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The New York herald., 1921-08-21
Moslem Holy Wars.

A recent message from the Turkish
Nationalist capital, Angora, reports
that the King of Hedjaz, ruler of the
new Moslem state which arose in
Arabia in the world war, has pro-
claimed holy war. The proclama-
tion is directed especially against the
Greeks, but contains n general appeal
for the preservation of Islam. As the
two holiest shrines OF Mohammedan-
ism lie within the territory of He'd
JAZZ there is given to this appeal more
significance than to many previous
proclamations OF so-called holy wars
Orders from either Mecca or Medina
will reach in the shortest possible
time most of the 300. 200, 900 Moham-
medans throughout the world.
The holy war or the jehad has not
infrequently been successfully en-
ployed in the collection of the forces
of Islam in struggle against those
Of an opposing religious faith. 1t is
recognized religious and historical
institution of Mohammedanism the
Prophet himself for the first time
ordered IL when his uncle, ABU
DJAHL, the Moslem Fath hr of Ignor-
ance, led a revolt against the new
religion. The order called to the
holy standard a force OF men and
women who fought the battle of
Maara, which ended in the complete
defeat OF the Prophets enemy. The
holy standard was unfurled in the
battles OF Bedir, Haybe and Honine
and carried MoHAMMED's forces to
victory.
After the Prophets death claimants
seeking his honors and rank fought
for his standard, and each one who
gained its possession used II as a
symbol to win warriors and sup
porters. At the time OF the Crusades
Sultan SALADTN brought forth from
the place where II had been Sc.
cretly hidden for centuries this sa-
cred standard and carried it in the
wars against the Christian invaders.
It was raised again when the Turks
felt that their power in Europe was
endangered by the advance of the
Christian forces under the command
OF JOHN HUNYADT, the Hungarian, and
again It carried Islam to Victory.
Sultan MAHMoup ALI raised the sa-
cred standard when he sought to rid
Turkey OF the JanisarIes. He noti.
fed these troublesome troops that the
Prophets banner was flying at the
court Of Sultan AHMED When they
rushed TO answer the call of the flag
each one was killed as he entered the
gate. As the Janisaries numbered
only 10000. and as the flag. according
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to an old tradition, could be furled
only after 10000 heads had been for
feited, the extra 1000 were supplied
by clipping off the headstones on
Mussulmans' graves.
The sacred standard was not again
unfurled as a signal for holy war
until the entrance of Turkey into the
world war. A holy war was not
called, as has frequently been stated,
in the Russo-Turkish, Italian or Bal
kan wars. 1t was largely through
German influences that the weak,
senile MoHAMMED v. brought in the
Prophets standard from Eyoub and
raised it at the Seraglio gates in
Constantinople as signal for Mos
lem holy war. To much of Islam the
act was looked upon as a lowering
of the Caliphs Office to serve po-
litical purpose and as the desecration
OF a holy symbol. 1t brought no
Moslem allies to Turkeys aid. II
was used by the leaders of the Ara
bian revolutionaries as an argument
for transferring the Caliphate from
Constantinople to Mecca.
Soon after the Nationalists estab-
lished their Government at Angora
their Sheik-ul-Islam proclaimed
holy war and included among Islam's
enemies the Constantinople Govern
ment. The proclamation, issued with
out the Caliph's authority or the sup
port of high religious officials, had
the effect Of driving away rather than
attracting supporters to the Nation
alists' cause. In fact, all recent at
tempts to invoke a Moslem holy war
have been signal failures. 1t is not
that the jehad is no longer a sacred
Moslem institution that they have all
failed, but that the devout Moham-
medan refused to follow the false
prophets in self-seeking adventures.
Besides, he has been rubbing up
against the world recently enough to
cause him to hesitate about accepting
a purely Moslem rule in substitution
for the government under which he
is comfortably living.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21

Representative RossDALE of the
Twenty-third New York district has
introduced a bill which should COM
mand the united support of every
force of influence, municipal, CONNER
cial. social, sentimental or aesthetic,
that enters into the making of public
opinion in this metropolis. :
The measure is entitled "A bill to
tear down and remove the obsolete
structure known as the Post Office or
Federal Building in City Hall Park
at New York, and for other pur-
poses" The structure referred to is
that which was inflicted on New York
during the administration of GRANT
by the architect MULLETT, who loaded
with similar monstrosities the groan-
ing earth in so many other American
cities. The bill provides for the re-
moval of the Mullett monstrosity and
the restoration of the site thereof to
it's lawful owner, the city. for return
to the original park status.
There never was a clearer case of
combined right and expediency. The
occasion and purpose which led to
the loan by the city to the United
States Government of this invaluable
area Of breathing space in the most
congested part of Manhattan has ad-
mittedly lapsed.
The mechanism OF the postal SER
vice requires other arrangements.
The ugly building is archaic and
inadequate even for secondary pur-
poses, such as the accommodation of
courts and commissions and other
Federal agencies which have piled
themselves around and upon the post
Office since that establishment was
enabled by the city's patriotic gen.
Z erosity to move up from Its quarters
in the old Middle Dutch Church in
lower Nassau street.
An attempt, under these circum-
stances, to maintain Federal tenure
at the expense OF the city's manifest
interests by the erection on park land
of new Federal structure not pri-
marily for postal needs would be an
almost unthinkable outrage. The
United States Government cannot af-
ford to become defiant squatter.
THE New YORK HERALD is confident
that the details of the restoration
can be arranged between the Federal
Government and the city authorities
in a manner perfectly equitable and
ultimately satisfactory to both. The
only essential to a settlement which
shall give back our City Hall Park
TO its original beauty and usefulness
is a fixed determination hereabouts
that Mr.. MULLETr must go.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
Fine Horses Owned by Women

Women have had unusual promi-
nence this year as owners of race
horses, and this fact has been re-
ferred to as a sign of the greater free
dom which has come to them in the
last decade.
The champion steeplechaser OF the
year is owned by Deputy Police Com
missioner LOFT, whose Sweepment
has won most Of the big prizes for
jumpers this season. Mrs. Lori has
refused an offer of $4,000 for the
gelding and declines to state the sum
which might possibly tempt her to
part with him.
The chief rival to Sweepment Is
named The Trout He Is the property
of Mrs. f. AMBROSE CLARK of Long
Island, who recently bought him for
s7.700. Saratoga is buzzing with in
terest over the prospects of the meet
ing OF this pair of sterling chasers
In the remaining cross-country events
at that course as well as in the race
IOT tHt DlOOh 1uDs ~ NidbclS loE
jumpers which will be feature of
the September meeting of the West
chester Racing Association at Bel
mont Park.
II is the same way with the trot-
ters. The Championship Stallion
Stake for three-year-olds decided at
Cleveland recently was won by Guar
dian Trust, son OF the Mckinney
horse Belwin. This fine young horse
is owned by Mrs. II. NJ. HANNA, Jr.,
OF Cleveland. who had the courage to
pay $1,000 for him when he was prac-
tically an untried two-year-old
Cleveland ranks high in qualities
OF 1rtsmanship these days, an in
stanc Of which is that Mrs. HARRY
X. = ,EREux. wife OF the president of
the { md Circuit, recently insisted
on having her noted horse Arion
Guy. sord 1903, barred from the
North 1.andall $4,000 stake, which
was q feature OF the meeting held
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Bombs and Battleships.

The report of the joint board of
the army and navy on the bombing
tests off the Virginia capes must re-
mind the layman of the problem of
the conflict between the irresistible
force and the immovable object.
One of the questions which the
tests were to answer was whether the
bombing plane, in its present state.
was a generally adequate weapon
against the battleship of to-day. To
this question the report says. No; not
unless the plane is operated from
land base:
mo planes large enough to carry
a bomb effective against a major ship
have been flown from or landed on
an airplane carrier at sea- 1t Is
probable, however, that future devel-
opments will make such operations
practicable
What of the bombing plane as an
instrument OF coast defence, operat-
ing from the shore? On this point
the plane scores:
Aircraft carrying high capacity
high explosive bombs Of sufficient size
can sink or seriously damage any
naval vessel at present constructed
provided such projectiles can be
placed in the water close alongside
the vessel"
Can battleships be made invulner-
able against aerial attack? Only
through the ships offensive defence,
the board indicates, for it says that
"it will be difficult. If not impossible,
to build any type of vessel of suffi-
cient strength to Withstand the de-
structive force that can be obtained
with the largest bombs that airplanes
may be able to carry from shore
bases"
So If the United States had enough
planes of sufficient capacity no invad.
ing fleet could reach our shores un-
less the enemy ships were equipped
with anti-aircraft guns so marvellous
as to bring down all our fiiers.
As the report remarks, the develop
ment of aircraft "has but added to the
complexity of naval warfare" 1t has
not junked the battleship, for that
must be kept to protect the nation
against blockade. 1t has rendered it
necessary to make the battleship a
carrier of planes and to equip it with
more and more powerful anti-aircraft
guns. Meanwhile the planes must be
made bigger, faster and their locat-
ing instruments more accurate.
The report does not doom capital
ships, but it is for all that a victory
for the advocates of the plane as
tremendous weapon in coast defence.
The United States could have, within
year and at comparatively small
cost, squadron Of bombing planes
that could fly from a shore base and
destroy any battleship that came
within gun range of the coast. That's
a comfort to know, however the sci
entific duel between the builders of
dreadnoughts and the makers OF
planes may result in future.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
A Pioneer of the Klondike.

1t was twenty-five years ago on Au-
gust II that rich strike in the
gravel OF Bonanza Creek, Yukon Ter
ritory, started the great stampede to
the Klondike gold fields. Leaders of
that first onrushing force of pioneers
have been celebrating the event. The
Yukon Order of Pioneers is the name
under which the survivors of those
stirring days of quarter Of CEN
tury ago have organized. Sour
doughs," though, is what they call
themselves for short. At Dawson
City they had parade and a ban
ouet and 1t is quite safe to say that
there was rapid fire interchange of
yarn swapping. Moreover, it is a safe
bet that the yarns were interesting.
The news dispatches do not say
whether or not Mrs. j. T. WILLS was
present. If she is alive and able she
surely ought to have been one OF the
guests. She was a pioneer of the
pioneers. She had pioneered in New
Mexico and in Colorado, and when
the Klondike rush began she was
pioneering in Washington. She was
among the very first who headed for
the new Ell Dorado. She was the
only woman in party of 140 miners
who made the trying two months
journey through about as savage a
country as man ever trod-the coun-
try which separates the Pacific shore
from Dawson.
Arrived at the gold fields she was
up with the first of the men in stalk
ing out a claim. More than that,
after she had her claim she held on to
it, which in those claim grabbing,
claim jumping days demanded a
grown persons alertness and unwa-
vering nerve. Meantime she set up
bakery. Her oven would bake only
two loaves of bread at a time, but
she got a dollar loaf. She was her
own labor union, SO she could work
fourteen hours at a stretch il she
wanted to. and she generally wanted
to make the most Of her chance.
But her activities did not stop
there. She ran laundry as well as
q bakery, and as an incident thereof
did plain sewing for the miners. To
Mrs. ]. 7. Wills belongs the honor
able distinction OF having introduced
the first hard boiled shirt ever worn
in Dawson City. And all this time
she was holding on to her rich placer
claim, with a grip which never for
an instant relaxed. And well for her
that 1t did not. That claim turned
out to be worth s25o,O00 in the end.
or such was the fibre of the Ameri-
can pioneer women who strode side
by side with their fathers, brothers
and husbands through the harsh and
perilous struggles that won our con-
tinent from savagery to civilization.
So IL the Ancient and Honorable
Order of Yukon Sourdoughs contem-
plates the erection of any monuments
it may be respectfully suggested that
the claims of Mrs. j. T. WILLS be not
overlooked.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
Bobbed Hair Condemned.
A Bar to the Serene Confidence Born
Of Harmonious Dress.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The
woman who has her hair bobbed can
never wear stylish clothes or stylish
hats to the best advantage. The proper
tout ensemble Is possible only when the
hair Is appropriately dressed.
Just as tho smoking OF cigarettes
saps the energy and ambition of the
smoker and at the same time blunts
the moral sense, Just so does the bob
bing OF woman's hair deprive her of
that dignity essential to the maxine of
a favorable impression.
A bobbed head can never appear dig
nihed nor can one who wears her hair
bobbed enjoy that inward feeling OF
serene confidence which comes over the
woman who knows she is groomed cor
rectly. II. J. WILLIAMS
BROOKLYN. August 20.
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IIarbOr.

I drop my anchor in the bay
Where gentle little ripples are.
And in the water and the sky
I glimpse the placid evening star.
Outside / watch the tall ships pass.
Their thin sails dip and disappear,
And / can watch them endlessly
Nor fret because linger here.
/ who have sailed on many seas
In sun and storm and storm and sun,
Now stay in harbor quite content
Though all my venturings arc
Yet II passing ship should hail
think the eager heart OF me
Would turn from love of peaoefulnees
And break because II was not free.
Abigail w CREssoN.
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Treating Servants Well.
Solution Of Domestic Difficulties
Found In a New jersey Home.

To THE NEW York HERALD: have
kept house in a modest way for eight
years. 1 do not boast of buffers and
chefs. but l employ one of that nearly
extinct species, general houseworker.
have never had any trouble or delay
In getting maid and I have never had
one come In one day and go out the
next not even the next week or the
next month. In the eight years / have
had three maids.
OF course there is a certain element
of good luck in all this. but / lay my
good fortune to the method l practise.
servants are people.
In the first place. in my trips to the
employment Office refuse to talk to any
applicant without several really good
references. Those being satisfactory
make our interview an explicit account
of the advantages and disadvantages OF
the place. ! paint a plain and practi-
cal picture and ] use no rose color for
a lure. When they come to me l give
them a cool. clean room. plenty of clean
linen and first class bed. am lib
eral about their food l buy fruit for
the kitchen and pastries too. The cream
bottle and--in the happy past--the wine
bottle have been the only prohibited
articles.
! allow my maid to get out some part
of each day. No one can be healthy
and happy without fresh air and recrea-
tion. ] give several weeks vacation
with pay.
In return for this l have had loyal
and honest service, exquisite cleanli-
ness and neither waste. impertinence nor
complaint.
1t Is the ignorant. inhuman house,
keeper with her petty rules and her un-
reasonable demands that has made do
mestic service a thing of ignominy and
discomfort, driven many OF the best SER
wants into factories and caused wages to
rise beyond reason on account of the
dwindling supply of help.
would like to see the day when the
prospective maid will demand of her
possible employer a reference from her
last maid as to her human kindliness
and ability to handle employees. When
1 hear the pitifuI tales OF dozens Of
women who slave in the kitchen because
they cannot get or keep maids I'm not
one bit sorry for my sex I'm ashamed.
c. ".
UPPER MoNrcLAIR, N. j., August 20.
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of the Greek treasury and he was
lighting the politicians at a time
when Greek politics was about as
corrupt as any in the world. Financ-
ing the Cretan revolution had been
expensive Although RHALLYs be-
lieved implicitly in VENIzELos's hon.
esty, he considered that much of
the money had never got beyond the
hands of corrupt ring. He did not
have much faith in the successful
working out of VENIzELos's scheme OF
Greater Greece, principally, per-
baps, because of his extreme conser-
vatism in international politics. But
however much he disliked VENIzELos
he hated CONSTANTINE more, and very
likely the most unpleasant task which
ever fell to the old man was that of
calling the plebiscite on the question
of CoNsrANT1NE's return to the
throne.
1t was perhaps with no feeling OF
regret that RHALLYs early this year
gave up the Premiership. Politics
had cost him his fortune and his
business; OF all that he once pos
sessed there remained only a little
farm and the once grand home on
University street, Athens. The mort
gage on this house, which was many
years overdue, was at last closed and
RHALLYs went to his farm. He could
now feed his goats and fowls and
feel assured they would get their full
share. He always had a suspicion
that the men he hired for this
job were like the old time Greek poll
ticians-they took their own share
first and the goats and fowls got
what was left. RHALLYs will live In
the memory of Greece as dear old
man." the title which he gained
quarter of a century ago and which
afterward he ever held.
The New York herald., 1921-08-21
The Trail.

BY hill and dale there Is a trail
That leads my vagrant footsteps far /;
And IL perchance my courage fail
There Is the ever beckoning star
The beckoning star. the guiding sun,
And sooth, why should ask for more
The pathways to oblivion
Stretch on and on before.
Oblivion. or the bourne of dreams
Serene within the afterglow,
Where Joy sits by the singing streams,
And there is peace for friend and foe.
So, high of heart. I take the trail:
So. sure of soul. make the quest.
But at the end. whate'er prevail.
/ needs must bow to what is best
CLINTON scoLLARp.
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Ny Ivory Carving.

] see herd OF elephants that slowly
plod along
A road that lies forsaken in the sullen
heat OF day.
l hear the silence broken by a bullets
ugly song
And watch the leader dying as the
others rush away!
see bare chested traders on a beach
beside their boat.
Who hag-'o with some natives for a
single ivory tusk.
watch them laugh and take their prize
and set their ship afioat
Across the bay to China through the
opal tinted dusk.
see a Chinese carver then. an ancient
man named Lee.
Who holds the tusk before his eyes
and dreams creative dreams
OF figures that lie dormant In its white
solidity.
While on its polished surfaces the
summer sunlight CLEANS.
He looks about the garden where he al
ways sits. and sees
So many fair and lovely things that
he might initiate.
The iris shadowed flowers and the bird
wooed cedar trees.
And sleepy wooden Buddha smiling
knowingly at fate.
But none of these inspires his mood,
and so the old man signs
Until he catches sight of one wee
maiden whom he knows.
His little grandchild Tama. with her
laughing. almond eyes,
Who wears against her teak black
hair a single crimson rose.
The carver takes his instrument, and
very. very soon
Another Tama steps with grace from
out the ivory.
A tiny, pure white maiden who has seen
the Chinese moon
Before they sent her travelling across
vast seas to me.
ahow her to my Western friends and
all they ever say
Is Certainly exquisite and how very
we'll It's done!"
But, oh how few see elephants and
traders, far away.
And Lee. the ancient carver. watch
ing Tama in the sun.
VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY.
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Motor Tax at Long Beach.
Automobilists Asked to Buy Parking
Tags at 95 Cents Each.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: When
visiting Long Beach by car one is
stopped as one enters the town by a
parking officer" and asked to pay Is
cents for n parking tag which has
printed plainly upon It This Is not
compulsory" On talking with the OFF,
Ger I was told that the money SO coll
lectod does not 20 10 the town for the
upkeep of the roads or the like but
rather into the pockets OF a corporation.
This was frankly admitted and we were
threatened with arrest for parking in
correctly" IL we refused to pay
II my information Is correct. this
practice should be stopped.
KENNETH A. BERNARD
NEW YORK, August 90.
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few days ago. 1t was the original
intention to bar only Peter Manning,
which took a record against time Of
2:00A, and which is generally recog
nized as the champion of the year at
the diagonal gait. For her action
Mrs. DEvEREUx has been widely
praised. and if good wishes could ef-
feet the result her splendid young
horse would trot to record of two
minutes or better before the close of
the year.