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The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Punish Lawbreakers.
The Present Machinery of Justice
Adequate il Rightly Used.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Mayor
Hylan must know as well as the Judges
of the criminal courts that the granting
or fixing OF bail for a person accused
of crime and before trial is obligatory
on the court. except in the case OF MUIR
der or some like charge. He knows also
that the bonding companies are permitted
by law to present security for the pris-
oner's release and appearance when re-
quired In court and that their bond,
properly executed. must be accepted by
the court.
Mr.. Hylan when on the bench was
always accessible for bail applications.
never knew him to refuse ball TO a
prisoner before trial. when he was a
Magistrate he could always, at night. be
found at the Twentieth Assembly Dis
trict Democratic Club or at his home to
accept bail for 2ny person arrested or
held in default of bail during the day.
There was no trouble in getting him to
sign a bail bond. provided it was good
and properly executed.
What Is required in our city is that
persons charged with crime be speedily
tried and fully punished. We have po-
licemen enough and Judges enough and
TO spare. What the city wants from Its
officers Is efficiency and courage to
stand up against flapdoodle sentiment
when used to enable a scoundrel to es-
cape punishment for an offence of which
he has been convicted.
The Parole Board should be abolished
The prisons should be places of punish
ment, not places where lawbreakers are
treated to social entertainments, opera
movies. baseball and other pleasures
many OF which are denied thousands OF
honest. law abiding citizens on the out
side because they have not the money to
indulge In them.
do not say to punish criminals in
humanity; but they should be punished
properly and not coddled. They should
be deprived at least Of the pleasures
which belong only 10 honorable citizen
chip. DIsGusTED.
BROOKLYN, January a.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
"Louise" To Be Sung at Opera.

Charpentiers Louise" will have its
first performance by the Metropolitan
Opera Company, Saturday afternoon OF
next week. with Miss Farrar. Mr.. Har-
rold Mr. Whitehlll and Nine. Berat. lie
Cog DOR will have it's first perform
ance this season on Friday evening of
next week. with Mime Garrison. Mr..
Diaz and Miss CALI II will be pre-
ceded by "Cavalleria Rusticana," with
Miss Ponselle and Mr.. Gigli.
Other operas next week will be as fol-
lows:
'LOracolo" and "Pagliacci," Monday
afternoon. the first, with Nine. Peralta
and Mr.. Scott; "Pagliacci," with Miss
Sundelius and Mr.. Crimi; "The Blue
Bird" Monday evening. with Nine.
Delaunois and Mr.. Chalmers; Don Car
los" Wednesday, with Miss Ponselle
and Mr.. Martinelli aida" Thursday,
with Mines. Muzio cher first appearance
this season. and Mr.. Crimi, and I'll
Trovatore," Saturday night, with Nine.
Peralta and Mr. Kingston.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Bishop Thomas F. Gailor will speak Mt a
public meeting, under the auspices Of the
Americanization committee of the Allied
Patriotic Societies, Fraunces Tavern, =. NJ.
James w. Gerard. former Ambassador 10
Germany. VIII be among the speakers at a
American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico
Hotel Astor, p NJ.
Dinner OF the New York League OF Bust
ness and Professional Women, Cafe Boule-
ward, $3.50 p. NJ.
Andre Tridon viii lecture on Artistic
Temperament and Neurosis." Parkvew Pal
ace, 10th street and Fifth avenue, under
P. NJ
Annual Cat Show OF the Atlantic Cat Club
and the Silver Society, Waldorf f-Astoria.
Farewell public banquet In honor of Major
Gen. Robert Georges Nivelle of the French
army, under the auspices of the France
America Society. Hotel Biltmore. =. NJ.
Convention of the College Presidents Asso-
citation, Hotel Astor. 10 \. NJ.
Meeting OF the Rainy Day Club. Hotel As
Meeting of the .:.isscari wOmen's Club.
Hotel Astor. z. ~
Dinner OF the National Lutheran Educa-
tional Conference. Hotel Astor, u. NJ.
Dinner of the Southern Jewery Travellers
Association, Hotel Astor, I 80 +. NJ.
Ball and supper OF the Theatre Owners
Meeting OF the Unity Society. Hotel As,or
s p. NJ. -
Highway Transportation Show. Twelfth
Regiment Armory and First Field Artillery
Armory.
Dance. Archdiocesan Union Of sodalities.
Waldorf-Astoria, s =. VI,
Dinner, First Panel, Sheriffs Jury, Wal
dorf-Astoria. z. NJ.
Meeting of the National Coal Association.
Waldorf-Astoria 10 a. NJ.
Luncheon OF the Foreign AdvertisblS
Agency Association. Hotel Pennsyvanla, =
p. NJ
Dance. British Great War Veterans Ok
America. Hotel Pennsylvania. =. NJ.
Luncheon, Book and Play CLUB, Hotel Bit
more. | T. M.
Meeting OF the Ornamental Growers Asso-
citation, Hotel Biltmore.
Dance. Courtland Lodge. +. and A. NJ.
Hotel Commodore, +. NJ
Mrs. Jackson Fleming viii lecture on For
eign Affairs In Relation to the United
States" under the auspices Of the League
for Political Education, al the Park Thea
tire, Columbus Circle, II A. NJ, and again
a. the same hour and place on Thursday.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph p. Green VIII speak
on "Conce ntration for Success at a Kiwanis
luncheon at the Hotel McAlpn. beginning.
12 80 Z. NJ.
DR.. j.. G. Spaudins will lecture on Com
mon Sense. Egyptians, Babylonians Chal-
deans" under tho auspices of the People's :
school OF Philosophy, at Manhattan Trade
School, Lexington avenue and Twenty-third
street, L. NJ.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Mr.. Whalen's Useless Figures.

The Commissioner Of Plant and
Structures Of this city, GROVER A.
wHALES, who runs the various pas
senger carrying conveyances which arc
now operated here under municipa.
control, has made a preliminary re.
port TO the Board Of Estimate, In
which he is represented as saying
that with a five cent fare the Staten
Island electric car lines under his dl.
rection have returned "a comfortable
profit"
II is TO be expected that this an
nouncement will be heralded through.
out the country as proof of the feast.
bility Of successful municipal opera
tion OF a transportation system.
The facts are that Commissioner
WHALEN has been running these troll
ley lines In the name OF the city less
than month, that he has been
favored by unusually good weather
conditions, and that, so far ms appears
from the newspaper accounts OF hi,
report, no provision has been made by
the city for depreciation OF tracks,
barns, or rolling stock. In short
nothing is charged against receipts
except the bare operating expenses.
Even under this remarkable book.
keeping practice, a week Of bad
weather, single serious accident,
would upset the balance and show a
deficit instead OF comfortable
profit"
No matter how good the accounting
system adopted for the municipality
0peihted street railway may be, 1t Is
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1921.
War Finance to the Rescue.

Congress has overruled the Presi-
dents War Finance Corporation veto
with so emphatic and sweeping vote
that the action speaks for itself. 1t
remains to consider the result Of the
revival of that body's functions.
1t seems to be the general impress
sion that those who have put the
measure through against the strong
objections Of Secretary Houston and
the ineffective resistance Of President
WILSON have resumed the workings
of the War Finance Corporation
chiefly If not wholly to lend directly
TO the American farmers barrels of
money with which to hold back their
crops from market for much higher
prices than they now command.
II this were the only purpose OF
the measure and if all that the re-
vived corporation did were to fork
over millions of cash or credits TO
farmers the plan surely would fail.
Wadding up the banks with farmers
loans, If such thing were practical,
or wadding up the Finance Corpora
tlon with farmers loans, if such Il
thing were contemplated, or wadding
up the United States Treasury itself
with farmers loans. if such a thing
were possible, never could sell the
farmers crops at higher prices II
there were no market demand for
them. Creating the necessary market
demand for the crops is horse OF
another color.
Enabling general American indus
try to finance export sales, on the
other hand, does not mean merely
more exports of wheat or corn or
cotton. 1t means more exports Of
anything and everything needed
abroad. These exports mean Amer
ican mills and factories kept busy In
stead of being compelled to put UP
the shutters. Busy mills and facto-
ries. with their wage earners able to
buy what they want out Of their
current earnings, mean q stronger
market demand right here at home
for agricultural and for ell other
products
The American farmer might not ex-
port single bushel of wheat and yet
yet better market in his own coun-
try because Of the increased exports
of manufactures. He might not bor-
Tow q single dollar more and yet
work out his safety, not by holding
back his crop while interest on his
heavy loans piled up agninst him, but
on the contrary by sending 1t TO
market to meet the stimulated demand
for IL.
This is why Congress voted 20 re-
vjve the Finance Corporation. 1t is
Why Congress broke down the Presi-
...ant's veto with sledgehammer force.
1t Is why, II the American farmer has
chance on earth to get out of the
economic trouble he now is in up to
his neck, he may be salvagcd
The New York herald., 1921-01-05

Nature studies occupied O considera-
BILE part OF the Philadelphia Orchestra s
peaceful entertainment in Carnegie Hall
last evening. The programme began
with Beethoven's Pastoral" symphony.
Mr.. Stokowsh conceived the work in a
reflective mood. lie fingered meditative-
ly over his various movements. especial
ly the scene by the brook. OF course,
in January brook might freeze over,
which would account for the fact that
It did not flow freely. 1t was a very
torpid brook indeed But onr could
peer into its limpid depths with ease.
Nothing was concealed and nothing was
overexposed.
Then there was q thunder storm.
Every one knows that in these days
OF prodigious orchestral machinery
Beethoven's thunder storm should seem
TO be distant, the mere mutter OF
threat behind the hills. And yet when
the music Is well played II assumes
its proper proportion in the scheme and
the thunder storm, IL not exactly a
black squall, is at least considerable
atmospheric disturbance
Mr.. Stokowski toyed gently with the
lightning. He apparently did not wish
to alright the ladies'. The episode was
filed out to the fraction of hair. as
Mr.. Kiplings remarked of Stevenson's
English. And When 1t was over the
peasants gave thanks most cheerfully
and yet continently. sober and decorous
in their joy, as became people with
healthy self respect.
After the Pastoral symphony came
Debussy's Clouds" diaphanous. strait
fed, floating In sheer ribbons of iri-
descent harmonies across the western
sky, whence the zephyrs had famed
away the last vestiges Of the nini5i.
This was very transparent and delicate
set of clouds, and Mr.. Stokowski scared
among them sweetly transfigured a
beneficent conjuror with his slender
magic wand.
After "Nuages" OF course followed
"Fetes." and there was a sound Of whole
tone revelry by night. A fete by De-
busy is no vulgar celebration, but some
thing aristocratic and emotionally po-
lite, almost intangible. But it Is deeply
charged with atmosphere, bathed In
color, shifting tints and elusive shadows.
One cannot help loving such music. Why
should one?
The concert closed with fireworks. in
other words, the good old second rhap-
sody of Liszt, which Theodore Thomas
used to give US with such elan in the
brave days of old. But he was no vir-
tuoso conductor. We do all these things
better now. However, the rhapsody per-
mitted the orchestra to show it's own
virtuosity. The word is equal to the
thing.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Hessians' First Fight.
Evidence That Three Brigades We're
at the Battle Of Long Island.

Ta THE New YORK HERALD: AS to
Hess.Sus In the United States in August,
1776, and in the battle OF Long Island.
Bancroft says $500 Hessians arrived at
New York August IL and landed on
Staten Island August Is. On August
22 men-o-war moved into Gravesend
Bay to protect the landing of troops
from Staten Island, the last brigade be-
ing Donop's Hessians CORVALLIS with
the reserve two battalions of infantry
and the corps Of Germans advanced to
Flatbush. On August % two more
brigades of Hessians with Heister came
over and the next day reached Flat
bush and Increased the command of
Howe on Long Island to "the largest
British army which appeared in the
field during the war" namely, 24.2T4
men. plus DeLancey's Loyalists.
Three German brigades and yagers"
were stationed half a mile in front of
Flatbush, In a line two deep. nearly a
mile in length. to force the road to
Brooklyn.
conclude the Hessians did not take
part In heavy lighting this is evidenced
by their loss of two killed and twenty
FIVE wounded; they fought only with
bayonets."
The American losses Of $50 killed and
wounded and 75o prisoners must have
occurred at points Of greater action,
Sullivan and Stirling losing most heav-
lily by the nature OF their fighting. In
modern parlance the Hessians were
moppers up. Undoubtedly there was
violation OF rules Of war--there always
are-and stories told about splitting men
TO trees and bayoneting prisoners are
wilful exaggeration II stated as showing
the rule and not the exception.
BY the way, an ancestor of mine is
reputed to have captured musket from
one Of these Hessians In personal con-
fiict G. Fl. CLAPP.
PouGHKEEPsrr, January 4.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
A Rare Bird.

From the Bfrmsnohor, Acs-Hsvoid.
'1've travelled far and wido." ono said,
"And wondrous sights I've seen
on California's sunlit strand
I Viewed n movie queen:
"1n Egypt saw the pyramids.
In India peaks of snow,
And many strangely garbed pilgrims
Who ceaseless come and go.
rive noundered deep in Russian SHOWS
And felt the deserts BREATH
In hot. miasmic tropic lands
stood face to face. with death
But there's one sight I've never seen
And maybe never will.
And that's a Georgia mountaineer
Wbs couldn't run q stilbs
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
S..erer Penalties for Crime Opposed

To THE NEW York HERALD: I heart
ily commend your editorial article re-
lsting 60 the proposal to increase the
penalties for certain folonies. 1t is OK.
tremely difficult now to obtain convic.
tions from juries in criminal cases
Would IL not be still more difficult II
penalties were made moro severe? Prob.
ably the penalty for assault. FIRST de-
greo--an attempt TO murder--should be
increased. B. ]. SHOVE.
Justice. Court Of Special Sessions.
SYRACUSE, January 4.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
THEATRE PARTY TO AID BLIND.

The performance of ''The Meanest
Man in the World" in which George NJ.
Cohan is appearing IN the Hudson The
atre. next Monday night will be for the
benefit of the Catholic Centre for the
Blind. The occasion is the annual the
atre party under the auspices of the
managers of the institution. who in
clude Mrs. Jacob L. Phillips. Mrs. John
b. Duer, Miss Ada Clarke. Miss Cecile
Doelger, Miss Estelle O'Bren. Miss
Marie Doelger Mrs. Alfred G. Chaplin,
Mrs. ]. Walter Wood. Mrs. Robert j..
Collier, Miss Agnes +. keyes and Mrs.
Frederick Childs.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Davy James on the Job.

DAvY JAMES lives and works
in Clearwater county, Pennsylvania.
DAvY is Il coal miner. DAvY is 81
years old. But, DAvY JAMES Is able
to lift out of his pay envelope from
Ss5 to 800 week.
DAvY JAMEss $50 or 500 week
doesn't come by accident. 1t doesn't
happen only occasionally. Right
straight along through all last sum-
mer and autumn DAVIS pay envelope
yielded his SS5 or 500 a week like
clockwork. And DAvY still keeps on
bringing home the bacon.
It's everybody's secret in Clear
water county how DAvY gets away
with It, DAvY earns It. And he
doesn't try TO earn It by taking nu-
merous mornings or afternoons OF to
20 fishing or fill seat on the bleach
ers. DAvY doesn't spend any work
ing hours going around the town
haranguing his fellow men on the
way to get money without working
for ii and be happy without deserv-
ing 1t. DAvY doesn't lend himself
and other miners off on vacation
strikes. DAvY just earns his fat
pay by showing up Mt the mine for
work every day it operates.
DAvY JAMES, born a Welshman,
landed here a coal miner, steady
worker ever since in the coal pits OF
Pennsylvania and always on the job,
is an Al American success.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
CatIin's Indians Had Spears.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD have
before me "The Boys Catlin" (scrib-
ners.. 1870 and OF tho sixteen illustra-
tlons, seven show spears. I believe
Cbtllns pictures are in the Natural
History Museum at Sevcnty-seventh
street Certainly Catlln knew what he
was doing.
II may interest you to know that his
daughter. now well over so. lives In this
city and is very we'll and active.
YoHKERs, January 4. H. LYON.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Nine. d'Alvarez's Recital.

Nine. Marguerite d'Alvarez gave her
second song recital yesterday in Aeol'an
Hall. She sang old opera airs, French
songs, Spanish songs and other lyrics.
Nine. d'Alvarez has gained one distinc-
tion. namely, that of excit ng large diff
ferences of opinion. Those who highly
value purity Of style and finish OF
technic find faults in her singing. Those
who prefer above all else what is loosely
called temperament regard her as one
of the most interesting Of singers. When
such opposite opinions are entertained
the truth Is usually situated somewhere
in the middle Nine. dAlvarez has
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
A Memorial to Frank Forester.

A bronze tablet, fittingly commcmo-
rating the affection in which HENRY
WILLIAM HEsBERT, novelist, historian
and nature lover, popularity known as
Frank Forester" is held by sports
men in all parts of the United States,
has been placed on huge boulder
In Warwick, Orange county, largely
through the efforts of HENRY WoRcEs-
TEg SMITH Of North Grafton, Massa-
chusetts. and FRED Z. PoND, who,
under his~pen name, "Will Wildwood"
Is familiar to all who love the out Of
doors life. In this monument Is brought
to conclusion project which first
took shape soon after HERBERT's death
in 1858, but which for various reasons
was not carried out until now.
The grave Of HERBERr is in Newark,
New Jersey. In 1875 the Frank For
ester Memorial Fund Association was
organized to. erect "a memorial work
Of art to be placed in Central Park" }"
but the necessary money could not
then be raised. Later HERBERTs
admirers made an unsuccessful at
tempt to get money for a monument
near Greenwood Lake. Now the scene
Of the authors warwick Woodlands"
is the site Of tablet recalling the man
who without affectation might be
called the American sportsmen's
sportsman.
It was in 1881 that HERBERT visited
Warwick and there met THOMAS
WARD ("Tom Drawn and enjoyed the
sport Of quail shooting. Warwick, the
"loveiiest village Of the vale," made
such an impression on him that he
wrote Of It:
MAY blessings be about you, beau-
tiful vale Of Warwick; may your
fieids and forests be as green. your
waters as bright, the cattle on your
hundred hills as fruitful as In the
foot pressed their greensward, my
youthful lungs drew life from the
inspiration OF your clear mountain
breezes may Independence. innocence
and plenty be the inheritance OF your
sons, the dowry OF your daughters;
may you be, as nature only
can, OF all the works OF GOD, forever
beautiful, unchanged and young and
so farewell. fair vale OF Warwick"
\ true lover Of nature, HERBERT
glorled in sport and wrote with au-
thority on il. Before his tragic death
In the old Stevens House on lower
Broadway he said concerning his vo-
luminous writings: II have taught,
I have inculcated, l have put forth
nothing that / did believe to be false,
or anything which / did not believe to
be good and true. In all my writings
I have written no line OF which l am
ashamed---no words which desire to
blot"
His writings have influenced multi
tudes TO find health and happiness in
the pursuit Of manly sports. He sang
and wrote of nature and her works.
HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT deserves the
bronze tablet placed on a boulder
dropped ages ago in Warwick by some
mighty glacier.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05

promptly" That's SwANN's way or
warning people to keep their mouths
shut about his Office. Perhaps he
thinks that some legislators are I'M
aware that he is powerless to annoy
them for anything they may say about
him or his office in legislative speeches
and debates.
How more and more pleased the
citizens of this county must be that
Governor SMITH refused to put
SWAMI on the bench
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Scotch Responsibility for the War Of
the Revolution.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: William
Harris desires to know my authorities
FOR the statements recently made by me
in regard to the Scotch War" The
most readily accessible authority for
that designation is the English historian
Trevelyan. in whose History OF the
American Revolution" volume H., part
2, page 1ee, Mr.. Harris may read the
following:
London was reminded several times a
week. with free use of capital letters.
that the ruinous and unnaturaliy wicked
conflict III consequence Of which English
families were mourning the loss OF Hus-
bands, Sons and Brothers was a SCOTCH
WAR. Dispatches from Scotch
colonial governors had kindled the war;
Scotch counselors had promoted it, and
pamphlets from the pens of Scotch gazet-
teers had deluded simple people Into be-
lieving that the unconditional submission
OF America was necessary for the honor
and safety OF Great Britain.
AS to the British officer who described
the butchery of the patriot soldiers al
the battle of Long Island ny the Hes
slams and the Scotch IIighlanders Mr.
tiarrlS Is reIerreQ 10 tHe loliONuiB au'
thorities: Appleton's encyclopedias OF
American Biography" volume ILL.,, page
100 Memoirs of the Long Island His
torical Society" volume H., page 402
american Archives" volume l., fiftf
series, folio 1853.
My statement that the jailer William
Cunningham bore the Scotch name oil
Cunningham" Is correct. Cunningham
ia a Scotch name-Conyngham is Irish
From his confession. published at thu
time Of his death, he appears to have
been the son of a trumpeter born II
the barracks In Dublin" (Appleton'i
Cyclopaedia Of American Biography, vol
ume H., page 32.) From the above
1t Is but fair to assume that Cunning
ham was the son of Scotch musician
attached TO an English regiment tenn
porarily garrisoned in Dublin, and wal
only Irish by accident of birth.
VERITAs.
/ NEW YORK, January 4.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York--Partly cloudy
with mild temperature to-day; to-mor-
row fair and colder; moderate southwest
winds
For New Jorsey--Fair with mild temper
azure to-day tomorrow fair and somewhat
coluer moderate to fresh southwest winds.
F3r Northern New England-Partly cloudy
To-Day; Tomorrow fair and colder; moderate
southwest winds
FSr southern New Englnnd-Partly cloudy.
with mild temperature to-day: to-morrow
iaIr and colder; moderate southwest winds.
% %soT Western New York-Cioudy and sorne-
"h"t colder to-day; tomorrow fair
WASHINGTON Jan. "A disturbance o.
ntouei tus ave intensity was central TuesdaV
nisht Forth of the great lakes and anothe-
| Midrked Intensity was approaching tbs
northefn Pacific coast The latter storm
mas , Deen attended by gales on the north
.. ansiiic &c coast: rains In the Paclflt States ex
sept IN Saliiornia and rains and snow IN
tne northern Rocky Mountain region. Fair
weather was the rule in other regions Tenn
peratlIe continued above the average FOR
this date over practically all parts OF the
country.
The outlook is for fair weather Tomorrow
and Thursday generally east OF tho MIssIs-
sipDl River. The temperatures will be some
what lower in the region Of the great lakes
the Ohio Valley and Tennessee and THURSDAY
IN the middle Atlantic and New England
states. They VIII remain relatively high.
however, generally east OF the AIssissippi
River through the next forty-eight hours.
Observations at United States Weather Bu
reau stations taken at L. NJ. Yesterday
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