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The New York herald., 1921-09-30

Commission. which he can control
almost as absolutely as he can con-
troll his Dock Commissioner, refused
70 take the steps which Commits
sioner HUBERT declares would have
put the pier grafters in the city's
power.
III Mayor HYLAN had read and un-
derstood the testimony OF his own
Dock Commissioner he could scarcely
have made such a ridiculous state
ment as he did about the city's in
ability to control the subleases of
docks. But the Mayor, we fear, is
not reading and understanding. He
apparently is signing pronunciamen-
tos prepared for him by unintelligent
or mischievous friends.
A second instance OF the Mayors
rushing into print without the facts
appears in Mr.. HYLAN's defence of
the private detective bureau system
OF policing the New York piers. This
cost the steamship and dock compa-
nies S35,S50,000 last year. The Mayor
tries to excuse the extravaganza by
saying that this expense was only
little more than one-half of / per
cent Of the value of the exports and
imports passing through this Gus
toms district.
What the Mayor didn't know, or
care to know, when he put his pen to
that excuse was that the private de-
tective companies charged S35,S50,-
600 for policing not the piers of this
customs district but the piers of New
York alone. Major KNIGHTs figures
on the cost included nothing west of
the Hudson.
Mr.. HYLAN seems hopeless. In his
examination before the legislative
committee recently he showed that he
knew little about the city's finances.
ASK DUNcAN!" was his cry. But
where's the canny DUNCAN nowadays
when the Mayor is making so many
grotesque errors? Perhaps he has
taken to the woods.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30

hardly accepted by the critics in
either this country or Europe. OF
bis four or five other operas none of
them reached the success of "Hansel
and Gretel" and "Konigskinder."
His wonderful ability as a mu-
sician was generously recognized By
his contemporaries; it was his mas
terry of technique which caused the
deep interest in him taken by WAC
NER and led this great composer to
intrust to him so much of the prep.
aration OF "Parsifal" Ii HrMPFR-
DINcK left but one great oper,t 1t IL
a human piece of work which forms
a solid foundation for his fame.
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be worth even more. But the higher
purchasing power of the dollar in
the last twelve months, the lower
number Of cars and locomotives
needed to move a heavily decreased
traffic, and even the excess labor
charges of August, 1920, could not
begin to account for a fall Of total
maintenance charges from more than
$s,O00,00O in August, 1920. to less
than $3.5O0.O0O in August, 1921.
For the great railway systems to
go on starving the phy-ical' proper
ties would mean their inevitable and
early breakdown. Yet it is equally
obvious, as General ATTERBURY has
warned. that transportation must
be liquidated." Traf1ic rates must
come down as all other prices have
come or are coming down. The busi-
ness of the carriers depends upon
lighter haulage charges.
How can the traffic rates get down,
then, as they must get down to win
back the freight tonnage that is nec-
essary to their health and prosper
ity? How can the upkeep of the
properties at the same time be re-
sumed as their very safety demands?
Only by a general readjustment of
the swollen operating charges. labor.
coal and everything else that is max
ing it cost more to run the roads
than they can stand, the traffic can
stand and the country can stand.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 80. 1921.
The Heart of the Matter.

The wage question is the very
heart Of the unemployment question.
Approaching the problem from any
other angle is futile and fatuous.
If all labor in our industries, or
ganized and unorganized, were to
meet at once in conference to dis
.uss ways and means of revitalizing
business and should recommend and
agree to an immediate return all
along the line to practically pre-war
wages and full measure productivity
It is a certainty that industry from
one end of this country to the other
would at once bound into a tidal
wave of activity. And coincident
with this activity would come
splendid nationwide prosperity.
This would be building from the
bottom up. All other methods of ap
proach to the unemployment prob
lem are but the footless effort to
build from the top down.
Calling men to work with no work
Tor them to do would be an economic
blunder. Economic blunders of this
magnitude would inevitably bring
worse state of stagnation and tiuan-
eial stress than now exists.
Any theory of handling the uuem.
ployment question and the industrial
question that is not of the essence
Of clear, straight economies is fruit
less and ephemeral.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
The Mayor and the Docks.

In statement about the dock
rentals Mayor HYLAN declares that
although the rates charged the Ship
ping Board were exorbitant ''the
city of New York had no control
whatever over the rates charged by
lessees.'
1t is only necessary to turn to the
testimony Of Dock Commissioner
HUBERT, the Mayors own appointee,
to see how wofully ignorant or mis-
informed Mr.. HYLAN is. On Septem-
ber Is Commissioner HUBERT, testi-
flying before the Meyer committee,
put part OF the onus of the exorbi-
tant pier rentals on Mr.. HYLAN's
Corporation Counsel and part on Mr..
HYLAN's Sinking Fund Commission.
He said.
II have maintained, under Section
S63. that the tenant of a city pier
was not entitled to collect on a basis
of wharfage any greater wharfage
than I could collect II the pier were
operated by the Dock Department,
but the Corporation Counsel does not
sustain me in that. because he says
that applies to an open pier"
The committees counsel, ELoN r.
BROWN, brought the Dock Commits
sioner to a more specific admission
of what the Hylan administration
might have done to curb the greed
Of the pier lessees.
Are you aware" asked Mr.. BRowS.
that a clause inserted in the lease
giving the city control over tho
charges made for wharfage would
have been binding?"
II am" replied Mr.. HYLAN's Dock
Commissioner.
But there has been no such clause
inserted?" said Mr.. BRowN.
There has not" the Dock Commits
sioner replied.
why not?" asked Mr.. BRovy.
There was such clause recon.
mcnded by the Dock Commissioner" :"
answered Dock Commissioner HUI
BERT. "and his communication was
received and fled by the Commits.
sioners Of the Sinking Fund"
Received and filed-in other words,
choked to death.
The Sinking Fund Commission
which thus turned down Mr.. HUI
BERTs request for means to end
the pier graft was composed OF the
Tammany Mayor. Mr.. HYLAN: the
Tammany Comptroller. Mr.. CRArG;
the Tammany City Chamberlain. Mr..
BERoLzHErMER: the Tammany chair.
man of the Finance Committee OF the
Board OF Aldermen, Mr.. CUNNING.
HAM, and one Republican, the Presi-
dent of the Board OF Aldermen.
So Mayor HYLAN's Sinking Fund
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The Remedy.
Verses 1'rom Zecharlah a Text for
New York and the World,

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your re.
cent detailed statement Of crime condi-
tions in New York city will no doubt
have it's good effect. 1t is we'll to have
public attention. called to the conditions,
but for purposes Of comparison statis-
tics Of the crime Of murder in some Of
the other large cities Of the country will
be necessary.
have a remedy to propose which
believe will be not only mine but q
remedy proposed by many. or course
New York city will work out it's own
salvation In the way it chooses but the
remedy propose will be time hon.
orcd one.
If the skyscrapers OF New York did
rot hide them the church steeples ris-
ing over this great mart OF the world
would show New York city to be largely
the residence OF churchgoing people,
whose religious organizations for the
most part revere the Bible and hold 1t
above every word written.
My remedy Is from Zechariah. will,
is and II. Could there be more ap-
propriate admonition than this gem Of
%0r0S LOT Any city ScehlnE what IL
should do In the situation pictured by
your article?
These are the things that ye shall do:
Speak ye every the truth to his
nei eiyrbor: execute the Judgment OF truth
and peace In your gates.
And let none of you imagine evil IN
your hearts against his neighbor. and
love no false oath: for all these are
things that hate. saith the Lord.
And how about the armament con-
ference to take place in Washington
next November? Would II not be a
fine model for the conference. compris-
ing men who are professed believers In
the Holy Bible. revering the word OF
God above every other word, the Presi-
dent of our own country who has issued
the call for the conference being one
OF them?
When has the world at a call of ma
tlons. unless II Ia that OF the Versailles
treaty. seen a greater occasion when
such guidance Is needed?
ALLEN w. JOHNSTON.
SCHENECTADY, September 20.
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Showers to-
day. cooler by tonight: tomorrow fair
and cooler fresh southerly winds.
For New Jersey-Showers to day, cooler by
tonight; tomorrow fair and cooler: fresh
For Northern New England-Increasing
cloudiness. followed by showers to-day to-
morrow clearing and cooler; fresh southcry
winds.
For Southern New acknowledgements
cloudiness, followed by showers to-day. to-
morrow clearing and cooler; fresh southerly
For Western New York-LocaI thunder
showers and somewhat cooler to-day, to-
morrow fair: fresh southerly winds.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-Air pressure re-
mained high off the Atlantic coast, and II
the Rocky Mountains and plateau regions
and the north Pacific States. A disturbance
OF considerable intensity had its centre to-
night north OF Lake Huron and 1t is moving
eastward.
There have been showers within the last
twenty.four hours In the south Atlantic and
Gulf states. the Mississippi Valley and the
upper lake regions. Fair weather prevailed
In all other parts OF the country. The
eastern and southern States, the Ohio ALLEY
and the lower lake region. while the upper
lake region; the upper Mississippi Valley.
Mountain region the weather has become
temperature this morning in Montana.
wyoming, Idaho and eastern Oregon.
In the middle Atlantic and New England
states the weather will be overcast and
humid. with showers and thunderstorms to-
morrow and fair and cooler Saturday.
In the South Atlantic and east Gulf States
there viii be local thundershowers to-mor-
row and Saturday. with somewhat lower
temperatures Saturday. In Tennessee. the
Ohio Valley and the lower lake region there
VIII be showers and thunderstorns and
cooler weather Tomorrow and fair weather
on Saturday. In the upper lake region the
Weather weather win be partly cloudy and cooler
Friday and fair on Saturday.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations. taken at p. n. yesterday.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30

The Board OF Estimate and Apportionmcnt
will conduct a public hearing on the pro-
posed removal Of the old Post Office Builc-
ing, City Hall. 80 A. NJ.
ST. Paul's Chapel. Broadway and Fulton
street. will be reopened with service. noon.
show. American Museum Of Natural History,
A. NJ to =. NJ.
National Democratic Club will celebrate It's
seventy seventh anniversary at It's clubhouse.
6i7 Fifth avenue, reception and exercises,
beginning q A. NJ.
soctation, testimonial dinner to G. N. Ray
mond Hotel Pennsylvania. p. M.
Annual victory ball committee. dance. Wal
dorf- Astoria. 8 p. NJ.
American National Union. luncheon. Hotel
Astcr. 1 p. n.
American Naturopathic Association conven-
tioij, Hotel Commodore, all day.
Speakers Bureau, Republican County Com.
.littsc. dinner, Cafe Boulevard. $3.50 r. NJ.
Editorial confcrEce, New York business
Publishers Association. luncheon. Cnfe Dou-
lcyard. p. NJ.
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The Right Rapid Transit Plan.

The Transit Commissions report
made public to-day is not definite
and final programme. 1t is an out.
line of the programme which the
commission is working out and ex-
poets soon to have in finished shape
principle, should be workable in
practice and OF inestimable value to
the people Of New York and to the
municipal treasury.
1t proposes. in line with Governor
MILLER's plan, to have the city take
ever all traction roads, facilities and
plants that will be essential and use
full to unified system under a single
control
1t will squeeze every drop of water
out OF every bit of transit property
on the ground, over the ground or
under the ground that is thus taken
over.
1t will fix five cent fare, with
restored transfers, as fast as they
can be reestablished, for at least one
year. If thereafter there is an in.
crease of fare it will be chiefly, II
not solely, to pay into the municipal
treasury it's due, in interest, &C., so
that upward of quarter of billion
of dollars of city borrowing capacity
may be freed from the present debt
limit restrictions.
1t is the hope and the expectation
of the Transit Commission that the
five cent fare can be maintained as
q permanent maximum. THE New
YORK HERALD believes that when all
the water is squeezed out, the rental
and rerental leases are expunged, an
honest valuation is fixed and all
the waste and inefficiency of dupli-
Gated and imperfect service cor
rected, the unified, rehabilitated and
well operated whole can do all of
that and perhaps more.
The present average fare. as
matter of fact, because Of the lost
transfers to the public, is six cents,
not five. Furthermore, because of the
interest which is not now paid into
the municipal treasury, causing
corresponding increase in the public
tax bills and rent bills, the average
fare is even more than six cents.
The five cent fare. with the free
transfers, which will result from the
adoption Of the Commissions pro-
gramme. therefore will more than
meet the demands of the public as
to the price they should pay for
transit trip. And in addition there
can be resumed the construction OF
new lines and the extension of old
lines to assure to the growing pop
ulation of this great city the best.
the safest and the fastest local trans
portation facilities that brains can
devise and money buy.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
siansel and Gretels Author Dead

The author OF "IIansel and Gre
tel died Wednesday at his home
near Berlin, but so long as there are
children and grownups with hearts
young enough to love fairy tale
when the Christmas holidays come
around the memory and name of
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINcK will sur
vfve. HUMPERDINcK wrote other
music which may be held in higher
regard by musicians, and critics may
insist that he achieved his greatest
triumph as a composer in die
konigskinder" the world, however,
has turned and perhaps always will
turn with the keenest enjoyment to
his opera of the adventures Of the
tolls Of the terrible old Crust Witch
dwelling in the cottage of ginger
bread and sweetmeats.
1t was twenty-six years ago that
"Hansel and Gretel' was first pro-
duced in New York. This production
was an English version of the opera
at the old DAILY Theatre. 1t was not
n success. But the opera, after it's
initial presentation at Weimar in
1893. had won Germany and made
It's way into England and Italy, and
the management OF the Metropolitan
Opera House, undeterred by the fail
ure Of the first New York production.
incorporated 1t later in the German
repertory of the house.
Since then the opera has had a
permanent place on the Metropolitan
list and in recent years 1t has always
been one of the holiday presentations
on account OF the charm which the
story and the music have for chill
dren. In this respect there is some
thing strongly reminiscent OF Lewis
Carrolls Alice in Wonderland.
and THAcKERAY's THE Rose and the
Ring" In its origin "Hansel and
Gretel' was an adaptation of one Of
GRrMM's fairy tales made by Hum
rERDrNcK's sister for Christmas pres.
entation, with her own daughters
as the performers OF the principal
characters and the composer him.
self as the contributor of the Incl.
dental music. The little comedy so
delighted HuMrERprHcK that he ex.
panded IL to theatrical dimensions
and the result was the opera as now
produced.
HUMPrHDrNcK came to New York
In 1905, and he was then induced BY
.As management OF the Metropolitan
Opera House to remodel the inciden.
tai music OF o fairy drama which he
had written the year before. This
work. known as "Die K0nigskinder,"
was produced for the first time at
the Metropolitan Opera House in
1910. II was acclaimed as an equal
of "IIansel and Gretel" by many mu-
sio lovers. but this judgment was
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At the City College.
Complaint Of the System Of Register
ing Students in Commerce.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: Surely
things could be better managed than
they arc during the registration period
at the commerce branch Of the College
Of the City of New York.
About 700 students apply every eve
ming for admission to the college. To
register them one hour and a half is
allowed, according to the bulletin 80
to 9 p. M.
Here Is how 1t is worked: Each appli-
cant gets a registration blank bearing
a number and Is requested to wait until
his number is called. The blank Is
filled out in greater part by the student.
Each blank has to be o Kd by col
Icge official. who sees II the courses
the student is applying for are closed.
whether he Is able to take them. &c.
There Is but one person at the COM
merce branch to do this. one man to
handle approximately 200 applications
a night. and to do 1t In one hour and
q half.
Take my case as an example: I was
given blank No. 154s at $3.50 on
Wednesday evening. September 21. The
blanks Wednesday evening numbered up
to about 5000. We we're told that be-
fore the nights bunch could be taken
care OF there were 1876 fellows left over
from the previous night who had stayed
until 1 A. NJ. just to be told to ''come
again tomorrow night" 1t took from
.3o until about IL o'clock to register
the 1875 leftovers. My number, 1913.
was called at about IL 30. What time
the fellows got through who held num-
bers in the 1ss. 1ss and eos / don't
know.
The college offers q course In system
attic management - II might be a good
plan to apply some OF the theory to the
college management *.
BROOKLYN, September 20
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
The New Pieragc.

Much long ago was written.
While oratory ragged.
or rotten peers OF Britain
In rotten borough age.
That's largely beer forgotten.
But now springs to the fore
Another pierage rotten
That makes i've boroughs sore.
Yes. New York's rotten pieragc.
Examiners detect,
Leaves ancient ones In steerage--
It's truly our elect.
The Tiger bridge construction
with each supporting pier
VIII crash down In the ruction---
November sth's soon here!
MAURICE MoRRIs
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
A Monastery wine Mystery.
trom The London Daily Mail.

FfoW INC Lu1tH0H DdtlV W0H
Mystery surrounds an old monastery near
South Lea Farm. Datchct. Tho greater
part was pulled down some years ago and
fire destroyed good deal of the remain
der. There are several deep wells. and u
10 said that at the bottom OF one thcre are
3 900 bottles OF wine placed there by monks.
but an attempt to find them has failed
Under the ruins arc a large number Of
earthenwarc bottles Of quaint pattern. and
there Is legend that a subway leads from
the monastery to Burnham Abbey.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
Matty.

II there is stranger from Tibet
in the audience it may be necessary
to explain, for his enlightenment and
his alone, that the headline refers to
CHRIsToPHER MATHEwsoN, in whose
honor baseball game will be played
to-day at the Polo Grounds by the
National League teams of New York
and Boston.
Whatever the size of the check
which the Giant management may
send after the game to MATTY at
his cottage in Saranac, the amount
will be a miserable fraction of what
MATTY did for the New York baseball
club. Some wizard at figures and
psychology might be able to compute
the number of millions of dollars
that MATTY brought to the box Office.
but that is not the really important
thing about the career of CHRISTIE
PHER MATHEwsoN as professional
ball player.
The really important thing cannot
be reckoned by turnstiles or cash.
iers. 1t cannot be gauged by the
cheers that used to hail MATTY from
the grand stand and bleachers. 1t
cannot be measured at all. 1t is the
effect that MATTY had on the Ameri-
can boy in the matter of clean sports.
manship and fair play.
1t might strike a European as
curious that a professional athlete
rather than an amateur should be a
large influence for good on rising
generation; but Americans under
stand why. Baseball is our great
game. 1t is the sport of the back
lots as well as Of the carefully
groomed diamonds. Nearly every
boy. at one time or another, plays
ball. 1t offers finer opportunities for
the combination of speed. skill,
strength and quickness of mind and
eye than any other athletic sport.
There are no widely known amateurs
in baseball as in football and tennis
The best of the amateurs in baseball
become professionals. MATTY, pitcher
for Bucknell, could not inspire all
the boys in the country; but MATTy.
pitcher for the Giants, was the small
boys idol.
The fine thing about MATTY was
that he brought with him into pro-
fessional baseball all the good quail
ties Of the amateur and none of the
amateurs faults. The intelligence
that took him through college was
still with him, sharpened by conflict.
through his professional life. He
pitched with brain as well as arm.
There have been pitchers almost as
great as MATHEwsoN; one or two,
maybe. were more expert physically.
But none approached him in the rare
mixture of qualities that endeared
him to the public and made him
genuinely good example for the
youngsters. For him no rowdyism.
no batting of umpires. no sulking. no
spiklng, no quitting. In victory he
was admirable. but in defeat he was
magnificent. No sportsman. amateur
or professional. ever took beating
with better grace.
MArTY. to the boy. was the mirror
of his own ambition. The tall, broad
shouldered figure, the handsome facJ
beneath the peaked cap, the watchful
eye turning from batsman TO base
runner, the fine swing of the big.
1.-THE frame as the ball started for
the plate-none can forget the pic
ture that was visible at the Polo
Grounds year after year. And none
can recall it without the wish tina.
there were more Mathewsons and
that Big Six was himself again.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
Independence in a straw Hat.

To THE New YoRK HERALD: Having
worn my so cent straw hat two seasons
I propose to continue wearing It as long
as II suits the undersigned. II women
can wear straws in cold weather this
male will do 90 while fine weather lasts
BsooxLyN. September 80. ACACIA.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30

An aviator must shudder when his
motor stalls at a height of seven and
three quarters miles. At such an alti-
tude. however. he has a good deal of
time 10 study the book of Instructions.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30

The League OF Nations will adjourn
on October 4. II could not hope TO
compete for public interest with the
World Series, which will begin on
,b, rfb
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
Refining n False Cha re.

Prom the Columbia (ArtD Banner.
We have always heard that Calhoun was
tho duiiest place on earth, but last Friday
morning changed things up some. Justice
court oDansd IN the morning with two cases.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
An Arkansas Tin.

From the Scarcv Citizen.
One thing we notice. your poll tax and
dog tax are the same Moral; Don't dis
grace your dog.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
EVENTS TODAY.

Highest temperature, 81. at noon.
Lowest temperature. 66, at midnight.
Average temperature. ~.
The New York herald., 1921-09-30
WOMAN GETS ID. c. coUar Jon.

WARRINGTON. Sept. 2a.--Miss III. r'cari
Mccoy OF Boise, Idaho. was to-day ap.
pointed special Assistant, United States
Attorney for the District o' Columbia.
She is tho first woman &. hold s1s.!. a
position In tho local courts.
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LOCAL, WEATHER RECORDS.

The temperature in this city yesterday. as
recorded by the official Thermometer. Is