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The New York herald., 1921-08-18
The June Vital Statistics.
A Satisfactory Record in the History
OF New York City.

From the Health Department Bulletin.
There were 1927 deaths and a rate
of 10.43 reported during the month just
closed, as compared with 1853 deaths
and a rate of 9.64 in the corresponding
month of 1920. an increase in the alb
solute number of deaths of 43 and in
the rate Of 10 of a point.
This increase in the mortality was
due to an increase of deaths in the
number reported from typhoid fever,
II deaths from scarlet fever, 10 deaths
from whooping cough, 67 deaths from
cancer. 102 deaths from organic heart
disease. "a deaths from congenital de-
bility and malformations.
A much fairer comparison would be
to compare the mortality of June, 1921,
with the average mortality of the
same month during the preceding five
years. If such comparison be made
the month OF June. 1921, will show a
much more favorable mortality record
than the comparison with the individual
month of June. 1920. AS compared
with the quinquennal average there
were 610 less deaths from all causes,
of which the principal decreases were as
follows: Measles SO. whooping cough
IL, diphtheria "a. poliomyelitis Is,
pulmonary tuberculosis 202, other forms
OF tuberculosis 81. acute respiratory
diseases 204-that is, acute bronchitis,
iobar pneumonia and broncho pneu-
monia-diarrh9al diseases of children
under years of age Is. cirrhosis of the
liver 23. Brights disease and acute
nephritis las, violent deaths 40. The
few causes that showed any material
Increase were: Scarlet fever Is, cancer
63, organic heart disease 6s, appendl-
citis 1s. congenltal debility and mall
formations 4s.
There were 1o4 fewer deaths under /
year Of age ; between and 2 years, 9s
fewer deaths, and between and
years OF age Sc fewer deaths: between
and s5 years of age there were 364
fewer deaths. The only age group that
showed an increased mortality was that
OF IS and over. the increase having
been IL.
The number OF births reported dur
ing the month was 11,457, as compared
with 1880, a decrease OF 353; there
were 7.035 marriages reported during
the month. as compared with 9,36s In
the corresponding month OF 1920, n de-
crease of 2,33S; there were 159 deaths
OF non-residents of the city record ed,
which IL deducted would give death
rate for the city of 1000 per 1000 of
the population.
There were s.770 cases of infectious
diseases reported during the month, as
compared with 1884 in the correspond
ing month of 1920. decrease OF 764.
Typhoid fever showed a decrease of 10
cases. measles decrease of 935 cases.
pulmonary tuberculosis decrease of 92f
cases. There were 8 cases of typhus fever
reported during the month, as compared
with l; 81 cases OF malaria, as com
pared with San increase of 10: scar
let fever showed an increase OF ATS.
whooping cough an increase of 10. dfph-
theria and Group an increase of 142.
The minor infectious diseases mumps.
German measles and chiclxenpox, showed
considerable increases: influenza OF 15
cases and tho pneumonias an Increase
OF 1875 cases.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
Pennsylvania Strike Record.

Pennsylvania has been footing up
the cost OF her labor strikes during
the first six months OF the current
year. The totals run into imposing
figures.
With only half OF the year gone
wage earners OF the Keystone State
have deliberately imposed upon them
selves a money loss Of s26.413,305.
This is an average of nearly s4,500.-
600 a month; of over $1,000,000 n
week; OF close to $4,000 a day. In
the same interval the Pennsylvania
strikers have imposed upon their
State and country a loss OF the out
put value OF 4,1S6,031 work days.
All this precious time Is gone---a
dead loss. 1t would take 1000 men
over thirteen years to make 1t up.
If 1t were a one man Job and the man
had tackled It in 5S4 he would now
Just begin to think about knocking
off and turning in his 1887 years
time charge.
More than $26.00o,000 lost in
wages; more than thirteen centuries
lost in time: this Is the record with
which Pennsylvania organized labor
strikers turn the second quarter Of
1921 and start in toward the home
stretch. With only a six months
start II already beats any full oalen-
dar year record since the State Board
Of Mediation and Arbitration was es-
tablished in 1916. The loss In wages
and time listed is just about equal to
the entire corresponding losses In the
years 1919 and 1920 combined.
But these are only the direct, the
measurable strike losses. The time
and the money lost from crippled in
terlocking industries: the money re-
serve resources OF wage earners ex-
hausted by those invoiuntarily. as
well as voluntarily. out Of work In
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
AS the Scientist Sees It.

To the innumerable caravan OF
modern valetudinarians who are
worrying all the time about what
they had better eat and drink 1t Is
well known that protein Is one OF
the most important elements Of hui
man diet. The proteins have been
well described as complex nitrog-
enous substances found in meat,
milk, eggs, cereals and plant tissues"
Nitrogen is the characteristic con-
stituent OF protein. 1t Is essential to
the healthy nutrition of man not
only that he should take in sufficient
quantity OF protein but that 1t should
be of the right quality. Chemists
have classified proteins for practical
purposes into good and bad proteins;
thus they have ascertained that the
food value of meat, on account Of the
protein 1t contains, Is three times as
much as that Of cornmeal.
Just now, when the alleged preva-
lence OF pellagra in the South Is caus-
ing so much anxiety, there appears in
the English scientific journal Nature
a paper recently read before the Lon
don Institution by DR.. r. II. A.
PLIMMER on "The Quality Of Protein
in Nutrition" The author cites many
facts which he says clearly point to
the diet of the sufferers as the con-
trolling factor in the cause and pre-
vention OF the disease. THE deter
mining factor" he concludes, Seems
20 be the quality of the protein"
DR.. PLIMMER makes remark about
cannibalism which is only incidental
and by way OF illustration but is
none the less astonishing to the lay
reader. Chemical analysis has shown
that proteins are largely made UP of
amino-acids, upon which their nu.
tritive value depends. Referring to
this fact the lecturer says:
"Cannibalism is the most economi-
cal method of protein nutrition, as
the amino-acids OF the food are in
the exact proportion required by the
tissues. The nearest parallel to this
Is the nursing OF the young animal
by its mother the child actually gets
the protein OF the mammary glands"
According to this view, the best
cure for dyspeptics would be to eat
one another.
Will wonders never end?
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
STADIUM CONCERTS CLOSE.

The last OF the Stadium concerts
for tho season took place last night not
In the Stadium but in the great hall OF
City College because of the rain. 1t
was only tho sixth time though In six
weeks that the weather man was un-
kind, so there were no complaints.
About 2.400 enjoyed the final pro-
gramme indoors. Miss Mary Jordan,
contralto. was the soloist. singing arias
from lie Prophete' and Samson and
Delilah." The orchestra, under Victor
Herbert. played music by Dvorak. wag-
ner and others.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
Camorra and Bootlegging.
Injustice to Many Italians Based
on the Misdeeds Of a Few.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Refer
ring to the account printed In your
paper OF the various recent homicides
among Italians in New York which the
police ascribe to bootleggers belonging
that IL the police find so much difficulty
In getting information about the authors
OF these crimes how can they get de-
tailed information about the way such
crimes are committed?
II, on the other hand. the police know
so many details about the working Of
the italian Black Hand how Is Il they
are not able to destroy 1t? A short
time ago we were informed how q prf-
vate detective agency In West Virginia
was able to learn all It wanted to know
about a certain Hatfield. How is It that
the New York detective organization
is never able to put its hand on those
Italian Black Handlers of whom so
much is spoken and written?
Judging from the last words of your
article one would almost believe that
the purpose of some detectives is more
to discredit the Italians as a nationality
than to dig deeply into facts. II says:
Among these detectives are the ones
who are certain that when the time
comes the head of the Italian bootleg
ging octopus will be found in Rome.
Venice, Palermo or some other strong
among whom these crimes are COM
mitted are all southerners 1t stands to
reason they cannot act by order of a
Camorra organized In Rome or Venice.
But the TRADE serves admirably the
purpose Of creating In the public's
mind the impression that in all the
cities of italy the Camorra In operat-
ing, which Is absolutely false. My opin-
ion Is that if the italian criminals and
bootleggers did not find 30 many friends
among those In New York whose duty
should be to run them down 1t would
not be so difficult to purify the city and
destroy those gangsters.
The assertion also that the Black
Hand organization simply changed the
bomb for the wine cask does not stand
criticism. During the first six months
Of 1914 we were used to read every
day on the first page OF the newspapers
and In big headlines that bomb
had exploded somewhere In Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth or Fourteenth
street, near Third. Second or First
avenue. But when tho war broke out
tho explosion OF bombs In the Italian
quarter suddenly ceased. As the prof
table bootlcgging business Is only a
thing OF recent date 1t would be interest
Ing to know how the Black Hand man
aged TO live In the intermediate time
I have never been able to explain why
tho italian Black Hand stopped bomb
ing Immediately when the great war
started only to hint at renewal re-
Gently. What a pity that Sherlock
Holmes Is not living in New York.
A. MARoMsIo.
Nww YORK, August II.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
CONCERTS TO AID MUSICIANS.

Tho Musical Mutual Protective Union
yesterday announced that It has leased
tho Lexington Theatre. Fifty-first street
and Lexington avenue. for four weeks
for series of orchestral concerts 10
raise a large fund for the musicians
locked out OF the vaudeville and movie
theatres. At each concert there will be
eminent conductors and vocal and in
strumental soloists of high rank.
The Orchestral Society, Max Jacobs
conductor. has arranged three concerts
for the benefit OF the locked out mu-
sicians OF New York. to take place in
Carnegie Hall newt Friday, Saturday and
Sunday evenings. Nine. Marie Rappold
will be the soloist Friday and Nine.
Marguerite Namara Saturday. The
other soloist will be announced later
Tho entire proceeds will go to n fund
which has been started for the benefit
OF needy families OF theatre musicians.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Showers to-
day, tomorrow fair. moderate tempera-
lure; fresh southwest shifting to north
west winds
ror. New Jersey-Showers to-day; to-mor-
row fair; not much change In Temperature;
Ynouerato ,.es, 70 fresh southwest shifting to
west and northwest winds.
LOT Northern New England-Showers to-
day: tomorrow fair; moderate temperature:
,ntnnate nntHusrate TO fresh south shifting to west
For Southern New England--showers To-
Gay. tomorrow fair; moderate temperaturo:
nTusrate ,.naa TO fresh south shifting to west
For Western New york-Cloudy to-day
prooaoiy showers: moderate TO fresh west
ana northwest winds.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-THE north
ward ana ddis.turpance ~ has moved rapidly east
Wsdnssaa sda i,s centre was over Lake Huron
y msanesaay night. II has been attended by
srons ssn0we.s within the last twenty-four hours
York si9 ana Missouri MS Valley eastward to New
rann ano the middle Atlantic coast and In
rsa Trssnnessee. the Carolinas and Georgia.
There We're also local thunder showers in the
Another aahanaie aIs,nrh and southern New Mexico.
tn utsturDance which moved .tnland
from the north Pacific to-day was attandad
The Sowens ,a5s. IN the north Pacific States.
ein,a 'eheers,ure thp r was higher to-day In Vir-
n.lississppi and Ohio valleys, Tennessee appeJ ar
sne northern Rocky Mountain rerion ,ySii Snu
vooier vsat weather overspread the Far North9
The disturbance over the lake ree,o, ,,.,,
e9h.ahue e,tnaaa 70 move eastward and wi, he
lansie s,s py showers Tomorrow In the At
weather Will prevail east OF the Miss, Iair
w rwaseI, except that local thunder showers
TlopAple III, IN the southeastern States Ersaas
rar, ns y. ,s.inperature changes will not b. i'm.
Observations at United States uoa.s -
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
The Granite States Flag.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Refer
ring 10 @. W. skidmores letter about the
flag of the U. s. s. Granite State wish
to say that II Mr.. skidmore wishes to
see the ensign and jack that were flying
on the old ship on the day of the fire
he may crafty his desire by calling at
the headquarters of the First Battalion.
N. NJ. N. Y, at the foot OF West Ninety
seventh street. where tho flags are now
preserved. A. w. wALz.
Nrw yoax, August II.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
DELAY is ADVOCATED
FOR WAR MEMORIAL
Art Commission Believes
Project Should Wait.

Recommending a delay in selecting q
permanent memorial to the men who
lost their lives in the world war, the Art
Commission of the City of New York In
its annual report issued yesterday called
attention to the fact that although
George Washington died In 1893 no
movement toward a monument to him
was made in this city until 1914 and Ii
was not until 1899 that Washington Arch
was presented to the city.
1T seems not at all unlikely that a
similar and advantageous delay may
occur in relation to the great memorial
TO be erected in honor of the American
heroes Of the war SO lately ended" .he
report states.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Convention All Cults Medical Association.
Hotel Pennsylvania, 10 A. NJ to 10 p. Nj
Meeting, i06th Infantry Post. American
Legion. Twenty-third Regiment Armory.
Convention Order of Scottish Clans, Ma
sonic Temple. Brooklyn: banquet at Hotel
Bossert in evening
Meeting Public Service Commission. . p. NJ.
Rally OF the Bowery Wynnthewas with
patriotic address by Julius Hyman, Bowery
Mission. .27 bowery. +. NJ.
Convention National Association of The
atrlcal Managers, Hotel Pennsylvania.
Meyer Legislature Committee. City Hall,
10:30 A. NJ.
Luncheon Rotary Club. Hotel McAlpln.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
sunfiower State Penr,s.

Chdnsse correspondence Topeka Capital.
Two pearls found In musseis IN tho Neosho
River we're marketed here this week. one
bringing $3.50. the other sl25 Tho latter
was found by beginner. Tho $a5o pearl
was found by fisherman who has been
working all season. II Is quite large and
has yellow lustre. Previous TO these finds
about $500 worth Of pearls had been sold
here this season, the best one bringing $50.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
Peter of Serbia Dead.

Serbia mourns the death of her old
King, PETER l., of the house of Kara
georgevitch. And we'll she may pay
honors to his name and memory;
he leaves a prince worthy to take his
place and a state which grew in his
reign from a small Balkan princi-
pality into one OF the largest and
most populous nations of southeast
ern Europe. The rival dynasty of the
Obrenovitch is extinct; the last Of
that line to occupy the throne fell
feuds Of the two houses which had
plagued Serbia for century passed
forever. There passed too the saw
agery OF the old Serbia, and PETER
thus became the link between the
land from which his forefathers
lifted the yoke of Turkish tyranny,
the land Of whose Lazars and Mi
loshes and Kassovas blind Homers
sang to the strumming Of the one
string guzla, and the Serbia Of to-day
the head of the South Slavs.
PETERS life story was that of a
prince of a romance not of a gentle
Kuritania but Of a province Of me-
diavalism. He was born in palace
and reared amid factional strife and
Austro-R Russian intrigue. The for
tune teller traced the crown in his
boyish hand and the lines Of ad-
versity which led to 1t and beyond
II. Both came, but the greater meas
ure was in adversely: an exile from
youth to middle age, soldier of Ill
fortune and struggler with poverty.
Fate gave him chance to win honors
in the Franco-Prussian war, but 1t
never gave him a chance to rule until
he was almost so years of age. Then
il seated him upon throne ensan-
guined. by a tragedy which shocked
the world. II again sent him refu-
gee from a land wrecked and devas-
tated by his hereditary enemy.
The tragedy OF the Obrenovitchs
was only indirectly the result OF the
dynastic feuds OF Serbia. King Al
ExANDER had proved his unfitness as
ruler, his Queen, DRAGA, was not
a woman on whom a nation might
look with pride. They we're both in
sympathy with Austria, and the
Queen was under the influence OF
Austrian diplomacy and centre OF
Austrian intrigue. The differences
between the Russian and the Aus.
trian parties In the country were too
acute for unpopular sovereigns to
meddle with. 1T was better" In
Serb philosophy. that ALEXANDER
and DaAaA should die than that Ser
bia should be drenched by the blood
OF a fratricidal war"
The wing OF the palace where the
tragedy occurred was long torn away,
the graves Of the slain King and
Queen have for years been almost
forgotten. Serbia wishes to forget
that one blight on her national his.
tory. PETER, when he ascended the
throne. said that he would punish the
regicides. Popular opinion was strong
against this measure: but eventually
oil the leaders and many OF the con-
federates in the conspiracy were sent
TO prison or removed from Offices of
trust. European nations led by'Aus
tria refused at first to have a repre-
sentative at Belgrade; this was
changed with time. and long before
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
Saved Twenty Years for n vacation.

From the Manchester Guardian.
A destitute man who entered Burton Work
House twenty years ago. and who BY saving
odd ooppers has accumulated f10. applied TO
the purton-on-Trent Guardians yesterday for
permission TO go on holiday TO friends In
Rutlandshire. lie had saved up for that pur-
pose. Granting the application. the board
stipulated that on returning he must hand TO
the master any mtney left, for safekeeping.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
Old Story with Missouri Trimmings.
'rom No Cdrthoos Press.

pr. q. A. Gibson and Frank Stafford re-
turncd from weeks outing on the Cow
skin River. They had good tirns and
caught lot Of fish--nnd thereby hangs q
taie. They picked up nm old sack 70 hold
their fish. keeping II tied In the water, As
fast as they caught fish they dropped II
In alive to keep H. When thsy cult fishing
they pulled tho sack out and the bottom OF
the bag was 80 rotten II cams out letting
ell the fish back Into the river.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18

From Port Chester comes a story Of
one golf player driving his ball into
the pocket OF another. This Is be-
coming a common incident of the
links. but good sportsmen at the re-
ceiving end do not weep unless tho
ball breaks something.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18

viscount BRYCE remarks that. imper-
feet as progress has been, this CEN
tury is better than the fifteenth. Just
as CRAId as a witness makes HYLAN
seem more impossible than ever.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
AMERICANS HoMEWARD BOUND
Adriatic. Rotterdam and Lafayette
Bringing Many Passengers.

DPocFut CuUIt 20 TIE tNEW fUhh ItEHAI1D.
Copyright, 1891. by THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, Aug. II.
Among the passengers sailing to-day
on the steamship Adriatic for New York
are Cyrus II. Mccormick OF Chicago,
Harold I. Pratt, Dr. A. w. Cutler and
George Eggleston of New York, and
John Fahey OF Boston.
Among those sailing on the steamship
Rotterdam to-day are Senator Joseph
France Of Maryland, Curtis e. Lake.
man and Charles Gopdwin of New York.
Morris Hillquit of New York sailed to-
day on the steamship Lafayette.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
TO tho use for republication Of all news dos
patches credited to II not otherwise
credited In this paper, and also the local
news published herein.
All rights OF republication Of special dos.
patches herein ara also reserved,
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
$40 ron SALVATION ARMY.

THE NEW YORK HERALD wishes to an
nounce that the $40 recently sent TO this
Office by u. M. ~" has been turned
over TO the Salvation Army.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
Cause and Effect.

From the BoonviIls Republican.
A psssirnist often got that way by backing
an optimist.
The New York herald., 1921-08-18
LOCAL WEATHER REcoRps.

The temperature in this city yesterday. "a
recorded by the official thermometer is
shown In tho annexed table: -
The New York herald., 1921-08-18

Directors and officers: Frank A. Munsey,
President, Erwin Wardman, Nlce-President; !;
wm. T. Dewart, Treasurer; II. II. Tither-
ington. Secretary
The New York herald., 1921-08-18

wASHINGTON-Thc Munsey Building.
CHICAGO-208 South La Sale st.
LONnON-40-43 Fleet st.
pARIs-49 Avenue de ropera. SO Rue du
Louvre.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-29
THE ARTIST DELEGATE.

Among the members of Premier Bri-
ands party at Washington is an artist,
Louis elliot, who is here not to help work
out world policies or to decide on the
strength of navies or the size of armies,
but to record for posterity the picture of
that conference. He is present at all
the full sessions of the conference. max
ing sketches and studies of various states
men. He viii make one big picture of
the conference body as a whole, for the
French government. He is also working
on a number of individual portraits. In
addition to this work the French Ministry
of Fine Arts has commissioned him to
paint the ceremony of the interment of
Americas unknown soldier at Arlington.
The task of this artist may not seem of
primary Importance in the presence OF
the other big work being done at Wash.
ington. Yet it is very important both
historically and artistically. The civil
cations of the present age are profoundly
grateful for every remaining record Of
past ages. Posterity will feel the same
way about the records we leave. Thank,
to many modern inventions, current his
tory is recorded more fully and in create
detail than history ever was before.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-29
The Damage One Truck Did.
(St. Adams Messenger.)

Some st. Adams football fans on their
way to the Lyndon game Tuesday had
good opportunity TO see just what damage
q truck can do to our roads when the go
ing is soft. 1t was between Georgia and
Milton on n not difficult short hill. 1t
was a big truck. 1t must have taken il
seven minutes to go 10 yards. Meanwhile
its rear wheels were revolving at a great
rate tearing up the surface of the road to
q depth of at least six or seven inches and
leaving q cash like a furrOw in Il plOughed
field. In other words, that truck in a
very few minutes undid the work of hours
of labor and much material drawn in
from some distance. Is it any wonder
that people are demanding that trucks
be made to pay higher license fees than
other kind of vehicles! What right have
truck owners who will do this kind of
thing to protest against the demand that
they be made to pay their fair share OF
maintaining the highways? The owner
of that truck evidently never gave
thought to the rights of others in the high
ways. 1t was oyerloaded the struggle
which was necessary proves that. Yet
he was unwilling to match his lead TO the
condition of the roads, but went ahead on
a public-be-damned policy. This policy
will not endure forever for the good and
simple reason that the people will not
stand for it: will refuse to tax themselves
to build roads and then to have them torn
to pieces in minute by the greed of COM
mercial enterprise.