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The New York herald., 1921-05-25
The Disciple.

From the Villd0cr.
One bartered half his hard-earned store
Of bread
For hyacinths on which his spirit FED
Astonished, all who marked him paused
apace,
And thus they talked around the market
place.
''Unthrifty fool!" quoth one of ripened
with two full loaves the future hath
no fears.
Men die of hunger since the world DC
gan,
But when did flowers feed famished
MANI"
AHA !" laughed he who gave the buds
In trade.
..rhe gamer I. for bread to eat was
Now, by the gods, have both bread and
bloom.
I eat my bread and breathe his nowers'
perfume -
The youth is mad - a third exclaimed
in wrath
'"rne flowers must die, and what's their
aftermath?
Should beauty call, some pictured bios
That fadeless hues may feed the hungry
eye"
NAY. friend" another cried. "thy creed
is wrong!
Summon starving child from out the
throng,
Give him the loaf-the memory OF his
smile
Will prove charm all dolor to be-
guile y
The youth. howbeit. forgot both mirth
and scorn
When Phyllis passed, as lovely as the
morn,
And, with no further thought for bloom
or bread.
Gave her the flowers. and worshipped
her instead!
MARY COLES CARRINGroN.
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Reparstions in Dollars.

Az arst sight there may appear to
be something 70 make the American
bosom swell In the news from Paris.
which tells us that German repara-
Hons payments. consisting OF miscel-
laneous funds from nearly every
financial centre on earth, are TO be
converted into United States money,
because n y tho equivalent OF gold
and will not dcpreciate any more
than n the payments we're actually
made In gold but for every single
impulse ~ exercise our pride be-
cause We have the only gold equiva-
lent currency In the world there Is
material for dozen sedate thoughts
% pn' n damper on that enthusiasm.
Germany mast perforce buy dollars
u an enormous premium. something
Ike 1900 per cent, because there Is
nor enough gold IN the open market to
permit her 10 buy that metal for her
reparations. The same handicap NJ
fhe German Governr cnt has In the
premium II ray. FOR the dollars also
applies 10 German merchants who
want to buy American goods. A sim.
ilar handicap with q premium equiv.
nlcut 10 the dlscornt on their cur
rcncies In New YorE, confronts the
purchaser of every other nationality.
Anybody wishing. TO buy American
good. not only has to pay us the en-
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Striving Toward Einstein.
Help Wanted in Grasping His Theory
of the Universe.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: We are
told that most people are not sufficiently
intellectual to understand Professor Elm.
STEMS theory. Are we to understa nd
that II is the theory itself that Is lncom.
prehensible or is II his attempt to prove
the theory that is confusng7
Il scarcely seems credible that any
sane man can hold rational belief that
cannot be understood by others. have
been trying to see what II Is the profess
sor believes: First, the universe rs not
so large as we had supposed; second.
the universe Is spheroidal, or nearly the
form of a globe; third. beyond this cir
cular universe, and 1t matters not which
way we Indicate, there Is absolutely
nothing, not even time or space.
Am I badly mixed up? If so will
some one correct my mlsconecptior And
IL am right as far az ] go. will Some
one kindly give me additional info-r,a-
tion? MISS JENNIE.
BRooxLrN. May ~.
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Golf at a Lower Cost.
System Of Five Day Privileges Re.
ported Successful I'm England.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: nm
glad you printed the editorial article
about crowded and expensive golf lirks
Many people OF moderate means. like
tho writer OF the letter from which you
quoted. are unable to keep up the game
because Of its high cost
There are hardly any young people
|piaying-young college graduates for In.
stance-because they cannot afford IT,
The action OF the Winchester Royal Coli
Club. Of which you speak, is suggestive
Of some OF the ways by which the game
may be kept within the means Of large
number Of people who cannot now afford
to play-I mean such people as school
teachers and clerks and students.
Ihave belonged for good many years
to the Wimbledon Park Golf Club, near
London. When / take up my member
ship there / get six months Hve day
privilege which costs two guineas. This
entities me to play on any day except
Saturday or Sunday or holidays. Many
people here In New York can play on
those OF days, as is proved by the
crowds at Van Cortlandt and other pub.
hC hhho upOu LuOSe udyS. car
see no reason why some of the private
liaks could not have Ave day members.
At Wimbledon Park they have made
no change In the links for fifteen years
and they get along very well with a
small bungalow pavilion instead of a
huge clubhouse.
] arn sure that II we could get sucn .
man as Walter Travis to head the affair
great number Of good golfers and good
fellows could be brought together anc
form an organization for the making
and the upkeep OF fine course Within
an hour or SO of New York where golf
could be played for a moderate sum. II
such an attempt we're made IT ought to
be absolutely agreed upon that the
course should be laid out for the aver
age player anc kept SO. ana that there
should never be any attempt to 60 into
the extravagances of the game.
WILLIAM ~. DAVIS.
Nrw Yohx, May "a.
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Rainy Day Advice.
For One Thing Don't Let an Umbrella
Cut OF Your Vision.

Cut OF Your Vision.
To THE NEW York HERALD: In view
OF the fact that many persons are In
jured In rainy weather because they
persist in holding umbrellas in positions
that prevent them from seeing oncom-
ing automobiles. trolley cars and other
vehicles. I offer these suggestions:
Do not cross street or avenue with
an umbrella held down In front of the
face so that 1t interferes with the vision.
Do not stand too close to automobiles
In motion; they may skid on the wet
pavement and knock down the pc
destrian or crush his feet against the
curbstone.
Do not walk on rubber heels without
taking precautions to guard against slip
ping and falling. Keep off cellar lights
because they are slippery when wet.
Keep away from open cellar stairs
II one slips and falls one is liable to
tumble down to the bottom.
Avoid passing in front of a moving
hold, but the car may slip along the
vet pavement and run you down.
Go down subway steps gingerly and
keep near the handrail lest you slip
you can grab the rail and keep from
falling.
Keep from under swaying signs, for
the wind that accompanies the rain may
blow them down on your head.
Running for a car to get out Of the
wet is dangerous you are apt to run in
front OF an automobile or else slip and
fall under the car wheels. SAFETY.
NEW YORK. May "a.
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Mr.. Untermyer Not Quitting.

That Mr.. UNTERMYER would not
think of dropping his Lockwood
Committee Investigations with so
much of its important work only
half finished is as welcome an ex-
| planation of his letter to the Attor-
ney-Goneral Of the State as 1t is true
that the community could not spare
his services and the State should not
part with him.
Mr.. UNTERMYER's letter was virtu-
ally a refusal to go on with certain
features OF his work which have be-
come farcical. Mr.. UNTERMYER Is
right when he holds that petty fines
on violators OF the State antitrust
laws do not deter criminally minded
men from continuing their practices.
AS THE New YORK HERALD has before
pointed out, any crooked contractor
can afford to pay and is glad to pay
few dollars in that way for the
Illicit privilege Of making many
thousands. Mr.. UNTERMYER is also
right when he objects to being made
mere collector for such small
change fines from the lawbreakers
who are preying upon the public to
the extent OF millions.
But Mr.. UNTERMyER would be
wrong to abandon his valuable and
necessary work because Of the utter
inadequacy OF the punishment dealt
out to the convicted lawbreakers.
even II the criminal aspect OF the
matter were more exasperating than
IL Ia. He need not be fine collector.
He ought not TO waste his time on
such ridiculous business as getting
the fines imposed. But, whatever the
discouragements In the legal proceed
ings, he can go on doing a vast
amount OF good In the investigation
proper. Meanwhile the prosecution
Of the criminal cases can be post
poned. as he suggests, pending
changes In the law to give the law
breakers what they deserve.
In any event Mr.. UNTERMYER must
stay on the job.
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Bells Protect Sheep.
Their Din Effective in Soaring Away
Marauding Dogs.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
method proposed to Mrs. August Bel
mont to protect her sheep from dogs.
necks. would have worked satisfactorily.
something which / can verify from per-
sonai experience for the last sixty years.
II seems strange to mo at this late date
that this simple idea should not be
generally known wherever sheep arc
kept.
My father owned the farm near Bound
high Valley and the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroads cross and part of
which Is now occupied by what is known
az the creosote farm. where lumber is
treated for Its preservation. On this
farm we kept regularly from $50 to 200
breeding ewes. mostly OF common stock of
the country, but had thoroughbred rams
of strain likely to produce good spring
lambs. and during all these many years
we never had a sheep bitten by dog.
This was entirely due to bells on from
one-third to one-half OF the number Of
sheep In the flock. The bells used to
be Of good size and the best pattern for
this purpose is the open clapper cowbell.
When dog gets into bunch Of these
bells the din Is so great he thinks the
Old Harry is after him and he quits at
once. The noise Is great enough to
awaken any sleepy caretaker If he Is
anywhere within reasonable distance.
OF late laws have been advocated to
kill all dogs found away from their
homes in order to protect sheep, but
such laws are entirely unnecessary If the
simple means described here is adopted.
j. c. HIGGINS.
BOUND Brook, N. j., May "a.
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-IncreasinR
cloudiness and warmer to-day. followed
by showers to-day or tonight. To-mor-
row partly cloudy and warmer. Fresh
south and southwest winds
For New Jerssy--Cloudy and warmer with
possibly showers to-day; partly cloudy and
warmer tomorrow; fresh south to south
west winds.
For Northern New England-Increasing
cloudlness and warmer to-day, followed ny
showers tonight or Tomorrow: warmer
tomorrow: fresh southwest winds.
For Southern New notwithstanding
c.oudiness and warmer to-day, followed by
showers tonight or Tomorrow: warmer
tomorrow; fresh southwest winds.
For Western New york-Partly cloudy and
warmer with possibly showers to-day; fair
tomorrow: fresh southwest winds.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-The weather was
and middle Atlantic States and cool weather
continued In the north Atlantic States. The
warm wave over the middle West reInains
unbroken and temperatures higher than ever
before recorded so early In the season oc-
CURED at some points In Illinois, Indiana
and Iowa. The weather has become consid-
erably warmer over the northwestern States.
Ihere have been light local rains within
the last twenty four hours in the middle At
the great lakes, the extreme upper Ohio
Valley and at widely scattered points In tho
Rocky Mountains and western plateau re-
gions and the northern plains States.
The weather will become considerably
warmer Tomorrow and Thursday In the New
England and middle Atlantic States and the
Carolinas and Wednesday In the upper Ohio
valley and lower lake region. The weather
Min remain warm tomorrow in the Gulf
states and the lower Ohio Valley and in the
middle Atlantic States the weather will be
threatening with probable showers to-mor-
row and generally fair Thursday In the
north Atlantic States coudness will In
crease and the weather become unsettled
tomorrow and be followed by showers to-
morrow night and on Thursday. In the south
Atlantic and east Gulf States. Tennessee and
the lower Ohio Valley the weather will be
fair tomorrow and Thursday, while in the
upper lake region partly cloudy tomorrow
and VIII be followed by unsettled weather on
Thursday.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations. taken at p. M. yesterday,
seventy-fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Herald" Story Aids Blind.
Brings Travelling Salesman's Check
Toward Endowment Fund.

THE NEW YORK HERALp's account of
u. meeting at Adolph Lewisohns home
last Thursday. In the interests OF the
Committee for Lighthouses for the Blind.
added at least s5 TO the $4,000 900 fund
now being raise, by the committee A
letter and check were received yesterday
at the committees headquarters. Ill
East Fifty-ninth street. with the clip
ping from THE NEW York HERALD at
tached.
The letter. written from a hotel In
Lancaster. Pa, and addressed TO Lewis
l.. Clarke. treasurer OF the committee.
follows: Enclosed please find my check
for five dollars as a contribution toward
the Lighthouse for the Blind. I wish
could afford to make the amount larger.
With best wishes from n travelling
salesman"
Other contributions included Vernon
C. Brown Company, $50 Walter Scott
s25 Noise Schwab. $751; Michael Moss
bacher. SIS. Need for additional facili-
ties for the Industrial education OF the
blind s urgent, and the Lighthouses Of
America. France and Italy are prepared
to give the blind men and women q
chance to be happy. busy and sclf-sup-
porting.
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Before Mr.. Edison's Day.
Question OF the Hunter and the
Squirrel q Test Of Long Ago.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: As the
object OF test questions is to arrive at a
persons common sense ] will submit
one that our great-grandfathers used to
argue until they almost came to blows
over t.:
A hunter secs = squirrel on the trunk
of a tree and tries 70 shoot u.
As fast As he moves around to get
good shot the squirrel mo-es around also
and always keeps the tree between him
self and the hunter.
Finally the hunter notices he has
walked all the way around the tree.
Did no go around the SQUIRREL
The answe. in tho little book from
which I quote Is, mo. he did. not"
Anybody proving this anSwcr TO be
correct may possibly land job With
NJ. Edison. G. G. pALxKH.
wn.LIxANT1c. Conn.,. May a.
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Another New York.
Songs, Customs and Pleasures in
Vogue in the '7Os.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The song
zone Cent Bolivar. Two Cent Bolivar"
was sung to the operate tune OF La
File de Nine. Angot' in very quick time.
Other popular songs of that period were
Tommy. Make Room for Your Aunty,"
Pull Down the Blind" ''The Brooklyn
Theatre Ia Burning" this based on the
fire there during a performance Of '"The
Two Orphans" with Kate Claxton in the
leading role
There was very popular song with
clog dance, "Oh. I'm Such Shy Young
Girl. with Teeth OF Pearl" and still
Wish / Had Some One to Love Me-"
Tony Pastor then sang his II Only Was
Down to the Club" as no one else could.
These songs and many others still ring
In many a head to-day.
New York then was a hlck town COM
rared TO New York of to-day. Electricity
had not yet come into use even gas was
not In universal use. and lamps and
even candles were still extensively used.
more so in dwellings than in stores.
Plate glass was In its infancy, and
everywhere one saw show windows COM
pcscd OF numerous small panes, which
at night were protected by wood shut
ters or roll shutters, II being the own
err. or the clerks first Job on opening
the shutters.
The numerous and varied wagons of
business uso were generally left stand
Ing In the streets over night. Sundays
and holidays by their owners or drivers.
The streets were not then cleaned and
flushed as now, and In winter there was
an accumulation OF snow and Ice along
the street curbs sometimes four or Ave
feet high, no longer white. but often
black with dust and dirt. These piles.
when tho sun got 70 work toward spring.
made slush ankle deep. At crossings
one had to engineer ones way and was
often bespatiered from head to foot
when some vehicle drove by.
The now vanishing saloon was then
IN It's glory. Excise taxes were low. In
some tenement sections there were a
dozen or more lager beer saloons or
bier stubes on one block. Ones pitcher
or can was nlied to tho brim for seven
cents. On Saturday nights while pass
Ing through the streets one often heard
annie Laurie" "sS Patrick Was a
Gentleman" Hamburg list Elm sch0nes
Stadtchcn." sung with more or less vIgor.
January was celebrated by visits
II person. Young chaps. often as many
"a ten or twelve In group. went from
street 10 street visiting one another a
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Memorial Fete Tomorrow.
Additional Principals Added to the
Large Cast for Pageant.

The stage Is set for the memorial fes-
tival, an elaborate patriotic ceremonial.
tomorrow night In the Twenty-second
Regiment Armory. Fort Washington
avenue and 16Sth street. in memory of
the hero dead OF the war. More than
1000 children Will take part in the
pageant In addition to the principals, and
2.o00 singers win form the chorus.
An appeal went out yesterday from
committee headed by Commander
Galbraith OF the American Legion and
Mrs. Charles II. Ditson to owners of
country places and conservatories near
New York to send as many flowers to
the armory by Thursday forenoon as
they can. The Florists Club In New
York Is cooperating In this important
phase of the ceremonial.
Heretofore the only principals mem
toned In the large cast have been Miss
Julia Arthur as "The Voice of Fallen
Heroes" and Miss Beatrice Wanger as
1.-THE Spirit of Sorrowing Motherhood. ="
In addition to them there will be The
Spirit Of America part played by
Miss Jean Potter and her followers +.
'"The American ideals of Unity, Service.
Justice and Love-" with Misses Char
lotte Potter, Edith Manning Cynthia
Robinson and Helen Rice in the parts.
To these symbolic figures has been added
one male personality. "The Spirit OF
American Youth" The part has been
given to Burnell Lumbeck.
Special arrangements have been made
to receive and seat the gold star
mothers" Another section has been set
aside for officers of the Army. Navy and
Marine Corps. The memorial address
will be made by Henry J. Allen. for
merly Governor of Kansas. Father
Duffy also will speak. Persons prom
inent In civic and social life as wei as
men high In the stage and national
Government will be present
The New York herald., 1921-05-25

he Buckcye. In the spring freshet cost
every show which ventured there part
~ its equipment. When FoREPAUGH
last haxarded II his hand wagon was
carried away by the stream. his mu-
~icians narrowly escaping with their
lives A husky farmer boy seeing one
~ the animal cages sweeping down
stream broke open the den and swan
10 the bank with the animal In his
arms ~Don't you know that's the
most savage creature In tie world?'
shouted the old Snowman. "It amt
the gyascufus. Is itY" asked the farm
er boy. II saved lion and a tiger
for that other feller's show, but he
sid they we're nothing to this wild
gyascrtns." The gyascutus story is an
old Il Is classic: II has been attrib.
uted TO many showmen and many
places and we do not imagine we
shall settle the matter when we say
that a few years ago there hung
lAA1tI on the Waiis VI DuthCJ =
valley farm house. as a priced treas
ure. a piece OF paper on which was
roughly scribbled:
Pass Bill AxLINE any time any
where. A 4-PAw.
Hes the wild gyascutus."
RoBiNsoS was perhaps the last sur
vivor Of the romantic age OF the show
business In America. They were
sturdy old fellows to the last, with a
keen knowledge of the world and
human nature, who fought each other
bitterly In the summer season and
laughed heartily over their battles
when they foregathered at the old
Continental. the Cosmopolitan or the
Putnam House In winter. But IL any,
body imagines that the small road
shows have entirely disappeared. let
him drop In on the four or five hun
dred representatives Of the Show
mems Association at their next an
nual convention.
The New York herald., 1921-05-25
Bryan's Government Newspaper.

II is the habit Of WILLIAM ].
BRYAN always to have, among a
number OF sane ideas, one pet de-
lusion. Just now 1t happens to be
about news.
'The most crying need of the
country to-day" said Mr.. BRYAN to
the Jefferson Club of Columbus,
Ohio, on Monday, "is the mainte-
nance of unpolluted channels of In
formation"
Mr.. BRYAN, evidently being con-
vinced that there are no pure chan
nels Of information, advocates "a
daily paper to be issued by the Gov
ernment whose news columns shall
be non-partisan but whose editorials
shall be bipartisan"
The ordinary newspapers don't suit
Mr.. BRYAN, although without their
assistance he never would have risen
to fame and wealth. Through their
polluted channels" have run. for
twenty-five years. everything that he
wanted the public to hear.
But let US look at the Bryan idea
from the other side. Suppose that
there had been a Government news
paper in 1915, when Mr.. BRYAN was
Secretary of State. Would Mr..
BRYAN have sent for a Government
newspaper reporter and confessed
that he, BRYAN, had just assured
the Austrian Ambassador that GER
tain grave warnings issued by the
United States were not to be taken
seriously? By all the ripples of the
River Platte, never! ,
Mr.. BRyAN's non-partisan, bi-par-
tfsan Government newspaper, II con-
Quoted in the machinelike way that
governments do things, would be the
deadest thing between the Dismal
Swamp and Barren Island But Of
course Mr.. BRYAN does not think OF
"non-partisan" and bipartisan" as
others do. To him non-partisan
news would be news written to suit
Bryanesque ideals. Bipartisan edi-
torials would be those favoring such
Democratic issues and Republican
issues as BRYAN is for.
So long as there are thousands of
American daily newspapers. each
one trying to beat the other, nobody
need have any fears about polluted
channels of information"
The New York herald., 1921-05-25

HANGED prices due 20 the rise In the
cost of everything bat when he makes
payment conversion of his currency
into ours imposes On him an add.
tional burden exactly the same as n
he, like Germany. were 10 90 Into the
open market for 80 much gold. When
he pays In American money he n
paying In gold.
Thus In the case of France. where
she paid s26 a ton for steel In this
country before the war. she now pays
for the same commodity at the same
delivery point $40 q ton. But the
pre-war purchase required the expen.
diture of only 133 francs a ton. he
cause the franc was nc par. The 800
per cent. increase In the present price
Of steel In American money represents
an increase Of S51 per cent. In French
francs at current exchange.
A ton OF steel costs France to-day
600 francs. and OF this amount $50
francs are swallowed up by the pre-.
MUM on the American dollar. This
premium Of $50 francs represents no
gain whatever to the American seller.
but 1t does represent terrific loss 70
the French buyer. IT erects a barrier
over which no purchaser will climb
If he can obtain the goods In some
other country whose currency is nearer
the pre-war level In the terms OF the
purchasers native coin.
This same is true in large or small
degree Of every country on the globe.
because American currency is at a
premium. large or small, in every
country. The American merchant
faces handicap In each country ex-
actly In proportion to the premium on
dollars, which means that much
tackled on his selling price.
Owning huge gold pile is no dis
advantage when other countries have
their share of the metal and can pay
IN their own coin without resorting to
financial legerdemain to overcome de-
probation. But owning huge gold
pile when nobody else owns one and
still trying to do business with the
world in the regular, normal way Is
like trying to make the mercury rise
in freezing weather.