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The New York herald., 1921-07-16
Wasted Grain on the Farms.

The loss in the harvesting and
threshing of grain has reached such
proportions that the Department of
Agriculture is studying means to
stop some of the leaks, which it is
estimated now cause the waste of
hundreds Of thousands of bushels
yearly.
Most of the trouble is placed at the
door of the thresher, who does not
adjust the machinery properly. Worn
and damaged parts in the outfit
have direct bearing on the leaks !;
another cause of loss Is general care.
lessness when bumper crops are be-
ing harvested. 1t has often been
said that European farmers could
CLEAN good living after the farmers
of this country had finished their
harvest task.
Every man who has shot chickens
on the prairies of the Northwest or
Canada knows where birds can in
variably be found. The fat, lazy old
cocks and plump young birds are al
ways in the vicinity of the straw
stacks, where the ground is covered
with grain from the overlooking bags
into which the threshing machine
pours It's golden harvest. 1t is this
failure to clean up at the end Of a
setting" that wastes the staple.
II the farmers of the country
adopt better methods Of harvesting,
threshing and housing their grain
crops 1t will be step in the direc-
tion of an improved economic situa-
tion. The old proverb Of many mickles
making muckle holds good here.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16

is not beyond suspicion of self-in-
terest bias. 1t is the opinion which
G. SIMoNErTI expressed to California
grape growers in San Francisco few
days ago. Mr.. SINoNETTI is the secre-
tary of the Coast Products Trading
Company. He represents Eastern
buyers of California grapes. Natu-
rally it does not fall within the scope
of his duties to boom California grape
prices.
None the less the fact remains that
there are great quantities of Mediter-
ranean grapes which can be laid
down in our markets, duty paid, at
far less than the $113 to $3.50 ton
which e. M. SHEEHAN, president of
the California Grape Growers Associ-
alton, is predicting that California
grapes will command this year.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
Bathing Pools in New York.

New York city has 57S.4 miles of
water front-and Mayor HYLAN has
called on the Park Commissioners
for information on which to base
plans for the digging Of swimming
pool in one of the parks! More than
100000 linear feet Of water front,
and the town is asked to pay for a
tank for bathers!
There ought to be dozens of free
public baths in every borough--cribs
floating in the rivers and along the
bays-each with life guard on duty
day and night. There was a time
when such floating baths were regu.
larly opened when the summer hot
weather began. Most If not all of
them have been given up, largely
because of the pollution of the wa.
ters in the harbor and in the rivers.
This pollution has been going on for
years, and at various times the De-
partment of Health has felt it neces.
sary to close baths, private and pub
lie, which accommodated large num-
bers of persons.
Perhaps the waters around the city
have all become so foul-that no spot
is left fit for bathing. If this is the
case the public which permits such
condition deserves for it's stupid
inertia to pay taxes to build and
maintain artificial bathing pools.
When these are opened for use let
strangers come to see them as monu.
ments to the extravaganza of a State
and city which didn't know how to
use the advantages beneficent Prov
idence bestowed on them.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
General Pershing's Good Sense.

General PERSHING, as Chief or Stan
Of the Army, will of necessity have
close relations with congressman and
with Congress. He has chosen to
establish these relations on a basis
of good understanding and frankness.
He has done an unprecedented thing
in calling on the military committees
of House and Senate to pledge to
their members his cooperation with
the legislative department and to
seek to remove any misunderstand-
ings which might result unfavorably
to the army. His visits were in
formal, unexpected and seem to have
had good effect.
The army must be maintained with
the utmost possible economy. In the
Trsasury's present condition every
penny that can be saved must be
saved. If the military authorities
work in harmony with Congress, if
tho appropriations are cut in way
which will preserve khe essentials of
the fighting establishment, if the in
formed fighting men responsible for
the defence of the country work hand
in hand with the responsible appro-
priating legislators of the nation the
savings may be effected without en-
dangering the general good.
General PERsHING's desire appears
to be to establish new relations of
confidence and mutual assistance be-
tween the lawmakers and the army
command. In doing this he will
earn the thanks of everybody If it
results in the application of econ
omy to army expenditures in the
most intelligent possible manner.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
TENNIS AT HOT SPRINGS.
Cardinal Dougherty and Party Ar
rive by Automobile.

Special Despatch to THE New York HmALp
Hot SPRINGS, Va. July 15.--On the
tennis courts to-day were Messrs. John
H. Ricketson. Jr., Douglas Stewart and
John II. Ricketson Sd Of Pittsburgh and
Mr.. Louis NJ. Gourd. Mrs. Richard A.
Parke and Miss Jane Gourd Of New
York.
Mrs Henry o. Garfield started for
New York and will go from there to
Black Rock, Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Howard d-Smith
and Miss Elsie Howard Smith have ar
rived at the Homestead from Philadcl-
piia Cardinal Dougherty and party ar
rived at the Homestead this afternoon
by automobile from Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick II. Bugher of
washington are at Woodland cottage.
Mr. Henry q. Davis 30 motored over
from White sulphur Springs with a
party of friends to play golf on the
Homestead course.
Mrs. T. kirkpatrick Parrish and Mr..
Russell Parrish started for Richmond.
Miss Blanche Dargeu Frazier of New
York left by automobile for Atlantic
City. where she will be at tho Hotel
Ritz-Carton.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
D ally Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair to-day
and tomorrow no char &c In tempera-
ture; gentle, moderate winds.
For New Jersey-Fair to-day and to-mor-
row; no change in temperature; gentle to
moderate variable winds.
For Northern New England-Fair to-day
and tomorrow; no change in temperature ;
gentle to moderate northerly winds.
For Southern New England--Fair to-day
and Tomorrow; no change in temperature; !;
gentle to moderate northerly winds.
For Western New York-Fair to-day and
Tomorrow; no change In temperature; gentle
variable winds.
WASHINGTON. July 15.-To-night belt
OF low pressure extended from the Canadian
Maritime Provinces west-sou uthwestward to
Mexico and IL was fianked by high barometer
OH the south Atlantic coast and over the
great lakes and the upper Mississippi Valley
western Canadian provinces and high pres
sure from the north Pacific coast.
Inere have been showers and thunder
storms within the last twenty-four hours in
the Atlantic and Gulf States. the Ohio
Valley, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Utah and Ari-
zona, and fair weather in other regions.
There have been local rains in the middle
Atlantic states, Ohio and Oklahoma. Tenn
perature is now approaching normal gem
orally over the United States except the
northwest, where warm weather continues.
The outlook is for showers and thunders
storms In the south Atlantic and east Gulf
states and fair weather elsewhere east of
the Mississippi River tomorrow and Sunday.
No important temperature changes indi-
Gated for the eastern half of the country
during the next forty-eight hours.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations, taken at p. M yesterday,
seventy-fifth meridian time:
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
British Trade and Our Trade.

British overseas trade, which was
galloping to supremacy a year ago
with exports and imports higher than
ever in history, has now fallen to the
lowest level in years, lower by a
large margin in volume and almost
as low in value as the year before
the war, when low prices made the
total trade look small.
In June, 1921, British exports and
reexports were f45,230,0 900. or about
one-third as large as the f136,476,000
exports for June, 1920. The decline
in imports was not so sharp. They
were for June. 1921, S.180,000, or
one-half the f17O, ,491, 900 imports for
June, 1920.
The disastrous miners strike was
thus able to throttle exports on
which Britain. depends for living,
but it was not able to make similar
inroads on imports necessary to sus-
tain the population of the British
Isles. The result was to increase the
British trade deficit to f42,950, 900
for June. The trade deficit in
March, the month before the coal
strike, was f1s,000,000, an approach
to an even balance of trade attained
after months Of cooperation among
all elements in British industry and
finance.
British trades decline now finds
its reaction in renewed slump in
the dollar value of the English pound,
which dropped to s3.62h yesterday.
Besides this, hundreds of British
ships are idle and millions of British
consumers have had their buying
The New York herald., 1921-07-16

| hibition of the paintings of Abbott II
Thayer. who died May 20. Examples
OF his work will be borrowed from pub
lie and private collections wherever
available. AS a nucleus around which
to build is the representation OF Mr..
Thayer's work in the museum-.the
splendid view of Mount Monadnock. the
Young Woman and recently acquired
Head of Child which was exhibited at
the Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh. as
Portrait of Raphael Pumpelly.
Much attention is being directed by
visitors to the Museum to loan exhi-
bition of sword guards and pistols, lent
by the recently organized Armour So
ciety. In one case the society exhibits
100 Japanese sword guards, or tsuba,
which show an extraordinary range in
material. ornament and execution. There
are a score of iron guards on view, the
earliest antedating the Fourteenth CEN
tury, the latest about 100 years old.
Some of them scarcely seem of iron,
since they are richly encrustel with
gold in fanciful traceries or diapers.
Near them are guards OF red copper
and of various alloys. including brasses
and bronzes. They awaken the wonder
OF the visitor at the manual dexterity of
the Japanese sword decorators their fer
tility of design, their appreciation of Tro-
portion and their sense of lights, shad-
ows and color
Another midsummer feature at the
to avl,i Of
by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent and
other artists. including La Fargo, Has
sam, Sterner. Dougherty, Glackrns.
Marin and McComas. One of the end
walls has been hung with q group of
water colors by William Blake and some
Of the British artists of the Nineteenth
century.
The exhibition of Japanese prints in
Room II IL. has just been changed and
instead of the Nineteenth century Sur
imonos. Hroshige landscapes with fig
ures are being shown. The set of views
of famous tea houses forms special
feature and the Japanese gardens and
interiors are interesting.
The Museum recently has purchased
a marble plaster from the parapet Of a
pulpit from the John Ruskin collection
to go with the two previously acquired
lTOH the Same source III 1olv. iHS dC-
QUESTION represents an angel with an
OK and a lion and symbolizes three Of
the four Observation-Disclosures, Mark
and Luke.
In the Room of Recent Accessions has
just been placed a series of pieces of
oak furniture of English make illustrat-
ing various types from the Fourteenth
to the Seventeenth century. The earliest
Of these periods is represented by
Gothic chest and the next by two Six
tenth century stools, one of them par
ticularly fine example. A cupboard from
the very end of the century illustrates a
curious mixture of Gothic and Renais-
sance ideas.
A box stool and high chair show the
fully developed Jacobean style to the
middle of the Seventeenth century. The
group will be Of particular interest to
connoisseurs and collectors. as each piece
formed part of the collection of the late
Morgan Williams of st. Donat's Castle,
Glamorgansnire. With one exception,
all are illustrated in Macquoid's Age OF
Oak
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
Harb0r Whistles.

Hoarse signals of the steamboats, from
the Sound.
Rounding the Battery in morning
mist;
A transatlantic liner. outward bound,
Roars from the upper bay. where
barges list.
From low Gowanus comes a treble call
AS swings n lighter towards the
farther tide:
And where the smoke screens Jersey like
n pail.
The challenge Of a railroad tug drifts
wide.
Brick barges down from Haverstraw in
tow,
Trust to a screaming tug for passage
clear:
While ferries shunting on the crowded
flow.
Fling out staccato warnings as they
sheer
The whistles echo from the Palisades,
Or drift in haunting minors down the
stream;
All through the fevered hours spurred
by Trades
Imperial call to realize our dream.
THOMAS J. MURRAY.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
Pueblo After the Flood.
Martial Law Lifted, Rewards Dis
tributed, Taxes Remitted.
49,. ~ 49, pnolu Maintain HcrnId.

From the Rocky Nouatoin Herald.
Martial law has been lifted in Pueblo
and the city and county turned over to
the civil authorities by Colonel Newton,
the military commander. City authori-
ties have put into effect all the regula-
tions made by the military order pro-
vlding that no person shall be In the
streets after 10 80 p. NJ. without a good
excuse No passes will be issued, as
was the case under martial law. The
city hos been under martial law since
the flood of June and during that time
not one house has been robbed or a
single hodup reported. Only few cases
Of looting occurred. but they were not
important ones. Fifty Colorado rangers
will remain there indefinitely and viii
be in command OF Colonel Newton.
Pueblo county property owners who
suffered financial losses during the mood
will receive n reduction in their tax for
1921. according to an announcement
made In Denver by y. +. Link. member
Of the state Tax Commission. Mr.. Link
has Just completed detailed survey OF
the actual damage done in the county.
He places the total loss at sii.Ooo,OOO.
tax levy on this property win be re-
duced Hve-twelfths Of the original as
sessment. the state official announced
onicials of the Chamber OF Commerce
Of st. Louis have announced they would
request Carnegie hero medal for Rob-
ert ]. Taylor of that city. negro Pullman
porter. who Is said to have saved
twenty-six lives when Missouri Pacific
train No. IL was overturned In the
Pueblo food in June.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
The Late H. r. G. Watson.
A Friend of the American Horse and
Clubman of the Old Type.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Those
who knew the late II. r. c. Watson
were not surprised at the sort of will
he left, making bequests as 1t did to
charitable and church institutions. His
bequest of $130.Oo0. house and an
annuity of $4,000 to his valet, Louis
Cazenave. was recognition of twenty
years of duty rendered by one to whom
Mr.. Watson referred as his boy"
In the earliest days of the war Mr.
Watson told his friends with pride that
''his boy had gone home to fight for
France. All through the war he fol-
lowed his fortunes. When Louis Gaze
nave returned to New York his en-
p.oyer gave him warm welcome.
The Watson brothers, Harry and
Frank-the latter dead a dozen years
were bachelors and of the old type of
New York clubmen which is fast disap-
pearing. They were inseparable, main
tanning large farm in Vermont. where
they bred Morgan horses and fine cattle.
They were fond of the thoroughbred and
standard bred also, and were members
Of the various racing organizations.
Daily attendants at the race courses till
the autumn fairs through New England
began, they devoted the months of Sep
tember and October to those institu-
tions and did much for educational de-
velopment in regard to fine stock in the
New England States.
Harry Watson will oe missed by the
horse and cattle men at Rutland. Brat
tleboro. Springfield and other fairs next
autumn. He was n gentleman and
sportsman in the true sense of the term.
NEW YORK, July Is. S. N.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
Loafing of the Soul.

Prate me no sophistries in turgid terms.
Nor social problems solidly propouna.
Brief is the season of the hooks and
worms
with naught but natures sweetness
all around.
Read me no screeds of mans polite
strife,
Nor flights poetic beg me to ascend.
For, ah! too soon ends this vacation
rife
With wholesomeness of Joy. patient
friend.
I would not delve in Einstein's magic
deeps-
Nay. relativity has not IN store
A kindredness; for where the trout'ct
leaps
/ loaf my soul in blessedness galore
Avaunt to care and eke prophetic dreams
OF things financial or of sordid greed
Mine is the jocund joys of the birding
streams
Where spotted beauties forage Tor
their feed.
HORACE SEYMOUR KELLER.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16

power reduced. The British coal
strike has ended. but its economic
effects have yet to run their course.
At the June total figure British
imports and exports average 1885,
100000 year, which is slightly more
than exports alone in 1920, and in
value is not much higher than the
fl ,402 900, 900 total trade in 1913, al
though in actual volume the present
scale of trade is much lower because
prices are higher.
The detailed figures of our own
trade for June are not yet available.
But for May, 1921, British purchases
from us were only sS0,2S6.000, COM
pared with $151, ,S19,O in May. 1920.
Our sales to England are equal to
half our total trade with Europe.
When England cannot import and
export in normal volume the Conti-
nent is equally affected, and neither
can buy in normal volume from us.
From this it follows that crippled
British buying power means smaller
demand for American goods from our
best customers. Lower British cur
rency and higher premium on the
dollar in London mean higher prices
abroad for our goods with no addi-
tional profit to our producers. Not
only do hundreds of idle British ships
mean that our goods and everybody
else's goods are not moving, but
these idle ships mean surplus of
tonnage for available cargoes, more
of the uneconomic cutthroat competi-
tion in the ocean carrying trade and
increased difficulties in putting our
own merchant fleet on a paying
basis.
Keen as we are in the rivalry for
world markets, there is nothing to
make us rejoice over a slump in
British overseas commerce, or in any
nations commerce for that matter,
when it entails such widespread evil
consequences.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
Tariff Valuations.
Objections of Importers to the Ford
ney Bill Plan.

To THE New YoRK HERALD: two
troubles with tho American valuation
plan in the Fordney tariff bin are:
l. The technical nature OF a multituos
of imports is such that before q fai
American valuation could be determined
the goods must be accurately classifieo
and graded. This is the work of spe'
cialists, a host of whom would be re
quired If the merchandise is to be han
died both speedily and fairly
2. Furthermore, fair value is what one
can get for his goods. not the price al
which they may be quoted. Trade paper
quotations may or may not fairly state
the market. They certainly do not de-
termine the price at which the goods can
be sold.
For example. we are storing guam
tity Of English worsted yarns. Accord
ing to the trade papers theoretical quo
tations these particular grades and sizes
should sell at prices ranging from S1.so
to S1.95 a pound. This may be fair
value, but it does not alter the fact OF
the yarns having been offered at $1.5o
pound with no buyers.
Under the old law duties were paid
on values converted from the foreign
invoices into United States money at a
rate of exchange arbitrarily fixed by
the Government. Upon a great mass
of imports the rate of duty is rs per
cent. or more ad valorem.
The importer Is fortunate who aver
ages, per cent profit upon his impor-
tations. He must therefore predeter-
mine the value upon which the duties
will be assessed before he can safely
enter into the necessary contracts with
either the United States manufacturer
or the foreign exporter. He should take
no chances in figuring costs.
Under the old system there were suf-
ficient difficulties, dangers and delays to
make importing one of the most haz-
ardous businesses, even when costs could
be figured with absolute precision. Un-
der the proposed American valuation
plan the importer will have to add to
his already heaped up measure Of diff
culties. He not only will have to gamble
upon the grade and classification to be
determined by the custom house clerks
but will also have to take his chances
Upon the particular market value they
may select in assessing his goods, and
past performances prove that custom
importer, the benefit of any doubt
e. B. WRIGHT.
New YORK, July Is.
The New York herald., 1921-07-16
Minister to Netherlands Sails To-day
MIR. William Phillips, Accompanied by Mrs Phillips to
Start for Post by the Olympic-Other Voyagers.

To-day's seagoers will add another
noted group OF men and women to the
throng that has gone abroad this sum-
mer. When the Olympic of the White
Star Line gets away during the after
noon with more than 600 first cabin
passengers she will hang up the unusual
record of having taken back and forth
over the Atlantic more than 1000 first
class passengers within three weeks.
Mr.. William Phillips goes over by the
liner. accompanied by Mrs. Phillips, to
take up his diplomatic duties as Minis
ter to the Netherlands The members
or the Oxford and Cambridge University
golf and tennis teams also will be pas
sengera
Mr.. and Mrs. Lanier Mckee. who were
married In Morristown last Tuesday.
VIII go abroad for short trip. Mrs.
Douglas Robinson, who sails, will be
absent in Europe two months, returning
IN Tune to take hand in the local po-
ntical campaign. Others will include
MI and Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan. Mr.. Ed
ward N. Hurley of Chicago, formerly
chairman Of the the Shipping Board !;
the Rev. Ezra Triple, president of Drew
Theological Seminary Mr. Cornelius r.
Agnew. vice-president of the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company; Prof Henry
Fairfield Osborn, head Of the Museum
OF Natural History Mrs. Osborn. Mr..
K. L. Sprague. United States Consul at
Gibraltar. and Col. Franklin r. Kenny,
Air Service. u. S. A.
Others going by fhe OIyn1nic will ha
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Baker. Jr., and
their three children, Florence, Edith and
George f. Baker Sd; Mr.. and Mrs. Jona-
than Bulkley, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Chubb,
Mr.. Livingston Delaffsld, Mrs. Newbold
LIE Roy Edgar. Miss Annie Burr Jen-
nings. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Carnegie
Phipps, Mr.. and Mrs. John o. H. Pitney,
Mrs. George M. Pynchon. Miss Marie j..
Leary, Mr. Mortimer l.. Schiff, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Scribner, Mrs. Richard
Stevens, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Rogers
Winthrop. Col and Mrs. Frank B..
Keech, Mr.. Gilbert w. Keech, Mr.. and
Mrs. Shepard Krech, Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard S. McCreery of San Francisco. Mr.
and Mrs. c. A. Mum Of Philadelphia
and Mrs. Edward II. 1nman and Mr..
Hugh T. Inman of Atlanta, Ga.
The Lapland of the Red Star Line,
which will sail to-day. will have Mr..
Frank A. Vanderlip among her passen-
gers. as well as Prof Maurice Bloom
field of Johns Hopkins University. and
Mrs. Bloomfield, who were married a
few days ago in Baltimore. Others on
board will be Judge Samuel ]. Kalish OF
the New Jersey Supreme Court and Mrs.
Kalish, Mr.. and Mrs. James A. O'Gor-
man and Miss Agnes O'Gorman. Judge
and Mrs. Louis B. Hart of Buffalo. Sena-
tor and Mrs. James e. McMurray of Chi
cago, Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis, wife
of Senator Lewis, of Chicago; Mr. John
Day Jackson. proprietor of the New
Haven Register; Mrs. c. F. Berwind
Mr.. Rawlins Lowndes Cottenet and Mr..
ard MIRO william Adams Delano.