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The New York herald., 1921-08-22
A Portrait Of an Old Lady.

She had delicate and wistful face
Whose beauty any harshness would
disarm
With gentle wonder and appealing
charm
One seems to see through her misty
place
Shadowed by silver willows dropping
grace.
Where linnets through low branches
singing pass,
And fragrant blossoms thread the
dewy grass
Where wraiths of happy lovers slowly
pace.
old dreams return within her eyes dim
fires
That with reflections OF past ardors
blaze,
And her brave glance brings back the
high desires
or venturous guests in far uncharted
she seems in some sweet wise to make
her own
All loveliness that one has ever known.
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22

States a quarter OF century ago,
For their purpose they searched for
wheat i'll all parts of America, Aus
tralia, Japan, in the colder districts
of Russia and at different attitudes in
the Himalayas. In 1903 they finally
obtained a few grains from single
head of wheat which they planted
in small patch on the Canadian
experimental ground The yield of
this planting was pound of grain in
1904, the parent grain from which
in 1913 came a crop of 300,000,000
bushels Of Marquis wheat with mar
ket price OF $500, 100000. Canada es-
timates that the Saunderses by their
discovery OF Marquis wheat increased
the value of the Canadian y Ieat crop
$15,000,000 a year.
The work of the pioneer expert
menter PRINGLE of Vermont to dis
cover the Defiance, of JONES of New
York to perfect a wheat for the East
ern States, Of LUTHER BURBANK to
develop a white wheat and of DR..
WHEELER of Canada to develop the
Red Bobs and to improve the Kitch-
ener are all interesting chapters in
the history of wheat culture. De-
spite the remarkable progress made
in the development of wheat, agricul-
turists say that there yet remains a
vast field for improvement. When
we remember that it was not many
years ago that men believed hard
wheat could not be grown profitably
in Kansas and that twenty-five years
ago it was said that wheat, which
now flourishes at 65 degrees north
latitude and thrives within 300 miles
Of the arctic circle, could not pos
sibly be grown north of Winnipeg
and Medicine Hat, in so degrees north
latitude, I'VE can understand the full
import of this statement.
The point, perhaps, is that most of
the new varieties Of wheat possess
certain special qualities, some being
immune from wheat plaques and dis
eases, others ripening early and with
standing frost, or baking or grinding
to better advantage or showing
greater productiveness. The goal Of
the wheat experimenter is the pro-
duction Of grain which will have all
of these qualities in the highest pos
sible degree
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair to-day
and tomorrow; slightly warmer to-
morrow: gentle to moderate northeast
and east winds.
For New Jersey-Fair to-day and to-mor-
row: slightly warmer tomorrow: gentle 10
moderate northeast and east winds.
For Northern New England-Fair to-day
and Tomorrow; little change In temperature;
gentle TO moderate northwest winds be-
coming variable.
ana Tomorrow. with moderate temperature,
moderate northeast and east winds.
rer western New york-Fair to-day and
PROBABLY tomorrow, with slowly rising tenn
perature, gentle to moderate northeast and
east. shifting to southeast. winds.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.-Pressure was
high over the eastern half OF the country
to-day. II was high and rising over the
north Pacific States and low and falling
over the plains States. the Rocky Mountain
Canadian northwest with minimum pressure
over Saskatchewan tonight Generally fair
weather has prevailed during the last
scattered thunder showers in the south At
lantic States. the south Rocky Mountain and
south plateau regions and in North Dakota.
Valley. Tennessee and the middle Atlantic
States and the north Atlantic States, south
Arizona and the Far Northwest. and IT was
The indications are for generally fair
weather tomorrow and Tuesday in the
States east of the Mississippi River, except
that showers are probable IN the upper lake
region at night or on Tuesday, and there
will be widely scattered thunder showers in
the, south Atlantic States. The Temperature
sections east Of the Mississippi River, except
in New England during the next two days.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations, taken at p. NJ. yesterday,
seventy fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
A Marshal in a Cigar Store.

A despatch from Budapest relates.
with some tinge of pathos, that the
last generalissimo of the Austro-
Hungarian forces, Field Marshal KoE-
yEss, is now running cigar store,
his property having been seized in
the split up of eastern Hungary.
Painful as the loss of the Field
Iarshal's fortune may have been, he
Is entitled to felicitation rather than
o coincidence on his new activities
He Is going to see life. The narrow
vista of the purely military closes be-
hind him. Across his cigar counter
he can view the world as it goes by
and stops long enough to pick out
colorado claro or take free light.
All Field Marshal does is review
troops, study maps and give orders.
A tobacconist is not only the field
marshal OF his clerks and his stock
but is also the confidant of all his
customers, the court of last resort in
sport disputes and the recipient and
distributor of the liveliest gossip of
the neighborhood. No Field Marshal
ever learns why Frau Schnitzel of
the Kummelstrasse dashed the cheese
cake in her husbands face; but the
tobacconist gets the facts at once.
A wonderful life, being proprietor
OF cigar store. You feel, for one
thing. that you are immune from
cholera, it being well known that
cholera germs avoid tobacco shops as
IL they were followers of DR.. PEAsE.
The atmosphere is delightful too.
No odors Of dried apricots or garlic,
such as the grocer breathes, are
there; nothing but the blended aroma
OF leaves from a thousand fields, the
happy meeting Of Araby and Connec-
ticut. What grows in the Vale OF
Cashmere that can compete, for the
favor of a grown man, with a newly
opened pail OF fine cut?
The tobacconist Is looked upon as
wise and good. Customers rely upon
him to tell them whether the stogies
are fresh, whether the Giants or the
Yanks are at the Polo Grounds,
whether 1t is going to rain and how
the names OF lady tennis players are
pronounced a good cigar clerk can
talk racing with HmuRErH or discuss
the city debt with ELoN Brown.
A tobacconist requires more cool
ness than is asked of d Field Mar
shall. When he IS alone In the store
and eight customers line up at once,
asking respectively and simultane-
ously for a pack Of Armadillos, a
light perfecto. pinochle deck, three
Of those for quarter, q package Of
Motorman's Delight, six Fumar del
Diablos, nickel's worth of chewing
gum and the loan Of an umbrella
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
First Aid for Trees.
A Seventy-second Street Demonstra-
tiOn How to Make Them Grow.

To THE New YORK HERALD: wish
to call attention to the remarkable i'm
provement in the few remaining trees
on Seventy-second street between Cen
trail Park West and Columbus avenue.
For the last three months an elderly
gentleman whose business do not know
but who Is evidently a resident of Sew
enty-second street can be seen every
morning with shovel and pail digging
up the earth about the trees and carry
ing fertilizer and water TO them. and all
of this because OF his apparent love and
appreciation Of trees. The Improvement
in the trees he has been helping Is sur
prising. ! noticed that he is now de-
voting his attention to the trees between
Columbus avenue rnd Broadway.
] believe he has the solution for bring
Ing back to life trees that are about
gone. vAHpAH.
NEW YORK, August 90.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
General O'Ryan's Birthday
The Twenty-seventh Divisions COM
mander Reaches AZ.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: New
Workers should feel proud OF the fact
that on August 81. 1874. there was born
in this city man who was TO make
his mark in the service OF Uncle sam
as leader of men and doer OF big
things as soldier.
When he was q boy receiving his
carly education in the city schools, and
later as a young man attending the
College OF the City of New York and
New York University, he probably never
dreamed that a world conflict would
be the means of establishing him as a
military leader.
When he embarked on his military
career as a member of the Seventh
Regiment In 1897. and seven years later
was commissioned a Captain in the old
First Battery, which later became the
First Field Artillery he could not see
what the future held in store for him.
II somebody had told him when he
was appointed Major General in 1913.
commanding the New York National
Guard. and later. when he was gradu-
ated from the Army War College at
Washington, one of the few National
ton, that he would have the honor Of
commanding a division which would
shatter the vaunted Hindenburg line,
besides gaining the added distinction of
passing through the war as commander
of the same division, the man who saw
the light OF day for the first time forty
seven years ago would have thought he
was listening to a dreamer.
But all these things came to pass, and
Major-General John L. Organ may re-
joice over what he has accomplished in
so short a time. So too may his fellow
New Workers rejoice. General Organ,
commander of the famous Twenty
seventh Division, which was composed
of New York city and State men, has
earned the lasting respect of all New
York. ADMIRER.
NEW YORK, August 90
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
HUNDRED AT PIER DANCE.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Porter Enter
tain mt Narragnnsett.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
NARRAGANsETT PIER, X. l.. Aug. 21.-.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Porter of Buff
falo. N. Y. In honor OF their guests, Mr..
and Mrs. John Casazgia, Mr.. and Mrs.
Preston Porter. Miss Nora Hayes, Mr..
Livingston Fryer and Mr.. william
Nickel of Buffalo. gave dance and sup
per tonight at their villa. There were
100 guests.
Prof. Ernest Whitnall of McGnl
University, Montreal and Mrs. Whit
nall have been guests OF Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Harvey Dougherty, Jr.. OF Phil
adelphia here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homard Ligget of Phil
adelphia are guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Caryl Roberts OF Philadelphia at Shadow
Farm on Kingstown road.
Mr.. Harry Parsons Cross OF Provi-
dence is the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert II. l. Goddard of Providence.
Mr.. Clarence c. Bryant. manager Of
the Massasoit Hotel. gave a supper there
for twenty guests In observance of the
birthday of Mrs. Benno Wolf Of Provi-
dence. who has spent many seasons at
the hotel.
Mr.. Harry d. Holloway Of Philadel-
phia is at Hotel dc Ia PLACE; also Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Wetherell OF Phila-
deiphia.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
Lorraine Remembers.

Flirey is very small French viii
lage about fifteen miles east of st.
Mihiel. Many of its neighboring
towns got their names in the papers
during the war, but Flirey had little
publicity. Yesterday it had its big
time, for, with the assistance of other
Lorraine folk and some visiting
Americans, Flirey unveiled mon
ument to the United States.
The many thousands of American
soldiers who saw Flirey remember
it as a total loss. 1t was one of those
towns, like Rheims, which the Ger
mans shelled for years. When the
Yankees arrived in May, 1918, Flirey
was a wreck and it's people were
prisoners within the German lines at
Essey, a few miles to the north.
The New England, or Twenty-sixth,
Division stayed in that neighbor-
hood until June, when it moved to
the Chateau Thierry sector.
Later in the summer, when PER-
sHING was ready with the great First
Army for the battle of st. Mihiel, the
Eighty-ninth Division had Flirey for
it's jumping off place "Flirey the
forlorn" the soldiers called the place;
but with true Yankee ingenuity they
took advantage Of the villages ruin.
The stones and bricks which the Ger
mans had knocked down were turned
into a road over which the Americans
pursued the enemy after the great
smash OF September IL; and on the
same road the exiled inhabitants, set
tree by the Americans, returned to
their dilapidated village.
All this Flirey and the rest of Lor.
raine remembered. As Flirey was a
good example Of what the whole prov
ince had suffered that village was
chosen as the site for the monument
that was unveiled yesterday. In the
foreground Of the simple sculpture
are two doughboys, advancing; in
the background is the Flirey church
which the Germans destroyed. The in
scription is brief: La Lorraine aux
Etats Unis, 1914-191S." The Ameri-
cans who were at Flirey yesterday
may we'll admire the spirit that
makes these Frenchmen erect mon
ument Of gratitude before they have
restored their ruined town itself.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22

when this barrage is hurled at him
he cannot call for a retreat or stop to
look at map.
The tobacconist's stock is almost
immune from spelling. He is not like
the grocer, the butcher or the milk
man. Nor does it, like the cloth
ier's, go out of style in year II cer-
tain things do not sell we'll they can
be sent to the country trade or given
to friends. When tomato is on its
last legs the grocer cannot hand it
to a friend, saying TRY this after
dinner, George; it's special" But
the tobacconist is free to do so with
4 shopworn cigar.
When Prince Florizel of Bohemia
came to the end of his political
string after a life Of rapturous ad-
venture STEVENSON sent him to keep
a tobacco shop and to be happy ever
thereafter So let it be with Field
Marshal KoEyEss. Perhaps If NAPo-
LEON had spent the Hundred Days
fitting up a neat snuff emporium he
would have been better off.
Let us hope for the sake of Marshal
KoEvEsss health and spirits that
cigar stores in Budapest are not Wis
tied as regularly by bandits as those
Of New York are. Even an old sol
diers nerves might crack under the
strain.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
Americas Foreign Policy.
An Alliance With Great Britain and
japan Rejected.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
United States escaped the League of
Nations. but now a new ENHANCEMENT
threatens. In accounts published by
American newspapers OF the proceed
ings of the British imperial conferences
in London 1 f1nd the following state
ment:
The British Prime Minister and For
cign Minister and the Prime Ministers Of
the British overseas dominions think that
the time IS ripe for approaching the
United States with a proposal TO substi-
tute ''some larger arrangement between
the United States, Great Britain and
japan for the present Anglo-Japanese
alliance.
In reading the above one Is irresis-
tibly reminded of Admiral Slmss recent
speech at a London banquet, in which
he said that England and America In
combination could control the earth, or
words to that effect. 1t is quite within
the bounds of diplomatic usage and
probability that the gallant and distin-
guished Admiral was prompted in his
speech--quite unconsciously, of course
by friendly conversations" which he
had held with acute and very talented
British diplomatists--in short, that q
straw was thus thrown up in London
to see which way the wind was blow
ing In America.
To any such proposal America would
naturally reply in very courteous and
diplomatic language that she has no de-
sire or ambition to control the earth,
but on the contrary very earnestly de-
slres TO attend to her own affairs; that
she has forty-eight States, each one as
large as a European country. and Is
satisfied with her present position.
A settlement of all questions in dis
pute leading to a mutual reduction OF
armaments Is earnestly desired and
would be cordially welcomed. but a
larger arrangement" involving the
control Of the EARTH" could not even be
considered by the United States.
BERTRAND SHApwELL
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. August TO-
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
A Kidnapper to the Electric Chair

The conviction for murder in the
first degree obtained by the State in
the prosecution OF ROBERTO RAFFAELE.
one of the kidnappers who stole and
did to death the child GIUSEPPE VA
RoTTA in May, is an important vic
tory for law and order.
1t is now essential that the other
members of the band be brought to
justice.
Had the criminals who held the
varotta boy for ransom, eventually
procuring his death, gone unpun-
ished there would unquestionably
have ensued series Of blackmailing
cases unprecedented in the police
records of New York.
BY capturing the kidnappers and
by preparing against at least one OF
them a case strong enough to bring
about a verdict Of murder in the first
degree the police and the prosecut-
ing attorneys have performed their
duties with credit to themselves and
in a manner which will make New
York a safer town to live in.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
MISS MORGAN TAKES
PARIS APARTMENT
VIII Be There Until End of
Next Month.

Special Cable to THE NEW York HERALD.
Copyright, 1891, by THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris. Aug. FL.
Miss Anne Morgan has returned from
Brides-les-Ba and has taken an apart
ment in Paris until the end of Septem-
Der.
Mrs. Norma Drew Pike, founder of the
Victory Club and the Jeanne dare Le-
gion in the United States. who has been
visiting at Deauville, has left for Venice
with her sister, Miss Billie Smith,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William B.
Smith of Washington.
Augustus Howard WINS and his
daughter, Miss Edith WINS of New York.
are visiting at Deauville and Dinard
and will spend September at Biarritz.
They expect to return to the United
States early in November.
DR.. and Mrs. Louis Fischer of New
York, who are touring Central Europe
by automobile, have arrived at Marien-
bad on their way to Vienna. They will
return to Paris early in September.
Prof. Earle Babcock of New York Is
spending q few weeks In Paris after
visiting Gen. and Mrs. II. A. Taufflieb at
Chateau d'Annel. near Strassbourg. He
will return to the United States in Sep
tember.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles p. Curtis of
Boston have returned to the Hotel Grill
Ion from Orleans.
Mr.. and Mrs Elbridge L. Adams of
Park avenue New York. who have been
touring Switzerland, arrived this week at
the Hotel Crlllon.
Dean James of Northwestern Univer-
sity, who has been making a historical
and economic survey of Albania, has
arrived in Rome on his way to Paris
and expects to sail at the beginning of
October.
Mr.. Robert Sims. proprietor of the
Jackson Hotel at Jacksonville. Fla. and
Mrs. Sims have arrived at the Hotel
Lott from London on their way to Swift
zerland. italy and Egypt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Reeder of Wash
fngton, d. c., have returned to the Con-
tinental Hotel from Lausanne.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
MONDAY. AUGUST 22. 1921.
Brief Remarks on Isolation.

This more or less amiable news
paper frankly admits that it expert
ences certain sense of exasperated
weariness-or weariful evaporation,
If that is the better expression-when
it encounters laments like this in the
Euening Post of night before last:
Anything that helped to move
this country from its self-imposed
Isolation and into action for the re-
establishment of order in Europe
upon which our own welfare is so
largely dependent is welcomed"
The isolation of America? The
self-imposed isolation of the United
States? Gracious Here we have the
favorite whoop of the new Mug
wumpery. Here we have the linger-
ing resentment over the defeat of the
League of Nations covenant, with all
that that precious scheme of nom
isolated involvement meant to the
future of our independent Republic.
A single example of isolation: We
have loaned to the Governments OF
Europe, big and little, about ten bill
ions of dollars and are financially in
terwoven with the outside world TO
the extent of that stupendous total.
We achieved this sort Of isolation
gradually and generously and with
out the least fear of aloofness. Some
&C the big Powers came over and
asked for the cash or credit. Some
Ct the little Powers, as WILL ROGERS
used to remark as he gently twirled
his agile and philosophic lasso rope,
didn't even take the trouble to visit
their Uncle SAMUEL in person, but
merely notified him. by cable or mail,
"You may send us ours"
Let the statisticians figure for how
many years the United States was
run, for all the expenses of its Gov
crnment, before the demnition total
mounted to ten billions. Why, bless
the dear EUening Posts heart! these
ten billion dollar certificates OF self
imposed isolation exceed by over four
billions the entire gold and silver
production of the United States from
1892 down to 1918
That is one aspect of our self-im-
posed isolation. To intensity our in
famous segregation we are feeding a
good part of hungry Europe; we
are negotiating treaties to restore
normal relations with those lately
our foes; we are mingling In inter-
national activities in Europe, Asia,
Africa, North and South America and
Oceanica. But we are maintaining
our independence of supergovernment
and our freedom of action in any
case that may arise.
If that is the Isolation" our es-
teemed contemporary bewails let us
increase the dose. For the good
Lords sake, let the process of self
imposition continue.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
Kanred, New American Wheat.

Kansas has a new wheat which her
farmers believe will not only in
crease the annual yield of her golden
belt but also give to her far
superior grain. This new wheat was
born, in the language OF producers,
at the Kansas Agricultural Expert
ment Station at Manhattan in 1915
and 1916. 1t was called by the dis
tinctive Sunflower State name, Kan
red. The present season Is the first In
which there has been an opportunity
to determine by practical test its ac.
tual value About 100000 acres, ac-
cording to an estimate by the State
Agricultural College, were planted in
the new wheat and the results have
been carefully watched. Many re-
ports are to the effect that where the
Weld from other varieties common to
the hard wheat regions was twenty
four or twenty-five bushels an acre
the yield from Kanred was thirty-five
or thirty-six bushels. The average
increase Of the yield from Kanred
over the varieties commonly grown.
as estimated by the authorities at the
experiment station, is from three to
five bushels an acre.
The story Of wheat and Of its de-
velopment Is peculiarly fascinating.
The old French scientist J. HENRI
FARRE philosophically remarks that
while history celebrates the battle.
field where men met death 1t scorns
to speak OF the ploughed fields where
they thrive 1T knows the names of
kings bastards, but cannot tell us the
origin OF wheat While modern his
tory fails in its efforts to find the
origin Of wheat. It has followed and
recorded with a great minuteness OF
detail the development Of the modern
varieties. A striking example Of this
II the tracing Of the growth Of Mar
quis wheat, the famous wheat OF
western Canada, an immediate prede
cessor Of the Kanred
The Saunderses, father and sons
began their work Of developing q
wheat which could be grown sue
cessfully in western Canada and alons
the northern wheat belt OF the United
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
DINNERS AT HOT SPRINGS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chouteau walsh and
Mrs. Looming Entertain,

Special Despatch to THE NEW yoRK HERALD.
HoT SPRINGS, Va. Aug. 21.--Mr. and
Mrs. Chouteau Walsh OF New York, who
arrived yesterday at the Homestead.
were guests at dinner last night OF
Mrs. Thomas M. Pierce of st. Louis.
Other guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Julius
$. Walsh. Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Robert A.
p. Walsh, Mr.. and Mrs. Ira T.. Wight
OF ST. Louis, and Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Benoist OF New Orleans.
Mrs. John Leckie of New York is hero
with Mrs. J. Harvey Page OF Cambridge,
Mass.
Mrs. Harry Campbell Graef Of WASH
ington has Joined Mrs. Terah Haggin.
= Mrs. Albert Loening of New York had
as dinner guests last night Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph II. McAllister and Mr.. Rudolph
r. Looming
Mr. and ATrs. walter M Meserole and
Mr.. and Mrs Conrad SAKE Keyes have
arrived from Brooklyn. and Mr.. ana
Mrs. Charles Pearson from Philadelphia.
MIR. and Mrs. Melville u. INGALLS, left
Yesterday for New York to sail by the
Aoultapia Tuesday for Europe.