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The New York herald., 1921-09-14
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IA. 1921
Curran's Big Victory.

HENRY H. CURRAy has won the
fusion nomination for Mayor against
Tammany's HYLAN, and won it hand
somely. lie was more than equal to
Judge Haskell in HAsKELL's own
hailiwick across the Bridge, he was
great vote getter in The Bronx,
Queens and Richmond, and in old
New York he was overwhelming.
The measure of CURRAN's splendid
showing, in truth. is not merely his
huge plurality of approximately 65,-
600, carrying every single borough
it is his indicated vote Of much more
than 100000, in spite OF the fact that
in their hot primary contest the
anti-Tammany ballots were divided
among four very strong campaigners
for the privilege of running against
HYI.AN.
These ballots Of all the contenders
will not be thus divided on election
day. On the contrary, the abun-
cant proof given yesterday that the
anti-Tammany voters are in this fight
with all the power there is in them
TO put HyLAN out OF the City Hall is
an almost full guarantee that the
Haskell, Ia GUARDrA and BENNETT
votes OF yesterday will be virtually
solid for CuREAN on election day.
This looks as bad for the Tam
many machine as 1t looks good for
the City Of New York, which now
fronts a magnificent chance to come
into its own again.
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
10000 Fewer Federal Jobs.

A sensational discovery has been
made by the Euening Post. 1t L.
that the pledge of the Chicago plat
form and the Harding ticket to make
drastic cuts in the numbers Of use
less Federal Job holders was nothing
but campaign buncombe. Not count
ing the heavy reductions in the army
and navy ranks, all the Post can COIL
cede to the Harding Administration
is pitiful 10000 salaries saved.
And this, declares the Post, is the
whole story.
But it is not. In the first place, it
is only the beginning. In the second
place, from March 4, 1921. to Septem-
ber 4, 1921, the period under discus.
zion by the Post, is half year out
of an Administration which is to run
four years. A total of 10000 EN-.
ployees let go in half a year is at
the rate of 5000 month. Any level.
headed, successful general manager
will agree with THE NEW YORK
HERALD that for an operating bust
ress to be able to drop men off it's
rayrolls at the rate Of 5000 month
without putting up the shutters or
slowing down or demoralizing a
working organization is pretty swift
toward administrative re-
and efficiency.
Not to recognize this very notable
business feat would seem to indicate
a structural soft spot in that sort
Of head.
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
Amateur Main Street.

Amateur theatricals are not in the
least what they are said to be on Main
Street. When there is the question
OF revealing the dramatic talent Of
Main Streets leading citizen, or at
least OF it's younger acting set, there
is less ground for encouragement
than the students of small life would
have US believe. The repertoire is
not limited nowadays to Mrs. TEN
ple's Telegram" I'm Walked Jimmy"
or even "Charley's Aunt" A recent
request for plays sent to the Wis
consin Library Commission included
"Prunella" and "Milestones" for one
town. In another the performance
was to be either "A Dolls House."
Beau Brummel," "The Melting Pot"
Riders to the Sea" or "The Great
Divide"
The most ambitious of the amateur
organizations in the large cities could
not well improve on this list. 1t is
a fact that the average drama, which
had more or less exhausted its popu-
larity in the professional theatres, is
no longer sought by the amateur
organization. Something more or
less out of the ordinary is the aim
Of the aspiring amateur. He feels
better satisfied when the dramatist
he sets out to interpret is of the class
of SYyGE, DUNsANY or YEATS.
Thus in way is the repertoire of
the average amateur organization
growing more and more like the list
OF plays to which the Little Theatre
organizations devote their energies.
The dilettante has lost interest in
the frivolous, the old fashioned and
the banal. 1t must now be the poetic,
the realistic or the thesis play to in
terest these advanced amateurs.
This newest tendency adds unde.
niable Importance to what has hith-
erto been intended for merely theat-
rical diversion. ANDRE ANTOINE, in
his recently published memoirs, tells
how his original Theatre Libre be-
gan merely as a club of amateur ac-
tors who eventually parted company
on account of a difference of opinion
over the repertoire. Every dramatic
club which to-day presents a literary
or novel or unusual play does it's
share in elevating public taste.
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
K. OF C.. TO MAINTAIN
900 SCHOLARSHIPS
To Spend $3.50, 900 in Helping
Former Service Men.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.-Approximate
Iy s350,000 will be expended by the
Knights OF Columbus during the new
scholastic year on fees, books and main
tenance for more than four hundred
former service men at colleges and uni
versities, Supreme Treasurer Daniel J
Callahan announced to-day.
This sum is exclusive of that TO b.
spent by the knights in providing free
technical courses for veterans in 130
night schools throughout the country,
The veterans. who are assigned TO
thirty different institutions, come from
thirty-five different States.
Announcement also was made that
Hannis Taylor of this city had accepted
appointment to the Knights OF Colum-
bus history commission, which is pre-
pairing historical monographs for dis
tribution In the organizations s1,000,000
history campaign.
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
Bonus and Constitution.
The Fight to Make Democracy Safe
in New York State.

From an open letter from, BenjaDsts s..
Dean OF JnmestoGn. N. y, TO the father
Of tico ,oorld aeor service the pro-
priety Of bonus from the State Of Neso
York.
You, as a lawyer, concede that the
bonus act is unconstitutional. You have
taken an oath to support that Constitu-
ton, and yet you tell me that such a
bonus. being the expressed and decided
desire of the people Of the State OF New
York, should in some way receive such
encoura cement as to be made effective
and paid and / am wondering just
how you reconcile this attitude with
your oath of office as a counsellor of
the Supreme Court. The same argu-
ment could be made in support of a SUBJ
mission Of proposition to give to each
man, woman and child n bonus of
81. 900, for there can be no doubt such a
proposition would carry by q larger
vote than that which was brought out
by the same subtle bribery OF the peo-
pie In behalf of the bonus
a constitution, as we understand 1t in
America, is limitation upon the ma
iority; ''it is a social compact, by which
the whole people covenants with each
citizen. and each citizen with the whole
people, that all shall be governed by
certain laws for the common good"
fpreamble 10 Constitution of Massachu-
setts). and we mutually agree that there
are certain inalienable rights--rights
which majorites. however large. cannot
take away. We deny the right OF the
majority to interfere with individual
right OF conscience; we deny the right
Of all the people to take the life or a
single Individual by an act of the Leg
islature or by a vote of the entire cleo
torate, and, as John Adams says, prop
erty is a right of mankind as really as
liberty" and a great court has declared
that I'VE know of no case In which a
legislative act TO transfer the property
Of A to u without his consent has ever
been held n constitutional exercise OF
legislative power by any State in the
Union" wilkinson VS.. Leland. .
Peters. 65S.)
There has been no lawful expression
of the people OF the State of New York
upon the question OF bonus, because
such question Is not permitted by our
Constitution. There is a way to amend
the Constitution. and II. In the opinion
OF the people. the Constitution Is wrong.
"let It be corrected by an amendment in
the way which the Constitution desig-
mates. But let there be no change by
usurpation: for though this, in one
instance. may be the instrument OF good.
II Is the customary weapon by which
free governments are destroyed The
precedent must always greatly over
balance in permanent evil any partial
or transient benefit which tho use can
at any time yield" (Washington's
Farewell Address.)
Your sons, suppose. fought 10 "make
the world safe for democracy" I am
fshting to make democracy safe for the
United States, by preserving the integ-
rity OF the constitutional system and the
rights Of men, the only thing which TO
my mind differentiates this nation from
others and makes It worth fighting for.
BENJAMIN s. DEAN.
JAMEsrowN, y. Y, September 1s.
The New York herald., 1921-09-14

race: to Europe and America he
represents the magnificent idealism
OF the Renaissance. But it must be
still an interesting inquiry to make,
What is the source of his power
that has not only endured but has
grown with the 500 years which
have passed since his death?
DANTE was read and admired in
the half century following his death,
in the sixteenth century it was a
question If he was as great poet as
PETRARcH, and in the eighteenth CEN
tury he was almost entirely neg.
lected. His renaissance began at
the end OF the eighteenth century,
and it is peculiar condition of his
fame that it was American literary
mon such as DR.. CHARLES ELIOT Nor
TON and Professor CHARLES II.
GRANDGENT who made the world out
side Of Italy itself really appreciate
humanity's Indebtedness to DANTE
Their knowledge of his works may
not have been greater than that of
earlier generations, but these men
had an opportunity Of sitting finely
and most judiciously the study of
past centuries which had been de-
voted to the author and of valuing it
in the perspective Of ages.
The world may care little for tire
allegories Of DANTE, in fact they may
appear tiresome and boresome; it
may not find the symbolism in which
he seemed so much to revel living
or vital to existence in the twentieth
century. DANTE was man of his
day: he had not the visions of the
future which were possessed by some
OF the other great epic poets, and the
utilitarian value of his writing be-
longs to his age and not to ours. But
SO long as the beauty of diction, the
grandeur Of poetic expression and the
exquisiteness Of language are revered
DANTE as a poet will be sought and
studied. 1t was the man that
charmed. Florence will always ven
crate the rock where DANTE sat to
watch the cathedral grow under the
hands and brains Of his friends; it
will ever seek on the banks of the
Arno and on the Ponto vecchio men,
ories Of his beloved BEATRICE. the first
delight Of his soul. DANTE lives and
charms today because he wrote not
alone with the inspired pen Of the
poet but the soul of man.
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
World Steel Outlook.

Simultaneous reports have issued
recently from English. German and
American sources indicating re-
yival OF the steel industry. In Eng
land and America the depression was
much more severe than in Germany.
but in all three countries July was
the worst period since before the war
Our own exports of steel In July were
only $4,000 tons, compared with a
monthly average Of about 100000
tons before the war. British steel
exports for June were only 64,701
tons, compared with monthly aver
age of more than 5000 tons In 1913.
German export figures for these
months are not available. but cur
rent reports on the German steel in
dustry indicate that both domestic
production and exports fell off.
In 1913 and prior years the world
consumption was about S0,000,000
tons annually. In 1920 the consump-
tion was not more than $4,000, 900
tons. The steel trade, both here and
abroad, anticipates a world demand
of possibly 1O0,0O0,00O tons, once the
period of depression has abated. The
following table disposes of 57,60O,00O
tons OF the steel production OF 1913,
showing what became OF It..
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
Dante, Six Centuries After.

Six hundred years ago to-day
DANTE. the greatest of Italian poets,
died. For years he had been an exile
from his native and beloved Florence.
Condemned to be burned alive at the
stake IL he should fall into the
power OF the Tuscan republic and
unwilling to accept the humiliating
conditions OF his restoration to
citizenship, he was living under the
protection OF patron at Ravenna.
lie had undertaken diplomatic mis-
sion to the venetians, and, failing In
this, he was on his way back to Ra-
VIENNA, dispirited and disheartened,
when he fell a victim to the fever OF
the lagoons, and he had scarcely
more than reached the home of his
protector when he died. There was
something in this end of DAYTE's
life that seemed peculiarly conso-
rant with his tempestuous career.
his years Of strange wanderings, his
unrealized ambitions for his native
Tuscany and his death in his fifty
sixth year with the great works OF
which he had visions unfinished.
In the tributes to his memory to-
day most of the civilized world will
join with Italy. To his native land
he WIS one of the greatest of its men
and the father of the Italian lam
guage; to South America, where every
capital will have memorial exercises.
he was a master product Of the Latin
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For lcas ern rcw York-Fair to-day
ana probably tomorrow; mild tempera-
ture. moderate northerly winds.
For New Jersey-Generally fair to-day and
eo-mor!ow' no change in temperature; mod
crate northerly Wlnds
for Northern New England-Fair today
anu anu tomorrow; moderate temperature mol
crate noftherly winds.
For Southern New J,nciard-Ts-Ir toa,v
anu tomorrow: moderate tenlDe ~ ture. niDs-
crate northerly winds
for western New gorlS-Fair to-dav fc-
...orroW unsettled no change IN tefnpcra-
winds. a'N
WASHINGTON. Sept 13.-Prossurc re-nnln.
nlsh generally east ~ the Mississippi Rhtr
s.i., sla IN tne Tar Northwest and lower over tne
tt.'al n - ;. the Canadian Mari
time Provinces al. off tho south Atlantis
coast. The temperature remains abnorraaiiv
low over the far Northwest and tho vaa.re.
nas become cooler along tho northern bor,tcr
from he great lakes eastward to Nc71ncn OF
and New Hampshire. Mild lempcraturs csn-
tinues In other parts of the counti-r. .>lt.r,
nave been showers within the las; ts,enty-
four hours In the Mississippi and Mizeoylri
valleys and In extreme southern Fiorias III
remains fair.
The outlook is for generally fair weather
without material change In temperature, 10.
morrow and Thursday in the Atlantic and
east Gulf States. In the Ohio VALLEY and
the region OF the great lakes the weather
VIII become unsettled tomorrow and be fol.
lowed by showers in Tennessee and the lower
Ohio Valley and the upper lake region The
temperature will be lower Thursday in lower
Michigan and Indiana.
Observations at United States Weather Hr-
reau stations taken at p. NJ. YESTERDAY.
Seventy-fifth meridian time.
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
Forgetting to Read.

One Of the surprises Of the tests
made by the psychological section of
the Surgeon-General's Office during
the war was the large number OF men
Kicked for military and naval ser.
vice who could not read or write.
This fact was rather succinctly stated
in a comment setting forth that,
since about one-quarter of the men
were judged unable to take the AL.
pha test, "the results indicated that
il those examined we're fairly repre-
sentative of all there must have been
100000 OF our soldiers and sailors
who were not able to write a simple
letter or read a newspaper with
ease"
But more recent investigation
into these tests developed the pecu-
liar fact that while this large num-
Der Of men could not pass the read
ing test it was not because they had
never learned to read. A very large
majority of them had attended pri-
mary grade schools and had been
taught to read. This condition is
not unprecedented; for in a test
made by French military authorities
y few years before the great war 1t
developed that many thousands of
young Frenchmen who had attended
the elementary schools during the
period when attendance was compul.
sorry were not able, upon reaching
the age OF 20, ito use their read-
ing ability as an ordinary, every
day tool"
In commenting upon this condi.
tion MARY AYREs BURGESS, in a book
issued by the department OF educa.
tion OF the Russell Sage Foundation,
says that what happens to a child
who learns to read and then forgets
how when he becomes an adult Is
something like what happens to many
high school and college graduates in
the matter OF French and German
They have learned TO pronounce
and translate from the pages OF their
French and German text books. but
after leaving school they never buy q
french story or read a German
periodical"
The lack Of ability TO read Ia all
tho more remarkable when 1t is re-
membered that in this country read
Nng Is considered one Of the most
Important Of school subjects. Many
changes have been made in educa.
tionsl courses and many subjects
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
Progress Is Expensive.
Prices Go Up as Inventors Produce
Improved Machines.

To THE New YORK HERALD: One Of
your correspondents calls attention to
the fact that il costs S1.S5 to transfer a
trunk nowadays. whereas the price was
25 cents when horses did the hauling
Why comment on this? Except in the
matter Of degree is 1t not in keeping
with the general rule?
Have not shoes gone up in spite Of
the invention and perfection OF shoe
machinery? Have not clothes increased
In price regardless of improvements in
weaving methods and apparatus? Have
not transportation rates gone up with
the development OF the modern locomo-
tive, improved rolling stock and road
bed? Have not produce and grain gone
up with the creation of all kinds of a,l-
tomato farm machinery. reapers. trac-
tors and other labor savers? Has not
coal increased in price regardless of the
Improvement in breakers, hoists, COM
pressed air steam and electric drills?
Think Of the increased cost Of maga-
zines and books, and then think of the
revolution In printing methods in the
past thirty years, tho modern presses
and typesetting machines.
The last fifty years have seen greater
advancement in electricity, chemistry
in fact In the entire realm
Of arts. sciences and methods of pro-
duction. than was accomplished In tho
preceding three hundred years. and yet
everything costs more. Surely, IL new
have any influence in lower
Ing the cost Of living. as they should.
the advent OF electric power and the
invention Of the automobile would have
made themselves felt in this way. Do
the wonderful discoveries and inventions
OF which we boast reflect much glory
upon us when ones wages will buy
about one-third as much as they would
forty years ago? STUART G. Woop.
BROOKLYN, September 13.
The New York herald., 1921-09-14

PHILADELPHIA. Sept ia concerted
effort to find work for the unemployed
in this city and help to stimulate every
line OF business was decided upon by
more than one thousand business men
at luncheon to-day OF the Philadel-
phia Chamber of Commerce, at which
Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas was the
chief speaker.
Resolutions called upon each person
present, "the association Of which he is
a member and all others" to aid In get
ting work for those who are unem-
ployed; to make available to those with
whom he deals as much business at
once as each can arrange. and to make
unusual efforts to get work or business
for himself.
The resolution urged those present to
give thought and action" to finding and
applying means permanently to improve
the continuity of employmNnt and steadi-
ness OF business and industry, and to
combat dangerous unamerican and un-
sound Industrial doctrines"
In the introduction to the resolutions
II was asserted that persons out Of work
to-day are largely SelL-reSpectlng
American citizens. and should have the
opportunity to support themselves by
their own labor"
The chairman was instructed to APP
point committee to carry out the in
tent of the resolutions. to form sub
committee to confer with Mayor Moore.
contractors and City Council with a
view to the advancement Of programmes
of public work, and to adopt such other
measures as may be deemed useful"
In his address Gov. Alien urged labor
to be more efficient and less dominant.
"The doctrine of doing less work for
larger pay" he said, was promulgated
after the war for the purpose OF carry
ing out a programme which was In
tended to strengthen labor's condition.
II had been preached before by radical
leader here and there, but it had not
been made the general programme of or
ganized labor. 1t had not been adopted
until this time as labor's remedy for
keeping wages at high level Now we
know that the plan was an artificial one,
and 1t broke down OF its own ponderous
weight.
The factor of labor in this problem
had been very conclusive and the null
tiplication of personnel had had more
to do in causing the wreck than the
wages paid per man. 1t is not that they
are paying too much for the man-they
are paying too many men to do one
mans work"
The New York herald., 1921-09-14
TO AID AMERICAN ARTISTS.
Made for Exchange
Exhibitions With France.

Arrangements for exchange exhibit
tions OF contemporary works OF art be
tween artists of France and the United
States have been completed. according
to a statement made yesterday by Ju.
liam Bowes. managing secretary OF tho
League OF New York Artists, Inc, is
Gramercy Park.
Mr.. Bowes made public letter re-
ceived from f. II. Michel. general sec
retary of the Federation F'rancais Jca
Artists, Paris, in which the Trcnc /,
artists state their readiness to cooperate
with the aims of the league and to
collaborate on the improvement OF con
iitions both hero and abroad
American art students leaving for
France In the future will have intro
ductory letters from the league to tho
federation in Paris, where every effort
will be made to assist them In their
studies and living conditions.