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The New York herald., 1921-02-15
Miss Brock in Songs.

Miss Eleanor Brock, a colorature So
prano, who has toured in concerts
with Bonci and been announced here
several times during the last two sea-
sons, was finally heard in recital at
Aeolian Hall yesterday afternoon. If
the young woman had a better technic
supported by firmer control of breath
she would be a quite rkable singer
of her genre. Her natural voice.
light one. often beautifully produced
in the upper range, is usually sweet
and clear and true to pitch.
Miss Ellen Ballon, who was heard as
a prodigy pianist in Mendelssohn Hall
in March, 1910, and recently as the So
loist in a Philharmonic concert, gave
recital at Aeolian Hall last night. She
gave a conventional programme, includ-
ing Tausig's arrangement Of a toccata
and fugue of Bach. Eeethoyen's G minor
variations and two pieces by her teacher.
Alberto Jonas-a caprccio and pas
torale--written in memory Of Scarlatu.
which we're heard for the first time
A delightful programme was provided
at the second of three subscription con-
certs given last night in Carnegie Hall
by the Alumni Association of the In
stitute of Musical Art for the benefit of
the Margaret McGili scholarship en-
dowment
The New York herald., 1921-02-15
IT, March on St. Augustine's.

There Is something mysterious.
something unexplained. in the demand
made Sunday evening 10y an organized
body OF men for sleeping accommoda-
tlons in the Sunday school rooms of
81. Augustine's Chapel OF Trinity
parish.
The rooms are unsuitable for the
accommodation of sleepers, and those
who applied for quarters in them
refused to accept tickets emitting
them TO beds or cots in Salvation
Army hotels or lodging houses. They
are represented rs having been cared
for elsewhere after the authorities Of
Trinity had declined 20 house !hem
IN the chapel. By the refusal Of their
leaders TO accept the lodgings offered
to them the applicants for shelter
were put in the situation Of pawns
in game and not OF sufferers in
an emergency.
Dr. MANNING, rector of Trinity, was
quoted yesterday as saying that 10 an
The New York herald., 1921-02-15
Mans Friend the Dog.

The annual show of the Westmin-
ster Kennel Club has long been a
metropolitan institution giving pleas
ure TO q great army of lovers of that
faithful friend of man, the dog. 1t
is pleasing, therefore, TO note that this
years three day show was successful
beyond the hopes Of its promoters.
Certain persons have an aversion
TO the cat. though there are others
who consider no freside complete
without tabby stretched in luxuri-
Gus comfort on the hearth, but 1t Is
exceedingly rare to find an individual
TO whom the dog does not appeal. The
collie or shepherd dog is more than
an aid to the sheep herder in his
solitary occupation. On dairy and
cattle farms this dog is Indispensable
in the control of the herds. The set
ter and the pointer are the delight OF
all those who love TO go afleld in the
the air ana the size Of the bag does
not count as much as the pleasure
derived from the work of the dogs.
There We're many fine types Of the
bird dog in this years show, while a
member of the spaniel tribe, useful as
a retriever and unexcelled as COM
panion in the field or at home, was
adjudged the best in the entire show.
1t was a splendid tribute to the
Cocker, which has host of friends.
There We're also many fine specimens
of the various terrier families, includ-
ing the Airedale, known as the zone
man dog" which has devoted fol-
lowing hailing him as the best all
round dog in the world, he being
capable of education in the field, while
as the guardian Of household he is
without peer. st. Bernards and
Great Danes, the leviathans Of their
tribe, had their admirers also, and so
had the toy and other small varie-
ties which are so popular with )men
and children. The police dog, so
called because Of his employment in
the safeguarding of suburban commu-
mites, is one Of the dog tribe which
has made friends in this country and
IS becoming popular especially in the
rural districts. where he is more ut
home than in urban surroundings.
The New York herald., 1921-02-15
Polish Violinist's Debut With Symphony
Paul Kochanski Heard in Concert in Tschakowsky and
Brahms With Orchestra and Makes Pleasant Impression

Hill as TeirdBl1Id and Mr.. Leonhardt as
the Herald We're the principals. The
music was generally well sung. The
chorus and orchestra shared in the
honors of the evening. Mr.. Bodanzky
conducted and again displayed fine un.
derstanding of the score and command
of his forces.
The audience was one OF the most
brilliant of the winter. The guests OF
Mrs Vanderbilt in box 81 were Princess
Eusenia Ruspoli. Mr.. and Mrs. James
Lowell Putnam and Messrs. Charles T..
Sampson and George Ledlie. With Mr..
and Mrs. Henry A. c. Taylor were Mrs.
Harold Brown and Mr.. william Rhine
lander Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Francis
X. Pendleton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles II.
Scott and Mr.. and Mrs. J. Frederic
Tams were in Mrs. Goelet's box.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White attended
the performance and with them We're
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Wallace Riddle, The party
in box 2 included Mrs. George l.. Rives
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick NJ, Goodwin. Mr.
and Mrs. Anderson Dana, Mr.. and Mrs
Reginald B. Rlves and Mr.. Frederick
Harrison Baldwin. With Mr.. and Mrs
Lewis L. Clarke We're the Duke and
Duchess de Richelieu. Mrs. William
Leonard Davis and Mr.. Franklin A.
Phlmmer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr,
were in box 3, accompanied by Miss
Katherine Mackay and Miss Grace Van
derbit. The party with Mr. Rufus IL.
Patterson included Mrs James y. Duke.
Mir. and Mrs. Felix u. Doubleday and
Mr.. and Mrs. W. De Lancey kountze.
Miss Rosa Raisa OF the Chicago Opera
was a guest of Mr.. Gatti-Ca sazza. Others
present We're Mr.. and Mrs. William
Goadby I4oew, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward f..
Hutton. Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius X. VII
merdng, Mr.. @. Louis Boissevain Mrs.
David Wagstaff. Mrs. Richard Mortimer,
Mrs. James p. Haggin, Miss Louise
Sands. Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Men. Ba-
con, DR.. Emanuel de Marney Barueh,
Miss Marion Carey Dinsnore and Mr..
and Mrs. Philip Kip Rhinelander
The New York herald., 1921-02-15
Houses, Not Laws, Needed.

There are housing bills IN the Al
bany Legislature by reams and bales.
There are amendments TO extract the
teeth from the existing statutes; there
are amendments to put more teeth
into them. There are new measures
to do what nobody has tried TO do
before: there are new measures to
make fresh start all over again.
There is every sort and variety OF
housing legislation.
But whatever the faults and fail
ures Of the laws now in operation,
nobody need expect that any changes
will 90 through to make the way
of the odious rent profiteer smoother
or more respectable Public opinion
is thoroughly behind the effort OF the
State to put him out Of business or
fix Il limit to his hateful practices.
The Legislature is going to stick TO
that purpose and the public is going
to back the Legislature up in it. even
though the housing shortage should
be made worse, not better, by such
policy and action.
Yet the fact remains that the only
way to remedy the housing shortage
is to build more houses. The short
age will continue with us ns long as
the building BUSINESS continues TO be
an uninviting investment field. The
- n IL
restriction and the other restriction.
this burden and the other burden, this
hazard and the other hazard more
and more drive surplus funds away
from real estate as an owning propo-
sition and from real estate mortgages
as lending proposition.
In the few weeks of It's activities
the Lockwood committee did more to
redeem the building business than all
the legislation Oh the statute books
of the State of New York. When 1t
exposed the contracting crooks and
the labor grafters it went straight to
the heart Of the problem. The cor
rupt practices which were doubling
the cost of building houses, doubling
the taxes Oh them, doubling the de-
probation and Insurance on them,
were bound not only 10 elevate rents
accordingly on those dishonesty built
houses, but TO stop construction else
where. The honest builder will not
do business in town where he must
Join band of thieves and rob the
public The honest wage Garner will
not work where he has to take up the
same filthy trade. Prudent money
will not go into such UNANIMOUSLY built
houses. Prudent money will not make
loans on them.
More housing laws or fewer hous-
ing laws. the Legislature will not
solve this problem, nobody will solve
il. unless the building business from
top to bottom is again put on an hon
est and a sound basis. IL labor will
do square work and contractors will
do square business, if government
spenders will get the taxes down, il
ali the interested forces will combine
to restore the conditions under which
putting money into houses again be-
comes a legitimate, safe and an at
tractlve investment proposition, CAPT
tai will flow TO IL freely without any
legal. moral or other pressure. Other
wise IL will not
The New York herald., 1921-02-15
Faults of State Roads.
Some Not Built to Resist Frost or
Heavy Trucks.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: During
q period of five years when l was super
intendent of the Board of Water Sup
ply police along the Aqueduct | had
occasion to make daily trips over our
State roads. which afforded me an op-
portunity to become familiar with the
methods employed in road construction.
As a consequence I have come TO the
conclusion that road construction in
some parts of our State for whca the
people pay many millions of dollars is
farce little short of a public scandal.
The fayorite method employed seems
to be about as follows: Excavate the
roadbed to depth of from eight to ten
inches cover the bottom of the exca-
vation with one layer of cracked blue
stone about the size of stove coal: fill
in the interstices with gravel or sand.
using liquid tar as binder; apply the
roller. &c.
THE method makes a nice looking
road, the durability of which. however,
does not correspond TO It's appearance.
In a very short time, especially after
frost, the roadbed begins to disinte-
crate; then the surface OF the road
cracks, and finally It is pitted with de-
pressions or potholes.
This state of affairs may be charged
to faulty construction. I am informed
that ID costs the State approximately
Sl2, 900 mile for new roads. The dura-
bility of a road depends mainly upon
it's foundation, which should be COM
posed of large and heavy pieces of
stone. preferably trap rock or granite
Even limestone is not hard enough.
Heavy trucking is without doubt a
contributing cause to our bad roads
have frequently seen large trucks with
their cushion tires and chains plough
deep burrows in a macadam road. espe-
cially in wet weather, A twenty horse
power truck with solid rubber tires will
do more damage to a road In one trip
than n sixty horsepower touring car
with pneumatic tires will do in a thou
sand trips.
A truck license costs only IS. while a
license for touring car costs SIS. AS
a truck does most damage to a road
why not charge more? Why not charge
according to weight instead OF horse
power? GEORGE Il. SHRApY.
NEW York, February IL.
The New York herald., 1921-02-15
They Get Market Reports From Their
Daily Newspapers.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Farmers
are not asking for $750.0o0 worth of
telegraphed market reports which some-
body in Congress is trying to give them,
and if farmer should receive such a
report 1t would go with the Government
free seeds--into the stove.
The money is asked for, no doubt, by
the people who are making the reports.
1t must be a pleasant occupation to copy
market reports from daily paper and
telegraph them to farmers.
II the standing army is to be reduced
to 1850 the sitting army should be
reduced also, and the farmers are will
ing TO have both armies reduced. Most
farmers have market reports in their
daily papers All of them have market
reports in farm papers. The Govern
ment market report isn't needed.
n. GLENNoN.
NEW MILFORD, Conn. February IA.
The New York herald., 1921-02-15

in Parliament. In the last two years
on policies and submitting them to
the people and 70 Parliament. LLOYD
GEORGE took careful heed that his
plans as submitted should as far as
possible combine the double quality
Of pleasing the nation while at the
same time advancing toward achieve
ment. Seldom was anybody able TO
submit any better counter proposals
that would accomplish these two
ends. But the time is drawing near
when Parliament and the people will
begin to demand an accounting of the
results of these policies. The Labor
party has regained some of its pres
tiee, and unemployment and unrest
will not help prove that all the poll
cies OF the Government have been for
the best.
The Cecil brothers, RoBEIT and
HUGH, have also to be reckoned with.
the former having left the Coalition
and gone over to the Opposition. He
could not countenance LLOYD Georges
frequent affronts TO the League OF
Nations, of which he Is the most ar
dent of supporters. This will afford
him frequent opportunities to hackle
the Government and perhaps force 1t
to a division Mt an unfavorable mo-
ment. If Mr.. AsoUITH reverts to his
advocacy of treaty modification he
also may be able to account for some
uncomfortable moments for the Gov
ernment by questioning the recent
indemnity decision Mt Paris.
1t would be exceedingly rash to
place unreserved confidence i'll the
predictions that LLOYD GEORGE is ap-
preaching his Waterloo. He will still
have a good Coalition majority De-
hind him. But his chances of re-
cruiting reserve votes from the Oppo-
sition have diminished, and he prob
ably knows that his slumbers in the
near future will not be passed ON a
bed of roses.
The New York herald., 1921-02-15
Women Voters Want to Know.

Tammany Halls decision to issue
a publication about itself and its fol-
lowers Is doubtless the result of the
entrance of women into politics.
In the old days the more silent a
political organization was the greater
impression it made on the majority
of its followers. CROKER was dumb
and MURPHY hasn't talked much.
They knew that the male voter liked
mystery better than explanation. IL
IA follower of Tammany Hall asked
questions about something that had
been done he was told that it was
"for the good of the organization"
This was handy paraphrase of the
stock excuse used by Police Commits
sioners these many decades: For
the good Of the service"
But woman, in politics as elsewhere,
is not dumb animal. She wants 10
know. More than that, she is going
to know. If the Boss puts up a
dummy of his own for leader in her
district she is not satisfied with that
good of the organization" stuff. Rea-
sons, please.
Mr.. MURPHY appears TO realize that
the women followers OF Tammany
HaH--and a large and respectable
group they are-must be kept in good
humor They are very useful TO Four
teenth Street. Recently, when a de-
posed district leader denounced MUIR
PLY for what he called his betrayal,
the Boss did not reply directly. He
let woman of the particular district
defend his action. That was good
politics. And if the women will work
hard for the organization their curl
osity about Tammany Halls doings
must to some extent be appeased.
Hence the Wigwam's willingness to
issue q house organ.
The New York herald., 1921-02-15

International Association Chiefs Of Police.
annual meeting. Hotel McAlpin. all day.
Fifth Avenue Association. annual meeting.
Hotel Biltmore, noon.
American Institute of Mining and Metal
lmrgieai Luz Engineers' annual 3n meeting. - west
Naval Auxiliary Reserve Post NO. 10,
American Legion. dance. Plaza Hotel.
PM.
James NJ. Beck will speak on The Histori-
cal Development of the Constitution Town
Hall, 1l3 West Forty-third street. $3.50 r. NJ.
DIR. Cha rles Il. Brown will lecture on 'Lin-
coin, the Greatest Man of the Nineteenth
Century" Cooper Union, L. NJ.
Testimonial dinner by the brooklyn Cham
ber OF Commerce to James Sherlock Davis.
Meeting OF the executive committee of the
Interboro Association of Women Teachers,
David w. Gentle Post and women's Auxil-
iary, meetings. 4o3 East 1fSd street. $50
New York Section Council of Jewirh
Women luncheon. Hotel Astor, Il 80 +. NJ
john Cowper Powys will lecture on The
Best and Worst Of Life In America Eliil-
{, ford (, Han, 80 East Forty-first street. S'So
Medical Society of Kings County. meeting
1913 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn. $50 =. ~
will discuss World Disarmament" Broad
way Tabernacle Forum, Broadway and
Fifty-slxth street. s:15 p. NJ.
Col. Wallace A. Downs Post, v. y. w..
ball. Hotel Commodore, =. NJ.
Army Transport Post. Ti7. Alar.oln
Legion. meeting ana dinner. BIookiau LAS
Club. 100 South Oxford street, u 80 y. ~.
The Government Club. cards, Hctcl Itnnsyl-
vania. +. NJ.
c. Louise Avery, talk TO high school scach-
ers on american Colonial Lifc.' Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art. =. NJ.
Dr. william Norman Guthrie will speak OF
"The American Indians Contribution TO our
Spiritual Life" TOM Hall, 113 West Forty
third street, II A. NJ.
New York chronological Society. meeting,
American Museum of Natural History. Sew
enty-seventh street and Centrai Park West.
3 +. NJ.
Irish womsps Council meeti g. Hotel Ne
Alpin, s p. Nj.
Horace ]. bridges will speak on ''The Brit
ish Labor Party" West Sixty-fourth street,
+. NJ.
Grand Street Boys. meeting. Hotel Pennsyl-
vania, r. Nj. 49,
William j. Rcdfeld and John Bauer will
speak at the annual dinner of the OIL Trades
Association, waldorf-Astoria. p. Nj.
Association OF Color Lithographers. meet
Ing, Hotel Biltmore. beginning at 10 a, ~
National California Club, me sting, waldorf
Astoria. 2 =. NJ.
New York City Teachers Association, meet
ing, Waldorf-Astoria, 3 j.. NJ.
Corset Manufacturers Association OF tne ne
limited States, meeting. Hotel A5tor, 1880
A. M; dinner. J.. M.
will Durant will lecture on A Plan for IN
dustrial Democracy" Parkview Palace, Fifth
avenue aud 10th street. $3.50 p. M.
The New York herald., 1921-02-15
Railroad Passes.
One Traveller Thinks Employees
Are Abusing Privilege.

To THE New YORK HERALD: 1t does
seem as Il the time is now ripe TO in
vestigate the use of passes BY railroad
employees and others, and TO correct
any abuses that may exist. In saying
this | know that the Interstate Com
merce Commission has ruled that the
issuance of passes to railroad employees
and their families is perfectly proper
and to be considered as part of their re-
muneration
No one can travel in an ordinary day
coach in train to-day without seeing
numerous passes shown TO the conduc-
tor Personally i have somewhat FREE
auent occasion TO travel from Phlladel-
phia TO Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. as
well as Altoona and Tyrone, and in the
reverse direction, and both at the gates
in the train sheds, as we'll as on the
trains. I have been forcibly impressed
with the fact that only bare handful
of the passengers appeared to have
tickets that were bought and paid for.
The remainder, men, women and chill
dren, were travelling on passes. This
same condition of affairs. L am told.
prevails on all the Eastern railroads as
we'll as most of the Western.
a couple of months ago a. conductor
ON train on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, whom ! knew personally, confided
to me that on that very train 126 people
were riding on passes, and 1t wasn't a
very big train at that.
In many railroad communities practi-
cally all the people who travel on hoi-
DAYS, such as Sundays, and just pre-
A~f4 ar 81 ron
men and their families. riding on passes.
Instead OF shopping aud purchasing their
supplies in their home towns. many
railroad men make II habit TO ride
on their passes 10 outlying towns. coun-
try villages. &c, where they buy vege-
tables. country produce and dairy prod
ucts. and brna them back TO their
homes on their passes for consumption.
know Of a passenger conductor on
one OF our great Easte-r railroads who
a couple Of years ago, In company with
his single daughter and his maiden sis
ter. travelled from the Eastern city
where he resided to the Pacific coast
and I'D and down the coast. stopped at
all the large Western cities. saw all the
national parks and other points OF In
terest, and Il did not cost him or his
family one cent for travelling expenses.
In addition. by reason OF his brother
hood card, he got n large rebate at most
OF the hotels and restaurants. Other
railroaders are continually doing the
same thing.
with passenger railroad fares just
double what they used to be- basing
calculations upon the old mileage book
Z Irfy
use of passes by railroad men and their
families In not fair 20 the rest OF the
citizens Of this country
A wAywonN TRAvELLER.
PurApslyuiA. February ~.
The New York herald., 1921-02-15
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY Is. 1921.
Charges Against Judge Lands.

The resolution of Impeachment Of
fered in the House Of Representatives
Yesterday against Judge KENEsAw NJ.
LAMBS of the United States District
Court for the northern district OF Hi
nois is based entirely upon Judge
LANDIs's acceptance, while member
of the Federal judiciary, Of a high
salaried job as the supreme arbiter
of disputes in the major baseball
leagues. Neither the picturesque ut
terances of Judge lands on the
bench nor the unusual sentences which
as Judge he has Seen fit to impose
are involved in the present movement
against him.
The tresolution of impeachment,
which was offered by Representative
WEITY of Ohio, was referred to the
Committee on judiciary, by which it
will be considered. If the committee
decides that Judge LANDS should be
put on trial it will so report TO the
House, and the Representatives will
vote yea or nay OH the motion to inl-
peach, If that motion prevails COM
mittee of the House will be appointed
to present the case 10 the Senate sit
ting as court Conviction can be
had only by concurrence in the judg-
ment of guilty of two-thirds Of the
members present
Ilax. "a 40 n n aDllV n
parchment nine times since the organ
ization Of the Government. In the
case of WILLIAM BLoUST, 1T9S, a
Senator from Tennessee. the charges
were dismissed for want Of jurisdic-
fion, BLoUNT having resigned. In the
eases of Associate Justice SAMUEL
CHASE of the Supreme Court, 1s04-5;
Judge JAMES II. PECK of the United
States District Court for Missouri,
1S30-31 ANDREW JOHNSON, President
cf the United States, 1865; WILLIAM
W. BELKNAP, Secretary Of War, 1876,
and Judge CHARLES SwAYNE Of the
United States District Court for the
northern district of Florida, the de-
PENDANTS were acquitted. In the
cases Of Judge JoHS PICKERING Of
the United States District Court for
New Hampshire, 1904; Judge WEST
II, Humphreys, of the United States
District Court for certain parts of
Tennessee, 1862, and Associate Judge
ROBERT w. ARCHIBALD of the United
States Commerce Court. 1928, the
defendants were removed from Office.
Not few motions TO impeach have
been offered in the House, but the
proceeding is one on which the Repre-
sentatives viii not enter lightly, and
n must be demonstrated to the Ju-
dietary Committee first, and subse-
quently to all the Representatives
that substantial case has been made
out against the person under scrutiny
# he is to be arraigned before the
Senate.