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The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Ten Years of Sam Koenig.

SAMUEL S. KoENIG has been Presi-
dent of the Republican County Com
mittee of New York for ten years,
and because of this feat of local lead
ership unparalleled in many day,
strongly Indicative of the usefulness
of his service and personally credita-
BILE TO a high degree, the county or
ganization on Monday evening gave a
large dinner in recognition of that
leadership span Of decade.
But this town has seen Republi-
can County Committees change like
French Ministries with startling fire.
Quency, almost between meals. Such
transformation usually were due to
the circumstance that this, that or
the other leader or faction was play
ing politics more recklessly than in
telligently for private advantage
rather than for the public good.
There was plenty Of talk then about
party militancy, but generally the
mi!itancy that was in evidence ex-
pressed itself in throat cutting while
Tammany garnered all the fruits.
1t would be very unwise and 1t
would be very disastrous for the local
Republican organization so far to
forget the preeminence Of the needs
of New York city above everything
else ~ to revert to those ancient and
discredited ways which produced
various and varied county leaders in
the briefest periods but no leadership
In the whole duration Of those hop
per grass chairmanships.
SAM KoENIG knows, he always has
known, that when the people Of this
town 60 to the polls in municipal
election they never go in the strongest
numbers and with even lukewarm en-
thusiasm on the issue Of narrow par
tisan duels, machine spoils or personal
glorification. They go best and they
go strongest when they go with COM
mon purpose to serve only the interest
of this great city. Going in that spirit
and with any sort Of political team
work, they show the municipal door
to Tammany Hall.
With the municipal political season
soon to float here on the summer
breezes all those that are active in the
situation will make no mistake to re-
member the unhappy past, with its
movie picture county chairmanships
and crumhling party vote in contrast
with the solidity, the stability and the
power OF the present Republican or
gAnization which Is at last strong and
fiourishing because independent Dem
ocrats and straightout independents
can and do work with 1t.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New Yorl-Fair to-day;
tomorrow unsettled, with showers no
change In temperature: fresh eastecly
winds
For New Jerssy-Cioudy. followed by show
In temperature; moderate eastern winds.
For Northern New England-Fair to-day
tomorrow unsettled. slowly rising tempera-
ture; moderate, variable winds.
For Southern New England--Fair to-day.
tomorrow unsettled. with showers: no
change In temperature; fresh eastern winds.
For Western New Yo-k-Cloudy, followed
by showers to-day tomorrow showers: no
change in temperature; fresh eastern Winds
WASHINGTON. May l0.-Pressure Is high
along the northern border from tne Urea,
Lakes eastward and on the Pacific coast, and
II Is relatively low in other regions. with
centres OF minimum pressure over missouri,
North Dakota and Alberta Canada Thers
have been rains within the last twenty four
hours In the great central valley, the Guif
States and the Northwest. Fair weather was
the rule In other regions.
Temperatures have fallen considerably on
the middle Atlantic and New England coasts
and in the lower Ohio valley, and Il has
risen in Texas and the northern Rocky Noun
above the normal generally over the United
States.
In New England and New York the weather
will be generally fair tomorrow and unset
tied Thursday, without decided change IN
temperature In the middle Atlantic States.
tho Ohio valley and the region OF the Great
Lakes the weather will be unsettled to-mor-
row and Thursday, with local rains and no
material change in temperature.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
$40, ,a57 for Antique Art.

At yesterdays session in the Henry
Koopnlan sale of antique furniture at
the American Art Galleries a variety
or objects, ,sincluding Chinese porcelains
ivories. bronzes. textiles and iron and
brass work, sold for total Of S12. 144.
The grand total for the sale to date Is
$25.257.
Two celadon porcelain vases, Yung-
Cheng period, fetched the highest price
of the day. selling to F. Middellkoop for
$44O. A Chinese porcelain temple gar
niture Of the K'ang-hsi period. consist
ing Of three covered vases and two
beakers, went to Mrs. H. A. Hatch for
$500 and a mounted ebonized mantel
clock, English, seventeenth century. sold
to the same bidder for $225. Senator
E. r. Brown paid 1920 for a late eigh-
teenth century Chinese black hawthorn
lamp and 1910 for two seventeenth CEN
tury Italian forged iron torcheres. A
beautiful seventeenth century French
forged iron gate was purchased by Mrs
MacDougal Hawkes. for $3.50 and an
eighteenth century English painted iron
flower stand went to the Same bidder
for $125. A painted iron garden seat
of the late Adam period sold to the
same buyer for $500. Summer Healy
paid $40 for an eighteenth Gentry
Italian bronze mortar and w. w. Sea-
man, agent. gave $12s for porcelain
rooster lamp OF the Ch'ien-lung period.
The sale continues to-day and to-mor-
row
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Worries With a Salary.
A Review of Twenty-nine Years Of
TRYING to Make Ends Meet.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: I have
been employed by one firm in clerical
capacity for twenty-nine years. The
highest salary they ever paid me was
s175 a month during the war. Last
and now comes notice of 33 la per
cent cut June 1.
To be true, prices have gone down Q
little on some things, but the retailer has
not reduced his prices to any great ex-
tent. Landlords are demanding more
Where can a man on my salary rent the
smallest of apartments in a decent neigh.
borhood? After pay the landlord
where are the food and clothing of my
family coming from?
During my whole life have been in q
constant state OF worry as to how I am
going to make ends meet. can culti-
vate no friends because 1 cannot afford
It; I have no recreation whatever be.
cause there Is no money for such things
I am unable to get sufficient sleep on &C.
count of worry over my financial condi-
ton. Likewise ! find my mind drifting
Off toward my personal affairs during
office hours
have often wondered IL our efficiency
expert thinks the maximum amount 81
work Is obtained from men in responsible
posts who are kept in constant state
Of anxiety in regard to their persona
matters. I could do twice the work II
did not have the worry, and would have
been twice the man am IL I had not
/ am over so years of age now.
started on $40 month twenty-nine years
ago. On June 1 my pay will be just s3t
more than that. with a dollar worth
about so cents. In other words. my en-
ployer purposes to pay me $40 less q
month than he did twenty-nine years
ago. CLERK.
NEW YORK, May 10.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Time in Confusion.
Daylight Saving Differences Between
Town and Country.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Isn't
there some way TO reconcile this daylight
saving plan with the general law? As
things are there is no end OF uncertainty
and confusion about time.
Individuals and communities are doinS
about as they choose 1t is confusion
worse confounded all the time. The law
passed by the Legislature restoring the
lawful and customary time. but giving
the right to municipalities to follow day
light saving time, has put the people of
this State to great trouble, inconvenience
and loss.
There are various arrangements at diff
ferent places. Up in Sullivan county.
for instance, the Board OF Supervisors
stands by the law as passed. In the vii
lage Of Monticello the authorities have
declared for daylight saving: and while
the courts Of the county are being held
according to one time, the courts Of the
village are being held according to an
other time.
And this matter extends to the time of
service in the churches and to the time
of opening the schools. This condition
prevails throughout the State to a great
extent Courts of record in the country
have one time. apd the cities in some
counties have adopted another time and
run their business on different time.
1t is making much trouble and incon-
venience throughout the State, and many
do not know where they stand nor what
to do. It demoralfzes business, makes
delay and trouble There should be some
relief even IL the Legislature has to be
called together to vacate the entire pro-
ceedings. G. NJ. WooLsEY.
MnroN, N. T., May 10.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Cats Trapped Unhurt.
II Is Denied That Bird Protection
Involves Cruelty.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your
correspondent who writes about traps
set for cats falls into a number OF
doubtless entirely unintentional errors.
No organized movement for bird pro-
lection engages in or advocates the trap
ping of cats by any other method than
by box trap, which catches the cat
alive and uninJured. and involves no
pain or suffering on the part Of the cat
or cruelty Of any kind ~ the part Of the
trapper. The cat is trapped alive and
uninjured. and the usual method is to
turn It over to the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals or some
similar organization for disposal.
The suggestion that birds. instead Of
being caught by cats, are frightened
away by automobiles is, at least, anus
ing. Your correspondent should have
seen so wild a bird as a long cared owl
SIT quietly undisturbed In tree, directly
over loudly snorting automobile, as
the writer has.
The mischief done by cats in the
catching of birds is almost invariably
understated and CLOSED over by the cat
partisans, just as extremists of the other
type are inclined to minimize such value
to man as cats may have. Humane dis
posal of vagrant CATS which lead a pre-
carious and unsatisfactory existence and
do immense mischief to wild life and to
mans interest, and legal regulation. to
encompass such disposal. Is the only
satisfactory solution Of this problem.
BEEcHER s. BowDIsH,
Secretary New Jersey Au-
dubon Society.
NEWARK, N. j., May 10,
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Ed Howe Rejects Einstein.

Professor EINsTEIN might as well
know that his theory Of RELATIVELY Is
not going to be blIndly accepted In
Kansas. Ep HOWE is agin 1t. and En-
has more to say about the course Of
real thought in the Sunfower Statn
than any other Kansas thinker, deel
or shallow.
ED HOWE has been reading EN-
STEMS suggestion that when you
clap your hands twice, second
apart, they do not strike in the same
place, because the earth is not only
spinning on It's axis, but is circling
the sun and whIzzlng along In space
with the rest of the solar system.
II decide against ErNsTErr," says
Ed In his Honthiy; ''in future, when
encounter his name in reading, I
shall pay no attention TO him. Go
ahead with your old beliefs founded
ON experience and common sense"
On reading this, we assume. the in
telIectual zone Of which Atchlson Is
the centre went back to its steady
old beliefs
rt'e a good thing for ARISTOTLE and
NEWTON that ED HOWE was not pres.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Racing's Glorious Uncertainty.

There has always been the keenest
rivalry between the turfmen of the
East and West. 1t shows itself an
nually In the race for the Kentucky
Derby at Louisville and later In the
year at Saratoga and on the courses In
the vicinity of New York, particularly
In the Futurity at Belmont Park.
For a long time thoroughbreds
those from Kentucky, Tennessee and
the West and Middle West because
breeders in those sections habitually
marketed the best of their yearlings.
The current season, though young, has
found Kentucky the leader in come
back which bids fair to assume sen
sational proportions before the close
of the autumn campaign at Belmont
Park, which is usually the course from
which departures for the home racing
and training grounds are begun. Fore
most in this movement is EDWARD
r. BRADLEY of Kentucky, who races
horses of his own breeding.
There seemed a bright prospect of
the East maintaining its supremacy
In this years Derby, as the three
year-olds from New York and New
Jersey apparently outclassed their
Western competitors, taking the form
of 1920 as guide. The fact that thor
oughbreds have a way of improving
marvellously between their two and
their three year old form was re-
sponsible for tremendous surprise to
those who regarded the contest as be-
ing strictly between Tryster, Prudery,
Grey Lag and Leonardo III. this year.
The Bradley pair, Behave Yourself
and Black Servant, neither of which
approached those named above as two.
year-olds, ran like good colts on Sat.
urday last and humbled the pride OF
the Fasteners.
1t was the first time Mr.. BRADLEY
had ever won Derby and In bis sue
cessful essay he made a record, his
horses running first and second. AS
he had bred the colts there was cause
for great rejoicing at his bandbox OF
stud known as Idle Hour, a few
miles from Lexington. In the hour of
his triumph, however, Mr.. BRADLEY
was robbed Of the full fruits of the
victory. He had promised $1,000 to
the rider of the winner and $1,000 to
the rider OF the loser Of his pair
Jockey LYKE, who is his premier
rider, had his choice of mounts, and
he selected Black Servant, considered
the better horse by owner and trainer
also LYKE set such dazzling pace
with Black Servant that all the other
candidates except his stable compan
ion Behave Yourself were beaten al
the end OF mile.
With victory almost within his grasI
Black Servant was challenged by his
stable companion and lost by matter
Of inches the chance of being enrolled
with the winners of the classic
THOMPSON, the rider Of Behave Your.
: self. with the remembrance Of the
$4,000 reward, had. In the absence
Of declaration, ridden the rncc out
J ns he had perfect right 10 do, and
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Puzzle of Tim Campbell.
To This Recorder He Admitted He
Deserved His Fame.

To THE Nrw York HERALD Strange
that Tim Campbell should have denied to
Michael r. Cannon having asked.
whats the Constitution between
friends7"
In q certain downtown place in New
York which the volstead law warns me
not TO Identify further than MS associated
with memories OF Garibaidi, asked Tim,
whom knew well and most pleasantly,
whether It was true that he had once
put that question to President Cleveland.
Tins reply was:
TITS true did ask Mr.. Cleveland the
question. but not when he was President,
II was at Albany when he was Cow
ernor." HENRY II. DAVIS.
WAsHrNoToN. ID. c., May 10.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Social Notes.

Mrs. Arents. Humphreys OF 525 Park
avenue has opened her house at South
ampton. where she will remain until the
autumn.
Brig.-Gen. Robert Alexander is stop
ping at the Hotel Astor for a few days.
Last evening he was the chief guest at
dinner given by Mr.. William II. Hirst
In his home, 375 Park avenue. The
twelve guests included Major-Gen. Rob
ert Lee Bullard, Rear Admiral Glennon.
state Senator Elon Brown. Borough
President Curran and Police Commis-
sioner Enright.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin O. Chapman,
Jr, OF Detroit and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
St John Sidway OF Buffalo are at the
Plaza.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Brady Farrell
of Albany are at the Hotel Commodore.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Lovett of Montreal
and Mrs. oliver Ames, Jr., and Miss
Sylvia Warren of Boston are at the
Hotel Belmont
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
A Bronze Age Find.

From, the London Daily Kan.
One OF the most remarkable Bronze age
boards recently discovered In Great Britain
has been given 10 the Welsh National Mu-
seum. The hoard was found IN Wales. The
feature OF Il. which consists OF bronze i'm
piements and ornaments. is the fact that II
Includes an iron sickle of exactly the same
nhape as two or three bronze sckies found
near Il. This In taken to prove that n
dates from the time OF transition from the
Bronze 20 the Iron Age. Iron had eyi.
IDENTIFY been discovered, but the metal work.
ers OF that day were not fully acquainted
with IT'S properties and therefore modelled
,his historic sickle on their bronze nipple.
rnents
The New York herald., 1921-05-11

against 1t OF $685. Put in the indi-
rect costs of the taxes and it cannot
run to the average family less than
$720 a year. 1t may hit the target
at as high a mark as $500 yearl
This bleeding of the taxpaying pub
lie cannot go on; 1t will not go on.
II the government spenders do not
stop ii, stop 1t short and stop II
soon, the long suffering public will
stop the spenders themselves.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Whistler Works on View.
Pennell Collection Of 600 Items
Shown in Washington.

WASHINGTON, May 10.-The first pub
lie exhibition Of the Joseph Pennell coll
lection Of the works of James McNeill
Whistler was opened to-day in the
Library Of Congress. The exhibit COM
prises about 500 items. including some
Of the most famous originals from the
pen and brush Of the painter. who Mr.
Pennell characterized as mot only the
greatest American artist. but the great
est artist Of modern times"
The collection represents the work OF
thirty years on the part of Mr.. Pennell.
himself an artist OF International repu-
tation. and of his wife. Elizabeth Robins
Pennell. They have donated II to the
United States Government, to be pre-
served as a permanent record.
Not. the least interesting feature OF
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Many Opera Chorus Applicants.

If you think you can sing we'll enough
to get into the Metropolitan Opera chorus
and want to Join the free school main
tained by the company each summer.
file your application before next Satur-
day, for the word has gone out that the
applications are so many that none can
be considered after that date. Applica-
tion for voice trials are to be sent by
mail only to Edoardo Petri director OF
chorus school. 1925 Broadway.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
WEDNESDAY, MAY IL. 1921.
Austria's Receivership.

!, LOuuoH UtdES CudL SoOu pIO5EcSS 10
being made in the reorganization of
Austrian finances. Currency infia-
ton Is to be curbed by an internal
/. loan. Foreign credit to purchase raw
materials for manufacture and re-
expectation under q finishing scheme
will be provided by an issue of Ter
Meulen League of Nations bonds
secured by compulsory mortgages
against public and private property.
Advices to the Department of Com
merce at Washington supplement this
information with news that Austria
has authorized corporations to trans
fer all their assets to foreign princi-
pals, the validity of suchI transac-
tlons being guaranteed by the Gov
: ernment.
As might have been suspected, Ger
man interests on the trail OF bar
gains have preceded the Ter Meulen
scheme in Austria and have negoti-
ated some substantial deals. HUGO
SHINES, the German capitalist, put
his finger in the Austrian pie by ef-
/ fecting the transfer to himself of
100000 shares of Austria's largest in
dustrial undertaking. the Alpine Mon
tan Gesellschaft. His holdings were
acquired from Italians, into whose
hands they fell in 1919. a
With the controlling interest of the
total 100000 shares Of the concern
assured, SHINES promises to do for
the Austrian iron industry what the
italians were not able to do. The In
dustry has been starving for coal
The Alpine Montan Gesellschaft has
ore mines at Eisenerz and Hutten.
berg and six blast furnaces In various
localities. But 1t has only four coal
mines, the total output Of which, sup
plemented by imports from Czecho-
SIovakia, provided no more than 120,-
600 tons last year, or one-fifth of the
amount required for full operation of
the furnaces and mines. SHINES,
having interested himself to the ex-
trut cf oNo 100000 marks, the cost
Of his 100000 shares, will spend an
additional amount on improvements
and viii supply coal from West
phalia. The workers will be increased
from 10000 to 10000 men.
Two classes of work must be un-
dertaken. One Is the establishment
or rehabilitation of plants, which
will call for long time investment,
with prior lien on physical assets
but not necessarily on earnings. The
other is the financing OF production
from the new or restored plants, and
this win call for only nominal fixed
investment in the form of revolving
fund, also a lien against fixed assets
but with first claim on earnings to
promote rapid turnover and assure
ample liquid working capital.
1t Is natural that Germany should
engage to furnish the permanent funds
for this reconstruction work because
her interests will always lie close &c
those OF Austria whether in racial, po
litical or economic matters. The Tel
Meulen scheme, If it can find marke
for its bonds, is web suited to furnish
the transient capital. It is self-liqul
dating and will end when the emer
gency ceases
Austria is thus put in the position
OF a going corporation with Its tive
classes of capital and with the stag
set for receivership and reorganiza
tion along permanent lines.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
ArxIoue 40 pfcaer
From ihe honsos cifv gtnr

From the Kansas City Star.
TITS like this. Mizzus oggy." explained
tho proprietor OF the Tote Fair store at
Tumiinville. Ark This yur cussed drum
NOR has lust called me liar. Would you
druther I'd wait on you now and mebby
give him a chance TO apologize and back
out. or would you prefer to see the fight
first and trust TO luck that I'll be able to
walt on you afterward7'
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
The Hin.

There is n hill that cedars crown,
A place TO rest, place TO dream.
That on wooded vale looks down,
And the fair windings of stream.
How holy seems the quiet air,
How far from all life's common things
For we have felt upon us there
The touch OF loves auroral wingsl
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
Polish Soprano Sings Paderewski Song
Nine. Korolewicz-Wayda, Once Director of Warsaw
Opera, Gives Recital for Polish Children.

the exhibit are several portraits which
were damaged by water while in transit
from Europe during the war. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pennell. having prosecuted their
search through the antique shops and
galleries of Europe during the months
of the German advance in Belgium and
France.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11

Thirteen thousand postnasters woke
up yesterday from their afternoon nap
to discover that simply being Demo-
Gratis did not qualify them to be post
masters for life.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11

In southeastern Russia pair of
shoelaces exchanged for a $4,000 ruble
note. Some OF our street hawkers lack
nothing but transportation TO become
milIionaires.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
the for republication OF all news dos
atches credited to II or not otherwise
eredted In this paper. and also the local
news published herein.
All rights OF republication Of special des-
patches herein arc also reserved.
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i1ignest temperature, 73. at p. M
Lowest temperature, 81, at Z A. NJ
Average temperature, IS.
The New York herald., 1921-05-11
LOCAL WEATHER REcoeps

me temperature In this city yesterday.
recorded BY the official thermometer'