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The New York herald., 1921-12-22
A Census Injustice.

Few cities in the country can boast
of higher standards of education and
refinement among the native popula-
tion than can the fine old Buzzards
Bay metropolis, New Bedford, in
Massachusetts,. Yet tie remorseless
facts assembled and digested by the
Census Bureau reveal New Bedford
with its 121,217 inhabitants as the
most illiterate city in the country.
New Bedford men and women re-
sent keenly the fact that their home
is held up to view in this unenviable
plight. This Is natural. They are
proud of their beautiful city, proud
of its long tradition of intellectual
development, which goes with hon
orable ambitions conserved in fami-
lies and sanely applied. Now to be
branded as statistically the least lit
crate city in the United States is
indeed humiliating. That the nu-
merical facts justify the stigma is
not to be denied. On this ground the
census analysis may not be success
fully challenged. In proportion to
its population New Bedford is indis-
putably the unfortunate possessor Of
more illiterates than any other COM
munity in the entire country.
But accurate as is the census ex-
hibit in this respect IL none the less
does New Bedford a grave injustice.
II carries an implication of laxity
and indifference to school facilities
which is wholly at variance with the
truth. New Bedford has exerted It.
self as vigorously in the promotion
OF public education as any city in
the country. The high illiteracy rate
is the city's misfortune, not its fault.
The census statement should carry
an explanation TO avert the false i'm.
preston II now indubitably conveys.
That explanation New Bedford has,
and its newspapers and citizens have
lost no time in presenting It.
II Is that the heavy illiteracy per.
centage is due solely to the fact that
IL has been New Bedfords misfor.
tune to be inundated with immi.
grants more ignorant in mass than
any others who come to our shores.
THESE for the most part are Portu.
guese speaking negroes from the
Cape Verde Islands. The white Por.
tuguese who come here average well
in point Of education and readiness
to adapt themselves to the standards
OF America. With the blacks Of Por
tuguese origin it is quite the reverse
Nearly all of them are wholly Hitter
ate when they reach this country
and are obdurate in so remaining.
New Bedford has an exceptionally
large number OF them. II is true
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
Trinity's New Rector.

The Rev. CALEB r. STETsoN, who
was inducted into the rectorship Of
Trinity yesterday, assumes a church
office of high dignity and of imme-
diate Importance not only to the
communicates of the Protestant
Episcopal Church but to all the resi-
dents of New York.
Trinity with its eight chapels
serves great congregations in all
quarters of Manhattan borough, and
the influence Of this old foundation
on the life of the city is so intimate
and profound that in civic affairs its
rector is a parsonage to whom not
only members of his flock but thou
sands OF others look consciously or
unconsciously for enlightenment and
for guidance.
Mr.. STETsoN has had eleven prede-
cessors in the rectorship Of Trinity
and they have played fine part in
the upbuilding of the great city of
New York. To the tradition to which
each of them has contributed his
share Mr.. STETsoN succeeds. The
esteem in which he is held by the
parish has been sufficiently demon
strated by the call which the ward
ems and vestrymen extended to him.
His welcome by the New York which
lies outside his own denomination
will be cordial and hearty.
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
EVENTS TO-DAY.

vice-President Coolidge and Dr. James II.
Angeil president OF Yale. VIII speak at q
dinner of the New England Society. Waldorf
Astoria. Z p. NJ.
The Rev. Edward r. Tivnan. s. j.. will
be the guest at luncheon of the BRONX
Board OF Trade, Hotel Commodore. 12:30
7. M.
Charles L. Cadie. state Superintendent Of
Public Works, will speak at the meeting or
the Republican County Committee OF Bronx
iSotf, street and washington avenue. s:i5
p. M.
John T. Pratt will speak at luncheon.
Recess Club 90 Broadway, I p. NJ.
Erasmus Hall alumni day, gymnasium OF
the high school. Church and f1stbush ave-
Russian Famine Fund viii hold q Christ
mas party. Brooklyn Academy Of Music.
Christmas exercises Of the italian day
school of the Children's Aid Society will he
held IN the James Memorial Building. Hester
and Elizabeth streets. 4 r. N.
American Holy Orthodox Church, orxaniza-
ton meeting Russian Cathedral OF st.
Nichoias. IL East Ninsty-ssventh street.
3 80 p. NJ
Section OF iarynsoiosy and rhinoiogy, meet
ing New York Academy of Medicine. II
West Forty-third street, $3.50 p. M.
Rotary Club. luncheon. Hotel McAIpin.
IL 80 p. M.
Eastern Bar Iron Institute. meeting. wal
dorf-Astoria, 10 A. M.
Julius Hyman will speak on "our Amer
ican Constitution" Bowery Mission. p. M.
Testimonial dinner TO Michael II. Matteo.
Hotel Commodore. p. M.
Continental Club. dinner. Hotel McAipin,
=. M.
Associated Motion Picture Advertisers,
luncheon, Cafe Boulevard. r. N.
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
Bridging East River.

Have you ever bridged East River
When the sun was rising bright.
When the air was all a-quiver,
Darting shafts Of glittering light
When the silver water rippled
As the breasting tugs rode high.
Sending vapor plumes that stippled
The blue canopy of sky?
All the universe seems singing
And the keen air makes refrain
TIL the very train goes ringing
Think of music from train -
And there's life and lift and power
As the sunny morning shine
Paints and points each terraced tower
When the clocks are nearing nine.
Have you ever bridged East River
When the sun was setting red
And the keen air made you shiver.
All the warmth of monday fed;
When the rising mist embracing
Spired towers fold on fold
Left their lighted windows tracing
Shafts in shadows faint and cold?
Then It is as though some giant
Spun a cabled web whose strands.
Graying. sossamer and plant.
Held the trains steel guiding bands
And the food below you flowing.
Amethystine. scarlet, chrome.
Spreads a carpet. gorgeous glowing,
Underneath the road to home.
MAyRIcE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
Crimes and the Races.
White Men Accused Of Injustice to
Negroes In the South.

TO THE NEW York HERALD: Charles
wilIing's statistics concerning crimes
committed by white men and by negroes
need explanation.
II is remarkable that we have no more
crimes by the colored people than we
do. In the South, where most OF them
live, unjust laws of unreasonable law
makers force them into a state of
slavery. They are arrested and sent Up
for any, every and no crime, while the
whites are almost altogether immune
for the same and greater crimes.
White men make the laws. white men
interpret them. white men arrest. prose-
cute, execute and persecute. Thousands
of colored people have been listed by
white Southerners as criminals whose
trials were mockeries.
The National Republican recently
said: "In Mississippi one person in
twenty-one voted. In the State of mi
nois at the last general election more
votes were cast than in all the States
of the solid South combined" With all
this to their credit they now rice TO
press their code OF ethics upon the law
abiding sections OF the country. They
know 70 many things that amt so" TO
minds me of an old gun which kicked
every time It exploded. r.
HARTFORD, Conn, December II.
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
Fifth Avenue and War.

In an article in the North AD,ert-
can Reuie,O Rear Admiral F'IsKE re-
marks that a good conception of the
fundamental causes of war may be
had by walking up Fifth avenue.
The shops are mostly for women.
Men try to gain money to pay for
womens finery. They see opportuni-
ties in foreign trade, and, going into
it with activity, stir up national
hatreds.
This is in a measure true, but
when economists blame the women for
being the basic cause of war they
should add that they are the cause Of
almost everything, good or bad. Con-
slider the discovery OF America.
About the only interest that Western
Europe had in the Orient was the ac-
QUESTION of articles for which women
yearned: silks and cottons for cloth
ing, pearls for adornment, spices for
cooking, perfumes for the toilet.
These things came from Asia by ship
or caravan from the end of the
Crusades until the middle of the fif-
teenth century, when the Turk shut
off the channels of trade between
Europe and the East.
1t was then that COLUMBUS. for no
other economic reason but that the
women of his day must be pleased,
set out to find route to Asia which
the Turk could not block. Maybe
ISABELLA backed the Italian because
she hadn't a thing fit to wear. At
any rate the feminine passion for
pretty things swiftly resulted in the
finding of the new world.
II It we're not for the women what
a lot of dead ones the men would be!
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
Flaubert's Centenary.

In the last months of this year
France has turned with unusual fire.
quence to the centenaries Of her IA
nous writer's. Not long ago she un-
yelled at Montpelier a monument to
RABELAIs and a statue to BRnLAT-
SAvAIrS at Belley, his birthplace.
Neither OF these celebrations, how
ever, aroused the same interest or
awakened French literary memories
as did the unveiling, a few days ago
in the Luxembourg garden in Paris
OF monument to GUsTAvE FLAuBERr
on the one hundredth anniversary of
his birth.
Not much more than sixty years
ago, when his first work appeared,
the man thus honored was cited with
his publisher before the French courts
for the publication of an immoral
book. The change Of popular senti-
ment in these comparatively few
years which brought about this mark
Of favor to FLAUBERr revived in all
its academic asperity, but with a
remarkably different outlook, the con-
troversy that ragged In the COS and
'70s over FLAuEERT's Madame Bo-
vary" and "Salammbo."
France can smile now with keen
sense of amusement over the recep-
tion TO Madame Bovary" when she
recalls the books that poured unop-
posed and unquestioned upon the
country from the pens Of DE MAU-
PAssAHr and ZoLA and others OF the
same school OF realism only a few
years later. These writer's could
scarcely be called followers Of FLAU-
PERT, even though he gave with
Madame Bovary" "the formula OF the
modern novel" which some of them
affected to accept and follow. Neither
could FLAuBEnT, in the strict sense
Of the word, be considered the
founder of a school OF novel writing.
This is true principally because
he stood alone; there were no sue
cessors Ia that indomitable industry
by which he attained his wonderful
precision of statement and his fault
less style.
Guy DE MAUPAss ,YT HIS godson,
was his one pupil. FLAUDERT trained
him in style and thoroughness and
would not permit him TO publish a
story until FIVE years after he actu-
ally began to write. The one quality
which the master instilled In the
The New York herald., 1921-12-22

a political opponent OF President Leguia
to discredit the satisfactory results SO
far attained by his administration.
It might be well at this point to make
clear to readers some of the steps which
President Leguia has taken for the bet
teiment OF the economic and commercial
conditions of the country. President
Leguia Is known throughout South
America and England as an exceptional
leader and organizer and these talents
are now commencing to bear tho fruits
which they merit. lie has contracted
for the services of an expert to reor-
ganize the customs of the country.
and early this year he contracted for the
services of prominent American edu-
Gator, together with a staff of twenty
ize the school and educational system
Of Peru along American lines.
An American naval commission has
been placed in charge of the Peruvian
navy in order to moderpize 1t thor
oughly. A French army commission is
rcorganizing the Peruvian army. A COM
mission of we'll known American bank
ers recently left for Peru In order to
advise the President on financial re-
forms. Numerous other commissions
and individuals, all specialists and ex-
perts in their particular lines. have been
retained. and in these progressive steps
the executive ability OF President Le-
guia is brought into bold relief.
Like every intelligent and far seeing
Executive he is surrounding himself
with men who are experts in their re-
spective lines and is building UP thor
ough and complete organization for gov.
ernmental administration, which Is do
ing much TO establish firmly sound eco
nomic and commercial conditions In the
country. Numerous American bankers
and impartial individuals. who have had
an opportunity TO study Peruvian condi-
tions, express their opinion that the
basic conditions of Peru, as they exist
to-day. are more sound and more favor
able than any others in South America.
EDUARDO HIGGfNsoN,
Consul General Of Peru in the United
States.
NEW YORK, December 81.
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
Prisoners Want Calendars.
Christmas Appeal in Behalf Of the
Inmates OF Dannemorn.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The
chaplain Of Clinton prison at Danne-
mora. ". T.. writes me asking for sup
ply Of calendars to be distributed to the
men in that prison. He says:
do not want to disapp olnt the men
this year. as TO many OF them q eaien-
dar Is the only remembrance they get
at this time, and II occurred TO me that
you might possibly be IN touch with sofne
source from which number Of cslen-
dnrs might be secured.
There are upward Of 1900 men con-
fined in this prison and 1 should very
greatly appreciate having any concerns
or persons who would care 10 comply
with this request send them direct to tho
chaplain, Clinton prison. Dannemora
n. Y. and advise me by letter at is
Dey street. New York city.
There is also a great need at this
prison for books published In the italian
language A number OF tho men con.
fined there are unable TO read any Eng.
iish and it would be a great charity ID
send them books printed In their native
Italian language.
j. S. KENNEDY, Commissioner.
NEW YORK, December 81.
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
A Woman Astronomers Work.

BY the death few days ago OF
HENRIETTA SWAN LEAvIrT of Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, the world has
lost orc of it's most intelligent and
console tiously painstaking workers
in the field of astronomical research.
For more than twenty-five years Miss
LEAvITT was member Of Harvard
University's observatory staff. She
began as an assistant. She closed
her career as an authority in the very
difficult branch of astronomical
science to which she chiefly directed
her studies.
It was to stellar photography that
Miss LEAvrrT devoted her exceptional
talents. Her determination of the
relative Photographic brightness Of
the stars known as the polar Sc
quence, the group about the polestar
varying in rank from the fourth to
the twentieth magnitude, is now
generally accepted among astrono.
mers as the standard OF Photographic
star measurement. In addition to
this Miss LEAvrTT, with persistent
patience and minute care, explored
the entire celestial expanse in search
Of new stars and OF stars OF periodi-
cal variance in brightness.
Her intense concentration of effort
was rewarded by the discovery Of
four unknown stars and of 2,40O
variables. Her discoveries just about
doubled the number of variable stars
known when she began her work. 1t
was while she was studying the ten
degree square area OF the smaller of
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
The Burning Female.
Quaint Advice OF an Old Household
Book Once Met a Real Need.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: 1t was
not Cape Cod literature only that made
provision for the rescue of burning
females" as recorded In a letter in your
paper. Before electric light days It was
common TO use naphtha. so-called burn
ing fluid. and score Of patented or un-
patented Illuminating products. Burn
ing females were then very numerous
and ever likely to repeat the pageant of
the torch Christians who eerved the early
Roman emperors for candles at their
garden parties.
high society of New York who we're not
chemists and who would therefore clean
soiled Kid gloves with naphtha. gasoline
and other generators Of volatile and In
fiammable gases near lamps. gas jets or
registers from furnaces. AS pastor OF a
large church officiated at the funeral
of more than one victim of ignorance
and false economy.
In one case, at hotel IN a summer
resort while sitting in my room writing.
belated for dinner. heard a scream.
Rushing out into the corridor I cav a
moving column Of flames.
Elements in the case: a non-student
of chemistry lovely maiden preparing
for a ball. gasoline lamp, infiarnmable
vapor, girl in gauzy dress aflre. Male
spectator, having no "old piece ce car
pet or shawl to throw over her." seized
sheets and counterpane from the made
UP bed, rushed forward and enveloped
the maiden. With adjacent ever and
basin tho smoldering sparks in her cloth
ing we're extinguished.
Sequel: scolding from her betrothed.
mistreatment by an old fashioned coun-
try doctor--who also practiced on horses
funeral, flowers, headstone, fun half
century later at old time necessities and.
perhaps, wisdom.
How the folks in zoos A. d. will have
their fun with us! DoMINE.
New YORK, December 21.
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
BY w. j. HENDERSON.

The old man in "Adonis'' used to ex-
claim: Twenty years ago on dark.
tempestuous night, when the lightning
lightened and the thunder thunder
ed and at that instant Adortis
Dixey used to interrupt him, saying
Here are two dollars; so and drink
yourself to DEATH
Eheu fugaces. as Horace remarks
Those good old days are gone. Old men
are not allowed to drink themselves to
death now. and even if they were. they
could not even made u start with two
dollars. But just the same. people who
persist In talking about twenty years
ago are nuisances and should be sup
pressed.
However. 1t ought TO go on record
that Antonio Scotti has been singing
ScdrpfG In ''Tosca" at the Metropolitan
more than twenty years-twenty years
1t was last February 4. His first Tosca
was Mime. Milka Ternina and the Cdvd-
Tddosst was Cremonini Last evening
when the work was given once more at
the Metropolitan the Cavdradossi was
Gigli, new and youthful tenor. and the
ToSc0 was Nine. Marie Jeritza, latest
sensation In the role OF the Roman
singer.
But no one would have thought of
quoting "superfluous Iags the veteran
on the stage" Scotti as Scarpta Is right
in the middle of things, and as long as
he can chase Toscds around the furni-
ture as friskly as he did 1t last night
he will continue to be as vital to the
opera as a whole. generation of new
tenors and prima donnas.
Mime. Jerltza. 1t was said here the
morning after her first TosoG, would
put new life into the old work. She has
done It, The opera house was packed to
the walls last evening and the storm of
applause which followed the second act
limited that If Mr.. Gatti-Casazza chose
to alter his policy he might ladle out
"Tosca" performances to an Unsuitable
public as Mr.. Grau used to give Carmen
Calve repetitions with almost endless
Don Jose and Escdntiflo variations.
What was said about Nine. Jeritza's
first Toscd plight be repeated about her
second. 1t was again passionate and
very real woman that she presented
and again she made every phrase elo-
quent by her skilful use of vocal color.
Her impersonation is admirable. 1t is
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
Winter Begins.


o'clock this morning. You may
have thought, what with the ring of
the skates and the squeak of the
coal shovel, that winter came long
ago; but the almanac says No.
Winter among the forefathers was
a period devoted to preservation OF
life and preparation for spring. The
roaring wood stove is rust of the
ages; but there is the thermostat to
adjust or the janitor to adjure. The
coonskin cap may not adorn the seat
OF intellect, but the high hat needs
polishing against the banquet season.
The greasing of boots is an extinct
pastime, but spats require dry clean
ing. There are fewer horses to bed
heavily, but the motor car must have
its draft of wood alcohol.
No city dweller may have the sci
entific joy of sorting seed corn, but
ne can separate the pinochle deck
from the whist cards. He need not
make a sketch of the thirty acres
planted to rye, but he can memorize
the boundaries of Esthonia for use at
the weekly meeting of the Culture
Club. 1t is not for him to pick the
sprouters out of the potato bin, but
he can examine and prune his neck
tie stock. He has no farm accounts
to cast up, but what farm figures
were ever SO fascinating as the calcu-
iation of the supertax?
Winter in this great city is fear
full and wonderful thing. Weak man
dons his twelve pound ulster at the
first breath from the north and he
keeps to it until May, even when
most of his outdoor life is spent in
the subway. Strong woman goes
about as for a garden party. She
may be the mother of race as dis
dainful of cold as the Highlander,
for more and more the little boys
run barelegged.
When two inches Of snow hit the
great bold town there is a terrible
time. Getty writhes in grip OF storm, y
the headlines say; and it's true.
Street Cleaning Commissioners call
out the guards. Surface railroad
managers utter sobs of panic and
dash home Tin cab) to bed, SICK
with worry. Commuters have rare
tales of desperate battle with the ele-
ments. The citizens pretend to be
amazed at the dreadfulness of it all.
But as most of them came from
places where two inches Of snow is
only the cocktail preceding a regular
two foot storm they secretly despise
the precipitation. The city may
writhe in the grip Of storm. but the
old boy from New England or the
Great Lakes region writhes in the
grip of laughter.
New York has no winter worth the
name. We burn a lot OF coal from
force of habit. We buy ulsters be-
cause they look pretty In the win
dows. Once a year the thermometer
goes below zero just as, once a year,
every man decides that he will take
regular exercise with Indian clubs.
It is q gesture, as the literary fellows
say. Winter is an excuse for going
to Cuba. 1t is something men be-
lieve In after the demon of doubt has
assailed SANTA CLAUS.
The New York herald., 1921-12-22
A New Doctrine Proposed.
Would Promise France Our Aid
Against Unwarranted Attack.

Walter II. Mou,drd ~ the T,,depeNdsnt.
Peoples are governed to a great ex-
tent by traditional ideas and phrasea
washington's Farewell Address will al
ways echo IN the ears of a reverential
people. His warning against permanent
foreign alliances has become a basic
They would not without years OF per-
suasion support their representatives in
Congress in an effort 10 ratify formal
treaty of alliance with France.
Is there any political device which
would be acceptable to the people and
which would meet the requirement out
lined above, namely, calm the fears of
France and serve stern notice on Ger
many TO drop her ideas, IL they exist,
of new aggression?
In December. 1929. President Monroe
in his annual message declared that the
United States would not regard favor
ably any attempt of European Powers
to colonize or exercise control in South
America. This Presidential declaration
has. with the lapse OF years, as the
Monroe Doctrine. become q cornerstone
of our foreign policy. and. while In no
sense a treaty or an entangling alliance.
has assumed a sanctity--a solldity-of
the most interchangeable character
The United States has only recently
sent her armed forces to fight on French
soil. She would doubtless do so again
IL Germany unwarrantably attacked
France. Why not say so? II President
Harding were TO express with due So
lemnity his conviction that II France
were again unwarrantably attacked the
United States would defend her, such a
declaration made with the proper de-
gree of ceremony would be hailed as
an epoch making event. The new "Har-
ding Doctrine" would echo around the
world.
The Harding Doctrine" with the
passage Of years would assume tho same
intangible sanctity that the Monroe
Doctrine has gradually acquired. II
would justify progressive French land
disarmament.