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The New York herald., 1921-04-24

THERE arc men that We dislike az
sight: they have streak Of mean
ness or brutality or something that
wc recognize instlnctivcly tile lose we can
do with them is TO treat them with civility.
fiut there arc not many such: the vast ma
iority Of men have good in them aud are
entitled 10 lie treated as brother men.
have 10 patience with the speakers /
hear talking about protecting the rights Of
our humblcst fellow citizens. There are no
humble fellow citizens no man feels humble
In his heat and every man rcscnts being
described or being considered AS humble.
Happily. We hear less Of this humble bust
ness than we once did
feel that | have much yet 10 learn, but
I long since discovered that man likes 10
be treated like . man. ~ rcscnts any an
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

oner of war" varIe.y ~. 50 called because they
were carved out of bone by French sailors
IN British prisons Prior to the Napoleonic
wars ivory carving was one of the chief
industries Of Dieppe. Many of these ivory
workers were drafted into the French navy
and fell into the hands or the British. II
is said that they saved the bones from their
food and clubbed together TO buy materials
Ia make tho delicate little ships now so
highly priced by collectors.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turios British and French ships were built
directly from models many Of which are
now preserved IN national museums. The
finest collection in the world Is III the Musea
de Marine in the Louvre al Paris. Hero
Admiral Paris Of the French navy brought
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Ancient Marvels of the Sea in Miniature
American Collectors
. Aim to Perpetuate
Traditions off amous
Clippers and Other
Yankee Triumphs,

Lightning fastest ship that ever sailed was
built by Mckay for a British company. On
her maiden trip, February 1S 1854, she sailed
from Boston to Liverpool in IL days l9Ha
hours. March 1 on that trip she established
record never equalled by sailing vesseis
and seldom surpassed by the fastest steam
ships of to-day. Her skipper said he had
crossed the ocean on the rim OF a cyclone.
The log for March / is historical:
wind south Strong gales. Bore away
for the North Channel. Carried away
the foretopsail and lost jb. Hove the
log several times and found the ship
going through the water at Is to 1Si3
knots Lee rail under water and rig
cling slack. Distance in "a hours 436
miles"
IN a recent address on American sailing
ships Theodore T. Humphrey, who has one
OF the finest American collections of Slips
models described these wonderful old clip
pers:
"All sail was often carried when ordinary
ships were seen reefcd down on the same
course. As Clark Russell notes in one of
his novels the skipper Of the ship from
Europe as he paced the deck With anxious
eyes upon his shortened canvas. fearing
that it would be blown from the bolt ropes,
very often saw tiny speck upon the hori-
Zon watched il grow into a splendid ship
with every rag set saw her fling the stars
and Stripes TO the gale as she went roaring
by and then with feelings that cannot be
described. gazed after he. until she disap-
peared i'm the nists.'
And again another author;
"a British vessel. snugged down to
reefed topsails and holding bare steefage-
way in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean,
WOULD sec a cloud Of snow white canvas
burst out Of the gloom and vanish like
ghost to leewsrd--a Yankee clipper under
royals"
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

not undertaking to reduce the sum total or
those reparations. All CUR former associates
can understand policy which seeks to
leassert American rights that have been
allowed to lapse by American passivity in
past months, but which can be revived. SO
far the Harding Administration is on sound
ground
Europe can also recognize. if it under
stands little less easily, the decision to
have nothing to do with the League of Ma
tions: that. too. is matter of right. But
the moment America undertakes to resume
a place in European councils. then it is just
as plain as plain can be that along with
participation goes payment. If American
business suffers from European unrest. If
American interests will be benefited by a
restoration of real peace. then let America
pay her share toward such result. This
is the situation which American representa-
tives will have to face.
CIemenceau in Bad OdoT
With Most of His Countrymen
The events of the months which have fol-
lowed the Paris conference have had
French. as well as American. reaction.
The Reputation of Clemenceau is just as big
a fact as the reputation of Wilson. Ana
Clemenceau has been repudiated because ne
based his whole conduct of the peace nego-
tiations upon the conception OF Anglo
French-American solidarity. The American
people are accustomed to refer to conces-
sions made by Mr. Wilson. which they re-
gard as prejudca to American interests
with bitterness. but there is no less pltter-
hess in the tone o. Frenchman talking o.
the concessions Clemenceau made to Mr.
Wilson and Lloyd George
The Treaty OF Versailles counts in France
for lust as colossal failure as in the United
states and in addition, it is reckoned a ma
tional catastrophe. since it has preJudiced SO
many French vital interests, which count
for far more than the rather shadowy values
represented in zap or Mesopotamian oil. Ii
tha mass Americans desire to escape from
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

together all the old dockyard models. The
same thing was done in England BY order
Of William w.
IT is a source OF regret to American model
collectors that most of the original models
Of the famous old Yankee clipper ships have
been destroyed Donald Mckay Of Boston.
most famous designer and builder Of clippers
in the 1orties and fifties left his collection
of ship models to a niece. Unfortunately
his woman had no eye for the artistic and
one cold winter the models were broken up
for use as firewood.
Among those she destroyed we're those Of
the Flying cloud, Lightning. another Sow
creien Of the seas. Nightingale. Great Re
public sc. Were these models in existence
to-day they would be invaluable The
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Only Thirty Steamers as Fast
Sixty Years After the Record

Al the outbreak of tho world war. after
sixty yeats there were fewer than thirty
steamships in regular trade throughout the
world that could equal the speed Of the
Lightning. In 1905 in he race for the
Kaiser's cup the schooner Atlantic. Capt.
Charlie Barr commanding. made the run
from Sandy Hook to The Lizard in IL days
and hours. but her best days run was only
Sal miles.
Tie speed Of the Lightning on the day
she made her record OF i36 miles was the
equivalent Of nearly $40 land miles at the
rate Of 21 y miles an hour. There were no
steamships i'm those Gays that approached
this record by as mitch as 100 miles Gt was
not until twenty -fvec years had passed that
the Arizona made rs knots on her trial trip.
When the records of the Yankee clippers
arc recalled and the fact that at ono time
America was forcing England into a sec
ondary position on the sea by building bet
ter ships and manning them with better
navigators and crews, IL seems wrong that
the roles Of our maritime glory have not
been more carefully preserved.
IL Is the purpose Of the ship Model Sos
ciety 10 establish nautical museum with
models, books and records Of our navy and
merchant fleets. Two or three members Of
tho New York Yacht Club some years ago
endcavored to start marine museum In
New York. but without avail. The new So
ciety. with the kecn interest its members
take ~ their Hobby promises better results
tlte time.
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

" exhibition, now being held in the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art stand
in wonder and admiration before glass
case in which Is the model of a fine old sew
enteenth century ship of the line, the Sow
ereign Of the Seas. Few Of them, perhaps.
know that it WAS this ship that cost King
Charles of England his crown and his head.
The same rivalry for the greatest navy IN
the world that is going on to-day was the
taxpayers burden OF 800 years ago. Charles
I. built the Sovereign of the Seas in 1887
in reply to Louis Kills great ship La
Courone. but the British King neglected the
formaIity OF calling Parliament TO authorize
the expenditure. The Sovereign OF the Seas
then the most formidable war vessel afioat
was 10 have cost $4,000. When completed
her cost was El1 900, an unheard OF sum in
those days II was the last straw that broke
the back OF the long suffering British public
The model however. holds additional claim
TO interest II Is the most elaborate ship
model ever built in this country. Twenty
men worked on II for three years. and y
cost approximately $4,000. To the tiniest
detail II Is made exactly to scale. y inch 20
a foot after the original plans of Phineas
Petit designer and builder of the first Sow
ereign Of the Seas.
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Where Payment of Reparations
Clashes With Our Policies

To put the thing bluntly. Mr.. Hughes in
all his public documents has laid especial
stress upon the capacity Of Germany 10 pay.
raising very clearly the point that there is
fixed limit existing in his own mind and
recognized by American policy to German
7apacity, and that at some time and place
American representatives will express their
views on this subject But how can thev
while we insist upon collecting our loans to
Europe without regard TO the capacity Of
tho debtor nations TO pay?
This was tho difficulty at Paris. which
ultimately reduced our financial representa-
tives 10 silence. Mr.. Baruch sets II forth in
his volume which Is worth rereading Mt this
time We can say TO Britain, France Italy
and Belgium. reduce your claims for Ger
man rcparatons. they are excessive" but
IN saying this we cannot once moro affirm
as was done at a recent Cabinet meeting
that orr loans to Europe viii not be can
celed or reduced.
The thing which Is not accurately appre-
cated In America is that the allied demands
upon Germany represent in fact-far more
than 50 per cent.-the basis Of allied pay
ment If American loans. The Germans owe
e. the British under the Paris agreement
almost exactly the sum which the British
owe Us. When France has deducted from
her share Of German reparations the portion
duo 10 Britain and the United states she
Win have loss than enough to pay for resto-
rations and nothing for pensions
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
What the United States Wants
As Defined by Adminisfrafio

Now the American conception, the concep-
ton Of Mr.. Harding and Mr.. Hughes, seems
fairly plainly set forth. America has rights
which must be asserted hence the mandate
discussions America has a duty which
must be performed hence the warning com
municated TO Germany through Mr. Dresel
at Berlin. Finally, America has interests
economic interests, which are vitauy affected
by European conditions and discussions
hence the assertion that we desire to be
represented in all economic conferences, such
those held in the past at Spa, San Reno
Hythe. London and Paris
As matter of foreign policy we have
rejected the. League of Nations and fore
shadowed "A revision of the Treaty of Ver-
sailes. so far as we are concerned, which
draws the blue pencil through all but those
clauses Immediately affecting rights and
interests. We have declared for the speedy
passage of the Knox resolution which ends
a technical state of war with Germany, and
we have thus envisaged the resumption of
economic, and probably Of diplomatic; rela
tions with Germany.
But to arrive at any revision of the Treaty
of Versailles even affecting our own inter-
ests we are bound to face some form OF
international conference. We may send a
mission to Europe. We may, before sending
~. prepare Ine DdSeS IUT ulsGuSslOH ny a.
series of notes, such as Mr.. Hughes has
begun to utter. But in the end we must
either go to Europe or ask Europe to come
here. And it is to the latter possibility that
Washington plainly turns with favor.
Yet granting that Europe. our Allies of
the war. are quite prepared to hear with
interest our views and yield to certain of
our claims which affect questions Of right
such as zap, such as the whole mandate
issue such as the cable controversy, is 1t
hy any means certain that Europe will well
come any proposal which carries with 1t the
eevsion of the Treaty of Versailles in any
fundamental detail, or will listen resignedly
10 any arguments made by American rep
resentatives which aim at modifying the sum
total of German reparations or of softening
the measures taken to enforce German pay
ment?
We shall have to be very frank with our
selves in facing the European reaction to
our course in the matter Of the Treaty of
Versailles and the League Of Nations. We
have undertaken TO eliminate everything In
the treaty which is not Of positive advantage
20 ourselves. Starting with this a basis.
we have envisaged policy which wsuld be
expressed in anticipation in international
discussions. in which further reductions Of
The advantages gained by others in the
treaty might be advocated and might even
be championed bv ourselves in our own
interest.
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Must Agree TO Reduction
Or Remain Silent on SubiecI

Thus 4 follows inevitably. as the. expert
cnce of the Paris conference demonstrated.
that at certain point American representa-
tives must abandon al agitation for re-
duction Of German reparations or accom-
pany their arguments with promises that
America win agree 70 reductions of It's
claims. The United states cannot argue that
It's associates of tho war show greater CON
sideration for Germany than II IL willing to
show 10 shesc same associates. Yet here Is
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

w -,a 1' y ass' oar.sssss Of sssss'i ss's si 's
Washington or by treaty made
at Berlin? This is the question squarey
raised now, when the first declarations Of
the Harding Administration and the subse-
quent indication Of French policy serve to
reopen the whole discussion Of European
affairs
announcement on behalf Of the State De-
partment has been made that American rep
resentauves are to resume the place which
was occupied by other representatives of
this country in the reparations council II
Is further fntimated that on invitation we
are prepared to send delegates to the Porto
Roso conference, which, on April 80. is 10
take up nominaly the question Of helping
Austria. but actually the problem Of re-
storing economic life and order in Central
Europe, from Prague to Saonica
We have now to consider the whole range
Of American declarations in recent weeks.
beginning with the note to Berlin which
warned Germany of American purpose in the
matter Of reparatlons, followed by President
Harding's message to Congress and COM
pleted by the statements coming directly
from the state Department and expressing
the purpose of the United States to resume
participation in the economic discussions Of
Europe. In the same sequence must be
counted the notes to Great Britain and
France in the matter Of mandates
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

France? Certainly the objections are no
more than technical and the way of escape
not fraught with too many legal difficulties
Let us suppose. for example, that France
should find in the present German attitude
In final refusal on May l to meet the
conditions explicitly laid down in the Treaty
OF versailles, warrant for action against
Germany which might amount in terms to
a declaration of war Let us suppose thai
France sees in that method an escape from
situation which is fully as unsatisfactory
Tor her as that created by Mr. Wilson has
been for us. Let us conceive that France
should repudiate the work of Clemenceau as
we have "scrapped" that of Wilson.
Certainly there is quite as much justifica-
ton for the French. They resigned perma-
nent occupation of the Rhine barrier in re
turn for Anglo-American guarantee against
German attack. unprovoked attack But the
American Senate has not. and will not, ratify
that treaty and the British ratification is
valueless without the American. France
has then lost security in advance. In the
same way France resigned her historic and
economic claims to the Sarre Basin in the
face of Anglo American opposition and with
the assurance of Anglo American financial
and political assistance a substitute. And
neither the one nor the other is forthcoming
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
France Has Lost It's All
And Must Act on It's Own

France has in reality lost everything
which Clemenceau bargained for in the Con-
ference of Paris. She is now thrown back
upon her own resources to collect any
reparation. She has been compelled already
to reduce her reparations claims. first in
the original Conference of Paris and there
after in the various conferences from Spa
to London. Aside from possession of the
provinces of Alsace- Lorraine, temporary
ownership of Sarre coal mines under League
of Nations direction and limited occupation
Of the left bank of the Rhine, she has moth
ing to show for her victory.
Why, then, should not the French follow
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
of Ship That
Cost Charles |. His
Head Ranks as Gem
of Exhibition an d
Cost $4,000
By FRANK L. CURTIS.

VISITORS to the Architectural League
exhibition, now being held in the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, stand
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
LIES TREATY AS DEAD FOR FRANCE AS u. S.
BY FRANK Fl. SIMONDS.

w r LII The Treaty Of Versailles be re
w vised by a conference held a
Washington or bv . traat,. 80, i
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-23
TERPS PSICH0REAN STAMPEDE ON IN WEST VIRGINIA IN SPITE OF RIOTS.
 AUTHORITIES UNABLE TO CURB IT

one asked a question about high school dancing" Commissioner George Andrews declared that if it was a practice to hold dances in the schools he would enter a protest
 When the commissioners investi- gations showed that the dances were being held in buildings over which forced to give it up. The dances are going on just the same with the school pupils and teachers attending in large numbers.
 Failure of some students to make satisfactory grades resulted in Prof. s. S. Jacobs of Triadelphic district schools, near Wheeling, to order his teachers to stop dancing.
 In Huntington there was so much dancing of unSuperviSed nature that the High School Parent-Teach- CTS Association decided that super vised dancing in the schools was the best way out of the matter.
 The proposal brought such a storm of protest that referendum vote was taken among the parents of the school children One minister de- clared that every dancer in his church
 could withdraw without leaving it any the worse as to members or finances. This retort drew equally caustic replies. There has recently come a Hull in the storm in Hunting still dancing, but the enemies of dancing are unwilling to recognize that fact.
 Perhaps the dancing battle came to a climax in Morgantown, where vir- tually every teacher who danced | either refused to apply for position again or else were refused position l by the board when they did apply | The Board of Education said that ] dancing and teaching did not go to-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-23

can oil producers to force terms from the Mexican Government, but now that Dutch, English and other for eign producers in the Vera Cruz fields are unable to ship it is admitted here that the shutdown was due to eco- homie and not political causes.
 Oil men here say that the big com panies in the region of Tampico are showing their honesty of purpose by continuing development and drilling new wells in preparation for the time when it will be possible to resume shipments of oil on a large scale.
 Complaint has been made here and in other cities that collections are be- ing made for famine sufferers in Rus sia and other problems which will tax the intelligence and generosity of the nation, unless great changes take place between now and the coming Winter.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-23
Bromley sets of collar and cuffs.

Smart and piquant sets made or beach cloth, and linen, and lawn, and pique. Youthful in effect, charming.
 Some have decoration of Ven ise edge, others of embroidery -59c to $3.5O.
 Attractive vestees of organdy and net are tucked and trimmed with Val lace; some have pretty crochet buttons for added dec oration-d and $1.50.
 New charming round collars to be worn particularly with guimpes and jumper dresses Net and lace-S1 and $2.
 Center aisle, front
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-23

gether and that dancing teachers were not likely to be employed.
 Dance Stampede Is On.
 Morgantown, where West Virginia State University is located, has a number of dance halls for it's 14,ooO people, and these halls are booked up solid from early fall until late spring, with a few summer engagements thrown in as extras. These dances attract the town folk, high school boys and girls and many university students, of whom are are about 1000. It's a poor night that does not have a couple of dances going on somewhere in the town
 The old dances and the newer ones, which have made the waltz LOOK ike a snaiPs galIop, have neither entirety satisfied some of the more graceful university girls. So they have come forth in bare feet and line draperles onto the university campus; where esthetic dancing has been feature of each spring after it gets warm enough to remove all danger ot frost- bite-no, we didn't say cold 1eet u takes the most graceful dancer 10 "get away with" this open-alr danc- ing, but the girls say they are wild about it. The bos. HkeWlse' say IL is great stuff
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-23
SOCIETY SETS
 LIMIT FOR
 MEMBERSHIP

Members of the British-American f<Soe1a1 Society are in for another k-the regular meeting of the society ss'wiII be hed dn St. Georges hall. This k-soctety is increasing in popularity beach week and the limit for member fashtp has been set at 125- This num- Fber is almost reached aszduring the Epast month about 25 new members Ehaye been admitted. The full quota t-wfll be reached probably at the next meeting after which a waiting list will be- established
 This society started out twv=yeaEsi tsBan committee which represented from ten British fra Esternal societies of this cities. The EScoInzntttees being got together to eel forces in the great. war. The com amfttee was a most energetic -onF and branched out in a social society," Each hmeting of the society is full of enter tainmeut and the meeting tourorrow evening will be no exception to the Erule as some very good and clever artists have been secured for the
 The following meeting to be held i on October 22, is to be g. night of ssfun as the entertainment committee thave arranged for a Novelty Country iz.Night- Some great surprises have
 been arranged for this night The i entertainment committee have made Arrangements for the winter season i night, gents night, country stores, Scotch night, amateur night, and .anasquerade dances
 ' The entertainment committee con- l sists of the following: Joe Booth, i, chairman; Mrs. Keeling, Mrs. Hood,
 Mrs Wharton, Mrs Phieffer, Mrs ] Wheway, Miss, Trinder, Miss Hart. Miss Massey, c. Wright (president of the society,", E. Sharp. F. Whitaker,
 T. Keeling, T. Hart, J. F'yfe. The so-
 ciety meets on the second and fourth | Saturdays of each month.
 The annual public masquerade ball
 of the society will be held in the St.
 George hall dance room on Friday
 evening, Oct 28. when the Jolly Five
 Orchestra will be in attendance