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Better Training for Mechanics.

! 1t is proposed to hold conference
in Philadelphia to discuss methods
for restoring the apprentice system of
training young men in the trades.
There is complaint that this system
has been greatly restricted by labor
organizations and that there is lax
ity in admitting the unframed to
employments for which they are not
qualified.
The result has been a deterioration
in the quality of output as well as
falling off in the morale of men en-
ployed. AS a consequence good, well
trained mechanics are scarce In pro-
portion to industrial needs, and they
are all the time growing scarcer.
This is bad for the mechanics and
bad for the country. High wages
and prospective advancement are the
rewards of skill. To the attainment
of skill there is no royal road. 1t is
acquired only by conscientious appli-
cation under equally conscientious
instruction.
1t is the purpose of those back Of
the apprentice conference movement
to provide ways and means for ap-
prentice training and instruction
which shall be thrown open to all,
irrespective of any limitations which
have been imposed by certain crafts.
With more and better mechanics the
country's industrial output will be
larger and better. On the other
hand, ill directed, circumscribed, hap
hazard mechanical training of en-
ployees, from which our industries
have suffered more or less, means a
serious national handicap in the
sharp world competition ahead.
The matter of improvement in this
respect has been taken UP by the in
dustrial committee of the Philadel-
phia Chamber OF Commerce. 1t has
Intercepted many boards Of trade
and it has digested a mass of data
assembled by experts employed for
the purpose. The conclusions reached
are that large proportion of the
young men in the various Industries
merely drift in with wholly made
quate training; that they never ac-
quire skill proportionate to their
natural capacities; that, as a conse-
quence. they do not prosper person
ally as they should and do not pro-
duce the wealth the country might
expect from them. Some of the ex-
perts estimate that 60 per cent. Of
the younger mechanics in this coun-
try are thus handicapped.
The responses which have come to
the Philadelphia committee have been
encouraging. There is distinct prom
ise OF valuable results from the pro-
posed conference, and this not merely
for Philadelphia but nationwide in
inspiring similar efforts in all the
great industrial centres.
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There have been great campaign
ers among the trotters and PAGERS
since the days of Goldsmith Maid,
2.14, but none has surpassed the
pacing stallion Single G, 1859, by
Anderson Wilkes, now one of the at
fractions of the Grand Circuit owing
to repeated demonstrations of ex-
IRENE speed and enduring quality.
Season after season finds this game
and fast Indiana stallion contending
pluckily for track honors, and when
there are no opportunities to dis
play his powers over a mile track
he takes to the twice arounds," as
the half mile courses are called, and
wins purses for his owner. WILLIAM
BAREFOOT of Cambridge City, in a
way that makes him valuable pos
session, the flow of dollars beginning
with the opening of the season and
not ending until the coming of snow
and frost.
1t is not to be wondered at that
Single G is highly treasured MEM
Der OF the Hoosier horseman's fam
lily. No offer, and some offers have
been large, has been sufficient to in
duce Mr.. BAREFOOT to part with his
honest horse.
An idea Of Single G's quality as a
racehorse may be CLEANED from a
record compiled by experts of the
Chicago Horse Reuieto for THE New
YORK HERALD. 1t shows that he was
not sensational three-year-old when
he began racing in 1913, the one time
champion William, 1889, defeating
him on two OCCASIONS, but he won four
races out of eight starts. Year by
year he improved, winning ten races
in 1914 as four-year-old, seven in
1915 as a five-year-old, five In 1916 as
a six-year-old, seven in 1917 as seven
year-old, ten in 1918 as an eight-year.
old, four in 1919 as a nine-year-old,
nine in 1920 as ten-year-old and
four so far this year as an eleven
year-old. This makes total of sixty
races won. In his last start at Kala-
mazoo, Michigan, last Thursday, he
won the first heat in 2:001s.
He is apparently as good as ever
this season, as he has won all his
starts, and In the first race over the
half mile course at Canton, Ohio, he
paced the first heat in 2:03A, low.
ering the record for the State over
half mile course from the 1904 OF
Dan Patch. At Toledo he paced in an
even two minutes. Single CTS record
OF 1: 80 was made in race at Atlanta
on October 90, 1920. when he paced
three heats in 1859, 200 and 2:00%
an average of 1:59ta for three heats
"a notable accomplishment in the
face of predictions that no harness
horse would ever go a mile in two
minutes.
Single G. has given the racing pub
lie many thrills. In a race at Lex.
ington a few years ago En- GEERs
got up behind the horse at a mo-
ment's notice and defeated in sensa-
tlonal fashion one of the strongest
folds of PAGERS that could be brought
together. Those who were fortunate
enough TO see GEERs and Single q
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BIZ the Associated Presa.


PARIS, July 22.-The Journal Offictsl
to-day publishes list of persons who
have been awarded medals by the Gov
eminent as a mark of gratitude for
work performed for France In connec-
ton with postwar relief activities.
Prominent among those decorated Is
Myron 7. Herrick. the American Am
bassador. who receives the vermeil
medal for his services In the develop
ment Of postwar works for French
heroes. The Lafayette Memorial Fund
is also awarded similar medal, with
special mention for its work among
French children, and one is given to
Raoul Dandurand Of Montreal, president
of the France-America Committee.
Silver medals are awarded to Mrs.
Atwood. president OF the American
Girls Aid Organization of New York;
Jules Maiihos of Montevideo. Uruguay;
Frederick Newbold. chairman of tho
Vacation War Relief Committee of New
York; Lloyd S. Smith of New York.
Mariana de Unzue of Buenos Aires. Ar
gentina, and Mrs. Grace Wallace, presi-
dent of the Belgian Relief Committee Of
Plainfield. N. J.
Bronze medals are given to Mrs.
Beatrice Awde of the American Fund
for French Wounded. WATERFOWL. N. Y;
Hugo Barbagelata. Uruguayan author !;
Gertrude Bean Of the Fund for French
Wounded, Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Louise
Button, of the same fund. Rochester,
N. Y; the Rev. Ernest Bysshe. for or
phanage work In Grenoble, France;
Mrs. Kate Ireland. Cleveland. Ohio;
Lake Lynn Of Fergus Falls. Minnesota ;;
Mrs. Winifred Mackenzie, Columbus.
Ohio; Mrs. Hildegarde Mackittrick. st.
LOUIS. Mo-. Mrs. e. l.. Pierce, Syracuse
N. Y; Mrs. Sarah Richmond, Science
tady. N. Y: Mrs Constance Sargent,
Boston. Mass. Mrs. Frances Simmons,
Grand Rapids. Mich: Mrs. T. Taylor,
Thwaites, Madison, Wis.
All the following receive decorations
in connection with the work OF the
American Fund for French Wounded:
Isabel Chalfont. Pittsburgh, Pa; Mrs.
Elizabeth Chambers, New York; Mrs.
Bessy du Pont, Wilmington, Del; Mrs.
Caroline Fessler, Indianapolis. Ind. Mrs.
Elizabeth Harris, Glen Ridge, N. j.. Mrs.
Justina HOLSTER. Grand Rapids, Mich. :;
Mrs. Duncan Imrte, pennsylvania; Mrs.
Louise Tinker, Augusta Mrs. Helen Van
Buren,, Cornwall on Hudson, N. y; Mrs.
Jessie Warren, Springfield; Mabel Will
cox, Buffalo, N. Y.
Others receiving decorations are: Con-
stance Hall. Cambridge. Mass. for gath
ering clothing for French children; Mrs.
Prescott Keynes Concord Ritse, secre-
tary of the Twentieth Century Club,
Pittsburgh, Pa. Major Louis l.. Seaman,
British War Relief Association, New
York Frederick Stohlman. New York;
Mrs. Elise Whltlock Reese, Philadel-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-23
Down and Out Building Trades.

Wage earners in the building
trades, as shown by the report of
HERBERT HoovER's Engineering Coun-
Gil, are losing upward of million
and three-quarters of dollars every
work day in the week because of
unemployment. This unemployment,
costing them half billion of dollars
a year, not to mention the cost to
others, is solely their own fault and
the fault of such employers as are
still standing out like the employees
for impossible war imitation construc-
ton costs.
If there is one industry in the
country that ought to be 100 per
cent. busy in spite Of general bust
ness depression it is the building
trades. The need of new houses is
terrific the country over. But build
ers are never going to put up new
houses that cost twice what they are
worth. Investors are never going to
lend money on them and tenants are
never going to pay rent for them on
any such imitation basis.
There are tens of thousands of old
houses to which the owners would
like to give a thorough renovation
from top to bottom. But they are
never going to spend more money on
the overhauling bills of an old house
than it ought to take to build brand
new house.
There are hundreds of thousands of
old houses that are waiting for more
or less carpenter repair work, more
or less recoating by the painter, 60
ing over by the plumber or the gla-
zier--a little change In the way of
improvement here, a bigger change
in the way OF undermining there.
But landlords and tenants are never
going to do one dollar of such tin
kering at extortionate rates so long
as they can postpone the extortion.
1t is OF no use to blink the cold
truth about this calamitous condi-
ton of the self-stopped building
trades. Contracts and profits and
employment never will be resumed
except on the basis of readjusted war
imitation costs. The wage Garner in
the building trades who sticks out
for the war imitation wage which
never will come into his pocket for
the waiting simply is committing
slow suicide. The employer in the
building trades who thinks that by
acting in collision with his labor he
can beat the memorable economic
laws might as we'll remove himself
from the business now as later. He
cannot on any such false, futile, ir.
rational business policy escape going
down and out.
IL. on the other hand, the building
trades will at once meet this i'm.
perative situation, which in any
event they must some time face. II
they survive to face 1t, they can
In their business, of all businesses
in the country, Immediately start
building up again. IL they do not
meet It, and meet 1t squarely, the
penalty must rest on their own
heads.
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The Cicada's Song.

For ten and seven cycles meath the
loan
Have I. ground nymph, labored In
the night:
But now, my travail ended, may roam
The skies, for have pleased the God
of Light
Nor you, whose ears are tuned to finer
strains,
Make merry DER my STIMULATING song.
Forget not that there are no muses.
Where I, in silence. have been toll
ing long.
Although to you my p@an ringeth shrill
And piercing in its resonating note.
1t renders homage, even as the trill
That rises from the warbler's golden
throat.
HENRY BARRows.
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There were ninety-seven temporary
employees in 1918 and seventy-sx in
1917. but there have been no clerks
other than those designated in the
budget employed in the last two years.
On the score of economy I am glad
to compare my record, as shown by
the office figures. with that of any or
my predecessors. particularly Mr. Hop
per. JAMES A. DoNEGAN,
NEW YORK, July %. Register.
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The Harding Business Admin
istration's Example to All.

Nobody is in doubt now that at last
the United States Government is get
ting sound and able business manage
nfent. Republican newspapers are
Joined ungrudgingly by independent
and Democratic prints in declaring
the fact. Professional political cynics
marvel at it. Nobody challenges it.
Nobody can.
1T is not merely the business sense
and business action of Budget Direc-
tor DAWES, business man, which
the country commends and admires.
Nor of the chairman of the Shipping
Board, LAsREH, business man who
proceeds straightway to bring order
out of chaos in the colossal CONNER
cial wreck of all history.
Secretary MELLON, business man,
while untangling our national and in
ternational financial knots, sweeps
out superfiuous and useless help, gets
rid of unnecessary office rents and
cuts expenses everywhere in his own
department. The Secretary of War,
a business man, does the same. The
Postmaster-Genera pulls in the bust
ness harness. The Public Printer
finds he can save hundreds of thou
sands of dollars by getting on bust
ness basis.
Departments stop bidding against
one another for supplies in this, that
and the other market. One bureau
no longer sells its surplus stock to
speculator for a song while another
bureau buys the same stock, perhaps
from the same speculator, at top
notch prices. Coal is put in the
Federal bin the way factory puts
1t in. Labor is checked up the way
department store checks 1t UP.
In this manner the new Harding
Administration. with the President
guiding, instructing and command
ing, goes into the new fiscal year,
only two days older than three weeks,
giving better Government service
than the country has known in years
and spending less money besides
than Congress has appropriated for it
to spend--spending less and bent on
spending still less.
All this simply because the business
men in charge of the great business
departments of the national Govern
ment promised to manage them, ex-
pected to manage them and got down
to the brass tacks of managing them
as any bank, steel company, CONNER
cial house, hotel or whatever 1t be
ought to be managed and has to be
managed to pay its way and keep out
of the hands of receiver.
SO once more we have the greatest
business organization on earth, the
United States Government, back in
the time old business ways OF sense,
solvency and success. And when that
vast and complex national institu-
tion energies triumphant from such
confusion, disorder and all but ruin
as the Harding Administration fell
heir to only four months and nine
teen days ago 1t is time for all those
in charge of private affairs in the
country TO buckle down to the same
work OF reorganization and resump-
ton OF business on sound basis for
: everybody, everywhere.
Get on the job!
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GEN. BADoGL1o HoNoRED.
italian omccr Guest mt Union Club
Dinner.

Gen. Badogiio Of the Italian army.
who is visiting In New York, was guest
OF honor last night at n dinner at tho
Union Club, which was presided over
bv Col. G.. w. Burleigh, aid dc camp
10 Gov. Miller. Major-Gen. John J..
Organ made the principal speech, a
tribute to the accomplishments OF the
italian troops in the war, and after the
dinner received Gen. Badoglio at tho
Waldorf-Astoria.
Among the guests Mt last nights din
ner were Ma1or-Gen. II. u. Bullard, Rear
Admiral II. Mel. Huso and Gen. Badog-
los staff.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

The fire boat John Purroy Mitchell will be
launched at the yard of the Standard
Shipbuilding Corporation, Shooters Island.
II ;31 A. M.
The Italian Ambassador. Senator v. Ro-
lando Ricci. will view the 107th Infantry
Regiment. N. Y. c.. at the State camp.
Peekskill Il. M.
DIR. j. II. Barnhart will give an illustrated
lecture, Some American Botanisfs,' in the
museum building OF the New York Botanical
Garden, Bronx Park, p. M.
Hall of Fame, New York University. Uni
yersity Heights, open to the public, 2 to Q
T.. M.
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Commissioner CoPELAND's assurance
that the mortality in New York city
from street accidents is not abnormal
in comparison with that of other great
cities is comforting in one way but It
does not mean that the streets cannot
be made more safe. Absolute i'm
munity from accidents the city will
never attain. but that is the goal for
which we should aim.
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would be effected If they We're filled
only by personal friends Of the head
Of the Office.
Mr. Hopper says that he can save
$4,000 or 100000 by the abolition OF
needless offices. When he held the Office
of Register he increased the number of
employees largely beyond that under
any previous Register. Temporary en-
ployees to the number Of nearly one hun
dred were employed at times for Pc
RODS of q few months. The figures for
successive years were:
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Representative HARRY b. HAwBs, DEM
ocrat. Is entitled TO retain his seat as a
member of the House from the Eleventh
Missouri, st. Louis district.--Dospdtoh
from Washington.
Mr.. HAwEs's right to sit has been
upheld by Committee on Elections Of
a House heavily Republican. He is
fortunate that his contest did not come
in a year In which the political division
was more nearly equal.
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Hopper's term, 19i5-17. .$sf6.133.77
Donegan's term. 1880. ......... 6S9.s53.f3
Showing a saving by Donegan Of Sf56,es0.84
For the same periods the cost Of sup
rlies furnished by the city Record was:
Hopper. 1of5-17. .............. .S41 ,ose.sD
Donegan, 101S-20. 21pIS..o
Showing saving by Donegan Of. POOH. "a
IL is to be remembered also that the
period of great real estate activity. dur
ing which the ordinary work of the Office
was greatly increased, did not begin
Until / had been in Office for year.
The real estate papers recorded for the
years for which comparison was made
were:
Hopper. 1of5-f7. ....................'. W,soI
Donegan, 101s-2o. ..............,..,...s $3.50
Showing an increase of..............11,1s
IL is also to be noted that during my
administration there have been three
successive increases In pay made by the
Board Of Estimate under general reso-
lutions affecting practically the whole
office The economy in service is there
fore much greater than that shown by
the financial exhibit of expenses.
A large reduction In expense for q
Largely increased amount of work ac-
complished, compared with Mr.. Hoppers
administration, was also accompanied by
a large increase in revenue, the total
revenues, exclusive Of mortgage tax.
being:
Hopper, 1of5-fT. .................. s317,222.3s
Donegan, 1pts-20.. ................ OF, 4I0.24
Showing increased revenue Of. $2oi, 253.s6
The total revenues collected by the
Register during the same period. in
GLIDING the mortgage tax, were;
Hopper, 1a15-fT. .........,......E,si 5, 80
Donegan, 1880. $3.50. 1885
Showing an Increase of...... 81 .056. 224.c6
Even exclusive Of the mortgage tax
receipts the office has been, for the first
time In It's history, sef-sustaining for
the larger part of my administration.
The Office force is almost entirely
composed Of civil service employees
Outside Of six laborers there are only
four exempt places TO be filed by APP
continent with salaries paid by the
city. As ono Of those places is held by
an appontee OF Mr.. Hopper there re-
main only three places for probable
change, and as the present holders OF
those are active and efficient II does
not seem as " any considerable saving
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TO CONTINUE FREE CONCERTS.

The Music Temple OF America. Inc,
originally known as the National Opera
and Concert House Company, will con-
tinue its series of free concerts with the
presentation Of an unusually attractive
programme at the Hotel Majestic next
Tuesday evening. The feature will be a
grand opera ensemble of fifty voices led
by Emanuele Sarmiento. tenor, and d.
rected by Paul DeVere.
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MORRIS HnLouIT must wonder whether
he would have been admitted to Eng
lend without question IL he had es-
poused the Russian Soviet cause in the
Socialist party here.
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The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
TO tho use for republication OF all news des-
patches credited to II or not otherwise
credited In this. paper, and also the local
news published herein.
Al rights OF republication Of special dcs.
patches herein are also reserved.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-23

Street car fares in Austria are
eighty times as much as they were
before the war. IL Austria says the
word New York will be glad to let
JOHN +. HYLAN cross the Atlantic to
straighten this matter out.
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Register Donegan Replies.
He Compares His Administration OF
the Office With Mr.. HOpper's.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In reply
to letter from John j. Hopper printed
in your paper have prepared report
showing the expense Of conducting the
office during the first three years of my
administration. comparing some of the
figures with those for the three years
Immediately preceding my administra-
ton, when Mr.. Hopper was in charge of
the office.
The expense of conducting the office.
as shown by budget appropriations and
special revenue bonds, less the amount
returned as unexpended, was;
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From the Columbia Is. CO Record.
An old lover who lost tells Us the best
fish are stIi in the river, and after fishing
for hours recently we are in full agreement
with him.
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Good Horn Included.

From tho Decatur (fH.) Herald.
For sale--smnll baby frosted blue ivory
running gears: reversible body. Main 5o0i.
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Americans Receive Awards of France
Myron T. Herrick Decorated for Postwar Services
Others Are Honored.

phia. Pa. Mrs. F. w. Whitridge. Brit
ish-American Relief Association, New
York.
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SATURDAY. JULY 90. 1921.
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HIEhest temperature, 10, at I T. NJ.
Lowest temperature, 81, at 4 A. NJ.
Average temperature. ~.
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Directors and officers: Frank A. Munsey
President; Erwin Wardman, yice-President;
VIM. T. Dewart. Treasurer; II. II. Tither-
inston. Secretary.
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NATHAN NJ. LEVY.
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

The temperature In this city yesterday; "a
recorded by the official thermometer. Il