of the Librarians
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
Indiana Limestone.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD on the
editorial page OF THE NEW YORK HER
AID appears an extract from report
OF the United States Geological Survey
In which the fact is chroniclcd that the
value OF Indiana limestone produced and
shipped has fallen off one-half during
the last year.
THE NEW YORK HERALD in headlines
attributes the slump to the building
scandals. and the article itself seems to
charge Il up TO the general depression.
The greatest contributing cause Is the
increase In freight rates. practically de-
gtructive to this industry.
1t is another illustration of the ex-
tent to which the high cost Of transporta-
tion is paralysinz American industry.
GEORGE ". WILLIAMS.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June 20.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
Hamp sIaughter's Fad.
From the Kansas CITY star.

From the Kansas CtD star.
-Hamp Slaughter has a sort of fad" re-
lated Gap johnson OF Rumpus Ridge. Ark.
about once IN SO often he gets few drains
of bono dry ticker and high fever. and
shows UP In the middle of the big road out
yur, lie filings his hat down In the dust
and stomps on Il. and yells that he's a
man eater. and such as that. and can whip
a certain black hearted son-of-this-that-an and
luther living not more than mile from yur.
When I go out to inquire which special
black hearted thus-and-so nc means he says
Zach Flat. three-duarters OF a mile up the
road. SO there amt much 10 do but 10
excuse him. Then he goes fricasseeing off
TO Zach's place and repeats the perform
ance. When Zach wants to know who he
ls referring to he says It's me. After that
he rambles around norating that he's got
us both bluffed.
Zone OF these days he's going TO ketch
me and Zach together. and find out his
yaw-w-w-wn mistake
The New York herald., 1921-06-27
Pirates.

'Tis claimed the Jolly Roger flies
on seas where tides OF commerce flow
This brings to us a pleased surprise
Who deemed the times as deadly slow
Events swing in full circled track,
So come the pirates surging back.
We sighed we had not lived amid
The buccaneers of drifted days:
one was a very clever Kidd.
With charming also taking ways.
on politics he seemed crank,
He dwclt so strongly on the plank.
We would acclaim the ral>sh craft,
To swing across the menaced sea
With polished cannon well abaft
(Sea phrases trip quite readily,
OF treasure loss we'd have no fears,
Long has II been the profiteers.
THOMAS j. MURRAY.
The New York herald., 1921-06-27

Bishop William T. Manning, speak
ing yesterday at memorial services at
Trinity Church for Col. Fred w. Gal
braith. commander of the American
Legion. praised the attitude which
Col. Galbraith took toward Ihyphe-
mates, and said that "the man who
cares as much for some other country
as he cares for America is no Ameri-
can at ALL"
ut wSs this principle" said Bishop
Manning, which Col. Galbraith stood
for and which made MIN lEe enemy of
every form of hyphenism. and espe-
cially OF that present form of hyphen-
ism which seeks to SOW disccrd be-
tween us and those who were our
friends and brothers in the world
war.
"As Americans, patient as we are.
we have now had more than enough or
this, and there are many noble Ameri-
cans Of Irish blood who feel this as
strongly as we do. We are proud to
think of Col. Galbraith as chairman of
the great meeting in demonstration OF
true Americanism held in Madison
Square Garden"
Bishop Manning said that Col. Gal
braith, because Of his work in behalf
of grateful, generous provision for the
men who suffered disability during the
war, deserved to be honored by all
Americans.
Every true American man and
woman" he said. desires that the
obligation to the men who suffered for
us shall be met in fullest measure, and
that it shall be put first and before all
other claims.
Honesty in our own lives and in all
our dealings. courage in upholding the
right, undivided allegiance to our
country, loyalty without qualification.
justice and fairness to all, honor and
appreciation and most generous care
for those who have suffered for our
country and for the right-these are
the principles for which the American
Legion stands, and these are the
things Of which the name of Frederick
w. Galbraith will ever speak to u.s."
Delegations from every legion post
in the five boroughs were present,
most OF them in uniform. Representa-
Corps also were present, together with
representatives of many patriotic or
ganizations. Representing the Ma
tional Security League were Thomas
w. Churchill. former President OF the
Board of Education: Louis w. Stotes-
bury, former Acknowledgement of the