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The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Dean johnson and Burning Bonds.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
statement that I have advised people
to burn their Liberty bonds has been
published rather widely in newspapers
OF recent date. / have given no such
advice. On the contrary. l believe Lib
erty bonds at the present time good
and am advising my friends
to keep what they have and to save
money and buy more. Two years ago,
when prices were rising and people were
buying all kinds OF luxuries with their
Liberty bonds, said In public address
in New York city that such practice
was dangerous. for II tended TO make
prices rise still further. and any such
artificial rise of prices would certainly
be followed by n crisis, II not panic.
Rather than have people use their Lib
erty bonds as money" said. Il would
prefer to see them all burned In big
bonfire on the next Fourth Of july"
JOSEPH FRbNcH JOHNSON.
NEW York. February Z.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
China Is Doing Her Best.

Why doesn't China do something to
help herself? Is the question Of some
Americans when they are asked to
help the starving Chinese.
China is doing something; all she
can, in fact. The Government has
established new surcharges which will
raise $5.00O,OOO a year. This, how
ever, will not feed half a million peo-
pie; and 100000 Chinese are starv-
ing-not merely hungry, but il. dan
ger of death.
President HsU has personally given
$3O,0OO. The Sheng family Of Shang-
hal has contributed 100000. The
Chinese throughout the world are
begging and sending home. One Chi
nese in the Straits Settlements sent
81, 100000.
But as the hungry number 45,000,-
600 and there are more people ac-
tually PROSTATE from starvation than
New York State contains, poor China
can't do great deal alone. The outer
world, and particularly America,
must pour grain into China to keep
the Chinese alive and strong enough
to do their spring ploughing and
planting.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Counting the Lost Billions.

In estimating the total expense Of
the war, counting direct, indirect and
life costs, at 34S billions Professor
STRONG of Harvard differs only
slightly from Professor BoGART of
the University OF Illinois, whose
grand total was 337 billions.
After all, this reckoning of the
wars cost is largely academic. No
body can comprehend, much less call
back, this third Of trillion dollars.
1t is part of dead past which, IL it
cannot be buried, should be kept out
of the way Of the living.
A more cheerful bunch Of figures
would show what the world has left.
not merely in goods and gold but in
strength, willingness, hope and am
bition. This Is the only world we
have. So long as Its surface con-
tains soil In which seeds will germi-
nate. so long as its inhabitants have
strong arms and the will to live, just
so long will there be hope.
Don't forget TO obtain an income
tax blank. The Government needs
money to pay off few Of the billions
enumerated by the professors.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Unfavorable balance. 1890

The British unfavorable balapce
was reduced during the year from
f663, 900 900 to f379,OO0, 900, or 43 per
cent. The reduction in the unfavor-
able French balance amounts to As
per cent Great Britain's policy va
ried from Frances In that attention
was concentrated on promoting ex-
ports which increased f595,0o0000,
while imports increased f310,000,000.
In the case of France the policy was
TO put an iron halter on imports, and
they actually decreased. while exports
were almost exactly doubled.
The cuytailing Of imports was an
extremely difficult task for France,
whose stocks Of supplies were depleted
TO much greater extent than Eng
lands. Her unfavorable balance Of
nearly thirteen billions of francs
still leaves much 10 be accomplished,
but the results for 1920 indicate
that the job is being properly ham
died.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Opera Star in a New Sky.

The prospective transfer Of
AMELIA GALLI-CURcI's golden notes
from the Chicago troupe which visits
here for month or so every season
to the Metropolitan Opera House,
which we have always with us, is a
distinct gain to New York opera
goers. Perhaps it may not mean a
corresponding privation to Chicago
ans, for the announcement is made
that the new engagement Is not made
for the whole season and is not to
be exclusive.
Nine. GAILI-CURcI has at present q
virtually undisputed lead In the field
Of colorature singing. At the Metro
politan she will fill to the joy of all
patrons void created by the retire
ment of Nine. FRIEDA HEMPEL from
the operate stage and not filed by the
few and late appearances of Nine.
BARRIENTos in recent years. Her
presence in the company will make
possible the presentation Of several
attractive works which are now given
seldom or not at all. "Traviata," for
instance, has not been heard this
year; "Sonnambula" is seldom given
and "Dinorah" in recent times not at
all. The leading roles in all of these
operas are among Nine. GALLI-CUEcI' S
best parts.
One glorious prospect the engage
ment holds out to lovers of music,
the opportunity Of hearing her in the
same performance with CARUso, a
pairing Of tho two greatest expo
nents of the Italian school of vocal
ism now on the stage.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Cuesses at Shakespeare.
Colonel Wstterson's Choice Of Mar
lowe Meets With Objections.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Surely
there is nothing in Colonel Watterson's
letter to prove Shakespeare not to be
the author Of the works now accredited
to him. nor does Colonel Watterson
make such a claim; he merely offers
reflection on the subject and dismisses
It as plausible surmisc."
Marse Henry surely will be 80 gener-
GUS as to admit that Shakespeare pos
sessed certain gifts and a vivid inaagina-
tion, even IL he was deprived of a thor
ough early education. Then why not
another guess?
Why not guess that Shakespeare did
write the works in question and send
them to Marlowe. who was a refined.
educated, generous gentleman, for his
editing, later to be returned to Shake
speare for staging? This also Is merely
a surmise, but It Is certainly charitable
as well as plausible. w. s. MCKEE.
TROY. February 7.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
No More Robber Heroes.

1t seems certain that. after centu-
ries Of popularity, the sensational
criminal, and particularly the spec
tacular robber, is not In favor.
About two hundred years ago
CLAUDE DUvAL and JACK SHEPPARD
were doing, on the highways Of Eng
land, deeds that have been duplicated
recently In all parts Of America.
They wore period costumes, rode
horses with fancy names and used
clumsy pistols The highway robbers
of to-day wear evening clothes when
1t pleases them, ride in motor cars
and carry automatics.
DUvAL and SHEPPARD are In all the
encyclopedias and hundred novels.
But will the criminals who held up
the automobiles at Short Hills last
Saturday night have their names In
books two hundred years from now?
Certainly not; yet there is little diff
ference between them, robbing a
group Of motorists, and the classic
scoundrels who held up stage coacnes
in the old days.
All, says the sentimentalist, CLAUDE
and JACK were Of better sort. Not
at all. They did not rob women;
neither did the criminals at the Bal
tusrol Golf Club. CLAUDE and JACK
were no better and no worse than the
modern highwaymen. Their audacity
astonished law-abiding Englishmcn
and inspired novelists like AIMS
WORTH to paint them in bright colors.
But they were pair Of dirty, disrep-
utable malefactors. A robber of to-
day would find nothing useful to him
in the history Of either of the famous
highwaymen. They were booze
fighters" he would say when he had
finished, "and the stuff finally got
them" Both were captured when
stupid with drink; both danced in
the air at Tyburn.
History and fiction have been kind
to Adventures good and bad. Young
people revel in the stories about Sir
JOHN HAwKwooD and his gallant
men. But what was that band of
mercenaries, engaged in wars where
1t was almost impossible to be killed,
as compared with modern groups like
the Lafayette Escadrille? Don JOHN
of Austria WAS n fine figure. the last
of its kind in that age of chivalry,
but put him beside FRANK LUKE or
RAoUL LUFBEBY and he looks like a
mollycoddle.
Distance certainly lends enchant-
ment. Perhaps the novelists of a
century hence will be writing Of our
sky knights. But they won't cele-
brate our highwaymen. That sort of
hero worship is gone, and good
riddance.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Natures Samaritan.

Separately the OK and the goose
have played no inconspicuous part In
fable and legendary lore. The OK has
the dignity of being mentioned In the
Ten Commandments, is the object Of
foolish emulation of the bullfrog in
one of THACKERAY's favorite fables,
and has won almost universal recog-
milton as the symbol of patient, willing
labor. In art this amiable beast
comes down to US from Egyptian
hieroglyphs and his presentment In oil
adorns most contemporary National
Academy shows. The goose we re-
member as once, in a spontaneous
choral warning, saving Rome. She
is the subject of favorite jingle in
Mother Goose's rhymes. And 1t is not
so long since New Yorkers watched a
pet flock of these creatures herded
by that beauteous vision, GERALDINE
FARgAR, as she sang the part of the
Goose Girl in "K0nigskinder" at the
Metropolitan Opera House.
These attributes of patient and
lively affection and devotion are so
firmly implanted in us regarding the
TX and the goose that we can readily
believe the tale which came to us from
Alabama the other day of a devoted
friendship between a blind OK and
stately gander. Daily, so ran the
tale, the gander would lead the sight
less OK to pool to drink by the sim
pie device of walking before the OK
and quacklng as n signal of direction.
Once the OK has drunk his fill, like the
stag in ScorT's poem, the quacking
gander leads him back to his accus-
toned field to browse on his idea of
the perfect ration. There is the I'M
dying legend of the goose as the
savior of Imperial Rome. Out of the
tale we have told of the Alabama OK
and gander may grow another legend
of the goose as one of Natures
Samaritans. Animal fiction and bird
lore may have more thrilling tales to
tell than this, but none more fitted to
warm the heart Of man or child as a
picture Of dumb devotion and charity.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09

Of about two and a half feet and
has strong central stalk branching
toward the top and leaves from one
to two inches long. 1t Is Towering
perennial and poisonous. The spread
of this weed has been so threatening
that the county agent recently re-
quested the cooperation Of the De-
partment of Agriculture in an effort
to rid the district of the noxious
plant. The result was conference
attended by representative farmers,
who after hearing weed specialist
from the Department Of Agriculture
and Representatives from the State
experiment station pledged them
selves to plan Of experimental Grad
ication work on their own farms.
Among the methods to be tried are
cutting patches Of the weed In June
and applying crude dried salt at the
rate of ten tons to the acre, cutting
in June and saturating the patches
with kerosene, using various fertiliz-
ers, moving before seed time, plough
ing throughout the year, crop rota-
tior, spraying with iron sulphate So
luton, spring ploughing followed by
summer following, fall sowing of
buckwheat and the planting of corn
the succeeding spring.
The farmer has an abundance of
pests already without this newcomer.
With the Canada thistle, mustard,
the wild daisy and a number Of
other weeds he has something to
combat from the moment vegetation
begins until the advent Of winter.
The outcome Of the experiments in
Orange county will be watched with
interest by farmers throughout the
other regions already affected or
threatened with leafy spurge.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Halcyon Theatre Days.
Brilliant Casts Assembled by the
Elder Wallack and Brougham.

To THE New York HERALD: have
just read with much interest the letter
of "A NJ. S." which shines with the
softened light Of other days-halcyon
days, ! am inclined to cali them, of the
histrionic art in New York.
With him i keep warm nook in my
| memory for Harry Montague, Dion
Boucicault and those others mentioned
by him. hope he is able to include in
his vision of the past those men and
women who composed the companies of
the elder Wallack and John Brougham
In Wallack's. afterward Broughams.
Theatre at Broadway and Broome
street These constituted casts corre-
spending in brilliancy to that Of ''The
Shaughraun." cited by your correspon-
dent. and here in tho presentation of
the English comedies and the choicest
of those of more modern production the
art of the actor reached it's highest
mark.
For the moment one recalls the elder
Wallack. a veritabie scholar In the pro-
fession; Lester Wallack. then billed as
John Lester Blake. Walcot, Gilbert
Boucicault. Sothern, jefferson among
the women. Mrs. Hoey, Miss Lewis. Mary
Cannon, Mrs Vernon. Mrs. Gilbert.
Agnes Robertson and some not now re-
menbered. We will not forget that
DAILY later gave to US a taste of the
best of former days.
Concerning Montague, was he not
brought to this country by Lester WAL
Iack xubosa ratiray,oapt ~ Non+ar,,o,.
favor constituted a remuneration for
which II seems to me he never received
the credit due him?
Comparable in brilliancy and talent
with the cast of The Shaughraun" was
that of the great play of London AS
surance"; n wonderful cast. as will be
seen on examining it. In this play the
elder Sothern as the valet Cool, / think
1t was. gave the public a foretaste of
his talent which blossomed in full
flower with his opportunity as Lord
Dundredry in the american Cousin"
in Laura Keene's company. In this
play also. it will be remembered, Jeffer-
son made his hit as the shrewd Yankee
boy. 1t was during the performance of
this play at Ford's Theatre on April
~, looO, lniI tHe dSSdSSlndllOn OF Lin
coin occurred; at this performance I
happened to be present.
Burton was before my day, but when
l was a young boy the old green baize
doors of the building in Chambers street
which had been his theatre were still to
be seen.
Forrest saw in heavy tragedy and
saw him often also on Broadway and
In the old Roe Lockwood book store,
then New Yorks principal book em-
porium; he was usually poring over
some of the rarer books in which this
store specialized
Then came Edwin Booth with his
mastery productions In the old Winter
Garden and again on Twenty-third
street Among their excellences was the
scenery. One recalls that of the Castle
at night: when the Ghost walked you
breathed the very atmosphere of Elsi-
more "an eager and nipping air."
MOUNT Krsco. Februarys. JYC.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Wrestling Locks.
Objections Made by Professionals to
a Law on the Subject.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Profess
sional wrestling is threatened by bill
recently introduced In the Assembly for
the body scissors, the toe hold, the
strangle hold and other supposedly
dangerous holds which the matmen are
in the habit of applying to subdue their
opponents.
Apparently the agitation is the result
OF injuries supposed to have been re-
ceived by the opponents of the present
heavyweight champion wrestler of the
world, who makes practice of clamping
his left arm around the head of his VIC
tim and squeezing the Uranium until the
victim sinks to the mat beaten. Recently
at the Garden the public showed its
disapproval of the deadlock by Kissing
and booing the champion as he climbed
out of the ring.
Within the last few days, however.
the deadlock has been defended. The
wrestlers themselves apparently fear
that by regulating the sport by legisla-
tion It's grip on the sport going public
will be lessened. One wrestler went so
far as TO declare that IL the authorities
keep tinkering with the sport all a
wrestler will have to do in future to win
his match will be to kiss his opponent.
1t must be understood that catch as
catch can wrestling is no childs sport
and many of the holds used In the game
are very painful. The fact remains,
however, that the professionals fully
realize what they are going in for be-
fore they start. and they are well paid
for their trouble. ARMLoCK.
NEW York, February 8.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
We Cannot Sing the Old Songs.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Sometimes they tinkle In my mind
those ditties sung Of yore-
They call up fancies left behind and
fashions gone before:
Why is it that I'm humming such for
gotten things to-day.
AS "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me-
and THE Deacon Went Astrayv? ?
Sometimes I whistle to myself "The
Little Boy in Blue;
Sometimes I start II Can't Tell Why I
Love You. but I Do"
Or 1t may be "I'd Leave My Happy
Home for You-oo-oo,"
Tho Sweetest Story Ever Told" or
Louisiana Lou"
They think me quaint because / sing
when Reuben Comes to Town;
My son outlaws when I essay GO Way
Back and Sit Down."
Ny wife will smile at Smoky Mokes''
and giggle when ! drone
she Was Happy Till She Met You. but
the Fault Is All Your own"
love those lyric ladies. Annie Moore
and Mandy Lee;
And those pathetic children, Baby Belle
and Only Me!
Tn the House Of Too Much Trouble"
makes me shed a tender tear
And also when the Harvest Days Are
Over. Jessie Dear"
There's Only One Girl in This World
for Me- sing--although
love Bedela, Dollie Gray and Irish
Mollie-O:
like the Man that Broke the Bank at
Monte Carlo, too
HE Laid Away His Suit Of Gray and
Donned the Union Blue"
do not like this modern jazz-my
father said the same
OF Take Your Clothes and Co." guess,
and of "Ain't Dat a Shame?''-
Yet when I hear the saxophones most
lamentable storm.
cannot choose but sing "Oh, I Don't
Know. You're Not So Warm"
TED ROBINSON.
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert
Berlioz, Chausson and Wagner on the Programme
Mime. Matzenauer Is the Soloist.

also suffer from Mahleria. but 1t may
reasonably be supposed that, with one
orchestra where there are now two. we
may be spared SO per cent OF these COM
pulsory draughts of saturated solution
of piffle.
MAILER is one OF the composers of
whom conductors are enamored. The
fourth symphony IL not unknown TO us.
Mr.. Mengelberg must certainly be aware
of that. He cannot invent any excuse
for not knowing that Walter Damrosch
produced the composition here In 1904.
and that we have had the pleasure of
hearing It under the baton of the COM
poser himself. We need no introduction
to the symphony. Mr.. Mengelberg ought
also to know that the New York public
never has manifested any interest in the
art Of Mailer, and shows less and less
disposition to do so as the years roll
past.
Must we be Mahlerized for our own
salvation? II so. why? The fourth
symphony. like all the rest of Mahlers
works, has some beauties and some
pages Of admirable writing. A man
cannot be a conductor all his life with
out picking up some good ideas. But
the symphony contains page after page
OF mere childishness. the babble of a
man infatuated with the belief that he
knew how to rear tonal epics out OF the
idioms of the people.
The thing can be done. but not by
man Of recluse habits. of solitary intro
spection. and of fatuous faith in labori-
ously evolved developments. Genius Is
not merely all infinite capacity for talk
ing pains, else Mailer had lowered
above Mozart. who lisped In numbers
because the numbers came. Mr.. Men
gelberg. like all the other virtuoso con-
ductors, pointed his effects with merci-
less emphasis. dragged from the mass
OF Instrumentation phrases which
seemed to him of portentous signifi-
canoe and to some hearers of none at
all. and accentuated his reading with
solemn rhetorical pauses and extrava-
CANT dynamic contrasts.
And when he had finally como to the
end the fourth symphony seemed quite
as empty az 1t was seventeen years ago,
whom Mr.. Damrosch first revealed its
utilities. The soprano solo which
dominates the last movement was In
differently sung by Nine Birgit Engcll.
The other numbers on the programme
were the prelude to 'Die Meistersinger"
and the prelude and finale of Tristan
und Isolde
The New York herald., 1921-02-09
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Rain. witp
rising temperature. to-day: tomorrow
fair; fresh southeast to south, shifting
to west winds.
For New Jersey-Rain and somewhat
warmer to-day; tomorrow fair; moderate
to fresh southeast and south. shifting to
west winds
For Northern New England-snow and
warmer to-day; Tomorrow fair; moderate to
winds.
FOR Southern New Ensland-Rain or snow
with rising temperature to-day: tomorrow
west winds.
For Western New York-Rain or snow
and warmer to-day; tomorrow cloudy and
slightly colder.
WASHINGTON. Feb. s.--Pressure fell TO-
central valleys and the far Northwest. and
II continued abnormaliy k1w In the vlcinsu
OF Newfoundland. while high pressure pre-
vailed over the Atlantic States and from
the middle and southern Rocky Mountain
region westward 20 the Pacific coast. This
pressure distribution was attended by snow
within the last twenty four hours In the
north Atlantic States. the region of the great
lakes and tho upper mississippi, and middle
Paeo asys and by rain II the n1
States and the Ohio and middle Mississippi
valleys southwark. The Temperature was
and nosh S@s1 Atlantic g States ns ana mfds yo
lions OF tho west Gulf States. but II con-
tinued much above normal In the central
valleys, the upper lake regions and the
The Indications are for snow or rain IN
northern New England. tho interior Of New
tomorrow and In the upper Ohio Valley.
southern New England and the middle At
lantic and south Atlantic States except the
Florida peninsula. The weather will clear
In the east Gulf States tomorrow. and gen
orally fair weather win prevail Thursday In
the states east Of ths Mississippi River.
wi ri n tbo =
lantic and north Atlantic States and cooler
weather will overspread the lower Ohio
Valley. Tennessee and the east Gulf States
Tomorrow. There will bo little change in
temperature Thursday and readings will con-
tinus above normal generally.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations. taken at 8 p. NJ. yesterday.
seventy-fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1921-02-09

Tho Phiiedaiphia Orchestra gave it's
sixth concert last evening In Carnegie
Hail. The programme contained Ber-
HOES Roman Carnival" overture,
Chausson's B dat symphony and tho
funeral march from Goetterdaemerung."
Nine. Matzenauer was the soloist Her
numbers were Debussy's lie Chew
eleIre." Duparo's "Extase" and Bruenn-
hides "Immolation." II was a pro-
gramme OF interesting music. well ar
rnised to present variety and contrast
and also to display the qualities OF the
orchestra.
The Chausson symphony was per-
formed not long ago by Walter Dam
rosch and his musicians. but the Phila-
delphians have a different audience and
the work muat have come TO them with
delightful freshness. To those who
heard the Symphony Society presenta-
ton of the work the repetition was well
come. for this symphony has ingratiat-
ing charms. 1t is a well made piece of
music and Its thematfc materials are
melodious, interesting. we'll contrasted
and exceliently treated in the develop
ments.
The performance was one OF the most
admirable achievements of Leopold
Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orches-
ira At no other time this season has
the organization played with finer bal
ance. clarity and beauty of tone. The
points OF the composition were all dis
played with certainty but without
straining after effect. and the total re-
suit was an impression of suave power.
sure techpic and musical appreciation.
The audience was enthusiastic and no
wonder.
Nine. Matzenauer was kindly received
and rewarded with applause for her ef-
forts. which were oviously not anything
but effort. She was not in her best
vocal condition. The accomplishments
were well done.