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The New York herald., 1921-01-11
Setbacks for Radicalisn.

A careful compilation of the results
of the popular vote for President last
November and a comparison of the
votes cast for the candidates of the
seven political parties show on the one
hand the immense plurality given to
Mr.. HARDING, the largest ever re-
ceived by a Presidential candidate
and on the other hand the compara-
lively meagre vote cast for the can
didates Of the Socialist, Farmer-Labor
and Socialist Labor parties.
The vote of the Socialist party, the
largest of the three mentioned, offers
an especially good opportunity in the
matter of comparison. The vote for
EUGENE DEBs in 1920 was, according
to the official figures of the. various
State election canvassing boards, 914,-
500; his vote In 1915 was S97, oil.
When 1t is taken into consideration
that the popular vote last November
was more than 100000 greater than
it was in 1916 1t will be readily seen
that the increase of II, 1858 In the Debs
vote was not proportionate gain.
The Socialists themselves recognized
this fact and their leaders offered
widely varying reasons for their fail
ure. MEYER LONDON, Representative
in Congress from the Twelfth New
York district. summarized the general
result when he said: "In my judg-
ment the Socialist party has made no
progress at all in the Presidential
election of 1920"
Not only In the United States have
the Socialists suffered losses and
showed marked diminution in polit-
ical strength but also in all European
countries where they have come be-
fore the electorate. The elections held
Sunday in France to fill one-third Of
the seats in the French Senate re-
suited in the return Of four members
of Premier LEYGUEs's Cabinet, against
whom the radicals had especially d.
rected their opposition. In all the
radical group lost twenty-one out of
the fifty-four seats Il had held.
In Spain, with the radical agitation
at its height and the Socinlistic forces
we'll organized, Premier DAro dared
to go before the country for new
general election to the Cortes. The
vote of the peasants and Of the con-
servative urban elements overthrow
the radicals and returned strong
working majority in support of the
Government and the Conservative
party The last elections in Italy re-
suited in corresponding success Of
the conservative parties. It likewise
brought about the detection from rad
icallsm Of such men as TuRAr1 and
MoDIGLIANI. pioneers Of the Socialist
movement In Italy.
IN Great Britain Socialism, accord
ing to a recent statement of one of
its leaders, has made no national gains
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
Heir 10 the Open.

with his head in the stars and the moon
round his neck,
And feet that can hardly the common
earth trek,
Behold him, the proudeet and happiest
man
This old world has seen since creation
began.
You can't interest him in trivial things
Like earthquakes and Bolshevists. taxes
and kings;
And he pities tho people who happen to
be
Less lavishly favored by fortune than
he.
He's taken to wearing a dinky brown
cap,
And snatching odd minutes TO study a
map
Crisscrossed with network of high
ways that run
over the continent, hither and yon.
lie has inherited all of outdoors.
Mountains and valleys and meadows and
moors.
Beautiful roads that go winding afar,
Loi and behold he has bought his first
car.
MrNrA 1avrNo.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11

tory and which has grown In useful
hess until 1t is now a we'll estab-
ished department of the institutes
educational work.
The special room for children in
the New York Public Library is one
of the show features of the Fifth ave-
nue. building which all knowing New
Workers take visitors to see.
Through the initiative Of FIrzRoY
CARRINGToN, formerly of New York
city, now curator of the print depart
ment Of the Massachusetts Fine Arts
Museum, Boston has a children's art
museum which in the three years of
its existence has attained unusual
success in interesting children in pic
lures in various mediums.
In London 1t is proposed to buy
the house at IS Johnson street, Som
ers Town, and convert 1t into library
for children as a memorial to CHARLES
DICKENS. In this house DICKENS
lived at the period he describes in
David Copperfield," when small David
worked in the backing factory in
Southwark under depressing condi-
tions. The movement to buy the
house, narrow three story structure,
originated at meeting presided over
by EDMUND GossE. 1t has the sup
port of the Prince of WALES, the
American Amba ssador, DIcKENs's son,
HENRY f. DICKENS; BERNARD SHAW,
BARRIE, GALswoRTHY and H. G.
WELLS. 1t can easily be imagined
that nothing would quite touch the
heart of the creator of David Copper
field, Tiny Tim and Paul Dombey as
to know that house In which he once
had lived as an unhappy boy was to
be turned into a haven of happiness
for children.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
EVENTS TO-DAY.

John McHugh. DR.. John II. Finley and
exsnder Ale snS, kon,a % will speak at the dinner
Paul B. Waterhouse and e%sy George J. L. e'9ief caay
W VIII d.Msc discuss The Problem Of The japanese
way and Fifty-sTxth street, at s p. NJ.
Police Commissioner Richard L. Enright
VIII speak at the annual meeting OF the
Merchant Truckmens Bureau in the assem-
bly, room Of the Merchants Association.
WpeoiWorth poni BUILDING, this evening.
French High Commissioner 10 the United
States. and James G. Mcdonald will discuss
at a dinner and conference held by the
Council on Foreign Relations in the Hotel
Astor. beginning at $50 p. M.
will debate on Sunday Movies" Labor
Temple. Fourteenth street and Second ave
Francis II. sisson and James schermerhorn
OF Detroit VIII speak at the banquet of the
National Automobile Chamber OF Commerce,
Bishop Thomas F. Gaiior ii of Tennessee and
John Q. Gebhard will speak at the annual
meeting OF the Church womens TEN
sixth street, 80 p. NJ.
Or. John H. Finley viii speak at the annual
sociation. Cosmopolitan Club, i35 East
Fortieth street. at p. NJ.
The veteran Association of the Thir-
teenth regiment, n. G.. N Y, viii hold a
meeting In the armory, Sumner jefferson
and Putnam avenues. Brooklyn. at 3 80 PM.
Hugh tayne VIII speak Industrial
unrest-Its Cause and Cure" at a meeting
Of the Park Community Council at Public
school 81, Eighty-sixth street, between Park
and Lexington avenues, at s z. NJ
DR.. Howard Brown will speak on 'The Sci
at p. M
Major Thurman II. Bane will give an H.
lustrated lecture on Progress In MilitarN
Aviation" at the aeronautic session of thu
annual winter meeting OF the Society OF
Automotive Engineers, Engineering Societies
Building. 20 West Thirty-ninth street, at
Archibald L. Stevenson and Mrs. Henry A
Wise Wood will speak on Free Speech at
a meeting OF the Woman's Republican Club.
Hotel Plaza, at 10 80 A. NJ
Miss Ruth Emerson will give concert
Or. Hugh III. Chaplin win speak on "Nu-
triton at meeting arranged by the Big
Brother Movement In the auditorium OF the
New York Training School, Nineteenth street
between Seventh and Eighth avenues. al
8 p. NJ.
Are American Socialists Markham" at a
meeting OF the Intercollegiate Socialist So
p. M. ee'' ~ O'''
Anna @. shandler will talk to elementar,
school teachers on In the Times OF TN.
Egyptian Empire at the Metropolitan Mu
scum of Art at 3 80 p. NJ.
There will be an election Of officers and
clinical meeting of the section OF neurology
and psychiatry at the Academy OF Medicine
II West Forty-th,rd street. at = 80 p NJ
S. III. Chubb will give an illustrated lecture
on wild Life and Scenery of the CatslSiiI
Mountains" before the Linnan mean Society n
the American Museum OF Natural History
Seventy-seventh street and Central Park
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
The Greatest of Men.
Impression Millard Fillmore Made or
Boy i'm Buffalo.

To THE New York HERALD: AS y
lineal descendant of Captain Samuel
Pratt. who emigrated from Vermont to
the Niagara frontier and built in 1900
the first house and store for Indian
trading in the now great city Of Buff
falo, wish to express my sincere pleas
ure at your editorial article upon the
life and services of Millard Fillmore.
AS a boy in Buffalo I remember we'll
the distinguished old gentleman who
every morning took his constitutional
up Delaware avenue to Ferry street.
where his carriage met him and con-
veyed him to his home. He always
had a pleasant word for everybody
He was certainly the first citizen Of
Buffalo. but for me. in my boyish en-
thusiasm, he was the greatest man on
earth. The late Queen Victoria said
that Millard Fillmore was the hand
soonest American she ever saw
WILLIAMS c. Fox.
New YORK January 10.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
Senator Smoot's Hard Sense.

Senator SMOoT is a stout champion
Of protective tariff that maintains
,,nd stimulates American production.
But he has the hard sense, backed by
sound experience, to know that to try
TO raise more than half n billion of
dollars a year by inordinate prOtec-
tive rates simply would shut out i'm
borts and raise no revenues at all.
Wherefore he favors reasonable tariff
rates that will be workable not only
on the farm and in the factory but at
the custom house. And he is right.
Senator SMooT wants the United
States Treasury to have income enough
10 pay the Governments bills and
bail It out of pressing debt. But he
has the brains to know and the cour-
age to say that tax schedules that do
not produce revenue are not worth
the paper they are written on. Where
fore he is against income tax sched-
ules so high that they drive invest
ment into tax exempt securities. He
is against excess profits tax rates so
confiscatory that they shift capital
from productive enterprises or put
premium on higher production costs
for industry, resulting in higher liv-
ing costs for the public, because the
earnings might as well go that way
as the other way And he is right.
Senator SMooT wants to rationalize
and simplify not only the tax system
but the business methods of the Gov
ernment. After the war squander has
been cut out, after the war Office
holders have been packed off bag. g.and
baggage, and after the war policies
have given place to peace policies,
with billions of dollars thus saved,
he says still other hundreds Of mill
ions could be saved by doing the Gov
ernment's business on plain business
basis under competent business man
ayers as mills, factories and merchan-
dising houses work, economize and
get results. And he is right.
The Republican party has been put
in charge Of the administrative and
legislative branches of the Govern
ment to undo the wrong things done
by the Democratic control OF the Gov
ernment and to do the right things
which that control was not willing or
able to do. 1t Is to be presumed,
therefore, that the party representa-
tives now bearing the responsibility
Of making good to the voters of the
United States are going to follow the
lead of statesmen like SMooT, who
know what needs to be done and how
it can be done. Otherwise the new
Government control merely invites
upon itself another such political thun-
derbolt as pulverlzed Mr.. WILSON'S
Administration and party.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
Where Parepa Rosa Sang.
Pat Gilmore's Peace Jubilee Orches.
ira Gave Background to Her Voice.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Al Con-
quin is in error concerning Parepa Rosa,
or his or her parents were.
That famous singer did not appear in
Castle Garden I'm the years preceding the
civil war, I do not think that she ever
appeared In that building at all. I know
that she did not come to this country
until after the civil war, either late In
1865 or early in 1865.
The occasion which your correspon-
dents mother described, when Euphro-
syne Parepa. as many still called her,
Sang THE Star Spangled Banner and
vas heard above the roll of drums and
roar of cannon. was not in Castle Gar
den before the war but. as l well re-
member. at the late Patrick S. Gilmore $
monster Peace Jubilee in Boston after
the war. Her singing on that occasion
created such a popular furor as had
not been known in this country since the
first appearance of Jenny Lind.
WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON.
NEW PROVIDENCE. ". j.. January 10.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
I'Oracolo,' Pagliacci,' The Blue Bird
Double Opera Bill at Special Matinee With Miss
Peralta in New Role in Tragic Work

Two performances took place yester-
day at the Metropolitan Opera House.
In the afternoon an extra matinee at
forded opportunity for the double bill Of
"L'Oracolo" and "Pagllacci." the first
opera receiving a second presentation OF
the season and the latter its third. The
combination had novelty in the casts.
In the Leoni work Mr.. Scott again
chained attention by his impersonation
of the crafty keeper of the opium den,
Chin Fang.
Miss Frances Peralta sang Ah-Yoe
for the first time at this house. She
did not always use her good voice to
best advantage. but her general ease and
assurance in the part lent interest Mr..
Chamlee as Win-Saat-Lny. also new
here In the role. was generally good.
Mr.. Didur was again admirable as
Wtn-Shee. Miss Marion Telva was the
HuG-Qu In "Pagliacci' Miss Sun
delius sang NeddG for the first time
here. She showed skill In acting. her
makeup was good and her singing
was admirable. The other principals,
all known in their parts, were Mr..
Crimi. Mr. De Luca and Mario Lau-
remit. Mr.. Moranzoni conducted both
operas. The large audience was enthu-
siastic.
"The Blue Bird" was given in the
evening, with several changes in the
cast from that of the previous per-
formance. Nine. Easton returned, in
place of Miss Axman, to the parts of
Mummy Tyl and The Maternal Love.
Miss Romaine was The Cat. Miss Axman
was The joy of Understanding and Milk.
Mr.. Wolff conducted his own opera.
The audience seemed to take delight
In the presentation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Wright Harri-
man were with Mrs f. Henry Harri-
man in box 8.
Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Gerard, the
Hon. Alfred Anson and Mr.. Ashbel II.
Barney were guests Of Miss Ruth V.
Twombly in box II.
The party with Mrs. William M. V.
Hoffman in box 13 included Prof Eric
Horne, who arrived recently from In
dia to lecture at Harvard Mrs. Horne
and Messrs. Allen Forbes of Boston and
Francis X. Pendleton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley. Mrs.
Herbert Shipman and Miss Marion Tif-
fany were In box 23.
Mrs James b. Haggin's guests in box
81 were DR.. and Mrs. Preston Pope, r.
Satterwhite, Mrs. James +. Amsuen'
Senator Walter E. Edge Of New Jersey
and Mr. Frederic Potts Moore.
With Mrs Charles B. Alexander were
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman o. Whitehouse.
Mrs. Burke Roche and Mr.. Charles E.
Sampson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Sanderson. Mrs.
Cyril Dugmore and Mr.. James b. Clews
were in box 25 with Mr.. and Mrs. John
N. WHY'S.
With Mr.. and Mrs. Griswold A. Thomp-
son in box were Mr. and Mrs. William
X. Dick and Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Glib
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elbert H. Gary's guests
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
Equal Rights in Work.
No Preferred Classes, Recognized i'm
the American System.

To THE New York HERALD: Recentlv
| read in your paper that a Judge In
Kansas said skilled and faithful crafts
men must be kept employed at living
wnge."
But what about the millions OF work.
ing people who are not skilled crafts
men? Aren't they entitled TO as much
consideration as skilled craftsmen? /?
This country seems to be full of people
who favor classes at the expense of the
masses
Now II is reported that n Federal
Council of Churches, representing thir-
ty-one denominations, condemns the
open shop campaign. Some of the
members give the fiimsy excuse that
the open shop would be a closed shop
against members Of unions. That looks
like straddling on the question.
II they are opposed to closed shops
why do they condemn open shops? III
the churches and the clergy of this
country are taking a stand in favor Of
closed shops they are standing on dan
gerous ground. They are setting a bad
example and spreading a bad influence
all over the country
They speak Of the open shop policy
as the so-called American plan of en-
ployment.' Can any Clergyman hon
estly deny that II is the American plan
and the only American plan7 All other
plans Of employment are radically un-
American.
Much has been said about teaching
foreigners to speak English and read
the Constitution. It seems to me that
great many natives ought to read the
Constitution. I wonder how many peo-
pie there are in this country who are In
favor of equal rights for all.
T. L. MURPHY.
FALL River, Mass. January 10.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
Children's Museums.

Although education has always been
one Of the chief concerns Of man II
Is only within comparatively recent
years that an attempt has been made
to create museums and libraries espe-
cially for children. In New York
city the pioneer IN this movement
was the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences n developed Chill
drens Museum n few years ago which
was especially devoted to natural his
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
MIR. and Mrs. BIoch's Concert.

Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Bloch gave
the second of two violin and piano re-
citais last night In Aeolan Hall. The
programme comprised three sonatas for
piano and violin-Brahms's in G, opus
~; !ldebrando Pizzetti's in and Mo-
zarts In fiat. The Pizzetti compost
ton was heard for the first time here.
Its composer is one of the young mod
ern italian school and he lives in Italy.
He has written string quartet and
the La Scala Orchestra at one of iG
coming concerts here will play one Of
his works. His sonata has disonance
and much melody. The first movement
Is dramatic in character, the second.
Prayer of the Innocents." and the third, /,
Folks Festival In the Open" lack
something in free expression of ideas
and they could be condensed in sub
stance. AS a whole, however. the work
has much interest 1t was generally
well played, though there might have
been more force and contrast of color
in the ensemble.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
TUESDAY. JANUARY IL, 1921.
To Mr.. Untermyer.

In your disappointment that the
Legislature hesitates to give the
Lockwood committee the scope you
seek and should have that you may
make a grand cleanup of crime in this
proud city of ours you hint at quitting
the job.
No. Mr.. uNrERMYER, you must not
quit the job. You have done very
great work in ferreting out and hunt
ing down crooks and you should not
permit yourself TO think of stopping
short of ensnaring the rest of the
criminals and bringing full punish
ment upon them.
You owe this to New York; you
owe it to yourself.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
Monk Eastman's End.
His Nerve Gone, He Was Down and
Out When Killed, Say Friends.

To THE NEW York HERALD: 1t might
be well for the police to remember that
Monk Eastman. ex-gangster, was at the
time he was killed by Jerry Bohan O
has been
Monk was down and out. his nerve
was gone and he was afraid Of the
police. He carried no gun, was afraid
he might be found with one. Everybody
acquainted with Monk knew this and
none better than Bohan.
I see by newspaper interview had
with Mr.. O'Connor. State Director of
Prohibition Enforcement. that he is
quoted as saying he appointed Jerry
Bohan a prohibition inspector because
his record was good" Mr.. O'Connor
is surely a remarkable public official.
BROOKLYN, January 10. S. r.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
Irish in the Revolution.
Reasons for Rejecting Claims Mad
i'm Behalf of ScOtchmen.

To THE New YORK HERALD: May I
be allowed to state some actual truths
IN contravention of certain assertions by
"Veritas" In a letter printed recently in
your paper?
/. The British troops defeated at
Kings Mountain, n. c., in the Revolu-
and the Scotch Tories under Ferguson.
See Draper's History of the Battle of
Kings Mountain"
2. Since the plantation of Ulster" be-
gan In 1911, 'Veritas" is far out Of his
reckoning when he says that the Ulster
Scotch" were mot more than two gen.
erations in Ireland" before their emf
grafton to the colonies.
3. The New England historian" who
said that half a million souls" or
more than half the Presbyterian pop
ulation of Ulster" were transplanted to
America was Fiske but the fact that
the entire population of Ulster at the
period referred to was only 200. 900 pu.s
the kibosh on that fantastic estimate.
4. In the work of Sir William Petty.
the, English statistician of the time, u.
is stated that the population of Ulster
in 1859 was three-fifths native Irish"
and two-fifths English, Scotch and
other aliens"
o. Morgan and Pickens of Revolu-
tionary fame were not Ulster Scotch
Morgan was of Welsh descent and Pick
ens's father was an Irishman, and the
fact that they professed the Presbyterian
faith did not change their racial origin.
since religion never has been and never
can be a factor in determining the ma
tionality of any man.
g.. The Irish in the war of the Revo-
luton were Irish In race" and the
records prove It, and moreover a tabu.
lation made up from the records of the
custom houses and the Colonial news
papers shows beyond question that the
largest number of vessels from ireland
to New York and Philadelphia during
the half century preceding the Revolu-
ton were from ports other than Ulster
so that when we consider the primitive
travelling facilities OF the time we know
that the majority of the passengers on
these vessels were of the old native
stock. And this assumption is substa T.
tiated fully by the surnames of these
emigrants where they are on record.
This whole question has been dis
cussed fairly and impartially in a re-
cent publication on the subject, which
may be consulted at any of our public
libraries. HIsroRIcUs.
New YORK Januarv 10
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
A Title transfer Tan,
Vast Transs 1ions Advanced as an
Argumekf for q New 4mpOst.

hTB Buncs@b IOr u A>cW 1hAPVSs'
To THE Ssrv yagE sspRALD: AS a
substitute for the proposed sales tax
and perhaps for all other taxes allow
me to suggest a change of ownership
tax. Such a tax would be levied on an
aggregate so vast that the rate could
doubtless be very low. say one-renth OF
one per cent, and still yield all the in
come needed for Government purposes.
The hundreds OF billions OF bank
clearances represent but part of the
sums involved In change Of ownership.
and every such change. whether Of
money or property, should be subject to
this tax.
The proposed sales tax is open to the
objection that 1t could too easily be
passed on and therefore would be likely
to fall in unfair measure on the ulti-
mate consumer.
A tax of the kind here proposed would
be much more equitable. A great part
of the proceeds from Il would be derived
from large financial operations, from
dealings in securities and real estate,
from transfers by Inheritance and other
similar sources. which would leave the
tax where 1t justly belonged. It would
his means and the Importance of his
transactions. 1t would fall on all, be
uniform for all and fair for all.
ERNEST FI.Aaa.
NEW YORK January 10.