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The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Senator Calder's Building Report

In the carefully prepared report of
United States Senator CALDER's com
mittee on reconstruction there are va
rious more or less useful proposals to
alleviate the national housing short
age, estimated by the committee at
million homes. There are, for in
stance, suggestions for gathering u
wealth of Information as TO produc.
ton, distribution and supply Of suit
able materials, transportation coop
Grafton, ampler and freer national
bank loans on long term, remission of
taxes for a period, and SO on. Un-
doubtedly these measures would give
some help, If they were desirable, as
some of them might be, and If they
were practicable, as all OF them are
not.
But when all is said and done the
chief things, indeed the only things,
needed to start building houses in
quantity may be stated In manner
that Is simplicity itself. They are
immediate readjustment of wages,
which form the great bulk OF the cost
OF such construction; railroad traffic
rate revision based on lower wages
and reduction Of taxes, not by favor
but by check Of all government
spendings. national, State and local.
No matter how plentiful and cheap
money Is q man has to be foolish TO
put SO into something that Is worth
only 81, and bank or other lending
institution has to be culpable to lend
81 on a thing that Is worth only 70
cents. All men are not fools, and not
many banks can be culpable without
having the lawmakers and courts
come down on them with a heavy
hand. So there never will be free
building as long MS $4,000 of labor
costs have TO 60 into $4,000 house
to make high interest and deprecia-
ton charges on value that really
doesn't exist and heavy tax bills on
ppraisement that is only imaginary.
If labor costs come down from the
war level. then material costs ana
transportation costs will come down
too. When those costs and tax bills
are down to a point where building
houses becomes once more safe and
sound business proposition investment
money will again pour into it without
any blackjack legislation or other
undue persuas sion.
That is all there is to the problem.
ma Senator CALDER knows It. Nobody
knows it better. He himself, before
he went to the Senate, was a builder.
His father before him was a builder.
senator CALDER. therefore. should not
have hesitated, politics or no politics,
to set forth the whole truth about
this situation. and set 1t forth no less
boldly than honestly.
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Bothner Wrestled Higashi.
IL Was Amateur Arthur Brisban'
Who Was Fouled by Matsada.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Ir the
editorial article OF March 21 on "Japa-
nese Progress in Sports you do me too
much honor. never had the pleasure
of wrestling Matsada Sorakichi, who
came TO this country and held his own
with the big men, although he was not
much more than middleweight
He was first introduced to New York
newspaper men at the Police GdSotto
ONCE in the early sos He was asked
IL ne would try n youfg reporter for
THE SUN, Arthur Brisbane. He grinned
and said yes. They took Off their coats
and tussled fifteen minutes withou. any
advantage. Then Matsada suddenly let
loose. backed away, Jumped In and
butted Mr.. Brisbane. That was q foul
OF course and ended the tryout
The Japanese met was Higasni. a
jiu Jitsu expert who was touring the
United States with troupe OF Japanese
athletes demonstrating that science
The papers were filed with It's de Grip.
ton and President Roosevelt and other
students had warned AZ Americans OF
the deadly grips and strokes Of That
game The Japanese asserted that their
science OF iiu iitsu was superior TO the
American style OF catch as catcn can
as method or offence and defence.
I took issue with them and threw down
me eauntlet In behalf OF our style OF
wrestling. The match was held In the
Grand Central Palace. and lts result
demonstrated my contention to be cor
rect, as / defeated Higashi at his own
eame. CEoKaE BorHNER.
NEw YoRR. March 20
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Propaganda Out Of Town.
Ur-American Agencies Reported 4
Re Active In the Suburbs.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: The let
ters For America" and "Pershing Leads
Again hit the spike square on the
head. What they say particularly OF
New York city should be said over
again for the benefit OF our smaller
cities and towns.
The propaganda carried on in the
smaller centres of population would
arouse the whole country IL its citizens
would only compare notes Every con-
ceivable effort. by way of the movies
dinners anti-Ally gatherings. pussy
footing about men who have been
thought stanch and wholenearted
Americans, solicitation of money under
one pretext or another for benefit OF
causes and Influences that stood or felt
for destruction of our country's defend-
ers-the instigators OF such schemes as
these are awake and aggressive In their
efforts to drive wedge of separation
between us and our national friends
For this reason the forces that have
publicly protested against the horror
of the Rhine" meeting outrage. and to
some extent countered It. should be
scattered broadcast throughout our
menaced centres to defeat the insidious,
seductive agencies which seek destruc-
tion OF our national friendships.
1t is in most brazen faced style. In
some cases suggesting boycott. that the
business is being carried on. as much
as to say III you do not come across.
or if you stand out against US, we VIII
make a note OF you, and you win hear
from us later"
By some means this treachery should
be effectively dealt with. We have not
vet finished the struggle for our freedom
and our peace.
II the hope of the city is the country,
where shall our hope find maintenance
when our patriotism is poisoned at Its
source?
Turn New York's orators loose on the
outlying towns and cities and clean the
suburban atmosphere. AMEN.
South NoRwALK, Conn.,. March 20.
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Fifth Masonic District Association OF Man
haitian. annual entertainment and dance.
Magistrate w. Bruce Cobb. John W. Davis
and Mrs. Alice X. Pollitzer WIFI speak at g
meeting Of the Jewish Big Sisters IN this
home Of Adolph Lewisohn. ssi Fifth avenue.
Dante League Of Amsr,ca, business meet /.
Ing and STUD study clsss National Arts. IS
DR.. Martha w. Beckwith and Miss Ma
thiide Bensaude will speak at Joint meeting
OF the American chronological Society and
American Museum Of Natural History. Sew
enty-seventh street and Central Park West.
The Greeters win hold their annual ball in
the Hotel Biltmore. $3.50 p. M.
The siyty-rnth Regiment Infantry WIN
ysy Sys an Is 1s e.sesn Ts ssen ssenus
lustrated lecture on THE Genesis Of the
American Indian before The photographicai
section OF the American Institute OF thu
City OF New York, Engineering Societies
building. 90 west Thirty-nintn street. s'fs
The women's COMMITTEES Of Brooklyn of IN.
American Committee for Relief In ireland.
meeting. Chamber of Commerce. s2 Court
Judge Thomas @. T. Grain VIII speak q. an
open forum Of the Young Petofi Society.
Yorkyiile Casino. 2io East Eishty-sixtii
benefit concert Ard dance for the Anisri-
can Committee for Relief in ireland under
the auspices OF tne ccmmit.ee Oi einp,2ySos
Of the Department OF Health, Hotel Penn
syivania, this evening.
Edward Howard Grisss viii lecture on
"Tor What DO We Liver" Town Han. 1f3
West Forty third street, II A. M.
Augustus Kiook win talk to high school
classes on Pottery and Porcelain" Metro
polltan Museum of Art, p. M.
Dr. H.. w. Merton WIN lecture on ...Jydg-
Ing People by a Study Of Their Faces" Mer-
ton Institute. 10 t'ifth avenue. p. M.
Or. r. ". schubmehl win lecture on I'm
dustriaI Surgery" before the Metropolitan
Safety Council, 20 West Thirty-ninth street.
8 z. NJ
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Barter in Poland.

Trade by barter as method of re-
storing the wrecked economic ma
chinery of Europe up to this time has
been more hallowed in theory than by
test of practical experience. But
divers attempts are still making TO ex-
plore the possibilities of this ancient
system of trade, which as a simple
formula for creating capital seems to
have been much overrated.
One of these experiments Is in
progress in Poland. 1t may be taken
as d characteristic and comprehensive
example Of what can be done with the
barter system in modern times be-
cause 1t embraces a large number of
producers and utilizes the old estab-
lished and widespread Agricultural
Syndicates in Poland.
There have been isolated cases OF
barter along the Black Sea, where the
time honored scheme Of making ex-
changes direct from the ship was ef-
fected through supercargo. But
these instances we're too few and too
limited in their scope to prove that
the barter system would be successful
II widely applied.
In Poland pure barter gave place TO
system Of semi-barter. The wealth
OF the country lay in its fields and
mines. Obviously the products of the
soil and the subsoil could not be
lifted and carried at once TO the sea-
port for exchange into goods from
other lands. Development, planting
and reaping had to come first. The
war had crippled production OF every
sort. Poland was without machinery
and her transport was broken down.
What she did was to get together the
marketable goods she had and pledge
them against fertilizer. seed and farm
machinery, and by adding to this the
promise to set aside part of her
future production she was able to ne
gotiate acceptance credits with Brit
ish and American bankers. The Polish
Government attached its guarantee to
the loans.
The negotiations were conducted
through the Agricultural Syndlcates
founded on the already established
network OF syndicates which originated
In Russian Poland In 1899 under the
statutes governing cooperative so
cletles. with the reunion OF the three
sections Of Poland that formerly were
included In Germany as we'll as the
Polish territories ceded BY Austria and
taken from Russia the Agricultural
Syndicates expanded their organlza.
ton into all parts Of the new republic
and formed the union known as
"Kooperacla Rolna"
The syndlcates deal chiefly in ma.
chlnery. tools, grain, fertilizers, seeds.
potatoes, lime, cement and other com
moditles. But by exchanging these
for other commodities produced In
Poland, but not by its members, they
are in position to offer the foreign
purchaser a wide choice OF goods. All
persons engaged in agriculture are
eligible for membership even though
their farms consist Of only a few
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Confessed in a Trance.
hypnotism Of n Murderer by Liver.
pool Physician.
From the London Daily Ma1.

From. the London Daily Maii.
How n mental expert by hypnotlzing
murderer obtained from him the full
story of his crime was described at Man
chester Assizes when Fred Quarmby. AZ,
OF Independent means, was sentenced to
death for the murder of Mrs. Christine
Ann Alexandra Smith at Biackpool on
December 3.
For the defence DR.. Sydney Wilkinson
specialist In brain diseases. Of Liverpool
said during one of his examinations he
placed Quarnnby in hypnotic trance
and obtained full story of the crime
from him In both the conscious and SUBJ
conscious states, and the stories did not
vary.
Quarrrby explained that when Mrs.
Smith turned or the light in the sitting
room In which they were together some
thing seemed to possess him.
DR.. Wilkinson thought that some
chance association OF ideas In accused 3
conscious mind let loose the impulses
which had been stored In his subcon-
scious mind for some weeks" Quarnby
told him that everything seemed In a
dream" and he was swayed by an i'm
pulse Co do this thing. Quarmby. he
thought. acted in a state OF blind frenzy
The blows were such as would be iii-
iiicted by a maniac.
Cross examined, DR.. Wilkinson admit
ted he had not obtainedsrom the author
tiles specific permission to hypnotize
Quarmby, but he got permission to con-
duct the examination in his own way.
Medical witnesses who had examined
Quarmby in jail said there was no sign
Of insanity.
Mr.. Justice Acton, summing UP, said
It might be the jury would think the ovi-
dence Of hypnotisrn would not greatly
affect the case because there was moth
Ing to show that the results obtained
under hypnotism were IN any material
sense different from those obtainable
without hypnot!sm.
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
A Man and His Plan.

Thirty years or so ago DAVID LUBIN
was q small shopkeeper in Sacra-
mento, California. The country there
abouts produced great quantities OF
fruit and vegetables, but there were
not then, as there are now, cooperative
California organizations to market
the rich lands products. LUBIN saw
the need of accurate information con-
cerning markets and crop conditions
to help gardeners and orchardists and
farmers; guide for market opportuni-
ties, knowledge upon which to base
amount, character, variety Of what
was to be raised. He conceived plan
for great information bureau.
This should be Statewide. The
idea grew; nationwide He was
called an impractical dreamer when
he declared at last knowledge OF
market and crop conditions should be
worldwide in sources, worldwide in
distribution" He started out to bat
Tie lOT LltIS lucu with tllC spun Va =
crusader and little else to aid him.
LuB1N died recently in Rome, head
of a worldwide organization such as
he had dreamed Of Every civilized
nation In the world contributed to the
information he gathered and distrib-
uted, and supported his enterprise
with funds willingly given to the or
glnizer and director of the Interna-
tional Institute of Agriculture.
On Thursday the King of Italy,
members of his Cabinet, the American
Ambassador and many others of Off
cial prominence assisted in the cere-
mony Of unveiling a marble bust of
LuBIN in Rome, tribute to courage,
patience, persistence; forces which
compelled the world to give heed to a
plan without financial, political or
social backing-becaus the plan was
right.
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Blond Hair Saved the Ship.

When the Bergensfjord, just arrived
from Christlania after rough thir-
teen days voyage, was in the middle
Atlantic she was struck by the hard
est storm that any Of the sailormen
from captain to galley boy ever knew.
For thirty-six hours she lay at the
mercy Of wind and waves and, as w.
CLARK RUSSELL would put 1t, ali, all
seemed lost. But Captain OIE BULL,
of honored Norwegian name, be-
thought himself of Viking supersti-
ton which his father used to tell him,
that when storms refuse to yield to
man 1t pleases much the gods If
sailors part with their blond shaggy
locks" He ordered the ships barber
to bring out his scissors. When the
last mans hair was clipped the wind
calmed and the ship sailed over . sea
smooth as a ballroom floor.
To the landlubber this has the sound
Of fish story. His eyes are so full
OF uuSI HUu Ills uiihi VI Nhi bhs hu-
terialism that he could not uuder.
stand the deep sen If he tried. II
there is one thing in which there Is
universally 1t Is salt water supersti.
tons They began when man first
ventured on the sea they live in fore
castle and cabin, In navy and mer.
chant marine, varied and modified tc
suit different peoples Of the world.
Greek and Phmnlcian, the greatest
sailors OF ancient times, believed IN
Calypsos and other sirens OF the
dsgean: the modern sailor sees them
In every port. The Malayan pirate
may have had difficulty In finding the
blond hair demanded by the Viking
legend hut he could always cut off n
black shocked head TO appease the
storm furles The old ser captain
who would never sall on Friday OF
on the anniversary Of the destruction
NJ Sodom and Gomorrah or Of JuDAs
TscARror's suicide may have accepted
the requirements Of modern shipping
but when n vessel which sailed on one
of these evil days goes down he
knows the reason.
That the ship was thirteen days
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Policing the Parks.
A Former Park Superintendent
Favors the Old System.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The
transfer Of police supervision OF our
public parks from the Park Conmis-
sioner to the Police Department was
an unwise. sordid and rapacious act Of
the politicians with the main intent to
control the organization for political
purposes. This needless change has
cost the city hundreds Of thousands
OF dollars In destructive and deprscia-
tive results. There has been no year
since the change that the cost OF the
present form OF management could not
have been reduced one-half
The original organization OF park
keepers, quite fitting designation. was
planned by Fred Law Olmsted, 70 be
comprised OF men selected with the
view Of training them for special
service to the public. It was a useful
and effective organization ana should
never have been changed.
Later organized a similar force for
service in Prospect Park, the smaller
parks, the parkways and a very lively
area, the Concourse, at Coney Island.
Mr.. Olmsted was Superintendent OF the
Park Department, to which Office 1
subsequently succeeded. and this force,
entirely akin to that Of Central Park,
/ managed for many years under such
men as ]. S. #. Stranahnn, A A. Low
and A. B. Bayliss. The appropriation
at that time for the care of the parks.
including the park keepers force. was
1925. 900.
The Legislature VIII act wisely by
passing the bill now in hand at Albany.
JOHN Y. CuLrrR.
MOUNT KIsco, March 26.
The New York herald., 1921-03-28

''Some Of the women kissed him"
That is all that the concert reviewers
wrote about an incident which made
splendid the recent farewell appear
ance Of a favorite orchestra leader.
Why this reticence? What Is a con-
cert, an orchestra, brass band, to a
kiss? Your modern novelist recharges
his pipe. chases the children out of
his den. refills the fountain pen and
writes a whole chapter merely leading
up to the big kiss, or, as the movie
people have IL. the clinch. Some Of
the women kissed him." How shock
ing1y inadequstel
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Savings Bank Loans.
A Trustee Replies to Mr.. Unser.
myers Call for Money to Build.

To THE NEW York HERALp In your
paper Mr.. Untermyer Is quoted as fol-
lows.
But we must have loan market. In
order TO secure such a market the bill
ions Of money OF the people that is held
by lot OF self-constituted guardians
and trustees. who sometimes forget they
are trustees and act as though they we're
dealing with their own money. must be
mace available for the peoples purpose
In tho construction of houses.
The veriest tyro in financial mat
ters knows that all financial institutions
are alert IN keeping available funds in
vested, and Mr. Untermyer does or
should know that the billions he SO
fippantly disposes OF are already in
vested and largely In real estate mort
cages. He also knows or should know
that of the billions that portion not In
vested in mortgages is invested In Gov
ernment. State and municipal securities.
Mr.. Untermyer does know or should
know that the housing legislation has
not helped to build single house. and
he does know or should know that Office
and loft space, which II was contem-
plated to include in the so-called hous-
ing legislation, has succumbed to the
Inevitable laws of supply and demand.
and rents have dropped from 80 to 40
per cent, while rents for housing seem
to be as high as ever.
Mr.. Untermyer does know or should
know that as financial proposition the
building of houses for dwelling purposes
at prevailing prices of labor and material
is a losing game and any institution
loaning GO per cent. of present cost
would not be safeguarding the funds
under its trusteeship.
Mr.. Untermyer does know or should
know that raising the wind will not
build houses but may blow them down.
NEW York. March 20. A TRUSTEE.
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Words of Praise.
A Letter of Appreciation From
Reader Of .sThe New York Herald"

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
breadth, warmth and humanity OF your
present stan is a pure delight to one
who sincerely responds TO your literary
gifts The handling OF cursory items,
skill in placing recondite knowledge in a
way TO capture the average reader. the
Inspiration TO pursue feet touches on
scientific research. make your editorial
columns repository where wit hath a
place.
You, an inspersonai group Of accom-
plshed minds. are pure gift TO our
day Your restraint IN touching dark
issues, your discernront OF causes Of
national collisions. make you a wise
custodian OF privilege to win confidence
in your judgment. and willingness TO be
guided by your decisions Let me place
the highest encomiums upon the simple,
easy perfections of your leading articles
which cover four columns daily and
yourselves with honor.
HELEN r.. ALBEE.
SILVER LAKE, N. H.. March rs.
The New York herald., 1921-03-28

at sea has nothing to do with the
matter. Thirteen is a land supersti-
tion and sailors OF the world are
about equally divided in their belief
in the Ill luck Of odd numbers. The
American naval man, says writer
In the National Marine, seems to lean
to the belief of good fortune In odd
numbers; there are no even numbers,
he points out, in naval salutes; there
are In all thirteen salutes and the
highest Of them, twenty-one guns.
loses it's hoodoo because II Is the
sum Of the numerals In 1916. In
these days women and preachers must
go to sea, but in the mind Of the old
mariners they are still responsible
for all the misfortunes from which
the ship suffers. No sailor kills an
albatross--the birds carry the souls
OF lost seamen; all sailors fear
craft which rats desert and which
cannot keep cat, and every seaman
knows that a moon rising In storm
win cat up the clouds, that moon
dog viii bring trouble and that he
will be lost II he sails with man
who never pays his washerwoman.
From the Importance which the
sailor attaches to his superstitions 1t
can be readily understood why CAP.
tain OLE Bull as a last resort In a
great extremity invoked the ancient
Viking belief. Let the landsman jeer.
Is not the Bergensfjord safely and
snugly berthed at her pier In Brook
Iyn and Is not the pate of every man
of the crew as hairless as billiard
ball?
The New York herald., 1921-03-28
Sugar Cane in South Carolina.

The facts that a farmer In South
Carolina was able to get return
OF S514 an acre from three and a
half acres OF sugar cane which
yielded 1900 gallons Of syrup and
that he intends to Increase his acre
age considerably the coming season
do not necessarily imply that this
crop will be taken up generally by
the farmers Of the South.
This Is one of the instances in which
an experiment which promised little
yielded much, and is comparable to
that Of the Georgian who was so sue
cessful in the extraction Of a syrup
from sweet potatoes that the Federal
Government has established an ex-
perimental plant at Fitzgerald in
Georgia to find out whether the Idea
has commercial possibilities. If II
has the culls from the regular sweet
potato crop will have value and the
farmers of the State will be benefited
accordingly.
Some Idea Of the advantages which
Cuba possesses over the United States
in sugar raising may be CLEANED from
the fact that while Louisiana. the
most favored cane sugar State IN the
Union, plants every two years, cutting
alternately from new cane and stub
BILE, the crop Is only renewed once in
dozen years or 80 In our neighboring
island republic. There are regions
where crops have been harvested CON
tinuously for much longer periods.
An ides Of tho fertility Of the soil