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The New York herald., 1921-08-06
Ad Valorem Duties.
Valuations Would Put All
Nations on a Level.

To THE New YORK HERALD Due to
depreciation of foreign currency at this
time as a result Of the world war It Is
impossible to impose a fair and just
ad valorem duty on imports. using the
foreign market value. This can best be
understood by taking the German mark
as an example.
In 1914 the German mark as meas
ured in United States money. was worth
approximately "a cents. Now it is worth
1.3 cents. A duty OF 3S Ia per cent.
imposed in 1914 on a German product
having a foreign value OF 200 marks
would amount to s11.e0. To-day. owing
to the depreciation OF the German mark,
the same duty would amount to only
about SIS cents.
The Japanese yen, on the other hand,
has not deprecated to the same extent.
A yen in 1914 was worth about SO cents
and to-day 1t is worth As cents.
II an ad valorem duty were imposed
upon German goods at this time at a
rate sufficient to give protection to Amer
lean industry 1t doubtless would be abb
solutely prohibitive against Japanese
goods as well as asainat goods from
Great Britain and other countries whose
currency has not deprecated 70 the
same extent
Industry does not want a prohibitive
tariff. 1t Is simply seeking a tariff suf-
flcient to secure a differential between
labor costs here and labor costs abroad
so that the present standard of living
conditions for the American working
man and woman may be maintained In
this country.
IL an ad valorem duty be based upon
the foreign value then the country whose
coet Of production is lowest and whose
profits are therefore the greatest pays
the smallest amount OF duty. This Is
obvious because the lower the foreign
value the less the duty at any given
rate II such rate is applied upon the
foreign value
American value. as Incorporated In the
new Fordney tariff bill. on the other
hand, for all foreign products that are
comparable regardless OF the country
from which they come Is substa antiaIly
the same. go that II the rate is applied
upon the American value each country
importing the same product will be
charged the same amount OF duty. This
is desirable because there is no good
reason for discriminating against those
countries whose costs OF production arc
more comparable to such cost, In th,,
country. J. II. ZoLLKR.
NEW YORK, August 8.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06

to the treaty. except where the prop
erty so taken is owned by British
subject.
There remain still the appeals to
the House OF Lords and possibly to
the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council, the highest legal authority
In the United Kingdom. But both
these tribunals have a closer asso-
citation with the Crown and with the
Administration than have the ordi-
nary law courts. II a decision against
Soviet Russia were given by either
Of these high tribunals 1t would not
only reverse the Court OF Appeals
and the Chancery division but 1t
would be going contrary to the
Crown and the Administration.
whose efforts have been unremitting
to find a basis for an understanding
with Russia. Further. an adverse
decision would mean the immediate
cancellation of the agreement by
Russia under the proviso in Ar
ticIe XIII.
1t Is hardly likely that the British
Government walked into these legal
complications without having some
definite idea OF how they would end.
Even 80. Russian financial thuggery
may not be hallowed to the rest of
the world by bestowing upon 1t the
henediction of British courts.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
Lightning Rods Protect.
Insurance Companies Favor Them
When Put Up Properly.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Fred s.
Pose Of Brunswick. Me-. can get informa-
tion about modern lightning rod install
lation by writing to the Underwriters
Laboratories. Inc. Chicago. maintained
by the National Board of Underwriters
of the United States.
Briefly stated. the popular opalion to
the contrary Notwithstanding. a light
ming rod should not be insulated from
the building; II should help to draw out
the electricity In the houne. The cleo
tricity in the air Of house during an
electric storm attracts the electricity
outside. Another requisite is that the
wire should be properly grounded, not
just stuck into the earth.
As reduction in fire insurance rates
is allowed in most States IL farm build
ings are wired properly according to Ma
tional Board standards It may be in
ferred that insurance men have ground
for believing lightning rods effective.
There are statistics on this subject.
L. II. HoRNBosTEr.
OTTAWA, Canada, August I.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
Another Upton Challenge.

Twenty-three years after he first
challenged ioy tho Americas Cup Sir
THOMAS LrproN, Il IS reported, will
try once more ior that trophy with
another Shamrock, fifth of her name.
Beginning in 1898 the Irish yachts
man sought to lift this trophy in
1900, in 1902 and In 1913, each series
of races having been sailed in the
year following the issuance Of the
challenge except in the case Of that
Of 1913; then the races were post
poned on account OF the war until
seven years had passed.
Shamrock l., a Fife designed cut
ter, was beaten by Columbia in 1899.
The Watson designed Shamrock IL.
was beaten by Columbia in the 1901
series. and when Sir THOMAS turned
back to FIFE for his Shamrock Ill.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06

MAINTENoN destroyed the wicked
MoNTEsPAN, the old favorite passed
to the cocktail Valhalla. where the
Manhattan already rested. But the
ghosts of these ancients, compounded
into one drink which the Times cor
respondent describes as "ruinous to
the digestion" seem to have stalked
In the London restaurant.
A Paris correspondent of the Times
complains that American cocktails
are TO some extent supplanting the
various light appetizers which have
oeen the ante-prandial Joy OF the
boulevards. Ho saw the cocktails As
large glasses of depressing muddy
yellow liquid, which did not even
boast the essential quality OF cold
ness" He saw. of course. q foreign
fraud masquerading as an American
article. The cocktail, as this country
remembers it. was small in size, icy in
temperature, opalescent II not clear,
and anything but depressing.
A London that puts bitters in good
sherry has little right to rage at tho
custom Of putting orange juice IN
gin. A Paris that fiavors it's musca-
tel with Peruvian bark should not
frown at putting vermouth in harder
liquor and making 1t palatable
by icing 1t. But, as a certain Mr..
JOSEPH COLLINS writes to the Times
from the American Club In Picca-
dilly, there are cocktails and there
are cocktails" May London residents
be saved, he prays, from cocktails
made by barmaids or other people
with no more experience than an
American bar guide book to guide
them"
The simple truth is that Europe
does not know the American cocktail
as 1t was at the Austerlitz Of drink
ing. 1t has met, after Waterloo, an
impostor.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
Canada's New Copyright Act
1t Aims to Improve Position Of
Author and Publisher.
From the Otta,Ua Journal

FROM the OttdtCu JOtTHus.
According TO the London Westnfn-
ster Gazette the British Society OF Au-
thors, Piaywrights and Composers and
the Publishers Association are greatly
worked UP because the new Canadian
copyright act provides that "any work
originally published In Great Britain or
in a foreign country may be reprinted
in Canada any time after publication
under q license granted by the Minister
unless the owner prints or reprints his
copyright work In Canada and, having
printed it there. keeps the Canadian mar
ket reasonably supplied with copies"
No copies OF the origina. production,
II Is pointed out, may be imported
into Canada for the five years that any
OF these licenses are In existence. The
act Is called "a retrograde action" and
n blow at English literature. which Is
one Of the most effective bonds OF en-
pire which exist" and "a sad thing"
and a lot more distressing names.
Now, in the FIRST place, as Canadians
are not notorious thieves and pirates
and as we have no desire to weaken
"the bonds OF empire" II is to be as
SuTnCu t0at Ine kdHduldh oAhiAae1i VII
exercise some discretion In the issue or
licenses under the act. The probability
Is that no Canadian publisher will de-
sire to obtain such license unless
there is prospect of a large circulation
for the work. and II there Is such pros
pect for Canadian publishers. why
should not the foreign publisher be COM
pelled to print 1t In Canada? One
famous English publishing house" Is
quoted as follows:
"In the event of book published N
this country giving promise OF enormous
circulation I'm Canada. Canadian firm
could obtain n license TO reprint IL IN
the Dominion and so prevent the Eng
lsh publishers from sending copies or
the book TO Canada for five years
promise OF an enormous circulation
means also promise Of good proofs, and
the English publisher can AFFORD to
print the book In Canada and give en-
pIoyment 10 Canadian worimen.
Until the new copyright act was
passed at the last session ri Parliament
Canadian authors, piaywrights. compos-
ers and publishers had been the victims
OF an intolerable situation beside which
the complaint OF the British publishers
and writer's Is trivial
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
GERMAN SHIPPING WAR
LEADS TO RESERVATIONS
SHINES and Hamburg-Amer-
icon Line Locking Horns.

LONDON. Aug. 5.--Furthcr Develop
ments In the recent rupture between the
Hamburg American Steamship Companv
and the shipping interests Of H. ~
mes were reported from Berlin 'o-da
Wilhelm Cuno. director gencrt. of tho
Hamburg-American line. has resigned
from the Midgard Sea Traffic Company
OF Emdcn, which is owned by Herr Stin-
mes, who In return has resigned from the
German East Africa Shipping Company
and from the Woermann Line. both Of
which are In the neutrality-suspicious.
sphere OF influence. Formerly SHINES
owned one-third of the stock of these
companies and the remainder was owned
equally by the Hamburg American and
the North German Lloyd lines.
The Hamburg American line. tho de-
spatch added, has withdrawn from the
Hamburg Travel Company. which man.
ages the SHINES hotels in Berlin, Frank
fort on Main and elsewhere.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
The willows.

The willows close about the river lean
To gossip OK quaint secrets that they
know.
And dream OF lovely things OF long
ago;
Their gray leaves simmer with n sill
yer sheen
Rarer than elms' and naples gayer
green,
And their reflections through the
waters trail
Like wistfui wraiths. mysterious and
pale.
Haunting the shores where many joys
have been.
The strident clamors of near factories
creep
Insistently upon their dim retreat.
But still the digniied old willows keep
Their quiet peace, impenetrabky
sweet:
Like grandes DANES, in some stately
dwelling left
Unchanged, though round them tene-
ments have crept.
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
Cravitation Wins.
Here Is Proof That the Mississippi
Does Not Run Up HILL

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: With all
due Difference to the high authority OF
the author OF the article printed in your
paper under the title Does the Missis-
sippi Run Down or UpT beg leave to
register my criticism of the article. either
on the score Of clarity or OF accuracy.
I cannot at present say which one OF
the two
l need scarcely note my conviction OF
the futility of the activities OF the de-
batting societies cited except In so far
as discussions explore incidental helds
II thought The Mississippi knows its
business and never misunderstands the
mandate OF gravity. The explanation
by G. Smith Otis. however. that "tho
equatorial radius Of tho earth Ia about
thirteen miles greater than the polar
radius" Is either SO palpably fallacious
as an explanation Of the phenomenon
or so easy OF misapprehension as to its
relevancy that feel called upon to note
protest against Its acceptance AZ the
last word.
Yes. the equatorial radius is the long
est radius from the geocentric point TO
any poTuiei OF lAtituuc, put ID IL tHo
longest radius for the curve of all sec
tions of a meridian? Mr.. Smith can at
once answer this question In the mega
tive out Of the commonplaces Of the
geodetic survey or even Of the navigator.
For Is It not well known that a degree
OK latitude Is longer in high latitude
than at the equator? The centre, there-
fore. to which meridian Is curved a.
or near the equator is nearer the sur
face whose curvature Is determined
thereby than is any other point on the
same meridian.
Now the focus or point OF intersection
or any two or more gravitation lines In
the same latitude must be regarded as
the centre Of attraction for the points
on the earth's surface through which
these gravitation lines run. Granting
the truth of these assumptions. then the
Mississippi runs from n point further
away from the centre OF attraction for
that point to a point nearer the centre
Of attraction for the point arrived at.
This is the lay conception Of the essen
tial requirement for flowing liquid
under the influence of gravitation. and
1t seems to be the broad, scientific one
as well in the case of the Mississippi.
KENNETH McINrosH.
ST. PETERS. Cape Breton. N. s.. July 20.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
New Art Organization Formed Here.
Mrs Ripley Hitchcock President of Centre for Promo
ton of Industrial Work.

raphers OF America. Society OF Illustra-
tors, Institute OF Graphic Arts and the
Stowaways.
The Art Center win have headquarters
at 65-67 East Fifty-sixth street. The
seven societies will have rooms there and
there will be galleries for the exhibition
OF every form of American industrial
art
The board of directorx includes Mrs.
Hitchcock, Charles Dana Gibson, vice.
president: Col. Wade Fl. Hayes. treas
urer: Heyworth Campbell. secretary,
and Walter L. Enrich. Ray Greenlcaf.
Mrs. John Henry Hammond. Charles 10.
Pellew. w. Frank Purdy. Henry L..
Sparks, Charles B. UpJohn. Clarence IL.
White. Richard L. Marwede and DR..
Charles II. Jaeger.
Among those on the advisory COM
mittee are Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney.
DR.. John H. Finley. Mrs. e. H. Harri-
man. Louis Comfort Tiffany, Charles
Scribner. Jr., Mrs. willard Straight,
Frank A. vanderlip, Mrs. John T. Pratt
and Henry White.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
J. p. MORGAN TO SAIL
FOR EUROPE TO-DAY
Will Go on Cedric Accom-
panied by Mrs. Morgan.

Among the prominent persons who
will sail for Europe to-day on the White
Star liner Cedric are Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Pierpont Morgan.
Other passengers will be Richard w.
Barrett, general solicitor for the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Thomas Raeburn
White. lawyer. Of Philadelphia Alexan-
der H. Gulick Of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road; Major Wynne williams Of the
professor at the New York Homeopathic
Medical College; Alfred Durhill, manu-
facturer. Of London; DIR. e. j. Dillon.
correspondent for the London Daily
TcIe0rdph; Mrs. Dillon; e. II. Litch-
field. Jr., lawyer. Of New York. Mr..
and Mrs. A C. Read and Miss Ann Read
of Savannah.
The Cedric viii take out 100 second
cabin and $50 third cabin passengers.
A number of delegates to the Inter-
national Congress Against Alcoholism
at Lausanne, Switzerland. will sail on
the Red Star liner iceland. Among
them are the Rev. Edwin C. Dnwiddie
Of Washington. superintendent of the
National Temperance Bureau; the Rev.
Father John G. Beane Of Pittsburgh,
president Of the Catholic Total Absti-
nence League DR.. A. J. Barton OF Alex
andria. La. George w. Cotterill,
ex-Mayor of Seattle: Miss Cora Stod-
dard of Boston and Miss Ellen C.
Church. secretary to the United States
delegation to the International Congress
Against Alcoholism.
Other passengers will be Lieut. Col.
Edward T. Donnelly. General Staff.
Washington; s. II. Cross. acting COM
mercial attache OF the American EN-
bassy at Brussels Mrs. Henry d.
Hotchliss. wife of Judge Hotchkiss Of
New York, and T. Ishu, N. Kawashima,
s. Matsushima, M. Mekureya. Y. Nagati.
T. Sakaya, X. Tanaka and T. Taxa
shena OF the Japanese diplomatic SER
vice.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
SATURDAY. AUGUST 8. 1921.
Squander Chickens.

congress is shocked at Secretary
MELONS warning that unless the
economy axe again goes deep the
Governments spendings this year
are liable to approximate four and
half billions Of dollars. But Con-
gress can scarcely doubt that the
careful and accurate head of the
Treasury Department knows what he
is talking about. 1t was Congress,
RS THE NEW YORK HERALD feared and
said at the time, which did not real
ize on what spending career it was
launching the Government when it
was making the appropriations.
The trouble was then, as THE New
YORK HERALD took pains to explain,
the trouble is now and long will be,
that there is colossal heritage OF
annual bill paying handed down from
the war Administration. There is
debt service running, all told, at the
yearly rate of about a billion and
quarter of dollars, and it cannot be
lodged or deferred. There Is a Ship
ping Board operating deficit which
might go as high as half billion of
dollars, and the Government, until it
sells, gives away or sinks the ships,
cannot get out of it. There is
Panama Canal loss, figured as busi-
ness proposition, which sucks up pub
lie funds as desert sands suck up
water.
The army and the navy, even on
the reduced scales. will consume
scarcely less than three-quarters Of
billion of dollars and on the army
and navy bills there can be no de-
fault. The Government owes hun
dreds OF millions to the railroads. and
these moneys are contract obligations
which cannot be repudiated without
an indelible stain on the name of
the United States Government. There
are on file other claims incalculable
and IN adjustment accounts innu-
merable which, however remote the
full and final settlements, are in part
a. IOuSlduL vi dln Oll IAG paOilt AuhdS.
And after all, those billions for
the most part having little or nothing
to do with the present conduct OF the
Government, there are the regular
day to day expenses of the various
and varied departments, bureaus and
commissions which never before in
time of peace were so heavily manned
with salary drawing Office holders and
never before were so lavishly, extrav-
agantly and wastefully financed by
Congress itself.
Congress can be shocked now at the
things 1t did not know 1t was doing
when the appropriations were being
voted. But Congress can be shocked
as we'll at the things II did with It's
eyes wide open. And, with the squan-
der chickens Of Congress itself come
home to roost, the American people
are shocked, they are outraged, at the
new squander proposals. Only the
sternest executive and legislative
guardians of the national purse can
restrain the Congress spendthrifts
from rushing headlong to seize every
opportunity to introduce and vote for
bills to shovel more money out of the
American public's pocket.
The way for Congress to save is to
stop the spending. And even then
there Is the hard, cold fact to face
that unless Congress lays new taxes
honest taxes. rational taxes and pro-
ductive taxes--to take the place OF
those which are no longer sufrerable
or fruitful the Treasury revenues
will run dry and the United States
Government cannot pay its bills.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06

Hall of Fame New York University, Uni-
versity Heights, open to the public. p. M.
to p. NJ.
Mayor John II. Hylan will open the new
ferry service between Clason Point and Col
lege Point leaving Sound View avenue ferry
house, The Bronx, 2 p. M.
DIR. M. A. Howe will give an illustrated
lecture. Botanical Cruises In the Bahamas"
museum building Of the New York Botanical
Garden, Bronx Park p. M.
Universal Negro Improvement Association
and African Communities League, convention,
Liberty Hall. SO West 135th street. ell day.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
Sinister Report From Above.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD. The an
nual fall change-breeder of hurricanes
has appeared In the sky. II is the
earliest date ever known for It. In 1859
II caused frosts In the hill towns the
frst days Of August. A. ID. ELMER.
Boston, August 4.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
How II Happened.

From the Wtrchcstsr star.
In the beginning God created heaven and
earth and all things therein. He then Gre
ated man and woman and left the loafcrs
on the corner In due time they multiplied
and spread into the depot, post office and
store. where they sit and explain State and
national problems.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
DANCE ON U. $. FLAGSHIP.

CowEs. Isle OF Wight. Aug. 5.-vice-
Admiral Nlblack, commander OF the
American feet In European waters, this
afternoon gave dance on board his
flagship, the batleship Utah. The Duke
of Connaught. Princess Mary and many
member Of the Royal Yacht Squadron
attended.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
M~udicancy Seeks Publicity.

From the Centrdiia Iu.) Eresino Sentinel.
Notice, Kind Friends: have been down
sick for the past five weeks: I need your
help. You have always stood by mo;
will be on the street tomorrow. Please
don't pass me by. The Blind Man.
@. q. CHAM.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
An Ozark Irnancicr.

Hnmnoke correspondence IN tho EnDidnd
Democrat.
Chris Miller curled his mustachc. parted
his hair In the middle, diked up In his
shekeltooting trousers and visited the finan-
ciai institutions OF England Monday. lie
returned smiling.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
Music In the Arkansas Hiiis.

White Chapel correspondence ~ the Nevada
County tArt.) Picoplre.
There is 10 be an all day singing In the
old Sacred Harp the fifth Sunday. Come.
all ye married men, bring box of dinner
and your wife: that will prove to the old
bachelors that you arc satisfied with mar
ried life. This singing viii be at New
SLOAN, one mile south OF here.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06

It may surprise many to learn that
there are extensive peat bogs In this
State and In New Jersey and that peat
fuel is used In industrial plants In
both States. Might 1t not have low
ering influence on coal prices were a
few hints on how TO get and use peat
disseminated among individual fuel
users?
The New York herald., 1921-08-06
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Increasing
cloudiness followed by showers this
afternoon or tonight; tomorrow shew~
ers. Fresh south and southwest winos-
t'or New Jersey-Unsettled to-day, PROB
ably showers: tomorrow showers; not much
change in temperatures moderate 10 trssn
south and southwest winds.
For Northern New England-Partly CLOUDY
to-day tomorrow showers. cooler in IN
terror; moderate to fresh southwest winds.
For Southern New Eng,and-Partly CLOUDY
to-day. probably showers by night: to-mor-
ture: fresh southwest winds.
FOR Western New lorK-Showers to-day;
tomorrow unsettled and cooler: fresh south
TO west winds.
WASHINGTON. August 5.-The Western
disturbance will move eastward, attended by
unsettled show.ry weather over most sections
sunday. Generally fair weather is probable
IA New England Tomorrow. and In the upper
lake 6sion Sunday. There will be little
chnnge IN temperature tomorrow, except
that cooler weather will overspread the upper
lake region, while the weather will become
cooler Sunday throughout the lake region,
the Ohio and middle Mississippi valleys and
the interior OF the North Atlantic States.
presssare continued high over the middle
while II fell considerably from tho ST. Law
renee Valley: and the lake region south
centres of minimum pressure Friday night,
one imme diately north OF Lake Superior and
the other over northwest Missouri. Pressure
was hi and rising over the north Rocky
Mountain rIslo.., and 1t continued high along
the North Pacific coast. Local thunder
showers have occurred within the last twen-
ty-four hours In the east Gulf and South
Atlantic States. Tennessee, East Arkansas,
portions OF the upper lake region and the
Dakotas. In other regions, generally fair
weather has prevailed.
The temperature continued slightly below
normal yesterday in the Atlantic states.
while higher temperature prevailed In the
middle Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys
and the south plains States. and considerably
cooler weather overspread the Dakotas, the
north Rocky Mountain region and the West
Canadian provinces.
The New York herald., 1921-08-06

A Federal legislator who refused
point blank" to attend a dinner given
by a member OF a Federal commits
sion because he thought that the hos
pitable host was trying to snare him
with social lobbying" got his name
in the newspapers but missed good
dinner, which is now harder to secure
in Washington than is publicity.