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The New York herald., 1921-11-04
The County Clerk.

The County Clerk of New York
county is elected for four years and
mis- salary is $4,000 a year.
He is the custodian of all the
county records except deeds, mort
cages, leases and conditional sales
of personal property, which are re
corded and kept by the Register.
The Clerk keeps the county seal,
Issues certificates of appointment to
rotaries public, registers physicians
and nurses, files certificates of in
corporation and records marriage
licenses.
The County Clerk is. by virtue of
his Office, Clerk of the Supreme Court
of this county. AS such he dockets
and indexes judgments, mechanics
liens, lis pendens and assignments.
He files papers in law and equity
actions. He taxes costs, prepares
judgment rolls and issues executions.
The clerical work of naturalizing for
eigners is done in his Office.
Every lawyer knows how impor-
tant is the Office of County Clerk;
every layman should realize it.
The coalition candidate for County
Clerk of New York county is CHARLES
NovELLo, lawyer who has served
IN the Assembly and in the Board of
Aldermen. The Tammany candidate
is JAMES A. DoNEGAN, the present
Register. He was not renominated
for Register because Tammany Hall
wanted to run a woman for Register
against Miss BOSWELL, the very capa-
tle and popular coalition candidate
for that Office. The Independence
League wing of Tammany insisted
that DoYEGAN be nominated for
something just as good" so he is
up for County Clerk.
The voter will do well to cast his
or her ballot for Mr.. NovELLo for
County Clerk.
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
BRIDGE FOR WOMAN'S
NATIONAL FOUNDATION
Party GiUen at Plaza for
Building Fund.

There was a successful bridge party
last night in the rose room Of the Plaza
under the auspices of the Woman's
National Foundation of Washington for
the benefit of the building fund of that
organization. 1t was organized by Mrs.
Francis Burial Hoffman, chairman for
New York State. The room was hand
somely decorated with flags and au-
tumn flowers and there were many in
ducements for playing.
Mrs. James Mcdonald, Mrs. Stephen
B. Elkins and Mrs. Charles Boughton
Wood came on from Washington for the
event. Among others who had tables
were Mrs. Robert C. Black. Mr. and
Mrs. Lyttieton Fox. Mrs. Frank NJ
Leavitt. Mrs. Jose Aymar, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Ogden Bacon, Mrs. Charles A.
Childs, Mrs. John J. Wysong. Mrs.
Henry Harper Benedict. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Astor Bristed, Mr. and Mrs.
William A. Jamson. Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward P. Mellon, Mr.. and Mrs. George
It. Maxwell. Mr.. and Mrs. William A..
Redding, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward r..
Thomas Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Kava-
nagh, Mr.. Albert Morris Bagby. Mr.
and Mrs. Harry l. Miller, Mrs. Joseph
Palmer Knapp. Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley
Olcott I'd. Mrs. Edison Bradley and Mrs.
James r. Branch. The proposed vaude-
vile and dance were dispensed with.
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
Taxing Foreign Trade.
Americans in Brazil Protest Against
the Senate's Action.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: / am in
receipt of the following cablegram from
the American Chamber of Commerce for
Brazil
American Chamber of Commerce for
Brazil understands clause exempting
foreign traders from income tax has
been eliminated by Senate. American
business in Brazil through this chamber
strongly protests against this action so
detrimental to American foreign trade.
European countries do not tax their
foreign traders abroad. The terrific
handicap imposed by tax demoralizing
ard greatly reduces American foreign
trade. This chamber strongly urges
Senate reconsideration and requests you
bring every possible pressure for nclu-
sion and passage OF this most vital
measure as passed by House.
AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
FOR BRAZIL"
This cablegram was forwarded to me
as national councillor of the American
Chamber Of Commerce for Brazil and
as protest against the action of our
Senate in eliminating the exemption of
foreign traders from the income tax
Our organization has been working
for a number of months endeavoring to
induce Congress to give Americans
abroad an equal opportunity with their
foreign competitors in developing export
trade, and the House of Representatives
had acted favorably in granting ex-
emption to foreign traders 80 per cent.
of whose income was derived outside of
the United States. The Senate. how
ever, amended the bill and eliminated
this provision.
At this period. when there is such
need for the development Of our foreign
trade, it would seem that Congress
would appreciate the situation and give
our representatives living abroad an
equal chance with the representatives of
other foreign countries. our competitors.
We hope it is not too late for the Senate
to alter It's stand upon this important
matter. l.. r.. FREEMAN.
NEW YORK. November 8.
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simplify the work of the Children's We'll
fare Commission, which is collating and
coordinating the laws Of the State af-
fecting children. Many of these laws
need substantial amendment, which 1t
is impossible for the Legislature to make
without constitutional amendment.
Fourth-It is important that judges
of courts of domestic relations, when
making an order requiring man to sup
port his wife and children, should be
empowered to direct that in proper cases
the husband be permitted to visit his
children, unless he be of so brutal and
would be prejudicial to the children's
welfare. and in that case the court
should be empowered to forbid him to
visit them and to enforce that order
Under the existing Constitution this
power cannot be conferred.
Fifth-Modern civilization regards as
abhorrent the notion that the transgres-
sions OF children are to be regarded as
criminal. The State of New York has
become a leader in legislative and judi
cial methods for the correction, protec-
tion, guardianship and adoption of delin-
quent, neglected or dependent minors.
This amendment is imperative in order
that the State may exercise that pa
rental power through the courts which
will give to every child the opportunity
to develop into a good citizen.
A. T. CLEARWATER,
Vice-President New York state Proba-
tion Commission.
KINGSTON, November 8.
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
Trend of the Tines Arthur d. Rees, at
New Era Club. PA East Broadway
The Book Of the Hour" Prof. j.. G. Car
ter Troop, ut N. Y. p. L., Woodstock branc:,,
759 East 160th street.
How to Avoid the Pitfalls" william J.
Burns. at High School of Commerce, Sixty
fifth street and Broadway.
THE Indian In America Chieftain Cau-
pelican. at wadleigh High School, ii5th
street. west of Seventh avenue
"The Origin Of Man." Prof. Samuel c.
schmucker, at Public School 27. Forty fret
and Forty-second streets. east of Third ave.
nue.. (The first of course OF three lectures
on ''Man-Past, Present and Tuture.")
THE Philippine Islands During American
Occupation" Thomas Livingstone. at Public
School CO. Eighty eighth street. east of Firss
avenue. illustrated.
''The Truth About the rniiippines." Jose
A. Ramirez, at Public School 1872. 1921 street
"The Czccho-Slovak In America" Miss Jo-
sephine TeiseI. at Public School II. Ford
ham street. near. City Island avenue. City
panama Canal Defences Up to Date"
Frederick w. Davis, at Public School 2s.
Anthony and fremont avenues, The Bronx.
Illustrated.
BROOKLYN. QUEENS AND RICHMOND.
Trend of the Times Mrs. Mary r:
Lease. at Boys High School. Marcy and
Putnam avenues.
aid A. Cadzow. at Public School 95. Van
sicklen street. near Neck road. Illustrated
THE Irish In American Music,'' Miss NJ
Josephine wiethan. at Public School 40. Pa :
cific and Union Hall streets, Jamaica, L. l..
"a Century Of Achievement by Uncle
Sam" Alexander J. o'Neil, at Public School
So, Elm, avenue and Fresh Pond road. Ridge
wood Heights, l.. I. illustrated.
american Life In the Philippines Mrs.
Frances G.. Houghton. at Public School 9e.
Rockaway road and Lincoln avenue. South
Ozone Park, l.. I. Illustrated.
Landscape Painters In America" Ernest
Knaufft, at Public School 20, Heberton ave-
nuc, Port Richmond. s. l. illustrated.
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
Her Gift.

THE apples are stored and the nuts have
been gathered,
Not one little astes the chill wind has
weathered,
The last grape is gone from the vine
brown and withered.
The last yellow leaf from the maple has
slthered.
The pumpkins are put in the cellar for
making
The luscious gold pies that ere long will
be baking.
Red ivy and sumac have dropped the last
ember,
I've nothing to give you. alas!" said
November.
"My sister September, the smiling and
sunny,
Gave fruits from her orchards and buck
wheat and honey.
October was lavish and heaped up her
measures
With hickory nuts. walnuts and golden
rod treasures.
am fearful and gray and each vagrant
gust scatters
The rags from my robe which is hang
ing In tatters
I'm poor and i'll tempered and work for
my living
At raking the leaves--but I bring you
Thanksgiving"
MINNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
Pictures as History.

Announcement of lecture in Bos-
ton on 1rLBERr STUART as a historian
is a sign that a phase of pictorial
art too little understood or appre-
ciated is gaining wider recognition.
This is the importance Of pictures
as historical records. Two artists Of
our own country and time have
painted series of pictures which
strikingly illustrate this aspect of
art. One of these was FREDERIC REM
IyGToY, the other L. l.. HENRY.
The paintings by REMINGTON Of the
men who made the West are of per.
manent historic value. The boy or
girl of to-day who wants to know
what trapper, a plainsman. cow
boy or the soldiers who fought the
Indians looked like can go to REM.
rNGToN's canvases and illustrations
for visual records. REMINGTON knew
those different types OF men, lived
among them, pictured them as they
worked and fought. He caught and
preserved e life which has passed
and thus he became one of our real
historians.
Transportation history in the
United States is set down stage by
stage in Il. L. HENRy's quaint can
vases. From Colonial wagons and
stage coaches to the canalboat travel
era its progress may be studied and
carried along TO the motor car that
figured in almost the last canvas he
painted. AS an American social his
torian HENRY may have failed oi
recognition in his lifetime. although
he met with more material success
But there can be no doubt of the
value OF his pictures to the social
student of future years. Now that
st. Johns Chapel In varick street is
gone forever, HESRY's charming pic
ture Of IL preserves social and
architectural record that American
art could Ill spare.
Among European artists wBo fall
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
PANAMA HAS BIRTHDAY.

Many residents of South and Central
America attended dinner given last
night at the Hotel Belleclaire to cele-
brate the eighteenth anniversary of the
independence of Panama The guests Of
honor included Mrs. Amador, the widow
of the first President of the Republic.
Others present were DR.. Eusebio Morales
and Nicolas Victoria. Ministers of
Panama to the Mexican Centenary, and
on special mission to the United
States; Mr.. Belisario Porras, Jr, Consul
General of Panama Mr.. Carlos Car
bone. Jr, Vice Consul General of Pana-
ma; Gen. Nicanor A. de Obarrio and
Mr.. Carlos c. Arosemena, leaders of the
Independence of Panama
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
Curran 2,O43, Hylan us.
Result Of Straw Vote Taken at
Columbia University.

To THE New YORK HERALD: The Co
lambio Spectator, the official paper of
Columbia University, had a straw vote
on Monday and the candidates were
Hylan. Curran and Panken. 1t is very
gratifying to read the result in Tues
days Spectator. Here are the figures
Curran, 2.o43 Hylan. 775; Panken, 259.
What does this show? Why, It shows
that the people who think are voting
for the right man. The students realize
that Curran is the man for the job.
Another interesting point in this elec-
tion is the comparatively small vote for
the Socialist ticket There's another in
stance of the fact that Socialism Is not
advocated by those who have undoubt-
edly studied the question but by those
vino are clamoring for the justice that
democracy Is now giving them.
With these facts in mind let the peo-
pie In New York go to the polls next
Tuesday firmly resolved to blot out the
"j" in Major and change 1t to ~
Three cheers for Major Curran!
NEW YORKER.
New YORK, November 3.
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
Dollar Wheat.

Dollar wheat in Chicago, indeed
wheat at cent lower than dollar,
sets new mark for the liquidation
the American farmers crops have
undergone.
When the European war was six
months old the wheat raiser, after a
sensational market rise from 81
cents, was getting $1.O7 for his grain.
In 1916 his price was down again to
about $1.O3. But in 1917 it was dol
lar and half wheat, in 1918 and
1919 it was more than two dollar
wheat and In the early part of last
year there was such thing as wheat
worth to the producer $2.31.
And now dollar wheat in Chicago
must seem to the farmer like cross
roads sign pointing the way to the
poorhouse. Yet for many day be-
fore the thunder of artillery shook
Europe the American farmers fond
est dream was dollar wheat. What
would have been a highly profitable
price before the war, as dollar wheat
at that time would have been, Is a
poor price now because it costs the
wheat grower so much more than it
cost him in those older days to raise
his crop. Also, what he buys with
the money he gets for his crop now
costs him more than in those days.
But the farmer can get a better
deal out of dollar wheat when his
cost of raising it is adjusted on the
right basis than he could get out of
dollar and a quarter wheat with his
production costs eating him up. He
can get still better deal out of dol
lar wheat when the prices of the ma
chinery, fuel, clothing and other sup
plies he has to buy are adjusted on
the right basis than he could get out
of dollar and a. half wheat with the
things he bought costing him enough
to wipe out all the money he re-
ceived for his crops.
The American farmer gets the lit
tie end of the bargain so long as
agriculture is liquidated and other
things are not But If his more OF
less permanent future is dollar wheat
he will get a better and better bar
gain as the other things keep on com.
ing down
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
Fifth Amendment Needed.
Judge Clearwater Explains Proposed
Changes I'm the Courts.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your
editorial article of Saturday upon the
constitutional amendments briefly ana
wisely summarized the reasons for and
against six of them.
The adoption of the fifth Is important,
bu. it is apt to be overlooked because
OF the absence of any purely monetary
interest Thus / venture to call atten-
ion to its beneflcent character and to
commend it to the electors OF the state,
cegardless of party affiliations. 1t pro-
vides among other things that the Leg
'slature may establish children's courts
and courts of domestic relations either
as separate courts or as parts of ex-
isting courts, or courts hereafter to be
created, and may confer upon them such
jurisdiction as may be necessary for the
correction, protection, guardianship and
disposition of delinquent, neglected or
dependent minors, and for the punish
ment and correction of adults RESPONSE
BILE for or contributing to such delin-
ouency, neglect or dependency. and to
compel the support of a wife, child or
roor relative by persons legally charge
sble Herewith who abandon or neglect
20 support them.
The amendment should be adopted 70:
these. among other reasons:
First--Children' courts under the ex-
listing provisions of the Constitution can
not appoint guardian of the person OF
a. child. Therefore. frequently they are
compelled to commit children to institu-
tions when did they possess the power
they would place them in the care of
n reliable relative. In order to do this
and TO afford the child full legal protec-
ton against abduction and abuse by an
unfit parent they must be authorized so
to do by constitutional provision.
Second--Lcgal guardians can be APP
pcinted by the Supreme Court or by the
surrogatc's Court. In the vast majority
Of cases which come before children's
courts the relatives are too poor to af-
ford the expense OF the necessary pro-
ceeding in either court. 1t is cruel to
deny TO q child the protection of proper
legal guardianship because Of the pow
erty of those who gladly would accept
tn. responsibility and furnish the requis-
tie protection II authorized so TO do and
were properly protected in so doing.
Tntvd-Thc amendment greatly VII
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
MIR. Shearn for Judge Andrews.
Elsewhere on this page THE Ne,

Elsewhere on this page THE New
YORK HERALD prints letter, from
CLARENCE j. SHEARN, formerly a JUS
tice OF the Supreme Court of the
State of New York, urging the citi-
zens of the State to vote for Judge
WILLIAM s. ANDREWS for Associate
Judge Of the Court Of Appeals. Mr..
SHEARN calls on the men and women
of the State to disregard party aff1li-
ations, and to mark their ballots for
Judge ANDREWS in the cause of an
independent. and trained judiciary.
This appeal to the reason and
good sense of New Workers comes
from a man whose experience has
particularly equipped him to reach a
sound conclusion in matters affecting
the bench. He was a newspaper re-
porter. He became lawyer, and as
counsel in many important cases in
volving the properties and interests
Of WILLIAM r. HEARST he reached a
high position at the bar. He was
nominated for District Attorney of
New York county by the Municipal
Ownership League in 1905. Three
years later he was the candidate of
the Independence party for Cover
nor. He was elected Justice of the
Supreme Court in the First District
for the term 1915-1929, and served as
a member of the Appellate Division
1917-1919, resigning from the bench
to enter private practice.
We have outlined Mr.. SHEAHN's s
career that his various and varied
distinctions achieved in newspaper
work, in the practice of the law, in
politics and on the bench may be
considered in forming Judgment as
to the value Of the sound and disin-
terested advice he offers to his fellow
New Workers on subject concerning
which his opinion is peculiarly well
worth having.
He pleads with them to uphold the
independence Of the judiciary and to
retain a fearless, able and expert
enced judicial officer in the service
cf the State by voting for WILLIAM
S. ANDREWS for Associate Judge of
the Court of Appeals.
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
Election Betting Odds.

Election bets are being made with
the odds against CURRAN, but this
does not mean anything more impor-
tant than the prejudice, hope or per-
sonal opinion of the spectators.
In the campaign for Governor in
1904 the bettors we're sure D.CADY
HERRIcK OF Albany, the Democratic
candidate, a popular, able and force
full man, was going to win. and the
Wall Street odds we're all in his
favor. Notwithstanding all that the
wise money could do, FRANK w. HIG-
orrs of Olean, the Republican nomi-
nee, was successful at the polls. Mr..
HroorNs was one of the best equipped
men ever put in the Capitol by the
voters of New York.
The failure of Judge HERRIcK's
supporters to judge popular opinion
correctly was paralleled two years
ago in the New York city election,
when UP to election day bets were
freely offered at 2 to / against La
GuARprA for President Of the Board
of Aldermen and at longer odds
against CuRRAN for President of the
borough OF Manhattan. Tammany
bsttors felt confident that their can.
djdates for these offices-MoRAS for
The New York herald., 1921-11-04

lea and the American spirit of re-
publicanism. Mr.. M. T. LIANG. the
name by which he is best known in
this country, or LIANG JU-HAo, as he
is known in China, was one of the
early Chinese graduates of American
colleges.
DR.. koo will be remembered for
his fight in the Paris Peace Confer
ence against the transfer of Shan
tung to Japan and his refusal to
sign the Treaty of Versailles because
the rights OF China were not recog-
pized. Should the question of this
controverted territory arise 1t is in
timated that DR.. Koo is prepared to
make as vigorous fight for the Chi
nese contentious at Washington as
lie did at Paris.
China has an interest in the con-
ference greater than any other coun-
try, according to the statements of
her delegates, and she stands to gain
more than any other nation from it's
success. DR.. SEE declares that China
enters the conference with full con-
fidence in the desire of America to
tring about better conditions in the
Pacific and the Far East. He says:
I'VE have a full appreciation of
Americas altruism toward Asia, be-
cause one of the only two foreign
policies which the United States has
ever developed since it became q ma
ton applies to Asia. refer to the open
door policy of equal opportunity
which was announced originally by
JOHN HAY, Secretary of State, quar-
ter of century ago"
That China is inclined to lean
upon the United States is perhaps
not unnatural. She may be justified
in this by the friendliness shown
her by America in the past. 1t is
the policy of the open door which
she asks to-day in her plea for the
exercise Of her sovereign right to
work out her own destiny.
The New York herald., 1921-11-04
Foch in Uncle Sans France.

Marshal FoCH has been traversing
4 section of the United States rich
in memories of those intrepid French
explorers and traders who were in
rNany cases the earliest as they were
for years the most enterprising and
most successful generators of the
New World. The country the Mar
shall is now visiting is part of the
Louisiana Purchase, bought by the
United States in JEFFERsoN's term as
President from NAPOLEON. The CEN
tenary of that great expansion OF
this country peaceful expansion
as far as the sovereign Powers en-
gagged were concerned-was cele-
brated only seventeen years ago.
Throughout the Mississippi basin
memorials OF the French explorers
and settlers still remind the travel
ler of the glorious past. Place names
and family names are derived from
the French. The histories of small
villages and great cities must be
traced through those absorbing rela-
tions in which are recorded the
shrewd observations Of the hardy
men who served France in the West
ern Hemisphere. Such names as
La Sale and Joliet and Laclede
mark the enterprise and persistence
of race OF courageous, untiring pio-
neers. That at a Missouri convent
Marshal of the Republic OF France
was greeted by infants in his native
tongue is an incident that means
more than graceful compliment to a
distinguished visitor. 1t links the
kingdom of France of the sixteenth
century with the republic of to-day.
History and romance unite in
Marshal FocH's journey. Mingling
with the thunders of applause his
presence evokes from the distinctly
modern American Legion there are
echoes of a time when greetings
would have been in the Marshals
own language.
The New York herald., 1921-11-04

among historians of this class are
GoYA, for Spanish life and customs
CHARDrN, for France of the people
HoGARTH, for eighteenth century Eng.
land; and VAN MEER and DE HooGH,
for Dutch life of the seventeenth cen
tury. History studied in this fashion
through pictures that transcribe real
life makes an impression not always
attained by reading. To use pictures
as aids to history teaching increases
their value hundredfold and opens
up a pedagogical path along which
too few teachers and pupils have
walked.