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The New York herald., 1921-01-23
DINNER FOR PROF. SHEPHERD.

Prof. William r. Shepherd of Colum-
bia University was the guest of honor az
testimonial dinner given last evening
at the German Press Club, 21 Spruce
street. Reinold Warlich, barytone. and
Karl Klein, violinist were heard. The
speakers were Charles f. MacLean.
former Supreme Court Justice: Oswald
Garrison Willard, DR.. Emanuel Baruch
and Arthur Shoenstadt. Bernard II.
Ridder presided
The New York herald., 1921-01-23

SOC Women's "Burson" Hose; made
to fit without scam; black, white
and cordovan; mill o.
irregulars .........: 6TS
35c Women's Fine Scanned Bach
Cotton Hose; black, white anc
cordovan; mill irregulars; To-
3 Pairs SOC
The New York herald., 1921-01-23

$l.6s to $3.50 Women's 'Merode'
Vests and Tights; woolcn or silk
and wool; not all sizes in each
style 1.25 to 4.5O
The New York herald., 1921-01-23

6oc Children's White Fleeccd
Shirts and Pants; broken 90.
sizes; each. h.............. wv
3 for $1.0O
The New York herald., 1921-01-23

$l.25 Boys Gray Ribbed Fleeced
Shirts and Drawers; sizes co.
| rs to 81; each. ...... WV
3 for $500
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
PASS KEY THIEVES GET $1,000.

SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 22.--Thieves en-
tered the premises of the Western Loan
Association by use of pass key early
to-day and obtained $1,000 in gold and
$500 In CURRENCY
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
The Short Cotton Crop.

The cotton crop this year. accord.
ing to the forecast of the Department
of Agriculture, will be only S,433,0 900
bales. This is the smallest yield
since 1895. The drop is due mainly
to reduction from 37043,000 acres
planted to cotton last year to &C..
$4,000 acres this year, fall of 2S.4
per cent, and to the abandonment OF
planted acreage of about per cent
caused by bad weather, plant pest
and the diminished use of fertilizer.
Under any circumstances but those
now existing a cotton crop of only
S,433,000 bales would be a world dis
aster. But the 1886, 900 bale cotton
crop of last year is only half sold
When the new crop comes to market
there will be reserve carryover of
6,000,000 bales to supplement the
short harvest.
The lesson of what farmers can dc
when they organize to cut down their
output is, however, none the less sig
nificant simply because they chose a
time when a minimum of hardship
would result from a short crop.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Leaving Santo Domingo.

Circulation has been given to Sc
many garbled and incomplete YER
sions of the terms under which the
United States is to withdraw from its
occupancy of the Dominican Repub-
lie that the detailed explanation of
our attitude issued by our Depart
ment of State and printed elsewhere
on this page should be read care
fully by all who are interested in this
subject.
The charges of bad faith, of at
attempts to coerce the Dominicans, of
efforts to hand pick Dominican dele
gates to negotiate the convention of
evacuation, all fall to the ground
when this simple and straightfor-
ward declaration OF purpose and
process is read. The requirement
that adequate provision shall be made
for the payment of the latest loan
floated by the military government
is not oppressive or unusual.
The whole arrangement. as pro.
jected by the United States, is fair
to the Dominican Republic and to its
people. Our temporary assistance to
the Dominicans will end as 1t began,
in real friendship and with sincere
regard for their rights.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Microscopic Penmanship.
Peter Bales Wrote Several Pages OF
Words on a Silver Penny.
MAURICE MORRIS.
Fron the Manchester Guardian.

From the Manchester Gudrdiun.
England at one time possessed a PEN
man capable of rivalling Nessi Efendi
Markarem, an Arab now on a visit to
Cairo with specimens of his art, includ-
ing a grain of rice on which he has
written 10 words from the Koran.
Peter Bales, as we learn from Hollins-
heds Chronicle, put in the compass OF
a silver penny more things than would
fill several ordinary pages, and pre-
sented Queen Elizabeth with the manu-
script set in a gold ring and covered
with crystal, together with a magnify
ing glass so powerful that the Queen
could easily decpher the manuscript,
(which she held on her thumbnail and
commended the same TO the Lords of
the Council and the Ambassadors"
Bales subsequently, issued a challenge
'to all Englishmen and strangers" to
write. for a pen of gold of twenty
pounds value, in all kinds of hands,
''best. straightest and fastest" and most
kinds of ways, "a full. mean, small,
with line and without line in a slow
set hand, a mean facile hand. and a
fast running hand" and further. TO
write "truest and speediest. most secre-
tary and clerklike. from mans mouth,
reading, or pronounclng. either English
or Latin"
Another writing master, David John
son. accepted the challenge, and the
contest opened on Michaelmas Day, 1895,
before five judges and hundred spec
tators. Bales was adjudged the win
ner in all three sections, though the
competition in writing sundry kinds of
fair hands" proved near thing for
him. He gained points for the beauty
and most authentic proportion" of his
Roman hand" but Johnson scored more
marks in court hand and in bastard
secretary hand Bales. being then on
his mettle. presented his Master Piece. "
composed of secretary and Roman hand
four ways varied" and offered to forego
all his previous advantages if johnson
could better II. This proved impossible,
so Bales carried off the gold pen, and
had It painted and set UP for his sign.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
SHOE FASHION SHOW
EXHIBITS NOVELTIES
Instep Straps, Elastic Caters
and Juiiettes Prominent.

More straps over the instep, Con-
gress gaiter, pink velvet Juliettes and
smoking slippers were among the strik-
ing features of the shoe fashion show
which opened yesterday in the Commo-
dore Hotel for a four day run. Models
wore the shoes that are expected to APP
pear in thv autumn on fashionable
femininity
Grandmother never would have recog-
nized her comfortable old elastic sided
shoes in the trim little model worn by a
girl with the prettiest of feet There
were the same expanding sides to her
shoes. but otherwise they were as differ
ent as art and manufacture can make
them.
Most of the 800 men present, although
they were shoe manufacturers. took par
ticular notice of pair of satin mules on
n girl in modern smoking Jacket, which
included all the details, even to the
cigarette holder and cigarette box She
wore no stockings. and several inches OF
her curving calf showed below the frilly
trousers
Some Of the darker shoes. intended for
street wear, had stitching of bright
contrasting color. Heels are no higher,
and some are to be lower for sports and
walking The only laced high shoes
were worn by children.
About twenty-five manufacturers
members of the Shoe Manufacturers
Board of Trade. staged the show, which
is set to music and has flowers and spot
lights.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
The Toddle Top.

What is it turns the town to-day?
The toddle top.
What is it all the takers bray?
THE toddle top"
It's seized upon this torrid town
And twirled it almost upside down,
And makes the corner copper frown---
The toddle top.
What comes to table with the tea?
The toddle top.
What makes whole families disagree?
The toddle top.
It's put the kibosh on the bones,
They roll no more but weep with means
Yea, seven, leven" now disowns
The toddle top.
What put-puts like a motor boat?
The toddle top.
What takes so little. gets your goat?
The toddle top.
It's twirling here and twirlGg there;
Bridge Is suspended in the air;
It rests the brain and curls the hair
The toddle top.
Soon Congress may investigate
The toddle top.
And we may one day legislate
BY toddle top.
But If the people they would please
They'll have to take off all the rs
And slow by very marked degrees
The toddle top.
MAURICE MORRIS.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06

hindrances thrown In the way OF
American vessels. there is no ground
for criticism of foreign steamship
operators. The world has no time
for fiddling complaints. BY exercis-
ing common sense and energy Amer
lean ships can meet foreign ships un-
der any and all conditions once their
wage scales and operating regula-
tions are brought within a reasonable
distance of the wage scales and oper-
ating conditions of their competitors.
Bribery under the rebate system
and discrimination against American
ships in the use of port facilities and
in other ways will soon disappear if
American shippers refuse to take re-
bates and If the American public
gives its support to the enforcement
Of laws and regulations now dormant.
but which would afford the American
shipowner and operator the facilities
to fight fire with fire.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Grand Circuit Under Way.

With the opening of the Grand Cir
cult at the North Randall track near
Cleveland on Monday last began a
campaign of interest to every lover
of the American trotting horse.
While there are upward OF 1,S0O
trotting tracks, great and small, in
the United States, IL is the racing on
the Grand Circuit with its big stakes
and purses which attracts the best
horses and drivers. These contests
set the pace for the other organiza-
tions and furnish an incentive for
breeders to produce trotters and
PAGERS capable of winning at Cleve.
land, Columbus, Lexington, Pough.
keepsie, Hartford. Atlanta and other
points dominated by the organization
of which HAIRY X. DEvERAUx of Cleve-
land is the head.
The standard bred has always had
following among men Of wealth
and influence in this country. Many
individuals who never raced their
horses for money premiums have
owned and bred the finest specimens
They took pleasure in driving them
or seeing them driven by others. In
this category are included men like
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
When Man Is Physically Best.

II there is anything in the theory
that man is at the top of his physical
vigor at 81. the time is not far off
when JACK DEMPSEY will find his
match in the prize ring. Somewhere
in the United States there is in the
making a youngster who will have
the punch to put him to sleep.
Just why 27 should be mans physi-
cal turning point-the age when
muscular disintegration sets in-has
never been explained. The worlds
greatest baseball players, Jockeys,
swimmers and track athletes recog-
nize the fact in a slowing up difficult
to describe. Some of them say the
process involves a condition beyond
the physical. The mental processes
do not synchronize with the muscu-
lar faculties as perfectly as at an
earlier period. For success in any
form OF athletic endeavor there must
be sympathetic and instant coopera-
tion between the brain and the ma.
chinery of the body.
10 it first" has special applica-
ton to the prize ring. 1t is this i'm
prs-se which spells the difference be-
tween genius and mediocrity on the
back of race horse. The rider who
sees an opening and takes advantage
apf 1t in the Kaleidoscope changes OF
race is the one who wins nine times
out of ten. II is also the quality
(which produces the Ty Cobbs of the
&baseball world.
There are fighters. jockeys. ball
players and track athletes in general
Tho were conspicuous for their merit
after 80, but statistics indicate that
the period of physical deterioration
begins at or about the twenty.seventh
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
WEDNESDAY. JULY 6. 1921.
Common Sense Dictates Fusion.

The common sense of the approach
ing municipal campaign is fusion.
For anti-Tammany leaders to aban-
don the time honored and generally
successful principle of a non-partisan
business administration of the affairs
of the city of New York is to fly in
the face of all the facts and figures
that appeal to sound, practical po-
litical judgment.
To point to the landslide vote of
Mr.. HARDING for President in Greater
New York last November as a meas
ure of local Republican strength is
unadulterated nonsense. Mr.. HAR-
DING was running for President on
the superlative issue of America for
Americans or America for the great
Powers, mushroom states and tribal
nations of the war torn and dis
tracted Old World, and nobody in
his political senses ever doubted how
the American people stood on this
question, and always will stand, in
Republican territory and in Demo-
cratic territory.
To assert that what some local
Republican nominees did in the Har-
ding avalanche as straight ticket
candidates can be done again now
without the 1920 issue is tin whistle
bravado. If Mr.. HARDING, Republi-
can, carried this city for President
by 441,0Oo, sweeping along with him
many Tom, Dick and Harry on his
ticket, AL SMITH, Democrat, on the
same day, at the same polls, although
tidal wave was burying his national
party, carried the same city for Gov
ernor by 100000.
II Greater New York Republicans,
Independent Democrats, plain Inde-
pendents and other anti-Tammany
voters want to put the Murphy-Hylan
organized appetite out of the May
orally and the Board of Estimate
they will get together and stick to-
gether on a fighting fusion ticket.
II they want to hand the municipal
election to the Tammany tribe on a
gold platter they will drive straight
ticket wedges into anti-Tammany
solidarity to split it into futile
fragments.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Aquitania Pursues the Berengaria.
Cunarders OFF for Europe Day Apart Carrying 3,s75
Passengers

Just twenty-five and a half hours
after The Cunard liner Berengaria lon
port. bound for Cherbourg and South
ampton, the Cunarder Aquitania, flag
ship OF the line, started yesterday eve
ming in swift pursuit. bound for the
same ports. Despite the start of the
Berengaria. formerly the German ship
Imperator, officers of the Aquitania said
their oil burning boilers would take
them to port ahead or their hugo rival.
Although the Berengaria carried 1.775
passengers, no small number. the Aqui-
tania took out 2.100. including 750 in
the first class. The big fagship's cabins
and numerous private rooms were filed
TO subway crowd solidity yesterday
afternoon by friends and voyagers. De-
spite the huge swarm, the ships crew
succeeded in getting rid of even the
most clinging visitors, and the liner
went out only a few minutes after s,
the scheduled sailing time.
Daniel Guggenheim, president OF the
American Smelling and Refining Com
rany sailed with Mrs Guggenheim on q
trip through France. England and Switz-
erland. Mr. Guggenheim. who will re-
turn late in September said the only
developments he expected in the copper
situation during his absence would be
changes very much for the better.
The copper man was decidedly op-
timistic about the outlook in his indus
try. The recent move of copper manu-
facturers to restrict the output of new
metal until some of the surplus already
mined was disposed of was a very wise
move for the stabilization of business
he said. AS result OF this n real de-
mand for the metal may soon be eX-
pected.
Another business optimist on board
was William M. Wood of the American
Woobsn Company, who asserted his in
dustry was working 95 per cent. of ca
pacity and Is the busiest of all in Amer
lea. A sellers market may be ex-
pected next season. he declared. Mr.
Wood will GO to England, Germany ami
France.
Others on the crowded passenger list
were Paul D. Cravath. Otis Cutler,
president of the American Brake, Shoe
and Foundry Company; Sir Joseph and
Lady Duveen. Major-Gen. and Mrs. H.
M. Elliott. Mrs. William H. Foros and
Miss Katherine Force, C. w. Ham
mill, Joshua A. Hatfield. president of
the American Bridge Company, and
Mrs. Hatfield: Darwin p. Kingsley,
president of the New York Life Insur-
ance Company; Count dc Sails, Mrs.
Egerton l.. Winthrop and Mr.. Payne
Whitney.
The passengers also include Capt. the
Vlscount Holmesdale, who represented
his rather. Lord Amherst, at this years
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Literature and Money
Could the Patron System Produce a
Writer of the First Rank!

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: One OF
your correspondents says that in view
of present conditions publishers are
taking no chances and are not handling
the works of new writer's" He hopes
that some OF our wealthy men who are
in the habit OF endowing colleges so
munifcently will found an institute for
the encouragement of literature"
Things have certainly come to a sad
pass If publishers refuse to handle the
works of new writer's. As the case
stands the only hope for literature and
bellies lettres is In new writer's Our
contemporary writer's belong only to the
second or third class. There is not in
America to-day a single writer or poet
Of the first rank.
There is matter for thought In the
reflection that in former ages, so prolific
of great writers and poets, these men
Pindar wrote that in those times men
did not write for money. They wrote
to make men better and happier, to save
their bodies and souls.
We shall never have a great litera-
ture until writers devote and consecrate
themselves to the welfare of humanity
and to art for arts sake, and leave
the money consideration entirely in the
background.
I am not In favor of an institute for
the encouragement of literature. No
kind of institutionalism can produce the
highest. finest results. But 1 am in
favor of wealthy patrons of individuals
of literary merit. w. p.
SPOKANE, Wash, July /.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Fer the Square Deal.
One Way for Preachers to Help in
Solving Business Problems.

To TIE New YORK HERALD: "w.
p" of Spokane ic quite right in saying
that clergymen should devote their en-
ergies TO teaching religion. as they have
studied to fit themselves for that work.
Doubtless clergymen in general will
admit that questions of religion. law.
medicine or millinery should be de-
cided by persons who have special train
ing in these lines; but some ministers
seem TO think that business questions
which are perplexing trained business
men can be solved by men without ex-
perience in such matters.
If the man in the pulpit can teach the
man in the pew that the square deal is
working part Of the Christian religion
he will have taken n long step toward
solving labor troubles. The square deal
by both sides will prevent most of the
strikes and lockouts.
The investigation of the working con-
ditions in the plants of the United States
Steel Corporation by body of clergy
men was an example of how not to
solve the labor question. XXX
WEST HARTFORD, Conn, July s,
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Chairman Fordney's Oil Dam.

The American people know that for
several years they have heard warn
ings from all sides that this coun-
try's oil supply is in danger Of run
ming dry. They know that the best
engineering genius and the highest
statesmanship in the country have
been patriotically contending that the
welfare of the nation demands that
foreign consumers should not be per-
mitted to drain us of our reserves
while refusing to let us have our
reasonable share of theirs.
The American people know that
the Secretary of Commerce is deeply
concerned over this grave national
question. They know that the Secre-
tary Of State is vigorously insisting
with great Powers that this nation
must have its rights to oil land
grants in foreign territories recog-
nized along with those European
nations that claim exclusive first
mortgages on them. They know that
the President Of the United States is
contesting to the limit this deadly
dangerous discrimination against us
in foreign fields.
The American people know that
every barrel Of oil brought into this
country Is as good as a barrel of oil
saved Of our own home supply and
for that reason the foreign oil must
not be shut out.
When, therefore, the national Ad-
ministration is doing everything in
its power to get foreign oil into this
country as 'an imperative need of
American industry, welfare and life,
what the American people want to
know is why Chairman FoRpNEY's s
Ways and Means Committee insists
on building tariff dam in front of
that foreign oil to keep it out.
And what the American people will
want to know from the whole mem
bership Of Congress when it takes up
the Fordney measure on the floor is
whether Congress is going to stand
for FoRDNEY's prohibitive oil duty
or whether Congress is going to kill
it as dead as door nail.
The House and the Senate will be
called upon to answer this question
by the nation. They might as well
get their reply ready now.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Dry Law and Crime.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: May /
state that your courteous representative
unintentionally exaggerated my state
ments regarding prohibition as crime
cause in THE New YORK HERALD on
Thursday. June 30?
I did not say that prohibition was
largely responsible for present crime
conditions
I gave eleven causes which regarded
as leading factors in the present crime
wave.
Answering a question. added that
a number of crimes were at present oc-
curing in connection with the prohi-
billion law-every one knows that a
great deal Of llGuor mas been stolen
] do not consider prohibition at all a
leading cause of present crimes. It is
oue factor, and possibly a temporary
factor WILLIAM =. JOYCE.
President National Surety Company.
New YORK, July 3.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Great Britain's Pacificator.

Premier of the Union OF South
Africa by vocation, one of the small
company of statesmen who survived
participation in the Peace Confer
ence, JAN CHRISTIAN SHUTS is in
Ireland doing his utmost to bring
about friendly relations between
Sim Fein, Ulster and England.
Himself a valiant fighter against the
British in the Boer war, he has be-
come one of the great pacifcators
and leaders of the empire.
1t is worthy of notice that since
he undertook to compose the ancient
English-Irish quarrel there has been
noticeable access of optimism
among all who sincerely long for
peace, optimism clearly mirrored in
the London press of all shades Of
opinion. The trust in SMUTss abil-
ity to bring about an understanding
is evident in the changed atmosphere
in London and in Dublin.
If General SHUTS can compose the
Irish difficulties and bring about a
working agreement leading to pros
perity and happiness between two
peoples which for generations have
misunderstood, scorned and hated
each other, he will have accom-
plished something no other statesman
has been able to do. An enduring
Irish-English peace would bring him
higher fame than will ever result
from his association with the League
of Nations.
The New York herald., 1921-07-06
Labor Costs in Steel Making.

In announcing another slash in
steel prices Z. G. GRACE, president
Of the great Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, shows what it is that is at the
bottom of the high costs, which as
yet make it so hard to sell goods at
the normal prices that consumers
would pay.
The making of a ton of finished
steel requires the transportation of
five tons of raw materials. For the
ore, coal, limestone, scrap and mis-
cellaneous supplies which must be
transported to make structural
shapes the increased freight cost
over pre-war levels is $7.S5 ton. But
increased transportation charges by
the railroads go almost entirely into
increased labor charges against the
railroads.
The increased market cost over
pre-war levels of the ore, coal, lime
stone, alloys, refractories, lubricants,
&C., which go to make up the ton of
structural shapes, is S7.1o ton. But
here, again, the increased costs Of
these materials are overwhelmingly
the increased labor costs in them.
The increased labor cost of making
at the steel mill the ton of structural
shapes out of those five tons of ma.
terials, even after the recent wage
reductions now in effect at the mills,
is 1854 ton.
Here are increased manufactur.
ing costs-very largely labor costs
of $20.59 a ton on the finished
product. In December, 1914, the sell.
ing price of structural material
touched S24.21 a ton, the low price
in the last twenty years. In other
words the added manufacturing costs,
accounted for chiefly by increased
labor costs, amount now to almost as
much as the actual selling price was
in December, 1914.
There cannot be normal prices in
this country and there cannot be nor.
NAL business in this country until
war imitation labor prices are de.
fated in this country.