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The St. Mary banner., 1921-12-17

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The St. Mary banner., 1921-12-17

You have noticed, Of course, that
the knocker objects to being knocked,
The St. Mary banner., 1921-12-17

PAY YOUR POLL TAX NOW,
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
To Fish for Hurricanes.
Uncle Sam to Catch Them With
Seine I'm the Gulf.

Galveston despatch in the Houston Post.
Uncle Sam is going fishing for hurri-
canes with seine stretching across the
down into the Caribbean.
This became known when e. II. Bowie.
upervising forecaster. and r. B. Calvert,
head Of the forecast division of the
Weather Bureau. outlined clans for
spreading an observation net along the
entire southern coast of the country.
Through this net. according to the ex-
perts. 1t will be impossible for even the
most agile tropical storm to twist with
out its every movement being flashed TO
the Weather Bureau.
Masters OF oil tankers In the Calves
ton-Tampico trade as we'll as the cap
tains of about 100 other vessels plying
the Gulf of Mexico AMI the Caribbean,
according TO Messrs. Bowie AMI Calvert,
now are being coached In the art of
making accurate observations These
the mariners will Immediately fash to
the nearest Weather Bureau station. In
addition. during the hurricane season.
according TO the plans, two emergency
land observers will be stationed on the
Gulf. one between Galveston and Corpus
Christi and the other at Morgan City,
Louisiana.
This storm net once spread. according
to the experts, It will be impossible for
storms to sweep around the Caribbean
and become lost in the expanse Of
water north OF the Yucatan Channel.
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
this the taxpayers would be called

this the taxpayers would be called
upon to pay $4,000 or $4,000.
The Paint Creek and the William
SON coal field mining troubles are
precisely identical in character. Some
miners struck. Others kept at work.
Hundreds of labor union trouble
makers were imported into both re-
gions, and in both regions assailed
men who saw fit to work for living
under wages and conditions satisfac-
tory TO them. In both cases the
trouble was virtually over before the
question OF a Senate investigation
was raised
All that can be done to suppress
lawlessness in West Virginia. or any
other State. must be done by the au-
thorities of that State, or. in the
event Of the proclaimed incapacity Of
such authorities, then by martial law
proclamation by the President of the
United States. In the present in
stance the West Virginia authorities
have the situation we'll in hand. The
serious phase OF the trouble is over.
And yet at this stage it is seriously
proposed to squander $4,000 or
$4,000 of taxpayers money to make
public what for months has been day
by day spread before every news
paper reader in the country.
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
LUNCHEONs AT THE PIER.
Mrs. Howard Richmond Entertain
for Mrs. II. III. Bristov Draper.

Special Despatch 10 THE NEW YORK HEE,Ln,
NARRAcANsETT PIER, r. l.. July TO-
Mrs. Howard Richmond of New York
and Providence gave luncheon at the
Imperial for Mrs. 3. III. Bristow Draper
and her guest. Mrs. Charles Merriman,
daughter of Mrs. Richmond
Mrs. Ernest Wilkinson of, Washington
entertained at luncheon at Rosalind for
Mr.. and Mrs. p. r. Coffin of Pasadena,
Cal. who are at Edgewood Farm with
Mr.. Coffin's mother. Mrs. Isaac r. Rob-
inson OF New York.
Mrs. William B. McElroy of New York
gave n luncheon at the Casino.
Mrs. Wallace Campbell and children
of Syracuse, N. Y, are with her mother,
Mrs. Rowland G. Hazard, at Holly
House, Peacedale.
Miss Mary Van Buren vanderpoeI OF
New York has arrived at the Massasoit,
to remain until September. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. y. Frey of Toledo Ohio, also
are there.
Mr. and Mrs. James Damon OF Provi-
dence, whose marriage took place re-
Gently. are passing their honeymoon at
Green Inn.
Miss Lilee Getchell Of PhiIadelphIa.
Mrs. Walter Norfolk and Mrs HelenA
Won Bodemeyer of New York have 80,
rived at the Imperial
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
$500 Insurance in Doubt.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your cor
respondent w. ]. Bryan is wrong In his
explanation Of the application of the 80
per cent clause in fire insurance policies.
Suppose the property is worth $780,
900 and the insured takes out policy
with the so per cent. average clause.
This means he should take out policy
for so per cent OF the value of the
property, or $50. 900. If. however. he car
ries but so per cent, or $4,000. he Is
carrying only hve-eighths Of the amount
he guaranteed to carry and therefore In
case of loss, say. Of $4,000, he can
collect from the insurance company only
of $4,000. or $4,000.
Mr.. Bryan, on the other hand. says
that as the insured should have carried
so per cent. but in reality only covered
so per cent, or 80 per cent. less than he
should have, in the event of the loss OF
5000 the insured will bear 80 per cent.
of the loss and the company will pay
him 70 per cent. of $4,000, or $500.
I am afraid in case Of loss as above
stated Mr.. Bryan would have hard
time collecting the extra 5000.
DOROTHY MASON.
NrwsS~--~>.Iuly Q.
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
The Hands of the Clock.

They stand as sundered as the poles;
They clasp, as brother unto brother
One points to heaven. guide to souls;
Unto the deepest depths the other.
AS opposite as black and white,
And yet within mere half hour
They cling so close, to disunite
An instant were beyond our power.
Sedately one pursues his round
Day after day. whate'er the weather.
While onward doth the other bound.
Yet in the end they come together.
Sometimes as swift as shaft of light;
Sometimes like lead. so heavy footed.
AS golden as a sunbeam's flight;
AS black as thunder e'er was booted.
Cncomely as the deuce Of spades,
Yet on them all our glances linger.
Prosaic, yet poetic blades
Have cut in with. Times moving
finger"
For knife and fork, the one best bet;
A spur to cuckoos. birds that run day.
Unlike the sun, they never set.
Yet father sets them every Sunday.
All must possess them, maugre self;
Unenterprising past all scorning,
They never leave the mantel shelf,
Yet help us catch the train each
morning.
MAURICE NORRIS.
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
Galveston's Double Glory.
Oleander and Condensed MIX Both
Introduced There.

To THE New YORK HERALD: There
are some inaccuracies in the story OF the
oleander printed in your paper. AS the
oldest member of the Dyer family 1
know its history, as I do that OF early
Galveston and of Texas.
Mrs. Isadore (Amelia) Dyer received
her oleanders from Joseph Osterman's
wife (Rosanna Dyer of Baltimore before
her marrlage) after the civil war. Mrs.
Isabella Kopperl Isabella Dyer OF Bal
timore) inherited the osterman place.
with its palms. planted more than twenty
years previously. My uncle. Joseph Os-
terman. imported the palms. oleanders
and bananas from Jamaica, bringing
them in one of his trading schooners.
Incidentally the same youth who was
later visited the Comanches
at San Saba on n trading tour and
brought back the aboriginal pemmican.
which was made into a biscuit and
baked by Mrs. Osterinan. Gail Borden.
Jr., then collector OF the Republic Of
Texas, conceived the idea Of the COM
mercial meal biscuit. which in turn gave
birth to condensed milk. The Oster-
mans, besides their experiments In vege-
tation, also financed the first condensed
milk industry, later transferred 10 your
State.
JOSEPH OsTERMAN DYER, NJ. d.
GALVESTON, Texas, July 8.
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
Cooler Ways on Hot Days.

These hot days surface cars on
some lines in New York run half
or three-quarters filled with passen-
gers, while crowds of uncomfortable,
perspiring men and women jam the
subways and swelter on their trips
to and from work. Even closed sur.
face cars are less oppressive than
subway cars; they get fresh air, and
if there is no breeze they make a
little breeze of their own The open
cars In many cases offer a truly
refreshing trip to their patrons.
Because Of the smashup of the
street railway system many compa-
nies do not run cars through to once
familiar terminals, but it is usually
possible to change, and at the worst
to take a local subway train, less
crowded than the expresses, to COM
plete trip begun on the surface.
OF course two fares must be paid.
There are workers to whom the ad-
dition of go cents a week to their
transportation costs is of impor-
tance. But in many cases persons
forego possible comfort for speed.
They leave home at the latest possi-
BILE moment to get to their shops and
Offices on time. If they rose an hour
earlier and consulted their comfort
they would find themselves less dis
tressed in New York's hot season
than they are. Perhaps, however,
they treasure that hour in bed.
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Meeting, Joint Production Commission Of
the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers
Protective Association and the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union. 2So Fifth
avenue, P. NJ.
Midsummer conference OF ministers and re-
ligious workers. Union Theological Seminary;
supper, 6 p. M; services in the evening.
Meeting, Board Of Education. Park avenue
and Fifty-ninth street. p. M
Meeting, Ladies' Kennel Association or
America, Waldorf Astoria. 4:30 2. M,
Convention. Woodmen of the World. busi.
ness sessions. morning and afternoon. Hotel
Majestic; theatre party at the Winter Gar
den in the evening.
Convention, Young Peoples Society OF
Christian Endeavor, Seventy-first Regiment
Armory, A. NJ; official conference and
luncheon at noon; closing session, s p. M.
Convention, International Steel and Copper
Plate Engravers, Broadway Central Hotels
morning and afternoon.
Convention. International Plate Printers
and Die Stampers Union OF North America
Broadway Central Hotel. morning and after
noon.
Reception by the Order Of Daughters Of St
George to the Order of Sons of ST. George
New York State. Hotel Chelsea. p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
MONDAY, JULY IL. 1921.
A SHINES Shipping War.

If SHINES, the overshadowing in
dustrial figure of Germany, armed
with his own ships as well as his own
goods, sets out upon an ocean COM
merce war to the knife he can demor-
alize all shipping and all trade hav-
ing to do with German markets at
home and abroad.
The late JAMES ]. HILL, with his
gift of epigram, told the whole mer-
chant marine story in a sentence.
The thing, he said, that will put busi-
ness in the bottoms will make them
successful.
Controlling one-half of Germany's
postwar Industries, as he is credited
with doing, SHINES has the business
to put into the bottoms. He has the
business for outward bound cargoes
in his manufactures. He has the
business for inward bound cargoes in
the raw materials he is compelled to
import to make up his manufactures.
AS an aggressive fighter in ship
ping war, therefore, SHINES could
make of himself, so far as concerns
German overseas traffic, a marine
scourge. But neither SHINES nor
any other single force could go into
such a shipping slaughter contest
without engendering heavy reprisals
in the field of foreign trade itself.
Maritime peoples aroused by the
SHINES shipping war could take
away the business he. was putting
into his bottoms as German exports
by. no longer buying the German
exports. This automatically would
kill the business he was putting into
the bottoms as raw materials i'm
ported into Germany, for when the
German exports failed to sell there
would be no German use for the
imports hitherto going into exports.
Consider another possibility Of
this situation. SHINES is perhaps
the greatest organizer in the world
of naturally competitive industrial
powers into associated, allied and
non-competitive powers. 1t may be,
then, that his shipping war, much
heralded by his own propaganda, is
the first maneuvre in a programme
to bring about. in fact, great inter
national shipping trusts that will not
cut one another's throats with the
ferocity of pirates but, acting in the
harmony of gentlemen's agreements
end amalgamated solidarity, will un-
dertake to get higher freight rates
and earn better dividends.
That very thing is Herr HUGO
STIFFNESS long suit.
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
English Railway Transition.

Government control of railways in
Great Britain will lapse in August,
and the British Government Is up to
its neck trying to pull the carriers
out of the ditch. A bill providing
for the transition to private control
and for future regulation under con-
ditiops radically different from those
of 1914 has been carried on second
reading by majority of four to one
and is now in the standing commit
tee Of the House Of Commons await
ing final action.
Government control came near
making a physical and financial
wreck of the British carriers, as it
did Of our own here in the United
States, and now that the people know
it Government ownership of British
railways is a dead issue and its ad-
vocates are embalmed in their own
evidence.
The British railways were swamped
by administrative mistakes rather
than by any direct effects of the war
itself. But the suggestion made for
solving our railroad problem by d.
viding the carriers into regional
groups, which gave way to the modi-
fled provision in the Esch-Cummins
act for consolidating homogeneous
systems, comes out the trump card
in the new shuttle for the British
railways. In England and Scotland
there will be six groups-the south
ern, the western, the northwestern
and midland, the northeastern, the
western Scottish and the eastern
Scottish.
The main purpose of the British
railways bill is to obtain efficient and
economical administration. The Min
istry Of Transport established during
the war is retained. and the London
Economist rejoices that control over
the railways on behalf of the public
will not be handed back, as desired by
Mr.. AsoUITH. to the Board of Trade
with its thirty-five non-technical off,
cials; and the Ministry of Transport
but without Sir Eric GEDDEs--has
come to stay" The bill itself was in
troduced by the Minister of Trans
port, Sir ERIC GEpDEs, brother Of the
British Ambassador to America.
The prospect of "non-technical" in
reference, however, is not altogether
removed. Besides the Ministry OF
Transport, rates tribunal is to be
set up, consisting OF one merchant
trader, one railway expert and one
lawyer, to gain for the companies rev.
enue equal to that of 1913 plus an
amount equal to 20 per cent. OF the
surplus the companies can be proved
to have acquired.
The fixing Of rates to yield the 1913
standard return would not be so din
cult, but railway surplus consists not
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
Live Stock Mortality Less.

At first glance there might seem to
be something alarming in the state
ment that 100000 domestic animals,
valued at $15O.O00, 900, were lost in
the United States through death from
disease or exposure during the year
ended April, 1921. Nevertheless the
figures are lower than they have been
in a good many years.
The 100000 horses and mules
which died represent only LAT per
cent. of the total number of these ami
mails in the United States. The loss
of 1,743, 900 head of cattle means that
only 1.70 per cent. Of all our cattle
died from exposure. The total loss
Of mature sheep was 1,223,000, rep
resenting loss of LAS per cent from
exposure, whereas of the 5S5,C00
lambs lost 4.62 per cent. died from
disease or exposure. The mortal
ity among swine was slightly heavier
than for the previous two years, being
2,946,00O head, representing 4.42 per
cent. of the total supply.
While much credit for the i'm
proved health conditions among live
stock is given to the mildness of last
winter, authorities say that the farm
ers and stock raisers of the country
are learning more about the diseases
to which live stock are subject and
are better able to combat them than
they were formerly.
Improvement in the breeding of
meat animals also has made a great
change in live stock production of
recent years. A deficit in supply can
now be met much more quickly than
ever has been the case before. Good
stock and intelligent treatment as
sure quick returns.
The New York herald., 1921-07-11
Trade With China.
Germany and Other Nations Seek to
Use Their Opportunities.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your
editorial article of July entitled Ger
many at Work in China states the case
exactly in that Germany through her
new commercial treaty with the Repub-
lie of China Is theoretically in a better
position to trade in China than we are.
In actual practice the Germans will not
have clear sailing. for they are under
hand;caps at home which may prevent
them from, taking full advantage OF the
opportunities In China which their treaty
gives them.
The rapidity with which Germany In
the face of almost insurmountable OBJ
stacles at home has been able to get
back into the China trade should point
a moral to us. In your article you re-
ferred to the present attempt OF Ameri-
can merchants in China to obtain legis-
lation providing for Federal incorpora-
ton of American companies doing busi-
ness In China. This bill. now popularity
known as the China trade act. has been
before Congress for five years In all
this time there has been no organized
opposition to the measure. but In spite
of this Congress does not seem to be
able to get IL through.
In this same period OF fve years the
British have modified and made more
effective their China companies ordi-
nances at least four times. Now the
Germans have executed a commercial
treaty with China, and the Japanese are
certainly not overlooking any business
bets in China.
In the operation of our American
business in China we are forced to use
state Incorporation charters. This
means that we have exactly forty-eight
different kinds of American State COM
panies operating in China. I doubt
whether there are more than half a
dozen legal authorities inside OF the
United states who understand all of the
ms and outs of our various State laws.
There are none outside.
We are hearing much and will hear
more about our plans for a merchant
marine. We have a lot OF the peoples
money tied up in ships and we must
face losses. We have never stopped 10
consider that an American merchant
marine Is valueless unless we can get
cargoes for our ships. We can't get
cargoes unless we provide means for
American merchants to so out over the
world and drum up business. We can't
expect Britishers. Frenchmen or Japa-
The New York herald., 1921-07-11

Special Cable to THE New York HERALD.
copyright, 1921, bD THE NEW York HEaA.p-
New York Herald Bureau.
London. July 10.
Americans had a large share in the
final gayeties of the London season. the
traditional finish of which comes with
the Eton-Harrow cricket match at
Lords.
Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Gordon selfrldge. Lady
Cunard and the Countess of Sandwich
were among those who gave dinners
during the week. Many of them were
In the nature of farewells, as most of
the hosts and hostesses are planning to
go to the country next week. while
American guests are leaving for Paris
and the Continent with the end Of the
season here.
The week began brilliantly with the
Fourth of July festivities. including the
large reception given by the American
Ambassador and Mrs. Harvey. the dance
at the Anglo-American Club and the
American Societys dinner at the Hotel
Cecil.
Mr.. Selfridge entertained Wednesday
at luncheon in honor Of Mr.. Frank A.
Munsey of New York. and among those
present were Sir Robert Horn, viscount
Astor. Premier Hughes of Australia.
Lord Fitzalan and Lord Burnham.
On account of their reception on July
4, Ambassador and Mrs. Harvey did not
give their usual Thursday at home.
Among their guests at the Monday re-
ception were the Brazilian Ambassador,
the Cuban Minister. Viscountess Matt
land. Lord and Lady Pirrie, Field Mar
shall and Lady Robertson. Gen. and
Mrs. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Ogden Goelet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Untermyer, Mrs.
Wilson Cross. Mrs. Scott Balfour, Mr..
and Mrs John Jay Ide, Mr.. and Mrs.
Curtis Browne, Mrs. Hugh Pitcairn and
Capt Langford Welman.
Major Gen. Henry T. Allen. who has
been commanding the American forces
In Germany, is being extensively enter
tained here following an official dinrer
for him given Thursday in the Savoy
Hotel by Sir Laming Worthington-
Evans.
Brig. Gen. Harry c. Hale also has
been in London for fortnight on leave
from Coblenz.
Mrs. w. L. Flanagan and Mrs. Un-
derraga have closed their apartment In
Paris and are in London for month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heisler of New York
have arrived here from the Continent
before sailing for home
Col. Edward Haskell and daughter,
Miss Marion Haskell, arrived from
Paris Thursday and are sailing next
Tuesday on the Orduna for America.
Mrs. A. P. Riker and Miss Enid
Riker are spending a month in Eng