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The New York herald., 1921-12-01
Two Popular Songs.
One Attributed to Tony Pastor, the
Other to Old HOss Hoey.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your cor
respondent Herbert Stanley Renton. re-
ferring so authentically to old time
variety shows, was correct in maintain
ing that Tony Pastors shows were clean
and clever.
"P. II. s." of Bayonne, N. J., asks
whether Mr.. Renton did not nod when he
said Tony Pastor sang They're After
Me-" My answer is that Mr.. Renton was
fully awake and listening again. as Tony
fippantly twirled his accordion hat,
wearing his swallowtail coat and expan-
sIve white shirt front and smile. not
eclipsed by his handsome diamond always
in evidence. and sang:
They are after me- they are after me.
I'm the individual they desire.
Old Hoss Hoey sang rather gutturally
as a knight of the road:
They all take after me.
They all take after me, &C.
Likewise, referring to his better daye.
he sang:
with bay rum they would bathe my brow,
But they haven't. no they haven't: they
haven't for long time now.
BROOKLYN, November 80. J.G.F.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
On the Railroad Wage Job.

THE New YORK HERALD would not
be fair to itself and 1t would not be
honest with the United States Rail
road Labor Board if it did not again
speak frankly of the shock which the
boards attitude gave the public at
the time of the recently threatened
tieup Of the national transportation
system. At that crucial juncture the
board took the position that it could
not entertain before the middle of
next summer petitions Of the carriers
for wage, reductions intended to per-
nit rate reductions. The declared
reason for this inexcusable delay was
that its docket was filed with thou
sands of other cases which first must
be disposed of in order. One of these
matters, working rates and conditions,
was of large moment. The others
were of more or less Importance but
not one of them possibly comparable
with the national problem of wage
adjustments and rate reductions.
The American people are essen
TALLY a sensible, practical people,
given themselves to action and de-
manding action Of those who repre-
sent them in ordinary affairs, not 70
mention crises. For the United States
Railroad Labor Board to declare un-
der such circumstances that 1t would
not take up the gravest business con-
fronting the nation for more than
eight months, because meanwhile it
chose to devote itself to subjects and
things largely non-essential If not
trivial, was an astounding disclosure
to the American public Of bureaucratic
incompetence and paralysis. There is
scarcely room for doubt that If the
board had permitted itself to remain
in such a state of uselessness at such
time and to such dire public conse-
quences, 1t would have been doomed
to early amputation from the body of
this Government.
But the United States Railroad La
Dor Board. arousing itself to the COM
pelling needs of the situation, now
announces its decision on the rail
way labor working rules and condi-
tions. It is prepared to take up the
all important applications for wage
reductions upon which must be
determined transportation charges
against the public.
The Board thus seems to be in
fair way, THE New YORK HERALD is
glad to say, to redeem itself in public
opinion as a Government creation
capable of functioning when occasion
demands that it act or get out of the
way Of somebody that can act.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair to-day,
Tomorrow cloudy. moderate tempera-
tpre, moderate southwest windA
For New Jersey-Partly cloudy to-day; q.
morrow cloudy ard unsettled. moderate tenn
perature. moderate south and southwest
winds.
For Northern New England-Partly cloudy
to-day and Tomorrow. fresh westerly winds.
For Southern New England-Fair to-day;
Tomorrow cloudy, moderate temperature,
fresh westerly winds.
Fer Western New York-Cloudy to-day and
Tomorrow: local rain tomorrow. continued
mild. moderat south and southwest winds.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30-The coast storm
has moved east northeastward and tonight
its centre was south of Newfoundland with
the lowest barometer 2S.9S inches at ST.
Johns. Another disturbance Is over Sas-
katchewan and moving eastward, and il
has already been attended by general rains
in the Pacific States and In the western
plateau and northern Rocky Mountain re-
gions. Local rains have also fallen in Texas
and the central Mississippi Valley. Fair
weather was the rule elsewhere. Tempsra-
lures remain above the normal generally
over the United States.
In the middle Atlantic and New England
States the weather will be mild and partly
cloudy tomorrow. and cloudy. probably be-
coming unsettled. Friday. In the south
Atlantic States the weather will be mild
and generally cloudy tomorrow and Friday.
In the east Gulf States. Tennessee and the
Ohio Valley the weather will be overcast
and mild with local rains by tomorrow
night and on Friday. In the region of tho
great lakes the weather will be cloudy fol-
lowed by rain tomorrow night or Friday.
and with lower temperature Friday In tho
upper lake region.
Observations ut United States Weather BIZ.
reau stations taken at e. yesterday.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
In a Persian Household.
Travelling Minstrels Who Sang with
Striking Effect.
Yo,lel B. Efirsu IN Asiu.


The roads were open. Travellers came
into our village. Scarcely night was
the guest house In our courtyard un-
occupied. l liked TO sit with my father
and his guests In this room. built after
European style with four large win
dows over which In winter oiled paper
was pasted to keep the cold out. The
walls of the guest room were white and
on them were hung the choicest rugs
brought back from Kurdlstan by my
Grandfather Mira.
There were chairs In this room. ]
was very proud that we should own
chairs. but found them most uncom-
Portable to sit on. After n few moments
my legs began to ache and l slipped
down on the cushions. Ir the alcove OF
the guest chamber were some old manu-
scripts bound In coarse leather. They
were holy books with Illuminated mar
gins. Among them was Bible In
Syrlac l carefully refrained from touch
ing IL. II was too holy. / might per-
haps be struck dead for my temerity.
Among the travellers that came along
the road was Hady the singer. lie was
the ugllest man that I had ever seen.
sore eyed. pock marked and dirty. But
he was very vain. He walked through
the village with q swagger. His ivory
handled dagger in It's silver sheath was
so long that It reached from his chest to
his hips. MY playmatee and would
have laughed and jeered at him. per-
The New York herald., 1921-12-01

haps, but we were afraid Of him. He
was very powerful. For his friends.
especially those who paid him well, he
would make shars, or songs of praise.
which he would sing throughout the
countryside. He would advertise the
virtues OF their marriageable sons and
daughters. But about those who in
CURED his enmity through miserliness
or other cause he would spread unpleas-
ant rumors.
Quite different from Hady was Ashag
Mamet. the blind singer. who could sing
for three consecutive days without re-
peating a single song. Suleiman, the
carpenter. brought him to our village to
help celebrate the wedding Of his son.
All the people from the Nasroni, or
Christian ward of the village. gathered
in the house and courtyard. The boys
were driven out to make room for the
adults and we climbed to the roof and
put our heads through the skylights to
hear the ashag. He sang the cong of the
two stars that loved each other and,
separated by fate. could meet only once
a year. Then he sang about his love- a
beautiful red apple on the tiptop of the
tree out of reach.
over and over. in a shrill, falsetto
voice. he sang his melancholy, monoto-
nous airs to the accompaniment of his
guitar, which was made of mulberry
wood followed out and with seven cords
from the heart OF a buffalo stretched
over the hollow. He himself was car
ried away by the pathos Of his song.
and the tears coursed down his cheeks.
When he had finished the guests threw
shahs-pennies--to him.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
EVENTS TO-DAY.

The Hospital Situation and Problems In
New York City" VIII be discussed ut stated
meeting of the New York Academy of Medl-
cine. II West Forty-third street. 8 80 p. NJ.
Taylor Society, annual meeting, Engineer
Ing Societies Building, 20 West Thirty-nnti
street. beginning 80 p. M. Dinner. p. M.
Brighten. George Il. Dyer will review the
212th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Twelfth Reg!-
ment Armory. Columbus avenue and Sixty
second street, $3.50 p. NJ.
United Parents a association of Greater New
York Schools, luncheon, Uptown Club. Madi-
son avenue and Forty-second street. 1890
P. NJ
Memorial services in honor of Dr.: Henry
NJ. Leipziger. great hall of the College OF
the City of New York, Amsterdam avenue
and 139th street, 15 +. M.
Miss Janet Richards will lecture on Topics
of the Hour" before the Ely Club, Hotel Bilt-
more. II A. M.
Harlem Property Owners Association, meet
ing, OF West 125th street. s:f5 p. M.
School children's meeting. In behalf of the
of Natural History, Seventy seventh street
and Central Park West 80 =. NJ.
state Council OF the Imperial Order of the
daughters of the British Empire. bazaar.
Hotel Pennsylvania, afternoon and evening.
DR.. Alfred Z. Shipley. lecture on Indus
trial Health" Bureau of Personal Admins
tration. Engineering Societies Building. 20
Prof. Earl Barnes WIN lecture on France,
Feeling and Sentiment as Inspirations for
Art" Brooklyn Institute or Arts ana
Sciences, at the Academy of Music. evening.
Bowery Wynnthewaws. meeting. Boweiy
Mission, T. M.
American Federation OF Arts. exhibition
OF color prints and photographs. Sage
Foundation Building, Lexington avenue and
Twenty second street, 10 A. NJ. to 6 r. M
American Acceptance Council meeting.
assembly room OF the Merchants Associa-
tion . 80 r. NJ.
Automobile Salon, Hotel Commodore. all
day.
dorf-Astoria, II A. NJ.
Legislative League Of New York. meeting.
Hotel Astor, 2 2. NJ.
Southland Club. meeting. waldorf-Astoria.
r. NJ.
Associated Motion Picture Advertisers.
luncheon, Cafe Boulevard, p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
s2o,26s FOR BOOKS OF WEST.
Sketches of Northern Route by
John Reynolds Bring $3.50.

John Reynolds Bring $3.50.
The second and final instalment Of
items in the sale of books and docu-
ments relating to the history Of the
West was sold yesterday afternoon at
the Anderson Galleries and the bids
totalled s5.6s4. The entire collection
was sold for total of S20,269.
John Reynolds's Sketches of the Coun-
try, on the Northern Route from Belle
vile. ILL.,, TO the City of New York, and
Back " the Ohio Valley" rare volume
dated 1854. went for $3.50, the highest
price of the afternoon. 1t was pur-
chased by ]. +. Drake, Inc The same
bidder paid s195 for one of the earliest
known sYacts on the ho-Wyoming
country. James w. Taylor's What Has
Been Done by the Minnesota Campaign
of 1854" Strang's Mormon Book of
the Law OF the Lord" published in 1856,
fetched $165 from e. A. Ball, and W..
r. Vaughan's emigrant's handbook from
Missouri to Cheyenne, dated 1872. sold
to w. r. Coe for s102.5O.
Dr. A. S. w. Rosenbach paid $500 for
the journal Of voyage to the North
west coast by J. r. Munger. published
in 1852 one of two known copies. DR..
Rosenbach also made the following pur-
chases: 1.-THE Decision of the Supreme
Court in and for the Territory of
Oregon" 1852, for $10250; Notice Sur
les Missions du Diocese de Quebec" in
two volumes, 1S39-74, for $3.50; the
rare Memphis Memorial" for a rail-
road to California, 1852, for $126. and
Platte Smiths description of a route
via Fort Laramie to California and the
Puget Sound country. written in 1859,
for $10750
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
THURSDAY. DECEMBER l, 1921.
War Claims Its Toll.

Colonel WHITTLEsEY was one of the
men who could not get away from
the war. Three years after it had
ended for others it killed him. He
was a victim of the war just as
surely as if he had died with those
of his Lost Battalion who never came
out of the Argonne forest.
The worst of the war came to
WnITTLEsEY on this side of the At
lantic. Over here, outside of the hon
ors that were plentifully bestowed
on him, there was none of the stimu-
lus of military action. And there
was the depression Of what to him
was a horrible aftermath.
WHITTLEsEY's time, what he could
spare from his profession, was taken
up with sorrows on which the armis-
tice could not close the door. Legion
men whom he had known were in
the hospital with war wounds; he Wis
tied them. Others died; he went to two
or three funerals every week. Others
were crippled or out OF work; he felt
that he had to help all Of them.
Such tasks as these, coupled with
the memory of the horrors which he
and his men underwent in battle,
were dangerous burden for highly
sensitive nature. A mind need not
be naturally morbid to break down
under such steady, deadly pressure.
In shell shock, sanity takes flight in
the presence of what consciousness
cannot bear. With WHITTLEsEY. 1t
was not the shock Of a moment but
the pitiless assault of years. The
war insisted upon living with him
and, after a long and gallant re-
sistance, he fed from 1t.
In this escape there was no cow
ardice, no vanity. Here was no Give,
finding in suicide relief from physical
pain; no Hannibal, killing himself in
the pride of defeat. Here was man
who fought two wars. The first,
where death in its panoply was easy
for a brave man to face. he survived.
But in the second, when death wore
the cloak of Grief, he succumbed.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
Alien Enemy Property.
George Washington on the Obliga.
tlOn to Pay Indebtedness.

To THE New YORK HERALD: A very
clear idea of Washington's opinion as TO
the sanctity of private enemy debts and
Eugene L. Prussng's interesting paper
in the November Scribner's, George
Washington. Captain of Industry"
Washington owed his London agents
for advances made to him with which
to buy lands in the West. The, latter
collected dividends on Bank of England
stock which had come into the owner
ship of Washington, crediting these divi-
dends to his account while charging
against them the interest on his debt.
BY letter OF July, 1886, from Mount Ver-
non Washington instructed the agents to
liquidate his holdings in Bank of Eng
land stock, the proceeds to be subject to
his drafts in his agents hands. He ex-
presses readiness to stand upon the same
footing as other American debtors of
British creditors in respect to interest
charges on the debt in question, adding:
Had there been no stipulation by
treaty to secure debts, nay more, had
there even been an exemption by the leg
islative authority practice Of this coun-
try against II. would from conviction
of the propriety and justice of the meas
ure have discharged my original debt
to you.
At a moment when international credit
and exchange are tottering it behooves
Us to reflect upon the wise policy OF
Washington and the great statesmen
who founded the American Republic and
established its foreign relations. extend
ing by treaty the admitted obligation OF
the law of nations under the Constitu-
tion to the protection OF private enemy
property and debts. If confidence Is to
be restored and International faith, good
will and credit reconstructed It must be
In observing the moral and legal prin-
ciples envisaged always by the founoer
OF this nation. and which in the language
OF early American treaties are to be "as
sacredly observed as the most acknowl-
edged articles Of the law of nature and
of nations"
JOSEPH WHITLA STINsoN.
NEW York, November 80.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
New York's Near East College.

At a meeting of the trustees of
Robert College, Constantinople, in
this city Tuesday the continuation
of the work Of this institution was
assured through offers of liberal sup
port from America. This college is
almost without parallel among edu-
cational institutions; it was founded
by CHRISTOPHER RHINELANpER ROB
ERT, a New York merchant; it was
incorporated under the laws of this
State, IL is a part of the University
of the State of New York, yet it's
sphere of influence and usefulness is
entirely in the Near East.
Mr.. RoBERT's interest in education
in Turkey was aroused by visit to
Constantinople at the time of the
Crimean war; in 1860 he formed
plans for the present college and at
his own expense carried them
through. and at his death in 1878 left
II 100000. The institution has had
among its trustees and supporters
many distinguished New Workers. J..
PrERPcNT MORGAN. CLEVELAND H..
DODGE, NORRIS X. JEsUP, JOHN d..
RocKEFELLEE, Mrs. RUSSELL SAGE,
Mrs. FINLEY J. SHEPARD, Mrs. WILL.
IAN EARL DODGE and Mrs. EMMoNs
BLAINE being among them. It's pupils
enjoy the facilities offered by well
equipped buildings beautifully situ-
ated on the Bosporus at Rumeli
Hissar.
The influence of Robert College to.
gether with that OF the two other
similar American institutions, the
University of Beirut and the Woman's
College at Scutari, has been a
great power in the Near East. The
rolls of these institutions have shown
representatives of as many as twenty
different sects and races Their grad.
yates have occupied positions of use
fulness, many of them In public ser.
vice, in all parts of the Orient 1t
has been said that Bulgaria owes its
existence 10 Robert College. In a
large measure this is true. for from
her independence to the present time
many of her able men in the profes.
sions and in public service have been
graduates OF this institution.
These three American schools
were not closed during the world
war. The Turkish leaders recognized
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
LADY WHITE IN ATLANTIC CITY
Arrives From Toronto with Mrs.
Grant Cooper.

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Nov. 30.-The
sun shone on boardwalk Bromenaders
a few hours to-day for the first time in
several days.
Lady White and Mrs. Grant Cooper
arrived from Toronto. Ont. and are at
the Ambassador Mr.. and Mrs. c. w.
Bellows and Mis- Alice Hall Of New York
also are there.
Mr.. Joseph Upton Of Flushing is at
the Traymore.
Mrs Jackson A. Dykman and Mrs.
Thomas Dixon came from New York to-
gether to visit Miss Elsie Ferguson, the
motion picture star who is at the Ritz
Carlton. Mr.. and Mrs. s. l. Treadway
and Miss Treadway also are there.
Mrs. Emile Tanning, acopmanied
by Miss Proctor, is at the Marlborough
Blenheim.
At the Dennis are Miss Esther Pom
eroy, Mr.. Arthur d. Blauvelt and Miss
Anna Dorgan of Flushing.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
The Lolterer.

The earth has reached its Sabbath now
And garbcd in quiet hues,
Gray veiled November. sternly real,
Past gayety subdues.
saw her stalking through the lanes.
To Falrs last colors blind;
Her own dark, nun-like draperies
Swirled out In bitter wind.
tried TO catch her solemn mood
And tune my thoughts 20 hers,
But all at once in sheltered spot
Well fianked by gloomy frs
found October lingering
IN all her colors gay
So loath to leave the happy world
WHO'RE she had held full sway.
A joyous sense Of sudden warmth
Gave such rush OF cheer,
It's happiness remained when next
I faced November drear.
And when her over-carnestness
A morbid feeling stirs,
I'm thankful for the glow I caught
Behind those gloomy frs.
BLANCHE ELrsAsETH WApn.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
By Wireless Telephone.
Concerts and the Days News Heard
Nightly in Cuban Town.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your
account Of concert on one steamship
at sea heard by wireless on another
ocean liner 200 miles away is truly
wonderful Of course to those who are
not right up to the minute In radio
telephone development. However. since
November I have been receiving radio
concerts. bed time stories for children.
Government daily market reports.
weather reports, church service on Sun
days, football scores. nightly news of
the principal events of the armament
conference, and notices of stolen auto
mobiles with their license numbers, mo-
tor numbers, color. detailed description,
owners name. street address and city.
Tuinucu. Cuba, Is about 1900 miles
from East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the
city where one of the best radio broad
casting stations is located. The West
inghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company owns that station and the SER
vice is gratis.
The people here in Tuinucu gather at
my house in the evening and listen to al,
OF the above. Sometimes the static is
so bad as to make the speaking difficult
to follow. but that is trouble we have
to contend with in the tropics.
The receiving set which I am using
does not cost as much to purchase as
good phonograph.
1t Is positively uncanny. Some even
ings the voices and musical instruments
come in marvcllously clear so that one
can hear throughout a large room even
the slight harmonies of the piano and
the soft notes In pianissimo passages OF
the violin.
Truly we are IN wonderful develop
ment and probably only at the thresh-
old FRANK Fl. JONES.
TuINUcu, Cuba, November 2S.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
Song OF the Sun.

From the Los Angeles Times.
call the rose ard buttercup
From out their bed OF green,
wake the saucy robin up
And warm the rattier lean:
But when I've tarried long enough
on woods and candy dunes
I go and play n little rough
With planets and with moons.
I peep within the window panes
And tighten many room.
l hate tho sound OF tinkly rains
And shadowcd spots and gloom:
But when I've frightened all the earth
And Mars and Venus fair
/ pull a buckle IN my girth
And through the void tear.
For have more TO do than shine
On meadow grass and men,
The blackened paths Of space are mine
Beyond the planets ken
And there's n mighty coursing star
That calls me from the deep,
And / shall meet him far and far
And crash and fall--and sleepi
JOHN II. MCCARTHY.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
Song recital, Miss Esther Benson. at
washington irving High School. Irving plaza
''HealtS- success" Miss Doris Doscher. at
Public School b2. Broadway and Academy
"old New York" r. w Moore. at Public
School 60 22s East rifty-seventh street.
Illustrated.
War" Charles w. Bacon. at Public School
62, Hester and Essex streets.
The Spirit OF Walt Whitman, James ~:
Morton, Jr.. at Public School g. ooa has'
Coal ana the European situation Miss
Myran Louise Grant. at Public schooi no.
''Ynp and Other Islands OF the Pacific
Mrs. Lillian S. Fisher. at Public school vs'
AmT,crdsm avenue sna o S'ns, charlie;
D. Isaacson. at Public School 1855. 225 West
rocnwItsNy' AZ Young women's Hebrew
Association, II West 10th street.
Ancient America and Its People" Arthur
street and Boston road. The Bronx. 1iluss
trated.
BRooKLYN. QUEENS AND RICHMOND.
..Marie Antoinette," Jones Lippmann. az
Bay Ridge High School. sixty-sevonth strees
AZ" "Ths Science Of Social Power" Charles
Ferguson, ut Bushwick High School. Irving
avenue and Madison street.
"The nature OF Light and Color" Robert
v~5 Nardroff. at Eastern District High
school, Marcy avenue and Keap street.
'The Mystery Of Space" Dr. q, Clyde
Fisher, at Public School 4s. Eighteenth ave.
nuc and sixtieth street. Illustrated.
''Dental Hygiene; What Your Teeth DO
for You and What You Should DO for Your
Teeth" DR.. Maxwell p. Chodos. at Pubic
School so. South Third street and Drisgs
avenue. Illustrated.
"Chopin.r Miss M. Josephine wlethan. at
Public school 80, Gieane street and Dritton
"Nerro niaicct Stories" Mrs. Daisy Mil
Ter. az Public School i3. Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. Rosehnnk. 5, /. nr rzsr~, wei,
r'arfington nj Public School 20, Fisk ave-
nue.. West New Brighton. s. ].
''C.nlifornia and the Pacific Coast Robert
a. wevh Mt staten Island Museum OF Arts
and Sciences Stuyvesant place and wall
street New Bti-hton. 8. I. Illustrated.
The New York herald., 1921-12-01
The Servant Question in 1871.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: The fol-
lowing notice appeared in the Philadel-
phin Gdsette IN February. 1771:
Forty shllIngs reward for Samuel
Ponsonby Harrington. an Irish Servant
who has run away He may pass him
self or as a music master or schoolmas-
ter. When found put him in the nearest
gaol until his master gets him"
SCHENECTADY. November 80. D. VIC.