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The New York herald., 1921-07-29
The American Valuation System.

Many things are stated about the
American valuation system that are
chiefly remarkable because they are
not so. The Underlying principle Of
the plan may be set forth in simple
example involving, let us say, an
article of commerce manufactured
in virtually the same style and quail
ity but at different costs by the
United States, by England and by
Germany.
Let us say that to produce the
article in the United States now costs
81. Let us say that it can be pro-
duced in England and laid down In
the United States for 70 cents; but
still again that it can be produced
In Germany and laid down in the
United States for 80 cents.
Obviously an import duty Of, say,
40 per cent. on the English article
at its own home valuation would add
2S cents to the British import cost
and let It come into this market at
9S cents, or on something like even
terms with the American product.
And IL would be up to the American
producer, IL there were no other con-
sideration, to get his cost down from
his 100 to that 9S cents and fight
with the foreign trader for our home
market. That would not be bad
thing for the American consumer; it
would be a good thing. 1t would not
be an unfair test for the American
producer: il would be a fair test.
He is undergoing exactly such tests
all the time.
Yet the same 40 per cent. duty on
the German article at its home valua-
ton would add only 20 cents to 1t
and let II come into the American
market at as little as 20 cents. This
would drive out both the English
article at 9S cents and the Ameri-
can article capable of going down
from 81 to 9S cents to compete with
the British trader on something like
even terms but utterly incapable OF
going 80 far down as 20 cents to con
test the market with the eager and
needy German trade invader.
On the other hand, 40 per cent
duty based on the valuation OF the
American article would put the Eng
lish article into this market at S1.10
and IL then would be up to the Brit
ish producer. IL he were determined
TO sell here. TO cut his costs and
prices by a perfectly possible margin
as previously the American producer
had TO cut his. And this thing con
stantly happens.
But still there would be the Ger
man import TO reckon with. On tho
former basis-40 per cent. OF its home
value of 80 cents-the German added
only 20 cents of duty to get his arti
Gle in. But on the new plan--40 pei
cent. of the American value of $1--h,
would add twice as much, or 40 cents
Yet at that, with his article costin,
now 90 cents to lay down here, h,
still would force both the British ant
J the American prSlucers to get thei
! costs and prices down to keep tn
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
The Law and Mr.. Townley.

II is now approximately three years
and three months since A. G. Town
LEY, president OF the National Non
Partisan League, was indicted under
the sedition laws of Minnesota on a
charge of conspiring TO obstruct en-
lstments for the war with Germany.
He was tried. convicted and SEN
fenced TO three months imprison-
ment in the Jackson county Jail. 1t
will be two years on September 10
since this sentence was imposed. Mr..
TowSLEY is still at large. AS an ex.
hibit of law delay possibilities the
record of Mr.. TowNLEY's juridical
adventures is interesting.
First, there was the indictment of
April, 1918, to which demurrer was
entered. On May 2, 1919. the State
Supreme Court oyerruled the demur.
rer. On July IL. 1919, jury found
TowNLEY guilty and the court
granted him sixty days stay OF sen
tence. On September 10, 1919, Judge
DEAN sentenced him and at the
same time granted another stay OF
sixty days pending a motion for a
new trial.
In the October following a motion
for a new trial was fled. On July
90. 1920. the motion for new tria
was denied. In August. 1920, TowS
IEY appealed his case TO the Mime
sofa Supreme Court. On April %
1921, the Supreme Court. in q unani
nous opinion, sustained the court be
low and TowNLEY's sentence stoot
reafirmed. On May 1, 1921. the de
fendant applied for an extension o
time for filing a petition for a rear
gument OF his appeal and got IL. OF
July 16 last the State Supreme Cour
denied the petition.
This seemingly exhausts Mr.. TowN
IfY's resources so far as the lega
mechanism of the State of Minnesot;
In concerned. There still remain
the Supreme Court Of the Unite,
States. On what the result of al
appeal 60 that tribunal would be /
Is OF course useless to speculate
There is, however. Supreme Cour
decision Of record which, on IL
face, could hardly be Interpreted a
encouraging 10 Mr. TowNLEy. II !
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
Cleveland of To-day.
The City Described as Having Given
Up Its Beauty to Be Great.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your edi
torial references to the city of Cleve
land, Ohio. are too fiattering in some
ways. Cleveland is q fine city as somt
cities go-Pittsburgh. for cxample-and
its growth Is based on foundations tina
are as solid as a rock. 1t is great
manufacturing town and 1t will con
tinue to grow rapidly but solidly as Ions
as steel prevails because II is the logi-
cal and cheapest meeting place for iron
ore by boat from Lake Superior and fol
coal by train from the almost exhaust
less coal fields In the States of Ohio ane
West Virginia.
But, alack and also alas, our Cleve'
land OF beauty is no more. 1t is towr
of smudge. Tho Forest City that once
was has gone. Day and night. 365 days
in the year, the atmosphere is choket
with the SCOT and sulphur fumes from
burned soft coal.
In my youth. some thirty to forty
years ego. the streets were lined will
shade trees clear TO the Public Square
and nearly every yard downtown had IT.
beautiful garden. All gore! Sulphurie
acid has killed them off. Every veal
the smoke area is spreading out.
1t is only question Of few years
when beautiful Gordon and Wade parks
which once were nearly out IN the coun'
try, will be desolated of al! but a few
scrawny. sickly trees, struggling fol
life, with no hope. Euclid avenue, which
not so very long ago was lane OF lordl,
elms, has lost most Of them and Is to-
Day as distinctive as a mud fence
The clean suburban city Of Eas
Cleveland, eight miles out. is beginning
to succumb to the evils Of soft coal. BIZ
manufacturing industries are springint
up like mushrooms in the stretch between
noted Lake Shore Boulevard and Eas
Cleveland. These delightful sections ar'
already going the way OF tho smoke
pestered city On the vest Lakewood
is making gallant fight but Is, ur
against the inevitable.
The newest residential section o,
Cleveland, the Heights. contains nearl,
all the beauty that is left to the CRANE
old aggregation Of villages that we ono,
called the Forest City. There is hop'
for the Heights because railroads will
probably hesitate to climb its hill ap
proaches but you never can tell.
To one who lived in Cleveland fo
ifty-f1ve years. as I did until I moved
to New York early this year. the sof
coal smokelessness Of your city bring
back delightful recollections of the day
when Cleveland was a forest Of trees
when the air was pure and-the SIX,
clear. Those days will never return.
suppose. but Cleveland will be q grea
city. Like Chioago-wow! S. I. H.
NEW YORK. July Is.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
Measuring the Heat.
Actual Conditions in a Hot Wave Not
Told by the Thermometer.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The more
weather we have like that which has
been prevailing lately the palmer be-
comes the need OF sensible tempera-
ture standard. In n hot wave the Fab
renheit Thermometer is of little use.
The Weather Bureau evidently is
bound rot to recognize any formula
which 1t may not term exact. But can
the weather Bureau point to single
rule or combination by which it can
make ono infallible forecast? We ven
ture to say 1t cannot as long as 1t sticks
to observational rather than mathe-
matical principles.
Considering the different elements in
volved. getting an exact formula for
sensible heat Is approximately as hard
as squaring the circle. But would It ftbt
be better to- use nearly exact formula
than to continue the present misleading
practice?
1t often happens that a person feels
more oppressed by the heat on a &c
degree morning than he Is toward noon,
higher. Perhaps he has hygrometer
which shows 90 per cent. OF moisture
when the early thermometer says TO-
Dividing 30 by 75-an average humidity
for purposes of calculation--he gets IL !;
multiplying this by the height of his
Thermometer mercury above the freezing
point, ss degrees, he gets 46 degrees
adding 80 gives rs degrees of sensible
heat--wind movement left out of the
account.
If at IL A. NJ. his thermometer says 90
and his hygrometer so. the same process
will give him only II degrees of SEN
sible heat and that is how he will feel
Take Mr.. Redway's instance of hea,
in Death Valley. IL visitor arrived
there and ran into thermometer hea,
of 129 and a 100 per cent. humidity, he
would feel about 162 degrees of heat
But II there was only 90 degrees of
humidity he would get only 81 degrees
of heat.
or course New York. like Boston, car
see nothing normal about a summer
whose felt temperature Is so much In
excess of Fahrenheit reading. June ir
New England averaged a tride below
normal by the thermometer. History by
the same measure Is likely to record
no extraordinary July. Until means
Is adopted by which sensible tempcra-
ture may be declared, meteorological
history will continue 10 be misleading
so far as personal temperature feelings
are concerned. A. u. ELMER.
BosroN, July cs.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
New York's Summer Death Rate.

The Board of Health mortality bull
records the fact that for four con-
secutive weeks this year, beginning
June IS, the deaths in New York
city exceeded in number the deaths
in the corresponding period Of 1920.
The increase in population accounts
for some OF the increase. but even
with this factor taken into account
the figures are unsatisfactory because
the death rate for the first twenty
nine weeks of the year was 1901 for
each 1000 of population. as compared
with a rate of 10 in the correspond.
ing period of 1920, a decrease of 2.99
points. From January / to July 16
seventy-four children under 1 died
out of every 1000 born, as com.
pared with ninety.three in this age
group in the corresponding period OF
the year 1920.
Infectious diseases had little part
in this increase. The causes Of death
that showed material increases dur
ing the four weeks we're cancer, with
an increase of 46 deaths; organic
heart disease. SO deaths; pneumonia
23; sunstroke, 80 deaths; diarrhnal
diseases in children under years OF
age, % deaths. Pulmonary tubercu
losis, ,Bright's disease and violence
showed a decreased mortality. Dis
eases that showed a materially in
creased mortality were those Of old
age and diarrheal diseases in chill
>dren under s years OF age. The
health authorities give as the reason
for the increased mortality at the
extremes OF life unfavorable weather
conditions. In 1920 there were only
four deaths from sunstroke in these
four weeks. "The heat undoubtedly
increased the mortality among tht
extremely aged as we'll as among The
extremely young" is the declaration
of the department.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29

such a dam. That she is owned by
the National Stud is fact Of i'm
portance, as the possession Of brood
mare so highly regarded does much
toward putting the institution, which
had It's inception during the early
period of the world war, on a solid
footing.
While England for more than 200
years has supplied other countries
with blood stock, much of which was
employed by foreign countries to es-
tablish studs for military purposes.
the nation did nothing in this direc-
tion until Colonel HALL WALKER, now
Lord WAvERrREE, gave to Great Brit
ain his breeding stud in Ireland and
racing stable in England. Countess
Zia was among the mares included in
that gift.
A brother to the colt recently sold
was The Panther, favorite for the
Derby of 1919. He ran so poorly in
that event that thers was consider
able discussion at the time as to
whether the colt had not been tam
pered with. He was subsequently
sold for 100000 to breeders in the
Argentine, whittier his sire, Tracery,
had preceded him.
That the blood is esteemed highly
in South America was shown when
Sefior UNzuE gave AUGUsr BELMONT
S264,O00 for Tracery. The fact that
no more of this family Is available
in England no doubt exerted an in
fluence in the case OF the yearling
bought by Sir HUGO CpNLITFE-OwEN.
The career Of the youngster will be
watched closely, for high priced
yearlings are not always the best
when 1t comes to racing, though
breeding and individuality in the long
run will tell.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
Lucania Weather Reports.
A Passenger Who Did Not Find 1t
Hot on July 6. 1901.

To THE New York HERALD: have
read with interest the letter Of p. J.
O'Keeffe respecting the weather on
board the Lucania on July 6, 1901.
My diary and an extract Of the log
tell me that the Lucania left New York
June 20. 1901. On July 5. at :53 p. NJ,
Daunts Rock was abeam. and on Sat-
urday. July 6. we were in Liverpool.
and not 1,100 miles east Of Sandy Hook.
as Mr.. O'Keeffe says.
1t was certainly very hot the day we
left New York, but as usual it became
cooler as soon as we got to sea- II 1t
was 106 anywhere about the ship ex-
cept in the fire room 1 failed TO hear
Of It. AS for the captains cabin. If It
was 80 there 1t must have been the
hottest place on the ship above the
stoke mold. and don't believe the old
man would have stood for 1t. Anyway
his name was Horatio. not Alexander.
r. NJ. 8. PUTNAM.
NEW YORK, July 2s.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Cioudy to-
day. tomorrow unsettled. with local
showers; no change in temperature,
moderate westerly winds.
For New Jersey-Cioudy to-day. showers
tonight or tomorrow; no change in tenn
perature; gentle to moderate southwest and
west winds.
For Northern New Ensland-Partly cloudy
perature: moderate westerly winds
For Southern New England-Partiy cloudy
to-day. tomorrow unsettled. probably fol-
lowed by showers; Hld temperature; mod
crate westerly winds.
For Western New York--Cloudy, with prob
ably showers and local thunderstorms to-
ture; gentle variable winds.
WASHINGTON. July 2s-The disturbances
mat vas central over Ontario last night
passed rapidly eastward to the Canadian
maritime provinces. attended by showers and
tthunderstorms within the last twenty-four
ginia and In the Ohio Valley and the region
OF the great lakes Another disturbance is
advancing east-southeastward from the
preceded by local showers and thunder
storms over the plains States, the upper
mssiiSsppi nrnvinsn yamey ana the western Canadian
the south Atlantic coast and in New Mexico
and Arizona. The temperature has fallen
considerably In the middle Atlantic and New
Ensland atates. the Ohio and upper Missis-
sippi valleys and the region of the great
lakes Warm weather is now confined to
the southern plains States and the western
plateau region.
In the middle Atlantic and New England
States the weather will be cloudy to-rnor-
row and unsettled, with local showers
on Saturday. without material change in
temperature. In the Ohio Valley and tho
region OF tho great lakes the weather win
De unsettled, with local showers and thun-
derstorms Tomorrow and Saturday, without
material change in temperature. In Ten
nessee, the east Gulf and the south At
iantic States the weather will be generally
fatr Tomorrow and Sateurday. except for
showers along the south Atlantic coast.
Observations at United States Weather
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
Steal Bibles in Hotels.
Travellers Take Per Cent ol
Gideon Society's Gifts.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Five per cent. of the red edged Bibles
placed in hotel rooms throughout tne
country by the Gideons. travelling mems
religious organisation. are stolen annu-
ally and have to be replaced.
Some take them, read them, become
penltent and write In asking how much
tho Bible is worth or send IS or So"
said A. y. IT. Moore. national secretary
of the Gideons. "Others merely take
them and keep them" Mr.. Moore says
that there are about 416.ooO Bibles in
the hotels OF the United States and
Canada. They now cost SO cents each,
where formerly they cost 35 cents.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
The Chords Of Harmony

Frorn the Erceisior Springs STANDARD.
There's many kinds of fiddles in the hu-
man music hall. where the players do their
purticst TO carry on tho bail-whle our ap-
petite for music In increasin' every day. we
rot 20 pay attention to the instruments
they play.
Sometimes you hear the feller with an
animated gourd. which there's only one con-
ciusion--it's tho best he can afford--but
there amt speck OF beauty in the agony
he sings from the wuthess imitation that
is speakin through the strings.
An 80 :. Is with poems from the ever
iestin' muse--the harmony Is fittin' with
the instrument we use You can't
derive the nakins of a heartenn' refrain
from a pntcnt leather capsule that's sup
posed 10 be n brain.
love my stradivarius as press her 10
my ciieok-for she never disapp'ints mo will,
a wiegie or n suucak-I draw my bow
aorost her, and the sweetness starts TO
roll tili the honey dew Ia drippin from the
cornice OF my soul.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29

the case of his fellow worker in the
field of Non-Partisan uplift, JOSEPH
GILBERT.
Mr. GILBERT, once State manager of
the Non-Partisan League. was in
dicted under the same sedition laws
in the tolls of which Mr.. TowNIEY
finds himself enmeshed. He attacked
their constitutionality and carried
the case to the Supreme Court, which
upheld the Minnesota law. and now
Mr.. GILBERT is serving time in the
Red Wing prison.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
Countess Zia, Great Brood Mare.

The top price at the recent year
ling sales at Newmarket was brought
by colt by the American bred horse
Tracery, out of Countess zia, by Gal
linule. for which Sir HUGO CUNLlFrE-
OWEN gave 5000 guineas.
Other yearlings have sold at higher
figures, but the fact that the produce
Of Countess Zia, six in number, have
realized total Of 10000 guineas, or
more than 100000 Of our money in
normal times, discloses the vcme of
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
A Pilgrim Maid with 1921 Shoes.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In regard
to the moving picture showing a pile
Of cut stone where the Pilgrims landed.
my twelve-year-old daughter also made
a pertinent criticism OF one of the pag-
cant pictures in your illustrated section
last Sunday. remarhing that it seemed
strange for a Pilgrim maid to be wear
ing sports shoes. model 1921.
I cannot understand how such things
were allowed to get by in so preten-
tious a pageant. c.
NoRwALK, Conn. July 2s.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
Which, -TImely.verse

The timely verse I'm raving
Persists in puzzling me.
Must II be daylight saving,
The timely verse I'm raving,
Or standard? When rnf shaving
I'd like for this the key.
The timely verse I'm raving,
Persists in puzzling We.
Blanche ELIZABETH WADE.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
Natures Mishts.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: 1t is a
pity that so many honest men are fools.
and so many rascals genluses in their
way. The Biblical maxim is a good one
that enjoins us to have "the wisdom of
the serpent and the harmiessness OF the
Cove" w. r..
SPOKANE, Wash. July %.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
American Crews for American Ships.

To THE NEW YonK HERALD: think
at this time. when the Shipping Board
and all of the lines flying the Ameri-
can flag are crying Americanism, it
would be well to look into the citizen
ship Of the crews in all departments. as
many American boys say that only for
oigners are wanted or are accepted, and
get the preference.
Many boys who saw service during the
war are anxious to go to sea again.
NEW YORK, July 2S. MOTHER.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29

Tho Single Tax party and Committee OF
Forty-eight will hold a meeting to nominate
candidates for the Mayoralty campaign, 2Oi
West Thirteenth street, 8 p. NJ.
Committee of the whole. Board OF Fdu-
cation, meeting. Park avenue and Fifty
ninth street, 3 +. NJ.
Thirteenth Coast Defence Command. mo-
mortal services. in the armory. sumner and
Jefferson avenues, Brooklyn, 8 Il. Nj.
Grocery Bag Manufacturers Service Bu-
rcsu. meeting and luncheon. Waldorf-As-
toria, beginning 10 A. M.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29
The Hoover-Meyer Farm Plan,

The amendment to the war
finance act to vest additional pow
ers in the War Finance Corporation
enabling it to assist in financing
farm crops Is far better, as pretty
nearly anything might be, than the
farmers export corporation bill
sponsored by Senator NoRRIs.
The amendment drafted by HER
BERT HOOVER and EUGENE MEYER and
introduced by Senator KELLOGG Is
vastly superior to the Norris pro-
posal because 1t Is practical and will
promote the marketing of crops,
where the Norris scheme is imprac-
tical, would encourage indefinite
holding of crops, and with its hun
dred millions of capital and billion In
bonds would open the gates for re-
turn of dangerous paper imitation.
If there is one place where manage
ment is the prime requisite it is in
the handling of the supply Of public
and private credit when there is a
keen demand for funds. The record
Of the War Finance Corporation
shows that it has the kind Of man.
agement to promote liquidity and get
the last ounce of efficiency out Of the
capital employed.
Although the War Finance Corpora
tion had almost unlimited power to
grant loans during the war, and had
a billion dollars added to the au-
thorized amount 1t could lend after
the war to promote exports alone. 1t
so used discretion in making ad-
vances that while 1t has lent $780,
5S6,049 for war and export trade
purposes 1t has received in repay
ment $3.50 9,6S2,210, or more than two
thirds of it's loans, and It now finds
itself in the admirable position OF
having S4O3,S27,771 cash on hand, or
more than the total loans it has
made since its organization.
Only far sighted business manage
ment could produce record like
that at time when the greatest difii-
Guilty has been experienced in keep
Ing capital on the move and prevent
ing it from being CONCEALED in un-
salable inventories.
The purpose of the Hoover-Meyer
amendment to the war finance act
is not to lend money on agricultural
products and then press the liquida-
tion of these loans by forced sale Of
commodities pledged as security. The
amendment Is drafted to permit loans
up to two years maturity, which is
longer than crop loans have ever
run before. But it is so drafted as to
promote the financing Of crops
through regular banking channels. as
they should be financed.
The Government has no business to
be in the banking business. which
could only mean mulcting the tax
payer to keep the Government In the
field OF private finance. Senator NOR
Rrs and his colleagues deserve credit
for their desire to help the farmers.
But because their own plan of farm
finance is net the right way to do
this Is no reason why they should
not support the better plan to pull
the farmer out of the hole.
The New York herald., 1921-07-29

An old and highly respected pastime
and joke equally old IL not as re-
spectacle met for the first time in q
New Jersey divorce proceeding. He
was charged with neglect, golf mania;
she with cruelty, aiding and abetting
mother-in-lawism. The learned Vice.
Chancellor took the case under ad-
visement with tears in his voice.