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The New York herald., 1921-12-24
Conserving Health.

Physical examinations at regular
intervals have proved as effective in
improving health and efficiency in
civil service and industry as they
have in the army. A report from the
National Industrial Conference Board
on thirty-four industrial plants says
that physical examinations have -in-
creased efficiency and resulted in
fewer accidents, reduction OF abb
sences from work, lower labor turn
over, elimination of tuberculosis and
other contagious diseases, and bet
ter adaptation of workers to their
jobs"
The New York Health Department
began physical examinations of its
workers in 1914. In the year just
closing S.512 employees were tested.
A thorough first examination is fol-
lowed by annual inspections. Inter
est OF the employees in their health
Is aroused by giving them copy of
their charts with advice as to the
best treatment for their ailments
Where these are serious the sufferers
receive regular treatment. Much
shiftless work, indifference and dis
content in the department have been
traced to physical ills which by slight
changes in environment, dress and
diet could be remedied.
The examinations disclose that
more men than women are affected
by cardiac diseases. The women,
however. are more often i'll adapted
to their work, especially when it re-
quires hard physical effort, such as
standing long hours. This causes too
high blood pressure among women.
1t also produces fallen arches.
High blood pressure is reduced
very considerably by regulation of
diet and habits OF life, without medi-
cal treatment. The physical inspec-
tion now in force in the department
is designed to indicate changes in
work TO facilitate reduction of the
blood pressure.
Parental histories too have close
. attention at the Health Department.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
Kidnapped Congress Members.

In his publication, the Contmoner,
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN celebrates the un-
preeedented Congress event of a
minority Democratic membership
taking legislative control away from
the Republican majority and putting
tax schedules into the statutes as
effectively as CLAUDE KIrcHIN did
when the Democratic party had con-
troll under President WILSON.
The House OF Representatives
adopted a maximum income tax rate
of 32 per cent. In the Senate, how
ever, as Mr.. BRYAN boasts, the Dem
ocrats, although mastering only lit
tie more than one-third Of the vot-
ing strength of the chamber, cap
tured enough Republican votes from
the majority two-thirds to dictate the
income surtax rates finally adopted
there. These they placed at so per
cent. instead of the 80 per cent. of
the Republican House.
But that was not enough to satisfy
the triumphant Democratic kidnapers
of Republican members. When the
Democrats and their annexed Repub-
licans had forced the so per cent.
maximum rate through the Senate
the Schedule went to the conference
committee, which agreed upon a
compromise maximum of 40 per cent.
But this time in the House 106
Democrats shanghaied SO Republi-
cans and defeated the compromise
proposal of the Republicans. They
Fixed the maximum, as Mr.. BRYAN
says, at so per cent. the rate they
had forced upon the Republican
party in the Senate.
In this way the Republican ma
jority' of both the Senate and the
House had the income surtax rates
made for them by the Democratic
minority, which had been so utterly
repudiated by the American people
at the national election.
Is the Bryan boast, we wonder,
going to be the alibi which the de-
faulting members of the Republican
Senate and House will set up for re-
pudiating their party's pledges to re-
wise the old Kitchin schedules into
sound and safe taxes? Are they 60
ing to plead before the American
public that they could not help be-
traying the public because they could
not help getting kidnapped by the
Congress? This kidnapped plea would
be about as worthy of them as their
failing to make good on their plat
form pledges. 1t would get them about
as far with the American public.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
FLOWER SHOW AT HOT SPRINGS
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Parsons Arr
, rive From New York.

Special Dispatch to TIE NEw YoRK HERALD
Hot SPRINGS. Va. Dec. 23.--A feature
of the Christmas celebration here will
be the floral exhibit from the Home
stead nurseries. The hotel to-day was
given over to decorators and to the
florists in preparation for Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Parsons came in
late last night from New York to be
here fortnight.
Arrivals of to-day from New York
include Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gordon
and Mr.. Robert Gordon, Jr.. DR.. A. c.
Howe and Mrs. Howe, Mrs. M. II.
Mann and Miss Dorothy Mann. also Mr..
and Mrs. George A. Minarsian of Glen
Ridge, n. j. Mr.. James p. Cox came in
to-day from Washington to join his
father, Mr.. Frederick !. Cox of the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Williams, who
have recently been Joined by their son.
Mr.. Winthrop Williams. are to remain
at their cottage until after Christmas.
returning to New York for tho New
Year holidays.
Mr.. Ferdinand ID. Fleming left to-day
for his home in Philadelphia.
Mr.. II. Clay Miller OF San Francisco
will arrive tomorrow from New York,
to be joined later by Mrs. Miller.
To-morrow's arrivals will include Mr..
and Mrs. o. IL. Thurber. Mr.. and Mrs.
J. G. Woodward OF New York and Capt.
i. w. Hvoslef and Mrs. Hvoslef OF
Washington.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24

proceeds of all security sales for a
specified time as an insurance against
fraud. These are doubtful expedi-
ents. A swindler would not hesitate
to sacrifice his bond and the 25 per
cent. insurance fund. because he
would still get away with the major
share of the booty. Honest vendors
might not object to the bond. but
they could not afford to give up for
an indefinite time so much as rs
per cent. of the proceeds of their
sales.
New York State has what is gen
orally conceded to be the model blue
sky legislation. It is embodied in
the Martin act, passed only last
spring after thorough investigation
of tho subject. The Attorney-General
is equipped with full power to inves-
.igate any stock or bond transaction
or prospective transaction where he
suspects fraud. He is not hampered
by any complicated licensing or bond
ing system. There is no interference
in honest transactions. But there is
double barreled. long range legal
field piece, loaded with severe penal
ties and ready for use whenever it
is needed.
In Mississippi, as elsewhere, vul-
lures on the investment landscape
are not transformed into harmless
doves simply by sprinkling salt on
their tails.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
Mockery Piled Upon Malice.

The famine situation in the Volga
region becomes worse rapidly. 1T
is CHASTITY" says Colonel Haskell,
director of American Relief Admins
tration work in Russia. where a
few months ago the people were dy-
ing by hundreds they are now dying
by thousands. In few months they
will be dying by hundreds of thou
sands. In the Saratov region the
bodies are being hauled away by the
CARLOAD"
1t was to relieve this horrible sit
uation that President HARDING rec
commended to Congress the sending
of 100000 bushels of corn to the
starving. The Senate and the House
passed a bill, which Mr.. HARDING
signed yesterday, going even further
than. the President suggested: appro-
priating $2O,0O0,o00 for grain.
Americans, knowing that the Volga
Basin has become a veritable hell
because of the failure of crops, may
have expected that there would be no
opposition in Congress to the Presi-
dents merciful appeal. But there
was. It came, with all the venom of
mean spirit, from Senator WATSON
Of Georgia Listen to him as he
tries to dissuade the Senators. He
says:
"It is the charity broker who has
made Russia's business his own. 1t
is HOOVER who wants to reestablish
that international charity work.
will oppose it to the very
end.
"As a Christmas gift from the
White House here in Washington
city let a cableeram go to ST. Peters
burg or to Moscow carrying the
Christmas t:dings OF the recognition
of their government. Then it would
be like the angel song the shepherds
heard on the plains Of Judea."
What a revelation this is of the
Watson character! LENINE and
TRoTzKY and their colleagues in the
Soviet oligarchy are not raising
finger to feed the millions of Rus
sian starving; that is why America
must help as many as it can reach.
But WATSON of Georgia, while oppos-
ing the gift of food to people in
torture, pleads unctuously for the
crew that has betrayed and enslaved
them!
In the art of piling mockery upon
malice Senator WATSON OF Georgia
is without peer.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
The Dali Eireann's Recess.

On this side of the Atlantic there
is regret among the friends of Ire
land that Christmas will pass with
out the ratification OF the treaty es-
tablishing the Irish Free State. The
delay, however, must be attributed
to policy which the advocates of
the treaty consider wise. They are
letting the members of the Dali
Eireann return to their homes and
their constituents for the holidays;
and in that period the members will
learn how their people feel.
So the recess is in itself encour-
aging. COLLINS and GRIFFITH, who
probably could have summoned a
majority for the treaty in the Dali,
must believe that the visit of the
members to their homes will make
the majority even greater. Then too
the Collins strategy has permitted a
lot of steam to be blown off. 1t
emerged as comparatively cool vapor,
the irreconcilables being unable to
offer any practical and peaceful alter
native to the treaty.
AS an illustration of the popular
support on which the Collins party
relies nothing could be more illumi-
mating than the text of a resolution
adopted by the County Council of
Clare, district which Mr.. DE VA
LEgA is supposed to represent:
Rejection OF the treaty would be
almost certain to involve us in war
of annihilation. because our people
will be divided and because world
opinion. instead of being with us, as
at present, will be against u.s."
This is an argument which must
give even the confirmed republicans
of Ireland pause. And yet the treaty
will appeal to most Irishmen for finer
reasons than these. They will advo-
cate it not because the alternative is
war but because it raises Ireland to
q great place among the nations-a
place as high as that which is held
to-day by proud Canada or ambitious
Australia.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24

may be located, and of course IL this
is true the days of the old time pros
pector for silver or gold or other
metal deposits will be at an end and
the wireless operator will be able to
reveal the treasures hidden in the
mountains, and so have the key to
wealth that staggers the imagination
of man. However 1t may be as re-
spects CHAyKo's claim to be able to
direct messages to particular spot,
there seem to be reasons for doubt
ing the assertion that metal deposits
in mountains may be detected by
wireless as readily as. for instance,
dentist can reveal by X-rays decay
at the root of tooth or a physician
determine the exact location Of a
bullet in human body.
Yet all things seem possible to sci
ence in these days. German chem
lists even claim to have discovered
the secret of making gold; but in
this case there is greater reason for
skepticism than in the case of the
Ukrainian inventor. Had any Ger
man. really discovered the secret
dreamed of by the alchemists Of the
Middle Ages it is scarcely probable
he would have trumpeted forth his
discovery, at least until he had made
sufficient gold to supply himself and
perhaps also to pay off Germany's
huge debt of reparations. In the
same manner CHAYKo would hardly
be expected to reveal his secret of
finding deposits of precious ores un-
til he had enriched his country and
himself. Like many other dreams Of
inventors. these two announcements
will probably serve no other useful
purpose than to make chemists and
wireless experts alive to certain pos
sibilities in the science in which they
are adopts. Yet even that might be
service of no little value eventu-
ally to mankind.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
CELEBRATIONS FOR AIKEN.
Sojourners Are Opening Their
Homes for Christmas Holidays.

Special Dispatch to THE New YoliS HERALD.
AIKEN, S. c., Dec. 23.-Preparations
are being made for many Christmas
celebrations here. Mr.. John L. Todd
and two children of Montreal have
joined Mrs. Todd at Willcox's for the
holidays.
Invitations have been issued for the
annual Christmas dance and supper to
take place at the Highland Park Hotel
next Friday evening.
Mrs. Byron Watson OF Providence.
r. l., and three daughters have ar
rived at Willcox's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Giraud Foster have
opened Orange Grove, their winter
home. Giraud Foster, Jr.. will arrive
from Groton tomorrow to join them
over the holiday,
Mrs. Archibald Brown and family of
New York have arrived at Cherokee
cottage for the winter.
Miss Edith Hope Iseln has left for
New York to spend Christmas with
her parents. The Iselins have delayed
opening Hopelands until January 5.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ince of Toronto
and Mrs. Frances w. Bird of East
Walpole. Mass, have arrived at the
Palmetto Inn.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Taft Pitlkin
Of Hartford have opened their cottage.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
Jeritza in Korngolds Die Tote Stadt'
Large Audience at the Metropolitan Hears New
Opera Again

George W. Wickersham were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs August Belmont in Box A.
Mrs. Whitney Warren. Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis X. Pendleton. Mrs. James B.
Duke and Mr. Frank A. Munsey formed
the party In Box 1.
With Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White In
box IT were Mr.. and Mrs. f. Egerton
Webb. Mrs. Lawrence Townsend and
Mr.. Rawlins Lowndes Cottenet.
The party In box 80 included Mr.. and
Mrs. John Henry Hammond. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Olaf Hotter and Miss Emily
s. Hammond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer and Mr..
J.. Louis Webb were with Mrs. w.
Seward Webb in box 20.
The guests of Mrs. Richard Gambrill
In box 20 were Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Hastings and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter e.
Maynard.
/, Others In the audience were Miss
Georgine Iselin, Mr.. and Mrs. Anson
Wood Burchard. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Cooper Bryce. Miss Helen M. Moran,
Mr.. Francis Roche. Miss Madeleine Lie
bert. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Carroll Mar
tin and Mr.. Alexander NJ. Hadden.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
BY w. J. HENDERSON.

Erich Wolfsang Korngold's opera.
"Die Tote Stadt." was given once more
at the Metropolitan Opera House last
evening. The performance was attended
by large audience. which was evidently
we'll pleased. The interest of the as
sembly seemed to be centered upon the
impersonation OF the naughty Marietta
New York debut in this part. The prima
donna was In good voice and also In
good spirits. II was not possible to de-
tect any material change In her imper-
sonation. It was Just as brilliant and
skillfully colored as 1t was when first
revealed.
Orvllle Harold as Paul, the devoted
husband of a dead wife. again deserved
well of his countrymen. 1t may be true
that he is not an ideal Paul. but it would
be an active and ingenious imagination
that would construct one. He is prob
ably like the elusive Mrs. Harris: 'Thero
amt no sich pusson." The music Of
Paul is painfully trying and 1t Is to
Mr.. Harrolds credit that he can sing 1t
at all. To say that he sings much of 1t
well is to indulge In one of those radiant
bursts of enthusiasm which are under
estimated by the artist and unnoticed
by the public.
There is also Mr.. laurent as the
Pierrot, who sings a small sized sere-
made with a large sized art. He has
received much applause for this senerade
and--mirabile dictu--he continues to
sing it well. He employs the same dis
Greet volume of tone and the same
finished phrasing. This young man
should arrive somewhere in time, pro-
vided he perseveres in his refusal to lose
his artistic poise.
The other members Of the cast Of last
evening were those who appeared in the
first performance of "Die Tote Stadt."
The opera was generally well done and
Mr Bodanzky again conducted with au-
thority.
1t has been noticeable to inveterate
followers of performances in the Met
ropolitan that the patrons of the house,
particularly those who sit in boxes, are
more prompt in reaching their seats at
certain performances than they were
during the early days of the season at
Broadway and Fortieth street. Persons
who make a study of the psychology of
crowds actuated by common impulse
will be able easily to find the solution.
whereas III the past lew Oh tne par
terre boxes would be occupied at the
opening Of a performance, the reverse
was true last night when the curtain
went up at quarter after eight o'clock
on the first act Of die Tote Stadt."
with Nine. Maria Jeritza again in the
cast. and the feature of the prompt as
sembly of last nights spectators that
would interest the psychologist was the
fact that every person in parterre
box at that time was man.
Perhaps" observed a director of the
opera company; sit is because the crowd
finds delight in seeing an actress sing"
Prince and Princess Miguel de Bra
ganza and Mr.. and Mrs. Beverley Bo-
CERT were with Mrs. Frederick Pearson
in Box 2.
With Miss Sarah Schuyler Butler in
Box IL. with her parents. DR.. and
Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler, have for
certain of the Friday nights, were Miss
Iris Cutting, granddaughter of Mrs. w.
Bayard Cutting, and Mr.. and Mrs. Snow
den A. Fahnestock.
DIR. and Mrs. Butler and Mr.. and Mrs.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
The Broken Sword.
Protests Against the Symbol on the
New Silver Dollar.

To THE New York HERALD: Your edi-
torial article "The Broken Sword" Is
most commendable and I wish that every
American could read II and be spurred
to protest against the coming of a new
silver dollar in the design recently ap-
proved by the Fine Arts Commission.
AS the article pointed out the broken
sword is not proper type of symbolism
to convey the idea of coming era of
peace or of Americas part in the
armament conference. A brolIen sword
has ever conveyed the idea of loss of
power or defeat. This Is by no means
Americas present position. Neither
America as a nation nor Americans as
individuals will ever sheathe or break
their swords until the colossal purpose
for which this nation was Conceived
and brought forth" Is accomplished.
We hear the cry of Peace! Peace 70
but there shall be no peace until the
qualities in the human mind which cause
wars have been destroyed. Neither a
disarmament conference, a league of ma
tions nor a nine Power treaty can ever
bring about peace while the disturbing
elements remain. No i'll can be healed
except by removing the cause.
The artist who conceived the design
for the new dollar denies that the broken
sword means defeat. We will accept his
good intentions but not his viewpoint.
At the present hour Americans do not
want any such questionable form of
symbolism on either currency or coins.
The warfare between democracy and au-
tocracy has not yet ceased and the
sword of Washington and Lincoln shall
neither be sheathed nor broken, even In
type, until Christ reigns universally in
the hearts of men. Then 'they shall
learn to make war no more" Americas
sword is. symbolic of the sword of
Truth-the Word of God. which decapi-
tates evil. Christ Jesus said Think
not that I am come to send peace on
earth: 1 came not to send peace but
sword"
Americas symbolism has ever been
founded on tho highest Scriptural ideals,
and her birth and development were, are,
due to the awakened Christ In the con-
sciousness of men. Shall we permit
these cherished ideals to be reversed or
perverted by the misconceptions OF some
foreign artist who has not yet dis
cerned the full meaning Of American
ism? Let Americans awake from their
lethargy and think again after the order
of the great emancipators. Then they
will cease to be blinded by subtle soph-
istries and the arguments of passive toll
erance. PATRIOT.
NEw Yong December %.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
Ben Franklin's Birthday.
A Celebration, Not Holiday, Was
Proposed by Mr.. Smythe.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Your
editorial comment that call proposals
for new holidays had best be laid on
the table" has my hearty Endorsement.
May l further say that no effort has
been made, nor was any ever contem-
plated. to make January II, the birth
day of Benjamin Franklin, either a ma
tional or State holiday? 1t is regrettabls
that a misunderstanding has arisen.
am the author and proposer of the
resolution unanimously adopted at the
annual meeting of the Sons of the Revo-
luton, held December at Fraunces
Tavern. The memorial follows:
Whereas Benjamin Franklin's birthday
deserves attention by grateful posterity,
Resolved. The Sons of the Revolution in
the State of New York urge the Govern
ment Of the United States. patriotic and
similar societies, annually on January II.
to pay tribute to the memory OF Poor
Richard. who was printer. publisher.
philosopher. publicist. philanthropist and
primarily n patriot
Resolved. This society requests the
board CT managers to prepare plans to
celebrate next month the 200th anniver-
sary of the beginning. In Boston, of
Franklin's editorial career.
The proposal to honor DIR. Franklin
on his birthday has also had the off,
cial Endorsement of the national organ
ization OF the Daughters of the Revo-
luton and the Empire State Society of
the Sons OF the American Revolution.
Printers associations. advertising
clubs and similar groups are already
natal anniversary. This patriotic move
ment deserves enthusiastic support from
press and public.
]. HENRY SMYTHD, Jr.
NEW YORK, December 20.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
Under the Mlstletoe.

She stood beneath the mistletoe,
The shaded lights were burning low:
The time was Christmas Eve, you know
And she had never had a beau.
our conversation ceased to flow,
/ sensod the psychic undertow
And felt sudden panic grow;
My knees were wabbling to and fro.
I saw her eyes expectant glow.
She thought a kiss | would bestow.
I heard without the wild winds blow.
The rattle Of the slecty snow,
! took my hat---I wasn't slow
knew that II was time TO go,
She stood beneath the uistletoe.
MINNA IRvfNG.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
Broken Things as Symbols of Defeat
or Failure.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: 1t Is USE
less for the supporters of the broken
sword design to argue that the symbol
refers to peace. Any broken symbol re-
fers to defeat or failure in some sense.
Consider the broken shepherds staff
the emblem of lost sheep or outcasts
the broken column, the grim symbol of
death; the broken pitcher, the symbol
of utter failure.
A student of heraldry. of Freemasonry
of symbolism in art, Of the Bible, will
readily quote many instances. Take
for instance, the eighth and ninth verses
of the seventy-s!xth Psalm. The bearer
OF broken bow or spear is defeated.
Again in Hosea l., s. the same use of
the symbol is found.
/ cannot understand why the artis.
should have made such a disappointing
error. AMERICAN.
NEW YORK, December 23.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24
Taxis in Fifth Avenue.
Those Seeking Fares One Cause of
the Congestion of Traffic.

To THE New York HERALD: In refer
ence to Mr.. Harriss's plan for parking
cars, i would like to ask IL 1t has oc-
Cured to the authorities that the con-
gestion in traffic is largely due to empty
taxis.
Recently in one block on Fifth ave.
nue. around 8 o'clock I counted twenty
empty taxis soliciting customers. II the
proposed tunnel was used for taxis,
where anybody could call UP and or
der them. It might be great relief for
private cars.
If shopper stopped in a store for
n few moments and then had to wait for
his or her car to come from Fifty-ninth
street II would certainly interfere with
the sales Of the shops.
PRIVATE OWNER.
NEW YORK, December %.
The New York herald., 1921-12-24

1t does not take much knowledge Of
politics and life to enable one to give
the answer. / do think, however. that
the avalanche of falsehood and abuse
heaped on the head of President Cleve-
land and Secretary Whitney was almost
the worst and most inexcusable ever wit
messed in our history. and all of 1t pro-
ceeded from the fact that they simply
protected the interests Of the country
and Of the navy, nothing more. Per-
haps 1t is not too late, even yet, to
labor for the right and the truth.
BROOKLYN, December %. d. G.