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The New York herald., 1921-12-21

Italy and Austria-Hungary flew each
over a separate armed camp. Colonel
PHu.LIPS--that was then his rank
as commander had the difficult job of
restraining the soldiers of the differ
ent armies from flying at one an
others throats, of keeping the AL
banian feudists from killing each
other, of interpreting the blood feud
laws of DUNKAGHIN LEX and of set
Ting Albanian disputes in accord
ance with tribal and religious
customs.
He did what, perhaps. no other man
could have done. He made his rule,
which may be described as benevo-
lently autocratic, a remarkable sue
cess. In the first days of his COM
mand at Scutari he would wake once
or twice a week to find on his door
step a severed head, as a sign of AL
bantam defiance to his rule. He called
the tribesmen together, persuaded
them to sign a besa, or truce. and the
blood feud was suspended in north
ern Albania. Peace and order reigned
in not only Scutari but the whole
international area.
Warning tribesmen accepted vol
UNFAIRLY a foreign rule which all the
international troops could not have
forced upon them against their will.
A delegation Of fighting Albanians
representing the three religions and
many of the tribes of the country
waited upon him and asked him to
take the crown of Albania. Colonel
PHIILIPss penultimate predecessor,
as commander at Scutari, HAS
SEN Bey, was murdered by his
immediate predecessor, who seized
;he governorship. This mans life
was in constant peril, and he too
was eventually killed by an assassin.
Colonel PHILLIPS expressed his thanks
for the offer but said that his one
ambition was to serve in the British
army long enough to get a pension
and then to retire to some quiet spot.
He did not become King, but Europe
dubbed him with the title by which
he was afterwards known, PHILLIPS
of Scutari.
He went with some of the first Eng
lish detachments to France, but his
desire to see military service was
again defeated. He was wounded in
his first engagement. Invalided home,
he was sent to Serbia to assist in
organizing it's defenses; he went
from there into Albania, where his
personal influence aligned the tribes
men on the Allies side, and he
headed the British mission to Greece
in the troublesome times when that
country was neutral. To few men
fell so many strange missions or the
necessity of knowing and thoroughly
understanding such variety of peo-
pies. He was asked once how he did
these difficult jobs so successfully.
by just remembering" he said, 'all
men have some universal human
qualities, whatever their color or
race"
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
A Ghost on Jupiter.
How Would He Like the Change III
tbe Force Of GravitatiOn2

To TIE New YoRK HERALD: Accord
ing TO the relatively theory gravitation
chiefly affects the time component OF
tho fur dimensional continuum In such
a voy that natural clocks appear to run
slower in strong gravitational field
than I'm a weak one. Thus. IL we make
the hypothesis that an atom emitting
or absorbing light waves Is natural
clock. and that there is nothing to in
terfere with It's perfect running, then
an atom on the sun will give off light
waves OF smaller frequency than sim
liar atom on earth emits.
AS result of this discussion an in
teresting question arises for those who
believe ir n life beyond the grave, and
that Is as to how the mental apparatus
Of n djsembodied spirit, which apparatus
emitting or absorbing thought waves
may without exaggeration be regarded
as n natural clock, would be influenced
nv transfer. say, from this our earth
10 Jupiter. The stronger gravitational
field of this strange abode should make
his thoughts run slower, his emotions
drag themselves along. snaillike. and
his whole spiritual life more deliberate
and dlgnifed, as becomes a stalking
ghost.
II he should compare life on the great
planet with that OF the earth he must
look with horror on the strenuousness
OF mis- earthly experience As things APP
pear to contract i'm the direction of mo-
tion lawyers minister's politicians and
four dlmensional people generally IN
relative motion would iatten out like
plain every, day epoois, Briefs would
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
NOTES FROM HOT SPRINGS.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Drives
Through Cedar Creek Valley.

Special Dispatch 10 TrH NEw YonK HERAtp
Hot SPRINGS. Va. Dec. 20.-Mrs. Cor
relius Vanderbilt was among those driv-
ing through the Cedar Creek Valley to-
day.
Mrs. Chester Williams of New York
rode to-day to the Jackson River Valley
and along the Jungle road. Mrs. Elmer
Schlesinger had her final ride before
starting for New York She will make
brief stop in Washington. where Mr..
Schlesingcr is counsel on the United
States Shipping Board.
Mr.. Frederick I. Cox of tho Interstate
Commerce Commission. who is conva-
lescent after his recent accident In tho
Manhattan Transfer wreck. will remain
for the holidays. and will be Joined soon
by Mrs. Cox and their family.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
On a Mild December Day.

Summer slipped back for something she
forgot
A last unopened bud or wee green
leaf
But. anyway, for one sweet space and
brief
caught a Whit OF rose and bergamot.
Porchance from some far off enchanted
Erot
She came. when with such fragrance
in fief
Summer slipped back for something she
forgot
A last unopened bud or wee green leaf.
She seemed to breathe upon this barren
spot
The memory OF all Loves garnered
sheaf:
She may have left tiny, wistful grief,
AZ homoa.ck may be for my garden plot,
Summer alip9sd hncl. Tor something she
lo.sot.
CHARLorrE DECKER,
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

FOR Eastern New York-Unsettled to-
oay, robably light rain, tomorrow fair
ana much colder; fresh southwest winds
shifting TO northwest.
Tor New Jersey-Unsettled to-day, posesssy
cai, ahh tomorrow. generally fair and much
nor,b,. moderate to fresh southwest TO
ror Northern New England-Insettled to-
as, propapIy snow rain, colder tonight
IN 81 ialr and much colder, moderate
winds. 'i'"s 10 northwest
For Southern New England-rJnsettIea.
nng nrooaoy iight rain to-day: tomorrow fair
anu much colder, fresh southwest and xves,
shl.ulhs to northwest winds.
ooi,n western New York-Unsettled and
,,,nns uo,usI Today, probably rain or snow to-
seneraily fair and much colder.
WASHINGTON. Dec. % Tho nortb,yeste,r
s. Ga Vi nigh pressure and cold weather has
infl,,arca 10 move southeastward. and it's
ia ikc ro, was Ieit as far east as the upper
iaks region and as far south as OkIahoma
anu tle Texas panhandle to-niphf TIL.
e,,ar ,npeia,uIs continued above normal, how
ever' IN the eastern and southern States
anu the southern plateau region Pressure
s eui'inueu i low west of the Rocky Mountains
over ths Is is m mne'a.yey low and falling tonight
north Atlantic States. Rain has fallen Will,
III tile last twenty-four hours In Tennessee.
region and In California and snow in the
northern plateau and northern Rocky Noun
.alh is regions, the northern plains States and
uie i northern lake region. In other parts of
the country the weather was fair
cloudy and unsettled weather will preva II
ni ,ne states east of the Mississippi River
.o-inorroW, and light rain Is probable In the
chic Valley, Tennessee and the east C;ujf snS
i ine Atiantic States. and local SHOWS In the
ttne s region Generally fair weather Is prob
able Thursday east Of the Mississinni t,iver
eMcspt that the weather will remain unsettled
Sp,TJSSaoIy with rain In portions of the east
cur and south Atlantic States
hucn colder weather will overspread tbe
lake region. the Ohio Valley, Tennessee and
bars sur States within the next twenty four
nouIs s,anu the weather will be considerabJv
coIder In the Atlantic States to-morrow
@ hisnt or Thursday. Cold wave warnings
nane si,r peen ordered for western Tennessee
souri,. anu oi'hcrh Mis-
Observationa ar United States ruoa.hs. r.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1872
The Broken Sword.

A new silver dollar, intended to be
symbolic Of the era of peace, is ABOUT
80 be minted by the Government. This
is a good idea, but many Americans
must read with regret that the de-
signer. in his effort to picture the
idea behind the Washington arms
conference, represents the American
eagle as standing on broken sword.
If the artist had sheathed the blade
or blunted it there could be no obJec-
ton. Sheathing is symbolic of peace;
the blunted sword implies mercy.
But broken sword carries with it
only unpleasant associations.
A sword is broken when its owner
has disgraced himself. 1t is broken
when battle is lost and breaking is
the alternative of surrendering. A
sword is broken when the man who
wears it can no longer render allegi-
ance to his sovereign.
But America has not broken its
sword. II has not heen cashiered or
leaten; it has not lost allegiance to
itself. The blade is bright and keen
and wholly dependable.
1t is regrettable that the artist
nhould have made such an error in
eymbolism The sword is emblem
attic Of Justice as well as of Strength.
Let not the world be deceived by this
new dollar. The American effort to
limit armament and to prevent war
or at least reduce its horror does not
mean that our sword is broken.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
What Americans Read.

Novels, alive with wholesome senti-
ment, spiced with melodrama and
treating outstanding American prob
lens, continue in the United States to
be best sellers. A publishers esti-
mate shows that 7,250,000 copies OF
books by HAROLD BELL WRIGHT had
been sold at the beginning of the
year, and 8,10S,000 copies of books by
GENE STRATToN PORTER by the middle
of the year.
To be astonished at the popularity
of their books is to fail to under
stand human nature, writes Pro-
fessor WILLIAM l.. PHELPS of Yale
in the December BoOkmdn under
the title of The Why of Best
Sellers He sees the secret of sue
cess in sweetness and melodrama.
Helen of the Old House" he takes
as an example of the popular book,
mixed of the infallible ingredients
and dripping with sentiment" :"
Nearly all sentimental dramas are on
the side of virtue, he continues hope.
fully. He suspects, however, the pro-
foundness of books which are ex-
tremely popular. When Main Street"
was the rage it became very evident
he decided, that LEWIS had handed to
the public not caviar but shredded
wheat.
But American taste is not limited
/ to books full of sentiment, nor to
books of any particular kind, a re-
cent survey made by the Outloob
among it's readers would indicate. a
thousand readers taken at random
gave lists of their favorite books to
the editor. Among the leaders were
the works of KIpLING, BooTH TAR
KINGToN, HENRY VAN DYKE, BLAsCo
IBASEz, SHAW and, of course, GENE
STRATroN PORTER and HAROLD BELL
WRIGHT. The reasons could not have
been the same for the popularity OF
HENRY ADAMS and HAROLD BELL
WRIGHT, nor for the juxtaposition in
popular esteem of LYMAN ABBOTT
with 6 r. WHITE and IRWIN COBB.
American readers are less provin'
cial in their tastes, the Outlook list
of the best twenty-five would indi-
cate. than readers in either France or
England. Twelve of the chosen au-
thors were Americans and thirteen
of them of foreign origin.
Every publisher tries to gauge the
tastes of the public just as exchange
spectators attempt to follow the
fluctuations Of foreign currencies.
But popular taste, like marks and
rubles, involves too many factors,
and whim and fancy play too large
part for there to be an iron bound
rule to show which book will be well
received and which relegated to the
dust heap.
Nor can degree of popularity be
taken as an infallible measure of
the inherent merits of a book.
Professor PHELPS indeed seeks to
explode the common idea among
striving writer's that their real genius
will only be discovered after their
death. He writes. almost every
great poet, author and dramatist has
been popular in his lifetime. Let no
sour author trust to posterity. Pos
terity is always more cruel than the
contemporary public: contemporaries
abuse, but posterity forgets."
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert
Stokowski Conducts Bach, Hadyn and Rimsky
Korsakov at Carnegie Hall.

passages from the ARABIAN Nights
entitled, "Scheherazade." What series
of charmed evenings she gave that for
tunate Sultan. She was better than
domesticated o. Henry, and yet the de-
lectable custom which she introduced
degenerated in time into the nocturnal
preachments of Mrs. Caudle. If she had
never done anything else, however, she
would have deserved well of the world
for inspiring Rimsky- -Korsakov's muse
and enriching the kingdom of music
with the composition heard last evening
1t sent every one. even the carpers,
home quite happy.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
Lower Coal Freight Not Enough.

lt was only last Monday that THE
New York HERALD discussed in these
columns the desperate plight of our
export coal business. due to the fact
that the labor cost alone of getting
ton OF bituminous coal out of the
mine plus the transportation cost Of
getting it to the Atlantic seaboard is
more than Welsh and German coal
sells for to-day in our own tidewater
markets. Now the railroads announce
that in an attempt to help the coal
industry regain its lost business
abroad they will make cut in
freight rates on export coal of about
dollar a ton. It is not help enough.
TO solve the whole coal problem it is
nothing like help enough.
Until all the abnormal costs of
mining, shipping and handling coal
get down to rational basis this
country cannot hope to recapture
with mere freight rate cut any
great quantity of the tens of mill
ions of dollars of coal we sold abroad
before this year We shall be lucky
il the freight cut of a dollar ton
serves for long even to put coal into
ship buukers i'm our own harbors.
The cost Of getting the coal out Of
the mine must be reduced or our
coal must be driven out of the ex-
Bort trade. The cost of getting the
Ncoal out of the mine must be reduced
or our coal will have life and death
struggle to resist foreign competition
right on our own seaboards.
The worst of this situation. so far
as concerns the hot foreign competi-
ton now beginning to drive out our
coal even here at home. is that the
PRODUCERS are tied up by wage scale
contracts for another three months.
As long as those contracts are in
force the producers can only grin and
bear It while their business fades
away. less coal comes out of the
ground and more men go on the un-
employment lists
And as for anthracite coal, al
though it is almost a negligible fac
tor in the industrial activities of
the country as compared with
bituminous, the consumer Of the
hard coal must go on paying
war famine prices for heating
and cooking purposes as long as the
present wage scales continue. The
labor cost of getting ton OF soft
coal to the mouth of the pit has
gone up from about 75 cents ton in
1915 to 1926 a ton at present. But
since 1918 the labor cost OF produc-
ing a ton of fresh mined CONNER.
cial anthracite has gone up from
$50 a ton to S3.S5 a ton. With
transportation costs up from S1.55
in 1915 to $3.11 in 1920. the mine
labor and rail cost alone of anthra
cite is practically 81 a ton at tho
scaboard. IL has not been so very
long since anthracite was delivered
IL, tho New York city cellar coal bir
Tor So ton.
Reduce the COST Of mining Goa
from the still existing war imitation
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
Farmers on the Aggressive.

Overproduction and hard times in
the corn belt have led to movement
among grain growers there which, If
successful. may well be called an agri-
cultural strike. No less parsonage
than Secretary of Agriculture HENRY
c. WALLACE. with his paper, Wal
ldce'S Farmer. is at the head of the
movement. Several other farm jour
nails in the Middle West are also
supporting the idea.
Reducing the present planted corn
the program Mr.. WALLACE proposes
for the coming year. He calls upon
bankers and business men of the re-
gion to bring pressure upon farmers
who object to this scheme. In his ad-
dress in Boston this week Secretary
WALLACE vigorously demanded a def
mite policy for the betterment of
agriculture.
Strike may seem a harsh word and
limiting overproduction be preferred
by many who sympathize with such
move. Any one familiar with the
plight in which American farmers
now find themselves, where it is es-
timated that fourth of the six mill
ion farmers are insolvent, can read
lily understand their demand for rad
ical reforms to prevent a recurrence
of existing hard times.
But overproduction is much
abused word. In this case undercon-
sumption more nearly fits the case.
There is the same number of hungry
people in the world to be fed to-day
as there was at the time of bumper
crops and booming market. But
now, owing to political upheavals, in
dustrial disorder and costly transpor-
tation. normal demand can no longer
call upon the farmer for his full sup
ply of grain. Some of these OBJ
stacles are intimately linked with
world unrest and cannot be remedied
here. But others of them, as Secre'
tary WALLACE insists, can be met by
improved shipping facilities, longer
credits to farmers, more economical
marketing and similar reforms.
It is here that the farmers, and
at their insstence the American peo-
pie. should turn their attention and
! ,.oI.o tba pocoocorv offor4- opd coo.
rifice to bring about Improvement
With such adjustments there would
then be very little overproduction of
corn TO be burned as fuel or to be
withheld from future planting.
Restricting acreage has not been
an uncommon practice among cotton
growers. This year, for example
acreage was reduced fourth and OUT
put was Intentionally underestimate
some so per cent. Even the De
partment of Agriculture showed lax
ity by unwittingly spreading this
misinformation.
Although cotton is not Of the same
lHlneuldLe HeCeSSlJy dS DTedu' Lue
general public chafed at this new ma
nipulation Grain corners are nc
longer tolerated. The indignation
aroused by the milk strike in New
York city. where thousands Of help
less children's livN were erdangerc.
-or thc selfish interests Of few pcr
sons. indicates the popular resent
The New York herald., 1921-12-21

be briefer, sermons shorter and Con-
gresStondt Records much abbreviated.
But as actors and spectators would be
uniformly and reciprocally affected the
result would be about the same.
For our own part any little planet
would be good enough, because we might
then hope occasionally to think and feel
quickly enough to say and do the right
thing not long after the event but at the
right time. but chiefly to escape the
skinny clutches of any perturbed spooks
that might be lying in wait for us.
HENRY l.. PHILLIPS.
FALLS VILLAGE, Conn, December 90.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
Old Songs.
Some of the FavOrites Of the Past
and the Men Who Sang Them.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The let
for of "P. H. S." of Bayonne, N. j.,
which mentions Tony Pastor ana other
old time New York entertainers, brings
to my mind the last time mad the
pleasure of hearing Tony Pastor. IL
was at the Butler Athenaum on Broad
way, near Prince street. He then sang
one of his serio-sentimental songs with
this refrain:
When YOU give your mite. be it dime or
n penny.
Remember that many can always help one.
When one cannot always help many
M. d. FITzGERALD.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., December Zo.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
Medal of Honor Men.
Seven Holders Of the Decoration in
the Seyenty-seyenth Division.

To THE NEW yoRK HERALD: Referring
to your article of last Sunday entitled
"What Has Become of the Medal OF
Honor Men?" find in the summary OF
the awards by divisions you credit the
Seventy-seventh Division with only SIX
recipients of this valued decoration
whereas in the list Of the awards you
credit the Seventy-seventh Division with
one recipient from California, one from
Massachusetts, one from New Jersey
three from New York and one from
North Dakota, seven in all.
A. VI. RENsIIAw.
New York, December 20.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
- Old Hoss Hoey,s Offerings.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Can any
body tell me what became of the team
of Evans and Hoey (Old Hoss Hoey) =?
I can see Old Hoss with his whiskers
come out and sing I'm the man who
broke the bank at Monte Carlo" and II
Remember 1 Forgot" G. l.. b.
BALLsroN SPA, December 90.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
.Tbe Old Arm Chair

To THE New YORK HERALD: l
brought the song THE Old Arm Chair"
to this country from England in 1879 or
1880 and gave 1t to Ned Barry. who
was singing with Harrigan and Hart.
and as boy / printed II on hand
Iithographlc press at 22o Bowcry. The
song was written by. John Read chair
man Of music halFT London. don't
,r,uk tapt Dave Wao.Dolx ever sang IT,
fRANk HARDING,
ryuw Yong. ,pccember "a.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
The Election of FIaherty.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: VIII one
of your readers give me the words OF
that sterling old chanson whose hrs'
lines ran something like this:
A long time ago, boys. an Irishman named
Flaherty,
was elected to the Senate by very large
majority.
1t enumerated as among those present
such edibles as:
Ice cream. cold cream. vasciine ard sand
wiches,
Pigs feet. roast beef. young veal and ham,
which was
G.. B. TAYLOR.
ERIE, Pa, December 20.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
NINE. PERALTA AS AIDA.

special matinee performance of
aida" at popular prices was given at
the Metropolitan Opera House yester-
day. The singers were Nine Perata as
aida. Nine. Matzenauer as Amneris, Mr..
Fertile as RadGmes, Mr. Danise as
Amondsro, Mr.. Mardones as RGmfs and
Mr. Gustafson as the King. Miss CALI
danced In the tru1nphal ballet and Mr..
Moranzoni conducted. The house was
crowded
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
Song OF Chicago Zouayes.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: "The
Happy Land of Canaan" has a very
catchy melody and lends itself readily
to parody. When the Ellsworth Zouaves
of Chicago were on a tour of New York
and other Eastern cities in 1860 these
two verses were sung:
The zouave Cadets, they win all the bets,
They beat all the soldiers atrainin', Aha!
They stand on their heads,
And never sleep In beds
And are bound for the Happy Land OF
Canaan.
Chorus.
Aha! ia! Hal Don't you hear me now?
The day of the jubilee is coming.
Just never mind the weather
And get over double trouble.
For we're bound for the Happy Land OF
Canaan.
The ladies' nowadays as they promenade
broadway
The size of their hoops is a-gainin, Aha
when they stop to have talk
They take up the whole sidewalk,
But there's no hoops in the Happy Land
of Canaan.
S. L. CLARy.
SOUTH NoRwALK. December 20.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21

The British Journal OF AstroloDy
predicts dire things for 1926. This
much is certain: everybody who lives
until then will be five years older than
he is now
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
"Anchors Aweigh.v

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD I would
like to find the words of the Naval
Academy song Anchors Aweigh"
II. w. AYERS.
NEW York. December 20.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21

slippery sloper" is one of MICHAEL
CoLLrNss picturesque phrases. In
this country. at this season, a slippery
sloper is a man who ducks the shop
ping his wife wants him to do.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
ITALY HoNoRs DIR. GARFIELD.

Special Dispatch 10 Tur NEW YoaK IIrRALr.
LENox. Mass, Dec. 20.--Dr. Hardy A.
Garfield of Williams College. who Is
travelling in Europe with Mrs. Garfield.
has been designated by the King OF
Italy n Commentators of the Order OF
the Crown of Italy In recognition OF his
work in originating and carrying out the
summer.
Signore Tommasso Tittoni. president
of the italian Senate. delegate TO the
conference, recommended the honor
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
'"rhe New China" Miss Anne Partlan, p.
s. -. Intervale avenue, Freeman and Chiy-
holm streets.
Lectures will be resumed the second week
In January
The New York herald., 1921-12-21

Highest temperature. %, at 3 r. NJ.
lowest temperature, 20. at 3 A. NJ.
Average temperature. IS.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21

Tho Senate shows tendency to
knock the block off the bloc.
The New York herald., 1921-12-21
The Gcntlemen's Agreement

The worlds caroiing ng1ir.
Sing Chris,fraa Va.tI;s to-dry:
God rest you merry gentlemen,
May. nothing YOU dlsmay."