davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The New York herald., 1921-12-30

man. Perhaps some Of his knottiest
problems were solved amid the re-
sounding blows of his ak at Hawar-
den. THEODORE RoosEvELT's intense
nature found play and relief in the
woods at Oyster Bay, and to his credit
as a woodsman it is related that his
cuts were as smooth as those Of the
pioneer in whose hands the ak was
a tool OF precision.
Europe has in the former Emperor
WILLIAM a devotee OF the wood pile,
but his work is done with a saw,
and what Is the newest and finest
saw compared with an ak. whether
single or double bitted, when one
goes to the woods for reflection and
exercise? Anybody can use a saw,
but 1t requires skill of high order to
ply an ak well, making every blow
count and leaving surface as
smooth as il it had been planed.
For the man who finds gratifica-
tion in cutting wood for his own
hearth the saw will never supplant
the ak with the keen blade which
eats its way through maple, hickory,
beech or oak, leaving by-product
in the shape Of chips the value Of
which is known to every rural house
wife with an unexpected guest on her
hands or tea to- brew for casual
caller.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
Directing Wireless Waves.
Mr.. Chayko Did Not Claim to Have
Discovered New Principle.

To THE New York HERALD: The re-
cent statement relative to a discovery
concerning the control Of electrical
waves and lines of magnetic force reads
differently in the original and in trans
lation. Mr.. Chayko does not claim to
have invented an apparatus which
makes manifest principle heretofore
unknown. He seeks to argue the order
and control of forces unseen, unfelt, only
perceptible through the operation of
physical media.
II a number OF persons are walking
on a path and shoulders are touched
the tendency is to impel the individuals
into courses of straight lines projected
from their original courses. Electrical
and magnetic impulses follow a like
rule. Mr.. Chayko therefore deduces
probable results and expressly states
that his proposed working theory has
not been practically demonstrated except
as sporadic and by no means complete
tests. His equations are incomplete and
his footnotes ask for working formulas.
SERGE WITTKoR, E. L.
BAYoNNE, N. j., December 20.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30

Netherlands or perhaps son or kins-
man on the Dutch throne. About
that time Premier ABRAHAAr KUYPER
felt apprehension lest the Kaiser
might send a German army corps
across the frontier to keep order if
the impending railway strike sue
ceeded. "Once in, never out" was
the correct translation of the wrin-
kles of anxiety written on the faces
of the Premier and Cabinet officers.
They worried also over the Kaiser's
displeasure because the Dutch canals
were too narrow for the German bat
tleships to enter when he visited the
Queen at Amsterdam.
Other signs have also pointed to
Dutch distrust of Germany. At the
outbreak of the war the official no.
tice was served on Prince HENDRIX
mo mail to or from Germany" So
this gentleman of irreproachable
character, conduct and proved per-
sonal courage became active head of
the Red Cross and kept quietly at
home.
During the war the Kaiser left no
stone unturned to separate the Flem-
irgs, who speak Dutch, from the Wal
looms. who speak French. His object
was propaganda Of the pan-Teutonic
ideas, and he hoped even to absorb
Holland. The recent sweeping vic
tory of the Liberals in Belgium, fol-
lowing the elimination by the Dutch
from their fundamental law Of any
German succession to the throne,
shows close sequence Of cause and
effect. This is especially clear when
one reads the very recent lecture by
the first Dutch professor in the newly
established chair of Dutch history in
the University Of London. In this
lecture with affiuence of scholarship
he shows the fundamental unity in
history, economies and interest Of the
Dutch and Flemings.
Such thing as pan-Netherlands
union, or republic founded on these
bases, which now seem theory or
dream, may yet become fact during
this century. Yet whether kingdom
or republic, the tolerant people who
formed the first republic in northern
Europe and who gave us many fed
eral precedents and many national
customs will never lose affection for
their historic line of rulers. Queen
WnHELMINA, at her inauguration,
raising her hands to heaven, said:
II intend to make the words of my
beloved father my own when he said,
The house of Orange can never, no
never, do enough for the Neither
lands And the people have faith
in the sincerity of her words.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30

Several letters containing substan-
TALLY the criticism that Is expressed
in the subjoined communication have
been received:
'To THE NEW YORK HERALD:
thoroughly approve of your editorial
article regarding DEBs, but why do
you lend aid and comfort to him and
his gang by giving him column and
a half, and most of 1t on the front
page? Hammer him editorially, but do
not advertise him.
HUNTER wyKEs.
NEW York, December 81"
The complaint uttered by Mr..
WYKEs is one that has been made
periodically in every time and place
since newspapers began.
The function Of newspapers Is not
to make news but to print 1t.
Newspapers carry on their front
pages stories about wars, murders,
robberies and great many other
things which as news purveyors they
are compelled to carry. The Debs
case comes under this heading.
The newspapers did not print col.
umns about the release of DEBs be-
cause of DEBs alone. 1t was the sur
rounding circumstances that put
DEBs on the front page.
When a man like DEBs, who tried
to defeat the military aims of the
United States in the war, is let out
of prison while ordinary military Of
tenders are kept in, everybody is
interested.
When the Attorney-General of the
United States considers it necessary
to issue long statements in attempted
explanation of DEBs's release, every
body is interested.
When DEBs is sent direct from the
Atlanta prison to confer with the At
torney-General of the United States.
everybody is interested.
Wnen the freSluenI OIL the UHltec
States has long-and said to be
"amiable"-talk with the man who
tried to keep young men out Of the
army and navy in the nations time
of peril, everybody is interested.
When a man who has enjoyed the
clemency and the conversation of the
President of the United States comes
forth from that conversation to trum-
pet his defiance Of government, every
body is interested-anda good many
of us are hot under the collars.
Don't blame the newspapers, Mr..
WYKEs. They are not guilty of max
ing DEBs hero.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
Coates Directs Symphony Concert
English Guest Conductor Takes Place of Walter
Damrosch, Who Becomes an Auditor.

Rinsky- -Korsakov and listened to a story
OF Poushkin told by Scheherazade.
Saturn brought the benison of old age
from the pontifical lips of Gurnemanz
ard laid the weary limbs of senility to
rest with all the repose of Good Friday.
Uranus was too kindly to be wicked
magician. He set off at a spirited pace
bat soon proved that his tricks were old
ones and that he himself was only an
apprentice to a sorcerer.
Neptune. the mystic. created his most
confounding mystery by using two solo
violins, the concert master and the first
player at the third desk. Only a mystic
could have had such a conception. Per-
haps some hearers could tell how diff
ferently 1t would have sounded II the
second soloist had been the first player
al the second desk. or the second player
at the first desk. Anyhow. it was some
puzzle.
About the performance OF this musical
Interpretation of the unresisting planets,
our neighbors in the vast realms or rel
ativity, only praise can be uttered. The
orchestra discharged its duties most ad-
mirably, and Mr.. Coates, we may De
sure, delivered to us the authoritative
reading Of the work AS to the inter-
pretations Of the other two compositions
on the program opinions will doubtless
be divided. The mastersingers were
more deliberate and more vociferous
than Is their wont. These were probably
mastersingers Of Manchester. who dis
tributed cotton to the world before and
shells during the war.
Many things could be said OF the read
ing Of the Tschlikowsky Romeo ana
Juliet" 1t was neither so deep as
well nor SO wide as a church door. but
it sufficed. The audience was cordial in
its reception Of Mr.. Coates and OF Mr..
Holst's planetary system.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
Forests and Stream Flow.

In the near future the public will
learn the results of investigations
which are being conducted jointly by
the Forest Service and the Weather
Bureau of the Department of Agri-
culture to ascertain the effects of
forests upon stream flow.
The work is being carried on in an
area of comparatively light forests in
Colorado and it Is expected to FUR
nish data of special value in regions
in which agriculture is largely de-
pendent upon stream flow for irri-
cation. The Forest Service in spe-
cial bulletin reports that similar ex-
periments near Zurich in Switzer-
land were enlightening. They ex-
tended over a period of eighteen
years, and were made within two
watersheds, one wholly forested and
the other one-third forested.
"On a proportional basis" the For
est Service reports. "the total annual
oil Cdlii uAoShoi 30 wac oPPA OAllhdtOlJ
equal on the two Zurich watersheds.
In short, heavy rainfalls the maxi
mum runoff to the second in the
forested watershed was from one
third to one-half that on the lightly
forested watershed and the total
flood stage discharge usually one
half. Although as the result of very
long, heavy rains the runoff was the
same after the forest soil had become
saturated, the forest cover apparently
stabilized the stream flow and re-
duced the extremes of both high and
low water"
This constitutes one more argu-
ment for forestation, and the outcome
Of the experiments in Colorado will
be important because of the educa-
tional effect it will have on public
opinion.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
governments dealing with their citizens

governments dealing with their citizens
In financial affairs.
In conclusion let me say that the very
rst result of the repeating Of tax free
DIVISIONS in connection with State and
Grcrnment bonds will be the absolute
reisal of individuals to lend their money
10 % State and national governments,
and Not only will our internal develop
mertsand improvements now being done
by ht sale Of city, State OF national
Government bonds come to a standstill,
but itwf be impossible ever to do any
thing mol on The credit of State. city
or nationa. governments.
1t ought y. be easy to see how abso-
lutely immosl it is to make it possible
even for a hunicipality or State or
national govSment to borrow your
money and prtpise to pay you 4 or 5
per cent and TIN escape its obligation
by taxing you s,much on your income
from this source to reduce the inter-
est paid you by tn State to or per
cent. The proposion needs only to
be stated 10 snow II immoral and un-
economic character.
GY M. WALKER.
NEW YORK, Decembe2s.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30

Testimonial dinner in honor of j. NJ. Gid
ding Hotel Plaza, =. NJ.
Everett Dean Martin will lecture on '1he
Wish to Be Important" Cooper Union,
P NJ
Miss Mary Garrett Hay will lecture on
Women and the Making OF Laws,
Womens City Club, s:f5 +. M.
James A. Donnelly. Assistant Corporation
Counsel, will lecture on The Enemy Within
Our Gates before the Arthur II. Murphy
Association. s62 East fremont avenue. The
Bronx, 8 so r. M.
Mrs. Edith chapman Gould will give a re-
cital for the seniors of Christodora House.
141 Avenue Il, =. NJ.
Associated Advertising Clubs. Christmas
entertainment at the clubhouse, AZ East
Twenty-fifth street, p. NJ
Harry G. Ostrander Will give an illustrated
lecture on THE Moor of Yesterday and To-
day." Town Hall. '12s West For'y-third
New York Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor. entertainment for
boys, East Side Settlement House, foot OF
East Seventy-sixth street, =. NJ.
Board Of Education. stated meeting. hall
of the board. Park avenue and Fifty-ninth
street, L. M.
Athletic Research Society. meeting, Hotel
Astor all day.
Century Theater Club. meeting, Hotel
Commodore, I 80 +. NJ.
Trinity College, dance, Hotel Biltmore.
T.. NJ.
ward, O 80 r. M.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
by w. j. HENDERSON.

Walter Damrosch sat In q box and
listened to the concert Of the Symphony
Society yesterday afternoon In Carnegie
Hall. He said 1t was a good orchestra
He had the opportunity to be an auditor
because his own duties as conductor
have ended for the season and to-mor-
row he sails for Europe. Yesterdays
concert was directed by Albert Coates.
the London conductor. who was here
for short time last season and Is
now back for a more extended visit.
Mr.. Coates's program consisted Of
the vorspiel to die Meistersinger."
Tschaikowsky,s Romeo and Juliet" fam
tasia overture and a suite. new to New
York, entitled 1.-THE Planets" composed
by Gustav Hoist. who. in spite of his
name, is an Englishman. Mr.. Holst's
suite is not suite, but series of short
tone poems, and its character was sug-
ested not by the astronomical but the
geological attributes Of the planets.
rhe composer elected to take the
me'bers Of our solar fraternity in an
ordt of his own. People habitually
enFrrate them in rotation from Mer-
eurA he nearest to the sun, outward to
NepNie. the furthest away. But Mr..
loisus seven movements are called
wars he Bringer Of War: Venus.
tne bnnser of Peace; Mercury, the
winged Messenger; Jupiter, the
bringeHof ollity"; Saturn, the Bringer
ol Olo Asp; Uranus, the Magician"
and Nepuae, the Mystic" Wisely he
mas oneree % other program of his mu-
SIC, nor oosit require any. The char
acters OF Inv ns.even movements are well
uehnea ana Vbroughly in keeping with
the titles.
Mr. Hoist wres with assurance and
WIN oriiiiant echnic. He is wholly
nio1ern IN ms Exception of music as
tone pictures andhe uses all the con-
temporaneous appaatus Of harmony md
Instrumentation wit the craft of a mas
ter. He is modern ithout being either
ugly or affected. H writes music not
always of distinction perhaps hut AL
ways agreeable and interestinr He
creates moods and por,ays fancies. If
ne Is not always as tndependent in
thought as he is in stylehe is none the
less composer whom v are glad to
meet.
As bringer Of war Ars is quite
himself and his trumpets Lre and his
drums sound the alarums Sst as thew
did in the merry England r shakes.
peare's Henry V. Venus brlrs neace
from the fountains of Rome In true
Respiglian accents, and Merely takes
wing in scherzo Of honorabIe,n an
cient lineage. Jupiter might roperlv
have been renamed Jupiotr. Sr he
4 surely had his very iolly time at 49,,
somewhere in the season of theNreat
bazaar in Nijni-Novgorod, wfere h be-
slowed his Olympian blessing on
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
The Surprise.

From The honsds CITY Star.
"a passel Of his nelghbors gave Jurd Lopp
n birthday surprise party luther night" re-
lated resident of tho Straddle Ridge, Ark.
region Somehow the word sorter pune
tuated around 20 Jurd that they were com
ing. and on the morning OF his birthday
he woke up with the grip. He got worse
during the day and by night he was feel
ing meaner than thunder and plumb hostile.
He loaded UP his old shotgun and lowed,
bgud, IL anybody surprised him they'd run
themselves ragged getting away from there /"
''werl, did they sure-enough surprise him?"
"You betl They found out how he felt
about Il. and didn't come"
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
Tax Free Bonds.
History Of the Exemption Accorded
to Some Public Securities.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In your
paper of Monday. December 10, you had
a short communication from John II.
Judge on the subject of taxing State
securities, and as there is much agita-
ton at the present time in favor of
depriving State bonds and Government
bonds Of their tax free privilege it
seems that there should be an explana-
ton made that will warn our people
against making the disastrous mistake
so often made by those who know moth
ing of the history and origin of present
customs In connection with Government
securities.
In the old days when kings wanted
money they simply grabbed 1t and the
people had no recourse. In later days
the kings and rulers went through the
form Of borrowing money from their
subjects, only to repudate the debt after
the money had been spent; or IL the debt
was not actually repudiated the promise
to pay given to the private citizen was
made valuelecs by taxation and impo-
sitions levied by the government, which
made the poor citizen who had lent
money wish to forget that his govern
ment owed him anything.
1t finally came to such a pass that It
was no longer safe for governments TO
attempt to seize and confscato the
money and property of their citizens,
and they could not induce the citizens
20 lend them money voluntarily while
the government had the right to levy
such tax on its cwn promise to pay that
It became valueless in the hands OF
those who lent their money to the gov
ernment, and the chief of these methods
was to impose such taxes either on the
principal or the income of the debt that
the government owed to the individuals
ae to reduce the income of the individual
to practically nothing.
II by reason of its necessity the gov
crnment was compelled to promise to
pay per cent. after II got the money
II imposed or per cent. tax on the
principal of the debt and reduced the
individuals income to about l per cent
on the money he had lent the govern
ment IL became necessary, therefore,
for the protection of citizens lending
money TO governments that the govern
ments should be absolutely prohibited
from imposing any tax either on the
principal sums lent to It by its citizens
or on the interest return that the gov
ernment agreed TO pay. This was so
well known that when our Republic was
established and our State governments
set up constitutional provisions were in
serted everywhere to prevent the ma
tional or the State governments from i'm
pairing the value of their own promise
to pay by taxation on these Government
obligations.
The tax free provision both as TO
principal and interest of state and Gov
ernment bonde and obligations Is based
on n long and bitter experience OF citi-
zens in dealing with their governments,
and our people would not consider for
one minute the proposition TO repeal or
change these tax free provisions IL they
had any knowledge OF the history Of
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
Variety in Newark,
Actors and Actresses at WaldnM's
Many Years Ago. N

To THE New York HERALD: We ii
Newark had the pleasure thirty and
forty years ago of witnessing in Wald-
mans. now a moving picture theater.
most of the well known teams and actors
and actresses Of the time. Among them
were the Big Four. Smith, Waldron.
Cronin and Martin. good team OF fun
makers: Charles Banks. a comedian,
who sang song called Poor Old Maid. =
and who was good in his line and was
always sure Of applause. and Kelly and
Ryan, whose dialogues were mirth pro-
voking. Ryan. believe. is on the stage
yet. They always drew crowded
house.
1t was not John Diamond who played
the harp, as one writer called him, but
the great Charles Diamond, presumably
of Italian origin. and he certainly could
finger the strings. Then there was Ella
Wesner. she who threw packages of
cigarettes out into the audience. This
lady. believe. has passed on to the
Great Beyond. as have Harry and John
Kernell, Haines and Vidocq, Pavillio ana
Roussilon. the Four Emperors Of Music.
Emma Jones. Stirk and Zeno, acrobats,
and Fred Roberts, the good clothes
comedian
Can 1t be possible that Maggie Cline
has retired from the stage? 1 do not
see her name any more. This lady, with
her green dress and her song Throw
Him Down, McClosky," was always sure
Of a glad hand. I do wonder whatever
became of Miss st. George Hussey, an
other of the woman stars of thirty-five
or more years ago. Who can recall the
French Troupe Davene, acrobats of the
early SOS, the leader a handsome blond
F'renchman?
Another star in the variety world was
Mile. Aimee. the Human Fly. On a
board suspended from the ceiling and
over the heads Of the audience the lady
would walk upside down. well re-
member Old Hoss Hoey; he had getup
that was comical. Coming on the stage
he would go through part of his act,
then he would shake his waist and there
would come forth the Jingle of sleigh
bells fastened on his body out of sight.
I remember also Quilter and Gold
rich, Maude Forester in "Mazeppa," the
Maxwells and Hallen and Hart. Hallen,
/ believe, is on the stage yet. In Proc
tors Twentythird Street Theater in
1891 Orville, an acrobat. sustained a Sc
we're fall, which I saw. He was on the
stage until within few years. l also
was in McVicker's Theater, Chicago. in
1881 or 1882 when Margaret Matner
made her debut In 1891 Minnie Rem
wood was skirt dancer at Proctor's
Twenty-third street place. We do not see
the skirt dance any more. ]. W.B.
NEWARK, N. j.. December 20.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
AT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Ajor LoriIIard Spencer and Son
Arrive at Resort.

secial Dispatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. W..
Ia 29.-Naior Lorillard Spencer and
LoIard Spencer. Jr., arrived to-day
from New York and rode over Valley
ViewNrail and Greenbrier Mountain.
Mr.End Mrs. Laurence Lewis and
Laurerse Lewis. Jr.. go this week to st.
Augusth Fla. after a ten days So
Journ VIII Mr.. and Mrs. Thornton
Lewis at ,e Meadows.
Mr.. E.,c. MacCrone left to-day for
Detroit.
Miss D.bthy Campbell of Seattle.
Wash. ; Mis Anna Orcutt and Brent q.
orcutt OF Ny York rode to-day. Mrs.
Ruby Ross eoodnow has started for
New York.
Messrs. r. J. Cadwalader. Philadel-
rhia; John H.Wull. Oak Park. ILL.,, !,
and Charles G. ~cutt and Robert Dar-
ling Of simsbury'conn.. played golf to-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. yharles r. Osborne OF
New York arrivesto-morrow
Mr.. and Mrs. Gorge w. Sweeney OF
New York drove ttday to Sunset Gap.
The New York herald., 1921-12-30
MAX KoTLARsKY's RECITAL.
Pianist Holds Interest of Audience
at Aeolian Hall.

Max Kotlarsky. a pianist, who gave a
recital here last spring, was heard in a
program Of plano music last evening In
Aeolian Hall. He played prelude in c
called "Con Solennita," by Schuett-
an unfamiliar, imposing, but not Inn
portant omposition-Bachs chaconne.
transcribed by Busoni-already heard
here this week-MacDowelp '"Tragica"
sonata, which has not been given here
number OF shorter selections
by Russian writer's and "Pastorale" of
Corelli arranged by Godowski Among
the Russian numbers there was Bala-
kiereff's 'Islamey" fantasy.
Mr.. Kotlarsky is serious artist and
one who is making progress in his
art. His performance had intelligence
and admirable technical power. His
tone, while clear and often good, was
perhaps not so rich in warmth and color
as it might have been, but certain
ease and freedom of style enabled him
to hold the interest Of his audience.