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The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Lincoln on Temperance.
More About the Washington's Birth
day Address of 1912.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Lin
coins tribute to Washington which is
quoted by your correspondent "V," Is
part Of a speech which is printed on
page IS Of volume IL. Of the Life and
Works of Abraham Lincoln" published
In nine volumes by the Current Litera-
ture Publishing Company in 1907.
This address was, delivered by Lin
coin when he was 33. 1t was entitled
Charity in Temperance Reform" 1t
was delivered at Springfield, Illinois,
February az. 1912 When he had fin-
ished his thesis he reminded his audi
ence that 1t was an anniversary Of
Washington's natal day, and then spoke
those famous sentences. In this brief
eulogy we can detect a method OF ex-
preston noticeable later in his immor-
tai Gettysburg Address.
This temperance address Is one Of
the most interesting and important
among the many which Lincoln deliv-
cred. In it he showed his audience that
the way to reach mems hearts and
minds was not by sledge hammer blows
of malicious, brutal and discouraging
facts which were employed by temper
ance orators Of his day. and which
were persistently hurled at the heads of
the unfortunate victims OF the alcoholic
habit, and which in turn were resolutely
spurned and stubbornly resisted by the
friends Of these victims. and so were
without much success in advancing the
temperance cause. To quote his Ian
guage:
1.-THE dram seller and drinker were
incessantly told, not In accents of en-
treaty and persuasion but in the thun-
dering tones OF anathema and denuncia-
ton with which the lordly judge often
groups together all the crimes of the
felon's life and then thrusts them in
his face just as he passes sentence Of
death upon him, that they were
the authors of all the vice and misery
and crime in the land When the
conduct of men is designed to be infiu-
enced, kind. unassuming persuasion
should ever be adopted.
Assume to dictate to his Judgment,
or to command his action, or to mark
him as one to be Stunned and despised,
and he will retreat within himself, close
all the avenues to his head and heart
and though your cause be the naked
truth itself. transformed to the heaviest
lance, harder than steel and sharper
than steel can be made, and though you
throw II with more than hercuean
force and precision. you shall be no
more able to pierce him than to pene-
trate the hard shell of a tortoise with
rye straw"
This whole address teens with a won
derful persuasive force and Lincoln
logic and in it we can see all the evil
dences of the great name and fame
that were in waiting for Lincoln's future
career.
To all lovers of Lincoln this address
will be read with a great deal OF in
terest and surprise. 1t will be a rare
treat for those who have never read it
and It can be read again and again
with increasing pleasure and profit.
What Lincoln said and did are truly
imperishabIe. LOUIS L. BLAIR, M. d.
ALBANY, January %.
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Abolish the Curnshaw.

Charges OF serious character
regarding certain practices of offering
gifts and money to obtain contracts
for ship repair work in the port of
New York are made In the current
issue of the Marine Neics, promi-
nent shipping journal. Crude forms
Of favoritism and graft, known In
the trade as cumshaw, play a part
in the placing Of contracts to an ex-
tent beyond the conception Of the
uniformed. Gifts of automobiles and
country homes 70 those who control
the placing of business are said to
be common. This of course adds to
the cost of repairing the ship. The
graft Is said to be reaching proper
tions which threaten to injure this
port as a ship repair centre and lay
heavy burden on the merchant
marlne.
Legislation to prohibit the giving
Of gratuities in the ship repair indus
try Is now before Congress and has
the support of the American Steam
ship Owners Association.
Like the excessive costs of operat-
ing American ships, the high over
h1 charges due to the cost Of war
tonnage and other financial draw
backs. this practice Of milking the
American merchant marine in the
ship repair field is among the handi-
caps which make II impossible for
our ships to compete with vessels
operated efficiently and Mt low cost
under other flags. But IN overcharg-
ing for ship repairs still further
insidious handicap Is imposed on our
ships through higher insurance costs.
After n ship comes out Of yard with
expensive repairs completed the effect
of ship repair graft Is extended in the
higher hull and cargo insurance rates
charged on the ground that the past
record of the ship shows It to be
high experience" risk.
Needless to say, some Of the private
ship owners and operators are awake
The New York herald., 1921-01-24

The novelty Of tho symphony Society
concert In Aeolian Hall yesterday at
ternoon was the piano concerto of the
Chicago composer. Leo Sowerby. This
composition was first heard in its native
lair in 1917. when 1t contained a part
for soprano, which has since been elimi-
mated. The piano and orchestra are now
the entire means Of expression. Mr..
Sowerby Is an American. trained en-
tirely in this country. and he has writ
ten thoroughly American concerto. IN
formation of official character describes
him as a composer of radical tep3encies,
but cherishing an affinity with the
Franck school
The piano concerto heard yesterday
is neither radical nor Franckian. In
the first place the thematic materials
are principally Of pure American type,
negroid in melody and rhythm and be-
traying strong tendencies in the direc-
tion of contemporaneous 4aes. Indeed,
In the slurs given to the erombones III
the first movement Jazz pure and simple
enters the field Of art music. For the
piano the jazz element Is contributed
in the shape of numerous glissandi.
The concerto Is In three movements
played without pause. and there are
some long passages for und efended
plano. Many solos among the orchestral
instruments diversity the score. The
first movement is decidedly good, albeit
this possesses a highly marked flavor
OF Percy Granger. The slow movement
is labored. episode and fragmentary.
The finale Is unnecessarily extended. But
on the whole the concerto Is an inter-
esting novelty. chiefly because, It does
not sound like any other piano concerto
on earth or in the waters under the
earth. The pianist Of yesterday was
e. Robert Schmitz, who found In this
composition a field for the full exercise
OF his physical forces. He played the
music with all his soul and all his
strength. and the result was unto the
glory Of Sowerby.
Chausson's B nat symphony opened
the concert. It was to have been played
The New York herald., 1921-01-24

to these Irregularities and no longer
permit their marine superintendents
to place contracts on commercial
time and labor basis instead of on
the lowest bid. But even here de-
ception can be practised by under
specification.
The favored repair yard often gets
a job of painting or scraping a hull,
which is supposed to be all the ship
needs, only to discover" after the
ship is in the dock that further ex-
tensive repairs are required. These
repairs are made not on a bid basis
but at the enhanced prices obtainable
on time and labor basis. What the
yard lost on submitting a low bid for
the original job is more than made
up on the extra repairs.
This sort of thing cannot go on in
definitely. The American merchant
marine has passed through an era OF
extravaganza which will now impose
a long period of the most careful OPP
Grating costs if it is to endure. There
may be an immediate profit for re-
pair yards in procuring contracts ar
fancy figures and by the use Of ques-
tionable persuasive methods. But
eventually high costs will drive ships
to other ports or to other flags, and
the yards that indulge in these prac-
tees will then discover they have
killed the goose that laid the golden
eggs.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Yaquis a Fighting Race.
Mexican Indians Who Have Long
Resisted the Government.

To THn NEW York HERALD: Again
tho Yaqui Indians are on the war
path" and another "Yaqui uprising" are
reported through the press 1900 miles
awayi
The YaQuis are numerically but q
sman tribe In Mexico. Their natural
habitat Is the Yaqui Valley. a very fer
tile lowland area In the State OF Sonora.
The Mexican Federal census taken In
1910 showed that Sonora had 6.176
Yaquis after about one-third of the
tribe had been rounded up by the Gov
ernment and banished to the greatest
possible Mexican distance from home,
being taken nearly 1000 miles to the
southeast and into the strange and tropic
State OF Yucatan as a punishment and
precaution after recurrent uprisings.
In all Mexico there are more than
Ia, 900. 900 people OF pure Indian or part
Indian blood, and only 100000 people
who can be classed as direct or remote
descendants of European white ances-
tors. Considering that the native Indian
element is In a vast majority in Mexico
and that 1t is illiterate and localized by
tribes II 10 rather remarkable that there
have been practically no Indian upris-
ings during the 400 years since the
Spanish conquest, and that the Yaquis
are the only real belligerent Indians in
all Mexico.
The Yaqyis resent and long have re-
sented the colonization Of their tradi-
tional lands and their own threatened
determination through governmental
concessions to other settlers. But that
at any time there could no 10000 yaQuis
ready TO take up arms. as has been re-
ported within the last year. is absurd.
Probably there are not In all Of Sonora
to-day to exceed 1000 or 1900 adult
male Yaquis, and only few hundred
warrior prospects out Of that number.
In the state Of Sonora, according to the
carefully detailed Mexican Federal CEN
sus reports, which have studied closely
in the original. there are probably only
about $4,000 real indians.
Having been a little among the rather
stolid and taciturn Yaquis and having
had an American friend who was man
aging American colonization OF lands In
the Yaqui. Valley. my sympathies are
rather with the YaQuis. for they have
not had a fair deal and have been ruth
iessly separated as to family elements
because they alone OF Mexico's Indians
would not submit to the age long covet-
BUSINESS practised by a conauering race.
ARCHIE RICE.
NEW York, January 20.
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The Coin for Thrift.
Consumers Would Save Money With
the Half Nickel Pioee.

To THE New York HERALD: There
should be another small coin but 1t
should be two and one-half cents, one
fortieth of a dollar logically. with the
half. the quarter and the twentieth now
in coinage.
Such a coin would obviate deliberate
fixing of many retail prices at an odd
amount with the design of mulcting the
customer OF the half cent
Such coin would obviate getting
two Of many things for nickel when
one for half nickel would sufiice. 1t
would facilitate making even change,
get value received and function auto
matte thrift Minting II with a hole In
1t would remove danger OF confusipG 1t
with any other coin. The two cent
piece has been tried and found un-
suitable. JAMES GILFILLAN.
COLCHESTER, Conn, January %.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
A Worm Turns.

I'm wanting week to myself.
A week without any advice.
No hints on my ethics or pelf.
No organized programme precise
I'm wanting a week for my own
won't have 10 pull with team.
A week can have all alone
Nor follow on any one's CLEAN.
It may be ungraclous to seek.
I somehow don't care II It is;
I'm wanting a wonderful ,week
Devoted to minding my biz.
McLANDBuRGB WILSON
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MAsuArrAN AND THE BRONX.


..rrend OF the Times" by DIR. John II.
Randall, at Washington Irving II. g., Irving
pIace and Sixteenth street.
'',rrend OF the Times" by Mr.. George A.
hastings, ut r. s. 16b. 225 West i0sth street.
Trend OF the Times" by Prof: william
d. otis. at Pilgrim Hall. broadway and
Tifty-sixth street.
Mead, at Morris H. s.. f66th street ana
"silphur pioxide and sulphurous Acid"
by Prof w. l.. Estabrooke, NJ stuyvesant
VI. s.. Fifteenth street and First avenue
illustrated. =, =
assome Phase OF the Labor Problem" by
Mr. John Golden, at p. s. 40. 150th street
"unenipioyment and How TO Meet T." BY
Dr. William ID. r. Bliss, at +. .. ob' x<'
East rifty-seventh street 80
"Tho Woman Who Works." by Mrs. WIN,
nifred II. Cooley, at p. 3. 81, Hester ano
Essex streets; illustrated.
Songs OF America And Other Lands ~
Mr. and Mrs Thomas W. Fuson, Mt =. 3. 10
.2s West 14Sth street.
Ancient America and It's People. by Mr..
Arthur ~ Abbot, at p. s. 157, ST. Nicholas
avenue and 12Tth street; illustrated.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Judge Henry w. Herbert, Charles Fl. John
SON son ana Mrs. Anna Hedges Talbot will dis
Place in the Community" at a luncheon Of
tne IN Women's City Club. Hotel McAlpin. 1
Raymond b. Fosdick will speak on Police
Methods Here and Abroad City Club, SIS
west rorty-fourth street. s:15 p. NJ
,,in pr' .i piiny y. Goddard and n. c: Nelson
sssn,nological Society and the section OF
Anthropoogy and Psychology. American
street and Central Park West, s:15 p. M.
brandson M De Cou win give an illustrated
lecture on Camp Fires In the Canadian
Alps" al at the Egineering Societies Building.
20 West Thirty ninth street, s:15 p. NJ.
testimonial dinner viii be rendered to
Thomas Il. Rush. Surveyor OF Customs At
employees and friends. Hotel Commodore.
THE Worker Should Participate in Man
which DIR. W. M. Leserson, John Latch. II.
r. Porter and Harrington Emerson viii par
ticipate, before the Society of Industrial En-
gineers, Engineering Societies Building, 20
West Thirty-ninth street, Il. M.
Installation OF officers at the monthly
meeting Of the Defendant Association in the
Washington avenue and 16sth street, s;15
The second annual dance and re,isfon OF
be held. Hotel Pennsylvania, p. NJ.
Nine: Claude Riviere will speak on THE
France" under the auspices Of the womenss
department, National Civic Federation, Cos
mopolitan Club. 1873 East Fortieth street,
Miss LavInia s. Meday will speak on ''rs,o
Constitution Of tho United States" Bowery
william =. Pussyfoop johnson and Will
lam II. Anderson will speak at the union
preachers meeting In Marble Collegiate
Church, Fifth avenue asd Tweny-ninth
Greenwich Village Post. No. IS, the Amsrl-
can Legion. annual ball. Hotel Pennsylvania,
The annual entertainment and ball of the
Thomas A. Williams Democratic organiza-
tion of the Ninth Assembly District will be
held in Palm Garden: Fifty-eighth street
between Lexington and Third avenues. this
Gailiard Hunt win speak on '.The American
Idea" at stated meeting OF the Sons OF
the Revolution, Plaza Hotel, $3.50 p. M.
National Marine Show. Grand Central Pal
The first national conference Of motion pic.
ture and musical interests will open. Hotel
Astor. at 10 A. NJ.
American Game Protective and Propagation
Association, seventh national conference
Prof. Charles zueblin win lecture on
whitman and Manhattan" before the
League for Political Education, at the Town
Hall 1f3 West F'orty-third street. at III A. M
The Peoples Liberty Chorus will hold its
regular meeting and rehearsal In the High
School Of Commerce. 1855 West sixty-fifth
Representative Harold Knutson Of Mime
sofa will speak at dinner Of the New York
Lutheran Society dssron ossl n'IPp POST, second an
nual ball, Waldorf Astoria. p. M.
Henry Bruere will speak on the The
Board OF Estimate and the hoard OF Alder
men," under the auspices or the Women's
City Club, Hotel Nc cAlpin. 8 p. M.
/. Professionai women,s League. meeting.
czccho- -siovak Legation. dinner, Waldorf
Astoria, y +. NJ.
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Lhevinne With Philharmonic.

Josef Lhevinne was the assisting
artist at the Philharmonic Societys con-
cert in Carnegie Hall yesterday play
Ing Liszt's L fiat piano concerto. He
gave a very finished and brilliant per-
formance of the work, and at the close
he was warmly applauded. The or
chestrar numbers were Schumann's First
symphony. which. had been given at one
Of the societys recent Friday concerts;
Smetana's "vltava" and Ippolltov-Ivan-
cv's Caucasian Sketches The or
chestra gave an admirable rendering of
the Smetana poem. The audience filled
the auditorium.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Routine in Public Office.

No man who has served in high
public executive office or who has
known the exhausting routine Of the
labor which falls on the Mayor of a
large city, the Governor Of n State or
the President of the United States in
the performance of what amounts to
purely clerical duties will withhold
his support from the proposal made
by ex-governor SMITH when he
dined Saturday with Governor MIL
LER and the State Bar Association
and urged that some way be devised
to relieve New York's Governor of a
wearing and unnecessary burden.
The Governor Of New York State,
seeking to solve the difficult prob
lens Of 10,3S4 600 citizens has to
give his attention to such matters as
the removal of old furniture from the
Capitol at Albany the appointment
Of railroad policemen, the commits
sioning of notaries public and the re-
lease of convicts who have served
the minimum sentences pronounced
on them. To attend to these matters
takes time and strength, and though
the Governors functions therein are
mere matters Of form, he is COM
PEELED to divert to them energy which
should be put into consideration Of
the big questions he must face.
The fact is that an unnecessary
drain is made on the health and
strength of our political executives
This was referred to feelingly in THE
New YORK HERALD recently by Vice
President MARSHALL in his interest
ing and instructive discussion of life
In Washington. The burden the Pres
ident is called on to shoulder Is crush
ing, and many of the tasks he is
required to do might be transferred
to other officials, elective or appoint
I've, without endangering the public
interest in the least.
In the departments in Washington
ii is notorious that the mere signing
Of their names by the Secretaries re-
quires much time that should be spent
in the study Of public business. SO
onerous is this single obligation that
most of the signing becomes a mere
mechanical act, and If a letter or
document is to be read before signing
by the man whose name 1t is to bear
1t is necessary to put distinguish
ing mark on 1t.
Until Mayor McCLELLAN's admin
istratlon the Mayor of New York city
was legally obligated to write his
signature in person on every single
bond put out by the city, includ-
ing the short term obligations. The
man responsible for the docks, and
the police, and the Street Clean
ing Department, and the Fire De
partment had to lock himself in his
office and sign his name hour after
hour. Mayor MCCLELLAN had the
system changed, and now one of his
appointees can sign for the Mayor.
There should be similar changes in
the State and national governments
The President Of the United States.
the Governors Of the States, the re-
sponsble heads of great public de-
partments should not be chained by
outgrown custom to deadening rou-
tine of clerical work. They should be
free to examine their tasks at leisure,
to give play to their imaginatlons,
TO see in big way the big problems
which confront us. Their vitality
and nervous force should be con
served for the benefit of the people,
who look TO them for leadership, not
for perfunctory performances of un-
necessary physical labor.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Mime. Tetrazzlni,s RecItal.

Nine. Luisa Tetrazzini appeared for
the second time this season in New
York recital at the Hippodrome last
night. She was assisted by Francisco
Longo. pianist; Max Gegna. cellist. and
Henri Bove. fiutist. Her selections In
the list were Thomas's Polonaise from
"Mignon." an air from Bellinis "Son-
nambula" and the Shadow Song from
Meyerbeer's "Dinorah." She gave fur
ther generous number Of encores va
ried In selection. Her splendid voice and
brilliant style again aroused much en-
thusiasm. A great audience filed the
auditorium. including 1000 persons on
the stage.
After the singing of the "Sonnambula"
air large bouquet of American beauty
roses was passed over the footlights to
Nine. Tetrazzini. After bowling her
thanks the singer stepped forward with
the roses in her hand and said: These
are from my dear friend Caruso." Her
announcement was followed by loud ap-
plause.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
Theatre Zone Traffic Rules.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Much
criticism of the new trafflc regulations
in the theatre zone is heard at all cor
ners of the city.
Personally think they are. very badly
arranged. It seems simple enough to
remedy the trouble by having east bound
traffic on the odd number streets and
west bound traffic on the even number
streets. As II is now . driver has TO
stop and consult a map before turning
a corner. q. WILSON FLOOD.
NEW YORK, January "a.
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preserve the historical and religious
monuments Of the country he formed
Department. of Antiquities, which
is to be international In its scope.
This marked, perhaps, the first effort
at systematic exploration of Pales-
tine, for the Turkish regime hindered
more than 1t encouraged archaologi-
cal research, and 1t permitted many
valuable treasures of the past either
to be destroyed or to fall into ruins.-/
To the Mohammedan as well as to
the Christian and the Jew Jerusalem
is holy city, ard PEOPLE of all these
religions have an interest In this
work of research. One of the most
beautiful mosques extant, the Mosque
Of Omar, marks the early advent of
the Moslems in Palestine. The devel-
opment of the Jewish kingdom, 1t is
believed, can be traced by excava-
tions from the Pool of Sloan along
the ridge of Ophel to the site of the
Temple.
Two American universities are es-
pecially interested in Palestine ex-
plorations. One of these plans CON-
plete examination of the ancient for
tress. of Megiddo, which dates back
to the time of the Pharaohs, and the
other will undertake researches in
the region of Beisan in the valley of
the Jordan, point which in ancient
times was considered the key to Pal
estine. The great medieval fortress at
Athlit, on the coast between Haifa
and Ja1fa, which was the most i'm
posing structure left by the Crusaders,
will be restored, if the present plans
of the Government are carried out,
as a memorial to Lord ALLENBY.
The greatest progress in exploration
last year, however, was made at
Ascalon, ON the coast not far from
GAIA. Ascalon was the home of
HERoD the Great, and, according to
ancient history, he enhanced the
beauty Of the city by magnificent build
ings and splendid colonnades. A great
marble structure, believed to be the
temple of the city goddess. was one
Of the wonders discovered The ma
terial for this, 1t is believed, was
prepared on one Of the Greek islands
and brought to Ascalon. One of the
smaller columns recovered weighed
nine tons and the capital alone three
tons. Some Of the other, columns, re-
search disclosed, had been broken up
by natives and carted away for build
ing huts.
The whole of Palestine is rich in
monuments Of the past, and the pres
ent explorers have scarcely more
than made start In revealing them.
These treasures make an appeal for
preservation such as the archaeological
remains of few other countries make,
in that they interest not only the an
tiquarian but also from their human
and religious associations great pro-
portion Of the people of the world.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24

is no way to bring a Hoe press into
the White House. The star must
stay in Marion, and twinkle forth its
daily light. The man who made. it
shine so brightly must be content for
the next few years with the pleasant
memories of his youthful struggle
the battle that brought him not only
success but the greatest
office in the gift of democracy.
The New York herald., 1921-01-24
m, Social whlr, !. the wa.h,sa VALLEY.

Mount Holly correspondence FL Dorado Times.
The dancing wave swept our community
like a tidal wave the last week, the light
fantastic being tripped Monday and Thurs
day nights at Louie Smiths and Tuesday
night az Hamilton Patton's. Wednesday
night At Emory Payne's and Saturday night
at Ang Lewis's. negro tent show inter-
rupted the gayeties Friday night.