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The New York herald., 1921-05-13
One Problem Solved.
United Hebrew Charities Can Use
Old Household Effects.

To THE New YORK HERALD: At this
time OF the year many families are pre-
pairing to move to the country for the
summer and find an accumulation OF
wearing apparel, shoes. linens. f,Irni-
ture, ornaments and other household
effects which have either outlived their
usefulness or are In such condition that
doubts arise as to their future use.
The provident householder will hesl-
tate before either having them repaired
or throwing them away. The right solu-
ton Is 10 send a postal card to the sup
ply department OF the United Hebrew
Charities. at 2o4 East Twenty-third
street. which on request will send for
tho accumulated material and repair.
refinish and rehabilitate tho articles by
cobblers. seamstresses, tailors and other
mechanics who were II not for this en-
ployment would become charges on the
society.
Where possible the reconstructed ma
terial Is distributed 10 the families under
the care OF the society ard the material
which Is not usable Is sorted and sold
and the proceeds used for the benefit OF
these families.
No doubt many OF your readers will
be glad Of the opportunity 10 have un-
usable material which has accumulated
and which is too good to throw away
and too poor TO use disposed of for the
benefit Of dependent families.
LEOPOLD PLAur
President the United Hebrew Charities.
NEw YoRK. May 12.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Next Olympic Games.

The French National Committee of
Sports is making a strong effort to
secure for France the Olympic Games
of 1924. 1t has received from Pre-
mier BRAND the promise of financial
and moral support by the Govern
ment. 1t has also asked the Paris
Council to build stadium for holding
the competitions on the site of the
dlsmantled Paris Notifications, a re-
quest which 1t Is said will be granted
as soon as France is assured of the
games.
The Second Olympic Games, those
Of 1900, were held in Paris, and If
France should succeed In getting the
games In 1924 Paris would be the
first city to have the meeting a second
time The first was held in Athens
In 1896; the third In st. Louis in
1904 Then came London in 1908,
Stockholm In 1912 and the games of
1920 at Antwerp. There was no
Olympic meeting during the war.
The meeting at Paris In 1900 un-
doubtedly had much to do with the
development of outdoor games and
sports In France. The growth of
this interest has been considered by
the French themselves as most re-
markable. Golf has gained many ad-
herents in recent years and French
players have made q good showing
in contests with British and Scotch
players; football has likewise become
popular In France, and several French
teams. Of both women and men play
ers have shown excellent form in
competitions within the last year
with English teams. France MS q
nation is now encouraging athletics
more than ever before. and the pres
ent desire for the Olympic Games is
10 an extent an expression of the new
outdoor athletic life.
4 Some of the countries which had
earlier entered the competition for
the 1924 games have withdrawn in
favor of France. Among these, ac-
cordlng to the statement OF Baron
PIERRE DE CouBERTIN, president of
the international olympic Commit
tee, are Sweden and others of the
northern nations. Although there has
been no official announcement 20 that
effect, 1t Is said that Los Angeles,
which was among the contestants for
the games, Is also willing TO with
draw In favor of Paris. II would
thus appear that France will go be-
fore the international Olympic Com
The New York herald., 1921-05-13

others we're sufrocated. often after
reaching small streams or other
bodies OF water.
The movement to have Forest
Protection Week had its origin last
year in California, but 1t was OBJ
served III a general way by the people
OF several other States In the West.
1t is hoped through its agency to i'm
press upon everybody the necessity OF
exercising the utmost care in handling
fire in the woods. Campers who are
careless about extinguishing the last
ember over which they have broiled a
trout or steak or made coffee are re-
sponsible for many forest fires. An
other cause IS their carelessness In
handling matches, cigarettes and cigar
remnants, which shoulder In the dry
leaves for some time and then start a
blaze which brings terror to the hearts
Of those with property in its path.
1t is the obligation of every indi-
vidual to cooperate with those who
are doing everything in their power
to preserve our forests. The elimi-
nation Of fire risk Is a most impor-
tant thing, for the trees which are
threatened are those now growing.
I;eforestation is an. essential in tim
ber conservation, but the preserva-
tion of our already too small supply
of timber calls for the finest kind of
protective influences.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Unmoved New York.
Flag Display in Busy District Fails
to Arouse Interest.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Supple
menting Thomas A. Edison's personal
tests TO determine the amount of gen.
eral information possessed by the COL
lege trained men in his employ, perhaps
an experience Of May may indicate
conditions in one enlivened section OF
Manhattan Island
The block on Forty-third street just
east Of Broadway had been afiutter
overhead with two distinctive national
flags. ! wondered what might be the
average New York information and in
terest. So with out of town innocence
asked: Can you tell me, please,
what country's flag that is, the one
with the yellow. red. black, blue and
white bars?" The replies were:
An actress playing in that very block :
That's the Belgian flag
A hotel switchboard operative in that
block: II dunno what it is; just kinda
decorations"
Two in a bevy of grammar school
boys with their books: "Oh, that's a
movie ad." Go on, it's a block party"
A taxi driver: 'I should worry"
A rubberneck guide: "Round trip to
Chinatown one dollar! Huh? Some
new stunt to coax the rube."
Among about a dozen persons hearing
the question, all of them daily familiar
with that very block. evidently not one
even guessed that that flag appearing
by the score and in company only with
the American flag was the national en-
blem of a republic having 100000 900
people, a population numerically almost
four times as great as that of the United
States, and none knew that those scores
Of Chinese flags had to do with a bene-
fit to raise money for the millions or
starving famine sufferers in patient,
uncomplaining. far of. ancient China.
I recall New York girl asking me
once, when I had mentioned that from
San Francisco to Honolulu took about
six days by steamer, And how long
by train?" ARCHIE RICE.
NEW YORK, May IL.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13

Annual field day OF the High School OF
Commerce boys at Crotona Park.
Magistrate Freschi will speak before tho
Volunteer Class for Welfare workers. Chill
dren's Court. 1o2 Court street, Brooklyn.
afternoon
Rev Dr. John Haynes Holmes win speak
on Lawmakers and Teachers" before the
Teachers Union. Ethical Culture Society
Building.
j. F. Morton, Jr., will lecture on '.Esper-
ante" Little Rumanian Casino. 100 Sec
Board ot Estimate meeting. City Hall.
1890 A. NJ.
Eastern State conference. Y. W. G. A..
600 hexinston avenue. 10 A. NJ. and 1.ao
f.. M; luncheon, 1890 p. NJ. .
Annual meeting. State Dental Society, Ho
tel Commodore; evening meeting at Aeolinn
Hall.
New York Committee for Russian Relief
dinner. Harvard Club. T.30 II. NJ.
Joint meeting OF the American Section.
Societe de Ch,mie Industrielle. American
Chemical Society. American Electrochemlcal
Society and the American Section of the
Society OF Chemical Industry. Chemists
Club. 30 East Forty-first street. s.io T. NJ.
Annual meeting National Highway Traffic
Association. automobile Club OF America.
Reception and card party. Catholic Biz
Sisters. Manhattan Branch, Hotel Pennsyl-
vania, p. NJ.
John Hill Morgan win speak on early
American Portrait Painters before the New
York Genealogical and Biographical society
226 West Tifty-elghth street, SIS r. NJ.
Drama Comedy Club social day, Hotel
Astcr. . p. VI.
confoctioncrs and Ice Cream Manufac-
turrrs' Association meeting. Hotel Astor,
3 7. VI.
Amexco Association dance. Hotel Astor.
$50 p. NJ.
Century Theatre Club meeting. Hotel Com
modore. T.. NJ
womes's Democratic Club. meeting. Hotel
Commodore. z p. NJ.
Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital luncheon,
Hotel Commodore, noon.
Newman Club. Hunter College, dance. Ho-
tel Commodore, SID p. NJ.
Meeting, Section OF Otology, American
Academy OF Medicine, II West Forty-third
street, $40 r. NJ.
Free moving pictures, Eowery Mission, 227
Bowery. r. M.
American Railway Development Associa-
tion meeting, Hotsl Pennsylvania. o a. NJ:
trip around the hnrbor. 2.30 p. NJ.
Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity dance, Wal
dorf-Astoria, r. M.
Lecture and dance for Federal Reserve
Bank Employees. waldorf-Astoria. y T.. NJ.
Teachers Interests Association meeting,
Waldorf Astoria. p. NJ.
Casualty and Surety Club dinner. Waldorf
Astoria, 7 r. NJ.
Meeting Mems Club of the Church of
Healing Christ, Waldorf-Artoris, 8 p. NJ.
Cercle Frnnco-American entertainment and
dance, Hotel McAlpin, T.. M.
Julia Richman High School dance, Hotel
McAlpin, II. M
FreSerick a. Wallis. Commissioner of
Immigration, win speak at the Curtis High
School. New Brighton. 8. l.. in the after
noon.
Don Estaban Gi-Borges. special envoy
can trade relations. High School OF Com
merce, 4 T.. M
The New York herald., 1921-05-13

there would be to a limited extent,
even a sentimental market for some
OF the securities. American citizens OF
French descent, of German descent,
even OF other European nauonalities
might be glad 10 take some of the
bonds when offered here, each with the
sole thought of helping the reconstruc-
tion in the particular country of his
ancestry, but each really contributing
in the very nature of things to the So
luton of the general economic prob
lem. But for the most part, as we
have said, any magnitude of operation
with the reparation bonds in America
would have to be on plain business
basis.
Yet that very fact would attest the
more eloquently to the world trans
formation Immediately wrought by
fhe reparation settlement. Solid bust
ness CANDLES most reluctantly of all
with political dynamite. So long as
the indemnity menace hovered darkly
over France and Germany In particu-
lar and the Allies In general there
was political dynamite under every
Government In Europe. When the
Allies wisely gave Germany the
chance to pay up to the measure of her
and when Germany wisely
accepted 1t unconditionally the signed
agreement put more credit and more
promise into every nation of the Old
World that is willing to work as all
must work long and faithfully to
dig themselves out Of the economic
ruins of war.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
What Wrecks the Railroads.

JULIUS KRUTTscHNITT, chairman OF
the Southern Pacific board, shows
how transcontinental rail traffic Is
now going into ships by the millions
Of tons. But, as he testities, the Pan
anna Canal route is not the only sue
cessful competitor against the rail
routes; the automobile truck is as
active in the short haul local business
as the ships are in the coast to coast
business.
But whether you call it Govern
ment subsidies that enable the ships
and automobile trucks TO underbid the
railroads because the public treasury
builds and maintains the highways
and not only operates the canal but
pays the deficits OF our Government
owned ships, or whatever you call the
reason, the proof is conclusive that
some rail rate classifications are too
high to get the business.
And why are the railway traffic
rates so high? No briefer, clearer
more convincing explanation has been
given than is set forth in a letter
from GEohGE b. McGINTY, secretary
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, to Senator Willis of Ohio,
where he says:
1.-THE unfavorab,e conditions in
commerce and industry generally and
the unfortunate plight of individuals
and individual industries cannot be
worse than the present plight OF the
railroads.
More than one-half OF the car
rieis are earning less than their op-
Grating expenses and taxes. A very
fow individual roads are earning
their interest charges. Some of them
are not even earning their operating
expenses.
"It is obvious that the present
condition cannot long continue with
out general and widespread bank
ruptcy of the railroads.
"The bare operating expenses OF
the railroads consume more than 90
cents out Of every dollar earned, and
more than 60 cents out of every dol
lar earned is paid out in compensation
to employees.
Until q wider margin can be es-
tablished between the dollar earned
and the cost of earning 1t conditions
cannot ubstantially improve"
Yet when both the solvency of the
American transportation system is at
stake and the chance to reduce rates
that need reduction TO get back the
business depend on lower operating
COSTS the United States Railroad La
Dor Board has delayed its wage de-
cision for weeks and months Mean
while, as the Southern Pacific head
shows, the excess wage charge for day
labor alone is costing the railroads
of this country more than half a
million dollars every day.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Expansion at Quarantine.

When the United States Govern
ment on March 81 acquired title TO
the Quarantine Station at Rosebank,
which before that date was owned
and operated by the State, the facili-
ties for examination of incoming tray-
ellers were inadequate, and not only
was inconvenience caused to passen-
gers on shipboard but the surgeons of
mans the station, were seriously ham
dicapped in the performance of their
duties. The station has not been en-
larged for many years and IS scarcely
adequate to meet the requirements of
normal travel.
Unfortunately, normal travel condi-
tons will not soon be restored for the
prevalence Of 'quarantinable diseases
abroad is likely TO continue for years.
In these circumstances the necessity
for extending the station to meet the
eXigencies of any probable menace
arising from immigration is obvious,
and the greatly reduced number of i'm
migrants who will come here under
the temporarily restrictive measures
soon to become effective gives oppor
tunity to make the needed additions
without interfering with the routine
work of the Public Health Service.
Surgeon General CUMMING has al
ready drafted plans for the necessary
additions, and the work II undertaken
now can be carried to completion
economically and In an orderly man
ner. IF 1t Is postponed until lmmi-
grants again congest the station the
Government will be forced to adopt
emergency measures of relief which
will be expensive and unsatisfactory.
True economy would consist in be-
ginning the work Immediately.
The subject Is of prime Importance
not alone to New York but to the
whole country, for inadequate quar-
antine equipment will not only sub
ject this city and the adjoining com
munitles to the danger of infection
but will lay open to danger every
farm and village and city to which
an immigrant may 20. The mainte-
nance of an adequate and efficient
quarantine station at the principal
port OF entry for immigrants there
fore transcends in Importance the in
terest of New York city and It's en-
vlrons and becomes a subject for
immediate national action.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Earnings of Our Ships.
Mr.. Van Pelt Explains an Estimate
in a Federal Reserve Bulletin.

To THE New York HERALD: 1 have
read with interest your editorial article
Of May Q on what Our Ships Barn." In
which you comment on my low estl-
mate" OF American shipping earnings
contained in an article In the Federal
Reserve Bulletin for April. Permit me
10 call attention to nn evident misappre-
hension regarding the meaning of my
figures.
In that article 1 have nowhere at
tempted to estimate The total earnings
of American shipping in 1920. but only
those earnings and payments IN shipping
account which enter into the balance OF
trade of the United States. That Of
course is very different from an estimate
OF "the earnings OF the American rner-
camille marine engaged In foreign
trade"
In considering the balance OF trade II
is only the international payments that
count and the earnings OF our merchant
fleet In carrying imports to this country.
where the American importer pays the
freight may be disregarded. Such earn
ings, as well as the receipts from the
transportation of passengers and the
mails, are therefore not included In my
estimate of 1851. 10000 as the sum de-
rived in 1920 by American ship opera
tors from foreigners. This figure ] see
no reason to question.
IL, now, the foregoing partial estimate
Is taken as the starting point for deter
mining the total earnings OF American
shipping. by including the additional
earnings that must be allowed for. the
result would probably be somewhere be-
tween s400. 900 900 and s500,00o,00o. rep
rescntlng the total income in 1920 OF our
nearly lo.00o.o00 gross tons OF shipping
in tho foreign trade.
In accounting for any discrepancy be-
tween this total and the average earn
ings 10 the ton OF British shipping az es-
tlmated by the British Board OF Trade
would call attention TO the fact that In
February. 1921. the Board Of Trade re-
duced their previous estimate, which you
quote, from f440, 900. 900 TO fs40.Oo0,OpO
as Britaln's' net national income from
shipping in 1920. Even so, X is an open
question whether their fgurcs are not
stiii too high. and whether they have
taken sufficient account OF the precipi-
tate drop in freight rates In the last few
months OF 1920 and Of tho Increasing
dleness of ships
HENRI w. VAN PETIT.
NEW YORK. May ~.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
No Moratorium in Brazil.
An Official Denial That Such a
Measure Is Contemplated.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: have
read in New York paper a communi-
cation from Brazil stating that the Con-
gress was considering the passage OF a
moratorium law for that country.
Those rumors OF moratorium in
Brazil have been circulated at different
times through the papers OF New York.
and inasmuch as there Is no truth in
them and as they only tend to demoral-
lie the financial situation or my coun-
try / will deem II a favor II you will
be kind enough 10 insert In your paper
the following denial that have Just
received from the Department OF Foreign
Affairs OF Brazil:
Government authorizes you to deny
peremptorily the news OF moratorium in
Brazil. The Government did not enforce
or even plan TO enforce moratorium In
the country.
This has been the policy that the Gov
ernment OF Brazil has followed through
tho different economical and financial
crises of the country, which were all
faced without resort to compulsory
means. HELLO LoBo,
Brazilian Consul General.
NEW York, May IL.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Emergency Tariff for Whom ?

With the passage OF the emergency
tariff by the Senate there will of
course be some sort of makeshlft law
after the conference committee of
The two houses has tinkered their
! measures into or out of shape as q
combined whole. There will also of
course be enough delay on top. of
what already has taken place to pre-
clude the chance of the farmers get
ting out of this hocus pocus emer-
gency or any other dividends to speak
of on their old crops.
Old wheat. for example, has largely
gone to final market or is in the
hands of the middlemen on the way
to final market. How much salts
faction it will be TO the farmer who
raised the wheat to have the emer-
gency tariff price boost come just in
time to suit the purpose of the grain
elevators, the -four men and the specu-
lators who took the wheat from the
farmer before the boost anybody can
Judge for himself.
AS for the new crop, with its pros
pect of huge surplus production, the
economic law of supply and demand
is going TO govern the value of the
wheat that in few days will begin
10 flood In tidal waves from the
farms to the produce exchanges. Per-
haps after the farmer has parted with
his fresh store at disappointing prices
to him, legislative genius again will
conceive that 1t is. desirable to take
some new action to hoist the grain
elevator, flour mill and speculative
stocks several rungs up the market
ladder.
But the farmer can come into his
own once more If he insists, along
with the general public, on getting
his cost of supplies down, his cost
of equipment down, his cost of labor
down, HIS cost of borrowed money
down--his cost of everything with
which he does business or on which
he lives down.
The farmer and the rest of the pub
liz are equally interested in this i'm
peratiyely required economic read
justment The farmer and the public,
with their all at stake, will not be
served by humbug legislation. They
can, when the accounting begins TO
come in of the true returns of the
emergency tariff measure, hand some
thing to the legislative performers
who put it over
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Children to Act PantOmime.

An entertainment by children of the
Home Thrift Association at sic East
Eighty-ninth street for the benefit of
that settlement will be held tonight
in the Plaza. Mrs. /. Chauncey Nc
Keever has arranged what is called
THE Pantomime OF the Willow Pat
term" for which S. L. NJ Barlow has
composed music. and it will be acted
by children. In addition there will be
music for two harps by Miss Marie
Miller and Carlos SalZedo, to whose
accompaniment Paul Reimers will sing
and Miss Charlotte Fairchild will exc
cute an Oriental dance. Among those
who have engaged seats are Mrs. Carl
A. De Gersdorff, Mrs. Clarence Cary,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward r. Stettinius.
Mrs. ID. Randall MacIver, Mrs. Joseph
Rowland Hunt, Lloyd Warren, Mrs.
Walter Damrosch, Mrs. J. f. ID. Lanier
and Mrs. Felix Rosen. Tickets will be
on sale tonight at the door.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
On the Road to Webotuck.

On the road to webotuck what's for to
see?
Flicker OF waters and the dancing tree ;
Gray old gables and friendly doors
And NOTED sunbeams on the oaken
floors
On the road to webotuclt what's for
to hear2
Flutes from tho forest and the wash OF
the weir:
All that Is melody. all that ls mirth.
Breathed from the bosom of the rich
brown earth
on the road to webotuck what's for 70
find2
Treasure troye 10 the dreams of tho
wind
Love In the twilight--man and maid
And kisses given in tho deep soft shade
CLINTON scoLLARD.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Reparation Settlement Fruits.

France says that she will Try TO use
German reparatio1 bonds as soon "-
ever she gets them to raise big loan
H. this country, the German securi.
ties serving as collateral under
French credit aud the guarantee of
the Allied Powers. AS pure bust.
ness proposition, such a loan could
appeal 70 investors who have trading
or similar interests not only in
France and Germany but in other
parts of Europe.
French buying power exercised
here means more export business for
American manufacturers German
bonds employed here mean enhanced
financial interest by American banks
and their clients III the restoration of
German industry and commerce
Thus il would be possible for the
United States, France and Germany
ali to benefit within bounds by such
n transaction.
There might be, as well, probably