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The New York herald., 1921-07-26
Explaining Lightning.
Theory of Stroke That Ripped a
Chimney From Top to Bottom.

To THE New York HERALD: IL the
tall chimney which was struck py
lightning recently had been provided
with q damper and the damper had been
closed the damage would probably have
been only slight The reason why the
stack was preached from the top to
the ground is that the lightning
travelled downward and burst through
the brick wall to find a vent.
Undoubtedly the stack was coated In
side with SCOT, an impure carbon. which
was ignited by the bolt: and the re-
sultant gas expansion aided II 1t didn't
wholly cause the rupture. 1t would seem
that the gas evolved was the potent force
that ripped through the wall.
1t would be interesting to know
whether there was a lightning rod on
the stack. Many tall stacks hereabouts
have them. Some years ago asked a
somewhat scientific man what light
ring is He replied 1t is the result OF
a pure stream of carbon meeting a
pure stream of oxygen. In the instance
of the chimney stack that was struck
1t is quite supposable that stream Of
carbon was flowing upward and en-
countered stream Of lightning.
The atmosphere is charged with dust
consisting OF starch grains, vegetable
and animal fragments. When the right
proportions of dust and oxygen are
present In a highly heated degree in
stantaneous combustion occurs. We
call 1t lightning. The air is always
clearer after an electrical storm than
before, which helps out the theory above
indicated. E. r. DODGE.
NEW YORK, July %.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

tion of Old Windham at that time
was no less than 1,50S, whereas the
population of Cleaveland, after the
surveying party had gone back to
Connecticut, consisted of JOB STILES
and his wife and JOSEPH LANDoN.
Mr.. LANDoN left after a time and
Mr.. and Mrs. STILES were Cleaveland.
But EDWARD PAINE came on from
Connecticut and the population slump
caused by the Landon detection was
Offset. But even when General
CLEAvELAND died, in 1906, Old Wind.
ham in Connecticut led the popula-
tion race with the new town on Lake
Erie by fully 1000. The present pop
ulation of Windham. Connecticut, is
1891. That of Cleveland, Ohio, is
1868
Cleveland's growth has been well
rounded and solid from the date of
its emergence from the small into
the big city class. No wonder its
citizens are proud Of it. No wonder
they are making civic holiday Of
the anniversary of that day 1875 years
ago which marked its typographical
separation from the surrounding will
derness. Incidentally, it may be
mentioned that Cleveland's increase
in size has not been attended by a
corresponding decrease In physical
attractions. Cleveland long has been
of record as one Of the most beauti-
full of all American cities.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
Negroes on the Stage.

1t is said the success Of a musical
play presented by a company con.
sisting wholly of negro actors sug.
gested the parade of players of Afri-
can descent arranged for this week
1t is hoped that no fewer than four
hundred will be in line. CHARLES
GnpIN and BERT WILLIAMS, two of
the most prominent actors of their
race, will head the procession, which
Is intended to demonstrate to the
public how many negro players are
active in the profession to-day.
Only few weeks ago a company
OF negroes presented here a serious
play based on conditions among their
race in Washington. The negro the
atre far up town gives its patrons
most Of the pieces which have ex-
hausted their popularity in the
Broadway theatres. This playhouse
is only one OF chain extending
through the principal cities. There
are no variety actors more popular
now in Europe than the American
negro musicians and dancers, who
are always in demand.
Ever since the days Of IRA ALpRrcH
negroes have shown their capacity
TO take conspicuous place in the
theatre, although most OF them have
been comedians. 1t was long time
before CHARLES GILPrN, who played
as regularly as he could find employ.
ment in the negro theatres, came for.
ward In Emperor Jones" to prove
that again a gifted dramatic actor
had been found in one of the negro
race. Yet the comedians will natu-
rally be more numerous, since the
genius Of the race seems to incline
10 that field. Even the current sue.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

The Aquitania OF the Cunard Line Will
start back to Europe to-day with large
passenger list. including several persons
of international note. Among them Will
be Senator Vittorio Rolandi Ricci. the
italian Ambassador. who has been pass
ing few days In New York with some
of the embassy attaches. The Ambas-
sador Is expected to return to Washing
ton early In the autumn.
Two other passengers viii. be Lord and
Lady Queenborough, whose marriage
took place on July 10 in the city home
of Lady Queenborough's parents. Mr..
and Mrs. william Starr Miller. The
couple went directly to Briarclif Lodge.
Briarclif Manor N, Y. after the we'd
ding. and returned two days ago to the
Plaza Hotel.
Hoping to make a new transatlantic
record from New York to Warsaw. Po-
land, and return, within three and
half weeks. Mr.. William Sherman Gill
will sail by the Aquitania. Mr.. Gill IL
going abroad on a financial mission.
He will be met by some members Of the
Old Colony Club of this city upon his
arrival In Cherbourg. He will take a
special train to Paris and go by airplane
to Warsaw, making that lap OF the jour-
ney in fourteen hours, instead of the
usual four days. Upon his arrival in
Warsaw he will be met by Government
officials of that country.
Some Of the other seagoers on board
the Aquitania will be Mr.. and Mrs, John
Is. Phipps, Mr.. William Payne Thompson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul NJ. Warburg. Mrs.
Sumner Welles, Mr.. Charles T. Mathews.
Mr.. Walter u. Maynard, Mr. Charles III.
Baldwin, Mr.. and Mrs. William Endicott,
the Rev. and Mrs William II. Garth.
Lieut.. Commander and Mrs. E. w. M.
King. Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Peabody,
Sir Louis Newton, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Duveen. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hines.
Mr.. and Mrs Claiming Pollock, Mr.. M.
R. Hely-Hutchinson. Mr.. and Mrs. John
McHugh. Messrs. Andrew G. and Freder-
lex w. Sage. Mrs. Eustace Ballard
Smith. Miss Dorothea Ballard Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. John X. Shaw. Jr.,
and Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw of Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett Serviss and
Miss Germaine CATER Serviss will sail
to-day for France on board the Touraine.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Henry Osborn.
who are the guests of Miss Mary Hoadley
Dodge at Warwick House. London, Eng
land. will start for New York next
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
SIX u. S. SENATORS ON
LINKS AT ATLANTIC CITY
Heat, Not Politics, Takes
Then, to the Resort.

Special Despatch to THE NEW YoRK HrpALr.
ATLANTIC CRY, n. j.. July 25-United
States Senators were visible at almost
every turn on the links of the Northfield
Country Club here to-day. Senatorial
foursome was the feature event of the
days play.
ITS not politics. It's the heat that
brings US here" was the explanation OF
Senator Walter +. Edge of New Jersey
when ne was approached with a uues-
tion as to whether the assembly of law
makers had any political Significance.
''Of couse." he added, I'VE did talk n
little politics. but then we always do
that when we get together"
New Jerseys other United States
Senator. Joseph S. FreinEhuysen. was
one Of those in the foursome which at
;racted the biggest gallery or the day.
The other players in this round were
Senators Gilbert ". Hitchcock OF Me-
hraska and Frederick Hale of Maine.
with state Senator Emerson Richards
OF this city Completing the quartet.
Senators Albert u. Cummins of Iowa
and Robert l.. Owen of Oklahoma con-
fined themselves TO the roles of on
lockers.
Senator Hale arrived as a guest on
board the yacht Victoria. owned by
Senator FrellngLuysen.
Many thousand sojourners were in
the surf to-day for a distance of five
miles along the resorts beach. The tenn
perature OF the water was rs degrees.
Arrivals from New York al the Tray
more Include Miss Grace Hepburn. who
is accompanied by Miss Grace Thomson
Miss Maybell E. Collins. who IN accom-
panied by Mrs. Charles Albrecht.
Ambassador--Miss Margaret M. Allen.
Miss Janet Adair. MIR. and Mrs. John G.
Becker and Mr.. j. J. Gliding.
-Haddon Hall--Mr. and Mrs
David Remsen OF Brooklyn. and Mr.. +.
II. Baker of Manhattan.
Ritz-Caglton-Mr. and Mrs. Albert
tsuggenheim Miss Helen Roche and Mr..
and Mrs Fred V. Wishart
Mrs. Martha Westcott of New York In
at the Strand.
Mrs. X. VI. Laidlaw of New York IL
at the Seaside House.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
D ally Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York--Partly cloudy
and moderately warm to-day and to-
morrow. Moderate to fresh southwest
winds.
For New Jersey-Partly cloudy and mod
erately warm to-day and Tomorrow; gentle
20 mo6ere to southwest winds.
For Northern New England-Partly cloudy
to-day and tomorrow; no change in tenn
perature: moderate southwest winds.
For Southern New England--Partly CLOUDY
and moderately warm to-oey ana to-morroWs
moderate to fresh southwest winds.
For Western New York--Partly cloudy and
moderately warm to day and Tomorrow;
moderate to fresh southwest winds.
WASHINGTON, July 25--IIigh barometrio
pressure persists over the Mississippi Valley
and all districts east thereof and the pres
sure Is high and rising on the north Pacific
coast Low pressure prevails over the Rocky
lower st. Lawrence Valley Temperature has
fallen considerably in the far Northwest
and II has changed little in other regions.
Moderately warm weather prevails In the
Northern States east of the Missouri River.
There have been widely scattered thunder
showers within the last twenty-four hours
in the Gulf and south Atlantic States, the
the Dakotas and the Rocky Mountain region
1he outlook Is for partly cloudy weather:
with widely scattered thunder showers and
no material change in temperature during
tomorrow and Wednesday in the States east
of the Mississippi River.
Observations at United States Weather Bu-
reau stations taken at p. NJ. yesterday
seventy-fifth meridian time.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
Ferry Boating.
on the ferryboat

Riding on the ferryboat
Down to Staten Isle,
Sec the white gulls wheel and float
AS the waters smile.
Softly little zephyrs play.
Sunny tresses curl.
Ferry boating down the bay,
Boating with q girl.
Sailing from the ferry slip
Bound sor Staten Isle.
You and she can pick your ship
From sunlit mile.
Bravely cheer 1t outward bound.
Fare it forth a-foam.
For fortune shall you found
When your ship comes home.
Gliding back from Staten Isle
Through the silver night.
Magic is there in each mile,
Cupid logs the flight.
Seek who will your far Cathay;
Leave for me the pearl
Ferry boating UP the bay.
Boating with a girl
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
TUESDAY, JULY 2s. 1921.
Buying of Russia.

The American people hold no
grudge against innocent women and
children of another country, no mat,
ter what the men OF that country
may be doing to the interests and
rights Of American subjects. Espe-
cially they hold no grudge against
sick and suffering women and chill
dren, or men either 1t might be that
the red Soviet rule of Russia was
robbing Americans over there, put.
ting them in chains and butcherfng
them, and yet it might be that II
Russian women and children were
in the grip of famine the American
public would not want them to starve
to death. 1t might be that the Ameri-
can public would want food to get to
them in spite of the wrongs done and
doing to our own people there.
If, under these circumstances, the
United States Government pursued
policy of giving succor to the
starving Russians the American peo-
pie could understand it They might
not oppose it. They might approve
1t. But the American public cannot
understand a Government policy Of
relief to the starving Russians based
on the terms and conditions that all
Americans in Russian prisons, those
who deserve to be there and those who
do not, be Immediately released. 1t
will seem to them, it must seem to
them. that Americans illegally or
wrongfully held in Soviet prisons
ought to be released whether the
population of Russia is perishine
from famine or is fat with food. II
must seem to them that this ought
to be the programme of the United
States Government under any and
oil Russian conditions.
1t is true that the proffer is made
by Mr.. HOOVER not as the Secretary
of Commerce of the United States
Government but as the head of the
American Relief Administration. But
it is also true that, made in the way
II Is, the offer to pay tribute to Soviet
terrorism to gain the release of our
subjects would not be worth a pinch
of salt without the sanction and sup
port of the United States Govern
ment, if any national policy can be
worth pinch of salt when it is a
contract to buy American rights for
American subjects.
II Soviet Russia could have respect
for or fear of the United States Gov
ernment after this country had en-
tered into such compact-if, after
that, Soviet Russia should feel that
there ever need be any reason to
recognize American rights except to
put bandits price on them, then
the record of human nature from the
time OF ADAM has no lesson to teach
the world in this year of 1921.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
You Pay the Taxes.

Do not let anybody fool you about
who pays the taxes. You do.
When you go to buy a railroad ticket
you know very well you are paying
taxes into the national Treasury be-
cause they are collected from you at
that very ticket window. You know
you are paying such taxes right then
and there and how they hurt. But
you are paying, through the railroad,
great deal more of national taxes
than that-paying it every day and
at every meal.
The Government collects hundreds
of millions of taxes from the rail
roads besides the taxes you pay at the
ticket window, and the railroads put
it all into the freight bills handed to
the shipper. But the shipper does not
pay the freight bills. He puts them
all into the bills for the goods sent
to the dealer to whom they are
shipped. But the dealer that re-
ceives the goods does not pay them.
The shipper has put all his bills into
his price to the dealer that receives
the goods. The dealer puts them into
the prices that the ultimate consum-
ers-you--pay for the goods.
1t is so about all the taxes collected
from industry and business - they
go into the price of the goods or the
service to the public. You pay them
in rent, food and clothing-every-
thing-just as surely as you pay the
taxes the railroad collects from you
at the ticket window.
Anybody that tells you he has tax
scheme that will raise billions of rev.
enue for the national Treasury with
out taking it out of the whole Amer
lean public-out of you-is telling
you what is not so. There is no
place to get the several billions of
taxes the Government is spending ex-
cept out of the whole American pub
lic-out of you.
The public pays the stupendous
taxes--you pay them; and it is
good deal better for you to know what
you are paying and how you are pay
ing it than for you to be fooled about
it either by the legislator that frames
the measure that taxes you or by the
man that collects the tax from you
in the price of his goods but wants
you to believe he pays it.
1t is better for you, because the
Government spender will be more
careful how he wades through your
taxes when he knows that you know
they come out of your pocket.
1t is better for you, because the
man that sticks the tax he pays into
the price you pay him cannot also
stick it in two or three times over
when you know exactly what the
tax is.
A sales tax is the best tax for the
Government to get the money 1t
needs. 1t is the cheapest tax for you
to pay, standing right out where it
is seen and known and cannot be
doubled and trebled on you and hid
den away inside the package without
your realizing 1t. But, sales tax or
no sales tax, you will be taxed.
Do not believe anybody who says
he has substitute for the sales tax
that is going to raise the billions Of
taxes but let you off from paying
your share. 1t cannot be done. When
he tells you that it can he knows
that it cannot.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
$4,000 FOR HOSPITAL.

Special Despatch to TIE NEW York HERALD.
GREENWICH, Conn. July 25-Mrs.
John A. Topping, chairman of the COM
mittee of the Venetian fete given last
month for the benefit of the Greenwich
hospital on the grounds of the late Com
modore E. c. Benedict, announced to-
day that the net receipts amounted to
more than $4,000.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
Italian Ambassador Among Seagoers
Senator Ricci and Lord and Lady Queenborough to
Sail To-day Aboard the Aquitania.

Saturday and on their arrival here will
go to Saunderstown. r. L.. to be guests
OF her mother. Mrs. c. Grant La Fargo.
Mr.. and Mrs. George r. ID. Schieffelin
and their son Mr.. George Schieffelin will
leave Europe for New York next Satur-
day and go to Morristown. N. J.
Mrs. Henry C. Frick and Miss Helen
F'riclS will return this week from Europe
andNgo to Prides Crossing, Mass.
DR.. Cosmo de Ia Torrfente president
of the Foreign Relations Committee of
the Cuban Senate ana Nine de Ia Tor
riente are at the Ritz-Carlton for a shor.
stay previous to sailing for Europe.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Citizens Municipal Party. meeting. Hotel
Commodore, all day.
Jersey CITY Poster Advertising Company.
meeting. Waldorf-Astoria, +. M.
problems under the auspices of the summers
rchool Of New York University, washington
square building. 2:S0 p. NJ
The Goldman Concert Band VIII give q
concert in Prospect Park. Brooklyn. +. M.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

Kansas is going to jail the Indus
trial Workers of the World who will
not work. Kansas should be careful.
the Sunflower State may be blacklisted
by some of our leading loafers IL it
doesn't watch out.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

I'VE literally took away from our
offices a train load of desks and other
office furniture" said Mr.. FORD. ex-
planning his $ss.000,O00 economy shop
cleaning. II is hoped that no effort
will be made to conceal this significant
economic hint from certain gentlemen
in WASHINGTON.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

Three of the White Sox baseball
players accused Of conspiring to lose
ball games now say they are innocent
but confessed to get immunity. Their
stupidity almost equals their moral
obtuseness.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
Bird Song.

A red-bird, in the cedar tree withdrawn
Carolled, and 10. its flame awoke the
dawni
blue-bird answered the melodlous
Groom,
And 10, its song bestirred the azure
nooni
A black-bird. echoing the mellow flight
Attuned It's flute, and 10, the sable night !
CLtNroN SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
Charmed by the Spirits footing.

Petit Jean correspondence IN the Cor,oov
County (Ark.) Unit.
n We arc rightly informed. the marrying
spirit is stiii on a boom in our vicinity
Mr.. Joe Carock OF MorriIton came up
few days ago. and by listening TO the gentle
and pleading calls of one Of our most beau
tiful girls fell a victim 20 the spirit.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
An Arkansas DInnerins.

Canaan correspondence Of the Marshal
Mountain Wave.
large crowd dinnered with Mr.. and Mrs
Kim Parks Sunday. Freeman Battershel
was one among the crowd and he happened
TO tho bad luck Of breaking out one Of
Mr.. Parks's window panes.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

Petrograd has had another work
ers revolution" and martial law has
been declared. Most folks thought
there were not a sufficient number OF
workers left in Petrograd to start a
revolution.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

All Europe parched; drought menaces
crops.--NetUspdper headline.
Yet some Americans long to visit
Europe on account of the drought in
the United States.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

The Weather Bureau assures the
What does the Weather Bureau call
the sustained high temperature under
which New Yorkcrs have been whiting
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
SO It Mns Called Off.

Lone star correspondence IN The Laurence
tKdr.) Journal World.
wednesday was regular meeting night for
the Farmers Union. but no meeting was
held because no one came.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

Three masked men held up and robbed
the first class passenger Parls-Marseilles
express train hear Chagny to-day. =
Dssoatch from France.
Thus the Americanization of Europe
progresses.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
Advocating the style.

Samson was lamenting.
II only wish my wife had bobbed her
own hair he cried.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
10 the use for republication Of all news des-
patches credited to II or not otherwise
news published herein.
All rights OF republication OF special des-
patches herein are also reserved
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
INT WIN. Picking tns P.rr,..,

Weisor correspondence IN the Ne,cport CArk.)
Independent.
Berry pickers are now making hay while
the sun shines.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
Another Deception Exposed.

From the Erie (Kan.) Record.
No baby under year old ever looked Ike
It's father or It's mother. A baby that
young Just looks like o baby and that's all.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
Must ne The un,teen.

From The National Corporation Reporter.
Notice Of action for dissolution of corpo-
rations. 1885. The Chicago self-support-
Ing rants Company.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

We can cut $3.50. 10000 from the Fed.
eral taxes.-Ieepresentdt FoRDNET.
Well nobody's stopping you.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
cessfuI extravaganza played. written

and acted altogether by the negro
company is not without precedent.
WILLIAMS and WALKER for several
years had their own company and
even carried it to London. There
have always been negro actors. but
never SO many as there are in our
expanded theatre OF the day.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

THE NEW YORK HERALD was founded by
James Gordon Bennett in 1885. 1t remained
the sole property of it's founder until his
death, in 1872, when his son, also James
Gordon Bennett succeeded to the ownership
of the paper whic. remained in his hands
until his death. in 1918. THE HERALD be-
came the property of Frank A. Munsey. It's
present owner, In 1920.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26

Highest temperature, ~, at +. M.
Lowest temperature. 10. at A. M.
Average temperature, 20.
The New York herald., 1921-07-26
LOCAL WEATHER RECORD.

recorded by the official thermometer, Is
shown In the annexed table:
Bisbee daily review., 1921-06-18
Flag Pole To Mark
Bankhead Highway
Turn At Tombstone

When Harry Locke, publisher of
Lockes road maps and guide books,
was in Tombstone several days ago,
he arranged with Giacoma Brothers
to install a 46-foot flagpole at the cor
ner of Sixth and Allen streets to
take the place Of the one formerly
located at Fifth and Allen. The
change was made to Sixth street be-
cause some time ago the state high
way department made the official
change so that the state highway
would pass the famous Bird Cage
theatre. The -Giacoma Brothers Will
install the pole today and it will be
set in the ground six feet and will
be 40 feet above the ground. +. All the
maps of the Old Spanish Trails and
Bankhead highways call attention to
turn north at flag pole in Tombstone,
when going east, and turn west at
flag pole when going west. Locke's
guide books set this out very promi-
nently. The Tombstone commercial
club will get streamer to float from
the top of the pole carrying the words
on one side: "Bankhead Highway
and on the reverse, "Old Spanish
Trails