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The New York herald., 1921-11-30
Romance of Tailoring.
An Ancient Law Against Aping Ones
Betters.

From the Manchester GldYdlan.
w. D. r Vincent, editor OF the Tailor
and Gutter, who traced the history of
tailoring before the London Tailors' So
ciety. claimed that It was older than the
world" It Is OF Divine origin, poets pro-
claim II and philosophers assent It,"
Proceeding from the Garden Of Eden to
Egypt Mr.. Vincent gave. with some show
OF being doubtful Of the wisdom Of doing
so, an account of tho 10000 income a
Queen of Egypt drew for pin money.
mot a small allowance" he commented,
"and II our wives wanted anything ap-
preaching It we should have to consider
seriously before we left the ranks Of the
bachelors" Mr.. Vincent expressed regret
that living In a world where moth and
rust doth corrupt" we cannot gaze upon
some OF the garments made in those days,
but fortunately, he said, some Of the old
est records remain In carved stone.
Mr.. Vincent's next subject was the
Sumptuary Laws. There Is" he said,
abundant evidence that in all ages
beautiful clothing has been very much
sought after. and in many ages the rank
Of the wearsr has been indicated by the
style Of his Dress: so that It Is no new
thing for q man or woman to endeavur
to appear TO belong to a better class OF
society than Is actually the case, which
leads them to spend vast sums on their
apparel beyond what they are able TO
pay. This led the passing of laws
to prevent extravaganza in dress and
other ways"
We arc told that they abounded in
ancient legislation. So long ago az 450
b. c. they are to be traced, while Solon's
"Guide to Grecian Laws and the his
tory Of the Roman censors show that
they exercised the most careful super
vision Of expenditure, not only in the
matter OF clothing but in the question
Of entertainments and private expendi-
ture. Sumptuary laws were in great
favor in England IN the thirteetth CEN
tury. when law was passed that ''ali
who did not enjoy free estate OF E100
rer annun were prohibited from wear
ing furs, skins or silk. Sumptuary laws
Of England reached their climax In the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, when two
watchers or inspectors were appointed
for every parish. armed with schedules
OF all persons assessed to the later SUBJ
6idy OF f2o per annum. or who owned
1900 In goods and upward, In order to
SEQ that prohibition against all elk
trimmings was obeyed."
Before dismiss the subject / must
not forget little story" Mr.. Vincent
added. "of how a nobleman revenged
himself on conmoner who copied him
He learned from his tailor that this man
had placed an order for a suit to be
made the same in every detail as the
next one ordered by himself, whereupon
he placed an order for one made of
the worst materials, all cut up into
shreds. The order was duly executed
and the poor commoner had to pay for
the suit without being able to wear It."
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
Outlaw Weapons.
The Sullivan Law In Practice and
the Use of Submarines.

To THE New YORK HERALD: A few
years ago the Legislature Of this State
enacted that "any person over the aSa
of 10 years who shall have In his pos
session in any city. village or town OF
this State any pistol. revolver or other
firearm Of size which may be concealed
upon tho person without written
license therefor shall be guilty
Of q misdsmeanor. and X he has been
previously convicted Of any crime he
shall be guilty Of felony" (Section
1897, Penal Law.)
This outlawad tho municipal supmer-
eible, and to make It easy Of enforce
ment it was provided that tho posses.
sion of such weapons was ''presumptive
evidence Of carrying or concealing or
possessing with intent TO use the same
In violation Of this article" (Section
1sss.) OF course the man intent on
committing one crime against society
does not hesitate TO make use OF tha
unlawful means Of accomplishing this
purpose. while the existence Of the stat
ute raises the legal and moral presunlp-
ton that the law abiding citizen Is un-
armed and wholly at the mercy of the
outlaw and his outlawcd implements.
The experience OF the last year would
seem to justify the conclusion that the
municipal submersiole Is still In use In
the substratum of society; that the war
fare against men and property has not
abated with the .outiawing Of the irnple-
ments OF such warfare. and I am won
dering IL much the same results might
not be anticipated II tho responsible gov
ernments OF tho world should agree to
abandon the use OF the submarine as an
engine OF defence, for which II is Pc
culiarly adapted.
Is 1t possible that tho United States
II attacked is not TO be at liberty TO use
all Of its force to rcpel invasion7 May
nation, under contract to protect It's
citizens, surrender the sovereign right
to perform this duty with any means at
its command? Tho end of SOW
ereignty," says the great Bur1amarvt 4
"is the preservation. the tranquility
md the happiness of the State, rs we'll
within itself as with respect TO It's In
terests abroad; so that sovereignty must
include everything that Is essentially
necessary for procuring this twofoid
end" and it would be an invasion OF
this sovereignty TO restrict the power OF
the Congress in carrying on war
Is not the real problem the develop
ment OF world public opinion, grad
ual, rational and cumulative In its oper-
alton. which will make war itself dis
reputable, rather than the means by
which wars are carried on? II The con-
ference az washington has ths good
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tion to say that Congress in framing
the tax bill should have taken it's
cue from the Administrations wise
monetary policy affecting interest
rates. But If Congress had done so
the demand for Liberty bonds woul,l
have been still further stimulated and
their prices enhanced. The problem Of
stabiiizing investment values, espe-
cially in State and municipal issues,
would have been rendered far less
difficult than II is now bound to be
with each change in the incidence OF
Federal taxes.
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or Bremen were Mrs. Granville Altman.
Mr.. Oscar r. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
E. Clegg and their two small sons. Mr..
Steven +. CoiIoday. Mr.. George b. Cor
mick. Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Frey, Mt.
Ernest r. Henderson. MIR. and Mrs. X.
A. Hopkins, Mr. snd Mrs. Alexander #.
o. I.assberg, Mr.. Albert Malsin and
Mrs. y. A. MCMILLAN.
Returning yesterday by the Touraine
Of the French Line were Mr. and Mrs.
Andre Polah. the former Belgian
violinist, who will appear with the Mo-
zart Society next Saturday. and the
latter formerly Gwendolyn I.e Gallienne.
daughter Of Richard lie Galiienne. They
will go to tholr studio at East Twelfth
street Mrs. Polah has been painting
portraits in England. Frence and Hoi-
land and viii have an exhibit here.
The Marquis and Marquise De La
Tourette arrived to visit friends during
tho holidays
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
MIR. AND MRS. MORGAN
SAILING FOR HOME
Among Americans Returning
on Board the Olympic.

Special Cabs TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1921. by THY New York HaRALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London. Nov. 20.
Leaving Southampton for New York
aboard the steamship Olympic of the
White Star Line tomorrow will be Mr..
and Mrs. J. Ioierpont Morgan, Sir
Douglas Alexander, Mrs. William u.
Corey. Lieut.. Robert S. Dunn U. 8. n. /;
Miss Nellie Elliott. Mr.. Joseph III.
Emery. Mrs. J. Curtis Gilman, Mr.. and
Mrs. Prenties N. Gray and family. Mr..
McLane Van Ingen. Mr.. Herbert Van
Ingen and Miss Livingston Willard.
Leaving Liverpool for New York by
the steamship Baltic OF the White Star
Line Tomorrow will be Mr.. and Mrs
Wilbur 7. Earl and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross Amber Curran. Mr.. and Mrs.
James G. Dunn and family, the Messrs.
L. o. and J. L. Foltz. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Marshall Hrs. Hamilton Muir
ray and daughter Miss Murray; Brig
Gen. w. J. Nicholson, U. S. A., and Mrs.
Nicholson. Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander T..
Roberts and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank l..
Simpson.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30

with treaties in advance Of the underly-
Ing and natural public opinion of the
world. and adjourns arnicably to meet
another day. It will have accomplished
moro for peace than all the leagues since
the dawning Of creation. "a journey
OF thousand miles," says a Chinese
proverb. "begins with one STEP"
We have taken that step: motion TO
adjourn is always in order.
BENJAMIN S. DEAN.
JAMESTOWN, November 30.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
Bonds and Bank Rates.

There could be no more convincing
Endorsement OF the wise monetary
course followed in recent months by
the Washington Administration than
the recovery which has taken place
and is still in progress in the mar
ket prices of Liberty bonds and Vic
tory notes. At the beginning of the
current fiscal year on July l the
Liberty 31as were selling at $500
for S100 bond they are now sell
ing at S96.36. The first As. have in
the same time risen from SS7 for a
s10O bond to s97; the second as from
ss6.sO to virtually s96; the first Ans
from .sS7.40 to $3.50; the second
4As from $3.50 to s97; the third
4hs from S91 to $3.50; the fourth
4As from SS7.24 to ss7.44; the Vic
tory 4a4s from s9s.22 to s10o, and
the Victory 3%s from S9s.40 TO
S99.sS.
This rise is due mainly TO the
timely reduction of rediscourt rates
at the Federal Reserve banks. which
began with the marking down from
Z TO per cent. of the commercial
bill rate of the central bank at Bos-
ton. This action forced lower inter
est rates and lower wages for cap
ital all over the world.
Realization that interest rates were
doomed, no matter whether the full
course of defation had been COM
pleted or had still a long period to
run, had just the opposite effect on
the bond market to what sharp
drop in prices would have in the
mercantile world. 1t hoisted bond
prices and enhanced the credit OF
the Government as we'll as Of all
sound business.
When the Boston bank first re-
duced its rediscount rate bond bar
gains were as numerous as warts on
q toad and at THAI time apparently
es uninviting to investors. But sue
cessive reductions in bank rates at all
tho Federal Reserve banks, at tho
Bank OF England, in France. Sweden.
Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Aus
tria. Czecho-Slovakia and even in In
dia soon made IL obvious that lower
wages for capital were not merely q
passing phase of readjustment local
10 this country. Bond bargains were
scooped up right and left. Liberty
bonds led the procession. Other Gov.
crnmont bonds followed. New indus
trial bonds were gobbled UP. The In.
vestment appetite seemed. and still
seems, Unsuitable.
There is only one blot on this
cheerful record of recovered values.
Taxes are so high and of such ma
ture as to drive large percentage OF
Investment funds into State and mr.
nicipal tax exempt securities. The
opportunities of this situation were
so palDable that, as former Senator
DEvERrDGE recently declared, every
State, town. county and political sub
division has been invited and even
urged to issue bonds, the proceeds TO
ljo spent not by rule or rood of econ
omy but according to political expe.
dent.
" may be vain counsel Of perfec.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
Vanderlip's Foreign Debt Plan.

FRANK VANDERLIP's proposal that
the interest on the money owed the
United States Treasury by Allied
Governments be not paid over to us
directly and finally but be put In
definitely to specific economic uses
abroad to be determined by US is
ingenious. idealistic and interesting.
1t is not convincing.
The vanderlip plan is based on the
theory. for example, that Great Brit
ain and France, who owe the great
bulk of the debt due us. should
be held to their obligations; that
they will be able to pay in
terest on them, but that our own
country would suffer industrial ca
lamity II the goods in payment OF
half a billion dollars Of interest q
year should come piling in here on
top of all the other exports Europe
will send to US.
But to THE NEW YORK HERALD 1t
seems a self-evident fact that the
worlds surplus commodities to the
limit OF every country's exporting ca
pacity will long be drawn to US any
how, by as certain force as the law
Of gravity. They will all centre upon
us to the maximum of possibility be.
cause we hold the bigger part OF the
gold supply Of Christendom. because
the American purchasing power Is
still incomparably greater than any
other and because American produc-
tion costs are 80 high that our mar
kets will be the easiest as well as
the richest for them to capture.
AS long as our costs are SO exces-
sive. obviously our destiny is to be the
dumping ground Of surplus produc-
tion from abroad, foreign interest
payments or no interest payments,
with no chance for anything to keep
foreign goods from flooding the Amer.
lean market except tariff wall as
high as the Woolworth Building. But
such q lofty tariff wall the American
people would not stand for and should
not stand for.
The light IN which Mr.. WANDER
LIPS foreign debt plan may appeal
at first sight to some imaginations is
where it proposes that while the
solvent debtors scrape UP the inter.
est owed to us they would not be
asked to pay 1t over to US to their
own exhaustion and hurt. Some
of it, under his scheme, We should
let them keep for financing their own
needy industries OF enterprises; some
Of It we should direct them to hand
over to the industries or enterprises
of other nations. We should have
the interest used, in a word. not at
all on ourselves but wholly and In.
definitely on others.
But neither does this feature Of
the plan, as THE New YORK HERALD
sees it, meet the test Of sound analy-
sis. If the debtor nations can pay the
interest, and II it is desirable that
they pay it, then the thing for them
to do is to pay it directly to us where
It is Owed and where it first belongs
If it belongs anywhere. Then il this
country chooses to let the money out
again, to whatever nation or for
whatever purpose, the satisfactory
way to do so would be as an entirely
new and separate transaction. That,
however, ia another question.
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The New York herald., 1921-11-30

who afterward became famous stage
beauty Il see by the paper, . said
NIKE reminiscently, that she says
she doesn't eat fifty cent dinners.
Well. she ate twenty-five cent ones
here in my resta I-ant."
JOHN l.. SUILIvAN--"he was then a
fine. slim, young lad and didn't drink
drop"--ate his first New York din
ner at Lyonss. Inspector BYRNEs
would not infrequently about mid
night walk over from Police Head
quarters, then at 800 Mulberry street,
with a headquarters reporter. II
can most always see familiar face"
he remarked. At a table not far
away from where sat two OF his
famous sleuths. O'BRIEN and Nc
CAuIEY, were "Blinky" MORGAN,
Red" HAwLEY, the most adroit OF
oldtime pickpockets, and TIM OATES,
master badger worker Of the town.
LYONS was an optimist. His creed
was that ''even a bum was all right
IL he wasn't bum all through" He
instituted and kept up bread liue
at the back door that lasted the life
of his restaurant. He used to declare
that he was never defrauded Of Q
cent Of money he lent. His friends
said he would have been a millionaire
several times over II that was true.
MIKE was born in Louisiana, he
fought with the Louisiana Tigers in
the civil war and when he retired he
went South to pass his last days. But
the lure Of New York drew him back
and he died here in his 18th year.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
The Exchange.

Esau sold his birthrisht FOR mess OF
pottsse.
III was trying Co 60 my Christmas shop
ping early" he crisd.
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The New York herald., 1921-11-30

II SHINES we're cut out of the news
from Germany the cable companies
would lose a lot OF revenue.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
LOCAL WEATHER RECORD.
THO tefnperaturo IN THIS city yesterday
Is recorded by the official Thermometers. !,
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Highest temperature, "a, at { p.
Lowest temperature. 81. at 3 A.
Average temperature. 3S.
The New York herald., 1921-11-30
Japan in the Conference.

NOVEMBER SO, 1921.
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1921-1923, 1921-05-12
Nenana Train Schedule

Trains leave Nenana for the end
of steel four times week-on
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1921-1923, 1921-05-12
WHY GERMANY CAN PAY

Enormous and still increasing
profits, compared with those made
in 1914, are being made in the
German coal, iron, machinery, tex
tile paper, glass and electrical i'll
dustries, according to an article
which recently appeared in the
Dusseldorf Lokal Zeitung.
The paper quotes the reports Of
numerous companies, among them
being one manufacturing copper
and brass tubing and plate, at
Duisburg, which paid dividend OF
"a per cent and bonus of 20 per
cent. Its shares which were quoted
in Berlin at 157 at the end of 1919,
are now $50.
"A IL per cent dividend declared
by the Kammgarn Spinning Works
of Dusseldorf was only ten per
cent of the profits earned, says the
German newspaper. In the ten years
previous, this company had regular
ly declared dividend of only eight
per cent.
A similar company declared in
1920 a dividend of 20 per cent, as
compared with one of IL per cent
in the three preceding years. =.
The writer of the article points
out that but for the evidence OF
such figures Germany could more
effectively have resisted the de-
mands of her opponents that she
make full PREPARATION to the Allies
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1921-1923, 1921-05-12

summer for the first time since
receiving his appointment as chief
many years ago. The reindeer in
dustry has made Roadway, it is
true, but the enterprise of private
owners in the Nome district has
been very largely responsible for
recent developments Little else was
to have been expected under the
system of long-range supervision.
The creation of development
board might not improve these and
other bureau conditions which need
fixing, but it could scarcely do less
for the territory than has been
accomplished under the present
system. 1t would be in the nature
of an experiment, as Colonel Jones
suggests, but not more so than the
kind of administration which has
been imposed upon Alaska in the
past. Alaskans are ready to take
a chance.
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1921-1923, 1921-05-12
GOLD DISCOVERIES EXCITE
INTEREST IN OLD SCOTLAND

GLASGOW, May 12-Rumors of
gold discoveries in Scotland are re-
newed, but, while interest in the
finds is growing, there have been
no stampedes thus far to the spots
where the discoveries are reported
to have been made :..s. -: ..:3
That the precious metal is to be
found in this country has from time
to time been shown by discoveries
in Kildonan, Sutherlandshire and
Lanarkshire, but the quantity sell
dom has been equal to the cost
of extracting it.
Gold thus far been found in al
luvial deposits but the miners be-
lieve that gold-bearing reef ex-
lists in the country, as pieces of
quartz containing gold have been
picked up at different times.
In past centuries, notably the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth, gold was
found in Lanarkshire sufficient to
make crowns for monarchs, and
bowls, sometimes empty, sometimes
filled with coins minted from the
same source, were presented to
foreign and friendly sovereigns.
There was rush to Kildonan in
the Sixties of the last century and
some hundreds of prospectors flood
ed the district.
The present gold rumors come
chiefly from the Lowther Hills, in
Lanarkshire, where for centuries
lead mining has been the occupation
of the villagers of Wanlockhead and
Leadhills. In ancient times the dis
trict was known as Goods Treasure
House" because considerable gold
was discovered there.
For some months a wage dispute
has made the miners idle and they
have spent their time in the burns
and hollows searching for gold,
washing the soil in wooden troughs
and occasionally finding gold in
small quantities.
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ENGLAND TO TRY AGAIN
TO SALvE LOST TREASURE

LONDON, May 12-Another at
tempt is to be made this summer
by the Admiralty to recover the re-
mainder of the bullion lost when
the armed liner Laurentic was mined
and sunk off the north coast of
Ireland in 1917.
The salvage vessel, Racer, to-
gether with the Canadian drifter
No. 1, will undertake the salvage
work for the fourth summer.
The Laurentic went down in 20
fathoms 12O feet) of water, four
miles off the coast of Donegal, car
rying gold bars to the value of be-
tween 10 and Is million dollars.
Four years of pounding by At
lantic gales has reduced the wreck
to a shapeless mass and each year
the work has been more difficult
Last summer the divers found that
about $50 tons of hull and deck
plates had settled on the strong
room, where the gold was stored,
breaking it in. The result was that
only about $4,000 was recovered,
compared with a million and a
quarter the previous year.
After the winter storms the
divers expect to find the wreckage
covered with gravel and silt, which
has to be cleared away with pumps.
Then the steel plates and girders
must be cut away.
The Racer is now equipped, in
addition to every possible contriv.
ance for aiding divers, with ere
compression chamber" A diver can
reach the bottom in half a minute
but after prolonged immersion at
20 fathoms below the surface. half
an hour has to be allowed for rails
ing him because, if brought up too
quickley, he is likely to collapse.
The great pressure at 20 fathoms
saturates the system with nitrogen
gas but in the decomposition cham.
! Der the nitrogen caa be eliminated
gradually.
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1921-1923, 1921-05-12
ARE PARLORS NECESSARY?
MOOTED ENGLISH QUESTION

LONDON, May 12--The question
whether a parlor is a necessary
part of a workingman's house has
caused heated argument among a
number of the local councils or
ganized to promote building of
such homes in the industrial centers
Of England.
Many women members of these
councils argue that the working.
mans daughters need parlors in
which to receive their callers dur
ing the counting period. Those OPP
posed declare that the workingman's
"best ROOM is little more than a
cemetery for wax flowers"
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1921-1923, 1921-05-12
SOMETHING is NEEDED

1t may be true. as claimed "
Colonel Jones in his statement be-
fore the hopse committee on ter
ritories this week, THAT conditions
in Alaska can be improved without
recourse to development board
such as has been proposed by Con-
gresham Curry; but the fact re-
mains that conditions have not been
improved under the present system
of bureaucratic control. Heads of
bureaus, perhaps, are more active
now than they were once, but it
is only since the Curry plans be-
came known that they bestirred
emselves-spurred into action, it
would appear, by fear of loss of
authority. And should the Curry
bill fail of passage, what assurance
have we that bureau chiefs will
not lose their interest so rudely
awakened?
The Alaska fisheries, which Col.
Jones says should not be entrusted
to the supervision of the proposed
development board, have been looted
by Outsiders under bureau rule,
without thought of future supply,
without adequate returns in revenues
to the federal government and with
out consideration for the interests
of Alaskans.
Nothing was done by bureau
chiefs to encourage the use of
Alaska timber for wood pulp until
agitation had become general for
relief from repressive restrictions
imposed by those in authority, and
the bureau system is failing now to
insure American investors the op-
portunity to realize on their invest
ments in machinery and mill equip
ment.
The head of the Biological Sur.
vey, having jurisdiction over the
reindeer herds and wild game OF
Alaska, visited the territory last
The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1921-1923, 1921-05-12
MT. RAINIER WINS

WASHINGTON, D. c., May -
The National Geographic Board has
voted unanimously to retain the
name of Mount Rainier, instead of
giving Washington's celebrated and
long-disputed- peak the name of
Lincoln. The proposal to change had
been under consideration for some
time.
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