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The New York herald., 1921-06-17
Fordham Confers Honorary Degrees
Senator William H. Calder r. T. Higgins, DR.. Joseph
Byrne and Dr.. c. p Sherwin Are Honored.

Fordham University conferred $40 de-
grees upon its students and four hon.
orary degrees yesterday a the seventy
sixth commencement. which was held
on a stage upon tho campus in the
presence OF about 1900 persons. Arch
bishop Hayes presidad.
Honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws
vere conferred upon United States Sen
ator william NJ. Calder. Richard I,
Higgins, chairman of the Public Utili-
ties Commission of Connecticut: Dr.
Joseph Byrne, dean OF Fordham M.adi-
cal School, and DR. Carl p. Sherwin.
dean of Fordham School of Chemistry.
President Edward p. Tivnan an
nounced the completion of fund of
s40O,00o raised during the year, and said
that this endowment would materially
increase the universlty's teaching facili-
ties. The medical school. however. will
be closed. President Tivnan said that
Fordhann will not maintain a depart
n1ent unless It is up to the highest
standard, and means are not available
to keep the medical college at this
standard In equipment and instruction.
He thanked the graduates for their
assistance In raising the fund and said
that they had proved themselves loyal
Americans. Radicalism never will gain
a foothold at Fordham. he said.
The Rev. Michael Jessup. dean Of the
university. In comforting the dsgrae
upon Senator Calder declared that
there were few who had shown such
disinterested service In the public well
fare.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
Stanford University.
Its Correct Name Established for
Careless Fasteners.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: At the
approach into this section Of Heer and
Davis. two undergraduates from Stan
ford University. making four month,
forty tournament tennis tour OF the
United States-aIid thus far with
straight collegiate victorIes-may I. on
behalf of the 40 Stanford men and
women residing in New York and the
Immediate neighborhood of the metro
politan district. call attention to the
fact that although there are $4,000
Stanford men and women scattered far
all over the world, nowhere is that uni
versity called LELAND Stanford Uni
versity" except in this somewhat re-
stricted eastern section Of the continent
of North America?
The official foundation name was Le-
land Stanford Junior University. IN
memory of the only son of Leland STAN
ford, the founder. who did not name
the university for himself. In all the
thirty years of its existence, with ma
triculates from every State in the Union
and from every civilized country on
earth, Stanford never has been called
lcidAtu ctd1llOiu CHiVtTSily ny dIiJ VI
its students, alumni or faculty men,
bers. Officially on its publications the
title simply Is Stanford University.
To understand how the wrong name
seems imagine Atlantic coast dwellers
arriving In San Francisco only to dis
cover that the newspapers there persis-
tently used such phrases as John Har-
ward University" ELI Yale University"
EZRA Cornell University"
OF the 470 Stanford men and women
in and about New York city .forty-one
are college professors at Columbia, Vas
sar, Cornell, Syracuse. Rutgers; twenty
eight are editors Of newspapers or are
professional writer's twenty-five are
doctors. three are ministers, and petro-
leum experts, mining and electrical en-
gineers, lawyers and actors are repre-
sented by more than dozen each.
This back tide toward New York is
quite proper when 1t is considered that
both Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane
Lathrop Stanford, the founders. were
born at or within few miles of AL
bany. and that Stanford's president for
the first twenty years was a\member of
Cornell's first graduating class.
ARCHIE RICE, Stanford '95.
New YORK, June 16.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
The international Polo Game.

While Captain MnBURN of the
American polo team which will meet
the British four for the champions
ship tomorrow is said to be hopeful
of victory those who know polo as
it is played abroad are of the opinion
that the defenders have not shown
their full strength in any of the pre-
liminary contests.
Polo players in the East believe
three games will be necessary tc
reach verdict. The second game
is scheduled for Wednesday, June
22; il a third is played it will be
called for Saturday, June 25. There
is always the weather to be consid
cred and several postponements may
be necessary.
When the mounts for our men
reached England horsemen said that
twenty Of them were the best ponies
that could be got. The others had
some class also, but the thorough
VI Od ioCitV VI ALI dlu AtI dsSOCldles
among the cracks were everything
that could be desired. Some of the
mounts were incapacitated in prac.
tice, but private advices received
within the last few days say the
Americans have twenty-three good
ponies available for the opening
game. This is about six mounts for
each man, and despite the assertion
Of Captain HOLMES of the British
team that the English ponies are
improving, the British advantage In
this department will not be as great
as seemed probable ten days ago.
Youth will be on the side Of the
visiting team HITcHcocK is not yet
21, WEBB is 25, MILBURN is 40 and
SToDDARD 45. The average Of the
English team will be about 40. In a
hard fought battle youth should have
an advantage.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
FRIDAY. JUNE II. 1921.
Senate Appropriating Reforms.

Out of the United States Senate
or in it there may be bitter oppo-
sition to having che appropriations
handled by one consolidated commit
tee in a sensible, practical, business
like way instead of by the nine diff
ferent varieties OF committees which
now vote higgledy- -piggledy to spend
the public's money.
But there are two good and suffi-
cient reasons why sooner or later
the Senate will substitute sound and
responsible system for slipshod and
irresponsible lack of system.
One is that under the budget meas
ure which goes into operation on
July 1, the beginning of the new
fiscal year, the nine different .varie-
ties Of appropriating committees in
the Senate will not fit in either suit
ably or workably with the operations
of the budget system.
The other reason is that the House
of Representative already has gath
cred up the various committees which
used to muddle business and waste
money in the lower house and has
compressed them into q single COM
mittee which is smooth running,
steadily directed, business performing
piece OF legislative mechanism. SEN
ate financial matters Uttered all over
the place are not going to have much
of a chance to get anywhere against
the solidarity OF the well organized,
compact, effective House Committee
on Appropriations
In the matter OF appropriations the
Senate will have to get on the same
solid basis as the House or it will
not be in the same world with the
House. What must be done Is well
done now.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
An Unfortunate Inheritance.

By perpetuating war imitation wage
scales and unparalleled working con-
ditions that prohibit competitive bus
mess getting, the Shipping Board
never can make anything out Of the
Governments merchant marine ex-
cept stupendous deficits for the tax
payers to foot. This is an unfortu-
nate truth, although the present
Shipping Board Is not responsible
for agreements consummated before
its new members were appointed.
Such a deficit breeding shipping
policy by the Government, whoever
is to blame, can only do heavy
damage to privately owned vessels.
Private owners cannot tap the United
States Treasury to pay wages that
are not earned and to cover other ex-
penditures that are not justifiable.
They cannot put the screws on the
national taxpayers to keep the ships
sailing at loss. Either their ships
must earn living or they must be
scrapped.
When the Government itself, there
fore, is an obstacle to the success of
privately owned vessels because of the
economic abuses it abets and even
UNDERWRITERS. it cannot hope to sell to
private owners the white elephant
ships it wants to be rid Of
If, when the American people are
clamoring for stoppage of public
waste and squander, the United
States Government cannot operate it's
ships right and cannot sell them be-
cause of those wrong conditions it
would do better to scrap them than to
stand in the way OF private owners
trying to work out the problem by
themselves along the lines that SEN
sible business men are capable of
working out such problems.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
Among the. Seagoers.

The Magnolia of the American line
sailed yesterday for Cherbourg and
Hamburg with all her cabin accommo-
dations taken. The passengers include
business and professional men as well
as tourists. among them being Mr.. H
H. Tittman. secretary of the Ameri-
can Embassy at Paris: DR.. Otto Kre-
brlel. who goes abroad to do research
work; Mrs. Gilbert N. Mcmillan, Miss
Ellen d. Mcmillan and Messrs. John
Il. and Andrew ID. Mcmillan of New
York; Mr. Arthur Notteholm and fam
lily. who are en- route to Europe from
South America, and DR.. and Mrs. Au-
gustine Pietri of Ponce, Porto Rico
Mrs. j. j. Hobbs and her son, Mr.
Richard III. Hobbs. a Princeton student
viii sail by the new French liner Paris
on her first eastward voyage They
will go to Florence. where they will
remain several weeks.
The Misses Nellie and Dorothy Dodd
the Misses Alice and Marion H. Stearns
accompanied by Mrs. c. A. North of
atlanta. Ga. will leave to-day by the
Canopic for Europe, where they will
travel for three months.
Among the passengers sailing on
board the Canopic Of the White Star
Line to-day will be Mrs. Victor Cum
mock and the Misses Margaret de Forest,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Shepherd X.
de Forest; Martha Jarman, Winifred
Rogers and Elizabeth and Grace Talbot
of this city. The Rev. Hugh Birckhead
Of Baltimore and previously rector of
st. Georges Church In this city. will be
a passenger. and other seagoers on the
White Star liner will be Bishop f. d.
Leete Of indianapolis, Mr.. Philip M.
Hayden Of Columbia University, Miss
Katherine Locke, who goes abroad to
lecture; Miss Helen NJ. Andrews Of the
University of Pennsylvania, and Miss
Eda Buddecke of Rosemary Hall.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17

Total value. in 1920. $40. $780, .19a; in 1910.
S14.60s. .932; IN 1918. $10143. .42s.
Average value a thousand. In 1920. $4S.
in 1919. sfo.s3; In 1918. s3o.s5.
Hemlock retains first place in guam
tity closely followed by maple. Both
hemlock and spruce lumber were less
in quantity than in 1919. the decrease
in spruce probably being due to the
demands of the pulp mills for this spe-
cies. The only continuous Increases for
the two year period are shown by ma
pie. beech, birch and chestnut. though
more white pine and oak were cut In
1920 than In either previous year.
ITemlock and beech are the only spe-
cies reported at less than $40 a thousand
and ash is MS usual the most costly
native wood st s57.74 a thousand.
Although the peak Of lumber prices
was reached In the fore part OF 1920 the
average valuation OF lumber In New
York Increased IS per cent more in 1919
than In 1920. Prices were sustained at
an increasingly high level throughout
1919. while in the latter part of 1920
they fell far below the peak.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
Flood Control.

| There was a time when a disaster
such as that which overwhelmed
Pueblo and other towns in the valley
OF the Arkansas River in Colorado
would have been ascribed to an act of
Con, and man would have gone his
way resigned, II not content, to rely
on Divine patience to refrain from
inficting another calamity OF the
same kind on him. To-day man un.
derstands that in very real way GoD
helps those who help themselves; the
country will not be satisfied without
survey of the affected region by
meteorologists and engineers to dis
close the causes of the damage and
recommend whatever methods their
observations suggest to avert a repe-
tition of 1t.
No data are now at hand on which
to base exact judgments as TO the re-
mote or proximate causes of the in
undation. 1t will be necessary to OBJ
tain statistics OF this seasons rain
and snow fall and of the temperature
in the watershed drained by the Ar
Kansas River and to compare them
with the records of previous seasons
The factor of safety in the dams
which gave way must be ascertained.
It will be essential to learn whether
the structures had been maintained
not only at their original strength
but had been reinforced in proportion
to any added hazard created by bare
mountain sides which had been
robbed through numbering operations
OF their water storage capacity.
The influence Of standing timber on
rainfall and runoff is universally rec
ognized; quantities Of native timber
have been used In the mines OF Colo
rado Pueblo Is one of the great
smelling centres OF the country. and
certain gases smelters give off are de-
structive Of vegetation. II is conceiv-
able that through numbering for mine
timber and the operation OF smelling
plants the industrial establishments
Of the valley contributed to it's freshet
I hazard It is certain that II lumber.
ing has been carried on along the
Arkansas River watershed in the reck.
less and improvident manner which
has characterized Il in other parts Of
the United States we may look TO II
as a contributing influence to the
food.
Prevention Of disaster from freshets
is not impracticable. JoHN r..
FREEMAN, the eminent authority on
oil questions regarding water con.
troll recalls in the Erening Post the
service performed for Lowell. Massa
chusetts. by the great engineer
JAMES BrcHEro FRANCIS, the Father
Of Modern Hydraulic Engineering.
who averted serious losses in that
community by construction at which
the townspeople laughed until in
1869, il fulfilled the purpose its archi
tect designed IL to serve, and saved
! the town heavy damage from tho
Merrimac River. Those who had
scoffed at him then gave FRANCIS O
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
A Film of Radium.
In Educational Motion Picture
Venezuela Wants to See.

TO THE New YORK HERALD: read
with interest report on the order from
Brazil by DR.. oswaldo Portugal Of Sac
Pablo. acting on behalf Of the Brazilian
authorities. for 557 milligrams of ra-
dlum. which appeared ia THE NEW York
HERALD of May 0.
I was struck with the idea that, con-
sidering the great quantity of materials
necessary to obtain such small amount
of this precious substance, a moving
picture Aim of the entire process. from
the scooplng I'D of the orc In the dis
tant mines to the final stages of prep
aratlon. would certainly be OF world
wide interest and when screened wo,.d
undoubtedly draw bumper houses In any
part of the world Such film should
prove Interesting indeed, bearing I'm mind
that radium is one OF the worlds most
important discoveries. I have seen on
the screen the making OF battleships.
airplanes and the like. but I am not
aware Of the production OF any Aim or
Aims depicting the production or manu-
facture of radium.
While on the Subject. II is interesting
TO note that Nine. Curie, tho inventor.
Is at present in the United States. A
short historical sketch OF the life of
the inventor, glimpses OF the search
that led TO the discovery. the good that
radium can and Will do for mankind.
the harm that can or could be dcre II
placed In the hands OF unscrupulous
persons, &C.. should be things worth
while seeing, giving one an idea Of the
infinite possibilities OF this most won
derfui discovery J. S. BARnrrrAu.
la GUAIRA, Venezuela, May "a.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
A Harbor Day.

a freighter listing towards the Brook
lyn's Shore
Fresh from the hot Levant with spicy
bales:
Past Bedloes Island with siren roar.
a liner swings, with transatlantic
mails.
or in the Kill van Kull. with dropping
sails,
A barkentine drags on n tow line short
While with her topmasts lost In
screaming gales
a clipper from the China coast makes
port
And there are stretching tows that soon
will trail
The inland waterways from Hudson's
flows
on far canals across the Mohawk vale.
with skyInes burning in the sunsets
rose.
All these .in vistas to our sight orc
swirled
~ this wet gateway Of the western
rHowts >. Mvrrnr.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
HUNTER COLLEGE NOT
TO BECOME UNIVERSITY
Announcement Is Made at
Graduation Exercises.

DIR. George S. Davis, president OF
Hunter College. told the las young
women members of the graduating class
who received the degree OF bachelor OF
arts and the twenty-five who were
given kindergarten certificates at the
commencement exercises yesterday that
the trustees had no present intention OF
attempting to transform the institution
into a university. In the future. how
ever, he said. 1t had been decided TO
confer master degrees fon graduates
who did advanced work. In the evening
sessions. Girls who can attend in the
daytime and who wish advanced de-
greeg will be expected to pursue their
studies at Columbia or other universi-
ties.
The Rev. DR. George II. Van ne
Water, rector OF the Church OF tirg Be-
loved Disciple. delivered the address.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
Bisphan at Southampton.

Special Despatch to THE NEw YonK HEsALp.
Southampton, l.. T.. June 16--David
Bispham, barytone. assisted by Miss
Emily Hartford. pianist and Neville
Brush, reader, will give a musical and
dramatic recital next Saturday evening
in Parrish Memorial Hall. Among the
patronesses are: Mrs. Lucien II. Tying.
Mrs. George Barton French. Mrs. The
odore Monnel,. Mrs. Alvin w. Krech.
Mrs. Lyttletoa Fox and Mrs. Thomas
Barber.
Mr.. Bisphar will sing many request"
numbers. including Danny Deever" and
the Seven Ages Of Man" Mr. Brush
will give The Raven" in costume; also
scene from "O'Frlaherty.4 ". c.. "The
Music of the East" an Oriental group,
and other selections.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17

silver service. In Dayton, Ohio, which
was flooded by the Miami eight years
ago, impounding and control OF
the water in the valley has been un-
dertaken by commission which not
only expects to avert destructive
floods in the lowlands but to put the
water to useful and profitable work.
Flood control is subject of world
wide concern. Serious damage was
done in Paris in January, 1910. when
the Seine overfiowed its banks. The
midland counties of England, espe-
cially Norfolk, suffered severely two
years later after season Of unprece-
dented precipitation raised the water
in the streams to an unexampled
height. Chinese rivers, especially
the Hoang-ho. have frequently done
tremendous damage. The Mississippi,
the Missouri and the Ohio have
passed their banks on numerous oc-
casions. The Hudson Is expected to
overflow the lower parts of many
towns, including Albany. every
spring.
The subject deserves and requires
study for protection of property and
life, but while this protection is be-
ing sought creation of hydraulic
power, irrigation of arid lands. drain
age Of swamps, scientific numbering,
reforestation and conservation of the
waternsupply can and should be taken
into consideration. The problems
involved cannot be successfully at
tackled by one town or one political
subdivision; they can be delimited
scientifically only in geographical
areas in which each watershed shall
be treated as unit regardless of
political boundaries.
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
The Touch of Death.

The principal newspaper champion
OF Government operation and even
ownership of the American transpor-
tation system has been vigorously de-
claring that the Federal management
spent millions more on maintaining
and improving the properties than
the private owners had done. There
fore, it has insisted, the roads must
have been turned back in better con-
dition than they were in when they
we're taken over.
Here is some plain arithmetic, sub
mitted to the United States Senate,
to show how the public's vast treasure
was sunk in the ruinous wage scales
and calamitous working conditions
established by the Government ad-
ministration of the roads.
Under Government operation the
spendings for maintenance OF ways
and structures in 1918 were 1915, ,742,-
900 and In 1919 $772,705,000 as
against an annual average for the
three years before the roads were
taken over by Mr.. WILSON of $685.
$4,000. AS a contrasting example,
however, the Government operators
in 1918 laid only 1,615,693 tons of
rails and in 1919 2,027,157, or an
annual average of 1920 900, as against
an annual average Of 2,041,676 laid
in the three year test period just
before Government operation.
But the Federal Administration
soaked into the labor cost Of main
tenance of ways and structures $401,-
331,00 in 1918 and S439,140,000 In
1919, as against an annual average Of
5000 100000 for the three year test
period.
The labor cost alone Of mainte-
nance of ways and structures during
Government operation--an average Of
S420, 100000 a year-was 36,000,000
a year more than the total cost of
labor, rails, and all other materials
and charges put together for the three
year test period, which averaged
$3.50, 1899, 900 year. And less work
done, less material, less improve
ment put into the properties by the
Government operation.
In 1920, with the roads returned to
their owners and again under private
management, 2,262,033 tons of rails
were laid as against the annual aver
age under Government ownership OF
100000 tons. But the wage scales
and the working conditions clapped
upon the roads by Government opera
tion and held there by Government
law under the private operation of
1920 swallowed up in this latter year
S577, ,6S8,000 in labor costs alone for
maintenance of ways and structures.
Just for the labor costs in that one
classification nearly 100000 n
year more than the annual labor and
all other costs combined in the test
period.
The touch of Government in busi-
ness is the touch of DEATH
The New York herald., 1921-06-17
Charlotte Cushn,an.
Memories of Her Final Appearance
in Boston.

To THE New YORK HERALD: saw
the last performance and farewell to the
stage of Charlotte Cushman. which oc-
CURED in 1874. two weeks after the
Booth Theatre performance. in her ma
tive city, Boston. at the Globe Theatre
under Arthur Cheney's management, on
the Saturday night of her last week in
Macbeth" d. w. Waller was Macbeth
to Miss Cusnmans Lady Macbeth.
When the curtain fell on the final
sceno there was short internlssion
then the curtain rose. showing Miss
cushman surrounded by her entire com
pany, with the Mayor of Boston and the
Governor of Massachusetts,. Miss Cush-
man stepped forward and gave her fare
well address TO the audience, and among
her remarks she said that ut had been
her intention for some time. when she
retired from professional life, to bid
farewell in three cities where she had so
many dear friends. first at the Walnut
Street Theatre, Philadelphia; second. at
Booths Theatre. New York city. and
flpally in her dear native city, Boston,"
After this Curtis Guild, publisher of
the Commercial Buliotin, presented to
her a silver service from her Boston
friends and admirers. the orchestra
played Aud Lang syne." the audience
departed. bidding farewell to one OF tho
greatest artists the American stage has
produced. Miss Cusiiman was born July
2s, 1916. OF Puritan descent, and the
Cushman School In Boston on Parrnm-
ter street rests on the site OF her birth.
place.
Miss Cushman passed away at the
Parker House. Boston. February IS.
1873. At her funeral at Kings Chapel
the crowd outside the church extended
over three blocks. almost reaching Bos-
ton Common. Her body rests on Laurel
Hill. Mount Auburn Cemetery. Cam
bridge, Mass. the spot she selected her.
self. In 1880 the grave was marked by
an obclisk which In form Is copy OF
cIeopatra's Needle. A short distance
from the Cushman lot rest three New
England poets. Henry w. Longfcllow.
James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wen
dell Holmes
had the great privilege of witness
Ing her entire repertoire during the two
weeks OF her farewell engagement.
shall never forget her Meg Mcrrincs
in Guy Mannering." especially the
scene in which Meg rusbes on and ex-
tends her arm over the f0rked stick AMI
croons the lullaby that she had given 10
the Bertram children or her Queen
Katherine in Henry VIII" Her death
scene In this play Is Iudelible in my
mind AS Mr.. Rodgers states. Miss
Cushman was wonderfully gifted
woman" J. OSBORNE LuNT.
NEW YoHK, June rs.