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The New York herald., 1921-05-02

In order to carry other traffic below the
cost OF doing the business. In other
words a merchant is a free agent; a
railway is not.
THE New YORK HERALD Is right when
1t says there is nothing to do to re-
lieve the present railway situation "but
to cut war time wages" When these
are cut not 10 or 15 per cent but 80
to 10 per cent, 1t will be In order to
cut and readjust rates.
With operating expenses equalling rev.
enucs and wages engrossing over so per
cent. Of those revenues; with taxes
mounting up to over $500, 000, 900 a year;
with 100. 900, 600 Americans resolved not
70 indulge In their customary wasteful-
ness, there Is absolutely no way out ex-
cept by the door you have indicated.
and the cut In wages must precede any
possible cut In rates. except in minor
adjustments which the Interstate Com
merce Commission will doubtless order
IN due time. SLAsoN THOMPSON.
CHICAGO, April 30.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02

Annual meeting. General Society, Daugh-
ters OF the Revolution, Hotel McAlpin, all
The new transit commission win hold It's
first hearing on an application for increased
chester Railway, 23o p. NJ
:, Opening of the new Cunard Building. %
West End Association meeting Hotel An
sonia, $3.50 P. NJ.
Meeting. Medical Society of the state of
& kings eaa County MeGen soeey ss
1918 Bedford avenue. Brooklyn, 10 A. NJ and
r. NJ; banquet 7. NJ. Hotel Bossert.
Asaeeta Meettlnss Womens Whist League. Waldorf
Helen Marot will speak on What Is Hap
womens Trade Union League. I East FIJI
teenth street. s p. NJ.
Meeting, Eishty-second Division Association
Of New York. sixty-ninth Regiment Armory.
Meeting. New York Academy of Sciences.
american Museum of Natural History. s:lb
The Peoples Liberty Chorus will sing and
Troop 80. Boy Scouts. win give an exhibit
Allen McCurdy and Ivy Lee will debate
public ownership Of railroads before the Com
mittee I OF Forty-eight, Is East Fort'eth
Health Exhibit. Twenty-third Regiment Ar
ers and Trees of Spring." American Museum
OF Natural History, 3: 80 p. M.
sorosis social and luncheon, Waidorf-As-
st. Johns Guild benefit bridge. Waldorf
Astoria, p. M.
Government Club meeting. Hotel Astor. 9
p. VI.
Foster Mothers Association meeting. Hota
Astor, r. NJ.
Friendly Sons Of ST. Patrick meeting.
Hotel Astor s p. NJ.
Fellowcraft Club. Dirigo Lodge, F.. and A.
NJ, supper and dance. IL 10 p. M.
Architectural League of New York exhibi-
ton Metropolitan Museum OF Art. all day.
Exhibit of electric signs viii open at tho
New York Edison Company's Irving place
show rooms and continue through the week.
Alice T. Coseo will talk for high school
classes Colonial Life" Mt the Metro
politan Museum Of Art p. M.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
MONDAY. MAY 2. 1921.
The Public on This May Day.

On this official May Day, 1921, a
man who Is fortunate enough to have
a job but deliberately throws 1t away
by going on strike when between
100000 and 100000 wage earners
already are out of work because there
is no work for them to do will not
take long to realize the truth of the
horse sense warning sounded by the
Secretary of the United States Labor
Department. This warning is "The
public is on strike"
The American public Is on strike
against being made the victim of any
body's greed, organized or morgan
lied. The public is on strike against
the manufacturer or merchant that
demands more for his commodity
than 1t Is worth to the public. 1t Is
on strike against the railroad that
collects more for its service than 1t is
worth to the public. 1t is on strike
against the labor that exacts more
for its work than 1t Is worth to the
public.
Steel or lumber, coal or oil, food or
clothing, transportation or amuse-
ment. the public is going to hold Its
consumption down to the minimum
wherever the cost is too high to suit
its purse and satisfy its sense of what
is right. This means the public is
going to put excessive wages down
because excessive wages are now at
the bottom Of every excessive cost.
The public is going to fight 1t out on
this line If it takes lifetime.
When It is good business as well
as good patriotism for every worker.
every producer and every distributor
TO get down the cost of everything
to q normal level where the public
can and will consume again In nor
NAL quantity the man who goes his
own way, taking no heed of the in
exorable economic laws and of the
unbendlng public's temper, is on a
fools errand.
When there Is absolutely nothing
for anybody to do, whether a special
labor group or special capital group,
except to meet this situation with
lower production costs, so that there
can be lower prices TO the public,
May Day labor strikes started TO
keep up excessive wages, and costs
In defiance Of the American publlcs
strike against excessive wages and
costs are not Industrial campaigns; (;
they are ssicide parties.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
Bazaar for French Charity.

Members of LIE Cercle Rochambeau
Will continue through the hours of this
afternoon and tonight in the Bucking-
ham Hotel a bazaar they started last
Saturday. Singing by Mile. Yvonne
Garrick Is to be feature of this
afternoons programme. The income
will be used in extending the charitable
projects OF Nine. Foch in France.
among those serving at the various
tooths are Mrs. T. Y. Doubleday, Mrs.
John j. Carter Mrs. Z. c. Savidge,
Mrs. Lincoln Cromwell, Mrs. Charles 7.
Dillingham;, Mrs. Nathan Seeley, Mrs.
f. L. Eldridge, Mrs. James McDougall.
Mrs. John A. Mitchell. Mrs. William
Emerson Peck. Miss Elizabeth Bowen,
Mrs. William Adams Kissam, Mrs. John
r. Macarthur, Miss Edith Kendall, Mrs.
Ashton C. Clarkson. Mrs. John M Shedd
and Mrs. John Larkin.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
A Last Drive for the Starving.

The Americans who gave to feed
the famine districts of China a month
or two ago will be glad to know that
their money Is gone, spent, eaten up.
There Is nothing to show for 1t but
millions of Chinese who without
American aid would have died and
who are alive and grateful. The
money that went from here bought
grain and the grain was devoured,
and the people who got it still live,
work and hope.
So much for the past. The pres
ent and the immediate future are
even more important. The grain
which American money bought Is
practically exhausted, and Ii will be
six weeks before the grain crop of
China is harvested. Meanwhile the
starving cannot live on leaves, greens
and bark, for the simple yet startling
reason that they have eaten about
all Of that stuff in sight!
Now Americans are asked to keep
the hungry Chinese provinces alive
until the middle OF June. If they
are kept going these six weeks they
win have food from their own fields.
The office of the China Famine Fund,
to which checks may be sent, is Bible
House, Astor place, New York.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
Consider Spinach.

Should you like to be in the spin
ach business for a living-raising
spinach?
Down in Texas the farmer who
grows the spinach sells it for ship
ment to Chicago, says the Railioay
Age, at $5 a ton. The cost of shipping
it TO Chicago is 3066-only six times
as much to the railroad for hauling
it as the farmer gets for raising 1t!
But there is more yet to this tale
of what there Is In the spinach busi-
ness-raising spinach. There is some
thing also as to what there is in
eating spinach.
The spinach that brings the Texas
farmer IS ton and brings the rail-
road that hauls it to the Chicago
market $3066 a ton lands on the
dinner table of the Chicago spinach
eater at $500 a ton.
And that, as anybody can see at a
glance, is only sixty times the So a
ton the Texas farmer gets for his
spinach as 1t starts on its journey to
$500 a toni
Yes, consider spinach. Consider
also the spinach grower who does
not get anything for it. Especially
consider the public against whose
pocket the price of the spinach multi
plies sixty times on the way from the
farm to the retail delivery wagon.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
IStandardizing Place Names.

The Royal Geographical Society,
whose efforts 10 standardize the spell
ing and pronunciation Of geographical
names have been referred 10 In
THE NEW YORK HERALD, has Just
issued a list Of names. mostly OF
European towns and cities, as the first
fruits of its endeavors. The society
has been assisted In its work of sim
plification from many sources; Swe-
den and Holland have officially
adopted new spellings which, 1t Is
confidently expected, VIII remove
many difficulties now encountered by
geographers, sailors and merchants,
and in the new States of central
Europe many place names have been
altered on account OF the change in
official language.
Danzig Is to be pronounced as
nearly as possible ms II looks; the
Poles may call It Gdansk and the
Lithuanians Giedainys, but the rest
OF the world Is not to write IL Dant-
sic or Dantzlg, but simply Danzig.
The accepted name for s. III. S.--the
abbreviation for the kingdom Of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes--ls to be
in the future Yugoslavla. not Yougo-
siavia or Jugo- Slavla.
Strasbourg will be- the designation
OF the Alsatian capital; the German
s.rassburg or Strasburg has passed.
Constantinople remains MS In the past
lit may still be TO the Turks Istan-
bul. but II is not spelled Stamboul--
It will not be Latin Byzantlum, Greek
Konstantinoupolis or Bulgarian Tsar'
grad There Is a tendency also to
adopt the shortest word and the sim.
plest spelling; the southern Albanian
town IL Valona, not Vallona or Av.
Iona the Russian town and the prov.
ince are Kiey, not Klyef or Kieff, and
the gulf off the southern coast <of
France is not to be Golfo de Leon but
the Gulf Of Lions.
The Royal Geographical Society
bns really done the best that II possibly
could to help future generations Of
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
Richard Strauss Coming 10 America
Famous Composer to Appear Here as Conductor and
Pianist in Series of Concerts in Autumn.

Richard Strauss, composer, conductor
and pianist. win appear in concert in
the Metropolitan Opera House next au-
:umn under the auspices OF the Inter-
national Concert Direction, Inc, ac-
cording to an announcement made yes
terday by Milton Diamond, It's director.
The composer viii come 70 America in
October, and VIII remain in this coun-
try FOR three months, appearing in
many OF the leading cities east of st.
Louis.
The last appearance OF Mr.. Strauss
In this country was In 1904. when prac-
tically all his symphonic works were
produced under his own baton by the
Wefzler Symphony Orchestra at a
.Strauss festival given in Carnegie Hall.
Since then he has appeared in almost
every large city In Europe.
Mr.. Diamond said Mr.. Strauss will
conduct series OF orchestral concerts,
Trree 10 be given at the Metropolitan
Opera House and series of Strauss
evenings. at which performance he will
be assisted by some noted singer. At
these performances Mr.. Strauss will ap-
pear at the piano.
Mr.. Strauss. who has conducted some
OF the greatest orchestras in Europe,
raS written numerous symphonies,
operas and selections for nearly every
Instrument. Among his best known and
froat beautiful songs are "Standchen."
and "Traum durch die Dammerung." OF
his operas Der Rosenkavallier." pro-
duced az the Metropolitan Opera House
several years ago. and "ElelStra" are
well known here. He Is the composer
81 ''Saloma." presented several times by
Mary Garden
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
Nationwide Good Health.

In the first sixteen weeks of 1921
there were 22,996 deaths in New
York city, which give a mortality
rate of 1903 TO the thousand Of popu-
lation in the city, against 81 AGA
deaths in the corresponding weeks
of 1920, which gave rate Of 1911
to the thousand. This period In
1920 covered the extremely cold
weather Of that year, when there was
recurrence of influenza which ad-
versely Influenced the health of the
community. This year we enjoyed
an open winter, having practically
no cold snaps and only one snow
storm Of consequence.
The winter season this year was,
In fact, abnormally mild for this lati-
tude, and many persons believed that
1t must consequently be unhealthful.
This opinion is contradlcted by the
mortality rate. This rate also con-
tradicts the wild statements which
have, been made about malnutrition
of babies and adults In New York.
statements, we are glad to say, this
newspaper has had the pleasure of
denying from the beginning.
The death rate of 1903 for the
first sixteen weeks Of 1921 Is lower
than the annual death rate ever has
been In the United States registra-
ton area. The best record made In
that area was in 1915, when the fig
ure reached 1875 to the thousand of
population.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company In its Statistical Bulletin
for April reports the death rate
among It's policy holders for the first
quarter of 1921 as the ''lowest re-
corded in the experience Of the COM
pany for the first three months Of any
year" From this 1t appears that tho
country generally Is enjoying good
health along with New York city.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
Rossini's Funeral.
Famous Singers Heard in the Musical
Part Of the Services.

To THE NEW York HERALD: II was a
pleasure 20 read Mrs. Emma II. Eames's 5
letter giving personal recollections OF the
eminent contralto Alboni but / think
she Is mistaken when she speaks of
RossinI's funeral having taken place at
the Madeleine in Paris.
Ii had been intended to hold the SER
vice il that building. In fact, the body
was embalmod and deposited In the
vaults with probably some ceremony, but
the actual obseQuies occurred a few days
later in the then new Church of La
Trinite. In the Rue de la Chaussee-
d'Antin--off the Boulevard des Capucines
the street in which the composer had
lived for many years.
Among the famous singers who par
ticipated IN the musical portion of the
service, ia addition TO Adelina Patti and
Alboni, were the following:
sopranos--christine Nilsson. who sang
the "vldit suum dulcem Natum," from
rerrolesi's "stabat Mater" Gabrielle
krausa, Mioian-carvalho. the original
Marguerite In Faust
Contralto-Cariotta Crossl.
Tenors-Duprez. Gardoni. Victor Ca
puul.
narytones-Tamburini Faure, Agnesl.
An ~ these. with several others whose
names are unfamiliar 70 the present
gcntration. and the pupils OF the Con-
scrvatoire united tholr voices I'm the
prayer from the composers Moses in
Egypt" with thrilling effect. No won
der that. a. Mrs. Eanes relates, the
event was stlil talked OF years after.
! have read % only one other funeral
~ which such an extraordinary aggre-
9ation ~ musical celebrities was assem-
blcd This was at the Italian church
% ~ Anseimo In London on the occa-
aion 81 tho obsequies OF Giuila Grisrs
sister Those who sang In the requiem
mass Included the famous quartet OF
sii.Eare soF whom nelliul wrote his opera
II pufitanl" Grisi. Eubini. Tamburini
and Labiache also Perrlani. the origina,
Lmcia a Lammcrm0or I'm Doniyetti's
opera, ard other distinguished artists.
Ngw YoEK, April 90 A.E.G.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York--Overcaff 20
day. tomorrow continued cool. Frceh
north winds.
For New Jersey Overcast to-day. cr~-
tinued cooy tomorrow; fnsh northsrly
winds.
For Northern New Engiand-Fair to-day
ana tomorrow; no change IN Temperature
fresh northerly winds.
For Southern New Engand-OyeraN n L.
day; continued cool tomorrow. fresh arf
strong northerly winds
For Western New Nork-Oxercaat to-day.
fair Tomorrow; continued cool fresh north
erly winds.
WASHINGTON. May ia disturbance og
considerable intensity was central SUNDAY
niEht some distance off the middle A.
'antic coast, and apparently moving slowly
astward. To-day II was attended by gales
or the middle Atlantic and south New
New England and the middle Atlantic Statcs
storm warnings were ordered Sunday morn
iLg Tor the south New England and middle
Atlantic coasts
The pressure Is abnormally high over he
north plains States and low west az the
Rocky Mountains. In addition 10 the pre-
cipitation caused by the Atlantic coast storm
there have been rains within the last twenty.
four hours In the Mississippi and lower
missouri valleys, Texas and on the north
Pacific coast.
Temperatures remain much below the
normal generally east OF the Rocky Noun
tains, while warmer weather has apDea rcd
over the Far Northwest. The outlook ls FOR
cool and generally fair weather. but with
considerable cloudiness Monday and Tuesday
east OF the Mississippi River.
Observations at United States Weather
bufehu stations, taken at p. NJ. yesterday
seNehty-tiIth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1921-05-02

sat beside their mammles on the far
curbing'
In recent years the Metropolitan
Opera Company has made only one
long spring fiight, and that q A.
lanta. During Mr. GRAu's manage
ment the company twice went ~ far
west as Kansas City, where the whole
Southwest gathered at the great audi.
torium In which one national Demo.
cratic convention and many state
conventions have been held. and H.
tened with consuming Interest H. the
DE REszKEs, ScHuMANN- -HElNK,
EAAfEs and PIANCoN.
This field Is now covered ny the
Chicago Grand Opera Company, which
this year travelled TO the Pacinc
coast. As an evidence OF the eager
ness OF the Western coast for opera.
the San Fancisco Chrosicle reports
that 5000 persons heard '"rhaIs" and
that the receipts Of the nights per
formance were s29.5TT. The rnaran-
tee OF S250,0o0 for the seasons en-
gaGements was assured before L was
half finished. on It's way back 10
Chicago the company VII stop In
Denver and several other cities, who're
heavy advance sales OF seats have
already been made.
Atlanta has as "A rule been tinan-
cially successful with her opera sea.
sons Last year the paid admissions
represented $l34,000, which ID was
then said was "the largest amount
ever taken In for seven consecutive
operas in any season--the worlds
most renowned music centres not ex-
cepted." Possibly this Is the fact
possibly it Is an expression of local
pride, as is also the statement that
In Atlanta assemble "the largest
grand opera audiences In the world"
Atlanta, however, Il justified In her
pride in her opera season and In the
fact that she has built up an lnstitu-
ton so enjoyable in itself and SO far
reaching In Its effect upon the devel-
opment of good music.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
Thieves Carried Away Church Beli.

From the london Tincs.
Al time when such large percentage
OF French criminals are specializing ln
thefts Of jewelry, pockctbookr and the
more easily portable iuxuries Of life. Il IL
almost refreshing 20 hear Of such origi-
nality as was shown BY tho ruffians who
devoted their attention to stealing church
bell Weighing one and half tons Last
night considerable force OF motor bandits
entered the ruins OF Essars Church. near
Lilie. and succeeded In hauling out huge
bell and placing u upon their iorry. They
were surprised in the act by the night
watchrnan. who made an attempt 70 resist
the removal OF the bell but was bludgeoned
BY the bandits, who got clean away.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
The Dutch have taken Djambi.
white Sails.

To-day | took the Maytlmc mountain
trail.
Where fragile fern fronds hid dead
leaf and mould.
And where pale trilllums with hearts
Of gold
Were az wan novlces ere they don the
veil;
Then sudden DER me seemed to spread
Gail,
A baruue with canvas loosened fold
on fold.
Transported from far ocean ways un-
told.
Its jibs and gallants dipping 10 the gale.
Then All the greenery was as n sea
That ran and rimpled underneath the
sun:
a pine tree was the tall main mast.
and now
thought OF distant ports that might
be won,
The Blessed isles. the wharves Of Faery.
Through those white sails upon the
dogwood bough.
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02

boys and girls in their geographical
studies. But when Ii came TO Pre-
mysl il threw up its hands and
printed pronunciation as puzzling
as the name itself-Pzhemishl.
Neither has II relented on the name
of the Polish Pittsburgh. Lodz. There
Is nothing else TO do, as We previously
opined, when you come TO that COM
bination OF letters but TO struggle to
utter something that sounds like
Wudsh (nearly) and have pencil and
paper at hand TO enlighten your
hearer as to your meaning.
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
The Railroad Situation.
A Denial That the Present Rates
Caused Depression in Business.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Edgar
Gengenbachs whole article. discussed by
you on April n. starts from the false
assumption that the present rate scale
Il responsible for the present business
depression. that IL is circumscribing
the markets. throwing thousands out Of
work" &c.. when the railways are the
victims not the causes Of the depression
but Of the refusal ~ the consuming
public 70 continue tho orgy OF heavy
buying OF goods al boom prices.
Mr.. Gengenhach ignores the fact that
neither the price nor tho movement Of
the products OF agriculture has ever been
advanced or depressed by railway
freight rates. This Is roughly confirmed
b. the following statement Of prices and
freight charges over a period OF twenty
years:
The New York herald., 1921-05-02
Remington's Ire Stirred.
We Favored Jail for q Man Who
Neyed an Old Stone Wall.

TO Tmr Nrw gorK HERALD: About
1889 I owned a tract ~ land at Webster
and Winvab avenues. New Rochelle on
which was an English Gothic house. be-
ing aue n several built many years ago
~ the late Col Richard Lathers l had
~ tenant for seven years the author
John Mabberton.
Wishing 10 modcrnize both the house
ana grounds ! began TO make aitera-
tons. Once. when ! was visiting the
property % snperintend the work then IN
progress = stranger came up 70 me and
remarked
- understand that you are the owner
~ this property. well sir. n ] had my
ssy | woald Ike 10 send you % JAIN"
The stranger turned out to be Fred
eric Remington. tho artist Naturally
VAS taken attack and could not at first
grasp the reason of the strangers re-
MARKS but ! soon was made aware OF
his views IN tho matter. lie particu-
larry objected - the removal of an ugly
stone wall 1 had supposed that was
beantifyinK the property and would re-
eeive the conamendasion ~ the residents
- that locality FOR the change. II
seems. however tlsaf AR. Remington had
chosen that particular section As a
place ~ residence because it was 70 re-
tired and rustic looking
Afterward we became very friendly
and Mr.. Remington invited me 10 his
studio. where haa the pleasure Of Sec
ing hiM wonderful tr0phie& Later.
owing % tho neighborhood becoming too
much civilized. Mc Remington moved
out of town. FRH.
NEw Y0Rx. April -.