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The New York herald., 1921-03-09
DRUG BILLS LINKED
WITH UNDER WORLD
Proposed Legislation at AL.
bany Assailed as Forcing
Addicts Still Lower.
Speciui Despatch to THE New yoRK IIEr,rn.
New York Herald Burean.
Alhany. March 4. ( z

NneCtut DCSnutCb 10 J HE NEW OBk llEftIn.
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany. March =.
Underworld traffic in drugs and great
suffering for addicts would result from
the passage of bills now pending, legis-
iators were told to-day at a public hear
Ing. The addict who now goes to his
family physician in hls fight against
drugs either would be driven to the un-
dtrworld or to expensive private institu-
tons. Il was declared.
Charges were made that specialists in
treating drug addicts were exploiting
the sufferers by trying to force them 10
20 to sanitaruns. DR.. William r.
Healy. speaking for the New York
County Medical Association. maintained
II at addiction is habit broken by will
and favored the bills. Dr. Alfred G.
Prentice of the same society supported
the measures.
Cures administered we're described by
the Rev. T.. w. Stait missionary, and
Miss Edith Brown OF New York. Miss
Brown is a victim Of addiction to medi-
cation administered for an ailment. She
said that as a result OF taking cure"
at Bellevue Hospital she had lost all her
yous wreck, suffering from Bright's dis
ease. heart and kidney trouble.
THE worst thing that could have
happened was the registration rule en-
forced by Health Commissioner Cope
land OF New York, which drove addicts,
good and bad. to stand in line before
the Narcotic Commissioners office. tho
objects OF curiosity by occupants or
'rubberneck' wagons. Judge Cornelius
i. Collins. OF the Court OF Special Scs-
sions. said. ''If this body onacts legis-
lation restricting treatment OF addicts
to Institutions IL will increase under
world traffic and bring suffering TO
thousands OF respectable users OF NOR
phlne who need the attention OF their
family physician"
DIR. James A. Rooney charged drug
cure" institution proprietors with being
behind legislation to bar physicians
from treatment OF addicts. He added
IAN OF us know who is behind bills
barring physicians from treatment OF
addicts and invountarily committing
these addicts TO institutions. ii Is the
institutional proprietors who get wealthy
at the expense Of their patients. II Il
time the medical profession took cog
nizance OF this fact Addiction is a
disease and can only be cured BY treat
mcnt as disease"
Dr. John r. DAWN. OF the New York
Medical Association. declared
The ruling of the New York City
Health Department has brought great
suffering 10 respectable addicts and has
made them the prey Of charlatans and
pedlers because physicians have been
agraid 10 administer TO the patients. II
is time the clique OF Institutional phy-
sicianS was exposed"
The New York herald., 1921-03-09
PLAN TO ABOLISH
U. S. COMPTROLLER
New Administration Said to
Have Step in Mind as Mat
ter Of Economy.
OLD POWERS ABSORBED
Federal Reserve Board Has
Wider Scope and Duplicates
Much Of the Work.
OLD POWERS ABSORBED
Special Despatch to THE NEw YoaK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Wushington. ID. O.. March X. \

Special Despatch to THE New YoaK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c., March 8.
There are indications that the office
OF Comptroller of the Treasury, insti-
tutcd in the early days of the Govern
mcnt. will be abolished by the new Ad
nlinisiration as first step toward bu-
reau consolidation and economy.
Under the national bank act the
Comptroller OF the Currency Is charged
with supervision of all national banks
and of the issuance OF national bank
and Federal Reserve currency.
Since the creation OF the Federal Re-
serve Board with wider power there has
been much duplication of work and
something or conflict in jurisdiction
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon has
before him a recommendation by the
Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve
Board, composed of the presidents of
the various reserve banks, strongly ,urg
ing abolition Of the office OF Comptroller
of the Currency as superfiuous. The
Comptroller employs all of the national
bank examiners and has large force
OF assistants and clerks In Washington,
numbering several hundred They are
paid by direct appropriation from the
Treasury. If their work Is taken over
by the Federal Reserve Board salaries
and other expenses will be paid from
earnings of the reserve system. which
have been so great recently as to prac-
tically cover the full reserve allowed
under the law.
Recommendation for the abolition of
the office was first made BY tho Ad-
visory Council Of the Reserve Board a
year ago. When the new council con-
vencd in Washington in February OF
this year il promptly renewed the rec
ommendation at its meeting.
At present the Office Of Comptroller is
vacant. John Shelton Williams resigned
and left the Treasury on March 2. Since
that date Mr.. Williamss office has been
closed and the door locked His per-
sonal assistants have moved to other
offices. Work OF the Comptroller's office
is under the direction Of Deputy Comp
troler Thomas Kane.
The New York herald., 1921-03-09
GERMAN WORKER IS
PRE-WAR PRODUCER
Continued rom First Page.

ployment and with increased produc-
| ton.
In one respect living is better for
the workers to-day than in the "tur-
nip and cabbage winter" of 1917.
Then more food was not 10 he bought.
| To-day they can buy as much as they
can afford and they can afford to
eat more than then. But to-day they
cannot say over their potatoes as
they did over their cabbage soup,
"After the war everything will be
better" For next year and the year
after, and for all the years of the
vista of their lives, they see nc i'm
provement.
And TO this prospect their response
in the main has been resignation.
Labor soIidIy Organized.
This fatalism is the unknown fac
tor in the German political equation
and of prime Importance in an esti-
mate of Germany's business future.
German labor is the most soidly
organized political army in the world.
Fourteen million Germans belong TO
labor unions compared with some
thing more than four million in
America) and German unions for
decades have been political in nature
as well as economic. At the last
national elections the various Social
st parties polled nearly "A per cent.
Of the o6O00,0OO votes cast.
So when a reaction surges over
the country 1t is in spite Of the
strength, the quite obvious strength,
Of labor. No government could sur
vive If A per cent. Of its voters. and
these tho industrial and agricultural
workers. united to overthrow it. How
is it that Germany has not succumbed
TO Bolshevism?
One reason Is apparent. Bolshc-
vism has not convinced German labor
as whole primarily because it has
failed in Russia. Russia was an al
lurement while the soviet was en-
hanced by mystery, and the attend
ance Of the German independent So
cialists last summer at the Moscow
international ended spell. This ap-
pears true to-day. despite the conse-
quences of that congress, which left
Germany with the largest number of
communist voters Of any country in
the world. To be sure, these arc hy-
pothetical voters. In the independent
socialist referendum on the Moscow
issue considerably over 60 per cent.
voted for the Moscow faction. Were
the ratio applicable to national cleo
tion figures Of last year (Which is
only an assumption), this would
mean that 2,750.o00 socialists have
changed to communists. who. with the
The New York herald., 1921-03-09

! credible that monarch could be
restored which had its strength III 4
conscript army, and the general strike
during the Kapp putsch was a vivid
demonstration which may have taught
the conservatives a lesson. But if it
did not, and If they ever should be
in a position deliberately to provoke
the Entente to the point Of war they
would find labor united against them,
and aggressively so.
But the German labor movement,
aside from the communist wing
angulshes to-day in negatives. And
labor itself is duiled hy poverty and
disappointment. Habits of work are
reasserting themselves, even though
the work does not compensate n
lies within the bounds of possibility
that German labor viii wear the yoke
OF impoyerishment all through the
next years, as II has accepted it now.
1t might even be that the repara
tionS sum decided on in Paris can be
paid TO the Entente out of the differ
ence, represented in cash, between
the prewar standard OF life and the
present one Of German workers. Po
litically, labor has lost its courage,
and the initiative In Germany has re-
verted TO the men who are deter
mined not TO sacrifice the ownings
OF their class to pay a national debt.
The article Of this series to be pub
Hshed tomorrow tciH deal wiL
hriHg conditions dWoR9 the po9r.
The New York herald., 1921-03-09
Berlin Ignores Invasion
for Race Track Betting

RERLIN, March Z (delayed) -
Although all Germany knew
allied troops were about to
advance in German territory
throngs numbering many thou
sands gathered at the race track
here to-day for the opening Of
the season. Snow and cold
weather failed to keep them
away. Bets laid at the track on
the trotting races amounted to
100000 marks, and it was
stated that wagers placed down
town totalled an additional g.
100000 marks. A consignment
Of eleven thoroughbred trotting
mares from America was entered
for the days events. 1t was de-
clared at the track that all rec
ords for betting on the running
races had been eclipsed.
The New York herald., 1921-03-09
Not Separated by Dogma.

I
To-day the majority and indepen-
dent socialists are not separated by
dogma, but altogether by the spoiled
record Of the majority wing. The in
dependents have not compromised
with capitalism" that is the one
difference.
The two parties. after the reyou-
ton, stood before the people with a
theory of social organization which
appeared 10 many Germans 10 merit
the hope of a defeated and distracted
nation. 1t is too soon to sound the
death of socialism because of two
years of socialist failure. Political
Ideas are not eliminated so quickly
from millions of minds. But ii must
be said in truth that for most Ger
mans the aspirations for socialism
have either died or been deferred
An effort was made last fall and
this winter TO focus labor's ambition
upon socialization of the coal mines.
Two years ago the campaign, had it
been fought with rush, might have
been won and Parliament might have
been stampeded. But socialization is
not now an idea to conjure with in
Germany. Another idea is, namely,
money. The miners and the factory
workers want food and clothing, not
the transfer of title TO property. If
they had their money and could eat
and dress once more like the selves OF
peace times they might then turn
with some enthusiasm to weigh theo-
ries of social partnership. No one
tries now to tell the miners that
State owned mines mean immediate
higher wages, or to tell the factory
employees that they mean more work
o. better pay until much later time.
And it has penetrated the mind Of
the workers that Specialization NAV
possibly reduce production for the
present and so increase the cost Of
living. instead of bringing ouick. fan
gible benefits.
New View OF Specialization.
The mine operators have under
stood how 70 obstruct the labor cam
paign. The socialization commission
began its laborious studies after the
revolution; it brought in two reports
tRathenau and Lederer). Botn re.
ports were then tabled and a new
The New York herald., 1921-03-09
SOCIALIST ALDER DIsY.

The Socialist Aldermen introduced a
resolution yesterday calling upon the
Legislature and Congress 10 take steps
for the opening of trade relations with
Soviet Russia. The resolution covered
other Socialistic proposals and under
took to have the Board OF Aldermen
urge tine workers of the city OF New
York 10 perfect and strengthen their or
ganization as the most effective means
OF protecting their interest as members
OF the working class" The resolution
was referred to the committee on gen.
eral welfare.
The New York herald., 1921-03-09
WALES IN GLASGOW;
UNEMPLOYED PARADE
Prince Declines Public Din
ner, Which Labor Opposed.

GLASGOW, March S.--The Prince or
Wales. who is visiting Glasgow. to-day
was accorded an enthusiastic reception
During the day there was parade or
unemployed. who carried banners with
such notices as "We want tho 1914
Prices and The Prince Has Refused
Our Dinner. We have No Option" The
last inscription referred to the Prince
having declined 70 attend a public dinner
II his honor owing to opposition bv tho
Iaborites IN the Town Council 10 tho a.
pcnditurc Of funds FOR such function
despatch from London February -
said the Laborite members II the Town
council Of Glasgow condemned tbo
spending Of public money on tho feast
ing Of royalty when hundreds or fam.
lilies were starving.
The New York herald., 1921-03-09

commission named. Eventually two
more reports were made, and then
the majority or SHINES report was
committed for revision to an enlarged
commission. During these manmn-
vres the conception of socialization as
a panacea had changed. Not long
ago twelve unions in Ruhr. impatient
over the delay in realizing seciuliza
ton. instructed their leaders to draw
up individually twelve projects. Only
three reports were made. and these
did not pertain 10 socialization but
70 the general political and economic
troubles Of labor The large Cath
Ollie unions IN tho Ruhr are officially
only iukewarm for socialization, and
openly deplore its becoming polit-
ical issue instead Of a scientific evolu-
ton.
And yet specialization is kept as the
one constructive measure Of German
socialist dogma, though the rank and
file have lost faith in its urgency.
And German labor leaders. in COM
parison with theorists in other eoun.
tries, have worked out faulty de-
vice. Their plan for specialization is
IN the main mere transcription Of
MARKHAM dialecticS with utter disre-
gard for social psychology and the
modern industrial horizon.
Issues Born of Reaction.
So Social-Democrati parties are
revertins to their former function Of
oppositionism. Here they apparently
have an active work to do. The rise
OF the reaction brings issues before
the country on which labor has con
else and uncompromising views. the
traditional monarchy, the repeal of
the eight hour law and reputation OF
the peace treaty.
The eight nour day, one OF the few
important victories Of the socialist
coalition regime might be temporarily
modified with labor's consent under
special circumstances. but there IS no
mood TO reinquish 1t as a bill OF
rights. The employers. on the other
hand, have no shrift for the law and
insist on its abolition. IF Germany
Is TO regain her place IN the world"
the manufacturer will say, "labor
must go back TO work on the former
schedule" But here the Socialist
parties arc certain to regain. prestige
and to keep as special advocates Of
labor claims the support they forfeit
ed as fundamental reformcrs.
Militarism is 50 intensely obnox
ious to German labor that it is in
The New York herald., 1921-03-09
R.n. READY roR TIME CHANGES

The Long Island Railroad Company
will accommodate itself to whatever dis
position is made IN regard 10 daylight
saving by the city or State govern
ments, it was announced yesterday. II
a form of daylight saving Is put into
effect in this city, either clocks or
schedules will be changed in conformity
with the plan. Last year clocks were
changed
The New York herald., 1921-03-09

lie wanted certain sort OF job and lie
wouldn't take the first thing that came
along. lie carefully wrote 2 Situation
Wanted Ad. and put II In The Herald. Hes
r,.c Il
The New York herald., 1921-03-09

wage increase, no general welfare
had resulted from German labor's
first experiment in ministerial re-
sponsibility.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-02-18

menian children have. except as she
avails herself OF the organized assist
ance OF native Armenian women, I'm
caring for this large family.
"In the hospital mt Kars I found
1.150 beds. which. the day / was there,
were occupied by 1,26S patients, Il
frequently being necessary to put two
or more children In single bed At
AlexandropoI we have In one hospital,
or group OF hospital buildings, 1850
trachoma patients. At Ksraklis. forty
miles east of Alexandropol we have
m orphanage devoted exclusively to
the care and training Of the blind
children At DelIjan we have another
orphanage, located On q mountain side,
for the care Of tubercular children,
this segregation being as much for
the welfare Of the healthy children I'm
the orphanages m for the care of the
unfortunate consumptiyes. AT Erivan
we formerly had fwenty-six distinct
erphanages. though they have now
been reduced and consolidated to
seven In number There are some
thing more than 1000 orphans In the
region Of Harpout."
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-02-18

A devoted couple. married a short
time ago. took up their abode in a
dainty cottage in a suburban quarter
Everything In the house was the lat
est and gave unnIixed satisfaction.
But one evening when the husband
returned he found, to his disgust, that
water pipe had hurst. The rooms
were flooded and the carpets. which
were the husbands special pride, were
in danger of being spoiled.
"Well. WELL" said he impatiently to
his wife, why on earth didn't you
hammer the pipe up! Here. give me
a hammer and I'll do it In a twink
ling"
He got the hammer and pounded
away at pipe down in the cellar.
When he had finished he paused to
examine the result of his labor. Then.
to his complete chagrin. he heard the
sweetly Gliding voice of his wife at
the top OF the stairs.
"Howard!r said she. ''the gas has
gone out, and the water is still run
ning.'
Then he sent for plumber.-An-
swers.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-02-18
Unfortunate Apology.

A certain editor of country news
paper In Kansas was asked to leave
the community as the result of typo
graphical error I'm his report OF the
wedding of the mayors daughter, re-
lates Pep. After exhausting his sup
ply Of large words about the "blush-
ing BRIDE" he had said: 'sThe large
elaborate bouquets of roses were
punk"
The mayor demanded correction
and apology I'm the next weeks issue,
all of which the editor was glad to
promise. The next issue contained:
'We wish to apologize for the man
ner in which we disgraced the beauti-
full wedding last week. Through an
error of the typesetter we were made
to say 'the roses were punk What
we wanted TO say was the noses were
pink Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-02-18

than billions of dollars spent later In
suppressing international warfare and
strife"
Mr.. vickrey considers the need In
the, Near East and especially In Ar
menia greater than anywhere else In
the world. because, as he says, "In the
countries of Central Europe there are
going governments which have merely
been temporarily impoverished by war.
In the Near East. on the other hand,
there is no such thing as stable gov
eminent, The whole fabric Of the
state has to be created from. the be-
ginning, and the innocent and help
less children have TO be trained TO the
responsibilities OF future citizenship.
Peace in the Near East and, in great
measure, throughout the world, will
depend very largely on the character
OF the. citizenship of the peoples Of the
Near East" s.
Irresistible Appeal OF Orphans.
Describing the orphanage work OF
the Near East Relief In the Armenian
Republic, Mr.. yickrey said:
1--WE have at Alexandropoi In the
Caucasus, one orphanage where there
are approximately 10000 homeless
children, fatherless or motherless,
many OF them having no known living
relative. Some OF them do not even
know their own names, or the place of
their birth. They have shown wonder
tai recuperative powers. and to see
them, play their kindergarten or other
games under the direction Of our Ameri-
can relief workers, one could never be-
lieve that they had passed through
the years Of suffering. that most or
them have experienced since they, or
their parents, were driven from their
homes in Central Turkey ave years
ago.
FOR the accommodation OF these or
phans there are sixty splendid stone
buildings. erected as barracks for the
Russian army. These buildings are
now given to us by the Armenian gov
eminent for period OF ten years and
lend themselves admirably to relief
purposes.
"This orphanage at Alexandropol Is
but one of the 229 orphanages that the
Near East Relief Is now operating In
various parts OF the Caucasus, Anato-
liza. Cilicia, Syria and the Constants
nople Straits area.
Thirty miles from Alexandropol, at
Kars, there Is another group Of Rus
sian army barracks, which were given
Us by the Armenian government for
relief purposes. was going through
the dormitories OF this orphanage at
Kars when the young American col
lege girl in charge turned to me and
said: Mr.. Vickrey, 1t sometimes makes
me feel just little older than Me-
thuselah to be called Mother" by
5000 of those Armenian children.
And that is exactly what she was
the only mother that these 5000 Ar
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-02-18
MANS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
Writer Denounees the life Imprison-
ment" Which Confinement In Zoo
logical Garden Means.

"Purely as a matter of ethics, aboli-
tion is the ultimate logic Of all ZOO
logical gardens" Such is the opinion
of writer in the Nation of London.
animals have committed no crimes
against the community" he says. land
therefore the community has no right
whatever to give them life sentences
of imprisonment" A very few of the
larger animals, he admits, may affect
human life injuriously. but they form
an infinitesimal portion of the inhabi-
tants of geological garden. On the
other hand, it is argued that we never
thought of combining those animals be-
lieyed to,be the most injurious, namely
insects-and therefore it is plain that
'the punishment does not fit the
crime"
Even if 1t were granted that animals
are happier in captivity than in their
native wilds, this can only be meant
relatively, for though protected and
cared for. animals in captivity are de-
MED the primal joys of liberty and fit
ness to environment, among such jobs
being their power of exercising their
suppleness of body or strength of wing
In graceful movements, and not least
of all joys, the power of satisfying
their continual curiosity.
Much has been done for animals, and
much more might be done for the wild
birds. For the eagles, hawks. condors
and yultures the writer feels that
nothing can be done. He quotes from
that great lover of birds, w. w Hud-
SON, to whom the sight of any bird in
cage, be 1t robin redbreast or bird
unknown TO William Blake, literally
sets him in a rage. He has some
where described sermon he heard on
genius, in which the preacher likened
the life of the ordinary person to that
of the canary in its cage. But of the
genius-"A cloud came over his (the
preacher's) majestic features, he drew
himself up and swayed his body from
side to side. and shook his black gown
and lifted his arms as a great bird
lifts its plumed homologues. and let
them fall again two or three times, and
then said in deep measured tones
which seemed to express rage and de-
spair-'But did you ever see the eagle
in his eager
The brooding hopeless gaze of those
stern eyes offers only one solution to
the aquiline problem, the keys of the
city of the air.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-02-18
CHILD SAVING WORK
IN ARMENIA TOLD
BY AN AMERICAN
Charles v. vickrey Gives Facts
of Near East Relief Pro-
gram for Orphans.

Charles Y. Vickrey, general secre-
tary Of the Near East Relief, has re-
turned from a trip Of inspection
throughout Central Europe and the
Near East, and made a report to the
trustees of the Near East Relief In
which he covers In detail the actual
work Of child saving now being con-
Quoted by the great American relief
organization In the Near East. Mr..
vickrey believes that "a few millions
0f dollars wisely expended at this time
I'm the education of the children of
the Near East, In character building
and In moulding these young lives,
win be worth vastly more to the world