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The New York herald., 1921-12-03

! WASHINGTON, Dec 2.-Despite extraor-
dinary progress in the last twenty
three years, the Filipino people have a
long road to travel before they will be
ready to take over their own Govern
ment, according to the report made by
Major-Gen. Leonard Wood, Governor
General of the islands, and A. Cameron
Forbes. former Governor-General. The
! complete report was issued to-day by
the War Department as a supplement to
the recent publication of specific recon-
mendations made by the two investiga.
| tors.
Need of further national improvement
is pointed out by the report, which de-
clares. however, that the administrative
mistakes of the Filipinos have not been
sufficient to counterbalance the steadily
rising progress barometer.
Generally speaking" the report says,
administrative departments of the Gov
ernment are top heavy in personnel and
! enmeshed in red tape. There is a vast
amount of paper work. The methods of
the administration are purely autocratic
There Is lack Of supervision and per-
sonal contact"
Discussing the policy pursued during
the administration of Governor General
Harrison. from 1914 to 1921. the report
declared ''the orderly process of promo
ton on proved efficiency in the Gov
ernment service was changed to "hur-
ried Filipinization," and added:
While there has been retrogression in
the efficiency of most departments of the
Government during the past few years.
we do not feel that the responsibility for
thls rests solely upon the Filipinos, as
the ultimate responsibility for the selec-
ton of responsible officers and for the
exercise of proper supervision was in the
hands OF the American Governor Cen
eral, whose duty it was to appoint COM
petent men at the heads of departments
and bureaus, and. above all, to exercise
proper supervision over them"
1t is the general opinion apong Fill
lpinos, Americans and foreigners that
the public services are now in many
particulars relatively ineffmient: that
there has occurred a slowing down in
the despatch of business and a distinct
relapse toward the standards and adj
ministrative habits Of former days" the
report adds. This is due in part, to
bad example, incompetent direction, to
political infection of the services and
above all to lack of competent super
vision and inspection"
The report asserts that the Filipino
people as a whole do not want indepen-
dence while many who favor severance
of American ties do not comprehend
the responsibilities of self-government.
THE people as q whole" says the
report. "are appreciative of the peace
and order which prevail throughout the
islands. Many do not understand what
independence means, or its RESPONSE
blities. They are living under the best
conditions they have ever known. 1t is
not generally realized that the Ameii-
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
Goals From Touchdown.
Proposed by an Expert
at Football.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Referring
to the letter written by Thrilled" and
entitled Kicking for Goal" / would
say that since 1910 have been coach
ing and officiating at scholastic games
and have witnessed great number OF
college games, but never during the past
twenty-one years have 1 seen the kicker
have the ball placed on the little
mound of dirt put there to keep 1t in
proper position"
If Thrilled were conversant with
Rule XII and all the sections and sub'
divisions hereunder he would readily
see that a goal from touchdown could
not be made in the manner in which he
describes this play.
They might pull this in Kokomo. Ind.
or Hohokus, N. j., but II isn't done in
the best families Of football.
AS to kicking goals from touchdown
there is much to be said on both sides,
but ! am strongly of the opinion that
the play will not be amended or eliri-
mated and / agree with the writer OF
the letter that the play is a very essen
tlal one I'm the game as played to-day
but the rules committee should incor-
porate another section in the rule re-
ferred to by which the individual max
ing the touchdown should be obliged to
kick the goal, and IL should not be done
by some one individual Of the team who
has been drilled In this particular phase
NJ the pame. REFEREE.
Oss1NING December 2.
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
Pedestrian Perils.

The Massachusetts, Registrar OF
Motor Vehicles, FRANK A. GOODWIN,
urges that all benighted strollers on
country highways wear white outer
garments and carry lights. Other
wise they are in deadly peril, the
fatality statistics clearly show. OF
seventy-seven persons killed by auto
mobiles in Massachusetts in October.
forty-seven were pedestrians and
most of them were run down after
dark in the rural districts.
The obvious deduction is that the
country highway walkers should
have higher and more glaring visi-
bility. Mr.. GOODWIN recommends
ghostly attire and a lantern. But is
that enough? Ought not the country
road wayfarer have a headlight
strapped on his breast and a rear
light fixed to the small of his back?
And surely he should have horn to
honk at frequent intervals. Even
then there would be no immunity
from drunken drivers and the rush
of the maniac speeder.
Time was, and that not so very
long ago, when an evening stroll
along rural highways with dim,
shadowy fields to right and left and
heresand there a slow progress into
the gloom of solemn, overshadowing
trees was one of the sources of hap
piness to the country soiourner.
Then it was that he felt himself in
a realm Of infinite quietude and
peace, with all the distracting up
roars and confusions of life with
drawn remote and afar. Open to him
then was the whole field of medita.
ton and self-communing and the re-
freshing of kindly memories OF van
ished scenes and silenced voices. 1t
brought mental calm and the health
full physical fatigue that mean peace
full sleep and pleasant dreams.
|. But if the wayfarer nowadays must
wear Ku Klux garb, carry port and
starboard and bow and stern lights
and blow raucous horn every few
steps, besides keeping ever alert ia
dodge the juggernauts, how on earth
is he to get time for meditation and
self-communing?
The fact is that the highway pedes.
trian is on the road to speedy obliter.
alton from the rural landscape Soon
he must cut across lots, take to the
woods or stay at home. OF course II
he must walk on a thoroughfare
there are the railroad tracks. They
involve no masquerading harness and
the pedestrian may whistle at cross
ings or not, just as he chooses. The
walking is not so good as on the dirt
roads. but the percentage Of safety is
infinitely greater.
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
Substitutes for Potatoes.

Those who have spent much time
in the South have. as a rule, learned
that hominy grits are appetizing
when served with meats, and that
corn pone properly made is some
thing to remember when served pip
Sng hot with plenty Of good butter.
With all such the news that an effort
will be made to have these staples Of
the South serve as substitutes for
potatoes and beans during the com.
ing winter on many Northern tables
will be received without dismay.
Their use would mean a more bounti.
full table at a lower cost in many
homes.
That the potato crop is short is
apparent from the latest figures,
which make the yield fifteen millions
Of bushels less than the average for
the five years between 1915 and 1920.
This average is 81 ,2SO,OOO bushels,
as against 356,O74,O 900 for 1921. The
crop for 1920 was extraordinary,
totalIing 42S,36S, 900 bushels.
Federal crop experts think that
The New York herald., 1921-12-03

the woods in the autumn, but it is
safe to say that the practice will
become less popular unless some
thing is done to educate the anna
teur hunter whose nerves are set
atingling by the cracking OF twigs
and the moving of foliage. A man in
khaki as we'll as a deer may thus
betray his movements when walking
in the forest. The old adage BE
sure you are right before you act"
applies with special force in the
woods. Some modern rifles will kill
at mile, and they should never be
used except at we'll defined target.
No man should ever go into the
woods with a modern rifle until he
has been taught something of the
mysteries of woodcraft. Better that
thousand chances to kill deer
should be lost than one human life
should be taken.
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
Romance.
The past presents its storied page
Whereon are doughty deeds er

The past presents It's stored page
Whereon are doughty deeds en-.
scrolled
In legends of each faded age
We read of heroes hale and bold:
Gone are their glories, we are told,
The knightly tryst, the quest. the fray
Yet, if we heed, we may behold
There is romance in every day.
These tales are ours for heritage
How round Troy's towers the conflict
rolled,
How Perseus faced the dragons rage
And Jason sought the fleece of gold
How Rome was builded high of old
Where long the Caesars held their sway
Yet, if we heed, we may behold
There is romance in every day.
In darksome dangers to engage
Sir Galahad rode DER moor and wold
King Arthur and the aged mage
Merlin the chronicles unfold;
Roland and Bayard arc extolled,
And Lion Richard cen as they;
Yet. If we heed, we may behold
There is romance in every day.
ENVOY.
Friends, by this thought be consoled
And mourn not the dead years.
pray,
For, IL you heed. you may behold
There is romance in every day
CLINTON ScoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
Vassar Girls Waists.

Nearly forty years ago Vassar Col
lege began to use the tape and the
scale on the young women who en-
tered its classic gates and it has
kept careful record of the changes
in average weights, heights and di-
ameters of waists.
The VGSSar Miscellany Ne1cs has
an article which shows how the
American girl has grown this last
generation. In 1SS4-1S90 the fresh
men at the Poughkeepsie college
averaged feet and 3 inches in
height and 11S pounds in weight and
had waist measure of 25M inches.
The average freshman of to-day is
three inches taller and six and one
half pounds heavier, and her waist
is five-eighths of an inch bigger
around.
A jumper at conclusions might say
that the girls entering college now
adays are older than the freshmen Of
the sos; but this is not so, as the
Vassar records prove. The average
age in the sos was IS years and 8
months; now it is Is years and 2
months, full year less than the
average in 1896.
The size OF the Vassar freshman's
waist has not increased steadily since
1884. The girls of the late sos had
fairly good sized waists-25H inches.
That was a period when college girls
were very serious and cared little for
fashion. Twenty-Five years ago, in
the age of tight lacing, freshman
waists began to recede and by 1905
they bad reached the lowest mark
on the books-23s inches.
After that, athletics having over
balanced fashion, girls waists grew,
and they have grown two and quar-
ter inches in the last fifteen years.
And yet, it must be remembered, the
increase over the waist measure of
the freshman of the SOS is only five
eighths of an inch. This is trifle,
considering the great gain in height
and weight in the same period
AS the Vassar statistics We're ar
rived at through the measurement Of
more than 1000 cases it may be
taken for granted that practically all
girls of American stock have made
similar gains. College life has moth
ing to do with the improvement, as
the statistics were gathered when the
girls entered college. AS Miss BAL
LANTINE Of Vassar says, sit is simply
the improvement of the people as a
whole"
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
EVENTS TO-DAY.

High School Teachers Association luncheon
Hotel Astor, IL 80 p. NJ.
New York Steam Corporation luncheon,
at the plant. Fifty-ninth street and Sutton
place. T. NJ.
Working Girls Vacation Society, annual
fair, Hotel McAlpin. If A. NJ. to 10 p NJ.
Ludwig Lewisohn will lecture on The
Symholists,' under the auspices of the Liter
ary Forum. Rumford Hall, 80 East Forty
The Womens Auxiliary and the Young
Folks Auxiliary of the Beth Moses Hospital
carnival and dance, Thirteenth Regiment
Brooklyn, s p NJ
Judge julius NJ. Mayer will speak at a
dinner OF the Temple Israel OF Harlem.
Mary Sandal win lecture on applied
Psychology in Daily Life" before the League
for Political Education. Town Hall. 1913 West
Forty-third street, IL a. NJ ,e
Hudson Guild Settlement House. rummage
sale at the settlement house. 436 West
Twenty-seventh street. afternoon and eve
ming. q
Entertalnmcnt by, pupils of Washington
/. " Wietner 's scholarship % fund, Washington v @
teenth street 2:15 and s;15 P. M.
ira. concert. Boys High School, Marcy ave-
nue. and Madison street. Brooklyn, s Z. NJ.
a. Kingsley Porter will lecture on ''Medioe-
val Sculpture and the Pilgrimage to Com
postella," Metropolitan Museum OF Art, 4
The American Federation of Art. exhibition
of color prints and photographs, Sage Foun-
dation Building. Lexington avenue and
Twenty second street. 10 A. NJ. to p. M.
Little Mothers Aid Association, bazaar,
Waldorf Astoria, all day.
Automobile Salon, Hotel Commodore, all
day.
Mount IIolyoke Alumne, reception. Hotel
Astor. Z. NJ.
New York Association of Real Estate
Boards. meeting. Hotel Commodore. 10 A.
NJ: luncheon, Il so =. NJ.
The Taylor Society. luncheon, Hotel Penn
sylvania, 1 p. NJ.
Delta Delta Delta Sorority. dinner. Hotel
Commodore, Z T.. NJ.
Maine Women, meeting. waldorf-Astoria,
p NJ
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
Japan in the Conference.
Confidence and Sympathy Historic
KeynOtes Of Our Diplomacy.

To THE New York HERALD: Please
allow one who has grown up with the
Japanese to thank you for your edi-
torlal article of November 80 on Japan
in the Conference"
With the wealth of Information and
critical writing from all viewpoints
continually set forth in the pages of
THE NEW YORK HERALD your editorial
verdict means much. The keynotes Of
all the initial dealings Of Commodore
Perry and Townsend Harris were con-
fidence and sympathy. These also fur
nish the cipher code of Interpretation.
where suspicion and obduracy based on
ignorance fail. Please keep on with
further knowledge and good judgment
for your readers. ONE WHO KNOWS.
New YORK, December 2.
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
Abolish Outlaw Weapons!
International Prescription for Sub.
marines and Poison Gas.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: THE NEW
YORK HERALD's vigorous campaign
against the use of the submarine and
poison gases in war should meet univer-
sa' approval and support. Your forcible
editorial articles on that subject have
expressed the horror the world must feel
toward the employment of agencies cal.
cu!ated and intended to destroy life in
utter disregard of the means by which
1t may be accomplished or the agonies
that may attend it.
If the constant supply OF food produc-
ton In any large area tends to fall
below the requirements of population the
struggle for existence may well involve
occurrences of war and war; being in
its essential nature a process of destruc-
tion, desperate people. in order to sur
yive, may make use of any weapon, how
ever vile, DESPITE the rules and regula-
ticns of any form OF international agree
ment. We can but hope, however, that
the moral sense OF the world has been so
shocked by the cowardly and ruthless
slaughter OF non-combatants, including
women and children, by the submarine
and the awful effects of poison gas that
the condemnation of such devilish meth
ods of warfare by an international pro-
scription of their use may prove to be
real and effective deterrent.
Whether such prohibition would be
always effective is not entirely to the
point. That 1t may prove so to any ex-
tent Is sufficient to urge its adoption at
the present time. President Harding
CT fad ha
methods of the late war with earlier
conflicts that were governed by what he
called a sense of militant chivalry. In
regard to this matter it is interesting
to note that shortly before the battle
of Harlem Heights and when the Amer
lean troops were quartered in the upper
section of the Island of Manhattan Gen.
eral Howe wrote to General Washing
ton as follows:
My aide-de-camp will present to you
ball cut and fixed to the ends of nail
taken from number OF the same kind
found in the encampments quilted by
your troops on the 18th inst. I do not
make any comment on such unwarrant-
able practices. being we'll assured the
contrivance has not come to your
knowledge.
General Washington replied,
Your aide-de-camp delivered me the
ball you MENTION which was the first
of the kind ever saw or heard of. You
may depend TIE contrivance Is highly
abhorred by me, and every measure shall
be taken to prevent wicked and in
famous practice being adopted in this
Army.
In General Heath's Memoirs, quoted
In THE History of the Jumel Mansion"
he tells of British officer coming with
a flag of truce and complaining that
British sentries on one of the islands in
the East River had been fired upon from
the shore occupied by American troops
and presumably. therefore, by American
soldiers This was regarded as an act
contrary to the rules OF honorable war
fare. The British officer was sent back
with the assurance that instructions
would issue at once that sentries were
not to be fired upon. Surely. that spirit
has not yet departed from the world.
CHARLES E. RUsHMoRE.
New YORK, December 2.
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
Jack Frost, photographer.

After a night of bitter cold,
Lo on the window pane
found my dear dead blossoms limned
In loveiness again
The lllacs and the violets,
The dainty asphodels,
The valley lilies from the grass
Uplifting pearly bells.
Like shadows from a bank OF pale
And lacy ferns arose
In spirit beauty leaf and bud
Long folded in the SHOWS.
The frost from silver negatives,
Behold It came to pass.
Had printed all their photographs
Upon my window glass.
MfNNA Irving.
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
Helgoland Back to Its Old Role.

The Helgoland which the world
knew for twenty years before the
war as the Gibraltar of the North
Sea and the impregnable defence of
northern Germany has passed, ap-
parently forever. The Interallied
Commission that had charge of the
demolition OF the fortresses Of the
island and the artificial defences in
the harbors has reported that it's
work is finished and that the officers
in control have been withdrawn.
The task of dismantling the Hell
goland Notifications exceeded in
many respects the expectation of the
officers of the commission. The cost
of destroying the defences, which
Germany, in accordance with the
terms of the Versailles treaty, must
also bear, is estimated to be about
100000 gold marks. She furnished
1000 German workmen for the task.
For the past two years, while the
work has been in progress, the ex-
plosions of dynamite and other high
explosives have given to the islanders
the impression of a magnified old
time Fourth of July celebration.
1t was not until the commission
began its work that the members had
an understanding of the magnitude
of their task, for no person, except
high German officials and the people
living on the island, had even an idea
of how completely Helgoland was
fortified. Two thousand picked Ger
man artillerymen were sent to the
island to man its defences when they
were finished. To each of these was
assigned special duty, and thus his
knowledge of the titanic structures
was limited to the part in which he
was to serve in war time. Only the
former Emperor WILLIAM and the
Board of Military Engineers who
worked them out knew the entire
plans Of the Notifications. the har-
bors, the breakwaters and the ap-
proaches to Helgoland.
The commission discovered that
the great cliffs at their weakest
points had been encased in an armor
belt of steel, concrete and granite,
which afforded protection against
the onslaught OF the sea as well as
from hostile guns. Natural fissures
were filled up with tons of concrete,
buttresses $50 feet high and 16 feet
thick were built on three sides of the
island, and cupolas and armor belt
ing over the top of the island pro-
tected cannon OF large calibre.
equipped with the most modern
contrivances for dropping back into
their gun pits and for reloading. The
completeness of the scheme for safe
guarding the harbors and the waters
for miles around the island became
| familiar during the world war
The cupolas, the great guns and
their shields, sthe steel work in the
elaborate and intricate passages in
the rocks are now little more than
shapeless scrap. The harbors are
choked by the masonry Of their own
breakwaters and the ultimate work
Of the destruction OF these water
The New York herald., 1921-12-03

both the rice and the bean crop for
the current year will fall about
100000 bushels below the figures of
1920. AS the corn crop is bumper
yield and the price is extremely low a
large consumption of this cereal and
its products is urged. Corn meal may
be used in conjunction with vege-
tables to supply maximum of nour-
ishment at a minimum of cost. Care
in grinding is essential in producing
a good quality of meal.
The New York herald., 1921-12-03
GREETERS AT ATLANTIC CITY.
Hotel Attaches Meet In Swimming
Pool at Ambassador.

Special Despatch to TIE NEw York HmALp.
ATLANTIC CITY. Dec. 2.-The Hotel
Attaches Association known as the
Greeters conducted a novel meeting to-
night at the Ambassador Hotel All the
members. clad in bathing suits, as
sembled In the hotel swimming pool.
The secretary read the minutes while
buoyed up with q pair Of swimmers
wings.
Arrivals from New York at the Dennis
to-day were Mrs. Floyd Grant. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. c. Ormund. Miss NJ. b. Robert
son. who joined Mr. and Mrs. a. y.
Fountain; Mr.. Middleton Decamp. WIN
joined his mother, Mrs. Walter A. De-
camp. of Cincinnati, and his brother.
James M. Decamp of Yale.
At the Ritz-Carlton are Mrs. B. Y.
woodward. Mrs. Bernard Pollaka, Mr..
and Mrs. S. r. Barr, Jr. Mrs. l.. b.
Roberts and Mr.. Leonard Thomas.
Mr.. Jerome y. Travers. erstwhile ANA
teur golf champion of the United Statef,
has arrived at the Traymore with Mrs
Travers. Other New York folk there
are Mr.. Roydow Keith. Mrs. l.. A. Johp-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert r. Forester
and Mr.. II. G. BlaclSiston.
At the Marlborough -Blenhelm are
Lieut.-Col. Simmons, who is accom-
panied by Mr.. George Seath; Mr.. Philip
u. Schelt, Mr. and Mrs. w. a. Lyons al nd
Mrs. Anna l.. Combes, from Brooklyn.