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The New York herald., 1921-06-29
Pirates.

There may be a pirate, or whole
feet of pirates, off Cape Hatteras,
capturing ships and running them
into Bolsheyik ports. or burning
them and NARROWING their crews on
desert islands or hiding them on the
Irish coast. THE NEw YORK HER
AID does not say Captain KIDD has
no successors on the Atlantic. Per-
haps he has. The Weather Bureau
does not believe 1t, and it seems in
credible; but whether there are pi-
rates afloat or not, there are certainly
pirates ashore. The Government
might profitably look them up.
If this newspaper were hunting
pirates it would tot ZIP the insur-
ance placed on missing ships since
shipping became a drug on the mar
ket. 1t would inspect the manifests
Of missing ships and check them
against deliveries made at the piers
from which they sailed. 1t would
examine the records of the shippers
of missing ships, and find out
whether there were some who seemed
particularly unfortunate in losing
ships, and whether these shippers
seemed to have about the same
officers and crews with them when
they began their ill-fated voyages.
The owners or lessees or managers
Of these vessels might also be in
quired into, and the vessels now un-
der their control watched.
There would be found tremen-
dous majority of Straightforward,
honest, GoD fearing sailormen. own
ers, lessees, managers, but land
pirate or so may have slipped him
self into shipping during the boom
times.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29

debate and the Fascistist and all the
Nationalist party members to express
their disapproval of the course taken
on Fiume and of the Rapollo treaty.
The part of the resolution bearing
upon the internal policy was thrown
out, according to the report of the
proceedings, "by big majority on a
showing of hands"
GIoLITTI has refused to undertake
the formation of new Cabinet.
In the Premiership Of men suggested
as GIoLITTI's successor, SALANDRA or
ORLANDO, there appears as little
chance of the Socialists winning a
victory as there was under GIoLIrTI.
No Italian Government under the
present conditions could survive and
approve the domestic policy which
the Socialists favor.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
FAREwELLS TO. MR.. WALLACE
Entertainment on Paris for Re-
turning Ambassador.


PARIS, June 2S.-Hugh G. Wal
lace. the retiring American Ambassador,
las received series Of invitations to
farewell luncheons and dinners. He was
the guest tonight at dinner given by
NJ. Maginot. Minister of Pensions. and
Premier BRAND and numerous other per-
sons prominent in French public life
were present. Tomorrow night Mr..
Wallace will dine with the American
newspaper correspondents.
Manuel de Peralta, Costa Rican Min
.ster to France. who is the dean Of the
Central and South American diplomatic
corps in Paris, has invited Mr.. Wallace
to luncheon on July ! In the name OF
all his South and Central American col
leagues.
Mr.. Wallace will deliver his farewell
speech at a dinner Of the American
Chamber Of Commerce July 4. He will
present his letter Of recall to President
Millerand July s. and sail for New York
from Cherbourg on board the steamer
Olympic the following day.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
South American Liquidation.

:, Active plans to relieve merchandise
congestion and frozen credits in the
South American trade are now under
consideration in this city by mem
'bers of the Argentine-American
Chamber OF Commerce, the Brazilian
American Chamber Of Commerce, the
American Manufacturers Export AS
ssociation and the Pan-American Ad-
overtisers Association. The meeting
of these bodies will have before il the
comprehensive proposals drawn up
by joint committee of the foregoing
Organizations under the chairman
ship of JAMES CARSON.
"a The situation in the South Ameri-
parts of the world chiefly because so
little has been done to relieve it COM
pared with what has been done in
other fields. but also partly because
our trade in Latin American and
South American markets, diverted to
us by the war. was not built oil
sound and permanent foundation.
Not all American merchants were
guilty Of inconsiderate price and sell
ilng policies in South America while
this country was the only seller Of
merchandise. But many of our mer.
chants, Willingly or not. sowed the
wind, and great many more are
.reaping the whirlwind. Demand for
American goods in South America is
as slack now as it was urgent during
the war.
= Even after the symptoms OF world
depression began to develop Ameri-
ran goods continued TO. flow to South
America despite cancellations and
warnings that the shipments would
prove unstable. Merchandise from
this country, worth possibly billion
dollars at the original selling prices,
H stalled in South American ware.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
Fall of Ciolitti's Cabinet.

The Italian Cabinet formed on
June Is, 1920, with GIOVANNI GIo.
LrTTr as Premier has resigned as the
result of vote on the question of
confidence in the Government taken
last Sunday. The Government re-
ceived 234 votes, majority Of "a,
but as this included all the votes Of
GIoLrrTfs own party. 106, 1t was
evident that the margin was too mar.
row for the Government to carry
through its programme.
The result was not unexpected, for
the vote in the Chambers was
scarcely more than a concrete ex
preston Of the May election. This
intensely bitter fight at the polls
brought no clearly decisive victory to
either side; there were too many
small parties with a more or lees un
certain following to be reckoned with
to see the Socialists coming into
power or the Government carrying
out the definite conservative policy
with which 1t had entered the con
test. 1t was evident that these small
political units had the best oppor
tunity to make themselves If mo-
effective at least troublesome which
they had ever had either under their
present or any former designations.
Despite the fact that Signor Tr
RATI, the leader Of the United So
cialists, presented the resolution upor
which the Chamber voted, the result
was not a victory for the Socialists
What TuRATr wished was to bring
about the defeat OF the Government
upon its domestic policy; he or hi.
party cared little for the foreign
policy, and he was forced to incor
porate the words "in foreign" before
his own contention Of internal eco
nomic and social policy" in order tc
get the support OF the Fascist, the
Nitti Liberals or the Nationals,
groups.
The fight, then, was upon the for
eign policy, and 1t was directed more
against Count SFoRzA, the Foreign
Minister, than against Premier Gro
Lrrrr, or any other member Of the
Cabinet. This gave to SALANpRi
and SoNNTNo, both former Foreign
Ministers, q chance to enter into the
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
ITALIAN MINISTER HoNoRED.
Mr.. w. HI. Woodin' Gives Dinner
for Mr.. Qunttr0ne.

Mr.. William H. Woodin, president OF
the American Car and Foundry Com
pany. gave a dinner last evening at 753
Park avenue in honor OF Mr.. Francesca
Quattrone. Minister Plenipotentiary. Of
Italy. The Ambassador Of Italy. Mr..
Rolandi Ricci, the Consul-General Of
Italy, and Capt. Filippo Ricci we're pres
ent also.
Mr.. Quattrone received gift Of low
ing cup from the other guests, who In
cluded Messrs. T.. II. Gary, j.. A. Far
rell and f. p. Thomas of the united
States Steel Corporation. Mr.. Andrew
Fletcher Of the American Locomotive
Company. Mr.. S. NJ. Vauclain OF the
Baldwin Locomotive Works. Mr.. Z. J.
Berwind, Mr.. Paul d. Cravath, Mr.. F.
w. Wiltshire. Judge J. Freschi. Mr.. Will
lam Guggenheim and Mr.. Charles 8.
Gawthrop.
The donors, all Of whom have been
decorated by the Italian Government for
services rendered during the war. In
presenting the cup. expressed appreci-
alton Of the pleasant relations had With
Mr.. Quattrone in his capacity as High
Commissioner of the italian Government.
which he occupied up to the time OF his
appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
Ways of the Cuckoo.
How 1t victimizes Other Birds and
Il. Gets Its Eggs Hatched.
Ero1n fhe London Times.

From the London Times.
Much has been written and more will
be written about the various ph'~es OF
the cuckoo's life. The .uckor
gin to lay in the last days
May IL may be taken a.
average date for laying 70 !
ing continues until pprsxh
"a. have taken a fresh
as July 8, but that is an exce..t.e...-..y
late date.
The egg is generally, hut not always,
laid and deposited during the afternoon.
The most usual time Is between and 5
p. NJ. when the owner Of the selected
nest is almost certain to be or to feed.
This is why a cuckoo's egg Is often
found In much less .ncubated state
than the other eggs In. the nest with It.
Nearly always the cuckoo finds the nest
by watching bird building Its nest
1t usually visits the nest more than once
before depositing an egg in it and must
often have two or three nests to select
from. The cuckoo has favorite perching
trees, and from the seclusion OF the
branches OF these trees watches the
movements of possible victim.
How many eggs does cuckoo lay? =?
This question still cannot be answered.
At present twenty one Is the known
maximum. My observations have led
me to think that It is rarely, II ever.
less than twelve, and that the maximum
is determined entirely by the conditions
of the season and the surroundings OF
any particular cuckoo. The egg is laid
on the ground as near as circumstances
| 80 xtA Nd
veyed into the nest witn the bill. The
whole operation is very rapid; the
cuckoo stays at the nest only few
seconds. In this short time 1t places
its egg in the nest and picks up one of
the other eggs and flies away with it.
usually dropping It thirty or forty yards
away.
| 1t is possible and probable that when
the cuckoo deposits an egg In a large
nest, such as blackbirds or thrush's.
| 1t actually lays 1t there. A cuckoo
sometimes to my knowledge puts an
egg in a deserted nest. but nearly al
ways in a nest already containing eggs.
| Sometimes dummy nests are put up
with eggs in places fairly open to view
at spots frequented by cuckoos, and oc-
casionally an egg Is found in one or
them. 1t is a we'll established fact that
a cuckoo fostered by one species Of bird
will use that species as Victims II pos
sible II will keep entirely to that species,
but circumstances may make it use some
other victim.
When a species IS overvictimized by
cuckoos 1t becomes practically extinct
in the neighborhoo! and only recovers
slowly when the cuckoos making use OF
1t disappear. The percentage of fertile
cuckoo eggs is very high my observa-
tions bring II out at something like 9s
per cent In my experience have
never seen two eggs OF the same cuckoo
In one nest; have several times seen
two cuckoo eggs in the same nest but
always obviously the produce OF differ
ent birds.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
Post Bellum Fashions.

To the student Of the history of
costume there is nothing new or
strange in the current feminine fash
ions, with their amplitude of northern
and southern exposure. Post-bellum
modes since the days of Greek su-
premacy have invariably been marked
by feminine revelations quite as
frank as those of these curve-reveal-
ing summer days. After our own
civil war the hoopskirt became no.
torious for permitting those ankles
it was supposed to cover to be seen.
After the Napoleonic wars the West.
ern World witnessed a revival Of
Greek fashions, whose occurrences
was but an outer seeming, quickly
disseminated when the wind blew.
Students have only to compare in the
minds eye DAvID's portrait of Nine.
RECAMIER, in that attire, with GoYA's
"The Maja Clothed" to recall how
little difference there is in the two
revelations. And those French fops
Of both sexes, called Incroyables.
dazed the Partisan bourgeoise with
the audacity Of their garments.
After the medieval wars man dis.
burdened himself of cloaks and man.
ties and posed in tights, possibly as
embarrassed as was JOHN BARRY.
MORE by his green maillot in 1.-THE
Jest" From Roman days, from
Greece and Egypt. there come down
to us pictures Of feminine revelations
In the way Of costume, following
wars and sieges that have left in.
eradicable memories in the world OF
the dress designer. Graybeards often
have speculated on the changes that
might have taken place in history
had CLEoPATRAs nose been half an
inch longer. But who ever heard OF
philosopher meditating on what
might have happened had HELEN oi
Troy or Egypt's queen been muffled
in mid-victorian costume In the
era Of long peace?
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 2s. 1921.
As to Spending and Paying.

z The national Government should
get full credit for everything that it
saves, and due allowance should be
made for everything that is beyond
1its power to save. But boast Of
staying within the Government in
come by billion of dollars in a year
on the basis of Ordinary receipts"
and ordinary disbursements" may
smislead the innocent.
No business house tries to show
that 1t stays within it's income SIM
ep1y because it classifies some Of its
.outgo as Ordinary and some as
extraordinary to make the "ordi-
nary" disbursements fit the honest
injun income.
= No business house tries to show
that it spends less than it takes In
simply because it does not pay all
the bills and claims against it.
se No business house tries to show 1t
is making money simply by failing to
mark off depreciation. obsolescence
and losses.
Furthermore, no business house
tries to show that income made in
one year but coming to hand the next
year represents the business Of the
house for the year in which it is col
lected but was not made
What squaring up all the railroad
accounts payable and cleaning up all
.the Shipping Board deficiencies, set
Ting all the other unpaid bills against
the Government and marking Off
everything that a business house
would mark off for the fiscal year
ending tomorrow would show, THE
New YORK HERALD has no way Of
knowing. Probably the Government
itself does not know.
But keeping some cash in the till
by not paying 1t out to those to
whom it is owed and by withhold
sing it for the moment from various
objects for which it is destined is
not business houses idea of earn
sing dividends and piling up surplus.
Nor, let 1t be said in fairness, is 1t
the idea of the business brains and
experience that are now on the job
sof getting the United States Govern
sment on a sound business basis.
Those entrusted with the business
management of the nations affairs
are at last disclosing so admirable
a grasp of the situation and are
making such good headway in fore
ing the Government expenditures
down to level where they will not
swamp the Treasury that there is no
need to draw imaginative pictures of
the past. The solid facts of the pres
rent and the future will be good
.enough.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
Inch Worms Did Not Like II.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The ar
ticle on your editorial page about the
ailanthus tree omits one or two items of
interest.
A resident Of down town Brooklyn
fifty years ago will remember the allan
thus with gratitude, as being free from
what was called the inch worm, which
infested the other trees. 1t was a COM
mon joke to represent a man carrying
an umbrella with a fringe of worms
hanging all around IL by a thread like
one from spiders web: yet 1t was no
joke, for at this time Of the summer the
inch worms hung from every branch
along the streets except from the allan
thus.
The ailanthus blossoms had an un-
pleasant smell. S. e. LYoN.
NEW YORK, June Is.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
Publicity for Wages.
A Suggestion for the Solution Of Our
Railroad Problem.

To THE New YORK HERALD: There IL
a sure and simple way to solve the high
wages problem in the railroad service
namely. publicity.
If the railroads will publish in daily
papers Of both local and general circuia-
ton the wages actually paid to some of
their employees. together with the num-
Der of hours worked, and make this
information definitely known by giving
names, addresses and amounts paid, an
awakened public opinion will force fair
adjustments at once however. full pub
licity is necessary so that his neignbors
and the public generally will know ex-
actly what each employee has drawn :
for example, the publicity advertisement
should read like this:
John Doe-(give real name); Local
Freight Conductor-31o Main street. Cam
ton. Ohio. paid in 1871. $1,000; average
hours per day. Ss..
Richard Roe-(give real name) Pas
senger Conductor-4l High street. Lima.
Ohio; paid in 1920. s2.95o; average
hours per day. Sh.
In my travels over the State 1 am
amazed how very few people have even
an approximate idea of the outrageous
wages some classes of workers are de-
manding and receiving.
These men would at once lose publ,
sympathy. especially If the public which
is drawing on the average only frac-
ton Of these exorbitant wages could be
brought to realize that the general pub
lie has to foot all these bills in in
creased costs of living. The remedy is
simple. plain and sure: Publicity-Pub-
licity-Publicity give the public the ex-
act facts. TRAVELLER.
NEW YORK, juno %.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
EVENTS TODAY.

Meeting Of the Democratic State Com
mittee e
Outing of the Twelfth Assembly District
Republican Club TO Bear Mountain. leaving
Pier =, North River at. noon. "
Childrens field day. Brooklyn Lodge OF
Elks. Ebbets Field. afternoon dinner. Hotel
Shelburne. Brighton Beach. $3.50 p. M.
Meeting OF exporters to Latin America.
Hotel Commodore. +. NJ.
Outing of the Horatio Seymour Tammany
Club to Bear Mountain. leaving foot of West
Twenty-third street at 9:45 A. NJ.
Luncheon by Frederick A. Wallis, Commits
sioner OF Immigration. to the general conf
mittee of the sixth Worlds Christian En-
deavor Convention. Bankers Club. 1880
p. M.
DR.. Will Durant will speak on "An His
torical Outline of Sociology" Labor Temple,
Fourteenth street and Second avenue. S:15
Pm.
The Kellum talking motion pictures will
be demonstrated under the auspices of the
Board of Education, High School OF COM
S:l5 p. M.
Convention, Fox Film Corporation Hotel
Commodore, o A. M. to 8 p. NJ.
Supper. Woman's Benefit Association Of
the Maccabees, Hotel Commodore, 8 y. NJ
Convention. American Optometric Associa-
tion. Waldorf-Astoria. 0 A. NJ. and p. NJ; f;
dinner. p. M.
Meeting. National Associatio of Shirt
Manufacturers. Waldorf-Astoria, 10 A. M.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
Members of Vision.

There are $500 American optom.
etrists in convention in New York
city this week, and they do not in
clude all the men who minister to
faulty eyesight in the United States
and in Canada. The output of their
professional activities in the form
of aids to vision must be enormous,
yet we are constantly told that only
small proportion Of persons whose
eyes need help to function properly
have given them proper care.
Only a few years ago children's
eyes were almost entirely neglected.
A child wearing glasses excited the
pity of adults and frequently was the
object Of ridicule among those of its
own age. To-day it is recognized
that not only can comfort and health
be promoted in youngsters by the use
in infancy of accurately fitted glasses,
but in many cases the lenses will as
sist nature in bringing the eyes into
harmony and thus rendering them
unnecessary later.
Wearers of glasses were once ac-
cepted az decrepit, weaklings or folks
who used their eyes lot" Outdoor
men and women, those who worked
with their hands, were assumed to be
free from the necessity Of caring for
their eyes. To-day we see truck drivers
in horn trimmed spectacles and think
nothing Of it. That occupation has
nothing to do with the need for
glasses is generally understood. That
horn rims give some protection to
expensive lenses has been impressed
on good many men and women.
They do not distinguish highbrows
any more, but persons who do not
like to be without glasses or to throw
their money away.
There are many important things
for oculists, optometrists and opti
clans to teach us. At times all is not
harmonious among them. There are
disputes about their fields of useful
ness. It is unfortunate for them to
waste their energy in this way. The
eye mems work should have all their
strength.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
Rain in the City street.

o rain In the city street,
You have my heart in thrall
And am not here but there
Where the grass is lush and sweet
Out in tho clean fresh air
with the free sky over all.
I feel you upon my face
AS soft as a mother hand.
And straight / am reconciled;
For J see a far off place,
Where the high hill ways are wild
The happy o.d home land
SO. as the slow hours chime.
Still / shall find you sweet;
Then fall and fall and fall
I'm back In the loved lost time,
In the days beyond recall.
o rain In the city street
CLINTON ScoLLARn.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
A Riddle.

From the Nation and the AthenGern.
The mild noon air Of spring again
Tapped shimmering in that sea lulled
lane;
Hazel was budding: wan as snow
The leafless blackthorn was ablow.
A chaffinch clankt, a robin woke
An eerie stave in the leafess oak.
Green Knocked at green: /: lichen and moss
The rain worn slate did softly emboss.
From out her winter lair at sigh
OF the warm south wind. butterfly
Stepped. quaffed her honey; on painted
fan
Her labyrinthine fight began.
wondrously solemn, golden and fair,
The high suns rays beat everywhere;
Yea, touched my cheek and mouth, as
Equal with stone, trce-Man 'twould
give t.f.a
It's light and life. o restless thought
Contented not With "Why" distraught.
Whom asked you ther your riddle
smaE?-
"If hither came no man at all
Through this gray daydream Cornish
lane,
Would It mere blackcned ncught remain
Strives 1t its beauty and life to express
Only in human consciousness?"
Oh, rather. idly breaks he in
To an Eden innocent Of sin,
And. prouder than to be afraid,
Forgets his Maker in the made.
WALTER DE LA MARE.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
Invading the North.

To THE New YORK HERALD: May I
add word or so to your interesting
description of New York's ailanthus
trees? The name, by the way, Ia prop
erly ailantus.
Where this tree seems to be indige-
nous in China. 1t is called "the tree of
heaven" title adopted by May Sinclair
for one Of her recent popular novels.
The tree Is still very hardy In lower
New York and is spreading into the
northern part Of the city. Last week l
saw one in yard on Fordham road in
The Bronx. and growing Justify.
The individual trees are quite dis
tinct sexually, and in the Towering se,-
son the blossom of the male tree gives
out an odor far from delightful. Let
feminists make the most of this.
STEVEN B. AYREs.
NEW YORK, June 2s.
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
The Dutch Oil Reply.

1t is regrettable that the Dutch
Government could find no better way
OF excusing it's discrimination against
America in the Djambi oil field OF
Sumatra than the unconvincing
statement that the Batavia concern
is native Dutch company and that
IL should have priority in Djambi
because II was the first to exhibit
an interest in that field.
Neither OF these arguments Is
sound. The Batavia company is an
offshoot of the Royal Dutch Shell
combine. controlled in London. 1t is
only poor diplomacy to try to gloss
the transparent fact that Holland is
The New York herald., 1921-06-29
A Missourian's Revenge.
,rom fhe lfonroc county Anncn

From the Monroe County Appeal.
The death OF favorite wild goose he had
tanned recently led John Bird, a bachelor
north OF Paris. straight uo TO feast. of
what Is considered the worlds greatest
delicacy. The goose was injured so badly
by a turtle that II died. Mr.. Bird took his
trusty shotgun bent on revenge. The turtle
proved to be one OF the biggest ever seen In
the locality. weighing about fourteen pounds
and yielded a crock full OF choice steaks
for the avengcr. TO say nothing OF turtle
soup galore.