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The New York herald., 1921-12-13
Il Pays a State to Advertise.

The Green Mountain State. always
very wide awake, has OF late been par
ticularly active in extending informa-
tion about Vermont by the liberal use
of printers ink. There are State
organizations working to that end
and there is a State magazine, the
VerD1onter, an attractive publication
filed with interesting illustrations
and we'll written text. 1t is devoted
exclusively to revealing in detail the
industrial and agricultural resources
of the State and TO presenting Yer.
mont's strikingly beautiful scenic at
fractions for the summer visitor.
Statements calculated to give er-
roneous impressions concerning Yer.
mont farming returns and farm living
conditions, for instance, have been met
not with recriminations but the pres
entation of statistics and facts quite
unanswerable. In regard to climatic
conditions the same method of re-
buttal has been pursued. For some
reason not apparent Vermont seems
TO have been selected as a favorite
target for misrepresentation with
respect to the severity of its winters.
II has been repeated until 1t became
almost an article OF faith with the
uniformed that the State is snow
buried in winter. with highways
blocked, schools closed, supplies all
but unobtainable in the rural regions
and farmhouses showed in.
To all this the Vermonter replies
with the statement that the people up
there capitalize snow--when they can
get Il. The young folks have lots of
fun with IL, but it is not always to be
had. Last year Vermonters had to
haul snow from sheltered ravines to
provide for toboggan and ski slides,
while the largest city in the State
has to import ice from Montreal. AS
TO vermont's isolation. IL is pointed
out that farmers OF the Green Noun
tain state are only eight hours from
New York and six hours from Boston,
to which cities they send large guam
titles of milk every day in the year,
winter aud summer.
Strangely enough, no small part of
the advertising campaign has had to
be directed 60 dispelIing utterly un-
founded notions ebout Vermont win.
ters which for some reason have got
abroad. AS a matter OF fact. Yer
mont winters are just the hearty,
bracing. health giving cold weather
winters that prevail generally in
those parts Of New England which
are away from the ocean influences
The New York herald., 1921-12-13
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Governors Committee for the Reception
of Distinguished Guests Of the state 2. -sSSi TsT
Foch, Hotel Commodore, p. M.
Columbia University Post Of the American
Legion meeting, columbia uniysrsity CiuD'
West Forty-third street. BIB r. M.
Building Managers and Owners Association
of New York. annual meeting and dinner.
Advertising Club. AZ East Twenty-fifth street.
$3.50 Z. NJ.
Association of Cardiac Clinics. meeting:
New York Academy Ct Medicine IL west
Forty-third street, $3.50 p. M.
Bishop Paul Jones Will speak on What
May We Expect from The washington Con-
ana s,s
Il. II. outerbridge. Alfred e. Smith and
Major-C;en. George L. Goethals will be the
guests OF the Sphinx Club at dinner de-
voted to a discussion OF the port OF New
York, Waldorf-Astoria, p. NJ.
Concert, ball and supper for the benefir
of tho work of the New York section. Coun-
ell OF Jewish Women. Eotel Astor, evening.
European subways and rapid transit sys-
tens will be discussed at a meeting Of the
New York Chapter, American Association of
Engineers. at the Engineering Societies Bund-
ing. 20 Wet Thlrty-ninth street. S:15 p. M.
We Write About Since the War" the Peo>
pies Institute. Cooper Union. 8 p. NJ.
Prof. l.. r: Jones win speak on Disease
botanical Club. Museum of Natural History.
s:15 =. M.
Or. 4. A, Brill VIII speak on The Newer
Methods of Education Parents Association
of Miss Sylvia J. Marks School. West
Ninety-second street, at S:15 p. NJ.
The Right Rev. J. II. Mcmahon will Lectures
or The Thanksgiving OF the Mass" Care
roll Club. 12o Madison avenue. s:30 p. M.
Students Club. dance. Hotel Pennsylvania,
$3.50 =. NJ
G. J. Hogue will give an illustrated lecture
on The Lumber Industry Of the west
Coast" New York Society OF Accountants.
Rumford Hail. 30 East Forty-first street. d
p. NJ
Merle 81. croix wrish. will lecture on
auspices OF tho League for Political Educa.
tion. Town Hall. 123 West Forty-third strests
II a. ~.
Bazaar for the benefit Of the Lena Invalid
Aid Society Convalescent Home will open AZ
Floral Gardens. 14eth street and Broadway.
beginning p. NJ.
Mrs Lucy C. Morse. DR.. George W.
at the annual meeting Of the Women I
Prison Association, Isaac T. Hopper Home. :
ITO Second avenue. p. NJ.
Anna G. Chandler win lecture for teachers
in elementary schools on "Giotto," Metro>
politan Museum OF Art. $3.50 p. NJ.
Fredcfici; NJ Schaeberle will lecture on
How 20 open and Operate nool;. OF Ac-
American Game Protective Association.
convention. Waldorf-Astoria. all day; dinner.
Association TO Advance Psychic Knovi-
edge meeting Hotel Biltmorc. s r. M.
National League OF Professional Baseball
Clubs. meeting, waIdorf-Astoria, 10 A. M.
Society for Political Study. meeting. Hotel
New York womeu's Lcngue for Animals.
ba,aar Waldorf-Astoria, all day.
The New York herald., 1921-12-13
Crossing the Hudson.
Objections to a CObweb OF Tunnels
Built by Public Authority.

To The New YotK HERALD: As an
advocate of the Hudson River bridge
for more than thirty years feel that
the Port Authority Is entirely upon the
wrong track for the betterment of this
ports facilities ii preterring tunnels
for crossing The river. As / under
stand it its members object to the Hud-
son River bridge az freight PROPOSE
ton because 1t Will be built and con-
trolled by private capital and in time
Of war a bomb placed by the enemy in
the proper spot may blow it up or
down. A tunnel cou.d be destroyed by
the sinking Of vessel upon IT, break
ing IL in two, or the throwing OF a time
bomb in the inside OF the tunnel from
a moving train.
One OF the first duties Of the Port
Authority should be to ascertain il the
railroads from New Jersey will CO.
operate with the tu, mel scheme, and I
doubt very much that they will. An
other consideration would be securing
funds 70 carry out the building OF tun-
nels. These funds would come from
the public. or IN other words from New
York city and possibly the State Oh
this side OF the river and on the other
side from the State Of Nav Jersey.
Personally as a Jtrseyman I would
protest against paying my share of
such an Improvement, because l do not
believe In IL as remedy and because
the money would be spent by public
officials. This to my mind would mean
very great additional cost the work
can be done for half by private capital.
nafa o..
Mr.. Shonts. the late president of the
Interborough. appeared before the
Whitman West Side Commission some
years ago and said that this tunnel
could be built for s6,000.000. imme-
diately wrote 20 the commission that it
could not be built for less than $4,000
00o. When the real propaganda work
started for this tur mel 1t was stated
that the cost would oe stf 900. 600. When
the referendum was voted the cost was
put at s2S.000,0o0 and heard n prom
inent engineer say that II the two States
built that tunnel for less than ss5, ,000,-
600 they would be fortunate.
Now. then, If the vehicular tunne,
proposition alone would cost We Will
gay, $50 100000 what will be the total
cost of the cobweb ot tunnels suggested
by the Port Authority?
Major :. woop McCLAvE
NEW York. December 12.
The New York herald., 1921-12-13
New Head of the S. P. c. A.

In electing FRANK X. STURGIs as
its president the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals has
put strong man in a difficult job.
President STURGIs ought to make
good at his new task.
All through an unusually active
business life Mr.. STURGIs has found
time to show his interest in dumb
animals, particularly horses, of which
he has been breeder at his farm
near Lenox in the Berkshires.
AS the secretary of the Jockey
Club, member of the Board of
Stewards and chairman of the Breed
ing Bureau, and as president Of the
Coaching Club of New York, his op-
portunities to be helpful to the cause
of horse breeding have been en-
ployed to good purpose. His long ex.
perience as an amateur whip taught
him the advantages of good blood in
a road four. That his ideas per-
meated the Coaching Club is recorded
in the fact that the organization is
responsible for the placing on the
spring programme at Belmont Park
of the Coaching Club American Oaks
for three-year-old fillies. 1t is run
over o distance which gives a real
test of the capabilities Of the thor
oughbred and carries as the gift OF
the members of the Coaching Club the
beautiful Singleton Gold Cup, which
was first run for in the South long
before the civil war.
1t is under Mr.. STURGIs's manage.
ment that the experimental breeding
Of hunters in the Genesee valley
has been brought to point where
its success is no longer a matter OF
doubt. What has been accomplished
in the region of Avon in cooperation
with Mrs. HERREET WADswoRTH and
her Genesee Valley Breeders Associa-
tion has been SO praiseworthy that
the Federal Remount Service OF the
War Department Of the United States
has adopted the plan followed there
as model for use elsewhere.
The New York herald., 1921-12-13

Among the passengers booked to sail
to-day by the Aquitania for Europe
will be Baron Abingdon, who has been
resident OF New York for nearly a
year. He came to New York for the
purpose OF studying American financial
methods and formed a connection with
the Guaranty Trust Company.
Another passenger will be Prince Rene
de Bourbon, who is one of the few
princes OF royal extraction to visit
America this year. He came TO this
country with Prince Axel OF Denmark
with the intention OF touring through
the Canadian Northwest. He, however.
left Prince Axel at Winnipeg, with the
intention OF returning TO Europe in time
for the Christmas holidays. Prince Rene
is the twelfth of the seventeen children
OF the Duke of Parma and Is brother
Of Princess Zita. wife Of the former EN-
peror Charles OF Austria Hungary.
The Marchioness of Crewe, who has
been passing several weeks with her
many friends in New York. will sail. as
also will Lady Birkbeck, Baron and
Baroness Borosini, Count A. ID. de Fal-
con and Baron T. Nakashirna.
ger will first go to Paris, where she will
Join at the Ritz Mr.. and Mrs. Griswold
A. Thompson. Later she VIII go with
them to Nice and Monte Carlo. and then
to Cairo. when they will -uake the Nile
trip. Mrs. Terry VIII return to New
York in April.
Others who have booked passage ar
Mr. Newell w Banks Mr.. Frederick r.
Bahcoc<. noted hunter OF big game !;
Mrs. j c. Brinton. Mr.. Walter III. Cot
tineham, Mrs. Frank p. Fairbanks, Mrs.
McDougall Hawkes.. Mr.. p. w. Herrick.
son OF the United States Ambassador to
France; Lbeut.-Col. ]. n. Horiick, Miss
Florence Kimbley. Mrs. e. Virgil Neal.
Mr. and Mrs. George 8. Parker, Mr.. j.
Ashley Player, Major Amos j. Peaslee.
Miss Beatrice Pynchon. Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Reinhardt, Lieut.-Col Evarts
Tracy, Mr. II. J Whigham, editor OF
opn and Country; Mrs. Arthur Will
lam Brown, Mr. G.. w. Grice-Hutchin-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry c. Irons. Mr..
aud Mrs. 7. 7. Johnston, Capt. e. Seton
Cotterill Capt. and Mrs. y. G. Fester,
Mr.. w. Blackwell Yeovile-Hassle. Mr.
G-aeme Haughton, Sir Ernest Horlick
Bart Col Thomas Ogilvie and Mr.. and
Mrs. r. w. Potter.
Also on board will be several Of the
Frenchmen who took part in the six day
bicycle race at Madison Square Garden
last week.
When Marshal Foch ends his Ameri-
can visit tomorrow by sailing back to
France on board the Paris, by which
he came to this country, he will have
as fellow passengers for France Count
d. Armand. Baron and Baroness de
Beville. Count de Chambrun and Count
and Countess Charles de Marenches.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Court!and Pen
field also will sail tomorrow by the
Paris. and will be absent several
months. Others going by the French
liner will be Mr.. and Mrs. William
Barry. Mr.. w. T. b. Hollingsworth.
Mrs. A. X. Hiscock. Mrs. Laurence
Hills. Mr. and Mrs. III. S. Harrington,
Mr.. Herman II. Harjes. Baron Passerat
The New York herald., 1921-12-13

affecting the coastal regions. They
are an invigorating tonic.
Vermonts advertising campaign
will benefit all New England, not the
Green Mountain State alone. Mis-
takes like those about Vermont are
more or less prevalent about agricul-
tural and climatic conditions in all
the New England States. The adver-
tising work Vermont is doing is ac-
complishing much in the way of dis
pelling these erroneous beliefs. That
yermont's efforts have been notably
successful may be attributed. in part
at least, to the fact that there are
Vermonters scattered all over the
Union. They are imbued with State
affection and loyalty. Wherever
there is a vermonter there the State
advertising organizations have a zeal
Gus and generally very influential
agent.
The New York herald., 1921-12-13
A Pumpkin for the President.

Surely everybody must be wonder
ing just which fairy II was that
whispered to little JOHN and CATH
LErN and EVELYN and MARGARET Coz.
NELL Of Staten Island in May or June
to plant a certain pumpkin seed in
certain spot in their garden. It
would be delightful to know whether
this was one OF the fitting fairies
that hide in flower gardens and
among the cornstalks or one Of the
nimble little sprites that dance
around on boys and girls pillows at
night and talk to them in their
dreams.
And then we wonder IL it was this
selfsame fairy which watched anx-
iously over the place where the
pumpkin seed was planted. II must
have been very good fairy. Maybe
IL pointed out to the lad and his sis
ters the very spot where this par.
ticular seed should be planted. Or
maybe it just whispered the place to
them as they slept. Anyhow. they
planted the seed in exactly the right
place where 1t would grow best. And
grow it did. When it had come full
size IL weighed 1876 pounds.
Anybody can raise an ordinary
pumpkin. but surely only with the
help and watchfulness of some fairy
The New York herald., 1921-12-13
rhe Passing Show.

The hours fingered at her side
She showed me crystal bowls ami
vases.
Gold frames that left me wonder eyed.
Brocades of worth and precious laces.
She showed me splendid fans Of pearl
And plates superbly decorated
All. my poor head was in a whirl
And I ives plainly, agitated.
Rich lamps there we're and jewelled
rings
Whose worth was quite beyond my
guessing.
And quite hundred other things
That you would glory in possessing.
Such wealth was mine TO marvel at
That from my head my eyes seemed
popping.
Yet she was poor--it happened that
The fair maid took me window shop
pingi NATHAN N. LEVY.
The New York herald., 1921-12-13
Hoover to Save $4,000 900.

This country for the first time in
It's history has a Department OF Com
merce at Washington which com
pares favorably in the service il per-
forms for our commerce and industry
with the similar service performed by
the British Board OF Trade for the
business interests of the British
Empire. Because his annual report
10 the President covers the period
only up to the end of the fiscal year
1921, Secretary Hoover outlines
briefly the work OF reorganization
which proceeded during the first four
months OF his administration. But he
does foreshadow saving during the
fiscal year of s4.0o0.000 out of total
appropriations OF S24,222,t92 for the
Department.
In IT'S peace time influence on the
interest OF the nation the Depart
ment of Commerce should rank
among the very highest OF the vari
ous administrative branches OF the
Government. Secretary Hoover un-
doubtedly has this goal in view. The
foreign and domestic information ser.
vices have been improved. the daily
commerce reports have been trans
formed into weekly journal Of real
value TO traders and manufacturers.
business men have been brought to-
gether in helpful conferences and the
publishing OF monthly trade figures
has been advanced by two or three
weeks.
These are only few Of the i'm.
provements ia service rendered by
the Department. but even these the
The New York herald., 1921-12-13
The Country Accepts.

A treaty between the United States
and Japan on the Island of Yap, graft
flying though it be, is but an incident
Of the wider and more important con-
tract announced on Saturday. In the
meantime the Developments which
have followed this latter event are of
splendid omen.
It is tribute to the good sense OF
the four Power treaty and of American
public opinion alike that the agree
ment reached by the United States,
Great Britain, France and Japan as
to their insular possessions in the
Pacific is generally acclaimed in this
country. Statesmen, newspapers and
publicists of widely different political
views and shadings of views are at
one on the merits of the treaty itself
as a practical measure in its specific
application to the islands in question
and as an inspiration and guide to
further international cooperation in
solving other and heavier problems
common to all.
1t is no more noteworthy that DEM
ocratic Senators like UNDERWOOD and
HITcHcocK join Republican Senator'S
for confirmation of the treaty than
that a Republican Senator like PoIN-
DEXTER, not merely classed as one OF
the "irreconcilables" against the en-
tangling alliance proposed by the
Paris conference but representing
q Pacific coast State where prejudice
against japanese knows no party ties,
comes out promptly for the treaty.
It is equally significant that great
Democratic journals like the New
York Times and the World neither
cavil nor hesitate about indorsing it.
Consistent advocates of and passion
ately devoted to the League of Ma
tions, they express their belief that
the same object might have been ac-
complished sooner and more effectu-
ally by our adherence to Mr.. VIII
SONS covenant, but they accept this
new programme in the broadest spirit
and with the frankest approval.
With America to all intents and
purposes a unit for the treaty and in
so fine a mood over it there should
be no doubt as to its ratification by
the United States Senate. And with
the Old World fervently echoing the
commentator of the New World for
this high achievement by the Wash
ington conference there is every rea-
son to look forward with growing
confidence to greater success in the
general outcome than even the most
optimistic could have hoped for when
President HAEDrNG sent his invita-
tion to the Powers whose represen-
tatives are now working out the prac-
tical ideal of limitation of armament,
settlement of the Far Eastern prob
lem and advancement OF peace
throughout the world
The New York herald., 1921-12-13

which never slept could a pumpkin
as large as this one have been coaxed
out of tiny seed.
Still. again, We should take delight
in knowing which particular fairy it
was that whispered into President
HARDING's ear one day on his way
from Atlantic City, telling him as he
motored past the Cornell home that
here lived the children who were
growing the biggest pumpkin ever to
be seen on Staten Island.
Which fairy told the President that
if he wanted the pumpkin to be sent
to him after it had reached full
growth all he had to do was to wave
his hand at JOHN and his sisters?
We know some fairy told him, be-
cause this is exactly what he did.
He waved his hand at the four as he
passed, and at that moment JOHN and
his sisters decided, or the fairy de-
cided for them, that the big pumpkin
should go to the President of the
United States. When the pumpkin had
attained full growth to him it was
sent--to be made into luscious pump
kin pie at the White House.
The President and Mrs. HARDING
have now sent photographs, with
their autographs, and splendid let
ter of thanks to JOHN and his sisters.
We know the children are happy and
that they feel more than repaid for
the pumpkin. We know that the
President and Mrs. HARDING are
happy, as anybody would be to re-
ceive such wonderful present from
small children.
The New York herald., 1921-12-13
The Bowery's Palmy Days.
For Is Cents You Could Get Good
Meal or Hear FinO Stage Artists.

To The New YoRK HERALD: also
have had many good meals at Mike
Lyons's restaurant on the Bowcry. Veal
outlets, Dreaded. with French fried po-
tatoes, French bread and a large plate
Of butter on the table, cost fifteen cents.
A little way from Lyonss place. at the
corner of Stanton street and the Bow
cry, was the original Beefsteak Johns,
in the basement Here you could get a
steak cooked to order with fried pota-
toes and bread and butter. for ten cents.
and e bowl of good coffee for five cents.
and the food was good and clean. Beef
steak John usually cat at the door 10
greet his customers.
Speaking of Tony Pastors at 201
Bowery, what fine variety shows we
used to see there! Nat Goodwin gave
limitations OF different prominent actors
of those days and Denman Thompson,
Of "Old Homestead" fame, appeared in
a sketch as Down East :ountryman.
He had as a partner a yong woman
named Julia Wilson, who played the
part of a crossing sweeper.
Then there were Scanlan and Cronin
in a sketch called THE Ash Box In
spectors." Scanlan IN after years was
the famous William J. Scanla.. of Peek
a-Boo" fame. Others also were very
popular there. among whom were Hen
Mason. Celia Iferd, Amelia Gorenho.
Charles Gilday and Fanny Beane. not
forgetting Frank Girard, who appeared
in many of the sketches AMI who was
also Pastors stage manager for many
years. The performance usually ended
with a sketch. in which tho whole com
pany took part. Tonv Pastor also usod
70 sing song which went like this:
In the Bowcry. in the Bewery.
With beautiful girl-
With bright eyes and curls.
In the Bowery. In the Bowery
That's where l reside when I'm home
On Friday nights the ladi,s received
coupons, and II yoa held the winning
number you would receive a barrel Of
-four. or q. ton of coal. or sewing ma
chine. or ham. Other prizes also were
given. The balcony seats at the mat
inees were fifteen cents for o show that
to-day could not be equalled.
Z. f.. MORRIS.
ELMHUrsT. December IL.
The New York herald., 1921-12-13
New Courts Approved.
The Vote for Amendment No. Set
a New Record in This State.

To THE New YORK HERALD Although
the Secretary of State has not yet an
nounced the final vote on the constitu-
tional amendments which were submit
ted to the people at the last election
fairly complete returns from all the
counties received by. US UP to date show
that amendment Nc 6, authorizing the
Legislature TO confer adequate powers
on children's courts and courts of do
nestle relations. was indorsed by the
overwhelming majority OF more than
1000.
It apparently has carried every As
sembly district in the five boroughs of
this city, a great majority of the up
State counties. both rural and urban,
and every large city Of the State with
one exception. 1t received a greater
favorable vote-morc than 900,000-and
a much larger majority than any other
amendment, the literacy test amend
ment running second with majority Of
about 265.000. When 1t is considered
that the first Two amendments were each
defeated by more than 100000 it is ep-
parent that the vote for amerdmGt No.
. marks up new record in the history
Of constitutional votirg in this State, in
that no such favorable Endorsement has
ever before been given to proposition
when at the same election other amend
ments were carried down to defeat.
For the success OF amendment No,
great credit is due to the press Of This
city. Proposed charges in legal pro-
visions are sometimes difficult to un-
derstand. and unless such matters are
explained clearly and convincingly to
the voter the proposition is apt TO be
lost through ignorance and Indifference.
The advocates OF this measure there
fore owe o debt os gratitude to THE
New YORK HERALD and the other news
papers which SO effectively supported
this amendment. and which so greatly
helped to secure for the children Of our
community this necessary change in our
organic law. FRANKLIN CHASE HoYT.
Presiding Justice OF the Children's
Court of the City of New York.
New YORK, December IL.