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The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Twice Niagara's Height.

The Great Falls OF the Orange
River. which were recently described
by F. G. CORNELL, an African trav-
eller and explorer, before the Royal
Geographical Society, are one OF the
worlds great cataracts. They are
hidden away in the wilderness of
South Africa and were found by
Mr.. CORNELL almost 100 years after
their discovery by white men. The
cataract. which Is due TO a sudden
drop In the bed Of the Orange River,
Is 400 feet high, more than twice the
height of Niagara and fifty feet
higher than the other great African
falls, the Victoria OF the -ami,si.
The Orange River falls were really
discovered in 1924 by GEORGE THoMP-
SON, but their isolation, In one Of the
oldest and weIrdest desert regions of
the world, together with the peril and
danger of the approach, made their
existence elmost unknown even to the
geographer. Few white men have
ever seen them, and Mr.. CORNELL
brings out perhaps the first full and
satisfactory description OF the falls.
The river channel just above the
cataract Is almost mile In width
and Is split up into numerous islands.
In order to reach the main channel
where the water takes It's huge leap It
Is necessary to cross many dangerous
streams, wading through water
waist deep and cropping for footing
on narrow ridge Of rocks, in con-
slant peril of being swept down by
the rapid current Emerging from
rift In n labyrinth Of granite one
stands suddenly on the edge OF pro-
found chasm. "over the further lips
Of which the huge muddy volume OF
the Orange hurtles in one stupen-
dous spout"
The scene Of the falls must be one
of the strangest in the world, nothing
but uneven, shattered rocks, cheer
precipices and giant buttresses. II is
one OF terror more than pleasure and
Of awe rather than beauty. The
walls Of tho dark chasm In which
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
An Illinois Editors steady Income.
From the Aita,nomt Times.

From the dhdmont Times.
A child is born In the neighborhood: the
editor gives the loud iunged youngster and
the happy parents sendoff and gets 5000
II II christened and the minister gets s.
and the editor gets 5000. The editor bushes
and tells dozen lies about the beautiful
and accomplished bride. The minister gets
$40 and n piece OF cake and the editor gets
1000. In the course OF time she dies the
doctor gets from si5 10 800. the minister
grts perhaps another So. tho undertaken
gets from SIS TO 5000. the editor prints an
obituary two columns long and a card OF
thanks and gets 5000 No wonder so many
country editors get rich. Have you paid
your subscriptlon7
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Terse Reporting in Siberia.

There is published In yladivostoll
daily paper in English, the Neos.
It Is a lively little four page affair,
Ave columns wide. 1t prints radio
news from all parts Of the world.
The American sojourning In Siberia
can learn from his NeiCs that there
was no snow In most parts Of the
United States at Christmas and that
TY Conn will manage the Detroit
baseball club.
The Nercs prints about a column Of
local matter, principally thefts. But
II Is in the recording Of tragedies that
the police reporter shines most
brightly He Is terse enough to de-
light the spirit OF the Great Ameri-
can Condenser, DIR. WooD. Here is
an example:
"The criminal BAIT, who lived at
% Nikolskaya street, was shot dead
by the Assistant Ciref OF Secret Ser
vice Militia. LAPirzKr, when being
arrested by the latter in the quarters
OF Citizeness II PoPovA"
What BATS criminal speciality
was. why LAPtTzKY found II neces-
sary TO fire, what Cltizeness PoPovA
said or did during the proceedings
all these are left to the imagination Of
the reader. He may wish to fancy
BAIT the head Of a band OF Russian
sable thieves; Citlzeness PoPoyA q
beautiful blonde attired in black vel.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Make the Firebugs Pay.

The proposed new fire law now
pending In the Massachusetts Legis-
lature is designed TO decrease this
form Of wastage by increasing per-
sOnal liability for the results Of care
lessness or neglect. The measure au-
thorizes State or municipal authori-
ties to sue for the cost Of extinguish-
Ing fires the owner of the property on
which they originate whenever such
evsser has failed to comply with all
fire prevention laws and ordinances.
The pay of firemen and officers, rem
tel value of apparatus, cost of water
and value of all other material used
in putting out the flames are to be
figured In the claim.
This bill Is modelled on the existing
Pennsylvania statute in operation
since 1915. 1t Is in line with the law
Of New York, under which judgment
has actually been collected from hold
ers of premises In which fires origi-
mated through neglect Of legal fire
precautions. 1t Is really a mild meas
ure. since 1t takes no account Of gen.
eral negligence or recklessness but
merely of disobedience to official fire
prevention enactments and regula-
tons. Also 1t extends no special
privilege to private persons damaged
by fire through carelessness of others
In these respects the proposal is
far lesG stringent than the laws In
force In many foreign countries, which
extend>the liability of citizens whose
act or neglect causes conflagration
TO all the loss or damage resulting.
Not only have the sufferers remedy
against these but the Government as
Sumes the duty of enforcing the rem
edy and collecting the compensation,
with sundry penalties In addition. In
word, fire may be a mere mis-
fortune TO a man In these regions If
he Is in no way responsible for It; but
If he causes ii by any act of his own
or through failure in any precaution
that would have prevented 1t he is
guilty of a serious offence and must
pay for the consequences.
That the European system. or per-
hups the general attitude OF caution
which 1t has created, works wonders
Is shown in the statistics. A chart of
fire prevalence for the years 1912 to
1915 shows an average per capita loss
in this country of 1926 a year,
against "a cents In France. 81 cents
in England. % cents In Germany and
II cents in the Netherlands. Canada.
indeed. was worst of all. with loss
of S2.73 n head. Nor can it be thought
that conditions have improved, for the
joint loss of the United States and
Canada In 1919 is figured at S269,-
O00.77 against s1S2, ,s36, 200 incurred
during 1915.
There Is no hardship in enforcing
personal liability for wanton damage
and loss to individuals or the COM
munity. The fire evil is one of the
worst and most wanton of the day.
II could be cut in two in year by the
smallest effort and the simplest pre-
cautions. II is time Il came to an
end. The law should see to II and
authorities should do their part by
convincing delinquents that fire Is not
visitation Of Providence but gener-
ally a product of bad citizenship.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Flax Numbers.
They Reach Back Into the Days Of
Mans Infancy.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Apropos
of the fax numbers. referred to by cor
respondents as of Indian or possibly
Pennsylvania Dutch origin, on page 20
OF "The Mating OF LYDIA" by Mrs.
Humphrv Ward. II Is stated TINT an old
Cumbrian--north of England-shepherd
began the catalogue of those ancient
numerals by which the northern dales-
men OF a hundred years ago were still
accustomed to reckon the sheep. words
that go back to the very infancy of man.
"Yan. tyan. tethera. methera, pint
Cfive) sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera,
dick (ten) yan-a dick. tyan-a-dick,
tethera-a-dick. methera-a-dIck. bumht
(nfteen) yan-a-bumit, tyan-a-bumfit,
tethera-a-bumnt. methera-a-bumft, gig
got (twenty)."
MINNIE WELLS PIPER.
MANUEL. February IS.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Eating Our Weight in Sugar.

When II comes TO sugar the gen.
eral laws that control consumption
have to bend. In 1913 sugar was
51a cents a pound. Americans used
Il at the rate of Sc pounds q per-
son. In 1920 sugar was from 20 to
25 cents pound, four times as
costly as 1t had been before the war.
Instead Of stinting themselves the
people used sugar at the rate Of 92
pounds to the individual.
1t is rather alarming to think Of
the average American eating his or
her weight In sugar in a year. but
when the 90 pounds Is distributed
over 365 days Il amounts to about a
quarter Of pound day. Full many
girl of purest appetite serene will
consume a pound of candy betwees
luncheon and dinner. A small boy,
even IL he Is not permitted coffee or
tea, VIII demand and get sugar
amounting In year 10 more than his
weight. For sugar comes not from the
bowl alone. Candy, cake, preserves,
ice cream and soft drinks are the
luxuries that have caused Americans
TO triple their use of sugar in the
last fifty years.
The fact that the consumption Of
sugar in 1920 exceeded by billion
pounds that for 1919. when extrava-
gance generally was at its worst, in
dicates that the prophets we're right
when they said that prohibition would
increase the call for sweets.
The figures for the present year,
considering the low price of sugar,
should be interesting.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

continue to neglect the kind of wealth
which moth and rust doth corrupt, a
backhanded English recognition in the
shape of a trade agreement win be
fimsy collateral for Russia TO offer
the rest Of the world In trade for
tangible goods. Two, three, a dozen
or a hundred ciphers totalled up
equal zero.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Democracy and Ships.

British shipbuilders had not the
glittering promises of ideallsm 70 spur
them on in 1920, but they built ships
just the same. They built them not
ut the efficient rate established IN the
peace years before the war; neither
did these master builders hesitate at
the tonnage record of war years in
which the cry was for ships and more
ships to defeat the submarine. Brit
ish shlpbuilders were too wise for
that. They may have had one eye on
democracy and idealism last year, but
they had the other eye on the Ameri-
can merchant navy. And so they
built ships.
When the figures had been totalled
up and duly recorded Lloyd's register
OF shipbuilding gave out the news
that in the tonnage launched in 1920
British shipbuilders had surpassed
every previous record. Here are their
records of the last three years and for
1913 compared with our own:
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
A Leader Of Javanese Women.

TO THE NEW York HERALD: In regard
to the despatch from Amsterdam printed
last Sunday and relating TO the advance
OF womanhood In Java, Il should be
stated that Kartini died In 1904 In her
twenty-hfth year. but her spirit II NOV
Ing on also that her remarkable let
tors TO friend In Holland we're trans
lated from the Dutch by n lady In New
York. Mrs. Agnes Louise symmers. and
brought out by the publisher, a. A.
Knopf. In handsome volume few
months ago THEopoRE r. SHuEY.
WAsHINoToN. February IS.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

he water falls Is smooth as If 1t was
'hiselled, and along IT'S top 1t affords
no foothold even for a baboon.
Some time when civilization has ad-
ranced bridges may be built from
which the Orange In fiood-it rises
sometimes thirty or forty feet in an
hour-may be seen spreading over
this nightmare Of an abyss, a sight
which no man could possibly see now
IT close quarters and live. ~ will
be years before this wild cataract
can be turned to mans use or before
1t can De a rival 20 Niagara in
honeymoon Itinerary.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Violin and Piano Recitals.

Miss Helen Jeffrey gave her post
poned violin recital yesterday afternoon
in Carnegie Hall. She had large audi
ence. With Walter Golde at the piano
she was heard in a programme includ-
ing Brahms's A major sonata, opus 100.
and Bruchs D minor concerto.
At Aeolian Hall in the afternoon the
Misses Rose and Otilie Sutro gave their
second recital of music for two pianos.
Their programme included sonata by
Richard Roessler, -Four Dances by
Louis Vuillemin. which were played FOR
the first time. and Dvorak's own ar
rangement for two pianos of his slavic
dance, which was originally written I'm
duet form for one piano. The two artists
were heard by good sized audience
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Europe's Crisis.
Civilization Itself Menaced, Serbian
Bishop Argues.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: A Very
live issue was raised by Bishop Nichola
of the Greek Church in Serbia In his
address at Columbia University, when
he said mo one has yet finished the
war" On that point he seems to be
in excellent company, including Mar
shal Foch and Sir Douglas Raig.
The Bishops contention was that the
same causes which produced the wal
insure its continuance at the first favor
able opportunity unless those causes be
abated in the interim. His thesis is in
teresting and logical. Briefly:
(a) Every great civilization that the
wc.ld has seen has been based upon spir-
itual ideals--a religion.
(b) Every civilization which has aba7-
doned it's basic ideals and tried to estab-
lish Itself on other and material ideals
has suffered quick decay and death.
(c) European civilization has abandoned
the Christian ideals upon which it was
based and turned to material ideals, and
incidentiy the teachings of Europe's uni
versities have been largely responsible
for this change a consequence.
cd European civilization has collapsed
Il is at the point OF death. without
moral and spiritual help from us ole II
will in spite of any material aid we
may give It.
(e) The death of European civilization
means the death OF Christian civilization.
In America as elsewhere.
It is open to US, OF course, cheerfully
to hide our heads in the sand and quote
Mr.. Wilson 1.-THE obscure causes from
which the war sprang and its results
do not interest U.S."
1t Is also open to US to wake up and
&c realize that precisely as Russia now
menaces Europe Europe will soon be
menacing America. JAx.
NEW York, February is.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
S17,267 for Chinese Art.

The second session in the Hugo e.
Bauer sale of Chinese antiques at the
Anderson Galleries yesterday afternoon
brought s9.135 making the total for the
entire sale to date $17.267.. The final
session occurs this afternoon.
An important K'ang-hsi apple green
jar sold to r. veron for $3.50, bringing
the highest price of the afternoon. A
Kang-hsi peachbloom chrysanthemum
bottle went to +. r. kaldenberg for
1910. Mrs. J. c. Farrerr paid $3.50 for a
Fei-'tsui jade snuff bottle and Mrs
Bradley Martin s165 for Ming imperial
Cloissone pedestal.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

proscenium boxes on the right or
the house included Mrs. Lawrence
Townsend, Mrs. Charles Mather Mac
Neill Mrs. Conde Mast. Mrs. Herbert
Shipman. Mrs. Edward n. Breitung,
Count de Perigny, Mrs. Alexander
Keeler of Paris. Marquis Sommi, Miss
Elsa Maxwell, Mr.. Austen Gray. Miss
Fellowes Gordon, Mrs. Richard T. Will
son. Mrs. Hunt Slater. Mr.. Vail Steb-
bins. Mr.. Alphonse Jongers and MIR.
Emerson McMillin Sd.
Among others In the audience were
Mrs. John Ames Mitchell. Mrs William
A. II. Stafford. Miss Helen Nichels,
Mrs. w Williamson Fuller. Mr.. Wilham
NJ Sullivan. Mrs. John Aspegren, MIR.
Wainwright Parish, Mrs. Stanley Nc
Cormick and Mr.. w Savery Lo1vr.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

We have received from the Chicago
Boosters Publicity Club a copy OF its
bulletin. called Greater Chicago. and
we congratulate the city beside the
lake on the persuasiveness and pep
Of It's citizens as those qualities are
displayed In this publication. The
Boosters are proud of Chicago. as
thoy have every reason to be, and they
are not ashamed to confess their
pride. 1t is refreshing to hear the
voices OF those who neither feel nor
felgn shame for the town of their
residence. May the Boosters never
strike their colorsl
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Gross Tons

The significance Of these figures lies
not In the fact that American tonnage
exceeded British tonnage but that the
1920 British tonnage increased 435,GOO
'ons over 1919 while our own con-
Struction fell Off 1,452.00 tons. Eng
'and was the only one OF the larger
1aritime nations to increase tonnage
construction last year. The worlds
total output was 1851, 1855 tons, COM
pared with 7,144,549 in 1919, reduc-
tion of 1,2S3.600 tons, which is more
than accounted for by the decline in
our building.
Britain now has 20,000,000-odd tons
of seagoing vessels to her credit. built
mostly at peace prices and wholly for
peace employment. We have a mer-
chant navy of 100000 tons, two
thirds Of it registered In the foreign
trade. About one-fifth of it is tied
up awaiting cargoes, another fifth is
in the hands of bankrupt operating
concerns which cannot pay the high
charges involved in ships built for
war uses and sold at war prices.
Nearly every ship represented in our
magnificent records of 1918 and 1919
was built on war specifications and
fitted with high powered engines-too
high for economical operation in peace
times. The one object was 20 build
ships to outrun the submarine.
A full third of our merchant ma
rine will have to be engined anew
and made over for peace use, and two
thirds Of our ships will labor under
the handicap of high charges until
they are passed on to private owners
at peace prices and the loss under the
actual cost is written off as a neces-
sary part Of the cost Of war. y
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
An Income Tax Return.

have had gold OF sunlight
And silver OF the moon;
own enchanted acres
Untouched OF mortal shoon
! have unknown dependents.
Linked with all folks that be,
And loss has been a profit
And gain been loss 60 me.
with such a simple statement
I wonder who can say.
Can any one inform me
What income tax to pay7
McLsrpsurop wrsc~
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

or some keener working brothers from
Indiana will beat them to the use of
the dramatic material this city Is fur
nishing. DR.. SIMoN's frequent raids
on dope dens" have elements of that
truth which is much stranger than
fiction: dens filed with police and
their captives. gunmen, holdup men
and burglars with many convictions,
while well dressed men and women
and passengers in automobiles" apply
with secret signal at den doors for
their dope" only TO be arrested!
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX

"The Iapanese," by william r., Grffis.
ui-torv. Seventy-seventh street and Central
ia rk west Stereop,icnn viowe.
,,Nfexico. the International Porcupine.' by
Arthur T. Westermavr, at Cooper Institute,
Eiehth strect and Fourth avenue. Stereop-
icon views
"Iohn ~ Rockefeller" nv Prof. T. q.
carter Troop Ph. -. at Townscnd Harris
tTnii Ar,eterdnri avenue and i3e'h street.
''T',o Work NJ the 1nteralied Commission"
Nv William T. Musyacus. at V. NJ. G. A..
uarlem pranch. West i25'h street.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
BEGINS Light TO CUBA TODAY.

The Ponce de Leon. an eleven pessc1-
ger neromnrine flying boat. will fly at
davbreak TODAY from Kcyport, ". j..
down the Atlantic coast bound for
Cuba. G. J. zimmerman will pilot the
hig boat. which carries a crew of four.
The first stop planned Is at sapello ISL
and. N. c. Other stops will be Miami
Nassau, Bimini, Key West and Ha-
Vana
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

The Associated Press IL exclusively entitled
20 the Use for republication OF all news des-
patches credited TO II or not otherwise
credited IN this paper and also the local
news published herein.
All rights Of republication ~ special dea-
patches herein are also reserved.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
A Missouri chnd.s Deduction.
Ernm thc pnria Mcrcnrn.

from Wc fdriS McF'hfh.
n was n Parts four-year-old who on
seeing stork staring Mt him from the
picture page Of magazine informed his
mother that tho stork was looking 20 sec
if ho could remember him.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Doing Your nit" In Pence.

From the London Daily Er,rcss
The need OF the world Is production--pro-
ducion needs workers. The man who Is
doing his Job" is doing his BIT" Tho
chap who poses as non-worker Il merely
q ''conscientious" objector without the moral
courage 10 starve.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Miss Farrar to Sing To-Day.

Announcement was made at the Met
ropolitan Opera House last evening that
Miss Geraldine Farrar, who had been
suffering from a severe cold, has re-
covered and win appear in 'Nanon" at
the matinee this afternoon
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Early Instance.

Esau sold his birthrlght for mess Of pot
tare.
THE terms are bad, but my brother has
been on n buyers strike" nc explained.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

Three typhus cases In Cortland
Netcspdpe~ hoddlinc.
Carelessness at the seaboard endan.
gers the whole land.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

Representative ALICE ROBERTSON of
Oklahoma, the only woman elected to
the Sixty-seventh Congress, announces
that she will keep her eyes open and
her mouth shut" and that conse-
quently the country will not hear
much from her at the start Miss
ROBERTSON has made promising be-
ginning. Many statesmen new to
Congress have Handicapped themselves
by loquacity IN the initial stages of
their careers. If any of Miss ROBERT
SONS freshman colleagues is tempted
TO be talkative let him observe her
silence and follow her example.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

Make the low heel the fashion for
womens wear and you won't need legis-
lation.-Dr. FISK OF the Life Erten-
sion Institute.
Quite true; fashion nullifies legisla-
tive enactments and reverses the de-
cisions of courts. Women's- fashions
in fact, are about the only manifesto
tion of absolute freedom from govern
ment control left in the world to-day.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
A NEGLECTED. Cause.
INSIDE Down.

The Moth--I wish they would take up a
collection of coats for starving moths.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
The Hnbltailon.

The Cave Man--My descendants may think
me uncivlllzed. but this isn't 20 fer Off =
cellar
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

Yale and oxford are to have rifle
match by cable. Perhaps this idea,
which is borrowed from the chess
games, will spread in sport. Jump
ing, pole vaulting, weight throwing
and all the other contests in which
the entrants perform separately could
be engaged in by telegraph. But we
cannot imagine a tug-of-war in which
the rivals were 1900 miles apart.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19

The Russ Is Red.
The Sunday bluei
The world ls queer
Ana - are ycu.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Highest temperature, 80, at II :oU z. NJ.
Lowest temperature. "a at $3.50 A. NJ.
Average temperature, 80.
The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Rainfall
- ~

Observations at United States Weather
bureau stations, taken at +. NJ. yesterday.
seventy-fifth meridian time: