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The New York herald., 1921-09-30
BOYS WRECK A MOTOR;
JUST MISS FAST TRAIN
Send Parked Car Down a IS
Foot Embankment.

Freddie stepped on something and /
pulled something. and away we went"
That was the explanation made by
one of two boys arrested yesterday for
having started an automobile parked
near the New Haven Railroad station at
Mount Vernon. and wrecking 1t down the
fifteen foot embankment leading from
the street to the tracks. The automo-
bile Just missed crashing into an express
train.
The boys leaped from the car when
they saw it was about to go down the
embanlsment.
They are Richard Robinson. II, negro,
Of A North Third street. and Frederick
Aggonizzo, IA. of % North Fourth ave-
nue.. Mount Vernon. They denied any
Intention of stealing the car I'VE were
just trying 1t out" Robinson told the
police. They said they tried to stop the
car. but gave UP when 1t crashed through
the fence.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
GERMANY NOW READY
TO RATIFY PEACE PACT
Reichstog Commission to
Urge Approval of Treaty.
BIZ the Associated Presa.


BERLIN, Sept. 29.-The Foreign Affairs
Commission of the Reichstag to-day
gave its approval to the ratification of
the peace treaty with the United States.
and an official bulletin announced that
the committee, on recommendation of
the chairman, Herr Stresemann, voted
In favor of instructing the Reichstag to
approve the treaty as negotiated.
-Four of the members of the commits
sion. whose party affiliations were not
announced, declined to cast ballots. The
treaty will be made the regular order
OF business at Fridays session of the
Reichstag, and the Government hopes
to have all three readings OF the bill
passed.
An explanatory note which was sup
piled TO the members of the Reichstag
defends the Governments action In
signing an indefinite but comprehensive
agreement on the ground that Germany
was severely restricted by the contents
OF the Porter-knox peace resolution. but
lays stress on the Importance which may
attach 10 the future negotiations through
which definite relations must be estab-
iished.
Particular emphasis is laid on the ad-
vantage OF retYtablishing the diplomatic
services In the two countries, the lack
or which has seriously handicapped bust
ness. Admitting the German Govern
ment has bean unable to secure an ex-
preston OF the policy of the United
states regarding confscated German
property, the memorial asserts the
United states mas indicated desire for
- <xst and satisfactory adjustment OF
this question. which, II says. "the Ameri-
can Government held could be best OBJ
tained through the signing of peace,
which VIII break the way for further
negotiations"
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
SHOCKED
TO EFFECT CURES
Sometimes 1t Is With Elec-
tricity and at Other Times
With Hammers.

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD.
CHICAGO, Sept. pa shocking" ex-
hibition of the methods of modern doc
tors was given before 300 members OF
the American Association for Medico-
Physical Research gathered here to-day
for their tenth annual convention.
A young woman was put on a table.
her chest was weighted down with sand
bags and current OF electricity was
sent through her. A man was put in an
electrically charged chair. his bare feet
resting on a tinplate. his bare hands
resting on tin balls which surmounted
each chair arm. He, too, was shocked
while the doctors looked on with un-
concealed interest at the way his toes
wriggled and his eyebrows twitched un-
der the influence of the electric cur
rent.
IT'S all the rage now" DR.. ]. +.
Rover of Waukegan declared. He Is
secretary of the organization, which has
as its aim the annihilating of chronic
electricity and machinery instead of b.
drugs.
DIR. Elnora G.. Falkmore OF Washing
ton. D. c., had the floor OF the conven-
tion for a demonstration of diathermy,
meaning treatment by electricity. She
1t was who shocked volunteer patients
with an assamblage OF machinery re-
sembling high powered wireless OUT
fit. She had some difficulty persuading
the young woman whom she later sand
bagged to come forward
AS the doctor went on with the demon
stration she told of cases she had cured.
One asthma case was cured by ham,
mering the patients backbone with n
small hammer. The doctor explained
that the patients wife hit him every
night with the hammer on the third
dorsal.' and in five days he reported he
needed no more treatment.
DR.. f. c. f. Schneider of Peru. Ill.
read a paper explaining how he selects
remedies and diet lists by percussion.
He explained this morning that his sys-
tenn is similar to testing a water melon
by hitting It. IL there Is no sound when
tn, patient Is hit it means something or
other which the public could not under
stand, and IL there is a sound 1t means
something else, also very technical
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
NO REAL PROHIBITION HERE.
SAY ENGLISH LABOR NJ. P.,S
Suppression of the Saloon, However Regarded as an
Achievement for Which America
Should Be Thankful

beverages. the bitter an!moslty aroused
by its more drastic efforts would not
have been provoked"
The report declares. IF ever ii is
sought to impose similar law on our
statute books the electors must see to
IL that 1t is not planted upon them in
the dark. but that its acceptance shall
be only after a full opportunity Is af-
forded for its adequate consideration.
and 1t is submitted for their approval
and consent in constitutional manner" /"
People who are in a position to know,
continues the report. have described
America as "a bootleggers' paradise" )"
and goes on to say. I'VE were constantly
driven to the conviction that the result
ant consequences on the morals OF the
people boded III for the future, particu-
larry as regards the rising generation" /"
mass Of information on both sides
OF the question was furnished these
members of Parliament. and. it Is as
serted. for every claim advanced by
prohib.tionists it is possible TO present
conflicting views"
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
COLUMBIA FRESHIES
ENLIVEN BROADWAY
Interclass Scrimmagc Blocks
Traffic and Crowds Watch
Series Of Battles.

Roll up your trousers 10 your knees
and shout We want milk :" was the
first bit OF instruction given to the in>
coming freshman class at Columbia Col
iege yesterday morning. When the new
men demurred at this order from the
sophomores, Broadway, near li6th
street, was used as an arena for an
interclass scrimmage. Urged on by
crowd, several hundred underclassmen
rolled in the street and on the car
tracks. Surface cars and automobiles
were compelled to halt while the battle
lasted.
Then. with their trousers rolled to
their knees, the freshmen were ordered
to parade up Broadway toward Barnard
College. Arrived under the windows Of
the women's college the two classes
again engaged in a hand to hand scuf-
file. Still another conflict between the
classes was staged before the 9 o'clock
bell gave the signal for the opening Of
the academic year In tussle before
the women's dormitory in Broadway
a crowd of students made a concerted
rush on a wooden fence which sur
rounds South Field. the university ath-
letic field. Three sections Of the seven
foot wooden fence gave way before the
weight of 200 struggling men and threw
them sprawling TO the ground.
Unruly freshmen received decorations
in the way of iodine painted on their
foreheads. and the more recalcitrant
were compelled to push pennies with
their noses along 116th street.
The first year class, many Of whose
members arrived by way of the sub
way, were greeted by the sophomores
early in the morning and ordered to
outfit themselves with the regulation
black freshman caps. A copy of the
freshman rules was sold to each man
with instructions that they be learned
and obeyed Immediately.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
DIR. HARE SEES GOOD
In ALCOHOL DRINKS
Noted Surgeon Calls Beer or
Whiskey Both Food and
Valuable Drug.
ESSENTIAL IN SOME CASES
Tells KiwaE; Club Bulk of
People Should Not Suffer
for a Few Rotters.'
ESSENTIAL IN SOME CASES

ATLANTIC CITY. Sept. 29-"Alcohol in
the form of whlskey or beer is food
and a valuable drug. I am in favor Of
it and against prohibition. The human
race has used alcohol since the world
began. and 1t has been good for them"
That was asserted here to-day by DR..
Hobart A. Hare of the Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia. and one Of the
most noted surgeons in the country.
when he spoke at luncheon of the
Kiwani Club.
II don't see why" he said. IL l or
any one else wants a nip we should be
deprived OF 1t because of few rotters
whose removal from the world by excess
sive drinking would be something to be
desired. alcohol increases efficiency
when used in moderation. 1t is bene-
ficial 1t is much better, for example,
to use 1t to induce sleep than chlorals or
bromides. 1t gives energy which aids
the digestive organs rather than harms
them.
IF you are physician and called
ir to attend diabetic patient and knew
that the only thing that would save him
was a couple of ounces of whiskey a
day then you would realizez the danger
of prohibiting the use of whiskey.
DIR. Hare strongly advocated the use
OF beer. He declared that it was inn
possible to get intoxicated on 2.75 per
cent products. He sharply criticised
the prohibition law in general and par
ticularly that part which distinguishes
between classes of physicians
IF you go to get an alcohol permit"
he said, they ask you If you are an al
lopath or homeopath. According to the
prohibition law an allopath is entitled
to one-half gallon of whskey year
and homeopath sixteen gallons. This
is ridiculous"
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
PERCIVAL WILDE SUES
FOR BLOWUP OF BOTTLE
Says 1t Exploded and Injured
His Eye and EyeIid.

Percival Wilde. author and playwright,
bought ten bottles of caroonated water
on August IL last from the Carl ii.
Schultz beverage corporation. They were
delivered to his home In Ill West
Eighty-sixth street He put one Of the
bottles on ice. Ten minutes later. as he
passed the icebox, there was an eX-
plosion--something cut his right eye.
and after a surgeon stitched it he found
he could not raise the lid except by
using his fingers, and then he saw
double.
Mr.. Wilde has had one operation to
correct this defective vision and two
more are necessary. he declares in suit
for $4,000 damages begun yesterday in
the Supreme Court. He says the bottle
that exploded was overcharged
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
FAST CRUISER LAUNCHED
AT THE CRAMP YARDS
The Richmond Designed for
Manifold Duties.

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 29.-The Light
scout cruiser Richmond was launched at
the Cramp ship yard here at noon to-
day. The sponsor was Miss Elizabeth
Strother Scott of Richmond Va.
The Richmond was designed to be one
of the fastest OF its class in the navy
and to be capable Of the combined
duties of scout cruiser, flotilla leader.
mine layer and airplane carrier.
The tanker Dixie Arrow, built for the
Standard Transportation Company, New
York. was launched at the New YORK
ShipbuiIding plant in Camden, y. J /,
to-day
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
PRINTERS TO MEET SUNDAY.

Notices were sent yesterday TO mem
bers of the big Six" local Topographic
cal union for a meeting to be held 1T
Yorkvillc Casino Sunday afternoon to
consider the order of the international
officers directing the union to submit
a new wage scale to arbitration. The
order was issued Wednesday night after
q series of conferences with the New
York Employing Printers Association.
The present scale of $50 a week will
remain In effect until December /. and
IL a decision Is deferred until after
that date the award will be made retro
active.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
Iowa Mother Has Fifth
Set of Twins in 8 Years

Special Despatch TO THE New York HERALD.
WESTON, Iowa, Sept. 29.-
Mrs. Rose McCombs, wife of
a farmer living near here, is the
mother of the fifth set of twins
in eight years. All the ten chill
dren are well. A sister of Mrs.
McCombs, Mrs. Annie Forbes of
Sioux City, recently became the
mother Of her second set of trip
lets. Another sister of Mrs. Nc
Combs, who lives in Sacramento,
CAL, has two sets of twins.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
DRUGGISTS AGAINST BOOZE.
Convention of Wholesalers OFFER
Aid I'm Enforcing Law.

ATLANTIC CRY, Sept. 2s.-The Ma
tional Wholesale Druggists Association
at the closing session of it's annual
convention to-day offered its nationwide
strength to the United States Govern
ment to help enforce the prohibition
laws, discussed plans for preventing
fires and announced its willingness to
help the railroads by waiting until the
costs are lower to demand lower
freight rates.
1T is the opinion OF the convention
attended by 800 delegates representing
an invested capital of many million dol
lars. that the competition of the price
cutting, bootlegging drug stores is the
greatest menace to the drug business.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
4 PRISONERS DENIED PAROLE.

Four prisoners for whom no employ
ment could be found outside prison walls
were refused parole yesterday at Sing
Sing although their minimum sentences
will have expired before the parole
board meets again. They are August
Hoffman. convicted of assault in The
Bronx: Esa Miro. convicted OF grani
larceny in Brooklyn. Leopold Thomas
mick. convicted or receiving stolen
goods in Brooklyn. and Isidor Post. con-
victed OF the same offence in Manhat-
tan
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
GASOLINE FIRE INJURIES TWO.

Jack Kalmowitz. 23, of 1871 Anthony
avenue. was burned seriously yesterday
and his father, Isaac. As. burned slight
ly when a gasolene hose caught fire at
their garage. 943 East 176th street. The
younger man was taken to Fordham
Hospital by DR.. Kelly. The police say
Kalmowitz was filling the tank of a car
owned by Hugh Parker of 1887 Vyse
avenue. and that some one in the garage
was smoking.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
ERASED W. s. S. NUMBERS.
Two Brokers Convicted, Sentence
Delayed Pending Appeal.

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 3e.-Thomas CAL
len and Hugh J. McHugh. securities
brokers of this city. were to-day con-
victed In the Federal District Court
on charges of eradicating the registra-
tion numbers OF war saving stamps
stolen from the Bank OF Sussex and
Surrey. Wakefield. Va.
After the numbers were removed the
stamps were e1shed at the PHILADELPHIA
Post office for s532 by other persons.
Sentence was deferred pending motion
for a new trial.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
BOYS KILLING ACCIDENTAL.

Paul Altman. II student of the Rich
mond Hill High School. who on Satur
day shot and killed Paul Pannhorst. %,
OF Morningsde and Barrett streets. Ja-
maica. while they were shooting frogs
at Lilly Pond. was freed Of the hom-
eide charge yesterday by Magistrate
Doyle in the Jamaica court. The police
declared they were convinced that The
shooting was accidental.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
ROBERT I. MAN COMPETENT.
Jury Finds He IN Able to Care for
His PrOpcrty.

Robert !. Man of Richmond Hill was
declared competent to take care of his
property by a jury yesterday in the
Queens County Court. An application
to have him adjudged incompetent was
made by his brother. Alban p. Man.
Man went on the stand and showed that
he had wide knowledge of financial
affairs and particular knowledge Of his
own property.
Man is a member OF a well known
family of Queens. His father. together
with other members Of the family. laid
out and developed Richmond Hill and
Kew Gardens.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
PRATT INSTITUTE Celebrates.

Founders day exercises we're held
yesterday at the Emmanuel Baptist
Church at Lafayette avenue and St.
James place. Brooklyn. In honor of
Charles Pratt. who established Pratt
Institute. now in its thirty-fifth year
One thousand students and friends at
tended.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
SHEA READY roR CAMPAIGN.

John $. Shea, Republican-C Coalition
candidate for Sheriff of New York
county. will open headquarters at the
Hotel Marlborough to-day. jeremiah
p. Donohue. assisted by Mrs. Elizabeth
j. Cudmore, will manage the campaign
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
BILLION MARKS OPPAU Loss.

BERLIN, Sept. 30. - Latest estimates
fix the material damage resulting from
the recent explosion at the Badische
AnilinfabrilS Company's plant at Oppau
at 900 900 600 marks
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-18

OF bills secured by United States Gov
eminent obligations. s315.900.000. or
1871 per cent, were secured by Liberty
and other United States bonds about
Ssh 100000, or 1873 per cent, by Victory
notes. 16.500,000. or 3.S per cent, by
Treasury notes, and SlS.500000. or 4.3
per cent, by Treasury certificates, COM
pared with 1881 500. oOo $90,000,000.
$4,000 600 and s15.S00.000 respectively
reported the week before.
Further reductions from sci 200, 900 to
S13,900,000 occurred in the amount of
paper held under rcGi5count for other
reserve banks by the Boston. New York
and Cleveland banks. Richmond reports
s., 900, 900 bills rediscounted with the
New York Reserve Bank the amount re-
ported on the previous Wednesday. At
lanta's rediscounted bills with the Bos-
ton and Cleveland banks fell from $l0,-
100000 to 100000. while Dallas re-
duced its rediscounts with the Boston
bank from $500, 900 to under 81. 900 900.
Government deposits are $4,000
larger than the week before. Reserve
deposits increased by s3900.00O, while
other deposits, composed largely OF non
members clearing accounts and CASH
iers' checks, went up $,600.Q0o
Federal Reserve note circulation de-
clined for The week by So 600. eco. mainly
in consequence OF substantial retire.
ments by the Eastern Reserve banks
and the Reserve bank OF Chicago. The
November 16 total of s., $685. 10000 rep
resents a new low record for the year
and a reduction OF almost 30 per cent.
from the peak attained on December q
OF last year. Aggregate net liabilities
of the Federal Reserve banks on Fed
eral Reserve Bank notes In circulation
declined s5,700,c00, as against reduc-
ton Of slightly over 100000 in actual
circulation OF these notes reported by
the Treasury.
The following table shows the condi-
ton OF the twelve banks in the Reserve
system at the close OF Wednesdays BUSH
ness, at the close of business on Novem-
Der 0 and at the close of business on
November 10, 1920:
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-18
MONEY ANOMALY EXPLAINED.
Bank Discusses Short Term Funds
and Country Loans

An explanation of the plethora of
funds for short time investment only con-
trasted with the relatively high rates
maintained in the agricultural regions
OF the country, where available funds are
limited, is given by the National Bank
OF Commerce in statement issued yes
terday.
On the one hand, country banks carry
large amounts of farm mortgages and
other non-lquid obligations, and in many
cases these banks will require funds 10
meet the need of the next crop year, now
not far ahead.
On the other hand, the large volume
Of money available for short-time in
vestment is partly the result of the I'M
satisfactory business situation. Manu-
facturers and merchants who have liaui-
dated their stocks find themselves with
idle fl Ids because there is so narrow a
market for their product that they can
not keep their funds employed in their
own operations. Such money is available
for short-t.me investment only.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-18
HOOKING VALLEY ROAD
RESUMES DIVIDENDS
First Among Lines to Reflect
Improved Business.

Directors OF the Hooking Valley Rail
road yesterday declared a dividend OF
per cent, payable December 81, on its
$11,000,000 stock to holders OF record
December 8. Six months ago the COM
pany omitted the semi-annual dividend
of 2 per cent. The Hooking Valley. of
all the roads that have cut or passed
dividends since the recession IN BUSH
ness, is the first to resume dividends.
w. j. Harahan, presid ent of the com
pany. said the directors had decided
that conditions warranted the resump-
ton of payments and that earnings for
October would show a considerable i'm
provement over September.
Mr.. Harahan declined to say whether
the announcement foreshadowed similar
action by the Chesapeake and Ohio to.
day. The passing of the semi-annual
dividend by the Hooking Valley last
spring was followed closely by the
omission of the disbursement OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio, which owns $8,-
$4,000 of the formers stock.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-18
STEEL INSTITUTE TO MEET.
FOch VIII BE Guest at Banquet to
Follow This Evening.

The twentieth general meeting of the
American Iron and Steel Institute will
be held to-day in the Hotel Commodore
Speakers at the banquet in the evening
in honor of Marshal Foch include Judge
Ebert II. Gary, chairman of the United
States Steel Corporation, and Charles M
Schwab. chairman OF the Bethlehem
Steel Company. Although most of the
speeches will be presumably devoted to
the eulogy OF the Commander in Chief
OF the Allied Armies, something of mo-
ment respecting the navy cut is likely to
be said.
The forenoon and afternoon sessions
OF the institute will include speech
by Judge Gary, its president, and adj
dresses OF o technical character by
prominent men in the steel trade.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-18
SEES BIG TRADE IN FAR EAST.
Japanese Tells Visiting Mission of
Hone in Washington Farley.

'If the present conference in Washing
ton will successfully conclude Far East
ern questions and lead to more stabilized
conditions in that region. there is no tell
ing how huge international trade will
grow in that field"
SO said Kanso Manic. managing d.
rector of Mitsui & Co, at luncheon
given yesterday by the New York Stock
Exchange at India House. in honor of
the japanese mission visiting this coun-
try Addresses also were delivered by
Seymour Cromwell, president OF the
Stock Exchange Arthur II. Marsh. edi-
tor Of the Economic World: Mr.. Mat
sumato, a director in many Japanese in
dustries, and Theodore III. Price, editor
OF Commerce aud Finance. NJ. L. John
son of the Stock Exchange, presided.
The mission visited the Produce and
Cotton exchanges.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-18
CUTS IN RAIL RATES
TOTAL $SOO,OOO,OOO
Large Sum to Come Off Coun.
try's Freight Bill in Year
il Board Acts.

The railroads will be in posittol to
make further rate reductions of about
$500. 100000 annually in the event that
the Railroad Labor Board grants their
request for a reduction in the pay of all
classes of railway employees. the Asso-
citation of Railway Executives announced
yesterday.
The amount would be in addition to
the s55. 000.0 reduction in the rates on
farm products to which the carriers
have committed themselves in advance
of action on wages by the Labor Board.
Since. the. last general increase in
freight rates in 1920 the roads have re-
duced rates on a wide range of commodi-
ties, the net result of which has been
the decrease of their operating revenues
by between S175.000.000 and $200.000,-
900 on the yearly basis.
These rate reductions and the esti-
mated yearly loss of revenue through
each were as follows: Domestic grain
and grain products, $25,000.000; export
grain, SIS, 1000, 900; Western fruits and
vegetables. $25,000,000; iron ore. $751;
100000; lake coal, $22.400,000; sand.
gravel, road and building materials, $780,
1000 export iron and steel. $3,000,-
600; Western lumber. $10,000,000; mis-
cellaneous, s25, 900, 900 to s50,000.000.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-18
TO FIGHT A TAX ON GIFTS.
business Men I'm Letter Protest to
Representative Fordney.

The Committee Of Business Men sent
yesterday to Representative Fordney a
letter OF protest against the proposed
tax on gifts. terming 1t one more link
in the Iron chain around enterprise"
The letter. supported by such men as
William Forbes Morgan, l.. +. Loree.
Henry w. dc Forest, Otto II. Kahn,
Charles A. Peabody and others, says
in part:
Such an amendment not only acts to
drive capital out OF business, but fur
Their discourages investment and enter
prise, and with the high surtaxhs. cor
poration taxes and inheritance taxes,
emphasizes the fact that the Legislative
tendency is to lessen n mans power
and control over that small percentage
OF his income and wealth which is left
TO him after the Government is through
with him."